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Fabulous Freebirds The Fabulous Freebirds were a groundbreaking professional wrestling tag team that attained fame in the 1980s, performing into the 1990s. The team usually consisted of three wrestlers, although in different situations and points in its history, just two performed under the Freebirds name.
Fabulous Hudson Hornet The Fabulous Hudson Hornet was a famous NASCAR Grand National (now NEXTEL Cup) and AAA stockcar. Marshall Teague and Tim Flock each drove in a Hudson Hornet that they nicknamed the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet".
Facade A facade (or façade) () is generally one side of the exterior of a building, especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face".
Facade (disambiguation) Facade or Façade can be used as a figure of speech to describe the "face" that people show other people. An example of this might be a person who seems very professional and organised on the outside, but is really feeling very disorganised and stressed on the inside.
Facatativá Facatativá is a city in the Cundinamarca department, located about 20 miles northwest of Bogotá, Colombia. The city is known for its archeological park, called Piedras de Tunja (Tunja Stones), with its large rock formations that were once the bottom of a lake.
FacĂłn A facĂłn is a dagger of goodly length, worn at the back and tucked into the belt of the gaucho in order to be quickly drawn with the right hand. Used in the South American pampas, especially in Argentina and Uruguay, they are often seen with a decorated metal hilt and sheath.
Faccetta Nera Faccetta Nera (Italian, "little black face") was a marching song from the Italian fascist period. It is said to have been inspired by a young Eritrean girl who has been found by the Italian troops at the beginning of the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia.
Faccia a faccia Faccia a faccia (Spanish title: Cara a cara, English title: Face to Face) is a spaghetti western film written and directed by the Italian film director Sergio Sollima in 1967. The film stars Gian Maria Volonté and Tomas Milian, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone.
Face The face is the front part of the head, in humans from the forehead to chin including the hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyes, nose, cheek, mouth, lips, philtrum, teeth, skin, and chin. The face is used for facial expressions, appearance and identity amongst others.
Face (social custom) Face refers to two separate but related concepts in Chinese social relations. One is mianzi (面子), and the other is lian (脸), which are both used commonly in everyday speech rather than in formal writings.
Face 2 face Face 2 Face is a 2004 album by 2Face Idibia. It became a major hit, initially in Idibia's home country of Nigeria, but quickly spreading through western and southern Africa, and eventually making an impact in Europe as well.
Face card In a deck of playing cards, the term face card is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person. Cards depicting persons were developed in Europe, possibly in the late 1300s; it is believed that earlier sets of cards included "court cards" that showed abstract designs, and not persons.
Face detection Face detection is a computer technology that determines the locations and sizes of human faces in arbitrary (digital) images. It detects facial features and ignores anything else, such as buildings, trees and bodies.
Face Dancer Face Dancers are a type of human in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. A servant caste of the Bene Tleilax, Face Dancers are near-perfect mimics; their name is derived from their ability to change their appearance literally at will.
Face frame A face frame in cabinet making is the frame fixed to the front of a cabinet carcase which obscures the edges of the carcase and provides the fixing point for doors and other external hardware. A face frame provides strength to the front of a cabinet and is also considered a visual feature of particular styles of furniture.
Face of Boe The Face of Boe is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A being which appears to consist of just a gigantic, human-like head, with, in place of hair, numerous tendrils which terminate in round pod-like structures.
Face Off Minnesota Face Off Minnesota, which first aired on Twin Cities Public Television in May 2006, is a high school quiz competition. It features teams that were selected by competing in NAQT-written high school quiz tournaments throughout Minnesota.
Face time Face time is interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location. Face time therefore occurs in "real life" or "meatspace" and contrasts primarily with interaction or contact which occurs over distance (eg.
Face to Face (play) Face to Face is a 2000 play by Australian playwright David Williamson. It is part of the Jack Manning Trilogy (Face To Face (2000), A Conversation (2001), Charitable Intent (2001)) which take as their format community conferencing, a new form of restorative justice which Wiliamson became interested in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Face to Face (TV series) Face To Face was a live 35 episode BBC British television series broadcast between 1959 and 1962. The insightful and often probing style of the interviewer, former politician John Freeman, distinguished it from other programmes of its genre.
Face The Music (game show) Face the Music was an American television game show that aired in syndication from January 1980 to September 1981. The show tested contestants' knowledge of popular music songs, and association of song titles with famous people, places and things.
