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- town, south central Sicily, Italy, just east of Agrigento city. The name of the town is believed to be of Arabic origin. It is the site of a late 13th-century ...
- Favart, Charles-Simon
- French dramatist and theatre director who was one of the creators of the opera comique.
- favela
- (from the article "Brazil") ...to staggering heights. As a result, members of the middle class have been increasingly forced to live in minuscule apartments in densely packed high-rises, while the poor are confined in ...
- Faversham
- town (parish), Swale district, administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. Faversham grew first as a port on the River Swale near Watling Street. It was assessed in 1086 ...
- favism
- a hereditary disorder involving an allergic-like reaction to the broad, or fava, bean (Vicia faba). Susceptible persons may develop a blood disorder (hemolytic anemia) by eating the beans, or even ...
- Favorinus
- Skeptical philosopher and rhetorician of the Roman Empire who was highly esteemed for his learning and eloquence. [1 Related Articles]
- Favorlang language
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") Fourteen of the 21 or 22 Austronesian languages spoken by the pre-Chinese aboriginal population of Taiwan (also called Formosa) survive. Siraya and Favorlang, which are now extinct, are attested from ...
- Favors, Malachi Maghostut
- American jazz bassist (b. Aug. 22, 1927, Lexington, Miss.-d. Jan. 30, 2004, Chicago, Ill.), was devoted to a rich, pure, unamplified sound as he played swinging accompaniments and dense, extended ... [2 Related Articles]
- Favosites
- extinct genus of corals found as fossils in marine rocks from the Ordovician to the Permian periods (between 488 million and 251 million years old). Favosites is easily recognized by ...
- Favre, Brett
- American professional gridiron football player who broke all the major National Football League (NFL) career passing records as quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. [3 Related Articles]
- Favre, Jules
- a resolute French opponent of Napoleon III and a negotiator of the Treaty of Frankfurt ending the Franco-German War. [1 Related Articles]
- Favrile glass
- (from the article "glassware") Although belonging essentially to the category of the fancy glasses, the Favrile glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany represented an altogether higher level of achievement both in its shapes and in ...
- fawatih
- letters of the alphabet appearing at the beginning of 29 of the surahs (chapters) of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an. The 14 letters thus designated occur singly and in ...
- Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett
- leader for 50 years of the movement for woman suffrage in England. From the beginning of her career she had to struggle against almost unanimous male opposition to political rights ...
- Fawcett, Henry
- (from the article "Fawcett, Dame Millicent Garrett") ...supported the efforts of his eldest daughter, the pioneer woman physician and medical educator Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, to be admitted to the practice of medicine. In April 1867 Millicent married ...
- fawjdar
- in India, under the Mughals, an executive head of a district (sarkar). The fawjdar was responsible for law and order, held police powers and criminal jurisdiction, and commanded irregular levies ...
- Fawkes, Guy
- British soldier and best-known participant in the Gunpowder Plot. Its object was to blow up the palace at Westminster during the state opening of Parliament, while James I and his ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fawkes, Richard
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...contained in the newsbook, or news pamphlet, which flourished in the 16th century as a means of disseminating information on particular topics of interest. One such pamphlet, printed in England ...
- Fawkner, John Pascoe
- (from the article "Melbourne") A few days after the treaty was signed, Batman left, and two months later a party led by another pioneer, John Fawkner, settled on the banks of the Yarra River. ...
- fawn-coloured mouse
- (from the article "mouse") ...species. In the deserts of India, the little Indian field mouse (M. booduga) bears from 1 to 13 young per litter and breeds throughout the year. In ...
- Faxa Bay
- inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean on the southwestern coast of Iceland. It indents the coast for 30 miles (50 km) and extends for 50 miles (80 km) between the ...
- Faxian
- Buddhist monk whose pilgrimage to India in 402 initiated Sino-Indian relations and whose writings give important information about early Buddhism. After his return to China he translated into Chinese the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Fay, Larry
- (from the article "Guinan, Texas") ...career that made her famous. After a spontaneous performance one night as mistress of ceremonies at a party following a show at New York's Winter Garden, she was taken up ...
