Factory Act, (1833), U.K. legislation enacted to regulate the employment of children in British textile factories. The movement to regulate child labour began in Great Britain at the close of the 18th century, when the rapid development of large-scale manufacturing made possible the exploitation of

Antonio Gramsci: Gramsci encouraged the development of factory councils (democratic bodies elected directly by industrial workers), which undercut the control of trade unions. The councils participated in a general strike in Turin (1920), in which Gramsci played a key role.

fast food: Criticism and response: …refer to this as “factory farming” and consider it an inhumane and environmentally unsustainable way of producing food. The fast-food industry is, consequently, often cited for its large carbon footprint. Some companies have responded by launching initiatives to reduce emissions at their restaurants and in their suppliers’ production of…

Jimmy Fallon: …had parts in the drama Factory Girl (2006) and the comedy-drama Whip It (2009). However, he failed to become a big box-office draw, and he returned to television.

potter’s mark, device for the purpose of identifying commercial pottery wares. Except for those of Wedgwood, stonewares before the 20th century were not often marked. On some earthenware, potters’ marks are frequently seen, but signatures are rare. One of the few found on ancient Greek vases reads:

marketing: Off-price retailers: …examples of off-price retailers are factory outlets, independent carriers, and warehouse clubs. Stocking manufacturers’ surplus, discontinued, or irregular products, factory outlets are owned and operated by the manufacturer. Independent off-price retailers carry a rapidly changing collection of higher-quality merchandise and are typically owned and operated by entrepreneurs or divisions of…

Factory Records: Manchester’s 24-Hour Party People: Factory Records emerged in the punk moment of the late 1970s and was the heart of Manchester’s music scene until its collapse in the early 1990s. Like his Mancunian contemporaries, the Buzzcocks, Factory cofounder Anthony H. Wilson (who presided over the influential pop music television…

Factory Records emerged in the punk moment of the late 1970s and was the heart of Manchester’s music scene until its collapse in the early 1990s. Like his Mancunian contemporaries, the Buzzcocks, Factory cofounder Anthony H. Wilson (who presided over the influential pop music television program So

factory ship, originally, a large ship used in whaling, but now, more broadly, any ship that is equipped to process marine catches for various consumer uses. It most commonly serves as the main ship in a fleet sent to waters a great distance from home port to catch, prepare, and store fish or

factory system, system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized—and often large—establishments. The system arose in the course of the Industrial Revolution. The factory system replaced the domestic system, in which individual

Charles Bukowski: …novels include Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), and Ham on Rye (1982). Hollywood (1989), also a novel, took as its subject the filming of the 1987 motion picture Barfly, a semiautobiographical comedy about alcoholic lovers on skid row for which Bukowski wrote the screenplay (published 1984). The novel Pulp was…

Karl Bühler: …of 1907 into a book, Facts and Problems of the Psychology of the Thought Process.

Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Early life of Sidney Webb.: …edition of the Fabian Tract Facts for Socialists, revised editions of which were published until the end of World War II. The tract was the first concise expression of the Fabian conviction that public knowledge of the facts of industrial society was the essential first step toward the reform of…

H. L. Hunt: …funded his own foundation, called Facts Forum, which produced radio and television programs of conservative, anti-Communist political commentary. The foundation also distributed books by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and others. In 1958 he revived the foundation as Life Line, to distribute a daily 15-minute radio program carried by more than…

George Clooney: …roles on the popular series The Facts of Life and Roseanne, most of his early television work was forgettable. In 1994, however, he earned his big break when he was cast as Dr. Doug Ross on the drama ER.

