community ecology: Antagonism: …animals, herbivores attack plants, and fungivores attack fungi. Other species are omnivorous, attacking a wide range of plants, animals, and fungi. Regardless of the kinds of foods they eat, however, there are some general patterns in which species interact. Parasitism, grazing, and predation are the three major ways in which…

drug: Membrane lipids: …type is the antifungal agent amphotericin B, which binds to a specific molecule (ergosterol) found in fungal cells. This binding results in the formation of pores in the membrane and leakage of intracellular components, leading to death of the cell.

Pridoli Series: plankton), Urnochitina urna and Fungochitina kosovensis, first occur at or just above the base of the series. The earliest known simple vascular land plants, of the genus Cooksonia, typically occur in the lower portions of the Pridoli Series in many parts of the world. The Pridoli Series is overlain…

fungus, any of about 144,000 known species of organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which includes the yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. There are also many funguslike organisms, including slime molds and oomycetes (water molds), that do not belong to kingdom Fungi but are often called

flat bug, (family Aradidae), any of about 1,000 species of small, flat, dark-coloured insects (order Heteroptera) that are usually found under stones, in crevices in dead or dying trees, or under loose bark. Nearly all flat bugs range in size from 3 to 11 mm (0.12 to 0.43 inch) and feed on fungi

termite: Fungus gardens: The Macrotermitinae (family Termitidae) cultivate symbiotic fungi (Termitomyces). The termites construct spongelike “fungus gardens,” or combs, possibly of fecal matter rich in the carbohydrate lignin. The fungi grow on the combs, and the termites consume both fungi and combs. The fungi break down…

fungus gnat, (family Sciaridae and Mycetophilidae), any member of two families of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are small and mosquito-like with maggots (larvae) that feed on fungi. In Sciaridae, the dark-winged fungus gnat family, the eyes of the adults almost touch, and the wings are

fungus weevil, (family Anthribidae), any of approximately 3,000 species of weevils (insect order Coleoptera) whose adults are usually found on dead twigs or fungi and whose larvae feed on fungi, seeds, or deadwood. These insects are between 0.5 and 50 mm (0.02 and 2 inches) long, and the head is

Pink: …I’m Not Dead (2006) and Funhouse (2008). The popular “Raise Your Glass” appeared as a previously unreleased song on Greatest Hits…So Far!!! (2010). Pink’s sixth studio album, The Truth About Love (2012), included the hit singles “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” and “Try.” Also on that album was “Just Give…

Valparaíso: Funicular railways, elevators, stairways, and zigzag roads connect the lower city with the upper.

construction: Structural types: The funicular structures include the parabolic arch, tunnel vault, and dome, which act in pure compression and which have a rise-to-span ratio of 1 : 10 to 1 : 2, and the cable-stayed roof, the bicycle wheel, and warped tension surfaces, which act in pure tension.…

moss animal: Zooids: …body wall or on the funiculus, a cord of tissue that links the stomach to the lining of the body wall and distributes nutrients throughout the colony. The polypide degenerates periodically during the lifetime of a zooid, and a compact mass, called a brown body, frequently remains in its place.…

angiosperm: Seeds: …a short stalk called the funiculus. The area of attachment to the ovary wall is referred to as the placenta. The arrangement of placentae (placentation) in the compound ovary of angiosperms is characterized by the presence or absence of a central column in the ovary and by the site of…

umbilical cord, narrow cord of tissue that connects a developing embryo, or fetus, with the placenta (the extra-embryonic tissues responsible for providing nourishment and other life-sustaining functions). In the human fetus, the umbilical cord arises at the belly and by the time of birth is about

squirrel: Natural history: Thomas’s rope squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus) of Africa even submerges itself and swims underwater.

