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Freedom deficit This term seems to have been coined by a group of Arab scholars for the UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2002. This report attempts to account for the fact that the Arab region does poorly on the Human Development Index, yet does not suffer the same economic woes of similar nations.
Freedom fighter Freedom fighter is a relativistic local term for those engaged in rebellion against an established organization that is thought to be oppressive. The terms "freedom" and "rebellion" are often confusing, as often both sides in armed conflict claim to represent the popular cause of "freedom".
Freedom fighters in Goa Freedom fighters in Goa refers to the those involved in the campaign against Portuguese rule in this state. There have been sporadic campaigns, attempts and revolts in past centuries, though the campaign for Liberation, as it has been called subsequently, began in around the 20th century.
Freedom from Hunger Freedom from Hunger is an international charity based in Davis, California fighting hunger and poverty with innovative and sustainable self-help solutions. It is notably promoting microcredit solutions through its programme Credit with Education, supporting 320,000 borrowers with an average loanSeptember 2005 report of $131.
Freedom Fighters (comics) Freedom Fighters is the name of a minor DC Comics comic book superhero team made up of characters acquired from the defunct company, Quality Comics, and the short-lived comic book series of the same name featuring those characters. The team first appeared in a Justice League of America/JSA team-up, which ran in Justice League of America #'s 107 and 108 (October and December 1973), written by Len Wein and drawn by Dick Dillin.
Freedom Fighters (song) "Freedom Fighters" is a song from The Music's second album, Welcome to the North. It was also the first single from that album, released in Japan in late August 2004 as an EP and in the UK and elsewhere in Europe as a single in early September 2004.
Freedom Fighters (Sonic the Comic) This article is for fictional characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise that appear exclusively in Sonic the Comic, who served as core supporting cast and Freedom Fighters in that continuity. produced by Fleetway.
Freedom Fighters (video game) Freedom Fighters is a 2003 video game, a third-person shooter set in an alternate present, where the player takes the role of Cristopher Stone, a plumber turned American resistance leader who fights against the Red Army that invades and occupies New York City. It was developed by IO Interactive and published by EA Games T uses a modified version of the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin game engine.
Freedom Force (comics) Freedom Force was a supervillain team in Marvel Comics' universe, though they occasionally acted in a heroic capacity as well. It was a government-sponsored team originally composed mainly of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Freedom Force (computer game) Freedom Force is a computer game developed by Irrational Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2002. The player guides a team of superheroes as they defend Patriot City from a variety of villains, monsters, and other menaces.
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is a computer game developed and published by Irrational Games. In this sequel to Freedom Force, the player guides a team of superheroes as they travel back in time and help overthrow Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
Freedom Forum The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment and newsroom diversity.
Freedom From Freedom From is a Minneapolis based record label which primarily focuses on the international noise underground genre. The label was founded in 1996 with its first official release by a San Francisco three-piece named Job.
Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an American Freethought organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. Its purposes, as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
Freedom Hall Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The maximum capacity of the arena is 19,169 for concerts, and 18,749 for basketball.
Freedom High School (Pennsylvania) Freedom High School is a public high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Freedom is one of two public high schools in the Bethlehem Area School District.
Freedom House Freedom House states that it is an "independent non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world." According to its website, it conducts "an array of advocacy, education, and training initiatives that promote human rights, democracy, free market economics, the rule of law, independent media, and US engagement in international affairs.
Freedom Charter The Freedom Charter was declared at the Congress of the People in Kliptown, South Africa on 26 June 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress. It was later adopted by all four organisations.
Freedom League (Freedom City) The Freedom League is a fictional superhero team in the Freedom City campaign setting of the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game. Like most aspects of Freedom City, the Freedom League is designed to invoke the feel of a familiar aspect of the comic book superheroic genre, with the League representing popular Silver Age superhero teams such as the Justice League of America (from DC Comics), or the Avengers (from Marvel Comics).
Freedom Magazine Freedom Magazine is a magazine published by the Church of Scientology since 1968. The magazine is known for its frequent claims that attempts at mind control by psychologists are the real force behind the violent actions of terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda.
Freedom Medicine Freedom Medicine is a non-profit organization that provided ambulance and first aid to the interior of Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation of the 1980s it was founded by Gay LeClerc, Bob Brenner, and Lynn McFadden.
Freedom of assembly Freedom of assembly is the freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one wishes. It is held to be a key right in liberal democracies, whereby citizens may form or join any political party, special interest group, or union without government restrictions.
Freedom of association Freedom of association is a Constitutional (legal) concept based on the premise that it is the right of free adults to mutually choose their associates for whatever purpose they see fit. This concept has been included in several national constitutions, including the United States Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, and Canada's Charter of Rights.
Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy is a book edited by Sita Ram Goel and published in 1998. The book contains previously published official documents of court cases and newspaper articles.
Freedom of Expression® Freedom of Expression was registered as a trademark in the United States by Kembrew McLeod in 1998. The phrase is used by McLeod as the title of his anti-corporate newsletter, and is also the name of his 2005 book.
