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Fithp The Fithp are a fictional alien race created by Larry Niven and Jeff Pournelle in their novel "Footfall". They resemble small elephants with multiple branching "trunks" which are well adapted for manipulating tools.
Fitch Barrier The Fitch Highway Barrier System, invented by race car driver John Fitch, comprises a series of sand-filled yellow plastic barrels with black lids, often found in a triangular arrangement at the tip of a guardrail between a highway and an exit lane, along the most probable line of impact. The barriers in front contain the most sand, with each successive barrel containing less; so that when a vehicle collides with the barrels they shatter, the kinetic energy is dissipated by scattering the sand, and the vehicle decelerates smoothly instead of violently striking a solid obstruction, reducing the risk of injury to the occupants.
Fitchburg Railroad The Fitchburg Railroad was a railroad across northern Massachusetts, USA, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel. The original line, from Boston to Fitchburg, is now the Fitchburg Line, a line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system.
Fitchburg State College Fitchburg State College is a four-year public institution of higher learning located in the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Fitchburg State College has over 3300 undergraduate and 1670 graduate/continuing education students, for a total student body enrollment of 5049.
Fitioneşti Fitioneşti (fee-tee-oh-NESHT) a village and commune in the center-north hill area of the Vrancea county in Romania (around 4,000 inhabitants). The Fitioneşti commune includes five villages: Fitioneşti, Ghimiceşti, Ciolăneşti, Şoldăneşti, and Mănăstioara.
Fitler Square Fitler Square is a city park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bounded on the east by 23rd Street, on the west by 24th Street, on the north by Panama Street, and on the south by Pine Street. It is in the southwestern part of Philadelphia's downtown, which is known as Center City.
Fitna Fitna (فتنة) is an Arabic word, generally regarded as very difficult to translate. It is often used to refer to civil war, disagreement and division within Islam and specifically alludes to a time involving trials of faith, similar to the Tribulation in Christian eschatology.
Fitness (biology) Fitness (often denoted w in population genetics models) is a central concept in evolutionary theory. It describes the capability of an individual of certain genotype to reproduce, and usually is equal to the proportion of the individual's genes in all the genes of the next generation.
Fitness and figure competition Fitness and figure competition is a class of physique events for women bearing a close resemblance to female bodybuilding, but with significantly less emphasis on muscle size. These competitions are frequently held as part of the same event as bodybuilding contests.
Fitness bootcamp Fitness bootcamps are often based on the military style of training. Usually held outdoors the activities include jogging, sprinting, plyometrics, push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges and a variety of other calisthenic exercises.
Fitness function A fitness function is a particular type of objective function that quantifies the optimality of a solution (that is, a chromosome) in a genetic algorithm so that that particular chromosome may be ranked against all the other chromosomes. Optimal chromosomes, or at least chromosomes which are more optimal, are allowed to breed and mix their datasets by any of several techniques, producing a new generation that will (hopefully) be even better.
Fitness landscape In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes (or phenotypes) and reproductive success. It is assumed that every genotype has a well defined replication rate (often referred to as fitness).
Fitness to plead In the law of England and Wales, Fitness to Plead is covered in the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991. It covers occasions when the defendant's condition may be so serious that it will justify a hearing on the issue of fitness to plead.
Fitrah In Islamic context, Fitrah (فطرة) is humanity's innate disposition towards virtue and the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. Muslims believe every child is born with fitrah, including those in non-Muslim communities, and that without external influence, these children would come to worship Allah on their own.
Fitting subgroup In group theory, a branch of mathematics, the Fitting subgroup F of a finite group G, named after Hans Fitting, is the largest normal nilpotent subgroup of G. Intuitively, it represents the smallest subgroup which "controls" the structure of G when G is solvable.
Fittja Mosque The Fittja Mosque is a mosque in Turkish style architecture built in the Stockholm suburb of Fittja in Sweden. It is run and was constructed by the local Turkish Islamic Association, and the area has a high concentration of Muslims.
Fitton Field Fitton Field is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts. Primarily used for College of the Holy Cross sporting events, the baseball stadium also acts as the home field for the Can-Am League Worcester Tornadoes.