Henan: Relief: …ranges being the Xiong’er and Funiu. These mountains, which have an east-west trend, are the eastern extension of the Qin (Tsinling) Mountain axis that divides China geologically and geographically into North and South. The Tongbai and Dabie ranges form a further extension of this axis, running in a southeasterly direction…

Funj Dynasty: …uses the term Darfunj (Funj tribes) to describe a number of ethnically and linguistically different peoples living in the southeastern part of the country. This area had represented an ethnic–linguistic mixture when the Funj arrived, and the kingdom, by its nature, increased the mix. Among those designated as Funj…

Funj Dynasty, line of kings that ruled in the Nilotic Sudan of Eastern Africa in the 16th–19th century. At its greatest extent, Funj authority stretched westward across the southern Gezira region into Kordofan and southward to the gold-bearing district of Fāzūghlī. The Funj capital, the city of

funk, rhythm-driven musical genre popular in the 1970s and early 1980s that linked soul to later African-American musical styles. Like many words emanating from the African-American oral tradition, funk defies literal definition, for its usage varies with circumstance. As a slang term, funky is

Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries, family of English-language dictionaries noted for their emphasis on ease of use and current usage. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) The first Funk & Wagnalls dictionary was A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893). It

Encarta: …Wagnalls to use their 29-volume New Encyclopedia in establishing a database in 1989. The project, however, was put on hold in 1990 due to concerns about the commercial viability of the product. After efforts resumed in 1991, the company proceeded to illustrate the approximately 25,000 articles using an array of…

Motown: …extraordinary house band (known as the Funk Brothers) made up of some of the best nightclub and bar musicians in Black Detroit, including Earl Van Dyke on keyboards, Benny Benjamin and Uriel Jones on drums, and James Jamerson on bass. They played a huge role in the development of the…

pharmaceutical industry: Identification of vitamins: …prepared by the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk, who recognized that it belonged to a new class of essential foods called vitamins. Thiamin was isolated in 1926 and its chemical structure determined in 1936. The chemical structures of the other vitamins were determined prior to 1940.

The Decemberists: …12, 1971, Seattle, Washington), guitarist Chris Funk (b. November 28, 1971, Valparaiso, Indiana), drummer John Moen (b. August 23, 1968, Brainerd, Minnesota), and bassist Nate Query (b. September 5, 1973, Bellevue, Washington).

Isaac Kauffman Funk was an American publisher who was also a Lutheran minister, religious journalist, Prohibition Party publicist, and spelling reformer. Funk graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1860 and was ordained a Lutheran minister the following year. Resigning his pulpit

space tourism: Suborbital space tourism: …his brother Mark; American pilot Wally Funk, the then-oldest person in space at the age of 82; and Dutch student Oliver Daemen, the youngest person in space at the age of 18. New Shepard’s second flight, on October 13, 2021, attracted extensive attention for having actor William Shatner, at age…

Walther Funk was a German Nazi and economist who was the economics minister of the Third Reich from 1938 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939. Funk attended universities at Berlin and Leipzig before joining the German Army at the outbreak of World War I. He was discharged in 1916 as being

history of publishing: Types of pocket magazines: …Today (1946–50), were started by Wilfred J. Funk on the proceeds from his father’s Literary Digest (sold to Time in 1938). Of those more directly inspired by Reader’s Digest, Coronet (1936–61), an offshoot of Esquire Inc., built up a large circulation during World War II, and when it closed, a…

Art Blakey: …of bebop known as “hard bop” and gave the drums a significant solo status. His style was characterized by thunderous press rolls, cross beats, and drum rolls that began as quiet tremblings and grew into frenzied explosions.

Clyde Stubblefield: …1970 James Brown single “Funky Drummer” that has been called the most sampled drum break in music. The hundreds of songs that made use of that break include “Bring the Noise” (1987) and “Fight the Power” (1989) by Public Enemy, “Run’s House” (1988) by Run-D.M.C., “Shadrach” (1989) by the…

bivalve: Food and feeding: …prey into a funnellike inhalant siphon (Cuspidaria). Food is then pushed into the mouth by the palps and foot. Others evert the inhalant siphon, like a hood, over the prey (Poromya and Lyonsiella). Prey items include small bottom-dwelling crustaceans, polychaete worms, and larvae of other benthic animals.

