F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, the books, the quarterbacks. His own car...

The term filial responsibility denotes the "responsibility for parents exercised by children. The term emphasizes duty rather than satisfaction and is usually connected with protection, care, or financial support" (Schorr, 19...

The Fabaceae family, known as legumes, are one of the most important plant families in both ecological and economic terms. Legumes help increase soil nitrogen and provide rich sources of vegetable protein for humans, livestock, and wild an...

1778-1852 Estonian explorer who made a number of discoveries in the Pacific Ocean and may have discovered Antarctica. Commanding an around-the-world voyage of exploration that lasted from 1819-1821, Bellinghausen reached as far south as 70...

The boom in romance novels in the mid-1980s propelled cover model Fabio to the heights of superstardom. With his broad, bare chest and long (dyed) blond hair, Fabio became an international sex symbol. Although his subsequent film and telev...

German geologist Johannes Walther (1860–1937) was instrumental in the development of stratigraphy. Walther's two-volume work, Modern Lithogenesis, published in 1883 and 1884 was a pioneering work in classical sedimentary anal...

Factitious disorders are a group of mental disturbances in which patients intentionally act physically or mentally ill without obvious benefits. The name factitious comes from a Latin word that means artificial. These disorders are not mal...

Excessive, uncontrolled bleeding can be fatal. One well-known disease associated with this phenomenon is hemophilia. Most hemophiliacs bleed uncontrollably because a single gene on the X chromosome lacks the instructions that tell the cell...

The pattern of multiplying a positive integer by the next lower consecutive integer occurs frequently in mathematics. Look for the pattern in the following expressions. 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 4 ...

Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship: These are four generally recognized factors of production. Of course, in a literal sense anything contributing to the productive process is a factor of production. However, economists seek to cla...

Representatives of modern science and its social institutions have repeatedly claimed that science is value free, and this claim has contributed to marginalizing serious discussion of the relations among science, technology, and values. Ly...

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...

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...

Fainting is loss of consciousness caused by a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain. Known by the medical term "syncope," fainting may be preceded by dizziness, nausea, or a feeling of extreme weakness. When a person faints, the loss of co...

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...

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...

Fairytales, a familiarity for all of us, a wonderous world of fantasy and enchantment. They have evolved through time just as we have, including the various values and attitudes that are echoed to us, via the implementation of various moti...

During the Middle Ages, medicine and religion were interrelated in many ways. While some have criticized the medieval church for hindering medical progress through its opposition to dissection, the Church did provide comfort and assistanc...

Tonga is an archipelago of 150 tropical islands located in the South Pacific Ocean, 36 of which are inhabited. The islands experience a cool season between May and December, and a warm season between December and May. The total land area ...

The dauylpaz is a small kettledrum used by the Kazakhs in falconry. Falconry was one of most popular and entertaining forms of hunting in Kazakhstan and other parts of Central Asia from the earliest times. For fowling they used sparrow haw...

FALLEN ANGELS The novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers was first published in 1988. The novel is about American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. Richie Perry, the protagonist and narrator, joins the army to escape his unc...

FALSAFAH. The term falsafah is the Arabized loan word from the Greek philosophia, "love of wisdom," and hence in its general sense simply means "philosophy." It is, however, also used (as it will be in this acco...

FALUN GONG. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992 by Li Hongzhi (1951–). Although most Western scholars would classify it as a "new religious movement," Li and his follow...

Nowadays, there is no such thing as a typical British family. We have all heard of the nuclear or cereal packet family, which usually consists of an adult man, an adult woman and dependant children- usually a girl and boy, at the breakfast ...