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- (from the article "Islamic world") Al-Farabi contributed to the ongoing Islamization of Hellenistic thought. Falsafah, the Arabic cognate for the Greek philosophia, included metaphysics and logic, as well as ...
- false arborvitae
- (Thujopsis dolabrata), ornamental and timber evergreen tree or shrub of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to Japan. It is closely related to the arborvitae (q.v.) but has larger leaves, marked ...
- False Bay
- bay on the south side of Cape Peninsula, South Africa, 13 mi (21 km) southeast of Cape Town. Cape Hangklip (east) and Cape Point (west) are about 20 mi apart. ...
- false beech
- (from the article "Fagales") Nothofagaceae, or the southern or silver beech family, consists of 35 species of Nothofagus that are scattered throughout southern South America, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the mountains of ...
- false chinch bug
- (from the article "chinch bug") The hairy chinch bug (Blissus hirtus) does not migrate. This short-winged insect, sometimes a lawn pest, is controlled by fertilizing, watering, and cutting grass. The false chinch bug (Nysius ericae) ...
- false conflict
- (from the article "conflict of laws") ...in the 1950s. Currie's approach sought to determine whether a "true" or "false" conflict exists between the law of the forum state and that of the other involved state. A ...
- false consciousness
- (from the article "communism") ...distribution of economic and political power. Even exploited workers may fail to understand their true interests and accept the dominant ideology-a condition that later Marxists called "false consciousness." One particularly ...
- false coral snake
- (from the article "mimicry") ...snakes (Micrurus), long recognized as dangerously poisonous-which possess a brilliant red, black, and yellow ringed pattern-and several genera of nonpoisonous and mildly poisonous "false coral snakes" with nearly identical colour ...
- false cypress
- any of some seven or eight species of ornamental and timber evergreen conifers (family Cupressaceae) native to North America and eastern Asia.
- False Decretals
- a 9th-century collection of ecclesiastical legislation containing some forged documents. The principal aim of the forgers was to free the Roman Catholic church from interference by the state and to ... [4 Related Articles]
- False Delta
- (from the article "Senegal") ...The river rises in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea and, after traversing the old massifs, rapidly drops downward before reaching Senegalese territory. At Dagana it forms the so-called False ...
- false doublet
- (from the article "assembled gem") ...same material, the gem is called a true doublet; if they are different, with the crown (above the girdle) being genuine and the pavilion (below the girdle) an inferior stone ...
- false dragonhead
- (from the article "dragonhead") The related false dragonheads, or obedient plants (Physostegia; see photograph), with 12 species are native to North America. The best known is P. virginiana, which has large, pink, bell-like flowers ...
- False Face Society
- (from the article "Native American dance") ...comprising various public or secret societies whose members are bound together for life, often joining the society during illness or other catastrophe. These societies perform such dances as the False ...
- false gavial
- (from the article "gavial") The false gavial (Tomistoma schlegeli) looks like a gavial. It is placed by some authorities with the crocodiles in the family Crocodilidae and by others in the family Gavialidae. It ...
- false hop
- (from the article "shrimp plant") ...white, spotted purple, tubular, two-lipped flowers enclosed or accompanied by numerous reddish-brown leaflike bracts that suggest the shape and colour of shrimps. Some popular varieties include the false hop, shrimp ...
- false indusium
- (from the article "fern") ...exposure, drying, and other hazards is accomplished in various ways, such as by the formation of the sori in grooves or pockets or by the production of various forms of ...
- false katydid
- (from the article "katydid") The subfamily Phaneropterinae is another large subfamily of tettigoniids. Its members are sometimes called the false katydids, or bush katydids. Their songs are a series of high-pitched ticks or lisps. ...
- false map turtle
- (from the article "turtle") The age at which turtles first reproduce varies from only a few years to perhaps as many as 50, with small species typically reaching sexual maturity sooner. Female false map ...
