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Four Hands, Two Sonatas (포핸즈)
Four Hands, Two Sonatas (포핸즈) is a 2026 tvN Saturday-Sunday drama, 12 episodes, written by Shin Yi-won, directed by Park Hyun-seok, starring Song Kang and Lee Jun-young as rival pianists; finale hit 9.4% Nielsen.
Four Heavenly Kings
The Four Heavenly Kings, or Shitennō, are four Buddhist guardian devas who each watch one cardinal direction, protect the world and the Dharma, and appear as armored warriors in East Asian temples.
Four Hills Tournament
Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzentournee), annual ski jumping series since 1953 at Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck, Bischofshofen; Golden Eagle won on total points; first women's edition 2026/27.
Four Horsemen (Supreme Court)
The Four Horsemen were the conservative Supreme Court bloc of the 1930s, Willis Van Devanter, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler, who voted against New Deal legislation until the 1937 switch in time and Van Devanter's retirement dissolved the bloc.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses in Revelation 6:1–8, the fourth named Death, with Hades following him.
Four Khanates
The Four Khanates (四大汗国) is a later historiographical label for the western khanates of the Mongol Empire; the Yuan court never used the concept, recognizing only three khanates.
Four kingdoms of Daniel
The four kingdoms of Daniel, also called the four world empires, is a biblical schema in Daniel 2 and 7 depicting four kingdoms ending in God's heavenly kingdom.
Four Knights of the Apocalypse (黙示録の四騎士)
Four Knights of the Apocalypse (黙示録の四騎士, Mokushiroku no Yonkishi) is Nakaba Suzuki's shōnen manga sequel to The Seven Deadly Sins, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since January 2021, following Percival against Camelot's King Arthur; adapted as a Telecom Animation Film anime from October 2023.
Four Last Songs
Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) is Richard Strauss's 1948 set of four orchestral songs for soprano, setting three Hermann Hesse poems and Eichendorff's Im Abendrot; titled and ordered posthumously by Ernst Roth, premiered by Flagstad and Furtwängler in London in 1950.
Four Letters of Love
Four Letters of Love (2025) is a Polly Steele romantic drama adapted by Niall Williams from his 1997 novel, starring Fionn O'Shea, Ann Skelly, Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne; released 18 July 2025 in the UK and Ireland.
Four Lions
Four Lions (2010) is Chris Morris's debut feature, a British satirical comedy about an inept Sheffield jihadist cell, written with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, based on three years of research, BAFTA-winning for Outstanding Debut.
Four Loko
Four Loko is a Phusion Projects flavored malt beverage launched in 2005, originally containing alcohol, caffeine, guarana, and taurine in 23.5 oz cans at 11-12% ABV. FDA action in 2010 forced removal of stimulants; the non-caffeinated brand remains on sale at up to 14% ABV.
Four Lords of the Warring States
The Four Lords of the Warring States (战国四公子) were four fief-holding aristocrats of China's Warring States period, celebrated above all for keeping large retinues of retainers.
Four Major Rivers Restoration Project
The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project was a 2009 to 2012 South Korean public works program that dredged the Han, Nakdong, Geum, and Yeongsan rivers.
Four Marks of the Church
The Four Marks of the Church, also called the Attributes of the Church, are the four attributes one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, confessed in the Nicene Creed of 381.
Four Modernizations
The Four Modernizations (四个现代化) was a strategic goal of the People's Republic of China, announced in December 1964, calling for modernizing agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology.
Four Moods
Four Moods (Hsi nou ai le) is a 1970 Taiwanese portmanteau ghost-story film with segments by Pai Ching-jui, King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Li Han-hsiang, made unpaid to save Li's studio and restored by the Taiwan Film Institute.
Four More Shots Please!
Four More Shots Please! is an Indian Prime Video comedy-drama (2019–2025, four seasons) created by Rangita Pritish Nandy, starring Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, and Bani J as four women in Mumbai; Emmy-nominated, originally planned as a film.
Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit catvāri āryasatyāni; Pali cattāri ariyasaccāni) are the four propositions opening the Buddha's first sermon: suffering, its arising, its cessation, and the path to cessation.
Four of a kind
Four of a kind (quads): four cards of the same rank, the second-highest poker hand below a straight flush; 624 five-card hands, 1 in 4,165. Also a 1950s American vying card game by William Moore with a high-low split pot.
Four Olds
Four Olds (sijiu): old customs, culture, habits, and ideas attacked by Red Guards from August 1966 in the Attack on the Four Olds, launching Cultural Revolution destruction, house searches, and salvage of relics.
Four on the floor (music)
Four on the floor is a rhythm pattern with the bass drum on every beat of a 4/4 measure, the foundation of disco and electronic dance music.
Four Pests campaign
Four Pests campaign (除四害), Mao Zedong's 1958 Great Leap Forward hygiene drive to exterminate rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows; about 2 billion sparrows died, and their 1960 removal from the list followed crop-pest outbreaks linked to nearly two million famine deaths.
Four Plum Blossoms
Four Plum Blossoms (Simei tu, 四梅圖) is a 1165 Southern Song ink handscroll of plum blossoms by Yang Wujiu, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Four Policemen
Four Policemen: Roosevelt's WWII concept that the US, UK, USSR, and China would enforce postwar peace by blockade and air strike, later institutionalized as the UN Security Council P5 with France added in 1945.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets is T. S. Eliot's final cycle of four long poems, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, individually published 1936–1942 and collected in 1943, written in five-movement sonata form with a Beethoven string-quartet analogy.
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia
Four Rhymes of Nostalgia (乡愁四韵) is a 1974 poem in four stanzas by Taiwanese poet Yu Kwang-chung, the most often set to music of his works.
Four Rivers Partners
Four Rivers Partners, also known as Four Rivers Group, is a San Francisco-based technology venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Farouk Ladha, managing seed, expansion-stage, and secondary funds.
Four Rooms
Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology comedy, also called 4 Rooms, directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, starring Tim Roth as bellhop Ted in four New Year's Eve hotel segments, released December 25, 1995 by Miramax.
Four Seasons Centre
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is Canada's first purpose-built opera house, opened in Toronto in June 2006. Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, its 2,071-seat R. Fraser Elliott Hall houses the Canadian Opera Company and hosts the National Ballet of Canada.