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FastCAM Established in 1978, FastCAM is one of the oldest Computer-aided design (CAM) software companies in the world. FastCAM software provides computer programs for all types of Computer Numerical Control CNC machinery including Gas, Plasma, Laser and Waterjet.
FastCGI FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI); FastCGI's main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a website to scale up to handle more concurrent requests.
FastContact FastContact is an algorithm for the rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies for protein-protein complex structures. It is based on a statistically determined desolvation contact potential and Coulomb electrostatics with a distance-dependent dielectric constant.
Fastelavn Fastelavn is a Danish holiday that is celebrated seven weeks before Easter Sunday. It originates in the Catholic tradition of Carnival, and the name derives from German Fastelabend ("night before fast").
Faster Payments Service Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a banking initiative in the United Kingdom to improve the speed of low value person to person or business to business payments to near real time, essentially as if the two accounts were in the same bank. Before the Faster Payments Service, it would require approximately three working days from the initiation of payment to the beneficiary's receiving the funds.
Faster-than-light Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter, respectively, faster than the speed of light. This concept is a staple of the science fiction genre, but is generally considered impossible by the mainstream physics community, due to special relativity.
Fasting Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and in some cases drink, for a period of time. Depending on the tradition, fasting practices may forbid sexual intercourse, masturbation, as well as refraining from eating certain types or groups of food (e.
Fasting and Abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria The Copts, the Christians of Egypt, who belong mostly to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, observe Fasting periods according to the Coptic Calendar. These fasting periods are matched by no other Christian community.
Fastiv Fastiv () is a city located in the Kiev Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Fastivskyi Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.
FastICA FastICA is an efficient and popular algorithm for independent component analysis invented by Aapo Hyvärinen at Helsinki University of Technology. The algorithm is based on a fixed-point iteration scheme maximizing non-gaussianity as a measure of statistical independence.
Fastlove Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released by Virgin Records in the UK and Dreamworks Records in the US in 1996. The song was the second of five singles to be taken from George's comeback album Older, which was his first studio album in six years and only the third of his solo career, even though Wham!
FastLife International FastLife International is a group of speed dating/singles events companies consisting of Fast Impressions, operating in 12 cities throughout Australia and New Zealand, FastLife.com, operating in 17 cities in the United States and FastLife.
Fastnet Rock Fastnet Rock ( - Lonely Rock) () is a small clay-slate island with quartz veins and the most southerly point of the Republic of Ireland, 6.5 km southwest of Clear Island in County Cork, which is itself 8 miles (13 km) from the mainland.
Fastpass FASTPASS is a system created by The Walt Disney Company, introduced in 1999, that allows guests to avoid long lines at its theme parks. At an attraction featuring FASTPASS, guests can use their park admission pass to obtain a FASTPASS ticket (essentially a reservation) with a return time later that day (an hour-long window) printed on it.
FastPath The Kinetics FastPath was an AppleTalk to TCP/IP router created in the mid-1980's to allow Apple Macintosh computers (which at the time only had AppleTalk network connections) to communicate with other computers on Ethernet networks. The product had five significant revisions (known as KFPS-1 through KFPS-5) during its lifetime and was sold by Shiva Networks late in its existence.
Fastrada Fastrada (765-794) was the daughter of a Saxon count in Lower Saxony. Together with other Saxon women, she allegedly threw herself barebreasted into battle during the Saxon Wars against Charlemagne's invading Franks in 783, causing terror among them.
Fastsigns FASTSIGNS® is a franchised, retail, business to business, sign and graphics company, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas and has over 500 franchised units in six countries -- the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Australia (operating under the SIGNWAVE®brand). The FASTSIGNS® concept was created in 1985 by Gary Salomon and his partner, the late Bob Schanbaum.
FastStone Capture FastStone Capture is a Windows utility which expand standard Windows capabilities for screen capturing. It allows to capture a window, an object, full screen, rectangular or freehand-selected region, or a scrolling window (including webpage).
FastTrack (protocol) FastTrack is a peer-to-peer protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. The file sharing application Morpheus originally used this network, but was later banished from it.
Fastway (band) Fastway were a NWOBHM heavy metal band formed by guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke formerly of Motörhead, and bassist Pete Way formerly of UFO. In 1983 both players had been disgruntled with their own bands and decided to work together in a new outfit.
FasTrak FasTrak is the electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the state of California in the United States. The system is used statewide on all of the toll roads and bridges along the California Freeway and Expressway System.
FaSinPat FaSinPat, formerly known as Zanon, is a worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén, and one of the most prominent in the recovered factory movement of Argentina. The name is short for Fábrica Sin Patrones, which means "Factory Without Bosses" in Spanish.
Fat acceptance movement The Fat Acceptance Movement, also referred to as the Fat Liberation Movement is a grassroots effort to change societal attitudes towards fat individuals. The movement consists today of a diverse group of people, who have different beliefs about how best to address fat-prejudice.
Fat admirer Fat admirers (or FAs) are people, usually males, who are sexually attracted to fat partners. In some countries the term chubby chaser is a synonym for this concept, in some the term refers specifically to gay men.
Fat Actress Fat Actress was an American sitcom television series starring Kirstie Alley. It aired on Showtime in the United States in the spring of 2005, on Movie Central in Western Canada, The Movie Network in Eastern Canada, FX Networks in the UK and Network Ten in Australia.
