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Fame (musical) Fame The Musical conceived and developed by David De Silva (AKA Father Fame) is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. It has been seen by nearly 4 million people since its West End launch in 1995, for which it was nominated for 2 Laurence Olivier Awards.
Fame and Fortune (television) Fame & Fortune is an Irish game show, broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights during the summer months of June, July and August. Like sister show Winning Streak, Fame & Fortune is funded by the An Post National Lottery Company, and entry is based on scratchcards.
Fame Academy 1 Fame Academy 1 was the first series of the BBC's reality talent search Fame Academy, which was first broadcast in the UK over ten weeks in October - December 2002. The live shows were presented by Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty.
Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) was ostensibly the first TV-movie, although technically the much earlier movie-length pilot of 77 Sunset Strip ("Girl on the Run") actually takes that title. Endlessly promoted by the network (NBC) as television's first "World Premiere" of a "major motion picture," Fame Is the Name of the Game involved an investigative reporter played by Tony Franciosa and featured the screen debut of 20-year-old Susan Saint James.
Fame Looks At Music '83 Fame Looks At Music '83 was a special concert episode for the third season of the hit TV series "Fame." The concert took place on December 27, 1983 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California before a live capacity audience.
Famicom BASIC Family BASIC or Famicom BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that is used to program the Famicom. Packaged with an instructional textbook and the Famicom BASIC keyboard, the software was released to consumers in Japan by Nintendo, Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation in June 1984, with a second release in February 1985.
Famicom Disk System The (FDS) was released on February 21, 1986 by Nintendo as a peripheral to their overwhelmingly popular Family Computer ("Famicom") console in Japan. It was a unit that sat underneath the Famicom and used proprietary floppy disks for data storage.
Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally is a racing game featuring Mario and Luigi released for the Nintendo Famicom Disk System only in Japan that supported Famicom's 3D goggles, though the goggles are not necessary to play the game. The game supposedly was a sequel to Famicom Grand Prix: F-1 Race though in reality the two games have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that both games are racing games.
Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo ă•ă‚ˇăźă‚łăłćŽ˘ĺµĺ€¶ćĄ˝é¨PartII ă†ă—ă‚Ťă«ç«‹ă¤ĺ°‘女，translated as Famicom Detective Club II: The Girl who Stands in the Back, this game was released in Japan in 1989 for the Famicom Disk System. It was remade in 1998 for the Super Famicom.
Familia Familia ("The Family," from the Latin familia) was the name of a Polish political party led by the Czartoryski magnates and families allied with them, and formed toward the end of the reign of King August II (reigned 1697-1706, 1709-1733). The Familia's principal leaders were Michal Fryderyk Czartoryski, Great Chancellor of Lithuania, his brother August Aleksander Czartoryski, voivod of Ruthenia (Rus), and their brother-in-law (from 1720), Stanislaw Poniatowski, Castellan of KrakĂłw.
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) or Corino de Andrade's disease, a form of Paramyloidosis, is a neurodegenerative autosomal dominant genetically transmitted disease, first identified and described by Portuguese neurologist Mário Corino da Costa Andrade, in the 50s. It is a fatal and incurable disease.
Familial atrial fibrillation Familial atrial fibrillation is an inherited condition that disrupts the heart's normal rhythm. This condition is characterized by uncoordinated electrical activity in the heart's upper chambers (the atria), which causes the heartbeat to become fast and irregular.
Familial Alzheimer disease Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is an uncommon form of Alzheimer's disease that comes on earlier in life, defined as before the age of 65 (usually between 30 and 65 years of age) and is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. While it only accounts for 5 to 10% of total Alzheimer's disease, it has presented a useful model in studying various aspects of the disorder.
Familial love In sociology, familial love is a type affinity or natural affection felt between members of a group bound by common ancestry or blood ties. The cultural ideal of familial love is one that is committed, unconditional, selfless, emotionally full, and reciprocally returned by the other.
Familial male precocious puberty Familial male precocious puberty (also known as testotoxicosis) is a form of gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty in which boys experience early onset and progression of puberty. Signs of puberty can develop as early as an age of 1 year.
Familianten Familianten was the name commonly used for the laws and the related record books which concerned controlling the number of Jewish families in the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Familiar Linux Familiar Linux is a Linux distribution for iPAQ machines and other personal digital assistants (PDAs), intended as a replacement for Windows CE on these machines. It can use OPIE or GPE Palmtop Environment as graphical user interface.
Familiar spirit In early modern English witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) or imp is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, or other users of the supernatural, and serves and helps that person. Although they may not be as intelligent as their masters, they are often as intelligent as the average human.
Familiar stranger A familiar stranger is an individual who is recognized from daily activities, but with whom one does not interact. First identified by Stanley Milgram in the 1972 paper The Familiar Stranger: An Aspect of Urban Anonymity, it has become an increasingly popular concept in research about social networks.
Familiaris Consortio Familiaris Consortio (Latin roughly translated as "of family partnership", but titled in English On the Christian Family in the Modern World) is a Postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation written by Pope John Paul II and promulgated on November 22, 1981. It describes the official position of the Roman Catholic Church concerning the meaning and role of marriage and the family, and outlines challenges towards realizing that ideal.
Familias Regnant universe The Familias Regnant is the name of the government of an area of the galaxy in the distant future from the Serrano series of books written by Elizabeth Moon. In the early books of the Serrano Legacy, the government is headed by a monarchy.
Families (TV series) Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England (in the fictional market town of Westbury), and the Stevens, living in Sydney, Australia.
Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG) is a voluntary organisation and registered charity in the United Kingdom which offers support to parents and their lesbian/gay children. They have over 40 telephone helplines across the country, as well as several parent support groups.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to challenge what they believe to be the inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws. FAMM promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the offense, the seriousness of the offense, and their potential for rehabilitation.
Families First Families First is a New Hampshire-based charity organization, also known as the Families First Health and Support Center. It is an independent non-profit agency which provides health and family support services to approximately 4,000 people in the New Hampshire seacoast area.
Families in the Oireachtas There is a tradition in Irish politics of having family members succeed each other, frequently in the same parliamentary seat. This article lists families where two or more members of that family have been members of either of the houses of the Oireachtas (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) or of the European Parliament.
Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund The Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund provides funding for four years of post-secondary education of children and spouses of those who died or who were permanently disabled in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Funding will be available through the year 2030.
Families USA Families USA is an American advocacy organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. The nonprofit, non-partisan organization acts as a watchdog over government actions affecting health care, alerting consumers to changes and helping them have a say in the development of policy, producing reports describing the problems facing health care consumers and outlining steps to solve them.
Familist The Familists (a term of English origin, later adopted in other languages) were a religious sect known as the Familia Caritatis (also Hus der Lieften; Huis der Liefde; Haus der Liebe; Family of Love), founded by Hendrik Niclaes (born on the 9th or 10th of January 1501 or 1502, probably at Mtinster; died after 1570, not later than 1581, probably in 1580).
Family A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire).
Family (musical instruments) A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.
Family (TNG episode) "Family" was the second episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode takes place several weeks after the Borg attack on Earth shown in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds".
Family abstains Family abstains is a practice, typically most common among old-money WASP families in the Northeast of the USA, by which certain family members refrain from eating during a meal in order to accommodate the presence of a guest; the guest dines on the sacrificed portion while the family member abstains. The rationale behind this practice stems from the frugality of American aristocratic families living on set incomes derived from the interest-bearing proceeds of long-standing trust funds.
Family and consumer science Family and consumer sciences, human sciences, human ecology or home economics, is an academic discipline which combines aspects of consumer science, nutrition, cooking, parenting and human development, interior decoration, textiles, family economics, housing, apparel design and resource management as well as other related subjects.
Family as a model for the state The family as a model for the organization of the state is a theory in political philosophy. It either explains the structure of certain kinds of state in terms of the structure of the family (as a model or as a claim about the historical growth of the state), or it attempts to justify certain types of state by appeal to the structure of the family.
Family association Generally, a family association is an organization formed by people who share a common ancestor or surname. They join together for a variety of purposes including exchanging genealogical information, sharing current news about family members, having reunions, and promoting family pride.
Family automorphism In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, an automorphism of a group is termed a family automorphism if it takes every element to an element generating a conjugate subgroup. In symbols, an automorphism sigma of a group G is a family automorphism if, for all x in G, the subgroups generated by x and sigma(x) are conjugate.
Family Affair Family Affair was a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Brian Keith), as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment.
Family Affair (Sly & the Family Stone song) "Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly & the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double a-sided single "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/ "Everybody is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the fourth and final number-one pop hit for the band.
Family branding Family branding is a marketing strategy that involves selling several related products under one brand name. It is contrasted with individual branding in which each product in a portfolio is given a unique identity and brand name.
Family Bones Family Bones is a comic book series written by Shawn Granger for King Tractor Press. According to Granger, the series is based on the true story of the oldest married couple on Missouri's death row, as experienced one summer by their unwitting nephew.
Family Business Family Business, although played with a set of specialized cards, is more like a board game in the way it is played. "The game of mob vengeance" is for 2 to 6 players, each of whom plays with 9 mobsters from real historical gangs:
Family Business (DS9 episode) "Family Business" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 23rd episode of the third season. It marks the first appearances of three recurring characters: Quark's mother Ishka, Captain Kasidy Yates, and Liquidator Brunt, F.
Family Business (TV series) Family Business (referred to as Porn: A Family Business in the UK) was an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a 40-something reality porn star and video director who uses the nom de plume "Seymore Butts".
Family cookbooks Family Cookbooks are collections of recipes, that may or may not be a generation or more old, sometimes including family history and photos of the family members. These cookbooks may be written in notebooks, put in ring binders, or professionally published by one of several cookbook publishers that cater to families interested in preserving their food heritage.
Family Circle Family Circle is an American women's magazine published 15 times a year by Meredith Corporation. It is, by many accounts, the best-selling women's magazine in America, with more than 4,000,000 subscribers and an advertising "reach" of roughly 20,000,000.
Family Circle Cup The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973 on green clay courts in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament.
Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then.
Family Compact The Family Compact was the informal name for the wealthy, conservative elite of Upper Canada in the early 19th century. It was one of a number of Tory-dominated Compact governments that ruled the colonies of British North America.
Family Constellations Family Constellations is a therapeutic method developed by Bert Hellinger and practised by psychologists, psychiatrists psychotherapists and alternative practitioners. Its objective is to release profound tensions within and between people.
Family Court of Australia The Family Court of Australia is a federal Australian court, created by the Family Law Act 1975 as a specialist court dealing with family law matters, established in 1975 as an initiative of the Whitlam government.
Family economy Family Economy is used to denote the basic structure of production and consumption in the preindustrial Europe. In the family economy there were regional variations, which were how different places were different in family economy.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at , with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The regulations cover violations such as parent volunteers grading another child's work, school employees divulging information to someone other than the child's parents about a child's homelife, grades or behaviors, and school work posted on a bulletin board with a grade.
