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Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc
(from the article "archery") ...held at York, and the Grand National Archery Society became the governing body of the sport in the United Kingdom. International rules were standardized in 1931 with the founding of ...
Federation Internationale de Volleyball
(from the article "Volleyball") The United States swept the titles at the 2007 Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) world beach volleyball championship, held in July in Gstaad, Switz. In the women's competition, Misty May-Treanor ...
Federation Internationale des Archives du Film
(from the article "motion picture") ...funds. The earliest film archive was the Swedish Film History Collection begun in 1933. Archives in Paris, London, and New York City followed shortly afterward. An international federation (FIAF; Federation ...
Federation Internationale des Echecs
(from the article "Chess") ...taken the world title from him in 2001, and his planned match with Rustam Kasimjanov, scheduled for Dubai in January-February and part of the Prague unification process, was canceled by ...
Federation Internationale des Quilleurs
(from the article "bowling") ...in 1934. Germany hosted the Fifth International in 1936, as a prelude to, but having no connection with, the Olympic Games in Berlin. It was the last international meet of ...
Federation Internationale Gymnastique
(from the article "Gymnastics") The Olympic Games, held in Athens during August 13-29, dominated the gymnastics calendar in 2004. In the men's team competition, China was favoured after having won the gold medal at ...
Federation Internationale Motocycliste
(from the article "motorcycle racing") ...the sport in 1897, but two-wheelers like the Werner soon set the stage for an entirely different form of racing. In 1904 the Federation Internationale du Motocyclisme (renamed the Federation ...
Federation of Cuban Women
(from the article "Cuba") ...vigilance against ideological "enemies" and intimidate dissenters and are organized in every city, factory, and workplace and in many rural counties. Other organizations include the Federation of Cuban Women and ...
Federation of Labour
(from the article "organized labour") ...influence. Syndicalist rejection of parliamentary politics, and hostility to the state in all its forms, was given particular edge in the context of compulsory arbitration. In New Zealand a militant ...
Federation of Labour Exchanges
federation of French workers' organizations (bourses) established in 1892. The bourse was a combination of a labour exchange (dealing with job placement), a workers' club and cultural centre, and a ... [2 Related Articles]
Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left
(from the article "French Communist Party") ...the Fifth Republic in 1958, the PCF lost a good deal of ground in a surge of right-wing and nationalist feeling. In September 1965 the party lent its support to ...
Federation of Workers' Unions of Guinea
(from the article "Toure, Sekou") ...and organized the first successful strike, lasting 76 days, in French West Africa. In 1945 he became secretary-general of the Post and Telecommunications Workers' Union and helped to found the ...
Federer, Heinrich
novelist who imparted new vigour to Christian fiction in Switzerland.
Federer, Roger
Swiss tennis player, who dominated the sport in the early 21st century with his exceptional all-around game. [7 Related Articles]
Federici, Camillo
Italian dramatist and actor, whose comedies were highly popular in the late 18th century.
Federico, Gene
American graphic designer and advertising executive who pioneered the use of visual puns in advertisements by means of text integrated into the pictures in his creative designs; after working for ...
Fedia cornucopiae
(from the article "seed and fruit") ...and in time, the phenomenon can be seen as an insurance against catastrophe. The most spectacular example of heterocarpy (i.e., production of differing fruit) is found in the Mediterranean Fedia ...
Fedin, Konstantin Aleksandrovich
Soviet writer noted primarily for his early novels that portray the difficulties of intellectuals in Soviet Russia. [1 Related Articles]
fedora
(from the article "dress") ...and their hair was short. A peaked cap accompanied leisure wear, and a trilby felt hat the lounge suit. (The latter was named after George du Maurier's novel; the American ...
Fedorenko, Nikolai Trofimovich
Soviet diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations (1963-68), and Oriental scholar.
Fedotenko, Ruslan
(from the article "Ice Hockey") ...the NHL season as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 2-1, with only 15 shots on goal, to take the series four games to three. Tampa Bay's first ...
fee
in modern common law, an estate of inheritance (land or other realty) over which a person has absolute ownership. The owner may put it virtually to any use-sell it, give ... [1 Related Articles]
feeblemindedness
(from the article "feeblemindedness") deficiency in intelligence. The term is no longer generally used medically or psychologically. The term intellectual disability is preferred.for more content related to this topic
feed
food grown or developed for livestock and poultry. Modern feeds are produced by carefully selecting and blending ingredients to provide highly nutritional diets that both maintain the health of the ... [8 Related Articles]
feed motion
(from the article "machine tool") ...of the cut. The relative motion between the cutting edge of the tool and the work is called the cutting speed; the speed in which uncut material is brought into ...
