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Big Dipper (Australian roller coaster) Big Dipper is the name associated with roller coasters operated by Luna Park Sydney. There have been two Big Dippers, and Luna Park Sydney still retains the rights to operate roller coasters in Australia under this name.
Big Dipper (Geauga Lake) Big Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at Geauga Lake amusement park in Aurora, Ohio. Built in 1925, the Big Dipper is an ACE "Coaster Classic" and is currently the 7th oldest operating roller coaster in the USA (12th oldest in the world).
Big Dogs Big Dogs is a chain of stores in the United States which features clothing and apparel holding the "Big Dogs" brand name. Almost all of the shirts are parodies of different themes of pop culture (As in Dog Wars,a parody of Star Wars featuring dogs).
Big Drift The Big Drift is an area along the Going-to-the-Sun Road where a large amount of winter snow can accumulate to depths in excess of 100 feet (30 m). Located immediately east of Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, the westerly winds push snow over the crest of the Continental divide onto the eastern flank of a long arête which extends south from Pollock Mountain.
Big Drum Big Drum is a genre and a musical instrument from the Windward Islands. It is a kind of Caribbean music, associated mostly closely with the music of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Carriacou in Grenada and in the music of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Big Dumb Object A term probably coined by reviewer Roz KaveneyKaveney, Roz, 1981, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, issue 22. and used in discussing science fiction, a Big Dumb Object (BDO) is a mysterious artifact (usually of extraterrestrial origin) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.
Big Dumb Sex "Big Dumb Sex" is the eleventh track on Louder than Love, the second full-length album by Soundgarden. The song is mostly memorable for its explicit lyrics concerning sexual intercourse in the chorus of the song "Hey I know what to do, I'm gonna fuck you", a line that's repeated through the song various times, and even the line "Fuck You" at the mere ending.
Big Dyna Big Dyna was originally introduced as a video game programmed in the language native to the TI-89 graphing calculator. The game itself played in a manner and with a similar objective to the original Super Mario Brothers release for the Nintendo entertainment system.
Big East Conference The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. The conference's 17 members (16 full-time and 1 associate member) participate in 23 NCAA sports.
Big East Men's Basketball Tournament The Big East Men's Basketball Tournament determines the Big East Conference champion and the winner of the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Since 1983 the tournament has been held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York.
Big Ed Hurley Big Ed Hurley (played by Everett McGill) is a fictional character on the 1990-1991 primetime ABC series Twin Peaks. He runs the local gas station, aka "Big Ed's Gas Farm" and is an "unofficial" deputy.
Big Eddy Site The Big Eddy site (23CE426) is a unique archaeological site located in southwestern Missouri where the western edge of the Ozarks meet the prairie-forest border (Chandler 2001a; Ray et al 1998:68, 2000:73). The site sits precariously on the bank of the Sac River, Cedar County, Missouri, just six miles downstream from the Stockton hydroelectric dam.
Big Eight Conference The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored American football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Big Eight Conference (Indiana) The Big Eight Conference is an athletic conference comprised of medium-size high schools located in southwestern Indiana with one member in Illinois. The conference members are city-based schools located in Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Posey, and Warrick counties in Indiana and Wabash County in Illinois.
Big Finish Productions Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. They are best known for their Doctor Who line; other properties include 2000 AD characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog; Dark Shadows; The Tomorrow People; Sapphire & Steel; and The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.
Big Finish Short Trips The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002. The Short Trips name was inherited from similar collections published by the BBC, who decided in March 2000 that is was no longer financially viable to produce collections of short stories.
Big Fire Big Fire is the name of an illuminati style organization in the series Giant Robo, which has appeared in Manga, Anime, and Tokusatsu series, even appearing in the Super Robot Wars Video Game. Pretty much in all appearances Big Fire is a secret criminal orginization with dreams of world domination.
