Four of the metro's major public school systems, representing 54 % of area enrollment, are included in Expansion Management magazine's latest annual education quality ratings of nearly 2, 800 school districts nationwide.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts ' calendars between 1925 and 1976 ( Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America ), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the " Four Seasons " illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964.

McDevitt went to La Salle University, where a short story of his won the annual Freshman Short Story Contest and was published in the school's literary magazine, Four Quarters.

The Yachats event is the summer festival for Four Seasons Arts, an organization that presents annual recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center.

* December 31 – The fifth annual New Year's Rockin ' Eve special airs on ABC, with performances by Donna Summer, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Four Seasons, and KC and the Sunshine Band.

* December 31 – The tenth annual New Year's Rockin ' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Four Tops, Rick Springfield, Barry Manilow, Alabama and Rick James.

* December 31 – The seventeenth annual New Year's Rockin ' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Natalie Cole, Taylor Dayne, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Richard Marx, Reba McEntire and Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons.

Four major Golden Gloves annual tournaments that have taken place include:

His wildness was in full flower during the drunken orgies of the annual Four Arts Balls ( Bal des Quatz ' Arts ).

Another by-product of Tiswas increased audience was the merchandise bandwagon-an annual book was established, and there was a tour of universities ( recognising their adult and teenaged audience ) by the Tiswas team, under the name of The Four Bucketeers, which tied in with their spin-off album on CBS Records.

This event is considered the most prestigious of the ISU Championships ( the three other annual figure skating competitions designated " ISU Championships " are the European Championships, the Four Continents Championships, and the World Junior Championships ).

Four criminally-inclined crows named Ruffles, Burt, Junior and the Unmasked Brother ( according to a comic in a Count Duckula annual ).

BBC Four has an annual budget of £ 54. 3 million.

BBC Four further supports foreign language films with its annual World Cinema Award which has been running since 2004.

Quicksilver features with the Inhumans and Fantastic Four against the villain the Sphinx in a Fantastic Four annual, and the siblings ' origin is explored in the title Avengers when gypsy Django Maximoff kidnaps Pietro and Wanda and returns to Mount Wundagore in the country of Transia, where they were born.

In 1988, February 3 was established by a unanimous act of Congress as an annual " Four Chaplains Day.

In some cases, official proclamations establish observances at other times: for example, North Dakota legislation requests that the Governor issue an annual proclamation establishing the first Sunday in February as " Four Chaplains Sunday.

Four days later, at the 23rd annual meeting of Manningham FC, the committee decided to change code from rugby league to association football.

The National Famine Commemoration Committee has agreed that the centerpiece of the new memorial day should rotate between the Four Provinces on an annual basis.

Four years later, Thornton landed the plum role in the Lady Mayoress of Brisbane Social and Welfare Committee annual pantomime Christmas In Storyland in the role of Little Red Riding Hood, once again written by Jill Morris and directed by Joan Whalley.

* Andy Hui 許志安, b. 1967, Hong Kong singer, actor, quarter of Big Four and 1st runner up of the 5th annual New Talent Singing Awards

The facility also hosts special events such as the annual Alamo Bowl football game, NCAA basketball and volleyball tournament games, and the men's and women's basketball Final Four ( men's 1998, 2004, 2008 ; women's 2002, 2010 ).

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4 ; books 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman.

Baptismal records, parish records, ancient land grants, the Annals of the Four Masters, and books by O ' Hart, McLysaght, and O ' Brien were all used in researching the history of the Mooney family name.

Four of his books, The Long Banana Skin ( 1975 ), The Door Marked Summer ( 1981 ), Doors to the Mind and The Reluctant Jester ( 1992 ) are autobiographical.

The third is the astrological treatise known sometimes in Greek as the Apotelesmatika ( Ἀποτελεσματικά ), more commonly in Greek as the Tetrabiblos ( Τετράβιβλος " Four books "), and in Latin as the Quadripartitum ( or four books ) in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.

Four days after its introduction, the Stationers ' held an emergency meeting to agree to petition the Commons-this was because the bill did not contain any reference to books as property, eliminating their monopoly on copying.

The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of them.

Essayist and poet Eric Blair adopted the pseudonym George Orwell for most of his books, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.

* Four Play This is a collection of Irvine Welsh's books that have been adapted for the stage.

However, until he was 10, the only books that he was exposed to were ' the Gospels and the Four Aymon Brothers ', and some local almanacs.

Dell Comics published several Daffy Duck comic books, beginning in Four Color Comics # 457, # 536, and # 615 and then continuing as Daffy # 4-17 ( 1956 – 59 ), then as Daffy Duck # 18-30 ( 1959 – 62 ).

He had a hand in translating or editing a number of books in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, including a translation of Mir Amman's Urdu Bagh o Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes, ( which is itself a translation from the Persian of Amir Khusro ), and of the Persian Adventures of Hatim Tai.

Joseph Fitzmyer noted the following regarding the findings at Qumran Cave Four in particular ; " Such ancient recensional forms of Old Testament books bear witness to an unsuspected textual diversity that once existed ; these texts merit far greater study and attention than they have been accorded till now.

In England he may have met Henry Owen whose seminal work Observations on the Four Gospels ( 1764 ) is listed among the books of Griesbach's estate, although he does not seem to have acknowledged any indebtedness to Owen.

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Four series of books expand the Little House series to include five generations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's family.

De Smet, South Dakota attracts many fans with its historic sites from the books By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years.

In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945 ( studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes ), books on London and works on Baudelaire ( 1929 ), Byron ( 1934 – 35 ), Pope ( 1949 ), Ruskin ( 1949 ), Hogarth ( 1955 ), Shakespeare ( 1963 ), Proust ( 1971 ) and Dr Johnson ( 1972 ).

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