the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, ref http www.straightdope.com classics a1 382.html Why is New York called the Big Apple? , The Straight Dope February 18, 1977. ref research ...Other uses Image Big apple corner.jpg thumb 300px 54th and Broadway The Big Apple is a nickname for New ... The Big Apple . This web site, owned and maintained by Barry Popik, contains updated information ... s Nickname The Big Apple 1991 , ISBN 3631437870. ref has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term s history. Previously, there were a number of false etymologies, ref http www.barrypopik.com ... www.salwen.com apple.html Why Is New York City Called The Big Apple ? Internet Archive Wayback Machine ... ref http www.barrypopik.com index.php new york city entry big apple whore hoax 1800s Big Apple .... ref http salwen.com apple.html Why Is New York City Called The Big Apple ? ref The earliest citation for big apple is the 1909 book The Wayfarer in New York, by Edward Martin , writing Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city. . . . It inclines to think that the big apple gets a disproportionate ... Safire title Big Applesource journal The New York Times Magazine date September 17, 2000 url http ...&dq big 20apple p. 23 ref William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary ... of the later slang term , and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage. The Big Apple .... T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for the big apple to morrow after a most prosperous Spring ... first big apple may 3 1921 First Big Apple May 3, 1921 . ref blockquote Fitz Gerald referred to the big ... 1920s big apple citations in the new york morning telegraph Numerous 1920s Big Apple citations in the New ... Around the Big Apple blockquote The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There s only one Big Apple. That s New York. Two dusky ...? queried one. From here we re headin for The Big Apple, proudly replied the other. Well, you d better ... more details
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Distinguish Big Al Brewing Image Condor Club, Big Al s, Roaring 20 s, Hungry I Club.JPG thumb The Condor Club, Big Al s, Roaring 20 s, and the Hungry I Club on Broadway Street San Francisco Broadway Street Big Al s was one of the first Toplessness topless bars in San Francisco and the United States since the mid 1960s. It was the first bottomless bar in San Francisco. ref Citation title Striptease The Untold History of the Girlie Show author Shteir, Rachel year 2004 publisher Oxford University Press url http books.google.com ?id fEtWpyiGxDAC page 322 isbn 9780195127508 ref It is next to the Condor Club , where the strip club phenomenon first started, and since 1991 claims to be one of the largest porn stores in San Francisco. ref Citation title Corporate website url http www.adultmegastores.com accessdate 2008 05 14 ref Big Al s is now closed, and the space is currently vacant. However, it still stands as a San Francisco landmark featured in several films and TV shows as well as postcards and touristic brochures. Big Al s in film Mondo Topless by Russ Meyer , 1966 Dirty Harry by Don Siegel, 1971 ref Citation url http www.filmsite.org dirt2.html title Dirty Harry 1971 accessdate 2008 05 09 publisher filmsite.org ref References reflist coord missing San Francisco County, California Category Landmarks in San Francisco, California ... more details
exchanges. Image Big Bazaar Kolkata 2011 07 31 00431.jpg thumb right 240px The Big Bazaar at Esplanade, Kolkata. Deleted image removed File Big bazaar facade.jpg 800px thumb center Big Bazaar Store Front HistoryBig Bazaar was launched in September, 2001 with the opening of its first four stores in Calcutta ...multiple issues advert April 2011 cleanup April 2011 Infobox company name Big Bazaar logo Image Big bazaar ... No of Big Bazaar Stores 251 No of Food Bazaar Stores 169 No of Cities and Towns covered 90 industry ... Rs 6000 crores in 2011 Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar combined parent Future Group divisions 100 company slogan Is se sasta aur accha kahin nahin homepage http bigbazaar.futurebazaar.com Big Bazaar Big ... across 90 cities and towns in India covering around 16 million sq.ft. of retail space. Big Bazaar is designed ..., books, fast food and leisure and entertainment sections. Big Bazaar is part of Future Group , which ..., there are now 152 Big Bazaar stores in 90 cities and towns across India. Big Bazaar was started by Kishore Biyani , the Group CEO and Managing Director of Pantaloon Retail India . Though Big Bazaar was launched ..., over the years Big Bazaar has included a wide range of products and service offerings under their retail chain. The current formats includes Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Electronic Bazaar and Furniture ... url http www.chillibreeze.com articles Big Bazaar.asp title Top of the Heap Big Bazaar in India publisher ... Quality, Choice and Convenience. As the modern Indian family s favorite retail store, Big Bazaar is popularly ..., in 2011, Big Bazaar has come up a new logo with a new tag line Naye India Ka Bazaar , replacing ... 