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11542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism | Federalism | Federalism is a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government (the central or "federal" government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two. It has its roots in ancient ... |
11543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin%20Abauzit | Firmin Abauzit | Firmin Abauzit (11 November 167920 March 1767) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva (Republic of Geneva) during his final 40 years. Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.
Biography
Firmin ... |
11544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Foreign%20Legion | French Foreign Legion | The Foreign Legion () is a corps of the French Army with a specific command and comprising several specialities: infantry, cavalry, engineers and airborne troops. The Legion is also independent in terms of its recruitment.
History
The Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, on 10 March 1831... |
11545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback | Feedback | Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems:
History
Self-regulating mechanisms h... |
11547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana | Furigana | is a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller kana or syllabic characters, printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. It is one type of ruby text. Furigana is also known as and in Japanese. In modern Japanese, it is usually used to gloss rare... |
11551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20II%2C%20Holy%20Roman%20Emperor | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor | Francis II (; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor (from 1792 to 1806) and, as Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria, from 1804 to 1835. He assumed the title of Emperor of Austria in response to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French. Soon after Napoleon created the Confederat... |
11552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Abel | Frederick Abel | Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (17 July 18276 September 1902) was an English chemist who was recognised as the leading British authority on explosives. He is best known for the invention of cordite as a replacement for gunpowder in firearms.
Education
Born in London as son of Johann Leopold Abel, Abel studi... |
11554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugazi%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fugazi (disambiguation) | Fugazi is a slang word which refers to something that is fake or damaged beyond repair.
It may refer to:
Fugazi, a post-hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C.
Fugazi (EP), the debut EP by the band of the same name
Fugazi (album), a 1984 studio album by the British rock band Marillion, featuring a song also named "Fu... |
11555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence | Fluorescence | Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. It is a form of luminescence. In most cases, the emitted light has a longer wavelength, and therefore a lower photon energy, than the absorbed radiation. A perceptible example of fluorescence occurs when th... |
11556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20arithmetic | Fundamental theorem of arithmetic | In mathematics, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, also called the unique factorization theorem and prime factorization theorem, states that every integer greater than 1 can be represented uniquely as a product of prime numbers, up to the order of the factors. For example,
The theorem says two things about this ex... |
11558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco | Flamenco | Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, but also having a historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia. In a wider sense, it is a portmanteau term used to refer to a variety... |
11561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Christmas | Father Christmas | Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he was originally part of a much older and unrelated English folkloric tradition. The recognisably modern figure of the Engli... |
11563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20jurisdiction%20%28United%20States%29 | Federal jurisdiction (United States) | Federal jurisdiction refers to the legal scope of the government's powers in the United States of America.
The United States is a federal republic, governed by the U.S. Constitution, containing fifty states and a federal district which elect the President and Vice President, and having other territories and possessi... |
11564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil%20Record | Fossil Record | Fossil Record is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering palaeontology. It was established in 1998 as the Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe and originally published on behalf of the Museum für Naturkunde by Wiley-VCH; since 2014 it has been published by Copern... |
11569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20modulation%20synthesis | Frequency modulation synthesis | Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator. The frequency of an oscillator is altered "in accordance with the amplitude of a modulating signal".
FM synthesis can create both harmonic and inhar... |
11572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font%20%28disambiguation%29 | Font (disambiguation) | A font in typography is a complete character set in a particular point size, in a particular typeface.
Font may also refer to:
Religion
Holy water font, a vessel for holy water, often seen at the entrance of a church
Baptismal font, a container for holy water used in the Christian ceremonial of baptism
People with... |
11574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Bessel | Friedrich Bessel | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax. A special type of mathematical functions were named Bessel funct... |
11577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSB | FSB | FSB may refer to:
Organizations
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( (FSB), the principal security agency of the Russian Federation and main successor to the defunct Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Soviet Union
Banking and finance
Federal savings bank, a class of bank in the United States
... |
11579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20paradox | Fermi paradox | The Fermi paradox is the conflict between the lack of clear, obvious evidence for extraterrestrial life and various high estimates for their existence.
