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Four and biographies
Four biographies have been published: a book on his life and administration by Charles Verulam Williams which appeared soon after his death ; his grandson Spencer Walpole's biography in 1894 ; Philip Treherne's short biography in 1909 ; Denis Gray's 500-page political biography in 1963.
In his work on the biographies of artists, Arnold Houbraken quotes Gerard Brandt's biography of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, relating the anecdote where Willem van de Velde asked Admiral de Ruyter permission to have a galley row him around for a good view of the proceedings on the evening of the Four Days battle in 1666.

Four and about
Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.
A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.
Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away.
The Four Noble Truths deal with the nature of " dukkha " in life, what is the cause of " dukkha ", the cessation ( cure ) for " dukkha ", and the techniques to bring about the cessation of " dukkha ".
Four themes run through the many hypotheses about the evolution of the genetic code:
Four other librettists were then involved with the opera, as Puccini constantly changed his mind about the structure of the piece.
On 8 May 2012, he appeared on the Radio Four series " The Life Scientific ", talking to Jim al-Khalili about the Gaia hypothesis.
In Mitchell's teenage years, she is known to have written a 400-page novel about girls in a boarding school, The Big Four.
* Four of a Kind ( TV series ), an American television program about quadruplets
Similarly, by studying inanimate objects, Holmes can make astonishingly detailed deductions about their owners, including Watson's pocket-watch in " The Sign of the Four " and a hat, a pipe, and a walking stick in other stories.
However, Samuels and Codd observed that the information published in the Four Corners program was ' skewed towards the false ', that ' the level of factual accuracy about operational matters was not high ', and, quoting an aphorism, that ' what was disturbing was not true and what was true was not disturbing '.
However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character ( which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon ) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman.
Four days later, The Economist alluded to the quote, and published an article about Indonesia referring to the " crossroads ".
While Clapton was shy about singing, he occasionally harmonised with Bruce and, in time, took lead vocals on some Cream tunes including " Four Until Late ", " Strange Brew ", " World of Pain ", " Outside Woman Blues ", " Anyone for Tennis ", " Crossroads ", and " Badge ".
On 21 February 2011, ABC Four Corners revealed that significant concerns were being expressed about depletion and chemical damage to the Great Artesian Basin as a result of coal seam gas extraction.
The Four Napoleons ( collage, about 1858 ).
In October 2003, Alchemists of Sound, an hour-long television documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop, was broadcast on BBC Four.
A BBC TV biography about Frankie Howerd — Rather You Than Me — was broadcast by BBC Four on 9 April 2008.
Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece.
Four novels about Llewelyn the Last:
Four radial gates by the riverbanks, also about 30 metres ( 100 ft ) wide, can be lowered.
Four solar panels, each 60 x 60 cm and containing 2200 solar cells in 22 100-cell nodules, extended from the sides of the spherical shell in a " paddle-wheel " configuration with a total span of about 2. 7 meters.
Four solar panels, each 60 × 60 cm ( 24 × 24 inches ) and containing 2200 solar cells in 22 100-cell nodules, extended from the sides of the spherical shell in a " paddle-wheel " configuration with a total span of about 2. 7 meters ( 105 in ).
Four solar panels, each 60 x 60 cm and containing 2200 solar cells in 22 100-cell nodules, extended from the sides of the spherical shell in a " paddle-wheel " configuration with a total span of about 2. 7 meters.
Four years later, on October 4, 1998, after the passing of a Constitutional Amendment that allowed for his reelection, Cardoso won the Presidency again, with approximately 53 % of the vote, while his closest challenger, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva ( Workers ' Party ), had about 32 %.

Four and President
They changed their name because President Lee Myung-bak was accused of conspiracy in, for example, the Four Rivers Project, and of both family and personal corruption.
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941.
President Roosevelt ’ s Four Freedoms speech inspired a set of four Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell.
* 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
" Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.
* 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
* 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
Four men of power, the Duke ( Duc de Blangis ), the Bishop, the Magistrate ( Curval ), and the President ( apparently Durcet ), agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual.
Four states ' electors voted for Clinton and one ( Kentucky ) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent John Adams as well as casting their votes for President Washington.
In 2007, President Chen proposed a policy of Four Wants and One Without, which in substance states that Taiwan wants independence ; Taiwan wants the rectification of its name ; Taiwan wants a new constitution ; Taiwan wants development ; and Taiwanese politics is without the question of left or right, but only the question of unification or independence.
Four registered opposition parties participated in the 18 October 2001, presidential election, which the incumbent, President Yahya Jammeh, won with almost 53 % of the votes.
Four months after the death of Roosevelt, President Truman ordered the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 88 days after the Soviet Union agreed to enter the Pacific War within 90 days.
Henry Hugh Shelton, Four Star General and Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Appointed by President Clinton President
Senior Vice President for Right Management ’ s Leadership Development Center of Excellence, has in his article Four Key Leadership
* Robert H. " Doc " Foglesong, former President of Mississippi State Univ ./ Retired Air Force Four Star General.
From the 1920s to the 1930s, the South Bend company had originated many style and engineering milestones, including the Light Four, Light Six, Special Six, Big Six models, the record-breaking Commander and President, followed by the 1939 Champion.
* While recovering from an assassination attempt, President Ronald Reagan reportedly said, " All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia ", which alluded to the site of the 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament's Final Four games held at the same time as Reagan's hospitalization.
Four years later, he was appointed Chairman by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he served as Chairman until 1946.
Four months later, Miller supervised, by order of President Lincoln, the mass execution of 38 Dakotas condemned for their part in the war.
Four important advisors of his caretaker cabinet resigned in December 2006, accusing the Chief Adviser of making the decision of Army deployment while ignoring the advisor council's recommendation against it. In this situation, President's Advisor Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury went to Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia and after successful negotiation he brought all parties to President for dialogue and finally they participated in polls on 26 December for 22 January 2007 election ..

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