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Falmari The Falmari (from the Quenya word falma, meaning [crested] wave), also known as the Sea-elves, were those of the Teleri who departed from Middle-earth and went into the West. They became known as the Sea-elves in the land of Aman, for they became enamoured with the sea and made music beside the breaking waves.
Falmer Stadium Falmer Stadium is the codename of the community football stadium in eastern Brighton, near the village of Falmer and the council estate of Moulsecoombe, East Sussex, England. It is to be funded by Brighton and Hove Albion F.
Falmouth & Helston League The Whirlwind Falmouth - Helston League is an English association football league comprised of clubs from South Cornwall. It consists of three divisions, with the top division at the 13th overall tier of the English football league system.
Falmouth Airpark Falmouth Airpark, in Falmouth, Massachusetts, is a public airport owned by the Falmouth Airpark Homeowners Association. It has one runway, averages 66 flights per week, and has approximately 43 aircraft based on its field.
Falmouth Stakes The Falmouth Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbred fillies and mares run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) on the July Course at Newmarket Racecourse in early July.
Falmouth, Virginia Falmouth is an unincorporated community in Stafford County, Virginia, United States. Situated on the north bank of the Rappahannock River at the falls, the community is north of and opposite the city of Fredericksburg.
Falooda Falooda or lachha is basically Vermicelli made of starch of corn and water, which is cooked and then cold pressed. it is a major ingredient in a dish termed the same with the addition of Kulfi named FALUDA KULFI and flavoured syrup.
Falowiec The Polish word falowiec means 'wavy block' and it is a kind of building which has a wavy shape in its body and balcony. This kind of building was built in Poland in late '60s & '70s of the 20th Century in the Polish city Gdańsk, where there are eight buildings of this type, among others probably the longest building in Europe.
Falsas esperanzas "Falsas Esperanzas" is the second single from Christina Aguilera's debut Spanish album, Mi Reflejo. Released in 2001, the single did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 as it was primarily a Latin Music, and they do not really chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
False advertising False advertising (or more mildly, deceptive advertising) is an act of deliberately misleading a potential client about a product, service or a company in general by reporting false or misrepresenting information or data in advertising or other promotional materials. False advertising is a type of fraud, and may also be considered a hoax.
False alarm A false alarm, also called a nuisance alarm, is the phony report of an emergency, causing unnecessary panic and/or bringing resources (such as fire engines) to a place where they are not needed. Over time, repeated false alarms in a certain area may cause occupants to start to ignore all alarms, knowing that each time it will likely be a fake.
False analogy False analogy is a fallacy applying to inductive arguments. It is often mistakenly considered to be a formal fallacy, but it is not, because a false analogy consists of an error in the substance of an argument (the content of the analogy itself), not an error in the logical structure of the argument.
False anemone The false anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla) is a flowering plant that can grow up to 3 ft tall and is rather similar to a Japanese anemone due to its waxy petals and arching branches. Its blue and lavender flowers comes into bloom between July and September.
False antechinus The genus Pseudantechinus are members of the Dasyuromorphia order. They are often called false antechinuses, although this genus includes the Sandstone Dibbler, which was previously assigned to a different genus.
False arrest False arrest is a common law tort, where a plaintiff alleges he or she was held in custody without probable cause or without an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. Although it is possible to sue law enforcement officials for false arrest, the usual defendants in such cases are private security firms.
False attribution The fallacy of a false attribution occurs when an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument. A contextomy is a type of false attribution.
False Alarm False Alarm is The Bronx's third released single and the second off their debut album. The single was released on July 5, 2004 and features both the title track False Alarm as well as a cover version of a Neil Young track, The Needle & The Damage Done.
False balance False balance is a term used to describe a perceived or real media bias, where journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence actually supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may even actually suppress information which would establish one side's claims as baseless.
False billing False billing is a fraudulent act of invoicing or otherwise requesting funds from an individual or firm without showing obligation to pay. Such notices are often sent to owners of domain names, purporting to be legitimate renewal notices, although not originating from the owner's own registrar.
False bottom A false bottom is an internal partition in a container, typically at the bottom of a drawer, suitcase or similar item, enabling the concealment of objects from a cursory examination of the item's contents. A false bottom may be present if the internal dimensions of a container do not match its external dimensions after taking into account the thicknesses of constituent materials and structures used to build the object.
False brinelling Brinelling, or true brinelling, is surface damage caused by repeated overload, reminiscent of the damage caused by the Brinell hardness test; false brinelling is damage caused by fretting corrosion that causes similar-looking damage via a different mechanism.
