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- (from the article "harvester") Harvesters are distinguished by their predatory habits during the larval stage. The squat, hairy larvae of Feniseca tarquinius, known in some areas as wanderers, attack aphids and are generally found ...
- Fenland
- district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, England. The district, in northern Cambridgeshire, covers only a part of the drained area of the Fens, from which it takes its name. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fenn, John B.
- American scientist who, with Tanaka Koichi and Kurt Wuthrich, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological molecules.
- fennec
- (species Fennecus zerda), desert-dwelling fox, family Canidae, found in north Africa and the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas. The fennec is characterized by its small size (head and body length 36-41 ... [2 Related Articles]
- fennel
- (species Foeniculum vulgare), perennial or biennial aromatic herb of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). According to a Greek myth, knowledge came to man from Olympus in the form of a fiery ...
- Fenneman, George
- American entertainer who was best known for his role as announcer and straight-man sidekick to Groucho Marx on the quiz show "You Bet Your Life" on radio for 3 years ...
- Fenno, John
- publisher and editor, founder in 1789 of the Gazette of the United States, a major political organ of the Federalist Party.
- Fennoman movement
- in 19th-century Finnish history, nationalist movement that contributed to the development of the Finnish language and literature and achieved for Finnish a position of official equality with Swedish-the language of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fenoglio, Beppe
- Italian novelist who wrote of the struggle against fascism and Nazism during World War II. Much of his best work was not published until after his death. [1 Related Articles]
- Fenollosa, Ernest F.
- American Orientalist and educator who made a significant contribution to the preservation of traditional art in Japan. [4 Related Articles]
- Fenrir
- monstrous wolf of Norse mythology. He was the son of the demoniac god Loki and a giantess, Angerboda. Fearing Fenrir's strength and knowing that only evil could be expected of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Fens
- natural region of about 15,500 sq mi (40,100 sq km) of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, extending north to south between Lincoln and Cambridge. Across its surface the Rivers Witham, ... [4 Related Articles]
- fenster
- (from the article "nappe") ...In places, erosion may cut into the nappe so deeply that a circular or elliptical patch of the younger, underlying rock is exposed and completely surrounded by the older rock; ...
- fentanyl
- -(1-phenethyl-4-piperidyl)propionanilide, synthetic narcotic analgesic drug, the most potent narcotic in clinical use (50 to 100 times more potent than morphine). The citrate salt, fentanyl citrate, is administered ...
- fente
- (from the article "inheritance") ...jus recadentiae, the principle has disappeared, except in the Spanish province of Aragon. But France has preserved the related ideas of the fente and the
- Fenton
- (from the article "Merry Wives of Windsor, The") ...including Anne Page, in witch and fairy costumes, to frighten and tease him. The marriage plans conceived by Master and Mistress Page are foiled when Anne elopes with the suitor ...
- Fenton, Elijah
- English poet perhaps best known for his collaboration in a translation of the Greek epic poem Odyssey with Alexander Pope and William Broome. [1 Related Articles]
- Fenton, Lavinia
- English actress and colourful social figure who created the role of Polly Peachum in John Gay's masterwork, The Beggar's Opera.
- Fenton, Roger
- English photographer best known for his pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war. [1 Related Articles]
- Fenton, William
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...The most famous case is the national anthem, "Kimi ga yo," which was one of the few successful early attempts at combining Western and Japanese traditions. A British bandmaster, William ...
- fenugreek
- (species Trigonella foenum-graecum), slender annual herb of the pea family (Fabaceae) or its dried seeds, used as a food, a flavouring, and a medicine. The seeds' aroma and taste are ...
- Fenway Park
- (from the article "Boston") ...In 1903 thousands of Bostonians flocked to see the Boston Red Sox play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series, and the home team won several more championships following ...
- Fenwick, John
- (from the article "Salem") ...New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Salem River near the latter's confluence with the Delaware River, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1675 ...
- Feodosiya
- city, southern Ukraine. It lies on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula on the western shores of Feodosiya Bay. [2 Related Articles]
- Feofanova, Svetlana
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...she later won a gold in the long jump, becoming the first athlete to win titles in both events. Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva defeated Russian teammate and rival Svetlana Feofanova ...
