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Fraser Valley Venom The Fraser Valley Venom are a Canadian rugby union team based in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. The team plays in the Rugby Canada Super League and draws most of its players from the Fraser Valley Rugby Union, one of fourteen Rugby Unions that have rep teams in the RCSL.
Fraser's Magazine Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal. It was founded by Hugh Fraser and William Maginn in 1830 and loosely directed by Maginn (and later Francis Mahony) under the name Oliver Yorke until about 1840.
Fraser-Fort George Regional District, British Columbia The Fraser-Fort George Regional District of British Columbia is located in the east central part of the province. It is bounded by the Alberta border to the east, the Columbia-Shuswap and Thompson-Nicola Regional Districts to the south, Cariboo District to the southwest, Bulkley-Nechako District to the west, and the Peace River District to the north/northeast.
Frasier Crane Frasier Winslow Crane is a character on American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier. Frasier's character was introduced on Cheers in 1984 as a psychiatrist love interest for Cheers barmaid Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), who calls him to help Sam Malone combat his recent relapse into active alcoholism.
Frat Pack The Frat Pack is an unofficial 1990s-2000s era nickname given to a group of male Hollywood actors, who have appeared together in many movies since the mid 1990s. It was coined by USA Today in a story from June 2004.
Frat Party at the Pankake Festival Linkin Park released their first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, on November 20, 2001, more than one year after the release of their critically-acclaimed debut album, Hybrid Theory. The release documented the band on its touring cycle to support Hybrid Theory.
Fratelli Mancuso The Fratelli Mancuso, the brothers Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso, are musicians who were born in Sutera in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. They moved to London in the 1970s and and have been based in CittĂ della Pieve, Umbria since 1981.
Fraternal and service organizations A fraternal organization, sometimes also known as a "fraternity," is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. There is a great deal of overlap between the terms Friendly Society and fraternal organization.
Fraternal birth order In psychology the fraternal birth order effect is the name given to the observation that the more older brothers a man has, the greater the probability is that he will have a homosexual sexual orientation. The fraternal birth order effect is the strongest known predictor of sexual orientation, each older brother increases a man's chances of being gay by about 33%Blanchard, R.
Fraternal Forestry Fraternal Forestry is a term for a movement of fraternal organizations (or friendly societies) marked by a confusing history of merger, separation and charitable activity throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Fraternal Order of Eagles Fraternal Order of Eagles International is a fraternal organization. It was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater owners, including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W.
Fraternal Order of Police The Fraternal Order of Police is a fraternal organization for sworn police officers. It is the largest professional law enforcement association in the United States, with some 2100 local chapters, or lodges, and an estimated 321,000 members.
Fraternal Order Orioles Fraternal Order Orioles is a social and charitable organization that was founded in August 1910. The organization currently consists of about 54 local Nests and affiliated Auxiliaries located in 9 States in the eastern United States.
Fraternal polyandry Fraternal polyandry (from the Latin frater - brother) is a form of polyandrous marriage in which two or more brothers share one wife or more. It is also termed adelphogamy, but this term also has other meanings.
Fraternis: Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood Fraternis: Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood is Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem's second book of the trilogy of "The Hidden History", and the sequel to "2012: Appointment With Marduk", best-selling book (Istanbul, 2003) on hypothetical Planet X and Mayan "End Date" 2012.
Fraternities and sororities The terms "fraternity" and "sorority" (from the Latin words and , meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, Ordo Templi Orientis or the Shriners. In the United States, the Philippines and Canada, however, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations for higher education students.
Fraternities and sororities at Dalhousie University The fraternities and sororities of Dalhousie University are well established and active in the Halifax community. Despite their relative prominence, though, none are officially recognized as Dalhousie student societies.
Fraternity (band) Fraternity was an Australian rock band active in the early 1970s. They are notable mainly for their lead vocalist Bon Scott who was later to join AC/DC; and Jimmy Barnes, Scott's replacement, who went on to join Cold Chisel and have a very successful solo career.
Fraternity and sorority houses Fraternity houses and sorority house are houses lived in by fraternities and sororities for members of each organization to live and work together as a whole. In addition to serving as housing, fraternity and sorority houses often also host social gatherings, meetings, and functions that benefit the community.
Fraternity Bridge The Tancredo Neves Bridge, better known as Fraternity Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte da Fraternidade, Spanish: Puente de la Fraternidad) connects the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu with the Argentine Puerto Iguazú, crossing over the Iguassu River.
Fraternity Vacation Fraternity Vacation is a 1985 B-movie romp starring future movie star Tim Robbins as an egregious frat boy of the Theta Pi Gamma fraternity (or, as they are known to their Iowa State frat rivals, the "Theta Pigs"). Also starring Stephen Geoffreys, future star of gay pornography, as Wendell Tvedt, the classic 80s supernerd.
Fraternization Fraternization, or "to become like brothers," is a term that carries within it the connotation of impropriety in terms of morals, ethics and professionalism. Militaries typically prohibit officers and enlisted ranks from personally associating outside of their professional duties and orders, perhaps to avoid accusations of favoritism, which would challenge military discipline; excessively familiar relationships between officers of different ranks may also be considered fraternization, especially when between officers in the same chain of command; and another reason involves avoidance of spreading military top secrets, a crime that carries legal charges (see United States military law) under treason or sedition in extreme cases.
Fraterville, Tennessee Fraterville, Tennessee, is a mining town located on State Route 116 in Anderson County between the towns of Lake City and Briceville. Fraterville is infamous for the Fraterville Mine Disaster that occurred there in 1902.
Fraticelli The Fraticelli, sometimes confusingly called Fratricelli, were medieval Roman Catholic groups that could trace their origins to the Franciscans, but which came into being as a separate entity. The Fraticelli were declared heretical by the Church in 1318, when Angelo da Clareno defied the authority of Pope John XXII.
