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Frege's Puzzle Frege's Puzzle is a puzzle about the semantics of proper names, although the title is also sometimes applied to a related puzzle about indexicals. Frege introduced the puzzle at the beginning of his article "Ăśber Sinn und Bedeutung" ("On Sense and Reference"), one of the most influential articles for Twentieth-Century analytic philosophers and philosophers of language.
Frege's theorem Frege's theorem states that the axioms of second-order arithmetic can be derived in second-order logic from Hume's principle. It was first proven, informally, by Gottlob Frege in his Foundations of Arithmetic, published in 1884, and proven more formally in his Basic Laws of Arithmetic, published in two volumes, in 1893 and 1903.
Fregoli delusion The Fregoli delusion or Fregoli syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion and is often of a paranoid nature with the delusional person believing that he or she is being persecuted by the person he or she believes to be in disguise.
Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet was an American hard rock band formed and led by ex-KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. The group released two studio albums and one live EP before Frehley abandoned the Frehley's Comet moniker and released 1989's Trouble Walkin' under his own name.
Frei Betto Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, known as Frei Betto (born in 1944, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian writer, political activist, and Dominican friar. As a writer he won the Prêmio Jabuti award and wrote 34 books.
Frei Caneca Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo e Caneca (Recife, July 1779 — Recife, January 13 1825), better known as Frei Caneca, was a Brazilian religious and intellectual mentor. He was involved in both the 1817 Pernambucan Revolt as well a leader of the short lived Confederation of the Equator.
Freia Melkesjokolade Freia Melkesjokolade is a Milk Chocolate from the Norwegian chocolate brand Freia and has been the most sold chocolate in Norway since the 1960s. It was created in 1906 by the newly hired manager Johan Throne Holst (1868-1946).
Freiberg (district) Freiberg is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the district of Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis, the city of Chemnitz, the districts of Mittweida, MeiĂźen and WeiĂźeritzkreis, and by the Czech Republic.
Freiberg Germany Temple The Freiberg Germany Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. The Church announced the temple in October 1982, ground was broken for construction on April 23, 1983, and the temple was dedicated from June 20 to June 30, 1985.
Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. Freiburg has a sunny microclimate and popular opinion has it that Freiburg is the warmest, sunniest city in Germany.
Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir The Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir (Freiburger Domsingknaben) is one ensemble of the "Freiburg Cathedral Music" in southwest Germany, which has a history that can be traced back over eight centuries. It is directed by Boris Böhmann and composed of about 55 boys and 25 adult voices.
Freiburger Barockorchester Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is an orchestra originally founded "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds." The orchestra, based in Freiburg, Germany now also performs works by later composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Weber as well as contemporary music.
Freida Lee Mock Freida Lee Mock is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, credited with producing films about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders.
Freienstein-Teufen Freienstein-Teufen is a municipality in the Swiss in the canton of Zurich, located in the district of Bülach with a population of 2224 (as of 2003). Situated in the lower Tösstal, bordering on the Rhine, it comprises the villages of Freienstein and Teufen.
Freigericht Freigericht is a town in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 15 km east of Hanau, close to the Frankfurt Rhein-Main region at the foothills of the Spessart, directly at the Hesse-Bavaria border.
Freight Australia Freight Australia was a railway company in Australia. It operated rail freight services and controlled non-urban rail track in the state of Victoria, except the interstate network, which is controlled by the Australian Rail Track Corporation.
Freight bicycle Freight bicycles or Freight tricycles or cargo bikes are human powered vehicles designed and constructed specifically for transporting large loads. Vehicle designs usually include a cargo handling area consisting of an enclosed box (cabinet), a flat platform, or a wire bracket basket.
Freight company Freight companies are companies that specialise in the moving of freight, or cargo, from one place to another. They are divided into several sections, International Freight Forwarders - which ship goods from country to coutry or Domestic Freight Forwarders (who ship goods within one country).
Freight derivative A Freight derivative is a financial instrument for trading in future levels of freight rates, for dry bulk carriers and tankers. These instruments are settled against various freight rate indices published by the Baltic Exchange and Platt's.
Freight expense In accounting, the concept of a freight expense account can be generalized as a payment for sending out a product to a customer. It falls under the umbrella category of Expenses and is treated like other expense accounts in relation to the accounting equation.
Freight Elevator Quartet The Freight Elevator Quartet (FEQ) were a music performance group specializing in improvised electronic music active in and around New York City. They performed and recorded continuously from 1996 to 2003, and collaborated extensively with experimental music artists such as DJ Spooky and Elliott Sharp, and avant-garde videographer Mark McNamara.
