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Factory factory factory A factory factory factory is a term coined by Benji Smith for describing overly complex web frameworks, in particular Java-based ones. In an entryon the Joel on Software] discussion group (although it is formed more in style as a [[blog entry) in September 2005, he described a story likening the world of web frameworks to an imaginary situation where a customer would want to make a spice rack.
Factory object In object-oriented computer programming, a factory object is an object for creating other objects. It is an abstraction of a constructor, and can be used to implement various allocation schemes, such as the singleton pattern.
Factory Orders The Factory Orders report measures dollar volume of new orders, shipments, unfilled orders, and inventories reported by domestic manufacturers. Figures within the Factory Orders report are reported in the billions of dollars and also in a percent change from the previous month.
Factory reform Factory reform was a movement in the United Kingdom during the 19th century to limit the hours that could be worked in factories and mills. The first aim of the movement was for a "ten hours bill" to limit to ten hours the working day of children.
Factotum Factotum is an old word meaning a general servant or a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities. It was made from the Latin command (imperative construction) fac totum ("do/make everything").
Factotum (novel) Factotum is the second novel written by Charles Bukowski published in 1975. The plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and instead makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).
Facts (TV Series) Facts is a TV program in Hong Kong, which broadcast short films obtained or shoot with information from audiences. It has been broadcasted every weekday at 10:30pm in Asia Television(ATV), since 4th 12, 2006 and the host is Chan Kai Tai.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Facts and Arguments for Darwin is an 1864 book on evolutionary biology by the German biologist Fritz MĂĽller, originally published in German under the title FĂĽr Darwin ("For Darwin"), and translated into English by William Sweetland Dallas in 1867. MĂĽller argued that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection that he had advanced in his book The Origin of Species only five years earlier was correct, citing evidence that he had come across in Brazil.
Facts in Five Facts in Five: The Game of Knowledge is a trivia game for up to five players published in 1967 by the 3M Company. Rights to the game were acquired in 1976 by Avalon Hill, which published it until 1998, when that publisher was disbanded.
Facula A facula (plural: faculae) is literally a "bright spot." It is used in planetary nomenclature for naming certain surface features of planets and moons, and is also a type of surface phenomenon on the Sun.
Faculdade de CiĂŞncias MĂ©dicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas Faculdade de CiĂŞncias MĂ©dicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (in Portuguese, Faculty of Medical Sciences) is a professional college of the State University of Campinas, located in the campus of Campinas, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. It offers courses at undergraduate level in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and speech therapy, as well as many courses at graduate and postgraduate level (specialization, masters and doctorate, and medical residency).
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto The Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto is the engineering faculty of the University of Porto, in Porto, Portugal. With its origins in the 18th century, the institution became known as Faculdade de Engenharia in 1926.
Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas The Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (College of Electrical and Computer Engineering of State University of Campinas) is one of the most famous Engineering institutes in Brazil. It was created in 1967 on UNICAMP's main campus in Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, as Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica (Department of Electrical Engineering) of the Faculdade de Engenharia (Faculty of Engineering) and became an independent unit in 1986, being renamed as Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica (Faculty of Electrical Engineering).
Faculdade de Engenharia QuĂmica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas The Faculdade de Engenharia QuĂmica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (School of Chemical Engineering of the State University of Campinas, is an academic unit of the university located at the main campus, in the BarĂŁo Geraldo subdistrict of Campinas, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil.
Faculdade de Filosofia, CiĂŞncias e Letras de RibeirĂŁo Preto The Faculdade de Filosofia, CiĂŞncias e Letras de RibeirĂŁo Preto (FFCLRP) is a liberal arts college (according to the French university tradition, in Brazil they nominate philosophy, sciences and letters as their undergraduation subjects, although some of these courses are not given) of the University of SĂŁo Paulo campus at RibeirĂŁo Preto, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil.
Faculdade de Medicina de RibeirĂŁo Preto Faculdade de Medicina de RibeirĂŁo Preto (Faculty of Medicine of RibeirĂŁo Preto in Portuguese) is a medical school of the University of SĂŁo Paulo (USP) located in the city of RibeirĂŁo Preto, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, founded 1952. It is considered one of the three best medical schools in the country and a premier medical research center.
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) The Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (Spanish Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEyN)) is a faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, functioning in the pavilions I, II and pabellĂłn de industrias ("of industries") at the Ciudad Universitaria.
Facultad de TraducciĂłn e InterpretaciĂłn de Granada (Spain) The Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (Spanish Facultad de TraducciĂłn e InterpretaciĂłn) of the University of Granada is in the Spanish city of Granada, specifically in the Palace of the Counts of Luque, better known as Palace of the Columns, of architect unknown (although some attribute it to Juan de Villanueva). It was restored in 1946 by architects Luis Ălvarez de Cienfuegos and Juan de Dios de Wilhelmi so it could host the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letras), later the Institute of Languages (Instituto de Idiomas) and, since 1979, the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
Facultative anaerobic organism A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism, usually a bacterium, that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but is also capable of switching to fermentation. In contrast, obligate anaerobes die in presence of oxygen.
Faculties of Medicines in Hong Kong Before the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997, medical education in this former British colony traditionally and exclusively followed the path of western medicine. Faculties of Medicine were modelled after those in the United Kingdom, and only doctors trained in western medicine were considered "formal" and "reliable.
Faculty (university) A faculty is a division within a university. The medieval University of Paris, which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: the Faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine, and finally the Faculty of Arts, which every student had to graduate from in order to continue his training in one of the other three, sometimes known as the higher faculties.
Faculty Authoring Development Program and Courseware Authoring Tools Project The Faculty Authoring Development Program (FAD) and Courseware Authoring Tools Project (CAT) were courseware development iniatives at Stanford University during the years 1984-1990s. Several dozen teaching applications were created including tutorials in economics, drama simulations, thermodynamics lessons, and historical and anthropological role-playing games.
