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Flint Ridge Cave System: complex of caves and underground rivers in west-central Kentucky, U.S. The surveyed areas of the system are entirely within Mammoth Cave National Park. The caverns are interconnected to a great ...
Flint, Austin: one of the most eminent of 19th-century physicians, and a pioneer of heart research in the United States. He discovered (1862) a disorder-now known as the Austin Flint murmur-characterized by ...
Flint, F.S.: English poet and translator, prominent in the Imagist movement (expression of precise images in free verse), whose best poems reflect the disciplined economy of that school.
flintlock: ignition system for firearms, developed in the early 16th century. It superseded the matchlock and wheel lock and was itself outmoded by the percussion lock in the first half of ...
Flintshire: county in the northeastern corner of Wales, bounded on the east by the River Dee and England and bounded on the west by Denbighshire. The present county of Flintshire encompasses ...
Floating Instrument Platform: oceanographic study platform developed in the United States. It combines the advantages of extreme stability while floating on site and ease of movement to new areas. In the horizontal position, ...
flocculation: in physical chemistry, separation of solid particles from a liquid to form loose aggregations or soft flakes. These flocculates are easily disrupted, being held together only by a force analogous ...
Flodden, Battle of: (Sept. 9, 1513), English victory over the Scots, fought near Branxton, Northumberland. To honour his alliance with France (1512) and divert troops from the main English army, which was then ...
Flodoard: chronicler whose two major works, the Annales, a chronicle covering the period 919 to 966, and the Historia Remensis ecclesiae ("History of the Church in Reims"), provide the essential documentation ...
flogging: a beating administered with a whip or rod, usually on the person's back. Flogging was once a common method of punishing criminals and of preserving discipline in the home, school, ...
Flogstad, Kjartan: Norwegian poet, novelist, and essayist best known for his novel Dalen Portland (1977; "Portland Valley"; Eng. trans. Dollar Road).
Floire et Blancheflor: French metrical romance known in two versions from the 12th and 13th centuries and thought to be of Greco-Byzantine or Moorish origin. Its theme of separation and reunion of young ...
flood: high-water stage in which water overflows its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain. The effects of floods on human well-being range ...
Flood, Curt: American professional baseball player whose antitrust litigation challenging the major leagues' reserve clause was unsuccessful but led ultimately to the clause's demise.
Flood, Henry: Anglo-Irish statesman, founder of the movement that in 1782 forced Great Britain to grant legislative independence to Ireland.
floodgate: gate for shutting out or releasing the flow of water over spillways, in connection with the operation of a dam. Vertical lift, or radial, gates rise to permit flow under ...
floodplain: flat land area adjacent to a stream, composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits (alluvium) and subject to periodic inundation by the stream. Floodplains are produced by lateral movement of a stream ...
floor covering: material made from textiles, felts, resins, rubber, or other natural or man-made substances applied or fastened to, or laid upon, the level base surface of a room to provide comfort, ...
floor exercise: gymnastics event in which movements are performed on the floor in an area 12 metres (40 feet) square. This area is covered by some type of cloth or mat, usually ...
Floquet, Charles: French politician whose deep attachment to the republic led him to become an antagonist of the political aspirations of Gen. Georges Boulanger.
Flor, Roger de: Sicilian-born military adventurer and mercenary captain whose service to the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II had disastrous consequences.
Flora: in Roman religion, the goddess of the flowering of plants. Titus Tatius (according to tradition, the Sabine king who ruled with Romulus) is said to have introduced her cult to ...
floral decoration: art of arranging living or dried plant material for adornment of the body or home, or as a part of public ceremonies, festivals, and religious rituals.
Florence: city, seat of Lauderdale county, northwestern Alabama, U.S. It lies on the Tennessee River about 65 miles (105 km) west of Huntsville, forming with Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals a ...
Florence: city, seat (1889) of Florence county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. Established in the 1850s as a rail junction and transfer point for the Wilmington and Manchester, the Northwestern, and the ...
Florence: county, east-central South Carolina, U.S. The Great Pee Dee River constitutes its eastern boundary, and the Lynches River part of its western. The county is situated in a low-lying, generally ...
