Dragon: …is launched by a Falcon 9 launch vehicle (also developed by SpaceX) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. At the end of its mission, Dragon splashes down at sea.

John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), the account of two young California men (Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn) who sell government secrets to the Russians, failed to attract audiences when it was released, but its reputation increased over the years. The little-seen The Believers (1987),…

Captain America: The modern era: The made-for-television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) saw the mantle of Captain America passed to Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie).

Mariska Hargitay: TV roles: …of the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest for a season. She continued making guest appearances in TV shows, including Baywatch, Wiseguy, thirtysomething, and Booker, until she was again cast in a lead role, in the detective series Tequila and Bonetti (1992), which again proved short-lived. Hargitay

Monterrey: The contemporary city: …Mexican beneficiary of the large Falcon (Falcón) Dam and Reservoir project, on the lower Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte); local rivers also provide hydroelectric power.

Falcon: Falcon Heavy—built by the U.S. corporation SpaceX with funding from South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Haʿapai Group: Fonuafoʿou (Falcon Island), 19 miles (30 km) west of Nomuka, is the peak of a submarine volcano, the emergent portion of which is alternately raised by eruptions and completely eroded by waves and wind. The island grew to as high as 1,050 feet (320 metres)…

Nicolás Maduro: Election to a second term of Nicolás Maduro: Nevertheless, Henri Falcón, onetime governor and former member of the PUV, launched an active campaign, as did evangelical minister Javier Bertucci. Voters stayed away from the polls in droves. According to the National Electoral Council, only 46 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot (opposition sources…

Venezuela: The Monagas and the civil wars: …Liberals, led by the generals Juan Falcón and Antonio Guzmán Blanco.

falconry: History: …the Home Office before a falconer could take a young hawk for falconry.

American literature: Realism and metafiction: …homosexuality in his prison novel Falconer (1977) and even more explicitly in his personal journals, published posthumously in 1991.

Charles Falconer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton was a British politician whose term as lord chancellor (2003–07) was marked by reform of the legal system of the United Kingdom. Falconer was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond (now Glenalmond College), in Scotland and studied law at Queens’ College,

Charles Falconer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton was a British politician whose term as lord chancellor (2003–07) was marked by reform of the legal system of the United Kingdom. Falconer was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond (now Glenalmond College), in Scotland and studied law at Queens’ College,

Etta Zuber Falconer was an American educator and mathematician who influenced many African American women to choose careers in science and mathematics. Zuber graduated summa cum laude from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. Among her teachers at

Martha Platt Falconer was an American social worker who helped transform U.S. institutions for delinquent or displaced and homeless young women from fundamentally a system of incarceration to one based on rehabilitation. On the death of her mother in 1877, Martha Platt lived with an older sister in

falcon: …(6 inches) long in the falconets (Microhierax) to about 60 cm (24 inches) in the gyrfalcon, an Arctic species. In true falcons the female is the larger and bolder of the sexes and is preferred for the sport of falconry. Falcons have plumes called “flags” on their legs and a…

Étienne-Maurice Falconet was a sculptor who adapted the classical style of the French Baroque to an intimate and decorative Rococo ideal. He was patronized by Mme de Pompadour and is best known for his small sculptures on mythological and genre themes and for the designs he made for the Sèvres

Carl Theodor Dreyer: Filmed in France, it starred Maria Falconetti as the mystically inspired heroine. Dreyer created a new kind of historical drama by using sustained close-ups to establish an intimate relationship between the audience and the characters.

Giovanni Maria Falconetto was an Italian painter and architect. His father, Giacomo Falconetto, a brother, Giovanni Falconetto, and a great uncle, Stefano de Verona, also were noted painters. Little is known of Falconetto’s life. He studied painting in his early years and worked for a time in Rome,

Giovanni Maria Falconetto was an Italian painter and architect. His father, Giacomo Falconetto, a brother, Giovanni Falconetto, and a great uncle, Stefano de Verona, also were noted painters. Little is known of Falconetto’s life. He studied painting in his early years and worked for a time in Rome,

falcon, any of nearly 60 species of hawks of the family Falconidae (order Falconiformes), diurnal birds of prey characterized by long, pointed wings and swift, powerful flight. The name is applied in a restricted sense, as true falcons, to the genus Falco, which numbers more than 35 species.

