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Fagales
Fagales (Engler, 1892) is an order of woody flowering plants in the fabid rosids, with seven families including Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Juglandaceae, Nothofagaceae, Casuarinaceae, Myricaceae, and Ticodendraceae; about 1,325 species, wind-pollinated, Cretaceous origin, NCBI taxonomy ID 3502.
Fagan Commission
The Fagan Commission, formally the Native Laws Commission of Enquiry, was a 1946 South African inquiry chaired by Judge Henry Fagan into African urbanization and pass laws.
Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1969] 1 QB 439, also cited as Fagan v MPC, is a 1968 English Divisional Court case holding that a driver who accidentally parked on a policeman's foot and refused to move committed assault, establishing the continuing act doctrine for coincidence of actus reus and mens rea.
Fagara
Fagara (花椒之味, Hua jiao zhi wei) is a 2019 Hong Kong family drama directed by Heiward Mak, produced by Ann Hui, adapted from Amy Cheung's novel My Spicy Love, starring Sammi Cheng, Megan Lai, and Li Xiaofeng as three half-sisters who reunite at their father's funeral to run his hot pot restaurant.
Fagasā, American Samoa
Fagasā ("Forbidden Bay" or "Sacred Bay") is a village of about 465 people on the north shore of Tutuila, American Samoa, at Fagasa Bay, with national park land leased from the village and trails from Fagasa Pass.
Faggan Singh Kulaste
Faggan Singh Kulaste (born 1959) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Mandla constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Fagging
Fagging was a system in British public schools where junior boys performed personal and domestic duties for senior boys. It was established in the sixteenth century.
Faggot
Faggot is an English word: chiefly a highly offensive slur for a gay man, first attested in US slang in 1914, and also an older word for a bundle of sticks, a British offal dish, and a 1590s contemptuous term for a woman.
Faggot (food)
A faggot is a traditional British meatball of minced meat and offal, breadcrumbs, and herbs, often wrapped in caul fat and served with gravy and peas in Wales and the Midlands.
Fagin
Fagin, Dickens's criminal fence and trainer of child pickpockets in Oliver Twist (1837-39), called "the Jew" throughout the original text, revised after complaints, and played by Alec Guinness (1948), Ron Moody (1968), and Ben Kingsley (2005).
Fagin's theorem
Fagin's theorem, proved by Ronald Fagin in 1974, states that a property of finite structures is in NP if and only if it is definable in existential second-order logic.
Fagne
Fagne is a French and Walloon word for a small boggy marsh on high ground in the Ardennes, fitting peat bogs so well it became their standard local name.
Fagopyrum
Fagopyrum (buckwheat genus), Polygonaceae, ca. 25-30 species mostly from southern China and the Himalaya; includes cultivated common buckwheat F. esculentum and Tartary buckwheat F. tataricum, split into cymosum and urophyllum groups.
Fagopyrum tataricum
Fagopyrum tataricum, Tartary or bitter buckwheat (तिते फापर), is a self-pollinating Himalayan pseudocereal grown by the Yi people since the 2nd century BC, distinguished from common buckwheat by rutin levels up to 81 mg/g and bitter grain.
Fagor
Fagor is a group of Basque worker cooperatives in Spain's Mondragon Corporation, based in Mondragón, best known for appliance maker Fagor Electrodomésticos, which closed in 2013; other Fagor cooperatives continue operating.
Fagundes Varela
Fagundes Varela, full name Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela, was a Brazilian Romantic poet (1841–1875) of the second, ultraromantic generation, best known for "Cântico do Calvário".
Fagus
Fagus (beech) is a genus of about 10–15 deciduous Fagaceae trees of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, from Europe, Asia, and North America to Mexico, with trigonous nuts and a fossil record back to the early Paleocene/Eocene.
Fagus crenata
Fagus crenata, the Japanese beech, is a deciduous beech-family tree endemic to Japan, growing 15 to 30 meters tall and dominating cool-temperate forests from Kyushu to Hokkaido.
Fagus Factory
The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus-Werk) is a ten-building shoe-last factory in Alfeld, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius from around 1910 and still in operation, a landmark of modern architecture.
Fagus grandifolia
Fagus grandifolia (American beech), the only North American Fagus, a slow-growing shade-tolerant deciduous tree of eastern North America, 20-30 m, living 300-400 years, threatened chiefly by beech bark disease.
Fagus orientalis
Fagus orientalis, the Oriental beech, is a large deciduous tree of the beech family Fagaceae, native from southeastern Bulgaria across Türkiye to the Caucasus and the Hyrcanian forests of Iran.
Fagus sylvatica
Fagus sylvatica, European beech, is a large deciduous Fagaceae tree native from southern Scandinavia to Sicily and Spain to northwest Turkey, dominating Central European natural forests, with mast fruiting every 5–8 years and around 250 wood usages.
Fahad Albedah
Fahad Albedah (فهد البداح) is a Saudi technology executive who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh-based proptech offering Rent Now, Pay Later for residential rentals, and serves as its chief technology officer.
Fahad Bin Abdulaziz AlAjlan
Fahad Bin Abdulaziz AlAjlan is a Saudi businessman who has led Ajlan & Bros Group as CEO since 2014, ranked 45th on Forbes Middle East's 2026 CEO list.
Fahad Bin Fasla
Fahad Bin Fasla (فهد بن فصلا) is a Saudi sheila singer born in 1996 near Dammam, a leading name in Gulf shilat, the tradition of singing poetry.
Fahad bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Fahad bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is a member of Qatar's ruling House of Thani and a half-brother of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Fahad Mustafa (فہد مصطفیٰ)
Fahad Mustafa (فہد مصطفیٰ), born Fahad Salahuddin in 1983, is a Pakistani actor, host, and producer, son of actor Salahuddin Tunio, host of Jeeto Pakistan since 2014, co-founder of Big Bang Entertainment, and star of Na Maloom Afraad and Actor in Law.
Fahad Yusuf Al-Sabah
Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah (فهد يوسف سعود الصباح), born 1959, is a Kuwaiti ruling-family member and former Amiri Guard officer who has served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior since 2024.
Fahadh Faasil (ഫഹദ് ഫാസിൽ)
Fahadh Faasil (ഫഹദ് ഫാസിൽ), Malayalam actor-producer born 1982 in Alappuzha; National Award-winning star of Malik, Joji, Vikram, Aavesham, and the Pushpa films.
Fahamedul Islam
Fahamedul Islam (ফাহমিদুল ইসলাম), born 2006 in Feni, Bangladesh, is a Bangladeshi left winger raised in Italy (Spezia, Sampdoria youth) who plays in Italy's lower tiers (Olbia, Sestri Levante) and debuted for Bangladesh in 2025.