As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now."
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi's name is associated wit... |
11582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism | Fundamentalism | Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. However, fundamentalism has come to be applied to a tendency among certain groups – mainly, although not exclusively, in religion – that is characterized by a markedly strict literalism as it is appl... |
11585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Me%20Love%20%28film%29 | Show Me Love (film) | Fucking Åmål (released in some countries as Show Me Love) is a 1998 Swedish romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström as two seemingly disparate teenage girls who begin a tentative romantic relationship.... |
11586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20disclosure%20%28computer%20security%29 | Full disclosure (computer security) | In the field of computer security, independent researchers often discover flaws in software that can be abused to cause unintended behaviour; these flaws are called vulnerabilities. The process by which the analysis of these vulnerabilities is shared with third parties is the subject of much debate, and is referred to ... |
11587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist%20theology | Feminist theology | Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Neopaganism, Baháʼí Faith, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective. Some of the goals of feminist t... |
11589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSK | FSK | FSK may refer to:
FSK (band), a German band
Federal Counterintelligence Service, (Russian ) of Russia
Fiskerton railway station, in England
Forskolin, a diterpene
Forsvarets Spesialkommando, a Norwegian special forces unit
Fort Scott Municipal Airport, in Kansas, United States
Francis Scott Key Bridge (disambig... |
11592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware | Freeware | Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines freeware unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the freeware it offers. For instance, modification, redistribution by third partie... |
11593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20Earth | Flat Earth | The flat Earth model is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period (323 BC), the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period (31 ... |
11600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian%20language | Persian language | Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, , ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in three mutually intellig... |
11601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi%20%28disambiguation%29 | Farsi (disambiguation) | Farsi is the indigenous name or endonym for Persian. It primarily refers to the Persian language.
Farsi may also refer to:
something referring to or inhabitant of Fars Province, Iran
Persian people
Farsi, Afghanistan
Farsi District in Herat province, Afghanistan
Farsi Island, an Iranian island off the coast of Fars, I... |
11603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Abington | Frances Abington | Frances "Fanny" Abington (1737 – 4 March 1815) was an English actress who was also known for her sense of fashion. Writer and politician Horace Walpole described her as one of the finest actors of their time, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan was said to have written the part of Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal for h... |
11615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20field | Finite field | In mathematics, a finite field or Galois field (so-named in honor of Évariste Galois) is a field that contains a finite number of elements. As with any field, a finite field is a set on which the operations of multiplication, addition, subtraction and division are defined and satisfy certain basic rules. The most com... |
11616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchising | Franchising | Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion. Where implemented, a franchisor licenses some or all of its know-how, procedures, intellectual property, use of its business model, brand, and rights to sell its branded products and services to a f... |
11617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman%20diagram | Feynman diagram | In theoretical physics, a Feynman diagram is a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic particles. The scheme is named after American physicist Richard Feynman, who introduced the diagrams in 1948. The interaction of subatomic particles can be complex... |
11619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20writing | Food writing | Food writing is a genre of writing that focuses on food and includes works by food critics, food journalists, chefs and food historians.
Definition
Food writers regard food as a substance and a cultural phenomenon. John T. Edge, an American food writer, explains how writers in the genre view its topic: "Food is essent... |
11620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Pillars | Four Pillars | Four Pillars or four pillars may refer to:
Four Pillars of Destiny, a Chinese component used in fortune telling
Four Pillars of Nepal Bhasa, four people who spearheaded a campaign to revive the language and literature
Four Pillars of Transnistria, basis of the declaration of independence of a separatist region in Mold... |
11621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama%20%28New%20York%20World%27s%20Fair%29 | Futurama (New York World's Fair) | Futurama was an exhibit and ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes, which presented a possible model of the world 20 years into the future (1959–1960). The installation was sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and was characterized by automated highways and vast suburbs.
Background... |
11623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20I%20Sforza | Francesco I Sforza | Francesco I Sforza (; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death. He was the brother of Alessandro, whom he often fought alongside.
