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Festa Junina The Festa Junina (Portuguese: June Festival) is the name of an annual Brazilian celebrations which take place in the middle of winter and are most associated with Northeastern Brazil, but celebrated in the whole country. It's mainly celebrated on the following days of the Catholic feast of Saint Anthony, John the Baptist and Saint Peter.
Feste In the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night Feste is a jester attached to the household of the Countess Olivia. Apparently he has been there for quite a while, as he was a "fool that the Lady Olivia's father took much delight in" (2.
Feste Romane Feste Romane (English “Roman Festivals”) is a work for very large symphony orchestra composed in 1926, by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. It is a tone poem depicting scenes from Ancient Rome of the Roman Empire.
Fester's Quest Fester's Quest is a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System based on the 1960s television series The Addams Family. Assuming the role of Uncle Fester, the player finds himself/herself on a quest to save the Addams' town from the threat of space aliens.
Festering Hate Festering Hate and CyberAIDS are the names of the first two Apple, ProDOS viruses. CyberAIDS appears to have been a series of viruses with minor changes in the code, culminating in the final version called Festering Hate, which appeared in 1988 (The Festering Hate World Tour - Festering Hate in '88).
Festival (Church of England) Festivals are a type of observance in the Church of England, considered to be less significant than a Principal Feast or Principal Holy Day, but more significant than a Lesser Festival or Commemoration. In Common Worship each Festival is provided with a collect and an indication of liturgical colour.
Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre runs every year from July thru September, in the town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1987, FAST presents a summer-long repertory season with a range of productions which appeal to all age groups.
Festival Bay Mall Festival Bay Mall is the newest mall in Orlando, Florida, having opened in several phases between 1999(Bass Pro Shops) and 2002. Formerly one of the Belz Factory Outlets, it is now managed by General Growth Properties.
Festival da Canção 2007 Festival da Canção 2007 will be the show in which Portugal selects its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, to be held in Helsinki, Finland in May 2007. Unlike the 2006 Festival, the results will be determined by 100% televoting on the part of the Portuguese television audience, rather than in 2006 where the jury gave 50% of the votes, as did the televoters.
Festival de Cine de Sitges The Festival de Cine de Sitges (also known as Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya) is one of the most recognizable film festivals held in Europe and considered the world's best festival specializing in genre films. Founded in 1967, the festival normally takes place every year in early October in the Spanish coastal villa of Sitges, located about 40 kilometers (24.
Festival de Gramado The Gramado Film Festival ("Festival de Gramado" in Portuguese), is the most important film festival of Brazil and Latin America. It is held annually in the city of Gramado, Brazil in the month of August (in 2006 from August 14 until August 19) and has been arranged since 1973.
Festival de Radio France et Montpellier The Festival de Radio France et Montpellier is a summer festival of opera and music held in Montpelier, France. The music festival concentrates on classical music and jazz with about 100 events, including opera, concerts, films, and talks, most of which are free and located in the historic courtyards of the city or the modern concert halls of Le Corum
Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo The Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo was created in 1961 by His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco who wished to “encourage a new art form, in the service of peace and understanding between men”.Festival History from tvfestival.
Festival dei Due Mondi The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958. It features a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, visual arts and roundtable discussions on science.
Festival della canzone italiana The Festival della canzone italiana (in english: Festival of the Italian song) is a popular Italian song contest running since 1951 and held annually in the city of Sanremo. Usually referred to as Festival di Sanremo, or outside Italy as Sanremo Music Festival, it was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Festival della Valle d'Itria The Festival della Valle d’Itria is a summer opera festival held in the south eastern Italian town of Martina Franca in the Apulia region. The Festival was founded in 1975 and performances are given in July and August each summer on a specially constructed stage in the outdoor courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.
Festival do Sudoeste TMN Sudoeste is a large, four-day music festival that began in 1996 and takes place every August near Zambujeira do Mar, in southern Portugal. The festival has three stages which play different music simultaneously.
