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Fukaya: city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is situated between the Ara River and the Tone River. An early market and post town, it changed little before World War II. ...
Fukien: sheng (province) on the southeastern coast of China to the northwest of the island of Taiwan. It is bordered by the provinces of Chekiang to the north, ...
Fukko Shinto: school of Japanese religion prominent in the 18th century that attempted to uncover the pure meaning of ancient Shinto thought through philological study of the Japanese classics. The school had ...
Fukuda Takeo: Japanese financial specialist who was prime minister from 1976 to 1978.
Fukui: ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast. Its area of 1,619 square miles (4,192 square km) includes the low Fukui Plain, which is backed by high ...
Fukui Kenichi: Japanese chemist, corecipient with Roald Hoffmann of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981 for their independent investigations of the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
Fukuoka: city and port, capital of Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Japan. It incorporates the former city of Hakata and is located on the southern coast of Hakata Bay. There, a kamikaze ("divine ...
Fukuoka: ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan. Fukuoka faces the Inland Sea on the northwest, Shimonoseki Strait (on the north), the Tsushima Strait, or Eastern Channel (west), and the Ariake Sea (south). ...
Fukurokuju: (from Japanese fuku, "happiness"; roku, "wealth"; and ju, "longevity"), in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck). He represents longevity and wisdom. Like Jurojin, another of the ...
Fukushima: ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. Its area of 5,322 square miles (13,784 square km) is mostly mountainous, and settlement is concentrated in small interior basins and ...
Fukuyama: city, eastern Hiroshima ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the delta of the Ashida River, facing the Inland Sea. A small fishing village before the construction of the Fukuyama Castle in ...
Fukuzawa Yukichi: Japanese author, educator, and publisher who was probably the most influential man outside government service in the Japan of the Meiji Restoration following the overthrow of the Tokugawa family in ...
Fulani: a primarily Muslim people scattered throughout many parts of West Africa, from Lake Chad, in the east, to the Atlantic coast. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, ...
Fulani empire: Muslim theocracy of the Western Sudan that flourished in the 19th century. The Fulani, a people of obscure origins, expanded eastward from Futa Toro in Lower Senegal in the 14th ...
Fulbert of Chartres, Saint: French bishop of Chartres who developed the cathedral school there into one of Europe's chief centres of learning.
Fulbright scholarship: educational grant under an international exchange scholarship program created to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through the medium of ...
Fulbright, J. William: American senator who initiated the international exchange program for scholars known as the Fulbright scholarship. He is also known for his vocal and articulate criticism of U.S. military involvement in ...
Fulcher Of Chartres: French chaplain and chronicler of the First Crusade.
Fulda: city, Hessen Land (state), central Germany. It lies on the Fulda River between the Rhon and Vogelsberg mountains. It developed around a Benedictine abbey founded in 744 ...
Fulda River: river, central Germany, a tributary of the Weser River. It rises on the Wasserkuppe (mountain) in the Rhon mountains and flows generally northward past the cities of Fulda, Bad Hersfeld, ...
Fulgentius of Ruspe, Saint: African bishop of Ruspe and theological writer who defended orthodoxy in 6th-century Africa against Arianism (q.v.). He also wrote polemics against Semi-Pelagianism (q.v.), the doctrine condemned at the Council of ...
Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades: Christian Latin writer of African origin, a mythographer and allegorical interpreter of Virgil. Though his writings are mediocre and fantastic, they exerted a great deal of influence on scholars of ...
fulgurite: a glassy silica mineral (lechatelierite) fused in the heat from a lightning strike. Fulgurite is a common mineral with two varieties. Sand fulgurites, the more common, are branching, more or ...
Fuligo: genus of true slime molds (class Myxomycetes; q.v.) whose large fruiting body (compound sporangia), 5 centimetres (2 inches) or more long and about half as wide, occur commonly on decaying ...
Fulk: count of Anjou and Maine as Fulk V (1109-31) and king of Jerusalem (1131-43).
Fulk III Nerra: count of Anjou (987-1040), the most powerful of the early rulers of the Angevin dynasty.
Fulk IV: count of Anjou (1068-1109).
Fulk, Archbishop of Reims: leader of the opposition to the non-Carolingian king Eudes (of the West Franks, or France).
Fullarton, John: British surgeon and banker who wrote on currency control.
fuller's earth: any fine-grained, naturally occurring earthy substance that has a substantial ability to adsorb impurities or colouring bodies from fats, grease, or oils. Its name originated with the textile industry, in ...
Fuller, Andrew: English Baptist minister and theologian. He is remembered as a founder and first secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society.
Fuller, Charles: African-American playwright who is best known for A Soldier's Play (1981), which won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Fuller, George: American painter noted for his haunting, dreamlike pictures of figures set in landscape-e.g., The Gatherer of Simples (1878-83).
Fuller, Henry Blake: American novelist who wrote about his native city of Chicago.
Fuller, J F C: British army officer, military theoretician, and war historian who became one of the founders of modern armoured warfare.
Fuller, Loie: American dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in theatrical lighting, as well as for her invention of the "Serpentine Dance," a striking variation on the popular "skirt dances" ...
Fuller, Margaret: American critic, teacher, and woman of letters whose efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of her contemporaries make her significant in the history of American culture. She ...
Fuller, Melville Weston: eighth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1888-1910) whose amiability, impartiality, and rare administrative skill enabled him to manage court conferences efficiently and to resolve or ...
Fuller, R Buckminster: U.S. engineer and architect who developed the geodesic dome, the only large dome that can be set directly on the ground as a complete structure, and the only practical kind ...
Fuller, Roy: British poet and novelist, best known for his concise and observant verse chronicling the daily routines of home and office.
