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follicular epithelium (anatomy)
The follicular epithelium originates as a few flattened cells derived from the germinal epithelium. Primary follicles are usually situated just under the tunica albuginea; secondary follicles lie deeper in the cortex. The primitive role of the follicular cells appears to be the secretion of the yolk-forming material onto or into the oocyte.......
follicular phase (biology)
...of the proliferative phase, the endometrium is thin, with short, straight glands, and the ovary is quiescent. Under the influence of the gonadotropic hormones from the pituitary gland an ovarian follicle (occasionally more than one) ripens in one of the ovaries. This ovarian follicle contains the ovum, which is a cell about 0.14......
follicular sac
...cup-shaped, the enamel organ partially encloses an adjacent mesodermal structure, the dental papilla. Unenclosed mesoderm of the dental papilla surrounds the enlarging enamel organ and forms a follicular sac. Together, enamel organ, dental papilla, and follicular sac constitute the tooth germ. After differentiation the enamel organ will have formed the enamel cap of the tooth crown; the......
follicular stage (biology)
...of the proliferative phase, the endometrium is thin, with short, straight glands, and the ovary is quiescent. Under the influence of the gonadotropic hormones from the pituitary gland an ovarian follicle (occasionally more than one) ripens in one of the ovaries. This ovarian follicle contains the ovum, which is a cell about 0.14......
follicular xeroderma (skin disease)
2. Keratosis pilaris, also called ichthyosis follicularis, lichen pilaris, or follicular xeroderma, is a condition in which abnormal keratinization is limited to the hair follicles, manifesting itself as discrete, tiny follicular papules (solid, usually conical elevations); they are most commonly seen on the outer surface of the arms and......
Follies of Calandro, The (work by Bibbiena)
...the starting point for modern European drama. To the comedies of Ariosto and Machiavelli should be added a lively play, La Calandria (first performed 1513; The Follies of Calandro), by Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena, and the five racy comedies written by Pietro Aretino. Giordano Bruno, a great Italian philosopher who wrote dialogues in......
Follies, The (American theatre)
popular American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies....
follis (ball)
...sewn together and filled with various materials. The smallest, the harpastum, was a hard ball stuffed with feathers. The largest, the follis, contained an air-filled bladder, similar to a modern football (soccer ball) or basketball....
follow-on forces attack (nuclear weapons)
...the round, taking advantage of emerging military technologies to synchronize operations and direct fire with greater accuracy. The strategy of “follow-on forces attack” (FOFA), for example, envisaged the holding of a Pact offensive on the ground while attacking the Pact’s follow-on forces in the rear with air strikes. S...
follower, cam (engineering)
The hydraulic lifter comprises a cam follower that is moved up and down by contact with the cam profile, and an inner bore into which the valve lifter is closely fitted and retained by a spring clip. The valve lifter, in turn, is a cup closed at the top by a freely moving cylindrical plug that has a socket at the top to fit the lower end of......
Follower, The (star)
reddish giant star in the constellation Taurus. Aldebaran is one of the 15 brightest stars, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.85. Its diameter is 44 times that of the Sun. It is accompanied by a very faint (13th magnitude) red companion star. Aldebaran lies 65 light-years from ...
Following the Equator (work by Twain)
...several years. As an antidote to his grief as much as anything else, Clemens threw himself into work. He wrote a great deal he did not intend to publish during those years, but he did publish Following the Equator (1897), a relatively serious account of his world lecture tour. By 1898 the revenue generated from the tour and the subsequent book, along with Henry Huttleston Rogers...
folly (architecture)
(from French folie, “foolishness”), also called Eyecatcher, in architecture, a costly, generally nonfunctional building that was erected to enhance a natural landscape. Follies first gained popularity in England, and they were particularly in vogue during the 18th and early 19th centuries, when landscape desig...
Folquet de Marseille (Provençal troubadour and clergyman)
Provençal troubadour and cleric....
Folsom (New Mexico, United States)
...9000 to 8000 bce. Folsom people were generalized hunters and gatherers, although they also hunted a now-extinct form of giant bison (Bison antiquus). Much of the importance of the Folsom complex derives from the fact that the initial scholarly excavation at Folsom, N.M., in 1926 (the site was discovered in 1908), marked the first association in the Americas of man-...
Folsom complex (ancient North American culture)
an early archaeological complex of North America, characterized by a distinct leaf-shaped projectile point called a Folsom point. The Folsom complex of artifacts, which also includes a variety of scrapers, knives, and blades, was one variety of the Paleo-Indian hunting cultures. It centred in the Great Plains...
