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Free Christian Free Christians, sometimes known as ‘non-subscribing’ Protestants or ‘non-creedal’ Dissenters, are theologically unorthodox liberal Christians who, in good conscience, can not subscribe to any fixed creeds.
Free Church Federation Free Church Federation, a voluntary association of British Nonconformist churches for cooperation in religious, social and civil work. It was the outcome of a unifying tendency displayed during the latter part of the 19th century.
Free Church of Antioch The Free Church of Antioch is one of several Independent Catholic Churches which claims valid lines of Apostolic Succession in the historic episcopate. The Free Church of Antioch received several lines of this succession through its founder, the late Archbishop Warren Prall Watters (1890-1992).
Free Church of England The Free Church of England is an Anglican church which separated from the established Church of England in 1844. The church was founded by evangelical clergy in Devon in response to the Anglo-Catholicism of Henry Phillpotts, the Bishop of Exeter.
Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900) The Free Church of Scotland was a Scottish denomination formed by the withdrawal of a large section of the established Church of Scotland in a schism known as the Disruption of 1843. In 1900, the Free Church of Scotland united with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland, which in turn re-united with the Church of Scotland in 1929.
Free Church of Scotland (post 1900) The contemporary Free Church of Scotland is that part of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside of the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900. It remains a distinct Presbyterian denomination in Scotland to this day, and is commonly referred to (in Highland English, and mostly by outsiders) as The Wee Frees, though this nickname is sometimes used for the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland (also occasionally known as The Wee Wee Frees).
Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb The Free Church is a building located in Hampstead Garden Suburb, Barnet, London. It was built to a design by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1908-1910, and, like St Jude's Church at the opposite side of Central Square, is a Grade I listed building.
Free improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoiding overt references to recognizable musical genres. The term is somewhat paradoxical, since it can be considered both as a technique (employed by any musician who wishes to disregard rigid genres and forms) and as a recognizable genre in its own right.
Free indirect speech Free indirect speech (or free indirect discourse or free indirect style) is a style of third person narration which has some of the characteristics of direct speech. Passages written using free indirect speech are often ambiguous as to whether they convey the views of the narrator or of the character the narrator is describing.
Free induction decay A free induction decay (FID) is the simplest NMR signal which is generated as excited nuclei relax in an NMR spectrometer. In NMR spectroscopy, a sample is introduced into a magnetic field, which generates an excess of nuclear spins aligned with the external magnetic field.
Free Imperial City In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city (in German: freie Reichsstadt) was a city formally responsible to the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a territory and were thus governed by one of the many princes (Fürsten) of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops. Free cities also had independent representation in the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire.
Free India Society The Free India Society was a political organization of Indian students in England, committed to obtaining the independence of India from British rule. Initially an intellectual group, it became a revolutionary outfit under its founding leader, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Free Indian Party and Elderly Union The Free Indian Party and Elderly Union (in Dutch: Vrije Indische Partij en Ouderenunie) is a political alliance that participated the elections of 2003. It consisted out of the Free Indian Party (VIP) and the Elderly Union.
Free Institution of Sacred Heart The free Institution of Sacred Heart ("Institution Libre du Sacré-Coeur", in french) is the oldest and most prestigious school of Tourcoing, next to Lille in the North of France. This Institution has been created in 1666 by Fathers Récollets (a catholic congregation), with the help of Philipp IV, King of Spain, Ferdinand de Croÿ, Duke of Havré and Lord of Tourcoing, and Jean Villain de Gand, bishop of Tournai.
Free ISP Free ISPs are Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which provides service free of charge. Many free ISPs display advertisements while the user is connected; like commercial television, in a sense they are selling the users' attention to the advertiser.
Free jazz Free jazz is a movement of jazz music developed in the 1950s and 1960s by artists such as Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Joe Harriott, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon and Paul Bley. Some of the best known examples are the later works of John Coltrane.
