However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

Furthermore, in chemistry, four types of mathematical description can be distinguished: mass concentration, molar concentration, number concentration, and volume concentration.

Different state constitutions ( fundamental laws ) establish different political systems, but four major types of heads of state can be distinguished:

These four categories are distinguished by investment style and each have their own risk and return characteristics.

Aquinas distinguished four kinds of law: eternal, natural, human and divine.

The four forms commonly distinguished by the inhabitants of South America are recognized as distinct species, though with difficulties in defining their distinctive characteristics.

Those four bonds can have any of two configurations in space distinguished by their handedness.

In the absence of soft tissues, such as the pouch and reproductive system, fossil marsupials can be distinguished from placentals by the form of their teeth ; primitive marsupials possess four pairs of molar teeth in each jaw, whereas placental mammals never have more than three pairs.

Consistently in the four Gospels, Mary Magdalene seems to be distinguished from other women named Mary by adding " Magdalene " ( η Μαγδαληνή ) to her name.

In the " traditional approach ", five developmental components of a project can be distinguished ( four stages plus control ): Typical development phases of an engineering project

There are four major classes, termed A, B, C and D, distinguished by the type of reaction which they catalyze:

Zeno distinguished four negative emotions: desire, fear, pleasure and pain ( epithumia, phobos, hêdonê, lupê ), and he was probably responsible for distinguishing the three corresponding positive emotions: will, caution, and joy ( boulêsis, eulabeia, chara ), with no corresponding rational equivalent for pain.

Aristotle distinguished between four causes, or four explanations, that each answer the question " why?

They are easily distinguished from African Dwarf Frogs because African Clawed Frogs have webbing only on their hind feet while African Dwarf Frogs have webbing on all four feet.

Excluding the criteria of medium, Aristotle's system distinguished four types of classical genres: tragedy, epic, comedy, and parody.

Excluding the criteria of medium, Aristotle's system distinguished four types of classical genres: tragedy ( superior-dramatic dialogue ), epic ( superior-mixed narrative ), comedy ( inferior-dramatic dialogue ), and parody ( inferior-mixed narrative ).

Ch ' i Chung-fu, a Chinese gynecologist writing early in the thirteenth century, for example, wrote that in addition to five sorts of falling frenzy classified according to their causative factors, there were also four types of other frenzies distinguished by the sounds and movements given off by the victim during his seizure: cow, horse, pig, and dog frenzies.

According to their external history, four types of creoles have been distinguished: plantation creoles, fort creoles, maroon creoles, and creolized pidgins.

The four regiments were distinguished by the colours ( red, blue, white and yellow ) of the " tombeaus " or false pockets on the front of their open fronted jackets

The German sociologist Max Weber proposed an interpretation of social action that distinguished between four different idealized types of rationality.

However, minivans are usually distinguished by their smaller size and traditionally front wheel drive powertrain, although many now are being equipped with four wheel drive.

There are four ways in which a racemate can crystallize, three of which H. W. B. Roozeboom had distinguished by 1899:

Berthold was the oldest of four brothers ( the second being Berthold's twin Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ) born into an old and distinguished aristocratic South German Catholic family.

Spiny lobsters can be easily distinguished from true lobsters by their very long, thick, spiny antennae, by the lack of chelae ( claws ) on the first four pairs of walking legs, although the females of most species have a small claw on the fifth pair, and by a particularly specialized larval phase called phyllosoma.

* Beatles Songs ( 1966 ) ( satirical arrangements of four Beatles songs ) for female voice and piano

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

* July 29 – July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet ( his release is granted in mid-November ).

Inspired by The Goon Show, “ the four or five crazy guys ” of the Firesign Theatre built a large following with their satirical plays on recordings exploring the dramatic possibilities inherent in stereo.

Harris has appeared on the BBC satirical panel game Have I Got News for You in episode three of the first series in 1990, and in episode four of the second series a year later.

He also collaborated with his brother, Harry Medved, on four satirical books about movies: The Fifty Worst Films of All Time ( 1979 ), The Golden Turkey Awards ( 1980 ), The Hollywood Hall of Shame ( 1984 ) and Son of Golden Turkey Awards ( 1986 ).

The tickets for the show were advertised solely in the satirical magazine Private Eye and were sold out within four days.

Comedy Central hosted a satirical television series called Straight Plan for the Gay Man, which featured four heterosexual men teaching gay men how to be more ( stereotypically ) straight, redecorating their homes with neon beer signs and teaching them about sports.

Since Red Dwarf, Grant has written two television series, The Strangerers and Dark Ages, and four solo novels, his most recent being Fat, a satirical look at how obesity is looked upon by society and the media.