False Bay False Bay (Afrikaans Valsbaai) is a body of water defined by the Cape Peninsula (the finger-like projection on the right in the accompanying satellite image) and Cape Hangklip (Dutch/Afrikaans for "Hang-stone") to the left (east). The rugged Hangklip is shown in the photograph to the left and below.
False catshark The false catshark, Pseudotriakis microdon, the only member of the genus Pseudotriakis, which is in turn the only member of the family Pseudotriakidae, is found circumglobally between latitudes 64° N and 12° S at depths of between 200 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 2.
False claims law of the United States The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that medical fraud and abuse approaches 10% of all health care expenditures or $100 billion dollars. To reduce this figure, the Justice Department and private litigators have used the False Claims Act (FCA) as the fraud fighting weapon of choice.
False clown beetle The false clown beetles are a small family (Sphaeritidae) of beetles, closely related to the clown beetles but with distinct characteristics. The family consists of a single genus Sphaerites with four known species, widespread in temperate area but not commonly seen.
False cognate False cognates are a pair of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. That is, they appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when in fact they are not.
False confession A false confession is where a suspect in a crime admits guilt to the crime, even though he or she is not responsible for the crime. False confessions can be induced through coercion or by the mental incompetency of the accused.
False consciousness False consciousness is a Marxist hypothesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat — and perhaps the other classes — over the nature of capitalism. This is essentially ideological control, which the proletariat do not know they are under.
False consensus effect The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them. People readily guess their own opinions, beliefs and predilections to be more prevalent in the general public than they really are.
False creek urgent care center The False Creek Urgent Care Center is a medial clinic located in Vancouver, British Columbia. It opened amid much controversy as it intended to charge patients for services normally covered under the Provinces' Medical Services Plan.
False Cape False Cape is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme southeastern portion of Virginia. False Cape is located along the section of ocean adjacent to North Carolina and a small portion of Virginia known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic due to the many shipwrecks.
False Cape Horn False Cape Horn or Falso Cabo de Hornos is a headland at the south end of Hoste Island, 35 statute miles (56 km) northwest of Cape Horn, located at . False Cape Horn is the southernmost point of the large islands of the Tierra del Fuego group, located close to the mainland of South America.
False Claims Act The False Claims Act ( et seq., also called the "Lincoln Law) allows American citizens, whether affiliated with the government or not, to file actions against federal contractors claiming fraud against the government.
False Creek False Creek () is a short inlet in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, separating the central business district from the rest of the city. It was named by George Henry Richards during his Hydrographic survey of 1856-63.
False dilemma The logical fallacy of false dilemma—also known as falsified dilemma, fallacy of the excluded middle, black and white thinking, false dichotomy, false correlative, either/or fallacy and bifurcation—involves a situation in which two alternative points of view are held to be the only options, when in reality there exist one or more other options which have not been considered. The two alternatives presented are often, though not always, the two extreme points on some spectrum.
False discovery rate False discovery rate (FDR) control is a statistical method used in multiple hypothesis testing to correct for multiple comparisons. It controls the expected proportion of incorrectly rejected null hypotheses (type I errors) in a list of rejected hypotheses Benjamini, Y.
False document A false document is a form of verisimilitude that attempts to create in the reader (viewer, audience etc) a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief. That is, it wants to fool the audience briefly into thinking that what is being presented is actually a fact.
False Detour Channel The False Detour Channel is a short channel in Lake Huron, connecting the main body of the lake to the North Channel. The Canada-United States border passes roughly through the middle of the channel, which separates Michigan's Drummond Island (Chippewa County) from Ontario's Cockburn Island (Manitoulin District).
False Dmitriy False Dmitriy is the term used to denote any pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be the son of Ivan the Terrible, Dmitriy, miraculously escaped the assassination attempt. False Dimitriys appeared in the Russian politics during the Time of Troubles.
False Dmitriy I False Dimitriy I (Cyrillic Димитрий; other transliterations: Dimitry, Dimitri, Dimitrii) (ruled 1605-May 17 1606) was one of three impostors who claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, tsarevitch Dmitriy Ivanovich, who had supposedly escaped a 1591 assassination attempt. It is generally believed that the real Dmitriy was assassinated in Uglich and that this False Dmitriy's real name was Grigory Otrepyev, although this is far from certain.
False Dmitry II False Dmitry II (, other transliterations: Dmitriy, Dmitri, Dmitrii), also called the thief of Tushino, was the second of three pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be tsarevich Dmitry, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. The real Dmitry had died under uncertain circumstances, most likely an assassination attempt, in 1591 at the age of seven at his widowed mother's appanage in Uglich.
