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- Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and distinctive filmmakers of the period after World War II. Early in his career he helped inaugurate the Neorealist cinema movement, but he soon developed his own distinctive style of ... [9 Related Articles]
- fellow servant defense
- (from the article "insurance") The fellow servant defense has been used at times by employers; an employer would argue in some cases that the injury to an employee was caused not by the employer's negligence but by the negligence of another employee. However, workers' ...
- fellow traveller
- originally, a writer in the Soviet Union who was not against the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but did not actively support it as a propagandist. The term was used in this sense by Leon Trotsky in Literature and the Revolution ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fellowes, Julian
- (from the article "2001: Other Winners") Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Julian Fellowes for Gosford ParkScreenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful MindCinematography: Andrew Lesnie for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingArt Direction:...
- Fellows, F. W.
- (from the article "machine tool") ...fully automatic in some operations, such as making screws, and it presaged the momentous developments of the 20th century. Various gear-cutting machines reached their full development in 1896 when F.W. Fellows, an American, designed a gear shaper that could rapidly ...
- Fellows, Sir Charles
- English archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of Lycia-in antiquity a region of present-day southwestern Turkey-and transported a large number of marble sculptures to England.
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- (from the article "Congress of Racial Equality") ...1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. Farmer had been working as the race-relations secretary for the American branch of the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) but resigned over a dispute in policy; he ...
- Felltham, Owen
- English essayist and poet, best known for his essays Resolves Divine, Morall, and Politicall, in which the striking images (some borrowed by the poet Henry Vaughan) are held to be more original than the ideas.
- Feloidea
- (from the article "carnivore") The arrangement of the nine terrestrial families into two distinct superfamilies, Canoidea and Feloidea (or Aeluroidea), appears to be a natural arrangement dating back to the works of W.H. Flower and H. Winge in the late 1800s. In Canoidea, as ...
- felony and misdemeanour
- in Anglo-American law, classification of criminal offenses according to the seriousness of the crime. [4 Related Articles]
- felony murder rule
- (from the article "crime") ...sufficient to provoke a reasonable person into acting in the same way as the accused) could result in a verdict of manslaughter, even if the killing was intentional. On the other hand, some "felony murder" statutes attribute criminal intention to ...
- Felou gundi
- (from the article "gundi") ...Tunisia, and Libya, but the Mzab gundi (Massoutiera mzabi) has the largest range, extending from southeastern Algeria through southwestern Libya to northern Mali, Niger, and Chad. The Felou gundi (Felovia vae) is confined to Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania. The East ...
- Felsch, Oscar
- (from the article "Black Sox Scandal") ...Gandil, shortstop Charles ("Swede") Risberg, third baseman George ("Buck") Weaver, outfielders Joe ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson and Oscar ("Happy") Felsch, and pinch hitter Fred McMullin. Court records suggest that the eight players received $70,000 to $100,000 for losing five games to ...
- Felsegg Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") Other notable bridges by Maillart are the bridge over the Thur at Felsegg (1933), the Schwandbach Bridge near Hinterfultigen (1933), and the Toss River footbridge near Wulflingen (1934). The Felsegg bridge has a 68-metre (226-foot) span and features for the ...
- Felsenau Viaduct
- (from the article "bridge") ...arch with a span of 98 metres (328 feet), shows Menn's characteristic use of a wide, prestressed concrete deck slab cantilevering laterally from both sides of a single box. For the high, curving Felsenau Viaduct (1974) over the Aare River ...
- felsenmeer
- (German: "sea of rock"), exposed rock surfaces that have been quickly broken up by frost action so that much rock is buried under a cover of angular shattered boulders. These mantles principally occur in Arctic regions and high mountain areas. ... [2 Related Articles]
- felsic and mafic rocks
- division of igneous rocks on the basis of their silica content. Chemical analyses of the most abundant components in rocks usually are presented as oxides of the elements; igneous rocks typically consist of approximately 12 major oxides totaling over 99 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Felsina
- city founded by Etruscans c. 510 BC on the site of modern Bologna, Italy, an area rich in Villanovan Iron Age remains. By the mid-4th century Felsina had fallen to invading Gauls (Boii tribe), who called it Bononia. Captured by ...