Big Fish (novel) Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions is a 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace, about a young man (William Bloom) at his father's (Edward Bloom) deathbed who tries to reconcile his memories of his dad with who he really is. Where he always saw his father as an irresponsible liar, he comes to understand his dad's exaggerations and their roots in reality.
Big Fish Studios In May, 2002 Big Fish Games was founded as a game development studio and experienced early success with titles like Mahjong Towers, Top Ten Solitaire, and Word Wizard. Big Fish Studios now releases 12 to 15 original titles per year and has produced many branded hit titles including Mystery Case Files: Huntsville, Hidden Expedition: Titanic, Mahjong Towers Eternity, Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects, Mystic Inn, Atlantis – Sky Patrol, and Fairies.
Big Five (California) The Big Five is an informal institution of California state government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader. Members of the Big Five meet in private to discuss bills pending in the legislature.
Big Five (Hawaii) The Big Five is the name given to a group of former sugarcane corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawai‘i and leaned heavily towards the Hawai‘i Republican Party. The Big Five was comprised of Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C.
Big Five (orchestras) In the context of classical music in the United States, the Big Five refers to five symphony orchestras that were considered to be the most prominent and accomplished ensembles when the term gained widespread use by music critics in the late 1950s. The "Big Five", in the order of their founding, are:
Big Five game The phrase Big Five game was coined by big-game hunters and refers to the five large mammals that were sought in Africa. The term is still used in most tourist and wildlife guides that discuss African wildlife.
Big Five personality traits In psychology, the Big Five personality factors are five broad factors or dimensions of personality traits discovered through empirical research (Goldberg, 1993). These factors are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience.
Big Flame (political group) Big Flame were a libertarian Marxist political party in the United Kingdom. They were founded in Liverpool in 1970 and at first grew rapidly in the prevailing climate on the left, developing branches in a number of cities.
Big Foot Mama Big Foot Mama is one of the most successful rock bands from Slovenia in recent years. They started their career in 1990 and after their third album, Tretja dimenzija (The Third Dimension), they were considered the rock band of the decade, breaking sales records in rock category and selling out some of the biggest venues in the capital Ljubljana like KriĹľanke and Hala Tivoli, which were previously considered as unconquerable for Slovenian rock bands.
Big Four auditors The Big 4, sometimes written as the Big Four, is a group of international accountancy and professional services firms that handles the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies. The Big Four firms are:
Big Four, West Virginia Big Four is an unincorporated community located in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. Originally known as Cirrus, Big Four is reported to have been renamed for the four men who operated the coal mines in the area.
Big Fresno Fairgrounds The Big Fresno Fairgrounds, located in Fresno, California, is the site of the annual Big Fresno Fair. It is also used as a convention center, with nine facilities including the Paul Theatre, a livestock pavilion and the following buildings:
Big Frog Mountain Big Frog Mountain is a mountain located in southeastern Tennessee in the Big Frog Wilderness, an area in the Cherokee National Forest. At 4,224 feet tall, there is no higher point west of Big Frog Mountain until the Big Bend in Texas or the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Big Frog Wilderness The Big Frog Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of 8,082 acres. Approximately 89 acres are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately 7,993 acres are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest.
Big government Big government is a pejorative term generally used by political conservatives or laissez-faire advocates to describe a government which is excessively large or inefficient, or which is inappropriately involved in certain areas of public policy. In this latter sense the term may also be used by political liberals in relation to government policies which attempt to regulate matters considered to be private or personal, such as private sexual behavior.
Big Game (football) The Big Game is the annual football game between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (known simply as "Cal"), held in November. The first Big Game was held in March 19, 1892 on San Francisco's Haight Street grounds when Stanford beat Cal 14-10.
Big Gay Out Faceparty's Big Gay Out is a United Kingdom live popular music event, dance party and fun fair organized by the profile and community website Faceparty for the LGBT community, in London. It has been held twice, in 2004 as part of London's Gay Pride, and again in 2005 separately from London Pride, both times in Finsbury Park.
