Big five can have the following meanings:

Diplomacy

In international diplomacy, it refers to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the People's Republic of China. It was originally used after World War II, in which Russia was the Soviet Union, and instead of the People's Republic of China, it was the Republic of China in the Chinese seat. When the UN was formed in 1945, these five comprised a majority of the world's population, military might, and wealth, with the British Empire alone having nearly a quarter of the world's population. A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Anthem National Anthem of the Republic of China Capital (and largest city) Taipei1 Official languages Standard Mandarin (GuóyÇ”) Government Semi-presidential system  -  President Chen Shui-bian  -  Vice President Annette Lu  -  Premier Chang Chun-hsiung Establishment Xinhai Revolution   -  Independence declared October 10, 1911   -  Republic established January 1, 1912   -  Relocated to... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ...

Psychology

The Big Five model of personality traits is a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors : extraversion/introversion; friendliness/hostility; conscientiousness/impulsivity; emotional stability/neuroticism; and openness to experience. In psychology, the Big Five personality traits are five broad factors or dimensions of personality discovered through empirical research (Goldberg, 1993). ...

Corporations

• The Big Five Western Oil Majors are commonly referred to as the Big Five. They comprise ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, British Petroleum (BP), Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), and ConocoPhillips.
• The Big Five auditors, the five largest international public accountancy firms which became the Big Four auditors after the collapse of Arthur Andersen in the Enron scandal.
• Big Five previously referred to the five major media giants which dominated the global music market: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Warner Music Group and BMG. Since the merger of Sony and BMG, these are now the Big Four record labels.
• Beginning in 2006, Big Five can also refer to the 5 largest broadcast TV networks in America: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, and The CW (formed from merger of UPN and The WB).
• The Big Five movie studios during Hollywood's golden age were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers.
• The Big Five talent agencies: Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Agency, International Creative Management, United Talent Agency and Endeavor Talent Agency.
• In the United Kingdom, the Big Five ITV companies in the period 1968 to 1992 were Thames Television, London Weekend Television, ATV (later Central Television), Granada Television and Yorkshire Television.
• Big 5 Sporting Goods, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) sporting goods company
• Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
• Big Five software is the name of a small company that produced computer games for the TRS-80 home computer in the early 1980's and later for the Atari 400/800.
• In Banking:
  • The Big Five commercial banks of the United Kingdom, HSBC Bank UK, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB.
  • Big Five can also refer to the five biggest commercial banks in Canada: Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia. See also Big Five banks and Big Six banks.
  • Big Five can also refer to the five biggest banks in the People's Republic of China: The Chinese Big Four (banks) plus Bank of Communications

For other uses, see Exon (disambiguation). ... Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is one of the worlds largest global energy companies. ... This article is about the corporation known as BP. See also BP (disambiguation) BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) (NYSE: BP) is a petroleum company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. ... Royal Dutch Shell PLC is a multinational oil company (oil major) of British and Dutch origins. ... ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy company with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. ... Accountancy (profession) or accounting (methodology) is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions within companies, organizations, and public agencies. ... 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. ... For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see Arthur Andersen LLP v. ... Enron Corporation (Former NYSE ticker symbol: ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. ... Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. ... Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Kensington in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) is one of the six divisions of Bertelsmann. ... The world music market, or global music market consists of record companies, labels and publishers that distribute recorded music products internationally and that often control the rights to those products. ... The CW Television Network, or more casually The CW, is a new television network in the United States set to launch for the 2006-07 television season. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... Warner Bros. ... Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a talent and literary agency which represents a vast array of actors, musicians, writers, directors, and athletes, as well as a variety of companies and their products. ... Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency was the largest diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, Miami, London, and Shanghai. ... International Creative Management, Inc. ... The United Talent Agency (UTA) was founded in 1991 as the result of a merger between two medium-size talent agencies, Bauer-Benedek Agency and Leading Artists Agency, and is one of the worlds largest full-service talent and literary agencies. ... The Endeavor Talent Agency is a Beverly Hills, California based talent and literary agency, representing actors, writers and directors for film, television and video games. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV but also as ITV Network or Channel 3) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The ATV colour logo, used from the start of the colour standard in 1969 until the companys demise in 1981. ... Central TV logo, 1985_1998 Central Independent Television, or to give it its familiar name, Central Television or Central, is a British Independent Television company that took over from ATV on 1 January 1982. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: BGFV) is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 336 stores in 10 western states. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Territorial Hawai‘i was ruled by a corporate oligarchy of the Big Five sugar corporations. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Children playing on a Amstrad CPC 464 in the 1980s. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... An Atari 800XL, one of the most popular machines in the series. ... “Banker” redirects here. ... HSBC Bank plc is a Clearing Bank in the United Kingdom, and is one of the Big 4 high street banks. ... The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: [1]) is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, which together with NatWest, provides branch banking facilities in the UK. Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland though there are branches in... Big Building One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays PLC (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is a global financial services provider operating in the UK, Europe, United States, Middle East, Latin America, Australasia, Asia and Africa. ... Group headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh HBOS Office at Trinity Road, Halifax HBOS plc (LSE: HBOS) is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, the holding company for Halifax plc and the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland. ... Lloyds TSB Group plc is a group of financial services companies, based in the United Kingdom, which was created in 1995 following the merger of the TSB Group and the Lloyds Bank Group. ... “Banker” redirects here. ... The Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY, NYSE: RY) is Canadas largest chartered bank. ... CIBC (NYSE: BCM) is one of Canadas major banks. ... The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) (TSX: TD NYSE: TD TYO: 8640 ) is a bank headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. ... Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO, NYSE: BMO) is Canadas fourth largest bank[1], and is classified as a Domestic Chartered Bank (Schedule I). ... Founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1832, the Bank launched its branch banking system by opening in Windsor, Nova Scotia. ... In Canada, the term Big Five Banks is frequently used to refer to the five biggest banks that dominate the banking industry in Canada: Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia. ... The Big Six banks are the six largest banks in Canada that dominate the domestic banking industry. ... “Banker” redirects here. ... Big Four is the name given to the four biggest banks in a certain area: In England & Wales as a whole. ... Bank of Communications HKEx: 3328 (Simplified Chinese: 交通银行, traditional Chinese: 交通銀行) Founded in 1908 (the 34th year of the Guangxu reign period, Qing Dynasty), the Bank of Communications emerged as one of the first few major national and note-issuing banks in China in the early days, and was chartered as the...

