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- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...probably none of his original work survives, but aspects of his style have been perpetuated in thousands of other artists' works. An even more formidable figure was the early 11th-century painter Fan K'uan, who began by following Li Ch'eng's style, ...
- fan painting
- (from the article "painting") Folding screens and screen doors originated in China and Japan, probably during the 12th century (or possibly earlier), and screen painting continued as a traditional form into the 20th. They are in ink or gouache on plain or gilded paper ...
- fan shooting
- (from the article "Earth exploration") High-velocity bodies of local extent can be located by fan shooting. Travel times are measured along different azimuths from a source, and an abnormally early arrival time indicates that a high-velocity body was encountered at that azimuth. This method has ...
- Fan Si Peak
- highest peak (10,312 feet [3,143 metres]) in Vietnam, lying in Lao Cai tinh (province) and forming part of the Fan Si-Sa Phin range, which extends northwest-southeast for nearly 19 miles (31 km) between the Red River (Song ... [1 Related Articles]
- fan vault
- (from the article "Gothic art") ...of windows, an enlargement of windows to great proportions, and the conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse. The typical Gothic pointed vaults were replaced by fan vaults (fan-shaped clusters of tracery-like ribs springing from slender ...
- Fan Wencheng
- minister who advised the Manchu forces of Manchuria in their conquest of China and their establishment there of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644-1911/12).
- Fan Zhongyan
- Chinese scholar-reformer who, as minister to the Song emperor Renzong (reigned 1022/23-1063/64), anticipated many of the reforms of the great innovator Wang Anshi (1021-86). In his 10-point program raised in 1043, Fan attempted to abolish nepotism and corruption, reclaim unused ... [1 Related Articles]
- fan-head trench
- (from the article "river") ...lines during fan development. Such longitudinal shifting is facilitated by entrenching and/or backfilling the channel that links the source area to the fan. Incision at the fan apex produces a fan-head trench, which has a lower gradient than the fan ...
- Fan-Tan
- card game that may be played by any number of players up to eight. The full pack of 52 cards is dealt out, one card at a time. Thus, some hands may contain one more card than others. All players ... [1 Related Articles]
- fan-tan
- bank gambling game of Chinese origin, dating back at least 2,000 years and introduced in the western United States in the second half of the 19th century by Chinese immigrant workers.
- Fana
- section of the city of Bergen, Hordaland fylke (county), southwestern Norway, opposite Store Sotra Island. Raune Fjord and its smaller branches, especially Fana Fjord, cut into Fana's irregular coastline. Most of the settlements in Fana date to the early European ...
- fana
- ' ("to pass away," or "to cease to exist"), the complete denial of self and the realization of God that is one of the steps taken by the Muslim Sufi (mystic) toward the achievement of union with God. Fana may ... [4 Related Articles]
- Fanagalo language
- (from the article "Africa") ...subcontinent are spoken in the Asian communities. In West Africa, forms of creole (Krio) and pidgin are widespread in the coast towns of very heterogeneous ethnic composition. In southern Africa, Fanagalo, a mixture of English and local Bantu tongue (notably ...
- fanaticism
- (from the article "social movement") ...required to do so, is likely to be regarded by outsiders as a fanatic. Some students of social movements, particularly those whose analysis has a psychoanalytic orientation, have suggested that the fanaticism of dedicated members results from individual psychopathological states. ...
- Fancheng
- (from the article "Xiangfan") ...Wuhan to Lanzhou in Gansu province. The area from very early times was a vitally important strategic and commercial centre. The modern municipality was formed in 1950 by combining the two cities of Fancheng (a commercial hub and river port) ...
- Fanconi anemia
- (from the article "cancer") Another group of hereditary cancers comprises those that stem from inherited defects in DNA repair mechanisms. Examples include Bloom syndrome, ataxia-telangiectasia, Fanconi anemia, and xeroderma pigmentosum. These syndromes are characterized by hypersensitivity to agents that damage DNA (e.g., chemicals and ...
