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Five Oaks Five Oaks is a hamlet in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The hamlet lies about 3km north of Billingshurst on the roman road of Stane Street (now the A29) at the junction with the Western end of the A264.
Five points of Calvinism The Five points of Calvinism, sometimes called the doctrines of grace and remembered in the English-speaking world with the mnemonic TULIP, are a summary of the judgments (or canons) rendered by the Synod of Dordt reflecting the Calvinist understanding of the nature of divine grace and predestination as it relates to salvation. The central assertion of the five points is that God is able to save every one of those upon whom he has mercy and that his efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or the inability of humans.
Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion The Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion (äş”ć–—ç±łé“ pinyin: Wudoumidao wg: Wu-Tou-Mi-Tao) was a religious rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) instigated by Taoist leader Zhang Daoling's grandson Zhang Lu. The name of the rebellion refers to the five pecks that were paid to the Taoist church for either cures (Zhang Daoling was a faith healer) or church dues.
Five Points (Athens) Five Points is a low-density residential and commercial community in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of South Milledge Avenue, South Lumpkin Street, and Milledge Circle. The area abuts the south-southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus and is known for its mix of students and older residents, many of the latter being employed by the University.
Five Points (Atlanta) Five Points is an area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the primary reference for the downtown area. The name refers to the convergence of Marietta Street, Edgewood Avenue, Decatur Street, and two legs of Peachtree Street.
Five Points (Columbia) Five Points in Columbia, South Carolina is a shopping, restaurant, and nightlife area that attracts customers from the nearby University of South Carolina and throughout the Columbia metropolitan area. It is the center for the city's annual St.
Five Points Historic District Five Points Historic District was the third historic district in Huntsville, AL. It features homes built around the turn of the 20th Century in several styles, including California Bungalow, Queen Anne and other modest Victorian styles dating from the late 1890s through the early 1900s.
Five Points, Denver Five Points is the name given to the neighborhoods surrounding the intersection of Washington Street, 27th Street, 26th Avenue and Welton Street, northeast of Downtown Denver. The collision between the downtown diagonal grid and the rectangular grid of East Denver neighborhoods causes this intersection to be five-way, hence the name.
Five Power Defence Arrangements The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) are a series of defence relationships established by bilateral agreements between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore signed in 1971, whereby the five nations will consult each other in the event of external aggression or threat of attack against Malaysia or Singapore. The FPDA was set up following the termination of the United Kingdom's defence guarantees of Malaysia and Singapore as a result of Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez.
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence or Pancha Sila (also spelled Panch Sila or Panchsheel) are a series of agreements between the People's Republic of China and India. After the Central Chinese Government took control of Tibet, China came into increasing conflict with India.
Five regent houses Sekke, the Five regent houses (五摂家; go-seike or go-sekke) is a collective term for those five families of Fujiwara clan, who were regarded entitled to the position of Sekkan in the Imperial Court of Kyoto, Japan, and monopolized the position between 12th and 19th century. The five houses are Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujo, Ichijo (一条家) and Nijo (二条家).
Five Races Under One Union Five races under one union (Chinese: 五族共和, literally “five races together’’) was one of the major principles that the Republic of China was originally founded upon. This principle emphasized the harmony of the five major ethnic groups in China as represented by the colored stripes of Five-Colored Flag of the Republic: the Han (red), the Manchus (yellow), the Mongols (blue), the Hui (white), and the Tibetan people (black).
Five Rings Publishing Group In 1996, Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA divested themselves of their joint operating venture, and created Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG). Using the joint venture the two companies had co-created the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game in 1995, and realized that in order to continue to successfully publish the game that a stand-alone company focused on the game-publishing business was the best solution.
Five shilling note (Australian) Five shilling notes were first proposed in 1916, when the value of silver was estimated to become too expensive to use for making coins due to a possible decrease in Australia's supply of silver. The proposed note was designed to have a portait of George VI, the King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India, displayed on its front side.
Five solas The Five Solas are five Latin phrases (or slogans) that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers' basic beliefs and emphasis in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day. The word sola means "alone," "only," and "single" in Latin; the five solas were what the Reformers believed to be the "only" things needed in their respective functions in Christian salvation.
Five Satans The Five Satans are the five angels, part of a group of angels collectively known as the satans, described in the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch as fallen angels—or, in some translations, as giants or titans—each of whom God cast into exile for different reasons. Their sins were also among the infractions that incited God to inflict the Great Flood upon the Earth.
Five Seven Live Five Seven Live was an Irish radio rolling news programme, produced by RTÉ News and was aired each weekday evening on RTÉ Radio 1 between 17:00–19:00, between 1997 and 2006, the final edition being broadcast on 1 September 2006.
Five Shall Be One Five Shall Be One is an adventure module for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WGS1 and was published by TSR, Inc.
Five Star Corp Five Star Corp is a fictional Corporation in the game Shenmue that specialised in Haulage and storage of Chinese artifacts, old or new. It was owned and run by Yuanda Zhu, and eventually shut down after 5 years, when Yuanda went missing.
Five Star Prison Cell Five Star Prison Cell is a four-piece band from Melbourne, Australia, whose music is generally labelled as tech metal or math rock. They are known for their use of unusual time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and a vocal approach that explores many different avenues and styles many styled vocal approach.
Five Suns The concept known generally as the Five Suns describes the mythical world-view held by the Aztec and other Nahua peoples, in which the present world was preceded by four other cycles of creation and destruction. It is primarily derived from the mythological, cosmological and eschatological beliefs and traditions of earlier cultures from central Mexico and the Mesoamerican region in general.
