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Friedrich Weyerhäuser Friedrich (Frederik) Weyerhäuser (* November 21, 1834 in Nieder-Saulheim, Rheinhessen; † April 4, 1914 in Pasadena, California) was an American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which possesses large forested areas as well as saw mills, paper factories and other far-flung plants.
Friedrich Wieck (Johann Gottlob) Friedrich Wieck (August 18, 1785 - October 6, 1873) was a noted German piano and voice teacher, and the father of Clara Wieck Schumann. Besides his daughter, other famous pupils included Hans von BĂĽlow and Robert Schumann.
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (November 29 1795 - May 12, 1867), German archaeologist was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society.Schnapp, Alain Eduard Gerhard: Founder of Classical Archaeology?
Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von BĂĽlow Freiherr Friedrich Wilhelm von BĂĽlow, Count of Dennewitz (February 16, 1755 - February 25, 1816), Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, born at Falkenberg in the Altmark; he was the elder brother of Freiherr Dietrich Heinrich von BĂĽlow. He received an excellent education, and entered the Prussian army in 1768, becoming ensign in 1772, and second lieutenant in 1775.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Haugwitz Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Haugwitz (1700-1765) was Supreme Chancellor of the United Court Chancery and the head of Directorium in publicis et cameralibus under Maria Theresa of Austria. He was also one of the key advisors in instituting Maria Theresa's reforms.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (January 27, 1775 – August 20, 1854), later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German Idealism, situating him between Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800, and Hegel, his former school roommate and erstwhile friend.
Friedrich Wilhelm Levi Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Levi (February 6, 1888-January 1, 1966) was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra, although he also worked in geometry, topology, set theory and analysis. According to Laszlo Fuchs and Rüduger Göbel, he is generally viewed as the father of mathematics in India.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden Friedrich Wilhelm Count von Buxhoevden, (, Fyodor Fyodorovich Booksgevden; other spellings: Feodor Buxhoeveden, Buxhœwden) (September 14, 1750 - August 23, 1811) was a Russian Infantry General and government official who commanded the Russian armies during the Finnish War. The Buxhoevedens were a Baltic German family from Estonia, with roots tracing to Bexhovede, Lower Saxony.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Seydlitz (February 3, 1721 – August 27, 1773), Prussian soldier, one of the greatest cavalry generals of history, was born at Kalkar in the duchy of Cleves, where his father, a major of Prussian cavalry, was stationed.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Freiherr von Steuben (September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794) was a Prussian army officer who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline.
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-GlĂĽcksburg Friedrich Wilhelm (Paul Leopold) (January 4, 1785 - February 17, 1831), was the first Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-GlĂĽcksburg and founder of a line that includes the Royal Houses of Denmark, Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom. He is a grandfather to Alexandra of Denmark, and subsequently is an ancestor to the present-day British royal family, including Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Friedrich Zander Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander (August 23 1887 – March 28 1933), (transliterated from the Russian version of his name: Фридрих Артурович Цандер) or Frīdrihs Canders (the Latvian version of it, or sometimes the German spelling Friedrich Zander) was a Soviet pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight. He designed the first liquid-fuelled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space.
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (German), FAU (abbr.)), founded in 1742, is Bavaria's second largest state university with eleven faculties and 265 chairs.
Friedrich, Hereditary Duke of Württemberg Friedrich, Hereditary Duke of Württemberg (Friedrich Philipp Carl Franz Maria Erbherzog von Württemberg) was born on 1 June 1961. He is the eldest son of HRH Duke Carl of Württemberg and HRH Princess Diane of Orléans.
Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (Czech: kníže Bedřich Schwarzenberg, 1800-1870), had an adventurous career as a soldier, and described his wanderings and campaigns in several interesting works, of which the best known is his Wanderungen eines Lanzknechtes (1844-1845). He took part as an Austrian officer in the campaigns of Galicia 1846, Italy 1848 and Hungary 1848, and as an amateur in the French conquest of Algeria, the Carlist wars in Spain and the Swiss civil war of the Sonderbund.
