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Farm (disambiguation) A farm is a section of land dedicated to agriculture (production of food and other crops). The verb to farm is the generally used to mean the act of cultivating land or breeding animals for agricutural purposes, and has other uses which apply the notion of cultivation to non-agricultural areas, as described below.
Farm and wilderness camps The Farm and Wilderness camps are a system of six Quaker camps and associated educational programs situated in and around Plymouth, Vermont. Farm & Wilderness’ mission statement is as follows: “Guided by the Quaker belief that the light of the spirit is present in every person and the belief that people working together can create a more just and humane society, the Farm & Wilderness Foundation sponsors year-round experiences for young people and adults that emphasize the building of community through the values of cooperation, simplicity, responsibility, empathy, spirituality and service.
Farm Aid Farm Aid started as a benefit concert on September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year.
Farm cat Farm cats also known as barn cats, are cats kept primarily for the purpose of catching the smaller vermin found on farms, which would otherwise eat and/or contaminate the farmer's crops, and especially grain stocks. They are generally at least semi-feral (wild) cats, and thus caution should be taken around them.
Farm collie The old farm collie was not a dog breed in the modern sense of having an organized breed club and registry. It was a North American landrace descended primarily from the old working collie landrace of Great Britain.
Farm Cove Observatory Farm Cove Observatory (FCO) is an amateur astronomical observatory in Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 2000, the observatory has a Meade LX200R 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain F/10 telescope, purchased and on loan from Ohio State University Astronomy Dept.
Farm Cove, New South Wales Farm Cove is a tidal inlet and shallow bay in Sydney Harbour, separated from Sydney Cove by Bennelong Point (site of the Sydney Opera House). Known to the indigeneous inhabitants of Sydney as Woccanmagully, Farm Cove was used by them as an initiation ground and for the "Kangaroo and Dog Dance".
Farm Credit Administration The Farm Credit Administration was a New Deal agency established in 1933 to help farmers refinance mortgages over a longer time at lower than market interest rates. It is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States Government and derives its authority from the Farm Credit Act of 1971.
Farm Credit Bank of Texas Farm Credit Bank of Texas, based in Austin, Texas, is a wholesale financing institution that is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System. It provides funds and services to local Farm Credit financing cooperatives in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas, and participates in the capital markets.
Farm Credit Canada Farm Credit Canada (known as Farm Credit Corporation until 2001), or FCC, is Canada's largest agricultural term lender. This organization's purpose is to enhance rural Canada by providing specialized and personalized financial services to farming operations, including family farms.
Farm Credit System The Farm Credit System (or Farm Credit) is a federally chartered network of borrower-owned lending institutions composed of cooperatively owned banks, associations and related service organizations in the United States. The System was established by Acts of Congress to meet the credit needs of American agriculture and is subject to the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended.
Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy Farm Fresh is a grocery store chain with forty stores, primarily in Virginia. It has stores in Richmond, where its headquarters are located, and also in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, but its largest presence is in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area.
Farm gate value The farm gate value of a cultivated product in agriculture or aquaculture is the net value of the product when it leaves the farm, after marketing costs have been subtracted. Since many farms do not have significant marketing costs, it is often understood as the price of the product at which it is sold by the farm (the farm gate price).
Farm jack The farm jack (also known as the handyman jack or high lift jack) is a versatile mechanical tool that can be put to a wide range of uses. Originally invented some time around 1905 and sold as the Automatic Combination Tool, the basic design has remained largely unchanged to this day.
Farm Journal Farm Journal is a classical composition by the american composer Douglas Moore. The work was the result of a commission Moore received from the Little Orchestra Society in 1947 who gave the works premiere the following year conducted by Thomas Scherman.
Farm Podcasting Farm Podcasting is the process of making audio and/or video files that contain farm information available for Web access subscription via an RSS feed that allows the subscribers to capture the file on their computers and digital audio/video players. It is the online version of farm broadcasting that uses traditional media outlets.
Farm Security Administration Initially created as the Resettlement Administration in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration was an experiment in collectivizing agriculture — that is, in bringing farmers together to work on large government-owned farms using modern techniques under the supervision of experts. The program failed because the farmers wanted ownership, and the agency was transformed into a program to help them buy farms.