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (FNC) is devoted to the dissemination and development of emerging trends in cinema and new media. It is a forum for audiences to discover original new works, particularly in cinéma d'auteur and digital creation.
Festival du Voyageur The Festival du Voyageur (literally translated as Festival of the Traveller) is an annual 10-day winter festival which takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during February. "Voyageur" refers to those who worked for a fur trading company and usually travelled by canoe.
Festival Internacional de BenicĂ ssim The FIB or Festival Internacional de BenicĂ ssim (BenicĂ ssim International Festival) is a famous music festival held in Benicassim (Spain). It focuses in alternative pop rock and electronica and has other elements besides music like short films, theatre, dance, fashion and art.
Festival International The Festival International de Louisiane is an annual music and arts festival held in Lafayette, Louisiana celebrating the French heritage of the region. The festival was first held in 1986 and has become very popular, attracting musicians, artists, and craftsmen from around the world.
Festival of Arts and Ideas The International Festival of Arts and Ideas takes place on the New Haven Green (in New Haven, Connecticut) every summer for fifteen days in mid-June. Most of the free events on The Green fall under the 'arts' side of the festival, concerts, street performers, opera, theater, and dance.
Festival of Britain The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The principal exhibition site was on the south bank of the River Thames near Waterloo Station, but other exhibitions were held in Poplar, East London (Architecture), South Kensington (Science) and the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow (Industrial Power) as well as travelling exhibitions that toured the country by land and sea.
Festival of Faith and Music The Festival of Faith and Music at Calvin College is a biennial event exploring the intersection of Christian faith and popular music. It is in some ways a child of the Festival of Faith and Writing that has been taking place at the same institution since the early 90s, and the two events alternate years.
Festival of Faith and Writing The Festival of Faith and Music is a biennial event that takes place at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in even numbered years. In the intervening years, the college hosts a Festival of Faith and Music.
Festival of Lights A/The/- Festival/Celebration of Light(s) is a common name (or translation) for many disparate events and groups throughout the world. The events range from deeply religious and significant observances to cultural festivals to small local celebrations and displays.
Festival of the Arts in Ministries The Festival of the Arts in Ministries is an organization dedicated to equip other ministries with the knowledge and ability to use art forms as an outreach tool. Some of the art forms emphasized are puppetry, ventriloquism, storytelling, clowning, music, gospel magic, face painting, balloon sculpturing, and more.
Festival of the Lion King Festival of the Lion King is a musical stage show in Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom and Hong Kong Disneyland. The show features four live singers, numerous acrobats, dancers and audio-animatronic parade-style floats of Simba, Pumbaa, a giraffe and an elephant.
Festival of the Salii In the Roman calendar, March was sacred to Mars. The "jumping priests," or Salii began the Festival of the Salii on March 21 with a purification of the sacred trumpets that the Romans carried off to war.
Festival of Trees Festival of Trees is the name taken by a number of (apparently independent) charity events/organizations that hold annual events around Christmas time to raise money for some local charity (often, but not always, a hospital or more specifically, a children's hospital) These events seem to be becoming more common in North America as of this writing and are centered around the decoration and display of Christmas trees.
Festival Park Iowa Festival Park is a themed entertainment event center in Des Moines, Iowa with portions in Pleasant Hill, Iowa. It is built to resembled an Old English Village with approximately 50 buildings, including a large castle facade.
Festival Place Festival Place is a shopping centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England which opened in October 2002. It houses 165 shopsBasingstoke & Deane Borough Council — Shopping, Eating and Drinking including large department stores such as Bhs, Debenhams, and Marks and Spencer and designer stores such as Austin Reed, Kurt Muller and LK Bennett.
Festival Presidente de la Musica Latina The Festival Presidente de Música Latina (Presidente Festival of Latin Music) is an event of Latin Music celebrated each two years for three days in October in the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Festival Singers of Atlanta Founded in 1981, the Festival Singers of Atlanta is an ensemble which presents choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary eras to audiences in Atlanta and the American Southeast. The group particularly specializes in unaccompanied music of the Renaissance and 20th-21st century music that resonates with that tradition.