2011 11 17 news 30410313 1 big bazaar new logo retail chain title Big Bazaar goes for new ... & Research, Mumbai publisher SPJIMR date 2006 08 04 accessdate 2012 02 15 ref Big Bazaar has ... class remaining 31 of India s population . While Big Bazaar is targeted at the population across ... in the Indian society. Operations File Nagpurmallapnabazaar.jpg thumb The Big Bazaar Store in Nagpur ... more details
Big Surf is a waterpark located in Tempe, Arizona . Opened in 1969 and financed by the Clairol Company, it boasted the first wave pool in the United States . The wave pool was designed by Phil Dexter. ref cite web url http phoenix.about.com od famtheme ss bigsurf 2.htm title Big Surf Water Park in Tempe Waikiki Beach Wave Pool at Big Surf publisher Phoenix.about.com date 2011 06 27 accessdate 2011 08 10 ref History As the first and oldest wave pool in the United States, it at one point featured surfing exhibitions and competition, as well as regular use by patrons of the park. This was largely discontinued in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to safety and liability concerns. More recently the park has discontinued all surfing in the wave pool as of 2005. However body board sessions are still available. The park celebrated their 40th year anniversary in 2009. ref cite web author May. 22, 2009 10 08 AM The Mesa Republic url http www.azcentral.com news articles 2009 05 22 20090522mr splash0523.html title Big Surf, Sunsplash open Saturday publisher Azcentral.com date 2009 05 22 accessdate 2011 08 10 ref On September 2, 2009, it was reported that Big Surf will close indefinitely at the end of the day on Monday, September 7, 2009. ref cite web url http www.azcentral.com business articles 2009 09 02 20090902biz bigsurf0903.html title Big Surf water park in Tempe to close ref However, later that week on September 5, the Arizona Republic reported that Big Surf would open again in Summer 2010, under Inland Oceans LLC rather than the Golfland Entertainment, Inc. banner. ref cite web last Ruelas first Richard url http www.azcentral.com business articles 2009 09 05 20090905bigsurf0905 CP.html title Original owners to keep Big Surf open publisher Azcentral.com date 2009 09 05 accessdate 2011 08 10 ref References reflist External links http www.bigsurffun.com Big Surf Water Park coord 33.4457 111.9126 type landmark region US display title Category Buildings and structures in Tempe ... more details
image Dolly Parton 2.jpg thumb Dolly Parton in 1983. Big hair is a term that can refer to haircut hairstyle s that emphasize large volume or largely styled hair, especially when those styles make the hair occupy a large amount of space above and around the head. The label big hair for such styles originated in the late 1970s, when these styles were beginning a period of popularly the label has been applied to similar styles that have become fashionable at various periods in history. ref Big hair , entry in http www.merriam webster.com dictionary big hair Merriam Webster Online , accessed Mar. 23, 2010. ref Women s hairstyles labelled as big hair became fashionable during this period, with a poster of actress Farrah Fawcett becoming an iconic example. ref Innes Smith, below ref The fashion persisted with certain regional subcultures in the southern United States , and the styles are sometimes also associated with female country music performers. ref Skip Hollandsworth, Hooray for Big Hair , Texas Monthly , Dec. 1992, pp. http books.google.com books?id hCsEAAAAMBAJ&pg PA122&dq 22big hair ..., big hair, lots of make up and a dick , Kate Bornstein , interview by Shannon Bell, in Kate Bornstein ... PDF tiresias.PDF p.3 . ref For both genders, big hair became popular in the 1980s and the early 1990s ... by the period. ref James Innes Smith, Big Hair Bloomsbury USA, 2003 ISBN 1582344493 ref From these origins, big hair became a feature of a number of Japan ese street and alternative fashions, including ..., hairstyles in the big hair categories may require a number of styling, cutting, or treatment techniques. Styling of punk and alternative big hair styles often requires backcombing teasing and the liberal ... References reflist External links commons category Big Hair http www.wtv zone.com dpjohnson beautyandthebouffant 1960s bouffant hairstyles http www.mostbeautifulhair.com articles 100 big hair Big Hair Human hair footer DEFAULTSORT Big Hair Category 1980s fashion Category Gothic fashion Category ... more details
