| | - Five Good Emperors
- the ancient Roman imperial succession of Nerva (reigned AD 96-98), Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161), and Marcus Aurelius (161-180), who presided over the most majestic days of the ...
- Five Great Kings
- in Tibetan Buddhism, a group of five deified heroes popularly worshiped as protection against enemies. Some accounts suggest they were five brothers who came to Tibet from northern Mongolia, and ...
- five hundred
- card game for two to six players, devised in 1904 by the United States Playing Card Company. Though later eclipsed by bridge, it still has a substantial American following and ...
- Five Pecks of Rice
- great Taoist-inspired popular movement that occurred near the end of China's Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) and greatly weakened the government. The Five Pecks of Rice movement became a prototype ...
- Five, The
- group of five Russian composers-Cesar Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov-who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of ...
- Five-Power Constitution
- system of government proposed by the Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen in 1905 as the means through which democracy could be implemented in China after the overthrow of the imperial ...
- fives
- a ball game played by two or four players in a court enclosed on three or four sides, the hard ball being struck with the hand usually protected by a ...
- Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis
- French physicist noted for his experimental determination of the speed of light.
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