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Fredrik Henrik af Chapman Fredric Henric af Chapman (September 9 1721 in Gothenburg – August 19 1808) was a Swedish naval ship architect, promoted to vice admiral in 1791, manager of the shipyard at Karlskrona between 1782-1793. His father was an English naval officer, Thomas Chapman (born 1679 in Yorkshire), that moved to Sweden in 1715.
Fredrik Johansson (electronic sports player) Fredrik Johansson, better known by the pseudonym MaD]Q[FroG (pronounced Madfrog), is a famous Swedish WarCraft III player. He is considered one of, if not the greatest and most influential player of the Undead race.
Fredrik Lööf Fredrik Lööf (born December 13 1969) is a Swedish sailor who have participated in three Summer Olympics. 1996 he finished 5th in Finn, 2000 he won the bronze medal in Finn and 2004 he finished 14th along with Anders Ekström in Star.
Fredrik Nordström Fredrik Nordström, born January 5 1967, is a renowned Swedish record producer, and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Known as one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, Nordström has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Soilwork, and Opeth.
Fredrik Pacius Fredrik Pacius (or Friedrich Pacius) (March 19, 1809 Hamburg - January 8, 1891 Helsinki) was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music".
Fredrik Rosing Bull Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925) was the inventor/designer of improved punched card machines, based on which resulting patents French multinational computer corporation Groupe Bull was founded in 1931.
Fredrik Stang Lund Fredrik Stang Lund (1859-1922) was the Norwegian Minister of Auditing and Minister of Finance 1895, Minister of Finance 1895-1896, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1896-1897, and Minister of Labour 1897-1898.
Fredrik Stenman Fredrik Stenman ['freËdrÉŞk 'steËnmÉ‘n] (born 2 June, 1983 in Munktorp) is a Swedish football player who plays in Germany for Bayer Leverkusen. He is a Defender who can play as either full-back or in the centre and has played for Sweden since 2005.
Fredrik Svanbäck Fredrik Svanbäck (born December 5 1979 in Jakobstad, Finland), is a football player who currently represents Helsingborgs IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan. He signed for the Swedes in 2004 having spent all his career up to that at FF Jaro in his home town.
Fredrika Stahl Fredrika Stahl (born 24 October 1984 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter signed to the Vogue Records label (a part of Sony BMG) of France, and whose debut album, A Fraction of You, was released 27 March 2006 in France, as well as in her native Sweden and Finland 14 June 2006, and is scheduled for release in additional countries later the same year. Her style is a mix of jazz and pop.
Fredriksberg, Sweden Fredriksberg is a small town in Sweden, which (in the year 2000) has 840 inhabitants. Fredriksberg is located in a beautiful landscape in the central Swedish province Dalarna and the tourist industry is the main profit for the area.
Fredrikstad Fortress Fredrikstad fortress was constructed in the city of Fredrikstad 1663-1666 by the officer Willem Coucheron and his son Anthony Coucheron following the order of the Dano-Norwegian King Frederick. The first commander was appointed 6 January 1662; he was Lieutenant Colonel Johan Eberhard Speckhan.
Fredrikstad Stadion (new) Fredrikstad Stadion is a proposed multi-use stadium in Fredrikstad, Norway, that is expected to be completed in February 2007. Once completed, it will be used mostly for football matches and will host the home matches of Fredrikstad F.
Fredriksvern Fredriksvern (also called Friderichsværn (1801), Fredriksværn (1865), Fredriksværen (1900) and abbreviated Frsværn) was an important Norwegian naval base, just south of Larvik in Vestfold. The town of Stavern has in many ways come to be because of this naval base.
Fredskorpset Fredskorpset, the Peace Corps, is a Norwegian governmental body financing two-way mutual personnel exchange between companies and organisations in Norway and similar companies and organisations in the South - that is countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Fredwreck Fredwreck (of Palestinian descent, born Farid Nassar in Flint, Michigan) is a hip-hop producer, mostly for West Coast acts. He got his big break when he became a producer for Snoop Dogg's record label Dogghouse Records (now Doggystyle Records) and became a known producer on Tha Dogg Pound-affiliated material.
Fredy Glanzmann Fredy Glanzmann (born July 16, 1963) is a former Swiss nordic combined skier who competed during the 1980s. He won a silver medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and also won a silver medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Fredy Miler After many years of obscurity, Slovene singer Fredy Miler became a fad sensation in 2004 when his videofor Vedno si sanjala njega (You've always dreamt of him) spread across the internet]. Besides his enthusiastic but deficient singing, Fredy is recognized for his flourescent green vest, his electro boogie dancing and his [[monobrow.
Fredy Muñoz Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda (born in Cartagena) is a Colombian journalist who works for Venezuela-based TV network teleSUR as correspondent in Bogotá, having worked in the profession for 12 years. In November 19, 2006, he was arrested while arriving back in Bogotá airport on the grounds of supposed "connection with terrorism".
Fredy Reyna Fredy Reyna was a Venezuelan musician, arranger and performer, regarded as the indisputed master of the Venezuelan cuatro, which he elevated to the level of a concert instrument, and one of his country's most important cultural figures in the 20th century.
Free The transitive verb to free may mean to emancipate, to release from a constriction, or to confer freedom — but as an adjective free appears in a great many phrases, generally with the meaning of either "without cost", or "unconstrained, not imprisoned".
Free (Chi Rho album) Free (2001) features more contemporary music by artists such as DC Talk and Jars of Clay all arranged and sung by Chi Rho Wake Forest Christian Male A Cappella Ensemble. This CD a very elaborate mixture of great vocal percussion and tight harmonies.
Free (Chicago song) "Free" is a song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their third album Chicago III (1971), with Terry Kath singing lead vocals. It was the first single released from this album, and peaked at #20 on the U.
Free 60 Free60 is the successor to the Xbox Linux Project that aims to put Linux, BSD, or Darwin on the new Xbox 360 using a software or hardware based "hack". The Xbox 360 uses hardware encryption and will not run unsigned code.