- felt
- (from the article "floor covering") Printed felt base is formed by applying a heavy film of paint to felt saturated with asphalt; the felt is sealed at both the top and bottom with one or more layers of coating before application of paint, preventing discoloration ...
- Felt, W. Mark
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") In 2005 Vanity Fair magazine shocked the world when, in its July issue, it became the first publication to reveal that W. Mark Felt, the 91-year-old former associate director of the FBI, was the Watergate Scandal informant known as "Deep ...
- felting
- consolidation of certain fibrous materials by the application of heat, moisture, and mechanical action, causing the interlocking, or matting, of fibres possessing felting properties. Such fibres include wool, fur, and certain hair fibres that mat together under appropriate conditions because ... [3 Related Articles]
- Felton, John
- (from the article "Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of") ...favourite, but the king was unflinchingly loyal to his friend. On August 17 Buckingham arrived at Portsmouth to organize another expedition to La Rochelle. Five days later he was stabbed to death by John Felton, a naval lieutenant who had ...
- Felton, Rebecca Ann
- American political activist, writer, and lecturer, the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate.
- Felton, William H.
- (from the article "Felton, Rebecca Ann") Rebecca Latimer was graduated first in her class from the Madison Female College, Madison, Georgia, in 1852 and the following year married William H. Felton, a local physician active in liberal Democratic politics. She assisted her husband in his political ...
- Feltre
- hill town, Veneto regione, northern Italy. Grouped around Alboino Castle, notable buildings include the cathedral, with a 14th-century campanile and a carved Byzantine cross of the 6th century, and the civic museum. In 1509 the heart of the town was ...
- Felty syndrome
- (from the article "joint disease") ...unrelated disorders. In about one-third of the cases of Sjogren syndrome, there is also rheumatoid arthritis, and high levels of rheumatoid factors are usually present in the bloodstream. In Felty syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis coexists with enlargement of the spleen and ...
- Felzenboym, Mikhal
- (from the article "Literature") ...a background of the turbulent events of the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, Russia (now Chisinau, Moldova), that claimed several thousand victims. One of the leading post-World War II poets and dramatists, Mikhal Felzenboym, penned the compelling Shabesdike shvebelekh ("Sabbath Matches"), ...
- female
- (from the article "heredity") ...of the sex cells could the essentials of heredity be grasped. Before that time, ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle (4th century BC) speculated that the relative contributions of the female and the male parents were very unequal; the female ...
- female condom
- (from the article "contraception") ...sperm from entering the uterus-by sheathing the penis with a condom, by covering the uterine cervix with a diaphragm or cervical cap (used with a spermicidal cream or jelly), or by inserting a female condom (vaginal pouch) or a vaginal ...
- female genital cutting
- ritual surgical procedure that is traditional in some societies. FGC has been practiced by a wide variety of cultures and as a result includes a number of related procedures and social meanings. [3 Related Articles]
- female impersonation
- (from the article "transvestism") Some male cross-dressers are professional female impersonators, entertainers who usually impersonate female celebrities. Entertainers who cross-dress (usually quite unconvincingly) to comic effect are quite popular in some cultures, particularly in England. In general, however, transvestism may be distinguished from other ...
- feme sole
- in Anglo-American common law, a woman in the unmarried state or in the legally established equivalent of that state. The concept derived from feudal Norman custom and was prevalent through periods when marriage abridged women's rights. Feme sole (Norman French ...
- femic rock
- (from the article "igneous rock") ...two groups: mafic, rocks with 45 to 55 percent silica and ultramafic, those containing less than 45 percent. The subsilicic rocks, enriched as they are in iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg), are termed femic (from ferrous iron and magnesium), whereas ...
- feminine caesura
- (from the article "caesura") Types of caesura that are differentiated in modern prosody are the masculine caesura, a caesura that follows a stressed or long syllable, and the feminine caesura, which follows an unstressed or short syllable. The feminine caesura is further divided into ...