Freedom of information in the United States In the United States, there are a number of individual pieces of freedom of information legislation, as well as a number of other sunshine laws intended to increase the openness and transparency of government. The most significant piece of legislation is the federal Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of information legislation Over seventy countries around the world have implemented some form of freedom of information legislation, which sets rules on access to information or records held by government bodies, the oldest being Sweden's Freedom of the Press Act of 1766. Many more countries are working towards introducing such laws, and many regions of countries with national legislation have local laws - for example, all states of the US have access laws as well as the national legislation.
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (2002 asp 13) was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2002. It covers public bodies over which the Scottish Parliament, rather than United Kingdom Parliament, has jurisdiction, fulfilling a similar purpose to the UK-level Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Freedom of movement Freedom of movement, mobility rights or the right to travel is a human rights concept which is respected in the constitutions of numerous Western states. It asserts that a citizen of a state, in which that citizen is present, generally has the right to leave that state, travel wherever the citizen is welcome, and, with proper documentation, return to that state at any time; and also (of equal or greater importance) to travel to, reside in, and/or work in, any part of the state the citizen wishes without interference from the state.
Freedom of Navigation The United States' Freedom of Navigation program has ensured that excessive territorial claims on the world's oceans and airspace are challenged, either by diplomatic protests and/or by interference. The United States has insisted that other nations obey the international law of the sea as stated by the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Denmark In Denmark the freedom of speech and freedom of the press are ensured by § 77 of the constitutionis entitled to in print, writing and speech to publish his or hers thoughts, yet under responsibility to the courts. Censorship and other preventive measures can never again be introduced.
Freedom of speech in the United States Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws. Criticism of the government and advocation of unpopular ideas that most people would find distasteful or against public policy, such as racism, are generally permitted.
Freedom of speech versus blasphemy Freedom of speech versus blasphemy represents the tension which exists between political freedom, particularly freedom of speech, and certain examples of art, literature, speech or other acts which some consider to be sacrilegious or blasphemous. The extent to which this tension has not been resolved is manifested in numerous instances of controversy and conflict around the world.
Freedom of the City Freedom of the City is an award made by some municipalities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, the United States and Italy to esteemed members of its community; such people may then be termed Freemen or Freewomen of the City. Key to the City is a similar award made in several other countries, and is more prevalent in the United States.
Freedom of the press Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. It also extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution.
Freedom Party (Harry Turtledove) In Harry Turtledove's American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels, the Freedom Party is a fascist political organization as well as an analog of the Nazi Party that takes power in the Confederate States of America during the 1930s, and leads the nation into a version of the Second World War.
Freedom Party guards (Harry Turtledove) The Freedom Party guards are the SS analog in the Freedom Party in Harry Turtledove's fictional American Empire and Settling Accounts series of trilogies. Instead of the white and butternut semi-uniform of the stalwarts (or the infamous black of the SS), the guards start out wearing near-identical Confederate States Army butternut uniform.
Freedom Party of Canada The Freedom Party of Canada (abbreviated to "FpC") was founded on July 20 2001 by Paul McKeever (then a member of the executive of the Freedom Party of Ontario) and Robert Metz (President and co-founder of Freedom Party of Ontario). It has not registered itself with Elections Canada for election finance purposes and has never run candidates.
Freedom Party of Switzerland The Freedom Party of Switzerland (FPS) (; ) is a minor populist right-wing political party in Switzerland. Its president and leading representative is JĂĽrg Scherrer, the head of the security department in the city government of Biel/Bienne.
Freedom Phalanx The Freedom Phalanx is a fictional coalition of superheroes in the universe of the MMORPG City of Heroes. This group, lead by the Statesman, is in charge of protecting fictional Paragon City from the various groups that wish to do harm to it.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization As many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization was formed in 1985 to try to solidify some of these groups into a single organization that would have some longevity.
Freedom shop The Freedom Shop is the name of a shop and anarchist collective for the distribution of books and information based in Wellington New Zealand. It operates on a non profit basis, injecting income back into the project.
Freedom Scientific Freedom Scientific is a corporation which researches, creates, and sells technology intended for people who are blind or have low vision and those with learning disabilities. The company's Blind and Low Vision Group's products include software and hardware to help people with low vision work with their computers, organize information, and work with standard printed materials.
Freedom Schools In late 1963, Charles Cobb, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists proposed the organization sponsor a network of Freedom Schools. The concept of “Freedom Schools” had been utilized by educators and activists prior to the summer of 1964 in, for instance, Boston, New York, and Prince Edward County, Virginia, where public schools were closed in reaction to the Brown v.
Freedom Socialist Party The Freedom Socialist Party is a socialist political party with a unique program of revolutionary feminism that emerged from a split in the United States Socialist Workers Party in 1966. The SWP's Seattle branch, with support from individuals in other cities, split off from the SWP over what it described as the SWP’s entrenched opportunism and undemocratic methods.
Freedom Summer Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched during the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the Southern United States. Organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), they decided that this campaign would continue the interest in civil rights and the precedents set by the Freedom Riders.
Freedom to Learn Freedom to Learn (FTL) is a statewide education program helping schools create high performing, student-centered learning environments by providing each student and teacher with direct, consistent access to 21st century learning tools.
Freedom to roam The freedom to roam, or everyman's right is a term describing the general public's ability to access land, be it public or privately owned. The term is sometimes called right of public access to the wilderness or right to roam.
