It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The description of Hanzei in the Kojiki is daunting as he is described as standing over nine feet tall and have enormous teeth all the same size.

With its small size and enormous oil wealth, Kuwait occupies a strategic position at the head of the Persian Gulf.

These families were very diverse in form and size ; they included the enormous brontotheres and the bizarre chalicotheres.

Earlier in the decade, Congo's major employer was the state bureaucracy, which had a payroll of 80, 000, which is enormous for a country of Congo's size.

Individual country comparisons are of little value in gauging Russia's enormous size and diversity.

Due to the enormous size of the country Russia leads in the number of TV broadcast stations and repeaters.

" These rifles were designed for very large black-powder cartridges, from military-issue. 45-70 on up to the enormous. 50-140 Sharps and. 500 Express ; early repeating actions were not capable of handling rounds of this power and physical size.

Hippos are recognizable by their barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth and teeth, nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size.

Because of their enormous size, hippopotamuses are difficult to weigh in the wild.

Xerogels usually retain high porosity ( 15-50 %) and enormous surface area ( 150 – 900 m < sup > 2 </ sup >/ g ), along with very small pore size ( 1-10 nm ).

The reason certain stars like Deneb and Betelgeuse are found off the main sequence is because of their extremely high luminosity resulting from their enormous size.

Due to China's enormous population growth and the body of its appointed scholar-officials being accepted in limited size ( about 20, 000 active officials during the Song period ), the larger scholarly gentry class would now take over grassroots affairs on the vast local level.

They range in size from almost man-portable mobile plants to enormous, complex systems weighing more than a hundred tonnes housed in block-sized buildings.

Before the end of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was concerned that, with the enormous size of Soviet forces deployed in Europe at the end of the war and the perception that the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unreliable, there was a serious threat to Western Europe.

In the 13th century, Marco Polo ( as quoted in Attenborough ( 1961: 32 ) stated " It was for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of enormous size ; so big in fact that its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion.

The second task was to catch two man-eating vultures of enormous size that were posing an equal threat to the neighborhood, again without use of any devices.

The name Fergus ( later Irish Fearghus ) means " man-strength " or " virility ", and Fergus is described as being of enormous size and sexual potency.

In 1926 a British anthropologist specialising in Australian Aboriginal ethnology and ethnography, Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, noted many Aboriginal groups widely distributed across the Australian continent all appeared to share variations of a single ( common ) myth telling of an unusually powerful, often creative, often dangerous snake or serpent of sometimes enormous size closely associated with the rainbows, rain, rivers, and deep waterholes.

This ' Rainbow Serpent ' is generally and variously identified by those who tell ' Rainbow Serpent ' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of many of Australia's waterways ; descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, swallowing and sometimes drowning people ; strengthening the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers ; blighting others with sores, weakness, illness, and death.

The sarcophagi are of immense size, and the burial must have entailed enormous expense.

This structure is enormous in a few species, equaling the size of the animal's head.

The enormous size of the Leviathan is described by R. Johanan, from whom proceeded nearly all the aggadot concerning this monster: " Once we went in a ship and saw a fish which put his head out of the water.

Russia has a market economy with enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas.

The first major problem facing Russia was the legacy of the Soviet Union's enormous commitment to the Cold War.

* Starting from February 2010, Kuban Airlines of Russia painted part of its fleet in a new livery featuring enormous sunflowers.

The enormous red-brick kremlin, one of the strongest and earliest preserved citadels in Russia, was built in 1508 – 1511 under the supervision of Peter the Italian.

In relation with the expansion of Russian state to the East from Irkutsk, the city became a capital of enormous territories from the Enisey to the Pacific, it played an important role in the exploration and securing vast Eastern-Siberian and Far-Eastern territories to Russia.

In 1799 the merchant companies were united in Russian-American company “ for the trades on the territory of the Aleutian and Kuril islands and the rest part of North-Eastern sea, belonging to Russia by the right of discovery .” Grigorii Ivanovich Shelikhov, an outstanding seafarer, played an important role in mastering enormous spaces of northern part of Pacific ocean.

In honor of the young heroine, a celebration of sweets from around the world is produced: chocolate from Spain, coffee from Arabia, and tea from China all dance for their amusement ; candy canes from Russia ; Danish shepherdesses perform on their flutes ; Mother Gigogne has her children emerge from under her enormous skirt to dance ; a string of beautiful flowers perform a waltz.