Family Entertainment (Family album) Family Entertainment was the second album from the British progressive rock band Family, released in February 1969. The cover of the album was a clear takeoff from the sleeve of the Doors' second album, Strange Days, as Family frankly admitted.
Family Entertainment and Copyright Act The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act was introduced into the United States Senate (of the 109th United States Congress) on January 25, 2005 by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. It was signed into law by President George W.
Family farm A family farm is a farm owned and operated by a family, and passed down from generation to generation. It is the basic unit of the mostly-agricultural economy of much of human history and continues to be so in developing nations.
Family film A family film is a film genre that, like a children's film, is suitable for young children, but with the difference that a family film has been carefully written, directed, cast and acted so that it will appeal to all members of a typical family (or if not typical, at least representing the cultural ideal):
Family Favourites Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (also known as Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme and BBC Radio 2 until 1980. Memorable signature tune "With A Song in My Heart" (original played by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra) and presented by a variety of well-known radio personalities including Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Michael Aspel and Sarah Kennedy.
Family Feud (Home Game) Family Feud is the classic home game version based on the TV version of the same name, that was first published by Milton Bradley in 1977. Much like the actual show, family contestants must answer survey questions in order to win the game.
Family Focus Australia Family Focus Australia Limited (Family Focus Australia or FFA) is a community based charity, endorsed as a Public Benevolent Institution by the Australian Taxation Office. With its Head Office in Brisbane, Queensland the organisation operates throughout Australia and is committed to overcoming the disadvantage of poverty in the lives of Australian children.
Family Force 5 Family Force 5 (often abbreviated as FF5, formerly known as The Phamily) is a Christian crossover crunk rock band hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, comprised of Solomon "Soul Glow Activatur" Olds (vocals, guitar), Jacob "Crouton" Olds (drums, vocals), Joshua "Phatty" Olds (bass, vocals), Nathan "Nadaddy" Currin (keyboards, turntables) and Derek "Chap Stique" Mount (guitar).
Family Forest The Family Forest Project is an ongoing, monumental academic endeavor to digitize the world's known genealogy and family history information. Family histories once entered in the Family Forest may be traced generation by generation extending back in time over 3000 years to the beginning of recorded history.
Family Friendly Programming Forum The Family Friendly Programming Forum is a coalition of over 40 advertisers, all of whom belong to the Association of National Advertisers. They seek to increase the amount of "family-friendly" programming on U.
Family game A Family Game is a video game console, usually with several games built-in, with the outer shell designed to mimic popular consoles such as the Atari 2600, the Famicom, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis or the Sony PlayStation.
Family Gekijo Family Gekijo is a Japanese cable television station which was found during Japan's recent cable TV boom, which began in the late 90's. It carries mostly domestic TV programs and has several popular anime titles on its program list.
Family history (medicine) In medicine, a family history consists of information about disorders that a patient's direct blood relatives have suffered from. Genealogy typically includes very little of the medical history of the family, but the medical history could be considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.
Family Health International Family Health International (FHI) is among the largest and most established nonprofit organizations active in international public health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health. FHI was founded in 1971.
Family Historian Family Historian is a popular genealogy software program designed by a British designer for the British market which is increasingly attracting an international reputation. The software is currently only available in a Windows version.
Family History Library The Family History Library (FHL) is a genealogical research facility provided and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). Its main purpose is to fulfil one of Mormons' fundamental tenets: that church members can retroactively baptize deceased family members, especially ancestors, into the church so that they may receive salvation.
Family Home Entertainment Family Home Entertainment (FHE) is an American home video company, founded in 1982, which releases children's and family-oriented programming, most notably the popular 1980s Marvel/Sunbow television series The Transformers, G.I.
Family Home Evening Family Home Evening (FHE) or Family Night, in the context of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, refers to one evening per week, usually Monday, that families are encouraged to spend together in study, prayer and other wholesome activities. According to the LDS Church, the purpose of FHE is to help families strengthen bonds of love with each other as well as provide an atmosphere where parents can teach their children principles of the gospel.
Family Home Protection Act, 1976 The Family Home Protection Act, 1976 is an Act of the Oireachtas which regulates an aspect of property law in Ireland and prevents the sale, partial sale, mortgage or re-mortgage of a property which is defined as a family home under the terms of the Act without the knowledge and consent of both spouses therein residing. A family home under the terms of the Act is a dwelling which is the ordinary residence of a married couple.
Family in the Soviet Union The view of the Soviet family as the basic social unit in society evolved from revolutionary to conservative; the government of the Soviet Union first attempted to weaken the family and then to strengthen it. According to the 1968 law Principles of Legislation on Marriage and the Family of the USSR and the Union Republics, parents are "to raise their children in the spirit of the moral code of a builder of communism, to attend to their physical development and their instruction in and preparation for socially useful activity.
Family Income Benefit Insurance Family Income Benefit Insurance pays a monthly income if the policyholder dies whilst the policy is in force. The monthly income will continue at the level specified in the policy until the policy's termination date.
Family Jewels Family Jewels is a two disc compilation DVD by the hard rock band, AC/DC, of music videos, live clips and promotional videos. The first disc contains videos from the Bon Scott era, such as the band's first TV appearance in 1975, and a performance on television ten days before Scott died.
Family law system in England & Wales The family law system is in this article used to refer to the laws, procedures and rules governing family matters as well as the authorities, agencies and groups which participate in or influence the outcome of private disputes or social decisions involving family law. Such a view of family law may be regarded as assisting the understanding of the context in which the law works and to indicate the policy areas where improvements can be made.
