- Fay, Johnny (Canadian musician)
the Tragically Hip: Overview: …University in Kingston, though drummer Johnny Fay (b. July 6, 1966, Kingston) was still in high school. Other founding members were childhood neighbors and friends Rob Baker (b. April 12, 1962, Kingston) and Gord Sinclair (b. November 19, 1963, Kingston). They took their name from a skit in Monkees band…
- Fay, Larry (American gangster)
Texas Guinan: …up by bootlegger and racketeer Larry Fay, who installed her as hostess of his El Fay Club. Perched on a stool in the centre of the club, armed with a whistle and her own booming voice, “Texas” Guinan single-handedly created an atmosphere of camaraderie unique among nightclubs of Prohibition-era New…
- Fay, Sidney Bradshaw (American historian)
Sidney Bradshaw Fay was a U.S. historian known primarily for his classical reexamination of the causes of World War I. After receiving a Ph.D. (1900) from Harvard University, Fay studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin, returning to teach history at Dartmouth (Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Faya (Chad)
Faya, oasis town located in northern Chad, north-central Africa. It lies in the Sahara at the northern tip of the Bodélé geographic depression, 490 miles (790 km) northeast of the capital, N’Djamena. Originally called Faya, the town was renamed Largeau following the capture in 1913 of Borkou by the
- Fayal Island (island, Portugal)
Faial Island, island forming part of the Azores archipelago of Portugal, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Its area of 67 square miles (173 square km) was increased by 1 square mile (2.5 square km) because of volcanic activity in 1957–58. The centre of the island consists of a perfectly shaped volcano,
- fayalite (mineral)
fayalite, iron-rich silicate mineral that is a member of the forsterite–fayalite series (q.v.) of
- Fayan (work by Yang)
Confucianism: Dong Zhongshu: The Confucian visionary: 53 bce–18 ce) in the Fayan (“Model Sayings”), a collection of moralistic aphorisms in the style of the Analects, and the Taixuan jing (“Classic of the Supremely Profound Principle”), a cosmological speculation in the style of the Yijing, presented an alternative worldview. That school, claiming its own recensions of authentic…
- fayḍ (Islamic philosophy)
fayḍ, (Arabic: “emanation”), in Islāmic philosophy, the emanation of created things from God. The word is not used in the Qurʾān (Islāmic scripture), which uses terms such as khalq (“creation”) and ibdāʿ (“invention”) in describing the process of creation. Early Muslim theologians dealt with this
- Faydherbe, Lucas (Flemish sculptor)
Western sculpture: Flanders: …the Younger, Rombout Verhulst, and Lucas Faydherbe.
- Faye, Bassirou Diomaye (president of Senegal)
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who became the president of Senegal in April 2024. Faye was raised in Ndiaganiao, where he attended Marie Médiatrice Catholic School. He later attended Lycée Demba Diop in Mbour, where he graduated in 2000. Faye went on to
- Fayed, Mohamed (Egyptian businessman)
Mohamed al-Fayed was an Egyptian businessman who acquired a number of prestigious holdings throughout his career, including the Ritz Hotel in Paris and Harrods department store in London. He also was known for his clashes with the British establishment, which escalated after his son Dodi and Diana,
- Fayed, Mohamed al- (Egyptian businessman)
Mohamed al-Fayed was an Egyptian businessman who acquired a number of prestigious holdings throughout his career, including the Ritz Hotel in Paris and Harrods department store in London. He also was known for his clashes with the British establishment, which escalated after his son Dodi and Diana,
- fayence (pottery)
faience, tin-glazed earthenware made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia. It is distinguished from tin-glazed earthenware made in Italy, which is called majolica (or maiolica), and that made in the Netherlands and England, which is called delft. The tin glaze used in faience is actually a
- Fayence-Porcellaine (pottery)
pottery: Painting: The wares were sometimes called Fayence-Porcellaine.
