`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard, who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire ( s ) du cinéma, and Pauline Kael who championed both The Fury and De Palma.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

The woolly mammoth was the last species of the genus.

The influence of Gustav Mahler was particularly innovational ; in his later symphonies, such as the mammoth Symphony No. 8, Mahler pushes the furthest boundaries of orchestral size, employing huge forces.

One was mammoth boulders left by the retreat of Ice Age glaciers.

Guericke's so-called unicorn had only two legs, and was constructed from fossil bones of a woolly rhinoceros and a mammoth, with the horn of a narwhal.

In 1998, the year of the centennial commemoration of the Republic of the Philippines, a Gay and Lesbian Pride March was incorporated in the mammoth " citizens ' parade " which was part of the official centennial celebration.

On June 14, 1918 the Zuiderzee Act was passed and the mammoth undertaking began.

Soundtracks for the Blind ( 1996 ) was the result: a mammoth two-disc album comprising Jarboe-supplied field recordings, experimental music, dark ambient soundscapes, post-industrial epics, post rock suites and acoustic guitar.

Inside was a mammoth roasting pan, nearly a yard square and a foot deep, with four football-size bundles of meat simmering in broth.

In November 2003, a mammoth was found buried in a sand pit in Clute by a backhoe operator for Vernor Material & Equipment Co.

This was believed to be remains of the first-dated mammoth discovered on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The mammoth was judged to be about 38, 000 years old, judging from the age of logs recovered near the site.

The mammoth was considered to be a Columbian mammoth.

The mammoth steel bridge that was built across the Columbia drew many laborers to the area, and the small town boomed.

His Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, compiled over the same period as Hart-Davis's correspondence with George Lyttelton, was described in a review of the latter as " a mammoth undertaking whose difficulties and challenges are documented in great detail in the letters, giving a satisfying portrayal of what dedication in literary scholarship looks like from the inside ".

A mammoth Fratelli Ruffatti concert organ featuring five manuals, 147 registers and 9235 pipes, was soon added to the new hall.

This illustration of an Indian Elephant | Indian elephant jaw and a mammoth jaw was included in 1799 when Cuvier's 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants was printed.

Shooting began on March 16, 1959 with Anita Ekberg climbing the stairs to the cupola of Saint Peter ’ s in a mammoth décor constructed at Cinecittà.

They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting.

A site in Ukraine suggests Neanderthals built dwellings using mammoth bones.

It was carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife.

Other tasks in this mammoth restoration work included setting up a rainwater harvesting system using 128 ground water recharge pits, old wells which were discovered during the work were desilted and revitalized.

This style often employs mammoth cars weighing several thousand pounds and using highly advanced suspension systems and transmissions coupled with large performance V8 engines such as the latest GM LS engine series.

He was created as a woolly mammoth, without tusks or ( visible ) ears, and has a long thick pointed tail, similar in shape to that of a dinosaur or other reptile.

In their opening match of World Cup 2011 campaign, Kenya faced a mammoth defeat from New Zealand by 10 wickets, they were bowled out for 69 runs and New Zealand won the match in just 8 overs without the loss of a wicket.

After seeing that fixed-wing departures were not an option ( a mammoth decision Martin did not want to make without firsthand responsibility in case the helicopter lift failed ), Martin gave the green light for the helicopter evacuation to begin in earnest.

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.

David Miles the chief archaeologist at English Heritage said: " It is extremely rare to find any evidence of Neanderthals and even rarer to find it in association with mammoth remains.

The corps ' three SS panzergrenadier divisions were involved in mammoth tank battles around Prokhorovka, pushing deeper into the salient than any other unit.

Geometric pottery has not yet received the thorough, detailed study which it deserves, partly because the task is a mammoth one and partly because some of its local manifestations, as at Argos, are only now coming to light.

Hayao Miyazaki directed two mammoth box office and critical successes, Porco Rosso ( 1992 ) – which beat E. T.

Two examples were Fraidy Cat, a timid feline who has lost 8 of his 9 lives, which come back to haunt him ; and Wacky and Packy, a caveman and his pet mammoth (" Packy " refers to the latter character being a " pachyderm ") who enter the modern age through a time warp.

Authorities such as Buffon had claimed that fossils found in Europe of animals such as the woolly rhinoceros and mammoth were remains of animals still living in the tropics ( i. e. rhinoceros and elephants ), which had shifted out of Europe and Asia as the earth became cooler.

Much of the stability achieved by the Banzerato was sustained by the constant flow of easy credit from abroad, which was often used on mammoth " white elephant " projects of dubious usefulness but which nonetheless impressed certain sectors of the population.

European Homotherium have an important role in the book Dance of the Tiger by Bjorn Kurten-particularly the scene in which a pair of Homotherium, known to the book's characters as " black tigers ", hunt a mammoth calf.

Recent stable isotope studies of woolly mammoth bone collagen demonstrate that western Beringia ( Siberia ) was colder and drier than eastern Beringia ( Alaska and Yukon ), which were more ecologically diverse.

Remains of three dogs were also found, one of which had a mammoth bone in its mouth.

A year after Atlantis, he published Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, in which he expounded his belief that the Flood, as well as the destruction of Atlantis ( and the extinction of the mammoth ), had been brought about by the near-collision of the earth with a massive comet.

Also scattered around the bays of Mumbles and Gower are the bones of sixteen Ice Age mammals, including a mammoth tooth measuring ten centimetres across, which is on display in Swansea Museum.

Today the island is home to the mammoth Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant, which provides sewage treatment for the Boston area.

His analysis of capital flight and the rise of mammoth cartels later influenced Lenin in his Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ) which has become a basis for the modern neo-Marxist analysis of imperialism.

Also discovered is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, nicknamed Zed ; the only pieces missing are a rear leg, a vertebra and the top of his skull, which was sheared off by construction equipment in preparation to build the parking structure.

The sea off Cape Agulhas is notorious for winter storms and mammoth rogue waves, which can range up to 30 metres ( 100 ft ) high and can sink even large ships.

Batman's numerous crime-fighting vehicles are seen parked in an adjacent compartment to the Batcave, with an adjoining not-so-secret subterranean garage which stores Bruce Wayne's mammoth collection of vintage and luxury cars.

Most notably, the museum contained a large variety of birds which Peale himself acquired, and it was the first to display North American mastodon bones ( which in Peale's time were referred to as mammoth bones ; these common names were amended by Georges Cuvier in 1800, and his proposed usage is that employed today ).

Inspired by the mammoth internal combustion engine invented by George Brayton displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Selden began working on a smaller lighter version, succeeding by 1878, some eight years before the public introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in Europe, in producing a one-cylinder, 400-pound version which featured an enclosed crankshaft with the help of Rochester machinist Frank H. Clement and his assistant William Gomm.

The sea contains several dozen islands, many of which contain well-preserved mammoth remains.

The Commission is widely considered the most important independent U. S. government commission since the Warren Commission, which was charged with investigating the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and perhaps the most important in American history given its mammoth responsibility for investigating the causes of the first foreign attack on the U. S. mainland since the War of 1812, and recommending steps to defend the U. S. from future attacks.

A mammoth engineering and supply effort was undertaken to establish a forward base in the vicinity of Beersheba, from which infantry and mounted troops could stage an assault.

The best known, E. sibiricum was the size of a mammoth and is thought to have borne a large, thick horn on its forehead which was used for defense, attracting mates, driving away competitors, sweeping snow from the grass in winter and digging for water and plant roots.