A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps...
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Look up fen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fen is a type of wetland. Fen, Fenn, Fens, Fenns, may also refer to: Fen (name), a Chinese given name...
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The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. Most of the fens were drained centuries...
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Forsyth–Edwards Notation (redirect from FEN (chess))
Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game. The purpose of FEN is to provide all the...
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Fenfluramine/phentermine (redirect from Fen fen)
The drug combination fenfluramine/phentermine, usually called fen-phen, is an anti-obesity medication that is no longer widely available. It was sold...
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A fen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn) (Cantonese: sin [Chinese: 仙]), is a unit of currency used in Greater China, including the People's Republic of China, the...
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Shahe fen (沙河粉), or simply hor fun / he fen (河粉), is a type of wide Chinese noodle made from rice. Its Minnan Chinese name, 粿條 (pronounced guǒtiáo in...
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Fen Causeway or the Fen Road is the modern name for a Roman road of England that runs between Denver, Norfolk in the east and Peterborough in the west...
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fen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn) in Mandarin, fan in Cantonese or hun in Taiwanese, is a traditional Chinese unit of measurement for land area. One fen equals...
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X-FEN (formerly FRC-FEN) is an extension of Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) introduced by Reinhard Scharnagl in 2003. It was designed to be able to represent...
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"Penda's Fen" is the 16th episode of fourth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally...
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Fenner may refer to: Arthur Fenner (1745–1805), Rhode Island governor Charles Fenner (1884–1955), Australian geologist and educator Charles Erasmus Fenner...
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Fen is a given name, sometimes of Chinese origin, especially as a transliteration of the Chinese character 芬 (pinyin: Fēn). Fen may also be a surname...
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Fen Tigers may refer to: Eric Boon (1919–1981), a British lightweight boxing champion from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England Peter Evison (born 1964)...
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Fen Court is a short pedestrian passageway in the City of London, England, linking Fenchurch Street to Fenchurch Avenue. At the middle of the passageway...
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Wicken Fen is a 254.5-hectare (629-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature...
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Silicon Fen or the Cambridge Cluster is a collective name given to high tech businesses focused on software, electronics, and biotechnology, including...
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Flag Fen, east of Peterborough, England, is a Bronze Age site which was constructed about 3500 years ago and consists of more than 60,000 timbers arranged...
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Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels...
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Holme Fen is a 269.4-hectare (666-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Holme in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve...
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The Fen River drains the center of Shanxi Province, China. It originates in the Guancen Mountains of Ningwu County in northeast Shanxi, flows southeast...
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0.151 Fen Edge is an area and collection of villages in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The five villages in Fen Edge are...
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Fener (Turkish pronunciation: [feˈnæɾ]; Greek: Φανάρι, romanized: Phanári), also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the Golden Horn in the district...
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The following is a list of plant species to be found in a north European fen habitat with some attempt to distinguish between reed bed relicts and the...
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Fen skating is a traditional form of ice skating in the Fenland of England. The Fens of East Anglia, with their easily flooded meadows, form an ideal skating...
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Hsieh Fen-fen (Chinese: 謝芬芬; pinyin: Xiè Fēnfēn; born c. 1950) is a Taiwanese retired police officer. Hsieh began her law enforcement career after her...
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Fen Drayton Lakes is a complex of lakes, lagoons, ponds and a river, situated close to Fen Drayton, Holywell and Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, England. The...
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Five-spice powder (redirect from Wǔ xiāng fěn)
Five-spice powder (Chinese: 五香粉; pinyin: wǔxiāng fěn) is a spice mixture of five or more spices used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisine...
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Lu Hsiao-fen (Chinese: 陸小芬) is a Taiwanese actress known for her roles in the woman's revenge subgenre within Taiwanese social-realist cinema (also called...
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Fen is a post-black metal band formed in 2006 and originating in the Fens of the East of England, a region from which the band draws much of their inspiration...
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