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11363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2018 | February 18 |
Events
Pre-1600
1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
1332 ... |
11365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20leader | Floor leader | In politics, floor leaders, also known as a caucus leader, are leaders of their political parties in a body of a legislature.
Philippines
In the Philippines each body of the bicameral Philippine Congress has a minority floor leader and a majority floor leader. For the Philippine Senate, there is the Majority Floor Le... |
11366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio%20Taglioni | Fabio Taglioni | Fabio Taglioni (10 September 1920 – 18 July 2001) was an Italian engineer.
Born in Lugo di Romagna, he was chief designer and technical director of Ducati from 1954 until 1989. His desmodromic 90° V-twin engine design is still used in all current Ducati motorcycle engines. Among the many race victories of his early d... |
11367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation%20programming%20language | Fourth-generation programming language | A fourth-generation programming language (4GL) is any computer programming language that belongs to a class of languages envisioned as an advancement upon third-generation programming languages (3GL). Each of the programming language generations aims to provide a higher level of abstraction of the internal computer har... |
11369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Capra | Frank Capra | Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-t... |
11370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA%20World%20Cup | FIFA World Cup | The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in ... |
11371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus%20Fabius%20Maximus%20Verrucosus | Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus | Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator ( 280 – 203 BC), was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC. He was consul five times (233, 228, 215, 214, and 209 BC) and was appointed dictator in 221 and 217 BC. He was censor in 230 BC. His agnomen, Cunctator, usually translated as "the delayer"... |
11376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point%20arithmetic | Floating-point arithmetic | In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation to support a trade-off between range and precision. For this reason, floating-point computation is often used in systems with very small and very large real numbers that require fast processing ... |
11378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Epistle%20to%20the%20Corinthians | First Epistle to the Corinthians | The First Epistle to the Corinthians (), usually referred to as First Corinthians or 1 Corinthians is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Sosthenes, and is addressed to the Christian church in Corinth. Scholars believe that S... |
11379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Scots | List of Scots | List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.
Actors
Architects and master masons
James Adam (1732–1794), son of William Adam
John Adam (1721–1792), eldest son of William Adam
Robert Adam (1728–1792), architect, son of William Adam
William Adam (1689–1748), father of James, John and Robert... |
11380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20Africans | List of South Africans | This is a list of notable and famous South Africans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles.
Academics
Academics
Estian Calitz, academic (born 1949)
Jakes Gerwel, academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012)
Miriam Green, academic now living in England
Adam Habib, political scientist (born 1965)
Jan Hendrik H... |
11382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20manager | File manager | A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or printing), renaming, copying, moving, deleting and searching for files, as well a... |
11385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20viewer | File viewer | A file viewer is an application software that presents the data stored in a computer file in a human-friendly form. The file contents are generally displayed on the screen, or they may be printed. Also, they may be read aloud using speech synthesis.
Overview
File viewer applications can be split into the following cat... |
11387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Epistle%20of%20Peter | First Epistle of Peter | The First Epistle of Peter, usually referred to simply as First Peter and often written 1 Peter, is a book of the New Testament. The author presents himself as Peter the Apostle. The ending of the letter includes a statement that implies that it was written from "Babylon", which is possibly a reference to Rome. The let... |
11388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Epistle%20of%20John | First Epistle of John | The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John or I John, is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. There is no scholarly consensus as to the authorship of the Johannine works. The author of the First Epistle is termed John the E... |
11390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Vatican%20Council | First Vatican Council | The First Vatican Council () was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864. This, the twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the Council of Trent, opened on 8 December 1869 and adjourned on 20 October 1870 ... |
11391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Council%20of%20the%20Lateran | First Council of the Lateran | The First Council of the Lateran was the 9th ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church. It was convoked by Pope Callixtus II in December 1122, immediately after the Concordat of Worms. The council sought to bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen, ... |
11393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Noble%20Truths | Four Noble Truths | In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: ; ; "The four Arya satyas") are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones". The truths are:
dukkha (suffering, incapable of satisfying, painful) is an innate characteristic of existence in the realm of samsara;
samudaya (origi... |
11396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Republican%20calendar | French Republican calendar | The French Republican calendar (), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.