Faculty of 1000 Faculty of 1000 is an online awareness service for biologists. It is produced by a panel of more than 2000 biological researchers, who regularly identify and evaluate the research articles that they have found most interesting in the recently published literature.
Faculty of Advocates The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as Advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constituent part of the College of Justice and is based in Edinburgh.
Faculty of Arts and Architecture (University of Brighton) The Faculty of Arts & Architecture in the University of Brighton enjoys a long-established reputation as an international centre of excellence in the creative arts, architecture, design and humanities. All subject areas offer a range of full and part-time programmes of study from undergraduate through to postgraduate MPhil and PhD.
Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka Faculty of Business Studies (Bangla: বাণিজ্য অনŕ§ŕ¦·ŕ¦¦) is one of the leading faculties of University of Dhaka. In 1922 , one year after the establishment of University of Dhaka,Department of Commerce was founded under Faculty of Arts.
Faculty of Earth Sciences Faculty of Earth Sciences (FES) is considered to be the first and a unique specialized geology college in the Middle East since the foundation in 1970 and still the most unique college in the world. It was founded in the beginning as the Applied Geological Center belonging to the Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (Croatian: Fakultet elektrotehnike i raÄŤunarstva, abbr: FER) is one of the top faculties of University of Zagreb. The faculty is regarded as "the largest technical faculty and the leading educational as well as research-and-development institution in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in Croatia.
Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne is the oldest engineering faculty in Australia. It was established in 1861, only 8 years after the establishment of the University of Melbourne, and was made a Faculty in 1889.
Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran The Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Tehran was founded in 1989 when the departments of English, French, Italian, German, and Russian were brought together at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities.
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies The Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology (In Slovak: Fakulta informatiky a informaÄŤnĂ˝ch technolĂłgiĂ) is one of the faculties of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Faculty of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne's Faculty of Land and Food Resources is an important provider of Australian agricultural education, and is the largest of its type in that country. It was officially created on 1 July 1997 as a combination of most of the agricultural, forestry, horticulture and food science higher education in Victoria, Australia.
Faculty of Law, Cambridge The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge is one of the faculties at the Sidgwick Site. The building opened in 1996 and was designed by Norman Foster, who also designed the terminal building at Stansted Airport.
Faculty of Law, University of Delhi The Faculty of Law was established in 1924 and was initially housed in the Prince's Pavilion in the Old Vice regal Lodge Grounds. In 1963, the faculty moved to its present location at the Chhatra Marg, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West Cambridge, alongside the Isaac Newton Institute.
Faculty of Medicine - University of Ottawa The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa is a bilingual medical school in Ottawa, Canada Faculty of Medicine. It is located at a campus centred around Roger-Guindon Hall in the east end of Ottawa, and is separate from the downtown University of Ottawa campus.
Faculty of Medicine Naresuan University Faculty of Medicine Naresuan University located in Phitsanulok, Thailand. The first 10 years of establishment was designed based on the cost-effective principle: the Faculty of Medicine teaches preclinical years and the Ministry of Public Health hospitals teaches clinical years. After that the Faculty of Medicine will built and develop its own teaching hospital. Nowadays the Faculty's teaching hospital is Naresuan University Hospital with 6 Medical Education Centers cooperation.
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University is the oldest, largest hospital and medical school in Thailand. The hospital was founded by King Chulalongkorn in 1888, two years after a worldwide cholera outbreak.
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of University of Melbourne provides undergraduate and postgraduate coursework and research programs in medicine, dental science, physiotherapy, nursing, behavioural science (psychology), population health, rural health and the life sciences.
Faculty of Technical Sciences (Novi Sad) Faculty of Technical Sciences (Serbian Cyrillic: ФакŃлтет техничких наŃка, Serbian Latinic: Fakultet tehniÄŤkih nauka), short FTN, is high educational institution stationed in Novi Sad, capital of Serbian province Vojvodina and it is part of University of Novi Sad. It was founded on May 18 1960, and today, with 700 employees and 9,000 students, it is one of the largest faculty in region.
Faculty Of Engineering Ruhuna Faculty of Engineering Ruhuna, is one of seven faculties of University of Ruhuna. It is located in a relaxed & quite environment at Hapugala, Galle, away from the city, thereby offering a comfortable atmosphere for studies as well as creative and innovative work.
Faculty psychology Faculty psychology views the mind as a collection of separate modules or faculties assigned to various mental tasks. The view is implicit in Franz Joseph Gall's formulation of phrenology, the disreputed practice of measuring personality traits by measuring bumps on one's head.
Facundo Facundo (subtitled Civilization and Barbarism) is a book written by Argentinian Domingo Sarmiento in 1845. It was written partly in protest against the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ruled Argentina from 1835 to 1852.
Facundo Arana Jorge Facundo Arana Tague (born March 31 1972 in Buenos Aires), better known plainly as Facundo Arana, is a well known Argentine actor. A Telefé entertainer, he has participated in more than twenty telenovelas.
Facundo Sava Facundo Sava (born 7 March 1974 in ItuzaingĂł) is an Argentine professional football player who currently plays as a striker. He is perhaps best known for his unique goal celebration where he donned a mask which was stored in one of his socks.
Fad Gadget Fad Gadget was the pseudonym used by British musician, synthesizer pioneer, and performance artist Frank Tovey (September 8, 1956 - April 3, 2002), an influential electronic music/New Wave artist throughout his career.
Fada Fada is the capital of the Ennedi Ouest deprtment of Chad, lying in the Ennedi Plateau. It is known for the surrounding cave paintings and rock formations, while the Guelta d'Archei and a wood growing in a wadi are local attractions.
Faddeev equations The Faddeev equations are equations that describes, at once, all the possible exchanges/interactions in a system of three particles in a fully quantum mechanical formulation. They can be solved iteratively with powerful computer codes.
Faddeev-Popov ghost In physics, Faddeev-Popov ghosts are auxiliary fields which need to be introduced in the realization of gauge theories as consistent quantum field theories. In the path integral formulation, the path integrals should not overcount field configurations related by gauge symmetries since those correspond to the same physical state.