Freedom To Farm Act The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.
Freedom Tower World Trade Center Tower 1, or Freedom Tower, is the centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center complex currently planned for Lower Manhattan. The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) World Trade Center site, bounded by Vesey Street, West Street, Washington Street and Fulton Street [http://www.
Freedom Tower Silver Dollar The Freedom Tower Silver Dollar is a "one dollar" coin minted under license of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in 2004. Despite vague statements in advertisements, it is not issued by the United States Mint and is not considered legal tender.
Freedom Township, Portage County, Ohio Freedom Township is one of eighteen civil townships in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located in the northeastern portion of the county, and borders or touches the following other townships and municipalities:
Freedom Union (Poland) The Freedom Union (Unia Wolności, UW) was a liberal party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (Unia Demokratyczna, UD) and the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD).
Freedom Union–Democratic Union The Freedom Union–Democratic Union (Czech: Unie Svobody–Demokratická unie, US–DEU) is a small, pro-european free market liberal party in the Czech Republic. As of 2006, it doesn't have any seats in the Czech Chamber of Deputies and have 3 senators in "Open Democracy" Caucus in the Senate.
Freedom wars of Lithuania Freedom wars (also, War of Independence) refers to the three wars Lithuania had to fight defending its independence from the opposing forces at the end of World War I. Since 1795 Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire.
Freedom Writers Foundation The Freedom Writers Foundation is a "charitable organization that promotes tolerance in the classroom and empowers teachers and underserved students, specifically economically disadvantaged and “at-risk” youth nationwide."
Freedom's Answer Freedom's Answer is a non-partisan, youth-led voter turnout drive led by a coalition of youth organizations nationwide. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, four young leaders came together in Washington, D.
Freedom's Journal Freedom's Journal was the first African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. Published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829, the journal was edited by John Russwurm from March 16, 1827 to March 28, 1829 and later, Samuel Cornish served as co-editor (March 16, 1827 to September 14, 1827).
Freedom, Pennsylvania Freedom is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. In the early years of the twentieth century, the chief industries were the production of oil, caskets, and monuments.
Freedomites Freedomites, also called Svobodniki or Sons of Freedom, first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary districts of British Columbia, as a Doukhobor extremist group. Of the about 20,000 Doukhobor living in Canada today, about 2,500 are Freedomites.
FreedomPath Journal FreedomPath Journal, formerly called Freedom Path Journal, is a publication started in 1998 by Adeeb Shabazz, a Black Libertarian activist who is currently serving as the Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Chatham County, GA and on the Executive Committee of the state Libertarian Party of Georgia.
Freedoms of the air The Freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country's airline(s) the privilege to enter and land in another country's airspace. Formulated as a result of disagreements over the extent of aviation liberalisation in the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944, the United States had called for a standardized set of separate air rights which may be negotiated between states.
Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston (born 1961) is a New York City-based singer/songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. Johnston's first album, "The Trouble Tree" was released in 1990, and features the guitar playing of the roots musician and author, David Hamburger.
Freefall (ride) The Freefall (also known as 1'st Generation Freefall) is an amusement ride invented by the Swiss company, Intamin AG. The Freefall was a common ride at major amusement parks until 1995 when the Drop Tower was invented by the same company.
Freefall (webcomic) Freefall is a popular webcomic written and drawn by Mark Stanley. It is a humorous science fiction story detailing the misadventures of the starship Savage Chicken and its crew: Sam Starfall, a lovable alien con artist; Helix, a childlike robot; and Florence Ambrose, a genetically engineered "Bowman's Wolf" (i.
Freefall style Freefall style is a category of sport skydiving competition. Competitors aim to perform a predefined series of aerial maneuvers including front and back flips (loops), turns, and rolls in the least amount of time.
Freeflying Freeflying is a skydiving discipline which began circa 1994 by a group of skydivers who wanted to experiment with non-traditional forms of flight. This group, called "The Freefly Clowns" was founded by Olav Zipser, along with Mike Vail, Omar Alhegelan, Charles Bryan and Stefania Martinengo.
Freeform (radio format) Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over programming structure or playlists.
Freeform Five Freeform Five are a four-piece dance collective based in London. They consist of producer, multi-instrumentalist and chief song-writer Anu Pillai, as well as vocalists Tamara Barnett-Herrin, Cabba and Nick Decosemo.
Freeform hardcore Freeform Hardcore is a form of Hard Dance introduced in 1999 that is an offshoot of a subgenre Happy Hardcore. The name "Freeform" was given by DJ Sharkey of the Nu Energy Collective, who along with several other DJs, most notably Kevin Energy, forged the new genre.
Freeform role-playing game Freeform role-playing games, also called freeforms, are a type of role-playing game which employ minimal or no rules; occupying a middle-ground between traditional role-playing games and improvisational theatre.
Freeganism Freeganism is a lifestyle based around the belief that almost all work and monetary exchanges within a capitalist economy contribute to myriad forms of exploitation - worker abuse, animal exploitation, hunger, ecological destruction, mass incarceration, war, inequitable distribution of resources, commodification of women - almost all issues addressed by social, ecological, and animal rights advocacy groups.