Feed the Nation, Operation
(from the article "Nigeria") ...food shortage have featured the direct purchase and distribution of foodstuffs by government agencies and the production by government parastatals of various staples on large commercial farms. The Operation Feed ...
feedback
in biology, a response within a system (molecule, cell, organism, or population) that influences the continued activity or productivity of that system. In essence, it is the control of a ... [10 Related Articles]
feedback
(from the article "electronics") ...in temperature, in particular, can cause changes in resistor values and changes in the amplification properties of transistors. These factors must be carefully taken into account. Judicious use of feedback ...
feedback control
(from the article "communication") To correct this flaw, the principle of feedback was added to the model and provided a closer approximation of interpersonal human interaction than was known theretofore. This construct was derived ...
feedback control
(from the article "automata theory") ...neuron to fire but that, in combination, may provide the threshold stimulus; or the impulse might be confined within a section of the nerve net and travel in a closed ...
feedback electrometer
(from the article "mass spectrometry") ...decades, these electrometers functioned unsurpassed as laboratory workhorses and were only slightly modified in design. They can now be equaled and in some respects surpassed in performance by the feedback ...
feedback inhibition
in enzymology, suppression of the activity of an enzyme, participating in a sequence of reactions by which a substance is synthesized, by a product of that sequence. When the product ... [2 Related Articles]
feedback loop
(from the article "automation") ...establishes the sequence of values for the inputs (set points) of the various feedback control loops that make up the automated system. A given programming command may specify the set ...
feeder dike
(from the article "ocean") Below the lava is a layer composed of feeder, or sheeted, dikes that measures more than one kilometre thick. Dikes are fractures that serve as the plumbing system for transporting ...
feeder-to-market operation
(from the article "livestock farming") Feeder-to-market production has the lowest labour and management requirements. The producer in this stage purchases the feeder pigs and raises them to market weights in about 16 weeks. This part ...
feedforward control
(from the article "control system") Control systems are intimately related to the concept of automation (q.v.), but the two fundamental types of control systems, feedforward and feedback, have classic ancestry. The loom invented by Joseph ...
feeding behaviour
any action of an animal that is directed toward the procurement of nutrients. The variety of means of procuring food reflects the diversity of foods used and the myriad of ... [23 Related Articles]
feedsack quilt
(from the article "quilting") The Great Depression of the 1930s popularized the feedsack quilt. Cloth sacks in which animal feed and flour and other staples were packaged were produced in a wide variety of ...
Feejee Mermaid
(from the article "Barnum, P.T.") Barnum's first successful exhibit in the museum was the Feejee Mermaid, which had a seemingly human head topping the finned body of a fish and was, of course, found later ...
feeling
in psychology, the perception of events within the body, closely related to emotion. The term feeling is a verbal noun denoting the action of the verb to feel, which derives ... [4 Related Articles]
feeries folies
(from the article "travesty") ...word travesty-literally, "dressed in disguise"-in the title of Scarron's work gave rise to the English word, first as an adjective.) Later the French developed the feeries folies, a musical burlesque ...
Feferman, Solomon
(from the article "mathematics, foundations of") ...type theory, but no one claims that this is adequate for all of classical analysis. However, the German-American mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) and the American mathematician Solomon Feferman have shown ...
Fefferman, Charles Louis
American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work in classical analysis.
Fegte, Ernst
(from the article "1945: Other Winners") ...of Dorian GrayCinematography, Color: Leon Shamroy for Leave Her to HeavenArt Direction, Black-and-White: Wiard Ihnen for Blood on the SunArt Direction, Color: Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegte for Frenchman's CreekMusic ...
fehmic court
medieval law tribunal properly belonging to Westphalia, though extending jurisdiction throughout the German kingdom.
Fehn, Sverre
Norwegian architect known for his designs of private houses and museums that integrated modernism with traditional vernacular architecture. He considered the process of building "an attack by our culture on ... [1 Related Articles]
Fehrenbach, Konstantin
German statesman who was chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1920-21).
Fei Xiaotong
one of the foremost Chinese social anthropologists, noted for his studies of village life in China. [2 Related Articles]
Feichtmayr, Michael
(from the article "Western sculpture") ...of the period is characterized by the extremely successful partnerships between the sculptors and stucco artists. For Zwiefalten and Ottobeuren Joseph Christian provided the models from which Johann Michael Feichtmayr ...
Feiffer, Jules
American cartoonist and writer who became famous for his "Feiffer," a satirical cartoon strip notable for its emphasis on very literate captions. The verbal elements usually took the form of ... [1 Related Articles]
Feigenbaum, Edward Albert
an American systems analyst and the most important pioneer in the development of expert systems in artificial intelligence (AI). [1 Related Articles]
Feigl, Herbert
(from the article "Materialism") Among the philosophers who have advocated the translation form is the U.S. philosopher Herbert Feigl, earlier a member of the Vienna Circle, who, in an influential monograph (see Bibliography: Materialism), ...