John R. Lynch: In his book The Facts of Reconstruction (1913), Lynch attempted to dispel the erroneous notion that Southern state governments after the Civil War were under the control of Black politicians.

ethics: Moral realism: Railton, in Facts, Values and Norms: Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence (2003), added that such desires must also express the value of impartiality. The practical effect of these requirements was to make the naturalists’ ideal moral code very similar to the principles that would be legitimized…

epistemology: Logical and factual propositions: A logical proposition is any proposition that can be reduced by replacement of its constituent terms to a proposition expressing a logical truth—e.g., to a proposition such as “If p and q, then p.” The proposition “All husbands are married,” for example, is…

facula, in astronomy, bright granular structure on the Sun’s surface that is slightly hotter or cooler than the surrounding photosphere. A sunspot always has an associated facula, though faculae may exist apart from such spots. Faculae are visible in ordinary white light near the Sun’s limb

facultative anaerobe, any organism that is able to grow either with or without free oxygen. Facultative anaerobes can change their metabolic processes depending on the presence of oxygen, using the more efficient process of cellular respiration in the presence of oxygen and the less efficient

Warder Clyde Allee: …animals; he named this phenomenon protocooperation and believed it to be the basis for the conscious and unconscious cooperation among the higher animals in their levels of community organization.

referendum and initiative: Under the optional (or facultative) referendum, a popular vote on a law passed by the legislature is required whenever petitioned by a specified number of voters. By this means actions of a legislature may be overruled. Obligatory and optional referenda should be distinguished from the voluntary referenda…

pedagogy: Mental-discipline theories: …commonly associated with the “faculty psychology” of Aristotle, by which the mind is understood to be composed of a number of faculties, each of which is considered to be relatively independent of the others. The principle had its origin in a theory that classified mental and spiritual life in…

Noam Chomsky: Philosophy of mind and human nature: …computational system alone, whereas the faculty in the broad sense (FLB) includes perceptual-articulatory systems (for sound and sign) and conceptual-intentional systems (for meaning). These are the systems with which the computational system interacts at its interfaces. Regarding evolution, the authors point out that, although there are homologues and analogs in…

Noam Chomsky: Philosophy of mind and human nature: The faculty of language in the “narrow” sense (FLN) amounts to the recursive computational system alone, whereas the faculty in the broad sense (FLB) includes perceptual-articulatory systems (for sound and sign) and conceptual-intentional systems (for meaning). These are the systems with which the computational system interacts…

Jon Stewart: …films, including Half Baked (1998), The Faculty (1998), and Big Daddy (1999).

Sextus Propertius: …more remarkable quality is poetic facundia, or command of striking and appropriate language. Not only is his vocabulary extensive but his employment of it is extraordinarily bold and unconventional: poetic and colloquial Latinity alternate abruptly, and in his quest for the striking expression he frequently seems to strain the language…

caudillismo: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s 1845 book Facundo provided the classical interpretation of caudillismo in Latin America in the 1800s, framing it as the expression of political barbarism and the antithesis of a government that ensures security, freedom, and ownership rights for a country’s inhabitants. Sarmiento’s book is a portrait of Juan…

Honduras: The 20th century: The new president, Carlos Flores Facussé, an engineer with close ties to the United States, represented the more conservative wing of the Liberal Party and promised to continue the probusiness policies of his predecessors. In October 1998, however, Hurricane Mitch, one of the worst storms to strike the…

collective behaviour: Fads: It is tempting to explain fads on the basis of a single motive such as prestige. Prestige is gained by being among the first and most adept at a skill that everyone else covets. That the skill fails as a source of prestige when…

cell: Formation of the electron donors NADH and FADH2: …nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), yielding NADH and FADH2. It is the subsequent oxidation of these hydrogen acceptors that leads eventually to the production of ATP.

famine: Entitlement failure: …hypothesis,” the assumption that total food-availability decline (FAD) is the central cause of all famines. Sen argued that the more proximate cause is so-called “entitlement failure,” which can occur even when there is no decline in aggregate food production.

therapeutics: Obesity: Thus fad diets, no matter how effective they are in the short term, remain inadequate for long-term weight control. A reduction in calorie intake of 500 kilocalories per day should lead to a loss of 0.45 kilogram (1 pound) per week. This reduction can be increased…

fedayee, a term used in Islamic cultures to describe a devotee of a religious or national group willing to engage in self-immolation to attain a group goal. The term first appeared in the 11th–13th centuries in reference to the members of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī sect of Assassins who would risk their

Sir Arthur William Fadden was an accountant, politician, and for a short time, the prime minister of Australia (1941). Fadden was active in local and state government as a young man, and he was a member of Parliament (1936–58) and leader of the Country Party (1941–58). As a member of the cabinet he

