Five Mile Act. 1665. English Nonconformist clergy banned 5 miles from towns where they had preached.

Five Year Plans. 1928- Russian planning cycles.

Fizeau, Armand. 1819-96. French physicist. Measured speed of light, 1849.

Flagellants. 13C-. Christian sects who practise self-whipping as means of salvation.

Flamininus, Quinctus. c227-174BC. Roman General who def Philip V of Macedonia 197BC.

Flamsteed, John. 1646-1719. First Astronomer Royal of England, 1675.

Flanders. Historical region of France, Belgium, Neth. 13C Cloth industry. Ghent. Bruges.

Flaubert, Gustave. 1821-1880. French Realist novelist. Madame Bovary 1851. Novembre 1842. Acquitted of corrupting public morals, 1857.

Fleming, Alexander. 1881-1955. Scottish doctor, dicoverer of penicillin 1928. Florey, Chain.

Fleming, Ambrose. 1849-1945. British vacuum tube inventor 1904.

Fleming, Sir Sandford. 1827-1915. Scottish/Canadian scientist, engineer. CPR. Standard Time zones 1884.

Flemings. Dutch speakers of north Belgium. Walloon.

Flemish. 15-17C school of painting. Technical skill, detail. VanEyck. Bruegel. Rubens.

FLN. 1954-62. Algerian National Liberation Front conducts war vs France.

Flodden, Battle. 1513. Repelled Scotish invasion of England. James IV of Scotland killed.

Flood, Great. c3000BC. Destruction of man and world by God. Forty days and night. Noah. Gilgamesh.

Flora. Roman goddess of flowers.

Florence, Union of. 1439. Brief reconciliation of Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches.

Florentine. School of Painting. 1270 Academy of Fine Arts. Express humanist ideas through art. Realism and chiarascuro. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.

Florey, Howard. 1898-1968. British. Isolated Penicillin with Chain,1928. Fleming.

Florin. 11C- Florence coin. 1343- English coin.

Flowers, Revolution of. 1974. Junta overthrows Caetano in Portugal. 1976 election.

Flying Dutchman. Legendary ghost ship of Cape of Good Hope.

Fokker, Anthony. 1890-1939. Dutch/German/ US aircraft engineer for Germany, WWI. Remote control plane, 1919.

Folies-Bergère. 1869. Paris theater introduced striptease 1894.

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