Florence: city, capital of Firenze province and Toscana (Tuscany) region, central Italy. The city, located about 145 miles (230 kilometres) northwest of Rome, has, during its long history, been a republic, ...
Florence: town, seat (1875) of Pinal county, central Arizona, U.S., 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Phoenix. It lies on the Gila River in a farming area (mainly cotton) that is ...
Florence Of Worcester: English monk, usually accepted as the author of Chronicon ex chronicis, which is valuable for late Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest history. Its basis is the universal history (from the creation ...
Florence, University of: university that originated in Florence in 1321 and became later in the century, through the activities of the writer Giovanni Boccaccio, an early centre of Renaissance Humanism. Boccaccio secured a ...
Florence, William Jermyn: U.S. actor, songwriter, and popular playwright, one of the most popular actors of his day. He was one of a select number of Americans to win the ribbon of the ...
Florencia: city, southeastern Colombia, in the eastern slopes of the Andean Cordillera Oriental, on the Orteguaza River, a tributary of the Caqueta. It was founded in 1908 by Capuchin missionaries. Cattle ...
Florencio Varela: partido (district), at the southeastern limits of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). Founded as the town of San Juan ...
Florensky, Pavel Alexandrovich: Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.
Florentine diamond: clear, pale-yellow stone weighing 137 carats; of Indian origin, it was cut as a double rose with 126 facets. Once owned by Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who lost ...
Flores: city, northern Guatemala. It is located on San Andres island in the southern part of Lake Peten Itza, at an elevation of 449 feet (137 metres) above sea level. Once ...
Flores: departamento, south-central Uruguay. The rolling hills of the territory culminate in the east-west-trending Grande Inferior Range (Cuchilla Grande Inferior) and are drained by the Yi River and the Arroyo (stream) ...
Flores: one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Nusa Tenggara Timur (East Nusa Tenggara) provinsi (province), Indonesia. The last major island in the chain, which extends eastward from Java, it is ...
Flores Island: westernmost island of the Portuguese Azores archipelago, in the North Atlantic. It forms, together with the Ilha do Corvo, the Santa Cruz group. The island has an area of 55 ...
Flores Sea: portion of the western South Pacific Ocean, bounded on the north by the island of Celebes (Sulawesi) and on the south by the Lesser Sunda Islands of Flores and Sumbawa. ...
Florey, Howard Walter Florey, Baron: Australian pathologist who, with Ernst Boris Chain, isolated and purified penicillin (discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) for general clinical use. For this research Florey, Chain, and Fleming shared ...
Florez, Enrique: Spanish historian and representative figure in the movement to reform education under Charles III; he was the major scholar behind the 51-volume Espana sagrada ("Sacred Spain"), a monument of 18th-century ...
Florian: Roman emperor from June to September 276. The brother, by a different father, of the emperor Tacitus, he at once seized power on the death of his brother. Although his ...
Floriano: city, west central Piaui state, northeastern Brazil, on the Rio Parnaiba, at 280 ft (85 m) above sea level. Floriano was elevated to city status in 1897. It is a ...
Florianopolis: port city and capital, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil. The city lies on the west coast of Santa Catarina Island and is linked to the mainland by the Hercilio Luz ...
Florida: city, central Camaguey provincia, east-central Cuba. Lying just north of the Munoz River, Florida is a rail junction and manufacturing centre for the surrounding agricultural and pastoral lands. The principal ...
Florida: constituent state of the United States of America. Admitted as the 27th state in 1845, it has an area of 58,664 square miles (151,939 square kilometres). The capital is Tallahassee, ...
Florida: city, south-central Uruguay, on the Santa Lucia Chico River. Founded in 1809, the city processes the wheat, corn (maize), oats, sugar beets, linseed, and other products of the agricultural hinterland. ...
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. It is a historically black, land-grant institution and part of the State University System of Florida; its enrollment remains predominantly ...
Florida Atlantic University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. Part of the State University System of Florida, it is composed of nine colleges and offers an undergraduate curriculum ...
