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Fortune and Men's Eyes Fortune and Men's Eyes is a 1967 play and 1971 film by John Herbert about a young man's experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery. The title comes from William Shakespeare's [29 (Shakespeare)|Sonnet 29]: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes.
Fortune Battle of the Corporate Bands The FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands is an annual music competition for amateur company-sponsored bands in the United States and Australia. Created in 2001, the contest's proceeds benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, which also serves as the location for the final round of the competition.
Fortune Bay Fortune Bay is a fairly large natural bay located on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The Bay is bounded by Point Crewe () on the Burin Peninsula and Pass Island () at the entrance to Hermitage Bay to the northwest for a distance of 56 kilometers.
Fortune cookie The Fortune Cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or vague prophecy, usually served with Chinese food as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation.
Fortune European Businessman of the Year Fortune magazine gives an annual award for the person it considers to be the European Businessman of the Year. Fortune is based in the United States, but it has a European edition which features this award prominently.
Fortune favours the bold Fortune favours the bold or fortune favours the brave is a phrase derived from the Latin saying "fortes fortuna adjuvat". The phrase means that luck is likely to be granted by the goddess Fortuna to the side of someone who is willing to take risks.
Fortune Hunter Fortune Hunter was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Lasting from November 21, 1997 to May 11, 2000, it was played for $5,000 cash and four prizes, each worth between $500 and $3,000.
Fortune Lounge Group Fortune Lounge Group is a group of eight online casinos and three online poker rooms, where people can play real money poker and other casino games using Microgaming software licensed by Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Their poker rooms are part of The Microgaming Poker Network, which was formerly known as Prima Poker.
Fortune Theatre (New Zealand) New Zealand's Fortune Theatre is located in Moray Place, in the heart of the southern city of Dunedin, and lays claim to being the world's southernmost professional theatre company. Operating since 1973, it has been located since 1978 in the R A Lawson-designed former Trinity Wesleyan Church close to the city's centre (The Octagon).
Fortune's Favourites (novel) Fortune's Favourites is the third book in the Masters of Rome Series by author Colleen McCullough. This third installment in the series begins by detailing Lucius Cornelius Sulla's rise to the Dictatorship and becoming the Master of Rome, his proscriptions, and his willing resignation of power, followed by his death.
Fortune-telling Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting the future, usually of an individual, through mystical or supernatural means and often for commercial gain. It often conflates with the religious practice known as divination.
Fortunio Bonanova Fortunio Bonanova is the pseudonym of Josep LluĂ­s Moll (January 13, 1895 - 1969), who was a baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor, as well as occasionally functioning as a producer and director.
Fortwilliam Park Fortwilliam Park is situated on the outskirts of the village of Tobermore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and is the home ground of current Irish League Division Two champions Tobermore United. Tobermore United are currently celebrating their 40th year in existence and enjoying life in the Irish League Division One.
Forty forty Category:Children's gamesForty forty is a children's game in the style of the popular game "It". Like "It", there is one player that is "on", or "it", who must capture the other players.
Forty Foot The Forty Foot is a promontory on the southern tip of Dublin Bay at DĂşn Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, where people enjoy swimming in the Irish Sea all year round. In former times it was kept solely as a gentlemen's bathing place, but it is now open to women and children as well.
Forty Foot Echo Forty Foot Echo is a five-man rock band from Canada, who released their self-titled debut album in 2003. Despite some speculation, the band is still together and seem to keep their MySpace page running, despite not having much to do with their now defunct Hollywood Records site, most likely due to their departure from the label.
Forty Group The Forty Group was a Kenyan society or organization of the mid-twentieth century constituted primarily of members of the Kenya African Union who joined with the aim of using violence to make their voice heard. The name is a translation of the Kĩkũyũ phrase Anake a 40, which means The Young Men of 40.
Forty Hours' Devotion Forty Hours' Devotion, also called Quarant' Ore or written in one word Quarantore, is a Roman Catholic exercise of devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament exposed.