history of the Low Countries: Neolithic (4000–2900 bce): …Belgium and, somewhat later, the Funnel Beaker culture in the Netherlands. The evolution of these groups represents principally a transformation in the style of material culture of native communities. Among the most significant Michelsberg remains are the extensive fields of deep flint mines at Spiennes in Hainaut and Rijckholt in…

funnel cake, fried-dough dish popular at fairs, carnivals, and boardwalks and among street vendors. Batter is swirled around into hot oil using a funnel, creating a lattice of deep-fried dough, and then served with heaps of powdered sugar. The batter used can vary depending on where the funnel cake

chemoreception: Terrestrial vertebrates: …each eye is a small pore leading to a sac that contains a tentacle. The tentacle can be extended through the pore by hydrostatic pressure to make contact with the surrounding soil. A duct connects the tentacular sac with the vomeronasal organ, and it is believed that this is the…

tornado: Funnel clouds: A tornado is often made visible by a distinctive funnel-shaped cloud. Commonly called the condensation funnel, the funnel cloud is a tapered column of water droplets that extends downward from the base of the parent cloud. It is commonly mixed with and perhaps…

funnel weaver, (family Agelenidae), large family of more than 1,000 species and nearly 100 genera of spiders known for their flat webs that narrow as a funnel at one end. They are a common group with many species that are distributed worldwide. Funnel-weaver spiders are unrelated to the venomous

bat: Annotated classification: Family Natalidae (funnel-eared bats) 8 species of small, slenderly built bats in 3 genera (Natalus) of Central America, northern South America, and the West Indies. Thick gray, buff, yellow, or reddish fur. Well-developed tail and interfemoral membrane. Ears large; snout plain. Walk clumsily and do not enter…

spider: Annotated classification: Family Dipluridae (diplurid funnel-web mygalomorphs) 188 mostly tropical species. 3 tarsal claws; 4 to 6 spinnerets, posterior (lateral) pair very long; body hairy; web similar to funnel webs of Agelenidae. Family Ctenizidae (ctenizid trap-door spiders)

spider: Annotated classification: Family Dipluridae (diplurid funnel-web mygalomorphs) 188 mostly tropical species. 3 tarsal claws; 4 to 6 spinnerets, posterior (lateral) pair very long; body hairy; web similar to funnel webs of Agelenidae. Family Ctenizidae (ctenizid trap-door spiders)

drag racing: …Top Fuel (powered by nitromethane), Funny Cars (nitromethane and methanol), Pro Stock (gasoline), Pro Stock Bikes (nitromethane-powered motorcycles), and Pro Stock Trucks (gasoline).

Funny Cide, (foaled 2000), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in 2003 won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes but lost at the Belmont Stakes, ending his bid for the coveted Triple Crown of American horse racing. Funny Cide progressed slowly in his training until his third year, when he

musical: Show Boat and the golden age of musicals: …to write Oh, Kay! (1926), Funny Face (1927), Strike Up the Band (1930), and others. Cole Porter wrote timeless and sophisticated compositions for such musicals as Anything Goes (1934) and Dubarry Was a Lady (1939). Other notable composers and lyricists of this period were Richard Rodgers and

Stanley Donen: Films of the 1950s: Donen’s next film, Funny Face (1957), was among his best. Originally developed at MGM by Arthur Freed but directed by Donen for Paramount, the musical teamed Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in a May-December love story set in the world of high-fashion in Paris. Donen made the most of…

George Roy Hill: Later work: …Chevy Chase in the comedy Funny Farm (1988), Hill left Hollywood to teach drama at Yale.

Michael Haneke: With Funny Games (1997), in which two young men sadistically torture a vacationing family for sport, Haneke offered a scenario evocative of popular horror entertainment. His refusal to leaven the grim narrative with titillating thrills or moments of catharsis, however, signaled a deliberate critique of Hollywood…

Funny Girl, American musical film, released in 1968, that was based on the stage show of the same name about the life and loves of early 20th-century film star and comedienne Fanny Brice. It marked the screen debut of Barbra Streisand, who reprised her theatrical role as Brice and earned an Academy

Jane Lynch: …a revival of the musical Funny Girl.

