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Falklands War The Falklands War () was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The Falkland Islands consist of two large and many small islands in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Argentina, whose ownership had long been disputed.
Falkville, Alabama Falkville is a town in Morgan County, Alabama, in the United States, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 1,202.
Fall As Well Fall As Well is an American alternative rock band based out of Biloxi. The band members include singer/guitarist Jarrod Parker, guitarist Steve Taylor, bassist Mikey Boucher, drummer Jason Robbins, and the recently added guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Lynny Bradshaw.
Fall Awake Fall Awake is the name of a maxi single by The Echoing Green. It features the title song, taken from the following album The Winter of Our Discontent, with remixes of the same, and the band's version of the traditional Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy," and remixes of this tune.
Fall back and forward Fall back is a feature of a modem protocol in data communication whereby two communicating modems which experience data corruption (due to line noise, for example) can renegotiate with each other to use a lower-speed connection. Fall forward is a corresponding feature whereby two modems which have "fallen back" to a lower speed can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
Fall Brawl Fall Brawl was an annual pay per view in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) held in the month of September from 1993 through 2000. The name was derived from the fall edition of Clash of Champions, called "Fall Brawl.
Fall Creek Falls State Park Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park, located between Pikeville and Spencer, is a state park in central Tennessee. The main feature of the park is Fall Creek Falls, which is a 256 foot high waterfall that plunges deep into a gorge carved out through the ages by the water.
Fall Creek Place, Indianapolis Fall Creek Place is one of many gentrified neighborhoods in inner Indianapolis, Indiana. The neighborhood is bounded by Meridian Street on the west, Fall Creek Parkway on the north, Central Avenue on the east, and 22nd Street on the south.
Fall from Grace (1990 film) Fall from Grace is a drama, concerning the lives of Jim Bakker and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner during the 1980's, and starred Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters. This made-for-television movie aired on NBC on April 29, 1990.
Fall front desk The fall front desk can be considered as the cousin of the Secretary desk. Both have a main working surface or desktop which does double duty as a cover to seal up papers and other items located in small shelves or small drawers placed one on top of the other in front of the user.
Fall guy A fall guy is a person used as a scapegoat to take the blame for someone else's actions, or someone at the butt of jokes. One placed in the position of fall guy is often referred to as "taking the fall".
Fall GrĂĽn Before World War II, Fall GrĂĽn (Case Green) was a German plan for an aggressive war against Czechoslovakia. The first draft of the plan was made in late 1937, with new versions coming as the military situation and requirements changed.
Fall In a Hole Fall In A Hole is a live album by The Fall, released in 1983 on the Flying Nun label of New Zealand. Whilst the group have released many live albums in their long career, this is the most notable, not least for its length and its rarity.
Fall line In geomorphology, a fall line marks the area where an upland region (continental bedrock) and a coastal plain (coastal alluvia) meet. A fall line is typically prominent when crossed by a river, for there will often be rapids or waterfalls.
Fall line (skiing) In alpine skiing, a fall line refers to the line down a mountain or hill which is most directly downwards. This can be visualized as the route a ball would take if it were started rolling at the summit, and rolled to the bottom.
Fall Line (video game developer) Fall Line is a video game developer based in Salt Lake City created by Disney as a Nintendo second party. They will be developing video games based on Disney movies and characters exclusively for Nintendo consoles.
Fall Line Freeway The Fall Line Freeway is a highway currently being constructed that will run the width of the state of Georgia from Columbus to Augusta, passing through several cities including Macon and Milledgeville. It will be designated State Route 540 upon completion, and will be a four-lane divided highway, except when following Interstate 75 from Byron to Macon and J.
Fall of a civilisation Fall of a Civilisation is originally a concept taken from Edward Gibbon's historical account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The fall of a civilisation is considered to be the end of a specific type of urban culture, associated with large numbers of people living in towns or cities.
Fall of Kismayo The Fall of Kismayo occurred on January 1, 2007, when the militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian troops entered the Somali city of Kismayo unopposed. It came after the Islamic Courts Union's forces faltered and fled in the Battle of Jilib, abandoning their final stronghold.
Fall of Liberty Fall of Liberty is an upcoming FPS, developed by Spark Unlimited for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows involving an alterate reality in which Winston Churchill dies in 1931, eight years before the start of World War II. Without Churchill's strong leadership, Britain falls to Nazi forces and is used as a buffer to successfully capture Washington DC in the United States.