- Fayette (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
Fayette, county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by Jacobs Creek; to the east by Laurel Hill, the Youghiogheny River, and Youghiogheny River Lake; to the south by Maryland and West Virginia; and to the west by the Monongahela River. It consists of a hilly region on the
- Fayette (county, Kentucky, United States)
Lexington: Fayette county, north-central Kentucky, U.S., the focus of the Bluegrass region and a major centre for horse breeding. Named in 1775 for the Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts, it was chartered by the Virginia legislature in 1782 and was the meeting place (1792) for the first…
- Fayette (ghost town, Michigan, United States)
Silurian Period: Economic significance of Silurian deposits: …is the ghost town of Fayette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was founded as a company town in 1867 because local resources offered an abundance of Silurian dolomite for use in iron smelting. At the opposite end of the Upper Peninsula, on Drummond Island, dolomite from the Wenlock Engadine Group…
- Fayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La (French noble)
Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution. Later, as a leading advocate for constitutional monarchy, he became one of the most powerful men in France during the first few years of the
- Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de La (French author)
Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de La Fayette was a French writer whose La Princesse de Clèves is a landmark of French fiction. In Paris during the civil wars of the Fronde, young Mlle de la Vergne was brought into contact with Madame de Sévigné, now famous for her letters. She also met a leading
- Fayetteville (Arkansas, United States)
Fayetteville, city, seat of Washington county, northwestern Arkansas, U.S., in the Ozarks on the White River, adjacent to Springdale (north). No settlement existed there when the site, on the Overland Mail Route, was chosen as the county seat in 1828. The community, first named Washington Court
- Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States)
Fayetteville, city, seat of Cumberland county, south-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies on the Cape Fear River at the head of navigation, about 70 miles (113 km) south of Raleigh. The two original settlements of Cambellton (1762) and Cross Creek (c. 1760) united in 1778 and were incorporated and
- Fayetteville Shale (shale basin, Arkansas, United States)
shale gas: Shale gas resources of the United States: …around Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; the Fayetteville Shale, mainly in northern Arkansas; the Woodford Shale, mainly in Oklahoma; and the Haynesville Shale, straddling the Texas-Louisiana state line. The Barnett Shale was the proving ground of horizontal drilling and fracking starting in the 1990s; more than 10,000 wells have been drilled in…
- Fayeung ninwa (film by Wong Kar-Wai [2000])
Wong Kar-Wai: …Kong for Fayeung ninwa (2000; In the Mood for Love), which concerns the growing attachment between Chow Mo-Wan (Leung) and Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), a man and a woman whose spouses are having an affair. The film’s lush score and detailed recreations of 1960s fashions and interiors, as well as…
- Fayḥāʾ, al- (national capital, Syria)
Damascus, city, capital of Syria. Located in the southwestern corner of the country, it has been called the “pearl of the East,” praised for its beauty and lushness; the 10th-century traveler and geographer al-Maqdisī lauded the city as ranking among the four earthly paradises. Upon visiting the
- Faylakah (island, Kuwait)
Faylakah, island of Kuwait, lying in the Persian Gulf near the entrance to Kuwait Bay; it has an area of 15 square miles (39 square km). Inhabited since prehistoric times, it is important archaeologically, remains of human habitation from as early as 2500 bc having been found there. A museum has
- Faymann, Werner (Austrian chancellor)
Austria: Austria in the European Union: Werner Faymann of the Social Democrats was selected as chancellor.