Feijo, Diogo Antonio
(from the article "Brazil") ...to provide for the election of a sole regent to a four-year term; the document also partly decentralized the government by creating provincial assemblies with considerable local power. The priest ...
feijoa
(species Feijoa sellowiana), small tree of the family Myrtaceae, related to the guava and often called pineapple guava. It is native to southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and parts of Argentina ... [1 Related Articles]
feijoada completa
the national dish of Brazil, black beans cooked with fresh and smoked meats and accompanied by traditional side dishes. The modern feijoada completa is an elaborated version of a simple ...
Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jeronimo
teacher and essayist, a leading 18th-century Spanish stylist. [2 Related Articles]
feile-breacan
(from the article "kilt") The kilt and plaid ensemble developed in 17th-century Scotland from the feile-breacan, a long piece of woolen cloth whose pleated first half was wrapped around the wearer's waist, while the ...
Feilner, Simon
(from the article "pottery") ...establish the Hochst factory, which began manufacture about 1752. This factory is principally noted for excellent figures in the Neoclassical style by Johann Peter Melchior and for the work of ...
Feilongus youngi
(from the article "Life Sciences") Feilongus youngi and Nurhachius ignaciobritoi were two newly described Early Cretaceous pterosaurs from northeastern China that paleontologists related to pterosaur groups previously unknown in China. Feilongus exhibited two crests on ...
Feingold, Russell
(from the article "McCain, John") ...McCain was mildly rebuked for exercising "poor judgment." Duly embarrassed, McCain became a champion of campaign finance reform; he collaborated with the liberal Democratic senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and, ...
Feininger, Andreas
American photographer and writer on photographic technique, noted for his photos of nature and cityscapes. [1 Related Articles]
Feininger, Lyonel
American artist whose paintings and teaching activities at the Bauhaus brought a new compositional discipline and lyrical use of colour into the predominantly Expressionistic art of Germany. [3 Related Articles]
Feinstein, Dianne Goldman
American politician, who was the first woman mayor of San Francisco (1978-88) and the first woman U.S. senator to represent California (from 1992).
Feinstein, Elaine
British writer and translator who examined her own eastern European heritage in a number of novels and collections of poetry.
Feinstein, Rachel
(from the article "Fashions") Fashion designers looked beyond Hollywood for inspiration. The muse for the Jacobs autumn-winter collection and advertising campaign was New York sculptor Rachel Feinstein, famed for her experimental work, her mostly ...
feiqian
(from the article "China") ...briefly went into circulation. With increasing commerce, various paper credit instruments were also developed, the best-known being drafts for transmitting funds called feiqian ("flying money"). Somewhat later ...
Feira de Santana
city, northeastern Bahia estado (state), northeastern Brazil. It lies between the Jacuipe and Pojuca rivers, at 820 feet (250 metres) above sea level. Formerly spelled Feira de ...
Feit, Walter
(from the article "algebra, modern") In 1963 a landmark paper by the American mathematicians Walter Feit and John Thompson showed that if a finite simple group is not merely the group of rotations of a ...
Fejer
megye (county), central Hungary, occupying an area in the eastern portion of Transdanubia. It is bordered by the counties of Komarom-Esztergom to the north, Pest and Bacs-Kiskun to the east, ...
Feke, Robert
British-American painter whose portraits depict the emerging colonial aristocracy.
Fela
Nigerian musician and activist (b. Oct. 15, 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria--d. Aug. 2, 1997, Lagos, Nigeria), launched a modern African-based music called afro-beat, which fuses American blues, jazz, and funk with ... [1 Related Articles]
Felapton
(from the article "logic, history of") Third figure:Darapti, Disamis, Datisi, Felapton,
Feld, Eliot
American dancer, choreographer, and director.
Feld, Mount
(from the article "Black Forest") ...part comprises forested sandstone; and it is bordered to the south by a narrow band of lower and more fertile limestone. Divided into two parts by the deep Kinzig Valley, ...
Feld, Steven
(from the article "music and dance, Oceanic") For the Kaluli, a group of rain-forest dwellers in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, the American anthropologist Steven Feld has demonstrated the integration of diverse musical structures ...
Feldkirch
town, western Austria. It lies along the Ill River, near the Liechtenstein border, about 48 miles (77 km) east-southeast of Zurich, Switzerland. First mentioned as Veldkirichae (Veldkirichum) in 830, the ...