This part of Russia has enormous water reserves ; Yaroslavl Oblast has 4327 rivers with a total length of nearly 20, 000km.

The throne was vacant ; the great nobles ( boyars ) quarrelled among themselves ; Orthodox Patriarch Hermogenes was imprisoned ; Catholic Poles occupied the Moscow Kremlin and Smolensk ; the Protestant Swedes occupied Novgorod ; continuing Tatar raids left the south borderlands of Russia completely depopulated and devastated ; and enormous bands of brigands swarmed everywhere.

Russia had ordered enormous quantities of arms and ammunition, but ran short of money to pay for the orders.

Covenant operatives primed the world's water with Rambaldi substances and Elena activated an enormous Mueller device in Sovogda, Russia.

He withstood enormous pressure from Russia and refused to retain the common armed forces and currency inside the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Formerly commanded by such legendary admirals as Dmitriy Senyavin and Pavel Nakhimov, it is a fleet of enormous historical and political importance for Russia.

and plenty of different schools for left hand ( vibrato ) and right hand ( fingerstyle playing ) and enormous classical music musical transposition archives and music composed for Russian 7-string guitar for 200 years in Russia.

Their war plan, to quickly overcome France before turning attentions to Russia, had come to nothing despite the enormous efforts expended.

The works continued to play an enormous role in providing high-quality iron to fuel the voracious appetite of the Industrial Revolution, with the Tsar of Russia sending a representative to view the production of iron rail.

We devote a chapter to the binomial distribution not only because it is a mathematical model for an enormous variety of real life phenomena, but also because it has important properties that recur in many other probability models.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

The US Chamber of Commerce argued that the costs of the ADA would be " enormous " and have " a disastrous impact on many small businesses struggling to survive ".

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

In such cases, economists rely on observational studies, often using data sets with many strongly associated covariates, resulting in enormous numbers of models with similar explanatory ability but different covariates and regression estimates.

" In § 166, I instanced the enormous horns of the extinct Irish elk, and contended that in this and in kindred cases, where for the efficient use of some one enlarged part many other parts have to be simultaneously enlarged, it is out of the question to suppose that they can have all spontaneously varied in the required proportions.

Kyrgyzstan has been spared many of the enormous environmental problems faced by its Central Asian neighbors, primarily because its designated roles in the Soviet system involved neither heavy industry nor large-scale cotton production.

To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio ( Radio AF ), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen ( the Lund Carnival ) every four years.

Among many other observations about flora, fauna, and native inhabitants related in his lengthy book, Bonaventure claimed to have seen enormous footprints in the region.

The crop from old trees is sometimes enormous, but they seldom bear well two years in succession, and in many cases a large harvest occurs every sixth or seventh season.

Quantum mechanics had enormous success in explaining many of the features of our world.

Thanks to Carmack's idea of extending video game life by adding unlimited expandability ( extensibility already played a big role in Doom ), an enormous Internet community of gamers and programmers alike has arisen and many modern multiplayer games are extensible in some form.

An enormous diversity of musical styles and genres flourished during the Renaissance, and can be heard on commercial recordings in the 21st century, including masses, motets, madrigals, chansons, accompanied songs, instrumental dances, and many others.

First, it has enormous stopping power at short range, more than nearly all handguns and many rifles.

) He has an enormous nose, the source of many jokes — and is always trying to win the King's attention.

From this time forward there is a nearly constant contention for the government of the Jaredites that continues for many generations, and ultimately the book ends with an enormous final war in which millions of Jaredites are killed and the Jaredite nation is destroyed.

Since many of them focus on a narrow set of concerns or even on a single issue, and often a single issue of enormous emotional weight, they compete with the parties for citizens ' dollars, time, and passion.

During the early 1940s World War II had an enormous impact on Major League Baseball as many players including many of the most successful stars joined the war effort.

The Weimar Republic, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, because of the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the Treaty of Versailles.

* An enormous drought in Henan province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying by starvation.

Cotton plants thus have an enormous weight in the world economy and are of great importance for the agriculture, industry and trade of many tropical and subtropical countries in Africa, South America and Asia.

Bussard proposed a ramjet variant of a fusion rocket capable of reasonable interstellar spaceflight, using enormous electromagnetic fields ( ranging from kilometers to many thousands of kilometers in diameter ) as a ram scoop to collect and compress hydrogen from the interstellar medium.