Faddei Bulgarin Tadeusz Bulharyn, known in Russia as Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin Фаддей Венедиктович Đ‘Ńлгарин (1789-1859), was a Polish-born Russian journalist whose self-imposed mission was to popularize the authoritative policies of Alexander I and Nicholas I.
Faddei Zielinski Faddei Frantsevich Zielinski (Polish:Tadeusz Zieliński; ; September 14, 1859, Kiev Guberniya, Russia–May 8, 1944, Bavaria, Germany): prominent classical philologist, historian, translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian. Author of works on history of ancient Greek culture and religion, classical education, and popularizaton of classical studies (published largely in Russian and German).
Fade (lighting) In stage lighting, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease of the intensity of light projected onto the stage. The term fade-in refers to gradually changing the lighting level from complete darkness to a predetermined lighting level.
Fade (song) "Fade" was an extremely obscure single released promotionally in the Philippines by the band Blue Angel, taken from their 1980 album also called Blue Angel. The band was fronted by a then-unfamous Cyndi Lauper.
Fade into You Fade Into You is the most popular song from alternative pop artist Mazzy Star. The song made the Top 5 of Billboard's Modern Rock chart, peaking at number three, and is Mazzy Star's only single to make the Billboard Hot 100.
Fade Out (film) Fade Out is a film starring Billy Bob Thornton as a screenwriter with a history of mental illness. He finds his wife (Jovovich), whom he suspects is having an affair, has gone missing and is trying to murder him.
Fade Out, Fade In "Fade In, Fade Out" was the 121st episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the debut of the sixth season of the series. First aired as an hour-long special episode on September 20, 1977 and repeated as half-hour 2-parters on March 13 and 20, 1978, "Fade In, Fade Out" was most notable for its off-screen departure of the character of Major Frank Burns (played by Larry Linville) and replacement of same by Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (played by David Ogden Stiers).
Fade to Grey Fade to Grey is Visage's most successful single and considered as the most representative song of the New Romantic scene. This song was recorded in Genetic Sound Studios and released as a single on Polygram Records on November 10, 1980.
Faded (Kate DeAraugo song) "Faded" is the second CD single release by the Australian Idol 3 winner Kate DeAraugo, from her debut album A Place I've Never Been. "Faded" was written by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas.
Fader creep Fader creep is a colloquial term used in audio recording to describe a tendency for sound engineers to raise the volume of individual channels on an audio mixer, rather than lowering others to achieve the desired change in the mix.
Faderhuset Faderhuset is an extremist Danish evangelistic Christian group based in the city of Rødovre, and led by the married couple Knud and Ruth Evensen. They are best known for acquiring the ownership of the building in central Copenhagen known as Ungdomshuset.
Fadhili William Fadhili William Mdawida (most often referred to simply as Fadhili William) (November 11 1938 – February 11 2001), was a Kenyan musician/composer who is most famous for his song "Malaika" which he recorded with his band 'The Jambo Boys' in 1960.
Fadhli Sultanate Fadhli ( []), or the Fadhli Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة الŮضلي []), was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection argreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, in 1963.
Fadi El Khatib Fadi El Khatib, born January 1, 1979, is a basketball player with Club Blue Stars of the Fédération Libanaise de Basketball (Lebanese Basketball Federation). He is also a member of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2006 Basketball World Championship which took place in Japan in August and September 2006.
Fadil Vokrri Fadil Vokrri (born 23 June 1960 in Podujevo, Kosovo, Serbia then part of Yugoslavia) is a former Kosovo Albanian football player from the 1980s. He won a number of international caps for the former Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s.
Fading Fading (or fading channels) refers to mathematical models for the distortion that a carrier-modulated telecommunication signal experiences over certain propagation media. Short-term fading, also known as multipath induced fading, is due to multipath propagation.
Fading Suns Fading Suns is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game (Emperor of the Fading Suns), a live action role-playing game (Passion Play), and for a space combat miniature game (Noble Armada).
Fadlalla Haeri Shaykh Fadlalla Haeri is a Sufi shaykh who was born in the Islamic holy city of Karbala, Iraq, a descendant of five generations of well-known and revered spiritual leaders. Educated in Europe and America, Shaykh Fadlalla obtained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, majoring in science and engineering.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957) was Martin Gardner's second bookFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science 1957; Dover; ISBN 0-486-20394-8. Dover had published a collection of mathematical puzzles the year before, and Gardner had already written many articles throughout the 1950s.
Fads and trends A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture relatively quickly, but loses popularity dramatically. Some fads may come back if another generation finds out about it and gets interested in it.
Faelamor Faelamor is a main character in Ian Irvine's The View from the Mirror quartet. She is leader of the Faellem species, Maigraith's liege and constantly searching for a way to escape Santhenar and lead her people back to Tallallame.
Faelan mac Muiredach Faelán mac Muiredach was the sixth of ten Kings of Leinster to be inaugurated and based on Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare, a member of the Uà Dúnchada, one of three septs of the Uà Dúnlainge dynasty which rotated the kingship of Leinster between 750-1050, significant in County Kildare History. In 941 he hosted an official visit to Cnoch Liamhna by Muirchertach mac Néill, King of Aileach and High King.
Faema FAEMA (Italian acronym: Fabbrica Apparecchiature Elettromeccaniche e Affini) primarily engaged in the production of espresso machines, was founded in 1945 by Carlo Ernesto Valente, in Milan, Italy. Faema was to become synonymous with the postwar production boom in Italy, by actively pursuing technological innovation as the company's driving force.
Faerie fire In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, faerie fire is a spell of the evocation school used by both arcane and natural magic types. The effect of the spell is to create nonburning fire usually used to outline its target with a faint glow.
Faerieworlds The Faerieworlds Festival is a mythic concert event which takes place every summer in the Western United states in late July. The festival features internationally bestselling artists and authors, Grammy winning musicians and crafters whose work is connected with the folkloric realm of Faerie.