Five Swell Guys Five Swell Guys is a fictional team of white-collar adventurers and and the only 'science-hero' team in New York City in Alan Moore's America's Best Comics series Promethea. The team meet Sophie Bangs in the first issue and Promethea in the 3rd issue, after one of the members is badly hurt.
Five techniques The term five techniques refers to certain interrogation practices adopted by the Northern Ireland and British governments during Operation Demetrius in the early 1970s. These methods were adopted by the Royal Ulster Constabulary with training and advice regarding their use coming from senior intelligence officials in the United Kingdom Government.
Five to One "Five To One" is a song by The Doors. "Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young to old, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask.
Five Tibetan Rites The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises first publicized by Peter Kelder, an orphan from the Midwestern United StatesBrief biography of Kelder as an orphan. In his booklet "The Eye of Revelation", published 1939, Kelder claims to relay the travel stories of a retired British army colonel he met in southern CaliforniaKelder claimed to have met a yogi colonel in southern California.
Five Tiger Generals The Five Tiger Generals (五虎將) of the Kingdom of Shu during the period of Three Kingdoms in China were Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong, named in honour of their contributions to the establishment of the kingdom. This title was bestowed on them by Liu Bei in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Five Towns The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, New York, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City. Despite the name, none of the communities are towns.
Five Towns Jewish Times The Five Towns Jewish Times is a weekly newspaper serving the Jewish communities of the Five Towns in southwestern Nassau County, New York, and the greater New York area, covering the area's large and growing Orthodox Jewish community. It is also distributed out of state and is growing rapidly in popularity.
Five Trees "Five Trees" in Paradise is a mysterious allegory or concept from famous Coptic Gospel of Thomas NHC 2: (gnostic library from Nag Hammadi in Egypt) 19th saying/logia of Jesus and other sources of religious mythology.
Five US Five US is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five, launched on October 16 2006 and available on digital television]. Five US broadcasts daily between 4pm and 1am and concentrates on showing programmes imported from the [[United States.
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus This is a small work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on the well-known folk tune Dives and Lazarus and first performed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. One of the variations uses a form of the tune traditionally associated with Maria Martin (see external links below).
Five Virtues For Sikhs, the final goal of life is to reunite or merge with God (Mukti). The Sikh Gurus taught that to achieve this goal it was important to work hard at developing positive human qualities which lead the soul closer to God.
Five Ways, Birmingham Five Ways is an area of Birmingham, England. It takes its name from a major roundabout to the south-west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street and the beginning of the A456 Hagley Road.
Five Weirs Walk The 8 km long Five Weirs Walk runs alongside the River Don in Sheffield, England. From Lady's Bridge in Sheffield City Centre, it heads downstream, northeast, over the Cobweb Bridge, through Attercliffe to Meadowhall.
Five Wisdom Kings In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Five Wisdom Kings (Jp. 五大ćŽçŽ‹ Godai myĹŤ-ĹŤ), also known as the Five Guardian Kings are a group of Wisdom Kings who represent the luminescent wisdom of the Buddha and protect the Five Wisdom Buddhas.
Five Ws In journalism, the Five Ws, also known as the Five Ws (and one H) or simply the Six Ws, is a concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that most people consider to be fundamental. It is a formula for getting the "full" story on something.
Five-a-side football Five-a-side football is a variation of football (soccer) in which each team field five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper), rather than the usual eleven. Other differences to football include playing on a smaller pitch, smaller goals, and a reduced game duration.
Five-card stud Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game, stud poker, originating during the American Civil War,World Casino Directory: History of Poker but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games - clear from its absence from the World Series of Poker. It is still a popular game in parts of the world, especially in Finland where a specific variant of five-card stud called Sökö (also known as Canadian stud or Scandinavian stud) is played.
Five-Fold Ministry Five-Fold Ministry refers to the New Testament book of Ephesians, in which the author instructs that people serve in the church, "some apostles, and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers; for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ". A recent, continuing movement within Charismatic Christianity exists which regards this as a model for the principal offices of service, or "ministry" within the Christian Church.
Five-Handed Euchre Five-handed Euchre is a variation of the popular trick-taking game Euchre which adds an additional player and features a dynamic partner system. In five-handed Euchre, each player competes against all other players.
Five-Minute Funnies (TV pilot) Five-Minute Funnies is a proposed sketch comedy series and is the first of its kind to be developed in the Whatcom County, Washington area. It is being developed by Bent Penny Productions, LLC and will also feature stand up comedy in addition to its sketches.
Five-pin bowling Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is only played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised in the early twentieth century by Thomas F.
Five-pointed star A five-pointed star, also referred to as a Pentagram or a star, is a very common ideogram in the western world,. If drawn with points of equal length and angles of 36° at each point, it is sometimes termed a golden five pointed star.
Five-Sixty Recordings Five-Sixty Recordings is an independent record label operating out of Woodstock, New Brunswick in Canada. It was established in 2005 by the band Houlton Road Trio as a means of releasing their limited edition debut album.
Five-tool player In baseball, a five-tool player is a term used to define a complete performer, an athlete who excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, baserunning skills and speed, throwing ability and fielding abilities.
Five-year plans of Nepal Five-year plans of Nepal generally strove to increase output and employment; develop the infrastructure; attain economic stability; promote industry, commerce, and international trade; establish administrative and public service institutions to support economic development; and introduce labor-intensive production techniques to alleviate underemployment. The social goals of the plans were improving health and education as well as encouraging equitable income distribution.
Five-year plans of South Korea At the end of the Pacific War, Korea was divided. The United States Army Military Government in Korea gave way to a capitalist, anti-communist republic in South Korea that stood in contrast against the North Korean communist state.
Five-year plans of Vietnam The five-year plans of Vietnam were a series of economic development initiatives. The Vietnamese economy was shaped primarily by the Vietnamese Communist Party through the plenary sessions of the Central Committee and national congresses.