Freeglut freeglut is an Open Source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad The Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad was a short-line railroad in New Jersey. Its former right-of-way, along with a portion of the Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad's right-of-way, has become the Edgar Felix Bikeway.
Freehold High School Freehold Borough High School is a four-year Public high school located within Freehold Borough, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District. The school serves 1,194 students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township.
Freehold Raceway Mall Freehold Raceway Mall is a super-regional mall in Freehold, New Jersey located in a space between Route 33, Business Route 33, CR 537, and Route 9, (Route 33 does not have an entrance to the mall, as it is a major highway, but the other three routes do.) making it a major shopping destination.
Freehold Regional High School District The Freehold Regional High School District is a public regional school district serving eight communities in western Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district, consisting of six high schools, is the largest high school district in the state of New Jersey.
Freehold Township High School Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District. The school serves over 2,200 students from Freehold Township, Englishtown, Howell Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan Township.
FreeHEP FreeHEP is an open source Java library designed to make programming high energy physics applications easier. While the name and main focus of the project is high energy physics, many self-contained APIs in the library are generic and suitable for non-physics applications.
Freej FREEJ; the Middle East’s first 3D animated series is the brainchild of Mohammed Saeed Harib, who also directs the fifteen standalone episodes of fifteen minutes each. FREEJ is the tale of four old national women living in a secluded neighborhood in modern day Dubai.
FreeJ FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for real-time video manipulation used in the fields of dance theater, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. With FreeJ multiple layers can be filtered through effect chains and then mixed together.
Freekick Freekick is a online, browser-based, football management game played by 31,000 players around the world. Currently the game has 154 different countries and 56 leagues, each with its own league pyramid, and 25 different language versions.
Freekstyle Freekstyle is a 2002 motocross racing video game for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube. Its playable moto-x riders are Mike Metzger (on front cover), Brian Deegan, Leeann Tweeden, Stefy Bau, Clifford Adoptante, aka the Flyin' Hawaiian, "Mad" Mike Jones, Jessica Patterson, and Greg Albertyn, aka Albee.
Freelancer A freelancer or freelance worker is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer. The term was first coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) in his well-known historical romance Ivanhoe to describe a "medieval mercenary warrior.
Freelancer (computer game) Freelancer is a space simulation computer game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft in March 3, 2003 for Microsoft Windows. The primary distinguishing feature of the game is that it does not end when the last in-game mission is completed.
Freelancin' Roundtable Roundtable (RT) was a modem-based text chat system located in the Pasadena, Texas area near Houston in the early and mid-1980’s frequented by local Bulletin Board System (BBS) users. Roundtable was created, owned, and operated by Jim Penny and his son Bruce.
Freelancing on the Internet The advent of the Internet has created new opportunities for freelancing, particularly for software developers from countries with low average salaries. A number of websites have become bustling marketplaces for farming out software development projects to freelancers at rates generally considered rock-bottom by Western standards.
Freelander A freelander is term for a person or group seeking political/personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land. The term is primarily used in a fictional or speculative sense of freelanders emigrating from earth to other bodies in the solar system.
Freelandia Freelandia was a low-cost airline travel charter company owned by founder Kenneth Moss that operated in 1973 and the beginning of 1974. Freelandia also functioned as a travel club, for an initial fee of $50 club members were eligible for fares as low as $69 to fly between Newark and Los Angeles.
Freely redistributable software Freely redistributable software (FRS) is software that anyone is free to redistribute. The term has been used to mean two types of free to redistribute software, distinguished by the legal modifiability of the software.
Freeman (Colonial) Freeman is a term used generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons who were not under legal restraint – usually for the payment of an outstanding debt, because of their continual drunkenness, because they had recently relocated, or because they were idle and had no way in which they could continue the justification of their stay within the colony.
Freeman (rapper) Freeman (real name Malek Brahimi, also known as Abdelmalek Sultan) is a French hip hop artist and breakdancer. He is a member of the successful hip hop group IAM together with Akhenaton, Shurik'n, Khéops, Imhotep, and Kephren.
Freeman Baronets The Freeman Baronetcy, of Murtle in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 July 1945 for the noted air commander and Chief Executive at the Ministry of Aircraft Production Air Chief Marshal Wilfred Rhodes Freeman.
Freeman Coliseum The Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum, built in 1950, has been host to thousands of events varying from three-ring circus acts to concerts to boxing events. It also was the home of the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo until the adjacent AT&T Center opened in 2003.
Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lifelong opponent of nationalism, and proponent of nuclear disarmament and international cooperation.
Freeman Field Mutiny The Freeman Field Mutiny was a series of incidents at a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which African American members of the 477th Bombardment Group attempted to integrate an all-white officers' club. The mutiny resulted in 162 separate arrests of black officers, some of them twice.
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon George Freeman Thomas, later Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 September 1866–12 August 1941) was a British Liberal politician who served as Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India.
Freeman Gosden Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden (May 5, 1899 – December 10, 1982) was an American radio comedian, and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the Amos 'n' Andy series.
Freeman McNeil Freeman McNeil (born April 22, 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi) was a former American professional football player who was selected by the New York Jets in the 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 214 lbs.
Freeman Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) Freeman Street is an elevated station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Freeman Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, it is served by the train (all times) and the (all times except late nights and rush hours in the peak direction).