Faery Wicca Faery Wicca (or "Fairy Wicca") is an umbrella term that refers to any tradition of modern Wicca that focuses on the Fae (gnomes, elves, faeries, sprites, etc.), their lore, and their relation to the natural world.
Faetal The band Faetal formed in 2002 with founding members Pete Boyd and Tim Clark and draw from a variety of influences fusing electronic music with rock. The group focus on a blend of samples and synth lines of the electronica genre with the grind and texture of melodic rock guitars.
Fafner of the Azure Fafner of the Azure: Dead Aggressor (č’Ľç©ąă®ă•ă‚ˇă•ăŠăĽ: Dead Aggressor SĹŤkyĹ« no Fafner: Dead Aggressor) is a 25-episode anime series produced by Xebec where much of the world had been destroyed by beings known as Festum. On a remote Japanese island called Tatsumiya, people had managed to hide themselves from the Festum using the most advanced technologies.
Fafnir In Norse mythology, Fáfnir (Old Norse) or Frænir (Faroese) was a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. In the Volsunga saga, Fáfnir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul.
Fafnir (BattleTech) In the BattleTech Universe, the Fafnir is the Lyran Commonwealth's most powerful Mech', weighing just as much as an Atlas or Daishi, but it is relatively unique since it cannot wield missiles. It was created by Defiance Industries, whom saw it fit to create a Mech' similar to their failed Defiance, but only guaranteed to succeed.
Fafo AIS Fafo institute for Applied International Science (AIS) is one of two institutes based in the Fafo Foundation. Its approach is mostly based on living condition surveys in areas previously excluded from social science research, such as Haiti, China and Iraq.
Fafo Foundation The Fafo Foundation (also known as Fafo Applied Social Science) is the head of two Norwegian research institutes: Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research (Fafo AVF) and Fafo Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS), conducting social research both nationally in Norway and internationally.
Fag hag Fag hag is a slang term for a woman who associates mostly or exclusively with gay men. It originated in gay male culture in the United States and was historically an insult, but it can also be used jokingly or in a positive way.
Fag stag In the gay community, a fag stag is a heterosexual man who either enjoys the company of, or simply has numerous friends that are, homosexual men. The term "fag stag" is a male equivalent to the more popular "fag hag".
Fagaceae The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven in a scale or spiny husk that may or may not enclose the nut. The best-known group of this family is the oaks, genus Quercus, the fruit of which is called an acorn.
Fagan inspection Fagan inspection refers to a structured process of trying to find defects in development documents such as programming code, specifications, designs and others during various phases of the software development process. It is called after Michael Fagan who is credited with being the inventor of formal software inspections.
Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439, [1968] 3 All ER 442, [1968] 3 WLR 1120, DC is a leading case that illustrates the requirement of concurrence (or coincidence) of actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") and mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") in order to establish an offence under the criminal law of England and Wales.
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa is the smallest, yet one of the most important Marine sanctuaries as it is home to more fish and marine mammals than any other marine sanctuary. It also provides a natural food source for sharks and other predators of the ocean.
Fagauvea Uvean (Faga Uvea or Faga Ouvéa or just Fagauvea in the vernacular) is the Polynesian language spoken on the Polynesian outlier island of Ouvéa, near New Caledonia. Sometimes also known as west-Uvean to distinguish it from the related Uvean (east-Uvean or Wallisian) spoken on Uvea, also known Wallis Island.
Faggeta Lekoma Faggeta Lekoma is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Faggeta Lekoma is bordered on the south by Banja, on the west by Guangua, on the north by Dangila, and on the east by the Mirab Gojjam Zone.
Fagging Fagging in British English, is used (as a verb and a noun) to refer to a kind of apprenticeship practiced historically within public schools. Younger boys within the school "fagged" for the older boys (often prefects) by acting as an unpaid servant, performing menial tasks such as cleaning sports kit.
Faggot (epithet) Faggot or fag, in modern American, Canadian and Australian English usage, is a generally pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man. Its use has spread to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
Faggoting Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, damascus steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered (like a bundle of sticks or "faggot") and forge welded together.
Fagin's theorem Fagin's theorem is a result in descriptive complexity theory which states that the set of all properties expressible in existential second-order logic is precisely the complexity class NP. It is remarkable since it is a characterization of the class NP which does not invoke a model of computation such as a Turing machine.
Fagligt Fælles Forbund The Fagligt Fælles Forbund (3F) is a trade union centre in Denmark. It was formed in 2004 from the merger of the National Union of Women Workers (Kvindeligt Arbejderforbund i Danmark, KAD) and the Danish General Workers' Union (Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark, SID).
Fagopyrum The genus Fagopyrum in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae includes two important crop plants, the Buckwheat or Japanese Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum, and the Tartary Buckwheat Fagopyrum tataricum. They have similar uses, and are classed as pseudocereals, i.
Fagun (Nepali calendar) FÄgun (ne:फागŕĄŕ¤¨) is the eleventh month in the Bikram Samwat calendar, which is the official calendar of Nepal. This month coincides with February 13 to March 14 of the Western Calendar and is 30 days long.
Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (born 10 August 1945, He was killed during the gulf war in 1990 while protecting the gates of the Amirs Palace) was a founder of the Kuwait Olympic Committee. His elder brother was the Emir of Kuwait.
Fahad Khamees Fahad Khamees, full name Fahad Khamees Mubarak (born 1962-01-24), is a UAE football (soccer) player who played as a striker for the UAE national football team and Al-Wasl Club in Dubai. He played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup and was the captain of the team in the matches against Colombia and Yugoslavia.
Fahad Usman Fahad Usman (born September 2, 1976 in Karachi, Sind, Pakistan) is a United Arab Emirates cricketer. Fahad Usman played one first-class match for Karachi Whites in the 1997-98 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy before emigrating to the United Arab Emirates.
Fahaka pufferfish The Fahaka puffer, Nile puffer or the Lineatus puffer, Tetraodon lineatus, is a freshwater pufferfish found in the Nile river and other river basins of Africa. Like all puffers, the Fahaka has the ability to "puff up" when threatened, and carries the deadly Tetrodotoxin in its flesh.
