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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: FINEST
'finest hour' (Churchill)
Fingal - supposedly by Ossian
- and Dr Johnson
Fingal's Cave (Staffa)
fingerprints (first use)
FINLAND
- tour through time
- and votes for women in 1906
Finland Station - Lenin in 1917
finnan haddie
Finnian, St - and Clonard
Finn McCool - Celtic hero
- and the Fenians
Finno-Ugric - linguistic enclaves
- as part of Ural-Altaic group
Finns - move into Finland
Finsen, Niels Ryberg - treatment for tuberculosis
Finsen lamp - to treat tuberculosis
Firbank, Ronald
Firdausi - and the Shah-nama
- at the court of Bukhara
- and chess
fire - first use by man
- as gift of Prometheus
- making fire
- and Zoroastrianism
- and the man in the ice
Fire of London - in 1666
Fire of Rome - in AD 64
Fireworks Music - by Handel
'First catch your hare' - origin
first-class cricket (in Britain)
First Coalition - in 1793
First Fleet - to Australia
First Folio - of Shakespeare
- brief account
First Intermediate Period - in ancient Egypt
First of June - battle in 1794
First Republic - in France
FIS - Algerian Muslim party
fish - as Christian symbol
fish and chips (in Britain)
fishes - in evolution
Fishbourne - Roman palace
- brief account
Fisher, Geoffrey
Fisher, John - and the Act of Supremacy
- brief biography
Fisher, John - and the Dardanelles
'fit for heroes' (1918)
Fitzgerald, Edward - and Omar Khayyam
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