- feoffment
- in English law, the granting of a free inheritance of land (fee simple) to a man and his heirs. The delivery of possession (livery of seisin) was done on the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Feoktistov, Konstantin Petrovich
- Russian spacecraft designer and cosmonaut who took part, with Vladimir M. Komarov and Boris B. Yegorov, in the world's first multimanned spaceflight, Voskhod 1 (1964). [1 Related Articles]
- Feore, Colm
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...the largest classical repertory theatre in North America, displayed artistic vigour in its next-to-last year under the stewardship of artistic director Richard Monette. Stage and film actor Colm Feore was ...
- fer-de-lance
- (from the article "fer-de-lance") The common French name fer-de-lance, or "lance head," is sometimes applied collectively to all snakes of the Central and South American genus Bothrops and the Asian genus Trimeresurus. Among these ...
- fer-de-lance
- (genus Bothrops), extremely venomous snake of the viper family (Viperidae), found throughout tropical America in diverse habitats from cultivated lands to tropical forests. The fer-de-lance, known in Spanish as barba ...
- Feraferia
- (from the article "Neo-Paganism") ...the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia. Some of the major Neo-Pagan groups are the Church of All Worlds, the largest of all the pagan movements, which centres on worship of ...
- Ferahan carpet
- handwoven floor covering from the Farahan district, northeast of Arak in western Iran, produced in the 19th or early 20th century. Like the rugs of Ser-e Band, Ferahans have been ... [1 Related Articles]
- feral pigeon
- (from the article "columbiform") ...more efficient and brought greater financial reward to supply nations with bread than to raise dovecote pigeons for food. The release of thousands of pigeons, together with escapes, established the ...
- Feralia
- (from the article "Parentalia") ...gradually extended, however, to incorporate the dead in general. During the days of the festival, all temples were closed and no weddings could be performed. On the last day a ...
- Feraoun, Mouloud
- Algerian novelist and teacher whose works give vivid and warm portraits of Berber life and values.
- Ferber, Edna
- American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life.
- Ferber, Herbert
- (from the article "Western sculpture") The argument that modern sculpture is inappropriate for religious requirements is disproved by works of Lipchitz, Lassaw, and Herbert Ferber. In keeping with the Jewish preference for nonfigural art, Ferber's ...
- ferberite
- (from the article "ferberite") iron-rich variety of the mineral wolframite (q.v.).variety of wolframitewolframiteWolframite consists of a mixture i
- Ferbey, Randy
- (from the article "Curling") In Victoria, B.C., Randy Ferbey's Canadian team won its third men's world championship in four years. Ferbey won eight consecutive games, including a tiebreaker, and easily defeated Scotland's David Murdoch ...
- Ferddig, Afan
- (from the article "Celtic literature") ...between the 7th and 10th centuries is represented by a few scattered poems, most of them in the heroic tradition, including Moliant Cadwallon ("The Eulogy of Cadwallon"), by Afan Ferddig, ...
- Ferdinand
- prince (1887-1908) and first king (1908-18) of modern Bulgaria. [4 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand
- duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Prussian general field marshal who defended western Germany for his brother-in-law Frederick II the Great in the Seven Years' War (1756-63), protecting the Prussian flank from ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand
- (from the article "Saxon duchies") ...in 1831 as Leopold I. Another, Albert, became the prince consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain in 1840, and from them have descended the five British sovereigns of the ...
- Ferdinand
- (from the article "Bouvines, Battle of") ...that gave a decisive victory to the French king Philip II Augustus over an international coalition of the Holy Roman emperor Otto IV, King John of England, and the French ...
- Ferdinand
- (from the article "Love's Labour's Lost") The play opens as Ferdinand, the king of Navarre, and three of his noblemen-Berowne (Biron), Longaville, and Dumaine (Dumain)-debate their intellectual intentions. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when ...
- Ferdinand
- (from the article "Tempest, The") ...As the play begins, Prospero raises the tempest in order to cast onto the shores of his island a party of Neapolitans returning to Naples from a wedding in Tunis: ...
