The sea creature found on the beach at the end of La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) has its basis in a giant fish marooned on a Rimini beach during a storm in 1934.

The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes.

A Japanese fishing vessel is trying to find its way to shore in a horrible storm while near an uninhabited island, when a giant monster appears and attacks the boat.

* November 25 – A disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a giant 40-foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa ; 300, 000 people die.

Paphlagonian is a monstrous giant ( 74-9 ), a snoring sorcerer ( 103 ), a mountain torrent ( 137 ), a hook-footed eagle ( 197 ), garlic pickle ( 199 ), a mud-stirrer ( 306 ), a fisherman watching for shoals of fish ( 313 ), a butchered pig ( 375-81 ), a bee browsing blooms of corruption ( 403 ), a dog-headed ape ( 416 ), a storm by sea and land ( 430-40 ), a giant hurling crags ( 626-29 ), a storm surge at sea ( 691-93 ), a thieving nurse ( 716-18 ), a fishermen hunting eels ( 864-67 ), a boiling pot ( 919-22 ), a lion fighting gnats ( 1037-8 ), a dogfox ( 1067 ), a beggar ( 182-3 ) and finally a sausage seller in the city gates ( 1397 ).

When the boat hits the storm, it is represented by a giant " Storm-Cat ", allowing Mowzer to eventually save the day by soothing the storm with her purring.

Evidence from an alcoholic in a hospital " drunk tank " ( who said that he saw giant ants flying around outside his window ) and from the dismembered corpse of a man last seen with his two young sons ( now missing ) leads the investigation to the storm drain system that empties into the Los Angeles River.

* Single, giant storm waves, building up to fourfold the storm's waves height and collapsing after some seconds

He then killed Atlas by allowing the giant to implode into a storm of ionic energy.

While his aunt and uncle were having a party to celebrate the impending marriage of their son, he took his revenge by summoning a giant hail storm to demolish their house, killing 35 people, although the uncle and aunt are supposed to have survived.

After another storm, more objects wash up including a giant pile of books tied together in the shape of a cube, an unconscious and pregnant Kit Snicket, and the Incredibly Deadly Viper from Uncle Monty's collection.

In the midst of a freak storm, Lard Lad and other giant advertising statues come to life to terrorize Springfield.

It was named in April 2007 after Fárbauti, a storm giant from Norse mythology, father of Loki.

A storm blows up and an evil, mace-wielding giant called Gogmagog, appears.

Approaching the center of town, he summons a giant crystal which unleashes an elemental storm across the continent.

After another storm, more objects wash up including a giant pile of books tied together in the shape of a cube, an unconscious and pregnant Kit Snicket, and the Incredibly Deadly Viper from Uncle Monty's collection.

A peerless swordsman, it is said he once slew a storm giant singlehandedly.

Many believe that they are caused by giant air bubbles from deep in the lake bursting on the surface, which is not believed to be true.

In 1921, the Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, visiting the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin as part of a survey for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, deduced from local accounts that the explosion had been caused by a giant meteorite impact.

Folklore in the Mi ' kmaq First Nation claims that the tides in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a giant whale splashing in the water.

It is believed that Tlaloc was one of the first ' abuser ' gods and because of this Chalchiuhtlicue retaliated by releasing 52 years of rain, causing a giant flood which caused the fourth world to be destroyed.

He later used it on himself turning into a giant head with a giant brain that had major telepathic abilities until his own stupidity caused his underlings " Hotshot " and " Flygirl " to be flattened by a cartoon anvil which they are last seen crawling away under.

Longwall mining creates giant underground pits which has caused land to sag and homes to collapse in Washington County.

Normally a lush pine forest region most of the year, the area has been experiencing an unusually long winter caused by a giant masked mechanical monster named Goht in Snowhead Temple.

Their formation is facilitated by high groundwater flow, often caused by high rainfall – such high rainfall causes formation of the giant sinkholes in Nakanaï Mountains, New Britain island in Papua New Guinea.

