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- Mexican actress (b. May 4, 1914, Alamos, Sonora, Mex.-d. April 8, 2002, Mexico City, Mex.), used her extraordinary looks and fiery personality to propel herself from unknown to overnight star ...
- Felixstowe
- town (parish) and seaport, Suffolk Coastal district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. Although situated on the east coast, the town in fact faces south and has a frontage ... [1 Related Articles]
- Felker, Clay Schuette
- American magazine editor was credited with the creation of a widely imitated magazine formula during his tenure as editor of New York magazine, which combined glossy pages and unique typography ...
- Fell, John
- English Anglican priest, author, editor, and typographer who as dean and bishop at Oxford was a benefactor to the University of Oxford and its press.
- Fell, Norman
- American character actor in motion pictures and on television who was known especially for his role as the nosy and cranky landlord Stanley Roper on the TV sitcom "Three's Company" ...
- fellah
- (from the article "Nile River") ...density in the cultivated parts of the floodplain south of the delta is more than 3,320 per square mile (1,280 per square kilometre). This great population, composed mostly of peasant ...
- Fellenberg, Philipp Emanuel von
- Swiss philanthropist and educational reformer. [1 Related Articles]
- feller
- (from the article "wood") In contrast to the labour intensiveness of such traditional harvesting, a great variety of machines are available for all the above operations. Felling machines (fellers) are equipped with shears, chain ...
- Feller, Bob
- American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher whose fastball made him a frequent leader in games won and strikeouts during his 18-year career with the Cleveland Indians of the American ...
- Felling
- town, Gateshead metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Tyne. The town grew rapidly at the end of the ...
- felling
- (from the article "wood") Harvesting includes marking the trees to be removed (in selective cutting), felling and processing (conversion) of trees, and transportation of the wood from the felling site, or stump area, to ...
- felling ax
- (from the article "hand tool") ...delicate in design; their iron successors soon gained size and developed in character and effectiveness to display specialized forms. Of these, two are especially important. First, there was the felling ...
- Fellini, Federico
- Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and distinctive filmmakers of the period after World War II. Early in his career he helped inaugurate the Neorealist cinema ... [9 Related Articles]
- fellow servant defense
- (from the article "insurance") The fellow servant defense has been used at times by employers; an employer would argue in some cases that the injury to an employee was caused not by the employer's ...
- fellow traveller
- originally, a writer in the Soviet Union who was not against the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but did not actively support it as a propagandist. The term was used in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fellowes, Julian
- (from the article "2001: Other Winners") Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Julian Fellowes for Gosford ParkScreenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful MindCinematography: Andrew Lesnie for The Lord of ...
- Fellows, F. W.
- (from the article "machine tool") ...fully automatic in some operations, such as making screws, and it presaged the momentous developments of the 20th century. Various gear-cutting machines reached their full development in 1896 when F.W. ...
- Fellows, Sir Charles
- English archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of Lycia-in antiquity a region of present-day southwestern Turkey-and transported a large number of marble sculptures to England.
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- (from the article "Congress of Racial Equality") ...1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. Farmer had been working as the race-relations secretary for the American branch of the pacifist group Fellowship of ...
- Felltham, Owen
- English essayist and poet, best known for his essays Resolves Divine, Morall, and Politicall, in which the striking images (some borrowed by the poet Henry Vaughan) are held to be ...
- Feloidea
- (from the article "carnivore") The arrangement of the nine terrestrial families into two distinct superfamilies, Canoidea and Feloidea (or Aeluroidea), appears to be a natural arrangement dating back to the works of W.H. Flower ...
- felony and misdemeanour
- in Anglo-American law, classification of criminal offenses according to the seriousness of the crime. [4 Related Articles]
- felony murder rule
- (from the article "crime") ...sufficient to provoke a reasonable person into acting in the same way as the accused) could result in a verdict of manslaughter, even if the killing was intentional. On the ...
- Felou gundi
- (from the article "gundi") ...Tunisia, and Libya, but the Mzab gundi (Massoutiera mzabi) has the largest range, extending from southeastern Algeria through southwestern Libya to northern Mali, Niger, and Chad. The Felou gundi (Felovia ...
- Felsch, Oscar
- (from the article "Black Sox Scandal") ...Gandil, shortstop Charles ("Swede") Risberg, third baseman George ("Buck") Weaver, outfielders Joe ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson and Oscar ("Happy") Felsch, and pinch hitter Fred McMullin. Court records suggest that the eight ...
- Felsegg Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") Other notable bridges by Maillart are the bridge over the Thur at Felsegg (1933), the Schwandbach Bridge near Hinterfultigen (1933), and the Toss River footbridge near Wulflingen (1934). The Felsegg ...
- Felsenau Viaduct
- (from the article "bridge") ...arch with a span of 98 metres (328 feet), shows Menn's characteristic use of a wide, prestressed concrete deck slab cantilevering laterally from both sides of a single box. For ...
