These Pleistocene creatures, though heftier than modern grey wolves, were not nearly as massive as they are shown in the series.
This summer, the obstructions disappeared, and in their place is a set of new walkways that allow tourists a better and infinitely prettier view of both the theater and the nearly adjacent, massive, exquisitely sculptured Portico of Octavius.
The notoriously ahistoric record industry forgets that nearly all massive pop-LP hits, going back to '70s multiplatinum winners like Saturday Night Fever, Rumours, and Frampton Comes Alive, were flukes, records that captured moments in pop culture.
A typical white dwarf is nearly as massive as the sun but only slightly larger than Earth, so the star exerts a strong gravitational pull at its surface: Drop a rock from a height of 1 meter and it would hit the star at thousands of kilometers per hour.
Nearly every massive volcanic eruption in the last 11,700 years occurred somewhere in the Ring of Fire.
It's not nearly as massive as the BP disaster, of course, but it certainly calls attention to what could happen on an increasingly routine basis if the Keystone XL pipeline is eventually constructed.
The alleged fraud is not nearly as massive as in the case, say, of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme or recent Wells Fargo shenanigans, but it does involve a healthy amount of cash in America's favorite new industry.
When Apple announced their Q1 2011 numbers on Tuesday, Apple's Tim Cook made an interesting comment about what Apple plans to do with their massive, nearly $60 billion, war chest of cash.
The town of Puri is the site of the Jagannatha temple, perhaps the most famous Hindu shrine in India, and of the temple's annual Chariot Festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of people; the English word juggernaut, derived from the temple's name, was inspired by the massive, nearly unstoppable wagons used in the festival.
Unemployment stands at nearly 28% after massive public sector cuts and tax rises to reduce its fiscal deficit.
