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Ferreira d'Almeida, Joao: (from the article "biblical literature") The first Portuguese New Testament (Amsterdam), the work of Joao Ferreira d'Almeida, did not appear until 1681. The first complete Bible (2 vol., 1748-53) was printed in Batavia (in Holland). ...
Ferreira da Silva, Adhemar: Brazilian athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five world records in the triple jump. He was the first Brazilian to hold a world record in any event and ... [2 Related Articles]
Ferreira de Castro, Jose Maria: journalist and novelist, considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social-realist (or Neorealist) fiction. [1 Related Articles]
Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Jorge: (from the article "Portuguese literature") ...(Pedro) I-by reference to the ancient Greek dramatists Sophocles and Euripides. The theme went on to become a mainstay in European theatre through the present day. From the comic playwright ...
Ferreira do Amaral, Francisco Joaquim: (from the article "Manuel II") ...and his elder son, Louis Philip, were assassinated by anarchists in the streets of Lisbon, and Manuel unexpectedly found himself king at the age of 18. Franco resigned, and Manuel ...
Ferreira, Antonio: Portuguese poet who was influential in fostering the new Renaissance style of poetry and who strongly advocated the use of Portuguese, rather than Spanish or Latin, as his nation's literary ... [1 Related Articles]
Ferreira, Manuel: Portuguese-born scholar and fiction writer whose work centred on African themes.
Ferreira, Vergilio: Portuguese teacher and novelist who turned from an early social realism to more experimental and inward-looking forms of the novel. [2 Related Articles]
Ferrel cell: model of the mid-latitude segment of the Earth's wind circulation, proposed by William Ferrel (1856). In the Ferrel cell, air flows poleward and eastward near the surface and equatorward and ... [3 Related Articles]
Ferrel, William: American meteorologist known for his description of the deflection of air currents on the rotating Earth. [3 Related Articles]
Ferrell, Richard Benjamin: ("RICK"), U.S. baseball player, 1929-47, and Hall of Fame catcher who covered home plate while his younger brother, Wes, ruled the pitcher's mound for the Boston Red Sox, 1934-37, and ...
Ferrelo, Bartolome: (from the article "Pacific mountain system") ...Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain, probably was the first European to explore the coast of California. He is thought to have sailed north in 1542, and ...
Ferrer, Ibrahim: Cuban singer (b. Feb. 20, 1927, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba-d. Aug. 6, 2005, Havana, Cuba), became a professional musician at age 13 and went on to sing with a number ...
Ferrer, Jose: American actor and director, who was perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in the title role of the film Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and for ... [2 Related Articles]
Ferrer, Mel: American actor, producer, and director was a successful stage and film actor and director, though he was often better known as the first husband (1954-68) of actress Audrey Hepburn, with ...
Ferreri, Marco: Italian director whose bizarre, outrageous, and satiric motion pictures expressed his bleak and derisive view of society; in his best-known film, La Grande Bouffe, 1973, a group of men purposely ...
Ferrero, Guglielmo: (from the article "political system") ...that centres power in its own hands. Another classification, which distinguishes between "legitimate" and "revolutionary" governments, was suggested by Mosca's contemporary Guglielmo Ferrero. Using a sociopsychological approach to the relations ...
Ferrero-Waldner, Benita: (from the article "Austria") ...opposition Social Democratic Party (SPO) was victorious in the Salzburg election and in the presidential contest, where Heinz Fischer narrowly topped the OVP candidate, Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Fischer's inauguration ...
Ferrers' diagram: (from the article "combinatorics") Many results on partitions can be obtained by the use of Ferrers' diagram. The diagram of a partition is obtained by putting down a row of squares equal in number ...
ferret: either of two species of carnivore, the common ferret and the black-footed ferret, belonging to the weasel family (Mustelidae). [1 Related Articles]
ferret badger: (from the article "badger") Ferret badgers (genus Melogale), also called tree badgers or pahmi, consist of four species: Chinese (M. moschata), Burmese (M. personata), Everett's ...
Ferrette, Jules: (from the article "episcopus vagans") ...the control of any ecclesiastical authority. Most of these wandering bishops trace their succession to one of three men consecrated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first ...