The revolutionary system was desi... |
11397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%20Dyson | Freeman Dyson | Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-American theoretical and mathematical physicist, mathematician, and statistician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, ... |
11399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20Council%20of%20the%20Lateran | Fourth Council of the Lateran | The Fourth Council of the Lateran or Lateran IV was convoked by Pope Innocent III in April 1213 and opened at the Lateran Palace in Rome on 11 November 1215. Due to the great length of time between the Council's convocation and meeting, many bishops had the opportunity to attend what is considered by the Catholic Churc... |
11401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia | Franconia | Franconia (, ; Franconian dialect: Franggn ; ) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
The three administrative regions of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia (largest cities, respectively: Würzburg, Nuremberg and Bamberg) in the State of Bavaria are part of the c... |
11402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMan | FileMan | FileMan is a set of utilities written by George Timson in the late 1970s and early 1980s, using MUMPS, which provide a meta-data function for MUMPS applications. The FileMan utilities allow the definition of data structures, menus and security, reports, and forms, allowing someone to set up applications without tremen... |
11404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Foreign%20Intelligence%20Surveillance%20Court | United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and inte... |
11407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Den%20Bosch | FC Den Bosch | FC Den Bosch () is a football club from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
They were founded 18 August 1965, as FC Den Bosch/BVV. They are the successor of BVV (1906) and Wilhelmina (1890). Their stadium is called 'De Vliert', an 8,500 all-seater. Ruud van Nistelrooy started his professional career at this club. In 2005 t... |
11408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female%20genital%20mutilation | Female genital mutilation | Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in some countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities ... |
11411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fermentation (disambiguation) | Fermentation is a metabolic process whereby electrons released from nutrients are ultimately transferred to molecules obtained from the breakdown of those same nutrients.
Fermentation may also refer to:
Ethanol fermentation, the production of ethanol for use in food, alcoholic beverage, fuel and industry
Fermentati... |
11415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcemeat | Forcemeat | Forcemeat (derived from the French farcir, "to stuff") is a uniform mixture of lean meat with fat made by grinding or sieving the ingredients. The result may either be smooth or coarse. Forcemeats are used in the production of numerous items found in charcuterie, including quenelles, sausages, pâtés, terrines, roulade... |
11417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forseti | Forseti | Forseti (Old Norse "the presiding one", "president" in modern Icelandic and Faroese) is the god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians.
Name
Grimm took Forseti, "praeses", to be the older form of the name, first postulating an unattested Old High... |
11418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorello%20La%20Guardia | Fiorello La Guardia | Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic persona... |
11424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag | Flag | A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and ident... |
11425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Dougal%20McGuire | Father Dougal McGuire | Father Dougal McGuire is a character in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. Created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, Dougal was portrayed by comedian Ardal O'Hanlon for the programme's three series. The character is a childlike, simple-minded Roman Catholic curate exiled to Craggy Island, a small island off the coast... |
11426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flores | Flores | Flores island () is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. The population was 2,039,373 in the 2020 Census (including various offshore islands) and the largest towns are Maumere and Ende. The name Flores is the Portuguese word for "Flowers".
Flores is located east of Sumb... |
11427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Punic%20War | First Punic War | The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy. The war was fought pr... |
11429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20document | False document | A false document is a technique by which an author aims to increase verisimilitude in a work of fiction by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual. The goal of a false document is to convince an audience that what is being presented is factual.
