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Biggs
Biggs may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Biggs (TV channel), a Portuguese television channel formerly for kids, teens and youth and now for teens and youth. * Biggs Darklighter, a character in ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' * Biggs, a recurring character in the ''Character design of Final Fantasy#Biggs and Wedge, Final Fantasy'' series of role-playing games Business and organizations * bigg's, a hypermarket chain in Ohio and Kentucky * Mr. Bigg's, Nigerian fast food chain * Biggs Furniture of Richmond, Virginia People * Biggs (surname) * Kareem Burke, nicknamed "Biggs", an American entrepreneur and record executive * Ronald Isley, stagename "Mr. Biggs", an American singer-songwriter and record executive Places * Biggs, California, U.S. * Biggs, Kentucky, U.S. * Biggs Junction, Oregon, U.S. * Biggs Army Airfield, Texas, U.S. * Biggs Settlement, Michigan, U.S. See also * * Bigg (other) * Big (other) * Biggs jasper, a gemstone discovered near Biggs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs (TV Channel)
Biggs (known until 1 December 2013, as Panda Biggs) is a Portugal, Portuguese cable television, basic cable and satellite television channel targeted to teens and youth from ages 15 to 24. History The services was initially set to be named Bute, later Biggs, but was later renamed Panda Biggs at the request of ERC. It was launched on 1 December 2009 on the NOS (Portuguese media company), NOS platform. It was targeted to children and teens from ages 8 to 14. It aired live-action shows, films, anime and cartoon shows. It also used to air archived programs from Canal Panda. Its design is very similar to that of YTV (Canadian TV channel), YTV and Disney XD. On 1 June 2021, it was launched another Portuguese TV channel targeted to children called Panda Kids. It airs almost mostly the anime and cartoon shows formerly aired on Biggs, including new ones and films, some formerly aired on Canal Panda. Initially it was supposed to be the first Portuguese pop-up TV channel for children, but d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs Army Airfield
Biggs Army Airfield (formerly Biggs Air Force Base) is a United States Army military airbase located on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. History Biggs Field/Biggs Army Airfield (1916–47) On 15 June 1919, following an attack by Pancho Villa's forces on Ciudad Juárez, United States Army Air Service personnel equipped with Dayton-Wright DH-4 aircraft were sent to Fort Bliss to begin patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border, initiating the United States Army Border Air Patrol. In August 1919 construction commenced on a steel hangar for an airship station at Camp Owen Bierne, Fort Bliss and in December 1919 the 8th Balloon Company moved there from Brooks Field, Texas. In January 1920 the 1st Surveillance Group moved from Kelly Field to Fort Bliss. The airfield was officially named "Biggs Field" on 5 January 1925 after Lieutenant James Berthea "Buster" Biggs, an El Paso native killed in a plane crash on 27 October 1918 at Belrain, France. Biggs Air Force Base ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs (surname)
Biggs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: __NOTOC__ * Mr. Biggs, stage name of Ronald Isley A * Asa Biggs (1811–1878), American politician * Andy Biggs (b. 1958), American politician from Arizona B * Barton Biggs (1932–2012), money manager * Basil Biggs (1819–1906), American laborer and veterinarian * Benjamin T. Biggs (1821–1893), American politician C * Casey Biggs (b. 1955), American actor * Cecil Biggs (1881–1944), British rugby player and cricketer * Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British diplomat assassinated by the PIRA D * D. E. Biggs (1860–1924), American politician * Don Biggs (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey player * Donald Biggs (1930–2024), American politician in Kansas E * E. Power Biggs (1906–1977), British-American organist * Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001), American sculptor G * Gregory Biggs (1964–2001), American car accident victim H * Hermann Biggs (1859–1923), American physician and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs, California
Biggs (formerly Biggs Station) is a city in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 1,964 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 1,707 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. Geography Biggs is located at (39.413820, -121.710316). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. History A post office was established at Biggs Station in 1871, and the name changed to Biggs in 1884. It was incorporated in 1903. Biggs is named for Maj. Marion Biggs, who first shipped grain by rail from the town's location. In 1877, ancestors of the scientist Linus Pauling left Missouri and travelled to California, where they lived for a time in Biggs, "a settlement composed mostly of German Americans, Germans" (the ancestors in question were themselves of German descent). In late 2002, the town's mayor received a letter from Jeff Manning, executive director of the California Milk Processor Board, proposing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs Junction, Oregon
Biggs Junction is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sherman County, Oregon, United States. Biggs Junction is located on the south side of the Columbia River at the junction of Interstate 84/ U.S. 30 and U.S. 97 where it crosses the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge over the river from Washington. The population was 5 at the 2020 census, down from 22 at the 2010 census History Biggs is a station on the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at what was once a junction with the UP's Grass Valley line to Kent that has since been abandoned. Biggs was named for a nearby landowner, W. H. Biggs, who settled in Sherman County in 1880. W. H. Biggs was born on May 12, 1831; he was from Ohio. The rail line was originally owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company (OR&N). In 1885 the OR&N station at Biggs was called Spanish Hollow, after the canyon that opens on the river there. The canyon was said to be named because a Spanish ox died there in the days of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs Settlement, Michigan