For other uses of the name Big business Big Business disambiguation Big business is a term used to describe large corporations, in either an individual or collective sense. The term first came into use in a symbolic sense subsequent to the American Civil War , particularly after 1880, in connection with the combination movement that began in American business at that time. Organizations that fall into the category of big business include ExxonMobil , Wal Mart , Google , Microsoft , General Electric , General Motors , Citigroup and Goldman Sachs . History, Post World Wars The relatively stable period of rebuilding after World War II led to new technologies some of which were spin offs from the war years and new businesses. Computers The new technology of computer s spread worldwide in the post war years Citation needed date April 2010 . Businesses built around computer technology include IBM , Microsoft , Apple Inc. and Intel . Electronics Miniaturization and integrated circuit s, together with an expansion of radio and television technologies, provided fertile ground for business development ... was added to fossil fuel as the main sources of energy. Criticism of big business The social consequences of the concentration of economic power in the hands of those persons controlling big business ... and investors, as well as upon prices and competition . Big business has been accused of a wide variety ..., foreign policy, and labor policy through lobbying . In 2005 the majority of Americans believed that big ... cpr28n4 1.html author Timothy P. Carney date 2006 07 21 title Big Business and Big Government ref ... newspaper Le Monde title Volkswagen s history of forced labour author Frederic F Clairmont ref blockquote ... became the lot of the whole of occupied Europe. blockquote See also Big labor Big Chocolate Big government Big Oil Big science Big Tobacco Big Media Corporate republic Evil corporation Megacorporation ... of American History by James Truslow Adams , New York Charles Scribner s Sons, 1940 reflist ... more details
Other uses Big C disambiguation Image Big C Berkeley Hills.jpg thumb 400px right The Big C At Present The Big C is a giant concrete block C built into the Berkeley Hills overlooking the University of California, Berkeley . The very well known symbol is celebrated in a number of Cal songs and is famous in the San Francisco Bay Area and especially on campus. It celebrates over one hundred years of athletic and academic excellence at the university. On March 23, 1905, the classes of 1907 and 1908 constructed the Big C on the hill and it remains there to this day. ref http calbears.cstv.com trads big c.html ref History Class rush and construction Soon after the University of California s founding in 1868, a tradition known as class rush was founded. During the event, freshmen would run up the hills above the campus and mark their class numerals in the hillside for all to see, but the sophomore ... traditions.html As a result, the men of the freshmen and sophomore classes jointly constructed the Big ..., the freshmen class, still trying to preserve the ideals of class rush, painted the Big C gold, one ... of the symbol is commemorated in the fight song Big C fight song Big C . Post construction history After construction, the job of keeping the Big C painted yellow became the responsibility of the sophomore class as other classes, fraternities, and organizations would paint over the Big C in a display of their class or organization pride. The process continued as the Big C accumulated inches ... students used jackhammers to assault the Big C and rearrange the concrete to a block S, but the problem was quickly corrected. Soon, the Rally Committee was made guardian of the Big C and is currently ..., a C during finals week. There is also a Big C located at West Virginia University. References reflist http studentlife.ucr.edu ucrTraditions Pages UCRHistory.aspx California Spirit DEFAULTSORT Big C ... Big C ... more details