Fitts' law In ergonomics, Fitts' law is a model of human movement, predicting the time required to rapidly move from a starting position to a final target area, as a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target. Fitts' law is used to model the act of pointing, both in the real world, for example, with a hand or finger and on computers, for example, with a mouse.
Fitz Henry Lane Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (19 December 1804 – 14 August 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “Fitzhugh Ludlow,” (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).
Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz. It is the largest such library in the world and is based at the moment in San Francisco, California; it is also currently for sale.
Fitz Kreiner Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner, or simply Fitz, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met him in the novel The Taint by Michael Collier — the character was co-created by Stephen Cole — and he went on to become one of his companions.
Fitz-Greene Halleck Fitz-Greene Halleck (July 8,1790 – November 19, 1867) was an American poet, born and died at Guilford, Connecticut. He wrote, with Joseph Rodman Drake, a young poet who died at 25, and with whom he may have been in love, The Croaker Papers, a series of satirical and humorous verses, and Fanny, his longest poem, also a satire on the literature, fashions, and politics of the time, published anonymously, December, 1819.
Fitzalan Pursuivant Extraordinary Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary is a current officer of arms in England. As a pursuivant extraordinary, Fitzalan is a royal officer of arms, but is not a member of the corporation of the College of Arms in London.
Fitzalan Square Fitzalan Square is a municipal square situated in the city centre of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The present day square is one of the busiest areas of the city centre with traffic and pedestrians continually moving through the area.
Fitzgerald Inquiry The Fitzgerald Inquiry into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC. The inquiry was established in response to a series of articles on high-level police corruption in The Courier-Mail by reporter Phil Dickie, followed by a Four Corners report, aired on 11 May 1987, entitled "The Moonlight State" with reporter Chris Masters.
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is a marine reserve on the Pacific Ocean, located just north of Pillar Point Harbor and Mavericks in the San Mateo County community of Moss Beach, California. Moss Beach is located approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco, California and 50 miles north of Santa Cruz, California.
FitzGerald Report The '"Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Lebanon inquiring into the causes, circumstances and consequences of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, 25 February - 24 March 2005,"' better known as the FitzGerald Report, is the outcome of an inquiry, ordered by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and conducted by Irish deputy police commissioner Peter FitzGerald, into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005.
Fitzherbert Marriott Venerable Fitzherbert Adams Marriott (MA Cambridge), the first Archdeacon of Hobart Town, arrived in 1843 with Francis Russell Nixon, the first Bishop of Tasmania, on board the Duke of Roxburgh. Marriott was a close friend and supporter of the Bishop in his battles for supremacy with the Governor Sir John Eardley-Wimot.
Fitzpatrick Center The Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences—colloquially referred to as CIEMAS (pronounced "see-mas")—opened in August 2004 on the campus of Duke University. Research facilities focus on the fields of photonics, bioengineering, communications, and materials science and materials engineering.
Fitzpatrick Rock Fitzpatrick Rock () is a low ice-capped rock lying half a mile northwest of Kilby Island at the mouth of Newcomb Bay, in the Windmill Islands, Antarctica. It was first charted in February 1957 by a party from the USS Glacier.
Fitzpatrick Stadium Fitzpatrick Stadium is a 6,000 seat multi-purpose outdoor stadium in Portland, Maine, USA. It is located between Interstate 295, Hadlock Field baseball stadium, and the Portland Exposition Building, the second oldest arena in continuous operation in the United States.
Fitzrovia Fitzrovia is an area of central London, just north of the West End. It is an informally designated area lying partly in the London Borough of Camden (in the east) and partly in the City of Westminster (in the west).
Fitzroy FC honour roll This is a list of coaches and captains of the Fitzroy Football Club, along with best-and-fairest award winners and leading goalkickers, for every year of the club's participation in the Victorian Football Association and the Victorian/Australian Football League.
Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club, latterly known as "the Lions", was an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League) on its inception in 1897. The club ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s and was forced to merge with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions.
Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne Central Business District in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, and Wellington Parade with the Treasury Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west.