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty (Ancient/Katharevousa Greek Ἃγιοι Τεσσεράκοντα, Demotic Άγιοι Σαράντα) were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata, also known as the "Thundering Legion", who became martyrs for their Christian faith in 320.
Forty Shilling Freeholders Forty shilling freeholders were a group of (mostly) landowners who had the Parliamentary franchise to vote in county constituencies in various parts of the British Isles. In England it was the only such qualification from 1430 until 1832.
Forty Signs of Rain Forty Signs of Rain (2004) is the first book in the hard science fiction "Science in the Capital" trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. The focus of the novel is the effects of global warming in the near future.
Forty Six & 2 "Forty Six & 2" is a song by American rock band Tool. The song is consistent with the sound by which Tool has become famous, and, like many of Tool's recordings from the album from which the song comes, Ænima, is lyrically sophisticated, addressing a number of complicated issues.
Forty Years Among the Indians Forty Years Among the Indians was published by the Juvenile Instructor Press in 1890 and written by Daniel Webster Jones. It is described on its Title Page as "A True yet Thrilling Narrative of the Author's Experiences among the Natives.
Forty-and-eights Forty-and-eights were French 4-wheel boxcars used as military transport cars (the term itself refers to the cars' carrying capacity, said to be 40 men or eight horses). Built starting in the 1870s as regular freight boxcars, they were originally used in military service by the French army in both World Wars, and then later used by the German occupation in World War II and finally by the Allied liberators.
Forty-Eighters The Forty-Eighters were Germans who traveled to the United States, Puerto Rico and Australia after the Revolutions of 1848. Disappointed at the failure of the revolution to bring about the reform of the system of government in Germany, and sometimes on the government's wanted list because of their involvement in the revolution, they gave up their old lives to try again abroad.
Forty-first United States Congress - Political Parties The Forty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871.
Forty-first United States Congress - State Delegations The Forty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1871.
Forty-fives Forty-Fives (also known as 45's, Forte Fives, Auction Forty-Fives, Auction 120s, 120, Growl, Spoil Five, Maw and Strong Fives) is a trick-taking card game that is played in Ireland, and in some parts of New England and Nova Scotia where it is known as forte fives. It is closely related to the game One-hundred and ten (110) also described below.
Forty-Five Years' War The Forty-Five Years' War (1945-1990) between the United States and the Soviet Union is an alternate name for the Cold War. The use of the term "Forty-Five Years' War" is intended to invoke other long-term political struggles such as the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) within the Holy Roman Empire and the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) between England and France.
Forty-ninth United States Congress - Political Parties The Forty-ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1887.
Forty-ninth United States Congress - State Delegations The Forty-ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1887.
Forty-second United States Congress - Political Parties The Forty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873.
Forty-second United States Congress - State Delegations The Forty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873.
Forty-seven Ronin The tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin, also known as the Forty-Seven Samurai, the AkĹŤ vendetta, the , or the , is a prototypical Japanese story. Described by one noted Japan scholar as the country's "national legend" it recounts the most famous case involving the samurai] code of honor, [[bushido.
Forty-spotted Pardalote The Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) is by far the rarest pardalote, now being confined to the south-east corner of Tasmania. About 9 to 10cm long, it lacks the dark, white-spotted crown of the Spotted Pardalote, being largely light olive green above and grey underneath, but with similar striking black wings with white spots—rather more than 40.
Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad The Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad was a horse-drawn streetcar line in Manhattan, New York City, USA. It ran from the 42nd Street Ferry on the Hudson River to the Grand Street Ferry on the East River.
Forty-third United States Congress - Political Parties The Forty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875.
Forty-third United States Congress - State Delegations The Forty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875.