Nick Hornby: Other novels: Funny Girl (2014) focuses on the star of a 1960s TV sitcom that becomes a cultural phenomenon. It was adapted into a TV series titled Funny Woman in 2023. In Just Like You (2020), a white middle-aged woman in the midst of a divorce falls…

Kander and Ebb: Later works: …You Get” from the film Funny Lady (1975). Another of their memorable screen tunes was the title song from the film New York, New York (1977), which became a standard for Frank Sinatra. They also wrote material for the Emmy Award-winning Liza with a Z: A Concert for Television (1972)…

Jason Alexander: Career: … video (for the comedy website Funny or Die) that depicted how anti-Semitic images are used in cartoons.

Judd Apatow: He wrote, directed, and produced Funny People (2009), about a stand-up comic (Adam Sandler) who is diagnosed with a terminal blood disorder, and This Is 40 (2012), which revisited two supporting characters from Knocked Up now facing the midlife frustrations of marriage and family.

George Abbott: …Yankees (1955), Fiorello! (1959), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962).

Nicolas Roeg: …cinematographer for such films as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and Fahrenheit 451 (1966).

Kishore Kumar: …films such as Munimji (1955), Funtoosh (1956), Nau do gyarah (1957), and Jewel Thief (1967). A new high point in Kumar’s career came in 1969: the film Aradhana catapulted Rajesh Khanna to superstardom, and Kumar, who had lent his voice to Khanna, became the leading playback singer of the Hindi…

African literature: Hausa: …romances by such writers as Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa (Allura cikin ruwa [1994; “Needle in a Haystack”], Wa ya san gobe? [1996; “Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring?”], and Ki yarda da ni [1997; “Agree with Me”]) and Balaraba Ramat Yakubu (Budurwar zuciya [1987; “Young at Heart”], Alhaki kuykuyo ne [1990;…

Arabic literature: Categories and forms: …termed “the seven types” (al-funūn al-sabʿah) of poem. To the two major forms discussed thus far, qarīḍ and rajaz, were added several that utilized the colloquial form of the Arabic language (the qūmā, for example, and the kān wa kān). But the two additional forms that have occasioned the…

Gabriele D’Annunzio: …erotic novel Il fuoco (1900; The Flame of Life). D’Annunzio’s greatest play was La figlia di Iorio (performed 1904; The Daughter of Jorio), a powerful poetic drama of the fears and superstitions of Abruzzi peasants.

Asia: The Precambrian: …continental nuclei: the Fuping (Fupingian) Stage in the North China paraplatform (3 to 2.5 billion years ago); the earlier Dharwar-type greenstone belts in south-central India; and the Olekma, Timpton-Dzheltula, Batomga, Cupura, and Borsala gneiss-granulite series, in addition to the Chara complex of gneisses and greenstones in the Angaran platform.

North Africa: The Maghrib under the Almoravids and the Almohads: The fuqahāʾ (experts on Islamic law) supervised both the administration of justice by the qāḍīs and the work of the provincial governors, and they acted as advisers to the rulers. The empire’s simple system of government, in which military commanders acted as administrators, was rendered especially…

the Moonglows: October 15, 1980, Louisville), Harvey Fuqua (b. July 27, 1929, Louisville—d. July 6, 2010, Detroit, Michigan), Alexander (“Pete”) Graves (b. April 17, 1930, Bessemer, Alabama?—d. October 15, 2006, New York, New York), and Prentiss Barnes (b. April 12, 1925, Magnolia, Mississippi—d. October 1, 2006, near Magnolia).

Fur, people after whom the westernmost province of Sudan, Darfur, is named. The Fur inhabit the mountainous area of Jebel Marra, the highest region of Sudan. Fur languages make up one of the branches of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The Fur had powerful kingdoms in the 16th century, extending

furlong, old English unit of length, based on the length of an average plowed furrow (hence “furrow-long,” or furlong) in the English open- or common-field system. Each furrow ran the length of a 40 × 4-rod acre, or 660 modern feet. The standardization of such linear units as the yard, foot, and

fur, fine, soft, hairy covering or coat of mammals that has been important to humankind throughout history, chiefly for warmth but also for decorative and other purposes. The pelts of fur-bearing animals are called true furs when they consist of two elements: a dense undercoat, called ground hair,

heraldry: The field: … (black), or one of the furs ermine (a white field with black spots), ermines (a black field with white spots), erminois (gold field with black spots), pean (black field with gold spots), or vair (alternating blue and white figures mimicking the fur of a species of squirrel). Two other colors…