Fall of Mogadishu The Fall of Mogadishu occurred on December 28, 2006, when the militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian troops entered the Somali capital of Mogadishu, with United States air support, unopposed. It came after a swift string of TFG and Ethiopian military victories against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which had its headquarters there before it fled south.
Fall of Saigon The Fall of Saigon (in Vietnamese: 30 tháng tư, or April 30th), was the capture of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army (NVA) on April 30, 1975. Those sympathetic to the North Vietnamese hailed the event as the liberation of Saigon.
Fall of Sassanids The Sassanid era is one of the most influential periods in Iran's (Persia) history. It also marks the third rise of a great Persian empire, a dynasty that rivaled its predecessor, the Achaemenids who too, like the Sassanids were native to the province of Pars, and in some instances the Parthians, in glory and power.
Fall of the Mutants The Fall of the Mutants was a crossover event by Marvel Comics, during the summer of 1987. It spanned three issues each of The Uncanny X-Men (issues #225–227), X-Factor (issues #24–26), and The New Mutants (issues 59–61).
Fall Out (The Prisoner) "Fall Out" is the title of the controversial seventeenth and final episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan as Number Six. It originally aired in the UK on ITV on February 4, 1968 and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS in the summer of 1968.
Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy are an American alternative rock/pop punk band from Wilmette, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, Illinois) that formed in 2001. The band consists of Patrick Stump (lead vocals, guitar), Peter Wentz (bass, backup vocalist, and primary lyricist), Joe Trohman (lead guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums).
Fall River Line The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston, completed in early 1847. The railroad portion ran from Fall River via Middleboro and Braintree along a line of the Old Colony Railroad.
Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, located about 52 miles south of Boston, 15 miles southeast of Providence, Rhode Island and 8 miles west of New Bedford. The city's population was 91,938 during the 2000 census (and 91,802 during the 2005 census).
Fall schedule The fall schedule is the television lineup for the large networks FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and CW. It usually consists of new shows paired with returning favorites and runs from September to December, since an altered lineup usually runs from January to May when more new shows premiere.
Fall time In electronics, fall time (pulse decay time) t_f, is the time required for the amplitude of a pulse to decrease (fall) from a specified value (usually 90 percent of the peak value exclusive of overshoot or undershoot) to another specified value (usually 10 percent of the peak value exclusive of overshoot or undershoot). Limits on undershoot and oscillation (i.
Fall webworm Fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea, is a moth in the family Arctiidae known principally for its larval stage, where it creates the characteristic webbed nests on the tree limbs of a wide variety of hardwoods in the late summer and fall. It is mainly an aesthetic pest and is not believed to harm otherwise healthy trees.
Fallacies of Distributed Computing The Fallacies of Distributed Computing are a set of common but flawed assumptions made by programmers when first developing distributed applications. The fallacies are summarized as follows The network] is [[Reliability|reliable.
Fallacy A fallacy is a component of an argument that is demonstrably flawed in its logic or form, thus rendering the argument invalid in whole, except in the case of begging the question, a false analogy and other informal fallacies.
Fallacy of composition A fallacy of composition arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some (or even every) part of the whole. For example: "This fragment of metal cannot be broken with a hammer, therefore the machine of which it is a part cannot be broken with a hammer.
Fallacy of distribution A fallacy of distribution is a logical fallacy occurring when an argument assumes there is no difference between a term in the distributive (referring to every member of a class) and collective (referring to the class itself as a whole) sense.
Fallacy of many questions Many questions, also known as complex question, presupposition, loaded question, or plurium interrogationum (Latin, "of many questions"), is a logical fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that presupposes something that has not been proven or accepted by all the people involved.
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness The "Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness", originally coined by philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, involves thinking something is a 'concrete' reality when in fact it is merely a belief, opinion or concept about the way things are.
Fallacy of quoting out of context The practice of "quoting out of context", sometimes referred to as "contextomy," is a logical fallacy and type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. Quoting out of context is often a means to set up "straw man" arguments.
Fallacy of the single cause The fallacy of the single cause, also known as joint effect or causal oversimplification, is a logical fallacy of causation that occurs when it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.
Fallback font A fallback font is a reserve typeface containing symbols for all Unicode characters. When a display system encounters a character which is not part of the repertoire of any of the other available fonts, a symbol from a fallback font is used instead.
Fallen (Single) "Fallen" was the first single from the Leeds band Vib Gyor. It was first given limited release in July 2006, and has attained critical aclaim and a large amount of radio play on both sides of the atlantic.
