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Farsakh
The farsakh (Arabic فرسخ; Persian farsang) is a traditional unit of distance in the Islamic world and Iran, derived from the ancient Iranian parasang and roughly 5.5 to 6 kilometers.
Farscape
Farscape is an Australian-American space opera TV series (1999-2003, plus the 2005 Peacekeeper Wars miniseries), created by Rockne S. O'Bannon with the Jim Henson Company, starring Ben Browder and Claudia Black, famous for Creature Shop animatronic puppets and its fan-campaign revival.
Farshid Guilak
Farshid Guilak is an American biomedical engineer and mechanobiology researcher at Washington University in St. Louis who studies osteoarthritis and develops stem-cell-based regenerative therapies for damaged joints.
Farsley
Farsley is a village between Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, recorded in the Domesday Book, once a wool-processing center, and the birthplace of missionary Samuel Marsden.
Farsnameh
Farsnameh (فارسنامه, "The Book of Fars") is a Persian history and geography of the province of Fars, Iran, attributed to Ibn al-Balkhī and composed between 1105 and 1116.
Fart (5x5)
Fart (5x5) is a two-player alignment board game from El Oued, Algeria, played on a 5x5 board with twelve pieces per player; five in a line wins. Documented by Bellin 1964; not the Fart! card game.
Fart (7x7)
Fart (7x7) is an Algerian alignment board game from El Oued, played on a 7x7 board with 24 pieces per player; players place two pieces per turn, then move orthogonally, aiming to line up seven pieces. Documented by Bellin 1964; Ludii DLP.Games.1402.
Fart (word)
Fart (word): English verb and noun for expelling intestinal gas, from Old English feortan and PIE perd-, of imitative origin; one of few Anglo-Saxon-era obscenities, labeled informal or vulgar, with senses including a foolish person and fart around.
Fart lighting
Fart lighting, or pyroflatulence, is igniting flatus to produce a brief blue flame from gut-produced hydrogen and methane. Feasible only when gas concentrations exceed flammability limits; causes burn injuries and is a surgical hazard.
Fart walk
A fart walk, also called postprandial walking, is a casual walk taken shortly after eating, popularized by Canadian cookbook author Mairlyn Smith in a viral 2024 TikTok video.
Farthest Frontier
Farthest Frontier is a medieval survival city builder by Crate Entertainment (Grim Dawn), in Early Access from 2022 and released at v1.0 on October 23, 2025, known for deep crop-rotation farming, disease simulation, and optional combat.
Farthing (British coin)
The farthing was the smallest pre-decimal British coin, worth a quarter of a penny (960 to the pound); silver from the 13th century, copper from 1672, bronze from 1860, demonetised 1 January 1961.
Farthingale
Farthingale: hooped or padded underskirt support of the 16th–17th centuries, from Spanish verdugado (verdugo, green rod). Originated at the Castilian court; Spanish, French, and wheel styles; obsolete in England by 1625.
Fartlek
Fartlek (Swedish 'speed play') is a continuous running workout mixing fast surges with slower jogging, devised in the 1930s by Swedish coach Gösta Holmér; unlike interval training it is unstructured and effort-based.
Faruk Fuad Abi-Khuzam
Faruk Fuad Abi-Khuzam is a Lebanese mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at the American University of Beirut, known for the 1974 Abi-Khuzam inequality proving Yff's conjecture on the Brocard angle.
Faruk Yalçın Zoo and Botanical Park
Faruk Yalçın Zoo and Botanical Park (Darıca Faruk Yalçın Hayvanat Bahçesi ve Botanik Parkı), Turkey's first private zoo in Darıca, Kocaeli; opened 1993, first full Turkish EAZA member, 3,600 animals of 286 species; closed by the Yalçın family heirs, reported January 2026.
Faruki dynasty of Khandesh
The Faruki dynasty of Khandesh (سلسلہ فرخی), founded by Malik Raja Faruqi around 1382, ruled the Tapti valley from Thalner and Burhanpur until Mughal annexation in 1601.
Faruqi dynasty
The Faruqi dynasty (फ़ारूक़ी वंश) was the Muslim ruling house of Khandesh in the north-western Deccan, founded by Malik Raja Ahmad in 1382 and ended by Akbar's annexation in 1601.
Farvardin
Farvardin (Persian: فروردین) is the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar, Iran's official calendar since 1925, beginning at Nowruz and running 31 days, roughly 21 March to 20 April.
Farveez Maharoof
Farveez Maharoof (Mohamed Farveez Maharoof), Sri Lankan fast-medium all-rounder born 1984 in Colombo; 22 Tests and 109 ODIs 2004–2016, 6/14 in the 2006 Champions Trophy, 2010 Asia Cup hat-trick, later a commentator.
Farwell Island
Farwell Island names two places: an ice-covered island and ice rise at 72°49'S 91°10'W in the Abbot Ice Shelf, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, and a 1 m elevation islet in Calhoun County, Texas, near Pass Cavallo and Espiritu Santo Bay.
Faryab Province
Faryab Province (ولایت فاریاب), northwestern Afghan province, capital Maimana; created 1965 from the Maymana high governorate; 21,141 km2, borders Turkmenistan; agro-pastoral economy, carpets, natural gas; Norwegian PRT 2008-2012.
Farzad Farzin
Farzad Farzin (فرزاد فرزین) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, composer, and actor born in Tehran in 1981, active in licensed Persian pop since around 2000.
Farzi (फ़र्ज़ी)
Farzi (फ़र्ज़ी) is a 2023 Hindi black-comedy crime thriller on Prime Video by Raj & DK, starring Shahid Kapoor as counterfeiter Sunny and Vijay Sethupathi as officer Michael; season 2 confirmed 2026, expected mid-2027.
Fas ligand
Fas ligand (FasL, CD95L, CD178, FASLG) is a 40 kDa type II transmembrane TNF-family ligand binding Fas/CD95; membrane-bound form drives apoptosis, inflammation, and immune privilege, while shed soluble FasL is largely antagonistic.
Fas receptor
FAS (CD95, APO-1, TNFRSF6), Fas cell surface death receptor gene at 10q23.31, encodes a TNF-receptor-family death receptor driving FADD/caspase-8 DISC apoptosis; germline variants cause ALPS-FAS and lymphoma risk.
FAS1 domain
FAS1 (fasciclin 1) domain: an ancient ~140-amino-acid extracellular cell adhesion module found in bacteria, plants, and animals; defines plant FLA proteins and includes human TGFBI and periostin, whose mutations cause corneal dystrophies.
FASA
FASA Corporation, Chicago tabletop game publisher (1980–2001), named after the Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration joke from Duck Soup; creator of BattleTech, MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Earthdawn, closed voluntarily in 2001 with rights split to Topps, Microsoft, and FASA Games.
Fasaha
Fasaha (فصاحة) is the classical Arabic rhetorical term for the purity and clarity of language, applied to a word, an utterance, or the speaker; a necessary condition of eloquence.
Fasana-e-Ajaib
Fasana-e-Ajaib ("The Tale of Marvels") is an Urdu dastan by Rajab Ali Beg Suroor, written in 1824 as a rejoinder to Mir Amman's Bagh-o-Bahar and the representative work of the Lucknow school of Urdu prose.