Florida Bay: triangular-shaped shallow body of water between the Gulf of Mexico and Biscayne Bay at the southern end of Florida, U.S. The bay, which covers about 850 square miles (2,200 square ...
Florida Current: swift surface oceanic current flowing northward, following the shallow continental slope between the Straits of Florida and Cape Hatteras. Emerging from the Caribbean Sea, carrying about 880,000,000 cubic feet (25,000,000 ...
Florida Keys: island chain, Monroe and Miami-Dade counties, southern Florida, U.S. Composed of coral and limestone, the islands curve southwestward for about 220 miles (355 km) from Virginia Key in the Atlantic ...
Florida State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. It is part of the State University System of Florida and consists of eight schools and eight colleges, including a ...
Florida, Straits of: passage connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean, extending for about 110 miles (180 km) between the Florida Keys, U.S., on the north and Cuba and the Bahamas ...
Florida, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Gainesville, Florida, U.S. It is a comprehensive research university with land-grant status and is part of the State University System of Florida. The ...
Floridablanca, Jose Monino y Redondo, conde de: Spanish statesman and minister who became identified with the reform program of King Charles III.
Floridor: original name Josias De Soulas, Sieur (lord) De Prinefosse French leading actor who headed the important troupe of the Theatre de l'Hotel de Bourgogne, in Paris, where he created many ...
Florio, John: English lexicographer and translator of Montaigne.
Floris V: count of Holland (1256-96) and Zeeland, son of the German king William of Holland. Under him the territory of Holland greatly expanded and prospered. Floris succeeded his father as count ...
Floris, Cornelis II; and Floris, Frans I: the most distinguished members of a family of Flemish artists. Their Antwerp workshops contributed significantly to the Northern Renaissance by disseminating 16th-century Italian art styles. Cornelis was an architect, sculptor, ...
Florissant: city, St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. A northern suburb of St. Louis, it lies in a valley near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Settled by the ...
Florissant Formation: division of middle and upper Oligocene rocks in central Colorado, U.S. (The Oligocene Epoch lasted from 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago.) It overlies the White River Group. Named for ...
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: fossil-rich mountain valley in central Colorado, U.S. It is located in the Rocky Mountains west of Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs. The monument preserves the fossil beds of the Florissant ...
floristic region: any of six areas of the world recognized by plant geographers for their distinctive plant life. These regions, which coincide closely with the faunal regions (q.v.) as mapped by animal ...
Florus, Publius Annius: historian of Rome and poet, important as the first of a number of African writers who, in the 2nd century, exercised considerable influence on Latin literature. He was also the ...
Flory, Paul J.: American physical chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1974 for his investigations of synthetic and natural macromolecules.
Flossenburg: Nazi German concentration camp, established in 1937 in the market town of Flossenburg, near the Czech border in Bavaria, Germany. It was originally used for political prisoners but, by World ...
flotation: in mineral processing, method used to separate and concentrate ores by altering their surfaces to a hydrophobic or hydrophilic condition-that is, the surfaces are either repelled or attracted by water. ...
Flotow, Friedrich, Baron von: German-born French composer best known for his opera Martha.
flounder: any of numerous species of flatfishes belonging to the families Pleuronectidae and Bothidae (order Pleuronectiformes). The flounder is morphogenetically unusual. When born it is bilaterally symmetrical, with an eye on ...
flour: finely ground cereal grains or other starchy portions of plants, used in various food products and as a basic ingredient of baked goods. Flour made from wheat grains is the ...
flour moth: (Ephestia, or Anagasta, kuehniella), species of insect belonging to the family Phycitidae (order Lepidoptera), a cosmopolitan pest of cereal products and other stored foods. Because they require vitamins A and ...
Flourens, Gustave: French radical intellectual and a leader of the Paris Commune revolt of 1871.
Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre: French physiologist who was the first to demonstrate the general functions of the major portions of the vertebrate brain.
flowchart: graphical representation of a process, such as a manufacturing operation or computer operation, indicating the various steps that are taken as the product moves along the production line or the ...