Fasciolopsiasis Fasciolopsiasis results from infection by the trematode Fasciolopsis buski Odhner 1902, the largest intestinal fluke of humans.
	Fascism Fascism is a radical political ideology that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. The original fascist movement ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.
	Fashion The term fashion usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not adhere to prevailing ideals. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole. The terms "fashionable" and "unfashionable" are employed to describe whether someone or something fits in with the current popular mode of expression.
	Fast food Fast food is food which is prepared and served quickly at outlets called fast-food restaurants. It is a multi-billion dollar industry which continues to grow rapidly in many countries.
	Fast Lane Fast Lane is the RFID electronic toll collection system used in the Massachusetts, United States. Fast Lane is used on the Massachusetts Turnpike and on the Massachusetts Port Authority operated Tobin Bridge. It is also accepted at Route 128 operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
	Fast of the firstborn Fast of the Firstborn; is a unique fast day in Judaism which usually falls on the day before Passover. Usually, the fast is broken at a siyum celebration, which, according to prevailing custom, creates an atmosphere of rejoicing that overrides the requirement to continue the fast.
	Fastball The fastball is the most common type of pitch_(baseball) in baseball. Some "power" pitchers, like Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson, can throw it 95-100 mph, and rely on this speed to prevent the ball from being hit. Others throw more slowly but put movement on the ball or throw it on the outside of the home plate where the batter_(baseball) cannot easily reach it.
	Fastener A fastener is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together. Fasteners can also be used to close a container such as a bag, a box, or an envelope; or they may involve keeping together the sides of an opening of flexible material, attaching a Lid to a container, etc.
	Fat Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Fats may be either solid or liquid at normal room temperature, depending on their structure and composition. Although the words "oils", "fats" and "lipids" are all used to refer to fats, "oils" is usually used to refer to fats that are liquids at normal room temperature, while "fats" is usually used to refer to fats that are solids at normal room temperature.
	Fat Chance Fat Chance, released July 2002, is Paul Heaton, of The Beautiful South's solo album. The album itself was critically acclaimed, but was not a commercial success.
	Fatah Fatah ; a reverse acronym from the Arabic language name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini is a major secular Palestinian political party and the largest organization in the Palestine Liberation Organization , a generally secular multi-party confederation.
	Father A father is traditionally the male parent of a child. Like mothers, fathers may be categorised according to their biological, social or legal personal relationship with the child. Historically, the biological relationship paternity has been determinative of fatherhood.
	Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional detective created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton and who stars in five volumes of in total 48 short story, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, Yorkshire, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.
	Father Christmas Father Christmas is a name used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and several other Commonwealth of Nations Countries, as well as Ireland, for the gift-bringing figure of Christmas or yuletide. The name is also used in translation in many other countries; see Santa Claus.
	Fats Domino Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride piano and boogie-woogie influences.
	Fatty acid In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid , often with a long aliphatic tail , either saturation or unsaturated. Long carboxylic acids as short as butyric acid are considered to be fatty acids, while fatty acids derived from natural fats and oils may be assumed to have at least 8 carbon atoms, e.g.
	Fauld A fauld is a piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips. External links * glossary of arms and armor
	Faun In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns Cloven-hoof.
	Fauna Fauna is a collective term for animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is Flora. Flora, fauna and other forms of Kingdom such as fungi are collectively referred to as Biota. Zoology and paleontology usually use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g.
	Fauvism Les Fauves were a short-lived and loose grouping of early Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities, and the use of deep color over the representational values retained by Impressionism. Fauvists simplified lines, made the subject of the painting easy to read, exaggerated perspectives and used brilliant but arbitrary colors.
	Fawkes In the fictional Harry Potter series of novels and films, Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore's pet Phoenix. It is likely that Fawkes is named after Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes. Fawkes seems to be the counterpart of Lord Voldemort's snake Nagini. Fawkes is coloured red and gold, the traditional colours of Hogwarts Houses#Gryffindor House.
	Fax Fax is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network. The words telecopy and telefax are also used as synonyms.
	Fealty An oath of fealty, from the Latin fidelitas or faithfulness, is a pledge of allegiance of one person to another. Typically the oath is made upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic thus binding the oath taker before God. In medieval Europe, fealty was sworn between two people, the obliged person and a person of rank.
	Feather Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are the outstanding characteristic that distinguishes the Class Aves from all other living groups. Other Theropoda also had feathers .
	Feather boa A Feather Boa is a fashion accessory that is usually worn wrapped around the neck like a scarf. A boa may be made of fur, but it is usually made from various types of feathers: Ostrich, marabou, chandelle and turkey are the most common feathers used although cruelty free boas are also available.