Fat Albert (film) Fat Albert is a 2004 live-action/animated film based on the Filmation animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The movie was produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and stars Kenan Thompson as the title character.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including the titular one. Filmation was the production company for the series.
Fat binary A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer program that is native to multiple instruction set architectures (ISA) and thus can be run on multiple processor types. The usual method of implementation is to include a version of the machine code for each ISA, resulting in a file larger than a normal one-architecture binary, thus the name.
Fat camp A fat camp is a slang term for a type of program where obese children and teenagers are sent during the summer to lose weight. The effectiveness of these summer camps varies widely and usually depends on the quality of the individual program and biochemistry of the attending campers.
Fat client A fat client is a computer (client) in client-server architecture networks which typically provides rich functionality independently of the central server. Originally just a "client", or "thick-client" in the early days of PC based computing, the word "fat" is in opposition to the "thin" within thin-client, however it typically means that the size of the application which resides on the client machine is large (although browsers such as IE7, while thin-clients, are often far bigger).
Fat Cat and Friends Fat Cat and Friends was an Australian children's television show starring Fat Cat, an orange anthropomorphic cat who wears red braces, a blue bow tie and a green bowler hat. The show was similar in concept to Here's Humphrey featuring Humphrey B.
Fat City (novel) Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in 1969. Though the first and only novel he published, its prestige has grown considerably since its publication to critical acclaim from the likes of Joan Didion and Walker Percy among others.
Fat City Recordings Fat City Recordings is an independent record label. It emerged in 1998 from the Fat City Records shop originally situated in Affleck's Palace in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, but which has now moved onto Oldham Street.
Fat Crackers Fat Crackers is a reality TV show currently being filmed in Gordonvale Australia. Host Julian Bodenmann, former host of The Biggest Loser Gordonvale: The Huge Climb says the show will take televised weight loss to a whole new level.
Fat Day Fat Day is a Boston-based gamma metal and noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, MA in 1992 , they were associated with bands like Swirlies, Kudgel, and Trollin Withdrawal who formed the core of the Boston chimp rock scene.
Fat feminism Fat feminism or fat-positive feminism is a form of feminism that argues overweight women are economically, educationally, and socially disadvantaged due to their size. Because of this, they promote acceptance for women of all sizes and oppose any form of size discrimination.
Fat fetishism Fat fetishism is a sexual fetish in which sexual pleasure is derived from oneself or one's parter being overweight or obese. The weight ranges from being only mildly overweight or so obese as to be immobile and unable to walk.
Fat Freddy's Cat Fat Freddy's Cat (aka Fat Freddy Scat) is an orange tabby tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. He first appeared in 1969 in underground newspapers as a character in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip, and later had his own small topper strip, in imitation of the early Krazy Kat strips below The Family Upstairs by George Herriman.
Fat Free Ohio Fat Free Ohio: Issue 7 is a parody campaign created by satire artist Joseph Urbank II in protest of the smoking ban issued in the November 7, 2006 Ohio election. It bears an analogy of cigarette smokers to overweight people, therefore proposing the idea that overweight people should be banned in restaurants, bars, and public places, just as smoking is in Ohio.
Fat Friends Fat Friends is an ITV drama (made by Tiger Aspect), following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their life to the full.
Fat Hippy Records Fat Hippy Records in a non-profit independent record label based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Using their in house rehearsal/recording/editing and manufacturing facilities, Fat Hippy give up and coming bands an opportunity to reach a wider target audience.
Fat choy Fat choy (faat choy, Nostoc flagelliforme; {{zh-tsp|t=髮菜|s=[also known as black moss or hair moss, is a terrestrial cyanobacterium] (a type of photosynthetic bacteria) that is used as a vegetable in [[Chinese cuisine.
Fat Jon Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician (born Jon Marshall) is an American hip hop producer from Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the four members of Five Deez, alongside Pase Rock, Sonic, and Kyle David. He is also credited with some of the music in the anime series Samurai Champloo.
Fat link A fat link is a hyperlink that directs the user to more than one webpage at a time. Now that web browsers like Opera, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer v7 support tabbed browsing, it's possible to have a link that opens up multiple tabs.
Fat Land Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World is a non-fiction book written by Greg Critser describing how 60% of Americans came to be overweight, and exploring the relationship between the relentless rise of the fast food corporations and increasing portion sizes in the American diet, along with misguided government policies and poor nutritional education in schools. It covers much the same subject matter as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.
Fat Lip "Fat Lip" is the first single from the album All Killer No Filler by the Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41. It was their major breakthrough single, topping both the Billboard Modern Rock chart and the MuchMusic Countdown in the summer of 2001.
Fat Man and Little Boy Fat Man and Little Boy (aka Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It is named after the nuclear weapons known as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen.
Fat Mike Michael John Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. As Misfit Mike he played in a band called False Alarm before founding NOFX in 1983 with Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin.
Fat Possum Records Fat Possum Records is an acclaimed record label operating out of Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording hitherto unknown Mississippi blues artists (typically from Oxford or Holly Springs, Mississippi).
Fat substitute Fat substitutes are substances that contribute a similar mouth feel, texture, or taste to a food product as normal fat. Some are as caloric as fats, but can be used in smaller amounts, while others are not metabolized and thus make a negligible contribution to the caloric content of the food.