Fallen (Transformers episode) Fallen was the first episode of the Transformers Cybertron series. It first aired on September 25, 2005, and introduces several major elements in the series' storyline, including the Transformers' travel by warp gate to Earth.
Fallen Angels (science fiction novel) Fallen Angels (1991) (ISBN 0-7434-3582-6) is a Prometheus Award-winning novel by science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. The novel was written as a tribute to science fiction fandom, and includes many of its well-known figures, legends, and practices.
Fallen Empires Fallen Empires was the ninth Magic: The Gathering set and the fifth expansion set, released in November 1994. It had 102 functionally different cards, however, if different illustrations are counted, it had 187 cards.
Fallen Phoenix Series The Fallen Phoenix Series is a sci-fi trilogy about winged beings that live unbeknownst to the humans. They use the human's government to their advantage, placing agents into every nook and cranny of it until a rogue winged being reveals his race to the humans with controversal actions.
Falles The Falles (in Valencian) or Fallas (in Spanish) are a Valencian tradition which celebrates Saint Joseph's Day (19 March) in Valencia, Spain. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous speciality paella, and of course much music and laughter.
Fallfish Fallfish (Semotilus corporalis (Mitchill)) is a species in the family Cyprinidae, order Cypriniformes. It is found in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, where it inhabits streams, rivers, and lake margins.
Fallibilism Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible; or at least that all claims to knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. As a formal doctrine, it is most strongly associated with Charles Sanders Peirce, who used it in his attack on foundationalism, but it is already present in the views of early philosophers, Xenophanes, Socrates and Plato.
Fallieres Coast Fallieres Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the head of Bourgeois Fjord and Cape Jeremy. This coast was first explored in January 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under J.
Fallin' "Fallin'" is the first single from R&B/soul musician Alicia Keys's debut album, Songs in A Minor. Released to radio and music video outlets in April 2001, the song is her debut single and is also generally considered her signature song.
Falling Creek Falling Creek is a tributary of the James River located near Richmond, Virginia. Approximately 25 miles in length, it varies in width between 10 feet at its source to several hundred feet in the Falling Creek Reservoir.
Falling Creek Methodist Church and Cemetery The Falling Creek Methodist Church and Cemetery (also known as the Falling Creek United Methodist Church) is a historic church in Lake City, Florida, United States. It is located six miles northwest of Lake City, on SR 161.
Falling Creek, Virginia Falling Creek, Virginia was an unincorporated location along Interstate 95 near the point where a local tributary, Falling Creek, has its confluence with the James River. It was perhaps best known as the site of one of the toll barriers on the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike, completed in 1958.
Falling Down Falling Down is a 1993 film by Joel Schumacher about the character William "Bill" Foster (played by Michael Douglas) also known as "D-FENS"" (named for his license plate), an unemployed American missile engineer with a considerable life insurance policy, making an attempt to "go home" for his daughter's birthday after leaving his car in traffic on the hottest day of the year. As he passes through the city of Los Angeles, California on foot he finds himself alienated, disgusted and angered by what he experiences as he is accosted, overcharged and rejected.
Falling film evaporator A falling film evaporator is a device used industrially to concentrate solutions, especially solutions with heat sensitive components. The evaporator is a specialized heat exchanger; it consists of an outer shell which is filled with steam, and a number of vertical, parallel tubes through which the solution falls.
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174) is a 1995 television movie freely based on the story of the Gimli Glider. It follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, set in 1983, from the preparations for departure to the crash landing in an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between.
Falling Hare Falling Hare is a 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, starring Bugs Bunny. Within the cartoon are several contemporary pop culture references, including to Wendell Wilkie, John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men and the folk songs "Yankee Doodle" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad".
Falling in love "Falling in love" is a mainly Western term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards someone, to one of love. The usage of the term "fall" implies many things: that the process may have been in some way inevitable or uncontrollable, risky or putting the lover in a state of vulnerability, that the process is irreversible, or all of these things.
Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It) "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" is the English language name for a 1930 song composed by Frederick Hollander as "Ich bin von Kopf bis FuĂź auf Liebe eingestellt." The English language words were written by Sammy Lerner.
Falling into Place Falling into Place is the debut release by Finch, an EP containing four songs, two of which would later be featured in their album What It Is to Burn. "Letters to You" was also later released as a single in the UK, and was the band's first hit.
Falling into You (song) "Falling into You" is the title track from CĂ©line Dion's 1996 album, released as the first single in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on February 19 1996. In other parts of the world "Because You Loved Me" was released as the first single.