In politics
A forged document, the Zinov... |
11431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Pessoa | Fernando Pessoa | Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and transl... |
11432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20moon | Full moon | The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (more exactly, when the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180°). This means that the lunar hemisphere facing Earth – the near side – is comple... |
11433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20format | Film format | A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film, for either stills or filmmaking. It can also apply to projected film, either slides or movies. The primary characteristic of a film format is its size and shape.
In the case of motion picture film... |
11439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light | Faster-than-light | Faster-than-light (also FTL, superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light (). The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass (i.e., photons) may travel at the speed of light, and that nothi... |
11440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL | FTL | FTL may stand for:
Science and technology
Faster-than-light communication and travel
Ferritin light chain, encoded by the FTL gene
Flash Translation Layer
Foot-lambert ft-L, a measure of luminance
Olympus FTL, a camera
FreeMarker template language
Games
Faster Than Light (software publisher), a British video... |
11442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet | FidoNet | __
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(c) John Madill
FidoNet logo by John Madill
FidoNet is a worldwide compu... |
11444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsification | Falsification | Falsification may refer to:
The act of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theory: see Falsifiability
Mathematical proof
Falsified evidence
Falsification of history, distortion of the historical record also known as Historical revisionism
Forgery, the act of producing something that lacks authenticity with t... |
11447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20United%20States | Flag of the United States | The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed... |
11448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Federated States of Micronesia | The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands (a combined land area of approximately )... |
11449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20William%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William (; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as "the Great Elector" () because of his military and political achievements. Frederic... |
11454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20V | Frederick V | Frederick V or Friedrich V may refer to:
Frederick V, Duke of Swabia (1164–1170)
Frederick V, Count of Zollern (d.1289)
Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg (c. 1333–1398), German noble
Frederick V of Austria (1415–1493), or Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460–1536), or ... |
11456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20horn | French horn | The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the de... |
11457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra%20Angelico | Fra Angelico | Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He earned his reputation primarily for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Florence.
He was known ... |
11458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra%20Bartolomeo | Fra Bartolomeo | Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di S. Marco, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. He spent all his career in Florence until his mid-forties, when he travelled to ... |
11459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Bazille | Frédéric Bazille | Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Life and work
Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Rouss... |
11460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Madox%20Brown | Ford Madox Brown | Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting the twelve... |
11461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Crick | Francis Crick | Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groun... |
11463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20van%20Aarssens | Francis van Aarssens | Baron Francis van Aarssens or Baron François van Aerssen (27 September 1572 - 27 December 1641), from 1611 on lord of Sommelsdijk, was a diplomat and statesman of the United Provinces.
Biography
He was born in Brussels, the son of Cornelis van Aarsens, also a statesman. His talents commended him to the notice of Advo... |
11464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate | Frigate | A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied greatly.
In the 17th century, a frigate was any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built". These could be warships carrying their principal ba... |
11466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Franco | Francisco Franco | Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, fr... |
11467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20Crowd | Flash Crowd | "Flash Crowd" is a 1973 English-language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free displacement booth.
One consequence not foreseen by the builders of the system was that with the almost immediate reporting of newsworthy events... |
11469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Kekul%C3%A9 | August Kekulé | Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( , ; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical... |
11472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20III%2C%20Holy%20Roman%20Emperor | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick III (21 September 1415 – 19 August 1493) was Holy Roman emperor from 1452 until his death. He was the fourth king and first emperor of the House of Habsburg. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome.
Prior to his imperial coronation, he was duke of the Inne... |
11475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerteventura | Fuerteventura | Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the North Africa region, and politically part of Spain. It is located 97 km from the northwest African coast. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2009.
