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Fairy Tail Zero (フェアリーテイルゼロ)
Fairy Tail Zero (フェアリーテイルゼロ), FAIRY TAIL ZERO in Japan, is Hiro Mashima's 2014 prequel manga to Fairy Tail, telling how Mavis Vermillion founded the guild in X686; one volume, 272 pages, adapted to anime in 2016.
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト) is the official sequel manga to Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima and Atsuo Ueda, serialized since 2018, with a 25-episode J.C. Staff TV anime airing July 2024 to January 2025 on TV Tokyo.
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (劇場版 FAIRY TAIL -DRAGON CRY-) is a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime film, the second Fairy Tail movie, directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa from Hiro Mashima's almost 200-page storyboard, about Natsu's guild recovering a stolen world-threatening magical staff in Stella.
Fairy tale
Fairy tale: a wonder story existing as oral folktale and literary genre; term coined by d'Aulnoy (1697), shaped by Perrault and the Grimms (1812), analyzed by Propp's 31 functions and the ATU tale-type index.
Fairy Tale (novel)
Fairy Tale (2022) is Stephen King's portal fantasy novel from Scribner, 608 pages, in which 17-year-old Charlie Reade inherits a shed portal to Empis and fights to save the realm and his dog Radar; a pandemic-era #1 New York Times bestseller.
Fairy tale in verse
A fairy tale in verse (стихотворная сказка) is a literary fairy tale written in verse rather than prose, especially prominent in Russian literature of the 1830s.
Fairy-tale and legend ballets
Fairy-tale and legend ballets are ballets adapted from literary wonder tales by writers like Perrault and Hoffmann and from folklore, including The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Firebird.
Fairyfly
Fairyfly (Mymaridae), also called fairy wasp: a family of minute chalcidoid parasitoid wasps that lay eggs inside other insects' eggs. Includes the smallest known insect, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis at 0.139 mm, and bristled-wing flight at Reynolds numbers of 4 to 60.
Fairyland Lustre
Fairyland Lustre (仙境彩光陶瓷) is an iridescent lusterware range made on bone china by Wedgwood from late 1915, decorated to designs by Daisy Makeig-Jones with fairies, imps, and goblins in fantastic landscapes.
Fairytale (Alexander Rybak song)
Fairytale, the 2009 Eurovision winner by Norway's Alexander Rybak (Melodi Grand Prix 2009 entry), won in Moscow with a then-record points total; a folk-pop violin song later voted Best Eurovision Song of All Times by TV2.no.
Fairytale of New York
Fairytale of New York: 1987 Christmas duet by The Pogues, written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan with Kirsty MacColl, produced by Steve Lillywhite; peaked at UK number 2, became the UK's most-played 21st-century Christmas song.
Faisal al-Dawish
Faisal al-Dawish (فيصل الدويش) was the paramount shaykh of the Mutayr tribe who commanded Ikhwan forces for Ibn Saud, then led the revolt against him, defeated at Sabilla in 1929.
Faisal Halim
Faisal Halim (Muhammad Faisal Abdul Halim, nicknamed Mickey), born 1998, is a Malaysian winger and Selangor FC captain who survived a May 2024 acid attack, returned after 90 days, and has 15-plus Malaysia goals.
Faisal I of Iraq
Faisal I of Iraq (Fayṣal ibn Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī, 1883/1885–1933), son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, Arab Revolt commander, briefly king of Syria, and first king of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in Bern in September 1933; he led Iraq to League of Nations independence in 1932.
Faisal ibn Turki
Faisal ibn Turki (فيصل بن تركي) was an imam of the Second Saudi State who ruled Najd from Riyadh in two reigns, 1834–1838 and 1843–1865, succeeding his father Turki.
Faisal II of Iraq
Faisal II (فيصل الثاني) was the last king of Iraq and the third of the Hashemite dynasty, reigning from 1939 until the 1958 revolution ended the monarchy.
Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam is a British journalist, BBC News Economics Editor since 2019, formerly Sky News Political Editor (2014-2019) and Channel 4 News Economics Editor (2004-2014), author of The Default Line on the 2008 financial crisis.
Faisal Karim Kundi
Faisal Karim Kundi is a Pakistani politician of the Pakistan Peoples Party serving as Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where he has been a prominent critic of the provincial PTI government.
Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan (Mohammed Faissal Hussain Khan, born 1966, Mumbai) is a Hindi film actor, brother of Aamir Khan, known for Mela (2000), Madhosh, Chand Bujh Gaya, and his directorial debut Faactory (2021); distinct from the TV actor Faisal Khan born 1999.
Faisal Mahmood
Faisal Mahmood is a computational pathology researcher, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for the open pathology foundation models UNI, CONCH, PathChat, and TITAN.
Faisal Mosque (فیصل مسجد)
The Faisal Mosque (فیصل مسجد), also known as Shah Faisal Mosque, is the national mosque of Pakistan in Islamabad, completed in 1986 and the world's largest mosque until 1993.
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود), third King of Saudi Arabia (1964–1975), first foreign minister 1930–1975, led the 1973 oil embargo, modernized the state, and was assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
Faisalabad (فیصل آباد)
Faisalabad (فیصل آباد), formerly Lyallpur, is Pakistan's third largest city and the center of Punjab's textile industry, founded in 1897 as a canal-colony market town and renamed in 1977 after King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
Faisalābād District
Faisalabad District (ضلع فیصل آباد), formerly Lyallpur District, is a district of Punjab, Pakistan, created in 1904 and renamed in 1977 for King Faisal; 2023 population 9,075,819, textile hub contributing about $5 billion to GDP.
Faiss
Faiss (Facebook AI Similarity Search) is an open-source C++ library with Python wrappers for approximate nearest neighbor search over dense vectors, developed at Meta's FAIR group.
Faith
Faith is a trusting commitment to someone or something, used for religious belief and secular reliance alike; philosophers debate whether it must rest on evidence.
Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Faith Lehane is a fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Born in Boston, she is a Slayer who is the dark counterpart to Buffy.
Faith (George Michael album)
Faith is George Michael's 1987 debut solo album on Epic, self-written, produced and performed, with four US No. 1 singles (Faith, Father Figure, One More Try, Monkey), about 25 million copies sold, and the 1989 Grammy for Album of the Year, distinguishing it from other albums titled Faith.
Faith (George Michael song)
Faith (George Michael song): 1987 rockabilly-styled single, second release from the album Faith; written and produced by George Michael; UK No. 2, US No. 1; organ intro via DX7 preset.
Faith (The Cure album)
Faith (1981) is the third studio album by English rock band The Cure, released on Fiction Records, produced with Mike Hedges, and the middle album of the dark trilogy with Seventeen Seconds and Pornography.