- false memory syndrome
- the experience, usually in the context of adult psychotherapy, of seeming to remember events that never actually occurred. These pseudomemories are often quite vivid and emotionally charged, especially those representing ... [1 Related Articles]
- false morel
- (from the article "Representative poisonous mushrooms") ...early summer in woods. The bell morel (Verpa), an edible mushroom with a bell-shaped cap, is found in woods and in old orchards in early spring. Most species of Gyromitra, ...
- false oath
- (from the article "oath") ...forbidden: (1) a vain oath, in which one attempts to do something that is impossible to accomplish, denies self-evident facts, or attempts to negate the fulfillment of a religious precept, ...
- false position, method of
- (from the article "mathematics") ...(that is, 2 + 1/4 + 1/8), and its multiple by 7 (16 + 1/2 + 1/8) becomes the required answer. This type of procedure (sometimes called the method of "false position" or "false assumption") is familiar in ...
- false potto
- (from the article "potto") It is now thought likely that pottos constitute several species, but in 1996 primatologists were stunned when a new genus and species, the false potto (Pseudopotto martini), was announced. It ...
- false pregnancy
- disorder that may mimic many of the effects of pregnancy, including enlargement of the uterus; cessation of menstruation; morning sickness; and even labour pains at term. The cause may be ... [1 Related Articles]
- false prophecy
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...to suffer and die for it. Eschatological trials are coming (e.g., I Pet. 1:6f., 4:12-19; II Pet. 3:2-10; I John 2:18 ff., 4:1-4; Jude 17 ff.), and the Christian views ...
- false rib
- (from the article "rib") ...from 3 to 10 pairs. In humans there are normally 12 pairs of ribs. The first seven pairs are attached directly to the sternum by costal cartilages and are called ...
- false ring
- (from the article "tree") ...of latewood. Once the drought conditions have passed, the radial diameters of the cells of the secondary tissues will increase, creating the appearance of a new annual ring. This, however, ...
- false scorpion
- any of the 1,700 species of the order Pseudoscorpiones (sometimes Chelonethida) of the arthropod class Arachnida. They resemble true scorpions but are tailless and only 1 to 7.5 millimetres (0.04 ... [2 Related Articles]
- false Solomon's seal
- (from the article "Solomon's seal") ...are clusters of white or greenish white flowers, which are followed by red berries. The leaves form two rows along the upper part of the stem. Similar plants of the ...
- false sunbird
- either of two species of birds in Madagascar of the family Philepittidae (order Passeriformes). Both are 10 cm (4 inches) long, with a short tail and a long, downcurved bill. ... [1 Related Articles]
- false tamarisk
- (from the article "tamarisk") (genus Tamarix), any of 54 species of shrubs and low trees (family Tamaricaceae) that, with false tamarisks (Myricaria, 10 species), grow in salt deserts, by seashores, in mountainous areas, and ...
- false truffle
- (from the article "Boletales") ...some boletes, earthballs, puffballs, and false truffles. Most members are saprobic, primarily found on the wood of fallen trees or in the soil at the base of trees. Examples of ...
- false twisting
- (from the article "fibre, man-made") One popular texturizing process is false-twisting. In this technique, twist is inserted into a heated multifilament yarn running at high speed. The yarn is cooled in a highly twisted state, ...
- false vampire bat
- any of certain bats of the Old World genera Megaderma, Cardioderma, and Macroderma (family Megadermatidae) and the New World genera Vampyrum and Chrotopterus (family Phyllostomatidae), conspicuous because of their large ...
- Falsen, Christian Magnus
- nationalist political leader, generally regarded as the author of the Norwegian constitution.
- falsetto
- the upper register of the human voice, the opposite of chest voice. Though sometimes considered synonymous with head voice, the Italian term falsetto means "false soprano" and therefore has been ... [2 Related Articles]
- falsework
- temporary construction to support arches and similar structures while the mortar or concrete is setting or the steel is being joined. As soon as the work is set, the centring ... [1 Related Articles]
- falsifiability criterion
- (from the article "Popper, Sir Karl") ...Hume had shown, however, only an infinite number of such confirming results could prove the theory correct. Popper argued instead that hypotheses are deductively validated by what he called the ...