Festival Speech Synthesis System Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License.
Festival Too King's Lynn's Festival Too started in 1985 with the aim of providing free entertainment to the people and visitors of West Norfolk. The event has definitely come a long way in the past 21 years, it is now one of Europe's biggest free festivals!
Festival Trophy The Festival Trophy is a Grade 2 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 2 miles 5 furlongs (4,225 metres) on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are seventeen fences to be jumped in the race.
Festivali i Këngës 45 Festivali i Këngës 45 was the latest edition of the Albanian musical show Festivali i Këngës, held on the 23rd December 2006, with two semi finals on the 21st and 22nd. The winning song will represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, to be held in Helsinki, Finland on 12th May 2007.
Festivali I Këngës Festivali I Këngës (FIK) is one of the main musical events in Albania. Up until 1999 it used to be the biggest musical activity in the country, however its popularity decreased as other competitors like Top Fest and Kënga Magjike started to produce more viewers and a higher quality of songs.
Festivali I Këngës 45 Festivali I Këngës 45 took place in the Palace Of Congresses in Tirana, Albania. There were two semifinals (21 & 22 December 2006) and a final (23 December 2006), in addition to a Youth Night competition which selected 2 artists on 4 & 5 December 2006.
Festivals in Florida Festivals in Florida reflect the state's cultural heritage and play an important role in the cultural life of Floridians. They range from city-wide urban celebrations with corporate sponsors to rural fairs with tents and booths in a large field.
Festivals in Republic of Turkey More than 100 festivals are held in Turkey every year. Along with festivals of local scale held in almost every city of the country, cultural events and other festivals of international reach are also organized in major metropolitan centers such as Ä°stanbul, Ankara, Ä°zmir and Antalya.
Festivals of PĂłvoa de Varzim There are several religious or popular celebrations (the Festa), pilgrimages (romarias) and processions (procissĂŁo) in PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Most of these festivals occur around the Holy week or during the summer.
Festive ecology Festive ecology explores the relationships between the symbolism and the ecology of the plants, fungi and animals associated with cultural events such as festivals, processions and special occasions. Examples of topics are given below.
Festive Fifty The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's fifty (though the exact figure varied above and below this number) best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. It was usually dominated by indie and rock songs which did not fully represent the diversity of music played by Peel but rather the majority opinion among his listeners.
Festive Overture (Shostakovich) The Festive Overture in A major is a popular piece of music by the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It was originally written in 1954 for a concert at the Bolshoi Theatre, to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution (which took place in 1917).
Festivus Festivus is an annual holiday invented in 1966 by Reader's Digest writer and editor Dan O'Keefe. Festivus is a Latin adjective, meaning 'pleasant, festive', and the neuter form festivum is a generic word for 'festival'.
Festliches Nurnberg Festliches Nurnberg (translated as Festival Nuremberg) is a short 1937 propaganda film chronicling the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 and 1937. As with other propaganda film, such as Triumph of the Will and Olympia, it was directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Festoon Festoon (from French feston, Italian festone, from a Late Latin festo, originally a festal garland, Latin festum, feast), a wreath or garland, and so in architecture a conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons, either from a decorated knot, or held in the mouths of lions, or suspended across the back of bulls heads as in the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. The motif is sometimes known as a swag when depicting fabric or linen.
Festspiel Baden-Baden The Festspiel Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival) is actually a series of festivals presented by the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Baden-Baden, Germany. The programme is structured around four annual festival periods dispersed throughout the year.
Festung Norwegen Festung Norwegen (Fortress Norway) was the German term for the heavy defense and fortification system of Norway during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in World War II. By some, including Reichskommissar Josef Terboven, it was thought that these fortifications would serve effectively as a last perimeter of defense of the Third Reich in the event of Allied victory on the continent.
