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Fox Chase Farm Fox Chase Farm is the only working farm in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly owned by the Wister family, the farm is located on Pine Road in Northeast Philadelphia on the border with Montgomery County.
Fox Interactive Fox Interactive is a video game publisher and developer mainly concerned with titles based on 20th Century Fox properties, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy , the Alien and Predator film franchises, Buffy the Vampire Slayer , The X-Files and the Die Hard series of films. They have also been involved with original titles, including Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and No One Lives Forever.
Fox Islands (Michigan) The Fox Islands consist of the North Fox and South Fox islands, in Lake Michigan. The islands are approximately 25 miles northwest of the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan and about 10 miles southwest of Beaver Island.
Fox Kids Weekday Block Fox Kids Weekday Block was a television programming block for children, and later, teens, during the week days. Though popular during the 90's, by the early 21st century Fox Kids became less popular in America.
Fox language Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie, Meskwaki, Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and others) is an Algonquian Indian language, spoken by around 1000 Fox, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations in the Midwestern United States. There are three distinct dialects: Fox (also called Mesquakie, Meskwaki, and Meshkwahkihaki), Sauk (also called Sac, and Sac and Fox), and Kickapoo (also called KikapĂş; considered by some to be a separate but closely-related language).
Fox Life Fox Life (appearing as FOXlife in the official logo) is a television network, launched by Fox International Channels, Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Latin America Channels, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan (where it broadcasts on high definition). Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others.
Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GCB, PC (22 April 1801–6 July 1874), known as Fox Maule before 1852, as The Lord Panmure between 1852 and 1860 and as The Earl of Dalhousie after 1860, was a British politician.
Fox Meadow Estates, Medina, Ohio Fox Meadow Estates is a 565 acre residential community located in Montville Township in Medina, Ohio, USA. The area, commonly referred to as Fox Meadows or Fox Meadow, is made up of approximately 240 houses and 200 condominiums constructed on top of a relatively high elevation area in Medina County.
Fox Movie Channel Fox Movie Channel, formerly fXM, is a television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. Fox Movie Channel mostly shows movies from 20th Century Fox's vast library from the mid-1930s to the 1990s, including some television movies.
Fox Mulder Special Agent William Fox "Spooky" Mulder (born October 13, 1961) is a fictional character played by David Duchovny on the 1993-2002 television series, The X-Files. FBI Special Agent Mulder believes in UFOs and a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence.
Fox n-coloring In the mathematical field of knot theory, Fox n-coloring is a method for obtaining invariants of links by coloring arcs in a link diagram. It is named after Ralph Fox, who invented it (and the special case of tricolorability) around 1960.
Fox Oring Fox Oring is a variation of the sport of Amateur Radio Direction Finding. Fox Oring is a timed race in which individual competitors use a topographic map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse, wooded terrain while searching for radio transmitters.
Fox Plaza Fox Plaza is a 150 m (492 foot) high skyscraper with 34 floors in Century City, Los Angeles, California, a local landmark. Completed in 1987, the architects behind its design were Scott Johnson, Bill Fain and William L.
Fox river radio league The Fox River Radio League, commonly referred to as the FRRL or "The Fox" is an amateur radio club located in Aurora, IL. The repeaters are previously known as AFAR; the club operates two repeaters located near 400 feet on the WBIG AM broadcasting tower located on Eola Road in Aurora, Illinois.
Fox River (Illinois River tributary) The Fox River is a tributary of the Illinois River in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois in the United States. There are two other "Fox Rivers" in Southern Illinois: the Fox River (Little Wabash tributary) and a smaller "Fox River" that joins the Wabash River near New Harmony, Indiana.
Fox River (Wisconsin) The Fox River is a tributary of the Bay of Green Bay in eastern and central Wisconsin. Geographers divide the Fox into two distinct sections, the Upper Fox River that flows from central Wisconsin into Lake Winnebago, and the Lower Fox River that links Lake Winnebago with Green Bay.
Fox River Country Day School Fox River County Day School is a private primary school located in Elgin, Illinois. Established in 1913, the school serves grades one to eight and has a special emphasis on character building and environmental education.
