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Fratricelli – Fuller

Fratricelli

FRATICELLI, or

Fratricellians

originally a name FRICTION lines, and the British attack was launched on both sides of the village.

Gradually the Germans were nipped out of this strategic point and the village was taken on the following day by the British.

HENRY C. FRICK

Frieze

in architecture, that portion of the entablature which is between the architrave and the cornice. It was generally adorned with triglyphs in the Doric order, the intervening spaces,

Frobisher

MARTIN, an English

Frothingham

ARTHUR LINin Boston

Fructidor

the name given in October, 1793, by the French Convention to the 12th month of the republican year. It commenced on Aug. 18, and ended on Sept. 16, and was the third summer month.

Fuca

STRAIT OF. See JUAN DE

Fukuoka

a city of Japan, on the north coast of Kiushiu. It has a number of important buildings, including a castle, and has a public garden. Pop. about 85,000.

Fulda

LUDWIG (föl'dä), a German dramatist; born in Frankfort-onthe-Main, July 15, 1862. One of his first pieces, a comedy in verse, "Honest Men," was repeatedly put on the stage. His most successful plays are the two comedies "Under Four Eyes" (1886) and "The Wild Chase" (1888); and the drama of society "The Lost Paradise" (1890). His dramatic tale "The Talis-

Fugue

in music, a polyphonic composition constructed on one or more short subjects or themes, which are harmonized according to the laws of counterpoint, and introduced from time to time with various contrapuntal devices; the

Fullam

or FULHAM (from Fulham, a suburb of London, England, which was a notorious resort of blacklegs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), false dice. a

Fuller

SARAH MARGARET. See OSSOLI, MARCHIONESS D'.

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