Freight forwarder A freight forwarder is an individual or company that dispatches shipments via asset based carriers and books or otherwise arranges space for those shipments. Common carrier types could include waterborne vessels, airplanes, trucks or railroads.
Freight interline system The freight interline system is a system of relations between trucking companies, rail, and airline networks. Interline freight is cargo that moves between different transportation companies on its journey from origin to consignee.
Freight Quality Partnerships Freight Quality Partnerships or FQPs are groups of transport operators and local authorities that come together to tackle the issues around freight access and deliveries in a particular location. FQPs are regarded as best practice by the Department of Transport (DfT ).
Freight rate A freight rate is a price at which a certain cargo/freight is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
Freightconnection Freightconnection was an event organised by the Railfreight Distribution sector of British Rail in 1992. Its purpose was to increase the amount of freight traffic between France, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel, which was due to open two years later, in 1994.
Freighthopping Freighthopping or train hopping is the act of surreptitiously hitching a ride on a railroad freight car. In the United States, this became a common means of transportation following the American Civil War as the railroads began pushing westward, especially among migrant workers who became known as hobos.
Freighting Freighting refers to the hauling of cargo, historically, using a dog team to mush goods cross-country. During the North American gold rushes, such as the Klondike Gold Rush, dogs were valuable draft animals, going where horses could not and withstanding harsher weather.
FreightLink In 2000, the AustralAsia Rail Corporation awarded the contract to build and operate the Adelaide to Darwin railway line as a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer back project to the Asia Pacific Transport Consortium, which in turn awarded the contract to FreightLink to build and operate the project.
Freiherr Freiherr, a German word, is a title of nobility of lower peerage rank in the former Holy Roman Empire, its various successor states (notably Austria-Hungary and Germany) and elsewhere, such as the Baltic and Nordic countries, about equal to the title Baron. Its literal translation is Free Lord.
Freiherr Dietrich Heinrich von BĂĽlow Freiherr Dietrich Heinrich von BĂĽlow (1757-1807), Prussian soldier and military writer, and brother of General Count Friedrich Wilhelm BĂĽlow, entered the Prussian army in 1773. Routine work proved distasteful to him, and he read with avidity the works of the chevalier Folard and other theoretical writers on war, and of Rousseau.
Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven Wessel Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven (born 10 November 1899 in GroĂź-Born, Courland, died 26 July 1944 in Mauerwald, East Prussia)) was Colonel in the German General Staff of the Wehrmacht and a member of the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. He was a friend of Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, who was the leader of the July 20 Plot against Hitler in 1944.
Freikorps in the Baltic After 1918, the term Freikorps was used for the paramilitary organizations that sprang up around German Empire as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. It was one of the many Weimar paramilitary groups active during that time.
Freilassing Freilassing is a small town of some 15,000 inhabitants situated in the southeastern corner of Bavaria, Germany. It belongs to the "Regierungsbezirk" Oberbayern and the "Landkreis" (County) of Berchtesgadener Land.
Freiman Mall Freiman Mall is an enclosed arcade between Rideau and George Streets in Downtown Ottawa, Canada, east of Sussex Drive and west of William Street. For practical purposes, "Freiman Mall" often refers not only to this walkway but also the building immediately west, collectively a shopping mall owned and almost exclusively occupied by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Freiman's theorem In mathematics, Freiman's theorem is a combinatorial result in number theory. It in a sense accounts for the approximate structure of sets of integers which contain a high proportion of their internal sums, taken two at a time.
Freisa Freisa is a wine grape variety grown in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, primarily in Monferrato and in the Langhe, but also further north in the provinces of Turin and Biella. Synonyms for Freisa include Monferrina, Monfreisa, Fessietta, Freisa di Chieri, Fresa Freisa and Spannina.
Freischutz A FreischĂĽtz, in German folklore, is a marksman who by a compact with the devil has obtained a certain number of bullets destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. As the legend is usually told, six of the Freikugeln, or "free bullets", are thus subservient to the marksman's will, but the seventh is at the absolute disposal of the devil himself.
Freising manuscripts The Freising Manuscripts (also Freising Folia, Freising Fragments, or Freising Monuments; Slovene Brižinski spomeniki, German Freisinger Denkmäler, Latin Monumenta Frisingensia, Slovak Frizinské pamiatky) are the first Roman-script continuous text in a Slavic language and the oldest document in the Slovene language. It is important to note they did not influence its further development.