Others

• The "Big Five* has started to refer to the major sports leagues of the United States, with the growth of MLS (soccer); including NFL (football), MLB (baseball), NHL (hockey), NBA (basketball).
• Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
• The "Big Five" organizations that led the American Civil Rights Movement: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Congress on Racial Equality, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
• Big Five (California), an informal institution of California's government
• The Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, formed by the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Saint Joseph's University, Villanova University, and La Salle University.
• Big Five is a colloquial term for the members of the defacto Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China pre-1956.
• Big Five Game, a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five animals said to be most dangerous to hunt: Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion.
• The Big Five personality constructs (Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism)
• Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America.
• The Big Five, the five largest extinction events.
• The five crime families of Cosa Nostra in New York: Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese.
• Big Five is a misnomer for the Mighty Handful, 19th century Russian composers.
• The Big Five can also mean a group of fictional characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe. See also the Virtual World and Legendary Heroes.
• The Big Five were a progressive Reggae/Funk band from Sydney formed in 1982. The name derives from a track on the album of the same name by Prince Buster released in 1972.
• The Big Five refers to two separate facets of the action figure industry:
  • In marketing terms, The Big Five are the major North American toy retailers: Wal*Mart, Kmart, Target, Toys R Us and KB Toys. For a toy line to be a financial success, it generally has to be available in at least three of the Big Five.
  • In terms of construction, The Big Five are the five points of articulation that are generally considered the most basic: neck, shoulders and hips. These are the five points at which Kenner's vintage Star Wars figures moved, and became a de facto standard for toys for quite some time after. Many fans hold the opinion that unless a toy has at least those five points, it cannot be considered an "action" figure.
• The Big Five was the informal name given to the top 5 players on the PGA Tour of America - Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Phil Mickelson - from the end of 2004 until the beginning of 2006.

... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Big-5 or Big5 is a character encoding method used in Taiwan (Republic of China) and Hong Kong for Traditional Chinese characters. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, generally pronounced as EN Double AY SEE PEE) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... 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Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Saint Josephs University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. ... La Salle University is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Named for St. ... The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会 pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng Zhōngyāng Zhèngzhìjú Chángwù WÄ›iyuánhuì) is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lion (Panthera leo) African elephant (Loxodonta africana) African or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Leopard (Panthera pardus) Black Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) The phrase Big Five game was coined by big-game hunters and refers to the five large mammals that were sought in Africa. ... Black Rhino from Howletts Wild Animal Park For other uses, see Rhinoceros (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Synonyms Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758 The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four big cats of the genus Panthera, along with the tiger, the lion and the jaguar. ... Species Syncerus caffer Subspecies Syncerus is a genus of bovines found in Africa, the only extant member of which is the African Buffalo, or Cape Buffalo. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas antiquus † Elephas beyeri † Elephas celebensis † Elephas cypriotes † Elephas ekorensis † Elephas falconeri † Elephas iolensis † Elephas planifrons † Elephas platycephalus † Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution of Lions in Africa Synonyms Felis leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The lion (Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. ... In psychology, the Big Five personality traits are five broad factors or dimensions of personality discovered through empirical research (Goldberg, 1993). ... In the context of classical music in America, the Big Five refers to a group of five specific symphony orchestras considered to be the most prominent, significant, and accomplished ensembles when the term gained widespread use by music critics and journalists in the late 1950s. ... An extinction event (also known as: mass extinction; extinction-level event, ELE) occurs when there is a sharp decrease in the number of species in a relatively short period of time. ... The Five Families are the major crime families of the Italian-American Mafia based in New York City which have dominated traditional organized crime in New York. ... Charles Lucky Luciano, one of the most famous American bosses (La) Cosa Nostra (our thing or this thing of ours in Italian) is a worldwide alliance of criminals, linked through both familial and conspiratorial ties, that is dedicated to pursuing crime and protecting its members. ... NY redirects here. ... The Mighty Handful (Moguchaya Kuchka / Могучая Кучка in Russian), better known as The Five in English-speaking countries, was a label applied in 1867 by the critic Vladimir Stasov to a loose collection of Russian classical composers brought together under... The Big Five are a group of five fictional businessmen that appear in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. // Initially known at the Board of Directors for Kaiba Corporation, the Big Five work for Gozaburo Kaiba, producing weapons of mass destruction. ... Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump BANZAI! Shonen Jump Original run 1996 – March 2004 No. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Legendary Heroes is a section in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters series right after the Duelist Kingdom part. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... 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Personal Information Birth February 22, 1963 ) Lautoka, Fiji Height 6 ft 2 in (1. ... Theodore Ernest Ernie Els (born October 17, 1969) is a South African golfer who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. ... Retief Goosen (born February 3, 1969) is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for several years. ... Personal Information Birth June 16, 1970 ) (age 36) San Diego, California USA Height 6 ft 3 in (1. ...

See also

• Big Two
• Little Three
• Big Three
• Big Four
• Big Six

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