Free Jim Mine The Free Jim Mine was a Georgia Gold Rush gold mine located in the town of Dahlonega in Lumpkin County, Georgia. The mine was started by a free African American named James Boisclair, who arrived in the area in the 1830's from Augusta, Georgia.
Free Jimmy Free Jimmy (No: Slipp Jimmy fri) is a Norwegian film released in 2006. It is Norway's first computer animated feature film, the second most costly Norwegian film to date, having cost in excess of 100 million Norwegian kroner (app.
Free kick (rugby union) A free kick in rugby union is usually awarded to a team for a technical offence committed by the opposing side. Free kicks are awarded for technical offences such as numbers at the line-out or time wasting at a scrum.
Free Kitten Free Kitten was a 1990s collaboration between Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We eventually took up the task of drumming, and Pavement's Mark Ibold joined later on as bassist.
Free Knowledge Free Knowledge is a term that can be used to refer to knowledge that is accessible at no cost, or to the cultural movement of free knowledge, referring to freedom. In many contexts it can mean a work that can be freely distributed and modified, in a similar way to free/open source software, or it can mean an aspect or an understanding of a subject that is available and readily passed on, such as in public education.
Free list A free list is a data structure used in a scheme for dynamic memory allocation. It operates by connecting unallocated regions of memory together in a linked list, using the first word of each unallocated region as a pointer to the next.
Free look Free look (also known as mouselook) is a term that describes the ability to move the mouse to rotate the player character's view in any number of type of computer and video games. It is almost always used for 3d engines, and has been included on RPGs, real time strategy games, third-person shooters, first-person shooters, racing games, or flight simulators.
Free love The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. Much of the free love tradition has a civil libertarian philosophy that seeks freedom from State regulation and Church interference in personal relationships.
Free Love Freeway "Free Love Freeway" is an ironic song written by Ricky Gervais, who starred as David Brent in the highly acclaimed British comedy The Office. Gervais first performed the song as Brent in Series 1, Episode 4 (titled "Training") of the show.
Free market A free market is a market where the price of each item or service is arranged by the mutual consent of sellers and buyers (see supply and demand); the opposite is a controlled market, where supply and price are set by a government.Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms.
Free marketeer A Free Marketeer is somebody who supports Anarcho-capitalism. The term was created by Ian Bernard, host of the talk show Free Talk Live, in order to create a label for somebody who supports a free market and no government (he was not familiar with the term Anarcho-capitalism).
Free migration Free migration or open immigration is the belief that people should be able to migrate to whatever country they choose, free of substantial barriers. Although the two are not the same issue, free immigration is similar in spirit to the concept of free trade, and both are advocated by free market economists on the grounds that economics is not a zero-sum game and that free markets are, in their opinion, the best way to create a fairer and balanced economic system, thereby increasing the overall economic benefits to all concerned parties.
Free morpheme In linguistics, free morphemes are morphemes that can stand alone, unlike bound morphemes, which occur only as parts of words. In the English sentence colorless green ideas sleep furiously, for example, color, green, idea, and sleep are all free morphemes, whereas -less, -s and -ly are all bound morphemes.
Free Man in Paris Free Man In Paris was a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and appeared on her 1974 album Court and Spark, as well as her live album Shadows and Light. It is one of her more popular songs.
Free Mars Free Mars is the first and only album from the heavily experimental psychedelic pop band Lusk, released in 1997 in a Digipak-style case. The case and booklet list "The Hotel Family Affair" and "Black Sea Me" together as one track, but they are separate tracks on the disc itself.
Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism (FMCAT) is an Islamic organization dedicated to taking a stand against terrorism. FMCAT is also know by the short hand name of the "Free Muslims Coalition" or an even shorter name of "Free Muslims.
Free nerve ending A free nerve ending (FNE) is an unspecialized, afferent nerve ending, meaning it brings information from the body's periphery to the brain. Free nerve endings are unencapsulated and have no complex sensory structures, unlike those found in Meissner's or Pacinian corpuscles.
