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Fascism. 1919-45. Totalitarian movement combining Socialist theories and Nationalism. State as highest value. Mussolini. Falange. Nazism.
Fashoda Incident. 1898. British/French dispute over Sudan. French renounce claims. Entente Cordiale 1904.
Fates. Three goddesses who determines the birth, life, and death of a man.
Fatima. c606-33. Daughter of Mohammad. Matriarch of Fatimids. Wife of Ali, Shi’ite leader.
Fatima. Portuguese site of pilgrimage since sighting of Virgin Mary by Santos1917.
Fatimid. 909-1171. N African, Middle East Shi’ite Empire.
Faulkner, William. 1897-1962. American novelist of US south. The Sound and the Fury 1929.
Faunus. Roman woodland deity. = Pan.
Faure, Felix. 1841-99. French president. Fashoda. Dreyfus.
Faust(us). c1540 German necromancer/astrologer who is said to have sold his soul to the devil. Goethe, Marlowe tragedies.
Fauvism. 1898-1908. Violently colored and distorted painting expressing strong emotion. Matisse. Roualt. Puy.
Favre, Jules. 1809-80. French statesman. Opposed Napoleon III.
Fawkes, Guy. 1570-1606. Gunpowder Plot perpetrator.
FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1908-. US indep. federal police force. Hoover.
February Manifesto. 1899-1905. Override of Finnish Constitution. Rule by Czar’s Edict. Russification 1890-1905.
February Revolution. 1848. Established French Second Republic.
Federalism. Autonomous states united under central government.
Federalist Party. 1787-1825. US first party founded by A. Hamilton for strong central government. In power 1791-1801.
Félibrige. 1854. Mistral’s Provençale revival movement.
Felix, St. -818. Spanish Adoptionist.
Fellini, Federico. 1920-95. Italian symbolist filmmaker. La Dolce Vita 1960.
Felton, Rebecca. 1835-1930. First US woman senator 1922. Symbolic appointment for 2 days.
Fénelon, François. 1651-1715. French theologian. Quietism 1696. Telemachus 1698.
Fenians. 1858. Secret US society of Irish emigrants seeking Irish autonomy. Raided Canada 1866,70,71.
Ferber, Edna. 1887-1968. US writer. Show Boat.