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- (from the article "Portugal") ...father had been openhanded and negligent. At his reign's first Cortes, John exacted a detailed oath of homage that displeased his greatest vassals. A suspicion of conspiracy enabled him to arrest Fernando II, duke of Braganca, and many of his followers; the duke was sentenced to death and executed at ...
- Fernando Ortiz Foundation
- (from the article "Ortiz, Fernando") In 1995 the Foundation Fernando Ortiz was created in Havana for the preservation of his legacy and the continuation of the studies that he started, especially those of Afro-Cuban culture.significance to BarnetBarnet, Miguel...childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., and was fluent ...
- Ferne, Sir John
- (from the article "heraldry") ...Albans (1486) by Juliana Berners, and yet, by comparison with the vast mass of nonsense contained in the folios of the 16th century, such conceits were not entirely unreasonable. The works of Sir John Ferne, Blazon of Gentrie (1586), Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armorie (1562), and John Guillim, A ...
- Ferocactus
- (from the article "barrel cactus") name for a group of more or less barrel-shaped cacti, family Cactaceae, native to North and South America. It is most often used for two large-stemmed North American genera, Ferocactus and Echinocactus. Small barrel cacti include the genera Sclerocactus, Neolloydia, and Thelocactus, and other barrel cacti are Astrophytum and some ...
- Ferrabosco, Alfonso, I
- Italian composer known for his madrigals, motets, and lute music. The son of a singer and composer, Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, he settled in England in 1562. He traveled abroad on several occasions, using his entree to foreign courts to act as a spy for the English government, and he was ...
- Ferrabosco, Alfonso, II
- English composer, viol player, and lutenist, known especially for his music for viol. The illegitimate son of the composer Alfonso Ferrabosco I, he was educated in music at the expense of Queen Elizabeth I and remained in royal service until his death. He collaborated with Ben Jonson and the architect ...
- Ferrabosco, Pietro
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...Ionic half columns with deeply recessed arched openings. Several castles or large houses like that at Opocno (1560-67) or of Bucovice (1566-87), designed by the Italian Pietro Ferrabosco, had spacious courtyards with arcades on Classical columns.
- Ferradaz, Ibrahim
- (from the article "Cuba") ...of the armed forces. Military expenditures increased by an estimated 9%, and the government took steps to curtail self-employment and other independent economic activity. Minister of Tourism Ibrahim Ferradaz and Minister of Basic Industries Marcos Portal were dismissed. The government considered new measures to restrict access to the Internet. Havana ...
- Ferragamo, Fiamma di San Giuliano
- Italian designer who helped turn her family's shoe business into one of the most famous in the world of high fashion; her Vara model, a low-heeled pump that sported grosgrain ribbon and a gold buckle embossed with the family signature, was created in the 1960s and became a classic (b. ...
- Ferralsol
- one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Ferralsols are red and yellow weathered soils whose colours result from an accumulation of metal oxides, particularly iron and aluminum (from which the name of the soil group is derived). They are formed ...
- Ferranti Mark I
- (from the article "computer") ...value. Four months after the Baby first worked, the British government contracted the electronics firm of Ferranti to build a production computer based on the prospective Mark I. This became the Ferranti Mark I-the first commercial computer-of which nine were sold. (See photograph.)
- Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de
- British electrical engineer who promoted the installation of large electrical generating stations and alternating-current distribution networks in England.
- Ferranti-Thomson dynamo
- (from the article "Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de") ...William Siemens in experiments with electric furnaces and dynamos. By the age of 18 he patented an alternator that was later found to have been anticipated by Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin). The device was noted for its compactness and for its capacity to produce five times more power ...
- Ferrar, Nicholas
- Anglican clergyman, founder and director of a celebrated Christian community devoted to spiritual discipline and social service. Ferrar was also a friend of the English devotional poet George Herbert and brought Herbert's poetry to public attention. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferrar, W. H.
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...Family 1:1, 118, 131, and 209 (from the 12th to 14th centuries) that have a text type similar to that of Theta, a 3rd-4th-century Caesarean type. At the end of the 19th century, W.H. Ferrar, a classical scholar at Dublin University (hence, the Ferrar group), found that manuscripts 13, 69, ...