Forty-Two Gang The Forty-Two Gang was a Chicago teenage street gang which, like Brooklyn's Italian and Jewish street gangs of Brownsville and Ocean Hill, served as a "farm team" during Prohibition for future members of the Chicago Outfit whose members included future high ranking syndicate members such as Sam Battaglia, Felix "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio, Sam DeStefano, Charles Nicoletti, Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri, Albert Frabotta, William Aloisio, Frank Caruso, William Daddano, Sr., Joe Ceasar DiVarco, Rocco Potenza, Leonard Gianola, Vincent Inserro and brothers Leonard and John Marshall Caifano.
Fortymile, Yukon Fortymile was a former trading post catering to gold miners in what is today Canada's Yukon at the confluence of the Yukon River and the Fortymile River. It was established in 1886 by Jack McQuesten, Alfred Mayo, and Arthur Harper of the Alaska Commercial Company after gold was found on the Fortymile River.
ForTIA The Formal Techniques Industry Association ForTIA aims to support the industrial use of formal methods under the umbrella organization of Formal Methods Europe. It was founded in 2003 through the initial efforts of Dines Bjørner and is chaired by Anthony Hall.
Forum (magazine) Penthouse Forum, sometimes simply Forum, is a magazine owned by the publishers of Penthouse magazine. Unlike the main Penthouse title, Penthouse Forum is more journalistic than pornographic, and features editorials and opinion pieces on controversial contemporary topics.
Forum (Restaurant) Forum Restaurant (traditional chinese: 富臨飯店) was established in 1977 on Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Run by Hong Kong's international chef Yeung Koon Yat (traditional chinese: 楊貫一), it is one of the most famous eateries in Hong Kong.
Forum (Roman) The Forum was the public space in the middle of a Roman city. Modelled on the Roman Forum and Imperial forums in Rome itself, they are to be found in Italy (often forming the piazza of the modern town) and throughout the empire, with examples at:
Forum 18 Forum 18 is a Norwegian human rights organisation that seeks to establish religious freedom for all on the basis of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The elements of this article are summarised by Forum 18 as:
Forum 187 Forum 187 is a Belgian non-profit organization. It is the professional federation which brings together the international coordination centers, distribution centers, service centers and call centers located in Belgium.
Forum 2000 Forum 2000 is an international organization and conference in Prague. Its main purpose is to identify the key issues facing civilization and to explore ways in which to prevent escalation of conflicts that have religion, culture or ethnicity as their primary components.
Forum Appii Forum Appii an ancient post station on the Via Appia, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Rome, founded, no doubt, by the original constructor of the road. Horace mentions it as the usual halt at the end of the first days journey from Rome, and describes it as full of boatmen and cheating innkeepers.
Forum Boarium The Forum Boarium was the cattle forum venalium of Ancient Rome and the oldest forum that Rome possessed. It was located at a flat place near the Tiber (third longest river in Italy) between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills.
Forum Building The Forum Building, designed by the Swiss architects Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron), is considered by some to be an icon of the "New Barcelona". However, local opinion on its aesthetic and functional merits is deeply divided.
Forum Civic Center The Forum Civic Center (known locally as just "The Forum")is a multi-purpose arena and convention center in Rome, Georgia, USA. It seats 2,140 for arena football, up to 3,116 for other sporting events and up to 3,932 for concerts.
Forum Clodii Forum Clodii, a post station on the Via Clodia, about 23 miles (37 km) northwest of Rome (not 32 miles as in the Antonine Itinerary), situated above the western bank of the Lacus Sabatinus (now know as Lake Bracciano), and connected with the Via Cassia at Vacanae by a branch road which ran round the north side of the lake (Ann. Inst.
Forum Communications Forum Communications Company is a media firm based in Fargo, North Dakota. The company prints a number of newspapers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
Forum de La Plaine The Forum de La Plaine is a 2,000-seat multi-purpose arena in La Plaine, Quebec. It is the home to the Les Cobras de Terrebonne Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League.
Forum for African Women Educationalists The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is an organisation which seeks to promote girls' education in Africa, by making sure they have access to schools and are able to complete their studies and fulfill their potential.
