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Foundation for New Era Philanthropy The Foundation for New Era Philanthropy was, at the time of its collapse, the biggest financial scandal in the history of American charities. By the time it collapsed in 1995, it had raised over $500 million from 1100 donors and stolen $135 million of this.
Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas The Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (Greek: Ίδρυμα Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας) is a research centre in Greece, supervised by the Hellenic Ministry of Development. It consists of seven Research Institutes, which are located in various regions of Greece: Heraklion, Rethymno, Patras and Ioannina.
Foundation for the Advancement of Art The Foundation for the Advancement of Art, founded by painter Michael Newberry, has as its stated purpose "to establish innovative representational painting and sculpture as the alternative to postmodern art in the world's leading contemporary art museums." The foundation hosts an annual lecture conference.
Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (FEASTA) is an Irish organisation which works to identify how a sustainable society would look and how it could be achieved, and to promote efforts in this direction. It was founded in Dublin in 1998.
Foundation for Thought and Ethics The Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE), based in Texas, USA, is an organization involved in promoting the concept of Intelligent Design and Christian values in public school classrooms. For this reason, they have come under fire for blurring the separation of church and state.
Foundation For Polish Science The Foundation For Polish Science ( Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej - FNP ) is an independent, non-profit making organisation. Established in 1991, the Foundation's mission is to provide assistance and support to the scientific community in Poland.
Foundation Hospitals Foundation Hospitals are a scheme created by the Labour Party and Prime Minister Tony Blair to improve the provision of healthcare in the UK. The program is designed to designate the best hospitals as Foundation Hospitals and grant them greater feedom, particularly with regard to their budgets.
Foundation Ice Stream Foundation Ice Stream () is a major ice stream in Antarctica's Pensacola Mountains. The ice stream drains northward for 150 miles along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Massif.
Foundation Imaging Foundation Imaging was a pioneering CGI Special Effects Studio, Computer Animation studio, and post-production editing facility. They are best known for their work on the first three seasons of Babylon 5, after which they were replaced by Netter Digital.
Foundation IRB The term "Foundation IRB" or "F-IRB" is an abbreviation of "Foundation Internal Rating Based Approach" and it refers to a set of credit risk measurement techniques proposed under Basel II capital adequacy rules for banking institutions.
Foundation of Ottoman Empire Foundation of the Ottoman Empire is one of the oldest sources regarding the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. Besides its artistic elegance as part of Turkish oral history, it illuminates via myth some of the conditions and ambitions in existence at the dawn of the Ottoman institution.
Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis, FOTIM, is the biggest academic association in South Africa. FOTIM consists of nine universities and universities of technology in the Gauteng, Limpopo Province and North West Province.
Foundation ontology In computer science, a foundation ontology or upper ontology is a hierarchy of entities and associated rules (both theorems and regulations) that attempts to describe those general entities that do not belong to a specific problem domain. See Upper ontology (computer science) for a more detailed description and examples.
Foundation school In England and Wales, a foundation school is a type of school which has a degree of independence from the local education authority. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to replace grant-maintained schools.
Foundation Stage The Foundation Stage is the government label for education for pupils aged 3 to 5 in England. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) published “Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage” in 2000, and is the document upon which all Foundation Stage provision is planned, and which outlines the expected learning for pupils of this age.
Foundation Stock Service Program The Foundation Stock Service (FSS) Program is a breed registry of the American Kennel Club in which breeders can record the birth and parentage of a rare breed they are working to establish in the United States. These dogs provide the foundation stock from which an AKC fully recognized breed might result.
Foundation University Foundation University is a Philippine educational institution in Dumaguete City in the province of Negros Oriental. It offers over 60 specialized higher education areas of study accredited with PAASCU, CHED, and PACUCOA.
Foundation University, Islamabad Foundation University, Islamabad, is a modern Pakistani university which was granted charter in 2002. It is a Federal State University with its headquarters in Islamabad, while its three institutions are located in Rawalpindi.
Foundation's Edge Foundation's Edge is a novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. It was written thirty years after the Foundation trilogy, in 1982, due to pressure by fans on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.
Foundation's Fear Foundation's Fear (1997) is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe. It is the first book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.
Foundational discipline A foundational discipline would be a discipline such that fundamental issues resolved in it have direct and indirect bearing on issues in other disciplines. These latter issues are assumed to be (primarily) methodological and secondary (see methodology); the solution of the "fundamental issues" themselves is supposed to be independent of the resolution of issues in those other disciplines.
