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10945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Park%20Circuit | Albert Park Circuit | The Albert Park Circuit is a motorsport street circuit around Albert Park Lake, three kilometres south of central Melbourne. It is used annually as a circuit for the traditional Formula One season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the supporting Supercars Championship Melbourne 400 and other associated support races. The ... |
10946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco%20Grand%20Prix | Monaco Grand Prix | The Monaco Grand Prix () is a Formula One motor racing event held annually on the Circuit de Monaco, in late May or early June. Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, and is one of the races—along with the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours ... |
10947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission | Fission | Fission, a splitting of something into two or more parts, may refer to:
Fission (biology), the division of a single entity into two or more parts and the regeneration of those parts into separate entities resembling the original
Nuclear fission, when the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts
Fission (band), ... |
10948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion | Fusion | Fusion, or synthesis, is the process of combining two or more distinct entities into a new whole.
Fusion may also refer to:
Science and technology
Physics
Nuclear fusion, multiple atomic nuclei combining to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles
Fusion power, power generation using controll... |
10949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20color%20theorem | Four color theorem | In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem, states that no more than four colors are required to color the regions of any map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. Adjacent means that two regions share a common boundary curve segment, not merely a corner where three or more re... |
10951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit%20451 | Fahrenheit 451 | Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and ... |
10957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Xavier | Francis Xavier | Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 15063 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese Catholic missionary and saint who was a co-f... |
10958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil | Fossil | A fossil (from Classical Latin: , literally 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA... |
10960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Educational%20Rights%20and%20Privacy%20Act | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law that governs the access to educational information and records by public entities such as potential employers, publicly funded educational institutions, and foreign governments. The act is also referred... |
10963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting | Forgetting | Forgetting or disremembering is the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory. It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. Problems with remembering, learning and retaining new info... |
10965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay%20Wray | Fay Wray | Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian/American actress best remembered for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed one of the early... |
10967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting%20curve | Forgetting curve | The forgetting curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it. A related concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of t... |
10969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable%20gate%20array | Field-programmable gate array | A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturinghence the term field-programmable. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL), similar to that used for an application-specific integrat... |
10971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-running%20sleep | Free-running sleep | Free-running sleep is a sleep pattern that is not adjusted (entrained) to the 24-hour cycle in nature nor to any artificial cycle.
It occurs as the sleep disorder non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder or artificially as part of experiments used in the study of circadian and other rhythms in biology. Study subjects are shiel... |
10972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenrir | Fenrir | Fenrir (Old Norse: ; "fen-dweller") or Fenrisúlfr (O.N.: ; "Fenrir's wolf", often translated "Fenris-wolf"), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (O.N.: ; "fame-wolf") and Vánagandr (O.N.: ; "monster of the [River] Ván"), or Vanargand, is a wolf in Norse mythology. Fenrir, together with Hel and the World Serpent, is a child ... |
10974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy | Final Fantasy | is a Japanese science fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games. The first game in the series was released in 1987, with 15 numbered main entries hav... |
10975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid | Fatty acid | In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated. Most naturally occurring fatty acids have an unbranched chain of an even number of carbon atoms, from 4 to 28. Fatty acids are a major component of the lipids (up to 70 wt%) i... |
10977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless%20%281993%20film%29 | Fearless (1993 film) | Fearless is a 1993 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez and John Turturro. It was written by Rafael Yglesias, adapted from his novel of the same name.
Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodri... |
10979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20D.%20Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (, ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As a member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and be... |
10980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Freedoms | Four Freedoms | The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech... |
10983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20logic | First-order logic | First-order logic—also known as predicate logic, quantificational logic, and first-order predicate calculus—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. First-order logic uses quantified variables over non-logical objects, and allows the use of sentences that con... |
10987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor | Functor | In mathematics, specifically category theory, a functor is a mapping between categories. Functors were first considered in algebraic topology, where algebraic objects (such as the fundamental group) are associated to topological spaces, and maps between these algebraic objects are associated to continuous maps between... |
10989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Hausdorff | Felix Hausdorff | Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis.
Life became difficult for Hausdorff and his family after Kris... |
10990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbulwinter | Fimbulwinter | In Norse mythology, Fimbulvetr (or fimbulvinter), commonly rendered in English as Fimbulwinter, is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök. It means "great winter." In Old English it is pronounced as Fifelwinter.