Fat tail The fat tail is a phenomenon of approximately normal probability distributions that emerge in practice; that is, in the real world. According to the theoretical distribution, events that deviate from the mean by five or more standard deviations ("5-sigma event") are extremely rare, with 10- or more sigma being practically impossible.
Fat tax Fat tax, also known as "Twinkie tax", "junk food tax," and "snack tax," is a tax on calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods. The tax has been proposed as one means to address the obesity problem.
Fat Thursday Fat Thursday (Polish TĹ‚usty czwartek, German Fetter Donnerstag or Schmutziger Donnerstag) is a traditional Polish and German feast marking the last Thursday before Lent (because Lent is fast time such opportunity arrives on Easter). It is similar to, but should not be confused with, the French festival of Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday").
Fat virus The fat virus is a theory that obesity in humans and other animals might have a viral source. The AD-36 adenovirus has been observed to increase the amount of body fat on laboratory animals, an effect that has been duplicated on chickens and monkeys.
Fat Wreck Chords Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990.
Fat-finger Fat-finger is a term, generally used as a verb, in computer lingo which implies the unintentional inclusion of a keystroke. It is typically used in reference to command strokes (as opposed to simple typos found in text entries).
Fat-soluble Fat soluble or fat-soluble refers to properties of compounds in our bodies that are attracted to and accumulated in fat cells within the body. Fat soluble compounds are not readily processed by the lymphatic system as are water soluble compounds.
Fat-tailed Dunnart The Fat Tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae family, the family includes the Little Red Kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian Devil. It has an average body length of 60-90 mm with a tail of 45-70 mm.
Fat-tailed sheep The fat-tailed sheep is a category of domestic sheep that comprise approximately 25% of the world sheep population (Davidson, 1999). Breeds of fat-tail sheep are commonly found in northern parts of Africa, the Middle and Near East, in particular, the Fertile Crescent, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
Fata (hard drive) The FATA or FC-ATA is a type of computer hard drive. FATA is simply the low cost version of Fiber Channel hard drive in conjunction with ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment mechanism instead of SCSI - Small Computer System Interface .
Fata Morgana Fata Morgana is a name for Morgan le Fay, the fairy half-sister of King Arthur (both "fata" and "fay" mean fairy.) The other uses of the phrase below derive from this use, all meaning an illusion, or illusory prospect:
Fata Morgana (band) Fata Morgana is a musical side project of Mortiis. Much like his other work, the songs are composed using synthesizers; though these songs have a much more "jolly" feel to them, unlike his other works.
Fata Morgana (Efteling) Fata Morgana, the forbidden city, also known as 1001 Arabian Nights (or "1001 nachten" in Dutch) is a dark ride in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It was designed by Ton van de Ven and Jan Verhoeven and opened its doors in 1986.
Fata Morgana (film) Fata Morgana is a film by Werner Herzog, shot in 1969, which captures mirages in the desert. Herzog describes the film as "a documentary shot by extraterrestrials from the Andromeda Nebula, and left behind.
Fata Morgana (mirage) A fata morgana, Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion. Objects on the horizon, such as islands, cliffs, ships or icebergs, appear elongated and elevated, like "fairy tale castles".
Fatah Fatah (); a reverse acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: "Palestinian National Liberation Movement") is a major secular Palestinian political party and the largest organization in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a generally secular multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the center-left of the spectrum.
Fatah Hawks The Fatah Hawks is the name of two Palestinian militant groups, one a popular movement of Arab Youth in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, the other an offshoot of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which has links to the dominant Fatah movement. The group has carried out attacks against Israel military personnel in the Gaza Strip.
Fatah Special Operations Group The Fatah Special Operations Group (Fatah-SOG), Martyrs of Tel al-Za'tar, Amn Araissi or Hawari Group was a radical Palestinian faction associated to Fatah, the main group of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Fatal accident inquiry A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is a unique aspect of the Scottish legal system, which is requested by a Procurator Fiscal when a fatal accident has occurred. The legislation underpining this procedure is the Fatal Accident and Sudden Deaths (Scotland) Act 1976.
Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team In certain local police departments in the United States, the Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team is a group of police officers dedicated to investigating motor vehicle accidents that result in death. The investigation of accidents with no survivors is of particular interest, because the detectives often have no eyewitnesses to give an account of the event.
Fatal Attraction Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer.
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie which first aired May 9 2006 ABC News article published May 7 2006. in which an American "businessman visiting China is infected and carries the deadly virus back via jetliner to the USA.
Fatal Five The Fatal Five are a supervillain team of the 30th century in the DC Comics universe. They were created by Jim Shooter and first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (1967) as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Fatal Fury is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo-Geo system. It is SNK's second oldest fighting game (the oldest is Street Smart, which was released in 1989), and was once a rival to Capcom's Street Fighter series.
Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle is an anime TV Special based on the Neo Geo SNK hit video game, Fatal Fury 2 and is a sequel to the previous TV movie, Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf. The movie was character designed and directed by acclaimed director Masami Obari.
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture is a theatrical anime film based on the popular SNK video game series Fatal Fury originally released in Japan on July 16, 1994. It is the third and final anime production directed by Masami Obari based on the series, following the two TV specials, Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle.
