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Felix. Name of four popes and 

 five anti-popes, of whom the fol- 

 lowing are notable. Felix I (d. 274) 

 is entered in the Roman martyr- 

 ology probably in mistake for a 

 Roman martyr of the same name 

 buried on the Via Aurelia. A letter 

 of the pope's in response to a 

 report by the Synod of Antioch, 

 which had deposed its heretical 

 bishop, Paul of Samosata, was 

 made use of at the council of 

 Ephesus (431). To Felix I, who 

 reigned 269-74, was attributed a 

 decree for the celebration of masses 

 over the tombs of the martyrs. His 

 festival is kept May 30. 



Felix II, pope from 355-58, was 

 a Roman archdeacon who was in- 

 truded into the papal chair on the 

 banishment of pope Liberius by 

 the emperor Constantius. On the 

 return of Liberius, Felix was ex- 

 iled and lived in retirement until 

 his death, Nov. 22, 365. Felix III, 

 pope from 483-92, was chiefly en- 

 gaged in conflicts with heretical 

 bishops at Alexandria and Antioch. 

 He finally excommunicated Aca- 

 cius, patriarch of Constantinople, 

 and this schism lasted until 518. 

 Felix IV, pope from 526-30, was 

 the nominee of Theodoric the 

 Goth. He obtained an edict from 

 Theodoric' s successor ordering all 

 charges against the clergy to be 

 taken to ecclesiastical courts 



Felix V, anti-pope, was born at 

 Chambery, Dec. 4, 1383. He 

 reigned as duke Amadeus VIII of 

 Savoy from 1416-34, when he/ re- 

 tired in favour of his son. In }439 

 the remnant of the council of Basel 

 elected him as pope, although he 

 was not in orders, in place of pope 

 Eugenius IV, whom they declared 

 deposed. As Felix V he was 

 crowned hi July, 1440. He never 

 obtained general recognition, but 

 with some show of a following, 

 especially in Switzerland and 

 Savoy, he held his position till 

 1449, when he abdicated. He died 

 at Geneva, Jan. 7, 1451, last of 

 the anti-popes. 



Felix Antonius. Brother of the 

 freedman Pallas, minister of the 

 Roman emperor Claudius. He was 

 procurator of Judaea, but was re- 

 called in A.D. 62 to answer charges 

 of oppression made against him by 

 the Jews. It was before Felix that 

 S. Paul preached at Jerusalem 

 (Acts 23, 24). 



Felix Holt THE RADICAL. Novel 

 by George Eliot, first published in 

 1866. It presents in broad effect 

 the life of a midland county during 

 the 1832 Reform period, but there 

 is something' unreal about the 

 central figure, who is too philoso- 

 phical and cold-blooded to re- 

 present the enthusiastic reformer 

 of that time. 



Felixstowe. Seaside resort, 

 urban dist. (Felixstowe and Wal- 

 ton), and parish of Suffolk, Eng- 

 land. It stands 

 on the estuary of 

 the Orwell, 10 m. 

 from 1 p s w i c h. 

 Excellent bath- 

 ing facilities and 

 a fine pier, yacht- 

 ing, a model 

 Felixstowe arms yacht pond, and 

 golf links are among its attractions. 

 It has a small dock and a wireless 

 telegraphic station. Phosphate of 

 lime is produced ^ ? ..^...^_.,,.., .... , ,..., 

 for export. Nu- I 

 merous Roman \ 

 remains have been | 

 discovered. The 

 corporation owns 

 the electric light 

 undertaking and 

 pleasure grounds. 

 During the Great 

 War the Germans 

 made an air raid 

 upon the place, 

 July 22, 1917, 

 which was attend- 

 ed with loss of life. 

 Pop. 11.655 



Felixstowe 

 Fury. Namegiven 

 to a large flying 



of a IVth-dynasty official, found 

 by Mariette at Sakkara, was given 

 that title by the workmen from its 

 likeness to their own headman. (See 

 illus. p. 2825.) Some are Christian 

 Copts, 9.tH o,000 are Moslems. 



Of medium height, black-eyed, 

 thick-lipped, and straight-nosed, the 

 Semitic and Nubian elements they 

 have absorbed have but slightly 

 affected their racial make-up as a 

 Caucasian people of the Mediter- 

 ranean type. The progressive 

 deepening of hue from N. to S. 

 marks the influence both of climate 



Felixstowe. 



The promenade, looking towards the pier 

 from the Cliff Gardens 



Frith 



boat designed by Col. J. C. Porte, and of ethnic contact. The women, 



who wear head-veils, which expose 

 the antimony-stained eyelashes 

 and tattooed chin, are sometimes 

 wed by the nomad Beduins, but 

 the amount of racial mixture in 

 actual progress is inconsiderable. 

 Their food is largely vegetable, 

 and they are mostly abstemious. 

 Many of their methods of cereal 

 and pulse cultivation, and of ir- 



A triplane with five Rolls-Royce 

 engines, each of 375 horse-power, 

 it had a span of 123 ft., an over-all 

 length of 60 ft. and a height of 27 ft. 

 6 in. After many successful flights 

 the machine was wrecked, Aug. 11, 

 1919, when starting on a test flight 

 with a heavy load, preparatory to a 

 journey to Egypt. See illus. p. 3101. 

 Fell (Scand. 



fjeld, mountain 



or rock). Term occurring in the 

 names of many British mountains, 

 e.g., Cross Fell, Goat Fell, Hart 

 Fell, Snaefell. See Mountain. 



Fell, JOHN (1625-86). English 

 pedagogue and divine. Born June 

 23, 1625, he was educated at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, of which he be 

 came dean in 1660. Vice-chan 

 cellor of the university from 1666- 

 69, he was appointed bishop oi 

 Oxford in 1675. He notably im- 

 proved the buildings as well af 

 the discipline of his college, and is- 

 chiefly remembered by some lines 

 "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell," 

 etc., attributed to Thomas Brown 

 (q.v. ). He died July 10, 1686. 



Fellah (plur. Fellahin). Arabic 

 word for peasant or ploughman, 

 especially in Egypt. Forming the 

 bulk of the native population, 

 the fellahin descend in direct 

 lineage from the ancient Egyp 

 tians. They dwell in villages, 

 mainly of mud hovels, under a 

 village chief, the sheikh-el-beled. 

 A wooden statuette, now at Cairo, 



rigation with water-wheel, sakiya, 

 and balanced bucket, shaduf, are 

 of remote antiquity. The water- 

 carrier, sakka. is often a member 



Fellah. 



Egyptian sakka or water- 

 carrier 