Summary
Fimbulwinter is the harsh winter that precedes the end of the world and puts an end to all... |
10991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2010 | February 10 |
Events
Pre-1600
1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot b... |
10992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 763,380 inhabitants as of 31 December 2019 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. On the river Main (a tributary of the Rhine), it forms a continuous conurbation with t... |
10993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20of%20Saxony | Albert of Saxony | Albert (; 23 April 1828 – 19 June 1902) was the King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
He was the eldest son of Prince John (who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the Saxon throne as King John in 1854) by his wife Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.
Albert had a successful military career, leading Sa... |
10996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20d%27Aguilon | François d'Aguilon | François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist, and architect from the Spanish Netherlands.
D'Aguilon was born in Brussels; his father was a secretary to Philip II of Spain. He became a Jesuit in Tournai in 1586. In 1598 h... |
10997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet | Freenet | Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. Both Freenet and some of its associated tools wer... |
10998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortified%20wine | Fortified wine | Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added. In the course of some centuries,
winemakers have developed many different styles of fortified wine, including port, sherry, madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatised wine vermouth.
Production
One reason for fortifyin... |
11001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Hoyle | Fred Hoyle | Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as th... |
11002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20cuisine | French cuisine | French cuisine () consists of the cooking traditions and practices from France.
French cuisine developed throughout the centuries influenced by the many surrounding cultures of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, in addition to its own food traditions on the long western coastlines of the Atlantic, the Cha... |
11003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-spice%20powder | Five-spice powder | Five-spice powder () is a spice mixture of five or more spices used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine. It is also used in Hawaiian cuisine and Vietnamese cuisine. The five flavors of the spices (sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami (savoriness)) refers to the five traditional Chinese elements.
... |
11004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20group | Fundamental group | In the mathematical field of algebraic topology, the fundamental group of a topological space is the group of the equivalence classes under homotopy of the
loops contained in the space. It records information about the basic shape, or holes, of the topological space. The fundamental group is the first and simplest ho... |
11006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2019 | February 19 |
Events
Pre-1600
197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already been elected to the throne of the Poli... |
11007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2024 | February 24 |
Events
Pre-1600
484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 – A Spanish-Austria... |
11008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2023 | February 23 |
Events
Pre-1600
303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
628 – Khosrow II, ... |
11009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2022 | February 22 |
Events
Pre-1600
1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand.
1371 – Ro... |
11010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2021 | February 21 |
Events
Pre-1600
452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1601–1900
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a nationa... |
11011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%20%28disambiguation%29 | FBI (disambiguation) | FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.
FBI may also refer to:
Music
F.B.I. (album), a 1996 song and album by The Dayton Family
"F.B.I." (instrumental), a 1961 single by The Shadows
FBi Radio, a community radio station based in Sydney, Australia
Television
Fully Booked Interactive, a 2000 Br... |
11012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth%20%28programming%20language%29 | Forth (programming language) | Forth is a procedural, stack-oriented programming language and interactive environment designed by Charles H. "Chuck" Moore and first used by other programmers in 1970. Although not an acronym, the language's name in its early years was often spelled in all capital letters as FORTH, but Forth is more common.
Forth com... |
11015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Algarotti | Francesco Algarotti | Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire,... |
11016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20%C3%81lvares | Francisco Álvares | Francisco Álvares ( – 1536-1541) was a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese embassy to emperor Lebna Dengel accompanied by returning Ethiopian ambassador Matheus. The embassy arrived only in 1520 to Ethiopia where he joined long sought Portuguese envoy Pêro da Co... |
11017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Andreini | Francesco Andreini | Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 – 1624) was an Italian actor mainly of Commedia Dell'Arte plays. He began his career playing the role of the unsophisticated love-stricken young man. Later he played the role of Capitan Spavento ("Captain Fright"), a Pickwickian character of excessive fatigue. He died on January 1, 1624 in ... |
11018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Monarchists | Fifth Monarchists | The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660 during the Commonwealth, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. They took their name from a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies (Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) would pre... |
11020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2015 | February 15 |
Events
Pre-1600
438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 – At an assembly at Pavia of Lomb... |
11021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%206 | February 6 |
Events
Pre-1600
1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1694 – The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Q... |
11022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Hopkinson | Francis Hopkinson | Francis Hopkinson (September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, judge, author and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United States and one for the United States Navy. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776 as a delega... |
11023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius%20%28emperor%29 | Honorius (emperor) | Flavius Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius, Honorius ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half. In 410, during Honorius... |
11024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant | Formant | In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract. In acoustics, a formant is usually defined as a broad peak, or local maximum, in the spectrum. For harmonic sounds, with this definition, the formant frequency is sometimes taken as... |
11025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2020 | February 20 |
Events
Pre-1600
1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1521 – Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain fo... |
11026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmers | List of programmers | This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. All entries must already have associated articles.