Factory object In object-oriented computer programming, a factory object is an object for creating other objects. It is an abstraction of a constructor, and can be used to implement various allocation schemes, such as the singleton pattern.
Factory Orders The Factory Orders report measures dollar volume of new orders, shipments, unfilled orders, and inventories reported by domestic manufacturers. Figures within the Factory Orders report are reported in the billions of dollars and also in a percent change from the previous month.
Factory reform Factory reform was a movement in the United Kingdom during the 19th century to limit the hours that could be worked in factories and mills. The first aim of the movement was for a "ten hours bill" to limit to ten hours the working day of children.
Factotum Factotum is an old word meaning a general servant or a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities. It was made from the Latin command (imperative construction) fac totum ("do/make everything").
Factotum (novel) Factotum is the second novel written by Charles Bukowski published in 1975. The plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and instead makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).
Facts (TV Series) Facts is a TV program in Hong Kong, which broadcast short films obtained or shoot with information from audiences. It has been broadcasted every weekday at 10:30pm in Asia Television(ATV), since 4th 12, 2006 and the host is Chan Kai Tai.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Facts and Arguments for Darwin is an 1864 book on evolutionary biology by the German biologist Fritz MĂĽller, originally published in German under the title FĂĽr Darwin ("For Darwin"), and translated into English by William Sweetland Dallas in 1867. MĂĽller argued that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection that he had advanced in his book The Origin of Species only five years earlier was correct, citing evidence that he had come across in Brazil.
Facts in Five Facts in Five: The Game of Knowledge is a trivia game for up to five players published in 1967 by the 3M Company. Rights to the game were acquired in 1976 by Avalon Hill, which published it until 1998, when that publisher was disbanded.
Facula A facula (plural: faculae) is literally a "bright spot." It is used in planetary nomenclature for naming certain surface features of planets and moons, and is also a type of surface phenomenon on the Sun.
Faculdade de CiĂŞncias MĂ©dicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas Faculdade de CiĂŞncias MĂ©dicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (in Portuguese, Faculty of Medical Sciences) is a professional college of the State University of Campinas, located in the campus of Campinas, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. It offers courses at undergraduate level in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and speech therapy, as well as many courses at graduate and postgraduate level (specialization, masters and doctorate, and medical residency).
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto The Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto is the engineering faculty of the University of Porto, in Porto, Portugal. With its origins in the 18th century, the institution became known as Faculdade de Engenharia in 1926.
Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas The Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e Computação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (College of Electrical and Computer Engineering of State University of Campinas) is one of the most famous Engineering institutes in Brazil. It was created in 1967 on UNICAMP's main campus in Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, as Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica (Department of Electrical Engineering) of the Faculdade de Engenharia (Faculty of Engineering) and became an independent unit in 1986, being renamed as Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica (Faculty of Electrical Engineering).
Faculdade de Engenharia QuĂmica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas The Faculdade de Engenharia QuĂmica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (School of Chemical Engineering of the State University of Campinas, is an academic unit of the university located at the main campus, in the BarĂŁo Geraldo subdistrict of Campinas, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil.
Faculdade de Filosofia, CiĂŞncias e Letras de RibeirĂŁo Preto The Faculdade de Filosofia, CiĂŞncias e Letras de RibeirĂŁo Preto (FFCLRP) is a liberal arts college (according to the French university tradition, in Brazil they nominate philosophy, sciences and letters as their undergraduation subjects, although some of these courses are not given) of the University of SĂŁo Paulo campus at RibeirĂŁo Preto, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil.
Faculdade de Medicina de RibeirĂŁo Preto Faculdade de Medicina de RibeirĂŁo Preto (Faculty of Medicine of RibeirĂŁo Preto in Portuguese) is a medical school of the University of SĂŁo Paulo (USP) located in the city of RibeirĂŁo Preto, state of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, founded 1952. It is considered one of the three best medical schools in the country and a premier medical research center.
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) The Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (Spanish Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEyN)) is a faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, functioning in the pavilions I, II and pabellĂłn de industrias ("of industries") at the Ciudad Universitaria.
Facultad de TraducciĂłn e InterpretaciĂłn de Granada (Spain) The Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (Spanish Facultad de TraducciĂłn e InterpretaciĂłn) of the University of Granada is in the Spanish city of Granada, specifically in the Palace of the Counts of Luque, better known as Palace of the Columns, of architect unknown (although some attribute it to Juan de Villanueva). It was restored in 1946 by architects Luis Ălvarez de Cienfuegos and Juan de Dios de Wilhelmi so it could host the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Facultad de FilosofĂa y Letras), later the Institute of Languages (Instituto de Idiomas) and, since 1979, the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
Facultative anaerobic organism A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism, usually a bacterium, that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but is also capable of switching to fermentation. In contrast, obligate anaerobes die in presence of oxygen.
Faculties of Medicines in Hong Kong Before the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997, medical education in this former British colony traditionally and exclusively followed the path of western medicine. Faculties of Medicine were modelled after those in the United Kingdom, and only doctors trained in western medicine were considered "formal" and "reliable.
Faculty (university) A faculty is a division within a university. The medieval University of Paris, which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: the Faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine, and finally the Faculty of Arts, which every student had to graduate from in order to continue his training in one of the other three, sometimes known as the higher faculties.
Faculty Authoring Development Program and Courseware Authoring Tools Project The Faculty Authoring Development Program (FAD) and Courseware Authoring Tools Project (CAT) were courseware development iniatives at Stanford University during the years 1984-1990s. Several dozen teaching applications were created including tutorials in economics, drama simulations, thermodynamics lessons, and historical and anthropological role-playing games.
Faculty of 1000 Faculty of 1000 is an online awareness service for biologists. It is produced by a panel of more than 2000 biological researchers, who regularly identify and evaluate the research articles that they have found most interesting in the recently published literature.