- felsenmeer
- (German: "sea of rock"), exposed rock surfaces that have been quickly broken up by frost action so that much rock is buried under a cover of angular shattered boulders. These ... [2 Related Articles]
- felsic and mafic rocks
- division of igneous rocks on the basis of their silica content. Chemical analyses of the most abundant components in rocks usually are presented as oxides of the elements; igneous rocks ... [5 Related Articles]
- Felsina
- city founded by Etruscans c. 510 BC on the site of modern Bologna, Italy, an area rich in Villanovan Iron Age remains. By the mid-4th century Felsina had fallen to ...
- felt
- (from the article "floor covering") Printed felt base is formed by applying a heavy film of paint to felt saturated with asphalt; the felt is sealed at both the top and bottom with one or ...
- Felt, W. Mark
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") In 2005 Vanity Fair magazine shocked the world when, in its July issue, it became the first publication to reveal that W. Mark Felt, the 91-year-old former associate director of ...
- felting
- consolidation of certain fibrous materials by the application of heat, moisture, and mechanical action, causing the interlocking, or matting, of fibres possessing felting properties. Such fibres include wool, fur, and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Felton, John
- (from the article "Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of") ...favourite, but the king was unflinchingly loyal to his friend. On August 17 Buckingham arrived at Portsmouth to organize another expedition to La Rochelle. Five days later he was stabbed ...
- Felton, Rebecca Ann
- American political activist, writer, and lecturer, the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate.
- Felton, William H.
- (from the article "Felton, Rebecca Ann") Rebecca Latimer was graduated first in her class from the Madison Female College, Madison, Georgia, in 1852 and the following year married William H. Felton, a local physician active in ...
- Feltre
- hill town, Veneto regione, northern Italy. Grouped around Alboino Castle, notable buildings include the cathedral, with a 14th-century campanile and a carved Byzantine cross of the 6th century, and the ...
- Felty syndrome
- (from the article "joint disease") ...unrelated disorders. In about one-third of the cases of Sjogren syndrome, there is also rheumatoid arthritis, and high levels of rheumatoid factors are usually present in the bloodstream. In Felty ...
- Felzenboym, Mikhal
- (from the article "Literature") ...a background of the turbulent events of the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, Russia (now Chisinau, Moldova), that claimed several thousand victims. One of the leading post-World War II poets and ...
- female
- (from the article "heredity") ...of the sex cells could the essentials of heredity be grasped. Before that time, ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle (4th century BC) speculated that the relative contributions of the ...
- female condom
- (from the article "contraception") ...sperm from entering the uterus-by sheathing the penis with a condom, by covering the uterine cervix with a diaphragm or cervical cap (used with a spermicidal cream or jelly), or ...
- female genital cutting
- ritual surgical procedure that is traditional in some societies. FGC has been practiced by a wide variety of cultures and as a result includes a number of related procedures and ... [3 Related Articles]
- female impersonation
- (from the article "transvestism") Some male cross-dressers are professional female impersonators, entertainers who usually impersonate female celebrities. Entertainers who cross-dress (usually quite unconvincingly) to comic effect are quite popular in some cultures, particularly in ...
- feme sole
- in Anglo-American common law, a woman in the unmarried state or in the legally established equivalent of that state. The concept derived from feudal Norman custom and was prevalent through ...
- femic rock
- (from the article "igneous rock") ...two groups: mafic, rocks with 45 to 55 percent silica and ultramafic, those containing less than 45 percent. The subsilicic rocks, enriched as they are in iron (Fe) and magnesium ...
- feminine caesura
- (from the article "caesura") Types of caesura that are differentiated in modern prosody are the masculine caesura, a caesura that follows a stressed or long syllable, and the feminine caesura, which follows an unstressed ...
- feminine ending
- in prosody, a line of verse having an unstressed and usually extrametrical syllable at its end. In the opening lines from Robert Frost's poem "Directive," the fourth line has a ...
- feminine gender
- (from the article "gender") Among modern Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian, nouns are classified into two genders, masculine and feminine. Russian and German nouns are grouped into three genders, the third ...
- feminine rhyme
- in poetry, a rhyme involving two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). The term feminine rhyme is also sometimes applied to triple rhymes, or rhymes involving ... [1 Related Articles]
- feminism
- the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to ... [16 Related Articles]
- femoral artery
- (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...each of which descends laterally and gives rise to external and internal branches. The right and left external iliac arteries are direct continuations of the common iliacs and become known ...
- femoral nerve
- (from the article "nervous system, human") The sartorius muscle and medial and anterior surfaces of the thigh are served by branches of the anterior division of the femoral nerve. The posterior division of the femoral nerve ...