- Ferdinand (I)
- emperor of Austria from 1835 to 1848, when he abdicated his throne. [6 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- king of Aragon from 1412 to 1416, second son of John I of Castile and Eleanor, daughter of Peter IV of Aragon. [6 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- ninth king of Portugal (1367-83), whose reign was marked by three wars with Castile and by the growth of the Portuguese economy. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- king of Naples from 1458. [2 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- Holy Roman emperor (1558-64) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, who, with his Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise ... [16 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- the first ruler of Castile to take the title of king. He also was crowned emperor of Leon. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- king of Romania from 1914 to 1927, who, though a Hohenzollern and a believer in German strength, joined the Allies in World War I.
- Ferdinand I
- king of the Two Sicilies (1816-25) who earlier (1759-1806), as Ferdinand IV of Naples, led his kingdom in its fight against the French Revolution and its liberal ideas. A relatively ... [12 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand I
- third grand duke (granduca) of Tuscany (1587-1609), who greatly increased the strength and prosperity of the country. [6 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- Holy Roman emperor (1619-37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617-19, 1620-27), and king of Hungary (1618-25). He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist ... [18 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I. (As Spanish ruler of southern Italy, he was also known as Ferdinand ... [24 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- second husband of Queen Maria II of Portugal, who proclaimed him king consort with the title of Ferdinand II upon the birth of their first son (the future Peter V) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- prince of Capua, duke of Calabria, and king of Naples (1495-96), who recovered his kingdom from French occupation.
- Ferdinand II
- king of Leon from 1157 to 1188, second son of Alfonso VII. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- fifth grand duke (granduca) of Tuscany, a patron of sciences, whose rule was subservient to Rome. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand II
- king of the Two Sicilies from 1830. He was the son of the future King Francis I and the Spanish infanta Maria Isabel, a member of the branch of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand III
- king of Castile from 1217 to 1252 and of Leon from 1230 to 1252 and conqueror of the Muslim cities of Cordoba (1236), Jaen (1246), and Sevilla (1248). During his ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand III
- grand duke of Tuscany whose moderate, enlightened rule distinguished him from other Italian princes of his time. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand III
- Holy Roman emperor who headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years' War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia. [5 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand IV
- king of Bohemia (from 1646) and of Hungary (from 1647) and king of the Romans (from 1653).
- Ferdinand IV
- king of Castile and Leon, succeeding his father, Sancho IV, in 1295. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand Maria
- elector of Bavaria (1651-79), son of Maximilian I. A minor when he succeeded, he did much to repair the wounds caused by the Thirty Years' War, encouraging agriculture and industries, ...
- Ferdinand VI
- third king of Spain of the house of Bourbon, reigning from 1746 to 1759. He pursued a policy of neutrality and gradual reform. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferdinand VII
- king of Spain in 1808 and from 1814 to 1833. Between 1808 and 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars, Ferdinand was imprisoned in France by Napoleon. [16 Related Articles]
- Ferdinandeum
- (from the article "Innsbruck") ...of Hofer and other Tirolian heroes. The university was founded by Emperor Leopold I in 1677, and its great library was a gift of the empress Maria Theresa in 1745. ...
- Ferdowsi
- Persian poet, author of the Shah-nameh ("Book of Kings"), the Persian national epic, to which he gave its final and enduring form, although he based his poem mainly on an ... [10 Related Articles]
- Ferencvaros
- (from the article "Football") ...were widespread. Two of the foremost Hungarian clubs were affected. Honved was suspended by the league over failure to pay a former employee, but the Hungarian federation overturned the decision. ...
- Ferenczi, Sandor
- Hungarian psychoanalyst noted for his contributions to psychoanalytic theory and his experimentation with techniques of therapy. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferentino
- town, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. The town is situated on a hill that commands the Sacco valley and the Via Casilina (the ancient Roman road Via Latina), 46 miles ...
- Fergana
- oblast (province) eastern Uzbekistan, with an area of 2,750 square miles (7,100 square km) in the southwestern Fergana valley. The climate is continental with hot summers and moderately cold winters. ...
- Fergana
- city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies at the foot of the Alay Mountains in the southern part of the Fergana Valley. It was founded by the Russians in 1877 as the ...