Biography
Early life
Francesco Sforza was born in San Miniato, T... |
11624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk%20dance | Folk dance | A folk dance is a dance developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances are usually called "Religious dances" because of their purpose... |
11625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor%20Dostoevsky | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; ; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russ... |
11627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20healing | Faith healing | Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. Believers assert that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through pray... |
11629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry | Furry | Furry may refer to:
Covered with fur
Wendell H. Furry (1907–1984), an American physicist
Furry Lewis (Walter E. Lewis, 1893 or 1899 – 1981), an American country blues guitarist and songwriter
Furry, Mississippi, U.S., a place
Furry fandom, a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human pe... |
11631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Lang | Fritz Lang | Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.
Lan... |
11632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration | Food and Drug Administration | The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter... |
11634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20extension | Field extension | In mathematics, particularly in algebra, a field extension is a pair of fields such that the operations of E are those of F restricted to E. In this case, F is an extension field of E and E is a subfield of F. For example, under the usual notions of addition and multiplication, the complex numbers are an extension fie... |
11635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20fill | Flood fill | Flood fill, also called seed fill, is a flooding algorithm that determines and alters the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array with some matching attribute. It is used in the "bucket" fill tool of paint programs to fill connected, similarly-colored areas with a different color, and in games such ... |
11638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20of%20Assisi | Francis of Assisi | Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; ; ; 1181 or 1182 – 3 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, and mystic. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerat... |
11642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Dynamics%20F-16%20Fighting%20Falcon | General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon | The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,600 aircraft have been built since prod... |
11643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Council%20of%20Constantinople | First Council of Constantinople | The First Council of Constantinople (; ) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople in AD 381 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. This second ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom, except for the Western Church, confirmed th... |
11644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20Council%20of%20Constantinople%20%28Eastern%20Orthodox%29 | Fourth Council of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox) | The Fourth Council of Constantinople was held in 879–880. It confirmed the reinstatement of Photius I as patriarch of Constantinople.
The result of this council is accepted by some Eastern Orthodox as having the authority of an ecumenical council, who sometimes call it the eighth ecumenical council.
Background
The C... |
11646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Hayek | Friedrich Hayek | Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British economist, and philosopher who is best known for his defence of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for their work on m... |
11652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Brooks | Fred Brooks | Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal b... |
11655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid | Factoid | A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.
The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact beli... |
11656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured%20bass | Figured bass | Figured bass, also called thoroughbass, is a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, or lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) plays in relation to the bass note that thes... |
11657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion | Fashion | Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending. Everything that is considered fashion is av... |
11659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%20analysis | Fourier analysis | In mathematics, Fourier analysis () is the study of the way general functions may be represented or approximated by sums of simpler trigonometric functions. Fourier analysis grew from the study of Fourier series, and is named after Joseph Fourier, who showed that representing a function as a sum of trigonometric functi... |
11660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20Man | Fat Man | "Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) is the codename for the type of nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear exp... |
11661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20Claims%20Act | False Claims Act | The False Claims Act (FCA), also called the "Lincoln Law", is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs. It is the federal Government's primary litigation tool in combating fraud against the Government. The law includes a q... |
11664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic%20Four | Fantastic Four | The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover dated Nov. 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism in the medium. It was the first superhero team created by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and editor/co-p... |
11665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtration | Filtration | Filtration is a physical separation process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture using a filter medium that has a complex structure through which only the fluid can pass. Solid particles that cannot pass through the filter medium are described as oversize and the fluid that passes through is called the ... |
11668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follies | Follies | Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.
The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theater, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies", a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theater between th... |
11669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20linguistics | Functional linguistics | Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community. Linguistic functionalism spawned in the 1920s to 1930s from Ferdinand de Saussure's syst... |
11671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fick%27s%20laws%20of%20diffusion | Fick's laws of diffusion | Fick's laws of diffusion describe diffusion and were derived by Adolf Fick in 1855. They can be used to solve for the diffusion coefficient, . Fick's first law can be used to derive his second law which in turn is identical to the diffusion equation.