Seven Holy Founders: …Holy Founders include Saints Bonfilius, Alexis Falconieri, John Bonagiunta, Benedict dell’Antella, Bartholomew Amidei, Gerard Sostegni, and Ricoverus Uguccione. Formally called the Ordo Fratrum Servorum Sanctae Mariae (“Order of Friar Servants of St. Mary”), the order is a Roman Catholic congregation of mendicant

falconiform, (order Falconiformes), any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory skill as raptors. Included are eagles, condors, buzzards, kites, caracaras, ospreys, harriers, accipiters, vultures, secretary birds, falcons, hawks, and bateleurs. Although seldom abundant,

falconiform, (order Falconiformes), any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory skill as raptors. Included are eagles, condors, buzzards, kites, caracaras, ospreys, harriers, accipiters, vultures, secretary birds, falcons, hawks, and bateleurs. Although seldom abundant,

falconry, the sport of employing falcons, true hawks, and sometimes eagles or buzzards in hunting game. Falconry is an ancient sport that has been practiced since preliterate times. Stelae depicting falconry that were created by the Hittites date to the 13th century bce, and cave paintings from

British Open: History: Australia’s Greg Norman, and England’s Nick Faldo, among others.

faldstool, a folding stool used by a Roman Catholic bishop when not occupying his throne in his own cathedral church, or when he is officiating outside his own church. Because the stool has no back, it can be used both for sitting and for kneeling when in prayer. By extension, the term came to mean

Tonga: People: Traditional structures are called fale; they are rectangular in shape and have thatched or corrugated tin roofs and sides made of woven coconut leaves, reeds, or timber. Some Tongans reside in South Seas colonial-style wooden homes with gingerbread trim and exterior walls in pastel shades.

Fernanda Montenegro: …films were A falecida (1965; The Deceased); Eles não usam Black-Tie (1981; They Don’t Wear Black Tie), about family relations and labour unrest; and the three-part Traição (1998; Treason), which examined adultery. Her television credits included a number of soap operas, in which she was usually typecast as an “elegant,…

Ferdinand Magellan: Allegiance to Spain of Ferdinand Magellan: …December by the Portuguese cosmographer Rui Faleiro and possibly by Rui’s brother Francisco Faleiro. Magellan and Rui Faleiro journeyed to the court at Valladolid, where they offered their services to King Charles I (later, Holy Roman emperor Charles V). Magellan, until this point bearing the Portuguese name Fernão de Magalhães,…

Falémé River, river in western Africa, rising in the uplands of northern Guinea, east of the Fouta Djallon massif, and flowing roughly north-northeast to enter Mali. It then turns northwest to form the Mali–Senegal border for the rest of its course to the Sénégal River, except for a slight detour

Fali, a people who inhabit the rocky plateaus ringed by the northernmost peaks of the Adamawa mountains of northern Cameroon. “Fali” is from a Fulani (Peul) word meaning “perched” and describes the appearance of Fali family compounds on the sides of mountains. The Fali have no traditional

Marin Falier was a leading official in Venice and doge from 1354 to 1355, who was executed for having led a plot against the ruling patricians. His tragic story has inspired several important literary works, including the tragedy Marino Faliero: Doge of Venice (1821) by the English Romantic poet

1975 invasion of East Timor: Invasion and immediate aftermath: Fretilin’s armed wing, called Falintil, organized resistance across the territory while establishing strongholds in the mountainous interior. Tens of thousands of civilians followed them there. Until the end of 1976 Falintil held Indonesian forces to a military stalemate, aided by extensive civilian support networks that helped them track Indonesian…

Falisci, ancient people of southern Etruria in Italy who, though Latin in nationality, were culturally closer to the Etruscans. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions them and their “special language,” which was closely related to Latin. They occupied the region between the Tiber River and Mt.

Faliscan language, an Italic language closely related to Latin and more distantly related to Oscan and Umbrian languages (qq.v.). Faliscan was spoken by the Falisci in central Italy in a small region northwest of the Tiber River. Falerii, the Faliscan capital, was destroyed by the Romans in 241 bc,

Falisci, ancient people of southern Etruria in Italy who, though Latin in nationality, were culturally closer to the Etruscans. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions them and their “special language,” which was closely related to Latin. They occupied the region between the Tiber River and Mt.