- femoral vein
- (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...The latter vein, the longest in the body, extends from the dorsal venous arch up the inside of the lower leg and thigh, receiving venous branches from the knee and ...
- femtometre
- (from the article "atom") ...football field. In volume the nucleus takes up only 10−14 of the space in the atom-i.e., 1 part in 100 trillion. A convenient unit of length for measuring nuclear sizes ...
- femtosecond spectroscopy
- (from the article "Zewail, Ahmed H.") ...was able to view the motion of atoms and molecules using a method based on new laser technology capable of producing light flashes just tens of femtoseconds in duration. During ...
- femur
- upper bone of the leg or hind leg. The head forms a ball-and-socket joint with the hip (at the acetabulum), being held in place by a ligament (ligamentum teres femoris) ... [10 Related Articles]
- fen
- type of bog (q.v.), especially a low-lying area, wholly or partly covered with water and dominated by grasslike plants, grasses, sedges, and reeds. In strict usage, a fen denotes an ... [3 Related Articles]
- fen colony
- (from the article "Emmen") gemeente (municipality), northeastern Netherlands, on the Hondsrug ridge. It was a centre of the peat colonies (veenkolonien) established in the 19th century to convert the surrounding peat fields to agricultural ...
- fen orchid
- (from the article "twayblade") ...dull-coloured, purplish flowers borne in a terminal spike. The flowers of the large twayblade (Liparis lilifolia) of eastern North America have thin, slender side petals and a broad lip. The ...
- Fen River
- river in Shanxi province, northern China. The Fen River is an eastern tributary of the Huang He (Yellow River). After rising in the Guancen Mountains in northwestern Shanxi, it flows ... [2 Related Articles]
- Fen River Valley
- (from the article "Shansi") ...of the southern border with Honan Province. The southwest corner of the province is part of the highland region that extends from Kansu to Honan provinces and is covered with ...
- Fen-hsi
- (from the article "Shansi") ...is mined from vast deposits in the Ma-an Mountains district of central Shansi. The largest titanium and vanadium (metallic elements used in alloys such as steel) deposits in China are ...
- fence
- (from the article "Moll Cutpurse") most notorious female member of 17th-century England's underworld, a friend of highwaymen and a receiver of stolen goods.
- fence
- barrier erected to confine or exclude people or animals, to define boundaries, or to decorate. Timber, earth, stone, and metal are widely used for fencing. Fences of living plants have ...
- fenchyl alcohol
- (from the article "isoprenoid") ...alpha-pinene with acids under various conditions leads to a host of products, among which are terpinolene, the terpinenes, alpha-terpineol, and terpin, previously mentioned, as well as borneol, fenchyl alcohol, and ...
- fencing
- organized sport involving the use of the sword-epee, foil, or sabre-for attack and defense according to set movements and rules. Although the use of swords dates to prehistoric times and ... [22 Related Articles]
- Fender Stratocaster
- (from the article "Shadows, the") ...the Drifters prefaced the release of the first of the Shadows' singles. The group's trademark was the smooth, twangy sound produced by lead guitarist Marvin's lavish use of the tremolo ...
- Fender Telecaster
- (from the article "Fender, Leo") Together with George Fullerton, Fender developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, in 1948. Called the Fender Broadcaster (renamed the Telecaster in 1950), it was produced under the auspices of ...
- Fender, Freddy
- American singer (b. June 4, 1937, San Benito, Texas-d. Oct. 14, 2006, Corpus Christi, Texas), scored number one hits on the country charts in 1975 with "Wasted Days and Wasted ...
- Fender, Leo
- American inventor and manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. [1 Related Articles]
- Fenech Adami, Eddie
- Maltese political leader who became prime minister in 1987 and again in 1998. [4 Related Articles]
- Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-
- French archbishop, theologian, and man of letters whose liberal views on politics and education and whose involvement in a controversy over the nature of mystical prayer caused concerted opposition from ... [12 Related Articles]
- Fenestella
- Latin poet and annalist whose lost work, the Annales, apparently contained a valuable store of antiquarian matter as well as historical narrative of the final century of the Roman Republic. ...
- Fenestella
- genus of extinct bryozoans, small colonial animals, especially characteristic of the Early Carboniferous Period (360 to 320 million years ago). Close study of Fenestella reveals a branching network of structures ...
- fenestration operation
- (from the article "ear, human") ...as much as 60 decibels (1,000-fold), which represents a significant degree of impairment. Bypassing the ossicular chain through the surgical creation of a new window, as can be accomplished with ...
- feng
- (from the article "Tai, Mount") ...in the cult of official state rituals, Mount Tai was the site of two of the most spectacular of all the ceremonies of the traditional Chinese empire. One of them, ...
- Feng Chih
- (from the article "Chinese literature") ...Others, particularly those who had at first gravitated toward the Crescent Moon Society, began striking out in various directions: notable works of these authors include the contemplative sonnets of Feng ...