Festung Warschau Festung Warschau (German for Fortress Warsaw) was the name applied in German language to Warsaw when the city was defended, which happened under various constellations in the course of history, with and without involvement of German-speaking troops.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. The main effect of fetal alcohol exposure is brain damage.
Fetal Dilantin Syndrome Dilantin is the brand name of the drug phenytoin sodium in the United States, commonly used in the treatment of epilepsy. About one third of children whose mothers are taking this drug during pregnancy develop minor face and limb birth defects, a smaller population will have growth problems and developmental delay, or mental retardation.
Fetal genital development A few weeks after fertilization, the initial appearance of the human fetal genitalia is basically feminine: a pair of "urogenital folds" with a small protuberance in the middle, and the urethra behind the protuberance.
Fetal hemoglobin Fetal hemoglobin (also hemoglobin F or HbF) is the main oxygen transport protein in the fetus during the last seven months of development in the womb. Functionally, fetal hemoglobin differs most from adult hemoglobin in that it is able to bind oxygen with greater affinity than the adult form, giving the developing fetus better access to oxygen from the mother's bloodstream.
Fetal intervention Fetal intervention involves in-utero medical treatment for a fetus—usually one suffering from some form of birth defect. There are several forms of fetal intervention from the most invasive, open fetal surgery, to less invasive forms like, fetendo and fetal image-guided surgery.
Fetal pain Fetal pain is a subject of intense political and academic debate as part of the controversy over abortion. Determining the stage of pregnancy at which a fetus is able to feel pain could have a significant effect on abortion laws and practices.
Fetal position Fetal position (also spelt FOETAL) is a medical term used to describe the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops. In this position, the back is curved, the head is bowed, and the limbs are bent and drawn up to the torso.
Fetal protection Fetal protection legislation in the United States refers to laws designed to grant recognition as a "legal person" to a fetus. Such legislation is controversial because of the debate over abortion rights in the US.
Fetal stethoscope A fetal stethoscope (also known as Pinard's stethoscope or a pinard) is a listening device used in the care of pregnancy. The instrument is shaped like a listening trumpet and is placed on the abdomen of the woman so that the midwife or doctor can find the fetal heart sounds.
Fetal tissue implant Fetal tissue implant or fetal cell therapy is implanting tissue from a fetus to a patient for treatment of disease. In the case of Parkinson's disease, it is hoped that the fetal tissue would produce chemicals lacking in the diseased brain.
Fetal trimethadione syndrome Fetal trimethadione syndrome (also referred to as paramethadione syndrome, German syndrome, or tridione syndrome, as well as several other termsAdditional names include trimethadione embryopathy and trimethadione syndrome.) is a series of birth defects caused by the administration of the anticonvulsants trimethadione (also known as Tridione) or paramethadione to epileptic mothers during pregnancy.
Fetasiano group The Fetasiano group were a series of writers of the Canary Islands in the 1960s and the 1970s (the 70s generation) with Rafael Arozarena, Antonio Bermejo, José Antonio Padrón and Isaac de Vega and is named after the novel of the same name (Fetasa 1957). The influences of the fetasianos were until the denomination of the Latest Canarian Narrative.
Fetendo Fetendo is a form of fetal intervention in the treatment of birth defects and other fetal problems. The procedure uses real-time video imagery from fetoscopy and ultrasonography to guide very small surgical instruments into the uterus in order to surgically help the fetus.
Fetha Negest The Fetha Negest ፍትሐ ነገሥት ("Laws of the Kings") is a legal code compiled around 1240 by the Coptic Egyptian Christian writer, 'Abul Fada'il Ibn al-'Assal, in Arabic. 'Ibn al-Assal took his laws partly from apostolic writings, and partly from former law codes of the Byzantine rulers.
Fethard-on-Sea Fethard-on-Sea is a village situated in south-west County Wexford, Ireland on the eastern side of the base of the Hook peninsula in the parish of Templetown. Fethard-on-Sea is often associated with the Fethard-on-Sea Boycott.