Folsom, Frances (American first lady)
American first lady (1886–89; 1893–97), the wife of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, and the youngest first lady in American history....
Folsom point (projectile)
an early archaeological complex of North America, characterized by a distinct leaf-shaped projectile point called a Folsom point. The Folsom complex of artifacts, which also includes a variety of scrapers, knives, and blades, was one variety of the Paleo-Indian hunting cultures. It centred in the Great Plains and persisted from......
Folsom State Prison (prison, Folsom, California, United States)
...event in Cash’s turnaround was the album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968), which was recorded live in front of an audience of some 2,000 inmates at California’s Folsom Prison. The performance was regarded as a risky move by record company executives, but it proved to be the perfect opportunity for Cash to reestablish himself as one of country music...
Foltinowicz, Adelaide (British girl)
...William Butler Yeats and Arthur Symons. In 1891 he met the woman who would inspire some of his best poetry, Adelaide Foltinowicz, whose parents kept a modest restaurant in Soho, London. In that same year he published his best-known poem, “Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae,” popularly......
Foltz, Clara Shortridge (American lawyer and reformer)
lawyer and reformer who, after helping open the California bar to women, became a pioneering force for women in the profession and a major influence in reforming the state’s criminal justice and prison systems....
Folz, Hans (German dramatist)
Hans Rosenplüt of Nürnberg and his younger contemporary, the barber Hans Folz of Worms, who also settled in Nürnberg, were the most notable Fastnachtsspiele playwrights in the mid-15th century. Their plays were formless, uninhibited comedy, usually featuring the traditional character of the Narr, or....
Foma Gordeyev (novel by Gorky)
Next Gorky wrote a series of plays and novels, all less excellent than his best earlier stories. The first novel, Foma Gordeyev (1899), illustrates his admiration for strength of body and will in the masterful barge owner and rising capitalist Ignat Gordeyev, who is contrasted with his relatively feeble and intellectual son Foma, a “seeker after the meaning of life,” as are......
Fomalhaut (star)
the 17th star (excluding the Sun) in order of apparent brightness. It is used in navigation because of its conspicuous place in a sky region otherwise lacking in bright stars. It lies in the southern constellation Pi...
Fomalhaut b (extrasolar planet)
...a team of astronomers led by Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, took visible-light photographs of a planet in orbit around Fomalhaut, a relatively nearby star. Designated as Fomalhaut b, the planet was calculated to have a mass more than three times the mass of Jupiter and to orbit the star at a distance 10 times the distance between the Sun and Saturn. Because the......
Fombona, Rufino Blanco (Venezuelan writer)
Venezuelan literary historian and man of letters who played a major role in bringing the works of Latin American writers to world attention....
Fomes applanatus (biology)
...rubber, and other trees (Ganoderma); and diseases of birch and conifers (Polyporus). The white undersurface of artist’s fungus (Fomes applanatus), which darkens when cut, has been used for etching....
Fominsk (Russia)
city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (region), western Russia, on the Nara River southwest of the capital. It was formed in 1926 from three villages and textile centres. The town Fominsk was totally destroyed in World War II but later reemerged with its cotton...
fomite (pathology)
...can be conveyed to the second child. Many such objects—a handkerchief or a towel, for example—may convey infection under favourable conditions, and, when they do so, they are known as fomites....
Fomoire (Celtic mythology)
in Irish myth, a race of demonic beings who posed a threat to the inhabitants of Ireland until they were defeated by the god-race, the Tuatha Dé Danann. The name Fomoire may mean “demons from below (the sea),” and their leader Balor had one huge deadly eye. The most important of the gods, Lugh (see Lugus), is the ...
Fon (language)
people living in the south of Benin (called Dahomey until 1975) and adjacent parts of Togo. Their language, also called Fon, is closely related to Ewe and is a member of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages. The Fon numbered more than 1.7 million in the early 21st century....
Fon (people)
people living in the south of Benin (called Dahomey until 1975) and adjacent parts of Togo. Their language, also called Fon, is closely related to Ewe and is a member of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages. The Fon numbered more than 1.7 million in the early 21st century....
Fond du Lac (Wisconsin, United States)
city, seat (1844) of Fond du Lac county, east-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the Fond du Lac River, at the southern end of Lake Winnebago, about 55 miles (90 km) northwest of Milwaukee. Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago) Indians were early inhabitants of the area. The city originated in 1785 as a French ...