Farm Service Agency The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is the USDA agency into which were merged several predecessor agencies, including the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS). The ASCS was, as the FSA is now, primarily tasked with the implementation of farm conservation and regulation laws around the country.
Farm team A farm team, or feeder team, generally refers to a team or club whose role it is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players will move on to a bigger side at a certain point. This system can be implemented in many ways, both formally and informally.
Farm tin Farm tin was one of a number of payments required of tin miners in Devon and Cornwall. The holder of a mining sett was required to pay a portion of the black tin extracted to the holder of the tin bounds in which the sett was granted.
Farm to Market Road A Farm to Market Road or Ranch to Market Road (sometimes Farm Road or Ranch Road for short) is a state road or county road which serves to connect rural and agricultural areas to market towns. These routes serve as a better quality road, usually a highway, which allows farmers and ranchers to transport their products to market towns and/or distribution centers.
Farm to Market Road 1000 Farm to Market Road 1000 or FM 1000 is a state funded road from Cookville, which is to the east of Mount Pleasant, south to SH 49. The route has recently been designated further west to an intersection with US 271, but has not yet been constructed.
Farm to Market Road 103 Farm to Market Road 103 or FM 103 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northern Montague County including Spanish Fort, Rowland, Red River Station, and Prairie Valley to Nocona, Texas. FM 103 also intersects with Farm to Market Road 1956 leading to Capps Corner, Texas, FM 2634 leading to Lake Nocona, and other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 1093 Farm to Market Road 1093, Texas Urban Road 1093, FM 1093, or Westheimer Road is a highway that runs through the counties Harris, Fort Bend, Austin, Wharton, and Colorado in southeast Texas. In Houston, a portion of FM 1093 makes up "Westheimer Road;" the road continues inside the 610 Loop as Westheimer Road when it is not FM 1093.
Farm to Market Road 1177 Farm to Market Road 1177 or FM 1177 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northern Wichita and Clay Counties just south of the Red River and Oklahoma. It was designated in May 1949.
Farm to Market Road 1197 Farm to Market Road 1197 or FM 1197 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northern and northeastern Clay County with Henrietta. It passes the rodeo grounds, city square, and courthouse in Henrietta.
Farm to Market Road 1288 Farm to Market Road 1288 or FM 1288 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of southern Clay County, Texas to the county's main thoroughfare, US Route 287. It was designated in November 1959.
Farm to Market Road 1564 Farm to Market Road 1564, or FM 1564, is a road located in unincorporated Hunt County, Texas, approximately 7 miles south of Greenville, Texas. It is approximately 12 miles in length and is colocated with SH 34 for approximately 1/4 mi.
Farm to Market Road 1570 Farm to Market Road 1570, or FM 1570, is a major thoroughfare located in Hunt County, Texas, roughly along the city limits of Greenville, Texas. It is approximately 11 miles in length and serves primarily as a route for commuters going to and from a sizeable L-3 Communications facility located at Majors Field.
Farm to Market Road 1630 Farm to Market Road 1630 or FM 1630 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway. It connects the farming community of Hardy, near Forestburg in Montague County to FM 51 three miles south of Gainesville in Cooke County.
Farm to Market Road 1655 Farm to Market Road 1655 or FM 1655 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway connecting various farming areas of Wise and Montague Counties. Towns served by FM 1655 include Bridgeport, Alvord, and Chico in Wise County and Forestburg in Montague County.
Farm to Market Road 171 Farm to Market Road 171, FM 171, or the Upper Charlie Road (as opposed to FM 1740 which is sometimes called Charlie Road or Lower Charlie Road), is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northern Wichita and Clay counties to Wichita Falls] in [[Wichita County, Texas|Wichita County. The two-lane highway meanders through northern Clay County in a generally east-west direction connecting various small, unincorporated communities in the area to the economic hub, Wichita Falls.
Farm to Market Road 172 Farm to Market Road 172 or FM 172 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of eastern Archer County and souther Clay County, Texas. It passes just south of and crosses a portion of Lake Arrowhead in Clay County.
