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• The Fair — The Miami Dade County Fair Exposition, Inc. (The Fair), located in Miami, Florida, is known as one of Miami Dade County’s largest annual family attractions. The Fair is held by a private board of directors, and is a non profit organization. It… …   Wikipedia

• The fair — Fair Fair, n. 1. Fairness, beauty. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A fair woman; a sweetheart. [1913 Webster] I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone. [1913 Webster] 3. Good fortune; good luck. [1913 Webster] Now fair befall thee ! Shak.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The fair sex — Fair Fair (f[^a]r), a. [Compar. {Fairer}; superl. {Fairest}.] [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. f[ae]ger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. f[ u]gen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Fair Maid of the West — The Fair Maid of the West, or a Girl Worth Gold, Parts 1 and 2 is a work of English Renaissance drama, a two part play written by Thomas Heywood that was first published in 1631. [Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I and II , edited… …   Wikipedia

• The Fair at Sorochyntsi — ( ru. Сорочинская ярмарка, Sorochinskaya yarmarka , Sorochyntsi Fair ) is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on Nikolay Gogol …   Wikipedia

• The Fair Maid of the Inn — is an early 17th century stage play, a comedy in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. It was originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. Uncertainties of the play s date, authorship, and sources make it one …   Wikipedia

• The Fair Flower of Northumberland — (Roud [http://library.efdss.org/cgi bin/query.cgi?cross=off index roud=on query=25 field=20 25] , Child 9) is a folk ballad. [Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads , [http://www.sacred texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch009.htm The… …   Wikipedia

• The Fair Fiorita — is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales . Italo Calvino included a variant of it, The Princesses Wed to the First Passer By , in his Italian Folktales .ynopsisA king with three daughters and a son… …   Wikipedia

• The Fair Penitent — is Nicholas Rowe s stage adaptation of the tragedy The Fatal Dowry, the Philip Massinger and Nathan Field collaboration first published in 1632. Rowe s adaptation, premiered onstage in 1702 and first published in 1703, was an enormous popular… …   Wikipedia

• The Fair at Sorochyntsi (short story) — The Fair at Sorochyntsi is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian born Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left… …   Wikipedia

• the Fair Labor Standards Act — noun (ABBREVIATION FLSA) ► LAW a law made in the US in 1938 that deals with working conditions, wages, the amount of time people should work, etc.: »The Fair Labor Standards Act says that in most cases workers are entitled to time and a half pay… …   Financial and business terms