False Dmitry III False Dmitry III, also called Pseudo-Demetrius III (Russian: Лжедмитрий III) (died c. 1612), was the last and most enigmatic of three pretenders to the Russian throne, who claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, tsarevich Dmitry.
False economy A false economy refers to an action which saves money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results in more money being wasted than being saved. For example, if a city government decided to purchase the least expensive automobiles for use by city workers, it might be termed false economy as cheap automobiles have a record of traditionally needing more frequent repairs in the long term.
False flag False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own.
False flax oil False flax oil is a pressed seed oil, derived from the Camelina sativa or false flax, also called gold of pleasure. False flax has long been grown in Europe, and its oil used as a lamp oil until the 18th century.
False Folio False Folio is the term that Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers have applied to the earliest attempt to create a collection of Shakepearean works in a single volume, that being William Jaggard's printing of ten Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays together in 1619.
False ground beetle The false ground beetles are a family (Trachypachidae) of beetles that generally resemble small ground beetles, but that are distinguished by the large coxae of their rearmost legs. Only six species are known in the family, with four species of Trachypachus found in northern Eurasia and northern North America, and two species of Systolosoma in Chile.
False Gods False Gods is a Science Fiction novel by Graham McNeill based in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, published by the Black Library and is the continuation of the story started in Horus Rising. The story is set 10,000 years before the timeframe of the Warhammer 40,000 setting, and expands upon the tale of the Horus Heresy, the galaxy's greatest civil war and the root cause of many issues in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
False hero The false hero is a stock character in fairy tales, and sometimes also in ballads. The character appears near the end of a story in order to claim to be the hero or heroine and is, therefore, always of the same sex as the hero or heroine.
False choice The logical fallacy of false choice is a correlative-based fallacy in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be. It is often used to obscure the likelihood of one option or to reframe an argument on the user's terms.
False idol False idol, interpreted literally, is a phrase meaning a cult image or object considered idolatrous from the perspective of the speaker. For example, Moses has been said to have considered the golden calf a false idol upon his return with the tablets of stone, as described in Exodus.
False keel The false keel was a timber, forming part of the hull of a wooden sailing ship. Typically 6 inches thick for a 74-gun ship in the 19th century, the false keel was constructed in several pieces, which were scarphed together, and attached to the underside of the keel by iron staples.
False lanternshark The false lanternshark, Etmopterus pseudosqualiolus, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western Pacific from the Norfolk Ridge and Lord Howe Ridge off New Caledonia, at depths of between 670 and 1.170 m.
False morel The False morel (Gyromitra esculenta), also known a variety of common names such as Lorchel, Brain fungus, Red mushroom or Beefsteak mushroom, is a poisonous ascomycete fungus somewhat similar in appearance to the "true" morel (Morchella sp.).
False Medlar False Medlar or Dwarf Whitebeam (Sorbus chamaemespilus) is a species of Sorbus native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to the Carpathians and the Balkans, growing at altitudes of up to 2500 m.
False Mirrors False Mirrors is the second novel in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko. The novel takes place two years after Labyrinth of Reflections and describes the life of a former diver (person able to exit VR at will and "see" holes in programs) after the diver profession becomes obsolete.
False network catfish The false network catfish, Corydoras sodalis, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Amazon River in Loreto, Peru and Amazonas, Brazil.
False potato beetle the false potato beetle (sometimes horsenettle beetle), Leptinotarsa juncta, is a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern regions of the United States. Adult beetles emerge from the soil in the late spring or early summer and begin breeding, and a population may go through one to three generations in a summer.
False precision False precision occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies better precision than is actually the case; since precision is a limit to accuracy, this often leads to overconfidence in the accuracy as well.
False pretenses False pretenses or obtaining property by false pretensesThe use of the word "pretenses" here is perhaps slightly confusing to a modern reader since "pretense", in the modern sense of the word, is the conscious creation of fiction, but in the former sense of the word, as it was borrowed from the French language, it simply meant "claim" or sometimes "belief". See also Pretender for another case of confusion on this point.
False prophet False prophet is a label given to a person who is viewed as illegitimately claiming charismatic authority within a religious group. The individual may be seen as one who falsely claims the gift of prophecy, or who uses that gift for demagogy or evil ends.
False protagonist In film, television, or literature, a false protagonist is a technique for making a scene more jarring or a character more notable. It involves presenting a character at the start of the film as the main character, but then disposing of this character, usually by killing him or her.
False purpose False purpose is a grammatical construct that inaccurately applies intent to an action. The construct nearly always arises because of the incorrect use of the prepositioin "to" in place of a past-tense verb.