Fox River State Penitentiary Fox River State Penitentiary is a fictional level one maximum-security prison featured prominently in the first season of the television series, Prison Break. It is a state correctional facility located in Joliet, Illinois.
Fox Run Mall The Fox Run Mall is a shopping mall in Newington, New Hampshire, just north of Portsmouth. Its main anchor stores include JCPenney, Macy's Men's Children's & Home (formerly Jordan Marsh), Macy's Women's (formerly Filene's) and Sears.
Fox Snake The fox snake is the common name given to two species of non-venomous rat snake, the eastern fox snake and the western fox snake. They average between 90 and 130 cm at adult size, but larger specimens have been reported.
Fox Soccer Channel Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. The channel took its current name on February 7, 2005; before then, the network was known as Fox Sports World.
Fox Sports (USA) Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of News Corporation). It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games and has single-handedly brought the Fox Broadcasting Company into notoriety with the Big Three of network television.
Fox Sports Net Ohio FSN Ohio, formerly Fox Sports Net Ohio and SportsChannel Ohio, is a cable channel in Ohio (with the exception of the Toledo region, where FSN Detroit is carried), parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Northwest Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and extreme Southwest New York. They carry the Columbus Blue Jackets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cincinnati Reds, and, formerly, Cleveland Indians games.
Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio is a service of Premiere Radio Networks (a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications). Fox Sports itself has minimal control over the network, it is simply branded as such per a two-way marketing agreement .
Fox Sports TĂĽrkiye Fox Sports TĂĽrkiye is a division of Fox Sports that creates Turkish voiceovers for Fox Sports on Digiturk channel 70 and featuring sporting events in NCAA, NFL, NHL, MLB, impact, golf, soccer and organizations in Turkey.
Fox Studios Australia Fox Studios Australia (which occupies the site of the former Sydney Showground) is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia. Since opening in May 1998, the studio has been involved in the production of a number of blockbusters, including The Matrix, Moulin Rouge!
Fox Terrier The name Fox Terrier or Foxy refers primarily to two different breeds of dog, the Smooth Fox Terrier and the Wire Fox Terrier, that were independently bred in England in the mid-19th century. The two terrier breeds are very similar, with the only major difference being the coats.
Fox Theater (Bakersfield) The Fox Theater is located at 2001 H Street in Downtown Bakersfield, California. The theater, which opened on Christmas Day, 1930 is the performing arts hub of downtown Bakersfield, and hosts a variety of performing talent, ranging from balets, to contemporary pop and rock acts.
Fox Theatre Fox Theatre is the name given to several large movie theaters dating from the late 1920s either built by movie mogul William Fox or subsequently purchased by the Fox West Coast theater chain. Many of these grand "movie palaces" were built with a mish-mash of architectural styles drawn from Asian, Indian, Persian, and Moorish influences.
Fox Theatre (Atlanta) The Fox Theatre (often marketed as the Fabulous Fox) in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the grand movie palaces built in the United States in the 1920s. It is located at the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta.
Fox Theatre (Tucson) The Fox Theater is located at 17 West Congress in Downtown Tucson, Arizona. The theater, which opened on April 11, 1930 is a performance space in downtown Tucson, and hosts a variety of performing talent, ranging from ballets, to contemporary pop and rock acts.
Fox-Fordyce disease Fox-Fordyce disease is a chronic blockage of the sweat gland ducts with a secondary, nonbacterial inflammatory response to the secretions and cellular debris in the cysts. Hidradenitis is very similar but tends to have a secondary bacterial infection so that pus-draining sinuses are formed.
Fox-Wisconsin Waterway The Fox-Wisconsin Waterway is a waterway formed by the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. First used by white men in 1673 during the expedition of Marquette & Joliet, it was one of the principal routes used by travelers moving between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River until the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848.
Fox, Fowler and Company Fox, Fowler, and Company was a British private bank, based in Wellington, Somerset. The company was founded in 1787 as a supplementary business to the main activities of the Fox family: shepherding and wool-making.