- Fergana Range
- (from the article "Asia") ...(4,000 metres). The eastern margin of the highlands, meanwhile, underwent subsidences of up to 2,300 feet (700 metres). Uplifting as a result of fractures at great depths, of which the ...
- Fergana Valley
- enormous depression between the Tien Shan and Gissar and Alay mountain systems, lying mainly in eastern Uzbekistan and partly in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The roughly triangular valley has an area ... [10 Related Articles]
- Fergus
- (from the article "Medb") ...with an insatiable sexual appetite. The list of her mates is impressive; at the time of the battle against Ulster, the king Ailill was her mate, but she also had ...
- Fergus
- (from the article "Wigtownshire") ...established hegemony in the area. With the Norse conquest Wigtown became part of Galloway, a district that was ruled by Scots-Norse kings and that covered most of southwestern Scotland. In ...
- Fergus Falls
- city, seat (1872) of Otter Tail county, west-central Minnesota, U.S. It lies along the Otter Tail River in a lake area, about 115 miles (185 km) northwest of St. Cloud ...
- Fergus mac Leti, saga of
- (from the article "Celtic literature") Stories popular with the fili steadily dropped out of favour. Sometimes they were combined with folktale elements, as was the case with the very old saga of Fergus mac Leti, ...
- Ferguson rifle
- (from the article "Ferguson, Patrick") British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle.
- Ferguson tractor
- (from the article "Ferguson, Harry George") British industrialist who designed and manufactured agricultural machines, notably the Ferguson tractor.
- Ferguson, Abbie Park
- American educator, a founder and preserver of Huguenot College as the only women's college in South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Ferguson, Adam
- historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school of philosophy who is remembered as a forerunner of modern sociology for his emphasis on social interactions. Ferguson's article on history ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ferguson, Donald
- (from the article "music") ...in music, though this emotional content may be extramusical (even if not explicit) in origin, according to the American theorists John Hospers in Meaning and Truth in the Arts (1946) ...
- Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme
- early American writer, perhaps best remembered for her personal correspondence, journal, and salons and for her incongruously pro-British actions during the American Revolution.
- Ferguson, Harry George
- British industrialist who designed and manufactured agricultural machines, notably the Ferguson tractor.
- Ferguson, Lake
- (from the article "Greenville") ...Union troops during the American Civil War. The present city was established on the Blantonia Plantation during the Reconstruction period. After a disastrous flood in 1927, higher levees were built. ...
- Ferguson, Maynard
- Canadian jazz musician (b. May 4, 1928, Verdun [now Montreal], Que.-d. Aug. 23, 2006, Ventura, Calif.), was a virtuoso trumpet player who thrilled audiences by playing solos in phenomenally high ...
- Ferguson, Patrick
- British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferguson, Robert
- Scottish conspirator and pamphleteer known as "the Plotter," who gave indiscriminate support to the opponents of Charles II and James II and then to the Jacobites against William III. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferguson, Samuel
- (from the article "Irish literature") Samuel Ferguson was an Ulster Protestant, unionist, and cultural nationalist whose poetry and prose, as well as antiquarian work, provided foundational texts for the Gaelic revival of the 1830s and ...
- Ferguson, Samuel David
- first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church.
- Ferguson, Tom R.
- American cowboy who six times consecutively (1974-79) won the all-around cowboy title of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (before 1975, the Rodeo Cowboys Association), breaking Larry Mahan's record of five ...
- Ferguson, William
- (from the article "Australia") ...government control policy. In 1932 the formation, under William Cooper, of the Australian Aboriginals League spurred black political action-which had some history back to the 1840s. Cooper and William Ferguson ...
- fergusonite
- (from the article "rare-earth element") The niobium titanate minerals, such as fergusonite, euxenite, samarskite, and blomstrandine, are rich in the heavy rare-earth elements but are not used much commercially. The same is true of such ...
- Fergusson Island
- largest of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island lies 30 miles (50 km) across Ward Hunt Strait from the southeastern tip of New ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fergusson, Robert
- Scottish poet who was one of the leading figures of the 18th-century revival of Scots vernacular writing and the chief forerunner of Robert Burns.
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