Expressionism. 1920-24. German drama style showing writers’ feelings. Author/hero.

Expressionism. 20C Literary style expressing essence of subject by exaggerating characteristics. Sounds and symbols. Joyce. Kafka. O’Neill. Woolf. Beckman.

Fahrenheit, Gabriel. 1686-1736. German physicist, inventor of temperature scale 1712. Alcohol thermometer 1709. Mercury thermometer 1714.

Fair Deal. 1945,9. Truman’s program for jobs, housing, social insurance in US.

Fairfax, Thomas. 1612-71. English Parliamentarian Civil War general. Commander-in-Chief of New Model Army. Victor at Marston Moor.

Falklands, Battle. 1914. British destroy German fleet.

Falla, Manuel de. 1876-1946. Spanish composer influenced by folk music, Debussy. Nights in the Garden of Spain 1916.

Fates. Three goddesses who determines the birth, life, and death of a man.

Faunus. Roman woodland deity. = Pan.

Faust(us). c1540 German necromancer/astrologer who is said to have sold his soul to the devil. Goethe, Marlowe tragedies.

Favre, Jules. 1809-80. French statesman. Opposed Napoleon III.

February Manifesto. 1899-1905. Override of Finnish Constitution. Rule by Czar’s Edict. Russification 1890-1905.

Felton, Rebecca. 1835-1930. First US woman senator 1922. Symbolic appointment for 2 days.

Ferdinand. 1861-1948. Crown prince 1887-, First czar of Bulgaria 1908-18. Fought Ottomans. Gained independence.

Ferdinand. 1865-1927. Romanian king 1914-. Doubled size by treaties.

Festus, Sextus. 2C. Roman lexicographer. On the Meaning of Words.

Fetterman Massacre. 1866. Red Cloud-led Sioux kill 80 US Soldiers.

Feuerbach, Ludwig. 1804-72. German philosopher. God is illusion. Immortality of man is only through works and offspring. Thoughts on Death 1830.

Fichte, Johann. 1762-1814. German Nationalist Idealist philosopher. Influenced Totalitarianism. Addresses to the German Nation 1807-8.

Fiji. Melanesians. 1643 Tasman discovers. 1874 British 1970 Independent.

Finnish War of Independence. 1918. Anti-communists defeat Bolsheviks with German aid.

Fisher, St. John. 1469-1535. English Humanist scholar. Beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of church. More.

Fizeau, Armand. 1819-96. French physicist. Measured speed of light, 1849.

Flaminian Way. 220BC. Roman road to Rimini.

Flamininus, Quinctus. c227-174BC. Roman General who def Philip V of Macedonia 197BC.

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