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Fallow is land left unsown for a period, usually a year. Fallowing is an ancient process, it has been known for centuries that the same crop frown on the same land deteriorates after a few years, partly because the soil is exhausted and partly because of disease. Philips Ultrasound Transducer By leaving the land for a year, it can recover and subsequent crops improve.

Research FallowHuman babies generally resemble their father. The reason for this is that in nature while a mother knows that she has spawned a child, the father does not know that it was his impregnation that fertilised the woman. However, through family resemblance nature reassures the father that the offspring is his, and thus improves the chances of the father providing the support to the mother and child that they need during the early years. 

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Fanacle was an old term for a small temple or shrine.

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Fanagalo is a pidginised form of Zulu taking also many English and Afrikaans words and spoken in South Africa, particularly in the mines, whence it gets its popular name of 'mine kaffir'. 

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Fanikin was a 16th century term for a small flag or banner.

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Fantoccini was a puppet play popular in Italy in the 15th century and in England and Germany in the 18th century. 

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A farger was an old form of weighted dice used during the 16th century for cheating.

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Farriery is the art of horse-shoeing. It consists in the attachment of a rim of iron, by means of nails, to the lower border of the horse's hoof, in order to prevent its excessive wear. 

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Fasces were bundles of wooden rods made of elm or birch strapped together with an axe whose head protruded at right angles from the sticks. The fasces symbolised the authority of the senior magistrates of ancient Rome and were carried by the lictors who preceded them.
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A fascet is a tool used for placing glass bottles in the oven where they are annealed.

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Fascism is a political movement which originated in Italy, deriving its name from fasces, and which holds that the individual exists for the State, to whose good all his work and interests should be directed. Fascism originated in Milan in 1919, as a movement started by Benito Mussolini.  

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Fast and loose was a street fraud, or cheating game, found in England between the 16th and the 19th centuries, involving a tick and a belt or string, so arranged that a spectator would think he could secure the stick to the belt or string by passing it through the intricate folds presented to him, only to find that the operator could detach the two instantly, and thereby win the bet.

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Fasten-Tuesday (Fastens-Tuesday) is an old term for Shrove-Tuesday.

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A fata morgana is a kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied.It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

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The fathom is an ancient unit of measurement described as the length between the tips of the middle fingers of a man's two outstretched arms, reckoned at six feet. By the 20th century the fathom was only really used for sounding measurements. During the 18th century three different lengths all known as fathoms were employed in the British navy.Hitachi Ultrasonic Probe The fathom of the man-of-war was reckoned at six feet, the middling fathom used upon merchant ships at five and a half feet and the small fathom used on fishing boats was five feet.

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In geography, a fault is a break in the earth's crust along which movement has taken place - usually, but not always, vertically - so that the layers (strata) of the two rock faces no longer match. It is often along a fault that earthquakes occur.