Frattini subgroup In mathematics, the Frattini subgroup Φ(G) of a group G is the intersection of all proper maximal subgroups of G, or, if G has no proper maximal subgroups, then Φ(G) is defined to be G itself. It is analogous to the Jacobson radical in the theory of commutative rings, and intuitively can be thought of as the subgroup of "small elements" (see the "non-generator" characterization below).
Frattini's argument In group theory, a branch of mathematics, Frattini's argument is an important lemma in the structure theory of finite groups. It is named after Giovanni Frattini, who first used it in a paper from 1885 when defining the Frattini subgroup of a group.
Frau im Mond Frau im Mond is a science fiction silent movie released in 1929, and is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. The title Frau im Mond translates to "Woman in the Moon".
Frau musica nova Frau Musica Nova (often written "Frau Musica (nova)") was a conference held in November 1998 at the Musikhochschule (music conservatory) in Cologne, focusing on historical and living women composers. The conference consisted of both academic paper sessions and concerts, including a newly commissioned work by Pauline Oliveros.
Frau Solf Tea Party The Frau Solf Tea Party (September 10, 1943) , as it came to be known in Nazi circles, was a gathering of anti-Nazi intellectuals which ultimately resulted in the demise of the Abwehr in February the following year.
Frau Wäber Frau Wäber (Mrs Wäber) is a popular and long-running drag act on German television, who appears in a number of light entertainment, Schlager and Volksmusik programmes on the state channel SWR, and on SWR-produced programmes of the same type in ARD. The character is played by Hansy Vogt, who also presents programmes as himself, and sometimes appears both as himself and Frau Wäber in the same programme.
Fraudience The term fraudience is a portmanteau derived from the terms fraud and audience. It generally applies to audiences on infomercials who, although supposedly unbiased and uninformed about the product, are in fact paid to cheer, gasp, and exclaim their joy and wonder about the product in question on cue.
Fraudulent trading In insolvency law, fraudulent trading refers to a company which has carried on business with intent to defraud creditors.For example, in the United Kingdom, see section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 Where during the course of a winding-up it appears to the liquidator that fraudulent trading has occurred, the liquidator may apply to the court for an order any persons who were knowingly parties to the carrying on of such business are to be made liable to make such contributions (if any) to the company's assets as the court thinks proper.
Frauenburg (as well as Marienburg or the similar Frauenberg) was a name given to many buildings and several towns that had German-speaking population in the Middle Ages. The names usually originated in the construction of a fortified (hence "-burg") chapel, church, or monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, also called "Heilige Frau" (holy woman) in German.
Frauendorf (Bad Staffelstein) Frauendorf is a borough of Bad Staffelstein in the Bavarian region of Upper Franconia. The town's name harks back to the year 1070, when it served as a gift to enable the establishment of the Frauenkloster (Monastery of Our Lady).
Frauenchiemsee The island Frauenchiemsee (often called Fraueninsel) is the second largest of the three island in Chiemsee. It belongs to the municipality of Chiemsee in upper bavarian district of Rosenheim, which is the smallest municipality in all of Bavaria.
FraumĂĽnster The FraumĂĽnster abbey of ZĂĽrich was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of ZĂĽrich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority.
Fraunces Tavern Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in New York City. It was built on the site of a former building where, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bid farewell to his officers at war's end, and which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities.
Fraunhofer (crater) Fraunhofer is a lunar crater that is located just to the south-southwest of the Furnerius walled plain, in the southeastern part of the Moon. This crater appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, and is actually nearly circular.
Fraunhofer diffraction In optics, Fraunhofer diffraction is a form of wave diffraction, which occurs when field waves are passed through an aperture or slit, causing only the size of an observed aperture image to changeHecht, E. (1987), p396 -- Definition of Frauenhoffer diffraction and explanation of forms.
Fraunhofer lines In physics and optics, the Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral lines named for the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826). The lines were originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in the optical spectrum of the Sun.
Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society (German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) is a German research organization with 58 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, which works primarily on basic science). It employs over 12,500, mainly scientists and engineers, with an annual research budget of over one billion Euro.
Frausdots Frausdots is a band from Los Angeles, California, USA. The band consists of Brent Rademaker, formerly of The Tyde and Beachwood Sparks, and Michelle Loiselle, a former backing singer for Guns N' Roses, Carl Tapia, Roger Brogan, Exiquio Talavera and David Baum.
Fravashi In Zoroastrian doctrine a Fravashi or Fravaši (Avestan, ŮرŮردین Farvadin in later Persian) is the guardian spirit of an individual, who sends out the urvan (often translated as 'soul') into the material world to fight the battle of good versus evil. On the morning of the fourth day after death, the urvan returns to its fravashi, where its experiences in the material world are collected.
Fraxinus nigra Fraxinus nigra, the Black Ash, is a species of ash which occurs in the northeastern United States and much of eastern Canada, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba, and south to Illinois and northern Virginia.
Fray CD Fray CD is a graphically enhanced remake of Fray in Magical Adventure, which was a spinoff sidestory or "gaiden" in a fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak. Both Xak and Fray were developed and published by the Japanese software developer MicroCabin.
Fray in Magical Adventure Fray in Magical Adventure is a spinoff sidestory or "gaiden" game in a fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak developed and published by the Japanese software developer MicroCabin. Even though it is directly connected to the more serious Xak series storyline, Fray has a less serious tone and light-hearted comedic approach to telling the story.
Fray Luis Beltrán Fray Luis Beltrán is a small city in the , located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario, north of the city of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River. It has a population of about 14,000 inhabitants as of the .
Fray MartĂn de MurĂşa Fray MartĂn de MurĂşa, Spanish Dominican Friar and chronicler, was a missionary in Peru during the XVI and XVII centuries, carrying out his mission in the proximities of Lake Titicaca and Cuzco, where he came to know some features of the primitive inhabitants of the Tahuantinsuyu (Inca Empire) very well. In addition to his evangelistic work, he was devoted to the task of gathering data to write a history of the Incan past which, in 1613, he entitled Historia general del PerĂş.