- Fay, Sidney Bradshaw
- U.S. historian known primarily for his classical reexamination of the causes of World War I. [1 Related Articles]
- Faya
- oasis town, northern Chad, north central Africa. It lies in the Sahara at the northern tip of the Bodele depression, 490 mi (790 km) northeast of the capital, N'Djamena. Originally ...
- Fayad, Salam
- (from the article "Israel") ...that of the Gaza Strip at 1,177,000 | Principal administrative centres: Ramallah and Gaza | Head of government: President Mahmoud Abbas, assisted by Prime Ministers Ismail Haniya and, from June ...
- fayalite
- (from the article "fayalite") iron-rich silicate mineral that is a member of the forsterite-fayalite series (q.v.) of olivines.TABLESphysical properties
- Fayaz, Abdul
- (from the article "Religion") Deadly attacks that appeared to be directed against Shi'ite Muslims by members of extremist Islamic movements killed worshippers at mosques in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Abdul Fayaz, leader of the ...
- fayd
- (Arabic: "emanation"), in Islamic philosophy, the emanation of created things from God. The word is not used in the Qur'an (Islamic scripture), which uses terms such as khalq ("creation") and ...
- Faydherbe, Lucas
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...particularly in his decorations for the Town Hall in Amsterdam, and the tendency toward a painterly style is more pronounced in the work of his son Artus Quellinus the Younger, ...
- Faye, Alice
- American singer and actress who from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s made 32 films, among them In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band, and Hello, Frisco, Hello; she later starred on ...
- Fayed, Emad Mohamed al-
- Egyptian-born producer of motion pictures, including The World According to Garp and the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, and playboy son of multimillionnaire Mohamed al-Fayed, the owner of Harrods department stores. ...
- Fayed, Mohamed al-
- Although frustrated in his efforts to be accepted as a British citizen, Egyptian-born billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed continued to play an influential--and highly controversial--role in Great Britain in 1997. Fayed's public ...
- Fayence-Porcellaine
- (from the article "pottery") ...decoration needed a third firing. In 18th-century Germany especially tin-glazed wares were decorated with colours applied over the fired glaze, as on porcelain. The wares were sometimes called Fayence-Porcellaine.
tin-glazed ware ...
- Fayette
- (from the article "Lexington") city, coextensive with Fayette county, north-central Kentucky, U.S., the focus of the Bluegrass region and a major centre for horse breeding. Named in 1775 for the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts, ...
- Fayette
- county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by Jacobs Creek; to the east by Laurel Hill, the Youghiogheny River, and Youghiogheny River Lake; to the south by Maryland and ...
- Fayette
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...one of the key ingredients-this time, hematite ore from the Llandovery Red Mountain Formation, which was mined from 1862 to 1971. A third unusual site in this regard is the ...
- Fayetteville
- city, seat of Washington county, northwestern Arkansas, U.S., in the Ozarks on the White River, adjacent to Springdale (north). No settlement existed there when the site, on the Overland Mail ...
- Fayetteville
- city, seat of Cumberland county, south-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies on the Cape Fear River at the head of navigation, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Raleigh. The ...
- Fayez, Faisal al-
- (from the article "Jordan") ...5,182,000 (including about 1,800,000 Palestinian refugees, most of whom hold Jordanian citizenship) | Capital: Amman | Head of state and government: King Abdullah II, assisted by Prime Ministers Faisal al-Fayez ...
- Faylakah
- island of Kuwait, lying in the Persian Gulf near the entrance to Kuwait Bay; it has an area of 15 square miles (39 square km). Inhabited since prehistoric times, it ... [2 Related Articles]
- Fayol, Henri
- (from the article "mass production") In 1916 Henri Fayol, who for many years had managed a large coal mining company in France, began publishing his ideas about the organization and supervision of work, and by ...