Big 8 or Big Eight may refer to People Brendan Bowyer The Big Eight , an Irish showband Sports Big 8 Conference Missouri , an American athletic association Big Eight Conference , a former American athletic association Big Eight Conference IHSAA , an American athletic association WIAA Big Eight Conference , an American athletic association Other uses Big 8 Usenet , a group of Usenet newsgroup hierarchies Big 8 Cola , a Canadian soft drink Big Eight auditors , a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the Big Four Big Eight film studios , a group of American film studios Big Eight States , the eight largest states in the United States CKLW , a Canadian Radio station formerly known as The Big 8 See also Big One disambiguation Big Three disambiguation Big Four disambiguation Big Five disambiguation Big Six disambiguation Big Seven disambiguation Big Ten disambiguation Big 11 Big 12 disambig Category Numeric epithets 8 fr Big 8 ... more details
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Lincoln pardoned Big Eagle in November 1864 and he was ordered released on December 3 The History ...File Wambditanka c1864.jpg thumb right Big Eagle circa 1864 Big Eagle Dakota language Dakota Wa bd Th ka , c. 1827 1906 was the leader of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux in Minnesota. In 1862 he and his band joined Taoyateduta and took part in a Sioux uprising. He eventually surrendered. Early life Wa bd Th ka, also known as Jerome Big Eagle, was born in 1827 at Black Dog village, in present day Eagan, Minnesota Eagan , Minnesota . His succeeded his father, M za ta Grey Iron in 1857. He along with the other chiefs and headmen went to Washington in 1858 on treaty business. In the spring of 1862, Wamditanka, Little Crow and Traveling Hail were candidates for Speaker of the Mdewakanton tribe which Traveling Hail won. Big Eagle lead his band at the second battles of New Ulm and Fort Ridgley and also Birch Coulee and Wood Lake. The photograph of Big Eagle was taken in Davenport during the summer of 1864. W. W. Hathaway, then the assistant commissary at Camp Kearney the Indian Stockade, at Camp McClellen, Davenport described the circumstances of making the File I was also a personal friend of Big Eagle, the chief of the tribe confined in the pen. An amusing incident arose during the summer when I tried to get a photograph of the old chief. There was a mulatto named Jack confined with the Indians and he conspired with me to get the old brave to sit for a picture. Accordingly Big ... s Back Ridge. Everything went well until we neared the place when Big Eagle began to remove his finery ... War of 1862 Main Dakota War of 1862 Big Eagle, later known as Jerome Big Eagle, narrated his ... www.axel jacob.de, accessed on February 3, 2006 Persondata NAME Eagle, Big ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wa bd Th ka, Jerome Big Eagle SHORT DESCRIPTION Native American leader DATE OF BIRTH c. 1827 PLACE OF BIRTH Eagan, Minnesota Eagan , Minnesota DATE OF DEATH 1906 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Big Eagle Category ... more details
id 23001 title The Big Book of Hoaxes ref The Big Book of Hoaxes illustrates history s great hoaxes ...Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Big Book Of image filename format only ... Press sort The Big Book Of The Big Book Of is an Eisner Award winning series of graphic novel comics anthology anthologies published by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press . Publication history The Big Books were published between 1994 and 2000. Just over half of them ten out of seventeen were ... comics George Evans and Marie Severin are present as are Russ Heath and Gray Morrow . The Big Books ... Slated for a 2001 release, Paradox had planned to publish the 18th book in the series, The Big Book ... history who had made an impact on our culture while pushing the envelope of unconventional behavior ... Loren Fleming ref gcdb series id 23014 title The Big Book of Urban Legends ref the Big Book ... by Carl Posey , ref gcdb series id 23016 title The Big Book of Weirdos ref the Big Book of Weirdos ... and written by Bronwyn Taggart Bronwyn Carlton , ref gcdb series id 5229 title The Big Book of Death ref the Big Book of Death begins by providing the inside story on execution methods from drawing ... in 1995 and written by Doug Moench , ref gcdb series id 22998 title The Big Book of Conspiracies