Fray Tormenta Fray Tormenta (born Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, 1945) is a Mexican priest who supported an orphanage for 23 years by taking up a career in Lucha Libre. While performing, he wore a mask with red and yellow colors.
Fraye Arbeter Shtime The Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Freie Arbeiter Stimme, The Free Voice of Labor) was the longest-running anarchist periodical in the Yiddish language, founded initially as an American counterpart to Rudolf Rocker's London-based Arbeter Fraynd (Workers' Friend). The early Yiddish spelling, Fraye Arbayter Shtime, reflects the early 20th century fashion to germanize certain Yiddish words.
Frayser, Memphis Frayser is a neighborhood in north Memphis, Tennessee. Frayser developed in the mid twentieth century as an industrial, working class suburb due to its proximity to the industrial area of Memphis, including a large International Harvester plant.
Fraz-Urb'luu In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Fraz-Urb'luu is a demon lord, sometimes known as the "Prince of Deception." In Gary Gygax's Gord novels, Fraz-Urb'luu is alternately called Var-Az-Hloo.
Frazer (automobile) The Frazer (1946-1951) was the flagship senior line of upper-medium priced American luxury automobiles built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation of Willow Run Ypsilanti, Michigan, and was, with Crosley, the first American car with new envelope body and fresh postwar styling.
Frazer Nash Frazer Nash was a British automobile manufacturer, founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. The company produced around 400 cars until the mid-1930s, notably a series of chain-drive models, and 85 more cars from 1948 to 1957.
Frazer Smith (Comedian/Broadcaster) Frazer Smith is a DJ and stand up comedian. He was born in Detroit and worked in Los Angeles, California at KROQ from 1976 thru 1979, KLOS-FM 1979 thru 1984, KMET 1984 thru 1986, KLSX 1986 thru 1997 KLOS in 1997 and KRTH in 2002.
Frazhin Frazhin is a fictional character in the fantasy novel trilogy The Echorium Sequence featuring in all three novels. Frazhin is the main villain in all three books, manipulating an unusual mineral called khiz-crystal to mind control, poison and wipe creatures and humans minds.
Frazier International History Museum The Frazier International History Museum, formerly the Frazier Historical Arms Museum, is a historical arms museum located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. The museum focuses on U.
Frazier School District The Frazier School District is a small public district located in Fayette County, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh. It serves the boroughs of Perryopolis and Newell, and the townships of Perry, Jefferson, and Lower Tyrone.
Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia The community of Fraziers Bottom in Putnam County, West Virginia is named after several families named Frazier who once lived in the bottom lands. It is apparently the only place in the United States with this name.
Frazione A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. The word is cognate to English fraction.
Frazzle Frazzle is the only Muppet monster intended to be "scary", in the children's television series Sesame Street. During the late-1980s to early-1990s, his career was limited to that of a background extra, due to his intimidating appearance.
FrĂĽhstĂĽckstreff FrĂĽhstĂĽckstreff is an international, multi-lingual breakfast club initiative located in over 50 cities in Europe and Australia. Founded in July 2001, the social networking site allows gentle people to meet for breakfast, share their hobbies and special interests with other members of the community.
Fróði Fróði (from Old Norse Fróðr) or Froda (Old English) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.
Frýdlant nad Ostravicà Frýdlant nad Ostravicà (German: Friedland an der Ostrawitza) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Ostravice River, which in past divided the historcal countries of Moravia and Silesia, under the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy mountains.
Frýdlant v Čechách Frýdlant, sometimes cited also as Frýdlant v Čechách (-Czech, German: Friedland im Isergebirge) is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has approximately 7,500 inhabitants and lies on the outskirts of the Jizera Mountains.
Frá dauĂ°a Sinfjötla Frá dauĂ°a Sinfjötla (On the death of Sinfjötli) is a short prose piece found in the Codex Regius manuscript of the Poetic Edda. It describes the death of Sinfjötli, son of Sigmundr, connecting HelgakviĂ°a Hundingsbana II and GrĂpisspá.
Frédéric de Saint-Sernin Frédéric Marie Joseph Bruno de Laparre de Saint-Sernin (born 14 February 1958) was the representative of French Co-Prince Jacques Chirac in Andorra until 2002. He has been an advisor to the French President since 1999.
Frédéric Dohou Frédéric Dohou is a Beninese politician. He served as acting foreign minister of the country from February 2006 to 10 April 2006 after the previous foreign minister, Rogatien Biaou, was sacked following corruption allegations.
Frédéric Esther Frédéric Esther (born June 8, 1972) is a boxer from France, competing in the middleweight (– 75 kg) division. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was stopped in the quarterfinales of the light middleweight division (– 71 kg) by eventual silver medalist Marian Simion of Romania.
Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1779-1863), the third son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, was a French nobleman who, during Napoléon's brief 1815 return to power, fled to Switzerland and tried to organise a volunteer army in support of the restored French monarchy of Louis XVIII.
Frédéric Louis Godet Frédéric Louis Godet (October 25 1812, Neuchatel – October 29 1900, Neuchatel) was a Swiss Protestant theologian. After studying theology at Neuchatel, Bonn and Berlin, he was in 1850 appointed professor of theology at Neuchatel.
Frédéric Marcelin Frédéric Marcelin (1848 – 1917) was a Haitian writer and politician. Born in Port-au-Prince, Marcelin was best known for the three novels Marilisse (1903), La Vengeance de Mama (1902), and Thémistocle Epaminondas Labasterre (1901).
Frédéric Michalak Frédéric Michalak (born 16 October 1982 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French rugby union footballer who plays for his hometown team, Toulouse in the Top 14 and Heineken Cup. He has played over 40 matches for France.