- Faynzilberg, Ilya Arnoldovich (Soviet humorist)
Ilf and Petrov: …into a poor Jewish family, Ilf worked at various trades while a youth, becoming a journalist in Odessa at age 18. He went to Moscow in 1923 to begin a career as a professional writer. Petrov, the son of a teacher, began his career as a news-service correspondent, worked briefly…
- Fayol, Henri (French industrialist)
mass production: Pioneers of mass production methods: In 1916 Henri Fayol, who for many years had managed a large coal mining company in France, began publishing his ideas about the organization and supervision of work, and by 1925 he had enunciated several principles and functions of management. His idea of unity of command, which…
- Fayrfax Manuscript (music)
carol: …in a court songbook, the Fayrfax Manuscript, written for three or four voices in a flexible, sophisticated style based on duple (two-beat) rhythm. They are mostly on themes connected with the Passion of Christ, and the words often decisively determine the musical effect. Composers are often mentioned—William Cornyshe, Robert Fayrfax,…
- Fayrfax, Robert (English composer)
Robert Fayrfax was foremost among the early English Tudor composers, noted principally for his masses and motets written in a style less florid than that of his predecessors. He is distinguished from his English contemporaries by his more frequent use of imitative counterpoint and the freedom with
- Fayrouz (Lebanese singer and actress)
Fairuz is a Lebanese singer and actress widely considered to be one of the most celebrated Arab singers of the 20th century. Fairuz’s husband was Assi Rahbani, who along with his brother Mansour Rahbani—known together as the Rahbani Brothers—wrote and composed the majority of the songs and plays
- Fayruz (Lebanese singer and actress)
Fairuz is a Lebanese singer and actress widely considered to be one of the most celebrated Arab singers of the 20th century. Fairuz’s husband was Assi Rahbani, who along with his brother Mansour Rahbani—known together as the Rahbani Brothers—wrote and composed the majority of the songs and plays
- Fayṣal al-Dawīsh (Arab leader)
Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud and the third Saudi state: In 1928 and 1929 Faisal al-Duwaish, Sultan ibn Bajad, and other leaders of the Ikhwān, accusing Ibn Saud of betraying the cause for which they had fought and opposing the taxes levied upon their followers, resumed their defiance of the king’s authority. The rebels sought to stop the centralization…
- Fayṣal I (king of Iraq)
Faisal I was an Arab statesman and king of Iraq (1921–33) who was a leader in advancing Arab nationalism during and after World War I. Faisal was the son of Hussein ibn Ali, emir and grand sharif of Mecca who ruled the Hejaz from 1916 to 1924. When World War I provided an opportunity for rebellion
- Fayṣal ibn Ghāzī ibn Fayṣal Āl Hāshim (king of Iraq)
Faisal II was the last king of Iraq, who reigned from 1939 to 1958. Faisal II, grandson of Faisal I and great-grandson of Hussein ibn Ali, former sharif of Mecca and king of the Hejaz, became king of Iraq following the untimely death of his father, King Ghazi. Because Faisal was only four years
- Fayṣal ibn Husayn (king of Iraq)
Faisal I was an Arab statesman and king of Iraq (1921–33) who was a leader in advancing Arab nationalism during and after World War I. Faisal was the son of Hussein ibn Ali, emir and grand sharif of Mecca who ruled the Hejaz from 1916 to 1924. When World War I provided an opportunity for rebellion
- Fayṣal ibn Turkī ibn Saʿūd (Arab leader)
Battle of Al-Mulaydah: …the territories that his father, Fayṣal (reigned 1834–65), had acquired by conquest following the collapse of the first Wahhābī empire (1818). In 1885 ʿAbd Allāh was “invited” to Ḥāʾil to be the “guest” of Ibn Rashīd, the dominant figure in Arabian politics at the time, while a representative of Ibn…
- Fayṣal ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Saʿūd (king of Saudi Arabia)
Faisal of Saudi Arabia was the king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975, an influential figure of the Arab world known for his statecraft at home and his assertiveness abroad. Faisal was a son of Ibn Saud and a brother of Saud, who preceded him as king. He was appointed foreign minister and viceroy
- Fayṣal II (king of Iraq)
Faisal II was the last king of Iraq, who reigned from 1939 to 1958. Faisal II, grandson of Faisal I and great-grandson of Hussein ibn Ali, former sharif of Mecca and king of the Hejaz, became king of Iraq following the untimely death of his father, King Ghazi. Because Faisal was only four years
- Fayṣaliyyah, Al- (building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Riyadh: City layout: …city’s most-recognizable tower buildings are Al-Fayṣaliyyah (Al-Faisaliah) center, which contains office space, a number of restaurants, and a luxury hotel, and the Markaz Al-Mamlakah (“Kingdom Centre”), which offers an expansive complex of office, retail, dining, and accommodation spaces located within and around its landmark tower.
- Fayulu, Martin (Congolese politician)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Congo under Joseph Kabila: …groups initially united to back Martin Fayulu as their candidate, protests from supporters of Félix Tshisekedi—son of veteran opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi, who had died in 2017—led Tshisekedi to withdraw his support from Fayulu and contest the election himself. Another opposition leader with broad support, Vital Kamerhe, did the same.