Fatal Influence Fatal Influence is a traditional speed/thrash metal band based in Orlando, Florida. Conceived by brothers Cal and James Cole and long time friend Carmen Jordan after brief and disappointing stints with their previous bands, the five-piece group was formed in 1994, and soon after relocated to Massachusetts.
Fatal Instinct Fatal Instinct is a 1993 comedy spoof movie directed by Carl Reiner which spoofs movies such as Basic Instinct & Fatal Attraction. This movie stars Armand Assante as a lawyer/cop named Ned Ravine who has an affair with a woman named Lola Cain played by Sean Young.
Fatal Vision Fatal Vision is both a book and a television miniseries based on the book. Fatal Vision is the real-life story of Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, who in 1979 was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and two small daughters.
Fatal Visions Fatal Visions was a cult film magazine from Melbourne, Australia that ran for some 20 issues from 1989 to 2000, and was edited by journalist Michael Helms. The magazine featured various reviews and interviews but focused chiefly on covering horror, action and exploitation movies.
Fatale (comic book series) Fatale is the title of a short-lived American superhero comic book published by Broadway Comics in 1996. It was a spin-off of Broadway's flagship series Powers That Be, in which the lead character had first appeared in 1995.
Fatale (comic book) Fatale was a comic book published by Broadway Comics in 1995 starring Desirée Hopewell, the female protagonist known eponymously as Fatale. According to creator Jim Shooter, Fatale was inspired from men and women comparing their experiences with strong women.
Fatalistic realism Fatalistic realism is an economic term that describes an awareness of current global economic trends, specifically the rise of inflation the US economy due to the deflation of the housing bubble. Gerard Baker used this term in a 2006 article for the Times Online (UK).
Fatality (Mortal Kombat) In the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, a Fatality is a special finishing move that can be used against one's opponent at the end of the final match. When the announcer says "Finish Him/Her," the player can choose to kill him or her through a fatality move.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was created in the United States by NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) to provide an overall measure of highway safety, to help suggest solutions, and to help provide an objective basis to evaluate the effectiveness of motor vehicle safety standards and highway safety programs.
Fataluku language Fataluku (also known as Dagaga, Dagoda', Dagada) is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 30,000 people of Fataluku ethnicity in the eastern areas of East Timor, especially around Lospalos. It is a Papuan language, and is usually considered a Trans-New Guinea language.
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a compilation of law created at instance of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (who was also known as 'Alamgir'). This compilation (or fiqh) is based on Islam's Sharia law, and was the work of many scholars, principally from the Hanafi school.
Fate Map A fate map is a representation of the developmental history of each cell in the body of an adult organism. Thus, a fate map traces the products of each mitosis from the single-celled zygote to the multi-celled adult.
Fate of the unlearned The term Fate of the Unlearned describes an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it. It is sometimes combined with the similar question of the Fate of the Unbeliever.
Fate Testarossa , also known as is the second most important character of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series; however, she does not appear in Triangle Heart, upon which the Nanoha series was based. She is voiced by Nana Mizuki.
Fate/hollow ataraxia is a Japanese visual novel game created by TYPE-MOON in 2005 which is the sequel to its earlier visual novel Fate/stay night. The word ataraxia in the title is a Greek term for tranquility, giving the title the combined meaning of "empty (or false) tranquility".
Fate/stay night scenarios Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel are the three branching storylines found within the TYPE-MOON visual novel Fate/stay night. The decisions of the player during the game determine which of the three scenarios will be played out.
Fateh Jang Fateh Jang (Fatehjang / Fatehjung / Fatehgarh / Fatehgunj / Fatehganj) is small town located nearly 25 miles (as the crow flies) southwest of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Rawalpindi-Kohat or Rawalpindi-Mianwali road. The new location of the Islamabad International Airport has been selected on Rawalpindi-Fateh Jang Road and the construction will start in 2006.
Fateh Moudarres Fateh Moudarres (1922 — 1999) was a Syrian painter and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Syria. Initially self-taught, Moudarres later studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he was influenced by Surrealism.
Fateh-110 The Fateh-110, is a single-stage solid-propellant, surface-to-surface missile with at least a 200 km range, and it is produced domestically within Iran, including the solid fuel propellant. The Aerospace Industries Organization is capable of producing many types of liquid and solid propellants.
Fatehpur District Fatehpur district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh Located in the banks of the sacred rivers Ganga and Jamuna, Fatehpur was mentioned in the puranic literature. The ghats of Bhitora and Asni were described as sacred in the puranas.
Fatehpur Sikri Fatehpur Sikri (, ) was the political capital of India's Mughal Empire under Akbar's reign, from 1571 until 1585, when it was abandoned, ostensibly due to lack of water. It is located in what is now Uttar Pradesh.
Fateixa Fateixa (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Fatéxa, São Vicente Crioulo: Fateixa) is a rocky and treacherous coastline in the west of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Fateixa is accessed only to SUV or agricultural vehicles meaning the road is unsafe and unpaved.
Fatel Razack The Fatel Razack (Fath Al Razack , Victory of Allah the Provider) was the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad. The ship was built in Aprenade for a trader named Ibrahim Bin Yussef, an Indian Muslim merchant in Bombay.