Free object In mathematics, the idea of a free object is one of the basics of abstract algebra. It is part of universal algebra, in the sense that it relates to all types of algebraic structure (with finitary operations); but on the other hand it has a clean formulation in terms of category theory (in yet more abstract terms).
Free Officers Movement In Egypt, the clandestine revolutionary Free Officers Movement (Arabic: حركة الضباط الأحرار) was founded by Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser in the aftermath of Egypt's sense of national disgrace from the War of 1948. It was composed of young junior army officers committed to unseating the Egyptian monarchy and its British advisors.
Free On Board Free On Board (FOB) is an Incoterm -- also commonly but incorrectly referred to as "Freight on Board". It means that the seller pays for transportation of the goods to the port of shipment, plus loading costs.
Free On-line Dictionary of Philosophy The Free On-line Dictionary of Philosophy (FOLDOP) is published by the SWIF and edited by Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo Terravecchia. FOLDOP is a searchable dictionary of technical words, concepts, acronyms, ideas and theories from philosophy.
Free party A free party is a party "free" from the restrictions of the legal club scene, which typically involves a sound system playing electronic dance music from late at night (usually a Saturday) until the time when the organisers decide to go home, which is usually a day or two later. A free party can be composed of just one system or of many and when the party becomes a festival it is called a teknival.
Free people of color In the history of slavery in the Americas, a free person of color was a person of full or partial African descent who was not enslaved. In the United States, such persons were referred to as "free negroes," though many were, in fact, mulattos.
Free port A free port (porto franco) or free zone (US: Foreign-Trade Zone) is a port or area with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. Most commonly this means being free of customs or being a special customs zone with favorable customs regulations.
Free port Apatin The Free port Apatin is a free customs zone, cargo-transportation center and port with wharf which will will form an economic unit known under the name "Slobodna zona Apatin" (and will cover 160 hectar of ground next to river Danube. It will also represent one of the potentially largest economical undertakings in the region.
Free price system A free price system (informally called the price system or the price mechanism) is an economic system where prices are not set by government but by the interchange of supply and demand, with the resulting prices being understood as signals that are communicated between producers and consumers which serve to guide the production and distribution of resources. Through the free price system, supplies are rationed, income is distributed, and resources are allocated.
Free probability Free probability is a mathematical theory which studies non-commutative random variables. The "freeness" property is the analogue of the classical notion of independence, and it is connected with free products.
Free product In abstract algebra, the free product of groups constructs a group from two or more given ones. Given, for example, groups G and H, the free product G∗H can be constructed as follows: given presentations of G and of H, take the generators of G and of H, take the disjoint union of those, and adjoin the corresponding relations for G and for H.
Free Papua Movement The Free Papua Movement (Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, abbreviated OPM) is a separatist organization established in 1965 which seeks independence for Western New Guinea from Indonesia. The territory is currently administered by Indonesia as the provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya.
Free Party of Luxembourg The Free Party of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Fräi Partei Lëtzebuerg), abbreviated as FPL, was a political party in Luxembourg. Founded in 2003, it emerged onto the political scene in the run-up to the 2004 legislative elections for the Chamber of Deputies.
Free Patriotic Movement The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) (Arabic: التيار الوطني الحر, Al-Tayyar Al-Watani Al-Hur), also known as the "Aounist Current" (Arabic: تيار العوني, Tayyar Al-Aouni), is a Lebanese political party, led by General Michel Aoun "GMA", a former commander of the Lebanese army who served as Prime Minister of one of two governments that contended for power in the final years of the Lebanese civil war (1988 - 1990). The movement was officially declared a political party on September 18 2005.
Free People's Movement The Free People's Movement (FPM) or Movimiento de la Gente Libre (MGL), is an international Marxist organization with local branches in several locations around the world. The FPM advocates revolutionary Marxism and asserts that capitalism can only be overthrown by the exploited masses, under the leadership of the working class, through communist revolution.
