Fender The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, initially named the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, was started by Leo Fender in 1946, and is one of the most widely recognised manufacturers of electric guitars, electric basses and instrument amplifier.
	Feng shui Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The literal translation is "wind and water". Feng shui is not a decorating style. Rather, it is a discipline whose guidelines are compatible with many different decorating styles.
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	Fennel Fennel is a species in the genus Foeniculum, and is native to southern Europe and southwestern Asia. It is a member of the family Apiaceae, formerly the Umbelliferae. It is a highly aromatic perennial herb, erect, glaucous green, and grows to 2 m tall.
	Fentanyl Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic, first synthesized in Belgium in the late 1950s, with an analgesic potency of about 80 times that of morphine. It was introduced into medical practice in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic under the trade name of Sublimaze. Fentanyl has an LD50 of 3.1 milligrams per kilogram in rats.
	Fenugreek Fenugreek, also called Methi or Classical Fenugreek, is a crop plant grown as a potherb and for the spice made from its fenugreek seed. The fenugreek plant grows wild from the eastern Mediterranean area to China; it is cultivated worldwide. The name fenugreek or foenum-graecum is from Latin for "Greek hay".
	Feral A feral animal or plant is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wildlife state. Rarely will the environment have evolved to accommodate the feral organism into its established ecology. Therefore, feral animals and plants can cause disruption or extinction to some indigenous species, reducing the pristine quality of wilderness and other fragile ecosystems.
	Ferdinand de Lesseps Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps was a France diplomat and maker of the Suez Canal. His attempt to repeat this success during the 1880's with an effort to build a lockless version of the Panama Canal failed.
	Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure was a Geneva-born Switzerland linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He is widely considered the 'Father#Philosophical fatherhood' of 20th-century linguistics.
	Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese people List of maritime explorers who, at the service of Spain, led the first successful attempt to sail around the entire Earth. He did not complete his final, westward voyage; he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines.
	Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Moln?r (originally Ferenc Neumann 12 January 1878 in Budapest — 1 April 1952 in New York City) was a Hungary dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name is Franz Molnar. He emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi Germany persecution of Hungarian Jews during World War II.
	Fermi-Dirac statistics In statistical mechanics, Fermi-Dirac statistics is a particular case of particle statistics developed by Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac that determines the statistical distribution of fermions over the energy states for a system in thermal equilibrium. In other words, it is a probability of a given energy level to be occupied by a fermion.
	Fern A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as polypodiophyta, or polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta . The study of ferns is called pteridology.
	Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Lger was a French artist and filmmaker. Born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie Region of France, at age 19 Lger moved to the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris and supported himself as an architectural draftsman. His earliest known drawings were primarily influenced by Impressionism.
	Ferrara Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, capital city of the province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po river, located 5 km north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the 14th century, when it hosted the court of the Este.
	Ferret In general use, a ferret is a domestic ferret, a mammal first bred from the wild European polecat or steppe polecat at least 2,500 years ago. Several other small, elongated carnivorous mammals belonging to the family Mustelidae also have the word "ferret" in their common names, including the endangered black-footed ferret.
	Ferricyanide The ferricyanide ion is Fe(CN)63-. Its systematic name is hexacyanoferrate(III) ion, but its old name is most common. The ferricyanide ion is quite stable; once formed, it often passes through chemical reactions unchanged. The ferricyanide-ferrocyanide redox couple63- + e- ⇌ Fe(CN)62-) is a standard probe used in electrochemistry.
	Ferris wheel A Ferris wheel is a nonbuilding structure consisting of an upright wheel with passenger Gondola lifts suspended from the rim. Ferris wheels are a common feature of amusement ride and may also be found at many urban parks and public places around the world.
	Ferritin Ferritin is a globular protein found mainly in the liver, which can store about 2'250 ironions in a hollow protein shell made of 24 subunits. These are either of the light or the heavy type with a molecular weight of 19 kDA or 21 kDa respectively. Inside the ferritin shell, iron ions form crystallites together with phosphate and hydroxide ions.
	Ferrocerium Ferrocerium is the "flint" in lighters, and its ability to give a large number of sparks when scraped against a rough surface is used in many other applications, such as clockwork toys and strikers for welding torches. Also known as Auermetall after its inventor Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, it is sold under such trade names as Blastmatch, Fire Steel, and Metal-Match.
	Ferry A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, carrying passengers and sometimes their vehicles. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services. A foot-passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is sometimes called a waterbus or water taxi.
	Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent is a historical region in the Middle East incorporating Ancient Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted. Watered by the Nile, Jordan River, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and covering some 400-500,000 square kilometers, the region extends from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea around the north of the Syrian Desert and through the Jazirah and Mesopotamia to th
	Fertilisation Fertilisation, American and British English differences fertilization , is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species. In animals, the process involves a spermatozoon fusing with an ovum, which eventually leads to the development of an embryo.
	Fertilizer Fertilizers or fertilisers are compounds given to plants with the intention of promoting growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves. Fertilizers can be organic compound , or inorganic .
