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Fakhr al-Din II
Fakhr al-Din II (فخر الدين الثاني معن) was a Druze emir of the Ma'n dynasty who ruled the Chouf mountain of southern Lebanon from 1590.
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (فخرالدین عراقی) was a Persian Sufi poet and prose writer, 1213 to 1289, best known for the Lama'at, a treatise on Sufism, and his passionate mystical ghazals.
Fakhr al-Din Mosque
The Fakhr al-Din Mosque, also written Fakhruddin Mosque, is a medieval mosque in the Hamar Weyne quarter of Mogadishu, Somalia, dated to 1269 and known for marble imported from India.
Fakhr al-Mulk
Fakhr al-Mulk (فخر الملك) was a Seljuk vizier of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, a son of Nizam al-Mulk who served Berkyaruq and later Ahmad Sanjar in Khurasan.
Fakhr al-Mulk ibn Ammar
Fakhr al-Mulk ibn Ammar (فخر الملك بن عمار) was the last Banu Ammar emir of Tripoli, ruling from 1099 until the Crusaders took the city in 1109.
Fakhr-i Mudabbir
Fakhr-i Mudabbir (فخر مدبر), pen-name of Fakhr al-Din Muhammad, was a Persian historian in India who wrote the Adab al-harb, a treatise on war dedicated to Sultan Iltutmish.
Fakhri Pasha
Fakhri Pasha (فخري باشا), born Omer Fahreddin in 1868, was an Ottoman general who defended Medina against the Arab Revolt from 1916 until January 1919, holding out 72 days after the Armistice of Mudros.
Fakhrigah
Fakhrigah, also written Fakhriqah, is a monumental rock-cut tomb carved into limestone 15 km north of Mahabad, Iran, traditionally called Median but re-dated by scholars to the late Achaemenid or early Parthian period.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (फ़ख़रुद्दीन अली अहमद)
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (फ़ख़रुद्दीन अली अहमद), fifth President of India (1974–1977), lawyer and Congress leader from Assam; signed the 1975 Emergency proclamation under Article 352 without Cabinet approval and died in office on 11 February 1977.
Faking It (American TV series)
Faking It is an MTV single-camera teen romantic comedy (2014-2016, 3 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, in which best friends Karma and Amy fake a lesbian relationship for popularity.
Fakir
A fakir, from Arabic faqīr meaning "poor one," is a Sufi ascetic who treats poverty as total dependence on God; in English it also covers Hindu ascetics.
Fakir Baykurt
Fakir Baykurt, born Tahir (1929–1999), was a Turkish teacher, novelist, and poet, a leading village literature writer whose first novel, Yılanların Öcü, won the 1958 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize.
Fakir Mohan Senapati
Fakir Mohan Senapati (ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି; 1843–1918) was an Odia writer, printer, and administrator regarded as the father of modern Odia literature, known for the novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha.
Fakoli Koroma
Fakoli Koroma is a legendary commander of the Sunjata epic, who deserts the Soso king Sumanguru to join the hero Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali empire.
Fakt Purusho Maate (ફક્ત પુરુષો માટે)
Fakt Purusho Maate (ફક્ત પુરુષો માટે) is a 2024 Gujarati comedy-drama directed by Jay Bodas and Parth Trivedi, starring Yash Soni, Esha Kansara, Darshan Jariwala, and Amitabh Bachchan as Prabhudas, about a dead grandfather returning during shraddh to break his grandson's wedding; released 23 August 2024, grossing about ₹8.69 crore net in India.
FAKTUS
Faktus is a French fintech startup founded in Paris in 2023, offering construction SMEs business accounts, factoring, insurance, and retention bonds, with €56 million raised in 2025.
Faku kaNgqungqushe
Faku kaNgqungqushe was king of the Mpondo in what is now the Eastern Cape of South Africa, who ruled until 1867 and preserved a Mpondo state through the Mfecane wars.
fal.ai
fal.ai is a San Francisco generative-media infrastructure company founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, serving image, video, audio, and 3D AI models through usage-priced APIs.
Fala Chen
Fala Chen (陳法拉, Chen Fala) is a Chinese-American actress and singer, born 1982 in Chengdu, a former TVB star and Miss Chinese International runner-up, Juilliard MFA graduate, known for Shang-Chi, The Undoing, and Ballad of a Small Player.
Falabella
Falabella is a Chilean retail and financial conglomerate headquartered in Santiago that operates department stores, home-improvement, supermarkets, shopping centers, and a bank across seven Latin American countries.
Falafel (فلافل)
Falafel (فلافل), also called ta'ameya in Egypt, is a Middle Eastern fried patty of ground soaked chickpeas or fava beans with herbs and spices, sold as street food across the Arab world, disputed between Egyptian and Israeli national claims, and now a global vegan staple.
Falaise pocket
Falaise pocket (Kesselschlacht von Falaise), 12–21 August 1944: Allied encirclement of the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy; Polish stand on Hill 262, contested casualty figures, and the escape to the Seine.
Falaki Shirvani
Falaki Shirvani (فلكي شرواني), full name Abu'l-Nezam Mohammad, was a Persian-language poet of Shirvan in the 12th century, a court panegyrist under the Shirvanshah Manuchehr II and a fellow student of Abul-Ala Ganjavi alongside Khagani.
Falaknuma Das
Falaknuma Das (ఫలక్నుమా దాస్) is a 2019 Telugu action thriller, the directorial debut of Vishwak Sen, who also stars; a remake of Malayalam film Angamaly Diaries set in old Hyderabad, released May 31, 2019.
Falaknuma Palace
Falaknuma Palace is a marble hilltop palace about 5 km south of Hyderabad's Charminar in Telangana, India, built from 1884 for the Paigah noble Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra.
Falamansa
Falamansa is a Brazilian forró pé-de-serra quartet formed in São Paulo in 1998, the best-known face of the forró universitário revival with the hit 'Xote dos Milagres'.
Falanga (organisation)
Falanga, formally the National Radical Movement (Ruch Narodowo-Radykalny) and often called ONR-Falanga, was an illegal far-right political organization in the Second Polish Republic, founded in April 1935 by Bolesław Piasecki.
Falangism
Falangism (falangismo) is the Spanish national-syndicalist ideology of the Falange, founded by José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933, an Iberian variant of fascism that became a base of the Franco regime before marginalization and dissolution in 1977.
Falapen (penicillin)
Falapen is a brand name for penicillin G potassium, the potassium salt of benzylpenicillin, a β-lactam antibiotic used against serious bacterial infections like pneumonia, meningitis, and syphilis.
Falasorma-Dui Sevi Biosphere Reserve
Falasorma-Dui Sevi Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère Falasorma-Dui Sevi), UNESCO MAB site FR 640002 in northwest Corsica, France; designated 1977, extended 1990 and 2020; 86,429 ha along the Fango valley; Corsica's only biosphere reserve.