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Faverolles
Faverolles (Haute-Marne, France): commune near Langres with a Gallo-Roman archaeological site, the largest known Gallo-Roman mausoleum in France, excavated 1981-1989 and protected as a Monument historique since 1990.
Faversham Roman villa
Faversham Roman villa: winged corridor villa in Faversham, Kent, exposed in 1965 under Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School playing fields, occupied c. AD 70 to late 3rd century, with hypocaust, mosaic, and Iron Age farmstead beneath; Scheduled Monument 1011804.
Favezelimab
Favezelimab (MK-4280), Merck's humanized anti-LAG-3 IgG4 antibody, was tested with pembrolizumab (MK-4280A) in colorectal cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma; development was discontinued in December 2024 after phase 3 KEYFORM-007 missed overall survival.
Faviana
Faviana (Favianis, Fafianae), Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Mautern an der Donau, Lower Austria, on the Noric Danube Limes; occupied 1st–5th century, garrisoned by Legio I Noricorum, linked to St Severin, UNESCO-listed since 2021.
Favicon
A favicon, short for favorite icon, is a small icon associated with a website and displayed by browsers in page tabs and bookmark lists. It is typically a 16 x 16 pixel image.
Fäviken
Fäviken is a farm in Jämtland, central Sweden, best known for the restaurant Fäviken Magasinet, which chef Magnus Nilsson ran from 2008 until it closed in 2019.
Favipiravir
Favipiravir (Avigan, T-705, Favilavir) is a broad-spectrum antiviral from Toyama Chemical/Fujifilm that inhibits viral RNA polymerase by lethal mutagenesis; approved in Japan in 2014 for pandemic influenza, trialed widely for COVID-19 and Ebola with limited evidence of benefit.
FAVOR trial
FAVOR trial (Fimasartan, Atenolol, and Valsartan On haemodynamic paRameters in ischaemic stroke), NCT02403349: 12-week Korean double-blind randomized trial, 105 patients, showing ARBs lowered central BP and cerebral pulsatility more than atenolol.
Favorable propagation
Favorable propagation is a property of multiuser radio channels in which channels to different users become nearly orthogonal, letting simple linear processing serve many users at once in Massive MIMO.
Favoriten
Favoriten is a 1989 horse-race betting board game by Walter Müller (Spielewerkstatt), for 2–5 players; players move five horses with one die and bet on the winner, later bets paying less. It made the 1990 Spiel des Jahres recommendation list and was reissued as Donkey Derby.
Favorskii rearrangement
The Favorskii rearrangement, described by Alexei Favorskii in the 1890s, is an organic reaction in which a base converts an α-halo ketone into a carboxylic acid derivative, ester, or amide.
Favosites
Favosites, the honeycomb coral, is an extinct cerioid tabulate coral genus named by Lamarck in 1816, type species F. gothlandicus, with polygonal corallites linked by mural pores, Silurian-Devonian reef habitats, and calcite skeletons.
Favourite
A favourite, also called a royal or court favourite, was a person, often a nobleman, who held a monarch's intimate confidence and exercised political power without formal office.
Favourite (song)
Favourite is a 2024 song by Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., second single from and closing track of the album Romance on XL Recordings; other songs of the same title include Bananarama's 2022 track and SOMOH's 2023 single.
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Favourite Worst Nightmare is Arctic Monkeys' second studio album, released April 2007 on Domino. Produced by James Ford and Mike Crossey, it hit UK number 1, went 2x Platinum, and scored 82 on Metacritic.
FAW Group
FAW Group, also known as First Auto Works, is a state-owned Chinese automobile manufacturer in Changchun that built China's first domestic truck in 1956 and first passenger car in 1958.
FAW Jiefang
FAW Jiefang (一汽解放) is the commercial vehicle business of China FAW Group and maker of the Jiefang brand, which built China's first domestically produced truck in 1956.
FAW-Volkswagen
FAW-Volkswagen (一汽-大众) is a Chinese passenger car manufacturer established in Changchun in 1991 as a joint venture between FAW and Volkswagen, building Volkswagen, Audi, and Jetta brand vehicles.
Fawa'id al-Fu'ad
Fawa'id al-Fu'ad (فوائد الفواد, "Morals for the Heart") is a Persian collection of the discourses of the Chishti Sufi shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, recorded by his disciple Amir Hasan Sijzi from about 1308 to 1322.
Fawad Khan
Fawad Khan (Fawad Afzal Khan), Pakistani actor, producer and singer, born 1981 in Karachi: Entity Paradigm frontman, star of Humsafar and Zindagi Gulzar Hai, first Pakistani actor to win a Filmfare Award, lead of The Legend of Maula Jatt.
Fawcett Comics
Fawcett Comics, the 1939–1953 comic book division of Fawcett Publications, created Captain Marvel (Shazam) and fought the twelve-year National Comics Superman copyright lawsuit before paying $400,000 and exiting comics in 1953.
FAWD study
The FAWD study (Factors Associated With Dermatoporosis) was a Mexican cross-sectional study that found dermatoporosis in 29% of 315 patients over 60, linked to age, sun exposure, and anticoagulants.
Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers: British BBC Two sitcom by John Cleese and Connie Booth, 12 episodes in 1975 and 1979, set in a Torquay hotel run by Basil Fawlty; inspired by Gleneagles hotelier Donald Sinclair; repeatedly voted Britain's greatest sitcom.
Fawn Girard
Fawn Girard is an American barebow archer from Ohio who won the 2024 World Archery Field Championships in barebow women, the first American title since 2008.
Fawn Hall
Fawn Hall, Oliver North's NSC secretary (1983-1986) in the Iran-Contra affair; altered and shredded documents, smuggled papers in her boots, testified under immunity, and married North in 2025.
Fawry
Fawry (فوري) is an Egyptian banking technology and electronic payments company founded in 2008, led by chief executive Ashraf Sabry and listed on the Egyptian Exchange since 2019.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby
Fawwaz T. Ulaby is an electrical engineer known for microwave remote sensing, a University of Michigan professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Fawzi al-Qawuqji (فوزي القاوقجي) was an Arab soldier and nationalist who fought colonial armies across the Middle East from World War I to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Fax
Fax, short for facsimile, is a telecommunications technology for transmitting scanned printed material over telephone networks, first patented by Alexander Bain in 1843 and widely adopted in the 1980s.
Faxian (法显)
Faxian (法显, also Fa-Hsien or Fa Hien), c. 337–c. 422, was a Chinese Buddhist monk who journeyed overland to India in 399 and returned by sea in 412 or 414.