For example, in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, The Dream of the Red Chamber ( believed to be a semi-autobiographical account of author Cao Xueqin's own family life ), three generations of the Jia family are supported by one favorite concubine of the Emperor.

Four generations earlier, the sword belonged to Bellomarius, " the greatest of all the dragon-slayers " in the Middle Kingdom.

Four generations of List of Danish Monarchs | Danish kings in 1903: Christian IX of Denmark | King Christian IX ( left ), Christian X of Denmark | Christian ( X ) ( back ), Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick ( VIII ) ( right ), and Frederick IX of Denmark | Frederick ( IX ) ( front ).

For the Swedish Greens ( Miljöpartiet de Gröna ), in the 1980s they were called the Four Solidarities: " Solidarity with the ecological systems ", " Solidarity with the people throughout the world ", " Solidarity with future generations ", and " Solidarity with the underprivileged people in our own country ".

Four generations of blood glucose meter, c. 1993 – 2005.

* Four generations of the Marshal family, from Isabel de Clare's parents through William fitzWilliam's fictitious bastard son, are the subjects of a series of four historical romances by Mary Pershall.

Four generations of the family's artifacts are contained within the museum, located at 33 South Street in Auburn.

Hugh Owen Thomas ( and the bonesetters of Anglesey ): Four generations of bonesetters and founder of

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

Four main processes are responsible for the development of the nervous system: cell proliferation, the process in which nerve cells divide to form new generations of cells ; cell migration, the process in which nerve cells move from their place of origin to the place where they will remain for life ; cell differentiation, the process during which cells acquire individual characteristics ; and cell death, a natural process in which cells die.

Four distinct generations of the Camaro were developed before production ended in 2002.

Four generations Princes of Orange-William I, Maurice and Frederick Henry, William II, William III ( Willem van Honthorst, 1662 )

Four or five generations of descendants of one man, related through male forebears, constituted a patrilineage.

She is famed as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China and her story as a ‘ political bride ’ has handed down to generations.

Four generations of the family resided there until the Japanese army massacred the tribe and banished the survivors in 1914.

Four generations of Purdys farmed the land until the NCC expropriated the farm for the Greenbelt.

Four generations of mothers and daughters, 1931.

Four generations of the Acura TL have been produced to date, with the latest fourth generation TL premiering in 2008 as a 2009 model.

( Four generations of Becquerels held this chairmanship, from 1838 to 1948.

* Four generations of Kineños: 1854-1980

Four generations of Richard's family have lived in the Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, Louisiana, located within the area known as " Cancer Alley ".

Four generations of U. S. electro-optical reconnaissance have been identified:

Four generations of the GS have been produced since 1993, each available with six-cylinder engines and rear-wheel drive.

Four generations of rocks: gneiss, amfibolite, and grey and pink granite are present on Isispynten, a headland east of Austfonna.

Four years after the publication of The History Of England, the first volume of Trevelyan's Queen Anne trilogy appeared.

Four days after his birth, Apollo killed the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring.

Four months after the court victory, the common ingredients of ayahuasca as well as harmala were declared stupéfiants, or narcotic schedule I substances, making the tea and its ingredients illegal to use or possess.

" The Four Books on Human Proportion " were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528 at the age of fifty-six.

Four months after the death of Mihdí the family moved from the prison to the House of ` Abbúd.

Soon after this he decided, as all successful people must decide at some time or another, to be his own boss again-and he has been that ever since .’ these notes fail to account for his early band, known as the Four Aces of Western Swing.

Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

The occupation and reconstruction of Germany by the Four Powers in the period immediately after the end of World War II brought a major and long-lasting change to the economic conditions under which the industry in Germany had previously operated.

The United States Department of the Treasury toured Rockwell ’ s Four Freedoms paintings around the country after their publication in 1943.

* Four little Fantasy pieces after Hungarian national melodies, for cello with piano accompaniment ; comp.

Four months after publishing his first article in Marc ’ Aurelio, the highly influential biweekly humour magazine, he joined the editorial board, achieving success with a regular column titled Will You Listen to What I Have to Say?

Four years later, after the 1998 World Cup, Hagi decided to retire from the national team, only to change his mind after a few months and play at the 2000 European Football Championship, during which he was sent off in the quarter-final loss against Italy.

* 68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

* 2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system.

The album remained officially untitled and is most commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, though it is variously referred to as Untitled, IV, or after the four symbols appearing on the record label, as Four Symbols, Zoso or Runes.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

In 1981 McLaren merged with Ron Dennis ' Project Four Racing ; Dennis took over as team principal and shortly after organised a buyout of the original McLaren shareholders to take full control of the team.

The heat wave coincided with that year's Four Day Marches, which were cancelled after the first day, when two people died of hyperthermia-related causes.

* 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.

Four years after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government, through military incursions, officially annexed the kingdom and renamed it Ryukyu han.

* 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

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.