Family Law (TV series) Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. The show aired on CBS from 1999 to 2002.
Family Law Act (Alberta, Canada) The Family Law Act came into force in the province of Alberta, Canada on October 1, 2005. It replaced "the Domestic Relations Act, the Maintenance Order Act, the Parentage and Maintenance Act, and parts of the Provincial Court Act and the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act," of that province.
Family Law Act (Canadian) The Family Law Act came into force in the Canadian province of Alberta on October 1st, 2005. It replaced the Domestic Relations Act, the Maintenance Order Act, the Parentage and Maintenance Act, and parts of the Provincial Court Act and the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act in that province.
Family Law Act 1975 The Australian Family Law Act 1975, sometimes referred to as the FLA by legal practitioners, is an Act of the Australian Parliament. It is one of four separate Acts that provide the framework for family law in Australia.
Family Life International (New Zealand) Family Life International is a conservative Catholic pro-life organisation based in Auckland New Zealand, which is a subsidiary of a larger conservative Catholic transnational NGO, Human Life International, based Maryland, USA. FLI provides a pro-life perspective to people of New Zealand, and Polynesia opposing abortion, contraceptives, sterilisation, and cloning.
Family Life Network The Family Life Network is a Christian radio network broadcasting its signal from stations across Western and Central New York, as well as northern Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by the larger Family Life Ministries of Bath, New York.
Family Lines System Beginning In 1972, American railroad companies Seaboard Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad began jointly marketing themselves as the Family Lines System. This also extended to their subsidiary companies the Georgia Railroad, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, the Clinchfield Railroad, and the Western Railway of Alabama.
Family Living Partnership Family Limited Partnership (commonly called FLP) is used to move wealth from one generation to another. Generally the estate owner(s) transfer property (business interests, real estate investments, publicly traded or privately held securities) to an FLP in exchange for General and Limited partnership interests.
Family name A family name, surname, or last name is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. Until the 12th century, most people throughout the world did not use or have a family name, and they were called by the single name they had (which was called a "first" or "given name" only after family names came into use).
Family nexus The term family nexus was used by the psychiatrist R D Laing to describe a common viewpoint held and reinforced by the majority of family members regarding events in the family and relationships with the world. Laing was particularly interested in schizophrenia, which he believed could be understood if seen from the viewpoint of the person concerned.
Family of curves A family of curves is a set of curves, each of which is given by a function or parametrization in which one or more of the parameters is variable. In general, the parameter(s) influence the shape of the curve in a way that is more complicated than a simple linear transformation.
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles The Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) is a series of vehicles manufactured by the Tactical Vehicle Systems Division of Armor Holdings Aerospace and Defense Group (formerly Tactical Vehicle Systems, LP, a subsidiary of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc.) of Sealy, Texas based on a common chassis, which vary by payload and mission requirements.
Family Opera Initiative Family Opera Initiative (FOI), established in 1995 as a program of Grethe Barrett Holby’s American Opera Projects (AOP), has developed a series of “opera-musicals” for family audiences including Flurry Tale (1999), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2001), Fireworks! (2002) and Animal Tales.
Family patrimony Family patrimony is a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union (where recognized) which creates a bundle of entitlements and obligations that must be shared by the spouses or partners upon divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage or dissolution of civil union, when there must be a division of property. It is similar to the common law concept of community property.
Family planning Family planning is often used as a synonym for birth control, though its connotations are somewhat different. It is most usually applied to the circumstance of a monogamous heterosexual couple who wish to limit their number of children, to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children), or both.
Family planning in Iran During the Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988, a large population was viewed as a comparative advantage for Iran. Accordingly, Ayatollah Khomeini pushed procreation to bolster the ranks of "soldiers for Islam," aiming for "an army of 20 million.
Family purpose doctrine In law, the family purpose doctrine is a rule that states that the owner of an automobile is liable for damages to others incurred while members of his family are driving the vehicle, under the theory that the vehicle is owned for family purposes.
Family Plots Family Plots was a reality television show that followed the ongoing events and the eccentric employees that work at the family-run Poway Bernardo Mortuary in Poway, California. It ran for two seasons on the A&E Network.
Family Policy Council Family Policy Councils are a loosely-knit group of conservative, religious, state-level organizations dedicated to the promotion of traditional family values in the United States. They work closely with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
Family Procedure Rules The Family Procedure Rules (previously Family Proceedings Rules), often appreviated to FPR, govern the procedures used in family courts in England and Wales. The Family Proceedings Rules were introduced by Statutory Instrument in 1991 which gave rules for proceedings in the Supreme Court and County Courts, whilst a separate code was introduced for use in the Magistrates' Courts.
Family register A family register (also known as any of several variations, such as household register, family album, familienbuch, koseki etc.) is a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest.
Family relations of Władysław II of Poland This page describes relatives of Jogaila, who was grand duke of Lithuania, and, known under the name Wladyslaw II Jagiello, king of Poland. Family relations up two two generations before him, and 3 generations after him are mentioned.
Family room A family room is an informal living area usually located adjacent to the kitchen. In many modern homes, the family room is where family and guests usually gather for television watching, informal dining, conversation, and other family activities.
Family Radio Family Radio is a non-commercial traditional religious broadcasting network in the United States, founded by Harold Camping in 1959 and based in Oakland, California. The network consists of mainly FM radio stations on non commercial licenses (with a few commercial licenses used as non commercial) and relays, with some AM stations and a television station, plus WYFR shortwave in Okeechobee, Florida.