Foxboro (MBTA station) Foxboro station on the MBTA Commuter Rail system is only used for special events, such as New England Patriots football games, at nearby Gillette Stadium. It lies on the otherwise unused line between Mansfield and Framingham, owned by CSX as their Framingham Subdivision.
Foxboro Stadium Foxboro Stadium (or Foxborough Stadium) was an outdoor sports venue located in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Although the official spelling of city's name is "Foxborough", the shorter spelling was used for the stadium.
Foxbusters The Foxbusters was a British animation very loosely based on the Dick King Smith book The Fox Busters. It was made by Cosgrove Hall and consisted of two series of thirteen 11 minute episodes each, made between 1999 and 2000.
FoxBox (sports) Fox Box was Fox Sports' term for the chyron graphic used during its broadcasts of baseball and the National Football League, among others, which displayed the score of the game and other real-time information (time left in periods/outs left in baseball innings, football downs and yards-to-go, base positions in baseball, speed of baseball pitches, etc.) in the upper corner of the screen during the telecast.
Foxcore Foxcore is a word coined by Thurston Moore to describe a style of alternative rock.Smells Like Teen Spirit: Riot Grrrls, Revolution and Women in Independent Rock, Joanne Gottieb and Gayle Wald, in Microphone Fiends: Youth, Music, and Youth Culture, eds.
Foxcroft Academy Foxcroft Academy, founded in 1823, is a private high school located in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. It also serves as the public high school for MSAD #68, as well as other communities in the area that are not part of an organized school system.
Foxe Peninsula Foxe Peninsula is a peninsula found at the southern end of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It juts out from the southerly end of the island in a southwestly direction, dividing Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe (first published by John Day in 1563, with many subsequent editions, also by Day), is an apocalyptically oriented English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, mainly in England, and other groups from former centuries who were deemed by Foxe and others of his contemporaries, such as John Bale, to be forerunners of the Protestant Reformation through whom the lineage of the church of England could be traced. Though the work is commonly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the full title is Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church.
Foxena Foxena Wolf is an Animal princess of Kimberly Miller's yet to be published novel series, 7crystals, the stouthearted princess braves many journeys in the name of her father, King Reynard, and her kingdom of sentient, anthropomorphic animals.
Foxfield, Cumbria Foxfield is a village on the west coast of Cumbria, in the Furness district that was part of Lancashire from 1182 to 1974. It lies on the Duddon Estuary, just outside of the Lake District National Park, around ten miles to the north-east of Barrow-in-Furness and one mile out of Broughton-in-Furness.
Foxfire (bioluminescence) Foxfire is the term for the bioluminescence created by a fungus that can grow on decaying wood in the right conditions. It is often attributed to members of the genus Armillaria, though others are reported, and as many as 40 individual species have been identified.
Foxfire Fund The Foxfire Fund or, simply, Foxfire, is a not-for-profit educational and literary organization in Rabun County, Georgia that uses stories and practical instructions from the people in its Appalachian surroundings to teach and promote a self-sufficient, self-reflective way of life. Founded by Eliot Wigginton in the 1960s, Foxfire has published Foxfire Magazine continuously since 1966, and the highly popular Foxfire books since 1972.
Foxfish The foxfish, Bodianus frenchii, is a wrasse of the genus Bodianus, found in south western Western Australia to east South Australia, and from southern Queensland to eastern Tasmania, at depths of between 10 and 40 metres. Its length is up to 45 cm.
Foxglove (DC Comics) Foxglove is a fictional character from the Sandman series, a lesbian pop superstar who falls in love with a woman named Hazel (and in a Death side series) raises a child who accidentally dies. Her partner attempts to revive the child by making a pact with Death, allowing him to live a little longer, but on the understanding that eventually one of them will have to take his place.
Foxhall P. Keene Foxhall Parker Keene (December 18, 1867 - September 25, 1941) was an American Thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a World and Olympic Gold Medallist in polo who was rated the best all-around polo player in the United States for eight consecutive years, a golfer who competed in the U.S.
Foxhill House Foxhill House is a Gothic revival style building on the Whiteknights campus of the University of Reading in the English town of Reading. It was originally built by the famous architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1868 as his own residence.