- fancy
- the power of conception and representation in artistic expression (such as through the use of figures of speech by a poet). The term is sometimes used as a synonym for imagination, especially in the sense of the ...
- fancy cut
- (from the article "diamond cutting") ...a round stone with 58 facets. A single cut is a simple form of cutting a round diamond with only 18 facets. Any style of diamond cutting other than the round brilliant or single cuts is called a fancy cut, ...
- fandango
- exuberant Spanish courtship dance and a genre of Spanish folk song. The dance, probably of Moorish origin, was popular in Europe in the 18th century and survives in the 20th century as a folk dance in Spain, Portugal, southern France, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fanelli, Giuseppe
- (from the article "anarchism") ...attempted to establish a decentralized, or "cantonalist," political system on Proudhonian lines. In the end, however, the influence of Bakunin was stronger. In 1868 his Italian disciple, Giuseppe Fanelli, visited Barcelona and Madrid, where he established branches of the International. ...
- fanesca
- (from the article "Ecuador") Easter is an opportunity to eat fanesca, a soup that is virtually the Ecuadoran national dish. The soup-made of onions, peanuts, fish, rice, squash, broad beans, chochos (lupine), corn (maize), lentils, beans, peas, and ...
- Faneuil Hall Marketplace
- (from the article "Boston") The narrow and crowded streets of the central city are better suited for walking than driving, for Bostonians are incorrigible jaywalkers. The street markets around Faneuil Hall are as essential a part of the city as ever, while the surrounding ...
- Fanfani, Amintore
- politician and teacher who served as Italy's premier six times. He formed and led the centre-left coalition that dominated Italian politics in the late 1950s and '60s. [3 Related Articles]
- fanfare
- originally a brief musical formula played on trumpets, horns, or similar "natural" instruments, sometimes accompanied by percussion, for signal purposes in battles, hunts, and court ceremonies. The term is of obscure derivation.
- Fang
- Bantu-speaking peoples occupying the southernmost districts of Cameroon south of the Sanaga River, mainland Equatorial Guinea, and the forests of the northern half of Gabon south to the Ogooue River estuary. They numbered about 3,320,000 in the late 20th century. [7 Related Articles]
- fang
- (from the article "rattlesnake") A rattlesnake fang is similar to a curved hypodermic needle. At the top it meets with the end of the venom duct. Soft tissue surrounds the end of the venom duct and the base of the fang, providing a seal ...
- Fang Guozhen
- (from the article "China") ...erstwhile general of the rebel Han regime named Ming Yuzhen; and Wu in the rich Yangtze delta area, under a former Grand Canal boatman named Zhang Shicheng. A onetime salt trader and smuggler named Fang Guozhen had simultaneously established an ...
- Fang Lizhi
- Chinese astrophysicist and dissident who was held by the Chinese leadership to be partially responsible for the 1989 student rebellion in Tiananmen Square.
- fang-ding
- (from the article "ding") ...which has a slight swelling of the bowl as it joins each of the legs (similar in effect to the li), and the fang-ding, which, however illogical, is a "square tripod," with a square ...
- fang-hsiang
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") New percussion instruments are evident in the celestial orchestras seen in Buddhist iconography. One apparent accommodation between old Chinese and West Asian tradition is the fang-hsiang, a set of 16 iron slabs suspended in a wooden frame in the manner ...
- Fangataufa Atoll
- (from the article "Mururoa") ...after 1975 the tests were conducted underground. France, responding to international concern over fracturing the rock of Mururoa, began to carry out its more powerful blasts under the lagoon of Fangataufa Atoll, south of Mururoa. Testing was suspended in 1992 ...
- Fangio, Juan Manuel
- driver who dominated automobile-racing competition in the 1950s, winning the world driving championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957. He had won 24 world-championship Grand Prix races when he retired from racing in 1958. Fangio won the world titles ... [1 Related Articles]
- fangyi
- type of Chinese bronze vessel in the form of a small hut or granary. Square or rectangular in section, its sides slope outward from a low base to a cover in the shape of a hipped roof. The
- Fanini, Nilson do Amaral
- At the August 1995 meeting of the Baptist World Congress meeting in Buenos Aires, Arg., the Rev. Nilson do Amaral Fanini was elected to a five-year term as president of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), a world body composed of ...