A
Michael Abrash – program optimization and x86 assembly language
Scott Adams – one of earliest developers of CP/M and DOS games... |
11028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20stock | Film stock | Film stock is an analog medium that is used for recording motion pictures or animation. It is recorded on by a movie camera, developed,
edited, and projected onto a screen using a movie projector. It is a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopic... |
11029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%201040 | Form 1040 | Form 1040 (officially, the "U.S. Individual Income Tax Return") is an IRS tax form used for personal federal income tax returns filed by United States residents. The form calculates the total taxable income of the taxpayer and determines how much is to be paid or refunded by the government.
Income tax returns for ind... |
11033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Douglass | Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York... |
11034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20dynamics | Fluid dynamics | In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including aerodynamics (the study of air and other gases in motion) and hydrodynamics (the study of liquids in motion). Fluid dynamics has a wide range ... |
11036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin | Fin | A fin is a thin component or appendage attached to a larger body or structure. Fins typically function as foils that produce lift or thrust, or provide the ability to steer or stabilize motion while traveling in water, air, or other fluids. Fins are also used to increase surface areas for heat transfer purposes, or sim... |
11037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr | Freyr | Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with sacral kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, and virility, with sunshine and fair weather, and with good harvest. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and... |
11038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja | Freyja | In Norse paganism, Freyja (; Old Norse: , "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses... |
11040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class%20cricket | First-class cricket | First-class cricket is the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Mat... |
11041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20de%20Saussure | Ferdinand de Saussure | Ferdinand de Saussure (; ; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two m... |
11042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat | Fat | In nutrition, biology, and chemistry, fat usually means any ester of fatty acids, or a mixture of such compounds, most commonly those that occur in living beings or in food.
The term often refers specifically to triglycerides (triple esters of glycerol), that are the main components of vegetable oils and of fatty tiss... |
11043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20line | Front line | A front line (alternatively front-line or frontline) in military terminology is the position(s) closest to the area of conflict of an armed force's personnel and equipment, usually referring to land forces. When a front (an intentional or unintentional boundary) between opposing sides forms, the front line is the area ... |
11049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA | FIFA | FIFA ( ; ; Spanish: Federación Internacional de Fútbol Asociación; German: Internationaler Verband des Association-Fußball) is a non-profit organization that describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer. It is the highest governing body of association football.
... |
11052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20FIFA | List of presidents of FIFA | The following is a list of presidents of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world association football governing body.
Presidents Daniel Burley Woolfall, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Arthur Drewry died during their term in office.
The current president is Swiss-Italian Gianni Infantino, el... |
11054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism | Fascism | Fascism () is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy that rose to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before spre... |
11057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge | Forge | A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point where work hardening no longer occurs. The metal (known as the "workpiece")... |
11059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Pillars%20of%20Islam | Five Pillars of Islam | The Five Pillars of Islam ( ; also "pillars of the religion") are fundamental practices in Islam, considered to be obligatory acts of worship for all Muslims. They are summarized in the famous hadith of Gabriel. The Sunni and Shia agree on the basic details of the performance and practice of these acts, but the Shia ... |
11062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction | Friction | Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. There are several types of friction:
Dry friction is a force that opposes the relative lateral motion of two solid surfaces in contact. Dry friction is subdivided into static friction (... |
11063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%207 | February 7 |
Events
Pre-1600
457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales... |
11064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith | Faith | Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion".
Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant,
while others w... |
11086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavian | Flavian | Flavian may refer to:
A member of the Flavian dynasty of Roman emperors, during the late 1st century AD, or their works
Flavian Zeija, a Ugandan lawyer, academic and judge. Principal Judge of Uganda, since December 2019.