- Fayum (governorate, Egypt)
Al-Fayyūm, muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of Upper Egypt, located in a great depression of the Western Desert southwest of Cairo. Extending about 50 miles (80 km) east-west and about 35 miles (56 km) north-south, the whole Fayyūm—including Wadi Al-Ruwayān, a smaller, arid depression—is below sea level
- Fayum portrait (Egyptian art)
Fayum portrait, any of the funerary portraits dating from the Roman period (1st to the 4th century) found in Egyptian tombs throughout Egypt but particularly at the oasis of al-Fayyūm. Depictions of the head and bust of the deceased, the portraits are executed either on wooden tablets (about 17 by
- Fayum, Al- (Egypt)
Al-Fayyūm, capital of Al-Fayyūm muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. The town is located in the southeastern part of the governorate, on the site of the ancient centre of the region, called Shedet in pharaonic times and Crocodilopolis, later Arsinoe, in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Its ruins to the
- Fayyad, Salam (prime minister of Palestinian Authority)
Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian economist who served as a technocratic prime minister (2007–09, 2009–13) of the Palestinian Authority (PA). He is known for his state-building program as prime minister as well as his role in shoring up the financial management of the PA during his time as finance
- Fayyūm, Al- (Egypt)
Al-Fayyūm, capital of Al-Fayyūm muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt. The town is located in the southeastern part of the governorate, on the site of the ancient centre of the region, called Shedet in pharaonic times and Crocodilopolis, later Arsinoe, in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Its ruins to the
- Fayyūm, Al- (governorate, Egypt)
Al-Fayyūm, muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of Upper Egypt, located in a great depression of the Western Desert southwest of Cairo. Extending about 50 miles (80 km) east-west and about 35 miles (56 km) north-south, the whole Fayyūm—including Wadi Al-Ruwayān, a smaller, arid depression—is below sea level
- Fayyūmī, Saʿid ibn Yūsuf al- (Jewish exegete and philosopher)
Saʿadia ben Joseph was a Jewish exegete, philosopher, and polemicist whose influence on Jewish literary and communal activities made him one of the most important Jewish scholars of his time. His unique qualities became especially apparent in 921 in Babylonia during a dispute over Jewish
- Fayyūmic (dialect)
Coptic language: The Fayyūmic dialect of Upper Egypt, spoken along the Nile River valley chiefly on the west bank, survived until the 8th century. Asyūṭic, or Sub-Akhmīmic, spoken around Asyūṭ, flourished in the 4th century. In it are preserved a text of the Gospel According to John and…
- Fayzī (Muslim poet)
Islamic arts: Indian literature in Persian: …cerebral verses of his colleague Fayzī (died 1595), one of Akbar’s favourites. Fayzī’s brother Abū al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī (died 1602), the author of an important, though biased, historical work, deeply influenced the emperor’s religious ideas. Among 17th-century Mughal court poets, the most outstanding is Abū Ṭālib Kalīm (died 1651), who came…
- Fazang (Buddhist monk)
Fazang was a Buddhist monk usually considered to be the founder of the Huayan school of Buddhism in China because he systematized its doctrines. Basically, the Huayan school taught that all phenomena are interrelated. Hence every living being possesses the Buddha-nature within. According to legend,
- fazenda (Brazilian plantation)
fazenda, large plantation in Brazil, comparable to the slave-based plantations of the Caribbean and the United States. In the colonial period (16th–18th century) the plantation owners (fazendeiros) ruled their estates, and the black slaves and freemen who worked them, with virtually no interference
- Fazıl, Mustafa (Egyptian prince)
Young Ottomans: …materially by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazıl and had attracted the attention of the Ottoman princes Murad and Abdülhamid.