Fitzroy Maclean Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean of Dunconnel, 1st Baronet of Strachur and Glensluain, (March 11, 1911, Egypt - June 15, 1996, Scotland) was a Scottish diplomat, soldier, adventurer, writer and politician. In Eastern Approaches, MacLean recounted his extraordinary adventures in Soviet Central Asia, and in the Western Desert Campaign, where he specialized in commando raids behind enemy lines.
Fitzroy River (Queensland) The Fitzroy River lies in Central Queensland, Australia. Its catchment covers an area of 150,000 square kilometres, making it the second largest river catchment in Australia, after that of the Murray Darling system.
Fitzroy River Barrage A dam type structure built as part of the Camballin Irrigation Scheme. It was comprised of a series of collapsible shutters which were designed to collapse when the river level was approximately twelve inches over the shutters.
Fitzroy-North Melbourne Kangaroos Football Club The North-Fitzroy Kangaroos was a proposed football club which would have played in the Australian Football League. It would have been made up from the merger of the North Melbourne Football Club and the Fitzroy Football Club, which eventually merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions.
Fitzroy, South Australia Fitzroy is an inner northern suburb of Adelaide 4km from the CBD, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Prospect. It is adjacent to North Adelaide, Prospect, Ovingham and Thorngate.
Fitzroya Fitzroya is a genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae with a single species, Fitzroya cupressoides native to the Andes mountains of southern Chile and adjoining Argentina, where it is an important member of the Valdivian temperate rain forests. The scientific name of the genus honours Robert FitzRoy; common names include Lahuan (the Mapuche Native American name), Alerce (South American Spanish), and Patagonian Cypress.
Fitzwilliam College Boat Club Fitzwilliam College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Prior to the 1960s, Fitzwilliam House (as it was then called) occupied a position near the bottom of the 2nd division or top half of the 3rd division of the Lent and May Bumps, even finding itself in the 4th division of the Lent Bumps briefly.
Fitzwilly Fitzwilly is a 1967 film by Delbert Mann, based on Poyntz Tyler's novel, A Garden of Cucumbers, adapted for the screen by Isobel Lennart. Its title refers to the nickname of Claude Fitzwilliam, an unusually intelligent and highly educated mastermind of a butler played by Dick Van Dyke.
Fiumelatte River Fiumelatte is the shortest river in Italy; flowing from a cavity in the Grigna to Lake Como it has an approximate length of 250 m (820 ft). The name Fiumelatte, composed from fiume (Italian for "river") and latte ("milk"), is due to the milky white color of its water.
Five Animals In the Chinese martial arts, imagery of the Five Animals ()—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon—appears predominantly in Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian Provinces.
Five by five In voice procedure (the techniques used to facilitate spoken communication over two-way radios) a station may request a report on the quality and strength of signal they are broadcasting. In the military of the NATO countries, and other organizations, the signal quality is reported on two scales; the first is for signal strength, and the second for signal clarity.
Five Billion Years of Change: A History of the Land Five Billion Years of Change: A History of the Land is a book by Denis Wood that attempts a holistic view of reality that ranges from the Big Bang to the World Wide Web. Specifically, this books deals with the formation of various structures:
Five Black Categories The Five Black Categories (Chinese: 黑五類; pinyin: hei wŭlèi) refer to the following five political identities: landlords (地主), rich-farmers (富農), anti-revolutionists (反革命), bad-influencers (壞分子), and right-wings (右派) during the Cultural Revolution period in China.
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was one of the most popular and influential post-war gospel quartets. Powered by the vocals of lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single "Our Father" reached the Billboard R&B charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so.
Five Burghs The Five Burghs or more usually The Five Boroughs or The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw were the five main towns of Danish Mercia (what is now the East Midlands). These were Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford.
Five card charlie In blackjack, a Five card charlie is when a player accumulates five cards without going over 21. In some variants of the game, a player with a five card charlie wins automatically, regardless of what hand the dealer ultimately makes.
Five cents John Kennedy The five cents John Kennedy is the first United States postage stamp to pay tribute to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was issued May 29 1964 for his 47th birthday, with a first day of issue cancellation in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.
