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FESTAC 77
FESTAC 77 was the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977 with about 17,000 participants from 56 countries.
Festen
Festen (The Celebration) is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Danish Dogme 95 drama, the first Dogme film, in which a son's birthday toast exposes his father's abuse; it won the Cannes Jury Prize.
Fester
Fester, born Lester Flores, is an American DJ from the Los Angeles underground rave scene who has played Insomniac festivals since the first Nocturnal Wonderland in 1995.
Festina lente
Festina lente (Greek speude bradeos), Latin for "make haste slowly", is an adage attributed to Augustus via Suetonius, emblematized by Titus's dolphin-and-anchor coins, popularized by Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and reused as the name of a swampland conjecture in physics.
Festival
Festival: a themed, public celebration, also called feast or fiesta, recurring at set times to mark seasons, beliefs, or culture. Ranges from local feasts to the 61-million-attendee Kumbh Mela; central to tourism, identity, and UNESCO cultural statistics.
Festival (축제) (1996 film)
Festival (축제, Chukje) is Im Kwon-taek's 1996 Korean family drama, adapted from Lee Cheong-jun's novel, about a novelist's mother's funeral; it won Blue Dragon Best Film and Director and screened at Busan, Berlin, and Rotterdam.
Festival Arre 2026
Festival Arre, branded Arre Pepsi Black in 2026, is a Regional Mexican music festival organized by OCESA, first held in 2023 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.
Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto
The Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto is a winter arts and music festival in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, first staged in July 1967 by UFMG professors.
Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata
The Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata is an annual vallenato competition festival held in Valledupar, Colombia, since 1968, where accordionists compete for the Rey Vallenato title.
Festival de la OTI
The Festival de la OTI, also known as El Festival OTI de la Canción, was an Ibero-American song contest organized by the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana and held from 1972 to 2000.
Festival de Parintins
The Festival de Parintins is an annual Boi-Bumbá competition in Parintins, Amazonas, Brazil, created in 1965, where rival ox groups Garantido and Caprichoso perform three-night spectacles.
Festival di Napoli
The Festival di Napoli, formally the Festival della Canzone Napoletana, is a Neapolitan-dialect song competition founded in Naples in 1952, one year after Sanremo, and revived since 2015.
Festival Hall of Thutmose III
The Festival Hall of Thutmose III, known as the Akh-menu, is a sandstone festival temple at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, built by pharaoh Thutmose III.
Festival Interceltique de Lorient
The Festival Interceltique de Lorient, or Lorient Interceltic Festival, is an annual Celtic music and culture festival held in Lorient, Brittany, France, founded in 1971.
Festival Internacional da Canção
The Festival Internacional da Canção (FIC) was an international song festival held at Rio de Janeiro's Maracanãzinho arena in seven editions from 1966 to 1972.
Festival Internacional de la Cancion de Vina del Mar
The Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar is an annual six-night music festival held each February at Viña del Mar, Chile, running since 1960.
Festival of the Living Dead
Festival of the Living Dead is a 2024 Tubi original zombie horror film directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, starring Ashley Moore and Camren Bicondova, set 55 years after the 1968 zombie attack.
Festival panafricain de musique (FESPAM)
The Festival panafricain de musique (FESPAM) is a biennial pan-African music festival held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, since 1996, organized with the African Union and UNESCO.
Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys
The Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian liturgical text in which the goddesses call on Osiris to return, sung at his Abydos temple.
Festivus
Festivus is a secular parody holiday popularized by the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike", celebrated December 23 with an aluminum pole, Airing of Grievances, and Feats of Strength, adapted from writer Dan O'Keefe's real family tradition begun in 1966.
Festo
Festo is a German family-owned manufacturer of pneumatic and electric automation technology, founded in 1925 and based in Esslingen am Neckar, with about 20,600 employees and turnover of €3.33 billion in 2025.
Festo Tentacle Bot
The Festo Tentacle Bot, formally the Bionic Handling Assistant (Bionischer Handling-Assistent), is a soft robot arm modeled on an elephant's trunk that Festo and Fraunhofer IPA presented in 2010.
Festschrift
Festschrift (plural Festschriften; liber amicorum, Festgabe) is a German-derived term for a volume of essays honoring a scholar on a birthday, retirement, or similar occasion, written by colleagues, students, and friends, often with the honoree's bibliography and photograph.
Festuca
Festuca (fescue) is a large genus of temperate Poaceae grasses with 621 accepted species, including turf fine fescues (Festuca rubra, F. ovina, F. brevipila) and forage tall fescue; molecular studies show it is paraphyletic with Lolium and Vulpia nested within.
Festuca arundinacea
Festuca arundinacea, tall fescue, also Schedonorus arundinaceus or Lolium arundinaceum, is a tufted perennial European grass grown worldwide for forage and turf, hosting the Epichloë coenophialum endophyte.
Festuca ovina
Festuca ovina, sheep fescue (sheep's fescue), a tufted Eurasian cool-season fine fescue grass used for low-input turf and erosion control; tetraploid (2n=28), drought-tolerant, poor forage for cattle.
Festuca pratensis
Festuca pratensis, meadow fescue (Lolium pratense, Schedonorus pratensis), a European perennial forage grass of Poaceae; tufted, 30-120 cm culms, mid-early flowering, palatable non-toxic-endophyte forage and Festulolium hybrid parent.
Festuca rubra
Festuca rubra, red fescue or creeping red fescue, is a perennial cool-season grass (Poaceae) native from subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere to Mexico, used for turf, forage, and erosion control, with many subspecies.
Festus Ezeli
Festus Ezeli (Ifeanyi Festus Ezeli-Ndulue), Nigerian center born 1989, Vanderbilt standout, 30th pick of 2012 draft, 2015 NBA champion with Warriors; knee injuries ended career after 2016 Finals.
Festus Mogae
Festus Gontebanye Mogae was a Botswana economist and politician who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008, leading the fight against HIV and AIDS.