Fuller, Sarah: American educator, an early and powerful advocate of teaching deaf children to speak rather than to sign.
Fuller, Thomas: British scholar, preacher, and one of the most witty and prolific authors of the 17th century.
fullerene: any of a series of hollow carbon molecules that form either a closed cage ("buckyballs") or a cylinder (carbon "nanotubes"). The first fullerene was discovered in 1985 by Sir Harold ...
Fullerton: city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Fullerton is adjacent to Anaheim and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of metropolitan Los Angeles. The city, once part of the territory of the ...
fulmar: any of several species of gull-like oceanic birds of the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes), which also includes the petrels and the shearwaters. The name fulmar refers especially to the two ...
Fulton: city, seat (1825) of Callaway county, central Missouri, U.S. It lies 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Jefferson City. Laid out in 1825 and named Volney, it was renamed shortly ...
Fulton: county, east-central New York state, U.S. The northern half of the county lies in the Adirondack Mountains, is occupied by Adirondack Park, and features pine forests. The southern half consists ...
Fulton: county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered to the east by Tuscarora Mountain, to the south by Maryland, and to the west by the Rays and Town hills. It consists of a ...
Fulton, John: American bullfighter and painter, who was one of only two Americans (the other was Sidney Franklin) to receive the alternativa (the ceremony in which a novice becomes ...
Fulton, Mary Hannah: American physician and missionary to China who ministered to many thousands not only through her own practice but by greatly expanding the availability of medical education in that country.
Fulton, Robert: American inventor, engineer, and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success. He also designed a system of inland waterways, a submarine, and a steam warship.
Fulushou: in Chinese mythology, a collective term for the three so-called stellar gods, taken from their names: Fuxing, Luxing, and Shouxing.
Fulvia: in Roman history, the wife of Mark Antony, and a participant in the struggle for power following the death of Julius Caesar.
fulvic acid: one of two classes of natural acidic organic polymer that can be extracted from humus found in soil, sediment, or aquatic environments. Its name derives from Latin
Fumariaceae: the fumitory, or bleeding-heart family, of the order Papaverales, comprising about 19 genera of herbaceous plants, some of them valuable ornamentals, many containing alkaloids. The fumitories include annuals, biennials, and ...
fumaric acid: organic compound related to maleic acid (q.v.).
fumarole: vent in the Earth's surface from which steam and volcanic gases are emitted. The major source of the water vapour emitted by fumaroles is groundwater heated by bodies of magma ...
fumigant: any volatile, poisonous substance used to kill insects, nematodes, and other animals or plants that damage stored foods or seeds, human dwellings, clothing, and nursery stock. Soil fumigants are sprayed ...
fumitory: any of several plant species of the genus Fumaria of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae) but, most commonly, F. officinalis, a 90-centimetre- (3-foot-) tall, climbing annual plant with lacy leaves and ...
Funabashi: city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, situated on the inner coast of Tokyo Bay. It was formed by the amalgamation of the post town of Funabashi with the fishing village ...
Funafuti Atoll: coral atoll, site of Fongafale village, capital of Tuvalu, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The atoll comprises some 30 islets, with a total land area of 0.9 square mile (2.4 ...
Funan: ancient Hindu state in Cambodia that arose in the 1st century AD and was incorporated into the state of Chenla in the 6th century. Funan (a Chinese transcription of pnom, ...
Funchal: city and capital of of the regiao autonoma (autonomous region) of the Madeira Islands in the North Atlantic. Funchal lies on the southern coast of Madeira Island.
function: in mathematics, an expression, rule, or law that defines a relationship between one variable (the independent variable) and another variable (the dependent variable). In its most general usage in mathematics ...
functional group: any of numerous combinations of atoms that form parts of chemical molecules, that undergo characteristic reactions themselves, and that in many cases influence the reactivity of the remainder of the ...
functionalism: in psychology, a broad school of thought originating in the U.S. during the late 19th century that attempted to counter the German school of structuralism led by Edward B. Titchener. ...
functionalism: in social sciences, theory based on the premise that all aspects of a society-institutions, roles, norms, etc.-serve a purpose and that all are indispensable for the long-term survival of the ...
Functionalism: in architecture, the doctrine that the form of a building should be determined by practical considerations such as use, material, and structure, as distinct from the attitude that plan and ...
functionalism: in linguistics, the approach to language study that is concerned with the functions performed by language, primarily in terms of cognition (relating information), expression (indicating mood), and conation (exerting influence). ...
fundamental interaction: in physics, any of the four basic forces-gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak-that govern how objects or particles interact and how certain particles decay. All the known forces of nature can ...
Fundamental Laws: (1906), laws promulgated by the Russian emperor Nicholas II, ostensibly to carry out the governmental reforms promised in his earlier October Manifesto (q.v.).
fundamentalism: type of militantly conservative religious movement characterized by the advocacy of strict conformity to sacred texts. Once used exclusively to refer to American Protestants who insisted on the inerrancy of ...
fundamentalism, Christian: movement in American Protestantism that arose in the late 19th century in reaction to theological modernism, which aimed to revise traditional Christian beliefs to accommodate new developments in the natural ...
fundamiji: in Japanese lacquerwork, variation of the jimaki technique. In this kind of ground decoration, a thick layer of fine gold or silver grains is dusted onto a freshly lacquered surface ...
Fundy National Park: national park in New Brunswick, Canada, on the Atlantic coast overlooking the Bay of Fundy, noted for its unusually high and fast-running tides. The park was established in 1948 and ...
Fundy, Bay of: inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick (north and west) and Nova Scotia (south and east). It extends 94 miles (151 km) inland, is 32 ...