Five color theorem The five color theorem is a result from graph theory that given a plane separated into regions, such as a political map of the counties of a state, the regions may be colored using no more than five colors in such a way that no two adjacent regions receive the same color.
Five Came Back Five Came Back is a 1939 disaster film, which predated many of the more famous air disaster films, such as Airport. The film starred Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, and John Carradine and was directed by John Farrow.
Five Centuries of Spanish Literature Five Centuries of Spanish Literature: From the Cid through the Golden Age is a popular textbook providing a selection of Spanish literature from the twelfth through seventeenth centuries. First published in 1962, it is still in use today.
Five Civilized Tribes The Five Civilized Tribes is the term applied to five Native American nations, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, considered "civilized" by white society because they had adopted many of the colonists' customs (including the ownership of plantations and black slaves) and had generally good relations with their neighbors. The Five Civilized Tribes lived in the Southeastern United States before their removal to other parts of the country, especially the future Oklahoma.
Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield The Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield is a consortium of Museums in Western Massachusetts and includes art museums which are part of the Five Colleges as well as Historic Deerfield. The Five College Museums maintains a searchable databaseof the collections of the museums that is among the larger art galleries] on the internet.
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory The Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory (FCRAO) was founded in 1969 by the Five College Astronomy Department (University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and Smith College). From its inception, the observatory has emphasized research, the development of technology and the training of students—both graduate and undergraduate.
Five Colleges (Massachusetts) The Five Colleges are affiliated colleges in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, belonging to a consortium called Five Colleges, Incorporated, which was established in 1965. The Five Colleges are geographically close to one another and are linked by buses which run between the campuses.
Five Crowns Five Crowns is a proprietary card game for two to seven players created by Set Enterprises. The rummy-based game is played with a dedicated deck of 116 cards, in which the object is to obtain the lowest number of points after 11 hands of play.
Five dollar note (Australian) The Australian five dollar banknote was issued one year after the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It was a new denomination, as the Pound system had no ÂŁ2.
Five Deez Five Deez is an American hip hop group from Cincinnati, Ohio and a part of the Wanna Battle collective, which also includes DJ Hi-Tek, Talib Kweli, Rubix, and Lone Catalysts. The group consists of members: Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician (John Marshall), Pase Rock (Patrick Johnson), Kyle David (also known as Chilly Most), and Sonic (Corey Brown).
Five Dock, New South Wales Five Dock is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 10 km west of the Sydney central business district within the Local Government Area of the City of Canada Bay.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (, 907-960) was an era of political upheaval in China, beginning in the Tang Dynasty and ending in the Song Dynasty. During this period, five dynasties quickly succeeded one another in the north, and more than 12 independent states were established, mainly in the south.
Five Dynasties History The Five Dynasties History (Chinese: 五代史} was an official history of the Five Dynasties (907-960), which controlled much of northern China. It was compiled by the Song Dynasty official-scholar Xue Juzheng in the first two decades of the Song Dynasty, which was founded in 960.
Five economic tests The five economic tests are the criteria defined by the United Kingdom Government that are to be used to assess the UK's readiness to join the Eurozone and adopt the euro as its currency. In principle, these tests will be distinct from any political decision to join.
Five elements (Japanese philosophy) Japan imported the different concepts of five elements from China, and are heavily influenced by Buddhism. The Chinese five elements are called gogyō (五行), and the Indian five elements are called godai (五大).
Five Easy Pieces Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 film written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. It tells the story of Bobby Dupea (played by Jack Nicholson), a former piano prodigy who is estranged from his artistic upper middle class family.
Five Elemental Dragons (Exalted) Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy, but may be more accurately described as "mythic fantasy," as the original developer specifically avoided drawing on J.
Five Eulsa Traitors In Korean history, the Five Eulsa Traitors refers to those officials serving under Emperor Gojong who signed the Eulsa Treaty of 1905 against Gojong's wishes, stripping the Korean Empire of its sovereignty and making Korea a protectorate of Japan. The five officials were Education Minister Yi Wan-yong, Army Minister Yi Geun-taek (ko), Interior Minister Yi Ji-yong (ko), Foreign Affairs Minister Pak Je-sun (ko), and Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry Minister Gwon Jung-hyeon (ko).
