NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Big five (disambiguation)

Big 5 Sporting Goods, NASDAQ: BGFV
Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
Big Five (California), an informal institution of California's government
Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
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.
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 previously referred to the five major media giants which dominated the global music market: Universal Music Group, Sony, EMI, Warner Brothers and BMG. Since the merger of Sony and BMG, these are now the Big Four.
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.
The Big Five can also refer to the five currently largest television networks in the USA: ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox for terrestrial television, and CNN on cable.
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 most dangerous animals to hunt i.e. Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion.
The big five personality constructs (Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability)
Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America.
The Big Five, the five largest extinction events.
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.
The five crime families of La Cosa Nostra in New York-Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Colombo and Luchese.
Big Five is a misnomer for the Mighty Handful.
The Big Five can also mean the five employees in Kaiba Corp who were kicked out after Duelist Kingdom in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series. See also the Virtual Realm 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 movie studios during Hollywood's golden age were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers.

Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: BGFV) is a sporting goods retailer headquartered in El Segundo, California with 309 stores in ten western states. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ... Territorial Hawai‘i was ruled by a corporate oligarchy of the Big Five sugar corporations. ... This article is about the informal institution in California. ... Big-5 or Big5 is a character encoding method used in Taiwan (Republic of China) and Hong Kong for Traditional Chinese characters. ... A bank is an institution that provides financial service, particularly taking deposits and extending credit. ... 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 TSX: TD is a large Canadian bank with over 52,000 employees in offices around the world. ... Bank of Montreal TSX: BMO NYSE: BMO is Canadas fifth largest and the oldest chartered bank. ... 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. ... For other uses of the term Big Five and its variants, see Big five (disambiguation). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Saint Josephs University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ... Villanova University is a private university in Villanova, Pennsylvania, a part of Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Main Line. ... La Salle University is an institution of higher learning located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Note: This page should be merged with Music Corporation of America. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ã‚½ãƒ‹ãƒ¼) (TYO: 6758 , NYSE: SNE) is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Warner Bros. ... The BMG logo. ... The phrase Big Four has multiple meanings: Big Four can refer to: The Big Four auditors, the four largest international public accountancy firms. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The classic Thames Television logo (1969 - 1989), featuring a geographically incorrect montage of London landmarks. ... Now known as ITV London (Weekends) London Weekend Television logo, 1978-1996 London Weekend Television logo, 1996-2004 London Weekend Television Limited (LWT) is the ITV contractor for London, Friday 5:15pm to Monday, 5:59am. ... 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. ... A Granada TV logo from the black and white era. ... Yorkshire Television logo 1987 Yorkshire Television Limited is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Terrestrial television (also known as over-the-air, OTA, or broadcast television) is the traditional method of television broadcast signal delivery, by radio waves transmitted through open space, usually carrying unencrypted signals. ... CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: ä¸å›½å…±äº§å…šä¸å¤®æ”¿æ²»å±€å¸¸åŠ¡å§”å‘˜ä¼š pinyin: ZhÅngguÃ³ GÃ²ngchÇŽndÇŽng ZhÅngyÄng ZhÃ¨ngzhÃ¬jÃº ChÃ¡ngwÃ¹ WÄ›iyuÃ¡nhuÃ¬) is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The phrase Big Five Game was coined by game hunters and refers to the five large mammals that were originally most sought in Africa. ... Genera Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros Coelodonta (extinct) Elasmotherium (extinct) A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae. ... Binomial name Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) Leopards (Panthera pardus) are one of the four big cats of the genus Panthera. ... 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 recki â€ Stegodon â€ Mammuthus â€ Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of animals, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... In psychology, the Big Five personality traits denotes a certain approach to the theory of personality. ... 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 extinction-level event, ELE) occurs when a large number of species die out in a relatively short period of time. ... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about information that helps managers and other decision makers make resource allocation decisions. ... The Big 4 (or the Big Four) is a group of international accountancy firms that handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded corporations. ... Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, Illinois, was the fifth largest of the Big Five accounting firms and performed auditing, tax services, and consulting. ... Enron Corporation Enron Corporation is an energy trading and communications company based in Houston, Texas that employed around 21,000 people in mid-2001 (before bankruptcy). ... Cosa Nostra is the name by which members of the Mafia refer to their respective organizations and criminal dealings. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area - Total - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 kmÂ² 13. ... 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 leadership of Mily Balakirev with the aim of producing... Duelist Kingdom is a story arc in the manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! (In North America the arc will be released in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist series) and the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known internationally as simply Yu-Gi-Oh!). // Backstory In the manga, the story... Yu-Gi-Oh!, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ Yūgiō Dyueru Monsutāzu) is an anime based off of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. ... The Virtual Realm arc is a story arc in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second anime series (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Japan). ... Legendary Heroes is a section in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters series right after the Duelist Kingdom part. ... Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica. ... Funk is a distinct style of music originated by African-Americans, e. ... Sydney is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian state of New South Wales, as well as Australias largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cecil Bustamente Campbell (born May 28, 1938), better known as Prince Buster, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica and regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska music. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... Warner Bros. ...

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