- Fayrfax, Robert
- foremost among the early English Tudor composers, noted principally for his masses and motets written in a style less florid than that of his predecessors. He is distinguished from his ...
- Fayrouz
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...order, include 'Abduh al-Hamuli, Dahud Hussni, Sayyid Darwish, 'Abd al-Wahhab, Umm Kulthum, Farid al-Atrash, Fayrouz, Rashid al-Hundarashi, Sadiqa al-Mulaya, and Muhammad al-Gubanshi.
- Faysal
- king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975, an influential figure of the Arab world who was a critic not only of Israel but of Soviet influence in the Middle ... [3 Related Articles]
- Faysal al-Dawish
- (from the article "Saudi Arabia") In 1928 and 1929, Faysal al-Dawish, Sultan ibn Bijad, and other leaders of the Ikhwan, accusing Ibn Sa'ud of betraying the cause for which they had fought and opposing the ...
- Faysal I
- Arab statesman and king of Iraq (1921-33) who was a leader in advancing Arab nationalism during and after World War I. [13 Related Articles]
- Faysal ibn Turki ibn Sa'ud
- (from the article "Mulaydah, Battle of al-") The Wahhabi prince 'Abd Allah lost many of the territories that his father, Faysal (reigned 1834-65), had acquired by conquest following the collapse of the first Wahhabi empire (1818). In ...
- Faysal II
- the last king of Iraq, who reigned from 1939 to 1958. [3 Related Articles]
- Faysaliyyah, Al-
- (from the article "Riyadh") Riyadh itself is an amorphous expanse of neighbourhoods and subdivisions bounded by wide roads lined with commercial strip development. Two of the city's dominant tower buildings are Al-Faysaliyyah (Al-Faisaliah) centre, ...
- Fayum portrait
- any of the funerary portraits dating from the Roman period (1st to the 4th century) found in Egyptian tombs throughout Egypt but particularly at the oasis of al-Fayyum. Depictions of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fayyum, Al-
- muhafazah (governorate) of Upper Egypt, in a great depression of the Western Desert southwest of Cairo. Extending about 50 miles (80 km) east-west and about 35 miles (56 km) north-south, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Fayyum, Al-
- capital of Al-Fayyum muhafazah (governorate), Egypt. The town is located in the southeastern part of the governorate, on the site of the ancient centre of the region, called Shedet in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fayyumic
- (from the article "Coptic language") Coptic is usually divided by scholars into six dialects, four of which were spoken in Upper Egypt and two in Lower Egypt; these differ from one another chiefly in their ...
- Fayzi
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...difficulties; yet their dark, glowing quality cannot fail to touch the hearts and minds even of critical modern readers-more so than the elegant but rather cerebral verses of his colleague ...
- Fazal Mahmood
- Pakistani cricketer (b. Feb. 18, 1927, Lahore, India-d. May 30, 2005, Lahore, Pak.), was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played in 34 Test matches for Pakistan between 1952 and 1962, ...
- Fazang
- Buddhist monk usually considered to be the founder of the Huayan school of Buddhism in China because he systematized its doctrines. Basically, the Huayan school taught that all phenomena are ... [1 Related Articles]
- fazenda
- large plantation in Brazil, comparable to the slave-based plantations of the Caribbean and the United States. In the colonial period (16th-18th century) the plantation owners (fazendeiros) ruled ... [2 Related Articles]
- Fazil, Mustafa
- (from the article "Young Ottomans") ...had expanded from the original 6 members to 245, including the noted poets Namik Kemal and Ziya Pasa; they were further supported financially and materially by the Egyptian prince Mustafa ...
- Fazio, Antonio
- (from the article "Italy") A simmering scandal centring on Antonio Fazio, governor of the supposedly impartial Bank of Italy, finally exploded in September when prosecutors in Rome disclosed that Fazio faced a charge of ...
- Fazl ul-Haq
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...Mujibur Rahman, and Maulana Bhashani. When the ballots were counted, the Muslim League had not only lost the election, it had been virtually eliminated as a viable political force in ...