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was formed in 1893 and claims to be the spiritual descendant of the Scottish Reformation. It is sometimes colloquially known as the Wee Wee Frees (not to be confused with the "Wee Frees" which is the colloquial name for another offshoot of the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland).
Free Press (organization) Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media and involve the public in media policymaking. Through education, organizing and advocacy, Free Press promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media and universal, affordable access to communications.
Free Press Houston The Free Press Houston is a twice-monthly newspaper that focuses on the arts, entertainment, news, music, and events that affect the 5 million inhabitants of Houston, Texas and the surrounding areas. The Free Press Houston refers to itself in the third person.
Free Princes Free Princes(Arabic: الأمراء الأحرار) is a Saudi liberal political movement founded in 1958 by Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (Arabic: طلال بن عبدالعزيز) due to the tensions between King Faisal and King Saud. The civil-right movement led by the prince requested the Saudi authorities to make political-reforms and called for a constitution.
Free Protestant Episcopal Church The Free Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States began as an overseas outreach of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The English group was formed on November 2, 1897 from the merger of three smaller churches; others were to join later.
Free range Free range is a method of farming husbandry where the animals are permitted to roam freely instead of being contained in any manner. The principle is to allow the animals as much freedom as possible, to live out their instinctual behaviours in a reasonably natural way, regardless of whether or not they are eventually killed for meat.
Free response Free response is a type of question used in tests in education, workplace, and government. Most free response questions ask a require the test-taker to state a belief, opinion, or write a short essay and back it up with facts, examples, or other evidence.
Free return trajectory A free return trajectory is one of a very small sub-class of trajectories in which the trajectory of a satellite traveling away from a primary body (for example, the Earth) is modified by the presence of a secondary body (for example, the Moon) causing the satellite to return to the primary body. This method has been used by spacecraft and was somewhat popularised by its use during the Apollo 13 mission, though this trajectory was actually a hybrid, requiring some minor adjustments.
Free ride (financial term) Free ride is a term used in the stock-trading world to describe the practice of using an under-capitalized cash account to carry out what essentially amounts to margin buying. Since stock transactions usually settle after three business days, a crafty trader can buy a stock and sell it the following day (or the same day), without ever having sufficient funds in the account.
Free rider problem In economics, collective bargaining, psychology and political science, free riders are actors who consume more than their fair share of a resource, or shoulder less than a fair share of the costs of its production. The free rider problem is the question of how to prevent free riding from taking place, or at least limit its negative effects.
Free run Free run is a method of farming stewardship where the animals are not kept in cages but are allowed to wander around inside an enclosed structure, such as a barn. Unlike free range animals they do not have access to the outside.
Free running Free running is a physical discipline, in which participants (free runners) attempt to pass all obstacles in their path in a smooth and fluid way. Free runners interact with their environment using movements such as vaulting, jumping, somersaults and other acrobatic movements, creating an athletic and aesthetically pleasing way of moving.
Free Radicals (band) Since 1996, Free Radicals has been a jazz, funk, hip-hop, avant-garde, ska, reggae, African music, Indian music, punk, klezmer, polka and latin jazz group based in Houston, Texas. Free Radicals' live band includes six or seven members.
Free Rasalhague Republic In the fictional BattleTech setting, the Free Rasalhague Republic was a nation born in the wake of the Fourth Succession War, which enjoyed less than two decades of independence before being almost totally overrun by the invasion of the Clans.
Free Reformed Churches of North America The Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA) is a theologically conservative federation of churches in the Dutch Calvinist tradition. These churches confess the Bible to be the Word of God and believe it is faithfully summarized by the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and Canons of Dort.