- Fannian law
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...repealed despite Cato's protests. Later sumptuary laws were motivated not by military crisis but by a sense of the dangers of luxury: the Orchian law (182) limited the lavishness of banquets; the Fannian law (161) strengthened the Orchian provisions, and ...
- Fannie Mae
- federally chartered private corporation created as a federal agency by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to ensure adequate liquidity in the mortgage market regardless of economic conditions. It is one of several government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) established since the early 20th ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fanning, Katherine Woodruff
- American journalist (b. Oct. 18, 1927, Joliet, Ill.-d. Oct. 19, 2000, Boston, Mass.), was a relative latecomer to her profession but rose to become one of the most highly respected and influential figures in her field. Considered a pioneer, she ...
- Fano
- island of the North Frisian group, in the North Sea off Esbjerg, southwestern Jutland, Denmark. Three-quarters of the island consists of beaches, dunes, heath, and marshland. Its settlements are Nordby and Sonderho. Crown property until it was purchased by its ...
- Fano
- town and episcopal see, Marche regione, central Italy. It lies along the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Metauro River, just southeast of Pesaro. The town occupies the site of the ancient Fanum Fortunae ("Temple of Fortune"), which was ...
- Fano, Ugo
- Italian-born American physicist (b. July 28, 1912, Turin, Italy-d. Feb. 13, 2001, Chicago, Ill.), was a pioneering nuclear physicist who helped identify the hazards of radioactivity for humans and whose research provided the groundwork for the development of the gas ...
- Fanon, Frantz
- West Indian psychoanalyst and social philosopher, known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. [2 Related Articles]
- fanqie
- (from the article "Chinese languages") ...dictionary is divided according to rhymes, of which there are 61, and, finally, according to initial consonants. Inside each rhyme an interlocking spelling system known as fanqie was used to subdivide the rhymes. There were 32 initial ...
- Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 1st Baronet
- English poet, translator, and diplomat whose version of Camoes' Os Lusiadas is a major achievement of English verse translation.
- Fant, Gunner
- (from the article "phonetics") As a result of studying the phonemic contrasts within a number of languages, Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle concluded in 1951 that segmental phonemes could be characterized in terms of 12 distinctive features. All of the features were ...
- Fanta
- (from the article "Coca-Cola Company, The") The post-World War II years saw diversification in the packaging of Coca-Cola and also in the development or acquisition of new products. In 1946 the company purchased rights to the Fanta soft drink, previously developed in Germany. It introduced the ...
- fantail
- any of numerous birds of the Old World subfamily Rhipidurinae, family Muscicapidae (q.v.). Some authors retain these birds in the subfamily Muscicapinae. The fantails constitute the genus Rhipidura. Fantails are native to forest clearings, riverbanks, and beaches from southern Asia ... [1 Related Articles]
- fantail
- (from the article "windmill") ...early mills the turning of the post-mill body, or the tower-mill cap, was done by hand by means of a long tailpole stretching down to the ground. In 1745 Edmund Lee in England invented the automatic fantail. This consists of ...
- fantasia
- in music, a composition free in form and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist; in 16th- and 17th-century England the term was applied especially to fugal compositions (i.e., based on melodic imitation) for consorts of string or wind instruments. Earlier ... [4 Related Articles]
- fantasy
- (from the article "comedy") Rather more explicitly comic is the element of fantasy in modern paintings, in which seemingly unrelated objects are brought together in a fine incongruity, as in the French primitive Henri Rousseau's famous "Dream" (1910), with its nude woman reclining on ...
- fantasy
- (from the article "hallucination") ...of these engrams in complex circuits involving nerve cells. Such circuits in the cortex (outer layers) of the brain appear to subserve the neurophysiology of memory, thought, imagination, and fantasy. The emotions associated with these intellectual and perceptual functions seem ...
- fantasy
- imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings). Examples include William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord ... [3 Related Articles]
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