- Fazy, James
- (from the article "Geneva") ...Opposition by the Swiss Diet to the Sonderbund (a league of seven Roman Catholic cantons) and the 1847 civil war between federal forces and the rebellious cantons permitted the radicals, ...
- FC Barcelona
- (from the article "Football") There was drama on the field at the UEFA Champions League final on May 17 at Stade de France in Paris when multitalented Barcelona faced England's Arsenal, which could boast ...
- FC Porto
- (from the article "Football") Before the disappointment of losing in Euro 2004, there had been better news at club level for Portugal when FC Porto defeated AS Monaco FC 3-0 for the Champions League ...
- Fderik
- mining village, north-central Mauritania, western Africa, just west of Zouirat. It is important as the base for the exploitation of extensive iron-ore deposits in the nearby Mount Ijill. The iron ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fe XIV
- (from the article "Sun")
- Fea's muntjac
- (from the article "muntjac") ...and nocturnal, and they usually live in areas of thick vegetation. They are native to India, Southeast Asia, and southern China, and some have become established in parts of England ...
- fealty
- (from the article "homage and fealty") in European society, solemn acts of ritual by which a person became a vassal of a lord in feudal society. Homage was essentially the acknowledgment of the bond of tenure ...
- fear
- (from the article "animal behaviour") ...an animal has a drive to perform a particular behaviour but is prevented from doing so and directs the behaviour to another object. If an animal is prompted to attack ...
- Fearing, Kenneth
- American poet and novelist who used an array of topical phrases and idiom in his satires of urban life.
- Fears, Thomas Jesse
- Mexican American football player (b. Dec. 3, 1922, Guadalajara, Mex.-d. Jan. 4, 2000, Palm Desert, Calif.), was considered one of the National Football League's (NFL's) greatest receivers. He played for ...
- feasible solution
- (from the article "optimization") ...figure. On this graph the distance along the horizontal axis represents x1 and that along the vertical represents x2. Because of the constraints given above, the feasible solutions must lie ...
- feast
- day or period of time set aside to commemorate, ritually celebrate or reenact, or anticipate events or seasons-agricultural, religious, or sociocultural-that give meaning and cohesiveness to an individual and to ... [31 Related Articles]
- feather
- the component structure of the outer covering and flight surfaces of all modern birds. Unique to birds, feathers apparently evolved from the scales of birds' reptilian ancestors. The many different ... [20 Related Articles]
- feather geranium
- (from the article "goosefoot") ...have leaves that resemble the foot of a goose. Good-King-Henry (C. bonus-henricus), sometimes called mercury, is a deep-rooted perennial with several stems and edible, spinach-like leaves. Feather geranium, or Jerusalem ...
- feather moss
- (Ptilium, formerly Hypnum, crista-castrensis), the only species of the genus Ptilium, it is a widely distributed plant of the subclass Bryidae that forms dense light green mats on rocks, rotten ... [1 Related Articles]
- feather star
- any of the 550 living species of crinoid marine invertebrates (class Crinoidea) of the phylum Echinodermata lacking a stalk. The arms, which have feathery fringes and can be used for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Feather, Leonard Geoffrey
- British jazz critic and songwriter (b. Sept. 13, 1914, London, England--d. Sept. 22, 1994, Los Angeles, Calif.), compiled the standard reference work The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1955), a several-times revised ...
- Feather, Victor, Baron Feather of the City of Bradford
- British trade unionist who led the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in its confrontations with governments over industrial-relations legislation from 1969 to 1973.
- feather-and-wedge method
- (from the article "mining") ...the use of special explosives to exert a high gas pressure against the hole walls and thereby produce a crack along the firing line. A mechanical technique for accomplishing this ...