ref the Big Book of Conspiracies won the 1996 Eisner Award for Best Anthology. ref name eisner96 It focuses ... in 1996 and written by Gahan Wilson , ref gcdb series id 22999 title The Big Book of Conspiracies ref the Big Book of Freaks features an introduction from stage magician turned film star and scholar ... The Big Book of Little Criminals ref the Big Book of Little Criminals details some of the world s most ... gcdb series id 23013 title The Big Book of Thugs ref the Big Book of Thugs documents criminals who .... Losers Published in 1997 and written by Paul Kirchner , ref gcdb series id 23006 title The Big Book of Losers ref the Big Book of Losers proves that the misfortunes of others such as Elisha ... more details
Image Brutus 2006 07 02 2244.jpg thumb Note people standing near the bottom treads to gain perspective of this convert 160 ft m machine. Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus Erie model 1850B electric Power shovel shovel , which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. It is currently the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas . Description It is convert 160 ft m high and weighs 11 million pounds. The bucket holds convert 90 cuyd m3 or 150 tons. Maximum speed is 0.22 MPH. It cost 6.5 million in 1962. Big Brutus, while not the largest electric shovel ever built, is the largest electric shovel still in existence. Marion 6360 The Captain , at 28 million pounds, was the largest shovel and one of the two largest land based mobile machines ever built. It was scrapped in 1992. ref name col cite book last Haddock first Keith title Colossal Earthmovers publisher MBI date September 18, 2000 pages 67 isbn 978 0760307717 accessdate 2009 07 19 ref Museum The Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company donated Big Brutus in 1984 as the core of a mining museum which opened in 1985. In 1987, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated Big Brutus a Regional Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark . ref name about cite web url http www.bigbrutus.org about.html title About Big Brutus publisher Big Brutus, Inc. accessdate 2009 07 19 ref The museum offers tours as well as camping. See also The Silver Spade Bucket wheel excavator Dragline Dumper truck Excavator Marion Power Shovel Power shovel References reflist External links http www.bigbrutus.org www.bigbrutus.org http files.asme.org ASMEORG Communities History Landmarks 5504.pdf BIG BRUTUS, Sept. 1987, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers coord 37.273882 94.938827 region US type landmark display title Category Landmarks in Kansas Category Museums in Cherokee County, Kansas Category Mining museums in Kansas Industry stub de Big Brutus ... more details
inline date August 2009 Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Big Drama image caption sire Montbrook ... Registry , Equibase.com ref Big Drama foaling foaled 2006 in Ocala, Florida is a dark bay horse bay ... is trained by David Fawkes . Bred and owned by Mr. Harold Queen, Big Drama has earned 2,746,060 to date. April 27, 2012 Recently Big Drama competed in the Graded stakes race Grade III West Virginia Derby on August 1, where he was beaten by a head by Soul Warrior . Big Drama s two year old campaign ... of only six two year olds to do so in the twenty seven year history of the series. ref Shinar, J October 19, 2008 Big Drama Completes Florida Series Sweep , Bloodhorse.com ref Highlights of his three ... furlong track record of 1 20.88 ref Welsch, M Despite DQ, Big Drama impresses 3 30 09 , DRF.com ref ... second due to bumping This Ones for Phil. Big Drama finished fifth in the 2009 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico ... Big Drama, Trained by David Fawkes and ridden by Eibar Coa won the Breeders Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs . ref Welsch,Mike, Daily Racing Form November 6, 2010 Big Drama wires in Breeders Cup Sprint , breederscup.com ref Won the 2010 Eclipse Award American Champion Sprint Horse Votes Big Drama, 170 ... Awards , DRF.com ref In his 5 year old debut, Big Drama returned to Gulfstream Park on January 15, 2011 and set a track record of 1 08.12 for 6 furlongs in the Mr. Prospector Stakes. Big Drama, Trained ..., Ed January 15, 2011 Big Drama Sets Track Record In Mr. Prospector , GulfstreamPark.com ref References references http www.pedigreequery.com big drama Big Drama s pedigree and stats http equibase.com ... news big drama sets track record mr prospector http www.drf.com news 2010 eclipse award winners http www.breederscup.com content.aspx?id 46138 http www.bloodhorse.com horse racing articles 47608 big drama completes florida series sweep http www.bloodhorse.com horse racing thoroughbred big drama 2006 http www.thoroughbredtimes.com racing news 2009 June 21 Big Drama stars in return to sprinting.aspx ... more details