Faculty of Advocates The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as Advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constituent part of the College of Justice and is based in Edinburgh.
Faculty of Arts and Architecture (University of Brighton) The Faculty of Arts & Architecture in the University of Brighton enjoys a long-established reputation as an international centre of excellence in the creative arts, architecture, design and humanities. All subject areas offer a range of full and part-time programmes of study from undergraduate through to postgraduate MPhil and PhD.
Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka Faculty of Business Studies (Bangla: বাণিজ্য অনŕ§ŕ¦·ŕ¦¦) is one of the leading faculties of University of Dhaka. In 1922 , one year after the establishment of University of Dhaka,Department of Commerce was founded under Faculty of Arts.
Faculty of Earth Sciences Faculty of Earth Sciences (FES) is considered to be the first and a unique specialized geology college in the Middle East since the foundation in 1970 and still the most unique college in the world. It was founded in the beginning as the Applied Geological Center belonging to the Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (Croatian: Fakultet elektrotehnike i raÄŤunarstva, abbr: FER) is one of the top faculties of University of Zagreb. The faculty is regarded as "the largest technical faculty and the leading educational as well as research-and-development institution in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in Croatia.
Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne is the oldest engineering faculty in Australia. It was established in 1861, only 8 years after the establishment of the University of Melbourne, and was made a Faculty in 1889.
Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran The Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Tehran was founded in 1989 when the departments of English, French, Italian, German, and Russian were brought together at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities.
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies The Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology (In Slovak: Fakulta informatiky a informaÄŤnĂ˝ch technolĂłgiĂ) is one of the faculties of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Faculty of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne's Faculty of Land and Food Resources is an important provider of Australian agricultural education, and is the largest of its type in that country. It was officially created on 1 July 1997 as a combination of most of the agricultural, forestry, horticulture and food science higher education in Victoria, Australia.
Faculty of Law, Cambridge The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge is one of the faculties at the Sidgwick Site. The building opened in 1996 and was designed by Norman Foster, who also designed the terminal building at Stansted Airport.
Faculty of Law, University of Delhi The Faculty of Law was established in 1924 and was initially housed in the Prince's Pavilion in the Old Vice regal Lodge Grounds. In 1963, the faculty moved to its present location at the Chhatra Marg, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge comprises the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. It is housed in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences site in West Cambridge, alongside the Isaac Newton Institute.
Faculty of Medicine - University of Ottawa The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa is a bilingual medical school in Ottawa, Canada Faculty of Medicine. It is located at a campus centred around Roger-Guindon Hall in the east end of Ottawa, and is separate from the downtown University of Ottawa campus.
Faculty of Medicine Naresuan University Faculty of Medicine Naresuan University located in Phitsanulok, Thailand. The first 10 years of establishment was designed based on the cost-effective principle: the Faculty of Medicine teaches preclinical years and the Ministry of Public Health hospitals teaches clinical years. After that the Faculty of Medicine will built and develop its own teaching hospital. Nowadays the Faculty's teaching hospital is Naresuan University Hospital with 6 Medical Education Centers cooperation.
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University is the oldest, largest hospital and medical school in Thailand. The hospital was founded by King Chulalongkorn in 1888, two years after a worldwide cholera outbreak.
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of University of Melbourne provides undergraduate and postgraduate coursework and research programs in medicine, dental science, physiotherapy, nursing, behavioural science (psychology), population health, rural health and the life sciences.
Faculty of Technical Sciences (Novi Sad) Faculty of Technical Sciences (Serbian Cyrillic: ФакŃлтет техничких наŃка, Serbian Latinic: Fakultet tehniÄŤkih nauka), short FTN, is high educational institution stationed in Novi Sad, capital of Serbian province Vojvodina and it is part of University of Novi Sad. It was founded on May 18 1960, and today, with 700 employees and 9,000 students, it is one of the largest faculty in region.
Faculty Of Engineering Ruhuna Faculty of Engineering Ruhuna, is one of seven faculties of University of Ruhuna. It is located in a relaxed & quite environment at Hapugala, Galle, away from the city, thereby offering a comfortable atmosphere for studies as well as creative and innovative work.
Faculty psychology Faculty psychology views the mind as a collection of separate modules or faculties assigned to various mental tasks. The view is implicit in Franz Joseph Gall's formulation of phrenology, the disreputed practice of measuring personality traits by measuring bumps on one's head.
Facundo Facundo (subtitled Civilization and Barbarism) is a book written by Argentinian Domingo Sarmiento in 1845. It was written partly in protest against the regime of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ruled Argentina from 1835 to 1852.
Facundo Arana Jorge Facundo Arana Tague (born March 31 1972 in Buenos Aires), better known plainly as Facundo Arana, is a well known Argentine actor. A Telefé entertainer, he has participated in more than twenty telenovelas.
Facundo Sava Facundo Sava (born 7 March 1974 in ItuzaingĂł) is an Argentine professional football player who currently plays as a striker. He is perhaps best known for his unique goal celebration where he donned a mask which was stored in one of his socks.
Fad Gadget Fad Gadget was the pseudonym used by British musician, synthesizer pioneer, and performance artist Frank Tovey (September 8, 1956 - April 3, 2002), an influential electronic music/New Wave artist throughout his career.
Fada Fada is the capital of the Ennedi Ouest deprtment of Chad, lying in the Ennedi Plateau. It is known for the surrounding cave paintings and rock formations, while the Guelta d'Archei and a wood growing in a wadi are local attractions.
Faddeev equations The Faddeev equations are equations that describes, at once, all the possible exchanges/interactions in a system of three particles in a fully quantum mechanical formulation. They can be solved iteratively with powerful computer codes.
Faddeev-Popov ghost In physics, Faddeev-Popov ghosts are auxiliary fields which need to be introduced in the realization of gauge theories as consistent quantum field theories. In the path integral formulation, the path integrals should not overcount field configurations related by gauge symmetries since those correspond to the same physical state.