Big Gemini Big Gemini (or "Big G") was proposed to NASA by McDonnell Douglas in August, 1969, as an advanced version of the Gemini spacecraft system. It was intended to provide large-capacity, all-purpose access to space, including missions that ultimately used Apollo or the Space Shuttle.
Big Gete Star The Big Gete Star is a fictional machine seen in the sixth movie of the Dragon Ball Z anime franchise. It was once a self-aware computer chip that becomes integrated with the villain of the fifth movie Coola, who takes it over and uses its resources to plunder planets for their energy.
Big Gipp Bigg Gipp born Cameron Gipp (born on April 28, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia), is an American rapper from the South. He is best known as a member of Goodie Mob, and has also released one solo album and been part of several collaborations, most recently with Ali as Ali & Gipp.
Big Gum Swamp Wilderness The Big Gum Swamp Wilderness is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in the Osceola National Forest, northeast of Lake City. The 13,600 acre refuge was established in September 28, 1984.
Big Guns (film) Big Guns is a 2006 film about a 60- to 75-year-old Senior Softball team "Kids At Heart." The film was directed and written by John Rester Zodrow and stars Barry Primus, Mel Novak, Susan Thomas, and Gino Giordan.
Big Guns (pinball) Big Guns is a pinball machine first produced in 1987 by Williams, a gaming company that makes pinball machines. The theme associated with this particular machine is that you must rescue your queen from king tyrant and his warlords.
Big hair Big hair is a term that can refer to hairstyles that emphasize large volume or largely styled hair. Big hair was popular in the late 1970s, as popularized by Dolly Parton and Farrah Fawcett, a development from earlier bouffant styles.
Big Heavy Stuff Big Heavy Stuff is a Sydney-based Australian indie rock band with a unique style, blending edgy guitars and a pounding rhythm section with songwriter Greg Atkinson's exceptional sense of melody. Their harder edge, evident on their breakthrough Maximum Sincere album of 1997, has mellowed somewhat on more recent releases, without detracting from their trademark emotional intensity.
Big Hill The Big Hill on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line in British Columbia, Canada, was the most difficult piece of railway track in all of Canada. It was situated in the rugged Canadian Rockies west of the Continental Divide and Kicking Horse Pass.
Big Hits and Nasty Cuts Big Hits and Nasty Cuts, The Best of Twisted Sister, is a greatest hits compilation by Twisted Sister. It was released in 1992 by Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and by WEA International Inc.
Big Hole River The Big Hole River is a tributary of the Jefferson River, approximately 156 mi (250 km) long, in southwestern Montana in the United States. It rises in the Beaverhead National Forest in the Beaverhead Mountains of the Bitterroot Range at the continental divide along the Montana-Idaho border in western Beaverhead County.
Big Horn Mountains The Big Horn Mountains are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 miles (320 km) northward on the Great Plains. They are separated from the Absaroka Range, which lie on the main branch of the Rockies in western Wyoming, by the Bighorn Basin.
Big Huge Games Big Huge Games is a computer game developer located in Timonium, Maryland. The company was founded in February of 2000 by four veteran game industry developers: Tim Train, David Inscore, Jason Coleman and Brian Reynolds, lead designer of Civilization II, Alpha Centauri and Colonization.
Big Chuck and Little John Big Chuck and Little John, Charles "Big Chuck" Schodowski and "Little John" Rinaldi, have been late-night hosts on television station WJW in Cleveland, Ohio, united States since 1979. In addition to hosting a movie with a live audience, they also perform original sketch comedy routines.
Big Chute Marine Railway Big Chute Marine Railway is a ship lift at Lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in a cradle (without a filled tank) over a change of height of about 18 metres.
Big iron Big iron, as the hacker's dictionary, the Jargon File defines it, "refers to large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. It is used generally for number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes".