Five Evils FIVE EVILS or five thieves or pancadokh or panj vikar as they are referred to in Sikh Scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, are, according to Sikhism, the five major weaknesses of the human personality at variance with its spiritual essence. The common evils far exceed in number, but a group of five of them came to be identified because of the obstruction they are believed to cause in man's pursuit of the moral and spiritual path.
Five finger(Tree) Five finger or Puakou, 'Pseudopanax arboreus' is a New Zealand native tree belonging to the famil Araliaceae It is one of the more common of the native trees being found everywhere, in bush, scrub and in gardens throughout both islands. The compound leaves with either five or seven leaflets, hence the name, are very characteristic of the tree and easily recognized.
Five foot way Five foot ways are pedestrian walkways indented into the ground floor of a building from the road, so that the overhanging upper floors can provide a cover to shield pedestrians from the sun and rain. This feature can be found in many shophouses all over the world, and also in some office buildings (e.
Five Faces of Darkness Five Faces of Darkness was the five-part season premiere for Season 3 of the 1984-1987 cartoon The Transformers. The five-part episode was intended to introduce viewers to the changes depicted in The Transformers: The Movie, which for story purposes, occurred immediately before Part 1.
Five Families The Five Families are the major crime families of the Italian-American Mafia based in New York City which have dominated traditional organized crime in New York. The Five Families, under the suggestion of Salvatore Maranzano, were responsible for the establishment of The Commission, a council which demarcated territory between the previously warring factions and governs Cosa Nostra activities in the United States.
Five Fingers of Death Five Fingers of Death (pinyin: Tian xia di yi quan, "Number One Fist Beneath the Heavens") is a 1972 martial arts film directed by Jeong Chang-hwa and starring Lo Lieh. Made in Hong Kong, it is one of many kung fu-themed movies with Lo Lieh in the lead.
Five Flags Center The Five Flags Center is a multipurpose sports, arts, and convention facility in downtown Dubuque, Iowa. It is named for the five flags that have flown over Dubuque; the Fleur de Lis of France (1673-1763), the Royal Flag of Spain (1763-1803), the Union Jack of England (1780, during a brief interruption of Spanish rule), the French Republic Flag of Napoleon (1803), and America's Stars and Stripes (1803-Present).
Five Good Emperors The Five good Emperors or Adoptive Emperors (sometimes called the Nervan-Antonian Dynasty, which is actually a conflation of the Nervo-Trajanic and Antonine dynasties, the latter including Commodus) were five consecutive emperors of the Roman Empire who ruled from 96 to 180: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. They were known for their moderate policies, in contrast to their more tyrannical and oppressive successors; their rule was at the height of the Empire's prosperity during the Pax Romana.
Five Great Charters The Five Great Charters are the five entities in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom books, which are sources and bastions of Charter Magic. They include the bloodlines of the royal family of the Old Kingdom, the Abhorsens, and the Clayr, as well as the Wallmakers and the Great Stones.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs Five Green and Speckled Frogs (also recorded as "Five Speckled Frogs" and "Five Little Speckled Frogs") is a popular children's song and nursery rhyme sung in many daycare centers. It is also often sung to babies when they are learning how to swim, in "parent and tot" swim classes.
Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope FAST, or the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, first proposed in 1994, is a radio telescope to be built by 2013 in Pingtang County 平塘县 near Duyun, capital of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州, Guizhou Province 贵州, southwest China.
Five Hand Reel A Scottish/English/Irish Celtic Rock band of late 1970s that combined experiences of traditional Scottish and Irish folk music with electric rock arrangements. Members: Dick Gaughan (1948), Bobby Eaglesham (1942 - 2004), Tom Hickland, Barry Lyons and Dave Tulloch.