Frédéric Mistral Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830 - March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement.
Frédéric Mitterrand Frédéric Mitterrand (born August 21, 1947) is a French actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. He is the nephew of the former French president François Mitterrand and the son of Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, co-founder of La Cagoule.
Frédéric Rossif Frédéric Rossif (August 14, 1922 - April 18, 1990) was a French film and television director. He directed several documentaries, primarily dealing with animals and historical events, and frequently used music of Vangelis, although also used original compositions by Maurice Jarre.
Frédéric Serrat Frédéric Serrat (born March 15, 1977 in Grasse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) is a professional boxer from France. Serrat's most notable performance as an amateur was winning the silver medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Frédéric Weis Frédéric Weis (born 22 June, 1977 in Thionville, France) is a professional basketball player currently playing for Lagun Aro Bilbao in Spain. He previously played for Unicaja Málaga in Spain, and before that Limoges in France.
Frédéric-Louis Allamand Frédéric-Louis Allamand (~ February 5 1736 - after 1803) was a Swiss botanist. Born in Payerne, Switzerland, he moved to Leiden, Netherlands in 1749 to live with his uncle, Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand (1731-1791).
Frédérick Lemaître Frédérick Lemaitre, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaitre at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name.
Frédérik Boisvert Frédérik Boisvert is the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party of Canada's riding committee for the federal electoral district of Québec, and is the party's candidate for that riding in the next federal election. He was also manager of Robert Ouellette campaign for the leadership of Renouveau municipal de Québec — a regional party contesting municipal elections in Quebec City.
Fréchet derivative In mathematics, the Fréchet derivative is a derivative defined on Banach spaces. Named after Maurice Fréchet, it is commonly used to formalize the concept of the functional derivative used in physics and in particular, in quantum field theory.
Fréchet space In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, Fréchet spaces or Frechet spaces, named after Maurice Fréchet, are special topological vector spaces. They are generalizations of Banach spaces, normed vector spaces which are complete with respect to the metric induced by the norm.
Fréchet surface In mathematics, a Fréchet surface is an equivalence class of parametrized surfaces in a metric space. In other words, a Fréchet surface is a way of thinking about surfaces independently of how they are "written down" (parametrized).
Frémok (publisher) Frémok (FRMK) is a Franco-Belgian comics publishing house, which is a "major" actor in the independent comics scene that emerged during the 1990s in these countries. It was formed by the union of the former publishers Amok (France) and Fréon (Belgium).
Frémont Point Transmitter Frémont Point Transmitter is a facility for FM and television transmission at Frémont, Jersey at . It serves the whole of the Channel Islands and uses as its antenna a 139 metre tall tower built of lattice steel.
FrĂ©ttir, ĂĂľrĂłttir og veĂ°ur FrĂ©ttir, ĂĂľrĂłttir og veĂ°ur (English: News, sports and weather), is the principal nightly television news program of the Icelandic public television network SjĂłnvarpiĂ°. The program has been broadcast since the network was launched in 1966 and is the highest rated of all television programs in Iceland.
Fræbbblarnir Fræbbblarnir were formed in Iceland in 1978 and released a number of records until they quit early 1983. A punk / pop band in the happy-go-lucky “sector” of the punk era playing short, melodic songs fast and raw.
Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner, often shortened to simply Frække Frida, is a Danish language film released in 1994, which achieved minor popularity when released in Denmark. It is based on books by Lykke Nielsen, who unfortunately died of breast cancer August 29, 2006.
Fröhlich Prize The Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The Prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics, and is awarded to mathematicians under 40 years of age normally resident in the United Kingdom.
Fröhlicher spectral sequence In mathematics, the Fröhlicher spectral sequence is a tool in the theory of complex manifolds, for expressing the potential failure of the results of cohomology theory that are valid in general only for Kähler manifolds. A spectral sequence is set up, the degeneration of which would give the results of Hodge theory and Dolbeault's theorem.
Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket In mathematics, the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket is an extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields to vector-valued differential forms on a differentiable manifold. It is useful in the study of connections, notably the Ehresmann connection, as well as in the more general study of projections in the tangent bundle.
Frölunda Frölunda (formerly Västra Frölunda) is one of 21 boroughs in the city of Gothenburg. It is located in the south western part of the city, and is the smallest of the boroughs with a population of only 12,855 (2004) on 3.
Frölunda HC Frölunda HC (formerly Västra Frölunda HC), also known as Frölunda Indians, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Gothenburg, playing in Elitserien. Although their home arena is Scandinavium, Frölundaborg (capacity 9,200) is used when Scandinavium is occupied with other events.
Frösö Runestone Frösöstenen (J RS1928;66 $) is the northern-most rune stone in the world and Jämtland's only rune stone. It originally stood at the tip of ferry terminal on the sound between the island of Frösön and Östersund.
Frösön Frösön [fɾøËsøËn], or [fɾøËsĹ“ĘŹËa] in the local dialect Jamtlandic, (Frey's island) is a small island west of the city Ă–stersund. Frösön is the location of "Frösöstenen", the northernmost rune stone in the world, dating from 1030-1050 A.
Frøen (station) Frøen is a station on the Oslo T-bane in the Vestre Aker borough, it is the first station on Holmenkollbanen after Majorstuen. The name refers to Frøen Gård, a stately estate located near the present location of the t-bane station, of which now only the manor house remains.
Frøyatunnel The Frøyatunnel is a subsea road tunnel connecting Frøya municipality and Hitra municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The tunnel i 5305 metres long and reaches a depth of 150 metres below sea level.
Frère Jacques Beaulieu Frère Jacques Beaulieu (1651-1720) was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 1700s.
Frère Roger Frère Roger (Brother Roger) (Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 - Taizé, August 16, 2005), baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.
