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11146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE | FIDE | The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competi... |
11149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel%20equations | Fresnel equations | The Fresnel equations (or Fresnel coefficients) describe the reflection and transmission of light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) when incident on an interface between different optical media. They were deduced by Augustin-Jean Fresnel () who was the first to understand that light is a transverse wave, even t... |
11152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%20skating | Figure skating | Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; the four individual... |
11157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge%20%28role-playing%20game%20system%29 | Fudge (role-playing game system) | Fudge is a generic role-playing game system for use in freeform role-playing games. The name "FUDGE" was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated (later, Do-it-yourself) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals. Fudge has been n... |
11158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2012 | February 12 |
Events
Pre-1600
1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in t... |
11161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Copleston | Frederick Copleston | Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God w... |
11162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance | Finance | Finance is a term for the management, creation, and study of money and investments.
Specifically, it deals with the questions of how an individual, company or government acquires moneycalled capital in the context of a business and how they spend or invest that money. Finance is then often divided into the following br... |
11164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2017 | February 17 |
Events
Pre-1600
1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.... |
11167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pinchcliffe%20Grand%20Prix | The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix | The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix () is a Norwegian stop-motion-animated feature film directed by Ivo Caprino. It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.
It is the most widely seen Norwegian film of all time, having sold some 5.5 million ticket... |
11168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran | Fortran | Fortran (; formerly FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Fortran was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, and subsequently came to dominate scientific computing... |
11169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza | Fortaleza | Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for Fortress) is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the twelfth richest city in the country in GDP. It also has the third richest metropolit... |
11170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2013 | February 13 |
Events
Pre-1600
962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 – C... |
11175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20freedom | Political freedom | Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies. Political freedom was described as freedom from oppression<ref>Iris Marion Young, "Five Faces of Oppression", Justice and the Pol... |
11178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar | Foobar | The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.... |
11180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20analysis | Functional analysis | Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defined on these spaces and respecting these structures in a suitable sense. The histo... |
11181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Sinatra | Frank Sinatra | Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor who is generally viewed as one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide.
Born to Italian immigrants in... |
11182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral | Funeral | A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertake... |
11184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2011 | February 11 |
Events
Pre-1600
660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
951 – Guo Wei, a court official, leads a... |
11185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism | Feminism | Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies. Efforts t... |
11186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Aviation%20Administration | Federal Aviation Administration | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the largest transportation agency of the U.S. government and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the country as well as over surrounding international waters. Its powers include air traffic management, certification of personnel and aircraft, setting standards for air... |
11188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Revolution | French Revolution | The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, while phrases like liberté, égalité, ... |
11194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Fukuyama | Francis Fukuyama | Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (, ; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and writer.
Fukuyama is known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argues that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle m... |
11195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling | Fingerspelling | Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf education and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a numbe... |
11223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Weddings%20and%20a%20Funeral | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance. ... |
11225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari | Ferrari | Ferrari S.p.A. (; ) is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1939 from the Alfa Romeo racing division as Auto Avio Costruzioni, the company built its first car in 1940, and produced its first Ferrari-badged car in 1947.
Fiat S.p.A. acquired 50% of Ferrari in 19... |
11227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry | Freemasonry | Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Freemasonry has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories th... |
11228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulham%20F.C. | Fulham F.C. | Fulham Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Fulham, London. They currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1879, they are London's oldest football club playing professionally.
The club has spent 27 seasons in English ... |
11229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie%20Goes%20to%20Hollywood | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an English synth-pop band formed in Liverpool in 1980. The group's best-known line-up comprised Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Peter Gill (drums, percussion), Mark O'Toole (bass guitar) and Brian Nash (guitar).
