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Four Books and Five Classics Great Compendia (Daquan)
The Four Books and Five Classics Great Compendia (四书五经大全) are Neo-Confucian compendia of the Ming dynasty, ordered by the Yongle Emperor and completed in 1415.
Four Branches of the Mabinogi
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi) are four interconnected Middle Welsh prose tales, compiled around 1100 and central to Welsh mythology.
Four Brothers (film)
Four Brothers is a 2005 American crime drama directed by John Singleton, starring Mark Wahlberg as one of four adopted brothers who return to Detroit to avenge their foster mother's murder.
Four Cardinal Principles
The Four Cardinal Principles (四项基本原则) are four political commitments, including Party leadership and the socialist road, that Deng Xiaoping declared in 1979 for China's Four Modernizations.
Four causes
The four causes, also known as Aristotle's four causes or the Aristotelian causes, hold that explaining anything fully requires four answers: its makeup, its identity, its origin, and its purpose.
Four Christmases
Four Christmases, also known as Four Holidays, is a 2008 American holiday comedy directed by Seth Gordon, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a couple visiting four divorced parents.
Four color theorem
The four color theorem, also known as the four color problem, states that any planar map needs at most four colors so that bordering regions differ, proved by computer in 1976.
Four Commanderies (Sagun)
The Four Commanderies (Sagun, 사군) were four defensive counties Joseon established in the upper Yalu River region under King Sejong to block Jurchen groups, abolished in the 1450s.
Four Commanderies and Six Garrisons established
The Four Commanderies and Six Garrisons (사군육진) were military-administrative districts that King Sejong of Joseon established along the Amnok and Tumen river frontiers between 1433 and 1449.
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
Annual ISU figure skating championship (Four Continents Championships) for skaters from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, held since 1999 in men's, women's, pairs, and ice dance; 2026 in Beijing, 2027 in Astana.
Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships, an ISU short track title event for non-European members; 2025 edition held November 8-9, 2024 at Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City, with 500/1000/1500 m and relay events.
Four Continents Speed Skating Championships
The Four Continents Speed Skating Championships is an annual long-track speed skating championship for non-European skaters, created by the ISU in 2019 and first held in 2020.
Four Corners
Four Corners is the point in the American Southwest where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet, the only such four-state corner in the United States.
Four Corners Generating Station
The Four Corners Generating Station, also called Four Corners Power Plant, is a 1,540-megawatt coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, New Mexico.
Four Corners Monument
Four Corners Monument marks the only point where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet, set by surveyor Chandler Robbins in 1875 at 37°N, 109°03′W; NGS affirmed its 2009 location controversy was overstated.
Four Courts
The Four Courts (Irish: Na Ceithre Cúirteanna) is Ireland's principal courts building on the River Liffey in Dublin, housing the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court since 1931.
Four Cries of a Gibbon
Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan, 四声猿) is a set of four short plays by the Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, best known for its Female Mulan play.
Four Cs of credit
The Four Cs of credit are the categories a lender evaluates when deciding whether to extend credit: character, capacity, capital, and a fourth C that is either collateral or conditions.
Four Dan actresses (四大花旦)
四大花旦 (Four Dan actresses) is the Chinese media label for Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Xu Jinglei, first named "Four Little Huadan" by Southern Metropolis Daily in 2002, borrowed from Peking opera's Four Great Dan, with repeated successor lists since.
Four Emperors (四皇) (One Piece)
Four Emperors (四皇, Yonko) are the four most powerful pirate captains in One Piece, part of the Three Great Powers; current members are Shanks, Blackbeard, Buggy, and Luffy, after Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido fell.
Four Evangelists
The Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the traditionally named authors of the four canonical Gospels; the Gospels themselves are anonymous, with names attached by second-century tradition.
Four Feather Falls
Four Feather Falls is a 1960 British puppet Western by Gerry Anderson's AP Films for Granada, 39 episodes starring Sheriff Tex Tucker and his magic feathers, and the first use of electronic lip-sync leading to Supermarionation.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 mosche di velluto grigio) is Dario Argento's 1971 Italian-French giallo, the final film of his Animal trilogy, starring Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, and Jean-Pierre Marielle, with an Ennio Morricone score and an optography-based plot.
Four Freedoms
Four Freedoms: Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 State of the Union goals, freedom of speech, worship, freedom from want and fear; shaped the Atlantic Charter, UN Declaration, and Rockwell's 1943 paintings.
Four Gate School
The Four Gate School (四門學) was a central state school of the Sui dynasty with twenty doctors, twenty assistants, and three hundred students, continued under the Tang.
Four Generations Under One Roof
Four Generations Under One Roof (四世同堂) is a million-character novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, written between 1944 and 1949 about a Beijing family's four generations under Japanese occupation.
Four Gentlemen
The Four Gentlemen (사군자; 四君子) are the plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo, four plants whose ink paintings symbolize the virtues of the junzi in East Asian literati art.
Four Good Days
Four Good Days (2021) is a Rodrigo García drama starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis, based on Eli Saslow's 2016 Washington Post article about a mother helping her daughter stay drug-free four days for a naltrexone shot.
Four Great Ancient Civilizations (四大文明古国)
Four Great Ancient Civilizations (四大文明古国) denotes Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China's Yellow River civilizations, the earliest Old World river-valley states, distinguished by shared riverine settings, early writing, and the Indus's undeciphered script.
Four Great Inventions (四大发明)
Four Great Inventions (四大发明): papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and the compass, ancient Chinese technologies grouped by sixteenth-century European writers and later central to Chinese national history education.