Forum for Democratic Change The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), founded on December 16, 2004, is the main opposition party in Uganda. FDC was founded as an umbrella body mostly for disenchanted former members and followers President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement.
Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation The Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (FEAST) is a non-government organisation aimed at highlighting and developing collaborative research activities between Europe (European countries and the European Union) and Australia. Its offices are located at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Forum for Sankaradeva Studies The Forum for Sankaradeva Studies (Assamese: Sankaradeva Adhyayan Kendra) is a research-oriented institution dedicated to promoting the message and the ideals of Srimanta Sankaradeva, one of the leading lights of the Vaishnavite tradition in India. It is based at Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam, and operates out of its offices located at Keteki Path, Saurabh Nagar, in the Beltola precinct of Guwahati.
Forum for the Cooperation of Trade Unions The Forum for the Cooperation of Trade Unions (SZEF) is a national trade union center in Hungary. With a membership of 274,000 the SZEF represents mainly white collar workers in education, social sevices and health care, cultural institutes and government agencies.
Forum for the Future (Bahrain 2005) The Forum for the Future in Bahrain on 11-12 November 2005 brought together, by suggestion of the president of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the leaders of states of the Middle East, industrialised countries of the Group of Eight (G8) and other partners to promote political, economic and social reform in the region. Delegates at the conference included US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa.
Forum Holitorium The Forum Holitorium was the vegetables, herbs and oil forum venalium of early ancient Rome, by the Tiber at the foot of the Capitoline and Palatine hills. Once, the site of an early temple of Venus, the centre of buying and selling was transferred, in 388, to the Campus Martius (Forum Holitorium), leaving the old Roman Forum to the business of the State.
Forum check Forum checks (German: Forumscheck) were a form of hard currency in East Germany. By law all East Germans had to convert any Deutsche Marks (and other western currencies) they possessed into Forum checks at the state bank.
Forum moderator A forum moderator is someone granted special powers to enforce the rules (or, as the case may be, their personal whim; the title refers to the powers more than the intent) of an Internet forum, (Message board or Electronic mailing list). Almost all moderators on all forums can move discussions to different sections of the forum, "close" or "lock" discussions to prevent users from continuing to discuss them, edit the content of individual postings, answer questions (or help people with problems), and "pin" or "stick" discussions so they remain visible in their forum section even if no new postings are made to them; different forums may give their moderators further powers (see Powers below).
Forum Novum Forum Novum was a new Roman foundation which developed as a forum or market centre during the Republican period. By the early 1st century AD Forum Novum had been elevated to the status of municipium, appearing as such in Pliny's list of towns.
Forum of Young Global Leaders The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a philanthropic organization founded by Klaus Schwab in 2004 to encourage young leaders from all walks of life to commit to spending five years working to "dramatically impact the global future". Around 220 "YGLs" are selected each year for 5-year positions on this Forum: see the List of Young Global Leaders for details.
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC ; Chinese: 中非合作論壇 ; French: Forum sur la coopération sino-africaine) is an official forum between the People's Republic of China and the states in Africa. The first ministerial conference was held in Beijing in 2000.
Forum on Prisoner Education The Forum on Prisoner Education is a UK registered charity founded in 2000 to campaign to improve prison education in England & Wales. Its founding members included Professor David Wilson (Criminologist), and a manager of education at HMP Wandsworth in London.
Forum selection clause A forum selection clause in a contract with a Conflict of Laws element allows the parties to agree that any litigation resulting from that contract will be initiated in a specific forum. There are three types of clause:
Forum shopping Forum shopping is the informal name given to the practice adopted by some plaintiffs to get their legal case heard in the court thought most likely to provide a favourable judgment, or by some defendants who seek to have the case moved to a different court. This is an increasingly serious problem because it balances the concept of party autonomy against broader concerns of justice and fairness.