Fame and Fortune (television) Fame & Fortune is an Irish game show, broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday nights during the summer months of June, July and August. Like sister show Winning Streak, Fame & Fortune is funded by the An Post National Lottery Company, and entry is based on scratchcards.
Fame Academy 1 Fame Academy 1 was the first series of the BBC's reality talent search Fame Academy, which was first broadcast in the UK over ten weeks in October - December 2002. The live shows were presented by Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty.
Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) was ostensibly the first TV-movie, although technically the much earlier movie-length pilot of 77 Sunset Strip ("Girl on the Run") actually takes that title. Endlessly promoted by the network (NBC) as television's first "World Premiere" of a "major motion picture," Fame Is the Name of the Game involved an investigative reporter played by Tony Franciosa and featured the screen debut of 20-year-old Susan Saint James.
Fame Looks At Music '83 Fame Looks At Music '83 was a special concert episode for the third season of the hit TV series "Fame." The concert took place on December 27, 1983 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California before a live capacity audience.
Famicom BASIC Family BASIC or Famicom BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that is used to program the Famicom. Packaged with an instructional textbook and the Famicom BASIC keyboard, the software was released to consumers in Japan by Nintendo, Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation in June 1984, with a second release in February 1985.
Famicom Disk System The (FDS) was released on February 21, 1986 by Nintendo as a peripheral to their overwhelmingly popular Family Computer ("Famicom") console in Japan. It was a unit that sat underneath the Famicom and used proprietary floppy disks for data storage.
Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally is a racing game featuring Mario and Luigi released for the Nintendo Famicom Disk System only in Japan that supported Famicom's 3D goggles, though the goggles are not necessary to play the game. The game supposedly was a sequel to Famicom Grand Prix: F-1 Race though in reality the two games have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that both games are racing games.
Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo ă•ă‚ˇăźă‚łăłćŽ˘ĺµĺ€¶ćĄ˝é¨PartII ă†ă—ă‚Ťă«ç«‹ă¤ĺ°‘女，translated as Famicom Detective Club II: The Girl who Stands in the Back, this game was released in Japan in 1989 for the Famicom Disk System. It was remade in 1998 for the Super Famicom.
Familia Familia ("The Family," from the Latin familia) was the name of a Polish political party led by the Czartoryski magnates and families allied with them, and formed toward the end of the reign of King August II (reigned 1697-1706, 1709-1733). The Familia's principal leaders were Michal Fryderyk Czartoryski, Great Chancellor of Lithuania, his brother August Aleksander Czartoryski, voivod of Ruthenia (Rus), and their brother-in-law (from 1720), Stanislaw Poniatowski, Castellan of KrakĂłw.
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) or Corino de Andrade's disease, a form of Paramyloidosis, is a neurodegenerative autosomal dominant genetically transmitted disease, first identified and described by Portuguese neurologist Mário Corino da Costa Andrade, in the 50s. It is a fatal and incurable disease.
Familial atrial fibrillation Familial atrial fibrillation is an inherited condition that disrupts the heart's normal rhythm. This condition is characterized by uncoordinated electrical activity in the heart's upper chambers (the atria), which causes the heartbeat to become fast and irregular.
Familial Alzheimer disease Familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is an uncommon form of Alzheimer's disease that comes on earlier in life, defined as before the age of 65 (usually between 30 and 65 years of age) and is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. While it only accounts for 5 to 10% of total Alzheimer's disease, it has presented a useful model in studying various aspects of the disorder.
Familial love In sociology, familial love is a type affinity or natural affection felt between members of a group bound by common ancestry or blood ties. The cultural ideal of familial love is one that is committed, unconditional, selfless, emotionally full, and reciprocally returned by the other.
Familial male precocious puberty Familial male precocious puberty (also known as testotoxicosis) is a form of gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty in which boys experience early onset and progression of puberty. Signs of puberty can develop as early as an age of 1 year.
Familianten Familianten was the name commonly used for the laws and the related record books which concerned controlling the number of Jewish families in the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Familiar Linux Familiar Linux is a Linux distribution for iPAQ machines and other personal digital assistants (PDAs), intended as a replacement for Windows CE on these machines. It can use OPIE or GPE Palmtop Environment as graphical user interface.
Familiar spirit In early modern English witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) or imp is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, or other users of the supernatural, and serves and helps that person. Although they may not be as intelligent as their masters, they are often as intelligent as the average human.
Familiar stranger A familiar stranger is an individual who is recognized from daily activities, but with whom one does not interact. First identified by Stanley Milgram in the 1972 paper The Familiar Stranger: An Aspect of Urban Anonymity, it has become an increasingly popular concept in research about social networks.
Familiaris Consortio Familiaris Consortio (Latin roughly translated as "of family partnership", but titled in English On the Christian Family in the Modern World) is a Postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation written by Pope John Paul II and promulgated on November 22, 1981. It describes the official position of the Roman Catholic Church concerning the meaning and role of marriage and the family, and outlines challenges towards realizing that ideal.
Familias Regnant universe The Familias Regnant is the name of the government of an area of the galaxy in the distant future from the Serrano series of books written by Elizabeth Moon. In the early books of the Serrano Legacy, the government is headed by a monarchy.
Families (TV series) Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England (in the fictional market town of Westbury), and the Stevens, living in Sydney, Australia.
Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG) is a voluntary organisation and registered charity in the United Kingdom which offers support to parents and their lesbian/gay children. They have over 40 telephone helplines across the country, as well as several parent support groups.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to challenge what they believe to be the inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws. FAMM promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the offense, the seriousness of the offense, and their potential for rehabilitation.
Families First Families First is a New Hampshire-based charity organization, also known as the Families First Health and Support Center. It is an independent non-profit agency which provides health and family support services to approximately 4,000 people in the New Hampshire seacoast area.
Families in the Oireachtas There is a tradition in Irish politics of having family members succeed each other, frequently in the same parliamentary seat. This article lists families where two or more members of that family have been members of either of the houses of the Oireachtas (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) or of the European Parliament.
Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund The Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund provides funding for four years of post-secondary education of children and spouses of those who died or who were permanently disabled in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Funding will be available through the year 2030.
Families USA Families USA is an American advocacy organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. The nonprofit, non-partisan organization acts as a watchdog over government actions affecting health care, alerting consumers to changes and helping them have a say in the development of policy, producing reports describing the problems facing health care consumers and outlining steps to solve them.
Familist The Familists (a term of English origin, later adopted in other languages) were a religious sect known as the Familia Caritatis (also Hus der Lieften; Huis der Liefde; Haus der Liebe; Family of Love), founded by Hendrik Niclaes (born on the 9th or 10th of January 1501 or 1502, probably at Mtinster; died after 1570, not later than 1581, probably in 1580).
Family A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire).
Family (musical instruments) A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.
Family (TNG episode) "Family" was the second episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode takes place several weeks after the Borg attack on Earth shown in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds".
Family abstains Family abstains is a practice, typically most common among old-money WASP families in the Northeast of the USA, by which certain family members refrain from eating during a meal in order to accommodate the presence of a guest; the guest dines on the sacrificed portion while the family member abstains. The rationale behind this practice stems from the frugality of American aristocratic families living on set incomes derived from the interest-bearing proceeds of long-standing trust funds.
Family and consumer science Family and consumer sciences, human sciences, human ecology or home economics, is an academic discipline which combines aspects of consumer science, nutrition, cooking, parenting and human development, interior decoration, textiles, family economics, housing, apparel design and resource management as well as other related subjects.
Family as a model for the state The family as a model for the organization of the state is a theory in political philosophy. It either explains the structure of certain kinds of state in terms of the structure of the family (as a model or as a claim about the historical growth of the state), or it attempts to justify certain types of state by appeal to the structure of the family.
Family association Generally, a family association is an organization formed by people who share a common ancestor or surname. They join together for a variety of purposes including exchanging genealogical information, sharing current news about family members, having reunions, and promoting family pride.
Family automorphism In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, an automorphism of a group is termed a family automorphism if it takes every element to an element generating a conjugate subgroup. In symbols, an automorphism sigma of a group G is a family automorphism if, for all x in G, the subgroups generated by x and sigma(x) are conjugate.
Family Affair Family Affair was a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Brian Keith), as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment.
Family Affair (Sly & the Family Stone song) "Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly & the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double a-sided single "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/ "Everybody is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the fourth and final number-one pop hit for the band.
Family branding Family branding is a marketing strategy that involves selling several related products under one brand name. It is contrasted with individual branding in which each product in a portfolio is given a unique identity and brand name.
Family Bones Family Bones is a comic book series written by Shawn Granger for King Tractor Press. According to Granger, the series is based on the true story of the oldest married couple on Missouri's death row, as experienced one summer by their unwitting nephew.
Family Business Family Business, although played with a set of specialized cards, is more like a board game in the way it is played. "The game of mob vengeance" is for 2 to 6 players, each of whom plays with 9 mobsters from real historical gangs:
Family Business (DS9 episode) "Family Business" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 23rd episode of the third season. It marks the first appearances of three recurring characters: Quark's mother Ishka, Captain Kasidy Yates, and Liquidator Brunt, F.
Family Business (TV series) Family Business (referred to as Porn: A Family Business in the UK) was an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a 40-something reality porn star and video director who uses the nom de plume "Seymore Butts".
Family cookbooks Family Cookbooks are collections of recipes, that may or may not be a generation or more old, sometimes including family history and photos of the family members. These cookbooks may be written in notebooks, put in ring binders, or professionally published by one of several cookbook publishers that cater to families interested in preserving their food heritage.
Family Circle Family Circle is an American women's magazine published 15 times a year by Meredith Corporation. It is, by many accounts, the best-selling women's magazine in America, with more than 4,000,000 subscribers and an advertising "reach" of roughly 20,000,000.
Family Circle Cup The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973 on green clay courts in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament.
Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then.
Family Compact The Family Compact was the informal name for the wealthy, conservative elite of Upper Canada in the early 19th century. It was one of a number of Tory-dominated Compact governments that ruled the colonies of British North America.
Family Constellations Family Constellations is a therapeutic method developed by Bert Hellinger and practised by psychologists, psychiatrists psychotherapists and alternative practitioners. Its objective is to release profound tensions within and between people.
Family Court of Australia The Family Court of Australia is a federal Australian court, created by the Family Law Act 1975 as a specialist court dealing with family law matters, established in 1975 as an initiative of the Whitlam government.
Family economy Family Economy is used to denote the basic structure of production and consumption in the preindustrial Europe. In the family economy there were regional variations, which were how different places were different in family economy.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at , with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The regulations cover violations such as parent volunteers grading another child's work, school employees divulging information to someone other than the child's parents about a child's homelife, grades or behaviors, and school work posted on a bulletin board with a grade.
