** T. H. White quotes the final stanza of Poem XXVIII at the beginning of The Queen of Air and Darkness, part of his Once and Future King series.

** OSA-II with four SS-N-2 Styx missiles-6

** Shershen class torpedo boat with four 533mm heavyweight torpedo tubes 4 or 5

** quartic equation has degree four,

** EDIF Questions and answers, volume four, November 1989

**. hack ( video game series ), a four game series for the PlayStation 2

** Translation of Saint Thomas, one of four days in the year on which Quarter Sessions sat.

** 4 quad characters ; groups of four characters displayed in a row

** RPG-16: Reloadable RPG launcher, PG-16 with ~ 300 mm RHA penetration, higher accuracy and four times the range of the RPG-7

** Corner blocks or plate blocks – compose a block of stamps from one of the four corners of the stamp sheet.

** The terrestrial region, according to Aristotle, consisted of concentric spheres of the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire.

** The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109 – 107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two.

** Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

** Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** A U. S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging four nuclear bombs.

** CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, The Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** Shanda Sharer is tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls.

** Luttif Afif and four other Palestinian terrorists

** Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers ( France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union ) relinquish all remaining rights.

** In Northern Ireland, the four main political parties begins talks on restoring self-government.

** At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the future Grand Principality of Finland from Sweden.

** MGM's The Wizard of Oz receives its last of four December telecasts on CBS.

** Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas.

** A plumb line ( 7. 7-9 )

** Luxembourg — no voltage change at the border ( the line Arlon-Luxembourg is at 3 kV DC and the line Gouvy-Luxembourg is at 25 kV AC )

** The Game Boy Advance line, except for the Game Boy Micro, is backward compatible with all Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.

** if a player is penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for actions that occurred during a play ending in a touchdown by that team, but before the goal line was crossed, the touchdown will be nullified.

** – a vertical line below is used in Rheinische Dokumenta as a schwa mark

** WildStorm Signature ( 2004 – 2006 ; merged with main WildStorm line )

** a direct interaction occurs when one object is on a level exactly one higher or one lower than the other ( i. e., on a tree, the two objects have a line between them )

** 7bit – up to 998 octets per line of the code range 1 .. 127 with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

** 8bit – up to 998 octets per line with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

** Land line: ERMC ( cable system ).

** Togyaunggale – Okkphosu 13 · 6 New line to deep-sea port under construction near Thanlyin ( Syriam )

** Chaung-U – Tawkyaungyi 23 · 4 ) First parts of 406 · 3 km Chaung-U-Pakokku-Kalay line.

** Namsang – Moe-Ne 44 · 3 First isolated section of eastern extension of Thazi-Shwenyaung line

** Dawei – Yephu 17 · 2 Isolated section of 177 km Mawlamyine-Ye-Dawei line.

** Ye – Kaloggyi 4 · 4 Extension of line from Mawlamyine towards Dawei

** Pyay – Myade / Aunglan – Satthwa 145 · 4 Alternative route to Bagan, but heavy grades, sharp curves and danger of washouts mean the line is only used by two trains / week

** Shwenyaung – Taunggyi 33 · 5 Connecting with the formerly isolated Banyin line.

** Number of fixed line connections: 1. 92 million ( 2000 )

** Jōban Line: Officially, the line begins at Nippori Station, although most trains start / terminate at Ueno Station

** Number of fixed line connections: 6, 800 ( 2004 )

** The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

** A song by Huey Lewis and the News called " Back in Time " features the line " Is this the ' 50s, or 1999?