Etruscans. Asian people in Tuscany 8C BC. Taken by Rome, 4-3C BC. Skilful metal workers. Strong navy, merchant traders. Tarquins.

Executive Branch. Department of US government which carries out laws, under supervision of President.

Expressionism. 20C Simplified style of modern art expressing emotions with color and distortion. Munch. Toulouse-Lautrec. Van Gogh. Gauguin. Roualt.

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

Falange. 1933-37. Spanish Fascist party founded by Primo de Rivera. Merged with Franco 1937. Won civil war.

Fallen Timbers, Battle. 1794. US defeat NW Confederation Indians, ending resistance.

Falloux, Frédéric. 1811-56. French politician. Sponsored Law on Education: Loi Falloux.

Fatima. c606-33. Daughter of Mohammad. Matriarch of Fatimids. Wife of Ali, Shi’ite leader.

Fawkes, Guy. 1570-1606. Gunpowder Plot perpetrator.

FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1908-. US indep. federal police force. Hoover.

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.

Fellini, Federico. 1920-95. Italian symbolist filmmaker. La Dolce Vita 1960.

Fermat, Pierre de. 1601-65. French mathematician/jurist. Modern Number Theory. Last Theorem 1631: There does not exist xⁿ+yⁿ=zⁿ for n>2; x,y,z ε N. Proved by Wiles 1995.

Ferry, Jules. 1832-93. French premier 1880~5. Expanded empire. Compulsory secular education 1882. Dissolved Jesuits.

Festival of Federation. 14 July,1790. Celebration of first anniversary of Storming the Bastille. 300,000 people.

Feuillants. 1577- Cistercian order.

Feuillants Club. 1791. French moderate monarchists.

Finn MacCool. 3C. Leader of Irish warriors, subject of Fenian legends.

Flanders. Historical region of France, Belgium, Neth. 13C Cloth industry. Ghent. Bruges.

Fleming, Alexander. 1881-1955. Scottish doctor, dicoverer of penicillin 1928. Florey, Chain.

Florey, Howard. 1898-1968. British. Isolated Penicillin with Chain,1928. Fleming.

Foch, Ferdinand. 1851-1929. French Supreme Allied Leader on W Front, 1918. Marne. WWI.

Fowler, H.W. 1858-1933. English lexicographer. Dictionary of Modern English Usage 1926.

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