Free abelian group In abstract algebra, a free abelian group is an abelian group that has a "basis" in the sense that every element of the group can be written in one and only one way as a finite linear combination of elements of the basis, with integer coefficients. Unlike vector spaces, not all abelian groups have a basis, hence the special name for those that do.
Free agent In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team. The term came into wide use in the USA after sports leagues stopped using a "reserve clause", which provided a repetitive option for the club to renew the contract for one more year, but did not allow the player to terminate his relationship with the team.
Free agent (business) In business, a free agent refers to someone who works independently for oneself, rather than for a single employer.Business & Legal Reports: Study: Free-Agent Workforce Grows These include self-employed workers, independent contractors and temporary workers, who altogether represent about 22 percent of the U.
Free agent (football) A Free agent is a term used in football (soccer) to refer to a player that has been released by a club (usually on a free transfer) and now is no longer affiliated with any team, but has not finished his or her career.
Free and Easy Free and Easy was the name given to an unaired pilot for a police drama set in Stoke-on-Trent and produced by Thames Television in 1968. The focus of the programme was on two crime fighting detectives, David Free and Michael Easy, hence the name Free and Easy.
Free art Free art refers to any art that is distributed to the widest possible public at no direct cost, including street performance, performance art, graffiti, sticker art, coffeehouse poetry and Internet-distributed art.
Free as a Bird "Free as a Bird" is a song, single and video released by The Beatles in December 1995 as part of their "reunion" and promotion around the release of the video documentary Anthology and their Anthology 1 compilation album.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (ISBN 0-596-00287-4) is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License about the life of Richard Stallman, written by Sam Williams and published by O'Reilly Media on March 1, 2002.
Free association (psychology) Free association (Psychodynamic theory) is a technique used in psychology, devised by Sigmund Freud. In it, patients are asked to continually relate anything which comes into their minds, regardless of how superficially unimportant or potentially embarrassing the memory threatens to be.
Free Access Magazine Free Access Magazine is a free, friendly computer magazine distributed through major Australian retailers such Harvey Norman, Dick Smith Electronics and Myer. The magazine targets mainstream computer users and is designed to be easy-to-read.
Free Access to Law Movement The Free Access to Law Movement is the umbrella name for the collective of legal projects across several common law countries to provide free online access to legal information such as case law and legislation. Each individual project of the movement also goes by the name Legal Information Institute (LII), which is usually prefixed by a country or region identifier.
Free Aceh Movement The Free Aceh Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or simply GAM), also known as the Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front (ASNLF), was a separatist group seeking independence for the Aceh region of Sumatra from Indonesia. The organisation surrendered its separatist intentions and dissoloved its armed wing following 2005 peace agreement with the Indonesian Government.
Free Africa Foundation The Free Africa Foundation is a Washington, DC think tank headed by economist George Ayittey that criticizes corruption, oppression, and mismanagement in African governments, and advocates for democratic reform. Its board includes Makaziwe Mandela and Larry Diamond among others.
Free Agents: The Murda Mix Tape Free Agents: The Murda Mix Tape was composed while The Infamous Duo were "Free Agents", or inbetween record labels. Due to the musical freedom the Queenbridge pair realized by an independant production, Free Agents: The Murder Mixtape is undoubtedly one of the realest and hardest albums of all time.
Free Anti Revolutionary Party The Free Anti Revolutionary Party (in Dutch: Vrij-Antirevolutionaire Partij, VAR) is a dutch conservative Reformed political party. The VAR is historically linked to the Christian Democratic Appeal which is currently one of the major parties of the Netherlands.
Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost The Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost is a Greek pentecostal church founded by Dr. Leonidas Feggos in 1965, and now counting more than 140 churches, 200 assemblies and over than 20,000 believers spread in Greece, and also in Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, United Kingdom, U.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (known as FAFSA), is a form that can be filled out annually by current and anticipating university students (both undergraduate and graduate) and sometimes their parents in the United States to determine their eligibility for federal student financial aid (including grants, loans, and work-study programs). In addition, most states and schools use information from the FAFSA to award non-federal aid.
Free Area of the Republic of China The "Free Area of the Republic of China" () is a legal and political description referring to the territories of the Republic of China under the control of its government. It corresponds generally to the island groups of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.
Free Art license The Free Art license is the English language version of the License Art Libre, a French copyleft license for works of art. Created in July 2000, it is the first free license, in the spirit of the GNU General Public License, dedicated to works of art.
Free Art Studio The Free Art Studio(FAS) is an organization created in 1960 in Kuwait to help art students pursue their interests. Originally established by the Department of Education, FAS was brought under the Ministry of Information.
Free Association Books This was an innovative project started in 1980s London. It arose as the brainchild of Bob Young and colleagues, who, disillusioned by the decline of the liberatory movement, began a search using psychoanalysis to understand the problems of liberation.
Free banking Free banking is a theory of banking which invokes only market forces, with a conspicuous absence of central banks and any banking regulations, with only the general commercial laws applicable. Free banking includes no restrictions on the formation of banks, the issue of bank notes, the acceptance of demand and term deposits, and the provision of loans, advances and other forms of credit.
Free bench Free bench (francus bancus), in English law, is the interest which a widow has in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in the case of freeholds. It depends upon the custom of the manor, but as a general rule the widow takes a third for her life of the lands of which her husband dies seised, but it may be an estate greater or less than a third.
Free body Free body is the generic term used by physicists and engineers to describe some thing—be it a bowling ball, a spacecraft, pendulum, a television, or anything else—which can be considered as moving as a single unit. The object doesn't have to be "free" in the usual sense of the word—it could be completely prevented from going anywhere, or it could be trapped in an orbit.
Free body diagram A free body diagram is a pictoral representation often used by physicists to show all contact and non-contact forces acting on the given free body. Drawing such a diagram can aid physicists attempting to solve for the kinematics of a problem.