Adalbert Falk was a Prussian bureaucrat who as state minister of ecclesiastical affairs in the 1870s aggressively headed German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed Prussian minister of ecclesiastical affairs and education in January 1872, he was

Phantom: Written by Lee Falk (who earlier had success with the newspaper strip Mandrake the Magician) and drawn by Ray Moore, Phantom first appeared in a King Features Syndicate comic strip on February 17, 1936.

Phantom: Written by Lee Falk (who earlier had success with the newspaper strip Mandrake the Magician) and drawn by Ray Moore, Phantom first appeared in a King Features Syndicate comic strip on February 17, 1936.

Adalbert Falk was a Prussian bureaucrat who as state minister of ecclesiastical affairs in the 1870s aggressively headed German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed Prussian minister of ecclesiastical affairs and education in January 1872, he was

Peter Falk was an American actor who was best known for his portrayal of the eccentric detective Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo (1971–78) and made-for-TV movies. Falk grew up in Ossining, New York, and began acting while he was in high school. After being rejected from the

Peter Falk was an American actor who was best known for his portrayal of the eccentric detective Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo (1971–78) and made-for-TV movies. Falk grew up in Ossining, New York, and began acting while he was in high school. After being rejected from the

Johan Petter Falkberget was a regional novelist of life in the east-central mountains of Norway. The self-educated son of a miner, Falkberget himself worked in the copper mines from age 8 until he was 27, learning to write fiction at the same time. His novels about the mountain peasants, miners,

Gustav Falke was a German poet and novelist prominent among the new lyric poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His verses were influenced by folk songs and the Romantic poets and celebrated simple domestic pleasures. Falke worked first as a bookseller and then as a music teacher (1878)

Flying Dutchman: Another legend depicts a Captain Falkenberg sailing forever through the North Sea, playing at dice for his soul with the devil. The dice-game motif recurs in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the mariner sights a phantom ship on which Death…

Erich von Falkenhayn was a Prussian minister of war and chief of the imperial German General Staff early in World War I. Falkenhayn gained military experience as an instructor to the Chinese army and as a member of the Prussian General Staff in the international expedition of 1900 against the

Erich von Falkenhayn was a Prussian minister of war and chief of the imperial German General Staff early in World War I. Falkenhayn gained military experience as an instructor to the Chinese army and as a member of the Prussian General Staff in the international expedition of 1900 against the

Brühl: …Augustusburg’s gardens is the smaller Falkenlust (1733), a hunting lodge by François de Cuvilliés. The castles were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

Falkirk, royal burgh (town) and important industrial center in Falkirk council area, historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies midway between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Grangemouth, the site of Scotland’s main container port and petrochemical complex, lies 3 miles (5 km)

Falkirk, council area, east-central Scotland, encompassing a mostly low-lying area extending inland from the south bank of the River Forth estuary. It lies about midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Most of the council area lies within the historic county of Stirlingshire, but its eastern portion,

Battle of Falkirk, (July 22, 1298) battle fought between the army of King Edward I of England and Scottish resistance forces under the command William Wallace at Falkirk in Scotland’s Central Lowlands. The decisive English victory shattered Wallace’s coalition and destroyed his reputation as a

Falkland, small royal burgh (town) and former royal residence in Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. It sits at the northern base of the East Lomond Hill, which has an elevation of 1,471 feet (448 metres). The burgh’s 12th-century castle was replaced by the present Falkland

Falkland Current, branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southern Hemisphere, flowing northward in the South Atlantic Ocean along the east coast of Argentina to about latitude 30° to 40° S, where it is deflected eastward after meeting the southward-flowing Brazil Current. Characterized

British Antarctic Territory, a territory of the United Kingdom lying southeast of South America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. Triangular in shape, it has an area (mostly ocean) of 2,095,000 square miles (5,425,000 square km), bounded by the South

Falkland Islands, internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles (480 km) northeast of the southern tip of South America and a similar distance east of the Strait of Magellan. The capital and major town is Stanley, on East

Falkland Islands War, a brief undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies. Argentina had claimed sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, which lie 300 miles (480 km) east of its coast,

South American fox: …and the Falkland Island, or Antarctic, wolf (Dusicyon australis), which was hunted to extinction in the late 1800s.