- Fazl ul-Haq (Pakistani politician)
Pakistan: Political decline and bureaucratic ascendancy: Fazlul Haq was given the opportunity to form the new provincial government in East Bengal, but, before he could convene his cabinet, riots erupted in the factories south of the East Bengali capital of Dhaka (Dacca). This instability provided the central government with the opportunity…
- Fazy, James (Swiss statesman and writer)
Geneva: Swiss Geneva: …permitted the radicals, led by James Fazy, to take the offensive. The radicals, who drew up the new Constitution of 1848, were thereafter masters of Geneva, and Fazy dominated the political scene until 1861. In many ways the founder of modern Geneva, he opened the canton to railway lines, created…
- Fazzān (region, Libya)
Fezzan, historic region of northern Africa and until 1963 one of the three provinces of the United Kingdom of Libya. It is part of the Sahara (desert) and now constitutes the southwestern sector of Libya. Fezzan’s climate is extreme, with very hot summers and cool winters. Rainfall is scarce and
- Fāʾiḍ Pass (historical site, Tunisia)
World War II: Tunisia, November 1942–May 1943: forces between the Fāʾiḍ Pass in the north and Gafsa in the south. West of Fāʾiḍ, the 21st Panzer Division, under General Heinz Ziegler, destroyed 100 U.S. tanks and drove the Americans back 50 miles. In the Kasserine Pass, however, the Allies put up some stiffer opposition.
- FBI (United States government agency)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), principal investigative agency of the federal government of the United States. The bureau is responsible for conducting investigations in cases where federal laws may have been violated, unless another agency of the federal government has been specifically
- FBI Story, The (film by LeRoy [1959])
Mervyn LeRoy: Return to Warner Brothers: Mister Roberts, The Bad Seed, and Gypsy: The FBI Story (1959) was a capsule dramatization of the agency’s most famous cases; it starred James Stewart as an FBI agent and Vera Miles as his long-suffering wife.
- FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List
One of the most iconic lists in U.S. history started with a phone call from a reporter. In 1949 William Kinsey Hutchinson, the editor in chief of the International News Service, asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who the “worst of the worst” U.S. fugitives were. The names Hoover provided yielded a
- FBS
BCS: …BCS were drawn from the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly known as Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and were determined by a ranking system that consisted of three equally weighted components: the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, the Harris Interactive College Football Poll, and an average of…
- FBT (French trade union)
Federation of Labour Exchanges, federation of French workers’ organizations (bourses) established in 1892. The bourse was a combination of a labour exchange (dealing with job placement), a workers’ club and cultural centre, and a central labour union. The federation advocated direct action to bring
- FC Barcelona (Spanish football club)
FC Barcelona, Spanish professional football (soccer) club located in Barcelona. FC Barcelona is renowned for its historically skillful and attractive brand of attacking football that places an emphasis on flowing, open play. The club was associated with pioneering the tiki-taka style of gameplay,
- FC Dynamo Kiev (Ukrainian football team)
Dynamo Kyiv, Ukrainian professional football (soccer) team located in Kyiv. Dynamo Kyiv was one of the strongest teams in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) and is, along with Shakhtar Donetsk, one of the dominant teams in the Ukrainian league. In 1923 a system of sports
- FC&S warranty (insurance)
insurance: Warranties: …of expressed warranties are the FC&S warranty and the strike, riot, and civil commotion warranty. The FC&S, or “free of capture and seizure,” warranty excludes war as a cause of loss. The strike, riot, and civil commotion warranty states that the insurer will pay no losses resulting from strikes, walkouts,…
- FCA (Italian multinational company)
Maserati: …brand of Fiat, which became Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2014. Fiat Chrysler merged with the French automobile manufacturer PSA Group in 2021 to form Stellantis, of which Maserati is a subsidiary.
