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Feng Yun-shan: Chinese missionary and social reformer, one of the original leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, an uprising that occupied most of South China between 1850 and 1864, brought death to an ...
Feng-fa-yao: (Chinese: "Essentials of the Dharma"), discussion of Buddhist precepts written in the 4th century AD by Hsi Ch'ao, who, although Taoist, was a great admirer of Buddhism. One of the ...
Feng-hua: town, Chekiang sheng (province), eastern China. Located in a fertile plain area 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Ning-po, Feng-hua is an agricultural-trade centre (rice, wheat) and specializes in orchard ...
Feng-man Dam: hydroelectric and flood-control project on the Sungari River some 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Chi-lin (Kirin) in Kirin sheng (province), China. The dam was constructed by the Japanese between ...
Feng-shan: shih (municipality) and seat of Kao-hsiung hsien (county), southwestern Taiwan, situated about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kao-hsiung shih in Taiwan's western coastal plain. Developed during a politically unsettled ...
Feng-yuan: shih (municipality) and seat of T'ai-chung hsien (county), west-central Taiwan, situated about 7 miles (11 km) north of T'ai-chung city, in the western uplands. The city was developed during the ...
fenghuang: in Chinese mythology, an immortal bird whose rare appearance is said to be an omen foretelling harmony at the ascent to the throne of a new emperor. Like the
Fenian: member of an Irish nationalist secret society active chiefly in Ireland, the United States, and Britain, especially during the 1860s. The name derives from the Fianna Eireann, the legendary band ...
Fenian cycle: in Irish literature, tales and ballads centring on the deeds of the legendary Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool) and his war band, the Fianna Eireann. An elite volunteer corps of warriors and ...
Fenland: district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, England. The district, in northern Cambridgeshire, covers only a part of the drained area of the Fens, from which it takes its name. ...
Fenn, John B.: American scientist who, with Tanaka Koichi and Kurt Wuthrich, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological molecules.
fennec: (species Fennecus zerda), desert-dwelling fox, family Canidae, found in north Africa and the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas. The fennec is characterized by its small size (head and body length 36-41 ...
fennel: (species Foeniculum vulgare), perennial or biennial aromatic herb of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). According to a Greek myth, knowledge came to man from Olympus in the form of a fiery ...
Fenno, John: publisher and editor, founder in 1789 of the Gazette of the United States, a major political organ of the Federalist Party.
Fennoman movement: in 19th-century Finnish history, nationalist movement that contributed to the development of the Finnish language and literature and achieved for Finnish a position of official equality with Swedish-the language of ...
Fenoglio, Beppe: Italian novelist who wrote of the struggle against fascism and Nazism during World War II. Much of his best work was not published until after his death.
Fenollosa, Ernest F.: American Orientalist and educator who made a significant contribution to the preservation of traditional art in Japan.
Fenrir: monstrous wolf of Norse mythology. He was the son of the demoniac god Loki and a giantess, Angerboda. Fearing Fenrir's strength and knowing that only evil could be expected of ...
Fens: natural region of about 15,500 sq mi (40,100 sq km) of reclaimed marshland in eastern England, extending north to south between Lincoln and Cambridge. Across its surface the Rivers Witham, ...
fentanyl: -(1-phenethyl-4-piperidyl)propionanilide, synthetic narcotic analgesic drug, the most potent narcotic in clinical use (50 to 100 times more potent than morphine). The citrate salt, fentanyl citrate, is administered ...
Fenton, Elijah: English poet perhaps best known for his collaboration in a translation of the Greek epic poem Odyssey with Alexander Pope and William Broome.
Fenton, Lavinia: English actress and colourful social figure who created the role of Polly Peachum in John Gay's masterwork, The Beggar's Opera.
Fenton, Roger: English photographer best known for his pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war.
fenugreek: (species Trigonella foenum-graecum), slender annual herb of the pea family (Fabaceae) or its dried seeds, used as a food, a flavouring, and a medicine. The seeds' aroma and taste are ...
Feodosiya: city, southern Ukraine. It lies on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula on the western shores of Feodosiya Bay.
feoffment: in English law, the granting of a free inheritance of land (fee simple) to a man and his heirs. The delivery of possession (livery of seisin) was done on the ...
Feoktistov, Konstantin Petrovich: Russian spacecraft designer and cosmonaut who took part, with Vladimir M. Komarov and Boris B. Yegorov, in the world's first multimanned spaceflight, Voskhod 1 (1964).
fer-de-lance: (genus Bothrops), extremely venomous snake of the viper family (Viperidae), found throughout tropical America in diverse habitats from cultivated lands to tropical forests. The fer-de-lance, known in Spanish as barba ...
Ferahan carpet: handwoven floor covering from the Farahan district, northeast of Arak in western Iran, produced in the 19th or early 20th century. Like the rugs of Ser-e Band, Ferahans have been ...
Feraoun, Mouloud: Algerian novelist and teacher whose works give vivid and warm portraits of Berber life and values.
Ferber, Edna: American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life.
ferberite: iron-rich variety of the mineral wolframite (q.v.).
Ferdinand: duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Prussian general field marshal who defended western Germany for his brother-in-law Frederick II the Great in the Seven Years' War (1756-63), protecting the Prussian flank from ...
Ferdinand: emperor of Austria from 1835 to 1848, when he abdicated his throne.
Ferdinand: prince (1887-1908) and first king (1908-18) of modern Bulgaria.
Ferdinand I: the first ruler of Castile to take the title of king. He also was crowned emperor of Leon.