Free Reformed Churches of South Africa The Free Reformed Churches in South Africa (also known as the Vrye Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid Afrika) is a bond of Protestant Christian churches. It follows Reformed Calvinist theology and has adopted three forms of unity as its doctrinal standards : Canons of Dordt, Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism and subcribes to the three Ecumenical Creeds: The Apostles' Creed, The Nicene Creed and The Athanasian Creed.
Free Republic of Schwarzenberg The Free Republic of Schwarzenberg (German: Freie Republik Schwarzenberg) was a de facto independent entity that existed for several weeks after the German capitulation on May 8, 1945. After the surrender of Germany, the districts of Schwarzenberg, Stollberg and Aue, in the Ore Mountains, were left unoccupied, for reasons that are unclear.
Free Republic of the Landreich The Free Republic of the Landreich is a fictional nation-state in the Wing Commander computer game and novel universe. As of this writing, nearly all references to it have been in the spinoff novels, most specifically Fleet Action, Action Stations, and False Colors.
Free Ride (TV series) Free Ride is a FOX partially improvised sitcom starring Josh Dean as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri. The pilot episode aired on March 1, 2006.
Free Royal Cities Act The Free Royal Cities Act (full Polish title: Miasta Nasze Królewskie wolne w państwach Rzeczypospolitej; English: "Our Free Royal Cities in the States of the Commonwealth") was an act adopted by the Four-Year Sejm (1788-92) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on April 18, 1791, in the run-up to the adoption of the Constitution of May 3, 1791.
Free semigroup In abstract algebra, the free monoid on a set A is the monoid whose elements are all the finite sequences (or strings) of zero or more elements from A, with the binary operation of concatenation. It is usually denoted A*.
Free school A free school is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy and the institutional environment of formal schooling. The more open structure of free schools is intended to encourage self-reliance, critical consciousness, and personal development.
Free school meal The term free school meal refers to a sum of money provided for individual pupils in schools throughout the United Kingdom to purchase a lunch time school meal, or to the meal itself. For a child to qualify for a free school meal, their family or carers are considered by the Local Education Authority to be unable to fund a lunch time meal.
Free software Free software is a term that is used by many parties with various meanings. One of the most common definitions is the Free software foundation's definition of free software, which states that "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software," referring to:
Free software license Free software is software which grants recipients the freedom to modify and redistribute the software. This would normally be prohibited by copyright law, so with free software, the copyright holder must give recipients the explicit permission to do these things.
Free solo climbing Free solo climbing is arguably the purest form of climbing but also carries the highest risks. Free solo climbing (also known as free soloing) is a form of climbing whereby the climber (known as a free soloist) does not use any hardware such as ropes, harnesses or other gear during their ascent.
Free speech zone Free speech zones (also known as First Amendment Zones, Free speech cages, and Protest zones) are areas set aside in public places for political activists to exercise their right of free speech in the United States. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law...
Free state The free states of the United States existed in opposition to the slave states prior to the War of the States. The term "free state" described a state in the antebellum United States in which slavery was either prohibited or eliminated over time.
Free store A free store is a shop where people exchange goods without a pricing system: items that are no longer wanted are put on one table, and items available to be taken are put on another. Although the roots of the "free store" lie in the anarchist movement, hippies of the 1960s ran a few initially successful free stores across North America.
Free School Lane Free School Lane, in the centre of Cambridge, is the location of the Whipple Museum of the History Of Science, the University's faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and is the original site of the Cavendish Laboratory.
Free Skating The Free Skating of figure skating, sometimes called the "free skate" or "long program", is usually the second of two phases in major figure skating competitions in single skating and pair skating. It is the longer of the two programs, the other one being the Short Program.
Free Software Directory The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It catalogs useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement ("free" as in "freedom"), and in particular the GNU project. The FSF is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Free Software Initiative of Japan The Free Software Initiative of Japan are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Free Software growth and development. It was founded on the 10th of July 2002 and organized the Free Software Symposium in Tokyo on October 22 and 23 of that yearhttp://www.
