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Four and five
Four, or perhaps five men were chiefly concerned in the labour – the Earl of Balfour, the late Sir Mark Sykes, and Messrs. Weizmann and Sokolow, with perhaps Lord Rothschild as a figure in the background.
In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.
Four out of five houses constructed under Labour were council properties built to more generous specifications than before the Second World War, and subsidies kept down council rents.
Four teams receive a bye week on the first round, with the top five teams being seeded.
The Anapanasati Sutta and Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta each affirm that a person first needs to practice meditation ( jnana ) to purify the mind of the five hindrances to insight before contemplating the Four Noble Truths, which begin with the nature of " dukkha " in life.
Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
: The heart of the Buddha's teaching lies in the Four Noble Truths ( Cattāri Ariyasaccāni ) which he expounded in his very first sermon to his old colleagues, the five ascetics, at Isipatana ( modern Sarnath ) near Benares.
When the NCAA Headquarters relocated to Indianapolis, it was stated that Indianapolis would then host the men's Final Four once every five years.
Four of the province's five universities, all four of its professional sports teams, and most of its cultural activities are located in Winnipeg.
Four of the five Marshallese presidents who have been elected since the Constitution was adopted in 1979 have been traditional paramount chiefs.
Four level systems are less widespread, and five level systems are rare.
Four or five kinds are usually put in the mold, though three sorts will do.
Four of the five cards in each hand are face-up.
Four of France's five republics have had presidents as their heads of state, making the French presidency the oldest presidency in Europe still to exist in some form.
** U. S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound five ; they were apprehended by security guards.
Four years later, he entered a monastery where he became a student of Konrad Pelikan for five years.
Four died and five were injured, some seriously.
Four ( or five ) species occur in the Northern Hemisphere, one species is found in Australia and New Zealand and one species is distributed in southern South America.
Lee, who had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG's and Lee's American Four.
Four Māori died and three were wounded in the incident, while among the Europeans the toll was 22 dead and five wounded.
# Four Afrinagans " blessings ," each recited on a particular occasion: the first in honor of the dead, the second on the five epagomenal days that end the year, the third is recited at the six seasonal feasts, and the fourth at the beginning and end of summer.
Most of these pieces have been collected in King's five short story collections: Night Shift ( 1978 ), Skeleton Crew ( 1985 ), Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 1993 ), Everything's Eventual ( 2002 ), and Just After Sunset ( 2008 ); and in King's four novella collections: Different Seasons ( 1982 ), Four Past Midnight ( 1990 ), Hearts in Atlantis ( 1999 ), and Full Dark, No Stars ( 2010 ).
Four of the five boroughs became county towns — of the counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Four American Silver Eagle coins, specially minted coins sold to collectors and investors which contain 31. 1035 grams of 99. 9 % pure silver, or five of the above-mentioned specially minted silver coins of Israel are commonly used for Pidyon Ha-Ben in the United States.

Four and cousins
Four of Buckingham's first and second cousins became King of England, and two of his second cousins became Queen consorts:
* Daughters of Rome * ( 2011 ) Kate Quinn, historical fiction novel based on the lives of Domitia and her 3 cousins during the Year of the Four Emperorers
The Bridgewater Four were Patrick Molloy, Jim Robinson and cousins Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey.
The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with Ric Flair, with Flair's storyline cousins Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager.
The dinsenchas story tells how each of the three cousins ruled for seven years in turn, and each ruled three seven-year stints ; the Annals of the Four Masters agrees, but Geoffrey Keating gives them each a single reign of twenty-one years each, except for Cimbáeth, who rules for twenty.
He, along with his cousins Par, Coll, and Wren, are charged by the Shade of the Druid Allanon with saving the Four Lands from the threat of the Shadowen.

Four and from
Why not make a beginning with a united and disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States??
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 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.
Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.
Four years later, plans drawn up by Chris Bryant were revealed which would end the exclusion of Catholics from the throne and end the doctrine of agnatic ( male-preference ) primogeniture in favour of absolute primogeniture, which governs succession solely on birth order and not on sex .< ref >
Four other hits from the album made the Pop top 20: " Every Heartbeat " ( No. 2 ), " That's What Love Is For " ( No. 7 ), " Good For Me " ( No. 8 ), and " I Will Remember You " ( No. 20 ).
Four months after the death of Mihdí the family moved from the prison to the House of ` Abbúd.
Four False Propositions from his " Reference Guide.
Four additional SF. 260WPs were subsequently bought directly from Italy.
It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.
Newspapers of the period reported that the announcement of the new party came as a complete shock to MPs from all sides of the Commons, including members of the Manifesto Group, as the ' Gang of Four ' had kept their preparations a closely guarded secret.
Four witnesses stated Duddy was unarmed and running away from the paratroopers when he was killed.
Other examples included Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ), Clueless ( 1995 ) and You've Got Mail ( 1998 ) from the United States, and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ), Sliding Doors ( 1998 ) and Notting Hill ( 1999 ) from the United Kingdom.
Four, usually hard, is sometimes referred to as " little Joe from Kokomo.
Four main recensions of Tischendorf's text may be distinguished, dating respectively from his editions of 1841, 1849, 1859 ( ed.
Four United States Poet Laureates received their degrees from Columbia.
It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.
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.
Four years later, in 1934, new Central Committee departments were established which were independent from the Department for Personnel.
In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )
This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.
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.

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