Fraser's Magazine Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal. It was founded by Hugh Fraser and William Maginn in 1830 and loosely directed by Maginn (and later Francis Mahony) under the name Oliver Yorke until about 1840.
Fraser-Fort George Regional District, British Columbia The Fraser-Fort George Regional District of British Columbia is located in the east central part of the province. It is bounded by the Alberta border to the east, the Columbia-Shuswap and Thompson-Nicola Regional Districts to the south, Cariboo District to the southwest, Bulkley-Nechako District to the west, and the Peace River District to the north/northeast.
Frasier Crane Frasier Winslow Crane is a character on American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier. Frasier's character was introduced on Cheers in 1984 as a psychiatrist love interest for Cheers barmaid Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), who calls him to help Sam Malone combat his recent relapse into active alcoholism.
Frat Pack The Frat Pack is an unofficial 1990s-2000s era nickname given to a group of male Hollywood actors, who have appeared together in many movies since the mid 1990s. It was coined by USA Today in a story from June 2004.
Frat Party at the Pankake Festival Linkin Park released their first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, on November 20, 2001, more than one year after the release of their critically-acclaimed debut album, Hybrid Theory. The release documented the band on its touring cycle to support Hybrid Theory.
Fratelli Mancuso The Fratelli Mancuso, the brothers Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso, are musicians who were born in Sutera in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. They moved to London in the 1970s and and have been based in CittĂ della Pieve, Umbria since 1981.
Fraternal and service organizations A fraternal organization, sometimes also known as a "fraternity," is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. There is a great deal of overlap between the terms Friendly Society and fraternal organization.
Fraternal birth order In psychology the fraternal birth order effect is the name given to the observation that the more older brothers a man has, the greater the probability is that he will have a homosexual sexual orientation. The fraternal birth order effect is the strongest known predictor of sexual orientation, each older brother increases a man's chances of being gay by about 33%Blanchard, R.
Fraternal Forestry Fraternal Forestry is a term for a movement of fraternal organizations (or friendly societies) marked by a confusing history of merger, separation and charitable activity throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Fraternal Order of Eagles Fraternal Order of Eagles International is a fraternal organization. It was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater owners, including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W.
Fraternal Order of Police The Fraternal Order of Police is a fraternal organization for sworn police officers. It is the largest professional law enforcement association in the United States, with some 2100 local chapters, or lodges, and an estimated 321,000 members.
Fraternal Order Orioles Fraternal Order Orioles is a social and charitable organization that was founded in August 1910. The organization currently consists of about 54 local Nests and affiliated Auxiliaries located in 9 States in the eastern United States.
Fraternal polyandry Fraternal polyandry (from the Latin frater - brother) is a form of polyandrous marriage in which two or more brothers share one wife or more. It is also termed adelphogamy, but this term also has other meanings.
Fraternis: Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood Fraternis: Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood is Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem's second book of the trilogy of "The Hidden History", and the sequel to "2012: Appointment With Marduk", best-selling book (Istanbul, 2003) on hypothetical Planet X and Mayan "End Date" 2012.
Fraternities and sororities The terms "fraternity" and "sorority" (from the Latin words and , meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, Ordo Templi Orientis or the Shriners. In the United States, the Philippines and Canada, however, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations for higher education students.
Fraternities and sororities at Dalhousie University The fraternities and sororities of Dalhousie University are well established and active in the Halifax community. Despite their relative prominence, though, none are officially recognized as Dalhousie student societies.
Fraternity (band) Fraternity was an Australian rock band active in the early 1970s. They are notable mainly for their lead vocalist Bon Scott who was later to join AC/DC; and Jimmy Barnes, Scott's replacement, who went on to join Cold Chisel and have a very successful solo career.
Fraternity and sorority houses Fraternity houses and sorority house are houses lived in by fraternities and sororities for members of each organization to live and work together as a whole. In addition to serving as housing, fraternity and sorority houses often also host social gatherings, meetings, and functions that benefit the community.
Fraternity Bridge The Tancredo Neves Bridge, better known as Fraternity Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte da Fraternidade, Spanish: Puente de la Fraternidad) connects the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu with the Argentine Puerto Iguazú, crossing over the Iguassu River.
Fraternity Vacation Fraternity Vacation is a 1985 B-movie romp starring future movie star Tim Robbins as an egregious frat boy of the Theta Pi Gamma fraternity (or, as they are known to their Iowa State frat rivals, the "Theta Pigs"). Also starring Stephen Geoffreys, future star of gay pornography, as Wendell Tvedt, the classic 80s supernerd.
Fraternization Fraternization, or "to become like brothers," is a term that carries within it the connotation of impropriety in terms of morals, ethics and professionalism. Militaries typically prohibit officers and enlisted ranks from personally associating outside of their professional duties and orders, perhaps to avoid accusations of favoritism, which would challenge military discipline; excessively familiar relationships between officers of different ranks may also be considered fraternization, especially when between officers in the same chain of command; and another reason involves avoidance of spreading military top secrets, a crime that carries legal charges (see United States military law) under treason or sedition in extreme cases.
Fraterville, Tennessee Fraterville, Tennessee, is a mining town located on State Route 116 in Anderson County between the towns of Lake City and Briceville. Fraterville is infamous for the Fraterville Mine Disaster that occurred there in 1902.
Fraticelli The Fraticelli, sometimes confusingly called Fratricelli, were medieval Roman Catholic groups that could trace their origins to the Franciscans, but which came into being as a separate entity. The Fraticelli were declared heretical by the Church in 1318, when Angelo da Clareno defied the authority of Pope John XXII.
Frattini subgroup In mathematics, the Frattini subgroup Φ(G) of a group G is the intersection of all proper maximal subgroups of G, or, if G has no proper maximal subgroups, then Φ(G) is defined to be G itself. It is analogous to the Jacobson radical in the theory of commutative rings, and intuitively can be thought of as the subgroup of "small elements" (see the "non-generator" characterization below).