- Ferrara
- city, northeastern Emilia-Romagna regione (region), northern Italy, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the Po River, northeast of Bologna. Although it is believed to be the site of the ancient Forum Alieni, from which its name is derived, there is no record of Ferrara ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ferrara-Florence, Council of
- ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church (1438-45) in which the Latin and Greek churches tried to reach agreement on their doctrinal differences and end the schism between them. The council ended in an agreed decree of reunion, but the reunion was short-lived. The Council of Ferrara-Florence was not a ... [10 Related Articles]
- Ferrari Hardoy, Jorge
- (from the article "Latin American architecture") After working in Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris, Antonio Bonet returned to Buenos Aires and formed the "Austral" group in 1938 with Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan, Horacio Vera Barros, Abel Lopez Chas, and others. They were interested in reacting against the official architecture and design and in developing an ...
- Ferrari SpA
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...to become the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Formula 1 (F1) world drivers' champion took several unexpected turns in 2007 as veteran driver Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) of Finland faced off against British F1 rookie Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), who had thoroughly dominated the sport's GP2 category in 2006. Raikkonen began in ...
- Ferrari, Enzo
- Italian automobile manufacturer, designer, and racing-car driver whose Ferrari cars often dominated world racing competition in the second half of the 20th century.
- Ferrari, Gaudenzio
- (from the article "Varallo") ...It lies along the Sesia River, 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Novara. The town is rich in art and churches, among which are San Gaudenzio (restored 1710), with a polyptych by the 16th-century painter Gaudenzio Ferrari, who left his most important works to the community, and Santa Maria delle ...
- Ferrari, Giuseppe
- Italian historian and political philosopher who is best known for his study of Italian revolutions.
- Ferrari, Lodovico
- Italian mathematician who was the first to find an algebraic solution to the biquadratic, or quartic, equation (an algebraic equation that contains the fourth power of the unknown quantity but no higher power).
- Ferrari, P. Giovanni Battista
- (from the article "floral decoration") ...and dried by hanging them upside down in a dark, dry place for several weeks. Flowers may also be individually dried using one of several techniques. A 17th-century Italian writer on horticulture, P. Giovanni Battista Ferrari, described a process of gently burying the flower heads in clean, sun-dried sand and ...
- Ferrari, Vanessa
- (from the article "Gymnastics") ...world championships team title, followed by the defending champion U.S. (181.350 points) and Russia (177.325 points). Three women earned their respective countries' first gymnastics gold. Italy's Vanessa Ferrari captured the women's individual all-around, ahead of American Jana Bieger and Romania's Sandra Raluca Izbasa. Elizabeth Tweddle won the U.K's first gold ...
- Ferrari, William
- (from the article "1944: Other Winners") ...Screenplay: Lamar Trotti for WilsonCinematography, Black-and-White: Joseph LaShelle for LauraCinematography, Color: Leon Shamroy for WilsonArt Direction, Black-and-White: William Ferrari and Cedric Gibbons for GaslightArt Direction, Color: Wiard Ihnen for WilsonMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Max Steiner for...
- Ferraris, Galileo
- Italian physicist who established the basic principle of the induction motor, which is now the principal device for the conversion of electrical power to mechanical power.
- Ferraro, Geraldine A.
- American politician who became the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferrat, Cape
- (from the article "Villefranche-sur-Mer") ...immediately east of Nice, the town is dominated by Mount Boron. It is connected by a corniche (cliffside) road with Beaulieu to the east and with Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat to the southeast on the scenic Cape Ferrat peninsula, where notable properties include the former Riviera residence of Leopold II, king of the ...
- Ferre, Charles-Theophile
- French revolutionary figure, a follower of the ideology of Auguste Blanqui, who served as director of police during the Paris Commune revolt (1871).
- Ferre, Gianfranco
- Italian fashion designer earned the nickname "L'architetto" ("architect of fashion") after he applied his architecture degree (1969) from Milan's Polytechnic Institute to the design of sculptural, carefully constructed couture, ready-to-wear, and fashion accessories. He was particularly noted for women's business suits with bold, pronounced seams and for his trademark array ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ferre, Luis A.
- governor of Puerto Rico (1969-73) and founder of the New Progressive Party. [2 Related Articles]
- Ferre, Rosario
- short-story writer, novelist, critic, and professor, one of the leading women authors in contemporary Latin America. She wrote the bulk of her work in her native Spanish, but in 1995 she published a novel, House on the Lagoon, written in English.
