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Faraj ibn Barquq
Faraj ibn Barquq (الناصر فرج بن برقوق) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt who reigned from 1399 to 1405 and again until his murder in 1412.
Farakka Barrage (ফরাক্কা ব্যারাজ)
Farakka Barrage (ফরাক্কা ব্যারাজ), also called Farakka dam, is a 2,245-meter barrage across the Ganga in West Bengal, India, commissioned in 1975 to divert water toward Kolkata port.
Farakka power station
Farakka power station, or Farakka Super Thermal Power Station, is a 2,100 MW coal-fired NTPC plant at Nabarun in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, with units commissioned from 1986.
Farallon Asia Special Situations
Farallon Asia Special Situations is a family of private equity funds investing in illiquid special situations in Asia and Latin America, managed by Farallon Capital from 2010 to 2016.
Farallon Capital Management
Farallon Capital Management is a partner-owned multi-strategy hedge fund manager based in San Francisco, founded in 1986 by Thomas Steyer to invest in merger arbitrage, managing roughly $35 to $44 billion.
Farallon Islands
Farallon Islands: rocky Pacific archipelago about 28 miles west of San Francisco, a 211-acre national wildlife refuge hosting the largest seabird colony in the continental U.S. south of Alaska, site of the 1863 Egg Wars.
Farallones de Cali
Farallones de Cali: rocky massif of Colombia's Western Cordillera and the 196,429.90-hectare national park (declared 1968) southwest of Cali, Valle del Cauca, spanning 200–4,100 m, four ecosystems, 626 bird species, and threatened by illegal gold mining.
Farallones de Citara
The Farallones de Citará, also written Farallones del Citará, is a peak in Colombia's Cordillera Occidental, located in southwestern Antioquia. It stands 4,050 m.
Faramir
Faramir, son of Denethor and brother of Boromir in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; captain of Ithilien who refuses the Ring, later Prince of Ithilien, Lord of Emyn Arnen, and husband of Éowyn.
Faramir Colles
Faramir Colles is an 82-km-wide group of hills (colles) on Titan near 4°N, 153.8°W, approved by the IAU on December 19, 2012, and named after the Tolkien character Faramir of Gondor.
Faramurz
Faramurz (فرامرز) was the second independent ruler of the Kakuyid dynasty, who reigned in Isfahan from 1041 until losing it to the Saljuq sultan Tughril in 1051.
Faran Tahir (فران طاہر)
Faran Tahir (فران طاہر), Pakistani-American actor born 1963 in Los Angeles; played Raza in Iron Man (2008), Captain Robau in Star Trek (2009), roles in Elysium and Escape Plan, Broadway's The Kite Runner, and now Pakistani film and TV including The Martial Artist (2025).
Faranah Region
Faranah Region, one of Guinea's seven administrative regions created by the 1994 law L/94/027/CTRN, comprises the prefectures of Faranah, Dinguiraye, Kissidougou, and Dabola, and contains the source of the Niger River.
Farang
Farang (ฝรั่ง) is the Thai word for a Westerner, usually a white foreigner, derived from "Frank" via Arabic faranji and Persian farangi; related forms span barang, firangi, and ifranj, and farangset means French.
Farangi Mahall
Farangi Mahall (فرنگی محل) was a Lucknow family of Hanafi Muslim scholars whose Dars-i Nizami curriculum became India's dominant system of Islamic education from the eighteenth century.
Farangi-sazi
Farangi-sazi (Persian: فرنگیسازی), literally "making in an Occidental manner," is a style of Persian painting that blends Safavid traditions with European techniques, appearing under Shah ʿAbbās II.
Faras
Faras, known in the medieval period as Pachoras, was an ancient town in Nubia on the Nile in northern Sudan, seat of the kings of Nobadia.
Faras Cathedral
Faras Cathedral, the medieval cathedral of Pachoras in Nobadia, Sudan, built 707 CE by Bishop Paulos and King Merkuiros, decorated with over 150 Nubian Christian murals, excavated 1961–1964 before flooding by Lake Nasser, paintings now split between Warsaw and Khartoum.
Faras Cathedral paintings
The Faras Cathedral paintings are medieval Christian Nubian wall paintings from Faras, Sudan, rescued by Polish archaeologists in the 1960s and now split between Warsaw and Khartoum.
Faras power plant
Faras power plant (محطة فرس الغازية) is a gas-fired power station of at least 1,610 megawatts at Al Qar'aa in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, owned by Saudi Electricity Company.
Faras Virgin and Child
The Faras Virgin and Child refers to medieval Nubian wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras in northern Sudan, found by Polish excavations in 1961–1964.
Farasis Energy
Farasis Energy (孚能科技) is a Chinese manufacturer of lithium-ion pouch batteries for electric vehicles, founded in Silicon Valley in 2002 and headquartered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi.
Faravahar (فروهر)
The Faravahar (فروهر) is a winged emblem showing a bearded man rising from a ring, used in Achaemenid Iran and now the principal symbol of Zoroastrianism.
Faravari Mons
Faravari Mons is a 500-km-wide mons (mountain) on Venus at 43.5°S, 309°E in quadrangle V-54, named for a Malagasy water goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Fárbauti
Fárbauti is a jötunn in Norse mythology, father of Loki by Laufey (or Nál), named in Gylfaginning 33 and Skáldskaparmál; his name means "dangerous striker", linked to lightning, and he has no independent myths.
Farben ringsum
Farben ringsum, a 2007/2008 Logis children's game by Laima Kikutiene for 2-5 players aged 3+, matching butterfly colors to picture cards; Kinderspiel des Jahres recommended list 2008. Distinct from the 2018 storytelling card game Farben.
Farber disease
Farber disease (Farber lipogranulomatosis, acid ceramidase deficiency) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder from ASAH1 mutations, causing ceramide buildup, painful deformed joints, subcutaneous nodules, and hoarseness, usually fatal in infancy.
Farce
Farce: comic dramatic genre producing laughter through ridiculous situations and physical action; from Latin farcire "to stuff," shaped in 15th-century France, culminating in Pierre Pathelin and Molière.
Fard
Fard (فرد) is a single couplet of Urdu poetry that stands alone, complete in itself, with no rhyme in its first hemistich; it is often a verse lifted from a ghazal.
Fardeen Khan
Fardeen Khan, Bollywood actor (active 1998–2010, 2024–present), son of Feroz Khan; debut Prem Aggan (1998, Filmfare Best Debut), known for Jungle, No Entry, All the Best, and his 2024 comeback with Heeramandi.