- FCC (United States government agency)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent agency of the U.S. federal government. Established in 1934, it regulates interstate and foreign communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Its standards and regulations apply only to the technical aspects, including
- fcc structure (crystalline form)
steel: The base metal: iron: In the face-centred cubic (fcc) arrangement, there is one additional iron atom at the centre of each of the six faces of the unit cube. It is significant that the sides of the face-centred cube, or the distances between neighbouring lattices in the fcc arrangement, are about…
- FCFC (American company)
FirstCity (FCFC), American financial-services company founded in 1950 as the bank holding company First City Bancorporation of Texas, Inc. Headquarters are in Waco, Texas. First City Bancorporation provided managerial direction, financial resource coordination, and advisory services for its various
- FCI (international organization)
Belgian Malinois: The Fédération Cynologique Internationale considered the four strains as varieties of one breed, the Belgian Shepherd (Chien de Berger Belge), which is placed in the Sheepdog and Cattledog Group. The breed was first brought to the United States in 1911, and the American Kennel Club first…
- FCIA (United States agency)
insurance: Export credit insurance: …insurance companies organized by the Foreign Credit Insurance Association (FCIA). The Export-Import Bank of the United States assumes the ultimate liability for loss, while the FCIA serves as the underwriting agency. Coverage is usually limited to 90 or 95 percent of the account. Prior approval from the FCIA is usually…
- fCJD
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Types: …three major types of CJD: familial (fCJD), sporadic (sCJD), and acquired (aCJD). Both sCJD and aCJD may be further divided into subtypes. The most common sCJD subtype is sCJDMM1. Subtypes of aCJD include iatrogenic (iCJD) and variant (vCJD) forms of the disease (kuru is sometimes considered a third subtype of…
- FCS
American football: The era of television: …Bowl Subdivision [FBS] and the Football Championship Subdivision [FCS], respectively.)
- FCV (virus)
calicivirus: Feline calicivirus (FCV) is an agent that causes upper respiratory disease in cats.
- FDA (United States agency)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agency of the U.S. federal government authorized by Congress to inspect, test, approve, and set safety standards for foods and food additives, drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and household and medical devices. First known as the Food, Drug, and Insecticide
- FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (law case)
Major Supreme Court Cases from the 2023–24 Term: Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Argued on March 26, 2024. In 2000 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of the abortion drug mifepristone (also called RU-486), an artificial steroid that works by blocking the action of the
- FDC (Angolan political organization)
Cabinda: …groups formed an umbrella organization, Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (which also included civil and religious groups), and their demands for independence intensified. The organization and the Angolan government signed a peace accord in 2006, largely ending the conflict in the exclave, although skirmishes occurred sporadically after that. Beginning in 2016,…
- Fdérik (Mauritania)
Fdérik, mining village, north-central Mauritania, western Africa, just west of Zouîrât. It is important as the base for the exploitation of extensive iron-ore deposits in the nearby Mount Ijill. The iron ore is exported through the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, via a 419-mile (674-kilometre)
- FDGB (East German trade union federation)
Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB), East German trade union federation. Controlled by the Socialist Unity Party, the FDGB was formed shortly after World War II with virtually compulsory membership. With the rapid reduction of private enterprise in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, the
- FDI (finance)
foreign direct investment (FDI), investment in an enterprise that is resident in a country other than that of the foreign direct investor. A long-term relationship is taken to be the crucial feature of FDI. Thus, the investment is made to acquire lasting interest and control of the economic entity,
- FDIC (United States banking)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a U.S. government agency created under the Banking Act of 1933 (also known as the Glass-Steagall Act). The primary role of the FDIC is to insure and protect bank depositors’ funds against loss in the event of a bank failure. The FDIC also plays a
- FDJ (German organization)
Erich Honecker: …of the founders of the Free German Youth movement (Freie Deutsche Jugend, or FDJ) and was its chairman from 1946 to 1955.
- FDLR (Rwandan rebel group)
March 23 Movement: Origins: …ancestors were from Rwanda—from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda; FDLR), a Hutu militia also in the area that included some of the main instigators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and other groups. The CNDP laid down its arms after reaching…
- FDM (electronics)
telecommunication: Modulation: …the resulting combination is a frequency-division multiplexed signal, as is discussed in Multiplexing. Frequently there is no central combining point, and the communications channel itself acts as a distributed combine. An example of the latter situation is the broadcast radio bands (from 540 kilohertz to 600 megahertz), which permit simultaneous…
- FDMA (electronics)
telecommunication: Frequency-division multiple access: In FDMA the goal is to divide the frequency spectrum into slots and then to separate the signals of different users by placing them in separate frequency slots. The difficulty is that the frequency spectrum is limited and that there are typically…
- FDO (warfare)
Flexible Response, U.S. defense strategy in which a wide range of diplomatic, political, economic, and military options are used to deter an enemy attack. The term flexible response first appeared in U.S. General Maxwell D. Taylor’s book The Uncertain Trumpet (1960), which sharply criticized U.S.