Five-Year Plan (USSR) Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletka (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development.
Fivefold ministry Fivefold Ministry refers to an ecclesiology or system of church organization utilized by a variety of minority religious movements (usually Christian). The term "fivefold ministry" derives from references in the Christian New Testament to the roles of authority in the Christian community: Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
Fivemiletown Fivemiletown (Baile na Lorgan)is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is located seventeen miles east of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and 43 km southwest of Dungannon, on the A4 Belfast to Enniskillen road, close to the county boundary with Fermanagh.
Fivepenny Piece The Fivepenny Piece are (as their name implies) a five-piece band, originally formed in the area of East Lancashire around Ashton-under-Lyne and nearby Stalybridge in Cheshire. The band met and performed on Wednesday nights at Ashton's Broadoak Hotel, which gave them their original name The Wednesday Folk.
Fiver (Watership Down) Fiver (Lapine: Hrair-roo, sometimes Hrairoo) is a fictional character: a buck rabbit who is one of the central characters in Richard Adams' novel Watership Down. He was born in at Sandleford, and is the younger brother of Hazel.
Fives Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racket sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.
Fix-up A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from short stories which may or may not have been initially related, not all of which were necessarily previously published. The stories are edited for consistency, and sometimes new, connecting material is written for the new novel.
Fixation Fixation in human psychology refers to the state where an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, animal or inanimate object. A Freudian belief that, if during one of the psychosexual stages of development, a person did not receive appropriate gratification during a specific stage, or that a specific stage left a particularly strong impression, that person's personality would reflect that particular stage throughout their adult life.
Fixation (band) Fixation originally came together in Northern Ireland in 2003 when, bassist, Ryan Campbell and, vocalist, Dara Crawford met in school. After some minor line-up changes, the finalised band lineup consisted of Dara, Ryan, Paul O'Doherty (guitar/vocals), Niall Lynch (drums/vocals) and Kerry Simpson (guitar).
Fixation (histology) In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is a chemical process by which biological tissues are preserved from decay. Fixation terminates any ongoing biochemical reactions, and may also increase the mechanical strength or stability of the treated tissues.
Fixation (visual) Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the visual gaze on a location. Humans (and other animals with a fovea) typically alternate saccades and visual fixations, the notable exception being in smooth pursuit, controlled by a different set of ocularmotor muscles that appear to have developed for hunting prey.
Fixational eye movement Fixational eye movements (also known as fixational instability, retinal jitter) are small, involuntary eye movements that occur during visual fixation. There are three categories of fixational eye movements: microsaccades, ocular drifts, and ocular microtremor.
Fixative (perfumery) In perfumery, a fixative is a natural or synthetic substance used to reduce the evaporation rate and improve stability when added to more volatile components. This allows the final product to last longer while keeping its original fragrance.
Fixed (typeface) misc-fixed is a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System. It is a set of independent bitmap fonts which – apart from all being sans-serif fonts – cannot be described as belonging to a single font family.
Fixed access Fixed access: In personal communications service (PCS), terminal access to a network in which there is a set relationship between a terminal and the access interface. A single "identifier" serves for both the access interface and the terminal.
Fixed action pattern In ethology, a fixed action pattern (FAP) is a complex behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion. FAPs are invariant and are produced by the innate releasing mechanism that responds to an external sensory stimulus (sign stimulus).
Fixed asset Fixed asset, also known as property, plant, and equipment (PP&E), is a term used in accountancy for assets and property which cannot easily be converted into cash. This can be compared with current assets such as cash or bank accounts, which are described as liquid assets.
Fixed base operator In the United States aviation industry, a fixed base operator (also known as fixed base of operation), or FBO, is a service center at an airport that may be a private enterprise or may be a department of the municipality that the airport serves.
Fixed capital Fixed capital is a concept in economics and accounting, first theoretically analysed in some depth by the economist David Ricardo. It refers to any kind of real or physical capital (fixed asset) that is not used up in the production of a product.
Fixed cost Fixed costs are un-expired assets or expenses whose total does not change in proportion to the activity of a business, within the relevant time period or scale of production. For example, a retailer must pay rent and utility bills irrespective of sales volumes.
Fixed currency A fixed currency, less commonly called a pegged currency, is a currency that uses a fixed exchange rate as its exchange rate regime. In the modern world, fixed currencies form a minority of the world's currencies.
Fixed Content Aware Storage The SNIA Fixed Content Aware Storage (FCAS) Technical Working Group is chartered to serve as a center of technical activities related to application-level object storage, specifically including Content Addressed Storage (CAS) and other naming schemas. This charter includes development of standards to allow applications to be storage vendor agnostic, interoperability standards to allow shared metadata integral with application data, interoperability standards to allow application data sharing, and SMI-S CIM profiles to manage object storage resources.
Fixed dose combination A fixed dose combination (FDC) is a formulation of two or more active ingredients combined in a single dosage form available in certain fixed doses. Fixed dose combination drug products may improve medication compliance by reducing the pill burden of patients.
Fixed dose combination (antiretroviral) Fixed dose combinations of antiretrovirals are multiple antiretroviral drugs combined into a single pill, which helps reduce pill burden. They may combine different classes of antiretrovirals or contain only a single class.
Fixed exe In the process of "cracking" software it is an executable file that has been changed from the original in interest of bypassing the security or coding intended to prevent free use of software. In some programs, the .
Fixed exchange rate A fixed exchange rate, sometimes (less commonly) called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency's value is matched to the value of another single currency or to a basket of other currencies, or to another measure of value, such as gold. As the reference value rises and falls, so does the currency pegged to it.
