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Fátima Bosch
Fátima Bosch Fernández, Mexican model from Teapa, Tabasco, Miss Universe México 2025 and Miss Universe 2025, the fourth Mexican winner, crowned 21 November 2025 in Thailand after a walkout over organizer Nawat Itsaragrisil's insults.
Fatimid lusterware
Fatimid lusterware is lustre-painted ceramic produced mainly at Fustat, Egypt, under the Fatimid caliphate, dated from around 1000 AD until 1171 and prized for its metallic golden sheen.
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.
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.
Faygo
Faygo, the One True Pop, is a Detroit soft drink brand founded in 1907 by bakers Ben and Perry Feigenson, with over 50 flavors like Redpop and Rock & Rye, now owned by National Beverage Corp.
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Feast of the Seven Fishes (la vigilia): Italian-American Christmas Eve meal of at least seven seafood dishes, rooted in Southern Italian Catholic meatless fast days and developed in the United States from the early 1900s.
Feather cloak
Feather cloak (kahu huruhuru), a prestigious Māori garment with feathers woven into a flax-fibre muka base; birds as messengers of Tāne, kahu kiwi as highest mana, production common from the mid-1800s.
Featherwork
Featherwork, in Spanish arte plumaria and Nahuatl amantecayotl, is the art of making objects and images from bird feathers, reaching its greatest refinement in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico through feather mosaic.
Federal holidays in the United States
Federal holidays in the United States: 11 legal public holidays under 5 U.S.C. 6103 for federal employees, from New Year's Day to Christmas Day, plus quadrennial Inauguration Day; created from 1870 onward, newest is Juneteenth (2021).
Federweisser
Federweißer (Federweisser, Federweisse) is German partly fermented grape must, a young cloudy wine drunk in autumn with Zwiebelkuchen; called Sturm in Austria and burčák in Czechia.
Fedora
Fedora: soft felt hat with creased, pinched crown and snap brim, named after Sardou's 1882 play Fédora; dominant men's hat from the 1880s to the 1960s, distinct from the trilby and homburg.
Feijoada
Feijoada is Brazil's national dish, a black bean stew with carne seca, smoked sausages, and pork, served with rice, couve, farofa, and orange. Documented since the 1820s, its slave-food origin story is contested; restaurants serve it Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Felt
Felt: a nonwoven textile of matted, interlocked fibers, traditionally wool, made by wet felting or needle punching; the oldest known fabric (Turkish samples, 6500 BCE), used for yurts, hats, insulation, filtration, and acoustics.
Femina Miss India 2017
Femina Miss India 2017 (fbb Colors Femina Miss India 2017), 54th edition held 25 June 2017 at Yash Raj Film Studio, Mumbai. New all-30-states format; winner Manushi Chhillar of Haryana, later Miss World 2017; runners-up Sana Dua and Priyanka Kumari.
Femina Miss India 2019
Femina Miss India 2019, the 56th edition held 15 June 2019 in Mumbai, crowned Suman Rao of Rajasthan, who became 2nd runner-up at Miss World 2019; it drew fair-skin criticism.
Femina Miss India 2026
Femina Miss India 2026, the 61st edition held April 18, 2026 at KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, crowned Sadhvi Sail of Goa as Femina Miss India World 2026, with Rajnandini Pawar and Dr Sree Advaita G as runners-up.
Fendi
Fendi: Italian luxury fashion house founded in Rome in 1925 by Adele Casagrande and Edoardo Fendi as a fur and leather goods workshop; famous for the double-F logo, Baguette bag, 54-year Karl Lagerfeld collaboration, and LVMH majority ownership since 2001.
Fenn treasure
Fenn treasure: a bronze chest of gold, gems, and artifacts hidden by Santa Fe dealer Forrest Fenn, announced 2010 via a 24-line poem in The Thrill of the Chase; about 350,000 searched, five died, and Jack Stuef found it in Wyoming in June 2020; auctioned 2022 for ~$1.3 million.
Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration
The Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration (Jašn-e hazāra) was a series of scholarly ceremonies held in 1934 for the thousandth anniversary of Ferdowsi's birth, including the inauguration of his mausoleum at Ṭūs.
Fërgesë
Fërgesë (fërgesa), Albanian baked dish of peppers, tomatoes, onions, and gjizë curd cheese; name from fërgoj, "to fry"; Tirana specialty with summer, liver, Gjirokastra, and Shkodër egg variants.
Fermentation in winemaking
Fermentation in winemaking: yeast (mainly Saccharomyces cerevisiae) converts grape glucose and fructose to ethanol and CO2, followed by optional malolactic fermentation; temperature control, inoculated versus spontaneous fermentation, and stuck-fermentation risks define the process.
Fermented Foods
Fermented foods, or fermented foodstuffs, are foods made through desired microbial growth and enzymatic conversions, per the ISAPP definition. Includes yogurt, kimchi, kefir, sauerkraut, tempeh; studied for gut health, safety, and EFSA health-claim evidence.
Fernet
Fernet is a bitterly unsweetened Italian herbal liqueur style within amaro, launched by Fernet-Branca in Milan in 1845 (Vittone claims 1842). Argentina drinks about 75 percent of global output, mixed with cola as fernet con coca.
Fernet-Branca
Fernet-Branca, the original fernet amaro created in Milan in 1845 by apothecary Bernardino Branca for Fratelli Branca Distillerie; a 39% ABV bitter liqueur with a secret 27-botanical recipe, famous in Argentina as fernet con coca.
Ferragosto
Ferragosto: Italian holiday on 15 August, also called Assumption Day; from Latin feriae Augusti, originally 1 August; Church moved it to the Assumption, now Italy's mid-August vacation day.
Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià, Catalan chef (born 1962) who led elBulli at Cala Montjoi, named world's best restaurant five times, pioneered foams, spherification, and the tasting-menu format, closed it in 2011, and now runs elBullifoundation and Bullipedia.
Ferrara Candy Company
Ferrara Candy Company, formerly Ferrara Pan, is a Chicago-based sugar confectioner founded in 1908, now a Ferrero affiliate after the 2017 CTH Invest acquisition, with brands including NERDS, Trolli, Brach's, and Jelly Belly and FY2025 net sales of $2.2 billion.
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher is a spherical hazelnut-chocolate confection by Italy's Ferrero Group: a whole hazelnut in a wafer sphere coated in chocolate and hazelnuts, created in 1982.
FESTAC 77
FESTAC 77 was the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977 with about 17,000 participants from 56 countries.
Festival
Festival: a themed, public celebration, also called feast or fiesta, recurring at set times to mark seasons, beliefs, or culture. Ranges from local feasts to the 61-million-attendee Kumbh Mela; central to tourism, identity, and UNESCO cultural statistics.