False relation A false relation (also called cross-relation or English dissonance) is a harmonic effect in Western tonal music, in which a note (usually the third degree of the scale) precedes the same note flattened by a semitone in a different part in the following chord.
False spotted catfish The false spotted catfish, Corydoras leucomelas, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Upper Amazon River basin in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
False stag beetle The false stag beetles Diphyllostoma are a group of three species of rare beetles known only from California. Almost nothing is known of their life history beyond that the adults are diurnal and females are flightless; larvae have not been observed.
False start In sports (particularly racing sports like swimming, track, or motor sports), a false start is committed by a competitor who starts before being signaled to do so. In some instances, a false start can immediately disqualify an athlete from further competition, but more often a single warning is given.
False statement A false statement is a statement that can be either wilfully or unknowingly untrue. Though "Fallacy" is often used as a synonym for "false statement" this is not what is meant by "fallacy" in logic or most formal contexts.
False Smiles False Smiles is the debut album from UK singer/songwriter/musician, Amy Studt. Originally released in 2003 with 14 tracks, the album was then re-released in 2004 with a new track, a cover the Sheryl Crow classic "All I Wanna Do".
False Start (Code Lyoko episode) "False Start" is the twenty-sixth episode of the French animated television series Code Lyoko and the second installment of the Season 1 Finale. It premiered in France on February 25, 2004 and in the United States on May 24, 2004.
False titles of nobility Fake titles of nobility are supposed titles of nobility which have, in fact, been fabricated, and are not recognized by any government, or have not been so recognized in the past. They have received an increasing amount of press attention as the number of schemes which attempt to sell these titles has increased.
False vacuum A false vacuum is a metastable sector of a quantum field theory which appears to be a perturbative vacuum but is unstable to instanton effects which tunnel to a lower energy state. This tunneling can be caused by quantum fluctuations or the creation of high energy particles.
False writing system False writing systems are artificially constructed alphabets or scripts used (sometimes within the context of a false document) to convey a degree of concealed verisimilitude. Examples of this include the script in the Codex Seraphinianus and possibly the Voynich manuscript and alien dialogue in comic strips and graphic novels (such as Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent series).
False-collar The false collar is a detachable collar fastened by two metal studs, one attached at the front and one at the back to hold the collar to the shirt. Using a false collar allows the shirt to be washed without the special washing a starched collar requires.
Falset (Music) Falset is the latitude for a brasswind player's pitch-control of a harmonic, while only just sufficient in middle and high registers to allow for care over intonation, becomes in the low register very wide in the flattening direction; indeed without this the conventional system of three valves would have had a very limited future owing to the sharpness of the valve combinations required by the low register. At H2 the pitch can sometimes be dropped by a fourth or more by means of what is often termed 'loose-lipping', a sort of dragging of embouchure which produces 'facticious' pitches not allowed for by the simple theory of the harmonic series.
Falsettos Falsettos is a musical with a book by James Lapine and William Finn and music and lyrics by Finn, comprised of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, the last two in a trio of one-act off-Broadway plays (the first was In Trousers) focusing on Marvin, his ex-wife Trina, his son Jason, and his gay lover Whizzer.
Falsework Falsework refers to temporary structures used in the construction to support arched structures and concrete forms (moulds) in order to hold the component in place until its construction is sufficiently far advanced to support itself.
Falsies In fashion, falsies is a term used in English to denote padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts. The term is also, more rarely, used for pads which create the appearance of larger buttocks.
Falsifiability In science and the philosophy of science, falsifiability, contingency, and defeasibility are roughly equivalent terms referring to the property of empirical statements that they must admit of logical counterexamples. This stands in contradistinction to formal and mathematical statements that may be tautologies, that is, universally true by dint of definitions, axioms, and proofs.
Falsified evidence Falsified evidence, forged evidence or tainted evidence is used to either convict an innocent person, or to guarantee conviction of a guilty person. Some evidence is forged because the person doing the forensic work finds it easier to fabricate evidence than to perform the actual work involved.
Falsobordone Falsobordone is a style of recitation found in music from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Most often associated with the harmonization of Gregorian psalm tones, it is based on root position triads and is first known to have appeared appeared in southern Europe in the 1480s.
Falstad concentration camp Falstad concentration camp was a prison camp in Levanger, Norway, used mostly for political prisoners within Nazi-occupied territories. Originally built as a government boarding school in 1921, the SS put it to their use as SS-Strafgefangenenlager Falstad in August of 1941.
Falstaff Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare as a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vainglorious, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, but he is ultimately repudiated after Hal becomes king.