Ferretti, Alberta: (from the article "Fashions") In urban capitals women embraced fashion's upbeat direction by taking to the streets in summer in romantic peasant skirts. Numerous design labels, from Etro to Alberta Ferretti and Dries Van ...
Ferretti, Alessandro: (from the article "Earth Sciences") Reports by Matthew Pritchard and Mark Simons of Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology and Alessandro Ferretti of Tele-Rilevamento, Milan, and colleagues from Italy and the U.S. demonstrated ...
Ferretti, Dante: (from the article "2004: Other Winners") ...Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for SidewaysCinematography: Robert Richardson for The AviatorArt Direction: Dante Ferretti (art direction) ...
Ferrez: (from the article "Literature") ...in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s, the author continued his almost obsessive preoccupation with historical detail as a key element of his fiction. Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva, known by ...
Ferrez, Marc: (from the article "photography, history of") While most of the initial photographic work in these places was by Westerners, by the 1860s local practitioners had begun to open studios and commercial establishments. Marc Ferrez in Brazil, ...
Ferri, Alessandra: (from the article "Performing Arts") ...a year, citing problems with working conditions. The city of Kalamata, Greece, again hosted its well-established international festival of contemporary dance. In Italy, for her farewell, ballerina Alessandra Ferri of ...
Ferri, Ciro: Italian Baroque painter and printmaker of the Roman school who was the chief pupil and assistant of the painter and architect Pietro da Cortona.
ferric ammonium citrate: (from the article "blueprint") ...the whiteprint, or diazotype. In blueprinting, the older method, the drawing to be copied, made on translucent tracing cloth or paper, is placed in contact with paper sensitized with a ...
ferric chloride: (from the article "chemical compound") ...binary compounds containing metals such as these must include a Roman numeral to specify the charge on the ion. For example, the compound FeCl₃, which contains Fe³⁺, is named iron(III) ...
ferric iron compound: (from the article "Earth, geologic history of") ...of much lava, the erosion of which released enormous quantities of iron into the oceans. This ferrous iron is water-soluble and therefore could be easily transported, but it had to ...
ferric pyrophosphate: (from the article "iron") A number of iron compounds have been found medically useful. For example, ferrous gluconate, Fe(C₆H₁₁O₇)₂·2H₂O, and ferric pyrophosphate, Fe₄(P₂O₇)·xH₂O, are among the compounds frequently used to treat anemia. Various ferric ...
ferric sulfate: (from the article "iron") ...as a starting material for the manufacture of various other ferrous compounds and as a reducing agent. It is also employed in making inks, fertilizers, and pesticides and for iron ...
ferricinium ion: (from the article "ferrocene") ...reactions. The removal of one electron from the molecule raises the iron atom to the next-higher oxidation state (i.e., from +2 to +3), leading to the formation of salts containing ...
ferricrete: iron-rich duricrust, an indurated, or hardened, layer in or on a soil. Soil particles are cemented together by iron oxides (such as Fe₂O₃) precipitated from the groundwater to form an ...
Ferrie, Gustave-Auguste: French scientist and army general who contributed to the development of radio communication in France.
Ferrier, James Frederick: Scottish metaphysician distinguished for his theory of agnoiology, or theory of ignorance. [1 Related Articles]
Ferrier, Kathleen: contralto who was one of the most widely beloved British singers of her day.
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone: novelist who made an incisive expose of the pretensions of Scottish society in the early 19th century.
ferrierite: hydrated aluminosilicate mineral, one of the members of the zeolite family present in sedimentary rocks. The chemical composition of ferrierite is approximately (Na,K)₂MgAl₃Si₁₅O₃₆(OH)·9H₂O; it forms colourless, platy crystals of orthorhombic ...
ferrimagnetic domain: (from the article "magnetic ceramics") ...there is more than one kind of lattice site, and electron spins align so as to oppose one another-some being "spin-up" and some being "spin-down"-within a given domain. Incomplete cancellation ...
ferrimagnetism: type of permanent magnetism that occurs in solids in which the magnetic fields associated with individual atoms spontaneously align themselves, some parallel, or in the same direction (as in ferromagnetism), ... [6 Related Articles]
ferripyrophyllite: (from the article "clay mineral") ...are held together with van der Waals bonding. One-layer triclinic and two-layer monoclinic forms are known for polytypes of pyrophyllite and talc. The ferric iron analogue of pyrophyllite is called ...