Big Falls may refer to a location Belize Big Falls, Belize , a village in the Belize District Canada Multiple waterfalls in Nova Scotia, see List of waterfalls in Canada United States Big Falls, Minnesota , a small city Big Falls, Rusk County, Wisconsin , a town Big Falls, Waupaca County, Wisconsin , a village Big Falls in Waterfalls of Montana geodis de Big Falls nl Big Falls pl Big Falls pt Big Falls vo Big Falls ... more details
For disambiguation regarding the singular term Big Spring disambiguation Big Springs may refer to a community in the United States Big Springs, Indiana Big Springs, Kansas Big Springs, Nebraska Big Springs , the original name of Caledonia village , New York Big Springs Idaho Geographic features Big Springs , an early name of the Las Vegas Springs oasis Big Springs California , the tributary springs at the Owens River course source of the Owens River geodis de Big Springs pl Big Springs ... more details
The Big Bounce may refer to Big Bounce , cosmic theory The Big Bounce novel The Big Bounce novel , a 1969 crime novel The Big Bounce 1960 film The Big Bounce 1960 film , directed by Jerry Fairbanks The Big Bounce 1969 film The Big Bounce 1969 film , film based on the novel The Big Bounce 2004 film The Big Bounce 2004 film , film based on the novel disambiguation fr The Big Bounce ... more details
Big Heat may refer to The Big Heat , a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang The Big Heat 1988 film , a 1988 Hong Kong action film directed by Andrew Kam , co directed by Johnnie To and Tsui Hark Big Heat album Big Heat album , a 2000 album by Leslie Cheung The Big Heat The Batman The Big Heat , an episode of The Batman The Big Heat album The Big Heat album , a 1986 album by Stan Ridgway dab de The Big Heat it The Big Heat ... more details
other uses Infobox Company company name Big C Supercenter PLC. br Big C EBH company logo File bigc logo.png ... http www.bigc.vn bigc.vn VN Big C , or Big C Supercenter lang th , is a grocery ... in 1995. History Beginning Central Group opened the Central Group Central Superstore at the Wong ... Store and Central Group Central Trading , under the self service store concept. The Big C brand was first launched on 15 January 1994, the name being an abbreviation of Big Cheap . The first Big C ... was changed to the Big C Supercenter in 1995, and was the chain s first store outside Bangkok. The same year, Central Superstore Company Limited changed its name to Big C Supercenter Public Company ... Garment PLC holding a majority stake. File BigCFrontDaoKhanong2.jpg thumb left 175px Big C Dao Khanong at night. Big C launched the single floor store concept at Bangphlee in 1996, integrating ... financial crisis of 1997, Big C Supercenter Public Company Limited decided to form a business .... After securing the controlling stake in Big C, Groupe Casino decided to sell Big ... of the current operation. 2000s Big C extended its opening times to 8 00 a.m. to midnight and launched the http www.bigc.co.th Big C website in 2000. Two years later, Big C launched a No Frills No frills supermarkets hard discount supermarket chain , Leader Price by Big C , an affiliate store similar to the Leader Price brand of Groupe Casino . In the same year, Big C launched its first credit card, Big C Credit Card , and Big C Hire Purchase . Big C Big C Foundation Big C Foundation lang ... 2002 09 17 Dead link date November 2010 bot H3llBot ref Big C developed and expanded the Compact Store ... 400 million, and have an average retail space of 5,000 6,000 square metres, whereas Big C s standard ... Dead link date November 2010 bot H3llBot ref In May 2005, the Big C Shopper Card was launched, which was a hire purchase card. In 2006, Leader Price by Big C was remodeled into Mini Big C lang th ... more details