Foundationalism Foundationalism is any theory in epistemology (typically, theories of justification, but also of knowledge) that holds that beliefs are justified (known, etc.) based on what are called basic beliefs (also commonly called foundational beliefs).
Foundations of Christianity Foundations of Christianity (German: Der Ursprung des Christentums) is a 1908 book by Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky. In it, he attempts to explain the origins of Christianity, and claims that it can be explained by historical materialism rather than divinity.
Foundations of mathematics Foundations of mathematics is a term sometimes used for certain fields of mathematics itself, namely for mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, proof theory, model theory, and recursion theory. The search for foundations of mathematics is however also a central question of the philosophy of mathematics: On what ultimate basis can mathematical statements be called true?
Foundations of Natural Right Foundations of Natural Right is a philosophical text by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte and it was first published in 1797. The book is one of Fichte's most important one of his broadest books in terms of subjects covered.
Foundations of Physics Foundations of Physics is the most prestigious journal in physics on the subject of foundational problems facing modern physics. It publishes only a handful of papers each month from prominent physicists, in contrast to the American Physical Society’s Physical Review series of publications that often contain tens of papers in every edition.
Founder effect The founder effect was defined by Ernst Mayr in 1963 to be the effect of establishing a new population by a small number of individuals, carrying only a small fraction of the original population's genetic variation. As a result, the new population may be distinctively different, both genetically and phenotypically, from the parent population from which it is derived.
Founder's Day Founder's Day originated from a proclamation by the United States Continental Congress on October 11, 1782 in response to England's expected military defeat in the American Revolutionary War. The war did not formally end until Congress ratified The Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784.
Founders Bridge The Founders Bridge is one of the three highway bridges over the Connecticut River] in [[Hartford, Connecticut. The steel stringer bridge carries the Route 2 expressway, and also crosses over Interstate 91 (which runs parallel to the river).
Founders' Rock On the corner of Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road, in Berkeley, California, lies the Founders' Rock, the spot, according to college lore, where the 12 trustees of the College of California, the nascent University of California, Berkeley, stood on April 16, 1860, to dedicate the property they had just purchased. This is, supposedly, the same spot where Frederick Billings stood in 1866 when he remembered Bishop Berkeley's verse -- "Westerward the course of empire takes it way" -- and thus inspired the name of the new city.
Founding Clubs of the DFB The DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) was formed January 28, 1900 in Leipzig. The commonly accepted number of founding clubs represented at the inaugural meeting is 86, but this number is uncertain.
Founding Fathers Founding Fathers are persons instrumental in the establishment of an institution, usually a political institution, especially those connected to the origination of its ideals. The term is most often used in more reverential treatments of national history.
Founding Fathers of the United States Founding Fathers of the United States, also known to some Americans as the Fathers of Our Country, the Forefathers, Framers or the Founders, are the political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution, or otherwise participated in the American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.
Foundling Hospital The Foundling Hospital in London, England was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children.
Foundling Museum The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital and houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Art Collection. The Museum examines the work of its founder Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel.
Foundry model This article is about the business model for the factory in which integrated circuits are made, for info on the actual factory see foundry (electronics). For other uses of the term foundry see foundry (disambiguation).
Fount of honour The fount of honour (Latin: fons honorum) refers to a nation's head of state, who, by virtue of his or her official position, has the exclusive right of conferring legitimate titles of nobility and orders of chivalry to other persons.
Fountain code in computer science, fountain codes (also known as rateless erasure codes) are a class of erasure codes with the property that a potentially limitless sequence of encoding symbols can be generated from a given set of source symbols such that the original source symbols can be recovered from any subset of the encoding symbols of size equal to or only slightly larger than the number of source symbols.
Fountain drink A fountain drink is a soft drink, prepared locally from a supply of flavored sweetened syrup, carbon dioxide, and water, either manually (as American pharmacists of yore did), in a device called a soda fountain, or in a vending machine which is essentially an automated soda fountain that is operated using a soda gun. Today, the syrup often is pumped from a special container called a Bag-In-Box (BIB).
Fountain First Nation The Fountain First Nation, aka the Fountain Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the Central Interior-Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Lillooet Tribal Council, which is the largest grouping of band governments of the St'at'imc people (aka the Lillooet people).