The group's 1983 debut single "Relax" was banned b... |
11231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factors%20of%20production | Factors of production | In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, finished goods and services. The utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relationship called the production function. There are four basic reso... |
11232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Wayne%2C%20Indiana | Fort Wayne, Indiana | Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Census, making it the second-most populous city in Indiana after Indianapolis, an... |
11236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart%20%28word%29 | Fart (word) | Fart is a word in the English language most commonly used in reference to flatulence that can be used as a noun or a verb. The immediate roots are in the Middle English words ferten, feortan and farten, kin of the Old High German word ferzan. Cognates are found in Old Norse, Slavic and also Greek and Sanskrit. The wor... |
11237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA%20Cup | FA Cup | The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The... |
11238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway%20Park | Fenway Park | Fenway Park is a baseball stadium located in Boston, Massachusetts near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home of the Boston Red Sox, the city's American League baseball team, and since 1953, its only Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. While the stadium was built in 1912, it was substantially rebuilt in 1... |
11240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence | Flatulence | Flatulence is defined in the medical literature as "flatus expelled through the anus" or the "quality or state of being flatulent", which is defined in turn as "marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach; likely to cause digestive flatulence". The root of these words is from the Latin – "a ... |
11242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%3A%20The%20Spirits%20Within | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2010. It fea... |
11243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter | Filter | Filter, filtering or filters may refer to:
Science and technology
Device
Filter (chemistry), a device which separates solids from fluids (liquids or gases) by adding a medium through which only the fluid can pass
Filter (aquarium), critical components of both freshwater and marine aquaria
Filter paper, a semi-perm... |
11244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Methodist%20Church | Free Methodist Church | The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology.
The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 68,356 members in the United States and 1,200,797 members w... |
11245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20point | Fixed point | Fixed point may refer to:
Fixed point (mathematics)
Fixed-point arithmetic, a manner of doing arithmetic on computers
Fixed-point combinator
Fixed-point iteration, a general method to compute the fixed point of an iterated function
Benchmark (surveying), fixed points used by geodesists
Recursive join, sometimes ... |
11246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Falstaff | John Falstaff | Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V of England. The eulogy f... |
11247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball | Floorball | Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role in the game's development.
The game was invented in Sweden in the late 19... |
11250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier%20League | Premier League | The Premier League, also known exonymously as the English Premier League or the EPL (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited), is the top level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL). Se... |
11252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine%20Gael | Fine Gael | Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann and largest in terms of Irish members of the European Parliament. The par... |
11253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%20Manchu | Fu Manchu | Dr. Fu Manchu (Chinese: 傅满洲 Fù Mǎnzhōu) is a supervillain who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer beginning shortly before World War I and continuing for another forty years. The character featured in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and he has... |
11254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland | Friesland | Friesland ( , , ; official ), historically known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of Flevoland, northeast of North Holland and south of the Wadden Sea. As of January 2020, the province had a... |
11257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist%20science%20fiction | Feminist science fiction | Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on theories that include feminist themes including but not limited to gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, and reproduction. Feminist SF is political because of its tendency to critique the dominant culture. Some of the most ... |
11258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellatio | Fellatio | Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act involving a person stimulating the penis of another person by using the mouth, throat, or both. Oral stimulation of the scrotum may also be termed fellatio, or colloquially as teabagging. If fellatio is perfo... |
11259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa | Fatwa | A fatwā (, also ; ; plural fatāwā ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified jurist in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a mufti, and the act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ. Fatwas have played an important ro... |
11260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relax%20%28song%29 | Relax (song) | "Relax" is a song by English synth-pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the United Kingdom by ZTT Records in 1983. It was the band's debut single.
The hit version, produced by Trevor Horn and featuring the band along with other musicians, entered the UK Top 75 singles chart in November 1983 but did not crac... |
11261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Tribes | Two Tribes | "Two Tribes" is an anti-war song by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records on 4 June 1984. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Presenting a nihilistic, gleeful lyric expressing enthusiasm for nuclear war, it juxtaposes a relentless pounding bass line ... |
11262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%20of%20Love | The Power of Love | The Power of Love or Power of Love may refer to:
Film and television
The Power of Love (film), an early 3D film demonstrated in 1922
"The Power of Love", an episode of The O.C. (2005)
"The Power of Love", an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation (2004)
Music
Albums
The Power of Love (Fish Leong album), 2003
The P... |
11263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome%20to%20the%20Pleasuredome%20%28song%29 | Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song) | "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is the title track to the 1984 debut album by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
In March 1985, the album track was abridged and remixed for release as the group's fourth UK single.
While critici... |
11264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage%20Hard | Rage Hard | "Rage Hard" is the fifth single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released on 25 August 1986.
Background
Having topped the charts around the world with Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, Liverpool. Taking on a rock... |
11267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20%28album%29 | Liverpool (album) | Liverpool is the second and final studio album by British synth-pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in October 1986. It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT. The ... |
11273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese%20language | Faroese language | Faroese ( ; føroyskt mál ) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 Faroe Islanders, around 53,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 23,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark.