Fonda, Henry (American actor)
American stage and motion-picture actor who appeared in more than 90 films over six decades and created quintessentially American heroes....
Fonda, Henry Jaynes (American actor)
American stage and motion-picture actor who appeared in more than 90 films over six decades and created quintessentially American heroes....
Fonda, Jane (American actress)
American motion-picture actress who was also noted for her political activism....
Fonda, Jane Seymour (American actress)
American motion-picture actress who was also noted for her political activism....
Fondaco dei Tedeschi (building, Venice, Italy)
...also of his association as a young man with another follower of the elderly Giovanni Bellini, namely, Giorgione of Castelfranco (1477–1510). Their collaboration in 1508 on the frescoes of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (the German Exchange) is the point of departure for Titian’s career, and it explains why it is difficult to distinguish between the two artists in the early years of the ...
fondant (candy)
confection of sugar, syrup, and water, and sometimes milk, cream, or butter, that is cooked and beaten so as to render the sugar crystals imperceptible to the tongue. The candy is characteristically glossy white in colour, velvety in texture, and plastic in consistency....
fondant (glass)
...red lead, and soda or potash. These materials are melted together, producing an almost clear glass, with a slightly bluish or greenish tinge; this substance is known as flux or frit—or, in France, fondant. The degree of hardness of the flux depends on the proportions of the components in the mix. Enamels are termed hard when the temperature required to......
Fondi (Italy)
town, Lazio (Latium) regione, south-central Italy. It lies along the Appian Way at the foot of the Aurunci Mountains, northeast of Fondi Lake and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Rome. Originally a town of the ancient Volsci people, it received Roman citizensh...
fondue (food)
Swiss dish of melted cheeses, usually including one or more of the varieties Emmentaler, Vacherin, and Gruyère. In its preparation, white wine is heated in a heavy casserole, called a caquelon, that has been rubbed with garlic. The grated cheese is added to the hot wine along with a little c...
Fongafale (Tuvalu)
...coral islands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of some 420 miles (676 kilometres). The capital is Vaiaku, Fongafale islet, of Funafuti Atoll. With colonial Kiribati, Tuvalu formed the unit known as Gilbert and ......
Fono (American Samoan legislature)
American Samoa has a bicameral legislature, called the Fono, which meets for two sessions each year. It is autonomous in its disposition of local revenues and is the sole lawmaking body, although the governor has the power to veto legislation. The members of American Samoa’s House of Representatives (lower house) are elected by universal suffrage to two-year terms; one member is a nonvoting...
“Fons philosophiae” (work by Godfrey)
In his other notable work, the Fons philosophiae (c. 1176; “The Fount of Philosophy”), Godfrey, in rhymed verse, proposed a classification of learning and considered the controversy between Realists and Nominalists (who held that ideas were only names, not real things) over the problem of universal concepts. Fons philosophiae is an allegorical account of the......
“Fons vitae” (work by Ibn Gabirol)
His Fountain of Life, in five treatises, is preserved in toto only in the Latin translation, Fons vitae, with the author’s name appearing as Avicebron or Avencebrol; it was re-identified as Ibn Gabirol’s work by Salomon Munk in 1846. It had little influence upon Jewish philosophy other than on León Hebreo (Judah Abrabanel) and ......
Fonseca Amador, Carlos (Nicaraguan revolutionary)
Named for César Augusto Sandino, a hero of Nicaraguan resistance to U.S. military occupation (1927–33), the FSLN was founded in 1962 by Carlos Fonseca Amador, Silvio Mayorga, and Tomás Borge Martínez as a revolutionary group committed to socialism and to the overthrow of the Somoza family. Over the next 10 years......
Fonseca, Colegio de (college, Salamanca, Spain)
...effects. To the south of the new cathedral stand the Neoclassical Colegio de Anaya (1760–68), designed by José Mamerto Hermosilla, and the only remaining old residential college, the Colegio de Fonseca (1527–78), generally known as the Colegio de los Irlandeses because it was ceded after the Peninsular War......
Fonseca, Gonzalo (Uruguayan artist)
Uruguayan-born artist whose stone sculptures reflected architectural and archaeological influences; after leaving his homeland, he settled in Paris and then lived alternately in Italy and in the U.S. (b. July 2, 1922--d. June 11, 1997)....
