Four Horsemen

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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

Film and TV

• Four Horsemen (Highlander), a group of Immortals on the television show Highlander: The Series
• The Horsemen of the Apocralypse (Discworld), four or five personifications in Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
• Four Horsemen (film), a 2012 documentary film by Ross Ashcroft on the banking system

Games and comics

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (video game), by 3DO
• Horsemen of Apocalypse, a team of supervillains in Marvel Comics, from 1987 in several incarnations
• Four Horsemen Studios, action-figure sculptors for McFarlane Toys
• Four Horsemen, contestants in the reality television series Survivor: Fiji
• Four Horseman, contestants in the reality television series Big Brother
• Four Horsemen, leaders of the ultranationalist party in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Four Horsemen, a boss encounter in Naxxramas, a raid from World of Warcraft
• Four Horsemen, the playable characters in the Darksiders series by Vigil
• Four Horsemen, in the Transformers: Energon series
• (Four Horsemen, the third episode of the 2006 CBS drama Jericho
• Four Horsemen, a team of magicians who use their stage show to cover up elaborate heists in the 2013 film Now You See Me

Sports and games

• Four Horsemen, a card game
• Four Horsemen (professional wrestling), a stable of wrestlers from 1985 in several incarnations
• Four Horsemen (American football), four players for the University of Notre Dame in 1924
• The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen, four Blackjack Hall of Fame members who formulated the first Basic Strategy for the game in the 1950s, using only calculators
• The Four Horsemen, an American contract bridge team established by P. Hal Sims in 1931

Music

• The Four Horsemen (rap group), formed by Canibus, Killah Priest, Ras Kass, and Kurupt in 1996
• The Four Horsemen (band), hard rock band from Hollywood 1989–1996
• Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax (American band) are known as the "Four Horsemen of Thrash Metal".^[1]

Albums

• The Four Horsemen (album), a 1993 album by Ultramagnetic MC's

Songs

• The Four Horsemen Aphrodite's Child 1972
• The Four Horsemen Putsch! 1982
• The Four Horsemen (Of The Apocalypse) The Jordanaires 1953 Percy Faith 1962
• The Four Horsemen (Metallica song), on the 1983 album Kill 'Em All by Metallica
• "4 Horsemen of the apocalypse", LP 1985, Bollock Brothers (containing "Faith healer")
• "The Four Horsemen", song on the 2008 album Nostradamus by Judas Priest
• "The Four Horsemen", song on the 1972 album 666 by Aphrodite's Child
• "Four Horsemen", song on the 1979 album London Calling by The Clash
• "Four Horsemen of 2012", 2:18 song on the 2007 album Myths of the Near Future by Klaxons
• "4 Horsemen of 2012", 2:29 song on the 2006 EP Xan Valleys by Klaxons
• "4 Horsemen", a song on the 2007 album Textbook Timbo by Timbaland

See also

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (disambiguation)
• The Fourth Horseman (disambiguation)
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in popular culture
• Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse, a term for internet criminals, or the imagery of internet criminals

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