Family Entertainment (Family album) Family Entertainment was the second album from the British progressive rock band Family, released in February 1969. The cover of the album was a clear takeoff from the sleeve of the Doors' second album, Strange Days, as Family frankly admitted.
Family Entertainment and Copyright Act The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act was introduced into the United States Senate (of the 109th United States Congress) on January 25, 2005 by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. It was signed into law by President George W.
Family farm A family farm is a farm owned and operated by a family, and passed down from generation to generation. It is the basic unit of the mostly-agricultural economy of much of human history and continues to be so in developing nations.
Family film A family film is a film genre that, like a children's film, is suitable for young children, but with the difference that a family film has been carefully written, directed, cast and acted so that it will appeal to all members of a typical family (or if not typical, at least representing the cultural ideal):
Family Favourites Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (also known as Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme and BBC Radio 2 until 1980. Memorable signature tune "With A Song in My Heart" (original played by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra) and presented by a variety of well-known radio personalities including Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Michael Aspel and Sarah Kennedy.
Family Feud (Home Game) Family Feud is the classic home game version based on the TV version of the same name, that was first published by Milton Bradley in 1977. Much like the actual show, family contestants must answer survey questions in order to win the game.
Family Focus Australia Family Focus Australia Limited (Family Focus Australia or FFA) is a community based charity, endorsed as a Public Benevolent Institution by the Australian Taxation Office. With its Head Office in Brisbane, Queensland the organisation operates throughout Australia and is committed to overcoming the disadvantage of poverty in the lives of Australian children.
Family Force 5 Family Force 5 (often abbreviated as FF5, formerly known as The Phamily) is a Christian crossover crunk rock band hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, comprised of Solomon "Soul Glow Activatur" Olds (vocals, guitar), Jacob "Crouton" Olds (drums, vocals), Joshua "Phatty" Olds (bass, vocals), Nathan "Nadaddy" Currin (keyboards, turntables) and Derek "Chap Stique" Mount (guitar).
Family Forest The Family Forest Project is an ongoing, monumental academic endeavor to digitize the world's known genealogy and family history information. Family histories once entered in the Family Forest may be traced generation by generation extending back in time over 3000 years to the beginning of recorded history.
Family Friendly Programming Forum The Family Friendly Programming Forum is a coalition of over 40 advertisers, all of whom belong to the Association of National Advertisers. They seek to increase the amount of "family-friendly" programming on U.
Family game A Family Game is a video game console, usually with several games built-in, with the outer shell designed to mimic popular consoles such as the Atari 2600, the Famicom, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis or the Sony PlayStation.
Family Gekijo Family Gekijo is a Japanese cable television station which was found during Japan's recent cable TV boom, which began in the late 90's. It carries mostly domestic TV programs and has several popular anime titles on its program list.
Family history (medicine) In medicine, a family history consists of information about disorders that a patient's direct blood relatives have suffered from. Genealogy typically includes very little of the medical history of the family, but the medical history could be considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.
Family Health International Family Health International (FHI) is among the largest and most established nonprofit organizations active in international public health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health. FHI was founded in 1971.
Family Historian Family Historian is a popular genealogy software program designed by a British designer for the British market which is increasingly attracting an international reputation. The software is currently only available in a Windows version.
Family History Library The Family History Library (FHL) is a genealogical research facility provided and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). Its main purpose is to fulfil one of Mormons' fundamental tenets: that church members can retroactively baptize deceased family members, especially ancestors, into the church so that they may receive salvation.
Family Home Entertainment Family Home Entertainment (FHE) is an American home video company, founded in 1982, which releases children's and family-oriented programming, most notably the popular 1980s Marvel/Sunbow television series The Transformers, G.I.
Family Home Evening Family Home Evening (FHE) or Family Night, in the context of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, refers to one evening per week, usually Monday, that families are encouraged to spend together in study, prayer and other wholesome activities. According to the LDS Church, the purpose of FHE is to help families strengthen bonds of love with each other as well as provide an atmosphere where parents can teach their children principles of the gospel.
Family Home Protection Act, 1976 The Family Home Protection Act, 1976 is an Act of the Oireachtas which regulates an aspect of property law in Ireland and prevents the sale, partial sale, mortgage or re-mortgage of a property which is defined as a family home under the terms of the Act without the knowledge and consent of both spouses therein residing. A family home under the terms of the Act is a dwelling which is the ordinary residence of a married couple.
Family in the Soviet Union The view of the Soviet family as the basic social unit in society evolved from revolutionary to conservative; the government of the Soviet Union first attempted to weaken the family and then to strengthen it. According to the 1968 law Principles of Legislation on Marriage and the Family of the USSR and the Union Republics, parents are "to raise their children in the spirit of the moral code of a builder of communism, to attend to their physical development and their instruction in and preparation for socially useful activity.
Family Income Benefit Insurance Family Income Benefit Insurance pays a monthly income if the policyholder dies whilst the policy is in force. The monthly income will continue at the level specified in the policy until the policy's termination date.
Family Jewels Family Jewels is a two disc compilation DVD by the hard rock band, AC/DC, of music videos, live clips and promotional videos. The first disc contains videos from the Bon Scott era, such as the band's first TV appearance in 1975, and a performance on television ten days before Scott died.
Family law system in England & Wales The family law system is in this article used to refer to the laws, procedures and rules governing family matters as well as the authorities, agencies and groups which participate in or influence the outcome of private disputes or social decisions involving family law. Such a view of family law may be regarded as assisting the understanding of the context in which the law works and to indicate the policy areas where improvements can be made.