Fuerteventura belongs to Province of Las Palmas, one of the two prov... |
11476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount%2C%20Indiana | Fairmount, Indiana | Fairmount is a town in Fairmount Township, Grant County in the east central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,954 at the 2010 census. It is 55 miles (88 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Largely a bedroom community for nearby Marion, Fairmount is best known as the boyhood home of actor James Dean, w... |
11477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistles%20to%20the%20Thessalonians | Epistles to the Thessalonians | There are two Epistles to the Thessalonians in the Bible:
First Epistle to the Thessalonians
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians |
11478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20verse | Free verse | Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent of any meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Definition
Free verse does not "proceed by a strict set of rules … is not a lit... |
11479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20W.%20de%20Klerk | F. W. de Klerk | Frederik Willem de Klerk (, , 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his g... |
11488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlong | Furlong | A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately 201 metres. It is now almost obsolete, except in horse racing, where in many countries it is the standard measurement of race lengt... |
11489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File | File | File or filing may refer to:
Mechanical tools and processes
File (tool), used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece
Filing (metalworking), a material removal process in manufacturing
Nail file, a tool used to gently abrade away and shape the edges of finger- and toenails
Documents
An arranged collect... |
11490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20frequency | Fundamental frequency | The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform. In music, the fundamental is the musical pitch of a note that is perceived as the lowest partial present. In terms of a superposition of sinusoids, the fundamental frequency is the lowest f... |
11491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable | Fable | Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise m... |
11492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot | Foot | The foot (plural: feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nail... |
11493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout%20shelter | Fallout shelter | A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.
During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to... |
11494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | History of the Federated States of Micronesia | The Federated States of Micronesia are located on the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan; United Nations trusteeship under United States-administered Trust Territory of th... |
11495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Politics of the Federated States of Micronesia | The politics of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) takes place in a framework of a federal assembly-independent representative democratic republic. The President of the Federated States of Micronesia is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the president and his cabinet, while... |
11496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Geography of the Federated States of Micronesia | Geography of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a country located in the western Pacific Ocean, and in the Micronesia cultural and ecological sub-region of Oceania. While its total land area is very small at , it has the 14th largest exclusive economic zone at .
Geography
The country consists of 607 islands ex... |
11497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Demographics of the Federated States of Micronesia | This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The Demographics of the Federated States of Micronesia r... |
11498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Economy of the Federated States of Micronesia | The economic activity of the Federated States of Micronesia consists primarily of subsistence agriculture and fishing. The islands have few mineral deposits worth exploiting, except for high-grade phosphate. The potential for a tourist industry exists, but the remoteness of the location and a lack of adequate facilitie... |
11499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Telecommunications in the Federated States of Micronesia | This article is about communications systems in the Federated States of Micronesia.
In 2010, Pohnpei State was connected to the Internet using the HANTRU-1 undersea cable to provide high-speed bandwidth. Kosrae State, Chuuk State, and Yap State, were planned to be connected in a second phase.
Telephone
Main lines ... |
11501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Transportation in the Federated States of Micronesia | Railways:
0 km
Highways:
total:
paved:
unpaved:
(1996 est.)
Ports and harbours:
Colonia (Yap), Kolonia (Pohnpei), Lele, Moen
Merchant marine:
total: three ships (1,000 GT or over) 3,560 GT/
by type: cargo one, passenger/cargo two (2007)
Airports:
Six (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total:
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11503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Federated%20States%20of%20Micronesia | Foreign relations of the Federated States of Micronesia | The government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) conducts its own foreign relations.
Since independence in 1986, the FSM has established diplomatic relations with a number of nations, including most of its Pacific neighbors.