Arvo Pärt: …was a piano piece titled Für Alina (1976), the work in which he discovered the triad series, which he made his “simple, little guiding rule.” Describing the sound of the triad as like that of pealing bells, he called his new method of composition “tintinnabuli style.” With it he produced…

Fur is the “fine, soft, hairy covering or coat of mammals that has been important to humankind throughout history, chiefly for warmth but also for decorative and other purposes.” Of course, the first function of fur is to protect the animal. “True furs” have both ground hair, a dense undercoat that

Finland: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing: Since World War II, fur farming has made great strides in Finland. Practically all furs are exported; Finland is one of the world’s main producers of farm-raised foxes, and its mink furs also have a very good reputation on international markets.

Fur languages, two closely related languages that form part of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Fur proper is spoken mainly in western Sudan and adjacent parts of Chad. The closely related Amdang language is spoken by the Amdang, primarily of Chad, who are also called Biltine, or Mimi; the latter

fur seal, any of several eared seals of the family Otariidae valued for the quality of their fur. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is a migratory inhabitant of northern seas, breeding in summer on the Pribilof, Komandor (Commander), and other islands. Prized for its chestnut-coloured

Pribilof Islands, archipelago, off the west coast of Alaska, U.S. The islands include St. Paul (40 square miles [104 square km]), St. George (35 square miles [91 square km]), and two islets (Otter and Walrus islands) lying in the Bering Sea, about 300 miles (500 km) west of the Alaska mainland and

Alaska: Explorations: Sea otter furs taken back to Russia opened a rich fur commerce between Europe, Asia, and the North American Pacific coast during the ensuing century.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, luminist oil painting created in 1845 by American frontier artist George Caleb Bingham. Bingham was known for paintings that immortalize the vanished world of the North American frontier, and this is one of his best-known works. His solemn reverence for the

furan, any of a class of organic compounds of the heterocyclic aromatic series characterized by a ring structure composed of one oxygen atom and four carbon atoms. The simplest member of the furan family is furan itself, a colourless, volatile, and somewhat toxic liquid that boils at 31.36° C

furfural (C4H3O-CHO), best known member of the furan family and the source of the other technically important furans. It is a colourless liquid (boiling point 161.7 °C; specific gravity 1.1598) subject to darkening on exposure to air. It dissolves in water to the extent of 8.3 percent at 20 °C and

history of Mesopotamia: The Seleucid period: …south several cities, such as Furat and Charax, grew rich on the maritime trade with India; Charax became the main entrepôt for trade after the fall of the Seleucids. In the north there was no principal city, but several towns, such as Arbela (modern Irbīl) and Nisibis (modern Nusaybin), later…

Euphrates River, river, Middle East. The longest river in southwest Asia, it is 1,740 miles (2,800 km) long, and it is one of the two main constituents of the Tigris-Euphrates river system. The river rises in Turkey and flows southeast across Syria and through Iraq. Formed by the confluence of the

Buffalo Springfield: … traffic jam between Stills and Richie Furay (veterans of the Greenwich Village folk scene) and Neil Young and Bruce Palmer (Canadians drawn to the hip epicenter of the burgeoning folk rock movement). The group took its name from a name emblazoned on the side of a steamroller the members had…

hairball, gastrointestinal obstruction occurring in cats and resulting from accumulation of swallowed hair; the condition is marked by abdominal distension, vomiting, and weight loss. Hairballs can be prevented by regular brushing to remove loose hair or by oral administration of small amounts of

QAnon: Who was Q?: …of South African software engineer Paul Furber and 8chan/8kun administrator Ron Watkins. Neither had any kind of special access to intelligence or classified information, but both were extremely well versed in the language and culture of conspiracy-themed message boards.