Fateless Fateless or Fatelessness (Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit. "Fatelessness") is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975.
FastCGI FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI); FastCGI's main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a website to scale up to handle more concurrent requests.
FastContact FastContact is an algorithm for the rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies for protein-protein complex structures. It is based on a statistically determined desolvation contact potential and Coulomb electrostatics with a distance-dependent dielectric constant.
Fastelavn Fastelavn is a Danish holiday that is celebrated seven weeks before Easter Sunday. It originates in the Catholic tradition of Carnival, and the name derives from German Fastelabend ("night before fast").
Faster Payments Service Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a banking initiative in the United Kingdom to improve the speed of low value person to person or business to business payments to near real time, essentially as if the two accounts were in the same bank. Before the Faster Payments Service, it would require approximately three working days from the initiation of payment to the beneficiary's receiving the funds.
Faster-than-light Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter, respectively, faster than the speed of light. This concept is a staple of the science fiction genre, but is generally considered impossible by the mainstream physics community, due to special relativity.
Fasting Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and in some cases drink, for a period of time. Depending on the tradition, fasting practices may forbid sexual intercourse, masturbation, as well as refraining from eating certain types or groups of food (e.
Fasting and Abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria The Copts, the Christians of Egypt, who belong mostly to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, observe Fasting periods according to the Coptic Calendar. These fasting periods are matched by no other Christian community.
Fastiv Fastiv () is a city located in the Kiev Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Fastivskyi Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.
FastICA FastICA is an efficient and popular algorithm for independent component analysis invented by Aapo Hyvärinen at Helsinki University of Technology. The algorithm is based on a fixed-point iteration scheme maximizing non-gaussianity as a measure of statistical independence.
Fastlove Fastlove was a song written and performed by George Michael which was released by Virgin Records in the UK and Dreamworks Records in the US in 1996. The song was the second of five singles to be taken from George's comeback album Older, which was his first studio album in six years and only the third of his solo career, even though Wham!
FastLife International FastLife International is a group of speed dating/singles events companies consisting of Fast Impressions, operating in 12 cities throughout Australia and New Zealand, FastLife.com, operating in 17 cities in the United States and FastLife.
Fastnet Rock Fastnet Rock ( - Lonely Rock) () is a small clay-slate island with quartz veins and the most southerly point of the Republic of Ireland, 6.5 km southwest of Clear Island in County Cork, which is itself 8 miles (13 km) from the mainland.
Fastpass FASTPASS is a system created by The Walt Disney Company, introduced in 1999, that allows guests to avoid long lines at its theme parks. At an attraction featuring FASTPASS, guests can use their park admission pass to obtain a FASTPASS ticket (essentially a reservation) with a return time later that day (an hour-long window) printed on it.
FastPath The Kinetics FastPath was an AppleTalk to TCP/IP router created in the mid-1980's to allow Apple Macintosh computers (which at the time only had AppleTalk network connections) to communicate with other computers on Ethernet networks. The product had five significant revisions (known as KFPS-1 through KFPS-5) during its lifetime and was sold by Shiva Networks late in its existence.
Fastrada Fastrada (765-794) was the daughter of a Saxon count in Lower Saxony. Together with other Saxon women, she allegedly threw herself barebreasted into battle during the Saxon Wars against Charlemagne's invading Franks in 783, causing terror among them.
Fastsigns FASTSIGNS® is a franchised, retail, business to business, sign and graphics company, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas and has over 500 franchised units in six countries -- the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Australia (operating under the SIGNWAVE®brand). The FASTSIGNS® concept was created in 1985 by Gary Salomon and his partner, the late Bob Schanbaum.
FastStone Capture FastStone Capture is a Windows utility which expand standard Windows capabilities for screen capturing. It allows to capture a window, an object, full screen, rectangular or freehand-selected region, or a scrolling window (including webpage).
FastTrack (protocol) FastTrack is a peer-to-peer protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. The file sharing application Morpheus originally used this network, but was later banished from it.
Fastway (band) Fastway were a NWOBHM heavy metal band formed by guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke formerly of Motörhead, and bassist Pete Way formerly of UFO. In 1983 both players had been disgruntled with their own bands and decided to work together in a new outfit.
FasTrak FasTrak is the electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the state of California in the United States. The system is used statewide on all of the toll roads and bridges along the California Freeway and Expressway System.
FaSinPat FaSinPat, formerly known as Zanon, is a worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén, and one of the most prominent in the recovered factory movement of Argentina. The name is short for Fábrica Sin Patrones, which means "Factory Without Bosses" in Spanish.
Fat acceptance movement The Fat Acceptance Movement, also referred to as the Fat Liberation Movement is a grassroots effort to change societal attitudes towards fat individuals. The movement consists today of a diverse group of people, who have different beliefs about how best to address fat-prejudice.
Fat admirer Fat admirers (or FAs) are people, usually males, who are sexually attracted to fat partners. In some countries the term chubby chaser is a synonym for this concept, in some the term refers specifically to gay men.
Fat Actress Fat Actress was an American sitcom television series starring Kirstie Alley. It aired on Showtime in the United States in the spring of 2005, on Movie Central in Western Canada, The Movie Network in Eastern Canada, FX Networks in the UK and Network Ten in Australia.