Face Tomorrow Face Tomorrow is a Dutch indie rock band. It was formed in 1997, and consists of lead singer Jelle Schrooten, guitarists Aart Steekelenburg and Marc Nolte, bass player Tijs Hop and Sjoerd van der Knoop on drums.
Face value Face value is the value of a coin or paper money, as printed on the coin or bill itself by the minting authority. While the face value usually refers to the true value of the coin or bill in question (as with circulation coins) it can sometimes be largely symbolic, as is often the case with bullion coins.
Face/Facework Theory Face/Facework Theory utilized in study of Communications considers the ideas of an individual’s identity in a social world and how that identity is created, reinforced, diminished, and maintained in communicative interactions.
Facebook Facebook is an English-language social networking website, popular among college students. It was originally developed for university students, faculty and staff, but has since expanded to include everyone, including high school, corporate and geographic communities.
Facebook's use in investigations Facebook, an online [and social network service], is increasingly being used by school administrations and [[law enforcement agencies as a source of evidence against student users. The site, the number one online destination for college students, allows users to create profile pages with personal details.
Facebuster A facebuster, also known as a face plant, is generally a takedown move in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler forces his/her opponent down to the mat face-first without involving a headlock or facelock. If these are used then the move is either a DDT or bulldog variation.
Facedown Facedown is an album by worship artist Matt Redman. The song 'Nothing But The Blood' is now considered in some circles a Christian music classic and has been covered by Jamie Hill (Quench (Band)) on his album 'One Day'.
Facedown Records Facedown Records is a Christian record label based in Sun City, California, devoted mostly to hardcore punk and metalcore bands (Christian and secular). Founded by former No Innocent Victim drummer Jason Dunn, the label started off small with a number of 7" record releases by bands such as Overcome, Dodgin Bullets, and Born Blind.
FaceGen FaceGen is a face-generating middleware produced by Singular Inversions. It is used where there is a need for a large number of different possible faces - the most notable example of its use is for player character creation in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Faceoff A faceoff is the method used to begin play in ice hockey. The two teams line up in opposition to each other, and the opposing centres attempt to gain control of the puck after it is dropped between their sticks by an official.
Faceparty Faceparty is a community social networking website originally populated by teens through to late twenties, but is now popular with all ages, including thirties, forties, and even fifties. Faceparty allows users to create online profiles and interact with each other using instant chat and messaging facilities (like an interface similar to email).
Faces (film) Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who received one of the two Oscar nominations that the film garnered for her supporting role as "Maria."
Faces of Death Faces of Death, also released under the title The Original Faces of Death, is a 1978 mondo film, lasting roughly 105 minutes, which guides viewers through explicit scenes depicting a variety of ways to die. It is often billed as Banned in 40 Countries, with that number varying with the years.
Faces of Death 3 Faces of Death 3 (reportedly also known as Fear) is the second sequel to the 1978 mondo film Faces of Death. Once again, John Alan Schwartz directed (again as "Conan le Cilaire") and co wrote (as "Alan Black") along with co writer Veronica Lakewood.
Faces of Death 4 This is the final, "real" sequel to Faces of Death, in that it is the last sequel to include any original footage. This was directed by John Alan Schwartz (again as "Conan le Cilaire"), Susumu Saegusa and Andrew Theopolis.
Faces of Death 5 Generally regared as being a desperate attempt to keep this series alive, this direct to video release consists of highlights from the earlier films. It begins with the intro and opening credits from Faces of Death, before moving into more archive footage lifted whole from the earlier films, primarily from parts one and four.
Faces of Death 6 Another direct to video compliation of the highlights of the earlier Faces of Death series. This one features many of the same scenes show in Faces of Death 1 and 4, as well as the earlier compilation Faces of Death 5.
Faces of Fear (interview book) Faces of Fear is a World Fantasy award-winning book from 1985 (revised 1990) where writer, critic and lawyer Douglas E Winter interviews seventeen contemporary British and American horror writers about their life and art. The writers are VC Andrews, Clive Barker, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, John Coyne, Dennis Etchison, Charles L.
Faces of Gore Faces of Gore (1999) is a documentary that depicts people dying in graphic ways, ranging from accidents, suicides, and murders. The film makers claim it is banned in 37 countries, though this hasn't been proven.