Five inch Friday Five inch Friday was the name given to the military operations led by the British Army and the Royal Australian Navy starting on March 20, 2003 during the invasion of Iraq, on the Al-Faw Peninsula in the southern part of the country. This was the first time since the Vietnam War that the RAN provided fire support to land forces, among others, from HMAS Anzac and HMS Marlborough.
Five Islands, Nova Scotia Five Islands is a community in Colchester County Nova Scotia with a population of 260 located on the north shore of the Minas Basin, home of the biggest tides in the world. It is named, logically, after five small islands - Moose, Diamond, Long, Egg, and Pinnacle - located just off the coast.
Five kings of Wa The five kings of Wa are kings of Japan who sent envoys to China during the 5th century to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims to power by gaining the recognition of the Chinese emperor. Details about them are unknown.
Five knuckle shuffle The Five Knuckle Shuffle is one of the WWE Monday Night RAW’S wrestler named John Cena’s finishing move. Before he does that, he does the spin out power bomb When he does the five knuckle shuffle, he bounces off the rope and brushes his shoulder off and goes down and hits you right in the forehead.
Five Kinds of Silence Five Kinds of Silence is an In-yer-face theatre play by the playwright Shelagh Stephenson. It tells the story of a family living under the power of the vicious Billy, who physically, emotionally, and sexually abuses his wife, Mary, and children, Susan and Janet.
Five Ks The Five Ks, or panj kakaar/kakke, are five items of faith that baptised Khalsa Sikhs wear at all times at the command of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh who so ordered at the Baisakhi Amrit Sanchar in 1699. The Five Ks are not merely symbols but articles of faith which collectively form the external visible symbols to identify and clearly and outwardly advertise and display one's commitment.
Five Little Peppers The Five Little Peppers series was created by Margaret Sidney covering the life of five children with the surname Pepper. The Pepper children were very poor, and their widowed mother was left to raise them by herself.
Five major codes The analytic structure Barthes’ creates in S/Z are the five major codes. Neither the number nor the type of codes that Barthes applies in his analysis of Sarrasine are meant to be seen as prescriptive for all texts.
Five minute hypothesis The five-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher Bertrand Russell that claims the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago from nothing, with human memory and all other signs of history included. It is a commonly used example of how one may maintain extreme philosophical skepticism with regards to memory.
Five minutes speech On August 11, 1984, United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, was preparing to make a radio address. As a sound check prior to the address, Reagan made the following joke to the radio technicians:
Five Magical Materials In the role-playing game Exalted, there are Five Magical Materials that are used to forge artifacts and weapons. Each of the materials is associated with a type of Exalted, as well as one of the castes of Alchemical Exalted, who are partially constructed from that material.
Five Man Acoustical Jam Five Man Acoustical Jam was a live album released in 1990 by the band Tesla, using acoustic guitars instead of electric guitars which hard rock/heavy metal bands such as Tesla were known for. The biggest hit from the album was the song "Signs", a cover version originally from the band Five Man Electrical Band, who also had a hit with the song.
Five Men In A Hut (DVD) Five Men In A Hut (DVD) is a DVD release by the British band Gomez, as a companion to the Five Men In A Hut B-sides compilation. It features videos for many of the band's songs, along with some interviews with the band members and some live performances.
Five Minutes to Love Five Minutes to Love, originally known as The Rotten Apple and also known as It Only Takes Five Minutes, was a 1960s film starring Rue McClanahan about a woman named Poochie, played by McClanahan, who lived in a junkyard. Originally directed by John Hayes, it was critically lambasted, and later picked up by exploitation filmmaker Kroger Babb, who repackaged The Rotten Apple as Five Minutes to Love.
Five Minutes to Midnight Five Minutes to Midnight is an international youth-led project working to educate young people about human rights and international issues. This program started in Toronto, has since grown and is now active on all continents and in over 22 countries.
Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys was the debut EP by Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys. Released on 30 May 2005, it featured a re-recording of fan favourite "Fake Tales of San Francisco" and new song and b-side "From the Ritz to the Rubble".
Five Mystical Songs For baritone, choir, and orchestra. Written around the period of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, these songs, on poems by the English metaphysical George Herbert, share some of the intensity of the more famous work, but with added color.

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