Fat Albert (film) Fat Albert is a 2004 live-action/animated film based on the Filmation animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The movie was produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and stars Kenan Thompson as the title character.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including the titular one. Filmation was the production company for the series.
Fat binary A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer program that is native to multiple instruction set architectures (ISA) and thus can be run on multiple processor types. The usual method of implementation is to include a version of the machine code for each ISA, resulting in a file larger than a normal one-architecture binary, thus the name.
Fat camp A fat camp is a slang term for a type of program where obese children and teenagers are sent during the summer to lose weight. The effectiveness of these summer camps varies widely and usually depends on the quality of the individual program and biochemistry of the attending campers.
Fat client A fat client is a computer (client) in client-server architecture networks which typically provides rich functionality independently of the central server. Originally just a "client", or "thick-client" in the early days of PC based computing, the word "fat" is in opposition to the "thin" within thin-client, however it typically means that the size of the application which resides on the client machine is large (although browsers such as IE7, while thin-clients, are often far bigger).
Fat Cat and Friends Fat Cat and Friends was an Australian children's television show starring Fat Cat, an orange anthropomorphic cat who wears red braces, a blue bow tie and a green bowler hat. The show was similar in concept to Here's Humphrey featuring Humphrey B.
Fat City (novel) Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in 1969. Though the first and only novel he published, its prestige has grown considerably since its publication to critical acclaim from the likes of Joan Didion and Walker Percy among others.
Fat City Recordings Fat City Recordings is an independent record label. It emerged in 1998 from the Fat City Records shop originally situated in Affleck's Palace in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, but which has now moved onto Oldham Street.
Fat Crackers Fat Crackers is a reality TV show currently being filmed in Gordonvale Australia. Host Julian Bodenmann, former host of The Biggest Loser Gordonvale: The Huge Climb says the show will take televised weight loss to a whole new level.
Fat Day Fat Day is a Boston-based gamma metal and noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, MA in 1992 , they were associated with bands like Swirlies, Kudgel, and Trollin Withdrawal who formed the core of the Boston chimp rock scene.
Fat feminism Fat feminism or fat-positive feminism is a form of feminism that argues overweight women are economically, educationally, and socially disadvantaged due to their size. Because of this, they promote acceptance for women of all sizes and oppose any form of size discrimination.
Fat fetishism Fat fetishism is a sexual fetish in which sexual pleasure is derived from oneself or one's parter being overweight or obese. The weight ranges from being only mildly overweight or so obese as to be immobile and unable to walk.
Fat Freddy's Cat Fat Freddy's Cat (aka Fat Freddy Scat) is an orange tabby tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. He first appeared in 1969 in underground newspapers as a character in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip, and later had his own small topper strip, in imitation of the early Krazy Kat strips below The Family Upstairs by George Herriman.
Fat Free Ohio Fat Free Ohio: Issue 7 is a parody campaign created by satire artist Joseph Urbank II in protest of the smoking ban issued in the November 7, 2006 Ohio election. It bears an analogy of cigarette smokers to overweight people, therefore proposing the idea that overweight people should be banned in restaurants, bars, and public places, just as smoking is in Ohio.
Fat Friends Fat Friends is an ITV drama (made by Tiger Aspect), following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their life to the full.
Fat Hippy Records Fat Hippy Records in a non-profit independent record label based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Using their in house rehearsal/recording/editing and manufacturing facilities, Fat Hippy give up and coming bands an opportunity to reach a wider target audience.
Fat choy Fat choy (faat choy, Nostoc flagelliforme; {{zh-tsp|t=髮菜|s=[also known as black moss or hair moss, is a terrestrial cyanobacterium] (a type of photosynthetic bacteria) that is used as a vegetable in [[Chinese cuisine.
Fat Jon Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician (born Jon Marshall) is an American hip hop producer from Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the four members of Five Deez, alongside Pase Rock, Sonic, and Kyle David. He is also credited with some of the music in the anime series Samurai Champloo.
Fat link A fat link is a hyperlink that directs the user to more than one webpage at a time. Now that web browsers like Opera, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer v7 support tabbed browsing, it's possible to have a link that opens up multiple tabs.
Fat Land Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World is a non-fiction book written by Greg Critser describing how 60% of Americans came to be overweight, and exploring the relationship between the relentless rise of the fast food corporations and increasing portion sizes in the American diet, along with misguided government policies and poor nutritional education in schools. It covers much the same subject matter as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.
Fat Lip "Fat Lip" is the first single from the album All Killer No Filler by the Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41. It was their major breakthrough single, topping both the Billboard Modern Rock chart and the MuchMusic Countdown in the summer of 2001.
Fat Man and Little Boy Fat Man and Little Boy (aka Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It is named after the nuclear weapons known as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen.
Fat Mike Michael John Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. As Misfit Mike he played in a band called False Alarm before founding NOFX in 1983 with Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin.
Fat Possum Records Fat Possum Records is an acclaimed record label operating out of Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording hitherto unknown Mississippi blues artists (typically from Oxford or Holly Springs, Mississippi).
Fat substitute Fat substitutes are substances that contribute a similar mouth feel, texture, or taste to a food product as normal fat. Some are as caloric as fats, but can be used in smaller amounts, while others are not metabolized and thus make a negligible contribution to the caloric content of the food.
