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 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 islands are inhabited:,,, and.

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.

* Focus Four: A shared perspective of the role of the individual and the organization's culture which contribute to innovation.

It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to this area being called the Four Corners region.

Four trolley lines-the Groton and Stonington Street Railway, Norwich and Westerly Railway, Pawtucket Valley Street Railway, and the Ashaway and Westerly Railway, converged in Westerly and shared trackage between the railroad station and Dixon House Square downtown.

Four companies from four countries shared the original ownership of Cayman Islands-registered Sea Launch.

Some time later, Arkon traveled to Earth to employ the Avengers West Coast and Fantastic Four as pawns in his war with rival otherworldly monarch Thundra, until he made peace with Thundra after realizing they shared a strong mutual attraction.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Big Four Railroad shared a crowded lakefront Union Station.

* Four Hills Tournament – Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda are joint winners, the first time in the tournament's 54-year history that it has been shared

The American millionaire philanthropist James Hazen Hyde, who inherited a majority share in Equitable Life Assurance Society, formed a collection of allegorical prints illustrating the Four Continents that are now at the New-York Historical Society ; Hyde's drawings and a supporting collection of sets of porcelain table ornaments and other decorative arts illustrating the Four Continents were shared by various New York City museums.

He shared his American television debut with Wells & the Four Fays doing their unique brand of " acrobatic physical comedy.

It shared that car's 2. 5 L " Big Four " engine as well as the mechanical updates from the RME.

For the time they shared a home with the Fantastic Four, Cassie helped Kristoff adjust to life outside of Doom's castle, and she developed something of a crush on the boy.

They have shared the stage with other performers such as The Jacksons, Lionel Richie, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Spinners, Earth, Wind & Fire, New Edition, The Stylistics, Mick Jagger and others.

They have shared bills with a wide variety of artists, from Sonic Youth, to Mission of Burma, to Hair Police, Six Organs of Admittance, to Sunn O ))), to Four Tet with whom they have collaborated on two LPs.