- falsity
- (from the article "formal logic") ...as their values.) Hence they are often called propositional variables. It is assumed that every proposition is either true or false and that no proposition is both true and false. ...
- Falstaff Inn
- (from the article "casement window") The British and German custom was to have the windows opening outward. A medieval English example exists at the Falstaff Inn, Canterbury, Kent, Eng., with casement windows below fixed windows, ...
- Falstaff, Sir John
- one of the most famous comic characters in all English literature, who appears in four of Shakespeare's plays. Entirely the creation of Shakespeare, Falstaff is said to have been partly ... [10 Related Articles]
- Falster
- island, Denmark. It lies in the Baltic Sea and is connected to southern Zealand (Sjaelland) and Lolland by several bridges. Its southern tip, Gedser Odde, is Denmark's most southerly point. ...
- faltboat
- (from the article "canoe") ...are designed or adapted to be propelled by a sail, and some aluminum canoes are made with square sterns to accommodate outboard motors. The introduction of the faltboat (German Faltboot, ...
- Faltings, Gerd
- German mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his work in algebraic geometry. [1 Related Articles]
- Faludi, Susan
- American feminist and award-winning journalist and author, known especially for her exploration of the depiction of women by the news media.
- Faludy, Gyorgy
- Hungarian-born poet and journalist (b. Sept. 22, 1910, Budapest, Hung.-d. Sept. 1, 2006, Budapest), was best known for Villon balladai (1937), his lyrical reinterpretations of the verse of 15th-century French ...
- Falun
- town, capital of the lan (county) of Dalarna and major town of the traditional landskap (province) of Dalarna, central Sweden. It lies along the ...
- Falun Gong
- controversial Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992; its adherents exercise ritually to obtain mental and spiritual renewal. The teachings of Falun Gong draw from the Asian religious ... [2 Related Articles]
- Falwell, Jerry
- American religious leader, televangelist, and founder of the Moral Majority, a political organization for the promotion of conservative social values. [3 Related Articles]
- falx cerebelli
- (from the article "meninges") ...the falx cerebri, is a sickle-shaped partition lying between the two hemispheres of the brain. Another, the tentorium cerebelli, provides a strong, membranous roof over the cerebellum. A third, the ...
- falx cerebri
- (from the article "skeletal system, human") The anterior cranial fossa shows a crestlike projection in the midline, the crista galli ("crest of the cock"). This is a place of firm attachment for the falx cerebri, a ...
- fama
- (from the article "Bambara") ...a great extent intermingled with other tribes, and there is no centralized organization. Each small district, made up of a number of villages, is under a dominant family that provides ...
- Fama
- in Greco-Roman mythology, the personification of popular rumour. Pheme was more a poetic personification than a deified abstraction, although there was an altar in her honour at Athens. The Greek ...
- famadihana
- (from the article "Madagascar") ...customs, particularly those connected with the family tomb and ceremonies showing respect for the family's ancestors. The most common of these, aside from burial, is the famadihana, ...
- Famagusta
- a major port in the Turkish Cypriot-administered portion of northern Cyprus. It lies on the island's east coast in a bay between Capes Greco and Eloea and is about 37 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Famagusta Bay
- (from the article "Cyprus") Between the two ranges lies the Mesaoria Plain (its name means "Between the Mountains"), which is flat and low-lying and extends from Morphou Bay in the west to Famagusta Bay ...
- Famatina, Sierra de
- (from the article "Argentina") ...Sierra de Cordoba. The Pampean Sierras have variable elevations, beginning at 2,300 feet (700 metres) in the Sierra de Mogotes in the east and rising to 20,500 feet (6,250 metres) ...
- Fame Studios
- (from the article "Muscle Shoals studios") Songwriter-engineer-turned-producer Rick Hall set up Fame Studios in Florence in 1961. He recruited his session musicians from a local group-Dan Penn and the Pallbearers-who played on the studio's first hit, ...