Farm to Market Road 173 Farm to Market Road 173 or FM 173 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the small community of Joy to SH 148, which connects to Henrietta and Jacksboro in Jack County. It was designated in June 1945 and is the shortest farm to market road in Clay County and one of the shortest in Texas.
Farm to Market Road 1740 Farm to Market Road 1740 or FM 1740 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects Wichita Falls with farming areas in northeastern Wichita County and northwestern Clay County. It was designated in October 1955.
Farm to Market Road 175 Farm to Market Road 175 or FM 175 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the small communities of Antelope in Jack County to SH 148, one mile east of Shannon in Clay County, Texas. It was designated in February 1960.
Farm to Market Road 1759 Farm to Market Road 1759 or FM 1759, is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of north central Montague County to Nocona. FM 1759 also intersects with FM 3394 leading to the Red River, and other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 1806 Farm to Market Road 1806 or FM 1806, is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of west central Montague County to the county seat, Montague. FM 1806 also intersects with US 81 leading to the Ringgold and Bowie, and other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 1816 Farm to Market Road 1816 or FM 1816, is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of north central Montague County to Bowie. FM 1816 also intersects with FM 1816 east of Stoneburg, US 82 near Belcherville, and other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 1954 Farm to Market Road 1954 or FM 1954 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming, residential, and recreational areas of central Wichita and Clay Counties. It passes just south of Lake Wichita and terminates at the Lake Arrowhead State Park].
Farm to Market Road 1956 Farm to Market Road 1956, FM 1956, or Hoosier Highway is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northeastern Montague County including Capps Corner, Illinois Bend, and Corinth to Nocona, Texas. FM 1956 also intersects with Farm to Market Road 1815 leading to Bonita, Texas, FM 3301 leading to Lake Nocona, and other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 2101 Farm to Market Road 2101, or FM 2101, is a road located in Hunt County, Texas, that has its northern terminus in Greenville, Texas. It is approximately 14 miles in length and roughly parallels SH 34 for its entire length .
Farm to Market Road 2127 Farm to Market Road 2127 or FM 2127 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northeastern Jack, far southwestern Montague, and northwestern Wise counties. Only approximately 1/2 mile of the road enters Montague County at it's far southwestern tip.
Farm to Market Road 2332 Farm to Market Road 2332 or FM 2332 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of eastern, northeastern, and north central Clay County. It parallels the Clay-Montague county line and passes within 1/8 mile the Red River and Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
Farm to Market Road 2347 Farm to Market Road 2347, FM 2347, or George Bush Drive runs from Business State Highway 6 (Texas Avenue) to Easterwood Airport on Farm to Market Road 2818 (Harvey Mitchel Parkway). This route runs along the southern border of the Texas A&M University main campus and is the location for the George Bush Presidential Library.
Farm to Market Road 2493 Farm to Market Road 2493, or FM 2493, is a major thoroughfare located in Smith County, Texas, partly within Tyler, Texas, that roughly parallels US 69 for its entire length. It is approximately 21 miles in length and is signed as Old Jacksonville Highway.
Farm to Market Road 2606 Farm to Market Road 2606 or FM 2606 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects (indirectly) Henrietta] with Lake Arrowhead State Park. It passes just north of [[Lake Arrowhead, Texas|Lake Arrowhead in Clay County.
Farm to Market Road 2634 Farm to Market Road 2634 or FM 2634 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects Lake Nocona, Texas] with [[Farm to Market Road 103 and, indirectly, Nocona, Texas and southern Oklahoma. FM 2634 intersects with FM 103 leading to Spanish Fort and Nocona and Farm to Market Road 2953 leading to FM 677 and southern Oklahoma and Saint Jo, Texas, as well as other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 2818 Farm to Market Road 2818, FM 2818, or Harvey Mitchel Parkway is a western bypass of the cities of College Station and Bryan. It runs though the Texas A&M University campus and next to the George Bush Presidential Library and Easterwood Airport.