The Little Antiformalistic Paradise (, sometimes translated literally as " Antiformalist Rayok "), without opus number, also known as simply Rayok ( see " rayok "), The Peep-show, Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual ) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich.

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a book about postwar Germany, five plays, hundreds of poems and satirical verses, several essays of note and a large amount of journalism.

He also fronted the satirical news comedy series Newstopia on SBS, hosted the game show Talkin ' ' Bout Your Generation on Network Ten for four seasons, and now writes and hosts Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell on the ABC.

The Blacker Lotus was a satirical card in the parody Unglued set which produced four mana, although it required the user to physically tear the card up after use.

He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

A standard elimination rubric might run 8-4-2, with eight poets in the first round, four in the second, and two in the last.

As of 2011, four poets who have competed at National Poetry Slam have won National Endowment of the Arts ( NEA ) Fellowships for Literature:

Michel de Montaigne, in one of his Essays, On Books, lists Lucretius along with Virgil, Horace, and Catullus as his four top poets.

* Under the imperial order of Emperor Daigo, four poets are selected to compile the Kokin Wakashū, an anthology of poetry.

In 2011, Goldberg was announced as one of four great Israeli poets who would appear on Israel's currency ( together with Rachel Bluwstein, Shaul Tchernichovsky, and Natan Alterman ).

As a member of the Julian family, he could claim to have four major Olympian gods in his family tree: ( Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Mars ), so he encouraged his many poets to emphasize his supposed descent from Aeneas.

During the four hundredth anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used Columbus Day rituals to teach ideals of patriotism.

The poetic imagee of the decade was dominated by four poets ; W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis and Louis MacNeice, although the last of these belongs at least as much to the history of Irish poetry.

These last four poets represent a trend towards regionalism and poets writing about their native areas ; Watkins and Thomas in Wales, Nicholson in Cumberland and MacCaig in Scotland.

Of the many poets in this book, Hicks was one of only four that de la Bere was unable to trace and contact.

Major examples of poetry surviving from this dynamic era include the works of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the poems of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, the Midnight Songs poetry of the four seasons, the great " fields and garden " poet " Tao Yuanming ", the Yongming epoch poets, and the poems collected in the anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace, compiled by Xu Ling ( 507-83 ).

Among the more noteworthy episodes in the history of the Hôtel de Rambouillet are the literary quarrel between the Uranistes and the Jobelins-respective partisans of two famous sonnets, the Sonnet d ' Uranie, by Vincent Voiture, and the Sonnet de Job, by Isaac de Benserade-and the composition by almost all the great poets of the day of the Guirlande de Julie, a collection of forty-one madrigals, each on the theme of a flower, offered in 1641 to Julie d ' Angennes by Charles de Sainte Maure, who had been wooing her for ten years when he conceived the idea of the handsome manuscript, but whom she kept waiting four more years.

Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi ' Nirala ', Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are the four major Chhayavaadi poets.

The four representative poets of this era represent the best in Hindi Poetry.

The compilers of the anthology were four court poets, led by Ki no Tsurayuki and also including Ki no Tomonori ( who died before its completion ), Ōshikōchi Mitsune, and Mibu no Tadamine.

In 905, under the order of Emperor Daigo, he was one of four poets selected to compile the Kokin Wakashū, the first imperially-sponsored anthology ( chokusen-shū ) of waka poetry.

Richards removed authorial and contextual information from thirteen poems, including one by Longfellow and four by decidedly marginal poets.

Raney pointed out to the detractors that, “ MacLeish was a lawyer like Putnam ... he was equally at home in the arts as one of the four leading American poets now alive ... and while it was true that he had not attended a professional school of library science, neither had thirty-four of thirty-seven persons presently occupying executive positions at the Library of Congress .” The main Republican arguments against MacLeish ’ s nomination from within Congress was: that he was a poet and was a “ fellow traveler ” or sympathetic to communist causes.

Cynewulf is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by name, and one of four whose work survives today.

Mahadevi is considered to be one of the four major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of the Hindi literature, others being Suryakant Tripathi ' Nirala ', Jaishankar Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant.

However, most of the poems on which the original version of LGE was based were written by the following four poets:

Some are commemorated in groups, such as the joint memorial for the Brontë sisters ( commissioned in 1939, but not unveiled until 1947 due to the war ), the sixteen World War I poets inscribed on a stone floor slab and unveiled in 1985, and the four founders of the Royal Ballet, commemorated together in 2009.

In Languedoc four poets have been cited as the best of the age Goudelin, Michel, LeSage and Bonnet.