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft The Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK, Voluntary Self Regulation of the Movie Industry) is a German motion picture rating system organisation run by the Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft (SPIO, Head Organisation of the Movie Industry) based in Wiesbaden.
Freja (satellite) FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992.
Freman Hendrix Freman Hendrix was a 2005 mayoral candidate in Detroit. The son of a Black American soldier, Emmanuel Freman Hendrix and an Austrian woman, Rudolfine Ernegger, he was Deputy Mayor for former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer.
Fremantle Arts Centre The Fremantle Arts Centre is an historic landmark building in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was built using convict labour between 1861 and 1868 as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was also known as the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle Arts Centre Press began publishing in 1976 with the aim of developing the widest possible audience for outstanding Western Australian writers and writing. Since then it has grown into one of Australia's most successful independent publishers.
Fremantle Doctor The Fremantle Doctor, or 'The Freo Doctor' is the Western Australian vernacular term for the cooling afternoon sea breeze which occurs during summer months in coastal areas of Western Australia. The sea breeze occurs because of the major temperature difference between the land and sea.
Fremantle Football Club Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers and known unofficially as the Fremantle Dockers and informally as "Freo", is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League. It was the second team from Western Australia to be admitted to the Australian Football League after the West Coast Eagles.
Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history Fremantle Football Club's drafting and trading history is often cited as a reason for their poor on-field record, in not winning a finals game in their first 11 seasons. This can also be coupled to the few concessions that they received relative to other expansion teams.
Fremantle Football Hall of Legends The Fremantle Football Hall of Legends was inaugurated by the Fremantle Football Club in 1995, in recognition of the new Australian Football League team’s links with its home city’s football heritage. The inductees are nominated by the two clubs from the Fremantle area in the West Australian Football League: East Fremantle and South Fremantle.
Fremantle Town Hall Fremantle Town Hall is a town hall located in the portside city of Fremantle, Western Australia and situated on the corner of High, William and Adelaide Streets. The opening coincided with the celebration of Victoria's Jubilee and occurred on June 22 1887.
Fremantle, Western Australia Fremantle () is a city located within the Perth metropolitan area on Australia's western coast, at the mouth of the Swan River, 19 kilometres southwest of Perth's Central Business District. It was established by British settlers as part of the Swan River Colony in 1829.
FremantleMedia FremantleMedia (formerly All-American Television, LBS Communications, and Pearson Television) is a division of RTL Group which holds the rights to the Goodson/Todman game show library which includes such classic game shows as What's My Line?, The Price Is Right, Match Game, I've Got a Secret and Family Feud, as well as non-Goodson shows such as Press Your Luck and the Reg Grundy library, which includes Sale of the Century, Scrabble, and Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak.
Fremersberg Tower Fremersberg Tower (German: Fremersbergturm) is an 83 metre tall telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete with an observation deck 30 metres above ground. There is a small restaurant located next to the tower.
Fremington Edge Fremington Edge is a five kilometre long wall of crags and scree slopes that is situated to the north of the village of Reeth in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England. Fremington Edge stands where the dales of Arkengarthdale and Swaledale meet, throughout it’s full length the edge stays above the height of 400 metres and reaches a highest point of 473 metres (1552 feet) at the northern end of the escarpment.
Fremington, North Yorkshire Fremington is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales almost ajoined onto Reeth and Grinton. It is split into Low Fremington which is built along the B6270 and High Fremington which is a scattering of houses running up towards Fremington Edge
Fremont - Daly City Line The Fremont - Daly City Line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of 19 metro stations from Fremont to Daly City. It passes through Union City, California, Hayward, San Leandro, Oakland, and San Francisco.
Fremont (BART station) Fremont is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves Fremont, California. The elevated island platform serves as the southernmost terminal station of BART's Fremont line, which is served by trains on the Fremont - Daly City Line, which runs daytimes Monday-Saturday, and the Richmond - Fremont Line whose trains run during all BART service times.
Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad The Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Railroad (FEVR) is a 17-mile tourist railroad in Dodge County, Nebraska, running between Fremont and Hooper. The railroad runs on tracks originally laid by the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad in 1869.
Fremont Boundary Line Redrawing Controversy In 2000, the Fremont Unified School District announced plans to redraw the school boundary lines, prompting concerned parents to file a number of lawsuits against the school, as well as threaten to break off and form its own school district. The plan would route students from high-scoring elementary schools (Weibel Elementary School and Gomes Elementary School)) to a lower-scoring high school (Irvington High School).
Fremont culture The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in Utah where the first Fremont sites were discovered. The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont, an American explorer.