Free Software Magazine Free Software Magazine (also known as FSM and originally titled The Open Voice) is a bi-monthly, mostly free-content e-zine about free software. It was started in November 2004 by Australian Tony Mobily, under the auspices of The Open Company Partners, Inc.
Free Software Magazine (China) Free Software Magazine (FSM) was a China-based attempt, in 2002, at a free-content magazine, typeset with LaTeX, on the Free Software Movement, free software and related issues, which was very similar to the more recent globally-distributed Free Software Magazine.
Free Soil Party The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. It was a breakaway faction of the Democratic party and was largely absorbed by the Republican party in 1854.
Free Space Optics Free Space Optics (FSO) is a telecommunication technology that uses light propagating in free space to transmit data between two points. The technology is useful where the physical connection of the transmit and receive locations is difficult, for example in cities where the laying of fibre optic cables is expensive.
Free Speech Coalition The Free Speech Coalition is a trade association of the pornography and adult entertainment industry in the United States. Founded in 1991, it opposes the passage and enforcement of censorship and obscenity laws.
Free Speech Movement The Free Speech Movement was a student protest which began in 1964 - 1965 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of student Mario Savio and others. In protests unprecedented at the time, students insisted that the university administration lift a ban on on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom.
Free Speech Radio News Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) is a radio program that produces a half hour newscast each weekday. The newscast is produced at Pacifica network stations KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles, a station in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the press room on Capitol Hill.
Free Spirit Alliance The Free Spirit Alliance (FSA) is a spiritual networking organization serving the Pagan and Pantheist religious communities. Founded in 1985 and based in the Mid-Atlantic area of the USA, the Alliance's focus has been on presenting national, regional, and local events where people from all backgrounds can learn and share ideas.
Free Spirit Gathering Free Spirit Gathering (or FSG) is a Pagan Festival held in Darlington, Maryland in June, presented by the Free Spirit Alliance. There are several workshops and concerts, as well as a nightly firecircle, and attendance reaches to around 700 each year.
Free State Cheetahs The Free State Cheetahs (formerly the Orange Free State), for sponsorship reasons named Vodacom Free State Cheetahs, are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. They are governed by the Free State Rugby Union and are based at the 37,076-capacity Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein.
Free State of Fiume [Free State of Fiume, also known as the Free State of Rijeka (Croatian]: Slobodna DrĹľava Rijeka, [[Italian language|Italian: Stato libero di Fiume) was an independent free state which existed in Fiume, now the Croatian city of Rijeka, between 1920 and 1924.
Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin () was a state in the Weimar Republic that was established in 1918 following the abdication of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin following the German Revolution. In 1933, after the onset of Nazi rule, it was united with the smaller neighbouring state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to form the united state of Mecklenburg.
Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz The Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz () was a state of the Weimar Republic established in 1918 following the German Revolution which had overthrown the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The state lasted until the Nazi Party (NSDAP) came to power in Germany and merged the state with the neighbouring Mecklenburg-Schwerin to form a new united state of Mecklenburg.
Free State of Prussia The Free State of Prussia () was a German state formed after the abolition of the Kingdom of Prussia in the aftermath of World War I. It was the major state of Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic, comprising 60% of its territory.
Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe The Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe () was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on the 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, headed by a Minister President.
Free State Project The Free State Project (FSP) is a plan to have 20,000 or more libertarians move to a single state of the United States, with the intent of influencing local politics and policy. The chosen state of the group is New Hampshire, known for its "Live Free or Die" motto and absence of a state income and sales tax.
Free State Wyoming Free State Wyoming (FSW) is a political migration project whose goal is to bring people of "demonstrably ethical character" to the state of Wyoming in the western United States to encourage "political liberty, free trade and voluntary cooperation."
Free throw In basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points from a restricted area on the court (the free throw line; informally known as the "charity stripe" or foul line), and are generally awarded after a foul by the opposing team.

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