FAIZABAD 



Valaba. The British liner torpedoed in St. George's 

 Channel by a German submarine, March 28, 1915 



Blackfriars, May 13, 1691. Faith- 

 orne engraved portraits of most of 

 the conspicuous figures of the Com- 

 monwealth and Restoration after 

 Van Dyck, Lely, Dobson, and 

 others, among them the notorious 

 Lady Castlemaine. His portraits of 

 Charles I, Charles II, James II, 

 the Duke of Monmouth, Milton, 

 Thomas Killigrew and Thomas 

 Hobbes may be specially men 

 tioned. 



FaizabadoRFYZABAD. Division, 

 district, and town of Oudh, 

 United Provinces, India. Faizabad 

 city, the administrative head- 

 quarters (with cantonment) of the 

 district, is situated at the junction 

 of three branches of the Oudh and 

 Rohilkhand Rly., and forms with 

 Ajodhya a single municipality. Its 

 chief industry is sugar refining, and 

 it has a large agricultural trade. It 

 is the terminus of the river steamers 

 on the Gogra. The main crops of 

 the district are rice, grain, wheat, 

 lentils, peas, barley, and sugar-cane. 

 Pop., div., 6,646,362, 75 p.c. Hin- 

 dus; dist., 1,154,109, 90 p.c. Hin- 

 dus; town, 54,655, 70 p.c. Hindus. 



Fakenham. Parish and market 

 town of Norfolk, England. It 

 stands on the Wensum, 24 m. by 

 rly. from King's Lynn. It has two 

 stations, one on the G.E.R. and the 

 other on the Mid. & G.N. joint line. 

 The chief building is the church, 

 with a lofty tower. Pop. 3,181. 



Fakir (Arab, faqir, beggar). 

 Religious devotee, especially in In 

 dia. They numbered in 1911, 787,124 

 Mahomedan, 175,902 Hindu, 16,187 

 Sikh, and 80 Jain. The Mahome 

 dans are orthodox members of the 

 marrying dervish orders or un 

 orthodox celibate mendicants who 

 dispense with abstinence, fasting, 

 and prayer. The Hindus include 

 members of the monastic yogi 

 orders devoted to education and 

 poor relief, besides mendicant 

 vagabonds who practise jugglery 

 and resort to mutilations and 

 austerities. See illus. p. 740. 



Fal. River of Cornwall, Eng- 

 land. It rises near Roche, flows 

 S. and S.W. for 23 m. to the 



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English Channel at 

 Falmouth, and is 

 navigable for nearly 

 10 m. 



Falaba. British 

 liner torpedoed by 

 the German sub- 

 marine U28 S. of 

 St. George's Chan- 

 nel, March 28, 1915. 

 At the inquiry it 

 was stated that the 

 submarine was 

 flying British 

 colours, and its 

 crew wore khaki. 

 Herr Dernberg at- 

 tempted to justify this crime by 

 saying that it was a return for 

 Britain's attempt to starve out 

 Germany. The Falaba, 4,800 tons, 

 belonged to the Elder Dempster Co. 



FALAISE 



wm 



Falaise. The castle where William the Conqueror was 



born. Above, statue of William by Louis Rochet. 



erected in 1851 



Falaba. Town of Sierra Leone, 

 W. Africa. It is fortified, and lies 

 near the frontier of French Guinea, 

 170 m. N.E. of Freetown, at the 

 junction of many trade routes. 

 There is trade hi palm kernels and 

 kola nuts. Pop. 6.000 



Falaise. Town 

 of France, in the 

 dept. of Calvados. 

 It stands on the 

 Ante, 20 m. S.S.E. 

 of Caen. It is 

 a n agricultural 

 centre, and Guib- 

 ray, a suburb, is 

 noted for its horse 

 and cattle fairs. 

 Other industries 

 are tanning and 

 the manufacture 

 of hosiery, cottons, 

 and dyestuffs. 

 The chief churches 

 are S. Gervais, with its fine Norman 

 tower and some beautiful stone- 

 work, and the Trinity, but the 

 most interesting building is the 

 castle, famous as the birthplace of 

 William the Conqueror and at one 

 time the residence of the dukes of 



Fakir. 1. Undergoing thirst ordeal 

 water overhead, he abstains from drinking. 

 3. Rollins his way from shrine to shrine. 



with the river by his side and jars ol 

 2. Lying on a bed of thorns. 



4. Seated on a bed of nails 