Forum Suarium The Forum Suarium was the pork forum venalium of early Ancient Rome during the empire, mentioned first in two inscriptions of about 200 AD. This market was near the barracks of the cohortes urbanae in the northern part of the campus Martius, probably close to the present Via di Propaganda, and its administration was in the hands of the prefect or of one of his officers.
Forum Theatre The Forum Theatre (formerly known as the "State Theatre") is a theatre located on the corner of Flinders Street and Russell Street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. The building was designed by American architect John Eberson, along with local architectural firm Bohringer, Taylor & Johnson.
Forumer Modifications Center Forumer Modifications Center, or Fmods, is an affiliate of Forumer, a free forum and blog host. The function of Fmods is to create javascript and HTML modifications for users hosting forums with free hosts such as forumer.
Forus vgs Forus VideregĂĄende Skole is an upper secondary school in Sandnes,Norway and is a vocational school that focuses mainly on Art and "Media and Communication" (photography, graphic design, video, computers etc.).
Forward (ice hockey) A Forward is a hockey player position on the ice whose responsibility is primarily offensive. Generally, the offensemen try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal.
Forward basing Forward basing is a method of power projection where, by pre-positioning military units or stockpiles of arms at strategically located military bases outside a country's territory, there is a reduction in the time and distance needed to mobilize them for combat in a distant theatre of war.
Forward collision warning Some modern vehicles have forward collision warning (FCW, FCWS) systems, also known as front collision warning systems, collision warning systems (CWS) and rear end collision warning systems. These use either a radar or laser setup to warn the driver if a vehicle in front - given the speed of both vehicles - gets too close (within the preset headway or breaking distance).
Forward Confirmed reverse DNS FCrDNS, or Forward Confirmed Reverse DNS, is when an IP address has both forward (name -> IP) and reverse (IP -> name) DNS entries that match each other. The process is outlined in RFC 1912, especially section 2.
Forward echo Forward echo: In a transmission line, an echo propagating in the same direction as the original wave and consisting of energy reflected back by one discontinuity and then forward again by another discontinuity. Forward echoes can be supported by reflections caused by splices or other discontinuities in the transmission medium (e.
Forward error correction In telecommunication, forward error correction (FEC) is a system of error control for data transmission, whereby the sender adds redundant data to its messages, which allows the receiver to detect and correct errors (within some bound) without the need to ask the sender for additional data. The advantage of forward error correction is that retransmission of data can often be avoided, at the cost of higher bandwidth requirements on average, and is therefore applied in situations where retransmissions are relatively costly or impossible.
Forward Intelligence Team Forward Intelligence Teams are units in UK Police forces that use high-visibility police officers — in full uniform — using cameras, camcorders and audio recorders to conduct overt surveillance of the public. First appearing as part of the Public Order Intelligence Unit, a section of the Public Order Branch (CO11) of the Metropolitan Police, they were initially targeted at football fans and political protesters, but the concept has since been extended to routine police work on low-level crime and disorder.
Forward Kwenda Forward Kwenda is one of the most respected mbira performers in Zimbabwe. He was born in the rural Buhera area of Zimbabwe, an area known for its fierce resistance to colonial rulers and respect for Shona tradition.
Forward lateral A "forward lateral" is a term, used in both American and Canadian Football, to describe an illegal pass. A forward lateral occurs when any player, who has advanced beyond the line of scrimmage, passes the ball to another player who is any distance ahead of the passing player.
Forward looking infrared A forward looking infrared (FLIR) is the North American English term for a camera that takes pictures using the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Elsewhere in the English speaking world, these are typically called Thermal imagers.
Forward osmosis Forward Osmosis is an osmotic process that, like reverse osmosis, uses a semi-permeable membrane to effect separation of water from dissolved solutes. The driving force for this separation is an osmotic pressure gradient, such that a "draw" solution of high concentration (relative to that of the feed solution), is used to induce a net flow of water through the membrane into the draw solution, thus effectively separating the feed water from its solutes.