Freedom fighter Freedom fighter is a relativistic local term for those engaged in rebellion against an established organization that is thought to be oppressive. The terms "freedom" and "rebellion" are often confusing, as often both sides in armed conflict claim to represent the popular cause of "freedom".
Freedom fighters in Goa Freedom fighters in Goa refers to the those involved in the campaign against Portuguese rule in this state. There have been sporadic campaigns, attempts and revolts in past centuries, though the campaign for Liberation, as it has been called subsequently, began in around the 20th century.
Freedom from Hunger Freedom from Hunger is an international charity based in Davis, California fighting hunger and poverty with innovative and sustainable self-help solutions. It is notably promoting microcredit solutions through its programme Credit with Education, supporting 320,000 borrowers with an average loanSeptember 2005 report of $131.
Freedom Fighters (comics) Freedom Fighters is the name of a minor DC Comics comic book superhero team made up of characters acquired from the defunct company, Quality Comics, and the short-lived comic book series of the same name featuring those characters. The team first appeared in a Justice League of America/JSA team-up, which ran in Justice League of America #'s 107 and 108 (October and December 1973), written by Len Wein and drawn by Dick Dillin.
Freedom Fighters (song) "Freedom Fighters" is a song from The Music's second album, Welcome to the North. It was also the first single from that album, released in Japan in late August 2004 as an EP and in the UK and elsewhere in Europe as a single in early September 2004.
Freedom Fighters (Sonic the Comic) This article is for fictional characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise that appear exclusively in Sonic the Comic, who served as core supporting cast and Freedom Fighters in that continuity. produced by Fleetway.
Freedom Fighters (video game) Freedom Fighters is a 2003 video game, a third-person shooter set in an alternate present, where the player takes the role of Cristopher Stone, a plumber turned American resistance leader who fights against the Red Army that invades and occupies New York City. It was developed by IO Interactive and published by EA Games T uses a modified version of the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin game engine.
Freedom Force (comics) Freedom Force was a supervillain team in Marvel Comics' universe, though they occasionally acted in a heroic capacity as well. It was a government-sponsored team originally composed mainly of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Freedom Force (computer game) Freedom Force is a computer game developed by Irrational Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2002. The player guides a team of superheroes as they defend Patriot City from a variety of villains, monsters, and other menaces.
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is a computer game developed and published by Irrational Games. In this sequel to Freedom Force, the player guides a team of superheroes as they travel back in time and help overthrow Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II.
Freedom Forum The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment and newsroom diversity.
Freedom From Freedom From is a Minneapolis based record label which primarily focuses on the international noise underground genre. The label was founded in 1996 with its first official release by a San Francisco three-piece named Job.
Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an American Freethought organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. Its purposes, as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
Freedom Hall Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The maximum capacity of the arena is 19,169 for concerts, and 18,749 for basketball.
Freedom High School (Pennsylvania) Freedom High School is a public high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Freedom is one of two public high schools in the Bethlehem Area School District.
Freedom House Freedom House states that it is an "independent non-governmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world." According to its website, it conducts "an array of advocacy, education, and training initiatives that promote human rights, democracy, free market economics, the rule of law, independent media, and US engagement in international affairs.
Freedom Charter The Freedom Charter was declared at the Congress of the People in Kliptown, South Africa on 26 June 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats and the Coloured People's Congress. It was later adopted by all four organisations.
Freedom League (Freedom City) The Freedom League is a fictional superhero team in the Freedom City campaign setting of the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game. Like most aspects of Freedom City, the Freedom League is designed to invoke the feel of a familiar aspect of the comic book superheroic genre, with the League representing popular Silver Age superhero teams such as the Justice League of America (from DC Comics), or the Avengers (from Marvel Comics).
Freedom Magazine Freedom Magazine is a magazine published by the Church of Scientology since 1968. The magazine is known for its frequent claims that attempts at mind control by psychologists are the real force behind the violent actions of terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda.
Freedom Medicine Freedom Medicine is a non-profit organization that provided ambulance and first aid to the interior of Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation of the 1980s it was founded by Gay LeClerc, Bob Brenner, and Lynn McFadden.
Freedom of assembly Freedom of assembly is the freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one wishes. It is held to be a key right in liberal democracies, whereby citizens may form or join any political party, special interest group, or union without government restrictions.
Freedom of association Freedom of association is a Constitutional (legal) concept based on the premise that it is the right of free adults to mutually choose their associates for whatever purpose they see fit. This concept has been included in several national constitutions, including the United States Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, and Canada's Charter of Rights.
Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy is a book edited by Sita Ram Goel and published in 1998. The book contains previously published official documents of court cases and newspaper articles.
Freedom of Expression® Freedom of Expression was registered as a trademark in the United States by Kembrew McLeod in 1998. The phrase is used by McLeod as the title of his anti-corporate newsletter, and is also the name of his 2005 book.
Freedom of information in the United States In the United States, there are a number of individual pieces of freedom of information legislation, as well as a number of other sunshine laws intended to increase the openness and transparency of government. The most significant piece of legislation is the federal Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of information legislation Over seventy countries around the world have implemented some form of freedom of information legislation, which sets rules on access to information or records held by government bodies, the oldest being Sweden's Freedom of the Press Act of 1766. Many more countries are working towards introducing such laws, and many regions of countries with national legislation have local laws - for example, all states of the US have access laws as well as the national legislation.
