Facundo by Domingo F. Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a man of extremes. During his lifetime, he would be both an exile from his own country (in the 1840s, when he wrote Facundo) and president of the Argentine Republic (from 1868 t...

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It is common knowledge that most romantic relationships do not work out. Two brief poems that encapsulate the feelings associated with ending a relationship are "Housecleaning", by Nikki Giovanni, and "Finis", by Waring Cuney. Each poem s...

The poem, "The Faerie Queene", is a story about a courageous knight who goes through great trials and fights monsters. This in itself is entertaining but, it also has many allegorical references to Christianity. Many times Spenser talks a...

The intrinsic cohesiveness of Ana María Fagundo's body of work demonstrates a profound commitment to poetry that has established her mark in twentieth-century Spanish verse. Fagundo has also played a substantial role in the promotio...

Development during the early eighteenth century of practical thermometers with stable temperature scales by Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), Anders Celsius (1701-1744), and others made possible reproducible, intercomparable temperature meas...

In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the author has added the effect of parallelism of today's society and his fictional society in which Guy Montag, the main character, lives. There are both similarities and differences to ...

Fa-Hsien Born c. 374, Wu-yang, Shansi, China Died c. 462, Hupei, China Fa-Hsien was born in the village of Wu-yang in China or the Enlightened One. For the next forty-five years he taught up and down the Ganges River valley, sharing all he ...

Failure is almost as unavoidable as death or taxes. At some point in our lives we stumble and fall. But the truth is that failure is necessary before any success can be achieved. Upon closer examination, failure is nothing more than a prece...

Faina Ranevskaya ( August 27 , 1896 - July 19 , 1984 ) was a Russian comedian and actress . She is recognized as one of the greatest Russian actors in comedy in history. Unsourced "Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor...

Many consumer problems have been, and in some instances still are, caused by incorrect and even fraudulent information disclosure on products and through advertising. The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1966 was passed during the Johnso...

Gerard Fairlie, a close friend of Herman Cyril McNeile and one of the sources for the character of Bulldog Drummond, carried on the Drummond series after McNeile's death in 1937. Fairlie was born in London, but his early education took pla...

Culture-Fair Test An intelligence test in which performance is not based on experience with or knowledge of a specific culture. Culture-fair tests, also called culture-free tests, are designed to assess intelligence (or other attributes) w...

a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically having green clothes and hair, living underground or in stone heaps, ...

wonder tale involving marvellous elements and occurrences, though not necessarily about fairies. The term embraces such popular folktales (Märchen, q.v.) as “Cinderella” and “Puss-in-Boots” and art fairy tales ...

Palestinian political leader Faisal Husseini (born 1940) began his career in the 1960s with the Palestinian Liberation Organization when it was known for its terrorist activities. He managed to shed that image over the years to emerge as a...