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Fag
redirect [[Template:Sprotected]] Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fag may refer to: Fag a junior boy who acted as servant to a senior boy at a British independent school. “Fag” came to mean a tedious or labour-intensive chore, and “fagged out” to mean exha..
Fagaceae
The family Fagaceae, or beech family, is characterized by alternate leaves with pinnate venation, flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of nuts, one to seven in a scale or spiny husk that may or may not enclose the nut. The best-known group of this family is the oaks, genus Quercu..
Fagales
The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons. The families now included here are listed at right. Families Betulaceae - Birch familyCasuarinaceae - She-oak familyFagaceae - Beech familyJuglandaceae - Walnu..
Fagan
The name Fagan could refer to: Alex Fagan, former chief of the San Francisco Police Department.Andrew Fagan, a singer, writer and songwriter from New Zealand.Ann Fagan Ginger, a well-known lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist.Brian Fagan, an archaeologist and anthropologist at the Univer..
Fagan Commission
The Fagan Commission was set up by the government of South Africa in 1948 to investigate changes to the system of segregation. The main recommendation of the commission's report was that influx control of African people to urban areas should be relaxed. This in turn would increase the flow of labou..
Fagan inspection
Fagan inspection refers to a structured process of trying to find defects in development documents such as programming code, specifications, designs and others during various phases of the software development process. It is called after Michael Fagan who is credited with being the inventor of forma..
Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Fagan v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439, [1968] 3 All ER 442, [1968] 3 WLR 1120, DC is a leading case that illustrates the requirement of concurrence (or coincidence) of actus reus (Latin for "guilty act") and mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") in order ..
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa is the smallest, yet one of the most important Marine sanctuaries as it is home to more fish and marine mammals than any other marine sanctuary. It also provides a natural food source for sharks and other predators of the ocean. Contents 1&..
Fagatogo, American Samoa
Fagatogo is the capital of American Samoa (de facto and constitutionally de iure), situated on the Tutuila Island, Pago Pago Harbour. Population (April 1, 2000 est.): 2,096. See also Pago PagoUtulei, executive capital External link [Info on Fagatogo] Geography Eco..
Fagatron
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Fagauvea
Uvean (Faga Uvea or Faga Ouvéa or just Fagauvea in the vernacular) is the Polynesian language spoken on the Polynesian outlier island of Ouvéa, near New Caledonia. Sometimes also known as west-Uvean to distinguish it from the related Uvean (east-Uvean or Wallisian) spoken on Uvea, also known Walli..
Fagel Attraction
Fagel Attraction is the twenty-third episode of season four of the television situation comedy Will & Grace. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Plot Grace is stunned when Val opens a rival design business using her ideas; and the detective investigatin..
Fageol
Fageol was founded in 1922 and was the first company to build a bus from the ground up. The company was sold by the Fageol brothers in 1927. Their goal was to build a safe bus that wasn't prone to toppling over due to top-heaviness when turning fast corners. Therefore, they built a bus that had a ..
Fagerborg videregående skole
Fagerborg videregående skole is an upper secondary school in Oslo, Norway. In addition to a university preparatory stream, it has a stream specializing in dancing. External links () [Official site] ..
Fagerhaug
Fagerhaug is a village in the municipality of Oppdal, Norway. The village is located along the E6 north of the village Oppdal. Fagerhaug previously had a train station on Dovrebanen, but it is no longer in use. ..
Fagernes
Fagernes is the largest town in the valley of Valdres, Norway, with a population of around 1,800. Fagernes is the administrative centre of the municipality of Nord-Aurdal. Fagernes is an important destination for tourism in Norway, due to good communications and beautiful nature in the surrounding ..
Fagernes Airport, Leirin
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Fagersta Municipality
This page deals with both Fagersta Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Fagersta Fagersta Municipality (Kommun) Location of Fagersta in Sweden's southern halfMap outlining municipalities of Sweden Coat of arms Municipal facts Seat Fagersta [60° 00´ N 15° 49´ E] Cou..