Foxie Foxie is advertised as a Internet Explorer shell, meaning it uses the Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer, its stated purpose is to "bridge the gap between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox" essentially installing a selected set of Firefox features that work on top of Internet Explorer instead of installing an entirely new browser. The name probably derives from a merging of Firefox and IE, a popular acronym for Internet Explorer.
Foxiland "Foxiland" is a political term in Mexico that refers to the country described by former President Vicente Fox in his public and official declarations. Indeed, according to his detractors this country, where everything is working for the best, is only an illusion of President Fox, shared by some of his collaborators.
Foxit Reader Foxit Reader is a freely available PDF reader for 32-bit Microsoft Windows (95 up to XP, including Mobile), GNU/Linux, and U3. It is notable for its short load time and small filesize, which are sometimes favorably compared to Adobe ReaderEditorial review of Foxit PDF Reader on CNet.
Foxtail (diaspore) Foxtails are spikelets or spikelet clusters of grasses (some of which are themselves called foxtails) that can become a health hazard for long-haired dogs and other domestic animals, and a nuisance for people. Foxtails are also called "speargrass".
Foxtail millet Foxtail millet (botanic name Setaria italica) is the second most widely planted species of millet, and the most important in East Asia. It has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since sometime in the sixth millennium BC.
Foxtail Pine The Foxtail Pine (Pinus balfouriana) is a rare pine that is endemic to California, USA, where it is found in two areas with a separate subspecies in each, the typical subsp. balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains, and subsp.
Foxtel Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. It commenced supplying cable TV services to customers in May, 1995.
Foxton Beach Foxton Beach is a small settlement in the Horowhenua District of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the South Taranaki Bight at the mouth of the Manawatu River, 35 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North, and six kilometres west of Foxton.
Foxton Locks Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton.
Foxton Technology Foxton is an Intel code-name for a power-management technology that was originally planned for inclusion in the first dual-core Itanium 2 processor (code-named Montecito). By providing very granular control of voltages and clock frequencies within the processor, it enables software performance to be optimized for specific workloads, while ensuring that power consumption remains below a particular value.
Foxton, Cambridgeshire Foxton, a small village in South Cambridgeshire, England, is celebrated in Rowland Parker's classic of local history The Common Stream (1975) (ISBN 0-89733-391-8). It has a number of perfectly preserved fifteenth and sixteenth century houses, and a thirteenth century church (St Laurence).
Foxtons Foxtons is an estate agent company, founded in Notting Hill in 1981 and based in London (but also operating in other areas such as New York City). One of the most visible estate agents in London, the firm is known for being a high-pressure and volatile place in which to work, and is considered by many to be a 'rogue' estate agent.
Foxtrot The Foxtrot (also: "Fox trot", "foxtrot", "fox trot") is a ballroom dance which takes its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox. According to legend, Fox was unable to find female dancers capable of performing the more difficult two-step.
FoxTrax FoxTrax (colloquially called the glow puck, smart puck, or super puck) was a specialized ice hockey puck with internal electronics that allowed its position to be tracked designed for NHL telecasts on the Fox television network. Primarily, it was used to visually highlight the puck on-screen and display a trail when the puck was moving rapidly.
FoxTrot FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend centering on the daily lives of the Fox family; Andy, Roger, Paige, Peter, and Jason. As of December 2006, FoxTrot is carried by over 1,000 newspapers worldwide.
Foxwoods Resort Casino Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. Foxwoods is the largest casino in the world, as measured by floor space for gaming, with 340,000 ft² (31,587 m²) The entire resort comprises 4,700,000 ft² (440,000 m²) of space.
Foxxy Cleopatra Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles, was the female counterpart to Austin Powers in the third Austin Powers film; Austin Powers in Goldmember. Her character is a parody of characters in “blaxploitation” films such as Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones.
Foxy (cartoon character) Foxy is an animated cartoon character featured in three 1931 animated shorts in the Merrie Melodies series distributed by Warner Bros.  He was the creation of animator Rudolf Ising, who had worked for Walt Disney in the 1920s.