Asymmetry of the disk may be caused by a giant planet ( or planets ) orbiting the star.

By contrast, megatsunamis are caused by giant landslides and other impact events.

On 9 July 1958, a giant landslide at the head of Lituya Bay in Alaska, caused by an earthquake, generated a wave with an initial amplitude of.

Unfortunately, their efforts caused Seleski to lose control of his powers, which in turn caused Earth to fall into a giant black hole.

A town in Dorset, England, about which Ford Prefect wrote a baroque fiction that caused it to be visited by a giant mute robot.

Firstly, there was a giant demographic growth with an increase in population by fifty percent ; this huge growth caused an increase in the amount of people paying the king ’ s taxes.

Other examples include the lead poisoning paint used by toy giant Mattel, which required a recall of millions of toys globally and caused the company to initiate new risk management and quality control processes.

Two space telescopes have recently provided new insight into the nature of the strange filament, which is now believed to be a giant intergalactic shock-wave ( similar to a sonic boom but traveling in intergalactic gas rather than air ) caused by one galaxy ( NGC 7318B ) falling into the center of the group at several millions of miles per hour.

The working model to explain this hypothesizes that this PN is composed of a giant companion that caused a central dense gas region to form, and a white dwarf that provides ionizing photons for the PN.

In the novel Sunstorm, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, the eponymous sunstorm is caused by the impact into the Sun of a gas giant diverted from Altair roughly two thousand years before.

This impact caused a huge explosion which flung fragments of the smaller star out into interstellar space where the water condensed and froze into giant blocks of ice.

However, Disney was impressed by a brief scene of Fess Parker, detained in the mental ward of Mercy Hospital in Brownsville, Texas, and insisting that giant flying ants had caused him to crash his plane.

These stars represent a late stage in the evolution of some stars, caused when a red giant star loses its outer hydrogen layers before the core begins to fuse helium.

Commonly, amaurosis fugax caused by giant cell arteritis may be associated with jaw claudication and headache.

The tremendous energy released by giant rocket engines perhaps can be felt much better than it can be heard.

The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths, and no matter how much coal they put in the house remained cold.

Recent observations by the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite may explain the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

The goddess held a lance whose gilt tip could be seen as a reflection by crews on ships rounding Cape Sounion, and a giant shield on the left side, decorated by Mys with images of the fight between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

Arcturus is a type K1. 5 IIIpe orange giant star — the letters " pe " stand for " peculiar emission ," which indicates that the spectrum of light given off by the star is unusual and full of emission lines.

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

Oil refining survived the shocks of the 1990s because of a continuing export market and the purchase of the Burgas refinery by the Russian oil giant LUKoil.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

On the ground, four giant panzer armies encircled surprised and disorganized Soviet forces, followed by marching infantry which completed the encirclement and defeated the trapped forces.

Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

The Eurypterids were also diverse, and are represented by such genera as Eurypterus, Glyptoscorpius, Anthraconectes, Megarachne ( originally misinterpreted as a giant spider ) and the specialised very large Hibbertopterus.

Cane toads have been confused with the giant burrowing frog ( Heleioporus australiacus ), because both are large and warty in appearance ; however, the latter can be readily distinguished from the former by its vertical pupils and its silver-grey ( as opposed to gold ) iris.

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

Astronomers were surprised by these " hot Jupiters ," since theories of planetary formation had indicated that giant planets should only form at large distances from stars.

MS Beluga Skysails is the world's first commercial container cargo ship partially powered by a giant computer-controlled kite ( 160 m² or 1, 722 sq ft ).

The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism, and is proudly flown on many occasions, with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers.

Farmer Giles is granted this antiquated sword — by then become unfashionable — as a reward for driving off a giant from his fields with his blunderbuss.

This approach was not favoured by most of the effects crew, who " couldn't believe " some of the things Tsuburaya asked them to do, such as Kong and Godzilla volleying a giant boulder back and forth.