Fixed income analysis Fixed income analysis is the valuation of fixed income or debt securities, and the analysis of their interest rate risk, credit risk, and likely price behavior in hedging portfolios. The analyst might conclude to buy, sell, hold, hedge or stay out of the particular security.
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) are computerised machines normally found in betting shops which allow players to bet on the outcome of various games and events with Fixed Odds. They were introduced to UK shops in 2002, shortly after the abolition of the Betting Tax in October 2001.
Fixed pixel display Fixed pixel displays are display technologies such as LCD and plasma that use an unfluctuating matrix of pixels with a set number of pixels in each row and column. With such displays, adjusting (scaling) to different aspect ratios because of different input signals requires complex processing.
Fixed point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces In mathematics, a number of fixed point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces generalise the Brouwer fixed point theorem. They have applications, for example, to the proof of existence theorems for partial differential equations.
Fixed price Fixed price is a phrase used in Indian English to mean that no bargaining is allowed over the price of a good or, less commonly, a service. As bargaining is very common in many parts of the world outside of Europe and North America, this term expresses an exception from the norm.
Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling is commonly used in real-time systems. With fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling, the scheduler ensures that at any given time, the processor executes the highest priority task of all those tasks that are currently ready to execute.
Fixed Penalty Notice Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were introduced in Great Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of offences for which they can be used.
Fixed rate mortgage A fixed rate mortgage (FRM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note remains the same through the term of the loan, and is initially based on an index. This is done to ensure a steady payment amount for the borrower.
Fixed rope Fixed rope is the practice of fixing in place bolted ropes to assist climbers and walkers in exposed mountain locations. Used widely on American and European climbing routes but disdained by the purist mountaineer.
Fixed Service Satellite Fixed Service Satellite (or FSS), is the official classification (used chiefly in North America) for geostationary communications satellites used for broadcast feeds for television and radio stations and networks, as well as for telephony and data communications.
Fixed-gear bicycle A fixed-gear bicycle or fixed wheel bicycle, is any bicycle without a freewheel and usually only one gear ratio. The sprocket is attached to the hub without a freewheel mechanism, usually secured by a reverse-thread lockring.
Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance formed in mid-2004, operates under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and benefits from a growing membership base of 25 leading telecom operators, 24 of which are integrated telecom operators owning both fixed and mobile networks. The alliance was founded by six companies: British Telecom, NTT, Rogers Wireless, Brasil Telecom, Korea Telecom and Swisscom.
Fixed-pattern noise Fixed pattern noise is the term given to a particular noise pattern on digital imaging sensors often noticeable during longer exposure shots where particular pixels are susceptible to giving brighter intensities above the general background noise.
Fixed-point lemma for normal functions The fixed-point lemma for normal functions is a basic result in axiomatic set theory; it states that any normal function has arbitrarily large fixed points and can often be used to construct ordinal numbers with interesting properties. A formal version and proof (using the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) follows.
Fixed-point theorem In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a result saying that a function F will have at least one fixed point (a point x for which F(x) = x), under some conditions on F that can be stated in general terms. Results of this kind are amongst the most generally useful in mathematics.
Fixing Broken Windows Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles is a criminology book published in 1996, about petty crime and strategies to contain or eliminate it from urban neighbourhoods.
Fixing Dinner Fixing Dinner is a Canadian food reality television series on Food Network Canada, airing on AmericanLife in the US. Host Sandi Richard comes "to the rescue" of a family that can't cope with making healthy, fresh dinners, and teaches how to counteract their lack of time.
Fixtureless In-Circuit Test Fixtureless in-circuit test (FICT) is a cost-effective alternative to a "bed of nails" tester for in-circuit testing of low to medium volumes of printed circuit board assemblies. It relies on a computerized optical inspection of the circuit assembly and positionable test probes.
Fixtures In the law of real property, fixtures are anything that would otherwise be a chattel that have, by reason of incorporation or affixation, become permanently attached to the real property. At law, fixtures are treated in the same manner as real property, particularly under the law of security for debt.
Fiyero Fiyero is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel, and is essentially the musical's male lead (aside from the Wizard himself).
Fiz Gorgo Fiz Gorgo is a large fortress, located in the region of Orist on Meldorin Island, in Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle. It was possibly constructed by the Aachim and has been home to the great mancer Yggur for hundreds of years.
Fizeau–Foucault apparatus The Fizeau–Foucault apparatus (1850) was designed by the French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault for measuring the speed of light. The apparatus involves light reflecting off a rotating mirror, toward a stationary mirror some 20 miles (35 kilometers) away.
Fizuli Fizuli (FĂĽzuli) is a rayon of Azerbaijan (in Karabakh). In antiquity this territory was part of the province of Artsakh; in Middle Ages it was part of Armenian princedom Khachen; at 17-18 centuries it was part of Armenian melikdom Dizak (Raffi.
Fizz-nik Originally marketed under the name "Astro-Float," by the Coca Cola Company, 7 Up followed suit with the Fizz-Nik after the Russian "Sputnik." The Fizz-Nik ressembled a bubble and was marketed to create an instant ice cream float or to instantly chill soda as it passes through the bubble.
Fizzles Samuel Beckett used the word "fizzles" to describe eight short prose pieces: For to end yet again, Still, He is barehead, Horn came always, Afar a Bird, I gave up before birth, Closed place, and Old earth. Excluding Still, Beckett wrote them in French, and then translated them into English.
Fizzy Lizzy Fizzy Lizzy is a Manhattan-based producer of carbonated juice drinks. Founded in 2000 by Elizabeth Morrill, Fizzy Lizzy follows "a purist's approach: just juice, carbonated water and only the smallest amount of natural flavorings and 'filler' juices, like white grape juice.