Ferdinand I: king of the Two Sicilies (1816-25) who earlier (1759-1806), as Ferdinand IV of Naples, led his kingdom in its fight against the French Revolution and its liberal ideas. A relatively ...
Ferdinand I: king of Aragon from 1412 to 1416, second son of John I of Castile and Eleanor, daughter of Peter IV of Aragon.
Ferdinand I: third grand duke (granduca) of Tuscany (1587-1609), who greatly increased the strength and prosperity of the country.
Ferdinand I: king of Naples from 1458.
Ferdinand I: king of Romania from 1914 to 1927, who, though a Hohenzollern and a believer in German strength, joined the Allies in World War I.
Ferdinand I: ninth king of Portugal (1367-83), whose reign was marked by three wars with Castile and by the growth of the Portuguese economy.
Ferdinand I: Holy Roman emperor (1558-64) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, who, with his Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise ...
Ferdinand II: prince of Capua, duke of Calabria, and king of Naples (1495-96), who recovered his kingdom from French occupation.
Ferdinand II: second husband of Queen Maria II of Portugal, who proclaimed him king consort with the title of Ferdinand II upon the birth of their first son (the future Peter V) ...
Ferdinand II: Holy Roman emperor (1619-37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617-19, 1620-27), and king of Hungary (1618-25). He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist ...
Ferdinand II: fifth grand duke (granduca) of Tuscany, a patron of sciences, whose rule was subservient to Rome.
Ferdinand II: king of Leon from 1157 to 1188, second son of Alfonso VII.
Ferdinand II: king of the Two Sicilies from 1830. He was the son of the future King Francis I and the Spanish infanta Maria Isabel, a member of the branch of the ...
Ferdinand II: king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I. (As Spanish ruler of southern Italy, he was also known as Ferdinand ...
Ferdinand III: Holy Roman emperor who headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years' War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
Ferdinand III: king of Castile from 1217 to 1252 and of Leon from 1230 to 1252 and conqueror of the Muslim cities of Cordoba (1236), Jaen (1246), and Sevilla (1248). During his ...
Ferdinand III: grand duke of Tuscany whose moderate, enlightened rule distinguished him from other Italian princes of his time.
Ferdinand IV: king of Castile and Leon, succeeding his father, Sancho IV, in 1295.
Ferdinand IV: king of Bohemia (from 1646) and of Hungary (from 1647) and king of the Romans (from 1653).
Ferdinand Maria: elector of Bavaria (1651-79), son of Maximilian I. A minor when he succeeded, he did much to repair the wounds caused by the Thirty Years' War, encouraging agriculture and industries, ...
Ferdinand VI: third king of Spain of the house of Bourbon, reigning from 1746 to 1759. He pursued a policy of neutrality and gradual reform.
Ferdinand VII: king of Spain in 1808 and from 1814 to 1833. Between 1808 and 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars, Ferdinand was imprisoned in France by Napoleon.
Ferdowsi: also spelled Firdawsi, Firdusi, or Firdousi, pseudonym of Abu Ol-qasem Mansur Persian poet, author of the Shah-nameh ("Book of Kings"), the Persian national epic, to which he gave its final ...
Ferenczi, Sandor: Hungarian psychoanalyst noted for his contributions to psychoanalytic theory and his experimentation with techniques of therapy.
Ferentino: town, Frosinone provincia, Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. The town is situated on a hill that commands the Sacco valley and the Via Casilina (the ancient Roman road Via Latina), ...
Fergana: oblast (province) eastern Uzbekistan, with an area of 2,750 square miles (7,100 square km) in the southwestern Fergana valley. The climate is continental with hot summers and moderately cold winters. ...
Fergana: city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies at the foot of the Alay Mountains in the southern part of the Fergana Valley. It was founded by the Russians in 1877 as the ...
Fergana Valley: enormous depression between the Tien Shan and Gissar and Alay mountain systems, lying mainly in eastern Uzbekistan and partly in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The roughly triangular valley has an area ...
Fergus Falls: city, seat (1872) of Otter Tail county, west-central Minnesota, U.S. It lies along the Otter Tail River in a lake area, about 115 miles (185 km) northwest of St. Cloud ...
Ferguson, Abbie Park: American educator, a founder and preserver of Huguenot College as the only women's college in South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ferguson, Adam: historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school of philosophy who is remembered as a forerunner of modern sociology for his emphasis on social interactions.
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme: early American writer, perhaps best remembered for her personal correspondence, journal, and salons and for her incongruously pro-British actions during the American Revolution.
Ferguson, Harry George: British industrialist who designed and manufactured agricultural machines, notably the Ferguson tractor.
Ferguson, Patrick: British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle.
Ferguson, Robert: Scottish conspirator and pamphleteer known as "the Plotter," who gave indiscriminate support to the opponents of Charles II and James II and then to the Jacobites against William III.
Ferguson, Samuel David: first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Ferguson, Tom R.: American cowboy who six times consecutively (1974-79) won the all-around cowboy title of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (before 1975, the Rodeo Cowboys Association), breaking Larry Mahan's record of five ...
Fergusson Island: largest of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, which are a part of Papua New Guinea. The island lies 30 miles (50 km) across Ward Hunt Strait from the southeastern tip of New ...
Fergusson, Robert: Scottish poet who was one of the leading figures of the 18th-century revival of Scots vernacular writing and the chief forerunner of Robert Burns.
Feriae Latinae: in Roman religion, the Festival of Jupiter Latiaris (Latialis), held in the spring and fall each year on Mons Albanus (Monte Cavo), in the Alban Hills near Rome. Apparently antedating ...