Fremont Cannon The Fremont Cannon is awarded to each season's winner of the Battle for Nevada, a college football game between the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno. The team who wins the cannon gets to keep it for a year and paint the wooden carriage in their school's main color: scarlet red for UNLV and navy blue for UNR.
Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, California) Fremont High School is a comprehensive, co-educational, public secondary school that serves eastern Sunnyvale, California. Fremont is currently the only open public high school located in the city of Sunnyvale and is part of the Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD).
Fremont Indian State Park Fremont Indian State Park is located in Sevier County, Utah in the Clear Creek Canyon, in the south-central portion of the state. It is noted mainly for its archaeological remains of the Fremont culture, an ancient Native-American archaeological culture.
Fremont Peak Observatory Fremont Peak Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Fremont Peak Observatory Association. Built in 1986, it is located in Fremont Peak State Park, near San Juan Bautista, California.
Fremont Police Department (Nebraska) The Fremont Police Department (FPD) is the primary law enforement agency for the city of Fremont, Nebraska. With 37 full time commissioned Police Officers, it is responsible for a population of 25,174 people (2000 census) and an area of 7.
Fremont River (Utah) The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir near Fish Lake southwest through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River. Along the way it passes through the towns of Fremont, Loa and Torrey and provides year round irrigation for the agricultural lands of Rabbit Valley and Caineville.
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Fremont Valley The Fremont Valley is located in the western Mojave Desert of California. It stretches in a southwest-northeasterly direction from the town of Mojave approximately 40 miles to the foothills of the Lava Mountains and Summit Range.
Fremont-Winema National Forests The Fremont-Winema National Forests are two United States National Forests that were administratively combined in 2002. They cover territory in southern Oregon from the crest of the Cascades on the west past Lakeview in the east.
Fremont, California Fremont () is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Irvington, Mission San Jose, Niles, and Warm Springs. The area now comprising Fremont and the adjoining cities of Newark (now an enclave within Fremont) and Union City was formerly known as Washington Township.
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad (FE&MV), sometimes called "the Elkhorn," was an American railroad established in 1869 in Nebraska. The company constructed several lines in the state, including a long east-west route across northern Nebraska to Chadron, trackage that later became known as the "Cowboy Line.
Fremy's salt Fremy's salt discovered in 1845 by Edmond Fremy (1814 - 1894) is a chemical compound and a strong oxidizing agent. The formal name is disodium nitrosodisulfonic acid or NO(SO3Na)2 but Fremy's salt refers equally well to the potassium salt potassium nitrosodisulfonate.
Frenectomy A frenectomy (also known as a frenulectomy or frenotomy) is the removal of a frenulum, a small fold of tissue that prevents an organ in the body from moving too far. It can refer to frenulums in several places on the human body.
Frenet-Serret formulas In vector calculus, the Frenet-Serret formulas describe the kinematic properties of a particle which moves along a continuous, differentiable curve in three-dimensional space mathbb{R}^3 . More specifically, the formulas describe the derivatives of the tangent, normal, and binormal unit vectors in terms of each other.
Frenetic Five The Frenetic Five is a series of three text adventures about a band of superheroes, all made with TADS version 2 and distributed as freeware. The series was created by Neil deMause for the Interactive Fiction Competition.
Frengo Frengo designs casual games, high stakes contests and quirky entertainment baubles for mobile phones. Since your phone is always with you, Frengo wants your phone to always be connected to bigger social events - experiences you can join and leave at your leisure.
French 9th Armoured Company (World War II) The 9th Armoured Company was a mechanised force composed almost entirely of Spanish veterans from the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. It is best remembered for spearheading the French 2nd Armoured Division's liberation of Paris from German occupation, in World War II, August 1944.
French adverbs French adverbs, like their English counterparts, are used to modify adjectives, other adverbs, and verbs or clauses. They do not display any inflection; that is, their form does not change to reflect their precise role, nor any characteristics of what they modify.
French and European Nationalist Party The French and European Nationalist Party (French:Parti nationaliste français et européen or PNFE) was a minor French far right political group founded in 1987. It was led by Claude Cornilleau and despite its name was not a political party in the conventional sense.
French and Indian Wars The French and Indian Wars is a name used in the United States for a series of conflicts in North America that represented the actions there that accompanied the European dynastic wars. Quebec refers to these wars as the Intercolonial Wars.
French and Iroquois Wars The French and Iroquois Wars (also called the Iroquois Wars or the Beaver Wars) commonly refer to a brutal series of conflicts fought in the mid-17th century in eastern North America. The Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade and the trade between European markets and the tribes of the western Great Lakes region.