Fonseca, Gulf of (inlet, Pacific Ocean)
sheltered inlet of the Pacific Ocean, bounded northwest by El Salvador, northeast by Honduras, and southeast by Nicaragua. Discovered in 1522, it reaches inland for approximately 40 miles (65 km) and covers an area of about 700 square miles (1,800 square km). Its entra...
Fonseca, Manuel da (Portuguese author)
Portuguese novelist and poet who wrote realistic works about his homeland, the agricultural province of Alentejo....
Fonseca, Manuel Deodoro da (president of Brazil)
nominal leader of the coup that toppled Emperor Pedro II. He became the first president of the Brazilian republic....
Fonseca, Pedro de (Portuguese philosopher)
...education remained generally within an Aristotelian framework. Remarkable work was produced by Scholastics in the fields of commentaries and of detailed interpretation; Pedro de Fonseca, the “Portuguese Aristotle,” in the 16th century and Sylvester Maurus, author of short but pithy commentaries on all of Aristotle’s works, in Rome in the 17th are......
Fonseca, Rubem (Brazilian author)
...(1982; “João Gilberto’s Concert in Rio de Janeiro”), all executed with sardonic humour, focus upon innovative art, sociopolitical criticism, and marginalized individuals; and Rubem Fonseca, whose incisively graphic crime narratives—from his censored collection Feliz Ano Novo (1975; “Happy New Year”) onward—depict the social in...
Fonseka, Sarath (Sri Lankan general)
...with the country’s Sinhalese voters, and the UPFA won several provincial and local elections during 2009. However, in the January 2010 presidential election, Rajapakse faced stiff opposition from Sarath Fonseka, the former general who had commanded the Sri Lankan military during the civil war. Rajapakse won a second term, although the results were challenged by Fonseka. In early February...
Fonssagrives, Lisa (American model)
...covers for the fashion magazine Vogue. He began photographing his own ideas for covers and soon established himself as a fashion photographer. In 1950 he married model Lisa Fonssagrives, whom he photographed for much of his best work. His austere fashion images communicated elegance and luxury through compositional refinement and clarity of line rather than through.....
Fonst, Ramón (Cuban fencer)
...control of his blade through “finger play.” The left-handed Gaudin was a top world competitor in foil and épée throughout the 1920s. He was the second fencer, after Ramón Fonst of Cuba, to win the gold medal in both the individual foil and épée events in a single Olympic Games (1928). Gaudin was also on the Olympic silver-medal-winning foil......
font (printing)
assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing. Fonts are now stored as digitized images that can be scaled and otherwise modified for printing on electronic printers or digital phototypesetters. Fonts typically include the normal typeface (...
font wars (computer science)
Adobe made its initial public stock offering in 1986. Although revenues grew to $168.7 million by 1990, Adobe’s relations with Apple deteriorated in the late 1980s over PostScript licensing fees, and in 1989 Apple announced plans to sell its Adobe stock, collaborate with Microsoft Corporation on development of an enhanced PostScript clone, and introduce a new font-rendering technology of it...
Font-de-Gaume (cave, Dordogne, France)
cave near Les Eyzies, in Dordogne, France, known for its lavish prehistoric wall paintings....
Fontainas, André (French critic)
...In a still telling, definitive essay on Gauguin (1891), Aurier supported the artist’s Symbolism, primitivism, and “emotivity.” In a similar appreciative spirit, the French critic André Fontainas praised Gauguin for “his complete sincerity,” “surging emotions,” and the very modern “violent oppositions” of his colours. In an 18...
Fontaine, Hippolyte (French engineer)
French engineer who discovered that a dynamo can be operated in reverse as an electric motor; he was also the first to transmit electric energy (1873)....
Fontaine, Jardin de la (garden, Nîmes, France)
...is a reservoir from which the water carried by the great Roman aqueduct, the Pont du Gard, was distributed throughout the town. The pleasant Jardin de la Fontaine, situated on the edge of the city, was designed in 1745. The fountain and the canals that flow through it are partly Roman. The Archaeological Museum, which is housed in a......
Fontaine, Jean de La (French poet)
poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature....
Fontaine, Joan (American actress)
poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature.......
Fontaine, Jules (French-Canadian author)
poet considered the father of French Canadian poetry....
Fontaine, La (French ballerina)
French ballerina and the first woman professional ballet dancer....
Fontaine, Pierre (French architect)
pair of French architects and interior designers who carried out many building and decorative projects during the reign of Napoleon I and helped create the influential Empire style (q.v.) of......
Fontaine, Pierre-François-Leonard (French architect)
pair of French architects and interior designers who carried out many building and decorative projects during the reign of Napoleon I and helped create the influential Empire style (q.v.) of......