Free bowing In a symphony orchestra, free bowing is a performance technique used by a string section to create a fuller sound than can be achieved by synchronized bowing. Free bowing was popularized by Leopold Stokowski, who as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra experimented with many musical conventions.
Free Breakfast Table The Free Breakfast Table was the demand of British working-class Liberalism from the 1860s to the early twentieth-century. It entailed abolishing duties on basic foodstuffs as these were indirect taxes and therefore regressive.
Free cinema Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in England in the 1950s. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson with Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti, the movement began with a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre in London in February 1956.
Free climbing Free climbing is a style of climbing in which the climber uses no artificial aids to make progress upwards, but just hands, feet and other parts of the body. Equipment is used only for protection against the consequences of a fall.
Free clinic A free clinic is a medical facility offering community healthcare on a free or low-cost basis, similar to Britain's NHS. Care is generally provided to persons who have lower or limited income and no health insurance, including persons who are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare.
Free content Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content having no significant legal restriction relative to people's freedom to use, redistribute and modify the content.
Free Capitalist Project The Free Capitalist Project (FCP) is a private organization whose members form local Free Capitalist Forums (community forums) located all over the world but with the highest concentration of members in the Rocky Mountains. The organization and its membership are dedicated to "13 Principles of Prosperity" which the organization claims can help its members live financially prosperous lives and represent the "secret" of the concept often referred to as "The American Dream.
Free City of Greyhawk The Free City of Greyhawk, also known as Greyhawk City and the "Gem of the Flanaess," is a fictional city-state in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. The word "Greyhawk" is often used in reference to those lands controlled by the Free City, though the proper term for the entire realm is the Domain of Greyhawk.
Free City of Kraków The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków with its Territory (Polish: Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków z Okręgiem), more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków (, ), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and controlled by its three neighbors (Russia, Prussia, and the Austrian Empire) until 1846, when in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising it was annexed by the Austrian Empire. It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw partitioned between the three states in 1815.
Free Comic Book Day Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Based on a suggestion from retailer Joe Field in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors.
Free Composition Free Composition (Der freie Satz) is a treatise by Heinrich Schenker, and possibly Schenker's most well-known work. The third volume of New Musical Theories and Fantasies (preceded by Harmony and Counterpoint), it was first published posthumously in 1935.
Free Conservative Party The Free Conservative Party (Freikonservative Partei or FKP) was a German political party of the Second Reich, founded in 1866. The party was generally supported by more conservative industrialists, and while it opposed political liberalism, it also tended to support free trade and the development of industry.
Free Country (TV series) Free Country was a short-lived sitcom on ABC in 1978. The show starred Rob Reiner as Joseph Bresner, the head of a Lithuanian family that emigrated to New York City in the early-1900s Each episode featured the aged Bresner in present day (i.
Free Culture (book) Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1.0) on March 25, 2004.
Free Culture movement The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media, and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which many members of the movement also argue hinder creativity. Closely associated with the free culture movement are organizations in the free software movement, such as the Free Software Foundation.
Free daily newspaper Free daily newspapers trace their history back to the 1940s when Walnut Creek, California publisher Dean Lesher began what is widely believed to be the first free daily, now known as the Contra Costa Times. In the 1960s, he converted that newspaper and three others in the same county to paid circulation.
Free Democratic Party (GDR) The Free Democratic Party (GDR) (German:Freie Demokratische Partei (DDR)) was an opposition political party in East Germany. The appeal for its formation was made in 25 November, 1989 in Berlin by those East German liberals who doubted the ability of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to reform itself.
Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei - FDP) is an conservative liberal political party in Germany. The party's ideology combines free-market economics and conservatorism with social features of the welfare state Germany.
Free Diamonds Free Diamonds are a rock band from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England signed to Deep Elm Records. They have an acclaimed album called 'There Should Be More Dancing', and feature on Deep Elm Records 'This is Indie Rock 3'.
Free education Free education (or subsidized education) is education that is provided at no cost to students. Although primary school and other comprehensive or compulsory education is free in many countries, the Nordic countries are all examples of countries where education is free all the way up including post-graduate studies.
Free election Free election (Polish: wolna elekcja) was the election of individual kings, rather than of dynasties, to the Polish throne between 1572 and 1791, when "free election" was abolished by the Constitution of May 3, 1791.
Free electron laser A free electron laser, or FEL, is a laser that generates tunable, coherent, high power radiation, currently ranging in wavelength from microwaves to the visible spectrum. While an FEL laser beam shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as coherent radiation, the operation of an FEL is quite different.
Free electron model In solid-state physics, the free electron model is a simple model for the behaviour of valence electrons in a crystal structure of a metallic solid. It was developed principally by Arnold Sommerfeld who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Free encyclopedia The concept of a free encyclopedia began with the Interpedia proposal on Usenet in 1993, which outlined an Internet-based online encyclopedia to which anyone could submit content and that would be freely accessible. In 1999, Richard Stallman proposed the GNUPedia, an online encyclopedia which, similar to GNU/Linux, would be a "generic" resource.
Free energy suppression Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory claiming that certain special interest groups are suppressing, or have suppressed in the past, technologies that would or could provide energy at reduced costs, reduced pollution output, or would or could reduce the energy consumption of various devices. Groups most often implicated in such activity are the oil industry, petroleum, national governments and, additionally, automakers.
Free Economic Society The Free Economic Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Husbandry (Russian: Вольное экономичеŃкое общеŃтво) was Russia's first learned society which formally did not depend on the government and as such came to be regarded as a bulwark of Russian liberalism.
Free Enterprise Action Fund The Free Enterprise Action Fund is a mutual fund operated by Steven Milloy and Tom Borelli, with the aim of counterbalancing the activities ethical investment funds. Whereas 'ethical' funds avoid investments in firms that are accused of damaging the environment, or other unethical behaviour, the Free Enterprise Action Fund seeks out such investments, relying on Milloy;s arguments that such criticisms are typically based on political bias or junk science.