Regional relations
Regional cooperation through various multilateral organizations... |
11504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom | Fandom | A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often as a pa... |
11507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Collins%2C%20Colorado | Fort Collins, Colorado | Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 169,810 at the 2020 United States Census, an increase of 17.94% since the 2010 United States Census. Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Coll... |
11508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Drake | Francis Drake | Sir Francis Drake ( – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580. This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Sp... |
11512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Fourier%20transform | Fast Fourier transform | A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm that computes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a sequence, or its inverse (IDFT). Fourier analysis converts a signal from its original domain (often time or space) to a representation in the frequency domain and vice versa. The DFT is obtained by decomposing a seque... |
11513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20William%2C%20Highland | Fort William, Highland | Fort William ( ; "The Garrison", ) is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe. As of the 2011 Census, Fort William had a population of 10,459, making it the second largest settlement in the Highland council area, and the second largest settlement in the whole of the Sco... |
11515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20French%20expressions%20in%20English | Glossary of French expressions in English | Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English. English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, machine, ... |
11516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20rand | Financial rand | The South African financial rand was the most visible part of a system of capital controls. Although the financial rand was abolished in March 1995, some capital controls remain in place. These capital controls are locally referred to as "exchange controls", although the system has since 1995 moved towards surveillance... |
11517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FIPS%20country%20codes | List of FIPS country codes | This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions.
The two-letter country codes were used by the US government for geographical data processing in many publications, such as the CIA World Factbook. The standard is also know... |
11519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20Isle | Fair Isle | Fair Isle (; ; ; ) is an island in Shetland, in northern Scotland. It lies about halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney. It is known for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting. The island has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1954.
Geography
the most remote inhabited island ... |
11520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Feather%20Falls | Four Feather Falls | Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television (now both ITV Studios and ITV plc respectively). It was based on an idea by Barry Gray, who also wrote the show's music. The series was the first to use an early version of Anderson's Supermarionation puppetry. Thirty-nine... |
11522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire | Fly-by-wire | Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface. The movements of flight controls are converted to electronic signals transmitted by wires, and flight control computers determine how to move the actuators at each control surface to provide ... |
11523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands%20War | Falklands War | The Falklands War () was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
The conflict began on 2 April, when Argentina invaded and ... |
11524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit | Fahrenheit | The Fahrenheit scale () is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was ... |
11525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence | Florence | Florence ( ; ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.
Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It... |
11526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20group | Quotient group | A quotient group or factor group is a mathematical group obtained by aggregating similar elements of a larger group using an equivalence relation that preserves some of the group structure (the rest of the structure is "factored" out). For example, the cyclic group of addition modulo n can be obtained from the group o... |
11527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20on%20homomorphisms | Fundamental theorem on homomorphisms | In abstract algebra, the fundamental theorem on homomorphisms, also known as the fundamental homomorphism theorem, or the first isomorphism theorem, relates the structure of two objects between which a homomorphism is given, and of the kernel and image of the homomorphism.
The homomorphism theorem is used to prove the... |
11528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCO | FCO | FCO may mean:
Buenos Aires Western Railway (Spanish: )
Club Ferro Carril Oeste, an Argentine football club
Farm Cove Observatory, in New Zealand
Federal Cartel Office, in Germany
Fellow of the College of Organists
Financial control officer, one of various names for a management-level position responsible for sup... |
11529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion | Fermion | In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics and generally has half odd integer spin: spin 1/2, spin 3/2, etc. These particles obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Fermions include all quarks and leptons, as well as all composite particles made of an odd number of these, such as all b... |
11530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Savage | Fred Savage | Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor and television director, known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988 to 1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playin... |
11531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurians | Futurians | The Futurians were a group of science fiction (SF) fans, many of whom became editors and writers as well. The Futurians were based in New York City and were a major force in the development of science fiction writing and science fiction fandom in the years 1937–1945.
Origins of the group
As described in Isaac Asimov's... |
11532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Fandom | First Fandom | First Fandom is an informal association of early, active and well-known science fiction fans.
In 1958 a number of fans at Midwestcon realized amid table-talk that they all had been active in fandom for more than 20 years. This inspired the creation of an organization for longstanding fans under the initial chairmanshi... |
11536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna%20F%C3%A1il | Fianna Fáil | Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (), is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland.
The party was founded as an Irish republican party on 16 May 1926 by Éamon de Valera and his supporters after they split from Si... |
11539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20clan | Fujiwara clan | was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. They held the title of Ason. The abbreviated form is .
The 8th c... |
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