Fagerstrand
Fagerstrand is a village in the municipality of Nesodden, in the county of Akershus, in the country of Norway. It is south of Oslo on the peninsula of Nesodden. Fagerstrand has about 2,000 inhabitants making it the second largest village on Nesodden. "Fagerstrand" in English means "beautiful beach"..
Faget (song)
Faget is a song by the Nu Metal band Korn, released in their debut album, Korn, as track #6. This song was supposively inspired in lead singer Davis's childhood, where he was repeatedly called a "faget" (intentional misspelling of insult faggot). The song itself is one of Korn's heaviest songs, whi..
Fagging
In British English, the word "fag" was used (as a verb and a noun) to refer to a kind of apprenticeship practiced historically within public schools. Younger boys within the school "fagged" for the older boys (often prefects) by performing other menial tasks such as cleaning sports kit. The practi..
Faggot
This article refers to a kind of firewood; for the slang term, see Faggot (epithet); for other uses, see Faggot (disambiguation) A faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood. It derives ([link]) through the Old French fagot and the Italian dimi..
Faggoting
Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, damascus steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered (like a bundle of sticks or "faggot") and forge welded together. The fagg..
Faggots (novel)
Faggots is a novel by Larry Kramer, published in 1978. It is a highly satirical portrayal of New York's most visible gay community at the time. Locales include Fire Island, a gay bathhouse called the "Everhard," and a club called the Toilet Bowl. Although the book's influence has been strong over th..
Faggot (disambiguation)
Faggot or fagot may refer to the following: Faggot, a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewoodFaggot (epithet), a derogatory slang term for a homosexual or "unmanly" maleFaggots (novel), a novel by Larry KramerFaggot (unit of measurement), an archaic unit of measurement"Fagot..
Faggot (epithet)
For other uses of the term, see faggot (disambiguation) or fag. Faggot or fag, in modern American English, Canadian English and Australian English usage, is a generally pejorative term for a gay or effeminate man. Its use has spread to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world. Co..
Faggot (food)
[[wikibooks:Cookbook|Wikibooks Cookbook]] has more about this subject: [[wikibooks:Cookbook:Faggot|Faggot]] For other uses of the term, see faggot (disambiguation) A faggot is a kind of pork meatball, a traditional dish in parts of the UK, especially Wales and the Black Country. It was original..
Faggot (unit of measurement)
For other uses of the term, see faggot A faggot is an archaic imperial unit applied to collections of sticks: 1 short faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth × 32 in. long bundle of short wood sticks/billets 1 long faggot of sticks = 2 ft. girth × 4 ft. long bundle of long ..
Fagin
Fagin is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. He is the leader of a group of children, the Artful Dodger among them, whom he teaches to make their livings by pickpocketing and other criminal activities. Bill Sikes, one of the major villains of the novel, is one of Fagin's..
Fagin's theorem
Fagin's theorem is a result in descriptive complexity theory which states that the set of all properties expressible in existential second-order logic is precisely the complexity class NP. It is remarkable since it is a characterisation of the class NP which does not invoke a model of computation su..
Fagin the Jew
Fagin the Jew is the title of a Graphic novel by Will Eisner (ISBN 0-385-51009-8). In this book Eisner retells the story of Fagin from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist from Fagin's point of view. Eisner portrays Fagin as a distressed and complex character, and tells the story of his life and his pl..
Fagligt Faelles Forbund
3F The Fagligt Faelles Forbund (3F) is a trade union centre in Denmark. It was formed in 2004 from the merger of the National Union of Women Workers (Kvindeligt Arbejderforbund i Danmark, KAD) and the Danish General Workers' Union (Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark, SID). KAD was founded in 1885..
Fagnano
Fagnano may be Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di FagnanoLake Fagnano This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Fagnano Alto
Fagnano Alto is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy ..
Fagnano Lake
The Fagnano (Spanish: Lago Fagnano or Lago Cami) is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile. The 645 km² lake runs east-west for about 98 kilometres, of which 72.5 km (606 km²) belong to the Argentine Tierra del Fuego Province, and..