- feather-duster worm
- any large, segmented marine worm of the family Sabellidae (class Polychaeta, phylum Annelida). The name is also occasionally applied to members of the closely related polychaete family Serpulidae. Sabellids live ... [2 Related Articles]
- feather-picking machine
- (from the article "poultry processing") The carcasses then go through the feather-picking machines, which are equipped with rubber "fingers" specifically designed to beat off the feathers. The carcasses are moved through a sequence of machines, ...
- feather-winged beetle
- any of more than 400 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) characterized by long fringes of hair on the long, narrow hindwings. The antennae also have whorls of long hairs. ...
- featherbedding
- labour union practices that require the employer to pay for the performance of what he considers to be unnecessary work or for work that is not in fact performed or ...
- feathered finger grass
- (from the article "Chloris") genus of annual and perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, with about 70 species distributed throughout warm regions of the world. Many are known as finger grass, or windmill grass. ...
- Feathered Serpent, Pyramid of the
- (from the article "Xochicalco") Excavations, begun in 1909, have revealed a number of structures, including the so-called Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), two ball courts, and a variety of houses and plazas. The ...
- feathering
- (from the article "rowing") ...blade out of the water (the recovery). Turning the blade horizontally by wrist motion as the oar handle is depressed to raise the blade clear of the water at the ...
- feathertail
- (from the article "feathertail") small marsupial mammal, a species of glider (q.v.).glidersglider...Most have well-developed flaps of skin along the flanks; thes
- feathertop
- (from the article "Pennisetum") ...perennial plants, native to tropical and subtropical areas. Kikuyu grass (P. clandestinum), a perennial sod-forming species, is grown for pasturage in Central America. Several varieties of feathertop (P. villosum) and ...
- featherwork
- decorative use of ornamental feathers, especially the feather mosaic needlework of Victorian England. Feathers have been used for adornment since prehistoric times. The Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) Indians constructed a turkey-feather ... [1 Related Articles]
- featural writing system
- (from the article "writing") Featural writing systems exploit the fact that even phonemes are not the most fundamental units of analysis of speech. Rather, phonemes may be analyzed into sets of distinctive features. The ...
- feature
- (from the article "Part of the set of features proposed by Chomsky and Halle (1968)") Each of the phonemes that appears in the lexicon of a language may be classified in terms of a set of phonetic properties, or features. Phoneticians and linguists have been ...
- feature name
- (from the article "toponymy") ...is a word or words used to indicate, denote, or identify a geographic locality such as a town, river, or mountain. Toponymy divides place-names into two broad categories: habitation names ...
- Febrerista revolt
- (from the article "Paraguay") In February 1936, Ayala and Estigarribia were imprisoned following a military coup known as the Febrerista revolt, conducted by radical officers. The inept new government soon fell, however, and Estigarribia ...
- Febres Cordero, Leon
- (from the article "Ecuador") Leon Febres Cordero, a congressman from Guayaquil, was elected president in 1984. His free-market economics and pro-U.S. foreign policy drew Ecuador into closer alliance with the U.S. administration of Pres. ...
- Febronianism
- (from the article "Christianity") ...to regulate educational and marriage concerns as well as all administrative affairs of the church. A similar development also occurred in Roman Catholic areas. In the second half of the ...
- February
- second month of the Gregorian calendar. It was named after Februalia, the Roman festival of purification. Originally, February was the last month of the Roman calendar. [2 Related Articles]
- February adverse current
- (from the article "China") ...for a halt to the Cultural Revolution. During this attempt to beat back radicalism, more-conservative forces clamped down on Red Guard activism in numerous cities. The movement, dubbed the "February ...
- February Patent
- (from the article "Austria") ...the Hungarians, opposed it for not restoring fully the old rights and privileges of the crown lands. Faced with such opposition, Francis Joseph abandoned the Diploma and four months later ...
- February Revolution
- (from the article "February Revolution") (March 8-12 [Feb. 24-28, old style], 1917), the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government. This government, ...
- Febvre, Lucien Paul Victor
- French historian of the early modern period and organizer of major national and international intellectual projects. In his books and editorial efforts, Febvre embraced a "global" history that rejected all ... [1 Related Articles]
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