Free Enterprise Fund Free Enterprise Fund is a free market advocacy group founded by Stephen Moore that promotes economic growth, lower taxes, and limited government. The Fund advances these goals through: TV and radio issue advertising campaigns, providing timely and tactical policy guidance to members of Congress, and publishing strategic game plans on vital economic and fiscal issues.
Free EU-Critics Free EU-Critics (in Swedish: Fria EU-kritiker) was a political project in Sweden launched ahead of the 1995 European Parliament elections. The list presented by the group included members and former members from a variety of political parties, united in their opposition to European Union membership.
Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, taken with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment make up the Religion Clauses. The Free Exercise Clause is the second half of the Religion Clauses, which state in full:
Free Fall (Jesse Cook) Free Fall is the fourth album by the New Flamenco artist Jesse Cook. Musicians vary by track, including Jesse Cook, Art Avalos, Mario Melo, Paul Antonio, Etric Lyons, Steven Greenman, Ron Allen, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Djivan Gasparyan, George Gao, Ron Allen, Kathleen Kajioka, Nancy Cardwell, Danny Wilde, Peter Cardinali, and Kevin Laliberte.
Free File Alliance The Free File Alliance is a group of companies who work with the United States IRS to provide free electronic tax filing services. Participants in the Free File program must have an adjusted gross income of $52,000 or less.
Free Flap/Free Tissue Transfer The terms Free flap, Free tissue transfer, and Free muscle transfer describe a variety of procedures which all have share a common purpose, order, and complications. Free flaps are surgical procedures that involve the transfer of tissue which includes muscle and/or fat and its vein and artery supply from one part of the body and attaching that tissue to another part of the body and reconnecting the blood supply.
Free Flow The Free Flow system (also known as TelevĂa or TAG in Spanish-speaking countries), is an electronic deposit system used to pay for the passage of automobiles on toll roads. With TAG, cars need not stop nor even slow down for payment.
Free FM "Free FM" is the moniker and on-air brand of several FM talk radio stations in the United States owned by CBS Radio, created because of Howard Stern's departure to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006. Free FM was given its name to highlight that satellite radio costs money.
Free Forum The Free Forum (Slovak: Slobodné fórum; "Free" is meant in the freedom sense here) is a political party in Slovakia, founded in 2004 by dissident parliamentarians from the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ). Zuzana Martináková is the leader of the party.
Free Frank McWorter Free Frank McWorter was born a slave in South Carolina in 1777 to Juda and his owner, George McWorter. Frank later freed himself, his wife, and 14 other relatives by working outside the plantation to earn money to buy themselves out of slavery.
Free Frank McWorter Grave Site The Free Frank McWorter Grave Site, in near the Pike County, Illinois city of Barry, is the grave site of freed slave Frank McWorter. McWorter, originally from South Carolina, bought his and 14 other slave relatives' freedom during the mid-19th century.
Free Freedom Free Freedom is a movement started by Ehud Segev, an Israeli, after learning of his brother Nimrod Segev's death in combat in Lebanon on August 9, 2006. Nimrod Segev's funeral was widely covered in the media, and was featured as a front page photo and caption by The New York Times on August 14th, 2006.
Free French Forces The Free French Forces (French: Forces Françaises Libres, FFL) were French fighters in World War II, who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation, following the call of the de jure French government-in-exile ("Free French Government"), especially Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June in 1940.
Free group In mathematics, a group G is called free if there is a subset S of G such that any element of G can be written in one and only one way as a product of finitely many elements of S and their inverses (disregarding trivial variations such as st-1 = su-1ut-1).
Free Geek Free Geek is a collectively run non-profit organization started in Portland, Oregon in the year 2000. Free Geek has two central goals: to reuse or recycle used computer equipment that might otherwise become hazardous waste,
Free hand circle drawing Very little is known about the non-aerobic past-time called Free Hand Circle DrawingYourInternetTube 21:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC). In 1953 a young Swiss Mathematician by the name of Alan Cote decided to measure the accuracy of his free hand drawn circles in his undergraduate geometry classes.
Free high school science texts The FHSST non-profit organisation is an open-content project, established by Mark Horner, to create open-content science textbooks for high schools in South Africa which follow the school syllabus. Textbooks published under the GNU General Public License could be made available for the cost of printing them on paper (or distributed in electronic format) - and thus go some way to furthering education in South African for all.
Free hosted gallery A free hosted gallery (FHG) is a web page of sample content (usually pornography) which is provided at no charge to affiliates of subscription websites (paysites). Affiliates promote these galleries to web surfers in order to drive web traffic to the paysite; every subscription sold generates a commission for the affiliate.
Free Home, Georgia Free Home is an unincorporated community in the eastern part of Cherokee County, Georgia. Centered at the intersection of State Route 20 and State Route 372, the once rural community has seen rapid suburbanization of the area over recent years.
Free Hugs Campaign The Free Hugs Campaign is an Internet meme that appears to have begun in 2004Sydney Morning Herald article, November 6, 2004, and was widely publicized in 2006 by a music video. It involves individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public settings.
Free choice profiling Free choice profiling is a method for determining the quality of a thing by having a large number of subjects experience (view, taste, read, etc.) it and then allowing them to describe the thing in their own words, as opposed to posing them a set of "yes-no-maybe" questions.
Free church A free church is a Christian denomination that is intrinsically separated from any government (as opposed to a theocracy, or an "established" or state church). A free church does not define government policy, nor have governments define church policy or theology, nor seeks or receives government endorsement or funding for its general mission.
Free China (Second Sino-Japanese War) The term Free China, in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War, refers to those areas of China not under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army or any of its puppet governments, such as Manchukuo, the Mengjiang government in Suiyuan and Chahar, or the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Beiping. The term came into more frequent use after the Battle of Nanjing, when Chiang Kai-shek evacuated the government of the Republic of China to Chongqing.
Free China Journal Free China Journal (Chinese: 自由ä¸ĺś‹ĺŤŠćśĺŠ, pinyin: ZìyĂłu ZhĹŤnggĂşo BĂ nyĂąekÄn) was a periodical that was published by the Republic of China (ROC) government after its retreat to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War.