Biggs may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Biggs (TV channel), a Portuguese television channel formerly for kids, teens and youth and now for teens and youth. * Biggs Darklighter, a character in ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' * Biggs, a recurring character in the ''Character design of Final Fantasy#Biggs and Wedge, Final Fantasy'' series of role-playing games Business and organizations * bigg's, a hypermarket chain in Ohio and Kentucky * Mr. Bigg's, Nigerian fast food chain * Biggs Furniture of Richmond, Virginia People * Biggs (surname) * Kareem Burke, nicknamed "Biggs", an American entrepreneur and record executive * Ronald Isley, stagename "Mr. Biggs", an American singer-songwriter and record executive Places * Biggs, California, U.S. * Biggs, Kentucky, U.S. * Biggs Junction, Oregon, U.S. * Biggs Army Airfield, Texas, U.S. * Biggs Settlement, Michigan, U.S. See also * * Bigg (other) * Big (other) * Biggs jasper, a gemstone discovered near Biggs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kareem Burke
Kareem "Biggs" Burke (born January 19, 1974) is an American entrepreneur, record executive, and producer. He is best known as the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records along with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Damon "Dame" Dash. Early life Kareem Burke was born in Harlem, New York City, on January 19, 1974. Burke has several siblings, C. Burke, Brian L Burke, Robert "Bobalob" Burke, Kyambo R. "Hip-Hop" Joshua, Jamil "Mal" Clay and a sister. In 2003, his brother Robert E. Burke III was murdered in the Bronx. Career In 1995, Burke co-founded the record label Roc-A-Fella Records with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Damon "Dame" Dash. In 2004, Roc-A-Fella Records was purchased by Def Jam Recordings (which had previously only owned half of the company). In 2017, Burke hired Julia Lang to work as his image consultant for two years. In 2018, Burke executive produced the film, '' O.G.'' which premiered on HBO on February 23, 2019. In February 2019, it was announced that Burke had signed Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs Furniture
Biggs Furniture, based in Richmond, Virginia, United States, was once a leading U.S. manufacturer of colonial reproduction furniture. The company flourished in the 20th century, alongside reproductions by Colonial Williamsburg by the Kittinger Company, and other mass market reproduction brands like Ethan Allen Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, writer, military officer and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and wa ... and Pennsylvania House. In 1975, the company was purchased by the Kittinger Company. The restored manufacturing plant at 900 West Marshall Street in Richmond is now an apartment complex. Examples of the furniture were in homes and in public buildings such as the Hotel John Marshall and Miller & Rhoads Tea Room. The company was one of many Virginia furniture makers of the 20th century. Alfred Hemmings served as the final pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigg's
Remke Markets is a chain of American supermarkets in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. History Remke Markets was founded in 1897 as a meat market in Covington, Kentucky, by William Remke, the supermarket has grown and now has 6 locations. The supermarket merged with the struggling Bigg's division of SuperValu (United States), SuperValu in 2010. On February 24, 2017, Remke Markets announced that it would be acquired by Generative Growth, LLC and managed by affiliated company Fresh Encounter, Inc. post-acquisition. On November 3, 2018, Remke announced that they would shutter two underperforming locations, one in the Skytop Pavilion shopping center in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, Anderson Township, and the other on Delhi Pike in Delhi Township, Ohio, Delhi Township by the end of that month. The closing of its Hebron, Kentucky store was announced on March 4, 2019. This closing left six locations operating under the Remke Markets banner. bigg's Bigg's (branded as b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs Darklighter
This incomplete list of characters from the ''Star Wars'' franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official ''Star Wars'' canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014. Following its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2012, Lucasfilm rebranded most of the novels, comics, video games and other works produced since the originating 1977 film ''Star Wars'' as ''Star Wars Legends'' and declared them non-canon to the rest of the franchise. As such, the list contains only information from the Skywalker Saga films, the 2008 animated TV series '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', and other films, shows, or video games published or produced after April 2014. The list includes humans and various alien species. No droid characters are included; for those, see the list of ''Star Wars'' droid characters. Some of the characters featured in this list have additional or alternate plotlines in the non-canonical ''Legends'' continuity. To see those or char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Isley
Ronald Isley ( ; born May 21, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Isley is the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers. Early life Born in 1941 to Sallye Bernice (née Bell) and O'Kelly Isley Sr, Isley was the third of six brothers (O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Vernon Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley). Ronald, like many of his siblings, began his career in the church. Isley began singing at the age of two, winning a $25 war bond (approx. $429 in 2022) for singing at a Spiritual (music), spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. By the age of seven, Isley was singing on-stage at venues such as the Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago), Regal Theater in Chicago, alongside Dinah Washington and a few other notables. The youngest of the original four Isley Brothers was Vernon (b: 18 June 1943 - d: 24 Sept 1954); who at the age of 11 was struck and killed by a car while riding his bicycle. Career By his early tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biggs, Kentucky
Biggs is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ..., United States. References Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{PikeCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