Facesitting Facesitting, also known as kinging or queening, is a sexual practice in which one partner sits on or over the other's face, typically to allow oral-genital or oral-anal contact, or to further ass worshipping. It is common for this position to form part of BDSM, involving dominance and submission, though this need not be the case.
Faceted classification A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, allowing searching and browsing of related information through several classes. Elements may include subject, geographical, temporal and form of an item.
Facets (Science) The FACETS project is an European Project funded by the European Union gathering scientists from different fields related to neuroscience (neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, neural hardware) aiming at advancing our knowledge on the computational properties of the brain. FACETS stands for "Fast Analog Computing with Emerging Transient States".
Facial angle Devised by Pieter Camper, the measuring of the facial angle is an antiquated means of determining intelligence among various species of animals. According to this technique, an angle is formed by drawing two lines: one horizontally from the nostril to the ear; and the other perpendicularly from the advancing part of the upper jawbone to the most prominent part of the forehead.
Facial Action Coding System Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system originally developed by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen in 1976, to taxonomize every conceivable human facial expression. It is the most popular standard currently used to systematically categorize the physical expression of emotions, and it has proven useful both to psychologists and to animators.
Facial communication A person's face, especially their eyes, creates the most obvious and immediate cues that lead to the formation of impressions. This article discusses eyes and facial expressions and the effect they have on interpersonal communication.
Facial composite A facial composite is a graphical presentation of an eyewitnesses memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police forces in dealing with crime, generally in investigating serious crime cases.
Facial expression capture Facial expression capture is a process of using video or mechanical means to manipulate computer generated characters with input from human faces, or to recognize emotions from a user. digital video methods are becoming increasingly preferred, as mechanical systems tend to be clunky and difficult to use.
Facial feminization surgery Facial feminization surgery (FFS) refers to surgical procedures that alter the human face to increase its femininity. FFS includes various bony and soft tissue procedures (see below) though the term "FFS" is generally not regarded to include facial hair removal.
Facial challenge In the context of American jurisprudence, a facial challenge is a manner of challenging a statute in court, in which the plaintiff alleges that the statute is always, and under all circumstances, unconstitutional, and therefore void. It is contrasted with an as-applied challenge, which alleges that the statute may be, in part, unconstitutional, in redress of specific and particular injury.
Facial mask Facial mask is a creamy mask applied to the face for hygiene effects to clean or smooth the face. It often contain minerals, vitamins and fruit extracts such as cactus, cucumber, etc to give the nutrition to the skin of the face.
Facial motion capture Facial motion capture is related to body motion capture, but is more challenging due to the higher resolution requirements to detect and track subtle expressions possible from small movements of the eyes and lips. These movements are often less than a few millimeters, requiring even greater resolution and fidelity and different filtering techniques than usually used in full body capture.
Facial recognition system A facial recognition system is a computer-driven application for automatically identifying a person from a digital image. It does that by comparing selected facial features in the live image and a facial database.
Facial rejuvenation Facial rejuvenation is any cosmetic or medical procedure used to increase or restore the appearance of a younger age to human face. The specific term, however, refers to a set of surgical procedures which try to restore facial geometry and skin appearance which are typical of youth, by using a combination of brow lift, elimination of eye bags, eyelids lift, elimination of senile spots, skin aging, facial sagging and wrinkles by face lift and rhytidectomy and physical or chemical peeling, chin lift (reduction of double chin), restoration of facial hairline, etc.
Facial tissue Cellucotton was first used as a substitute for cotton during World War I for wound dressings and gas mask filters. Cotton as a natural raw material was in high demand for medicinal purposes among other things during this period.
Facial toning Facial toning is a type of cosmetic procedure which promises to alter facial contour and reduce wrinkles, sagging and expression marks in the face by means of increasing muscle tone, increasing facial volume by promoting muscular hypertrophy, and preventing muscle loss due to aging. It is therefore part of the techniques for achieving facial rejuvenation.
Facies The term facies was introduced by the Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly in 1838 and was part of his significant contribution to the foundations of modern stratigraphy (see Cross and Homewood 1997), which replaced the earlier notions of Neptunism.
Facilitated communication Facilitated communication (FC) is a controversial method intended to help people with severe neurological impairment to use communication aids with their hands. The facilitators claim to offer only emotional and physical support to the user, and that the user points toward the communication device (often a picture board, speech synthesizer or keyboard) by their own will.