Fredrik Johansson (electronic sports player) Fredrik Johansson, better known by the pseudonym MaD]Q[FroG (pronounced Madfrog), is a famous Swedish WarCraft III player. He is considered one of, if not the greatest and most influential player of the Undead race.
Fredrik Lööf Fredrik Lööf (born December 13 1969) is a Swedish sailor who have participated in three Summer Olympics. 1996 he finished 5th in Finn, 2000 he won the bronze medal in Finn and 2004 he finished 14th along with Anders Ekström in Star.
Fredrik Nordström Fredrik Nordström, born January 5 1967, is a renowned Swedish record producer, and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Known as one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, Nordström has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Soilwork, and Opeth.
Fredrik Pacius Fredrik Pacius (or Friedrich Pacius) (March 19, 1809 Hamburg - January 8, 1891 Helsinki) was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music".
Fredrik Rosing Bull Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925) was the inventor/designer of improved punched card machines, based on which resulting patents French multinational computer corporation Groupe Bull was founded in 1931.
Fredrik Stang Lund Fredrik Stang Lund (1859-1922) was the Norwegian Minister of Auditing and Minister of Finance 1895, Minister of Finance 1895-1896, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1896-1897, and Minister of Labour 1897-1898.
Fredrik Stenman Fredrik Stenman ['freËdrÉŞk 'steËnmÉ‘n] (born 2 June, 1983 in Munktorp) is a Swedish football player who plays in Germany for Bayer Leverkusen. He is a Defender who can play as either full-back or in the centre and has played for Sweden since 2005.
Fredrik Svanbäck Fredrik Svanbäck (born December 5 1979 in Jakobstad, Finland), is a football player who currently represents Helsingborgs IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan. He signed for the Swedes in 2004 having spent all his career up to that at FF Jaro in his home town.
Fredrika Stahl Fredrika Stahl (born 24 October 1984 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter signed to the Vogue Records label (a part of Sony BMG) of France, and whose debut album, A Fraction of You, was released 27 March 2006 in France, as well as in her native Sweden and Finland 14 June 2006, and is scheduled for release in additional countries later the same year. Her style is a mix of jazz and pop.
Fredriksberg, Sweden Fredriksberg is a small town in Sweden, which (in the year 2000) has 840 inhabitants. Fredriksberg is located in a beautiful landscape in the central Swedish province Dalarna and the tourist industry is the main profit for the area.
Fredrikstad Fortress Fredrikstad fortress was constructed in the city of Fredrikstad 1663-1666 by the officer Willem Coucheron and his son Anthony Coucheron following the order of the Dano-Norwegian King Frederick. The first commander was appointed 6 January 1662; he was Lieutenant Colonel Johan Eberhard Speckhan.
Fredrikstad Stadion (new) Fredrikstad Stadion is a proposed multi-use stadium in Fredrikstad, Norway, that is expected to be completed in February 2007. Once completed, it will be used mostly for football matches and will host the home matches of Fredrikstad F.
Fredriksvern Fredriksvern (also called Friderichsværn (1801), Fredriksværn (1865), Fredriksværen (1900) and abbreviated Frsværn) was an important Norwegian naval base, just south of Larvik in Vestfold. The town of Stavern has in many ways come to be because of this naval base.
Fredskorpset Fredskorpset, the Peace Corps, is a Norwegian governmental body financing two-way mutual personnel exchange between companies and organisations in Norway and similar companies and organisations in the South - that is countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Fredwreck Fredwreck (of Palestinian descent, born Farid Nassar in Flint, Michigan) is a hip-hop producer, mostly for West Coast acts. He got his big break when he became a producer for Snoop Dogg's record label Dogghouse Records (now Doggystyle Records) and became a known producer on Tha Dogg Pound-affiliated material.
Fredy Glanzmann Fredy Glanzmann (born July 16, 1963) is a former Swiss nordic combined skier who competed during the 1980s. He won a silver medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and also won a silver medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Fredy Miler After many years of obscurity, Slovene singer Fredy Miler became a fad sensation in 2004 when his videofor Vedno si sanjala njega (You've always dreamt of him) spread across the internet]. Besides his enthusiastic but deficient singing, Fredy is recognized for his flourescent green vest, his electro boogie dancing and his [[monobrow.
Fredy Muñoz Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda (born in Cartagena) is a Colombian journalist who works for Venezuela-based TV network teleSUR as correspondent in Bogotá, having worked in the profession for 12 years. In November 19, 2006, he was arrested while arriving back in Bogotá airport on the grounds of supposed "connection with terrorism".
Fredy Reyna Fredy Reyna was a Venezuelan musician, arranger and performer, regarded as the indisputed master of the Venezuelan cuatro, which he elevated to the level of a concert instrument, and one of his country's most important cultural figures in the 20th century.
Free The transitive verb to free may mean to emancipate, to release from a constriction, or to confer freedom — but as an adjective free appears in a great many phrases, generally with the meaning of either "without cost", or "unconstrained, not imprisoned".
Free (Chi Rho album) Free (2001) features more contemporary music by artists such as DC Talk and Jars of Clay all arranged and sung by Chi Rho Wake Forest Christian Male A Cappella Ensemble. This CD a very elaborate mixture of great vocal percussion and tight harmonies.
Free (Chicago song) "Free" is a song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their third album Chicago III (1971), with Terry Kath singing lead vocals. It was the first single released from this album, and peaked at #20 on the U.
Free 60 Free60 is the successor to the Xbox Linux Project that aims to put Linux, BSD, or Darwin on the new Xbox 360 using a software or hardware based "hack". The Xbox 360 uses hardware encryption and will not run unsigned code.
Free abelian group In abstract algebra, a free abelian group is an abelian group that has a "basis" in the sense that every element of the group can be written in one and only one way as a finite linear combination of elements of the basis, with integer coefficients. Unlike vector spaces, not all abelian groups have a basis, hence the special name for those that do.
