Moreover, the cost of operations is always high in any new store, as the conservative bankers who act as controllers for retail giants are beginning to discover.

In some texts, he is referred to as something older than the giants, and his origins are not really explained.

These giants are the devas and asuras who used the nāga king Vasuki in order to the churn the Ocean of Milk in quest of the amrita or elixir of immortality.

It contains several million stars, most of which are yellow dwarf stars, but also possesses red giants and blue-white stars ; the stars have an average age of 12 billion years.

These pulsar planets are believed to have formed from the unusual remnants of the supernova that produced the pulsar, in a second round of planet formation, or else to be the remaining rocky cores of gas giants that somehow survived the supernova and then decayed into their current orbits.

There are four gas giants in the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

The hydrogen and helium in " traditional " gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn constitutes most of the planet, whereas the hydrogen / helium only makes up an outer envelope on Uranus and Neptune which are sometimes called ice giants, as they are mostly composed of water, ammonia, and methane molten ices.

Among extrasolar planets, Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit very close to their stars and thus have a very high surface temperature.

Gas giants are commonly said to lack solid surfaces, but it is closer to the truth to say that they lack surfaces altogether since the gases that make them up simply become thinner and thinner with increasing distance from the planets ' centers, eventually becoming indistinguishable from the interplanetary medium.

Many of the extrasolar planets are much closer to their parent stars and hence much hotter than gas giants in the solar system, making it possible that some of those planets are a type not observed in our solar system.

What lived in the land beyond Bear Mountain were the Gegeines which are a tribe of Earthborn giants with six arms and wore leather loincloths.

Some of these are human threats, such as the Saxons he fights in the Historia Brittonum, but the majority are supernatural, including giant cat-monsters, destructive divine boars, dragons, dogheads, giants and witches.

" The motifs and themes of loyalty, honor, giants, gift giving, wife-stealing, and magical creatures are prominent in both stories.

The most massive stars have begun to evolve away from the main sequence and are becoming red giants ; the position of the turn-off from the main sequence can be used to estimate the age of the cluster.

Planets are generally divided into two main types: large, low-density gas giants, and smaller, rocky terrestrials.

In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

As of, known extrasolar planets ( in planetary systems and multiple planetary systems ) are listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, ranging in size from that of terrestrial planets similar to Earth to that of gas giants larger than Jupiter.

The most notable planetary rings known in the Solar System are those around Saturn, but the other three gas giants of the Solar System ( Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune ) also possess ring systems of their own.

Red giants all have inert cores with hydrogen-burning shells: concentric layers atop the core that are still fusing hydrogen into helium.

Mid-sized stars are red giants during two different phases of their post-main-sequence evolution: red giant branch ( RGB ) stars, whose inert cores are made of helium, and asymptotic giant branch ( AGB ) stars, whose inert cores are made of carbon.

A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

Louis de Funès ( ; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983 ), born Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza, was a popular French actor of Spanish origin, who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel.

The classical author Diodorus explained the origin of animal-worship by recalling the myth in which the gods, supposedly threatened by giants, hid under the guise of animals.

" It seems to have featured dinosaur-like monsters, including some bionic variations of unknown origin, giants, and cavemen.

The next morning, Staphylus talks about the gods and giants and the origin of the Indians, and then dies.

Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: " We have this need for some larger-than-life creature.

Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.

Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.

In 1931, Nicholson and Mayall calculated its mass, based on its supposed effect on the gas giants, as roughly that of the Earth, while in 1949, measurements of Pluto's diameter led to the conclusion that it was midway in size between Mercury and Mars and that its mass was most probably about 0. 1 Earth mass.

Pictures of the once majestic trees broken and abandoned in formerly pristine groves, and the thought of the giants put to such modest use, spurred the public outcry that caused most of the groves to be preserved as protected land.

There are also accounts of giants in the Old Testament, most famously Goliath.

While often translated as " giants ", most are described as being roughly human sized.

However, giants show different variants and forms, they are most frequently referred to as jentilak and mairuak, while as individuals they can be represented as Basajaun (' the lord of the forests '), Sanson ( development of the biblical Samson ), Errolan ( based on the Frankish army general Roland fall dead in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass ) or even Tartalo ( a one-eyed giant akin to the Greek Cyclops ).

The highlight is the cortege of giants ( in French: Cortège des géants ), with David and Goliath as the most famous characters.

Among its most respected practitioners was Flannery O ' Connor ( b. March 25, 1925 in Georgia – d. August 3, 1964 in Georgia ), who renewed the fascination of such giants as Faulkner and Twain with the American south, developing a distinctive Southern gothic esthetic wherein characters acted at one level as people and at another as symbols.

The radius of most red giants is between 200 and 800 times that of the Sun.

Many of the most well-known fusion artists were members of earlier jazz fusion groups, and some of the fusion " giants " of the 1970s kept working in the genre.

Most of the evil giants are only mentioned by name ; some are given a larger role, such as Fleshlumpeater, who is the largest and most dangerous of them all ( and therefore something of a leader ), and Bloodbottler, who invades the BFG's cave early in the story.

Given the small mass of brown dwarf disks, most planets will be terrestrial planets rather than gas giants.

In the 1999-00 season, on the back of his most successful season at Leeds where he also won PFA Young Player of the Year was selected in the PFA Team of the Year, Italian giants, Internazionale, had unsuccessfully bid £ 25m for Kewell but Leeds rejected the offer citing his value to their side.

The most prominent settlement is the House of Harfang, a community of giants that is apparently the remnant of a much larger city ( Giant CIty Ruinous ) which was abandoned generations ago and fell into ruin.

The campaign setting for Arcana Unearthed is the lands of The Diamond Throne, a land ruled by giants ( in contrast to the human dominance assumed in most other fantasy settings ).

Mossley's most successful season in their Cheshire League days was in 1969 – 70 when Don Wilson's side finished runners-up in the League, reached the 1st Round Proper of the FA Cup for the first time in 20 years losing narrowly in a replay to Stockport County and made it to the quarter finals of the inaugural FA Trophy going out to Southern League giants Barnet.