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faience patriotique: French 18th-century earthenware, chiefly plates and jugs, decorated with themes drawn from the French Revolution and its ideology or from national political events. The first example of a faience patriotique ...
Fain, Agathon-Jean-Francois, Baron: French historian, secretary, and archivist to the cabinet of Napoleon, who is best known for his personal reminiscences of Napoleon's reign. His works are important sources for the history of ...
Fain, Sammy: prolific American composer of popular songs, including many for Broadway musicals and Hollywood motion pictures. Numbered among his best-known tunes are "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella," "Tender is the ...
fainting: in physiology, loss of consciousness owing to a temporary decrease in the blood supply to the brain. See syncope.
fair: temporary market where buyers and sellers gather to transact business. A fair is held at regular intervals, generally at the same location and time of year, and it usually lasts ...
Fair Deal: in U.S. history, President Harry S. Truman's liberal domestic reform program, the basic tenets of which he had outlined as early as 1945. In his first postwar message to Congress ...
Fair Labor Standards Act: the first act in the United States prescribing nationwide compulsory federal regulation of wages and hours, sponsored by Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York and signed on June 14, ...
fair-trade law: in the United States, any law allowing manufacturers of branded or trademarked goods (or in some instances distributors of such products) to fix the actual or minimum resale prices of ...
Fairbairn, Sir William, 1st Baronet: Scottish civil engineer and inventor who did pioneering work in bridge design and in testing iron and finding new applications for it.
Fairbairn, Stephen: British oarsman, coach, and writer who enjoyed great success at Cambridge University.
Fairbanks: city, east-central Alaska, U.S. It lies along the Chena River (tributary of the Tanana), some 360 miles (580 km) north of Anchorage and about 100 miles (160 km) south of ...
Fairbanks, Charles Warren: 26th vice president of the United States (1905-09) in the Republican administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was sometimes referred to as "the last of America's log-cabin statesmen."
Fairbanks, Douglas: American motion picture actor and producer who was one of the first and greatest of the swashbuckling screen heroes. His athletic prowess, gallant romanticism, and natural sincerity made him "King ...
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation: American electronics company that shares credit with Texas Instruments Incorporated for the invention of the integrated circuit. Founded in 1957 in Santa Clara, California, Fairchild was among the earliest firms ...
Fairchild, David Grandison: American botanist and agricultural explorer who supervised the introduction of many useful plants into the United States.
Fairchild, Mary Salome Cutler: American librarian, a central figure in the establishment and teaching of the field of library science in the United States.
Fairfax: city, seat (1779) of Fairfax county (though administratively independent of it), northeastern Virginia, U.S., about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Washington, D.C. It developed after 1799 with the construction ...
Fairfax, Edward: English poet whose Godfrey of Bulloigne or the Recoverie of Jerusalem (1600), a translation of Gerusalemme liberata, an epic poem by his Italian contemporary Torquato Tasso, won fame and was ...
Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Baron: general who fought on the parliamentarian side in the English Civil Wars and who was father of Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax, and parliamentarian commander in chief.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron: commander in chief of the Parliamentary army during the English Civil Wars between the Royalists and Parliamentarians. His tactical skill and personal courage helped bring about many of the Parliamentary ...
Fairfield: city, seat (1858) of Solano county, north-central California, U.S. Adjoining Suisun City to the south, Fairfield is located 45 miles (70 km) northeast of San Francisco. The area, which lies ...
Fairfield: county, central South Carolina, U.S., consisting of a hilly piedmont region. The Broad River forms the western boundary, and the Wateree River and Wateree Lake form part of the eastern ...
Fairfield: city, seat (1838) of Jefferson county, southeastern Iowa, U.S., halfway between Mount Pleasant (east) and Ottumwa (west). Settled in 1839, Fairfield was the site (1854) of the first Iowa State ...
Fairfield: urban town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound adjoining Bridgeport (northeast). It includes Southport, a village on Mill River. Possibly named for Fairfield, England, it was ...
Fairfield: county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It is bounded by Long Island Sound to the south, New York state to the west, and the Housatonic River to the east, and it includes ...