Big Idea Productions Big Idea, Inc is an American computer animation studio best known for its VeggieTales series of Christian-themed family home videos. The company is a subsidiary of Classic Media, an American production company and distributor that has the rights to a large variety of children's properties.
Big Impression Big Impression is a British comedy sketch show. It was formerly known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression after impressionist Alistair McGowan, but renamed Big Impression to accommodate female impressionist Ronni Ancona, who does almost as many impressions as McGowan.
Big International Non-Government Organisation Big International Non-Government Organisation (BINGO) is an often derogatory term applied to international non-governmental organizations. It is sometimes used to imply that a once altruistic charitable entity is now too big to function effectively.
Big Iron "Big Iron" is a country ballad by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960. It tells the story of an unnamed Arizona Ranger's gunfight with an outlaw named Texas Red (modeled on Billy the Kid) in the town of Agua Fria, New Mexico.
Big Iron Farm Show The Big Iron Farm Show is a large farm show held on the grounds of the Red River Valley Fairgrounds in West Fargo, North Dakota. The show started in 1980 in Casselton, North Dakota, but moved to West Fargo in 1981.
Big Jake (film) Big Jake is a 1971 Western film, starring John Wayne and directed by George Sherman. Set in the year 1909, Wayne, plays Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, an aging rancher estranged from his family, whose ranch is raided by a ruthless gang of outlaws, led by John Fain (Richard Boone), who murders some of the workers, wounds McCandles eldest son (Bobby Vinton) and kidnaps his young grandson and hold the boy for ransom.
Big Jim McLain Big Jim McLain (Warner Brothers, 1952 was a John Wayne] film starring Wayne and [[James Arness as HUAC investigators hunting down communists in the post-war Hawaii organized labor scene. The film has developed something of a cult following due to its now-campy red scare theme.
Big Joe Williams Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality.
Big L (Radio London International) Big L is the name of a broadcasting company registered by the British licencing authority Ofcom from June 11, 2002 to June 10, 2100 for a satellite radio service known as Big L. The licence states that the station "… will provide an eclectic mix of rock and pop, both modern and classic.
Big L 1395 Big L is a United Kingdom based radio station broadcasting via satellite, mediumwave (using a transmitter in the Netherlands) and the Internet. The station is named after the 1960s offshore pirate radio station Radio London which was also known as Big L.
Big Lagoon State Park First acquired in 1977, Big Lagoon State Park is a 733 acre Florida State Park located on the northwestern Florida coast, approximately 10 miles southwest of Pensacola on Gulf Beach Highway. It encompasses the northern boundary of Big Lagoon as it snakes toward Pensacola Bay to the east.
Big League Big League is the official magazine of the National Rugby League and that of the NRL's forerunners, the New South Wales Rugby League and Australian Rugby League competitions. Its predecessor, The Rugby League News was first published in 1920; in 1974 it was rebadged as Big League.
Big League Chew Big League Chew is a brand of bubble gum that is shredded and packaged like chewing tobacco. It was created by baseball players Rob Nelson and Jim Bouton as an alternative to the tobacco-chewing habit common among ballplayers.
Big Lie The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which entered mass consciousness with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential in the German press.
Big Lurch Big Lurch (born Antron Singleton c. 1975, in Fort Worth, TX, although some sources say Compton, California) is a rap artist currently serving a life sentence for murdering 21 year old female acquaintance Tynisha Ysais and eating parts of her body in April 2002 while under the influence of PCP.
Big mama Big mama (Chinese:大妈 Pinyin: da ma) is the informal name given to an Internet censor on web bulletin boards in the mainland of People's Republic of China. The name is derived from the name for the wife of the eldest uncle, who in the traditional Chinese family has to take care of everyone—or perhaps a pun from "Big Brother", the omnipresent leader of the totalitarian state of Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four.
Big man In political science, Big man syndrome, also bigmanism, refers to corrupt and autocratic rule of countries by a single person. Africa has produced the most examples of these regimes by far (but the term can be used to describe any nation with a dictatorial ruler).