Fat tail The fat tail is a phenomenon of approximately normal probability distributions that emerge in practice; that is, in the real world. According to the theoretical distribution, events that deviate from the mean by five or more standard deviations ("5-sigma event") are extremely rare, with 10- or more sigma being practically impossible.
Fat tax Fat tax, also known as "Twinkie tax", "junk food tax," and "snack tax," is a tax on calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods. The tax has been proposed as one means to address the obesity problem.
Fat Thursday Fat Thursday (Polish TĹ‚usty czwartek, German Fetter Donnerstag or Schmutziger Donnerstag) is a traditional Polish and German feast marking the last Thursday before Lent (because Lent is fast time such opportunity arrives on Easter). It is similar to, but should not be confused with, the French festival of Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday").
Fat virus The fat virus is a theory that obesity in humans and other animals might have a viral source. The AD-36 adenovirus has been observed to increase the amount of body fat on laboratory animals, an effect that has been duplicated on chickens and monkeys.
Fat Wreck Chords Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990.
Fat-finger Fat-finger is a term, generally used as a verb, in computer lingo which implies the unintentional inclusion of a keystroke. It is typically used in reference to command strokes (as opposed to simple typos found in text entries).
Fat-soluble Fat soluble or fat-soluble refers to properties of compounds in our bodies that are attracted to and accumulated in fat cells within the body. Fat soluble compounds are not readily processed by the lymphatic system as are water soluble compounds.
Fat-tailed Dunnart The Fat Tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae family, the family includes the Little Red Kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian Devil. It has an average body length of 60-90 mm with a tail of 45-70 mm.
Fat-tailed sheep The fat-tailed sheep is a category of domestic sheep that comprise approximately 25% of the world sheep population (Davidson, 1999). Breeds of fat-tail sheep are commonly found in northern parts of Africa, the Middle and Near East, in particular, the Fertile Crescent, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
Fata (hard drive) The FATA or FC-ATA is a type of computer hard drive. FATA is simply the low cost version of Fiber Channel hard drive in conjunction with ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment mechanism instead of SCSI - Small Computer System Interface .
Fata Morgana Fata Morgana is a name for Morgan le Fay, the fairy half-sister of King Arthur (both "fata" and "fay" mean fairy.) The other uses of the phrase below derive from this use, all meaning an illusion, or illusory prospect:
Fata Morgana (band) Fata Morgana is a musical side project of Mortiis. Much like his other work, the songs are composed using synthesizers; though these songs have a much more "jolly" feel to them, unlike his other works.
Fata Morgana (Efteling) Fata Morgana, the forbidden city, also known as 1001 Arabian Nights (or "1001 nachten" in Dutch) is a dark ride in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It was designed by Ton van de Ven and Jan Verhoeven and opened its doors in 1986.
Fata Morgana (film) Fata Morgana is a film by Werner Herzog, shot in 1969, which captures mirages in the desert. Herzog describes the film as "a documentary shot by extraterrestrials from the Andromeda Nebula, and left behind.
Fata Morgana (mirage) A fata morgana, Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion. Objects on the horizon, such as islands, cliffs, ships or icebergs, appear elongated and elevated, like "fairy tale castles".
Fatah Fatah (); a reverse acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: "Palestinian National Liberation Movement") is a major secular Palestinian political party and the largest organization in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a generally secular multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the center-left of the spectrum.
Fatah Hawks The Fatah Hawks is the name of two Palestinian militant groups, one a popular movement of Arab Youth in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, the other an offshoot of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which has links to the dominant Fatah movement. The group has carried out attacks against Israel military personnel in the Gaza Strip.
Fatah Special Operations Group The Fatah Special Operations Group (Fatah-SOG), Martyrs of Tel al-Za'tar, Amn Araissi or Hawari Group was a radical Palestinian faction associated to Fatah, the main group of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Fatal accident inquiry A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is a unique aspect of the Scottish legal system, which is requested by a Procurator Fiscal when a fatal accident has occurred. The legislation underpining this procedure is the Fatal Accident and Sudden Deaths (Scotland) Act 1976.
Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team In certain local police departments in the United States, the Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team is a group of police officers dedicated to investigating motor vehicle accidents that result in death. The investigation of accidents with no survivors is of particular interest, because the detectives often have no eyewitnesses to give an account of the event.
Fatal Attraction Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer.
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie which first aired May 9 2006 ABC News article published May 7 2006. in which an American "businessman visiting China is infected and carries the deadly virus back via jetliner to the USA.
Fatal Five The Fatal Five are a supervillain team of the 30th century in the DC Comics universe. They were created by Jim Shooter and first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (1967) as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Fatal Fury is a fighting game series developed by SNK for the Neo-Geo system. It is SNK's second oldest fighting game (the oldest is Street Smart, which was released in 1989), and was once a rival to Capcom's Street Fighter series.
Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle is an anime TV Special based on the Neo Geo SNK hit video game, Fatal Fury 2 and is a sequel to the previous TV movie, Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf. The movie was character designed and directed by acclaimed director Masami Obari.
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture is a theatrical anime film based on the popular SNK video game series Fatal Fury originally released in Japan on July 16, 1994. It is the third and final anime production directed by Masami Obari based on the series, following the two TV specials, Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf and Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle.