Yo La Tengo: …as Popular Songs (2009) and Fade (2013), further showcased the band’s stylistic fluency as its members grew into middle age. Schramm briefly returned to the band for the covers collection Stuff Like That There (2015). The contemplative There’s a Riot Going On (2018) was the band’s first digitally recorded and…

baseball: The pitching repertoire: …thrown by Christy Mathewson), the screwball (thrown by Carl Hubbell), or some other name applied by the pitcher himself. In both curves and reverse curves, the ball reaches the batter at a slower rate of speed than the fastball, and the deception is almost as much a result of the…

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fadeyev was a Russian novelist who was a leading exponent and theoretician of proletarian literature and a high Communist Party functionary influential in literary politics. Fadeyev passed his youth in the Ural Mountains and in eastern Siberia, receiving his schooling in

Dave Brandstetter: In Fadeout (1970), the first novel to feature Brandstetter, he falls in love with a man whom he clears of murder charges. Death Claims (1973) is about surviving the death of a lover. Brandstetter investigates the murder of the owner of a gay bar in Troublemaker…

Latin American art: Modernismo (1890–1920): The Argentine Fernando Fader studied in Germany, where Expressionist artists used intensified colour contrasts and visible brushstrokes. Fader used these techniques to depict the Argentine scene in the first decades of the century, depicting mainly landscapes but also intimate interiors and portraits charged with vibrant emotion. Expressionism…

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fadeyev was a Russian novelist who was a leading exponent and theoretician of proletarian literature and a high Communist Party functionary influential in literary politics. Fadeyev passed his youth in the Ural Mountains and in eastern Siberia, receiving his schooling in

cell: Formation of the electron donors NADH and FADH2: …dinucleotide (FAD), yielding NADH and FADH2. It is the subsequent oxidation of these hydrogen acceptors that leads eventually to the production of ATP.

Clifton Fadiman was an American editor, anthologist, and writer known for his extraordinary memory and his wide-ranging knowledge. Fadiman was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and he early became an avid and voracious reader. After graduating from Columbia University, New York City, in 1925,

Clifton Fadiman was an American editor, anthologist, and writer known for his extraordinary memory and his wide-ranging knowledge. Fadiman was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and he early became an avid and voracious reader. After graduating from Columbia University, New York City, in 1925,

Clifton Fadiman was an American editor, anthologist, and writer known for his extraordinary memory and his wide-ranging knowledge. Fadiman was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and he early became an avid and voracious reader. After graduating from Columbia University, New York City, in 1925,

telecommunications media: Reflected propagation: …propagation paths can produce severe fading at the receiver. Fading occurs when there are significant variations in received signal amplitude and phase over time or space. Fading can be frequency-selective—that is, different frequency components of a single transmitted signal can undergo different amounts of fading. A particularly severe form of…

Henry Peach Robinson: In 1858 Robinson exhibited Fading Away, a picture skillfully printed from five different negatives. This work depicted the peaceful death of a young girl surrounded by her grieving family. Although the photograph was the product of Robinson’s imagination, many viewers felt that such a scene was too painful to…

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi: …the Ḥurūfīs, the Iranian mystic Faḍl Allāh of Astarābād, who was flayed to death for his heretical beliefs in 1401/02. Ḥurūfism was based on a kabbalistic philosophy associated with the numerological significance attributed to the letters of the alphabet and their combinations (hence the name, from Arabic, ḥurūf, “letters”). Nesimi…

Hārūn al-Rashīd: The fall of the Barmakids: …and the new vizier, al-Faḍl ibn al-Rabīʿ, favoured the second, it is likely that this political cleavage was involved in the change of ministry.

al-Maʾmūn: Early years.: …supported by an Iranian, al-Faḍl ibn Sahl, whom he was to make his vizier, as well as by an Iranian general, Ṭāhir. Ṭāhir’s victory over al-Amīn’s army on the outskirts of the present Tehrān allowed al-Maʾmūn’s troops to occupy western Iran. Al-Amīn appealed in vain to new troops recruited…

Barmakids: Yaḥyā: …wazīr, and his sons al-Faḍl and Jaʿfar were placed in charge of the Caliph’s personal seal.

Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh was an Iraqi-born Lebanese Muslim cleric who was a prominent Shīʿite religious leader and was thought to have been a cofounder (1957) of the Shīʿite Islamic Daʿwah Party in Iraq. Faḍlallāh was schooled at a traditional madrasah in his birthplace, where he studied under

Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh was an Iraqi-born Lebanese Muslim cleric who was a prominent Shīʿite religious leader and was thought to have been a cofounder (1957) of the Shīʿite Islamic Daʿwah Party in Iraq. Faḍlallāh was schooled at a traditional madrasah in his birthplace, where he studied under

fado, a type of Portuguese singing, traditionally associated with pubs and cafés, that is renowned for its expressive and profoundly melancholic character. The singer of fado (literally, “fate”) speaks to the often harsh realities of everyday life, sometimes with a sense of resignation, sometimes

Mariza: She released her second album, Fado curvo, that year, and she toured extensively to support it. Her third album, Transparente (2005), angered some purists by breaking with the traditional fado sound and including sweeping orchestral string arrangements and up-tempo, Django Reinhardt-inspired guitar accompaniment. She continued to experiment with fado on…

Mariza: Mariza’s debut album, Fado em mim, was released in Portugal in 2001 and garnered widespread critical acclaim when it was released internationally the following year. In early 2003 Mariza received the BBC’s Radio 3 World Music Award for best European act. She released her second album, Fado curvo,…

Mariza: …returned to her roots for Fado Tradicional (2010). The more expansive and more personal Mundo (2015) was widely praised, and she continued her fusion of other styles with fado in her equally well-received self-titled 2018 release. On Mariza canta Amália (2020) Mariza covered the songs of Rodrigues.

The Father, tragic drama in three acts by August Strindberg, published in 1887 as Fadren and performed the same year. Strindberg had come to believe that life is a series of struggles between weaker and stronger wills, and the influences of Strindberg’s misogyny and naturalistic fiction are evident

János Fadrusz was a preeminent Hungarian sculptor at the end of the 19th century. He was renowned for his memorial statues. Fadrusz was the son of poor parents. He learned the trade of locksmithing but devoted his free time to drawing, sculpting, and carving. After completing an apprenticeship, he

János Fadrusz was a preeminent Hungarian sculptor at the end of the 19th century. He was renowned for his memorial statues. Fadrusz was the son of poor parents. He learned the trade of locksmithing but devoted his free time to drawing, sculpting, and carving. After completing an apprenticeship, he

bomb: Conventional bomb types: Subsequent types include cluster and fuel-air explosive (FAE) bombs. Cluster bombs consist of an outer casing containing dozens of small bomblets; the casing splits open in midair, releasing a shower of bomblets that explode upon impact. Cluster bombs have both fragmentation and antiarmour capabilities. FAEs are designed to release a…

feces, solid bodily waste discharged from the large intestine through the anus during defecation. Feces are normally removed from the body one or two times a day. About 100 to 250 grams (3 to 8 ounces) of feces are excreted by a human adult daily. Normally, feces are made up of 75 percent water and

bullfighting: Act three: …third and final tercio, the faena, a term for the many passes with the muleta and the bull. This involves the matador alone, the banderilleros usually being behind the barrera, ready to assist in case the matador is gored or tossed. The matador takes a position below the president’s box…

Faenza, city, Ravenna provincia, in the Emilia-Romagna regione of northern Italy, on the Lamone River, southeast of Bologna. In the 2nd century bc it was a Roman town (Faventia) on the Via Aemilia, but excavations show Faenza to have had a much earlier origin. It was later subject to many barbarian

Faenza majolica, tin-glazed earthenware produced in the city of Faenza in the Emilia district of Italy from the late 14th century. Early Faenza ware is represented by green and purple jugs decorated with Gothic lettering and heraldic lions and by Tuscan oak leaf jars. The first significant majolica