On November 1, 1914, a powerful German fleet commanded by the famed admiral Maximilian von Spee destroyed a much smaller British force in a naval battle off Coronel, Chile, sinking two British cruisers and killing some 1,800 sailors of the Royal Navy, including the commander, Rear Admiral

Falkland Sound, strait in the South Atlantic Ocean, separating East and West Falkland (islands). It extends from northeast to southwest for 50 miles (80 km) and is 1 12 miles (in its narrowest passages) to 20 miles (2 km to 32 km) wide. Many small islands lie in the

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of Falkland was an English royalist who attempted to exercise a moderating influence in the struggles that preceded the English Civil Wars (1642–51) between the royalists and the Parliamentarians. He is remembered chiefly as a prominent figure in the History of the

Herman Heijermans was a Dutch author and playwright, both naturalistic and didactic, who in his work attacked all aspects of bourgeois hypocrisy. After failing in business, Heijermans became a journalist in Amsterdam. His novel Kamertjeszonde (1898; “Petty Sin”), published under the pseudonym Koos

Falkland Islands War, a brief undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies. Argentina had claimed sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, which lie 300 miles (480 km) east of its coast,

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Later life and other works: …Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837). The Last Man (1826), an account of the future destruction of the human race by a plague, is often ranked as her best work.

William Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. A masterful stylist and mythmaker, Faulkner combined stream-of-consciousness writing with rich social history, setting many of his novels in the fictional Southern community of

freestyle wrestling: A fall is awarded when one contestant holds both of his opponent’s shoulders to the mat for one second. The referee signals a fall by striking the mat with his hand. If no fall takes place, the bout is decided on points awarded by the judges…

landslide: Types of landslides: Falls of large volume can trap enough air to facilitate the very rapid flow of rock or debris, forming rock avalanches and debris avalanches, respectively. Entrapped snow and ice may also help mobilize such flows, but the unqualified term avalanche is generally used to refer…

autumn, season of the year between summer and winter during which temperatures gradually decrease. It is often called fall in the United States because leaves fall from the trees at that time. Autumn is usually defined in the Northern Hemisphere as the period between the autumnal equinox (day and

Battle of Stalingrad: …to achieve that end with Fall Blau (“Operation Blue”), a proposal that Hitler assessed and summarized in Führer Directive No. 41 on April 5, 1942. Hitler’s goal was to eliminate Soviet forces in the south, secure the region’s economic resources, and then wheel his armies either north to Moscow or…

measuring worm: … (species Paleacrita vernata) and the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) attack fruit and shade trees, skeletonizing the leaves and spinning threads between the branches. Pupation usually occurs in the soil without a cocoon. Because of their distinctive larvae, the name measuring worm moth is sometimes applied to certain members of the…

World Series, in baseball, a postseason playoff series between champions of the two major professional baseball leagues of North America: the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), which together constitute Major League Baseball. The World Series began in 1903 after the cessation of

dema deity: …human condition as punishment (the Fall complex). In other traditions, man is defined as a clever thief, and the human condition and culture is perceived as the seizing of an opportunity (the Prometheus or trickster complex). Another view is that the rupture between the divine-ancestral and the human worlds is…

Phylicia Rashad: …appeared in Perry’s crime drama A Fall from Grace and the horror film Black Box. That year she lent her voice to Pixar’s Soul. Rashad later had a supporting role in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick…BOOM! (2021).

Emily Blunt: A Quiet Place and Oppenheimer: …starring alongside Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy. The following year she reunited with Johnson in The Smashing Machine, a biopic about mixed-martial artist Mark Kerr; Blunt played Kerr’s wife, Dawn Staples. In 2026 she appeared in the sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.

shad: cepedianum), also called hickory shad and fall herring, ranges through the southern United States. Others are found in the Indo-Pacific and Australian waters. None is of particular economic value.

fall line, line of numerous waterfalls, as at the edge of a plateau, where streams pass from resistant rocks to a plain of weak ones below. Such a line also marks the head of navigation, or the inland limit that ships can reach from a river’s mouth; because navigation is interrupted both upstream

Jakob Wassermann: …is Der Fall Maurizius (1928; The Maurizius Case), which treats the theme of justice with the carefully plotted suspense of a detective story. It introduced the character Etzel Andergast, whose questioning of the judgment of his cold-hearted jurist father and whose own detective work eventually prove the innocence of a…

Victor Herbert: …music for the motion picture The Fall of a Nation (1916), probably the first original symphonic score composed for a feature film. Late in life he wrote for revues, notably the Ziegfeld Follies.