A person named Flavianus
Religious leaders
Flavian, one of the Martyrs of Carthage under Valer... |
11090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest | Forest | A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning mor... |
11092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20Lakes | Finger Lakes | The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States. This region straddles the northern and transitional edge, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion, of the Northern Allegheny Plateau and the Ontario ... |
11100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite | Kite | A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the face of the kite so the wind can lift it. Some kite designs don’t need a bridle; bo... |
11101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine | Fanzine | A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ ... |
11102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten%20Futures | Forgotten Futures | Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy (i.e., steampunk). Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings (often as alternate worlds, whose h... |
11103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabritio%20Caroso | Fabritio Caroso | Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 – 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.
His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630. The w... |
11104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah | Fatah | Fatah ( ), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the Presi... |
11107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20and%20Agriculture%20Organization | Food and Agriculture Organization | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, , translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16th October 1945.
The FAO is composed of 1... |
11108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO%20%28disambiguation%29 | FAO (disambiguation) | FAO, or the Food and Agriculture Organization, is an agency of the United Nations.
FAO may also refer to:
Places
Fao, Iraq
Fao Peninsula
Fão, Portugal
Faro Airport, in Portugal, airport code FAO
Military and insurgents
Al-Fao, an Iraqi artillery system
Western Armed Forces (French: ), a Chadian insurgent group
Fusi... |
11109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix%20Guattari | Félix Guattari | Pierre-Félix Guattari (; ; March 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næss, and is best known for his literary and philosophical collaborations with Deleuze... |
11110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque | Filioque | Filioque ( ; ) is a Latin term ("and from the Son") added to the original Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (commonly known as the Nicene Creed), and which has been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity. It is a term that refers to the Son, Jesus Christ, as an additional origin point o... |
11112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS | FIPS | FIPS or Fips may refer to:
Computing
FIPS (computer program), First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitter, a disk partitioner
Federal Information Processing Standards, United States government standards
People
Werner Fürbringer (1888–1982), German U-boat commander
Philipp Rupprecht (1900–1975), pen name of th... |
11113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Information%20Processing%20Standards | Federal Information Processing Standards | The United States' Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for use in computer systems by non-military American government agencies and government contractors.
FIPS standards are issued to establish requirements fo... |
11114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiqh | Fiqh | Fiqh (; ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is often described as the human understanding and practices of the sharia, that is human understanding of the divine Islamic law as revealed in the Quran and the Sunnah (the teachings and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions). Fiqh expands and develops... |
11115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flank | Flank | Flank may refer to:
Flank (anatomy), part of the abdomen
Flank steak, a cut of beef
Part of the external anatomy of a horse
Flank speed, a nautical term
Flank opening, a chess opening
A term in Australian rules football
The side of a military unit, as in a flanking maneuver
Flanking, a sound path in architectur... |
11118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Council%20of%20Nicaea | First Council of Nicaea | The First Council of Nicaea (; ) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
This ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all Christendom. Hosius of Cord... |
11119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%205 | February 5 |
Events
Pre-1600
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
789 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the fi... |
11121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20News | Fox News | The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by the Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 ... |
11122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeciv | Freeciv | Freeciv is a single- and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series. It is available for most desktop computer operating systems and available in an online browser version. Released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later, Freeciv is f... |
11123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornax | Fornax | Fornax () is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, partly ringed by the celestial river Eridanus. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Fornax is one of the 88 modern constellations.
The three brightest stars—Alpha, Beta and Nu Fornacis—form... |
11125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Borromini | Francesco Borromini | Francesco Borromini (, ), byname of Francesco Castelli (; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.
A keen student o... |
11127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation | Federal Bureau of Investigation | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both ... |
11129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamsteed%20designation | Flamsteed designation | A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern England. They are named for John Flamsteed who first used them while compiling his Historia Coelestis Britannica. (Flamsteed used a telescope, an... |
11141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2026 | February 26 |
Events
Pre-1600
747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjo... |
11142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop%20F-5 | Northrop F-5 | The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation. There are two main models, the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants. The design team wrappe... |
11143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR%20%28disambiguation%29 | FDR (disambiguation) | FDR or Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1945.
FDR may also refer to:
Entertainment
FDR (video game), a 1996 computer game
Fan Death Records, an American record label
Franklin Delano Romanowski, a character from the television show Seinfeld
Freedom... |
11144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco | Fresco | Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco () is derived f... |
11145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire | Fire | Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
Fire is hot because the conversion of the weak double bond in molecular oxygen, O2, to the stronger bonds in the combustion products carbon dioxide and water relea... |
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