Fountain Formation The Fountain Formation is a conglomerate sandstone, red or reddish-gray in color, that is found in various locations in the state of Colorado in the USA. Especially notable examples of this formation are the Flatirons, the Garden of the Gods, and Red Rocks.
Fountain Fresh International Fountain Fresh International is a now-defunct company that operated soft drink and water dispensers at retail locations. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fountain Fresh developed and marketed in-store, self-serve soft drink and pure drinking water beverage centers in the mid-1990s.
Fountain Gate Shopping Centre Fountain Gate Shopping Centre is a large regional shopping centre in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Built in the 1970s, it was purchased by The Westfield Group in the 1990s and redeveloped into a much larger complex.
Fountain Green, Illinois Fountain Green, Illinois, is located about eleven miles northeast of Carthage, Illinois in Hancock County, Illinois. What was once a prosperous farming community had been reduced to an automobile salvage yard by 2000, with grand 19th Century houses surrounded by wrecked automobiles.
Fountain Hills, Arizona Fountain Hills is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. It incorporated as an independent municipality in 1989, after spending most of its history as a master planned development on the far northern end of (now neighboring) Scottsdale.
Fountain House Fountain House is a professional self-help program, operated by men and women recovering from mental illness in collaboration with a professional staff. The program was first established in New York City in 1948, and there are now around 400 centers internationally.
Fountain L. Thompson Fountain Land Thompson (November 18, 1854 - February 4, 1942) was a United States Senator from North Dakota. Born near Scottsville, Illinois, he moved to Girard, Illinois in 1865; he attended the public schools in Girard and studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did not engage in extensive practice.
Fountain of Dreams (Kirby) The Fountain of Dreams, also known as the Dream Spring (according to Kirby's Adventure), the Spring of Dreams (according to the Japanese versions of the games, which also call it Yume no Izumi), and the Dream Fountain (according to Kirby's Avalanche), is a fictional fountain in the Kirby series of games created by Nintendo. It is the most sacred place in Popstar.
Fountain of Eternal Life The Fountain of Eternal Life, also known as the War Memorial Fountain or Peace Arising from the Flames of War is a statue and fountain in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by Cleveland Institute of Art graduate"Best Phallic Symbol", Cleveland Scene, 2002. Accessed October 9, 2006.
Fountain of Life Fountain of Life is a type of image found in illuminated manuscripts, first appearing in the 5th century, usually showing a fountain enclosed in a hexagonal structure capped by a rounded dome and supported by eight columns. The fountain is a Baptismal font (a water fountain in which one is baptised, and thus reborn with Christ), and is often surrounded by animals associated with Baptism such as the hart.
Fountain of Magical Brethren The Fountain of Magical Brethren was a fountain that could be found on the atrium floor of the Ministry of Magic until its destruction in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where Bellatrix Lestrange and Albus Dumbledore demolished it whilst sending a series of curses flying.
Fountain of Wealth The Fountain of Wealth (Chinese: 财富之泉), the largest fountain in the world, is located within the commercial complex of Suntec City in Singapore. The fountain structure is made of bronze, and consists of a circular ring with a circumference of 66 metres supported on four large slanted columns.
Fountain of Youth The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent stories associated with the state.
Fountain of Youth Stakes The Fountain of Youth Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Gulfstream Park at the beginning of March each year. A Grade II event open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt, it offers a purse of $300,000.
Fountain Trust The Fountain Trust was an ecumenical agency formed in the UK in 1964 to promote the charismatic renewal. The trust operated on the principle that it was the purpose of the Holy Spirit to "renew the historic churches".
Fountainbleu Plaza Fountainbleu Plaza is a tall, strictly residential, 28 story tall building located in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Considered one of the tallest buildings in Puerto Rico, it is better known for its change in facade in the last 7 floors.
Fountainhead Park Fountainhead Park is a park bordering a tributary of the Potomac River, which is open most of the year, except winter. It is dominated by rolling hills, dense forests, and a tributary that flows into the Potomac River.
Fountains Hall Fountains Hall is a country house near Ripon in North Yorkshire, England, close to the World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey. It belongs to the National Trust as part of its Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden property, and is a Grade I listed building.