	Feature film A feature film is a term the film industry uses to refer to a film made for initial distribution in Movie theater. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, and the British Film Institute all define a feature as a film with a running time of forty minutes or longer, although most features today run over ninety minutes.
	February February is the second month of the calendar year in the Julian calendar and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with the length of 28 or 29 days. The month has 29 days in leap years, when the year number is divisible by four . In other years the month has 28 days.
	Fecal Matter Fecal Matter was a heavy metal band from Aberdeen, Washington, and the first band conceived by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
	Feces Feces, faeces, or fces is waste product from an animal's gastrointestinal tract expelled through the anus during defecation. In humans, defecation may occur from once every two or three days to several times a day. Hardening of the feces may cause prolonged interruption in the routine and is called constipation.
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	Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a Federal police, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice . At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes and is second to only the United States Marshal Service in terms of law enforcement jurisdiction .
	Federal Bureau of Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a subdivision of the United States Department of Justice, and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The Bureau was established in 1930 to provide more progressive and humane care for Federal inmates, to professionalize the prison service, and to ensure consistent and centralized administration of the 11 Federal prisons in operation at the time.
	Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission is an independent United States government Independent Agencies of the United States Government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute . The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 as the successor to the Federal Radio Commission and is charged with Administrative law all non-Federal Government use of the radio Electromagnetic spectrum , and all interstate telecommunications as w
	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a :Category:United States government corporations created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. The vast number of bank failures in the Great Depression spurred the United States Congress into creating an institution which would guarantee banks, inspired by the Massachusetts and its Deposit Insurance Fund.
	Federal Emergency Management Agency * Office of Emergency Management * HAZUS FEMA risk assessment toolset * U.S. Department of Homeland Security * United States Civil Defense * Civil defense * U.S. Fire Administration * Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada - Canadian counterpart disaster response agency
	Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation , a government sponsored enterprise, is a stockholder-owned, publicly-traded company chartered by the United States federal government in 1970 to purchase mortgages and related securities, and then issue securities and bonds in financial markets backed by those mortgages in secondary markets.
	Federal National Mortgage Association The Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a corporation sponsored by the United States Government. Created in 1938 to establish a secondary market for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Along with other government sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae buys mortgages on the secondary market, pools them and sells them as mortgage-backed security to investors on the open market.
	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or FRY was a federal state consisting of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro that existed from 1992 to 2003, when it was reconstituted as a looser State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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	Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. The Federal Reserve System is a quasi-governmental banking system composed of a presidentially-appointed Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.; the Federal Open Market Committee; 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation; and numerous private member banks, which own varying amounts of stock in the regional Federal Reserve Banks.
	Federal Trade Commission The Federal Trade Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices.
	Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia, officially the Federated States of Micronesia, is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Papua New Guinea. The country is a sovereign state in Associated state with the United States. The Federated States of Micronesia were formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations Trust Territory under US administration.
	Federation A federation is a Political union comprised of a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state are typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of the central government.
	Federico Fellini Federico Fellini was one of the most influential and widely revered Italy film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. Fellini's films typically combine memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire. Life and work
	Feedback loop A feedback loop is a system where outputs are fed back into the system as inputs, increasing or decreasing effects. Often feedback and self-correction leads to adjustments varying with differences between actual output and desired output. They come in a many places, such as the below links:
	Feeder line In communications, a feeder line is a peripheral route or branch from a main line or trunk line. While applicable to any area of communication making using of a hierarchy network, the term is particularly used in USA air travel. Efficient, high-capacity routes connect important nodes while feeder lines connect these nodes to departure and destination points.
	Feeding Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. There are many types of feeding that animals exhibit, including: *filter feeder - obtaining food suspended in the water column *deposit feeder - obtaining food particles in soil
	Feedlot A feedlot or feedyard is a type of concentrated animal feeding operation which is used for fattening livestock, notably beef cattle, prior to slaughter. They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens. Most feedlots require some type of governmental permit and must have plans in place to deal with the large amount of waste that is generated.
	Fehling's solution Fehling's solution is a solution used to differentiate between aldehyde or ketone functional groups. The substance to be tested is heated together with Fehling's solution; a red precipitate indicates the presence of an aldehydes. Ketones do not react. An example for its use is to screen for glucose in urine, thus detecting diabetes.
	Feijoa The Feijoa, also known as Pineapple Guava or Guavasteen, is an evergreen shrub or small tree, 1-7 m in height, originating from the highlands of southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina.