Fairfield University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Fairfield, Conn., U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The university consists of the College of Arts ...
Fairhaven: town (township), Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Buzzards Bay across the Acushnet River from New Bedford. The site was settled in 1652 by John Cooke, who, with ...
Fairleigh Dickinson University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in northern New Jersey, U.S. It consists of three campuses. The Florham-Madison campus is the site of the Maxwell Becton College of Arts and ...
Fairmont: city, seat (1842) of Marion county, northern West Virginia, U.S. It lies where the Tygart Valley River and the West Fork River come together to form the Monongahela River, approximately ...
Fairway: (foaled 1925), English racehorse (Thoroughbred) who, though a successful racer, became best known as a sire. An outstanding stud, he sired Blue Peter and Watling Street. Fairway was foaled by ...
Fairweather, Mount: highest peak (15,300 feet [4,663 metres]) in British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is located on the Alaska border in the Fairweather Range of the St. Elias Mountains, at the southern ...
fairy: a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically having green ...
fairy bluebird: any of the numerous bird species that constitute the family Irenidae (order Passeriformes), a taxonomic grouping of disputed composition and in which leafbirds and ioras are sometimes included. Some authors ...
fairy ring: a naturally occurring circular ring of mushrooms on a lawn or other location. A fairy ring starts when the mycelium (spawn) of a mushroom falls in a favourable spot and ...
fairy shrimp: any of the crustaceans of the order Anostraca, so called because of their graceful movements and pastel colours. Some grow to 2.5 cm (about 1 inch) or more in length. ...
fairy slipper: (Calypso bulbosa), terrestrial orchid native to North America and Eurasia, the only species in its genus. It thrives in cool forests and bogs.
fairy tale: wonder tale involving marvellous elements and occurrences, though not necessarily about fairies. The term embraces such popular folktales (Marchen, q.v.) as "Cinderella" and "Puss-in-Boots" and art fairy tales (Kunstmarchen) of ...
fairy wren: any of the 14 species of the Australian genus Malurus of the songbird family Maluridae (sometimes placed in the warbler family Sylviidae). These common names, and bluecap, are given particularly ...
Faisalabad: city, east-central Punjab province, Pakistan, in the Rechna Doab upland. The city, the district headquarters, is a distributing centre centrally located in the Punjab plain and connected by road, rail, ...
faith: inner attitude, conviction, or trust relating man to a supreme God or ultimate salvation. In religious traditions stressing divine grace, it is the inner certainty or attitude of love granted ...
faith healing: recourse to divine power to cure mental or physical disabilities, either in conjunction with orthodox medical care or in place of it. Often an intermediary is involved, whose intercession may ...
Faithorne, William: English engraver and portrait draftsman noted for his excellent line engravings.
Faizabad: city, eastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies east of Lucknow, on the Ghaghara River. Faizabad was founded in 1730 by Sadat 'Ali Khan, the first nawab of Oudh, ...
Fajans, Kasimir: Polish-American physical chemist who discovered the radioactive displacement law simultaneously with Frederick Soddy of Great Britain. According to this law, when a radioactive atom decays by emitting an alpha particle, ...
Fajardo: town, eastern Puerto Rico, on the Fajardo River lowlands. Founded in 1772, it was the scene of fighting during the Spanish-American War (1898). Its principal manufactures are cigars, furniture, and ...
Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi: Muslim theologian and scholar, author of one of the most authoritative commentaries on the Qur'an in the history of Islam. His aggressiveness and vengefulness created many enemies and involved him ...
Fakhr ad-Din II: Lebanese ruler (1593-1633) who for the first time united the Druze and Maronite districts of the Lebanon Mountains under his personal rule; he is frequently regarded as the father of ...
fakir: originally, a mendicant dervish. In mystical usage, the word fakir refers to man's spiritual need for God, who alone is self-sufficient. Although of Muslim origin, the term has come to ...
Falaise: market town of Calvados departement, Basse-Normandie region, northwestern France. It lies on the Ante River, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Caen. The town was the birthplace of William ...
Falange: ("Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx of the Juntas of the National Syndicalist Offensive"), extreme nationalist political group founded in Spain in 1933 by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the former ...