Allen Ginsberg: …poetry included Planet News (1968); The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971 (1972), which won the National Book Award; Mind Breaths: Poems 1972–1977 (1978); and White Shroud: Poems 1980–1985 (1986). His Collected Poems 1947–1980 appeared in 1984. Collected Poems, 1947–1997 (2006) is the first comprehensive one-volume collection of…

Walter Mosley: …work into his first play, The Fall of Heaven, which was staged in 2010. The Long Fall (2009) was the first entry in another mystery series, set in contemporary New York City and featuring private detective (and sometime criminal) Leonid McGill. Mosley chronicled more of McGill’s hard-boiled capers in such…

Hyperion: The second, The Fall of Hyperion, a revised edition with a long prologue, was also left unfinished and was published posthumously in 1856. The poem is the last of Keats’s many attempts to come to terms with the conflict between absolute value and mortal decay.

Fall of Man, in Christian doctrine, the descent of humanity from a state of innocence lived in the presence of God to a sinful world of misery and death. After disobeying God and eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of

Tom Brokaw: …Conversation About America (2011), and The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate (2019). A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland (2002) and A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope (2015) documented, respectively, his childhood and his battle with cancer.

Denys Arcand: …Chute de l’empire américain (2018; The Fall of the American Empire), a satiric crime thriller that explores greed in modern society.

Pietro Longhi: …the monumental ceiling of the Fall of the Giants (completed 1734) for the Palazzo Sagredo, was an artistic and critical failure. It is likely that because of this he left Venice for a time and studied at Bologna under the genre painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi.

Mark Hamill: Theater and other screen roles: …cast of the 2023 miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher and had pivotal roles in the 2024 fantasy film The Life of Chuck and the 2025 dystopian thriller The Long Walk.

The Fall of the House of Usher, supernatural horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in 1839 and issued in Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840). “The Fall of the House of Usher” begins with the unidentified male narrator riding to the house of

Ken Russell: … (1991), and the musical horror-comedy The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002).

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Early life: …the main staircase, depicting the Fall of the Rebelling Angels in vigorous, dramatic forms; in the gallery, within the Baroque perspective framings of Mengozzi Colonna, his faithful collaborator, he narrated biblical episodes of varying complexity, in bright colour and with bold brush play.

The Fall of the Roman Empire, American epic film, released in 1964, that was a box-office failure but remains one of the more intelligent spectacles of the genre. As the film opens, Marcus Aurelius (played by Alec Guinness) is the wise and revered emperor of the Roman Empire. When he decides that

Ismail Kadare: Fiction: Darka e gabuar (2008; The Fall of the Stone City) traces the lives of two doctors following a series of strange events linked to the entry of Nazi troops into Gjirokastër—still reeling from the recent Italian occupation—in 1943.

Peter Ackroyd: …of the Limehouse Murders (1995), The Fall of Troy (2006), Three Brothers (2013), and Mr. Cadmus (2020). In 2009 Ackroyd also published a retelling of The Canterbury Tales.

All 81 References in Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained: ) In 2023 pop-punk band Fall Out Boy released their own version of the song, covering events from 1989 to 2023.

Fall River, city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the east shore of Mount Hope Bay, at the mouth of the Taunton River, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. Its site was included in Freeman’s Purchase, a tract of land bought from Native Americans in

Fall River, river that rises at the confluence of two headstreams in southeastern Kansas, U.S., and flows southeast to join the Verdigris River near Neodesha after a course of 90 miles (145 km). At Fall River city the river is dammed to form a reservoir (Fall River Lake) used for flood control and

Agnes de Mille: …works for that company include Fall River Legend (1948; based on the story of Lizzie Borden), The Harvest According (1952), and Three Virgins and a Devil (1941).

tiger moth: Major genera and species: The fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is a serious pest whose caterpillars construct webs over the leaves at the end of branches. Sometimes large areas are covered with silken sheets. They pupate above ground in cocoons made of larval hairs and silk. These silken webs can be…

katabatic wind: …warm up is called a fall wind. In areas where fall winds occur, homes and orchards are situated on hillslopes above the lowlands where the cold air accumulates.

Albert Bacon Fall was the U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding. He was the first American to be convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet post. Fall had little formal schooling but studied law and, after moving to New Mexico Territory, began to practice in

African literature: French: …and the upper classes preoccupy Aminata Sow Fall of Senegal in Le Jujubier du patriarche (1993; “The Patriarch’s Jujube”). The Gabonese writer Justine Mintsa writes of tragic life in a contemporary African village in a novel published in 2000.