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Faunus
Faunus, ancient Italian rural god of fields, cattle, and prophecy, later identified with the Greek Pan; mythical king of Latium, son of Picus, father of Latinus, with Faunalia festivals on 13 February and 5 December.
Faure Peak
Faure Peak: Antarctic summit, 3,940 m, in the Wisconsin Range, Horlick Mountains, at 85°42'S 128°35'W; named for geologist Gunter Faure of Ohio State University, USARP expeditions 1964–1995.
Faurecia
Faurecia is a French automotive technology supplier that combined with German electronics group HELLA to form FORVIA, one of the world's largest automotive parts groups.
Faust
Faust, legendary German scholar who pacts with the devil (Mephistopheles); launched by the 1587 Faustbuch of Johann Spies, retold by Marlowe (Doctor Faustus, 1604) and Goethe (Faust, 1790–1832), damned in early versions, redeemed by Goethe.
Faust (1926 film)
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage is F.W. Murnau's 1926 Ufa silent film of the Faust legend, starring Emil Jannings as Mephisto and Gösta Ekman, Ufa's costliest production to that date and Murnau's last German film.
Faust (musician)
Faust (Bård Guldvik Eithun, born 1974) is a Norwegian black metal drummer, originally Emperor's drummer on In the Nightside Eclipse (1994), later of Scum, Aborym, Blood Tsunami, and Galgeberg; he served nine years for the 1992 murder of Magne Andreassen in Lillehammer.
Faust (opera)
Faust is Charles Gounod's five-act French opera (1859, Théâtre Lyrique, Paris) on a libretto by Barbier and Carré after Goethe's Faust Part I; the most performed French opera after Carmen, famous for the Jewel Song and Golden Calf aria.
Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One (Faust I) is the first part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, published in full in 1808, in which Faust makes a pact with Mephistopheles.
Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil) is the second part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, completed in 1831 and published posthumously in 1832.
Faust: A Poem
Faust: A Poem (German: Faust. Ein Gedicht) is an 1836 epic-dramatic verse poem by the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, retelling the Faust legend as one of doubt and despair rather than redemption.
Fausta Bergamotto
Fausta Bergamotto is an Italian politician from L'Aquila, a Fratelli d'Italia member serving as Undersecretary of State for Enterprises and Made in Italy who previously served as a municipal assessor.
Faustas Kirša
Faustas Kirša (1891–1964) was a Lithuanian poet, publicist, and translator, the leading intellectual symbolist in interwar Lithuanian poetry and author of the satirical masterpiece Pelenai (Ashes).
Faustin Soulouque
Faustin Soulouque (Faustin-Élie Soulouque) was a Haitian soldier and statesman who was President of Haiti from 1847 and Emperor Faustin I of the Second Haitian Empire until 1859.
Faustina Kowalska
Faustina Kowalska, born Helena Kowalska, was a Polish nun of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy whose visions inspired the Divine Mercy devotion; canonized in 2000.
Faustina the Younger
Faustina the Younger (Annia Galeria Faustina, Faustina Minor, c. 130-175 AD) was a Roman empress, wife of Marcus Aurelius, mother of Commodus, and daughter of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder; she bore at least eleven children, was extensively commemorated on coinage, and faced later charges of adultery and complicity in the Avidius Cassius revolt.
Faustine Merret
Faustine Merret (born 1978, Brest) is a French windsurfer, Olympic gold medalist in women's Mistral at Athens 2004, 11th at Beijing 2008, multiple world championship medalist, later a French sailing coach and administrator.
Faustini
Faustini is a lunar impact crater near the south pole, about 39 km across, whose permanently shadowed floor is a major cold trap for water ice.
Faustino "Bojie" Dy III
Faustino "Bojie" Dy III is a Filipino politician who serves as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and represents the 6th District of Isabela.
Faustino Asprilla
Faustino "Tino" Asprilla is a Colombian former footballer who won two UEFA Cups with Parma and starred for Colombia at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups.
Fausto
Fausto is an 1866 comic gauchesco poem by the Argentine writer Estanislao del Campo, in which the gaucho Anastasio el Pollo describes Gounod's opera Faust as if its events really happened.
Fausto Acernese
Fausto Acernese, born in Avellino, Italy, in 1975, is an Italian experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Salerno working on Virgo gravitational-wave detection.
Fausto Acke
Fausto Acke (Fausto Alesio Acke, born Padovini, 1896 or 1897, Rome; died 14 May 1967, Hollywood) was an Italian-born Swedish gymnast, gold medalist in the Swedish-system team event at Antwerp 1920, later a trainer at RKO Studios.
Fausto de Elhuyar
Fausto de Elhuyar (1755–1833) was a Spanish chemist who first isolated tungsten with his brother Juan José in 1783, then directed mining in New Spain.
Fausto Roila
Fausto Roila is an Italian medical oncologist known for research on preventing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and for leading the MASCC and ESMO antiemetic guidelines.
Faustus of Byzantium
Faustus of Byzantium, known in Armenian as Pʿawstos Buzand, is the conventional name of a fifth-century author whose Buzandaran chronicles fourth-century Armenia, surviving as Books III to VI.
Faustus of Riez
Faustus of Riez was a fifth-century monk, abbot of Lérins, and bishop of Riez in southern Gaul, the leading opponent of both predestinarian and Pelagian views of grace.
Fauvism
Fauvism, or le fauvisme, was a short-lived French painting movement about 1904–1908 led by Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck, known for wild non-naturalistic color; the name came from Vauxcelles's 1905 Salon d'Automne review.
Faux Cyrillic
Faux Cyrillic, also called pseudo-Cyrillic or pseudo-Russian, replaces Latin letters with visually similar Cyrillic ones so words read as English but look Russian; common in branding, and exploited in domain spoofing.
Fava (Greek dish)
Fava (φάβα) is a Greek yellow split-pea purée; Santorini's version, from Lathyrus clymenum seeds, has been grown there for millennia and holds EU PDO status since 2010.
Favela
Favela: a Brazilian low-income informal urban settlement with self-built housing and irregular tenure; 16.4 million Brazilians (8.1%) lived in 12,348 favelas and urban communities per the 2022 Census.