Fontainebleau (France)
town, northern France, in the Seine-et-Marne département, Île-de-France région, 40 miles (65 km) south-southeast of Paris by road, situated in the forest of Fontainebleau, 2 miles from the left bank of the Seine. The famous château, southeast of the town, is one of the largest residences...
Fontainebleau château (estate, Fontainebleau, France)
...in the Seine-et-Marne département, Île-de-France région, 40 miles (65 km) south-southeast of Paris by road, situated in the forest of Fontainebleau, 2 miles from the left bank of the Seine. The famous château, southeast of the town, is one of the largest residences built by the kings of France. Originally a medieval royal....
Fontainebleau Memorandum (work by Lloyd George)
...allies among the new states in eastern Europe. Not surprisingly, many British observers came to consider France the primary threat to dominate the Continent. In late March Lloyd George’s eloquent Fontainebleau Memorandum warned that vindictiveness in the hour of victory would serve not justice and reconciliation but German revanchism and Bolshevik propaganda. Nevertheless Clemenceau, und...
Fontainebleau, school of (art)
the vast number of artists, both foreign and French, whose works are associated with the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau during the last two-thirds of the 16th century. There is both a first and a second school of Fontainebleau. The earlier works are the more important....
Fontainebleau, Treaty of (French-Spanish history)
In 1733 the Treaty of the Escorial pledged the French and the Spanish Bourbons to collaborate with each other notwithstanding any previous obligations. This treaty and the similarly conceived Treaty of Fontainebleau (1743) are sometimes called the “First” and the “Second Family Compact”; and the term Family Compact,...
Fontamara (work by Silone)
Writing under his pseudonym to protect his family from Fascist persecution, Silone produced his first novel, Fontamara, which was published in Zürich (1930; Eng. trans., 1934). It is a realistic and compassionate story of the exploitation of peasants in a southern Italian village, brutally suppressed as they attempt to obtain their rights. Fontamara became an international......
Fontana (California, United States)
city, San Bernardino county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying just west of the city of San Bernardino, the site was once part of the Rancho San Bernardino land grant (1813). The community, then known as Rosena, was developed in 1903 after it was bought by Fontana Development Company. It was renamed Fontana (Italian: “Fountain”) in 1913 by A.B....
Fontana, Carlo (Italian architect)
Italian architect, engineer, and publisher whose prolific studio produced widely imitated designs for fountains, palaces, tombs, and altars, as well as the curved facade on the S. Marcello al Corso (1682–83). His many international students included M.D. Poppelmann of Germany, James Gibbs of England, Filippa Juvarra o...
Fontana, D. J. (American musician)
...for his recordings, his live appearances in regional roadhouses and clubs, and his radio performances on the nationally aired Louisiana Hayride. (A key musical change came when drummer D.J. Fontana was added, first for the Hayride shows but also on records beginning with “Mystery Train.”)...
fontana de oro, La (work by Pérez Galdós)
Born into a middle-class family, Pérez Galdós went to Madrid in 1862 to study law but soon abandoned his studies and took up journalism. After the success of his first novel, La fontana de oro (1870; “The Fountain of Gold”), he began a series of novels retelling Spain’s history from the Battle of Trafalgar...
Fontana di Trevi (fountain, Rome, Italy)
Every fountain has its history, and many have legends, the best known of which guarantees a return to Rome to those who toss coins into the Trevi Fountain. An earlier fountain on this site, refurbished under Pope Nicholas V in the 15th century, was demolished in the 17th century, when plans were made for a new fountain. The present version was not completed until the 18th century. A scenic......
Fontana, Domenico (Italian architect)
Italian architect who worked on St. Peter’s Basilica and other famous buildings of Rome and Naples....
Fontana, Franco (Italian photographer)
...in which he photographed desert scenes in colour, sometimes juxtaposed against sinister elements such as nuclear sites. Barbara Norfleet, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Barbara Kasten, and Franco Fontana were among the other prominent photographers of the period who used colour expressively in landscapes, interiors, still lifes, and street scenes....
Fontana, Lavinia (Italian painter)
Italian painter of the Mannerist school and one of the most important portraitists in Bologna during the late 16th century. She was one of the first women to execute large, publicly commissioned figure paintings....