Ferris State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Big Rapids, Mich., U.S. An "applied polytechnic university," Ferris State consists of the colleges of allied health sciences, arts and sciences, business, education ...
Ferris wheel: (from the article "World's Columbian Exposition") Behind the calm pillared facades and Classical porticoes of the great "White City" the visitor found unexpected excitement and novelty. The Ferris wheel (invented by G.W.G. Ferris, a Pittsburgh engineer) ...
ferrite: a ceramic-like material with magnetic properties that are useful in many types of electronic devices. Ferrites are hard, brittle, iron-containing, and generally gray or black and are polycrystalline-i.e., made up ... [7 Related Articles]
ferritic steel: (from the article "stainless steel") ...The most common type is the 18/8, or 304, grade, which contains 18 percent chromium and 8 percent nickel. Typical applications include aircraft and the dairy and food-processing industries. Standard ...
Ferro: island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Spain, the westernmost and smallest of the Canary ...
Ferro, Scipione: Italian mathematician who is believed to have found a solution to the cubic equation x³ + px = q where p and q are positive numbers. [1 Related Articles]
ferroactinolite: (from the article "amphibole") ...1). This diagram is commonly referred to as the amphibole quadrilateral. Complete substitution extends from tremolite [Ca₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂] to ferro-actinolite [Ca₂Fe₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂]. Actinolite is the intermediate member of the tremolite-ferro-actinolite series. The ...
ferroalloy: an alloy of iron (less than 50 percent) and one or more other metals, important as a source of various metallic elements in the production of alloy steels. The principal ... [8 Related Articles]
ferroboron: (from the article "amorphous solid") ...last entry in the Table is an application of metallic glasses having magnetic properties. These are typically iron-rich amorphous solids with compositions such as Fe_0.8B_0.2 iron-boron and Fe_0.8B_0.1Si_0.1 iron-boron-silicon. They ...
Ferrocarril del Atlantico: (from the article "Colombia") The role of railroads has become increasingly secondary. The standard-gauge lines are owned by the government. The main line is the Ferrocarril del Atlantico, which runs north for 600 miles ...
Ferrocarril Presidente Carlos Antonio Lopez: (from the article "Paraguay") The railway system is made up of the Ferrocarril (Railway) Presidente Carlos Antonio Lopez. It used to run from Asuncion southeastward to Encarnacion, where it connected with a train ferry ...
ferrocemento: (from the article "Nervi, Pier Luigi") ...sailboat, with a hull 1.4 inches (3.6 cm) thick. Subsequently he built a 38-foot (11.6-metre) ketch, the Nennele, with a hull only a half inch thick. For both of these ...
ferrocene: the earliest and best known of the so-called sandwich compounds; these are derivatives of transition metals in which two organic ring systems are bonded symmetrically to the metal atom. Its ... [5 Related Articles]
ferrochrome silicon: (from the article "chromium processing") If silica is added to the charge until its weight equals that of the ore, the smelting processes will yield what is known as ferrochrome silicon. Containing 38-42 percent silicon ...
ferrochromium: alloy of chromium with 30 to 50 percent iron, used to incorporate chromium into steel. It is produced in an electric furnace using chromium ore, iron or iron ore, and ... [2 Related Articles]
ferroelectric random-access memory: (from the article "capacitor dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics") ...higher bit densities than silica-based semiconductors when used as thin-film capacitors in dynamic random-access memories (DRAMs). They also can be used as ferroelectric random-access memories (FERAMs), where the opposing directions ...
ferroelectricity: property of certain nonconducting crystals, or dielectrics, that exhibit spontaneous electric polarization (separation of the centre of positive and negative electric charge, making one side of the crystal positive and ... [3 Related Articles]
Ferrol: port city, A Coruna provincia (province), in the northern section of the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, in extreme northwestern Spain. It is ...
ferromagnetic domain: (from the article "Barkhausen effect") series of sudden changes in the size and orientation of ferromagnetic domains, or microscopic clusters of aligned atomic magnets, that occurs during a continuous process of magnetization or demagnetization. The ...
