Fay

Fay, Frank, 1870-1931, and W. G. Fay, 1872-1947, brothers, both Irish actors. The Fay brothers formed the Irish National Theatre, an amateur group founded on the conviction that only Irish actors could perform in Irish plays. Around the nucleus of this company Dublin's Abbey Theatre was formed in 1904 with W. G. Fay as its guiding force. The Fays emigrated to the United States in 1908, where they appeared in a repertory of Irish plays.

Fay, Sidney Bradshaw, 1876-1967, American historian, b. Washington, D.C. Fay, professor of history at Dartmouth College (1902-14), Smith (1914-29), and Harvard (1929-46), earned his name as an authority on European diplomatic history. In The Origins of the World War (1928; 2d ed., rev. 1930; repr. 1967), Fay asserted that the responsibility for World War I was shared by all the powers involved, but that Austria, Serbia, and Russia were primarily to blame. His other works include The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia to 1786 (1937).

(born May 20, 1885, Mecca, Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula—died Sept. 8, 1933, Bern, Switz.) Arab statesman and king of Iraq (1921–33). Son of Sharif Hsubdotusayn ibn aynAlī, he helped his father plot Arab nationalist rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1914–18). When the Arab revolt was declared in 1916, he played an important part in anti-Ottoman military campaigns. In 1918 an Arab military force occupied Damascus, and Fayssubdotal was declared king of Syria. Two years later France invaded Syria, and he went into exile in London. The British sponsored him as king of Iraq, in anticipation of a treaty providing for Iraqi independence; he was crowned in 1921, and Iraq became independent in 1932.

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Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.

Its postal code is 14210. The INSEE code is 14592.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

Based on the article in the French Wikipedia.