Fethry Duck In Brazilian and Italian stories, Fethry is a major character depicted in various occupations, including as a reporter (alongside his cousin Donald Duck and, sometimes, Daisy Duck) and comic strip artist for Scrooge McDuck's newspaper. Fethry has also gained a superheroic alter ego, The Red Bat (parody of Batman, like Donald's Paperinik), and a number of supporting characters, among them his nephew Dugan Duck.
Fethullah Gülen Fethullah Gülen (born in April 1941) is a former Islamic preacher, writer, and leader of the eponymous group alternatively called Gülen's movement, or Fethullahçı movement in Turkey. His critics accuse him of undermining secular nature of Turkish Republic and advocating Islamization of the society, while his supporters hail him as an open-minded Islamic scholar and claim he been subject to a long-lasting hate campaign.
Fetch-and-add In computer science, the fetch-and-add CPU instruction is a special instruction that atomically modifies the contents of a memory location. In the x86 architecture, the instuction ADD with the first operand specifying a memory location is a fetch-and-add instruction that has been there since the 8086 (it just wasn't called that then), and with the LOCK prefix, is atomic across multiple processors.
Fetching Cody Fetching Cody is a 2005 film written and directed by David Ray. The film takes place in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside and follows the story of Art Frankel (played by Jay Baruchel) as he desperately tries to save his girlfriend Cody Wesson (Sarah Lind) by attempting to rewrite her past.
Fetish club A fetish club is a nightclub, bar or other entertainment venue which caters to clientele interested in some of (but not necessarily all) fetish fashion, bondage, domination/submission, and/or sadism and masochism (For short, BDSM). Some clubs have active "play" going on inside the club while others are a socialising place for like-minded people.
Fetish fashion Fetish fashion is the clothing often worn in the BDSM scene, and which is usually erotic or revealing in nature. Materials such as leather, latex, nylon, rubber and pvc, spandex and fishnet are common, as are items of clothing such as stiletto heeled shoes and boots, corsets and garters.
Fetish model A fetish model is an erotic performer who appears in fetish fashion or bondage photography (sometimes glamour photography), in particular in bondage magazines. Many porn stars and glamour models also act as fetish models.
Fetish photographer A fetish photographer takes photographs of people in fetishistic situations, such as in bondage, or wearing rubber or leather clothing. More extreme fetish photography depicts paraphiliac acts such as urination, enemas, or SM activities.
Fetish priest In Ghana, Togo, and Benin a fetish priest serves a spirit called a deity associated with an image or object that is usually kept in an enclosed place called a fetish shrine, often a simple mud hut with some kind of enclosure or fence around it. He (or she, in the case of a priestess) performs rituals to consult and seek the favor of the god of the shrine.
Fetish subculture The fetish subculture is a subculture that comprises people with a broad range of sexual fetishes and other paraphilias, who tend to be more tolerant of other fetishists than the general community, even if they do not share the other person's specific fetish. Alternative terms for the fetish subculture include fetish scene and fetish community.
Fetishes (documentary) Fetishes is a 1996 documentary by Nick Broomfield filmed at Pandora's Box, one of New York City's most luxurious SM/fetish parlours. The film contains interviews with professional dominatrices and their clients including the New York filmmaker Maria Beatty.
Fetishism A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a man-made object that has power over others.
Fetlock Fetlock is the common name for the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints (MCPJ and MTPJ) of the horse. It is formed by the junction of the third metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bones (common name: the cannon bones) proximad and the proximal phalanx distad (common name: the pastern bone).
Fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia In fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (also known as Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia or NAIT) maternal IgG antibodies (specific for platelet antigens) pass through the placenta and attack platelets in the fetal circulation. This results in the fetus having low numbers of platelets and a tendency for the fetus or neonate to bruise and bleed.