- Famenne depression
- (from the article "Famennian Stage") ...of Late Devonian rocks and time. Famennian time spans the interval between 374.5 million and 359.2 million years ago. The name of the Famennian Stage is derived from the region ...
- Famennian Stage
- uppermost of the two standard worldwide divisions of Late Devonian rocks and time. Famennian time spans the interval between 374.5 million and 359.2 million years ago. The name of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- familial adenomatous polyposis
- (from the article "genetic disease, human") Two forms of familial colorectal cancer, hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), have also been linked to predisposing mutations in specific genes. Persons with familial HNPCC ...
- familial disease
- (from the article "Enzymes identified with hereditary diseases") Further confusion often arises over the terms genetic and familial. A familial disease is hereditary, passed on from one generation to the next. It resides in a genetic mutation that ...
- familial dysbetalipoproteinemia
- (from the article "metabolic disease") ...with familial hypercholesterolemia is homozygous for the condition, severe vascular disease starts in early childhood, and heart attacks are usual by the age of 20. Similar symptoms are present in ...
- familial hypercholesterolemia
- (from the article "Chromosome location, gene linkage, and disease associated with genes for blood group systems") Familial hypercholesterolemia is an autosomal dominant disease that is caused by the deficiency of the LDL receptor on the surface of cells in the liver and other organs. As a ...
- familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
- (from the article "endocrine system, human") ...(used to treat hypertension) and lithium carbonate (used to treat depression). In some cases, serum calcium and serum parathyroid hormone concentrations are high as a result of a disorder called ...
- familial hypophosphatemia
- (from the article "bone disease") Reabsorption of phosphate by the kidney tubules is deficient in a hereditary disorder known as familial hypophosphatemia; the phosphate leak causes low concentration of blood phosphate and, in turn, deficient ...
- familial polyposis
- (from the article "digestive system disease") The tendency of some persons to form polyps, benign growths on the inner wall of the colon, is strikingly exemplified in the rare disorder known as familial polyposis, in which ...
- familiar
- in Western demonology, small animal or imp kept as a witch's attendant, given to her by the devil or inherited from another witch. The familiar was a low-ranking demon that ... [4 Related Articles]
- Familist
- religious sect of Dutch origin, followers of Hendrik Niclaes, a 16th-century Dutch merchant. Niclaes' main activity was in Emden, East Friesland (1540-60). In his Evangelium regni, issued in England as ... [1 Related Articles]
- famille jaune
- (from the article "famille verte") ...yellow, blue, red, purple, and green, the latter sometimes used for the ground. The verte palette that uses a yellow ground is famille jaune; ...
- famille noire
- (from the article "famille verte") ...verte palette that uses a yellow ground is famille jaune; the palette that uses a rich greenish black ground is famille noire.
- famille rose
- group of Chinese porcelain wares characterized by decoration painted in opaque overglaze rose colours, chiefly shades of pink and carmine. These colours were known to the Chinese as [3 Related Articles]
- famille verte
- group of Chinese porcelain wares characterized by decoration painted in a colour range that includes yellow, blue, red, purple, and green, the latter sometimes used for the ground. The [3 Related Articles]
- Famille, Pacte de
- any of three defensive alliances (1733, 1743, and 1761) between France and Spain, so called because both nations were ruled by members of the Bourbon family. The Pactes de Famille ... [5 Related Articles]
- family
- (from the article "asteroid") Within the main belt are groups of asteroids that cluster with respect to certain mean orbital elements (semimajor axis, eccentricity, and inclination). Such groups are called families and are named ...
- family
- a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of ... [42 Related Articles]
- Family Allowance Act
- (from the article "Canada") ...and the health and welfare of Canada's aboriginal population and past and present members of the Canadian armed forces. There are a number of social security and social assistance programs. ...
- family allowance benefit
- (from the article "social welfare program") These are benefits provided by governments to families with a specified minimum number of children. The benefits may be open to all families, in which case the program is a ...