Frattini's argument In group theory, a branch of mathematics, Frattini's argument is an important lemma in the structure theory of finite groups. It is named after Giovanni Frattini, who first used it in a paper from 1885 when defining the Frattini subgroup of a group.
Frau im Mond Frau im Mond is a science fiction silent movie released in 1929, and is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. The title Frau im Mond translates to "Woman in the Moon".
Frau musica nova Frau Musica Nova (often written "Frau Musica (nova)") was a conference held in November 1998 at the Musikhochschule (music conservatory) in Cologne, focusing on historical and living women composers. The conference consisted of both academic paper sessions and concerts, including a newly commissioned work by Pauline Oliveros.
Frau Solf Tea Party The Frau Solf Tea Party (September 10, 1943) , as it came to be known in Nazi circles, was a gathering of anti-Nazi intellectuals which ultimately resulted in the demise of the Abwehr in February the following year.
Frau Wäber Frau Wäber (Mrs Wäber) is a popular and long-running drag act on German television, who appears in a number of light entertainment, Schlager and Volksmusik programmes on the state channel SWR, and on SWR-produced programmes of the same type in ARD. The character is played by Hansy Vogt, who also presents programmes as himself, and sometimes appears both as himself and Frau Wäber in the same programme.
Fraudience The term fraudience is a portmanteau derived from the terms fraud and audience. It generally applies to audiences on infomercials who, although supposedly unbiased and uninformed about the product, are in fact paid to cheer, gasp, and exclaim their joy and wonder about the product in question on cue.
Fraudulent trading In insolvency law, fraudulent trading refers to a company which has carried on business with intent to defraud creditors.For example, in the United Kingdom, see section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 Where during the course of a winding-up it appears to the liquidator that fraudulent trading has occurred, the liquidator may apply to the court for an order any persons who were knowingly parties to the carrying on of such business are to be made liable to make such contributions (if any) to the company's assets as the court thinks proper.
Frauenburg (as well as Marienburg or the similar Frauenberg) was a name given to many buildings and several towns that had German-speaking population in the Middle Ages. The names usually originated in the construction of a fortified (hence "-burg") chapel, church, or monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, also called "Heilige Frau" (holy woman) in German.
Frauendorf (Bad Staffelstein) Frauendorf is a borough of Bad Staffelstein in the Bavarian region of Upper Franconia. The town's name harks back to the year 1070, when it served as a gift to enable the establishment of the Frauenkloster (Monastery of Our Lady).
Frauenchiemsee The island Frauenchiemsee (often called Fraueninsel) is the second largest of the three island in Chiemsee. It belongs to the municipality of Chiemsee in upper bavarian district of Rosenheim, which is the smallest municipality in all of Bavaria.
FraumĂĽnster The FraumĂĽnster abbey of ZĂĽrich was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of ZĂĽrich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority.
Fraunces Tavern Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant and museum in New York City. It was built on the site of a former building where, on 4 December 1783, General George Washington bid farewell to his officers at war's end, and which played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities.
Fraunhofer (crater) Fraunhofer is a lunar crater that is located just to the south-southwest of the Furnerius walled plain, in the southeastern part of the Moon. This crater appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, and is actually nearly circular.
Fraunhofer diffraction In optics, Fraunhofer diffraction is a form of wave diffraction, which occurs when field waves are passed through an aperture or slit, causing only the size of an observed aperture image to changeHecht, E. (1987), p396 -- Definition of Frauenhoffer diffraction and explanation of forms.
Fraunhofer lines In physics and optics, the Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral lines named for the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826). The lines were originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in the optical spectrum of the Sun.
Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society (German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) is a German research organization with 58 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, which works primarily on basic science). It employs over 12,500, mainly scientists and engineers, with an annual research budget of over one billion Euro.
Frausdots Frausdots is a band from Los Angeles, California, USA. The band consists of Brent Rademaker, formerly of The Tyde and Beachwood Sparks, and Michelle Loiselle, a former backing singer for Guns N' Roses, Carl Tapia, Roger Brogan, Exiquio Talavera and David Baum.
Fravashi In Zoroastrian doctrine a Fravashi or Fravaši (Avestan, ŮرŮردین Farvadin in later Persian) is the guardian spirit of an individual, who sends out the urvan (often translated as 'soul') into the material world to fight the battle of good versus evil. On the morning of the fourth day after death, the urvan returns to its fravashi, where its experiences in the material world are collected.
Fraxinus nigra Fraxinus nigra, the Black Ash, is a species of ash which occurs in the northeastern United States and much of eastern Canada, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba, and south to Illinois and northern Virginia.
Fray CD Fray CD is a graphically enhanced remake of Fray in Magical Adventure, which was a spinoff sidestory or "gaiden" in a fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak. Both Xak and Fray were developed and published by the Japanese software developer MicroCabin.
Fray in Magical Adventure Fray in Magical Adventure is a spinoff sidestory or "gaiden" game in a fantasy computer role-playing game series called Xak developed and published by the Japanese software developer MicroCabin. Even though it is directly connected to the more serious Xak series storyline, Fray has a less serious tone and light-hearted comedic approach to telling the story.
Fray Luis Beltrán Fray Luis Beltrán is a small city in the , located within the metropolitan area of Greater Rosario, north of the city of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River. It has a population of about 14,000 inhabitants as of the .
Fray MartĂn de MurĂşa Fray MartĂn de MurĂşa, Spanish Dominican Friar and chronicler, was a missionary in Peru during the XVI and XVII centuries, carrying out his mission in the proximities of Lake Titicaca and Cuzco, where he came to know some features of the primitive inhabitants of the Tahuantinsuyu (Inca Empire) very well. In addition to his evangelistic work, he was devoted to the task of gathering data to write a history of the Incan past which, in 1613, he entitled Historia general del PerĂş.