Farm to Market Road 2849 Farm to Market Road 2849 or FM 2849 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects FM 103 at the Prairie Valley School to various county roads around Red River Station in far north central Montague County, Texas.
Farm to Market Road 2953 Farm to Market Road 2953 or FM 2953 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of northern Montague County and (indirectly) southern Oklahoma to Nocona, Texas. FM 2953 intersects with Farm to Market Road 103 leading to Spanish Fort, Texas and Nocona, Texas, Farm to Market Road 677 leading to southern Oklahoma and Saint Jo, Texas, and Farm to Market Road 2634 near Lake Nocona, as well as other various county secondary roads.
Farm to Market Road 3301 Farm to Market Road 3301 or FM 3301 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway, and is one of the shortest Farm to Market Roads in Texas. It was paved after the development of the Nocona Hills housing area on Lake Nocona.
Farm to Market Road 3394 Farm to Market Road 3394, FM 3394, or Molsbee Chapel Road is a two-lane, state-maintained highway, and is one of the shortest Farm to Market Roads in Texas. It connects the farming areas of north central Montague County] to [[Farm to Market Road 1759|FM 1759 and indirectly Nocona, Texas.
Farm to Market Road 373 Farm to Market Road 373 or FM 373 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of southwestern Cooke County with Muenster. The highway continues from Muenster northwestward through Bulcher and connects in Montague County with FM 677, which runs north into southern Oklahoma.
Farm to Market Road 60 Farm to Market Road 60, or FM 60, is a Farm to Market Road in Texas, running from SH 21, 6 miles southwest of Caldwell, southeastward to SH 36 at Lyons; and from another point on SH 36 at Lyons, northeastward to SH 47 & Urban Road 60. It is also known as University Drive in College Station, home of Texas A&M University.
Farm to Market Road 677 Farm to Market Road 677 or FM 677, one of the longest farm to market roads in Montague County, Texas, is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects Forestburg, Texas with Love County, Oklahoma at the Taovoyas bridge on the Red River in northern Montague County. FM 677 intersects U.
Farm to Market Road 922 Farm to Market Road 922 or FM 922 is a two-lane, state-maintained highway that connects the farming areas of Montague, Cooke, and Grayson Counties. FM 922 also crosses Lake Ray Roberts in Cooke County and intersects with other various county secondary roads.
Farm winery Many farms sell produce directly to consumers at farm produce stands to increase profitability of fruits, vegetables, maple syrup, honey and other specialties of the farm. In recent years many states in the United States have created a new class of winery license, the farm winery, to allow farms to produce and sell wines onsite.
Farmacia Guadalajara Farmacia Guadalajara is a Mexican Drugstore Chain, founded in 1942 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1989 born the Superfarmacia™ Concept, in 1992 opens the first drugstore outside Guadalajara in Aguascalientes City, currently have more than 400 drugstores in 18 States of country, for religious reasons this drugstores don't sell condoms.
Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas The Farmacotherapeutisch Kompas (FK) contains a wide spectrum of information on prescribing and pharmacology, among others indications, side effects and costs of the prescription of all medication drugs available in the Netherlands. It was first published in 1982 and is now the most used drug reference by doctors, pharmacists and students in the Netherlands.
Farmanieh Farmanieh (also spelled Farmaniye) is a district located in Shemiran, Tehran, Iran centered around Farmanieh Street. Farmanieh neighborhood extends south all the way to Sadr Expressway, where it becomes Dibaji, and as far north as Niavaran.
Farmer (gaming) A farmer is a general term for a MMORPG player who attempts to acquire ("farm") items of value within a game, usually in order to exploit repetitive elements of the game's mechanics. This is usually accomplished by carrying out in-game actions (such as killing an important creature) repeatedly to maximize gains.
Farmer Field School The Farmer Field School (FFS) is a group-based learning process that has been used by a number of governments, NGOs and international agencies to promote Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The first FFS were designed and managed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Indonesia in 1989 since when more than two million farmers across Asia have participated in this type of learning.