Faenza majolica, tin-glazed earthenware produced in the city of Faenza in the Emilia district of Italy from the late 14th century. Early Faenza ware is represented by green and purple jugs decorated with Gothic lettering and heraldic lions and by Tuscan oak leaf jars. The first significant majolica

saga: Kings’ sagas: …the kings of Norway are Færeyinga saga, describing the resistance of Faeroese leaders to Norwegian interference during the first part of the 11th century, and Orkneyinga saga, dealing with the rulers of the earldom of Orkney from about 900 to the end of the 12th century. These two works were…

fairy, a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically having green clothes and hair, living underground or in stone heaps, and characteristically exercising magic powers to

The Faerie Queene, one of the great long poems in the English language, written in the 16th century by Edmund Spenser. As originally conceived, the poem was to have been a religious-moral-political allegory in 12 books, each consisting of the adventures of a knight representing a particular moral

Faroe Islands, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the Shetland Islands. They form a self-governing overseas administrative division of the kingdom of Denmark. There are 17 inhabited islands and many islets and reefs. The main islands are Streymoy (Streym), Eysturoy

Faroe Islands, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the Shetland Islands. They form a self-governing overseas administrative division of the kingdom of Denmark. There are 17 inhabited islands and many islets and reefs. The main islands are Streymoy (Streym), Eysturoy

Faroese language, language spoken in the Faroe Islands by some 48,000 inhabitants. Faroese belongs to the West Scandinavian group of the North Germanic languages. It preserves more characteristics of Old Norse than any other language except modern Icelandic, to which it is closely related, but with

Faroese literature, the body of writings produced by inhabitants of the Faroe Islands in the Faroese and the Danish languages. Modern Faroese literature, as written in the Faroese language, emerged during the second half of the 19th century. Until this time, the literary tradition of the Faroe

fairy, a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having magic powers and dwelling on earth in close relationship with humans. It can appear as a dwarf creature typically having green clothes and hair, living underground or in stone heaps, and characteristically exercising magic powers to

Sir Peter Lely was a Baroque portrait painter known for his Van Dyck-influenced likenesses of the mid-17th-century English aristocracy. The origin of the name Lely is said to be the lily carved into the gable of the van der Faes family’s house in The Hague. The young artist was early known as

Robert Faesi was a Swiss poet, dramatist, short-story writer, and literary critic, noted for his trilogy of novels on Zürich life and for important critical studies of literary figures. Faesi combined his literary activity with a professorship of German literature at the University of Zürich from

Fiesole, town and episcopal see of Florence provincia, Tuscany regione, north-central Italy. It is situated on a hill overlooking the Arno and Mugnone valleys just northeast of Florence. A chief city of the Etruscan confederacy, it probably dates from the 9th–8th century bc, but its first record

Fafnir, in Nordic mythology, name of the great dragon slain by Sigurd, the Norse version of the German hero Siegfried. As told in the Völsunga saga (“Saga of the Volsungs”), Fafnir slew his father, Hreithmar, to obtain the vast amount of gold which Hreithmar had demanded of Odin as a compensation

beech: …timber trees in the family Fagaceae native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The pale red-brown wood is durable underwater and is valued for indoor use, tool handles, and shipping containers. The nuts provide forage for game animals, are used in fattening poultry, and yield an edible…

Fagales, beech order of dicotyledonous woody flowering plants, comprising nearly 1,900 species in 55 genera. Members of Fagales represent some of the most important temperate deciduous or evergreen trees of both hemispheres, including oaks, beeches, walnuts, hickories, and birches. Because of the

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher Henderson band. She and her mother used her maternal

Făgăraş, town, Braşov judeƫ (county), central Romania. It lies north of the Făgăraş Mountains, a range of the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathian Mountains), on the Olt River. First mentioned in documents in 1291, Făgăraş became a military centre during the Middle Ages. The Făgăraş Castle,

Făgăraş: The Făgăraş Castle, built during the 15th century and now restored, is one of the outstanding examples of medieval Transylvanian architecture. The town is an important centre of the Romanian chemical industry. Pop. (2007 est.) 38,921.