- Feng Dao
- Chinese Confucian minister generally given credit for instigating the first printing of the Confucian Classics, in 932. As a result, Confucian texts became cheap and accessible, the number of scholars ...
- Feng Guifen
- Chinese scholar and official whose ideas were the basis of the Self-Strengthening Movement (1861-95), in which the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12) introduced Western methods and technology in an attempt to renovate ... [1 Related Articles]
- Feng Kuo-chang
- (from the article "China") A third source of opposition came from Yuan's direct subordinates, Generals Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui) and Feng Guozhang (Feng Kuo-chang), whose powers Yuan had attempted to curtail. When he called ...
- Feng Menglong
- (from the article "China") ...cultural heritage. Colloquial short stories also proliferated in Ming times, and collecting anthologies of them became a fad of the last Ming century. The master writer and editor in this ...
- Feng Po
- (from the article "Lei Kung") ...Youth") whips up clouds, and Yu-tzu ("Rain Master") causes downpours by dipping his sword into a pot. Roaring winds rush forth from a type of goatskin bag manipulated by Feng ...
- Feng Xiliang
- Chinese journalist (b. Dec. 1, 1920, Shanghai, China-d. Jan. 30, 2006, Beijing, China), was an American-educated writer who after the 1949 Communist Revolution returned to China and later became a ...
- Feng Youlan
- outstanding Chinese philosopher of the 20th century.
- Feng Yunshan
- Chinese missionary and social reformer, one of the original leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, an uprising that occupied most of South China between 1850 and 1864, brought death to an ... [3 Related Articles]
- Feng Yuxiang
- Chinese warlord, known as the Christian General, who dominated parts of North China from 1918 to 1930. [1 Related Articles]
- Feng-ch'eng
- (from the article "Kiangsi") ...light industries. Coal and tungsten are the most important minerals. The area around P'ing-hsiang in the west is the coking coal capital of south central China; another major coal-mining centre ...
- Feng-fa-yao
- (Chinese: "Essentials of the Dharma"), discussion of Buddhist precepts written in the 4th century AD by Hsi Ch'ao, who, although Taoist, was a great admirer of Buddhism. One of the ...
- feng-ling
- (from the article "wind-bell") ...overwhelming volume of tintinnabulation. In Asia-and also in the ancient Mediterranean-wind-bells served to attract beneficent spirits. In China and Japan (where they are known as fengling and furin, respectively-literally "wind-bell"), ...
- Feng-shan
- shih (municipality) and seat of Kao-hsiung hsien (county), southwestern Taiwan, situated about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kao-hsiung shih in Taiwan's western coastal plain. Developed during a politically unsettled ...
- feng-shui
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...most common forest genus today is Pinus, represented by the native South China red pine and the slash pine, introduced from Australia. Some of the oldest areas ...
- Feng-yuan
- shih (municipality) and seat of T'ai-chung hsien (county), west-central Taiwan, situated about 7 miles (11 km) north of T'ai-chung city, in the western uplands. The city was developed during the ...
- Fenghua
- county-level city, Zhejiang sheng (province), eastern China. Located in a fertile plain area 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Ningbo, Fenghua is an agricultural trade centre (e.g., ...
- fenghuang
- in Chinese mythology, an immortal bird whose rare appearance is said to be an omen foretelling harmony at the ascent to the throne of a new emperor. Like the [1 Related Articles]
- Fengman Dam
- hydroelectric and flood-control project on the Sungari (Songhua) River some 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Jilin (Kirin) in Jilin province, China. The dam was first constructed by the Japanese ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fengtian army
- (from the article "China") ...it was joined by the National People's Army under Feng Yuxiang, part of the Guangxi army, and the Shanxi army of Yan Xishan. In early June they captured Beijing, from ...
- Fengxian Si
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...the style of the Northern Ch'i. T'ang T'ai-tsung was hostile to Buddhism, but his successor, Kao-tsung, and Empress Wu were lavish in their endowments. Under Kao-tsung, the principal cave shrine, ...
- fengzhao
- (from the article "qin") ...of which is called the "dragon pond" (longchi), and the smaller of which is called the "phoenix pool" (fengzhao). The qin's ...
- Fenian
- member of an Irish nationalist secret society active chiefly in Ireland, the United States, and Britain, especially during the 1860s. The name derives from the Fianna Eireann, the legendary band ... [4 Related Articles]
- Fenian cycle
- in Irish literature, tales and ballads centring on the deeds of the legendary Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool) and his war band, the Fianna Eireann. An elite volunteer corps of warriors and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Fenice Theatre, La
- (from the article "Venice") ...orphanages run by churches, incorporated conservatories of music. Antonio Vivaldi was master of music at the Santa Maria della Pieta Hospice between 1703 and 1741. Venice's opera house, La Fenice ...
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