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (2002 asp 13) was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in 2002. It covers public bodies over which the Scottish Parliament, rather than United Kingdom Parliament, has jurisdiction, fulfilling a similar purpose to the UK-level Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Freedom of movement Freedom of movement, mobility rights or the right to travel is a human rights concept which is respected in the constitutions of numerous Western states. It asserts that a citizen of a state, in which that citizen is present, generally has the right to leave that state, travel wherever the citizen is welcome, and, with proper documentation, return to that state at any time; and also (of equal or greater importance) to travel to, reside in, and/or work in, any part of the state the citizen wishes without interference from the state.
Freedom of Navigation The United States' Freedom of Navigation program has ensured that excessive territorial claims on the world's oceans and airspace are challenged, either by diplomatic protests and/or by interference. The United States has insisted that other nations obey the international law of the sea as stated by the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Denmark In Denmark the freedom of speech and freedom of the press are ensured by § 77 of the constitutionis entitled to in print, writing and speech to publish his or hers thoughts, yet under responsibility to the courts. Censorship and other preventive measures can never again be introduced.
Freedom of speech in the United States Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws. Criticism of the government and advocation of unpopular ideas that most people would find distasteful or against public policy, such as racism, are generally permitted.
Freedom of speech versus blasphemy Freedom of speech versus blasphemy represents the tension which exists between political freedom, particularly freedom of speech, and certain examples of art, literature, speech or other acts which some consider to be sacrilegious or blasphemous. The extent to which this tension has not been resolved is manifested in numerous instances of controversy and conflict around the world.
Freedom of the City Freedom of the City is an award made by some municipalities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, the United States and Italy to esteemed members of its community; such people may then be termed Freemen or Freewomen of the City. Key to the City is a similar award made in several other countries, and is more prevalent in the United States.
Freedom of the press Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. It also extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution.
Freedom Party (Harry Turtledove) In Harry Turtledove's American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels, the Freedom Party is a fascist political organization as well as an analog of the Nazi Party that takes power in the Confederate States of America during the 1930s, and leads the nation into a version of the Second World War.
Freedom Party guards (Harry Turtledove) The Freedom Party guards are the SS analog in the Freedom Party in Harry Turtledove's fictional American Empire and Settling Accounts series of trilogies. Instead of the white and butternut semi-uniform of the stalwarts (or the infamous black of the SS), the guards start out wearing near-identical Confederate States Army butternut uniform.
Freedom Party of Canada The Freedom Party of Canada (abbreviated to "FpC") was founded on July 20 2001 by Paul McKeever (then a member of the executive of the Freedom Party of Ontario) and Robert Metz (President and co-founder of Freedom Party of Ontario). It has not registered itself with Elections Canada for election finance purposes and has never run candidates.
Freedom Party of Switzerland The Freedom Party of Switzerland (FPS) (; ) is a minor populist right-wing political party in Switzerland. Its president and leading representative is JĂĽrg Scherrer, the head of the security department in the city government of Biel/Bienne.
Freedom Phalanx The Freedom Phalanx is a fictional coalition of superheroes in the universe of the MMORPG City of Heroes. This group, lead by the Statesman, is in charge of protecting fictional Paragon City from the various groups that wish to do harm to it.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization As many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization was formed in 1985 to try to solidify some of these groups into a single organization that would have some longevity.
Freedom shop The Freedom Shop is the name of a shop and anarchist collective for the distribution of books and information based in Wellington New Zealand. It operates on a non profit basis, injecting income back into the project.
Freedom Scientific Freedom Scientific is a corporation which researches, creates, and sells technology intended for people who are blind or have low vision and those with learning disabilities. The company's Blind and Low Vision Group's products include software and hardware to help people with low vision work with their computers, organize information, and work with standard printed materials.
Freedom Schools In late 1963, Charles Cobb, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists proposed the organization sponsor a network of Freedom Schools. The concept of “Freedom Schools” had been utilized by educators and activists prior to the summer of 1964 in, for instance, Boston, New York, and Prince Edward County, Virginia, where public schools were closed in reaction to the Brown v.
Freedom Socialist Party The Freedom Socialist Party is a socialist political party with a unique program of revolutionary feminism that emerged from a split in the United States Socialist Workers Party in 1966. The SWP's Seattle branch, with support from individuals in other cities, split off from the SWP over what it described as the SWP’s entrenched opportunism and undemocratic methods.
Freedom Summer Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched during the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the Southern United States. Organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), they decided that this campaign would continue the interest in civil rights and the precedents set by the Freedom Riders.
Freedom to Learn Freedom to Learn (FTL) is a statewide education program helping schools create high performing, student-centered learning environments by providing each student and teacher with direct, consistent access to 21st century learning tools.
Freedom to roam The freedom to roam, or everyman's right is a term describing the general public's ability to access land, be it public or privately owned. The term is sometimes called right of public access to the wilderness or right to roam.
Freedom To Farm Act The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.