Faddei Bulgarin Tadeusz Bulharyn, known in Russia as Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin Фаддей Венедиктович Đ‘Ńлгарин (1789-1859), was a Polish-born Russian journalist whose self-imposed mission was to popularize the authoritative policies of Alexander I and Nicholas I.
Faddei Zielinski Faddei Frantsevich Zielinski (Polish:Tadeusz Zieliński; ; September 14, 1859, Kiev Guberniya, Russia–May 8, 1944, Bavaria, Germany): prominent classical philologist, historian, translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian. Author of works on history of ancient Greek culture and religion, classical education, and popularizaton of classical studies (published largely in Russian and German).
Fade (lighting) In stage lighting, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease of the intensity of light projected onto the stage. The term fade-in refers to gradually changing the lighting level from complete darkness to a predetermined lighting level.
Fade (song) "Fade" was an extremely obscure single released promotionally in the Philippines by the band Blue Angel, taken from their 1980 album also called Blue Angel. The band was fronted by a then-unfamous Cyndi Lauper.
Fade into You Fade Into You is the most popular song from alternative pop artist Mazzy Star. The song made the Top 5 of Billboard's Modern Rock chart, peaking at number three, and is Mazzy Star's only single to make the Billboard Hot 100.
Fade Out (film) Fade Out is a film starring Billy Bob Thornton as a screenwriter with a history of mental illness. He finds his wife (Jovovich), whom he suspects is having an affair, has gone missing and is trying to murder him.
Fade Out, Fade In "Fade In, Fade Out" was the 121st episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the debut of the sixth season of the series. First aired as an hour-long special episode on September 20, 1977 and repeated as half-hour 2-parters on March 13 and 20, 1978, "Fade In, Fade Out" was most notable for its off-screen departure of the character of Major Frank Burns (played by Larry Linville) and replacement of same by Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (played by David Ogden Stiers).
Fade to Grey Fade to Grey is Visage's most successful single and considered as the most representative song of the New Romantic scene. This song was recorded in Genetic Sound Studios and released as a single on Polygram Records on November 10, 1980.
Faded (Kate DeAraugo song) "Faded" is the second CD single release by the Australian Idol 3 winner Kate DeAraugo, from her debut album A Place I've Never Been. "Faded" was written by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas.
Fader creep Fader creep is a colloquial term used in audio recording to describe a tendency for sound engineers to raise the volume of individual channels on an audio mixer, rather than lowering others to achieve the desired change in the mix.
Faderhuset Faderhuset is an extremist Danish evangelistic Christian group based in the city of Rødovre, and led by the married couple Knud and Ruth Evensen. They are best known for acquiring the ownership of the building in central Copenhagen known as Ungdomshuset.
Fadhili William Fadhili William Mdawida (most often referred to simply as Fadhili William) (November 11 1938 – February 11 2001), was a Kenyan musician/composer who is most famous for his song "Malaika" which he recorded with his band 'The Jambo Boys' in 1960.
Fadhli Sultanate Fadhli ( []), or the Fadhli Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة الŮضلي []), was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection argreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, in 1963.
Fadi El Khatib Fadi El Khatib, born January 1, 1979, is a basketball player with Club Blue Stars of the Fédération Libanaise de Basketball (Lebanese Basketball Federation). He is also a member of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2006 Basketball World Championship which took place in Japan in August and September 2006.
Fadil Vokrri Fadil Vokrri (born 23 June 1960 in Podujevo, Kosovo, Serbia then part of Yugoslavia) is a former Kosovo Albanian football player from the 1980s. He won a number of international caps for the former Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s.
Fading Fading (or fading channels) refers to mathematical models for the distortion that a carrier-modulated telecommunication signal experiences over certain propagation media. Short-term fading, also known as multipath induced fading, is due to multipath propagation.
Fading Suns Fading Suns is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game (Emperor of the Fading Suns), a live action role-playing game (Passion Play), and for a space combat miniature game (Noble Armada).
Fadlalla Haeri Shaykh Fadlalla Haeri is a Sufi shaykh who was born in the Islamic holy city of Karbala, Iraq, a descendant of five generations of well-known and revered spiritual leaders. Educated in Europe and America, Shaykh Fadlalla obtained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, majoring in science and engineering.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957) was Martin Gardner's second bookFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science 1957; Dover; ISBN 0-486-20394-8. Dover had published a collection of mathematical puzzles the year before, and Gardner had already written many articles throughout the 1950s.
Fads and trends A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture relatively quickly, but loses popularity dramatically. Some fads may come back if another generation finds out about it and gets interested in it.
Faelamor Faelamor is a main character in Ian Irvine's The View from the Mirror quartet. She is leader of the Faellem species, Maigraith's liege and constantly searching for a way to escape Santhenar and lead her people back to Tallallame.
Faelan mac Muiredach Faelán mac Muiredach was the sixth of ten Kings of Leinster to be inaugurated and based on Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare, a member of the Uà Dúnchada, one of three septs of the Uà Dúnlainge dynasty which rotated the kingship of Leinster between 750-1050, significant in County Kildare History. In 941 he hosted an official visit to Cnoch Liamhna by Muirchertach mac Néill, King of Aileach and High King.
Faema FAEMA (Italian acronym: Fabbrica Apparecchiature Elettromeccaniche e Affini) primarily engaged in the production of espresso machines, was founded in 1945 by Carlo Ernesto Valente, in Milan, Italy. Faema was to become synonymous with the postwar production boom in Italy, by actively pursuing technological innovation as the company's driving force.
Faerie fire In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, faerie fire is a spell of the evocation school used by both arcane and natural magic types. The effect of the spell is to create nonburning fire usually used to outline its target with a faint glow.
Faerieworlds The Faerieworlds Festival is a mythic concert event which takes place every summer in the Western United states in late July. The festival features internationally bestselling artists and authors, Grammy winning musicians and crafters whose work is connected with the folkloric realm of Faerie.
Faery Wicca Faery Wicca (or "Fairy Wicca") is an umbrella term that refers to any tradition of modern Wicca that focuses on the Fae (gnomes, elves, faeries, sprites, etc.), their lore, and their relation to the natural world.