Facilitator A facilitator is someone who skilfully helps a group of people understand their common objectives and plan to achieve them without personally taking any side of the argument. The facilitator will try to assist the group in achieving a consensus on any disagreements that preexist or emerge in the meeting so that it has a strong basis for future action.
Facilities engineering Facilities Engineering is the field focused on the design, construction, and life-cycle maintenance of military or civilian installations, facilities, civil works projects, airfields, roadways, and ocean facilities. It involves all facets of life-cycle management from planning through disposal - including design, construction, environmental protection, site operations and support, housing, real estate, and real property maintenance.
Facing colour A Facing Colour in British military practice dates back to at least the 17th century. The standard red jacket ("redcoat") worn by British infantry soldiers as a uniform made it difficult to distinguish between units when engaged in battle.
Facing Goya Facing Goya is a 2000 opera in four acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. It is an expansion of their one-act opera called Vital Statistics from 1987, dealing with such subjects as physiognomy and its practitioners, and also incorporates a musical motif from Nyman's art song, "The Kiss", inspired by a Paul Richards painting.
Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization that provides development services and curricular resources to educators. It was founded in 1976 by Margot Strom.
Facing Identification Mark The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail. The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equivalent is placed).
Facing the Truth (2002 film) Facing the Truth (At kende sandheden in its native Denmark) is a 2002 film directed by Nils Malmros and shot entirely in a black-and-white documentary style. The film is based on the true story of the embroilment of the filmmaker's neurosurgeon father - Richard Malmros - through a medical scandal.
Facing the World Facing the World is a United Kingdom based charity that offers surgery to children with facial disfigurements. All the children offered surgery are from poor countries where they would have no other access to surgery to help them overcome their disfigurements.
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant form of muscular dystrophy that initially affects muscles of the face (facio), scapula (scapulo) and upper arms (humeral). It is the third most common genetic disease of skeletal muscle.
Facit catalog The Facit catalog is a specialized postage stamp catalog for the countries of Scandinavia. First published in 1947, it is the most detailed and complete catalog available for philatelists interested in the stamps of Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Ă…land, and the Danish West Indies.
Fact Hunt Fact Hunt (2005) is a comedic TV quiz show aired late at night on various ITV regions. It is hosted by Al Murray in character as the Pub Landlord, the character he has long played in stand-up routines and in the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please.
Fact checker A fact checker is a person whose job consists of checking factual assertions made in news copy to determine whether they are correct. This job requires general knowledge but more importantly it requires the ability to conduct research quickly and properly.
Fact Monster Fact Monster is a website geared towards children. It is owned by Infoplease and, like the Infoplease site, it contains several reference works under one umbrella, including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Random House Dictionary, an atlas and an almanac.
Fact sheet A fact sheet is a presentation of data on any subject in a format emphasizing brevity, key points of interest or concern, a fairly minimalist design aesthetic, and a general desire to convey the most relevant information in the least amount of space. As such, it is a medium ideally suited to the post-modern information age, when "facts" (to the extent they exist) proliferate in ever-increasing numbers while the time available to review and comprehend them diminishes.
Fact-value distinction The fact-value distinction is a concept used to distinguish between arguments which can be claimed through reason alone, and those where rationality is limited to describing a collective opinion. In another formulation, it is the distinction between what is (can be discovered by science, philosophy or reason) and what ought to be (a judgment which can be agreed upon by consensus).
Facticity Facticity (French: facticité, German: faktizität) is the contingent conditions of an individual human life. It is a term used in 20th century continental philosophy, especially in the works of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and the existentialists.
Faction (literature) In literature, faction is a neologism used to describe a works based on real historical figures and actual events, woven together with fictional writing. An example of faction is the book According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge.
Faction Paradox Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. The family/organization were originally featured as recurring antagonists in the BBC Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, but have since featured in their own continuing tales.
Factions in Demon: The Fallen Factions in the role-playing game Demon: The Fallen are fictional groupings of like-minded fallen angels, or demons. Unlike houses, each "demon" chooses their own faction according to their beliefs, which may change over time.
Factiva Factiva, Dow Jones & Company which provides business and research information and services for the business and education communities. Factiva products provide access to more than 10,000 sources (such as newspapers, journals, magazines, news and radio transcripts, etc) from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires.