Freedom Tower World Trade Center Tower 1, or Freedom Tower, is the centerpiece building of the new World Trade Center complex currently planned for Lower Manhattan. The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) World Trade Center site, bounded by Vesey Street, West Street, Washington Street and Fulton Street [http://www.
Freedom Tower Silver Dollar The Freedom Tower Silver Dollar is a "one dollar" coin minted under license of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in 2004. Despite vague statements in advertisements, it is not issued by the United States Mint and is not considered legal tender.
Freedom Township, Portage County, Ohio Freedom Township is one of eighteen civil townships in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located in the northeastern portion of the county, and borders or touches the following other townships and municipalities:
Freedom Union (Poland) The Freedom Union (Unia Wolności, UW) was a liberal party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (Unia Demokratyczna, UD) and the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD).
Freedom Union–Democratic Union The Freedom Union–Democratic Union (Czech: Unie Svobody–Demokratická unie, US–DEU) is a small, pro-european free market liberal party in the Czech Republic. As of 2006, it doesn't have any seats in the Czech Chamber of Deputies and have 3 senators in "Open Democracy" Caucus in the Senate.
Freedom wars of Lithuania Freedom wars (also, War of Independence) refers to the three wars Lithuania had to fight defending its independence from the opposing forces at the end of World War I. Since 1795 Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire.
Freedom Writers Foundation The Freedom Writers Foundation is a "charitable organization that promotes tolerance in the classroom and empowers teachers and underserved students, specifically economically disadvantaged and “at-risk” youth nationwide."
Freedom's Answer Freedom's Answer is a non-partisan, youth-led voter turnout drive led by a coalition of youth organizations nationwide. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, four young leaders came together in Washington, D.
Freedom's Journal Freedom's Journal was the first African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. Published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829, the journal was edited by John Russwurm from March 16, 1827 to March 28, 1829 and later, Samuel Cornish served as co-editor (March 16, 1827 to September 14, 1827).
Freedom, Pennsylvania Freedom is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. In the early years of the twentieth century, the chief industries were the production of oil, caskets, and monuments.
Freedomites Freedomites, also called Svobodniki or Sons of Freedom, first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary districts of British Columbia, as a Doukhobor extremist group. Of the about 20,000 Doukhobor living in Canada today, about 2,500 are Freedomites.
FreedomPath Journal FreedomPath Journal, formerly called Freedom Path Journal, is a publication started in 1998 by Adeeb Shabazz, a Black Libertarian activist who is currently serving as the Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Chatham County, GA and on the Executive Committee of the state Libertarian Party of Georgia.
Freedoms of the air The Freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country's airline(s) the privilege to enter and land in another country's airspace. Formulated as a result of disagreements over the extent of aviation liberalisation in the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944, the United States had called for a standardized set of separate air rights which may be negotiated between states.
Freedy Johnston Freedy Johnston (born 1961) is a New York City-based singer/songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. Johnston's first album, "The Trouble Tree" was released in 1990, and features the guitar playing of the roots musician and author, David Hamburger.
Freefall (ride) The Freefall (also known as 1'st Generation Freefall) is an amusement ride invented by the Swiss company, Intamin AG. The Freefall was a common ride at major amusement parks until 1995 when the Drop Tower was invented by the same company.
Freefall (webcomic) Freefall is a popular webcomic written and drawn by Mark Stanley. It is a humorous science fiction story detailing the misadventures of the starship Savage Chicken and its crew: Sam Starfall, a lovable alien con artist; Helix, a childlike robot; and Florence Ambrose, a genetically engineered "Bowman's Wolf" (i.
Freefall style Freefall style is a category of sport skydiving competition. Competitors aim to perform a predefined series of aerial maneuvers including front and back flips (loops), turns, and rolls in the least amount of time.
Freeflying Freeflying is a skydiving discipline which began circa 1994 by a group of skydivers who wanted to experiment with non-traditional forms of flight. This group, called "The Freefly Clowns" was founded by Olav Zipser, along with Mike Vail, Omar Alhegelan, Charles Bryan and Stefania Martinengo.
Freeform (radio format) Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over programming structure or playlists.
Freeform Five Freeform Five are a four-piece dance collective based in London. They consist of producer, multi-instrumentalist and chief song-writer Anu Pillai, as well as vocalists Tamara Barnett-Herrin, Cabba and Nick Decosemo.
Freeform hardcore Freeform Hardcore is a form of Hard Dance introduced in 1999 that is an offshoot of a subgenre Happy Hardcore. The name "Freeform" was given by DJ Sharkey of the Nu Energy Collective, who along with several other DJs, most notably Kevin Energy, forged the new genre.
Freeform role-playing game Freeform role-playing games, also called freeforms, are a type of role-playing game which employ minimal or no rules; occupying a middle-ground between traditional role-playing games and improvisational theatre.
Freeganism Freeganism is a lifestyle based around the belief that almost all work and monetary exchanges within a capitalist economy contribute to myriad forms of exploitation - worker abuse, animal exploitation, hunger, ecological destruction, mass incarceration, war, inequitable distribution of resources, commodification of women - almost all issues addressed by social, ecological, and animal rights advocacy groups.