Free agent In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team. The term came into wide use in the USA after sports leagues stopped using a "reserve clause", which provided a repetitive option for the club to renew the contract for one more year, but did not allow the player to terminate his relationship with the team.
Free agent (business) In business, a free agent refers to someone who works independently for oneself, rather than for a single employer.Business & Legal Reports: Study: Free-Agent Workforce Grows These include self-employed workers, independent contractors and temporary workers, who altogether represent about 22 percent of the U.
Free agent (football) A Free agent is a term used in football (soccer) to refer to a player that has been released by a club (usually on a free transfer) and now is no longer affiliated with any team, but has not finished his or her career.
Free and Easy Free and Easy was the name given to an unaired pilot for a police drama set in Stoke-on-Trent and produced by Thames Television in 1968. The focus of the programme was on two crime fighting detectives, David Free and Michael Easy, hence the name Free and Easy.
Free art Free art refers to any art that is distributed to the widest possible public at no direct cost, including street performance, performance art, graffiti, sticker art, coffeehouse poetry and Internet-distributed art.
Free as a Bird "Free as a Bird" is a song, single and video released by The Beatles in December 1995 as part of their "reunion" and promotion around the release of the video documentary Anthology and their Anthology 1 compilation album.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (ISBN 0-596-00287-4) is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License about the life of Richard Stallman, written by Sam Williams and published by O'Reilly Media on March 1, 2002.
Free association (psychology) Free association (Psychodynamic theory) is a technique used in psychology, devised by Sigmund Freud. In it, patients are asked to continually relate anything which comes into their minds, regardless of how superficially unimportant or potentially embarrassing the memory threatens to be.
Free Access Magazine Free Access Magazine is a free, friendly computer magazine distributed through major Australian retailers such Harvey Norman, Dick Smith Electronics and Myer. The magazine targets mainstream computer users and is designed to be easy-to-read.
Free Access to Law Movement The Free Access to Law Movement is the umbrella name for the collective of legal projects across several common law countries to provide free online access to legal information such as case law and legislation. Each individual project of the movement also goes by the name Legal Information Institute (LII), which is usually prefixed by a country or region identifier.
Free Aceh Movement The Free Aceh Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or simply GAM), also known as the Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front (ASNLF), was a separatist group seeking independence for the Aceh region of Sumatra from Indonesia. The organisation surrendered its separatist intentions and dissoloved its armed wing following 2005 peace agreement with the Indonesian Government.
Free Africa Foundation The Free Africa Foundation is a Washington, DC think tank headed by economist George Ayittey that criticizes corruption, oppression, and mismanagement in African governments, and advocates for democratic reform. Its board includes Makaziwe Mandela and Larry Diamond among others.
Free Agents: The Murda Mix Tape Free Agents: The Murda Mix Tape was composed while The Infamous Duo were "Free Agents", or inbetween record labels. Due to the musical freedom the Queenbridge pair realized by an independant production, Free Agents: The Murder Mixtape is undoubtedly one of the realest and hardest albums of all time.
Free Anti Revolutionary Party The Free Anti Revolutionary Party (in Dutch: Vrij-Antirevolutionaire Partij, VAR) is a dutch conservative Reformed political party. The VAR is historically linked to the Christian Democratic Appeal which is currently one of the major parties of the Netherlands.
Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost The Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost is a Greek pentecostal church founded by Dr. Leonidas Feggos in 1965, and now counting more than 140 churches, 200 assemblies and over than 20,000 believers spread in Greece, and also in Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, United Kingdom, U.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (known as FAFSA), is a form that can be filled out annually by current and anticipating university students (both undergraduate and graduate) and sometimes their parents in the United States to determine their eligibility for federal student financial aid (including grants, loans, and work-study programs). In addition, most states and schools use information from the FAFSA to award non-federal aid.
Free Area of the Republic of China The "Free Area of the Republic of China" () is a legal and political description referring to the territories of the Republic of China under the control of its government. It corresponds generally to the island groups of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.
Free Art license The Free Art license is the English language version of the License Art Libre, a French copyleft license for works of art. Created in July 2000, it is the first free license, in the spirit of the GNU General Public License, dedicated to works of art.
Free Art Studio The Free Art Studio(FAS) is an organization created in 1960 in Kuwait to help art students pursue their interests. Originally established by the Department of Education, FAS was brought under the Ministry of Information.
Free Association Books This was an innovative project started in 1980s London. It arose as the brainchild of Bob Young and colleagues, who, disillusioned by the decline of the liberatory movement, began a search using psychoanalysis to understand the problems of liberation.
Free banking Free banking is a theory of banking which invokes only market forces, with a conspicuous absence of central banks and any banking regulations, with only the general commercial laws applicable. Free banking includes no restrictions on the formation of banks, the issue of bank notes, the acceptance of demand and term deposits, and the provision of loans, advances and other forms of credit.
Free bench Free bench (francus bancus), in English law, is the interest which a widow has in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in the case of freeholds. It depends upon the custom of the manor, but as a general rule the widow takes a third for her life of the lands of which her husband dies seised, but it may be an estate greater or less than a third.
Free body Free body is the generic term used by physicists and engineers to describe some thing—be it a bowling ball, a spacecraft, pendulum, a television, or anything else—which can be considered as moving as a single unit. The object doesn't have to be "free" in the usual sense of the word—it could be completely prevented from going anywhere, or it could be trapped in an orbit.
Free body diagram A free body diagram is a pictoral representation often used by physicists to show all contact and non-contact forces acting on the given free body. Drawing such a diagram can aid physicists attempting to solve for the kinematics of a problem.
Free bowing In a symphony orchestra, free bowing is a performance technique used by a string section to create a fuller sound than can be achieved by synchronized bowing. Free bowing was popularized by Leopold Stokowski, who as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra experimented with many musical conventions.
Free Breakfast Table The Free Breakfast Table was the demand of British working-class Liberalism from the 1860s to the early twentieth-century. It entailed abolishing duties on basic foodstuffs as these were indirect taxes and therefore regressive.