Big Mac The Big Mac is a type of hamburger, a signature sandwich sold by the McDonald's chain of fast-food restaurants since 1968, made with "two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."
Big Mac (computer game) Big Mac the Mad Maintenance Man is a computer game published in 1985 by Mastertronic for the Commodore 64. The game's full title according to the cover is More Adventures of Big Mac the Mad Maintenance Man although the game's opening screen uses the shorter title.
Big Mac (McDonald's character) In addition to McDonald's signature sandwich, Big Mac was the name of a character in McDonaldland, the fictional world created as an advertising campaign for McDonald's. Big Mac was similar to Mayor McCheese, except he was the chief of police, wearing a constable uniform and sporting a large Big Mac for a head.
Big Mac index The Big Mac index is an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. As stated in the Economist, it "seeks to make exchange-rate theory more digestible".
Big Machine (Goo Goo Dolls) Big Machine is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls, first released on their Gutterflower album in 2002. It was written by lead vocalist/guitarist Johnny Rzeznik, who calls it his "disco song" and describes its meaning as "a propulsive tale of unrequited love".
Big Machine Records Big Machine Records is a country music record label launched in 2005 by former Dreamworks executive Scott Borchetta. The label is part of a joint venture between Borchetta and superstar Toby Keith who operates the Show Dog Nashville side of the business.
Big Mama (group) Big Mama (빅마마) is a South Korean female singing group from M Boat, a sister company of YG Entertainment. Known for their powerful voices, they are named such because they are all either overweight, by Korean celebrity standards, or considered to be not pretty.
Big Mama Sausage Big Mama Sausage and Tijuana Mama are brand names of pickled or smoked snack sausages, originally owned by Goodmark Foods, but acquired by ConAgra in 1998 when they purchased Goodmark. Currently under ConAgra's Penrose brand, which currently only produces pickled sausage.
Big Mama's Funeral Big Mama's Funeral (original Spanish-language title: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande), a long short story, is a satirical commentary on Latin American life and culture by Gabriel García Márquez. Most of the place names mentioned come from Colombia.
Big Manitou Falls Big Manitou Falls is a waterfall situated on the Black River (Nemadji River), a tributary of the Nemadji River. The falls are located within Pattison State Park in Douglas County, Wisconsin, approximately 13 miles south of Superior, WI.
Big Maybelle Big Maybelle (born Mabel Louise Smith, May 1, 1924 in Jackson, Tennessee - January 23, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) was one of the most popular R&B singers of the 1950s, recording for Okeh, Savoy and other labels.
Big Me "Big Me" is the fourth single, released in 1996, by the Foo Fighters from their self titled debut album Foo Fighters. Its music video parodies the Mentos advertisements, making it a commercial for "Footos".
Big Mello Big Mello (August 7 1968 - June 15 2002), born Curtis Donnell Davis, was a rapper who was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He debuted as Big Mello in 1992 with the album "Bone Hard Zaggin'" on the Rap-A-Lot Records label.
Big Merino The Big Merino is a 15 metre tall cement Merino sheep located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Nicknamed "Rambo" by locals, the Big Merino contains a gift shop on the ground floor and a wool display on the second floor.
Big Mind Big Mind is a synthesis of western psychology and Zen Buddhist wisdom. Big Mind is typically manifest in a 2-3 hour small group or individual process that can lead participants into a mindstate which, according to creator Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi of the Kanzeon Zen Center, normally requires years of dedicated spiritual practice in Buddhist, Contemplative Christian, Jewish mystical or Sufi traditions to attain.
Big Moe Big Moe (born Kenneth Moore) is a rapper from Houston, Texas. Unlike most of the Houston rappers, who tended to offer a more harder approach like hardcore or gangsta style, Kenneth offered a slow and calm style.
Big Momma's House Big Momma's House (2000) is a comedy starring Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Raja Gosnell who has directed several other films including the two live-action versions of Scooby-Doo and Never Been Kissed.