Farmer cheese Farmer cheese (also farmer's cheese or farmers' cheese) is a simple cheese often used for fillings in blintzes and other foods. Farmer cheese is made by pressing most of the moisture from cottage cheese; pressed drier still, it is sometimes rolled in a mixture of herbs and flavorings, or wrapped in very thin slices of flavorful smoked meats.
Farmer Island (Queensland) Farmer Island is an island in the Piper Islands National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in Temple Bay about 100km North East of Iron Range National Park and LockhartRiver and 50 km South of Cape Grenville.
Farmer Not So John Farmer Not So John was a popular music group based in Nashville, TN that was often categorized as alternative country. With members Mack Linebaugh, Brian Ray, Sean Keith and Richard McLaurin, the band released two recordings on Compass Records.
Farmer's Bank of York, Upper Canada The Farmer's Bank was formed in 1835 by George Truscott and John Cleveland Green in York (now Toronto, Ontario), Upper Canada, but fell after the other investors left to form Bank of the People. The cashier and general manager of Farmer's Bank was Sir Francis Hincks, a journalist and colonial administrator.
Farmer's lung Farmer's lung is an hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by the inhalation of biologic dusts coming from moldy hay or other agricultural products. The immune response is most often initiated by exposure to thermophilic actinomycetes.
Farmer-Labor Party The first modern Farmer-Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into the war put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail prices during the war years, and farmers and workers sought to make common cause in the political sphere to redress their grievances.
Farmers and Merchants Bank Farmers and Merchants Bank is a historic lending institution in downtown Los Angeles, California, USA, known both for its architecture and its pivotal role in the economic development of early Los Angeles. Other, non-related "F&M Banks" exist in many cities and towns across the United States.
Farmers golf Boerengolf (in English called Farmer's golf) is a somewhat ludicrous farm land game modelled after the sport of golf. It originated from a cheese farm run by Peter Weenink in Lievelde, a small village in the Achterhoek region of the Netherlands.
Farmers Market District, Dallas, Texas The Farmers Market District is an area in southeastern downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It lies south of the Main Street District, north of the Cedars, west of Deep Ellum, northeast of the Convention Center District, and southeast of the Government District.
Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly is a magazine aimed at the British farming industry. It provides news; business features; a weekly digest of facts and figures about British, European and world agriculture; and Livestock, Arable and Machinery sections with reports on technical developments, farm sales and analysis of prices.
Farmers' movement The Farmers Movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896 remarkable for a radical socio-economic propaganda that came from what was considered the most conservative class of American society. In this movement, there were three periods, popularly known as the Granger movement, Alliance and Populist.
Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association The Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association grew out of the agricultural unrest of the 1880s in the United States. Farmers who felt that they were being taken advantage of by merchants and brokers formed cooperatives for buying implements and house-hold supplies, and storing and selling crops.
Farmers' Party (Ireland) The Farmers' Party or Farmers' Union was a political party in the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1932. It was concerned almost exclusively with the interests of the agricultural community and never sought to widen its scope.
Farmers' Party (Netherlands) The Farmers' Party (in Dutch: Boerenpartij, BP) was a dutch agrarian political party, with a strong conservative outlook and a populist appeal. The BP was the first anti-establishment party elected into the Tweede Kamer since the Second World War.
Farmhouse kitchen A farmhouse kitchen is a kitchen room designed for food preparation, dining and a sociable space. Typical of poorer farmhouses throughout the middle ages where rooms were limited, wealthier households would separate the smoke of the kitchen from the dining and entertaining areas, farmhouse kitchens were also known as smoke kitchens.
Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad The Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad was a short-line railroad in New Jersey. Its former right-of-way, along with a portion of the Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad's right-of-way, has become the Edgar Felix Bikeway.
Farmingdale Observer The Farmingdale Observer, a division of Anton Community Newspapers, is a community newspaper that serves the towns of Farmingdale, Bethpage, and Plainedge, New York. This newspaper, which can be ordered through a subscription, reaches most of the town's residents.
Farmington (Plantation) Farmington in Louisville, Kentucky, was the home of the Speed family. The 14-room Federal style home was designed by Thomas Jefferson and completed in 1816 as the center of a hemp plantation owned by John and Lucy Gilmer Fry.