	Fescue Fescue is a genus of about 300 species of tufted grasses, belonging to the grass family Poaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, though with the majority of the species in cool temperate areas. The genus is closely related to ryegrass and is incorporated within that genus by some botanists.
	Fess In heraldry, a fess is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally and centrally across the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by the fess, ranging from one-fifth to one-third. The former is more likely if the fess is uncharged, that is, if it does not have other charges placed on it.
	Festival A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. Among many religions, a feast or festival is a set of celebrations in honour of God or gods. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable.
	Festoon Festoon, a wreath or garland, and so in architecture a conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound together and suspended by ribbons, either from a decorated knot, or held in the mouths of lions, or suspended across the back of Cattle heads as in the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Italy.
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	Fetlock Fetlock is the common name for the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints of the horse. It is formed by the junction of the third metacarpal or metatarsal bones proximad and the proximal phalanx distad. Paired proximal sesamoid bones articulate with the palmar or plantar distal surface of the third metacarpal or metatarsal bones and are rigidly fixed to the proximo-palmar / -plantar edge of the proximal phalanx.
	Fetters Fetters, shackles or leg irons are a kind of physical restraint used on the foot or ankles. The term "fetter" shares a root with the word "foot". In humans, typically only prisoners or bondage fetishists will wear shackles. A shackled animal is typically either a dangerous animal or one prone to escape.
	Fettuccine Fettuccine is a type of pasta. It is a very flat, thick, noodle made of Egg and flour. Although it can be purchased dried, the finest fettuccine noodles are produced fresh, from scratch, by pressing dough through a pasta maker. Fettuccine is often served with Alfredo_(sauce).
	Fetus A fetus is a developing mammal after the embryo stage and before childbirth. The plural is fetuses or very rarely, foeti. In humans, a fetus develops from the end of the eighth week of pregnancy, when the major structures and organ systems have formed, until birth.
	Feudalism Feudalism refers to a general set of reciprocal law and military obligations among the warrior nobility of Europe during the Middle Ages, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. Defining feudalism requires many qualifiers because there is no broadly accepted agreement of what it means.
	Fever Fever is a frequent medicine symptom that describes an increase in internal body temperature to levels that are above normal . Fever is most accurately characterized as a temporary elevation in the bodys thermoregulatory set-point, which is usually by about 1-2C. Fever differs from hyperthermia, which is an increase in body temperature over the bodys thermoregulatory set-point .
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	Feverfew Feverfew is a traditional Herbalism which is found in many old gardens, and is also occasionally grown for ornament; the plant grows into a small bush up to around 18 inches high, with citrus-scented leaves and is covered by flowers reminiscent of daisies. It spreads rapidly, and they will cover a wide area after a few years.
	Fiat FIAT Group, or Fiat S.p.A. is a European automaker, engine manufacturer, financial and industrial group based in Turin, Northern Italy; founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. It was also an aircraft manufacturer in the past.
	Fiber bundle In mathematics, in particular in topology, a fiber bundle is a space which locally looks like a product of two spaces but may possess a different global structure. Every fiber bundle consists of a continuous function Surjective function map
	Fiberglass Fiberglass or glassfibre is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as Glass-reinforced plastic, is called "fiberglass" in popular usage.
	Fibonacci number In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers form a sequence defined recursion by: In other words, after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The first Fibonacci numbers for n = 0, 1, are The Fibonacci numbers are named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, although they had been described earlier in Indian mathematics.
	Fibrinolysin Fibrinolysin is an enzyme derived from plasma of bovine origin or extracted from cultures of certain bacteria. It is used locally only and exclusively together with the enzyme desoxyribonuclease (extracted from bovine pancreas). Fibrinolysin and desoxyribonuclease both act as lytic enzymes.
	Fibrinolysis Fibrinolysis is the process where a fibrin thrombus, the product of coagulation, is broken down. Its main enzyme, plasmin, cuts the fibrin mesh at various places, leading to the production of circulating fragments that are cleared by other proteinases or by the kidney and liver.
	Fibroma Fibromas are benign tumors that are composed of fibrous or connective tissue. They can grow in all organs, arising from mesenchyme tissue. The term "fibroblastic" or "fibromatous" is used to describe tumors of the fibrous connective tissue. When the term fibroma is used without modifier, it is usually considered benign, with the term fibrosarcoma reserved for malignant tumors.
	Fiction Fiction is storytelling of imagination events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. A large part of the appeal of fiction is its ability to evoke the entire spectrum of human emotions: to distract our minds, to give us hope in times of despair, to make us laugh, or to let us experience empathy without attachment.
	Ficus Ficus is a genus of about 800 species of woody trees, shrubs and vines in the family Moraceae, native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the warm temperate zone. The genus includes one species, the Common Fig F. carica, that produces a commercial fruit called a fig; the fruit of many other species are edible though not widely consumed.
	Ficus elastica Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber tree is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to northeast India, south to Indonesia. It is a large tree in the banyan group of figs, growing to 30-40 m tall, with a stout trunk up to 2 m diameter, with an irregular trunk which develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches.