Foxy and Tom Foxy and Tom (Foxy - real name John Fox - born 13 November 1979 in Hull and Tom Rhys - born Thomas Rhys Bellwood on 1 June 1979 in Wanstead, London) are a British radio duo who currently present the breakfast show on 2-TEN FM.
Foxy boxing Foxy boxing involves women boxing (or pretending to do so) in a sexualized context as a form of erotic entertainment, or for depiction in pornography. The participants are typically dressed in revealing clothing such as bikinis.
Foxy Brown Inga Marchand (born September 6 1979 in Brooklyn, New York), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent known for her solo work as well as numerous collaborations and a brief stint as part of hip-hop supergroup] [[Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album|The Firm, while following footsteps of Brooklyn native Lil' Kim. She has released three albums: Ill Na Na (1996), Chyna Doll (1999), and Broken Silence (2001) while also being featured on Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album (1997).
Foxy Brown (film) Foxy Brown is a blaxploitation film from 1974, written and directed by Jack Hill. Its stars Pam Grier as the title character, described by one character as "a whole lot of woman" who showcases unrelenting sexiness while battling the villains.
Foxy Brown (singer) Vocalist Foxy Brown was born in Jamaica as Jenniffer Esmerelda Hylton. Her first introduction to the reggae charts were via the Steely & Clevie-produced versions of 'Fast Car' and '(Sorry) Baby Can I Hold You Tonight', the latter even entering Billboard's Black Singles Chart.
Foxy Lady Foxy Lady is a song by Jimi Hendrix from his 1967 album Are You Experienced, featuredas the lead track on the official UK edition. It can also be found on a number of his greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits (1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997).
FoxyTunes FoxyTunes is a Firefox extension and Internet Explorer add-on which allows the user to control the selected media player from the browser window. FoxyTunes works in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Application Suite, Flock and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Foy Vance Foy Vance is a Bangor born songsmith, now living in London. He released his first single "Gabriel and the vagabond" c/w with "Indiscriminate Act of kindness" on December 18th, 2006 on Wurdamouth Records.
Foy's Lake Foy's Lake was dug in 1924 and was named after the Railway engineer Foy. It is beautiful, serene, blue, surrounded by lush, green hills, symbolizing Chittagong's eternal image, and has thus been the subject of an amusement park, headed by Concord, the makers of the world-class Fantasy Kingdom amusement park in Dhaka, and Bangladesh's largest construction company,
Foyle Bridge The Foyle Bridge is a bridge in Derry in Northern Ireland. Although the central span of the bridge is the second longest in Ireland at 234 metres (767 feet), the whole suspended bridge structure including the approach spans is the longest in Ireland at 866 metres (2839 feet).
Foyle Harps Y.F.C. Foyle Harps Youth Football Club is a youth football team based in Derry, Northern Ireland. The club is currently one of the most successful youth football clubs in Northern Ireland and is renowned for producing many talented professional footballers.
Foyle's War Foyle's War is a British detective television series. Foyle's War was created by screen-writer and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running detective series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000.
Foz do Iguaçu Foz do Iguaçu () is the 4th largest city of Paraná state, Brazil and the 11th largest of the Brazil's Southern region, with a population of 309,000 habitants (including the nearby community of Santa Terezinha de Itaipu). It is located approximately 650 km west of Curitiba, Parana's capital city.
Foz do Tua Foz do Tua is a small village in Portugal on the right bank of the Douro river. It is surrounded by some of the most beautiful and important Farms (Portuguese, quinta) in the Douro Valley - Quinta do Tua (Cockburn's), Quinta dos Aciprestes (Real Companhia Velha) and Quinta dos Malvedos (Graham's - Symington family).
Fozzie Bear Fozzie Bear is a fictional character, originally created by Jim Henson as a member of The Muppets. He is an orange, fuzzy Muppet bear who tells semi-funny jokes and ends each joke with his catch phrase "Wocka Wocka Wocka.
FO' brothas FO' brothas is a non-profit organization that promotes the empowerment of black gay men through direct service programming, education, issue advocacy, and resource development around issues that enhance the lives of gay black men, their families and communities.
