Big Six
Encyclopedia
Business and industry
- Big Six banks of Canada
- Big Six law firms (Australia)Big Six law firms (Australia)The Big Six law firms is a term informally used in Australia to refer to those firms which, collectively, are perceived to be the largest firms headquartered in Australia and distinguished in comparison to their other competitors...
- What were the United States "big six auditing firms" (originally the "big eight"), now the big four—see Big Four auditorsBig Four auditorsThe Big Four are the four largest international professional services networks in accountancy and professional services, which handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies, creating an oligopoly in auditing large companies...
- The "Big six" major film studios
- Mercedes-Benz S600 luxury sedans
- Baltimore and Ohio Class SBaltimore and Ohio Class SBaltimore and Ohio Class S comprised two classes of 2-10-2 locomotives.The S class proper were 31 locomotives built in 1914 by Baldwin Locomotive Works and numbered 6000–6030. The S-1 class comprised 125 locomotives numbered 6100–6224...
locomotive - 2-10-22-10-2Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck...
type locomotives - Kawasaki 1300Kawasaki 1300The Kawasaki Z1300 was a water-cooled six-cylinder 1300 cc Kawasaki motorcycle that was manufactured between 1979 and 1989.-History:The Kawasaki Z1300 was manufactured in several models referred to as Z1300, KZ1300, ZG1300 and ZN1300...
, a motorcycle built by Kawasaki from 1979 until 1989 - The Big Six (publishing), Hachette, Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Penguin-Putnam, HarperCollins, Random House, Simon & Schuster
Sports and entertainment
- Big six in the romantic literature of England, authors of romantic literature of England
- The "Big Six" Australian cricketers involved in the Big Six cricket dispute of 1912Big Six cricket dispute of 1912The Big Six cricket dispute that occurred in 1912 was a confrontation between the administrators and players of the sport of cricket in Australia. Six of Australia's leading cricketers refused an invitation to tour England for the 1912 Triangular Tournament. The six players were Warwick Armstrong,...
- Big Six Conference, later the Big Eight ConferenceBig Eight ConferenceThe Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...
, an unofficial name for the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, when it had six teams from 1929 to 1946 - Big Six Conference, now known as the Pacific-12 Conference, an unofficial name for the Athletic Association of Western Universities, when it had six teams from 1962 to 1964
- Christy MathewsonChristy MathewsonChristopher "Christy" Mathewson , nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era...
, baseball pitcher - Jason EstradaJason EstradaJason Moses Estrada is a boxer who represented the United States at the 2004 Olympic Games in the super heavyweight division. In 2003 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games....
, professional boxer - The Big SixThe Big SixThe Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club...
, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome - Big Six wheelBig Six wheelThe Big Six wheel, also known simply as The Big Six or Wheel of Fortune, is an unequal game of chance, played using a large vertical wheel that can be spun....
, a casino game - "Big Six" (song), a 1972 UK Top 40 hit single by Judge DreadJudge DreadAlexander Minto Hughes , better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and has the most banned songs of all time.-Career:...
Other
- Big Six (civil rights)Big Six (civil rights)The chairmen, presidents, or co-founders of some of the civil rights organizations active during the height of the American Civil Rights movement, likely mockingly named the "Big Six" by Malcolm X, include:* Martin Luther King, Jr...
movement in the United States - The Big Six (Ghana)The Big Six (Ghana)The Big Six were six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention , the leading political party in the British colony of the Gold Coast. They were detained by the colonial authorities in 1948 following disturbances leading to the killing of three World War II veterans...
, six Ghanaian nationalists jailed by the British colonial government in 1948 - Supreme War Council (Japan)Supreme War Council (Japan)The Supreme War Council was established during the development of representative government in Meiji period Japan to further strengthen the authority of the state. Its first leader was Yamagata Aritomo , a Chōshū native who has been credited with the founding of the modern Japanese army and was to...
during World War II - The Big Six elemental macronutrients for all biological life
See also
- Big One (disambiguation)
- Big Two (disambiguation)Big Two (disambiguation)Big Two is a card game similar to the game of Asshole, Crazy Eights, Bullshit, Winner, and other shedding games.Big Two may also refer to:* Big Two-Hearted River, a short story written by Ernest Hemingway...
- Big Three (disambiguation)
- Big Four (disambiguation)
- Big Five (disambiguation)
- Big Seven (disambiguation)
- Big Eight (disambiguation)