Big Money Hustlas Big Money Hustlas is a low-budget parody movie created in 2000 by the Insane Clown Posse and directed by John Cafiero. The film is a send-up of numerous genres of films popular in the 1970s, from blaxploitation to Wuxia to the crime drama.
Big Mountain (band) Big Mountain is an American reggae band, most famous for their cover of Peter Frampton's "Baby I Love Your Way", which reached the US Top 40 in early 1994. They formed in San Diego, California in 1991 and first reached the charts with the song "Touch My Light" in the late spring of 1993, receiving major airplay on mainstream radio stations like B-100 and Q-106 in San Diego.
Big Mountain Short Film Festival The Big Mountain Short Film Festival is a short film festival based in Ohakune, New Zealand designed to encourage and celebrate creative short film making and storytelling. Entry is free and open to filmmakers internationally, who are encouraged to use maximum creativity on minimum budget.
Big Mouth Corner The Big Mouth Corner (BMC) is a weekly English conversation forum organised by the English Club of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The BMC which involved both local students and young native English speakers (who serve as English facilitators) was first started in 2002 following the success of its predecessor, the Chat Point.
Big Muff The Big Muff is a famous distortion box produced in New York City by the Electro-Harmonix company, along with their Russian sister company Sovtek, primarily for use with the electric guitar. It has also found a welcome home at the feet of bassists as well (the Russian model especially) due to the Big Muff's boomy low end.
Big Muscle Big Muscle (BM) is an online community for gay, bisexual and bi-curious men with muscular, well-defined physiques over the age of twenty one. Big Muscle offers users the ability to create a free profile and post photos of themselves.
Big Muskie Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (a division of American Electric Power), and was the world's second largest mobile earth-moving machine, weighing nearly 13,000 metric tons and standing nearly 22 stories tall. It operated in the U.
Big Mutha Truckers Big Mutha Truckers is a video game released in 2002 by Eutechnyx. The goal of the game is to earn as much money as possible by delivering goods and competing in races with other truckers in the fictional Hick County.
Big Nambas language Big Nambas (native name V'ənen Taut ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 1,800 people (as of 1983) in northwest Malekula, Vanuatu. Approximately nineteen villages in the Big Nambas region of the Malekula Interior use the language exclusively with no variation in dialect.
Big Name Fan Among science fiction, comic book and fantasy fans, a Big Name Fan (BNF for short) is a member of a fandom who is particularly well-known, liked and celebrated for their contributions of art, fanfiction, or articles on fandom. They generally have many fans of their own, who praise them and read their online journals.
Big Nickel The Big Nickel is a nine-metre (30-foot) replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, located at the grounds of Dynamic Earth in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, as the world's largest coin.
Big Night Big Night is a 1996 American motion picture drama with comedic overtones directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Produced by Jonathan Filley for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, the film met with much critical acclaim both in the United States and internationally.
Big Nose Freaks Out Big Nose Freaks Out is a platform game for the NES, produced by Codemasters and published by Camerica. The player controls a cave man character who has had all his bones stolen from a prehistoric bank by a dinosaur.
Big Nose Kate Mary Katharine Horony (November 7 1850–November 2 1940), better known as "Big Nose Kate", and also known by aliases Kate Fisher, Kate Elder, and Mary Katherine Cummings. Although no proof exists, many historians and biographers continually label Kate as a prostitute in the American Old West.
Big O notation Big O notation or Big Oh notation, and also Landau notation or asymptotic notation, is a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions. Its purpose is to characterize a function's behavior for very large (or very small) inputs in a simple but rigorous way that enables comparison to other functions.
Big Oaks, Chicago Big Oaks is a neighborhood in the Norwood Park community area on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois. It is bounded by Foster Avenue to the north, Nagle Avenue to the east, Gunnison Street to the south, and Harlem Avenue to the west.

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