Fitchburg
a city and one of the county-seats of Worcester co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, railroad; 50 miles N. W. of Boston. It comprises the villages of Traskville, Rockville, South Fitchburg, West Fitchburg, and Fitchburg Center. It contains a public library, high school, electric street railroad, electric lights, several National and savings banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. There are manufactories of pianofortes, tools, machinery, paper, saws, electrical apparatus, steam engines, bicycles, firearms, cotton, and woolen goods, etc. Pop. (1910) 37,826; (1920) 41,013.
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Fitzgerald
a city of Georgia, the It is on the county-seat of Ben Hill co. county- Seaboard Air Line, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, and the Ocilla Southern railroads. Its industries include cotton and oil mills, fertilizer plants, and railroad repair shops. It has a large trade in timber and turpentine. Pop. (1910) 5,795; (1920) 6,870.
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Fitzgerald
EDWARD, LORD, an Irish pat patriot; born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1763. He was a son of the first Duke of Leinster. He distinguished himself for intrepidity as aide-de-camp to Lord Rawdon in the latter part of the American Revolutionary War, and was severely wounded in the battle of Eutaw Springs. When the French Revolution broke out, he supported its principles, and in 1793 hastened to Paris. Here he married Pamela, the daughter, it is said, of Louis Philippe Joseph, the Duke of Orleans, and Madame de Genlis. On his return to Ireland, Fitzgerald was desirous of effecting a separation of that country from England, and induced the French Directory to furnish him with a fleet and troops. A landing was attempted on several occasions, but without success, owing to the vigilance of the English channel fl fleet; and Fitzgerald was seized, tried, and condemned to death. He died of his wounds before the time fixed for his execution, 1798. His wife had been educated with the daughters of the Duke of Orleans, by Madame de Genlis, and married a second time, Mr. Pitcairn, the American consul at Hamburg.
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Fitzgerald (EDWARD an English poet born)
EDWARD, an English poet; born in Bredfield House, near Suffolk, England, March 31, 1809. His father, John Purcell, assumed the name Fitzgerald, which was his wife's family Fit His writings are for the most name. part remodeled translations of poems in other languages; among them are: "Six Dramas from Calderon" (1853), and an" and two more ("The Mighty Magician" "Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of") subsequently "The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam" (1859), a translation that won for Fitzgerald great celebrity; a version of the "Agamemnon" of Æschylus; and versions of other Greek and Persian poets. He died in Merton, Norfolk, England, June 14, 1883.
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Fitzroy
two Australian rivers, one in Western Australia and one in Queensland. The first rises in the King Leopold Mountains and after a westerly course of about 300 miles enters into King Sound on the Indian Ocean. It is navigable for about 100 miles. The Queensland river is formed by the junction of the Mackenzie and the Dawson rivers. It flows in an easterly direction into Keppel Bay on the Pacific coast. It is navigable for about 40 miles from its mouth.
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Five Forks
a locality near Din- 6 widdie Court-house, Va. Here, on April 1, 1865, a severe engagement was fought between the National troops and the Confederates, the former under the command of General Sheridan, and the latter under that of General Lee. After several hours' heavy fighting, the Confederates retreated with a loss of a large number of killed and wounded, 5,000 prisoners, and several guns. The National loss was about 1,000 men, including General Winthrop, who was killed.
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Fixed Star
Important: Safety Warning This page contains instructions involving gunpowder or other explosive or pyrotechnic compositions. Preparing explosives as described has caused severe injuries and deaths, and is illegal in most places. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. in pyrotechnics, a composition introduced into a rocket case and emitting fire at five holes, to represent a star. The composition is niter, sulphur, gunpowder meal, and antimony. In astronomy, fixed stars are those which till lately were supposed absolutely to maintain their relative positions toward each other in the sky, are still admitted to do so very nearly. They are contra-distinguished from planets or "wandering stars." The number of fixed stars is infinitely great, especially in the part of the heavens called the Milky Way (see GALAXY). From a remote period of antiquity they have been grouped into constellations (see CON- STELLATION). They shine by their own light, and probably are suns each one surrounded by planets of its own. Some stars are periodic, and vary in brightness, others disappear and come again. There are double and triple stars, gravity operating on their movements.
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Fixture
in law, a term applied to things of an accessory nature annexed to houses or lands, so as to become part of the realty. The annexation must be by the article being set into or united with the land, or with some substance previously connected therewith. Thus a shed built upon a frame not let into the earth, is not a fixture. Machines and other things erected for the purposes of trade are not fixtures, if they can be removed without material damage to the property. Fixtures may not be distrained upon.
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Flagellants
Christian sect a which arose in 1260 at Perugia, called by the French Perouse, and spread throughout and beyond Italy. Its adherents, who saw a plague raging, and moreover expected the world speedily speedily to terminate, believed that they could propititate the Divine Being by walking in procession with only a cloth tied round them, and flagellating their bare shoulders with whips which they carried. At first they were noted for sanctity, and made many converts, but doubtful characters beginning to join their ranks, they fell into disrepute, and were restrained from their processions by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, when the sect gradually died away. The terror produced by the dreadful disease called the black death, which destroyed many millions of people in Europe between 1348 and 1351, produced a revival of the flagellation mania, which spread over most of Europe. In 1349 Clement VII. declared the Flagellants heretics and took steps to repress them. In 1414 an effort was made in Thuringia to revive them anew, but the burning alive of their leader, Conrad Schmidt, and 90 of gradual decline his followers led to the the of the sect.
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