- feminine ending
- in prosody, a line of verse having an unstressed and usually extrametrical syllable at its end. In the opening lines from Robert Frost's poem "Directive," the fourth line has a feminine ending while the rest are masculine: Back out of ...
- feminine gender
- (from the article "gender") Among modern Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian, nouns are classified into two genders, masculine and feminine. Russian and German nouns are grouped into three genders, the third being neuter. While nouns referring to masculine or feminine beings ...
- feminine rhyme
- in poetry, a rhyme involving two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). The term feminine rhyme is also sometimes applied to triple rhymes, or rhymes involving three syllables (such as exciting and inviting). Robert Browning alternates ... [1 Related Articles]
- feminism
- the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. [16 Related Articles]
- femoral artery
- (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...each of which descends laterally and gives rise to external and internal branches. The right and left external iliac arteries are direct continuations of the common iliacs and become known as the femoral arteries after passing through the inguinal region, ...
- femoral nerve
- (from the article "nervous system, human") The sartorius muscle and medial and anterior surfaces of the thigh are served by branches of the anterior division of the femoral nerve. The posterior division of the femoral nerve provides sensory fibres to the inner surface of the leg ...
- femoral vein
- (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...The latter vein, the longest in the body, extends from the dorsal venous arch up the inside of the lower leg and thigh, receiving venous branches from the knee and thigh area and terminating in the femoral vein.milk leg
- femtometre
- (from the article "atom") ...football field. In volume the nucleus takes up only 10−14 of the space in the atom-i.e., 1 part in 100 trillion. A convenient unit of length for measuring nuclear sizes is the femtometre (fm), which equals 10−15 metre. The diameter ...
- femtosecond spectroscopy
- (from the article "Zewail, Ahmed H.") ...was able to view the motion of atoms and molecules using a method based on new laser technology capable of producing light flashes just tens of femtoseconds in duration. During the process, known as femtosecond spectroscopy, molecules were mixed together ...
- femur
- upper bone of the leg or hind leg. The head forms a ball-and-socket joint with the hip (at the acetabulum), being held in place by a ligament (ligamentum teres femoris) within the socket and by strong surrounding ligaments. In humans ... [10 Related Articles]
- fen
- type of bog (q.v.), especially a low-lying area, wholly or partly covered with water and dominated by grasslike plants, grasses, sedges, and reeds. In strict usage, a fen denotes an area in which the soil is organic (peaty) and alkaline ... [3 Related Articles]
- fen colony
- (from the article "Emmen") gemeente (municipality), northeastern Netherlands, on the Hondsrug ridge. It was a centre of the peat colonies (veenkolonien) established in the 19th century to convert the surrounding peat fields to agricultural use. As peat digging declined after 1920, Emmen suffered considerable ...
- fen orchid
- (from the article "twayblade") ...dull-coloured, purplish flowers borne in a terminal spike. The flowers of the large twayblade (Liparis lilifolia) of eastern North America have thin, slender side petals and a broad lip. The fen orchid (Liparis loeselii) is a similar species found in ...
- Fen River
- river in Shanxi province, northern China. The Fen River is an eastern tributary of the Huang He (Yellow River). After rising in the Guancen Mountains in northwestern Shanxi, it flows southeast into the basin of Taiyuan and then southwest through ... [2 Related Articles]
- Fen River Valley
- (from the article "Shansi") ...of the southern border with Honan Province. The southwest corner of the province is part of the highland region that extends from Kansu to Honan provinces and is covered with a layer of loess. The Fen River Valley comprises a ...
- Fen-hsi
- (from the article "Shansi") ...is mined from vast deposits in the Ma-an Mountains district of central Shansi. The largest titanium and vanadium (metallic elements used in alloys such as steel) deposits in China are located near Fen-hsi. Other mined minerals include silver, zinc, copper, ...
- fence
- (from the article "Moll Cutpurse") most notorious female member of 17th-century England's underworld, a friend of highwaymen and a receiver of stolen goods.
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