Faetal The band Faetal formed in 2002 with founding members Pete Boyd and Tim Clark and draw from a variety of influences fusing electronic music with rock. The group focus on a blend of samples and synth lines of the electronica genre with the grind and texture of melodic rock guitars.
Fafner of the Azure Fafner of the Azure: Dead Aggressor (č’Ľç©ąă®ă•ă‚ˇă•ăŠăĽ: Dead Aggressor SĹŤkyĹ« no Fafner: Dead Aggressor) is a 25-episode anime series produced by Xebec where much of the world had been destroyed by beings known as Festum. On a remote Japanese island called Tatsumiya, people had managed to hide themselves from the Festum using the most advanced technologies.
Fafnir In Norse mythology, Fáfnir (Old Norse) or Frænir (Faroese) was a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. In the Volsunga saga, Fáfnir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul.
Fafnir (BattleTech) In the BattleTech Universe, the Fafnir is the Lyran Commonwealth's most powerful Mech', weighing just as much as an Atlas or Daishi, but it is relatively unique since it cannot wield missiles. It was created by Defiance Industries, whom saw it fit to create a Mech' similar to their failed Defiance, but only guaranteed to succeed.
Fafo AIS Fafo institute for Applied International Science (AIS) is one of two institutes based in the Fafo Foundation. Its approach is mostly based on living condition surveys in areas previously excluded from social science research, such as Haiti, China and Iraq.
Fafo Foundation The Fafo Foundation (also known as Fafo Applied Social Science) is the head of two Norwegian research institutes: Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research (Fafo AVF) and Fafo Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS), conducting social research both nationally in Norway and internationally.
Fag hag Fag hag is a slang term for a woman who associates mostly or exclusively with gay men. It originated in gay male culture in the United States and was historically an insult, but it can also be used jokingly or in a positive way.
Fag stag In the gay community, a fag stag is a heterosexual man who either enjoys the company of, or simply has numerous friends that are, homosexual men. The term "fag stag" is a male equivalent to the more popular "fag hag".
Fagaceae The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven in a scale or spiny husk that may or may not enclose the nut. The best-known group of this family is the oaks, genus Quercus, the fruit of which is called an acorn.
Fagan inspection Fagan inspection refers to a structured process of trying to find defects in development documents such as programming code, specifications, designs and others during various phases of the software development process. It is called after Michael Fagan who is credited with being the inventor of formal software inspections.
Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439, [1968] 3 All ER 442, [1968] 3 WLR 1120, DC is a leading case that illustrates the requirement of concurrence (or coincidence) of actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") and mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") in order to establish an offence under the criminal law of England and Wales.
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa is the smallest, yet one of the most important Marine sanctuaries as it is home to more fish and marine mammals than any other marine sanctuary. It also provides a natural food source for sharks and other predators of the ocean.
Fagauvea Uvean (Faga Uvea or Faga Ouvéa or just Fagauvea in the vernacular) is the Polynesian language spoken on the Polynesian outlier island of Ouvéa, near New Caledonia. Sometimes also known as west-Uvean to distinguish it from the related Uvean (east-Uvean or Wallisian) spoken on Uvea, also known Wallis Island.
Faggeta Lekoma Faggeta Lekoma is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Faggeta Lekoma is bordered on the south by Banja, on the west by Guangua, on the north by Dangila, and on the east by the Mirab Gojjam Zone.
Fagging Fagging in British English, is used (as a verb and a noun) to refer to a kind of apprenticeship practiced historically within public schools. Younger boys within the school "fagged" for the older boys (often prefects) by acting as an unpaid servant, performing menial tasks such as cleaning sports kit.
Faggot (epithet) Faggot or fag, in modern American, Canadian and Australian English usage, is a generally pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man. Its use has spread to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
Faggoting Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, damascus steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered (like a bundle of sticks or "faggot") and forge welded together.
Fagin's theorem Fagin's theorem is a result in descriptive complexity theory which states that the set of all properties expressible in existential second-order logic is precisely the complexity class NP. It is remarkable since it is a characterization of the class NP which does not invoke a model of computation such as a Turing machine.
Fagligt Fælles Forbund The Fagligt Fælles Forbund (3F) is a trade union centre in Denmark. It was formed in 2004 from the merger of the National Union of Women Workers (Kvindeligt Arbejderforbund i Danmark, KAD) and the Danish General Workers' Union (Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark, SID).
Fagopyrum The genus Fagopyrum in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae includes two important crop plants, the Buckwheat or Japanese Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum, and the Tartary Buckwheat Fagopyrum tataricum. They have similar uses, and are classed as pseudocereals, i.
Fagun (Nepali calendar) FÄgun (ne:फागŕĄŕ¤¨) is the eleventh month in the Bikram Samwat calendar, which is the official calendar of Nepal. This month coincides with February 13 to March 14 of the Western Calendar and is 30 days long.
Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (born 10 August 1945, He was killed during the gulf war in 1990 while protecting the gates of the Amirs Palace) was a founder of the Kuwait Olympic Committee. His elder brother was the Emir of Kuwait.
Fahad Khamees Fahad Khamees, full name Fahad Khamees Mubarak (born 1962-01-24), is a UAE football (soccer) player who played as a striker for the UAE national football team and Al-Wasl Club in Dubai. He played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup and was the captain of the team in the matches against Colombia and Yugoslavia.
Fahad Usman Fahad Usman (born September 2, 1976 in Karachi, Sind, Pakistan) is a United Arab Emirates cricketer. Fahad Usman played one first-class match for Karachi Whites in the 1997-98 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy before emigrating to the United Arab Emirates.
Fahaka pufferfish The Fahaka puffer, Nile puffer or the Lineatus puffer, Tetraodon lineatus, is a freshwater pufferfish found in the Nile river and other river basins of Africa. Like all puffers, the Fahaka has the ability to "puff up" when threatened, and carries the deadly Tetrodotoxin in its flesh.
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