Five points of Calvinism The Five points of Calvinism, sometimes called the doctrines of grace and remembered in the English-speaking world with the mnemonic TULIP, are a summary of the judgments (or canons) rendered by the Synod of Dordt reflecting the Calvinist understanding of the nature of divine grace and predestination as it relates to salvation. The central assertion of the five points is that God is able to save every one of those upon whom he has mercy and that his efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or the inability of humans.
Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion The Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion (äş”ć–—ç±łé“ pinyin: Wudoumidao wg: Wu-Tou-Mi-Tao) was a religious rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) instigated by Taoist leader Zhang Daoling's grandson Zhang Lu. The name of the rebellion refers to the five pecks that were paid to the Taoist church for either cures (Zhang Daoling was a faith healer) or church dues.
Five Points (Athens) Five Points is a low-density residential and commercial community in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of South Milledge Avenue, South Lumpkin Street, and Milledge Circle. The area abuts the south-southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus and is known for its mix of students and older residents, many of the latter being employed by the University.
Five Points (Atlanta) Five Points is an area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the primary reference for the downtown area. The name refers to the convergence of Marietta Street, Edgewood Avenue, Decatur Street, and two legs of Peachtree Street.
Five Points (Columbia) Five Points in Columbia, South Carolina is a shopping, restaurant, and nightlife area that attracts customers from the nearby University of South Carolina and throughout the Columbia metropolitan area. It is the center for the city's annual St.
Five Points Historic District Five Points Historic District was the third historic district in Huntsville, AL. It features homes built around the turn of the 20th Century in several styles, including California Bungalow, Queen Anne and other modest Victorian styles dating from the late 1890s through the early 1900s.
Five Points, Denver Five Points is the name given to the neighborhoods surrounding the intersection of Washington Street, 27th Street, 26th Avenue and Welton Street, northeast of Downtown Denver. The collision between the downtown diagonal grid and the rectangular grid of East Denver neighborhoods causes this intersection to be five-way, hence the name.
Five Power Defence Arrangements The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) are a series of defence relationships established by bilateral agreements between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore signed in 1971, whereby the five nations will consult each other in the event of external aggression or threat of attack against Malaysia or Singapore. The FPDA was set up following the termination of the United Kingdom's defence guarantees of Malaysia and Singapore as a result of Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez.
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence or Pancha Sila (also spelled Panch Sila or Panchsheel) are a series of agreements between the People's Republic of China and India. After the Central Chinese Government took control of Tibet, China came into increasing conflict with India.
Five regent houses Sekke, the Five regent houses (五摂家; go-seike or go-sekke) is a collective term for those five families of Fujiwara clan, who were regarded entitled to the position of Sekkan in the Imperial Court of Kyoto, Japan, and monopolized the position between 12th and 19th century. The five houses are Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujo, Ichijo (一条家) and Nijo (二条家).
Five Races Under One Union Five races under one union (Chinese: 五族共和, literally “five races together’’) was one of the major principles that the Republic of China was originally founded upon. This principle emphasized the harmony of the five major ethnic groups in China as represented by the colored stripes of Five-Colored Flag of the Republic: the Han (red), the Manchus (yellow), the Mongols (blue), the Hui (white), and the Tibetan people (black).
Five Rings Publishing Group In 1996, Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA divested themselves of their joint operating venture, and created Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG). Using the joint venture the two companies had co-created the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game in 1995, and realized that in order to continue to successfully publish the game that a stand-alone company focused on the game-publishing business was the best solution.
Five shilling note (Australian) Five shilling notes were first proposed in 1916, when the value of silver was estimated to become too expensive to use for making coins due to a possible decrease in Australia's supply of silver. The proposed note was designed to have a portait of George VI, the King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India, displayed on its front side.
Five solas The Five Solas are five Latin phrases (or slogans) that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers' basic beliefs and emphasis in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day. The word sola means "alone," "only," and "single" in Latin; the five solas were what the Reformers believed to be the "only" things needed in their respective functions in Christian salvation.
Five Satans The Five Satans are the five angels, part of a group of angels collectively known as the satans, described in the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch as fallen angels—or, in some translations, as giants or titans—each of whom God cast into exile for different reasons. Their sins were also among the infractions that incited God to inflict the Great Flood upon the Earth.
Five Seven Live Five Seven Live was an Irish radio rolling news programme, produced by RTÉ News and was aired each weekday evening on RTÉ Radio 1 between 17:00–19:00, between 1997 and 2006, the final edition being broadcast on 1 September 2006.
Five Shall Be One Five Shall Be One is an adventure module for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WGS1 and was published by TSR, Inc.
Five Star Corp Five Star Corp is a fictional Corporation in the game Shenmue that specialised in Haulage and storage of Chinese artifacts, old or new. It was owned and run by Yuanda Zhu, and eventually shut down after 5 years, when Yuanda went missing.
Five Star Prison Cell Five Star Prison Cell is a four-piece band from Melbourne, Australia, whose music is generally labelled as tech metal or math rock. They are known for their use of unusual time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and a vocal approach that explores many different avenues and styles many styled vocal approach.
Five Suns The concept known generally as the Five Suns describes the mythical world-view held by the Aztec and other Nahua peoples, in which the present world was preceded by four other cycles of creation and destruction. It is primarily derived from the mythological, cosmological and eschatological beliefs and traditions of earlier cultures from central Mexico and the Mesoamerican region in general.
Five Swell Guys Five Swell Guys is a fictional team of white-collar adventurers and and the only 'science-hero' team in New York City in Alan Moore's America's Best Comics series Promethea. The team meet Sophie Bangs in the first issue and Promethea in the 3rd issue, after one of the members is badly hurt.