Fatal Influence Fatal Influence is a traditional speed/thrash metal band based in Orlando, Florida. Conceived by brothers Cal and James Cole and long time friend Carmen Jordan after brief and disappointing stints with their previous bands, the five-piece group was formed in 1994, and soon after relocated to Massachusetts.
Fatal Instinct Fatal Instinct is a 1993 comedy spoof movie directed by Carl Reiner which spoofs movies such as Basic Instinct & Fatal Attraction. This movie stars Armand Assante as a lawyer/cop named Ned Ravine who has an affair with a woman named Lola Cain played by Sean Young.
Fatal Vision Fatal Vision is both a book and a television miniseries based on the book. Fatal Vision is the real-life story of Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, who in 1979 was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and two small daughters.
Fatal Visions Fatal Visions was a cult film magazine from Melbourne, Australia that ran for some 20 issues from 1989 to 2000, and was edited by journalist Michael Helms. The magazine featured various reviews and interviews but focused chiefly on covering horror, action and exploitation movies.
Fatale (comic book series) Fatale is the title of a short-lived American superhero comic book published by Broadway Comics in 1996. It was a spin-off of Broadway's flagship series Powers That Be, in which the lead character had first appeared in 1995.
Fatale (comic book) Fatale was a comic book published by Broadway Comics in 1995 starring Desirée Hopewell, the female protagonist known eponymously as Fatale. According to creator Jim Shooter, Fatale was inspired from men and women comparing their experiences with strong women.
Fatalistic realism Fatalistic realism is an economic term that describes an awareness of current global economic trends, specifically the rise of inflation the US economy due to the deflation of the housing bubble. Gerard Baker used this term in a 2006 article for the Times Online (UK).
Fatality (Mortal Kombat) In the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, a Fatality is a special finishing move that can be used against one's opponent at the end of the final match. When the announcer says "Finish Him/Her," the player can choose to kill him or her through a fatality move.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was created in the United States by NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) to provide an overall measure of highway safety, to help suggest solutions, and to help provide an objective basis to evaluate the effectiveness of motor vehicle safety standards and highway safety programs.
Fataluku language Fataluku (also known as Dagaga, Dagoda', Dagada) is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 30,000 people of Fataluku ethnicity in the eastern areas of East Timor, especially around Lospalos. It is a Papuan language, and is usually considered a Trans-New Guinea language.
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a compilation of law created at instance of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (who was also known as 'Alamgir'). This compilation (or fiqh) is based on Islam's Sharia law, and was the work of many scholars, principally from the Hanafi school.
Fate Map A fate map is a representation of the developmental history of each cell in the body of an adult organism. Thus, a fate map traces the products of each mitosis from the single-celled zygote to the multi-celled adult.
Fate of the unlearned The term Fate of the Unlearned describes an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it. It is sometimes combined with the similar question of the Fate of the Unbeliever.
Fate Testarossa , also known as is the second most important character of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series; however, she does not appear in Triangle Heart, upon which the Nanoha series was based. She is voiced by Nana Mizuki.
Fate/hollow ataraxia is a Japanese visual novel game created by TYPE-MOON in 2005 which is the sequel to its earlier visual novel Fate/stay night. The word ataraxia in the title is a Greek term for tranquility, giving the title the combined meaning of "empty (or false) tranquility".
Fate/stay night scenarios Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel are the three branching storylines found within the TYPE-MOON visual novel Fate/stay night. The decisions of the player during the game determine which of the three scenarios will be played out.
Fateh Jang Fateh Jang (Fatehjang / Fatehjung / Fatehgarh / Fatehgunj / Fatehganj) is small town located nearly 25 miles (as the crow flies) southwest of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Rawalpindi-Kohat or Rawalpindi-Mianwali road. The new location of the Islamabad International Airport has been selected on Rawalpindi-Fateh Jang Road and the construction will start in 2006.
Fateh Moudarres Fateh Moudarres (1922 — 1999) was a Syrian painter and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Syria. Initially self-taught, Moudarres later studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he was influenced by Surrealism.
Fateh-110 The Fateh-110, is a single-stage solid-propellant, surface-to-surface missile with at least a 200 km range, and it is produced domestically within Iran, including the solid fuel propellant. The Aerospace Industries Organization is capable of producing many types of liquid and solid propellants.
Fatehpur District Fatehpur district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh Located in the banks of the sacred rivers Ganga and Jamuna, Fatehpur was mentioned in the puranic literature. The ghats of Bhitora and Asni were described as sacred in the puranas.
Fatehpur Sikri Fatehpur Sikri (, ) was the political capital of India's Mughal Empire under Akbar's reign, from 1571 until 1585, when it was abandoned, ostensibly due to lack of water. It is located in what is now Uttar Pradesh.
Fateixa Fateixa (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Fatéxa, São Vicente Crioulo: Fateixa) is a rocky and treacherous coastline in the west of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. Fateixa is accessed only to SUV or agricultural vehicles meaning the road is unsafe and unpaved.
Fatel Razack The Fatel Razack (Fath Al Razack , Victory of Allah the Provider) was the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad. The ship was built in Aprenade for a trader named Ibrahim Bin Yussef, an Indian Muslim merchant in Bombay.
Fateless Fateless or Fatelessness (Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit. "Fatelessness") is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975.
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