Factor (agent) A Factor, from the Latin "he who does" (parallel to agent, from Latin agens), is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual or other legal entity, notably in the following contexts:
Factor (Scotland) In Scotland a Factor (or property manager) is a person or firm charged with superintending or managing properties and estates -- sometimes where the owner or landlord is unable to or uninterested in attending to such details personally, or in tenements in which several owners of individual flats contribute to the factoring of communal areas.
Factor 5 Factor 5 is a software and video game developer that is best known for the Star Wars series Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. They are also known for developing the MusyX multi-platform sound technology in conjunction with Dolby, which is used to provide surround sound.
Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal 'Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal' is a feature length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist Kelly Duda. Through interviews and presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleges that for more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS.
Factor analysis Factor analysis is a statistical technique used to explain variability among observed random variables in terms of fewer unobserved random variables called factors. The observed variables are modeled as linear combinations of the factors, plus "error" terms.
Factor base In computational number theory, the factor base is a mathematical tool commonly used in, as its name suggests, integer factorization algorithms, more specifically algorithms involving extensive sieving of potential factors.
Factor cost Factor cost is a measure of national income or output based on the cost of factors of production, instead of market prices. This allows the effect of any subsidy or indirect tax to be removed from the final measure.
Factor Four Factor Four is a supervillain gorup in the Freedom City campaign setting for the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game. They have been compared to the Frightful Four, though in terms of powers they are almost directly analogous to the Fantastic Four.
Factor graph In mathematics, a factor graph is an X,F-bipartite graph where X={X_1,X_2,dots,X_n} is a set of variables and F={f_1,f_2,dots,f_m} is a set of factors. A factor f_j is a function mapping from a subset of variables X_jsubseteq X to some range (such as the real numbers).
Factor of adhesion In railroad engineering, the factor of adhesion of a locomotive is the weight on the driving wheels divided by the starting tractive effort. This is an important statistic, because obviously extra power is pointless if there's not enough traction to put it to useful work.
Factor of safety Factor of safety (FoS), is a the percentage of capability over the requirements that a structure has. It is commonly confused as being a safety factor which is a multiplier applied to the calculated maximum load (force, torque, bending moment or a combination) to which a component or assembly will be subjected.
Factor price equalization Factor price equalization is an economic theory, which states that the relative prices for two identical factors of production in the same market will eventually equal each other because of competition. The price for each single factor need not become equal, but relative factors will.
Factor Three Factor Three was a short lived villainous organization within the pages of X-Men and part of the Marvel Comics Universe. It was led by the Mutant Master, who was secretly an alien from the planet Sirius; a race of beings that resemble octopuses.
Factor V Leiden Factor V Leiden (sometimes Factor VLeiden) is the name given to a variant of human factor V that causes a hypercoagulability disorder. In this disorder the Leiden variant of factor V, cannot be inactivated by activated protein C.
Factor XIII Factor XIII or fibrin stabilizing factor is an enzyme () of the blood coagulation system that crosslinks fibrin. When thrombin has converted fibrinogen to fibrin, the latter forms a proteinaceous network in which every E-unit is crosslinked to only one D-unit.
Factorial experiment In statistics, a factorial experiment is an experiment whose design consists of two or more factors, each with discrete possible values or "levels", and whose experimental units take on all possible combinations of these levels across all such factors. Such an experiment allows studying the effect of each factor on the response variable, as well as the effects of interactions between factors on the response variable.
Factorization In mathematics, factorization or factoring is the decomposition of an object (for example, a number, a polynomial, or a matrix) into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original. For example, the number 15 factors into primes as 3 × 5, and the polynomial x2 − 4 factors as (x − 2)(x + 2).
Factorization system In mathematics, it can be shown that every function can be written as the composite of a surjective function followed by an injective function. Factorization systems are a generalization of this situation in category theory.
Factory A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production.
Factory 2-U Factory 2-U is a chain of department stores that are located mostly in the Western United States selling clothing, domestics, and merchandise, founded in 1962, originally private owned. They have 6000 employees with more than 10 stores.
Factory committee Factory committees() were committees of factory workers in the history of Russia and Soviet Union. (In Russian language, the terms "zavod" & "fabrika" for factory are not synonymous: "zavod" is reserved for heavy industry and "fabrika" for the rest).
Factory direct Factory direct is a term used to explain when a manufacturer sells directly to the end-user of a product. Most products bought and sold by consumers are purchased through intermediaries and in many cases can include two tiers made up of distributors and resellers.

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