Infobox Single Name Big Casino Cover Big Casino Single.png Artist Jimmy Eat World Writer Jimmy Eat World Album Chase This Light Released August 28, 2007 Recorded 2007 Genre Alternative rock Length 3 40 Label Interscope Records Interscope Producer Butch Vig Last single Nothingwrong br 2005 This single Big Casino br 2007 Next single Always Be br 2007 Big Casino is a single by the band Jimmy Eat World from their sixth studio album Chase This Light , which was released on October 16, 2007. The single was released on August 28, 2007. History The song title is taken from the name of a side project of Jimmy Eat World singer Jim Adkins, titled Go Big Casino . ref http www.myspace.com gobigcasino Go Big Casino at MySpace ref The song premiered on Jimmy Eat World s official website, and the album Chase This Light s official new website. ref http www.chasethislight.net Chase This Light official website ref Some time after, it was added to a revamped Jimmy Eat World MySpace. On October 16, 2007 the song was physically released as a single. Music video Image Jimmyeatworldbigcasinovideo.JPG thumb 240px right A screen capture from the music video The Big Casino video was shot at the Las Vegas Neon Museum Boneyard in a single day with a return for pickups at night , featuring the band playing among the yard s old billboards and casino neon signs. While the band plays during parts of the verses Jim Adkins is seen walking around parts of the yard dragging his guitar with him. As the video progresses it switches between night and day, with many of the billboards and signs being lit up, with the moon also in view. ref http uk.youtube.com watch?v TXn2Ox42aHc Big Casino music video at YouTube ref ... Single music Singles align center 119 Tracklist UK 7 CD Big Casino 3 40 Beautiful Is 2 30 UK 7 Big ... pages lyrics big casino.php Big Casino Lyrics jimmy eat world Category 2007 singles Category Jimmy Eat World songs Category Songs produced by Butch Vig pt Big Casino ... more details
of diamond s. The Big Hole has a surface of Convert 17 ha and is Convert 463 m wide. It was excavated ... mines of South Africa Kimberley Mine Big Hole ref There is currently an effort in progress to register the Big Hole as a World Heritage Site . ref http www.news24.com News24 South Africa News 0,,2 7 1442 1710296,00.html Bid to plug Big Hole worldwide, News24 ref The Excavation In 1872, one year after ... the leaders of the various mines decided to amalgamate the separate diggings into one big mine and one big company known as De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, with life governors such as Cecil John ... further worked on the Big Hole until it came to the depth of 215 metres, with a surface area of about ... Big Hole mine http www.thebighole.co.za Official site http www.sastay.co.za northern cape attractions the big hole.html Big Hole Accommodation on sastay.co.za http hdl.handle.net 123456789 171 Re envisioning the Kimberley Mine Museum De Beers Big Hole Project coord 28 44 19 S 24 45 31 E region ... Diatremes of South Africa Category History of mining Category 1871 in South Africa NorthernCape geo stub da Big Hole de The Big Hole fa fr Big Hole id The Big Hole pl Wielka dziura pt The Big Hole ru ta tr The Big Hole uk ... more details
Big W branded standalone store opened its doors in 1976 in Tamworth, New South Wales Tamworth . ref cite web title First Big W Discount Department Store opens url http www.woolworthslimited.com.au phoenix.zhtml?c 144044&p our history ref The separation of Big W and Woolworths supermarkets was largely ...About 1 the Australia department store Use dmy dates date March 2011 Infobox company name Big W logo Image Big W.svg 230px type Subsidiary company slogan Live Big For Less foundation 1970s location city Bella Vista, New South Wales location country Australia key people Julie Coates, Director of Big W ... File Big W, Kirwan.jpg thumb right 250px Big W at Willows Shoppingtown September 2009. Big W is one ... Kmart and Target Australia Target , both owned by Wesfarmers . History Woolworths Limited s original ... the company created an additional store type Big W to complement the Woolworths supermarkets ... in Rundle Mall , Adelaide . Citation needed date August 2007 Currently, Big W has 164 stores trading ... Territory . ref cite web title Big W Store Locator url http www.bigw.com.au stores.asp ref In 2006, Woolworths along with Big W rolled out new Retalix point of sale systems running on IBM POS hardware ... announced a 1 billion makeover of Big W, including a new store format, logo and slogan. The first ... Review date 22 October 2007 title Woolies plans to put big back in Big W page 14 postscript None ref The new logo started appearing in advertisements, store dockets, and a redesigned Big W website on 24 October 2007. The former tagline, We sell for less , was replaced with Live big for less which ... of Big W s key strategies is everyday low prices . ref cite web url http www.bigw.com.au Pages About2.asp publisher Big W title About Big W accessdate 14 October 2007 archiveurl http web.archive.org ... 