nee Gurney British Quaker philanthropist and one of the chief promoters of prison reform in Europe. She also helped to improve the British hospital system and the treatment of the ...
city, Severomoravsky kraj (region), Czech Republic. It lies along the Ostravice River just south of Ostrava. The town is dominated by the steeple of Frydek Castle, which was originally a ...
village and sanctuary, central Portugal; it is located on the tableland of Cova da Iria, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Leiria. Fatima was named for a 12th-century Moorish princess ...
Chinese literary form combining elements of poetry and prose. The form developed during the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) from its origins in the long poem Lisao ...
type of Chinese bronze vessel used as a food container, it was produced largely from the middle Zhou period (c. 900-c. 600 BC) through the Warring States period (475-221 BC). ...
first of China's mythical emperors. His miraculous birth, as a divine being with a serpent's body, is said to have occurred in the 29th century BC. Some representations show him ...
Chinese diver, who was a standout on the Chinese diving teams that dominated the sport in the 1990s. She became the second youngest gold medalist in Olympic history in 1992.
a Chinese god of happiness, the deification of a 6th-century mandarin. As a generic title, the name Fu Shen denotes the beneficent gods of Chinese mythology.
city in northeastern Fukien sheng (province), China. It is situated on the east bank of the Chiao River, with highway communications running north into Chekiang and south along the coast ...
river flowing through Chekiang province, China. The lower course and estuary discharging at Hang-chou into Hang-chou Bay are called the Ch'ien-t'ang River. Above Hang-chou, as far as T'ung-lu, it is ...
city near the east-central coast of Fukien sheng (province), China. It is the capital of the province. Fu-chou is situated on the north bank of the estuary of Fukien's largest ...
city, northwestern Liaoning sheng (province), China. It is located near the border with the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and serves as a centre for the administration of the large Mongolian ...
city in central Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated some 25 miles (40 km) east of Shen-yang (Mukden) on the Hun River. In earlier times this area was ...
Turkish statesman of the mid-19th century and one of the chief architects of the Tanzimat (Reorganization), aimed at the modernization and westernization of the Ottoman Empire.
peasant "militia" system established in China about the 6th century AD. The fubing was first begun by the short-lived Western Wei (535-556/557) and Northern Zhou (557-581) dynasties ...
German botanist and physician whose botanical work Historia Stirpium (1542) is a landmark in the development of natural history because of its organized presentation, the accuracy of its drawings and ...
genus of about 100 species of flowering shrubs and trees, in the evening primrose family (Onagraceae), native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America and to ...
city, Tokyo Metropolis (to), Honshu, Japan, on the Tama-gawa (Tama River). The capital of Musashi Province about the 7th century AD, it flourished as a post town and regional commercial ...
former lake bed in L'Aquila province, Abruzzi region, central Italy, just east of Avezzano. The lake was once 37 mi (59 km) in circumference and about 100 ft (30 m) ...
genus of brown algae, common on rocky seacoasts and in salt marshes of northern temperate regions. Adaptations to its environment include bladderlike floats (pneumatocysts), disk-shaped holdfasts for clinging to rocks, ...
creamy candy made with butter, sugar, milk, and usually chocolate, cooked together and beaten to a soft, smooth texture. Fudge may be thought of as having a consistency harder than ...
any of a class of devices that convert the chemical energy of a fuel directly into electricity by electrochemical reactions. A fuel cell resembles a battery in many respects, but ...
in an internal-combustion engine, introduction of fuel into the cylinders by means of a pump rather than by the suction created by the movement of the pistons. Diesel engines do ...
fuel consisting mainly of residues from crude-oil distillation. It is used primarily for steam boilers in power plants, aboard ships, and in industrial plants. Commercial fuel oils usually are blended ...
(from Latin forum, "marketplace"), in medieval Spain, a municipal franchise conferred on a community by the crown or by a noble or bishop. It granted legal incorporation, confirmed local customs ...
city, northern Paraguay. Lying across the Paraguay River from Brazil, the city dates from 1792 when a fort called Borbon was established on the present site. Fuerte Olimpo, which lies ...
river in northwestern Mexico, formed in Chihuahua state by the junction of the Verde and Urique rivers, and descending generally southwestward through Sinaloa state from the Sierra Madre Occidental to ...
island, one of the eastern Canary Islands, Las Palmas provincia (province), Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain. It lies in the North Atlantic ...
a measure of the tendency of a component of a liquid mixture to escape, or vaporize, from the mixture. The composition of the vapour form of the mixture, above the ...