Four (comics) The Four are a group of fictional comic book supervillains from the series Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. As with most characters in Planetary, they are analogues of previously created characters, in this case Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four from Marvel Comics.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (novel) Four & Twenty Blackbirds is a novel written by Cherie Priest, and is the first book of the Eden trilogy. Four & Twenty Blackbird's sequel is Wings To The Kingdom, due for release in October 2006, the third book in the series is to be called Not Flesh 'Nor Feathers and is due in 2007.
Four Aces The original Four Aces were the cargo liners Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, and Excambion, built for American Export Lines by New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey between 1929 and 1931. AEL placed the "Four Aces" in service between the US and the Mediterranean, offering cruises of up to 40 days.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is a book written by Jerry Mander presenting problems with the medium of television. It is somewhat unique in that it argues that many of the problems with television are inherent in the medium itself, and cannot be reformed.
Four Arts Gardens The Four Arts Gardens, also known as the Four Arts Library, Gardens and Philip Hulitar Sculpture Gardens, are nonprofit botanical gardens located at 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, Florida. Due to damages inflicted by hurricanes, the gardens are at present closed to the public.
Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar The Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar, otherwise known as siyi ([is a term used to describe four main requirements of the Chinese] scholar gentleman. They are qin ([zither), qi ([[wiktionary:棋|棋] the game of [[go (game)|go), shu ([calligraphy) and hua (画] painting).
Four bar linkage A four bar linkage or simply a 4-bar or four-bar is the simplest movable linkage. It consists of 4 rigid bodies (called bars or links), each attached to two others by single joints or pivots to form a closed loop.
Four by four/Four-wheel drive (disambiguation) Four-wheel drive, Four by four, and 4x4 are terms used to describe a drivetrain that enables all four wheels of a vehicle to receive power from the engine simultaneously, or a vehicle that possesses such a drivetrain. Other uses:
Four Bears Bridge Four Bears Bridge is one of two bridges built over the Missouri River on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. The current bridge which opened in 2005 is the second largest bridge in the state and replaces an earlier bridge built in 1955.
Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan The were manmade ailments all caused by environmental pollution due to improper handling of industrial wastes by Japanese corporations. Although some cases of these diseases occurred as early as 1912, most occurred in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Four Books The Four Books of Confucianism () (not to be confused with the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature), are Chinese classic texts that Zhu Xi selected, in the Song dynasty, as an introduction to Confucianism: the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius. The Four Books were, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties made the core of the official curriculum for the civil service examinations.
Four Branches of the Mabinogi The Four Branches of the Mabinogi are the best known tales from the medieval Welsh Mabinogion. The word "Mabinogi" originally designated only these four tales, which are really parts or 'branches' of a single work, rather than the whole collection.
Four Brothers (tong) The Four Brothers was a New York-based Tong which rivaled the On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs for control of Chinatown during the early 1900s. Their murder of 16-year-old Bow Kum, recently "bought" by a member of the rival On Leongs to take as his wife, began a violent gang war between the three Tongs lasting over a year before a truce was arrainged by the United States and Chinese governments.
Four Buddhist Persecutions in China The Four Buddhist Persecutions in China was the wholesale suppression of Buddhism carried out on four occasions from the fifth through the tenth century by four Chinese emperors. It is known as the Sambu-isso-no-honan (三武一宗の法難 - "Four imperial persecutions of Buddhism in China") in Japanese.
Four candles The Four Candles sketch, originally titled The Hardware Shop is a popular sketch from the BBC comedy Two Ronnies, and one of the most famous in British television comedy history. It was first broadcast on Saturday, September 4 1976 on BBC1.
Four continents Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Nothing was known of Australia, first sighted in the eighteenth century, or Antarctica, first sighted in the nineteenth century.
Four corner method The Four Corner Method (literal translation), () is used for encoding Chinese characters using four numerical digits per character. In many (if not most) situations—especially in large indexes and encyclopedias—an additional digit is used.
Four Cardinal Principles The Four Cardinal Principles (Chinese: 四項基本原則, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China. These are:
Four Color Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics, was an extremely prolific American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962. In total, approximately 1,375 issues were published, usually with multiple titles released every month.
Four Commanderies of Han The Four Commanderies of Han (漢四郡) are Lelang, Lintun, Xuantu and Zhenfan commanderies in the western Korean peninsula set up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in early 2nd century BC after his conquest of Wei Man Korea.
