Ferdinand the Catholic
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~ the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
Frankfurt on the Main
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~ a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center
fraud in the inducement
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~ fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute an instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts
Frederick the Great
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~ king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786)
freedom of the press
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~ a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
fraud in the factum
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~ fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract
freedom of the seas
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~ the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters
Followers of the Prophet
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~ a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks
fire-on-the-mountain
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~ poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
friend of the court
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~ an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest
fly in the ointment
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~ an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
flash in the pan
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~ someone who enjoys transient success but then fails
family Theaceae
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~ a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales
family Thelephoraceae
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~ fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores
Flavius Theodosius
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~ the last emperor of a united Roman Empire, he took control of the eastern empire and ended the war with the Visigoths; he became a Christian and in 391 banned all forms of pagan worship (346-395)
family Theophrastaceae
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~ family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae
field theory
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~ (physics) a theory that explains a physical phenomenon in terms of a field and the manner in which it interacts with matter or with other fields