South African dramatist, actor, and director who, despite South African drama's particular vulnerability to censorship, sustained a theatre group in Port Elizabeth that produced plays defiantly indicting the apartheid policy.
German mercantile and banking dynasty that dominated European business during the 15th and 16th centuries, developed capitalistic economic concepts, and influenced continental politics.
any of a group of young poets and critics formed shortly after World War I at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., some of whom later became distinguished men of letters. ...
in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state ...
musical composition for instruments or voices, characterized by the systematic imitation of a principal theme in simultaneously sounding melodic lines (counterpoint), which make up its texture. Fugue is more accurately ...
("Leader"), title used by Adolf Hitler to define his role of absolute authority in Germany's Third Reich (1933-45). As early as July 1921 he had declared the Fuhrerprinzip ("leader principle") ...
constituent emirate of the United Arab Emirates (formerly Trucial States, or Trucial Oman). It is the country's only state with no territory on the Persian Gulf; its entire coastline is ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It faces Suruga Bay at the southern foot of Mount Fuji. It was a post station along the Tokaido ("Eastern Sea Road") during ...
former Japanese bank, and one of Japan's largest commercial banks, that had built a network of offices, affiliates, and subsidiaries in Japan and overseas before it merged into the Mizuho ...
highest mountain in Japan, rising to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific coast in Yamanashi and Shizuoka ken (prefectures), central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Pacific coast, lying at the delta of the Oi River. It was created by the merger of the towns of Fujieda and ...
city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, at the western foot of Mount Fuji. It developed around the Sengen (Asama) Shrine, the main shrine for the worship of Mount Fuji since ...
city, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean. It was a post town during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) and is the site of the Shojoko ...
one of the Japanese scholars who inspired the movement that in 1868 overthrew the feudal Tokugawa shogunate, restored direct rule to the emperor, and attempted to strengthen Japan to meet ...
Japanese-American meteorologist who created the Fujita Scale, or F-Scale, a system of classifying tornado intensity based on damage to structures and vegetation. He also discovered ...
Japanese electronics, computers, information technology, and telecommunications company, with over 500 subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Headquarters are in Tokyo.
the most powerful of the Fujiwara regents, during whose reign the Imperial capital in Kyoto achieved its greatest splendour, and the Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese court between 857 ...
Japanese regent, creator (in 880) of the post of kampaku, or chancellor, through which he acted as regent for four adult emperors until his death. This post allowed the Fujiwara ...
courtier, poet, and the leading Japanese painter in the 13th century, who carried on the tradition of realistic portrait painting begun by his father, Takanobu.
Japanese poet and critic, an innovator of waka (classical court poems) and compiler of the Senzaishu ("Collection of a Thousand Years"), the seventh Imperial anthology of classical Japanese poetry.
Japanese sculptural style of the Late Heian period (897-1185), known also as the Fujiwara period. Although many sculptures at the beginning of the period are in essence continuations of the ...
notorious Japanese pirate leader. Originally a government official, he was dispatched by the court to eliminate pirates plaguing the Inland Sea, which connects central and south Japan. A traitor to ...
Japanese statesman who assumed the leadership of the Fujiwara family in 909 upon the death of his brother Tokihira. Although in his later years Tokihira had begun to dominate the ...
leading Japanese portrait artist of his day. He created a type of simple, realistic painting, the nise-e ("likeness picture"), popular throughout the Kamakura period (1192-1333). Of his three surviving portrait ...
Japanese Imperial minister who checked the efforts of the emperor Uda (reigned 887-897) to halt the domination of the Japanese government by the Fujiwara family. Tokihira's father, Fujiwara Mototsune, had ...
imperial courtier who, as regent for three emperors, dominated the Japanese government for 52 years (1016-68). Yorimichi's failure to maintain control over the countryside and to prevent quarrels among his ...
Japanese calligrapher, known as one of the Sanseki ("Three Brush Traces"), in effect the finest calligraphers of the age. The others were Ono Tofu and Fujiwara Sukemasa, and the three ...