Fetoscopy Fetoscopy is an endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta. A small (3-4 mm) incision is made in the abdomen, and the endoscope is inserted through the wall of the abdomen and uterus into the amniotic cavity.
Fetter (Buddhism) In Buddhism, a mental fetter or "chain" or "bond" (Pāli: samyojana, saŋyojana, saññojana) shackles a person to samsara, the cycle of endless suffering. By completely cutting through all fetters, one attains Nibbana (Skt.
Fetteresso Castle Fetteresso Castle is a 14th century towerhouse, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site. It is situated immediately west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire slightly to the west of the A90 dual carriageway.
Fetternear Palace Fetternear Palace, is a ruined medieval palace near Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. It is considered one of the more important medieval sites in the British Isles, with significant links to Hungary, Austria and Slovenia .
Fettuccine alfredo Fettuccine alfredo is a pasta dish made from fettuccine pasta, Parmesan cheese, butter, and heavy cream. It is the American name for the famous Roman dish, Fettuccine al burro (fettuccine with butter) or al burro e panna (with butter and cream); the name 'Alfredo' is not widely used in Italy.
Fetus-X Fetus-X is a controversial weekly romantic horror comic written and drawn by award-winning American cartoonist Eric Millikin, which has been published in newspapers, books, and as a webcomic since late 1999. Bennet, Brandon (August 1 2002).
Fetzer Field Fetzer Field is a 5,025-capacity stadium located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The stadium is home to the North Carolina Tar Heels men's and women's soccer teams as well as the lacrosse and track and field teams.
Feu de joie A feu de joie (French: "fire of joy") is a gun salute, described as a "running fire of guns", on occasions of public rejoicing of nation and/or ruling dynasty. It can also mean a bonfire lit in a public place as a token of joy.
Feud A feud is a long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds tend to begin because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted or wronged by another.
Feud (professional wrestling) A professional wrestling feud is a staged disagreement between two wrestlers or factions of wrestlers over a purported slight or insult. It becomes part of the storyline that is ongoing, in televised matches in particular.
Feudal society Feudal society is a sometimes debated term used to describe the medieval social order of western and central Europe and sometimes Japan (particularly in the 14th to 16th centuries) characterised by the legal subjection of a large part of the peasantry to a hereditary landholding elite exercising administrative and judicial power on the basis of reciprocal private undertakings.
Feucht Feucht is a town south-east of Nuremberg in Bavaria and as of July 31, 2005, had a population of 13,590. Hermann Oberth (1894-1989), one of the early fathers of space travel, lived for many years and died in Feucht.
Feuilleton Feuilleton (a diminutive of French feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. Its inventor was Bertin the Elder, editor of the Journal des DĂ©bats.
Feulgen stain Feulgen stain is a staining technique discovered by Robert Feulgen and used in histology to identify chromosomal material or DNA in cell specimens. It depends on acid hydrolysis of DNA, therefore fixating agents using strong acids should be avoided.
Fever (band) Fever was a disco studio group from Ohio who scored a number of hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart, the most successful being "Beat Of the Night" / "Pump It Up," which hit #1. Group members included Clydene Jackson, Dale Reed, Joe Bomback and Dennis Waddington.
Fever 1793 Fever 1793 (2000) is a historical novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Set during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, its protagonist and narrator is a teenage girl named Matilda (nicknamed Mattie) whos father has died.
Fever Pitch (1985 film) Fever Pitch is a 1985 movie starring Ryan O'Neal and directed by Richard Brooks. It was nominated for four Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, as well as contributing to O'Neal's later Razzie nomination for Worst Actor of the Decade.
Fever Pitch (2005 film) Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a Farrelly Brothers comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name, and is loosely based on the Nick Hornby book Fever Pitch, a best-selling novel in the UK.
Fever Pitch (album) Fever Pitch was the official soundtrack to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, held in Japan and Korea. The album featured popular artists from several of the countries represented at the World Cup including Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado and Bomfunk MC's.

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