Fagonia
Fagonia is a genus of plants in the Zygophyllaceae (Caltrop) family. Fagonia laevis is a perennial herb of the United States desert southwest. It has opposite leaves, trifoliate with spinescent stipules, a pink corolla and smooth fruits. ..
Fagopyrum
The genus Fagopyrum in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae includes two important crop plants, the Buckwheat or Japanese Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum, and the Tartary Buckwheat Fagopyrum tataricum. They have similar uses, and are classed as pseudocereals, i.e. they are used in the same way a..
Fagrskinna
Fagrskinna is one of the kings' sagas, written around 1220. It takes its name from the manuscript in which it has been preserved, Fagrskinna meaning fair leather, i.e., fair parchment. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson, it is a central text in the genre of kings' sagas. It..
Fagus
Fagus may refer to: Fagus, a god of beech trees in Celtic mythology, especially in Gaul and the Pyrenees.Fagus, the genus of beeches. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change..
Fagus, Missouri
Fagus is an unincorporated community in southeastern Butler County, Missouri. It is located on Missouri State Highway 51 about eighteen miles southeast of Poplar Bluff near the Arkansas state line. The community was founded by lumberman William N. Barron after the Latin word for "beech tree". Alt..
Fagus (god)
For Fagus, the genus of trees, see beech. In Celtic mythology, and especially in Gaul and the Pyrenees, Fagus was a god of beech trees. ..
Fagus Factory
The Fagus Factory (German:Fagus Fabrik) was built in 1911 in Alfeld on the Leine. It was designed by the architect Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. It was a very important early modernist building. Nikolaus Pevsner writes in Pioneers of Modern Design:- "For the first time a complete facade is concei..
Fag (disambiguation)
The term fag derives from the word "flag", which is a variant of the Middle English word flacken (to flutter). Fag has several meanings: fag (fag-end) - A collection of sticks, loose cloth or miscellaneous meat cuts. fag (personal servant) - An archaic British English term for a young servant. fag ..
Fag (fag-end)
The term "fag" or "fag-end" derives from the word "flag" (as in: "His strength was flagging"). "Flag" appeared in the 16th century, and was apparently a variant of the Middle English word "flacken". "Flacken" meant "flutter", and was influenced by the Old French word "flaquir" ("be flaccid"). The w..
Fag bomb
The "fag bomb" aboard the USS Enterprise. The "fag bomb" was an otherwise-typical U.S. military fighter-mounted bomb (a GBU-31 JDAM), photographed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in October 2001 during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan. On Oct. 11, while being readied to ..
Fag hag
Fag hag is a slang term, which is either abusive or affectionate, for a woman who enjoys the company of gay men. Gay men and fag hags often share a very close friendship, generally closer than they have with other women or men. It is this close friendship that is the hallmark of the fag hag relation..
FAG Kugelfischer
FAG Kugelfischer is a German company which manufactures precision rolling bearings. External links [Corporate website] ..
Fag Patrol
Fag Patrol is a collection of acoustic Xiu Xiu tracks. It was only released on CD, not vinyl. Tracklisting HelsabotKing Earth, King Earth20, 000 Deaths for Eidelyn Gonzalez, 20, 000 Deaths for Jamie PetersonDr. TrollJennifer LopezBrooklyn DodgersAsleepI Broke UpNieces Pieces ..
Fag stag
In the gay community, a fag stag is a heterosexual man who either enjoys the company of, or simply has numerous friends that are, homosexual men. The term "fag stag" is a male equivalent to the more popular "fag hag". The word fag stag, although rare, is beginning to be used more often as homosexual..
Fa Giggly Gland
According to the popular animated television series Fairly OddParents, the Fa Giggly Gland is the special organ in a fairy's body that allows him/her to morph into a different thing. If the Gland is not fuctioning as it should be, the only treatment in Fa Giggly transplant (see Fairly OddParents e..
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