Freeglut freeglut is an Open Source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad The Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad was a short-line railroad in New Jersey. Its former right-of-way, along with a portion of the Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad's right-of-way, has become the Edgar Felix Bikeway.
Freehold High School Freehold Borough High School is a four-year Public high school located within Freehold Borough, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District. The school serves 1,194 students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township.
Freehold Raceway Mall Freehold Raceway Mall is a super-regional mall in Freehold, New Jersey located in a space between Route 33, Business Route 33, CR 537, and Route 9, (Route 33 does not have an entrance to the mall, as it is a major highway, but the other three routes do.) making it a major shopping destination.
Freehold Regional High School District The Freehold Regional High School District is a public regional school district serving eight communities in western Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district, consisting of six high schools, is the largest high school district in the state of New Jersey.
Freehold Township High School Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District. The school serves over 2,200 students from Freehold Township, Englishtown, Howell Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan Township.
FreeHEP FreeHEP is an open source Java library designed to make programming high energy physics applications easier. While the name and main focus of the project is high energy physics, many self-contained APIs in the library are generic and suitable for non-physics applications.
Freej FREEJ; the Middle East’s first 3D animated series is the brainchild of Mohammed Saeed Harib, who also directs the fifteen standalone episodes of fifteen minutes each. FREEJ is the tale of four old national women living in a secluded neighborhood in modern day Dubai.
FreeJ FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for real-time video manipulation used in the fields of dance theater, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. With FreeJ multiple layers can be filtered through effect chains and then mixed together.
Freekick Freekick is a online, browser-based, football management game played by 31,000 players around the world. Currently the game has 154 different countries and 56 leagues, each with its own league pyramid, and 25 different language versions.
Freekstyle Freekstyle is a 2002 motocross racing video game for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube. Its playable moto-x riders are Mike Metzger (on front cover), Brian Deegan, Leeann Tweeden, Stefy Bau, Clifford Adoptante, aka the Flyin' Hawaiian, "Mad" Mike Jones, Jessica Patterson, and Greg Albertyn, aka Albee.
Freelancer A freelancer or freelance worker is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer. The term was first coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) in his well-known historical romance Ivanhoe to describe a "medieval mercenary warrior.
Freelancer (computer game) Freelancer is a space simulation computer game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft in March 3, 2003 for Microsoft Windows. The primary distinguishing feature of the game is that it does not end when the last in-game mission is completed.
Freelancin' Roundtable Roundtable (RT) was a modem-based text chat system located in the Pasadena, Texas area near Houston in the early and mid-1980’s frequented by local Bulletin Board System (BBS) users. Roundtable was created, owned, and operated by Jim Penny and his son Bruce.
Freelancing on the Internet The advent of the Internet has created new opportunities for freelancing, particularly for software developers from countries with low average salaries. A number of websites have become bustling marketplaces for farming out software development projects to freelancers at rates generally considered rock-bottom by Western standards.
Freelander A freelander is term for a person or group seeking political/personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land. The term is primarily used in a fictional or speculative sense of freelanders emigrating from earth to other bodies in the solar system.
Freelandia Freelandia was a low-cost airline travel charter company owned by founder Kenneth Moss that operated in 1973 and the beginning of 1974. Freelandia also functioned as a travel club, for an initial fee of $50 club members were eligible for fares as low as $69 to fly between Newark and Los Angeles.
Freely redistributable software Freely redistributable software (FRS) is software that anyone is free to redistribute. The term has been used to mean two types of free to redistribute software, distinguished by the legal modifiability of the software.
Freeman (Colonial) Freeman is a term used generally as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons who were not under legal restraint – usually for the payment of an outstanding debt, because of their continual drunkenness, because they had recently relocated, or because they were idle and had no way in which they could continue the justification of their stay within the colony.
Freeman (rapper) Freeman (real name Malek Brahimi, also known as Abdelmalek Sultan) is a French hip hop artist and breakdancer. He is a member of the successful hip hop group IAM together with Akhenaton, Shurik'n, Khéops, Imhotep, and Kephren.
Freeman Baronets The Freeman Baronetcy, of Murtle in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 July 1945 for the noted air commander and Chief Executive at the Ministry of Aircraft Production Air Chief Marshal Wilfred Rhodes Freeman.
Freeman Coliseum The Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum, built in 1950, has been host to thousands of events varying from three-ring circus acts to concerts to boxing events. It also was the home of the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo until the adjacent AT&T Center opened in 2003.
Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lifelong opponent of nationalism, and proponent of nuclear disarmament and international cooperation.
Freeman Field Mutiny The Freeman Field Mutiny was a series of incidents at a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which African American members of the 477th Bombardment Group attempted to integrate an all-white officers' club. The mutiny resulted in 162 separate arrests of black officers, some of them twice.
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon George Freeman Thomas, later Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 September 1866–12 August 1941) was a British Liberal politician who served as Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India.
Freeman Gosden Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden (May 5, 1899 – December 10, 1982) was an American radio comedian, and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the Amos 'n' Andy series.
Freeman McNeil Freeman McNeil (born April 22, 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi) was a former American professional football player who was selected by the New York Jets in the 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 214 lbs.
Freeman Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) Freeman Street is an elevated station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Freeman Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, it is served by the train (all times) and the (all times except late nights and rush hours in the peak direction).
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