On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

With these completed and ice gone from the St. Peter's River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big Stone Lake, across into Lake Traverse, and down the Red.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

After sweeping the Twins once again in the ALCS, the Orioles won the 1970 World Series by defeating the Cincinnati Reds ' Big Red Machine in five games.

This bet is also nicknamed Big Red, since the 7 on its betting space on the layout is usually large and red, and it is considered bad luck and a breach of etiquette to speak the word " seven " at the table.

Samuel Fuller's experiences in World War II would influence his largely autobiographical films of later decades such as The Big Red One.

Big Ben was another villain who appeared from time to time, and Red Scalp, the renegade Indian, since it was a western show.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Heinz manufactures ' Big Red ' tomato sauce, and a number of flavored baked bean varieties, as well as canned meals.

In November 1971 the Astros and Cincinnati Reds made one of the most blockbuster trades in the history of the sport, and helped create The Big Red Machine of the 1970s, with the Reds getting the better end of the deal.

Bench, a 14-time All-Star selection and a two-time National League Most Valuable Player, was a key member of The Big Red Machine, which won six division titles, four National League pennants, and two World Series championships.

In keeping with the band's satirical nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there was Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.

Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One ( 1980 ), a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences.

* The Big Red One ( 1980 )

They shocked the heavily-favored Cincinnati Reds " Big Red Machine " in the NLCS and pushed the defending World Series Champion Oakland Athletics to a seventh game, but lost.

In José Canseco's book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ' Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, Canseco suggested that Clemens had expert knowledge about steroids and suggested that he used steroids, based on the improvement in his performance after leaving the Red Sox.

When you watch the sequence of the landing, it ’ s no longer possible to look the same way at The Longest Day, or even Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One ...

Big Red, Simpson Desert, 2007

The largest and most famous dune, Nappanerica, or more popularly Big Red ( named by Simpson Desert traveller Dennis Bartell ), is 40 metres in height.

System / 360 Model 65 operator's System console | console, with processor register | register value lamps and toggle switch es ( middle of picture ) and " Big Red Switch | emergency pull " switch ( upper right ).

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

He and his cohorts created what became known as " The Red Dog Experience ", featuring previously unknown musical acts — Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans, and others — who played in the completely refurbished, intimate setting of Virginia City's Red Dog Saloon.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

As a nickname in sport, Big Dipper may also refer to:

" The Big Apple " is a nickname for New York City.

It is possible that the writer simply understood " Big Apple " as an appropriate nickname for any large city:

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

The nickname " The Big Green ," originating in the 1860s, is based on students ' adoption of a shade of forest green (" Dartmouth Green ") as the school's official color in 1866.

For this they gained their most renown nickname, " Big Blue ".

The moniker of " The Big O " would eventually follow him back to the States, where it became an unofficial nickname for Orbison.

He was given the nickname " Big Lub " because of his size, but his college friends knew him by the nickname " Old Bill ".

Mardi Gras celebrations are part of the basis of the slogan, Laissez les bons temps rouler, ( Let the good times roll ) and the nickname " Big Easy ".

** For example: One specific person may be identified by all of the following identifiers: Jane Smith ; Jane Elizabeth Meredith Smith ; Jane E. M. Smith ; Jane E. Smith ; Janie Smith ; Janie ; Little Janie ( as opposed to her mother or sister or cousin, Big Janie ); Aunt Jane ; Auntie Janie ; Mom ; Grandmom ; Nana ; Kelly's mother ; Billy's grandmother ; Ms. Smith ; Dr. Smith ; Jane E. Smith, PhD ; and Fuzzy ( her jocular nickname at work ).

* Big screen, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry

The Robe ends with " the Big Fisherman " as a nickname for Peter ; Jesus called him " the fisher of men " and " the Rock ".

* Mac ( or Big Mac ), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma

After Deep Thought's 1989 match against Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine and it became " Deep Blue ", a play on IBM's nickname, " Big Blue ".

The Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s earned the nickname " the Big Red Machine ," and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest teams ever.

* In 1881, a mob lynched an outlaw who by the nickname of Big Nose George, who shot two local law enforcement officers years before.

Like his famous predecessor Man o ' War, Secretariat was a large chestnut colt and was given the same nickname, " Big Red.

Friendly Creek leaders, like Selocta and Big Warrior, addressed Sharp Knife ( the Indian nickname for Andrew Jackson ) and reminded him that they keep the peace.

He earned his nickname “ Big Minh ”, because at approximately 1. 83 m ( 6 ft ) tall and weighing 90 kg ( 198 lb ), he was remarkably larger than the average Vietnamese.

* Big Four Railroad, a nickname of the CCC & StL Railway in the Midwestern United States

As Hung was the eldest of the kung fu " brothers ", and the first to make a mark on the industry, he was given the nickname " Dai Goh Dai " (), meaning, Big, Big Brother or Biggest Big Brother.

It was during this season that the Reds came to be widely known as The Big Red Machine, a nickname they would carry throughout Anderson's tenure.