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Fisk, James. 1834-72. Flamboyant US financier. Attempt to corner gold market led to Black Friday 1869.
Fitch, John. 1743-98. First US steamboat, 1787.
Fitzgerald, Edward. 1763-98. Irish rebel. Sought aid from France for 1798 uprising.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 1896-1940. US Jazz age writer. This Side of Paradise 1920. Great Gatsby 1925.
Fitzgerald, Thomas. 1513-37. Irish. Led rebellion vs Henry VIII 1534-5.
Five Dynasties. 907-60. China between T’ang and Sung dynasties. Upheaval stimulated arts. Art to represent metaphysical truth.
Five Hundred, Council of. 508BC. Athens’ representative government.
Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.
Five Mile Act. 1665. English Nonconformist clergy banned 5 miles from towns where they had preached.
Five Pecks of Rice. 206-20. Chinese Taoist political movement vs poverty, instability.
Fizeau, Armand. 1819-96. French physicist. Measured speed of light, 1849.
Flagellants. 13C-. Christian sects who practise self-whipping as means of salvation.
Flaminian Way. 220BC. Roman road to Rimini.
Flamininus, Quinctus. c227-174BC. Roman General who def Philip V of Macedonia 197BC.
Flammarian, Camille. 1842-1925. French astronomer: L’astronomie Populaire.
Flamsteed, John. 1646-1719. First Astronomer Royal of England, 1675.
Flanders. Historical region of France, Belgium, Neth. 13C Cloth industry. Ghent. Bruges.
Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.
Flaxman, John. 1755-1826. British Neoclassical sculptor.
Fleet Prison. 12C-1844. London debtors prison.
Fleming, Alexander. 1881-1955. Scottish doctor, dicoverer of penicillin 1928. Florey, Chain.
Fleming, Ambrose. 1849-1945. British vacuum tube inventor 1904.
Fleming, Sir Sandford. 1827-1915. Scottish/Canadian scientist, engineer. CPR. Standard Time zones 1884.
Flemings. Dutch speakers of north Belgium. Walloon.
Flemish. School of Music. 1450-1550. Vocal contrapuntal ideal of a capella.