Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

Many factors may disrupt the equilibrium of a giant molecular cloud, triggering a collapse and initiating the burst of star formation that can result in an open cluster.

Many years later, Ken and Tanaka return to Otakuland in a post-apocalyptic submerged Japan and find its central structure, a giant robot, converted into a functional spaceship piloted by their old otaku friends.

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.

Many large animals, or megafauna, including horses, camels, mammoths, mastodonts, ground sloths, sabre-tooth cats ( Smilodon ), the giant short-faced bear ( Arctodus simus ), and the cheetah, became extinct in North America at the end of the Pleistocene epoch ( ice ages ), at the same time the first evidence of humans appeared, in what is called the Holocene extinction event.

Many radio stations began to play the acoustic version, including the highly influential Los Angeles radio giant KROQ-FM.

Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).

Many German companies had stock in Degesch, but all eventually sold their shares to the chemical giant Degussa ( now part of Evonik Industries ) in the early 1920s.

Many species of gull will feed on seabird and sea mammal carrion when the opportunity arises, as will giant petrels.

Many of the card backs feature puzzle pieces to form giant 9-card murals ; other back subjects vary greatly among the series, from humorous licenses and awards to comic strips and, in more recent releases, " Fakebook " profiles.

Many of the brighter galaxies in this cluster, including the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, were discovered in the late 1770s and early 1780s and subsequently included in Charles Messier's catalogue of non-cometary fuzzy objects.

Many modern supercomputers comprise giant server farms of high-speed processors connected by either Gigabit Ethernet or custom interconnects such as Infiniband or Myrinet.

Many alpine species are endemic to Mount Kenya, such as the giant lobelias and senecios and a local subspecies of rock hyrax.

Many plants of this genus, especially F. communis are referred to as " giant fennel ," although they are not fennel in the strict sense.

Many plattenbau apartments were built in giant settlements, often on the edge of cities ( such as Marzahn and Hellersdorf in Berlin and Halle-Neustadt ), making them inconveniently located.

Many have been taken over by a local government authority or the giant structures like those at Chambord are owned and operated by the national government and are major tourist sites, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

* Many of the monsters in Power Rangers: SPD used Zord-like giant robots to commit crimes and fight the Power Rangers.

Many anglers believe that large yellowfin are, pound for pound, the fastest and strongest of all big game tunas: renowned American author S. Kip Farrington, who fished the classic giant bluefin tuna fisheries of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas as well as Wedgeport in Nova Scotia, Canada, in their heyday, rated the yellowfin tuna of Hawaii as equal to a bluefin ' twice his weight '.

Many of the shops in the town also possess large corrugated iron sculptures and the church has a giant shepherd also made out of corrugated iron.

Many millions of years earlier, the extremely rare conditions on a moon orbiting a gas giant in a remote galaxy allow for the creation of a lifeform able to ' transcend ' to a purely energy-based ( later known as energistic ) state, the Ly-cilph.

Many independent booksellers are concerned about the potential negative impact on free speech by giant megachains and nationwide web retailers.

Many species that were formerly within the Danio genus, such as the giant danio, have now been reclassified as Devario.

Many knotweed species, particularly Japanese knotweed, giant knotweed and Himalayan knotweed are considered noxious, invasive pests.

Many of Koogle's TV commercials featured the product's mascot, an oversized puppet costume in the abstract form of a giant jar with spinning eyeballs, frog-like arms and legs, and a " jive " voice similar to that of then-popular radio disc jockey Wolfman Jack.

Many large granite plutons are the sources for palaeochannel-hosted or roll front uranium ore deposits, where the uranium washes into the sediments from the granite uplands and associated, often highly radioactive, pegmatites.

Many large Hindu temples in southern India, particularly those built by the 11th century king Rajaraja Chola I, were made of granite.

Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry.

Many expert stonemasons from the Monastery worked on its construction, cutting the granite from which its solid walls are built.

Many of the western islands are hilly and steep, formed mainly of granite, and are peaks of the northernmost extension of the Great Dividing Range now turned into islands when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.

Many variations can be made of the basic satin weave including a granite weave and a check weave.

Many varieties of Precambrian bedrock are exposed, including granite, basalt, greenstone, gneiss, as well as metamorphic rocks derived from volcanic and sedimentary rocks.

Many of the mountains are distinguished by granite rocks that produce marble and granite.

Many different types and polishes of granite are used.

Many mountain ranges, such as the Sierra Nevada in California, are formed mostly by intrusive rock, large granite ( or related rock ) formations.

Many photographers utilise the granite boulders for shots whilst many will also take advantage of the Poplar trees that line the highway when they change from bright green to a lumious yellow during autumn.

Many other copper, tin and granite mines are scattered around the base of the hill.

Many celebrated national figures have participated in the historical events that have taken place within the Old Executive Office Building's granite walls.

Many of the several hundred temple mounds have been built over with freeways, shopping centers, commerce, luxury hotels and residential areas.

Many legends describe Hideyoshi being sent to study at a temple as a young man, but he rejected temple life and went in search of adventure.

Many thought that architect Henry Bacon's Greek temple design was far too ostentatious for a man of Lincoln's humble character.

Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants.

Many pictures show the serpent Python living in amity with Apollo and guarding the Omphalos, the sacred navel-stone and mid-point of the earth, which stood in Apollo's temple " ( Kerenyi 1951: 136 ).

Many of the Japanese artworks and imported treasures from other countries during the era of Emperors Shōmu and Shōtoku are archived in Shōsō-in of Tōdai-ji temple.

They added to the mounds, including a residence for their chief, the " Great Sun ", on Mound B, and a combined temple and charnel house for the elite on Mound C. Many early European explorers, including Hernando De Soto, La Salle and Bienville, made contact with the Natchez at this site, called the Grand Village of the Natchez.

Many pyramid-cult cities used a common orientation: a north-south axis from the royal palace and an east-west axis from the temple meeting at a central plaza where King and God merged and crossed.

Many Buddhist temples have stupas and historically, the placement of relics in a stupa often became the initial structure around which the whole temple would be based.

Many sources ( Chatalski and Tarnovo inscriptions ) and memorial inscription are preserved, which testify for the reconstruction of Pliska, the building of a new palace with a large throne room and a temple of Tangra.

Many visitors also arrive by plane, at an airfield that was specially constructed for the temple complex.

Many Latter-day Saints view the garment associated with the temple rites as sacred.

Many of the walled cities in China contained a temple referred to as the city god temple.

Many niches in the temple walls contain carvings of devatas or dvarapalas.

Many copies of the text were made and carved in stone on monuments or temples throughout the Roman Empire, some of which have survived ; most notably, almost a full copy, written in the original Latin and a Greek translation was preserved on a temple to Augustus in Ancyra ( the Monumentum Ancyranum of Ankara, Turkey ); others have been found at Apollonia and Antioch, both in Pisidia.

Many of his murals were created on temple walls.

Many of the interiors range from simple beach huts and army camps to elaborate complexes, an underground temple, and ultra-modern research labs.

Many famous temple gardens were built early in this period, including Kinkaku-ji, The Golden Pavilion, built in 1398, and Ginkaku-ji, The Silver Pavilion, built in 1482.

Many river cruise boats dock at Shibaozhai for a few hours to allow passengers to tour the pavilion and temple.

Many acharyas have also written songs on the various deities in this temple.

Many donated hours in helping with the open house, held 15 July – 3 August 1985, during which over one hundred thousand people toured the temple.

Many of the temple guards are also killed while defending it from Clone Troopers.