Feldman, David Henry
(from the article "prodigy") The American psychologists David Henry Feldman and Martha Morelock summarized late 20th-century research on prodigies to identify those inherent traits and environmental influences that contribute to the development of a ...
Feldman, Lew
(from the article "Chocolate, Kid") ...24, 1933, when he was knocked out in the second round. Although Chocolate was recognized in New York as the "world" featherweight champion following his 12th-round knockout of American Lew ...
Feldman, Morton
American avant-garde composer associated with John Cage. [1 Related Articles]
feldsher
(from the article "medicine") ...have traditionally been common, and much of the physician's time is spent in performing routine checkups for preventive purposes. Some patients in sparsely populated rural areas may be seen first ...
feldspar
any of a group of aluminosilicate minerals that contain calcium, sodium, or potassium. Feldspars make up more than half the Earth's crust, and professional literature about them constitutes a large ... [15 Related Articles]
feldspathic glaze
(from the article "pottery") Basically, there are four principal kinds of glazes: feldspathic, lead, tin, and salt. (Modern technology has produced new glazes that fall into none of these categories while remaining a type ...
feldspathoid
any of a group of alkali aluminosilicate minerals similar to the feldspars in chemical composition but either having a lower silica-alkali ratio or containing chloride, sulfide, sulfate, or carbonate. They ...
Felibien, Andre
(from the article "art criticism") ...establish an artistic program on a rational basis and that also regards art as the exemplification and embodiment of ideas (and as such theoretical)-came into its own in the 17th ...
Felibrige
association organized in the 19th century for the maintenance of the Provencal customs and language that stimulated the renaissance of the literature, language, and customs of the whole of southern ... [3 Related Articles]
Feliciano, Felice
(from the article "calligraphy") Later in the 15th century the rage for epigraphic (inscriptional) lettering brought into the field such enthusiasts as Cyriacus of Ancona, Felice Feliciano and Giovanni Giocondo of Verona, and Giovanni ...
Felicitas
Roman goddess of good luck to whom a temple was first built in the mid-2nd century BC. She became the special protector of successful commanders. Caesar planned to erect another ...
Felinae
(from the article "feline") ...early in the evolution of mammals, for the early cats were already typical cats at a time when the ancestors of most other modern mammalian species were scarcely recognizable. Cats ...
feline
any of 37 cat species that among others include the cheetah, puma, jaguar, leopard, lion, lynx, tiger, and domestic cat. Cats are native to almost every region on Earth, with ... [20 Related Articles]
feline distemper
viral disease of cats, kittens two to six months old being most susceptible. Highly contagious, it is caused by a parvovirus that is closely related to canine parvovirus type 2. ... [1 Related Articles]
feline leukemia
viral disease of cats, one of the most serious diseases affecting domestic cats and a few other Felidae. The disease occurs worldwide. Signs include enlargement of the lymph nodes, depression, ...
feline respiratory disease
a complex of viral contagions of cats (including rhinotracheitis, pneumonitis, and influenza), marked by fever, sneezing, and running eyes and nose. Rhinotracheitis and pneumonitis are the most common and have ...
Felis
(from the article "feline") 29 species, found worldwide except Antarctica, but introduced to Australia.6 Old World species, including the wildcat and domestic cat.
Felix
bishop of Urgel, Spain, one of the chief proponents of Adoptionism (q.v.). [2 Related Articles]
Felix (II)
antipope from 355 to 365. Originally an archdeacon, Felix was irregularly installed as pope in 355 after the emperor Constantius banished the reigning pope, Liberius. In May 357 the Roman ... [3 Related Articles]
Felix I, Saint
pope from 269 to 274. Elected to succeed St. Dionysius, Felix was the author of an important dogmatic letter on the unity of Christ's Person. He received the emperor Aurelian's ...
Felix III, Saint
pope from 483 to 492. He succeeded St. Simplicius on March 13. Felix excommunicated Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, in 484 for publishing with the emperor Zeno a document called the ... [1 Related Articles]
Felix IV, Saint
pope from 526 to 530. He was elected on July 12 as the choice of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, who had imprisoned Felix' predecessor, St. John I, ... [4 Related Articles]
Felix of Nola, Saint
(from the article "Paulinus Of Nola, Saint") ...verse, to which Paulinus replied in poetical epistles. Paulinus' style generally echoes that of such classical authors as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. His poems (395-407) on the feast day of ...
Felix of Valois, Saint
legendary religious hermit who, with St. John of Matha, has traditionally been considered a cofounder of the Trinitarians, a Roman Catholic religious order. Felix' existence is known only from a ... [1 Related Articles]
Felix, Allyson
(from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") American sprinters Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix won three gold medals each. For Gay, who placed fourth in the 200 m at the 2005 championships, a battle with world record ...