Adolfo Farsari
Adolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. He was one of the many foreign and Japanese commercial photographers who operated in Yokohama from the 1860s to the 1880s.
Fernando de Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, 354 km offshore from the Brazilian coast. The archipelago's name is a corruption of the name of the Portuguese merchant Fernão de Loronha, to whom it was given by the Portuguese crown for services rendered regarding wood imported from Brazil. The islands of this archipelago are the visible parts of a range of submerged mountains. It consists of 21 islands, islets and rocks of volcanic origin.
Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres was an artist.
Floriography
Floriography was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken.
Frank Merriwell
The model for all later American juvenile sports fiction, Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. He played with great strength and received traumatic blows without injury.
Piero Fornasetti
Combining whimsy and rigorous elegance, designer Piero Fornasetti borrowed freely from surrealist and metaphysical artists. His is an art of gestures: a lone parrot on a balustrade evokes the Venetian Renaissance, helium balloons and propellor-driven airplanes conjure up a world of humanized technology. With subversive wit, Fornasetti imaginatively transformed lamps, coffeepots, chairs and plates into agents of humor, provocation and meaning. He produced an endless stream of variations on his personal leitmotifs, including the human hand, the female face, luminescent fish, bizarre creatures of the deep and playing cards.
Friso Kramer
Friso Kramer was a driving force behind the development of the Dutch modernist aesthetic from the 1940s onward.
Dick Francis
Dick Francis was a British jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.
Father Divine
Father Divine was an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger". He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congregation into a multiracial and international church. Controversially, Father Divine claimed to be God. Some contemporary critics also claimed he was a charlatan, and some suppose him to be one of the first modern cult leaders. However, Father Divine made numerous contributions toward his followers' economic independence and racial equality.
Favorite Flies and Their Histories
Mary Orvis Marbury's definitive work on fly tying and selection has been a must-have for fly fishers and collectors since its 1892 debut.