Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, are the forces of man's destruction as described in the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation.

The Four Horsemen or Four Horsemen may also refer to:

People

  • Four Horsemen (NASA), Senior scientists and consultants to NASA during Apollo: Bob Walker; Jim Arnold; Paul Werner Gast; Gerry Wasserburg.
  • Four Horsemen (Supreme Court), United States Supreme Court conservative justices during the New Deal era
  • Former west coast boutique investment banks: Robertson Stephens, Alex. Brown & Sons, Hambrecht & Quist, and Montgomery Securities
  • Four Horsemen (drink), a cocktail containing four hard liquors and named after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • "The Four Horsemen", an informal discussion on the "New Atheism" held in 2007 and its proponents: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
  • "The four horseman", when all four kings are acquired by a single player
  • Literature

  • The Four Horsemen (poetry), Toronto sound-poetry group formed by Steve McCaffery in 1970
  • London Calling

    London Calling is the third studio album by English punk rock band the Clash. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1979 by CBS Records, and in the United States in January 1980 by Epic Records.London Calling is a post-punk album that incorporates a range of styles, including punk, reggae, rockabilly, ska, New Orleans R&B, pop, lounge jazz, and hard rock.

    The album's subject matter included social displacement, unemployment, racial conflict, drug use, and the responsibilities of adulthood. The album received widespread acclaim and was ranked at number eight on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.London Calling was a top ten album in the UK, and its lead single "London Calling" was a top 20 single. It has sold over five million copies worldwide, and was certified platinum in the United States.

    Recording and production

    After recording their second studio album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978), the band separated from their manager Bernard Rhodes. This separation meant that the group had to leave their rehearsal studio in Camden Town and find another location to compose their music. Drawing inspiration from rockabilly, ska, reggae and jazz, the band began work on the album during the summer of 1979. Tour manager Johnny Green had found the group a new place to rehearse called Vanilla Studios, which was located in the back of a garage in Pimlico. The Clash quickly wrote and recorded demos, with Mick Jones composing and arranging much of the music and Joe Strummer writing the lyrics.

    The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling)

    The Four Horsemen was a professional wrestling stable in the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling. The original group featured Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard. Flair and Arn Anderson have been constant members in each incarnation of the group except once following Anderson's neck injury, when Curt Hennig was given his "enforcer" spot in the Horsemen.

    History

    Ric Flair was originally brought in as a cousin of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson) in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the 1970s. After leaving the Crew he took on Blackjack Mulligan and Greg Valentine as his partners to feud with them. By 1981, when he became NWA World Heavyweight Champion, he and the Crew had reconciled, having their blessing to team with them as well as with Mulligan and Valentine to feud with top NWA man Harley Race and his Mid-Atlantic hitmen, Dick Slater and Bob Orton Jr.. When Mulligan retired and Valentine jumped to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Flair started looking for a new entourage.

    Color blindness

    Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness affects a significant percentage of the population. There is no actual blindness but there is a deficiency of color vision. The most usual cause is a fault in the development of one or more sets of retinal cones that perceive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve. This type of color blindness is usually a sex-linked condition. The genes that produce photopigments are carried on the X chromosome; if some of these genes are missing or damaged, color blindness will be expressed in males with a higher probability than in females because males only have one X chromosome, whereas females have two and a functional gene on only one of the X chromosomes is sufficient to yield the necessary photopigments.

    Color blindness can also be produced by physical or chemical damage to the eye, the optic nerve, or parts of the brain. For example, people with achromatopsia suffer from a completely different disorder, but are nevertheless unable to see colors.

    Color blindness (race) in the United States

    Color blindness (sometimes spelled colour-blindness; also called race blindness) is a sociological term for the disregard of racial characteristics when selecting which individuals will participate in some activity or receive some service. In practice, color-blind operations use no racial data or profiling and make no classifications, categorizations, or distinctions based upon race. An example of this would be a college processing admissions without regard to or knowledge of the racial characteristics of applicants.

    Sociologist, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses three central frames that guide color blind ideology. These include the frame of abstract liberalism, naturalization, and cultural racism. Proponents of "color-blind" practices believe that treating people equally inherently leads to a more equal society and/or that racism and race privilege no longer exercise the power they once did, rendering policies such as race-based affirmative action obsolete. As described by Chief Justice John Roberts, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." Under Bonilla-Silva's central frames, Chief Justice John Roberts would be an example of abstract liberalism or the notion that every individual has rights and options without considering the institutional and state-sponsor segregation, like Jim Crow Laws and residential exclusionary zoning laws.

    Colour Blind (disambiguation)

    Color blind or variants may also refer to:

  • Color blindness, a color vision deficiency
  • Color blindness (race)
  • Books

  • Colorblind (book), a 2010 book on racism by Nicholas Morris
  • Colour Blind, novel by Catherine Cookson 1953
  • Color Blind, study of racism in Georgia by Margaret Halsey 1946
  • Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction Morgan Kousser
  • Film

  • Colour Blind (2009 film), a 2009 film depicting racism
  • Colour blind, TV series with Niamh Cusack 1988
  • Colour Blind, by National Film Board of Canada 1999.
  • Color blind, experiment by Jane Elliott Anti-defamation League 1990.
  • Music

    Albums

  • Colorblind, 2010, album by Dutch singer Alain Clark
  • Colorblind (Candice Alley album), 2003
  • Colorblind (Robert Randolph album), 2006
  • Colour Blind, by Josh Baze
  • Color Blind, a 1969 album by Dave "The Man" Allen
  • Colour Blind (Seaway album), 2015
  • Songs

  • Colorblind, a song by Amber Riley
  • "Colorblind" (Counting Crows song)
  • "Colorblind", a song by Faye Wong from the album Faye Wong
  • Podcasts:

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    Color Blind

    by: Face First

    I'm falling asleep here in my bed.
    I close my eyes and just see red or is it green or is it blue?
    I don't know should I just 'fess up
    and try to block out the light that's running through my head?
    I'll be drinking 'til it's dawn
    and I'll be thinking all night long
    about the things I should have said to myself
    that warm summer Tuesday morning.
    There's still indecision in my eyes.
    Yes, even after over one hundred tries I'm becoming too
    lethargic
    just to wonder what I should be thinking anymore.




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