Five techniques The term five techniques refers to certain interrogation practices adopted by the Northern Ireland and British governments during Operation Demetrius in the early 1970s. These methods were adopted by the Royal Ulster Constabulary with training and advice regarding their use coming from senior intelligence officials in the United Kingdom Government.
Five to One "Five To One" is a song by The Doors. "Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young to old, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask.
Five Tibetan Rites The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises first publicized by Peter Kelder, an orphan from the Midwestern United StatesBrief biography of Kelder as an orphan. In his booklet "The Eye of Revelation", published 1939, Kelder claims to relay the travel stories of a retired British army colonel he met in southern CaliforniaKelder claimed to have met a yogi colonel in southern California.
Five Tiger Generals The Five Tiger Generals (五虎將) of the Kingdom of Shu during the period of Three Kingdoms in China were Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong, named in honour of their contributions to the establishment of the kingdom. This title was bestowed on them by Liu Bei in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Five Towns The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, New York, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City. Despite the name, none of the communities are towns.
Five Towns Jewish Times The Five Towns Jewish Times is a weekly newspaper serving the Jewish communities of the Five Towns in southwestern Nassau County, New York, and the greater New York area, covering the area's large and growing Orthodox Jewish community. It is also distributed out of state and is growing rapidly in popularity.
Five Trees "Five Trees" in Paradise is a mysterious allegory or concept from famous Coptic Gospel of Thomas NHC 2: (gnostic library from Nag Hammadi in Egypt) 19th saying/logia of Jesus and other sources of religious mythology.
Five US Five US is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by Five, launched on October 16 2006 and available on digital television]. Five US broadcasts daily between 4pm and 1am and concentrates on showing programmes imported from the [[United States.
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus This is a small work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on the well-known folk tune Dives and Lazarus and first performed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. One of the variations uses a form of the tune traditionally associated with Maria Martin (see external links below).
Five Virtues For Sikhs, the final goal of life is to reunite or merge with God (Mukti). The Sikh Gurus taught that to achieve this goal it was important to work hard at developing positive human qualities which lead the soul closer to God.
Five Ways, Birmingham Five Ways is an area of Birmingham, England. It takes its name from a major roundabout to the south-west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street and the beginning of the A456 Hagley Road.
Five Weirs Walk The 8 km long Five Weirs Walk runs alongside the River Don in Sheffield, England. From Lady's Bridge in Sheffield City Centre, it heads downstream, northeast, over the Cobweb Bridge, through Attercliffe to Meadowhall.
Five Wisdom Kings In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Five Wisdom Kings (Jp. 五大ćŽçŽ‹ Godai myĹŤ-ĹŤ), also known as the Five Guardian Kings are a group of Wisdom Kings who represent the luminescent wisdom of the Buddha and protect the Five Wisdom Buddhas.
Five Ws In journalism, the Five Ws, also known as the Five Ws (and one H) or simply the Six Ws, is a concept in news style, research, and in police investigations that most people consider to be fundamental. It is a formula for getting the "full" story on something.
Five-a-side football Five-a-side football is a variation of football (soccer) in which each team field five players (four outfield players and a goalkeeper), rather than the usual eleven. Other differences to football include playing on a smaller pitch, smaller goals, and a reduced game duration.
Five-card stud Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game, stud poker, originating during the American Civil War,World Casino Directory: History of Poker but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games - clear from its absence from the World Series of Poker. It is still a popular game in parts of the world, especially in Finland where a specific variant of five-card stud called Sökö (also known as Canadian stud or Scandinavian stud) is played.
Five-Fold Ministry Five-Fold Ministry refers to the New Testament book of Ephesians, in which the author instructs that people serve in the church, "some apostles, and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers; for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ". A recent, continuing movement within Charismatic Christianity exists which regards this as a model for the principal offices of service, or "ministry" within the Christian Church.
Five-Handed Euchre Five-handed Euchre is a variation of the popular trick-taking game Euchre which adds an additional player and features a dynamic partner system. In five-handed Euchre, each player competes against all other players.
Five-Minute Funnies (TV pilot) Five-Minute Funnies is a proposed sketch comedy series and is the first of its kind to be developed in the Whatcom County, Washington area. It is being developed by Bent Penny Productions, LLC and will also feature stand up comedy in addition to its sketches.
Five-pin bowling Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is only played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised in the early twentieth century by Thomas F.
Five-pointed star A five-pointed star, also referred to as a Pentagram or a star, is a very common ideogram in the western world,. If drawn with points of equal length and angles of 36° at each point, it is sometimes termed a golden five pointed star.
Five-Sixty Recordings Five-Sixty Recordings is an independent record label operating out of Woodstock, New Brunswick in Canada. It was established in 2005 by the band Houlton Road Trio as a means of releasing their limited edition debut album.
Five-tool player In baseball, a five-tool player is a term used to define a complete performer, an athlete who excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, baserunning skills and speed, throwing ability and fielding abilities.
Five-year plans of Nepal Five-year plans of Nepal generally strove to increase output and employment; develop the infrastructure; attain economic stability; promote industry, commerce, and international trade; establish administrative and public service institutions to support economic development; and introduce labor-intensive production techniques to alleviate underemployment. The social goals of the plans were improving health and education as well as encouraging equitable income distribution.
Five-year plans of South Korea At the end of the Pacific War, Korea was divided. The United States Army Military Government in Korea gave way to a capitalist, anti-communist republic in South Korea that stood in contrast against the North Korean communist state.
Five-year plans of Vietnam The five-year plans of Vietnam were a series of economic development initiatives. The Vietnamese economy was shaped primarily by the Vietnamese Communist Party through the plenary sessions of the Central Committee and national congresses.
Five-Year Plan (USSR) Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletka (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development.