Catherine Furbish was an American botanist, who devoted her lifelong energies to documenting and making drawings of the flora of Maine, enriching both scientific knowledge and numerous botanical collections with her legacy. Furbish grew up in Brunswick deeply interested in the natural flora of her

Catherine Furbish was an American botanist, who devoted her lifelong energies to documenting and making drawings of the flora of Maine, enriching both scientific knowledge and numerous botanical collections with her legacy. Furbish grew up in Brunswick deeply interested in the natural flora of her

crustacean: General features: …rami, which together form the furca. These two processes at the tail end of the body vary greatly in form; in many crustaceans they are short, but in some they may be as long as the rest of the body. The Crustacea as a whole shows great variation in the…

basketry: Sewed coiling: …preceding coil (split stitch, or furcate). This sewed type of coiled ware has a very wide distribution: it is almost the exclusive form in many regions of North and West Africa; it existed in ancient Egypt and occurs today in Arabia and throughout the Mediterranean basin as far as western…

Robert F. Furchgott was an American pharmacologist who, along with Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. Their combined work uncovered an

chameleon: In addition, the Madagascan chameleon, F. labordi, has been widely acknowledged as the vertebrate with the shortest life span. The eggs of F. labordi hatch in November, and the young chameleons grow extremely fast; they mature to adulthood just two months later. After an intense competition for mates,…

Mauritius hemp, (Furcraea foetida), plant of the asparagus family (Asparagaceae) and its fibre, belonging to the leaf fibre group. The fibre is made into bagging and other coarse fabrics and is sometimes mixed with other fibres to improve colour in rope. Despite its name, it is not a true hemp. The

springtail: …by a forked appendage (furcula) attached at the end of the abdomen and held in place under tension from the tenaculum, a clasplike structure formed by a pair of appendages. Although the furcula provides a jumping apparatus for the collembolan, enabling it to catapult itself (hence the common name…

clavicle: The wishbone, or furcula, of birds is composed of the two fused clavicles; a crescent-shaped clavicle is present under the pectoral fin of some fish. In humans the two clavicles, on either side of the anterior base of the neck, are horizontal, S-curved rods that articulate…

Caudine Forks, narrow mountain pass near Beneventum in ancient Samnium (near modern Montesarchio, Campania, southern Italy). In the Battle of Caudine Forks the Samnites under Gavius Pontius defeated and captured a Roman army in 321 bc, during the Second Samnite War. The Roman army surrendered, and

Antoine Furetière was a French novelist, satirist, and lexicographer, remarkable for the variety of his writing. The son of a lawyer’s clerk, Furetière entered the legal profession but soon resigned his office and took holy orders to qualify himself for benefices, which provided an income that

furfural (C4H3O-CHO), best known member of the furan family and the source of the other technically important furans. It is a colourless liquid (boiling point 161.7 °C; specific gravity 1.1598) subject to darkening on exposure to air. It dissolves in water to the extent of 8.3 percent at 20 °C and

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Furies, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. They were probably personified curses, but possibly they were originally conceived of as ghosts of the murdered. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, they were the daughters of Gaea (Earth) and sprang from the blood of her

Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: The Furies (1950) was a Freudian western that starred Barbara Stanwyck as Vance, who struggles with the complex legacy of her father (Walter Huston), whose vast ranch she will inherit. The film was not a commercial success but has since come to be considered one…

wind-bell: …are known as fengling and fūrin, respectively—literally “wind-bell”), they became a decorative art on private homes as well as on sacred structures, and in the 19th and 20th centuries their popular use spread more widely among Western countries.

Chris Hemsworth: Other roles: …villain Dementus in George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).

Reed Whittemore: Whittemore cofounded the literary magazine Furioso while he was a student at Yale University (B.A., 1941). He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and afterward revived and edited Furioso and its successor, The Carleton Miscellany, while a professor of English at Carleton College in Northfield,…

military aircraft: Naval aviation: …the takeoff deck of HMS Furious while the ship was under way. The concept of the true aircraft carrier had been born.

Vin Diesel: …& Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015). The latter was especially successful, earning more than $1.5 billion to become among the highest-grossing films of all time. The franchise continued to do well with The Fate of the Furious (2017) and F9: The Fast Saga (2021). Diesel also tried his…

Antarctica: The surrounding seas: …turbulent “Roaring Forties” and “Furious Fifties” lie in a circumpolar storm track and a westerly oceanic current zone commonly called the West Wind Drift, or Circumpolar Current. Warm, subtropical surface currents in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans move southward in the western parts of these waters and then…