A diffusion process that obeys Fick's laws is called normal or Ficki... |
11672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%20East | Far East | The Far East is a term to refer to the geographical regions that includes East and Southeast Asia as well as the Russian Far East to a lesser extent.
The term first came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 15th century, particularly the British, denoting the Far East as the "farthest" of the three "eas... |
11673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty%20Towers | Fawlty Towers | Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six episodes each were made. The show was ranked first on a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and, in 2019, it was n... |
11675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20friend | False friend | In linguistics, a false friend is either of a pair of words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning. Examples include the English embarrassed and the Spanish embarazada ("pregnant"); English parents and Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (both meaning "relatives"); En... |
11676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20cognate | False cognate | False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the same language or from different languages, even within the same family. For example, the English word dog and the Mbabaram word dog have exactly the same meaning and v... |
11684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20analysis | Fundamental analysis | Fundamental analysis, in accounting and finance, is the analysis of a business's financial statements (usually to analyze the business's assets, liabilities, and earnings); health; and competitors and markets. It also considers the overall state of the economy and factors including interest rates, production, earnings,... |
11685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frasier | Frasier | Frasier () is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993, and concluding on May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions), in association with Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Network... |
11690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Games%20Unlimited | Fantasy Games Unlimited | Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) is a publishing house for tabletop and role-playing games. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent.
History
Founded in the summer of 1975 in Jericho, New York by Scott Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames Gladiato... |
11691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20decomposition | Functional decomposition | In mathematics, functional decomposition is the process of resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original function can be reconstructed (i.e., recomposed) from those parts by function composition.
This process of decomposition may be undertaken to gain insight into the i... |
11698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Boas | Franz Boas | Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-born American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
Studying in Germany, Boas was ... |
11699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Bopp | Franz Bopp | Franz Bopp (; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.
Early life
Bopp was born in Mainz, but the political disarray in the Republic of Mainz caused his parents' move to Aschaffenburg, the second seat of the Archbishop of... |
68454887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrenus%20oceanicus | Anthrenus oceanicus | Anthrenus (Anthrenus) oceanicus, is a species of skin beetle native to Hawaii, India, China, Indonesia (Java, Madura, Malaysia), Sri Lanka, New Caledonia and Mauritius. It is introduced to Egypt, French Polynesia, Czech Republic and England particularly with commodities.
Description
Body length is about 2.5 to 2.25 mm... |
11701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Metal%20Jacket | Full Metal Jacket | Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers and stars Matthew Modine, Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin.
The storyline follows a platoon... |
11702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting | Flirting | Flirting or coquetry is a social and sexual behavior involving spoken or written communication, as well as body language, by one person to another, either to suggest interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, or if done playfully, for amusement.
Flirting usually involves speaking and behaving in a way th... |
11705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20J.%20Schaffner | Franklin J. Schaffner | Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film, television, and stage director. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970), and is known for the films Planet of the Apes (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). He served as presi... |
11709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20etymology | False etymology | A false etymology (fake etymology, popular etymology, etymythology, pseudo-etymology, or par(a)etymology) is a popular but false belief about the origin or derivation of a specific word. It is sometimes called a folk etymology, but this is also a technical term in linguistics.
Such etymologies often have the feel of u... |
11711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finch | Finch | The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where they are usually resident and do not migrate. They have a worldwide distribution except ... |
11712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated%20diffusion | Facilitated diffusion | Facilitated diffusion (also known as facilitated transport or passive-mediated transport) is the process of spontaneous passive transport (as opposed to active transport) of molecules or ions across a biological membrane via specific transmembrane integral proteins. Being passive, facilitated transport does not direct... |
11715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell%20Douglas%20F-15%20Eagle | McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle | The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fight... |
11719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman%20F-14%20Tomcat | Grumman F-14 Tomcat | The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American Teen ... |
11720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20F-117%20Nighthawk | Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk | The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a semi-retired American single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). It was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology.
