The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.

Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.

Four Typhoon aircraft provide air defence for the islands and surrounding territories and have a secondary ground attack role.

Four of the islands are shared with other nations: Borneo is shared with Malaysia and Brunei, Sebatik, located eastern coast of Kalimantan, shared with Malaysia, Timor is shared with East Timor, and the newly divided provinces of Papua and West Papua share the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea.

Four referendums on either integration with Guam or the islands ' status were held in 1958, 1961, 1963 and 1969.

Four senators are elected for each province, with the exception of the insular provinces, in which the number of senator varies: 3 senators are elected for each of the three major islands — Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife — and one senator for Ibiza-Formentera, Menorca, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma.

Four main channels flow through several islands and islets at the mouth of the Vouga, Antuã, Boco, and Fontão Rivers.

Four of its five towns ( North Hero, South Hero, Grand Isle and Isle La Motte ) are situated entirely on islands in Lake Champlain, while Alburgh is on a peninsula ( known as the Alburgh Tongue ) extending south into the lake from Quebec.

During the last few years, small groups of birds have been found in the northern coastal areas the Danube Delta, frequenting low-lying islands, bays and sand-spits covered with Common Glasswort Salicornia europaea [...] Four birds were present from 25th July to 21st August 2003, six were seen on 11th August 2004, and another on 12th August 2004.

* 23 June 2005 – Four Spanish fishing boats were captured 28 nm south from the islands, in the Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone.

Four of these species have distributions that include various islands in the West Indies such as Puerto Rico or Trinidad.

Four of the former districts ( including Tarawa ) lie in the Gilbert Islands, where most of the islands ' population lives.

Image: Four Seasons Hotel Miami east pool deck. jpg | East side of pool deck with miniature palm islands

The " Islands of Four Mountains " name, the geographic group name for Cleveland and its neighbors, was given to the islands by Russian cartographers in the 19th century.

The spaceflight which grants the Fantastic Four their powers ends with them crash-landing on Mole Man's monster-inhabited islands.

Four chiefs reign over the islands of Tikopia and Anuta, still holding court in their huts.

Four geographical areas in the Mediterranean, apart from the Balearic islands, have close links to sobrassada for different reasons:

Four species of native doves and pigeons are also recorded in all the islands of Samoa.

Four small artificial islands containing oil wells are scattered around the bay near Long Beach.

Four days later on May 15, 1956, Cloma issued and posted copies of his “ Notice to the Whole World ” on each of the islands as a decisive manifestation of unwavering claim over the territory.

Four pieces are used.

Four washing test procedures are established, varying in severity from very severe to very mild, and are intended to cover the range of practical washing from commercial procedure to hand washing.

Four parties are given a year.

Four allotropes of antimony are known, a stable metallic form and three metastable forms, explosive, black and yellow.

* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

Four of the Darwin's finches | 14 finch species found on the Galápagos Islands | Galápagos Archipelago, are thought to have evolved by an adaptive radiation that diversified their beak shapes to adapt them to different food sources.

Four constellations are associated with the myth.

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.

Four rings of gold are to be attached to its four feet — two on each side — and through these rings staves of shittim-wood overlaid with gold for carrying the Ark are to be inserted ; and these are not to be removed.

Four points are marked and labeled with their coordinates: ( 2, 3 ) in green, (− 3, 1 ) in red, (− 1. 5 ,− 2. 5 ) in blue, and the origin ( 0, 0 ) in purple.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

Four string alto balalaikas are also encountered and are used in the orchestra of the Piatnistky Folk Choir.

Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.

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 of the characters in " Think Blue, Count Two " are called " Thirteen " in different languages: Tiga-belas ( both in Indonesian and Malay ), Trece ( Spanish ), Talatashar ( based on an Arabic dialect form < big > ثلاث عشر </ big >, thalāth ʿashar ) and Sh ' san ( based on Mandarin 十三, shísān, where the " í " is never pronounced ).

Four points are marked and labeled with their coordinates: ( 2, 3 ) in green, (− 3, 1 ) in red, (− 1. 5, − 2. 5 ) in blue, and the origin ( 0, 0 ) in purple.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

Four characteristics, known informally as the four Cs, are now commonly used as the basic descriptors of diamonds: these are carat, cut, color, and clarity.

Four of Brubeck's six children are professional musicians.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Four hands were stretched toward me by my comrades behind me.

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

Four ecclesiastical questions were presented by the General Court to Gorton: `` 1.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

Four hundred million dollars of the increase is for the expanded space program, a responsibility similarly neglected by Mr. Eisenhower.

Four of us here in the United States attended, first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these schools, in England, Canada, and the United States.

`` Four cuts at least '', he chuckled to himself, `` and I owe it all to them ''.

-- name William Foster's Four Internal Contradictions in Capitalism.

Four men were knocked down, but did not attempt to rise.

Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

Four hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles.

Four subjects ( 10% ) did not change even then but needed the additional information that an arm-elevation under these circumstances was a perfectly normal reflex reaction which some people showed while others did not.

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The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Four additional deputies be employed at the Fulton County Jail and `` a doctor, medical intern or extern be employed for night and weekend duty at the jail ''.

Four years later he resigned to take a similar job with the Green Bay Packers.

Four persons died in Georgia weekend traffic crashes, two of them in a fiery crash near Snellville, the State Patrol said Sunday.

The Cumbancheros, Latin combo, open Tuesday at the Four O'Clock Club.

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.