Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

For example, the asterism known as the Big Dipper corresponds to the seven brightest stars of the larger IAU constellation of Ursa Major.

Ursa Minor is colloquially known as the Little Dipper because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper ( ladle or scoop ).

Green squares indicate the seven optically brightest stars.

Commentators have observed at least seven times in which Wesley, " who has trouble getting into the Starfleet Academy " and is on a ship " filled with Starfleet's best and brightest crew members ", has come up " with the needed solution ".

The name literally means " Northern Dipper ", the name given by Chinese astronomers to the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major or ' the Great Bear ' constellation.

For seven straight years ( 2006 – 2012 ), Hope has been listed among the " 101 best and brightest companies to work for in West Michigan " survey of the Michigan Business and Professional Association.

It is composed of the seven brightest stars in Ursa Major, where they delineate the Bear's hindquarters and exaggerated tail.

Abell divided the clusters into seven “ distance groups ” according to the magnitudes of their tenth brightest members:

Of these ten stars, seven have a proper name, viz.

At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.

The stars were paid $ 75, 000 per episode in season three, $ 85, 000 in season four, $ 100, 000 in season five, $ 125, 000 in season six, $ 750, 000 in seasons seven and eight, and $ 1 million in seasons nine and ten.

In the film K-PAX, the constellation of Lyra is the location of the planet K-PAX, an inhabited world that orbits twin stars and has seven moons.

On the other hand, all five stars of the Southern Cross are presented on the Australian flag, and they are white with seven points, except for the additional smaller fifth star in the Southern Cross which has only five points on this flag.

A zigzag with seven stars is sometimes displayed, representing the Big Dipper ( or the Bushel, the Chinese equivalent ).

The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits led by Calvera, portrayed by Eli Wallach.

In South Korea, the constellation is referred to as " the seven stars of the north ".

Callippus, a Greek astronomer of the 4th century, added seven spheres to Eudoxus ' original 27 ( in addition to the planetary spheres, Eudoxus included a sphere for the fixed stars ).

Zhou herself was from a very poor background and in her youth had narrowly escaped a future in the sex trade, but she became one of China's iconic seven great singing stars on the strength of her performance, and the film became one of the last great hits of the First Golden Age of Chinese Cinema before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.

The royal standard of Gondor was an image of a white tree in blossom upon sable field, surrounded by seven five-rayed stars and surmounted by a winged crown.

This combined references to several symbols of the realm: the White Tree was a unique plant brought by Isildur from Númenor, first planted in Minas Ithil and later three times replanted from seed at Minas Anor ; the Crown of Gondor was in the beginning Isildur's war-helmet and later the main symbol of monarchy in the South-kingdom, with wings of a sea-bird being an emblem of the exiled Númenóreans ; and the stars " originally represented the single stars on the banners of each of seven ships of nine in which Elendil and his sons sailed to Middle-earth that bore a palantír ".

In the movies, the flag of Gondor is the royal standard with the colors reversed ( black tree, seven black stars, and a black crown on a white field ).

As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ).

* Tajikistan-Crown and seven stars in a semicircle

Astronomical theories had introduced the conception of seven planetary spheres with an eighth above them, the sphere of the fixed stars.

It would have been natural to think that the number of seven archons was suggested to Saturninus by astronomical considerations ; and this supposition is verified by the statement in the later chapter ( c. 30 ) that the holy Hebdomas are the seven stars called planets.

In fact, the sphere of the seven stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, were supposed to be presided over, each by a different archon.

Latin borealis is from Greek boreas " north wind, north ", in mythology ( according to Ovid ) personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, and father of Calais and Zetes ; septentrionalis is from septentriones, " the seven plow oxen ", a name of Ursa Maior.

In Hindu astronomy, the Sapta ( seven rishis ) form the constellation of Ursa Major, which are distinct from Dhruva ( Polaris ).

Progenitors represents the 14 Progenitors (" Manu ") in Indian cosmology or 14, " twins " means 2, " Ursa Major " represents the seven stars of Ursa Major or 7, " Vedas " refers to the 4 Vedas or 4, dice represents the number of sides of the tradition die or 6, and so on.

The seven are probably either the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster, or perhaps Ursa Major, the Big Dipper.

The cultural tradition of naming ' related groups ; lineages ' or " Gotra " of people after the founding rishi who are also called ' fathers ' ( Sanskrit: Pitrs ; particularly the " seven fathers ") amongst the Saptarishi is also evident in Vedic astrology where the Saptarishi ( seven rishis ) are the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

Alternate meanings describe Maharishi as a collective name that refers to the seven rishis or saptarishis ( including Maharishi Bhrigu ) cited in the scriptures of Rig Veda and the Puranas, or any of the several mythological seers that are referenced in Vedic writings and associated with the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

Under Selig's watch, the Brewers also won seven Organization of the Year awards, although they posted one of the worst winning percentages in the history of Major League Baseball, over periods of ten years or more.

Major kept his economic team unchanged for seven months after Black Wednesday before he replaced Norman Lamont with Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer, after months of press criticism of Lamont and disastrous defeat at a by-election in Newbury.

In 1969, the new manager of the Twins, Billy Martin, pushed aggressive base running all-around, and Rod Carew set the all-time Major League record by stealing home seven times.

The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed " Negro Major Leagues ".

In the ancient Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Pentecost is one of the seven Major " Lord's Feasts ".

Ryan threw a record seven no-hitters during his Major League career, three more than any other pitcher.

The Arizona Fall League teams are not exclusive affiliates of any one team ; instead, each Major League team provides seven players who team up to fill the 35-man roster of each team.

In May 1993, seven months after the impact of ' Black Wednesday ' had terminally damaged Norman Lamont's credibility as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Major forced Lamont to resign and appointed Clarke in his place.

Barry Bonds is second, having won the MVP award seven times in Major League Baseball.

Was the first player to sign with Major League Soccer, where he played seven years with the MetroStars.

It is divided in seven parts: Aircraft Design / Airline Usage, Major Airlines, Large Regional Airlines, Regional And Third Level Commuters, Other Carriers, Cargo Carriers and Airport And Airline Operations.

" Clive himself headed the nine who voted for delay ; Major Eyre Coote led the seven who counselled immediate attack.

Major UK supermarkets Asda and Morrisons both stated they would be affected by the change, as did nationwide bakery chain Greggs, though Greggs is one of seven companies allowed to continue to use the name " Cornish pasty " during a three-year transitional period.

* 1894 is Major League Baseball's highest scoring season as Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season ( 1220 ) and another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs ; in addition, Philadelphia Phillies bat. 349 for the season with all four outfielders above. 400, but finish fourth despite the feat

On June 15, 1994, Major League Soccer selected Washington, D. C. out of twenty-two applicants to host one of the first seven teams, with three more added before the league's launch.

Major League Lacrosse, or MLL, is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of seven teams in the United States and one team in Canada.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

The University of Kentucky boasts seven governors, including current Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear, former Governor of Ohio Ted Strickland, current Governor of North Carolina Beverly Perdue, and former governors Ernie Fletcher, Paul E. Patton and Tom Jefferson Terral, and former governor, U. S. Senator and Commissioner of Major League Baseball Albert " Happy " Chandler.

Collectively, the K Foundation's money-as-art works were titled Money: A Major Body Of Cash, " seven pieces, all involving various amounts of cash nailed to, tied to or simply standing on inanimate objects ".