2007 ref Stores File Big W at the Wagga Wagga Marketplace.jpg thumb New look Big W store in the Wagga Wagga Marketplace . File Westfield Whitford City BIG W.jpg thumb Old look Big W store in Westfield ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox musical artist name Big Wow image bigwow.jpg caption Big Wow, The Note, Chicago during the Emergenza Music Festival, May 27, 2007. background group or band origin Chicago , Illinois , United States USA Instruments ck genre Alternative rock br Post punk revival years active 1996 present label Leisure Productions, Ltd. 1996 Present website http www.bigwowrocks.com Official site current members John Cline br Ian Whitney br Anne Malatesta past members Wendy Dirty Goldberg died 1996 br Stephanie Zaher early br Alex early br Christopher Shoop early br Anne Malatesta ref http www.myspace.com thegreenladykillers Green Lady Killers ref early br Jeff Shebani early br Ellen Stenard br James Wallace early br Paul Lanctot early br Kelly Hutchinson early br Jeff Dale br Sean Singleton Big Wow is an alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois . Big Wow consists of John Cline vocals guitars , Anne Malatesta bass vocals and Ian Whitney drums . HistoryBig Wow was formed in 1996 by guitarist John Cline, drummer Christopher Shooper, bass player Alex and winger Wendy Dirty Goldberg from the Indiana punk band Pizzle ref http www.pizzle.net Pizzle ref ref http www.myspace.com ... Goldberg in Spring of 1996, Big Wow remained a three piece unit receiving positive reviews from local ... single, Music Saves , on Big Wow s label Leisure Productions, Ltd. in 1998, with the single Savage ... Western Recorders . Big Wow released two more EPs in 2008, Dead Songs and One Leisure Productions ... Big Wow Leisure Productions, Ltd. 2007 Music Saves reprint Leisure Productions, Ltd. 2008 One Leisure ... http www.bigwowrocks.com Big Wow s official site http www.last.fm music Big Wow Big Wow Last.fm http www.myspace.com bigwowrocks Big Wow Myspace http iacmusic.com artist.aspx?ID 81047 Big Wow on KIAC music station http www.facebook.com pages big wow 8085568255 Big Wow on Facebook http www.reverbnation.com bigwow Big Wow on Reverb Nation Category Musical groups established in 1996 Category Alternative ... more details
Big Sunday is a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California . Founded in 1999, it is responsible for an annual community service event in Los Angeles, also called Big Sunday , which has grown from its beginnings as a Mitzvah Day at a local Jewish Synagogue temple to became the largest such community service event in the United States. ref Tony Castro, http www.dailynews.com news ci 15004125 Big Sunday attracts up to 50,000 volunteers , Los Angeles Daily News , May 2, 2010. ref History The idea behind Big Sunday began as Mitzvah Day , a project motivated by the Jewish concept of tikkun olam repairing the world , at Temple Israel of Hollywood , supervised by temple member and Big Sunday founder and executive director David Levinson. ref name JJ2007 Jane Ulman, http www.jewishjournal.com articles item big sunday one temples mitzvah day goes citywide and inclusive 20070420 Big Sunday One temple s Mitzvah Day goes city wide and inclusive , The Jewish Journal of Greater Los ... Big Sunday in 2003 to reflect the organization s secular and non partisan openness. In 2006 ..., Big Sunday had over 50,000 volunteers participating in 500 projects around Southern California ..., http articles.latimes.com 2009 may 03 local me bigsunday3 Big Sunday volunteers work their magic in Watts , Los Angeles Times , May 3, 2009. ref Mission advert section date January 2012 Big Sunday is the largest ... throughout the weekend, and they last anywhere from one hour to two full days. Some are big, some are small, some are easy and some are more involved. All are rewarding. And now Big Sunday includes Green Sunday, formalizing its long standing commitment to the environment. Although Big Sunday ... they ve helped. In addition, Big Sunday does scores of Holiday Projects between Thanksgiving and New Year s Day. Everything about Big Sunday is non denominational and apolitical. All ... whoweare.html ref References Reflist External links http www.bigsunday.org Big Sunday official ... more details
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