Fivefold ministry Fivefold Ministry refers to an ecclesiology or system of church organization utilized by a variety of minority religious movements (usually Christian). The term "fivefold ministry" derives from references in the Christian New Testament to the roles of authority in the Christian community: Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
Fivemiletown Fivemiletown (Baile na Lorgan)is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is located seventeen miles east of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and 43 km southwest of Dungannon, on the A4 Belfast to Enniskillen road, close to the county boundary with Fermanagh.
Fivepenny Piece The Fivepenny Piece are (as their name implies) a five-piece band, originally formed in the area of East Lancashire around Ashton-under-Lyne and nearby Stalybridge in Cheshire. The band met and performed on Wednesday nights at Ashton's Broadoak Hotel, which gave them their original name The Wednesday Folk.
Fiver (Watership Down) Fiver (Lapine: Hrair-roo, sometimes Hrairoo) is a fictional character: a buck rabbit who is one of the central characters in Richard Adams' novel Watership Down. He was born in at Sandleford, and is the younger brother of Hazel.
Fives Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racket sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.
Fix-up A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from short stories which may or may not have been initially related, not all of which were necessarily previously published. The stories are edited for consistency, and sometimes new, connecting material is written for the new novel.
Fixation Fixation in human psychology refers to the state where an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, animal or inanimate object. A Freudian belief that, if during one of the psychosexual stages of development, a person did not receive appropriate gratification during a specific stage, or that a specific stage left a particularly strong impression, that person's personality would reflect that particular stage throughout their adult life.
Fixation (band) Fixation originally came together in Northern Ireland in 2003 when, bassist, Ryan Campbell and, vocalist, Dara Crawford met in school. After some minor line-up changes, the finalised band lineup consisted of Dara, Ryan, Paul O'Doherty (guitar/vocals), Niall Lynch (drums/vocals) and Kerry Simpson (guitar).
Fixation (histology) In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is a chemical process by which biological tissues are preserved from decay. Fixation terminates any ongoing biochemical reactions, and may also increase the mechanical strength or stability of the treated tissues.
Fixation (visual) Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the visual gaze on a location. Humans (and other animals with a fovea) typically alternate saccades and visual fixations, the notable exception being in smooth pursuit, controlled by a different set of ocularmotor muscles that appear to have developed for hunting prey.
Fixational eye movement Fixational eye movements (also known as fixational instability, retinal jitter) are small, involuntary eye movements that occur during visual fixation. There are three categories of fixational eye movements: microsaccades, ocular drifts, and ocular microtremor.
Fixative (perfumery) In perfumery, a fixative is a natural or synthetic substance used to reduce the evaporation rate and improve stability when added to more volatile components. This allows the final product to last longer while keeping its original fragrance.
Fixed (typeface) misc-fixed is a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System. It is a set of independent bitmap fonts which – apart from all being sans-serif fonts – cannot be described as belonging to a single font family.
Fixed access Fixed access: In personal communications service (PCS), terminal access to a network in which there is a set relationship between a terminal and the access interface. A single "identifier" serves for both the access interface and the terminal.
Fixed action pattern In ethology, a fixed action pattern (FAP) is a complex behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion. FAPs are invariant and are produced by the innate releasing mechanism that responds to an external sensory stimulus (sign stimulus).
Fixed asset Fixed asset, also known as property, plant, and equipment (PP&E), is a term used in accountancy for assets and property which cannot easily be converted into cash. This can be compared with current assets such as cash or bank accounts, which are described as liquid assets.
Fixed base operator In the United States aviation industry, a fixed base operator (also known as fixed base of operation), or FBO, is a service center at an airport that may be a private enterprise or may be a department of the municipality that the airport serves.
Fixed capital Fixed capital is a concept in economics and accounting, first theoretically analysed in some depth by the economist David Ricardo. It refers to any kind of real or physical capital (fixed asset) that is not used up in the production of a product.
Fixed cost Fixed costs are un-expired assets or expenses whose total does not change in proportion to the activity of a business, within the relevant time period or scale of production. For example, a retailer must pay rent and utility bills irrespective of sales volumes.
Fixed currency A fixed currency, less commonly called a pegged currency, is a currency that uses a fixed exchange rate as its exchange rate regime. In the modern world, fixed currencies form a minority of the world's currencies.
Fixed Content Aware Storage The SNIA Fixed Content Aware Storage (FCAS) Technical Working Group is chartered to serve as a center of technical activities related to application-level object storage, specifically including Content Addressed Storage (CAS) and other naming schemas. This charter includes development of standards to allow applications to be storage vendor agnostic, interoperability standards to allow shared metadata integral with application data, interoperability standards to allow application data sharing, and SMI-S CIM profiles to manage object storage resources.
Fixed dose combination A fixed dose combination (FDC) is a formulation of two or more active ingredients combined in a single dosage form available in certain fixed doses. Fixed dose combination drug products may improve medication compliance by reducing the pill burden of patients.
Fixed dose combination (antiretroviral) Fixed dose combinations of antiretrovirals are multiple antiretroviral drugs combined into a single pill, which helps reduce pill burden. They may combine different classes of antiretrovirals or contain only a single class.
Fixed exe In the process of "cracking" software it is an executable file that has been changed from the original in interest of bypassing the security or coding intended to prevent free use of software. In some programs, the .
Fixed exchange rate A fixed exchange rate, sometimes (less commonly) called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency's value is matched to the value of another single currency or to a basket of other currencies, or to another measure of value, such as gold. As the reference value rises and falls, so does the currency pegged to it.
Fixed income analysis Fixed income analysis is the valuation of fixed income or debt securities, and the analysis of their interest rate risk, credit risk, and likely price behavior in hedging portfolios. The analyst might conclude to buy, sell, hold, hedge or stay out of the particular security.