Fray Tormenta Fray Tormenta (born Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, 1945) is a Mexican priest who supported an orphanage for 23 years by taking up a career in Lucha Libre. While performing, he wore a mask with red and yellow colors.
Fraye Arbeter Shtime The Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Freie Arbeiter Stimme, The Free Voice of Labor) was the longest-running anarchist periodical in the Yiddish language, founded initially as an American counterpart to Rudolf Rocker's London-based Arbeter Fraynd (Workers' Friend). The early Yiddish spelling, Fraye Arbayter Shtime, reflects the early 20th century fashion to germanize certain Yiddish words.
Frayser, Memphis Frayser is a neighborhood in north Memphis, Tennessee. Frayser developed in the mid twentieth century as an industrial, working class suburb due to its proximity to the industrial area of Memphis, including a large International Harvester plant.
Fraz-Urb'luu In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Fraz-Urb'luu is a demon lord, sometimes known as the "Prince of Deception." In Gary Gygax's Gord novels, Fraz-Urb'luu is alternately called Var-Az-Hloo.
Frazer (automobile) The Frazer (1946-1951) was the flagship senior line of upper-medium priced American luxury automobiles built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation of Willow Run Ypsilanti, Michigan, and was, with Crosley, the first American car with new envelope body and fresh postwar styling.
Frazer Nash Frazer Nash was a British automobile manufacturer, founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. The company produced around 400 cars until the mid-1930s, notably a series of chain-drive models, and 85 more cars from 1948 to 1957.
Frazer Smith (Comedian/Broadcaster) Frazer Smith is a DJ and stand up comedian. He was born in Detroit and worked in Los Angeles, California at KROQ from 1976 thru 1979, KLOS-FM 1979 thru 1984, KMET 1984 thru 1986, KLSX 1986 thru 1997 KLOS in 1997 and KRTH in 2002.
Frazhin Frazhin is a fictional character in the fantasy novel trilogy The Echorium Sequence featuring in all three novels. Frazhin is the main villain in all three books, manipulating an unusual mineral called khiz-crystal to mind control, poison and wipe creatures and humans minds.
Frazier International History Museum The Frazier International History Museum, formerly the Frazier Historical Arms Museum, is a historical arms museum located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. The museum focuses on U.
Frazier School District The Frazier School District is a small public district located in Fayette County, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh. It serves the boroughs of Perryopolis and Newell, and the townships of Perry, Jefferson, and Lower Tyrone.
Fraziers Bottom, West Virginia The community of Fraziers Bottom in Putnam County, West Virginia is named after several families named Frazier who once lived in the bottom lands. It is apparently the only place in the United States with this name.
Frazione A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other subdivisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. The word is cognate to English fraction.
Frazzle Frazzle is the only Muppet monster intended to be "scary", in the children's television series Sesame Street. During the late-1980s to early-1990s, his career was limited to that of a background extra, due to his intimidating appearance.
FrĂĽhstĂĽckstreff FrĂĽhstĂĽckstreff is an international, multi-lingual breakfast club initiative located in over 50 cities in Europe and Australia. Founded in July 2001, the social networking site allows gentle people to meet for breakfast, share their hobbies and special interests with other members of the community.
Fróði Fróði (from Old Norse Fróðr) or Froda (Old English) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.
Frýdlant nad Ostravicà Frýdlant nad Ostravicà (German: Friedland an der Ostrawitza) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Ostravice River, which in past divided the historcal countries of Moravia and Silesia, under the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy mountains.
Frýdlant v Čechách Frýdlant, sometimes cited also as Frýdlant v Čechách (-Czech, German: Friedland im Isergebirge) is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has approximately 7,500 inhabitants and lies on the outskirts of the Jizera Mountains.
Frá dauĂ°a Sinfjötla Frá dauĂ°a Sinfjötla (On the death of Sinfjötli) is a short prose piece found in the Codex Regius manuscript of the Poetic Edda. It describes the death of Sinfjötli, son of Sigmundr, connecting HelgakviĂ°a Hundingsbana II and GrĂpisspá.
Frédéric de Saint-Sernin Frédéric Marie Joseph Bruno de Laparre de Saint-Sernin (born 14 February 1958) was the representative of French Co-Prince Jacques Chirac in Andorra until 2002. He has been an advisor to the French President since 1999.
Frédéric Dohou Frédéric Dohou is a Beninese politician. He served as acting foreign minister of the country from February 2006 to 10 April 2006 after the previous foreign minister, Rogatien Biaou, was sacked following corruption allegations.
Frédéric Esther Frédéric Esther (born June 8, 1972) is a boxer from France, competing in the middleweight (– 75 kg) division. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was stopped in the quarterfinales of the light middleweight division (– 71 kg) by eventual silver medalist Marian Simion of Romania.
Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1779-1863), the third son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, was a French nobleman who, during Napoléon's brief 1815 return to power, fled to Switzerland and tried to organise a volunteer army in support of the restored French monarchy of Louis XVIII.
Frédéric Louis Godet Frédéric Louis Godet (October 25 1812, Neuchatel – October 29 1900, Neuchatel) was a Swiss Protestant theologian. After studying theology at Neuchatel, Bonn and Berlin, he was in 1850 appointed professor of theology at Neuchatel.
Frédéric Marcelin Frédéric Marcelin (1848 – 1917) was a Haitian writer and politician. Born in Port-au-Prince, Marcelin was best known for the three novels Marilisse (1903), La Vengeance de Mama (1902), and Thémistocle Epaminondas Labasterre (1901).
Frédéric Michalak Frédéric Michalak (born 16 October 1982 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French rugby union footballer who plays for his hometown team, Toulouse in the Top 14 and Heineken Cup. He has played over 40 matches for France.
Frédéric Mistral Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830 - March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement.
Frédéric Mitterrand Frédéric Mitterrand (born August 21, 1947) is a French actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. He is the nephew of the former French president François Mitterrand and the son of Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, co-founder of La Cagoule.