Fontana, Lucio (Italian artist)
Venerated artists Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, and Lucio Fontana achieved new personal records in 2006. Hesse’s painted relief An Ear in a Pond (1965) reached $2.26 million, while Fontana’s stunning 1961 gold-hued canvas Coupure sold for $2.7 million. Kahlo’s self-portrait Roots (1943) set a new world record for a Latin American painting at......
Fontane, Theodor (German writer)
writer who is considered the first master of modern realistic fiction in Germany....
fontanel (anatomy)
soft spot in the skull of an infant, covered with tough, fibrous membrane. There are six such spots at the junctions of the cranial bones; they allow for molding of the fetal head during passage through the birth canal. Those at the sides of the head are irregularly shaped and located at the unions of the sphenoid and mastoid...
fontanelle (anatomy)
soft spot in the skull of an infant, covered with tough, fibrous membrane. There are six such spots at the junctions of the cranial bones; they allow for molding of the fetal head during passage through the birth canal. Those at the sides of the head are irregularly shaped and located at the unions of the sphenoid and mastoid...
Fontanes, Louis, marquis de (French scholar)
French man of letters who represented Catholic and conservative opinion during the First Empire and was appointed grand master of the University of Paris by Napoleon....
Fontanesi, Antonio (Italian painter)
A school of fine arts was established in 1876, and a team of Italian artists was hired to teach Western techniques. Most influential among them was Antonio Fontanesi. Active as an instructor in Japan for only a year, Fontanesi, a painter of the Barbizon school, established an intensely loyal following among his Japanese students. His......
fontange (headdress)
...curls rose high on either side of the centre parting. With these full-bottomed wigs the hat, now a three-cornered tricorne, was usually carried under the arm. Ladies wore a tall headdress—the fontange—consisting of tiers of wired lace decorated by ribbons and lappets....
Fontanier, Henri (French consul)
...that the French Sisters of Charity were kidnapping and mutilating Chinese children. Hostility mounted, and on June 21 the French consul, Henri Fontanier, fired into a crowd of locally prominent representatives, missing the district magistrate but killing his servant; immediately the consul and some 20 others, mostly French, were......
Fontanne, Lillie Louise (American actress)
...in 1912 and thereafter taking several dramatic and vaudeville roles; these culminated in a critical success in the title role of Booth Tarkington’s Clarence (1919) on Broadway. Meanwhile, Fontanne had studied under Ellen Terry in England, made her road-show debut in 1905, and won her first London role in 1909 in the Drury Lane Pantomime and her first ......
Fontanne, Lynn (American actress)
...in 1912 and thereafter taking several dramatic and vaudeville roles; these culminated in a critical success in the title role of Booth Tarkington’s Clarence (1919) on Broadway. Meanwhile, Fontanne had studied under Ellen Terry in England, made her road-show debut in 1905, and won her first London role in 1909 in the Drury Lane Pantomime and her first ......
Fonte Gaia (fountain, Siena, Italy)
...the statue of the Virgin and Child, which still exists in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, and a year later he received the commission for the Fonte Gaia in the Piazza del Campo at Siena, now replaced by a copy; the original is in the loggia of the town hall. The scheme of this......
Fonte, Moderata (Austrian author)
...subgenre by the end of the 16th century, when Il merito delle donne (1600; The Worth of Women), a feminist broadside by another Venetian author, Moderata Fonte, was published posthumously. Defenders of the status quo painted women as superficial and inherently immoral, while the emerging feminists produced long lists of women of courage and......
Fontéchevade (anthropological and archaeological site, France)
a cave site in southwestern France known for the 1947 discovery of ancient human remains and tools probably dating to between 200,000 and 120,000 years ago. The fossils consist of two skull fragments....
Fontéchevade skulls (fossils)
a cave site in southwestern France known for the 1947 discovery of ancient human remains and tools probably dating to between 200,000 and 120,000 years ago. The fossils consist of two skull fragments....
Fontenay Abbey (abbey, Fontenay, France)
...arch but built ponderously within it a style that might be called half-Gothic, because it has the general appearance but not the special structural characteristics of Gothic. Fontenay Abbey (1139 and later) represented the personal preference of St. Bernard, and it is almost Roman, with its very simple and substantial scheme of pointed barrel vaulting. In general,......
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de (French author and scientist)
French scientist and man of letters, described by Voltaire as the most universal mind produced by the era of Louis XIV. Many of the characteristic ideas of the Enlightenment are found in embryonic form in his works....
Fontenoy, Battle of (European history)
(May 11, 1745), confrontation that led to the French conquest of Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the most famous victory of the French marshal Maurice, Count de Saxe....

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