	Ficus sycomorus Ficus sycomorus, called the syacmore fig or the fig-mulberry, sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since early times. Ficus sycomorus is native to most of central Africa from Senegal to northeastern South Africa. It also grows naturally in the southern Arabian Peninsula and in very localized areas in Madagascar, and has been naturalised in Israel and Egypt.
	Fiddle The fiddle is a violin played as a folk instrument. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including European classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, is a style of music.
	Fiddlehead Fiddlehead is a name referring either to a young fern or to the top part of immature fronds that appear curled. The fiddlehead, or vernation, unrolls as the fern matures and grows due to more growth in the inside of the curl. The fiddlehead resembles the curled ornamentation on the end of a stringed instrument, such as a fiddle.
	Fiddleneck The fiddlenecks are the genus Amsinckia of flowering plants in the borage or forget-me-not family Boraginaceae. They get their name from their flower stems, which bear a large number small flowers, and curl over at the top in a way that somewhat suggests the head of a violin.
	Fiddler crab Note: A separate disambiguation page exists for the initials UCA. A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 97 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs within the genus Uca . Belonging to the family Ocypodidae, fiddler crabs are most closely related to the ghost crabs of the genus Ghost crab.
	Fidel Castro This page is monitored by many people and bots, and joke edits are removed quickly. People who vandalize articles repeatedly will be blocked from editing. If you would like to experiment with Wikipedia, please copy the following address into your browser's address bar.
	Fiduciary The fiduciary duty is a legal relationship between two or more parties that in England common law is arguably the most important concept within the portion of the legal system known as equity. Since the Judicature Acts merged the courts of Equity with the courts of common law, the concept of fiduciary duty also became usable in common law courts.
	Field artillery Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery weapon used to support army in the field. These weapons are specialized for mobility and tactical efficiency, and not for long range nor sheer destructive power.
	Field Brome Field Brome is a Poaceae native to Europe and Asia. It is an annual plant, growing to 50-110 cm tall with slender leaf 10-30 cm long and 0.5-1 cm broad. The flower spikelets are erect at first, later spreading to slightly drooping, 10-25 mm long; flowering is in mid summer.
	Field Day Field Day is an annual amateur radio exercise sponsored by the American Radio Relay League which encourages emergency communications preparedness. Since the first Field Day in 1933, Amateur Radio licensees throughout the United States have participated in rapid deployment of radio communications equipment in a variety of environments, ranging from table-top operations under tents in remote areas, to operations in Emergency Operations Centers.
	Field garlic Field garlic is an allium that grows wild in dry places in northern Europe. It reproduces by seed and by the production of small bulblets in the flower head, as well as by the bulbs.
	Field goal A field goal is a general term used in some sports wherein a Goal may be scored either during general play or via some sort of free shot. The term has been used in gridiron football, rugby union, rugby league, and basketball.
	Field guide A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife or other objects of natural occurrence. It is generally designed to be brought into the 'field' or local area where such objects exist to help distinguish between similar objects. It will typically include a description of the objects covered, together with paintings or photographs and an index.
	Field hockey Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. Its official name and the one by which it is usually known is hockey . However in a minority of countries and in some encyclopedic references by way of distinguishing it from hockey it is formally known as Field hockey.
	Field hospital A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that takes care of the casualties outside the hospital buildings. The concept is inherited from the battlefield, and is now applied in case of disasters or massive accidents. A field hospital is a medical staff with a mobile medical kit and a wide tent-like shelter so it can be set up on a road or in wilderness.
	Field Maple Field Maple is a maple native to much of Europe, north to southern England, Denmark, Poland and Belarus, and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus, and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains. It is a deciduous tree reaching 15-25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, with finely fissured, often somewhat cork bark.
	Field Sparrow The Field Sparrow, Spizella pusilla, is a small American sparrow. Adults have brown upperparts, a light brown breast, a white belly, wing bars and a forked tail. They have a grey face, a rusty crown, a white eye ring and a pink bill. Their breeding habitat is shrubby fields across eastern North America.
	Field trial A field trial is a highly competitive event at which hunting dogs usually compete against one another. Field trials are usually organized by kennel clubs or other gun dog organizations. Field trials are generally considered more competitive than hunt tests in that success at a field trial requires a higher level of training than success at a hunt test requires.
	Fieldfare The Fieldfare is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in woodland and scrub in northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly bird migration, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland, but winters in large numbers in these countries.
	Fife Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish monarchy, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.
	Fifth column A fifth column is a group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal, such as a nation. The term originated with a 1936 radio address by Emilio Mola, a nationalist general during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. As four of his army Column moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the Republican government from within.
	Fifth Column Fifth Column is an all-women band experimental music post punk band from Toronto, which came about during the early 1980s. Originally the group had been known as Second Unit, but they took the name Fifth Column after a military manoeuvre by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, in which nationalist insurrectionists within Siege of Madrid Second Spanish Republic Madrid, called 'the fifth column', would aid the four columns outside the
	Fig leaf A fig leaf is the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or disagreeable. The term is a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to cover themselves after they realize that they are naked. This phrase can be confused with olive branch, which is a peace offering.