Falstaff (opera) Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's eighth decade, and only the second of his twenty-six operas to be a comedy.
Falsterbo Canal Falsterbo Canal (Swedish: Falsterbokanalen) is a short canal that allows ships to pass inside Falsterbo, Skanör and Ljunghusen from the Baltic to the Öresund. Falsterbo, Skanör and Ljunghusen lie on the Skanör-Falsterbo peninsula (now essentially an island which is called "Näset").
Faltings' theorem In number theory, the Mordell conjecture stated a basic result regarding the rational number solutions to Diophantine equations. It was eventually proved by Gerd Faltings in 1983, about six decades after the conjecture was made; it is now known as Faltings' theorem.
Falu Falu, born Falguni Shah in Mumbai, is a New York-based singer and songwriter whose music blends ancient Indian classical traditions with a contemporary rock style. A disciple of legendary musician Ustad Sultan Khan, her list of collaborations as a vocalist includes the Silk Road Project, Karsh Kale, and Carnegie Hall, for whom she serves as ambassador of Indian music.
Falu red Falu red or Falun red (in Swedish Falu rödfärg) is the name of a Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns. The paint originated from the copper mine at Falun in Dalecarlia, Sweden.
Falun Gong Falun Gong, (; literally "Practice of the Wheel of Law") also known as Falun Dafa, (; lit. "Great Law of the Wheel of Law") is a system of "mind and body cultivation" introduced by Li Hongzhi] (whose surname is Li) to the public in 1992.
Falun Gong and live organ harvesting On 9 March2006, allegations were made of organ harvesting on living Falun Gong practitioners at the Sujiatun detention compound, an alleged labor camp and part of the China Traditional Medicine Thrombosis Treatment Center, a joint-venture with Malaysian healthcare company Contry Heights Health Sanctuary and subject oversight beyond local Chinese authority, located in Shenyang City, Liaoning province. According to at least two witnesses interviewed by The Epoch Times, internal organs of living Falun Gong practitioners have been harvested and sold to the black market, and the bodies have been cremated in the hospital's boiler room.
Falut Phalut or Falut (3600 m) is the second highest peak of West Bengal, India. Part of the Singalila Ridge in the Himalayas, it is located at the border of the Indian states of West Bengal and Sikkim and the country of Nepal.
Falvey Falvey is a surname which is derived from O'Failve, a Gaelic name which literally means "lively, pleasant, sprightly, merry, cheerful" or, according to another historian, "joker". Other derivatives of O'Failve has continued in the forms of O’Failbhe, O’Falvie, O’Falvy, O’Failie, O’Falvey, Falvey, Fealy and Fealey.
Falx Falx is a latin word originally meaning sickle, but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge such as a scythe. Falx was also used to mean a weapon, particularly that of the Thracians and Dacians, and later a siege hook used by the Romans themselves.
FaĹľana FaĹľana (Italian: Fasana) is a town and a municipality in Croatia, a small port and fishermen's centre in the south-western part of the western Istrian coast in the FaĹľana Strait, 8 km northwest of Pula. It is located on a low part of the coast, well protected from the sea by Brijuni Islands (better known by their Istrian Italian name Brioni).
Fama Fraternitatis The Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer), or simply the Fama Fraternitatis, is an anonymous Rosicrucian manifesto published in 1614 It is generally assumed, among researchers, that the Fama may have been in circulation ca. 1610 since a reply to the Fama had already been printed in 1612 by Adam Haselmayer who had seen a manuscript copy of the Fama in Tyrol in 1610.
Fama-MacBeth regression The Fama-Macbeth regression is a method used to estimate parameters for asset pricing models such as the Capital asset pricing model (CAPM). The method estimates the betas and risk premia for any risk factors that are expected to determine asset prices.
Famagusta Famagusta (Greek: Αμμόχωστος, Ammochostos; Turkish: Gazimağusa; Italian: Famagosta) is a city on the east coast of Cyprus and capital of the Famagusta District. It lies on the east coast in a bay between Capes Greco and Eloea, east of Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour in the island.
Famaillá Famaillá is a city in the province of Tucumán, Argentina, located 30 km south from the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán. It has 30,951 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Famaillá Department.
Fame (film) Fame is a 1980 musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker. The film follows a group of students through their studies at a New York high school for performing arts (later renamed Fiorello H.
Fame (Irene Cara song) "Fame" was a pop song written by Michael Gore (music) and Dean Pitchford (lyrics) that was released in 1980 and achieved chart success as the theme song to the Fame movie and TV series. The song was performed by Irene Cara, who played the role of Coco Hernandez in the original movie.

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