Family Law (TV series) Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. The show aired on CBS from 1999 to 2002.
Family Law Act (Alberta, Canada) The Family Law Act came into force in the province of Alberta, Canada on October 1, 2005. It replaced "the Domestic Relations Act, the Maintenance Order Act, the Parentage and Maintenance Act, and parts of the Provincial Court Act and the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act," of that province.
Family Law Act (Canadian) The Family Law Act came into force in the Canadian province of Alberta on October 1st, 2005. It replaced the Domestic Relations Act, the Maintenance Order Act, the Parentage and Maintenance Act, and parts of the Provincial Court Act and the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act in that province.
Family Law Act 1975 The Australian Family Law Act 1975, sometimes referred to as the FLA by legal practitioners, is an Act of the Australian Parliament. It is one of four separate Acts that provide the framework for family law in Australia.
Family Life International (New Zealand) Family Life International is a conservative Catholic pro-life organisation based in Auckland New Zealand, which is a subsidiary of a larger conservative Catholic transnational NGO, Human Life International, based Maryland, USA. FLI provides a pro-life perspective to people of New Zealand, and Polynesia opposing abortion, contraceptives, sterilisation, and cloning.
Family Life Network The Family Life Network is a Christian radio network broadcasting its signal from stations across Western and Central New York, as well as northern Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by the larger Family Life Ministries of Bath, New York.
Family Lines System Beginning In 1972, American railroad companies Seaboard Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad began jointly marketing themselves as the Family Lines System. This also extended to their subsidiary companies the Georgia Railroad, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, the Clinchfield Railroad, and the Western Railway of Alabama.
Family Living Partnership Family Limited Partnership (commonly called FLP) is used to move wealth from one generation to another. Generally the estate owner(s) transfer property (business interests, real estate investments, publicly traded or privately held securities) to an FLP in exchange for General and Limited partnership interests.
Family name A family name, surname, or last name is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. Until the 12th century, most people throughout the world did not use or have a family name, and they were called by the single name they had (which was called a "first" or "given name" only after family names came into use).
Family nexus The term family nexus was used by the psychiatrist R D Laing to describe a common viewpoint held and reinforced by the majority of family members regarding events in the family and relationships with the world. Laing was particularly interested in schizophrenia, which he believed could be understood if seen from the viewpoint of the person concerned.
Family of curves A family of curves is a set of curves, each of which is given by a function or parametrization in which one or more of the parameters is variable. In general, the parameter(s) influence the shape of the curve in a way that is more complicated than a simple linear transformation.
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles The Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) is a series of vehicles manufactured by the Tactical Vehicle Systems Division of Armor Holdings Aerospace and Defense Group (formerly Tactical Vehicle Systems, LP, a subsidiary of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc.) of Sealy, Texas based on a common chassis, which vary by payload and mission requirements.
Family Opera Initiative Family Opera Initiative (FOI), established in 1995 as a program of Grethe Barrett Holby’s American Opera Projects (AOP), has developed a series of “opera-musicals” for family audiences including Flurry Tale (1999), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2001), Fireworks! (2002) and Animal Tales.
Family patrimony Family patrimony is a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union (where recognized) which creates a bundle of entitlements and obligations that must be shared by the spouses or partners upon divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage or dissolution of civil union, when there must be a division of property. It is similar to the common law concept of community property.
Family planning Family planning is often used as a synonym for birth control, though its connotations are somewhat different. It is most usually applied to the circumstance of a monogamous heterosexual couple who wish to limit their number of children, to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children), or both.
Family planning in Iran During the Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988, a large population was viewed as a comparative advantage for Iran. Accordingly, Ayatollah Khomeini pushed procreation to bolster the ranks of "soldiers for Islam," aiming for "an army of 20 million.
Family purpose doctrine In law, the family purpose doctrine is a rule that states that the owner of an automobile is liable for damages to others incurred while members of his family are driving the vehicle, under the theory that the vehicle is owned for family purposes.
Family Plots Family Plots was a reality television show that followed the ongoing events and the eccentric employees that work at the family-run Poway Bernardo Mortuary in Poway, California. It ran for two seasons on the A&E Network.
Family Policy Council Family Policy Councils are a loosely-knit group of conservative, religious, state-level organizations dedicated to the promotion of traditional family values in the United States. They work closely with Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
Family Procedure Rules The Family Procedure Rules (previously Family Proceedings Rules), often appreviated to FPR, govern the procedures used in family courts in England and Wales. The Family Proceedings Rules were introduced by Statutory Instrument in 1991 which gave rules for proceedings in the Supreme Court and County Courts, whilst a separate code was introduced for use in the Magistrates' Courts.
Family register A family register (also known as any of several variations, such as household register, family album, familienbuch, koseki etc.) is a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest.
Family relations of Władysław II of Poland This page describes relatives of Jogaila, who was grand duke of Lithuania, and, known under the name Wladyslaw II Jagiello, king of Poland. Family relations up two two generations before him, and 3 generations after him are mentioned.
Family room A family room is an informal living area usually located adjacent to the kitchen. In many modern homes, the family room is where family and guests usually gather for television watching, informal dining, conversation, and other family activities.
Family Radio Family Radio is a non-commercial traditional religious broadcasting network in the United States, founded by Harold Camping in 1959 and based in Oakland, California. The network consists of mainly FM radio stations on non commercial licenses (with a few commercial licenses used as non commercial) and relays, with some AM stations and a television station, plus WYFR shortwave in Okeechobee, Florida.
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