FO4 Fanout of 4 is a concept in electronics referring to the gate capacitance between two consecutive stages. In recent CMOS processes, it is generally the case that the minimum delay in an inverter chain occurs when each succeeding inverter has a gate capacitance 4 times larger than that of the previous inverter.
FOAF (software) FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is a project for machine-readable modelling of homepage-like profiles and social networks. Founded by Libby Miller and Dan Brickley, at the heart is a schema for defining relationships between people, and various attributes such as name, gender, and interests.
FOB (play) FOB is a 1981 Obie Award-winning play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's first play, it depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and "Fresh Off the Boat" newcomer immigrants.
FOB Salerno FOB Salerno is a foward operating base in south eastern province of Khowst, near the city of Khost. Nicknamed "Rocket City" due to the large amounts of incoming rocket and mortar fire in previous years.
FOB Speicher FOB Speicher (formerly Al Sahra Airfield) is US Army Forward Operating Base located near Tikrit in northern Iraq, approximately 170 kilometers north of Baghdad and 11 kilometers west of the Tigris River. The airfield is served by two main runways measuring 10,000 and 9,600 feet long with a shorter runway measuring 7,200 foot.
FOCUS FOCUS is a software product of Information Builders Inc. Originally developed for data handling and analysis on the IBM mainframe, as newer systems were developed and smaller computers became more powerful, the available platforms for FOCUS were extended all the way down to personal computers and in 1997, to the Web in the WebFOCUS product.
FOCUS Brands FOCUS Brands is an affiliate of the Atlanta-based private equity firm, Roark Capital Group, that owns the Schlotzsky's, Carvel, Cinnabon, and Seattle's Best Coffee International brands. It purchased seattle's Best and Cinnabon from AFC Enterprises in 2004 and Schlotzsky's from Bobby Cox Companies in 2006.
FOCUS Program The FOCUS Program is a voluntary, interdisciplinary academic curriculum for freshmen that was first established at Duke University. It received national acclaim and a similar program has since spread to Washington University in St.
FOIL rule The FOIL rule, also sometimes known as the double distributive property or more colloquially as foiling, is commonly taught to students learning algebra as a mnemonic for remembering how to multiply two binomials (polynomials with two terms). The name comes from the order of multiplying terms of the binomials:
FOLFOX FOLFOX is a chemotherapy regimen for treatment of advanced colorectal cancer, consisting of concurrent treatment with fluorouracil, leucovorin (folinic acid), and oxaliplatin. Patients typically receive a treatment every two weeks, all drugs are adminsitered intravenously.
FOP FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is an XSL-FO processor written in Java, which provides the feature to convert XSL-FO files to PDF or direct-printable-files. FOP was originally developed by James Tauber who donated it to the Apache Software Foundation in 1999.
FOREST FOREST, which describes itself as the "voice and friend of the smoker", is a United Kingdom political pressure group that campaigns for the right of people to smoke tobacco and opposes attempts to ban or reduce tobacco consumption, as well as casting doubt on medical claims of the health risks of smoking.
FORFUSCO The Naval Light Infantry and Naval Commandos units are under command of the Force Maritime des Fusiliers Marins et Commandos (FORFUSCO) in Lorient. It is headed by an officer with the title of Commandement des Fusiliers Marins et Commandos (COFUSCO).
FORGE Program The FORGE Program (FORGE stands for Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) is a non-governmental organization geared towards aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as raising public awareness about pressing global issues. The organization is primarily geared towards Western university students and its stated goal is to utilize "youth as catalysts for social change" and "raise awareness about critical global issues".
FORMOSAT-1 FORMOSAT-1 (福爾摩沙衛星一號, formerly known as ROCSAT-1) is an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Space Organization (NSPO) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to conduct observations of the ionosphere and oceans. The spacecraft and its instrumentation were developed jointly by NSPO and TRW using TRW's Lightsat bus, and was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA by Lockheed Martin on January 16 1999.
FOSDEM Since 2001, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) is an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software community. It is organised by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium every year at the end of February.

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