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The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, building on the Hoover administration's Emergency Relief and Construction Act. It was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Fera may refer to: Fera (band), a pop rock/singer-songwriter duo from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Fera (constellation), old name for the southern constellation Lupus; Fera (fish), a local name for several fish species and the eponymous dish; Fera Airport, Fera Island, the Solomon Islands; Fera Island, an island in Isabel Province ...
Phoneutria fera is a species of spider with medically significant venom in the family Ctenidae found in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, and Guyana). [1] It is commonly known as the Brazilian wandering spider and the banana spider, [ 2 ] although these names are applied to other species in the genus Phoneutria ...
Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera meaning "true". In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. [1] The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century. [2]
The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA, Pub. L. 111–21 (text), S. 386, 123 Stat. 1617, enacted May 20, 2009, is a public law in the United States enacted in 2009. The law enhanced criminal enforcement of federal fraud laws, especially regarding financial institutions , mortgage fraud , and securities fraud or commodities fraud.
One proposed etymology of nosferatu is that the term originally came from the Greek nosophoros (Greek: νοσοφόρος), meaning "disease-bearing". [14] F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu (1922) strongly emphasizes this theme of disease, and Murnau's creative direction in the film may have been influenced by this etymology (or vice versa). [15]
Farah (Arabic: فَرَح, faraḥ) is an Arabic female given name and sometimes male given name meaning "happiness, joy, gladness, gleefulness, joyful, joyfulness, merriment, rejoice" The name is based on the Arabic root ف ر ح (f-r-ḥ), variants from the root are: Faruh/ Farouh (Arabic: فَرُوح, farūḥ) - male given name
FERA was established to support and develop a sustainable food chain, a healthy natural environment, and to protect the global community from biological and chemical risks. In 2015, Fera Science was created as an independent entity from the UK government as a joint venture between DEFRA (25%) and Capita (75%).