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition. The International Skating Union established it in 1999 to provide skaters representing non-European countries with a similar competition to the much older European Figure Skating Championships and a chance to win prize money.
Four Corners (Canada) The "Four Corners" point in Canada is a quadripoint at , where four political subdivisions meet. These are the provinces of Manitoba, and Saskatchewan and the territories of the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Four Corners (game) Four Corners is a children's game, often played in elementary schools. The goal of the game is for players to choose corners of the room and not get caught by the designated "It" player until they are the last remaining participant.
Four Corners (TV series) Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Australia, it premiered in 1961 and is still running.
Four Corners Monument The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain Tribal Lands in the Southwest United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. It is located on the Colorado Plateau west of U.
Four Courts The Four Courts (Na Ceithre CĂşirteanna in Irish) in Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's main courts building. The Four Courts are the location of the Supreme Court, High Court, and Central Criminal Court of the Republic of Ireland.
Four dimensionalism In the philosophy of time, four dimensionalism is the view that reality is a four-dimensional continuum composed of time and space (spacetime). The principal argument for four dimensionalism is the Rietdijk-Putnam argument.
Four discourses The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan argued that there were four fundamental types of discourse. These could be expressed as the permutations of a four-term configuration showing the relative positions of the subject, the master signifier, knowledge and objet petit a.
Four Daughters Four Daughters is a 1938 film which tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. It stars Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield and Dick Foran.
Four Days Battle The Four Days Battle was a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Fought from 11 June to 14 June, 1666 (New Style; 1 June to 4 June, Old Style) off the Flemish and English coast, it remains one of the longest naval engagements in history.
Four Deadly Questions Four Deadly Questions are a band from Brooklyn, New York, made up of ex-members of Dick Army and Books Lie (who were signed to Level Plane). Most DIY bands and Recess Records affiliates utilize this band for setting up gigs in the New York City area as all members of this band have been in the punk scene for many years and have access to setting up shows for bands who would otherwise have no way of booking themselves at larger clubs.
Four Feather Falls Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray. Gray, most noted as a composer who created the theme songs for many of the Andersons' creations, also wrote the first episode.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 Mosche di velluto grigio) is a 1972 Italian mystery thriller film, directed by Dario Argento. The screenplay is also by Argento, from a story by him, Luigi Cozzi, Mario Foglietti and Bryan Edgar Wallace (uncredited).
Four Freedoms (European Union) In European Union law, the Four Freedoms is a common term for a set of Treaty provisions, secondary legislation and court decisions, protecting the ability of Goods, Services, Capital, and Labour to move freely within the Internal Market of the European Union. More precisely, they are:
Four Freedoms Award The Four Freedoms Award is an annual liberal inclined award presented to those men and women who have "demonstrated" an achievement to the principles lined out in the Four freedoms speech president Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave to the US Congress on 6 January 1941. It is handed out in alternate years in New York by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and in Middelburg by the Roosevelt Stichting.
Four Freedoms Plaza In the Marvel Universe, Four Freedoms Plaza is the replacement headquarters for the Fantastic Four when their original dwelling, the Baxter Building, was destroyed by the adoptive son of Doctor Doom. It is located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City.
Four go houses In the history of go in Japan, the Four go houses were the four academies of Go instituted, and supported and controlled by the state, at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate. At roughly the same time shogi was organised into three houses.
Four golden princess Four Golden Princess (Chinese: 四千金) is a Malaysian girl group that has been around since 1994. Commonly shortened to FGP or 4GP, Four Golden Princess has been singing for 12 years now, starting from when they were about 5 years old.
Four Great Ancient Civilizations The Four Great Ancient Civilizations () is a concept frequently used in the study of history in China, referring to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Babylon, India, and China, seen as the first four civilizations to appear in the history of humankind.
Four Greats of the Early Tang The Four Greats of the Early Tang (Chinese:初唐四杰), are poets of the Tang Dynasty recognized as particularly outstanding and of eternal renown: Luo Binwang(駱賓王), Wang Bo (王勃), Yang Jiong (杨炯), and Lu Zhaolin (卢照邻).
Four Green Fields "Four Green Fields" is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in the New York Times as a "hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad". It is probably Makem's only composition to have truly entered the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians.
Four Guardians The Four Guardians are the four compass direction giants in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. These giants used to be friends with the playful Skull Kid until a call to order forced them to abandon their friend and fulfill their Oath.

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