His first cartoon was Lord Jack the Giant Killer, which showed Lord John Russell assailing Cardinal Wiseman.

World heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson ( boxer ) | Jack Johnson, nicknamed the " Galveston Giant "

Later Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “ Galveston Giant ”, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.

Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, sometimes said to eat humans, especially children ( though this is actually a confusion with ogres, which are distinctly cannibalistic ).

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.

John Arthur (" Jack ") Johnson ( March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946 ), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ," was an American boxer.

In Charles de Lint's novel Jack, the Giant Killer, the Hunt is re-imagined in the modern world as riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

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* Jack the Giant Killer ( with Mark Bomback, Darren Lemke and Dan Studney ) ( 2013 )

He shared the stage with other prodigies, including his friends Jim Tarver, the Texas Giant ; Jack Earle, the Tallest Man in the World ; Koo-Koo the Bird Girl and many others.

One episode, " The Giant Jack Rabbit ", was the highest rated half-hour on television to that time and remains the most watched half-hour sitcom episode.

Many British fairy tales, such as Jack the Giant Killer and The Black Bull of Norroway, feature shapeshifting.

Jack encounters a cattle-devouring giant called Cormoran ( Cornish: ' The Giant of the Sea ') and lures him to his death in a pit trap.

Tales of monsters and heroes are abundant around the world, making the source of " Jack the Giant Killer " difficult to pin down however the ascription of Jack relation to Cornwall suggests a Brythonic ( Celtic ) origin.

The title page from A Little Pretty Pocket-Book ( 1744 ) promises the reader two letters from Jack the Giant Killer.

In " Jack and Arthur: An Introduction to Jack the Giant Killer ", Thomas Green writes that Jack has no place in Cornish folklore, but was created at the beginning of the eighteenth century simply as a framing device for a series of gory, giant-killing adventures.

The tales of Arthur precede and inform " Jack the Giant Killer ", he notes, but points out that Le Morte d ' Arthur had been out of print since 1634 and concludes from this fact that the public had grown weary of Arthur.

She points out however that " Jack the Giant Killer " is rendered directly from the chapbooks except the English hasty pudding in the incident of the belly-slashing Welsh giant becomes mush.

Carol Rose reports in Giants, Monsters, and Dragons that the tale of Jack the Giant Killer may be a development of the Corineus and Gogmagog legend.

* In 2002, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, in Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper — Case Closed, maintained that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.

Recent slasher examples are Hatchet and its sequel, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, The Pumpkin Karver, Hellbent, Slash, Holla, MTV's My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Grizzly Park, April Fools, The Legend of Bloody Jack, Trick ' r Treat, Killer Movie and many more.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed.

For example, American author Patricia Cornwell wrote a best-selling book titled Portrait of a Killer about the personality, background, and possible motivations of Jack the Ripper, as well as the media coverage of his murders, and the subsequent police investigation of his crimes.

This movie spawned a sequel: Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, also starring this version of Jack Frost.

In the version of " Jack the Giant Killer " recorded by Joseph Jacobs, Blunderbore lives in Penwith, where he kidnaps three lords and ladies, planning to eat the men and make the women his wives.

In 1962, United Artists released a middle budget film produced by Edward Small and directed by Nathan H. Juran called Jack the Giant Killer.

All, that is, except Jack.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

In Mack's the leader at camp, but Jack is here the is of the second main declarative represents is the leader and therefore has stress.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

So is that of the limber company of lasses who whirl and glide and quickstep under Jack Cole's expert choreographic direction.

Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;

Jack, what is the nature of this concept ''??

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.

In Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, Ambrosius Aurelianus is the half-brother of Caius Merlyn Britannicus ( Merlin ) and helps him lead the people of Camulod ( Camelot ).

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.

It is only played with two bowls each, the Jack also has a bias and is only slightly smaller than the Bowls.

Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.