Falaise
a town of France, department of Calvados, 15 miles from Caen. The castle, which stands on a precipice, and in which William the Conqueror was born in 1024, is in ruins, with the exception of a tower.
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These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Falaise, Falconet, Falernus.
Falconet
a little falcon; a name applied to a genus of tiny falcons, belonging to the sub-family Falconinæ, peculiar to the East Indies. One, Microhierax cærulescens, is found in the Himalayas and Burmese countries. Not one of these little hawks is seven inches in length; they are said to be used by native chiefs for hawking insects and button quails, being ng thrown from the hand like a ball. They sit solitary on high trees, and, according to native accounts, feed on small birds and insects. The word was also formerly applied to a small piece of ordnance, having an outside diameter at the bore of 44 inches, length 6 feet, weight 400 pounds, and carrying a shot of about 2 inches diameter, and 14 to 2 pounds in weight.
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Falernus
A fertile mountain and plain of Campania , famous for its wine. Falernian wine was held in great esteem by the Romans, and it is often alluded to by the poets. Fannius Strabo , C. Son-in-law of Laelius, introduced by Cicero as a speaker in his De Republica and his Laelius. 2026 Editor's Note: Produced on the slopes of Mount Falernus, this strong white wine was available in both dry and sweet varieties. While modern scholars have suggested the Aglianico grape as a source, its dark skin makes this identification unlikely, and the original cultivars remain unidentified. (Ed: BR 2026-07-18)
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Faliero
or FALIERI, MARINO (fal -e-air'o, or ē), a Venetian noble; born about 1274, who succeeded Andrew Dandolo as Doge of Venice , in 1354. He had previously commanded the troops of the republic at the siege of Zara, in Dalmatia, where he gained a brilliant victory over the King of Hungary; and was afterward ambassador to Genoa and Rome. When he succeeded to the office of doge, he was 76 years of age, and had a young Steno, he quarreled with and was insulted by him im at a masquerade; but and beautiful wife. Jealous of Steno being sentenced to no more than a month's im Faliero, burning with revenge, entered imprisonment for his offense, into a conspiracy with the plebeians to overturn the government and massacre the patricians. On the night before it was to be carried into effect, the plot was discovered, and Faliero was beheaded April 17, 1355.
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Falisci
a people of Etruria, said to have been originally a colony . When they were besieged by the Macedonian Roman general Camillus, a schoolmaster went out at the gates of the city with his pupils, and offered to betray them into the hands of the enemy, that, by such a possession, he might easily oblige the place to surrender. Camillus heard the proposal with indignation, and ordered the man to be stripped naked, and whipped back to the town by the very pupils whom his perfidy would have betrayed. This instance of magnanimity operated upon the people so powerfully, that they surrendered to the
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Falk
PAUL LUDWIG ADALBERT, a noted German statesman; born in Metschkau, Germany, Aug. 10, 1827; was graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Breslau; elected as a Liberal to the Prussian Diet in 1858. When the states of the German Empire codify the laws of the confederation. In were consolidated he was appointed to Minis ebruary, 1871, he became Prussian Minister to the Federal Council . Later he was appointed Minister of Education and Worship. In January, 1873, he presented to the Prussian Chamber the scheme of ecclesiastical legislation known administered with such severity and as the "May Laws ." These laws were particularly where they affected the various religious bodies, that a bitter religious conflict ensued. He resigned from president of the Provincial Court of the ministry July 14, 1879 ; and was Westphalia from 1882 till his death, in the Hamm, Germany, July 7, 1900.
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Falkenhayn
ERICH G. A. S. VON , a German general, born in 1861. He graduated from the war academy in instructor in China. He was major of 1880 and was for three years military the German brigade of occupation in eastern Asia and was on the staff of Count von Waldersee during the operatime of the Boxer uprisings, in 1900. In tions of the German contingent at the 1912 he was Prussian Minister of War, Lieutenant Forstner, against whom public opinion had been deeply aroused on and as such was a strong supporter of account of his attack on a lame civilian in Zabern, the notorious " Zabern affair." the latter having been relieved of his In October, 1914, he replaced Von Moltke as Chief of the German General Staff, duties because of a disagreement over the tactics of the armies in France with the Emperor. General Falkenhayn was in command of the German-Austrian forces which invaded Rumania in 1916 by way of the passes in the Carpathians , in the south, on the banks of the Danube. effecting a junction with Von Mackensen nicipal burgh and market-town of Stir-
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Falkland
fawk'land, a group of islands in the southern Atlantic, 300 miles east of Magellan Straits. There are two large islands and about 100 small ones, having a total area of 6,500 square miles. The total population is about 2,000. The group belongs to Great Britain . Schools and a postal system are maintained. The chief industry is sheep farming, although horses, cattle, and swine are raised. The leading exports are wool, hides, sheep pelts, and tallow. As an instance of the liberality of the British government to its representatives it may be stated that the governor of the islands receives a salary of $6,000 a year.
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Falkland Islands (Two large islands)
two large islands, with a number of smaller ones surrounding them, in the South Atlantic Ocean. These islands were discovered by Davis in 1592, and came into the possession of the British in 1771. Their appropriation has been at times disputed; but since 1833 the British have held uninterrupted occupancy of them. Capital, Stanley; area, 6,500 square miles; pop. about 3,000.
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