Farmington Canal The Farmington Canal was a major private canal built in the early 1800s to provide water transportation from New Haven to internal parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts and beyond. (Its Massachusetts segment was known as the Hampshire and Hampden Canal.
Farmoor Reservoir Farmoor Reservoir is a small reservoir close to the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, about 8 km west of the city of Oxford. Like most of the reservoirs in the Thames Valley, it was not formed by damming a valley.
Farmshoring Farmshoring is a term used to describe the shifting of employment from abroad into rural communities across the United States. It is conceptually similar to onshoring (also referred to as domestic outsourcing) except that farmshoring refers specifically to a shift from urban to rural; whereas onshoring or domestic outsourcing describes a “loss of positions previously considered insulated from foreign competition.
Farnborough Air Show The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace business which is held biennially in England. The airshow is organised by Farnborough International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of British aerospace industry's body the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) to demonstrate both civilian and military aircraft to potential customers and investors.
Farnborough Hall Farnborough Hall is a country house just inside the borders of Warwickshire, England near to the town of Banbury, (). The property has been owned by the National Trust since 1960, but is administered and occupied by the Holbech family.
Farnborough North railway station Farnborough North railway station is a railway station in the town of Farnborough in Hampshire, England. The station is managed by First Great Western, who operate services on the North Downs Line from Reading to Guildford, Redhill and Gatwick Airport.
Farncombe Farncombe is a former village in Surrey, England, now part of the town of Godalming. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book but few older buildings survive as evidence of its long history; among the oldest is a row of almshouses, built in 1622.
Farncombe railway station Farncombe railway station opened in 1897 as a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Guildford and Godalming. It is said to have been built at the instigation of General Sir Frederick Marshall, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company, who lived nearby at Broadwater (Godalming Trust, Memories of Farncombe and Godalming with Supplement (1987), (p12)).
Farndon, Cheshire Farndon (Welsh: Rhedynfre) is a village in the county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Dee, south of Chester, and close to the border with Wales. Farndon/Rhedynfre has a famous bridge across the River Dee that connects it to the nearby Welsh village of Holt.
Farnell (company) Farnell or Farnell InOne is an international company that primarily sells and distributes electronic components and equipment; however, it has expanded its range into non-electronic components and equipment. The company was founded in 1939 and today employs over 1000 people.
Farnese Atlas The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of Atlas kneeling with a globe weighing heavily on his shoulders. It is the oldest extant statue of the Titan of Greek mythology, who is represented in earlier vase-painting, and more importantly the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere.
Farnese Hercules The heroically-scaled Farnese Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century CE by GlykonThe sculpture bears the incised signature of Glykon, in Greek. Glykon, whether working in Rome or Athens, is not otherwise known.
Farnesyltransferase Farnesyltransferase is one of the three enzymes in the prenyltransferase group. Specifically, farnesyltransferase (FTase) adds a 15 carbon isoprenoid called a farnesyl group to proteins bearing a CaaX motif: a four amino acid sequence at the carboxyl terminal of a protein.
Farnham (UK Parliament constituency) Farnham was a constituency centred on the town of Farnham in Surrey. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Farnham Common Farnham Common is a village in the parish of Farnham Royal, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the north of the village of Farnham Royal, and borders both the area known as Burnham Beeches and the town of Slough.
Farnham maltings Farnham Maltings is a creative arts centre in the Georgian market town of Farnham, Surrey, England. It caters for all ages, with workshops, clubs, groups and sessions involved in craft, theatre, music and writing amongst others.
Farnham railway station The railway station at Farnham, Surrey, England is located on Station Hill by the level crossing that carries the Alton Line across the B3001 secondary road. The town centre is about ten minutes away on foot, to the north of the A31 Farnham Bypass.
Farnham, Essex Farnham is a small village in Essex, England, situated near Bishop's Stortford. The main features are the primary school, the church and the Three Horseshoes pub in Hazel End, which some consider a hamlet in its own right.
Farnsworth House The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles southwest of Chicago . The steel and glass house was commissioned by Dr.

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