- FDP (political party, Germany)
Free Democratic Party (FDP), centrist German political party that advocates individualism, capitalism, and social reform. Although it has captured only a small percentage of the votes in national elections, its support has been pivotal for much of the post-World War II period in making or breaking
- FDP (political party, Switzerland)
FDP. The Liberals, centrist political party of Switzerland formed in 2009 by the merger of the Radical Democratic Party (German: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz [FDP]) and the Liberal Party (German: Liberale Partei der Schweiz [LPS]). FDP. The Liberals assumed the role previously held
- FDP. Die Liberalen (political party, Switzerland)
FDP. The Liberals, centrist political party of Switzerland formed in 2009 by the merger of the Radical Democratic Party (German: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz [FDP]) and the Liberal Party (German: Liberale Partei der Schweiz [LPS]). FDP. The Liberals assumed the role previously held
- FDP. The Liberals (political party, Switzerland)
FDP. The Liberals, centrist political party of Switzerland formed in 2009 by the merger of the Radical Democratic Party (German: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz [FDP]) and the Liberal Party (German: Liberale Partei der Schweiz [LPS]). FDP. The Liberals assumed the role previously held
- FDR (political organization, El Salvador)
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front: …the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionario; FDR), a coalition of dissident political groups backed by Cuba. Throughout the 1980s its members initiated and engaged in hard-fought battles with Salvadoran government troops who were trained and supplied by the United States. In November 1989 the FMLN…
- FDR (aviation device)
flight recorder: …of two functional devices, the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), though sometimes these two devices are packaged together in one combined unit. The FDR records many variables, not only basic aircraft conditions such as airspeed, altitude, heading, vertical acceleration, and pitch but also hundreds of…
- FDR (president of United States)
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the
- Fe (chemical element)
iron (Fe), chemical element, metal of Group 8 (VIIIb) of the periodic table, the most-used and cheapest metal. atomic number 26 atomic weight 55.847 melting point 1,538 °C (2,800 °F) boiling point 3,000 °C (5,432 °F) specific gravity 7.86 (20 °C) oxidation states +2, +3, +4, +6 electron
- Fea’s muntjac (mammal)
muntjac: Fea’s muntjac (M. feae), of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand, is an endangered species.
- Feabhail, Loch (inlet, Ireland)
Lough Foyle, inlet on the north coast of Ireland between the Inishowen Peninsula (mainly County Donegal, Ireland) to the west and the district councils of Limavady and Londonderry (until 1973 in County Londonderry), Northern Ireland, to the east and southeast. The lough is about 16 miles (26 km)
- fealty (feudal law)
homage and fealty: fealty,, in European society, solemn acts of ritual by which a person became a vassal of a lord in feudal society. Homage was essentially the acknowledgment of the bond of tenure that existed between the two. It consisted of the vassal surrendering himself to the…
- Fear (album by Cale)
John Cale: Solo career: …Society [1982]), hard rock (Fear [1974], Slow Dazzle [1975], and Helen of Troy [1975]), and classical music–influenced instrumental work (The Academy in Peril [1972] and Church of Anthrax [1971]). He also produced seminal albums by influential proto-punk musicians, including Horses (1975) by Patti Smith
- fear (emotion)
horror story: …on creating a feeling of fear. Such tales are of ancient origin and form a substantial part of the body of folk literature. They can feature supernatural elements such as ghosts, witches, or vampires, or they can address more realistic psychological fears. In Western literature the literary cultivation of fear…
- Fear and Desire (film by Kubrick [1953])
Stanley Kubrick: Early life and films: …feature, an ultralow-budget war film, Fear and Desire (1953). Kubrick then scraped together the financing for another low-budget effort, a boxing-related film noir romance, Killer’s Kiss (1955). At this point he joined forces with producer James B. Harris to form Harris-Kubrick Productions. Encouraged by the respectable reviews for Killer’s Kiss,…