ferromagnetism: physical phenomenon in which certain electrically uncharged materials strongly attract others. Two materials found in nature, lodestone (or magnetite, an oxide of iron, Fe₃O₄) and iron, have the ability to ... [17 Related Articles]
ferromanganese: (from the article "manganese processing") The primary product of the smelting process outlined above is a carbon-saturated ferroalloy containing 76 to 80 percent manganese, 12 to 15 percent iron, up to 7.5 percent carbon, and ...
ferromolybdenum: (from the article "molybdenum processing") Technical molybdic oxide is the least expensive agent for adding molybdenum to alloy steels and irons, but for higher-grade alloy steels, in which the molybdenum content is more than 1 ...
Ferron, Jacques: (from the article "Canadian literature") ...(1966; The Swallower Swallowed) and other novels presented the disenchantment of young people in the nuclear age. Other popular novelists of the later 20th century include Jacques Ferron, who poked ...
ferroniobium: (from the article "niobium processing") Pyrochlore concentrates are commonly reduced to ferroniobium through an aluminothermic process. In this process, the concentrate is mixed with hematite (an iron ore), aluminum powder, and small quantities of fluorspar ...
ferrophosphorus: (from the article "chemical industry") Elemental phosphorus exists in many allotropic forms. White phosphorus is used in rodent poison and by the military for smoke generation. Red phosphorus, comparatively harmless, is used in matches. Ferrophosphorus, ...
ferrosilicon: (from the article "steel") Most alloys are added in the form of ferroalloys, which are iron-based alloys that are cheaper to produce than the pure metals. Many different grades are available. For example, ferrosilicon ...
ferrosilite: (from the article "ferrosilite") silicate mineral belonging to the orthopyroxene (q.v.) series.for more general content related to this topicorthopyroxene
ferrosoferric oxide: (from the article "iron") ...forms a number of hydrates with variable structures and compositions. A common form is iron rust, produced by the combined action of moisture, carbon dioxide, and oxygen in the air ...
ferrous 1,10-phenanthroline: (from the article "chemical indicator") ...range. Methyl yellow, an acid-base indicator, is yellow if the hydrogen ion (acid) concentration of the solution is less than 0.0001 mole per litre and is red if the concentration ...
ferrous chloride: (from the article "chemical compound") ...the compound FeCl₃, which contains Fe³⁺, is named iron(III) chloride. On the other hand, the compound FeCl₂, which contains Fe²⁺, is designated as iron(II) chloride. In each case, the Roman ...
ferrous gluconate: (from the article "iron") A number of iron compounds have been found medically useful. For example, ferrous gluconate, Fe(C₆H₁₁O₇)₂·2H₂O, and ferric pyrophosphate, Fe₄(P₂O₇)·xH₂O, are among the compounds frequently used to treat anemia. Various ferric ...
ferrous iron compound: (from the article "ocean") ...and accumulated primarily under anaerobic marine conditions. The chief difference between reactions involving mineral-ocean equilibriums at this time and at the present time was the role played by ferrous iron. ...
ferrous oxide: (from the article "Neel temperature of antiferromagnetic substances") ...ferrous oxide, FeO; ferric oxide, Fe₂O₃; and ferrosoferric oxide, or ferroferric oxide, Fe₃O₄, which contains iron in both +2 and +3 oxidation states. Ferrous oxide is a greenish to black ...
ferrous sulfate: (from the article "ink") ...and sepia. For many centuries, a mixture of a soluble iron salt with an extract of tannin was used as a writing ink and is the basis of modern blue-black ...
ferrous sulfate heptahydrate: (from the article "iron") The action of sulfuric acid on iron results in the formation of two sulfur compounds: ferrous sulfate, FeSO₄, which is commonly available as the heptahydrate FeSO₄·7H₂O; and ferric sulfate, Fe₂(SO₄)₃. ...
ferrous sulfide: (from the article "mineral deposit") Iron sulfide is the principal constituent of most immiscible magmas, and the metals scavenged by iron sulfide liquid are copper, nickel, and the platinum group. Immiscible sulfide drops can become ...
ferrovanadium: (from the article "vanadium processing") The production of ferrovanadium, containing 35-80 percent vanadium, is carried out in an electric-arc furnace. Scrap iron is first melted, and a mixture of V₂O₅, aluminum, and a flux such ...