Falling off a Clef (album) Falling Off A Clef (2004) is the first full length album by Vince Dicola, composer to the music score of the Transformers: The Movie. It is now commerically available to buy the album on the Travis Dickenson website.
Falling scream A falling scream is a sound effect used mostly in animation and live action movies when an object falls down with great speed. It is generally described as a long, continuous whistle from the dropping point, which gets louder in mid-flight then dies out at the point of impact.
Falling Sickness Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based Punk Rock band, consisting of Fritz Aragon (vocals, guitar), Zach (vocals, bass), Gabe Gil (vocals), and Angel Ieven (drums). After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995.
Falling to Pieces "Falling to Pieces" was the second single off of Faith No More's first studio album with Mike Patton on vocals, The Real Thing. The bass driven song spawned a video in which lead singer Mike Patton portrays a series of odd characters, including one dressed like Alex from the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.
Falling Up Falling Up is an American Christian rock band signed to BEC Recordings. The band's name is derived from the first song they wrote, which refers to how imperfect people are, but how sufficient the grace of God is to compensate for it.
Falling weight deflectometer A falling weight deflectometer, FWD or F for short, is a testing device used by civil engineers to evaluate the physical properties of a pavement. This could include (but is not limited to) highways, local roads, and airport runways.
Fallingbrook Middle School Fallingbrook Middle School is a school located at 5187 Fallingbrook Drive in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Fallingbrook Middle School has been named one of the top 40 schools in Canada according to Today's Parent Magazine for its program Exploratories (or Pathways), a unique concept where students can choose their classes.
Fallings Park Fallings Park is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands and a ward of Wolverhampton City Council. It is situated in the north-east of the city, bordering South Staffordshire and the Wednesfield North, Heath Town, Bushbury South and Low Hill and Bushbury North wards.
Fallopia Fallopia is a genus of about 12–15 species of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae, often included in a wider treatment of the related genus Polygonum in the past. The genus is native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Falloscopy Falloscopy is the inspection of the fallopian tubes through an endoscope that can be either inserted into the tube through its opening in the uterus, the tubal ostium, or from the distal end, the fimbriated end.
Fallout (band) Fallout was a Heavy Metal band formed in 1979 based out of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The band contained future Type O Negative members Peter Steele (then billed under his real name Peter Ratajczyk) on bass and vocals and Josh Silver on keyboards , as well as John Campos on guitars and Agnostic Front drummer Louie Beateaux (then billed as Lou Beato) on drums.
Fallout (computer game) Fallout is a critically-acclaimed computer role-playing game produced by Tim Cain and published by Interplay in 1997. Although set in the late 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s.
Fallout (series) Fallout is a series of computer role-playing games produced and published by Interplay. Although set in and after the 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s.
Fallout from the Phil Zone Fallout from the Philzone is a double compilation album of live recordings by the Grateful Dead handpicked by the band's bassist Phil Lesh. It contains the first Grateful Dead CD releases of "Mason's Children", "In the Midnight Hour" (clocking in at over 30 minutes) and Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna".
Fallout from the War Fallout from the War is a music CD from the band Shadows Fall. It contains a selection of songs written during the sessions for The War Within and The Art of Balance, as well as some covers by bands that have inspired Shadows Fall over the years.
Fallout Protection Fallout Protection: What To Know And Do About Nuclear Attack, was an official United States federal government booklet released in December 1961 by the United States Department of Defense and The Office of Civil Defense.
Fallout shelter A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (commonly referred to as Brotherhood of Steel or FO:BoS) is an action game developed and produced by Interplay for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. Released on January 13, 2004, BoS was the fourth video game to be set in the Fallout universe and the first to be made for consoles.
Fallout: Warfare Fallout: Warfare, which is also known as FOW, F:W or simply Warfare, is a science fiction tabletop miniature wargame developed by Christopher Taylor. Based in the Fallout universe, Fallout: Warfare simulates group combat and uses cut-out models based upon the art of Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel.
Fallowfield railway station (disused) Fallowfield railway station was a railway station located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Today what remains of the station building is used as a pub, with the rest of the site taken by a Sainsbury's supermarket.
Fallowfield Station (OC Transpo) Fallowfield is a bus station on Ottawa's Transitway system. Operated by OC Transpo, it is located at Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road in the community of Barrhaven, next to a railway station served by VIA Rail's inter-city trains.
Falls bagging Falls bagging (or waterfall bagging) is a hobby amongst bushwalkers and to some extent people that are involved in Geocaching, who seek out waterfalls. It is a blossoming hobby in the same vein as peak bagging.