Free cinema Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in England in the 1950s. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson with Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti, the movement began with a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre in London in February 1956.
Free climbing Free climbing is a style of climbing in which the climber uses no artificial aids to make progress upwards, but just hands, feet and other parts of the body. Equipment is used only for protection against the consequences of a fall.
Free clinic A free clinic is a medical facility offering community healthcare on a free or low-cost basis, similar to Britain's NHS. Care is generally provided to persons who have lower or limited income and no health insurance, including persons who are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare.
Free content Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content having no significant legal restriction relative to people's freedom to use, redistribute and modify the content.
Free Capitalist Project The Free Capitalist Project (FCP) is a private organization whose members form local Free Capitalist Forums (community forums) located all over the world but with the highest concentration of members in the Rocky Mountains. The organization and its membership are dedicated to "13 Principles of Prosperity" which the organization claims can help its members live financially prosperous lives and represent the "secret" of the concept often referred to as "The American Dream.
Free City of Greyhawk The Free City of Greyhawk, also known as Greyhawk City and the "Gem of the Flanaess," is a fictional city-state in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. The word "Greyhawk" is often used in reference to those lands controlled by the Free City, though the proper term for the entire realm is the Domain of Greyhawk.
Free City of Kraków The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Kraków with its Territory (Polish: Wolne, Niepodległe i Ściśle Neutralne Miasto Kraków z Okręgiem), more commonly known as either the Free City of Kraków or Republic of Kraków (, ), was a city-state created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and controlled by its three neighbors (Russia, Prussia, and the Austrian Empire) until 1846, when in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Kraków Uprising it was annexed by the Austrian Empire. It was a remnant of the Duchy of Warsaw partitioned between the three states in 1815.
Free Comic Book Day Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Based on a suggestion from retailer Joe Field in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors.
Free Composition Free Composition (Der freie Satz) is a treatise by Heinrich Schenker, and possibly Schenker's most well-known work. The third volume of New Musical Theories and Fantasies (preceded by Harmony and Counterpoint), it was first published posthumously in 1935.
Free Conservative Party The Free Conservative Party (Freikonservative Partei or FKP) was a German political party of the Second Reich, founded in 1866. The party was generally supported by more conservative industrialists, and while it opposed political liberalism, it also tended to support free trade and the development of industry.
Free Country (TV series) Free Country was a short-lived sitcom on ABC in 1978. The show starred Rob Reiner as Joseph Bresner, the head of a Lithuanian family that emigrated to New York City in the early-1900s Each episode featured the aged Bresner in present day (i.
Free Culture (book) Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1.0) on March 25, 2004.
Free Culture movement The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media, and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which many members of the movement also argue hinder creativity. Closely associated with the free culture movement are organizations in the free software movement, such as the Free Software Foundation.
Free daily newspaper Free daily newspapers trace their history back to the 1940s when Walnut Creek, California publisher Dean Lesher began what is widely believed to be the first free daily, now known as the Contra Costa Times. In the 1960s, he converted that newspaper and three others in the same county to paid circulation.
Free Democratic Party (GDR) The Free Democratic Party (GDR) (German:Freie Demokratische Partei (DDR)) was an opposition political party in East Germany. The appeal for its formation was made in 25 November, 1989 in Berlin by those East German liberals who doubted the ability of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to reform itself.
Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei - FDP) is an conservative liberal political party in Germany. The party's ideology combines free-market economics and conservatorism with social features of the welfare state Germany.
Free Diamonds Free Diamonds are a rock band from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England signed to Deep Elm Records. They have an acclaimed album called 'There Should Be More Dancing', and feature on Deep Elm Records 'This is Indie Rock 3'.
Free education Free education (or subsidized education) is education that is provided at no cost to students. Although primary school and other comprehensive or compulsory education is free in many countries, the Nordic countries are all examples of countries where education is free all the way up including post-graduate studies.
Free election Free election (Polish: wolna elekcja) was the election of individual kings, rather than of dynasties, to the Polish throne between 1572 and 1791, when "free election" was abolished by the Constitution of May 3, 1791.
Free electron laser A free electron laser, or FEL, is a laser that generates tunable, coherent, high power radiation, currently ranging in wavelength from microwaves to the visible spectrum. While an FEL laser beam shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as coherent radiation, the operation of an FEL is quite different.
Free electron model In solid-state physics, the free electron model is a simple model for the behaviour of valence electrons in a crystal structure of a metallic solid. It was developed principally by Arnold Sommerfeld who combined the classical Drude model with quantum mechanical Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Free encyclopedia The concept of a free encyclopedia began with the Interpedia proposal on Usenet in 1993, which outlined an Internet-based online encyclopedia to which anyone could submit content and that would be freely accessible. In 1999, Richard Stallman proposed the GNUPedia, an online encyclopedia which, similar to GNU/Linux, would be a "generic" resource.
Free energy suppression Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory claiming that certain special interest groups are suppressing, or have suppressed in the past, technologies that would or could provide energy at reduced costs, reduced pollution output, or would or could reduce the energy consumption of various devices. Groups most often implicated in such activity are the oil industry, petroleum, national governments and, additionally, automakers.
Free Economic Society The Free Economic Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Husbandry (Russian: Вольное экономичеŃкое общеŃтво) was Russia's first learned society which formally did not depend on the government and as such came to be regarded as a bulwark of Russian liberalism.
Free Enterprise Action Fund The Free Enterprise Action Fund is a mutual fund operated by Steven Milloy and Tom Borelli, with the aim of counterbalancing the activities ethical investment funds. Whereas 'ethical' funds avoid investments in firms that are accused of damaging the environment, or other unethical behaviour, the Free Enterprise Action Fund seeks out such investments, relying on Milloy;s arguments that such criticisms are typically based on political bias or junk science.
Free Enterprise Fund Free Enterprise Fund is a free market advocacy group founded by Stephen Moore that promotes economic growth, lower taxes, and limited government. The Fund advances these goals through: TV and radio issue advertising campaigns, providing timely and tactical policy guidance to members of Congress, and publishing strategic game plans on vital economic and fiscal issues.