Falasha: an Ethiopian of Jewish faith. The Falasha call themselves House of Israel (Beta Israel) and claim descent from Menilek I, traditionally the son of the Queen of Sheba (Makeda) and ...
Falcon: estado ("state"), northwestern Venezuela. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, west by the Gulf of Venezuela, northwest by Zulia state, and south by Lara and Yaracuy ...
falcon: any of nearly 60 species of hawks of the family Falconidae (order Falconiformes), diurnal birds of prey characterized by long, pointed wings and swift, powerful flight. The name is applied ...
Falconer, Martha Platt: American social worker who helped transform U.S. institutions for delinquent or displaced and homeless young women from fundamentally a system of incarceration to one based on rehabilitation.
Falconet, Etienne-Maurice: sculptor who adapted the classical style of the French Baroque to a pretty and intimate Rococo ideal. Patronized by Mme de Pompadour, he did work that is the quintessence of ...
Falconetto, Giovanni Maria: Italian painter and architect. His father, Giacomo Falconetto, a brother, Giovanni Falconetto, and a great uncle, Stefano de Verona, also were noted painters.
falconiform: any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory skill as raptors. Included are eagles, condors, buzzards, kites, caracaras, ospreys, harriers, accipiters, vultures, secretary birds, falcons, hawks, ...
falconry: the sport of employing falcons, true hawks, and sometimes eagles or buzzards in hunting game.
faldstool: a folding stool commonly composed of two pairs of crossed legs pivoting at the intersection, each pair joined by stretchers near ground level and by a flexible (usually fabric) seat ...
Faleme River: river in western Africa, rising in the uplands of northern Guinea, east of the Fouta Djallon massif, and flowing roughly north-northeast to enter Mali. It then turns northwest to form ...
Fali: a people who inhabit the rocky plateaus ringed by the northernmost peaks of the Adamaoua mountains of northern Cameroon. "Fali" is from a Fulani (Peul) word meaning "perched" and describes ...
Falier, Marin: leading official in Venice and doge from 1354 to 1355, who was executed for having led a plot against the ruling patricians. His tragic story has inspired several important literary ...
Faliscan language: an Italic language closely related to Latin and more distantly related to Oscan and Umbrian languages (qq.v.). Faliscan was spoken by the Falisci in central Italy in a small region ...
Falisci: ancient people of southern Etruria in Italy who, though Latin in nationality and speech, were culturally closer to the Etruscans. They occupied the region between the Tiber River and Mt. ...
Falk, Adalbert: Prussian bureaucrat who as state minister of ecclesiastical affairs in the 1870s aggressively headed German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church.
Falkberget, Johan Petter: regional novelist of life in the east-central mountains of Norway.
Falke, Gustav: German poet and novelist prominent among the new lyric poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His verses were influenced by folk songs and the Romantic poets and ...
Falkenhayn, Erich von: Prussian minister of war and chief of the imperial German General Staff early in World War I.
Falkirk: council area, east-central Scotland, encompassing a mostly low-lying area extending inland from the south bank of the River Forth estuary. It lies about midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Most of ...
Falkirk: royal burgh (town) and important industrial centre in Falkirk council area, historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies midway between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Grangemouth, the site of ...
Falkland: small royal burgh (town) and former royal residence in Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. It sits at the northern base of the East Lomond Hill, which has ...
Falkland Current: branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southern Hemisphere, flowing northward in the South Atlantic Ocean along the east coast of Argentina to about latitude 30° to 40° S, ...
Falkland Islands: self-governing colony of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles (480 km) northeast of the southern tip of South America and a similar distance ...
Falkland Islands War: a brief, undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over the control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies.
Falkland Sound: strait in the South Atlantic Ocean, separating East and West Falkland (islands). It extends from northeast to southwest for 50 miles (80 km) and is 1 12 miles (in its ...
Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of, Lord Carye: English royalist who attempted to exercise a moderating influence in the struggles that preceded the English Civil Wars (1642-51) between the royalists and the Parliamentarians. He is remembered chiefly as ...