The F-117 was base... |
11721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought%20F4U%20Corsair | Vought F4U Corsair | The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft which saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Designed and initially manufactured by Chance Vought, the Corsair was soon in great demand; additional production contracts were given to Goodyear, whose Corsairs were designated FG, and Brewster, desi... |
11723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy%20Heineken | Freddy Heineken | Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken (4 November 1923 – 3 January 2002) was a Dutch businessman for Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. He served as chairman of the board of directors and CEO from 1971 until 1989. After his retirement as chairman... |
11724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Formula%203000 | International Formula 3000 | The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter Formula One. Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines; the h... |
11725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flunitrazepam | Flunitrazepam | Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol among other names, is a benzodiazepine used to treat severe insomnia and assist with anesthesia. As with other hypnotics, flunitrazepam has been advised to be prescribed only for short-term use or by those with chronic insomnia on an occasional basis.
It was patented in 1962 and ... |
11729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20cell | Fuel cell | A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most batteries in requiring a continuous source of fuel and oxygen (usually from air) to sustain the... |
11732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization | Finlandization | Finlandization (; ; ; ; ) is the process by which one powerful country makes a smaller neighboring country refrain from opposing the former's foreign policy rules, while allowing it to keep its nominal independence and its own political system. The term means "to become like Finland" referring to the influence of the S... |
11734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Singer | Fred Singer | Siegfried Fred Singer (September 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020) was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia, trained as an atmospheric physicist. He was known for rejecting the scientific consensus on several issues, including climate change, the con... |
11736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik%20Pohl | Frederik Pohl | Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edi... |
11740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest%20J%20Ackerman | Forrest J Ackerman | Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid ... |
11741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20film | Fantasy film | Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often h... |
11742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20set | Finite set | In mathematics, particularly set theory, a finite set is a set that has a finite number of elements. Informally, a finite set is a set which one could in principle count and finish counting. For example,
is a finite set with five elements. The number of elements of a finite set is a natural number (a non-negative int... |
11745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer%20Giles%20of%20Ham | Farmer Giles of Ham | Farmer Giles of Ham is a comic medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land. It is cheerfully anachro... |
11748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20aquarium%20fish%20species | List of freshwater aquarium fish species | A vast number of aquatic species have successfully adapted to live in the freshwater aquarium. This list gives some examples of the most common species found in home aquariums
Catfish
Characins and other characiformes
Cichlids
Cyprinids
Loaches and related cypriniformes
Live-bearers and killifish
Labyrinth fish
... |
11749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chess%20players | List of chess players | This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
A
Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973)
Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935)
István Abonyi (Hungary, 1886–1942)
Gerald Abrahams (England, 1907–1980)
Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenia, US, b... |
11751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresight%20Institute | Foresight Institute | The Foresight Institute (Foresight) is a San Francisco-based research non-profit that promotes the development of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, such as safe AGI, biotech and longevity.
Foresight runs four cross-disciplinary program tracks to research, advance, and govern maturing technologies for the... |
11752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20aquarium%20invertebrate%20species | List of freshwater aquarium invertebrate species | This is a list of invertebrates, animals without a backbone, that are commonly kept in freshwater aquaria by hobby aquarists. Numerous shrimp species of various kinds, crayfish, a number of freshwater snail species, and at least one freshwater clam species are found in freshwater aquaria.
Crustaceans
Shrimp
Arachnoc... |
11753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20freshwater%20aquarium%20plant%20species | List of freshwater aquarium plant species | Aquatic plants are used to give the freshwater aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, absorb ammonia, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrates. Some aquarium fish and invertebrates also eat live plants. Hobbyists use aquatic plants for aquascaping, of several aesthetic st... |
11754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonni | Fonni | Fonni () is a town and comune in Sardinia, in the province of Nuoro (Italy).
It is the highest town in Sardinia, and situated among fine scenery with some chestnut woods. Fonni is a winter sports centre with a ski lift to Monte Spada and Bruncu Spina.
Etymology
The term "Fonni/-e" probably derives from the Latin fons... |
11755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces | Fasces | Fasces ( ; ; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle"; ) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe (occasionally two axes) with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbol... |
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