Fairbanks (City of Alaska on the Tanana)
a city of Alaska on the Tanana river. It is the chief city of the territory and is the site of the Fourth Judicial District and of government activities in the interior of Alaska. It is the center of the important Fairbanks gold-mining district. It is a wellbuilt city and has schools, churches, hospitals, and wireless and telephone connection with the outer world. It is the shipping point for miners' supplies. It has all the characteristics of an important city. The principal section of the new Alaskan railroad is the one from Chitina to Fairbanks, 313 miles. See ALASKA.
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Fairbanks (DOUGLAS an American actor born)
DOUGLAS, an American actor, born in Denver, Colo., in 1883. He was educated at the Jarvis Military Academy in Denver, and at the Colorado School of Mines. He made his first appearance on the stage in New York in 1901 and afterward appeared as a star in several successful plays. His chief success, however, was won as a movingpicture actor, in which he attained great prominence, both in the United States and other countries. FAIRBURY a city, of Nebraska, the county-seat of Jefferson co. It is on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the Burlington, and the St. Joseph and Grand Island railroads, and on the Little Blue river. It has important manufactures and is the center of an important fruitgrowing region. There are a library, postoffice, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,294; (1920) 5,454.
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Fairchild
CHARLES STEBBINS, an American public official, born at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1842. He graduated from Harvard University in 1863, and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1865. He was deputy attorneygeneral of New York in 1874, and attorney-general in 1876-1877. In 1885 he was assistant secretary of the Treasury in President Cleveland's Cabinet, and became Secretary of the Treasury in 1887. He was an officer and director in many important financial institutions.
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Fairfax (THOMAS th Baron of Cameron)
THOMAS, 6th Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; was educated at Oxford and was a contributor to Addison's "Spectator." Disappointed in England, he came to America and settled on a vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, a daughter of Lord Culpeper. It was there, at Greenway Court, that Washington first met him. Between the two there sprang up a warm friendship, and when, years later, he learned that Washington had captured Cornwallis, he was overcome with emotion, and called to his body-servant to carry him to his bed, "for I am sure," he said, "it is time for me to die." He died at his lodge, Greenway Court, in Frederick co., Va., Dec. 12, 1782. The 11th Lord Fairfax and Baron of Cameron who succeeded his brother to the baronetcy in 1869, and who died in Northampton, Md., Sept. 28, 1900, like his American predecessors, made no claim to the title.
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Fairfield (City of Iowa the It)
a city of Iowa, the It is on the county-seat of Jefferson co. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Its industries include the railroads. manufacture of agricultural implements, wagons, pumps, washing machines, gloves, brooms, etc. It is the seat of Parsons College, and has a court house, county jail, hospital, public library, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 4,970; (1920) 5,948.
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Fairfield (Town and port of entry)
a town and port of entry in Fairfield co., Conn., on Long Island Sound, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 52 miles N. E. of New York. It contains the Pequot and Memorial libraries, National and savings banks, a stone powder house and four other buildings constructed during the Revolutionary period. It was founded in 1639. In 1779 it was burned by Governor Tryon. Pop. (1910) 6,134; (1920) 11,475.
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Fairmont
a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Marion co. It is situated on both sides of the Monongahela river, and is on the New York Central, the Monongahela Valley, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. The river is spanned by a steel bridge. Its industries include coal mining, and the manufacture of flour, lumber, iron, glass, cigars, etc. It is the seat of the State normal school, and has a hospital, training school for nurses, excellent school buildings, and the State miners' hospital. Pop. (1910) 9,711; (1920) 17,851.
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Fairmount College
an institution for higher education at Wichita, Kan., founded in 1892 as a preparatory school. It took its present form and name in 1896. In the autumn of 1919 there were 252 students and 19 instructors. President, W. H. Rollins, D.D.
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Fairy Rings
or CIRCLES, rings occasionally observed in pastures, and usually attributed by the peasantry of western Europe to the dancing of the fairies. They are now known to be occasioned by the growth of certain kinds of fungi, which, proceeding outward from a center, render the soil for a time unfitted for the nourishment of grass.
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Faith
that assent or credence which we give to the declaration or promise of another, on the authority of the person who makes it. Faith is the means by which we obtain a knowledge of things which do not come under our own observation-things not seen; and in this way faith is distinguished from sight. Faith is also distinct from reason, in so far as it deals with matters which we cannot comprehend by our reason; but, at the same time, while we exercise faith, we must also exercise reason; for it is impossible to exercise an acceptable faith without reason for so exercising it. The term faith is used in theology for the assent of the mind to the truth of what has been revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures. In mythology, Fides was deified by the Romans, and had a temple dedicated to her as early as the time of Numa Pompilius. She is at times represented with a basket of fruit in one hand and ears of corn in the other; but her usual symbol is two hands clasped together.
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Fakir
a Mohammedan religious mendicant. Among Anglo-Indians, and even among the Hindus, it is often used for a native mendicant of any faith; but specifically it is one of the Mohammedan religion; a Hindu mendicant being better called a Gosavee. Mohammendan fakirs in the East either live in communities or are solitary. The latter wander from place to place, are of filthy habits, and are regarded by the unthinking Mohammedan multitude as men of great sanctity. In the United States, fakir is a slang name given to one of the numerous street merchants and mountebanks.
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