Falls City Handicap The Falls City Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred horses run at Churchill Downs in the late fall of each year, often on Thanksgiving Day. A Grade II event, the Falls City is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the first, and carries a purse of $300,000.
Falls Creek, Victoria Falls Creek is a carfree ski resort in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. It is located about 350 kilometres by road from Melbourne in the Alpine National Park, with the nearest town Mount Beauty, approximately 30 kilometres away at the foot of the ranges.
Falls Lake Falls Lake is a 12,500 acre (51 km²) artificial lake located in Durham, Wake, and Granville counties in North Carolina, USA. The lake is formed by the confluence of the Eno, Little, and Flat rivers, and is in turn the source for the Neuse River.
Falls of Bruar The Falls of Bruar are a series of waterfalls on the Bruar Water in Scotland, about 8 miles from Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross. They have been a tourist attraction since the 18th century and were immortalized in a poem by Robert Burns, The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Atholl, supposedly from the river itself entreating the Duke to plant some trees in the then barren landscape.
Falls of Clyde (waterfalls) The Falls of Clyde is the collective name of four linn (Scots: waterfalls) on the River Clyde near New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Falls of Clyde comprise the upper falls of Bonnington Linn, Corra Linn, Dundaff Linn, and the lower falls of Stonebyres Linn.
Falls of Dochart The Falls of Dochart are situated on the River Dochart at Killin in Stirlingshire, Scotland at the western end of Loch Tay. A bridge crosses over the river just as you enter Killin giving a fabulous view of the falls as they cascade down over the rocks and around the island of Inchbuie, which is the traditional burial place of the MacNab clan.
Falls Park on the Reedy Falls Park on the Reedy is a 32-acre park adjacent to downtown Greenville, South Carolina in the historic West End district. The park was founded in 1967 when the Carolina Foothills Garden Club reclaimed 26 acres of land that had been previously used for textile mills.
Falls Prevention Fall prevention is a variety of actions to help reduce the number of accidental falls suffered by older people. Falls and fall related injuries are among the most serious and common medical problems experienced by older adults.
Falls Road The Falls Road (Bóthar na bhFál in Irish, meaning "road of the hedgerows") is the main road through West Belfast in Northern Ireland; from Divis Street and Castle Place in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. Its name is synonymous with the Catholic and republican communities in the city.
Falls-to-Falls Corridor The Falls-to-Falls Corridor (officially The Falls-to-Falls Corridor--United States Route 53 from International Falls on the Minnesota/Canada border to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) is, by the United States federal government, a recognized trade corridor.
Fallschirmjäger (often rendered Fallschirmjager in English; from German Fallschirm "parachute" and Jäger, a term for light infantry; literally "hunter; ranger") is a German paratrooper. Nazi German Fallschirmjäger in World War II were the first to be committed in large scale airborne operations.
Fallskärmsjägarna Fallskärmsjägarna, also known as Fallskärmsjägarkåren in Swedish (the Parachute Ranger Corps) is located in K3 Karlsborg at Fallskärmsjägarskolan (Parachute Ranger School, commonly known as FJS) and is a Swedish military Special Operations unit. The unit is an airborne commando unit focused on intelligence gathering and forms part of Sweden's Special Forces.
Fallskärmsjägarskolan Fallskärmsjägarskolan, commonly known as FJS, is the Swedish Army's Parachute Ranger School and the home of Fallskärmsjägarna (Parachute Rangers) and Särskilda Skyddsgruppen (Special Protection Group). The school was founded in 1952 by Captain Nils-Ivar Carlborg with the intention of creating and training small specialized units no bigger than platoons which were capable of operating deep behind enemy lines and inside enemy controlled territory.
Fallsview Tourist Area The Fallsview Tourist Area in Niagara Falls, Ontario is the main tourist attraction surrounding the Falls. In recent years, it has become the home many of the hotels in the city, such as: the Hilton Hotel, Marriott, Oakes Hotel, Renaissance Hotel, Radisson, Sheraton, and Embassy Suites.
Fallturm Bremen Fallturm Bremen is a drop tower at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen in Bremen. It has a 123-meter-high drop tube (actual drop distance is 110 m), in which for 4.
Fallujah Fallujah (; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jewish academies for many centuries.
Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre is a documentary film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta which first aired on Italy's RAI state television network on November 8th, 2005. The film documents the use of weapons that the documentary asserts are chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civilians and children by military forces of the United States of America in the city of Fallujah in Iraq during the Fallujah Offensive of November 2004.

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