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) are computerised machines normally found in betting shops which allow players to bet on the outcome of various games and events with Fixed Odds. They were introduced to UK shops in 2002, shortly after the abolition of the Betting Tax in October 2001.
Fixed pixel display Fixed pixel displays are display technologies such as LCD and plasma that use an unfluctuating matrix of pixels with a set number of pixels in each row and column. With such displays, adjusting (scaling) to different aspect ratios because of different input signals requires complex processing.
Fixed point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces In mathematics, a number of fixed point theorems in infinite-dimensional spaces generalise the Brouwer fixed point theorem. They have applications, for example, to the proof of existence theorems for partial differential equations.
Fixed price Fixed price is a phrase used in Indian English to mean that no bargaining is allowed over the price of a good or, less commonly, a service. As bargaining is very common in many parts of the world outside of Europe and North America, this term expresses an exception from the norm.
Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling is commonly used in real-time systems. With fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling, the scheduler ensures that at any given time, the processor executes the highest priority task of all those tasks that are currently ready to execute.
Fixed Penalty Notice Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were introduced in Great Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of offences for which they can be used.
Fixed rate mortgage A fixed rate mortgage (FRM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note remains the same through the term of the loan, and is initially based on an index. This is done to ensure a steady payment amount for the borrower.
Fixed rope Fixed rope is the practice of fixing in place bolted ropes to assist climbers and walkers in exposed mountain locations. Used widely on American and European climbing routes but disdained by the purist mountaineer.
Fixed Service Satellite Fixed Service Satellite (or FSS), is the official classification (used chiefly in North America) for geostationary communications satellites used for broadcast feeds for television and radio stations and networks, as well as for telephony and data communications.
Fixed-gear bicycle A fixed-gear bicycle or fixed wheel bicycle, is any bicycle without a freewheel and usually only one gear ratio. The sprocket is attached to the hub without a freewheel mechanism, usually secured by a reverse-thread lockring.
Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance formed in mid-2004, operates under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and benefits from a growing membership base of 25 leading telecom operators, 24 of which are integrated telecom operators owning both fixed and mobile networks. The alliance was founded by six companies: British Telecom, NTT, Rogers Wireless, Brasil Telecom, Korea Telecom and Swisscom.
Fixed-pattern noise Fixed pattern noise is the term given to a particular noise pattern on digital imaging sensors often noticeable during longer exposure shots where particular pixels are susceptible to giving brighter intensities above the general background noise.
Fixed-point lemma for normal functions The fixed-point lemma for normal functions is a basic result in axiomatic set theory; it states that any normal function has arbitrarily large fixed points and can often be used to construct ordinal numbers with interesting properties. A formal version and proof (using the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms) follows.
Fixed-point theorem In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a result saying that a function F will have at least one fixed point (a point x for which F(x) = x), under some conditions on F that can be stated in general terms. Results of this kind are amongst the most generally useful in mathematics.
Fixing Broken Windows Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling and Catherine Coles is a criminology book published in 1996, about petty crime and strategies to contain or eliminate it from urban neighbourhoods.
Fixing Dinner Fixing Dinner is a Canadian food reality television series on Food Network Canada, airing on AmericanLife in the US. Host Sandi Richard comes "to the rescue" of a family that can't cope with making healthy, fresh dinners, and teaches how to counteract their lack of time.
Fixtureless In-Circuit Test Fixtureless in-circuit test (FICT) is a cost-effective alternative to a "bed of nails" tester for in-circuit testing of low to medium volumes of printed circuit board assemblies. It relies on a computerized optical inspection of the circuit assembly and positionable test probes.
Fixtures In the law of real property, fixtures are anything that would otherwise be a chattel that have, by reason of incorporation or affixation, become permanently attached to the real property. At law, fixtures are treated in the same manner as real property, particularly under the law of security for debt.
Fiyero Fiyero is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked which is based on Maguire's novel, and is essentially the musical's male lead (aside from the Wizard himself).
Fiz Gorgo Fiz Gorgo is a large fortress, located in the region of Orist on Meldorin Island, in Ian Irvine's The Three Worlds Cycle. It was possibly constructed by the Aachim and has been home to the great mancer Yggur for hundreds of years.
Fizeau–Foucault apparatus The Fizeau–Foucault apparatus (1850) was designed by the French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault for measuring the speed of light. The apparatus involves light reflecting off a rotating mirror, toward a stationary mirror some 20 miles (35 kilometers) away.
Fizuli Fizuli (FĂĽzuli) is a rayon of Azerbaijan (in Karabakh). In antiquity this territory was part of the province of Artsakh; in Middle Ages it was part of Armenian princedom Khachen; at 17-18 centuries it was part of Armenian melikdom Dizak (Raffi.
Fizz-nik Originally marketed under the name "Astro-Float," by the Coca Cola Company, 7 Up followed suit with the Fizz-Nik after the Russian "Sputnik." The Fizz-Nik ressembled a bubble and was marketed to create an instant ice cream float or to instantly chill soda as it passes through the bubble.
Fizzles Samuel Beckett used the word "fizzles" to describe eight short prose pieces: For to end yet again, Still, He is barehead, Horn came always, Afar a Bird, I gave up before birth, Closed place, and Old earth. Excluding Still, Beckett wrote them in French, and then translated them into English.
Fizzy Lizzy Fizzy Lizzy is a Manhattan-based producer of carbonated juice drinks. Founded in 2000 by Elizabeth Morrill, Fizzy Lizzy follows "a purist's approach: just juice, carbonated water and only the smallest amount of natural flavorings and 'filler' juices, like white grape juice.
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