Although The Vanguard folded in 1926, the others were a great triumph and became known as " The Big Five "; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry.

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

Wartime shortages also prevented the New Big Five project from being completed.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

" Big Five " ( lion, leopard, African elephant, African buffalo, and Black Rhinoceros ) are found in the Maasai Mara.

Today, the Big Five factors have the weight of a considerable amount of empirical research behind them, building on the work of Cattell and others.

* Lewis Goldberg proposed a five-dimension personality model, nicknamed the " Big Five ":

: The Big Five contain important dimensions of personality.

The three dimensions-Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience are considered to be basically the same as their counterpart dimensions in the Big Five Model.

However, in the HEXACO model, Honesty-Humility, Emotionality and Agreeableness differ from the Neuroticism and Agreeableness factors of the Big Five Model.

Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and Rodan are described as being Toho's " Big Five " due to the monsters ' numerous appearances in all three eras of the franchise, as well as spin-offs.

Since deregulation the majority ( 80 % by the late 1990s ) of these local bus companies have been taken over by one of the " Big Five " private transport companies: Arriva ( part of Deutsche Bahn AG ), First Group, Go-Ahead Group, National Express Group ( owners of National Express ) and Stagecoach Group.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the " Big Five " accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations.

In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission and members of the investment community began to raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest between the consulting and auditing work amongst the Big Five and in May 2000, EY was the first of the firms to formally and fully separate its consulting practices via a sale to the French IT services company Cap Gemini for $ 11 billion, largely in stock, creating the new company of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, which was later renamed Capgemini.

Notable examples include Polyester Books in Melbourne, Australia ; Cafe Royal in the UK ; Reading Frenzy and Powell's in Portland, OR ; Needles and Pens in San Francisco ; Atomic Books in Baltimore ; Quimby's in Chicago ; Mac's Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland, OH ; Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana ; Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia ; Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL ; Bluestockings in New York City ; Five in Charleston, SC ; Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in Washington, DC ; Book Beat & Co. in Oklahoma City, OK ; Printed Matter in New York City ; Copacetic Comics Co. and Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA ; Reading Material in Tokyo, Japan ; On Reading in Nagoya, Japan ; as well as MonkeyWrench Books and Domy Books in Austin, TX.

* Big Five ( disambiguation )

The Big Five is an informal term used to describe the legislative leadership role in the institution of California government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader.

Members of the Big Five meet in private to discuss bills pending in the legislature.

They are thus able to exert some influence in their caucus's votes in Big Five meetings.

Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, Pluto is one of the " Big Five " -- the biggest stars in the Disney universe.

It was founded as the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), in 1915, whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10, becoming the Pacific-12 in 2011.

Wheaton returned in Season Five of The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Russian Rocket Reaction ".

Additionally the team as a whole is occasionally referred to as the " Big Blue Wrecking Crew ", even though this moniker primarily and originally refers to the Giants defensive unit during the 80s and early 90s.

However, while the traditional " Big Three " don't require their affiliates to have such naming schemes ( though some affiliates choose to adopt it anyway ) and only on their O & O's is the style required, UPN mandated it on all stations ( as Fox currently does ), though The WB did not.

Source and victim are usually electronic hardware devices, though the source may be a natural phenomenon such as a lightning strike, electrostatic discharge ( ESD ) or, in one famous case, the Big Bang at the origin of the Universe.

Through most of its history, Chrysler has been the third largest of the " Big 3 " U. S. automakers, but in January 2007, DaimlerChrysler, excluding its luxury Mercedes and Maybach lines, also outsold traditionally second place Ford, though behind General Motors and Toyota.

" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

On October 6, the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors, acting upon a unanimous recommendation of the expansion committee, authorized negotiations with Texas Christian University to become a member of the Conference even though TCU had previously agreed to join the Big East Conference in the near-future.

These hierarchies, known collectively as the " Big Seven ", were open and free for anyone to participate in ( except for the moderated newsgroups ), though they were subject to a few general rules governing their naming and distribution.

Durante made his television debut on November 1, 1950, though he kept a presence in radio as one of the frequent guests on Tallulah Bankhead's two-year, NBC comedy-variety show, The Big Show.

He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison ( 1995 ), Happy Gilmore ( 1996 ), The Waterboy ( 1998 ), Big Daddy ( 1999 ), and Mr. Deeds ( 2002 ), though he has ventured into more dramatic territory.

In contrast to the Big Five majors, Universal and Columbia had few or no theaters, though they did have top-rank film distribution exchanges.

Sir Nose ’ s machinations are undone three tracks later by the " Big Bang Theory ", which reveals that the Funk caused the creation of the universe, though the only legible clue is the ethereal backing vocal line, " So we the clones were designed.

Accommodations are limited, though RV / camping and a small number of motel-style units are available at the Big Pine Key Fishing

The top floor of the pavilion included a dance floor, where many notable Big Bands played though the 1930s and 1940s and attracted big names such as Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and Frank Sinatra.

Union would turn out to be Yes ' last studio album to have significant sales, though it did not match the popularity of 1987's Big Generator.

In 2007, Nickelodeon began a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed series for the channel, help fund and launch albums in conjunction with the label tied to Nickelodeon shows and produce original songs for the programs to be released as singles as result ; the only series produced under the partnership that was greenlit as a series, Victorious debuted in 2010, though a similar hit music-themed sitcom, Big Time Rush that debuted the same year features a similar partnership with Columbia Records, though with Columbia only being involved with the show's music, Sony Music became involved with that show's production midway through its first season.

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series, such as iCarly, True Jackson, VP, Big Time Rush, Victorious and House of Anubis as movies ; though these technically do not qualify as such as the " TV movie " versions of Nickelodeon's original series are shorter than the standard length of a television movie ( approximately 45 minutes without commercials, compared to the typical 75 – 100 minutes for television movies ), the hour-long episodes of the channel's multi-camera comedies are shot using that camera setup ( whereas feature films and television movies are standardly shot in a single-camera setup ), laugh tracks are used and the programs are shot on videotape instead of film ( though the video frame rate of its multi-camera comedies are reduced to the 24p film frame rate, using the filmizing process ).

Recording engineer Steve Albini's bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac were all three-piece bands ( though Big Black usually credited their drum machine as a member in album liner notes ).

Jay-Z has been referred to as Big Daddy Kane's hype man during this period, though Kane explains that he didn't fill the traditional hype man role, instead Jay-Z " basically made cameo appearances on stage.

Key appearances include The Beginning, Avalanche Run, Barbella's Big Attraction and The Thing in the Ice though he commonly makes cameo appearances in episodes such as Location: Danger, Mindfield, Invaders from S. C. U. M., Catching the Wave, Danger Train and Northern Lights.

Fox, the last of the " Big Four " networks, does not have a morning show, though the network attempted to transition sister cable network FX's Breakfast Time in the mid 90's to Fox as Fox After Breakfast, to little success.