Ferrovie dello Stato: largest railway system of Italy. FS operates lines on the mainland and also on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, which are linked to the mainland by train ferries. The ... [2 Related Articles]
ferrozirconium: (from the article "Becket, Frederick Mark") ...of ferrovanadium, ferromanganese, ferromolybdenum, ferrotungsten, and low-carbon ferrochromium, an essential ingredient of stainless steel. During World War I he made possible tonnage production of ferrozirconium, previously unavailable, and speeded production ...
Ferruccio, Francesco: Florentine military leader who defended his native city in the last days of the republic of Florence against Pope Clement VII and Holy Roman emperor Charles V, who sought to ...
ferruginous hawk: (from the article "hawk") ...North America, where it migrates in large flocks. Swainson's hawk (B. swainsoni) is a bird of western North America that migrates to Argentina. Two notable rough-legged hawks are the ferruginous ...
Ferry, Brian: (from the article "Roxy Music") Formed in 1971, Roxy Music was largely the brainchild of vocalist-songwriter Ferry, who had studied with Richard Hamilton, a key figure in British pop art. A shifting early lineup stabilized ...
Ferry, Jules: French statesman of the early Third Republic, notable both for his anticlerical education policy and for his success in extending the French colonial empire. [4 Related Articles]
Ferry, Paul: (from the article "Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne") ...these skills. His first book, the Refutation du catechisme du sieur Paul Ferry ("Refutation of the Catechism of Paul Ferry"), was the result of his discussions with Paul Ferry, the ...
Ferry-Porter law: (from the article "eye, human") At high levels of luminance, when cone vision is employed, the fusion frequency is high, increasing with increasing luminance in a logarithmic fashion-the Ferry-Porter law-so that at high levels it ...
ferryboat: (from the article "ship") Ferries are vessels of any size that carry passengers and (in many cases) their vehicles on fixed routes over short cross-water passages. The building of massive bridges and tunnels has ...
Ferryland: village, southeastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies on the eastern side of the Avalon Peninsula, about 40 miles (65 km) south of St. John's. First visited by Portuguese ... [1 Related Articles]
Fersen, Fredrik Axel von: soldier and politician who led Sweden's Hat Party during the 18th-century Age of Freedom-a 52-year period of parliamentary government in his country.
Fersen, Hans Axel von: Swedish-French soldier, diplomat, and statesman who was active in counterrevolutionary activity after the French Revolution of 1789 and the rise of Napoleon.
Ferstel, Heinrich von: (from the article "Western architecture") The first significant church of the Gothic Revival was the Votive Church (1856-79) in Vienna by Heinrich von Ferstel. Indeed, Vienna was the centre of the most active and intriguing ...
Fert, Albert: French scientist who, with Peter Grunberg, received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent codiscovery of giant magnetoresistance. [3 Related Articles]
Fertile Crescent: the region in the Middle East where the civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin began. The term was popularized by the American Orientalist James Henry Breasted. [5 Related Articles]
fertile material: (from the article "fissile material") ...the fission reaction. The principal fissile materials are uranium-235 (0.7 percent of naturally occurring uranium), plutonium-239, and uranium-233, the last two being artificially produced from the fertile materials uranium-238 and ...
fertility: (from the article "infertility") Normal fertility depends on the production of a sufficient number of healthy, motile sperm by the male, delivery of those cells into the vagina, successful passage of the sperm through ...
fertility cult: (from the article "Aphrodite") ...as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known ...
fertility drug: (from the article "infertility") ...clomiphene citrate, bromocriptine, and human menopausal gonadotropin, have been very successful in correcting hormonal imbalances that cause erratic or absent ovulation. However, these "fertility drugs" also increase a woman's chances ...
fertility leap: (from the article "dance") ...the dancers was considered indecent.) Such traditional dances often contain fertility motifs, where mimed (or even actual) motions of sexual intercourse are enacted. One motif in particular, the fertility leap, ...