French angelfish The French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru, is a large angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, found in the western Atlantic from Florida and the Bahamas to Brazil, and also the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, including the Antilles, and the eastern Atlantic from around Ascension Island and St. Paul's Rocks, at depths of between 2 and 100 m.
French armoured fighting vehicle production during World War II French tank deliveries before and during the Second World War including exported vehicles and including those vehicles not yet delivered in June 1940 in the 1940 totals, but only giving the French metropolitan organic strength and materiel reserve for the FT-17 and excluding those types taken out of service:
French art French art is a term referring to the visual arts and plastic arts (often including architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of what presently is, France. Historical surveys of French art often begin with Pre-Romanesque art, Romanesque art, and Gothic art, but some surveys, such as André Chastel's French Art, also include discussions of prehistoric art, Celtic art, and Roman art within France.
French art of the 19th century French art of the nineteenth century is, for the purpose of this article, visual and plastic works of art made in France or by French citizens during the following political regimes: Napoleon Bonaparte's Consulate (1799-1804) and Empire (1804-1814), the Restoration under Louis XVIII and Charles X (1814-1830), the July Monarchy under Louis Philippe d'Orléans (1830-1848), the Second Republic (1848-1852), the Second Empire under Napoleon III (1852-1871), and the first decades of the Third Republic (1871-1940).
French articles and determiners In French, articles and determiners are required on almost every common noun; much more so than in English. They are inflected to agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with the noun they determine, though most have only one plural form (for masculine and feminine).
French attack on the Vaudois (1686) The French attack against the Vaudois was a systematic military campaign in 1686 ordered by Louis XIV against a small Protestant community across the French border in Piedmont. As a result of the campaign, the Vaudois were expelled from their homes, but they returned during the War of the Grand Alliance under an agreement reached with Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy.
French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
French Ambassador to Turkey France has had a permanent embassy the Ottoman Empire since 1535, during the times of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey.
French America French America (French: Amérique française) is the French-speaking community of peoples and diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. Quebec is the center of the community.
French American A French American or Franco-American is a citizen of the United States of America of French descent and heritage. The majority of Franco-American families did not arrive directly from France, but rather settled French territories in the New World (primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) before moving to the United States later on.
French Armenian Legion The Armenian Legion, established with the French-Armenian Agreement (1916), was a foreign legion unit within French Army. The Armenian legion was established under the goals of the Armenian national liberation movement and was an armed unit besides the Armenian volunteer units and Armenian militia during World War I which fought against the Ottoman Empire.
French Army The French Army (French: Armée de Terre) is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces. As of 2006, the army employs 138,000 men and women, all professional soldiers since Conscription was suspended in 1996.
French Automobile Club The Automobile Club of France (French : Automobile Club de France) (ACF) is a prestigious men's club founded on November 12, 1895 by Albert de Dion, Paul Meyan, and its first president, the Dutch-born Baron, Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt.
French Azilum French Azilum, located in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was a planned settlement for refugees fleeing the French Revolution. Several influential Philadelphians, including Stephen Girard, Robert Morris and John Nicholson, Pennsylvania's comptroller general, were sympathetic to the exiles, and also saw a chance to profit financially.
French battleship Dunkerque The Dunkerque was the first of a new class of warship of the French Navy labeled as a "fast battleship". Not as well armed and considerably less armored than contemporary battleships, they were designed to counter the threat of the German pocket battleships of the Deutschland class.
French battleship Redoutable (1876) The Redoutable (1876) was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material (Conway Marine, "Steam, Steel and Shellfire").
French battleship Strasbourg The Strasbourg was a warship of the French Navy, labeled as "fast battleship". Faster than full battleships, but not as heavily armed or armoured as them, they were designed to counter the threat of the German "pocket battleships" - the Deutschland class cruisers.
French battleship Suffren The French pre-Dreadnought battleship Suffren was launched in July 1899 and torpedoed off Lisbon on 26 November 1916, going down with all hands. She was named after French admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez.
French bicycle industry The French bicycle industry and the history of the bicycle are inextricably intertwined. Spanning the last century and a half, the industry has seen two "bike booms" come and go, and continues into the 21st century, albeit in a less dominant position in the market today.
French braid A French braid is a popular hairstyle. Unlike a regular three-strand braid, a French braid starts with small sections of hair at the crown of a person's head, and intermittently, more hair is added to each section as the braid progresses down the head.

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