Free EU-Critics Free EU-Critics (in Swedish: Fria EU-kritiker) was a political project in Sweden launched ahead of the 1995 European Parliament elections. The list presented by the group included members and former members from a variety of political parties, united in their opposition to European Union membership.
Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, taken with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment make up the Religion Clauses. The Free Exercise Clause is the second half of the Religion Clauses, which state in full:
Free Fall (Jesse Cook) Free Fall is the fourth album by the New Flamenco artist Jesse Cook. Musicians vary by track, including Jesse Cook, Art Avalos, Mario Melo, Paul Antonio, Etric Lyons, Steven Greenman, Ron Allen, Rick Shadrach Lazar, Djivan Gasparyan, George Gao, Ron Allen, Kathleen Kajioka, Nancy Cardwell, Danny Wilde, Peter Cardinali, and Kevin Laliberte.
Free File Alliance The Free File Alliance is a group of companies who work with the United States IRS to provide free electronic tax filing services. Participants in the Free File program must have an adjusted gross income of $52,000 or less.
Free Flap/Free Tissue Transfer The terms Free flap, Free tissue transfer, and Free muscle transfer describe a variety of procedures which all have share a common purpose, order, and complications. Free flaps are surgical procedures that involve the transfer of tissue which includes muscle and/or fat and its vein and artery supply from one part of the body and attaching that tissue to another part of the body and reconnecting the blood supply.
Free Flow The Free Flow system (also known as TelevĂa or TAG in Spanish-speaking countries), is an electronic deposit system used to pay for the passage of automobiles on toll roads. With TAG, cars need not stop nor even slow down for payment.
Free FM "Free FM" is the moniker and on-air brand of several FM talk radio stations in the United States owned by CBS Radio, created because of Howard Stern's departure to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006. Free FM was given its name to highlight that satellite radio costs money.
Free Forum The Free Forum (Slovak: Slobodné fórum; "Free" is meant in the freedom sense here) is a political party in Slovakia, founded in 2004 by dissident parliamentarians from the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ). Zuzana Martináková is the leader of the party.
Free Frank McWorter Free Frank McWorter was born a slave in South Carolina in 1777 to Juda and his owner, George McWorter. Frank later freed himself, his wife, and 14 other relatives by working outside the plantation to earn money to buy themselves out of slavery.
Free Frank McWorter Grave Site The Free Frank McWorter Grave Site, in near the Pike County, Illinois city of Barry, is the grave site of freed slave Frank McWorter. McWorter, originally from South Carolina, bought his and 14 other slave relatives' freedom during the mid-19th century.
Free Freedom Free Freedom is a movement started by Ehud Segev, an Israeli, after learning of his brother Nimrod Segev's death in combat in Lebanon on August 9, 2006. Nimrod Segev's funeral was widely covered in the media, and was featured as a front page photo and caption by The New York Times on August 14th, 2006.
Free French Forces The Free French Forces (French: Forces Françaises Libres, FFL) were French fighters in World War II, who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation, following the call of the de jure French government-in-exile ("Free French Government"), especially Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June in 1940.
Free group In mathematics, a group G is called free if there is a subset S of G such that any element of G can be written in one and only one way as a product of finitely many elements of S and their inverses (disregarding trivial variations such as st-1 = su-1ut-1).
Free Geek Free Geek is a collectively run non-profit organization started in Portland, Oregon in the year 2000. Free Geek has two central goals: to reuse or recycle used computer equipment that might otherwise become hazardous waste,
Free hand circle drawing Very little is known about the non-aerobic past-time called Free Hand Circle DrawingYourInternetTube 21:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC). In 1953 a young Swiss Mathematician by the name of Alan Cote decided to measure the accuracy of his free hand drawn circles in his undergraduate geometry classes.
Free high school science texts The FHSST non-profit organisation is an open-content project, established by Mark Horner, to create open-content science textbooks for high schools in South Africa which follow the school syllabus. Textbooks published under the GNU General Public License could be made available for the cost of printing them on paper (or distributed in electronic format) - and thus go some way to furthering education in South African for all.
Free hosted gallery A free hosted gallery (FHG) is a web page of sample content (usually pornography) which is provided at no charge to affiliates of subscription websites (paysites). Affiliates promote these galleries to web surfers in order to drive web traffic to the paysite; every subscription sold generates a commission for the affiliate.
Free Home, Georgia Free Home is an unincorporated community in the eastern part of Cherokee County, Georgia. Centered at the intersection of State Route 20 and State Route 372, the once rural community has seen rapid suburbanization of the area over recent years.
Free Hugs Campaign The Free Hugs Campaign is an Internet meme that appears to have begun in 2004Sydney Morning Herald article, November 6, 2004, and was widely publicized in 2006 by a music video. It involves individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public settings.
Free choice profiling Free choice profiling is a method for determining the quality of a thing by having a large number of subjects experience (view, taste, read, etc.) it and then allowing them to describe the thing in their own words, as opposed to posing them a set of "yes-no-maybe" questions.
Free church A free church is a Christian denomination that is intrinsically separated from any government (as opposed to a theocracy, or an "established" or state church). A free church does not define government policy, nor have governments define church policy or theology, nor seeks or receives government endorsement or funding for its general mission.
Free China (Second Sino-Japanese War) The term Free China, in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War, refers to those areas of China not under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army or any of its puppet governments, such as Manchukuo, the Mengjiang government in Suiyuan and Chahar, or the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Beiping. The term came into more frequent use after the Battle of Nanjing, when Chiang Kai-shek evacuated the government of the Republic of China to Chongqing.
Free China Journal Free China Journal (Chinese: 自由ä¸ĺś‹ĺŤŠćśĺŠ, pinyin: ZìyĂłu ZhĹŤnggĂşo BĂ nyĂąekÄn) was a periodical that was published by the Republic of China (ROC) government after its retreat to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War.
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