Făgăraş Mountains, mountain range, the highest section of the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathian Mountains), south-central Romania. Their steep northern face rises above 8,000 feet (2,450 m) and overlooks the Făgăraş Depression, through which flows the Olt River over a gentler gradient south

Donald Fagen is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Steely Dan. Fagen founded Steely Dan with guitarist and bassist Walter Becker in the early 1970s; the group quickly became popular, with their unique synthesis of harmonies

Donald Fagen is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Steely Dan. Fagen founded Steely Dan with guitarist and bassist Walter Becker in the early 1970s; the group quickly became popular, with their unique synthesis of harmonies

bus: Development: …in the United States by Fageol Safety Coach Company of Oakland, Calif. The widened and lengthened frame was 30 cm (12 inches) lower than a truck frame. In 1926 Fageol developed the first integral-frame bus, with twin engines mounted amidships under the floor. The integral frame utilized the roof, floor,…

Finland: Foreign policy: …leadership of the Social Democrat Karl August Fagerholm was formed, in which certain members considered anti-Soviet were included. The Soviet Union responded by recalling its ambassador and canceling credits and orders in Finland. When the Finnish government was reconstructed, relations were again stabilized. During the autumn of 1961, when international…

Max Faget was an American aerospace engineer who made major contributions to the design of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft and to the space shuttle. Faget received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1943. In 1946 he took a job in Hampton,

Larry Kramer: Film and stage work: …fiction instead, penning the novel Faggots (1978), about a middle-aged gay man’s search for love in the hedonistic milieu of New York City in the 1970s. Though criticized by some gay men for its nihilistic assessment of gay sexual and romantic behaviour and by social conservatives for its graphic depictions…

Fagin, fictional character, one of the villains in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist (1837–39) and one of the most notorious anti-Semitic portraits in English literature. Fagin is an old man in London who teaches young homeless boys how to be pickpockets and then fences their stolen goods.

mathematics: History of analysis: …by Jakob Bernoulli in 1694, Giulio Carlo Fagnano (1682–1766) introduced ingenious analytic transformations that laid the foundation for the theory of elliptic integrals. Nikolaus I Bernoulli (1687–1759), the nephew of Johann and Jakob, proved the equality of mixed second-order partial derivatives and made important contributions to differential equations by the…

Belgium: Relief, drainage, and soils: …west of it as the Fagne, separates the Ardennes from the geologically and topographically complex foothills to the north. The principal feature of the area is the Condroz, a plateau more than 1,100 feet (335 metres) in elevation comprising a succession of valleys hollowed out of the limestone between sandstone…

buckwheat, (Fagopyrum esculentum), herbaceous plant of the family Polygonaceae and its edible seeds. Buckwheat is a staple pseudograin crop in some parts of eastern Europe, where the hulled kernels, or groats, are prepared as kasha, cooked and served much like rice. While buckwheat flour is

buckwheat, (Fagopyrum esculentum), herbaceous plant of the family Polygonaceae and its edible seeds. Buckwheat is a staple pseudograin crop in some parts of eastern Europe, where the hulled kernels, or groats, are prepared as kasha, cooked and served much like rice. While buckwheat flour is

buckwheat: A related species known as green buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is used similarly and is chiefly cultivated in East Asia.

MiG-15, single-seat, single-engine Soviet jet fighter, built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau and first flown in 1947. It was used extensively in combat during the Korean War (1950–53). The MiG-15 was the first “all-new” Soviet jet aircraft, one whose design did not simply add a jet engine

bassoon, the principal bass instrument of the orchestral woodwind family. The bassoon’s reed is made by bending double a shaped strip of cane. Its narrow conical bore leads from the curved metal crook, onto which the double reed is placed, downward through the wing, or tenor, joint (on which are

curtal, Renaissance-era musical instrument and predecessor of the bassoon, with a double-back bore cut from a single piece of wood and built in sizes from treble to double bass (sometimes called the double curtal in England and the Choristfagott in Germany). The curtal was developed in the 16th

Icelandic literature: The sagas: The Fagrskinna (“Fine Skin”; Eng. trans. Fagrskinna) covered the same period in more detail, while the Morkinskinna (“Rotten Skin”; Eng. trans. Morkinskinna), probably written earlier, covered the period from Magnus I Olafsson (ruled 1035–47) to the late 12th century.