Torrio took over the crime empire of James " Big Jim " Colosimo after he was murdered.

" Accompanied by Singing Grass, he worked with the Hudson's Bay Company, as well as the renowned frontiersman Jim Bridger, trapping beaver along the Yellowstone, Powder, and Big Horn rivers.

* January 7 – Big Jim Fisk, American financier ( b. 1834 )

* April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur ( d. 1872 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Jones ' guitarist between 1969 and 1974 was Big Jim Sullivan, who also met and formed a friendship with Presley.

* 1987 The Big Chill ( VI 5. 9 A4 ), FA by Jim Bridwell, Peter Mayfield, Sean Plunkett and Steve Bosque

Commonly known as Jim Callaghan ( and nicknamed " Sunny Jim ", " Gentleman Jim ", " Lucky Jim " or " Big Jim "), Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 1964 – 67 ), Home Secretary ( 1967 – 70 ), and Foreign Secretary ( 1974 – 76 ).

Artists such as PBK, Big City Orchestra, Alien Planetscapes, Don Campau, Ken Clinger, Dino DiMuro, Tom Furgas, The Haters, Zan Hoffman, If, Bwana, Hal McGee, Minóy, Dave Prescott, Dan Fioretti, dk, Jim Shelley, and hundreds of others recorded numerous albums available only on cassette throughout the late ' 80s and well into the ' 90s.

When Big Bird and Oscar are required in a scene together, Jim Martin often operates Oscar to a vocal track by Spinney so the latter can perform Big Bird.

" Big Jim " Pierce played Tarzan in Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

* Mack Swain as Big Jim McKay

He abandoned most of this footage ( which included him being chased through the snow by Big Jim, instead of just around the hut as in the final cut ), retaining only the film's opening scene.

* In The Sopranos episode, " Big Girls Don't Cry ", Christopher Moltisanti's acting instructor assigns Chris and several classmates — whom she terms " rebels without causes "— to enact the scene wherein Plato dies and Jim cries over his friend's body.

Jim Henson's Fantastic World offers a rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.

* James E. " Big Jim " Folsom, only Coffee County native to become governor of Alabama.

* James E. " Big Jim " Folsom, Governor of Alabama 1947-51 and 1955 – 59

*" Big " Jim Martin, former guitar player for Faith No More

In the state legislature Big Bend is located in the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jim Nielsen.

Despite spending much of the 1990s suffering from financial problems and drug addiction, Rowland made plans to reform Dexys together with Big Jim Paterson, although these resulted in no more than a solitary TV performance in 1993.

Blythe teamed up with former colleague Big Jim Paterson in The TKO Horns.

2011 saw the emergence of a new project, GI Blythe, featuring Geoff Blythe ( saxophones ), Big Jim Paterson ( ex-Dexys Midnight Runners, trombone ), Archie Brown ( vocals ), Larry Baeder ( guitars ), Joe ' Bearclaw ' Burcaw ( bass ), Pete Levin ( keyboards ) and Crispin Taylor ( drums ).

The TKO Horns were horn section formed in 1982 when Big Jim Paterson ( trombone ), Paul Speare ( tenor saxophone ) and Brian Maurice ( alto saxophone ) left Dexys Midnight Runners.

The song was written by Kevin Rowland, " Big " Jim Paterson, and Billy Adams ; it was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.

During the 1913 Paterson silk strike, IWW leader “ Big ” Bill Haywood asserted that someday all of the world's flags would be red, “ the color of the working man's blood .” In response, the city's leaders ( who opposed the strike ) declared March 17 to be “ Flag Day ,” and saw to it that each of the city's textile mills flew an American flag.

However, it has been the Artie Shaw version of 1941, with memorable solos by Billy Butterfield ( trumpet ) and Jack Jenney ( trombone ) that remains the favorite orchestral version of the Big Band era.

1980-1981 Lionel Hampton Big Band ( first trombone & jazz soloist )

1981-1982 Buddy Rich Big Band ( first trombone & jazz soloist )

The Blue Night Band won best trombone section at the 2010 Villanova University Big Band Festival.

He switched to the more familiar slide trombone in his late teens, and joined a group called The Big Four in nearby Syracuse, New York.

" The Big Bad Horns " (" Big " Dave Kemp on saxophone, Frank Mizen on trombone and Grant Kirkhope on trumpet ) had become synonymous with the ' Angels ' sound over the years, contributing to a large majority of their recorded output, and appearing live with the band more often than not.

Jim Robinson, also known as Big Jim Robinson ( December 25, 1892 — May 4, 1976 ) was an American jazz musician, based in New Orleans, renowned for his deep, wide-toned, robust " tailgate " style of trombone playing, which enabled him to achieve a wide swoop between two notes as he moved the slide — while continually buzzing air into the mouthpiece.

After the addition of Lee Loughnane ( trumpet ), James Pankow ( trombone ), Robert Lamm ( keyboards ) and Peter Cetera ( bass ), the band performed under a number of different names, first the Missing Links, then The Big Thing ( sometime The Big Sound ), before settling on Chicago Transit Authority, which was soon shortened to Chicago because of threatened legal action funny enough by the actual Chicago Transit Authority.

" Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry.

* Robin Eubanks – trombone on " Blind " and " Big Daddy ", " Mr. Jones "

Recent original compositions include Silk Street Stomp written for the Guildhall School of Music Big Band, Two Antiphonal Fanfares, Frighteners ' Gallop for 8 horns commissioned by the British Horn Society, Orage for 16 trombones written for Bone Lab and premiered at the Dartington Summer School, Processional for PJ written for large brass ensemble in memory of Philip Jones, The Birth of Conchobar again for symphonic brass and percussion commissioned by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, Three Sketches from Rackham for flute and harp, Flourish for solo trombone and Carillons for six harps.

He was also a part of Big Rude Jake's back-up band in the late ' 90's ( he later quit, stating there are only so many shows one can do dancing around in a flesh-coloured zoot suit with a trombone ).

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

), Aesthetics: The Big Questions.

Big bands such as those of Duke Ellington ( at the very beginning of his career ), Bennie Moten, and Count Basie performed head arrangements ( ibid ).

** Big Dipper ( Blackpool ), a wooden roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

** Big Dipper ( Geauga Lake ), a wooden roller coaster currently Standing but not operating at Geauga Lake

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

* Big Dipper ( band ), a 1980s-1990s Boston alternative-rock band

* Big Dipper ( Elton John song ), a 1978 song by Elton John

* Big Dipper ( album ), a 2003 album by Drop Trio

* Beidou ( disambiguation ), Chinese name of Big Dipper

The Central Artery / Tunnel Project ( CA / T ), known unofficially as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery ( Interstate 93 ), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into a 3. 5-mile ( 5. 6-km ) tunnel.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

Yet another plan, the North-South Rail Link that would have connected North and South Stations ( the major passenger train stations in Boston ), was part of the original Big Dig but was ultimately dropped by the Dukakis administration as an impediment to acquiring federal funding for the project.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.