It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages, the others being Norwegi... |
11274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20particle | Elementary particle | In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. Particles currently thought to be elementary include the fundamental fermions (quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons), which generally are "matter particles" and "antimatter partic... |
11278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20Marlins | Miami Marlins | The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team based in Miami. The Marlins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. Their home park is LoanDepot Park.
The franchise began play as an expansion team in the 1993 season as the Florida Marlins. The Mar... |
11281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Frontline (Australian TV series) | Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC1 in 1994, 1995 and 1997.
Production
The series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro... |
11282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Bastiat | Frédéric Bastiat | Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (; ; 30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.
A member of the French National Assembly, Bastiat developed the economic concept of opportunity cost and introduced the parable of the broken window. He was described as “th... |
11283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability | Falsifiability | Falsifiability is a standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses that was introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). He proposed it as the cornerstone of a solution to both the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation. A theory... |
11284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps | Freikorps | (, usually translated to "Free Corps". However, "Frei" also translates to "Volunteer". Given the context in which it is used, it would probably be more accurate to translate it as "Volunteer Corps".) were irregular German and other European military volunteer units, or paramilitary, that existed from the 18th to the ea... |
11285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20I.%20Madero | Francisco I. Madero | Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913), better known as Francisco I. Madero, was a Mexican businessman, landowner, reformist, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was forced to resign in a right wing coup d'etat in February 1913, during which... |
11286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism | Fruitarianism | Fruitarianism () is a diet related to veganism that consists primarily of consuming fruits and possibly nuts and seeds, but without any animal products. Fruitarian diets are subject to criticism and health concerns.
Fruitarianism may be adopted for different reasons, including ethical, religious, environmental, cultur... |
11288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Afghanistan | Foreign relations of Afghanistan | The foreign relations of Afghanistan are in a transitional phase since the Taliban gained control of the country on 15 August 2021 and no country has recognised the new regime.
History
Before the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment in its foreign relations, being one of the f... |
11291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floccinaucinihilipilification | Floccinaucinihilipilification | Long words |
11293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony | Felony | A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious. The term "felony" originated from English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods, to which ad... |
11295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20of%20Habsburg | Ferdinand of Habsburg | Ferdinand of Habsburg may refer to:
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564)
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637)
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657)
Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875)
Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg (born 1997)
See also
Ferdinand Habsburg (racing driver)
Ferdinand of Aust... |
11296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20aid | First aid | First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person suffering from either a minor or serious illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery. It includes initial intervention in a serious condition prior to professional medical help b... |
11298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism | Feudalism | Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, and cultural customs that flourished in Medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships that were derived from the holding of land in exchange f... |
11299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox | Fox | Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or brush).
Twelve species belong to the monophyletic "true foxes" group of genus Vulpes. Approximately ... |
11300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundationalism | Foundationalism | Foundationalism concerns philosophical theories of knowledge resting upon justified belief, or some secure foundation of certainty such as a conclusion inferred from a basis of sound premises. The main rival of the foundationalist theory of justification is the coherence theory of justification, whereby a body of knowl... |
11302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae | Felidae | Felidae () is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a felid (). The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to the domestic cat (Felis catus).
Felidae species exhibit the most diverse fur patter... |
11303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore | Folklore | Folklore is the body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group... |
11304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20cuisine | Fusion cuisine | Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. Cuisines of this type are not categorized according to any one particular cuisine style and have played a part in innovations of many contemporary restaurant cuisines since th... |
11306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame%20problem | Frame problem | In artificial intelligence, the frame problem describes an issue with using first-order logic (FOL) to express facts about a robot in the world. Representing the state of a robot with traditional FOL requires the use of many axioms that simply imply that things in the environment do not change arbitrarily. For example,... |
11307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans%20Eemil%20Sillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4 | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Frans Eemil Sillanpää (; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and the... |
11310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2027 | February 27 |
Events
Pre-1600
380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 – Abao... |
11311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2028 | February 28 | It is the last day of February in common years and the penultimate day of February in leap years. It is also the last day of meteorological winter in Northern Hemisphere in common years.
Events
Pre-1600
202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
870 ... |
11312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flambards | Flambards | Flambards is a novel for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton, first published by Oxford University Press in 1967 with illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Alternatively, "Flambards" is the trilogy (1967–1969) or series (1967–1981) named after its first book. The series is set in England just before, during, and after W... |
11313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Ted | Father Ted | Father Ted is a sitcom created by Irish writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews and produced by British production company Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. It aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes. It aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, on... |
11314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s%20Lager | Foster's Lager | Foster's Lager is an internationally-distributed brand of lager. It is owned by the international brewing group Asahi Group Holdings, and is brewed under licence in a number of countries, including its biggest market, the UK, where the European rights to the brand are owned by Heineken International.