	Feldspar Feldspar is the name of an important group of rock-forming minerals which make up perhaps as much as 60% of the Earth's Crust . Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive rocks; they occur as compact minerals, as veins, and are also present in many types of metamorphic rock.
	Felicity Felicity was an United States television series that revolved around the fictional college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter, as she attended the "University of New York," based on New York University, across the country from her home of Palo Alto, California.
	Felidae Lions, tigers, domestic cats, and other felines are members of the Felidae family . They are the most strictly carnivorous of the nine families in the order Carnivora. The first felids emerged during the Eocene, about 40 million years ago. The most familiar feline is the domestic cat or house cat , which first became associated with humans thousands of years ago .
	Felis Felis is a genus of cats in the family Felidae. Species in the genus include: *Chinese Desert Cat, Felis bieti *Jungle Cat, Felis chaus *Sand Cat, Felis margarita *Black-footed Cat, Felis nigripes *Wild cat, Felis silvestris **Wild cat#European wild cat, Felis silvestris silvestris
	Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer and conducting of the early Romantic music period. He was born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosophy Moses Mendelssohn.
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	Fellah Fellah is a peasant or agricultural laborer in the Middle East, such as Syria or Egypt. The word derives from the Arabic language word for ploughman or tiller. During the time of the spread of Islam, it was used to distinguish between Arab settlers who were usually nomadic, and the indigenous rural population of the conqured territories, such as the Egyptians.
	Fellow Workers Fellow Workers is an album by United States folk music Utah Phillips and United States singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released on May 18, 1999, on Difranco's own Righteous Babe label. Fellow Workers is DiFranco's and Phillip's second collaboration, after The Past Didn't Go Anywhere.
	Felt History Felt is a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers. The fibers form the structure of the fabric, so it is really soft. Felt is the oldest form of fabric known to man. It predates weaving and knitting, although there is archaeological evidence from the British museum that the first known yarn was made by winding vegetable fibres on the thigh.
	Felucca A felucca is a traditional wooden sail boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean including Malta, and particularly along the Nile in Egypt. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. They are usually able to board ten-some passengers and the crew consists of two or three people.
	Female Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces ovum . The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon is produced by the male. A female individual cannot reproduce sexual reproduction without access to the gametes of a male.
	Femininity Femininity comprises the physical and mental attributes associated with the female sex and is partly culturally determined. Some of these attributes can be traced to the female reproductive role. Others are rooted in the socialization of a girl's early development and adjusted throughout adulthood by picking up or reacting to societal cues.
	Feminism Feminism is a diverse collection of social theory, political movements and ethics, largely motivated by or concerned with the experiences of women. Most feminists are especially concerned with social, political and economic inequality between men and women; some have argued that gendered and sexed identities, such as "man" and "woman," are Social construction.
	Femme fatale A femme fatale is a stock character, usually a villainous woman, who deceptively misleads and ensnares the hapless hero and/or other males in order to gain some end they would not freely help her achieve. The phrase is French language for "deadly woman" or "fatal woman".
	Femoral nerve The Femoral Nerve, the largest branch of the lumbar plexus, arises from the dorsal divisions of the second, third, and fourth lumbar nerves. It descends through the fibers of the Psoas major, emerging from the muscle at the lower part of its lateral border, and passes down between it and the Iliacus, behind the iliac fascia; it then runs beneath the inguinal ligament, into the thigh, and splits into an anterior and a posterior division.
	Femoral vein In the human body, the femoral vein is a blood vessel that accompanies the femoral artery artery in the femoral sheath. It begins at the adductor canal and is a continuation of the popliteal vein. It ends at the inferior margin of the inguinal ligament, where it becomes the external iliac vein.
	Femur The femur or thigh bone is the Largest body part, most voluminous, and strongest bone of the human body. It forms part of the hip and part of the knee. The word "femur" is Latin for "thigh". In medical Latin its genitive is always femoris, but in classical Latin its genitive is often feminis, and should not be confused with case forms of femina = "woman."
	Fence A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent Transport across a boundary. It is generally distinguished from a wall by the lightness of its construction: a wall is usually restricted to such barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage .
	Fences Fences is a play by August Wilson; it was his second play to go to Broadway theatre. It secured a Tony Award for James Earl Jones and won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1987 for the author. The play is set after the Korean War and before the Vietnam War, from 1957 to 1965.
	Fencing In the broadest possible sense, fencing is the art and science of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot or thrown . In contemporary common usage, fencing tends to refer specifically to European schools of swordsmanship and to the modern Olympic Games sport that has evolved out of them.