Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen usually refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who are characters in Biblical prophecy.
Other uses:
In the comic book industry:
- Horsemen of Apocalypse, a team of various superheroes/supervillains who serve Apocalypse
- 4 Horsemen, a four-issue limited series under the DC Comics Vertigo imprint
- Four Horsemen Studios, action figure sculptors for McFarlane Toys
- In Dreamwaves' Transformers: Energon series, the Four Horsemen were former Autobots and Decepticons turned into minions of Unicron. They were Rhinox (War), Terrorsaur (Famine), Airazor (Death) and Cheetor (Pestilence).
In television/movies:
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film), 1921 silent movie
- The Four Horsemen were a group of Immortals on the television show Highlander: The Series.
- Survivor: Fiji, the name given to the four-man alliance of Dre Herd, Edgardo Rivera, Mookie Lee and Alex Angarita
In sports:
- Four Horsemen (professional wrestling), group of professional wrestlers
- Four Horsemen (football), football players from University of Notre Dame in 1924
In music:
- The Four Horsemen (song), a song on Metallica's 1983 album Kill 'Em All
- "The Four Horsemen", an Aphrodite's Child song from their album 666
- The Four Horsemen (band), a late '80s / half '90s hard rock band from Hollywood
- The Four Horsemen (rap group), Rapgroup formed by Canibus, Killah Priest, Ras Kass & Kurupt
- The Four Horsemen, sound-poetry group in Toronto • see Steve McCaffery
- "Four Horsemen (song)", a song on The Clash's 1979 album London Calling
- The Four Horsemen (album), an album by Ultramagnetic MC's
- "Four Horsemen of 2012", a song by Klaxons, from the album Myths Of The Near Future (Also "4 Horsemen of 2012" from the Xan Valleys EP)
In Lunar science:
- Senior scientists and consultants to NASA during Apollo who passionately, and successfully, advocated a coherent approach to the science of moon exploration. Bob Walker, Prof. Physics Washington University in St. Louis; Jim Arnold, Prof. Astrophysics UCSD; Paul Werner Gast, Prof. Geochemistry Columbia University; Gerry Wasserburg, Prof. Geochemistry CalTech.
Other:
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a woodcut made by Albrecht Dürer
- The Four Horsemen were a core group of linguists who promoted generative semantics: Paul Postal, Háj Ross, Jim McCawley, and George Lakoff.
- Four Horsemen (Supreme Court), United States Supreme Court justices during the New Deal and a contemporary political group
- Four Horsemen (drink)
- The Four Horsemen is the name of an online and DVD discussion between prominent atheists Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Four Horsemen". Image Credit.