- Ferre, Sister M. Isolina
- Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (b. 1914, Ponce, Puerto Rico-d. Aug. 3, 2000, Ponce), used her family's influence as wealthy owners of two leading Puerto Rican newspapers as well as their political power to establish charitable clinics, youth centres, and educational and empowerment establishments in Puerto Rico, New York City, ...
- ferredoxin
- (from the article "photosynthesis") ...copper- and iron-containing proteins function in electron transport between water and the final electron-acceptor molecule of the light stage of photosynthesis, an iron-containing protein called ferredoxin. Ferredoxin is a soluble component in the chloroplasts. In its reduced form, it gives electrons directly to the systems that reduce nitrate and sulfate ...
- ferreed switch
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...No. 1 ESS. The No. 1 ESS differed somewhat in architecture from the trial model. In place of the gas-tube crosspoint switch elements, the No. 1 ESS employed a special type of reed switch known as a ferreed. Normally, a reed switch is constructed of two thin metal strips, or ...
- Ferreira d'Almeida, Joao
- (from the article "biblical literature") The first Portuguese New Testament (Amsterdam), the work of Joao Ferreira d'Almeida, did not appear until 1681. The first complete Bible (2 vol., 1748-53) was printed in Batavia (in Holland). Not until late in the 18th century did the first locally published vernacular Scriptures appear in Portugal. A revision of ...
- Ferreira da Silva, Adhemar
- Brazilian athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five world records in the triple jump. He was the first Brazilian to hold a world record in any event and was among the greatest South American athletes in history. [2 Related Articles]
- Ferreira de Castro, Jose Maria
- journalist and novelist, considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social-realist (or Neorealist) fiction. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Jorge
- (from the article "Portuguese literature") ...(Pedro) I-by reference to the ancient Greek dramatists Sophocles and Euripides. The theme went on to become a mainstay in European theatre through the present day. From the comic playwright Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos came another kind of comedy with Comedia Eufrosina (published 1555), written under the ...
- Ferreira do Amaral, Francisco Joaquim
- (from the article "Manuel II") ...and his elder son, Louis Philip, were assassinated by anarchists in the streets of Lisbon, and Manuel unexpectedly found himself king at the age of 18. Franco resigned, and Manuel asked Admiral Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral to head a government composed of equal numbers of the two main parties, ...
- Ferreira, Antonio
- Portuguese poet who was influential in fostering the new Renaissance style of poetry and who strongly advocated the use of Portuguese, rather than Spanish or Latin, as his nation's literary language. [1 Related Articles]
- Ferreira, Manuel
- Portuguese-born scholar and fiction writer whose work centred on African themes.
- Ferreira, Vergilio
- Portuguese teacher and novelist who turned from an early social realism to more experimental and inward-looking forms of the novel. [2 Related Articles]
- Ferrel cell
- model of the mid-latitude segment of the Earth's wind circulation, proposed by William Ferrel (1856). In the Ferrel cell, air flows poleward and eastward near the surface and equatorward and westward at higher altitudes; this movement is the reverse of the airflow in the Hadley cell (q.v.). Ferrel's model was ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ferrel, William
- American meteorologist known for his description of the deflection of air currents on the rotating Earth. [3 Related Articles]
- Ferrell, Richard Benjamin
- ("RICK"), U.S. baseball player, 1929-47, and Hall of Fame catcher who covered home plate while his younger brother, Wes, ruled the pitcher's mound for the Boston Red Sox, 1934-37, and Washington Senators, 1937-38 (b. Oct. 12, 1905--d. July 27, 1995).
- Ferrelo, Bartolome
- (from the article "Pacific mountain system") ...Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain, probably was the first European to explore the coast of California. He is thought to have sailed north in 1542, and his pilot, Bartolome Ferrelo, may have reached as far as the present southern border of Oregon. Sir Francis Drake sailed ...
- Ferrer, Ibrahim
- Cuban singer (b. Feb. 20, 1927, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba-d. Aug. 6, 2005, Havana, Cuba), became a professional musician at age 13 and went on to sing with a number of bands. He was retired and shining shoes to earn extra money when he was invited to perform on the ...
- Ferrer, Jose
- American actor and director, who was perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in the title role of the film Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and for his portrayal of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952). [2 Related Articles]
- Ferrer, Mel
- American actor, producer, and director was a successful stage and film actor and director, though he was often better known as the first husband (1954-68) of actress Audrey Hepburn, with whom he costarred in the 1956 film version of War and Peace. Ferrer briefly attended Princeton University and wrote the ...
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