Forward price The forward price or forward rate is the agreed upon price of an asset in a forward contract. Using the rational pricing assumption, we can express the forward price in terms of the spot price and any dividends etc.
Forward rate agreement In finance, a forward rate agreement (FRA) is a forward contract in which one party pays a fixed interest rate, and receives a floating interest rate equal to a reference rate (the underlying rate). The payments are calculated over a notional amount over a certain period, and netted, i.
Forward scatter In telecommunication, forward scatter is the deflection--by diffraction, nonhomogeneous refraction, or nonspecular reflection by particulate matter of dimensions that are large with respect to the wavelength in question but small with respect to the beam diameter--of a portion of an incident electromagnetic wave, in such a manner that the energy so deflected propagates in a direction that is within 90° of the direction of propagation of the incident wave.
Forward Versatile Disc FVD, or Forward Versatile Disc, is an offshoot of DVD developed in Taiwan jointly by the Advanced Optical Storage Research Alliance (AOSRA) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as a more inexpensive alternative for high-definition content. The disc is similar in structure to a DVD, in that pit length is the same and a red laser is used to read it, but the track width has been shortened slightly to allow the disc to have 5.
Forward Wales Forward Wales (or Cymru Ymlaen in Welsh) is a political party operating in Wales. It evolved from the John Marek Independent Party (JMIP), formed by the ex-Labour member of the Welsh Assembly, John Marek who is the party's national convenor.
Forward-contamination Forward-contamination is the contamination of other worlds with Earth microbes. The risk of forward-contamination is twofold: that human beings may accidentally seed a previously sterile world, thus creating "extraterrestrials" that are really of terrestrial origin; or that an actual alien biosphere could be devastated by Earth's bacteria.
Forward-Center Forward-center is a listing or position label for basketball players who play or have played both forward and center on a consistent basis. Typically, this means power forward and center, since these are usually the two biggest player positions on any basketball team, and therefore more often overlap.
Forwarder A forwarder is a vehicle that carries logs from the stump to a roadside landing. Unlike a skidder, a forwarder carries logs clear of the ground, which can reduce soil impacts but tends to limit the size of the logs it can move.
Forwarding equivalence class A Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) is a term used in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to describe a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics which may be forwarded the same way; that is, they may be bound to the same MPLS label.
Forza Italia Forza Italia (Forward Italy, FI) The name is not usually translated into English: forza means "force" or "strength", while Italia is Italy. The party's name seems to originate from a football chant with the meaning "Forward(s) Italy!
Forza Motorsport 2 Forza Motorsport 2 is the sequel to the first sim racing videogame of the franchise, Forza Motorsport, developed by Turn 10, Microsoft's new development studio for the Forza Motorsport Franchise, for the Xbox 360 gaming system. It is expected to be released in North America in May of 2007.
Fos Williams Foster Neil "Fos" Williams (born February 21, 1922, died September 1, 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He is the father of Mark Williams, the current coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League, as well as Stephen Williams, a past coach and player of the Magpies.
Fosbury Flop The Fosbury Flop is a technique in the high jump that contrasts with the Western Roll and was first used by Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics made it the dominant technique of the event as it remains today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used to dive over head first, or had their own specialized techniques.
Fosca Fosca is a British indie band, combining indie pop songwriting with synth pop instrumentation. Fosca were founded in 1997 by Dickon Edwards, with the current line up being Dickon Edwards on vocals and guitar, Rachel Stevenson on Keyboards and Vocals, Kate Dornan on Keyboards and Vocals and Tom Edwards on guitar.
Fosdyke Fosdyke is a village in Lincolnshire, around nine miles south of Boston by road (on the A16 and A17). The village is near the mouth of the River Welland, and the parish extends across the river to include both ends of the hamlet of Fosdyke Bridge.
Fosinopril Fosinopril is an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of chronic heart failure. Fosinopril is the first and only phosphonate-containing ACE inhibitor marketed.

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