Frédéric Rossif Frédéric Rossif (August 14, 1922 - April 18, 1990) was a French film and television director. He directed several documentaries, primarily dealing with animals and historical events, and frequently used music of Vangelis, although also used original compositions by Maurice Jarre.
Frédéric Serrat Frédéric Serrat (born March 15, 1977 in Grasse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) is a professional boxer from France. Serrat's most notable performance as an amateur was winning the silver medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Frédéric Weis Frédéric Weis (born 22 June, 1977 in Thionville, France) is a professional basketball player currently playing for Lagun Aro Bilbao in Spain. He previously played for Unicaja Málaga in Spain, and before that Limoges in France.
Frédéric-Louis Allamand Frédéric-Louis Allamand (~ February 5 1736 - after 1803) was a Swiss botanist. Born in Payerne, Switzerland, he moved to Leiden, Netherlands in 1749 to live with his uncle, Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand (1731-1791).
Frédérick Lemaître Frédérick Lemaitre, (July 28, 1800 - January 26, 1876) was a French actor and playwright. The son of an architect, he was born Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaitre at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime but adopted the first name Frédérick as a stage name.
Frédérik Boisvert Frédérik Boisvert is the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party of Canada's riding committee for the federal electoral district of Québec, and is the party's candidate for that riding in the next federal election. He was also manager of Robert Ouellette campaign for the leadership of Renouveau municipal de Québec — a regional party contesting municipal elections in Quebec City.
Fréchet derivative In mathematics, the Fréchet derivative is a derivative defined on Banach spaces. Named after Maurice Fréchet, it is commonly used to formalize the concept of the functional derivative used in physics and in particular, in quantum field theory.
Fréchet space In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, Fréchet spaces or Frechet spaces, named after Maurice Fréchet, are special topological vector spaces. They are generalizations of Banach spaces, normed vector spaces which are complete with respect to the metric induced by the norm.
Fréchet surface In mathematics, a Fréchet surface is an equivalence class of parametrized surfaces in a metric space. In other words, a Fréchet surface is a way of thinking about surfaces independently of how they are "written down" (parametrized).
Frémok (publisher) Frémok (FRMK) is a Franco-Belgian comics publishing house, which is a "major" actor in the independent comics scene that emerged during the 1990s in these countries. It was formed by the union of the former publishers Amok (France) and Fréon (Belgium).
Frémont Point Transmitter Frémont Point Transmitter is a facility for FM and television transmission at Frémont, Jersey at . It serves the whole of the Channel Islands and uses as its antenna a 139 metre tall tower built of lattice steel.
FrĂ©ttir, ĂĂľrĂłttir og veĂ°ur FrĂ©ttir, ĂĂľrĂłttir og veĂ°ur (English: News, sports and weather), is the principal nightly television news program of the Icelandic public television network SjĂłnvarpiĂ°. The program has been broadcast since the network was launched in 1966 and is the highest rated of all television programs in Iceland.
Fræbbblarnir Fræbbblarnir were formed in Iceland in 1978 and released a number of records until they quit early 1983. A punk / pop band in the happy-go-lucky “sector” of the punk era playing short, melodic songs fast and raw.
Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner, often shortened to simply Frække Frida, is a Danish language film released in 1994, which achieved minor popularity when released in Denmark. It is based on books by Lykke Nielsen, who unfortunately died of breast cancer August 29, 2006.
Fröhlich Prize The Fröhlich Prize of the London Mathematical Society is awarded in even numbered years in memory of Albrecht Fröhlich. The Prize is awarded for original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics, and is awarded to mathematicians under 40 years of age normally resident in the United Kingdom.
Fröhlicher spectral sequence In mathematics, the Fröhlicher spectral sequence is a tool in the theory of complex manifolds, for expressing the potential failure of the results of cohomology theory that are valid in general only for Kähler manifolds. A spectral sequence is set up, the degeneration of which would give the results of Hodge theory and Dolbeault's theorem.
Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket In mathematics, the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket is an extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields to vector-valued differential forms on a differentiable manifold. It is useful in the study of connections, notably the Ehresmann connection, as well as in the more general study of projections in the tangent bundle.
Frölunda Frölunda (formerly Västra Frölunda) is one of 21 boroughs in the city of Gothenburg. It is located in the south western part of the city, and is the smallest of the boroughs with a population of only 12,855 (2004) on 3.
Frölunda HC Frölunda HC (formerly Västra Frölunda HC), also known as Frölunda Indians, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Gothenburg, playing in Elitserien. Although their home arena is Scandinavium, Frölundaborg (capacity 9,200) is used when Scandinavium is occupied with other events.
Frösö Runestone Frösöstenen (J RS1928;66 $) is the northern-most rune stone in the world and Jämtland's only rune stone. It originally stood at the tip of ferry terminal on the sound between the island of Frösön and Östersund.
Frösön Frösön [fɾøËsøËn], or [fɾøËsĹ“ĘŹËa] in the local dialect Jamtlandic, (Frey's island) is a small island west of the city Ă–stersund. Frösön is the location of "Frösöstenen", the northernmost rune stone in the world, dating from 1030-1050 A.
Frøen (station) Frøen is a station on the Oslo T-bane in the Vestre Aker borough, it is the first station on Holmenkollbanen after Majorstuen. The name refers to Frøen Gård, a stately estate located near the present location of the t-bane station, of which now only the manor house remains.
Frøyatunnel The Frøyatunnel is a subsea road tunnel connecting Frøya municipality and Hitra municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The tunnel i 5305 metres long and reaches a depth of 150 metres below sea level.
Frère Jacques Beaulieu Frère Jacques Beaulieu (1651-1720) was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 1700s.
Frère Roger Frère Roger (Brother Roger) (Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 - Taizé, August 16, 2005), baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.
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