- Family Assistance Program
- (from the article "Nixon, Richard M.") ...a "do-nothing" president, his administration undertook a number of important reforms in welfare policy, civil rights, law enforcement, the environment, and other areas. Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Program (FAP), intended ...
- Family Compact
- (from the article "Canada") ...colonies, effective government was in the hands of the lieutenant governor and an oligarchy that dominated the legislative and executive councils. In Upper Canada this ruling elite was known as ...
- family court
- special court designed to deal with legal problems arising out of family relations. The family court is usually a consolidation of several types of courts dealing with narrower family problems, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Family Dog
- (from the article "San Francisco ballrooms") ...of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The first multiband rock show was held at the Ark in Sausalito in 1965 and proved so successful that the presenters incorporated their commune as ...
- family income policy
- (from the article "insurance") By combining term and whole life insurance, an insurer can provide many different kinds of policies. Two examples of such "package" contracts are the family income policy and the mortgage ...
- family law
- body of law regulating family relationships, including marriage and divorce, the treatment of children, and related economic matters. [11 Related Articles]
- Family Planning Association
- (from the article "birth control") ...founded the American Birth Control League, which in 1942 became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In Britain the Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics was to evolve ...
- family planning clinic
- (from the article "clinic") The main purposes of the family planning service are to encourage parents to make responsible decisions about pregnancy that take into account the best interests of the family; to provide ...
- family practice
- field of medicine that stresses comprehensive primary health care, regardless of the age or sex of the patient, with special emphasis on the family unit. [2 Related Articles]
- family reform school model
- (from the article "reformatory") In contrast to the traditional model of most reformatories for boys, which was based on the military camp, the "family reform school model" featured complexes of cottages in rural areas ...
- family selection
- (from the article "selection") ...reproductive ability and quality is known as pedigree selection. Progeny selection indicates choice of breeding stock on the basis of the performance or testing of their offspring or descendants. Family ...
- family therapy
- (from the article "therapeutics") General systems theories emerged in the biological and social sciences following World War II. This led to the conceptualization of the individual as an interdependent part of larger social systems. ...
- family veil
- (from the article "family law") ...should not intervene except in cases of serious child abuse or the like. In the English common law, for example, decisions of the latter part of the 19th century carried ...
- Family, The
- millenarian Christian communal group that grew out of the ministry of David Berg (1919-1994) to the hippies who had gathered in Huntington Beach, California, in the late 1960s. It teaches ...
- family-quotient system
- (from the article "income tax") ...taxed married couples at a relatively higher rate. In France the family is the taxable entity; there is only one rate schedule, but relief for family commitments is achieved by ...
- family-system principle
- (from the article "fascism") ...The Italian, French, and Spanish versions of this doctrine, known as "integral nationalism," were similarly illiberal, though not racist. The Japanese version, known as the "family-system principle," maintained that the ...
- family-tree classification
- (from the article "Romance languages") A family-tree classification, such as that of Figure 1, is commonly used for the Romance languages. If, however, historical treatment of one phonetic feature is taken as a classificatory criterion ...
- famine
- severe and prolonged hunger in a substantial proportion of the population of a region or country, resulting in widespread and acute malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. Famines usually ... [15 Related Articles]
- Famine Museum
- (from the article "Roscommon") ...on agriculture, though there is some light industry. The towns have a strong retail trade and monthly fairs, however, and coal mining in Ireland was centred at Arigna until the ...
- famotidine
- (from the article "digestive system disease") Surgery for chronic ulceration is used less frequently since the introduction of drugs that stop the secretion of stomach acid. Histamine-receptor antagonists, such as cimetidine, ranitidine, and famotidine, block the ...
- Famous Players
- (from the article "Zukor, Adolph") ...starring Sarah Bernhardt, and made a fortune as the film's exclusive distributor. Zukor then devised the idea of making films featuring Broadway stage actors in their current successes. He formed ...
- fan
- in the decorative arts, rigid or folding hand-held device used throughout the world since ancient times; it has been used for cooling, air circulation, or ceremony and as a sartorial ... [1 Related Articles]
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