While Foster's i... |
11315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends | Friends | Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six ... |
11317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish | Frankish | Frankish may refer to:
Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture
Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages
Francia
Crusaders
Levantines (Latin Christians)
See also
Name of the Franks
Franks (disambiguation)
Franconian (disambiguation)
Language and nationality disambiguation pages |
11318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%20Most%20Wanted%20Terrorists | FBI Most Wanted Terrorists | The FBI Most Wanted Terrorists is a list created and first released on October 10, 2001, with the authority of United States President George W. Bush, following the September 11 attacks on the United States. Initially, the list contained 22 of the top suspected terrorists chosen by the FBI, all of whom had earlier been... |
11319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Bacon | Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolut... |
11322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%202 | February 2 |
Events
Pre-1600
506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
962 ... |
11323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%203 | February 3 |
Events
Pre-1600
1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming ... |
11324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20On-line%20Dictionary%20of%20Computing | Free On-line Dictionary of Computing | The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects.
History
FOLDOC was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and was hosted by Imperial College London. In May 2015, the site was updated to state that it was "no longer supported by Imperial College Departme... |
11344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order%20predicate | First-order predicate | In mathematical logic, a first-order predicate is a predicate that takes only individual(s) constants or variables as argument(s). Compare second-order predicate and higher-order predicate.
This is not to be confused with a one-place predicate or monad, which is a predicate that takes only one argument. For example, t... |
11345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%20%28gridiron%20football%29 | Snap (gridiron football) | A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backwards passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage.
Action
The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to the sidelines of the field, its ends marking each team's line of scrimmage in Amer... |
11346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire%20%28disambiguation%29 | Firewire (disambiguation) | FireWire is Apple's trademark for the IEEE 1394 interface.
Firewire or Fire wire may also refer to:
Firewire (Lateef the Truthspeaker album), 2011
Fire Wire (Larry Carlton album), 2006
"Fire Wire" (song), a 2001 single by Cosmic Gate
Graviner Firewire, a linear fire detection element used in aircraft engine bays;... |
11347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO%20%28computing%20and%20electronics%29 | FIFO (computing and electronics) | In computing and in systems theory, FIFO an acronym for first in, first out (the first in is the first out) is a method for organizing the manipulation of a data structure (often, specifically a data buffer) where the oldest (first) entry, or "head" of the queue, is processed first.
Such processing is analogous to ser... |
11350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall%20%28construction%29 | Firewall (construction) | A firewall is a fire-resistant barrier used to prevent the spread of fire. Firewalls are built between or through buildings, structures, or electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
Applications
Firewalls can be used to subdivide a building into separate fire areas and are constructed in ac... |
11352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenrir%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fenrir (disambiguation) | Fenrir, Fenrisulfr or Fenris is a Norse mythological wolf. It may also refer to:
Fenrir (moon), a moon of Saturn named after Fenrisulfr
Fenris- designation of a battlemech in the science-fiction series BattleTech
Fenrir, a monster card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
Fenris, homeworld of the Space Wolves Space Mari... |
11353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg | Frigg | Frigg (; Old Norse: ) is a goddess in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High German as , in Lang... |
11355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freehold | Freehold | Freehold may refer to:
In real estate
Freehold (law), the tenure of property in fee simple
Customary freehold, a form of feudal tenure of land in England
Parson's freehold, where a Church of England rector or vicar of holds title to benefice property
Places
Freehold, Greater Manchester, an area of Oldham, in North We... |
11358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Wankel | Felix Wankel | Felix Heinrich Wankel (; 13 August 1902 – 9 October 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named.
Early life
Wankel was born in 1902 in Lahr in what was then the Grand Duchy of Baden in the Upper Rhine Plain of present-day southwestern Germany. He was the only son of Gerty... |
11359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%204 | February 4 | This day marks the approximate midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and of summer in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the December solstice).
Events
Pre–1600
211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign ... |
11360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%208 | February 8 |
Events
Pre-1600
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John... |
11361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%209 | February 9 |
Events
Pre-1600
474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at t... |
11362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2016 | February 16 |
Events
Pre-1600
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1601–1900
1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become... |
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