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.

* Big Cola: a cola produced by Peruvian company Ajegroup which operates in 14 countries including South America.

* 1988 – Taeyang, South Korean singer, dancer, and model ( Big Bang )

* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).

This species has been recorded from Orange County, California, near Westminster ; near a fish farm in Conejos County and the South Platte drainage, Colorado ; several counties in Florida ; Hawaii ; an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe, Louisiana ; Beaverhead Rock Pond ( Madison County ), Montana ; Clark County, Nevada ; and Texas.

" In 1830, William Sublette brought the first wagons carrying his trading goods up the Platte, North Platte, and Sweetwater River ( Wyoming ) before crossing over South Pass to a fur trade rendezvous on the Green River near the future town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

From South Pass the trail continues southwest crossing Big Sandy Creek ( about wide and deep ) before hitting the Green River.

It leaves the main trail about west of South Pass and heads almost due west crossing Big Sandy Creek and then about of waterless of very dusty desert before reaching the Green River near the present town of La Barge.

The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

* Big Bang ( South Korean band ), when T. O. P says Trauma from Blue in Bigbang's 5th mini album

In turn, they were pushed to the west by the Lakota ( Sioux ), who took over the territory from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

After about 1860, the Lakota Sioux claimed all the former Crow lands from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

A 15-month survey conducted in 2003-2004 by the British Big Cats Society gave the following regional breakdown, based on 2052 sightings: South West 21 %, South East 16 %, East Anglia 12 %, Scotland 11 %, and West Midlands 9 %.

In that time, the Big East has seen the emergence of new national players West Virginia rising to as high as No. 1 and was ranked in the Top 10 for three-straight years ( 2005, 2006, 2007 ) ( South Florida rising as high as No. 2, Cincinnati and Louisville both as high as No. 3, Rutgers as high as No. 7, Pittsburgh as high as No. 9, and Connecticut as high as No. 13 in BCS standings ).

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

Lang during his career, and familiarly known as " Jack " and nicknamed " The Big Fella " was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms ( 1925 – 27, 1930 – 32 ).

Although Campbell moved in 2011 from the Atlantic Sun Conference to the Big South Conference, which sponsors football, it did not join the Big South football conference and remains in the PFL.

The Big South Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I.

The Big South, founded in 1983, is firmly rooted in the southeastern United States, with member institutions located in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Their teams are known as the Yellowjackets and play in the Big 8 Conference.

* 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the " Big Three " ( Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

* One NIT Championship ( 1974 ); the first for the Big Ten Conference and two Runner-up finishes ( 1979, 1982 ) and a third place finish ( 1981 )

** Currently second all-time in Big Ten Conference victories with 848.

The Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament began a five-year stint at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in 2008.

The university is a group member of the prestigious American Association of Universities, Universities Research Association, and the Big 12 Conference.

The Big Three: Stalin, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, November 1943.

The Big Three: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President of the United States | U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

In an embarrassing incident at the 1943 Tehran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the " Sword of Stalingrad " from Winston Churchill, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from its scabbard onto his toes in the presence of the Big Three wartime leaders.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

* 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

SU is a member of the Big East Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics, except for women's ice hockey, and the rowing team.

On July 1, 2013, Syracuse will leave the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Its athletic teams, called the Wolverines, are members of the Big Ten Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

The " Big Three " at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2, 1945.

** The Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between Kansas State University and Texas Tech University in Manhattan, Kansas.

" The Big Four " during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 | Paris Peace Conference ( from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, George Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson ).

The UC Irvine Anteaters compete in 18 men's and women's sports in the NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference.

The " Big Three ": From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Soviet Embassy during the Tehran Conference of 1943.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

The arena is also host to the Big East Men's Basketball Conference Tournament.

The Big East Conference men's basketball tournament has been held at MSG every year since 1983, making it the longest period a conference tournament has been held at a single location.

The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States.