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Friedrich Adolf Hermann Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont ) was born on 20 January 1865. He was the son of Georg Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and Princess Helene Wilhelmine Henriette Pauline Marianne of Nassau-Weilburg.
Friedrichs' inequality In mathematics, Friedrichs' inequality is a theorem of functional analysis, due to Kurt Friedrichs. It places a bound on the Lp norm of a function using Lp bounds on the weak derivatives of the function and the geometry of the domain.
Friedrichsberg Television Tower Friedrichsberg Television Tower is a 150 metre tall tower of reinforced concrete under construction on Friedrichsberg at 49° 11' 4 N, 9° 39' 56" E , three kilometre east of Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Friend (novel) Friend is the title of a 1985 science fiction horror novel by Diana Henstell, about a young man who tries to help a dying friend survive by implanting his robot's chip into her, only to find that it turns her into a homicidal terror.
Friend and Lover Friend and Lover were an American folk-singing duo comprised of husband-and-wife team Jim and Cathy Post. They are best known for their hit single, "Reach Out Of The Darkness", which made the US Top Ten in 1968.
Friend Richardson Friend William Richardson (born William Richardson) (December 1, 1865 – September 6, 1943), a newspaper publisher, served as a Republican Governor of California from January 9, 1923 until January 4, 1927. He was born in Michigan and died in Berkeley, California.
Friend zone The friend zone is a folk psychology concept found in many texts geared towards a male audience about "dating advice", or "seduction advice". In that case, that man would be mentally categorized as a "friend" rather than a lover, i.
Friend-to-friend A friend-to-friend (or F2F P2P) computer network is a particular type of anonymous P2P in which people use direct connections with their "friends". F2F software only allows people you trust (using IP addresses or digital signatures you trust) to exchange files directly with your computer.
Friendbear Friendbear is a friendly and surreal online comic originally created by Steve Swift or "Swifty". It first appeared online in August 1999, and although Swifty has been seemingly uncontactable for at least three years, new strips continue to be added sporadically thanks to a small group of writers, and the technical support of Steve Steffler or "Generica".
Friendly artificial intelligence In future studies, Friendly artificial intelligence, or FAI is a model for creating moral and "safe" artificial intelligence, in accordance with the principles of Friendliness theory, advanced by researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Friendliness is used as a term of art distinct from the everyday meaning of the term.
Friendly Adult Presence A Friendly Adult Presence, sometimes abbreviated FAP, is an adult at a gathering or event comprised mainly of minors for the purposes of legality and safety, but who does not participate in the activities or leadership of said group.
Friendly Center Friendly Center is a large, open-air shopping center located in northwestern Greensboro, North Carolina, at the intersection of Wendover Avenue and Friendly Avenue opened in 1958. With its unusual sector design, Friendly Center is essentially an outdoor lifestyle center.
Friendly fire Friendly fire (fratricide or non-hostile fire) is a term originally adopted by the United States military in reference to an attack on friendly forces by other friendly forces,Regan, G. Backfire: a history of friendly fire from ancient warfare to the present day.
Friendly Floatees Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years, Inc. and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements including those of a consignment of Friendly Floatees washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992.
Friendly Fraud Friendly Fraud is a credit card industry term used to describe a consumer who makes an Internet purchase with his own credit card and then issues a chargeback through his card provider after receiving the goods or services.
Friendly match A friendly match is a sporting contest where there is no competitive value of any kind, and most times quality of play is valued over the result. However, given the highly competitive nature of professional sports (and usually the lack of punishment from officiating bodies afterwards), "friendly" matches often end up being less of an example of fair play than the name would suggest.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The title is derived from a trademark self-referential comment often made by Spider-Man (as in "just another service provided by your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
Friendly political wager A friendly political wager is a largely symbolic wager made between politicians representing two cities or areas on the outcome of an important sports contest between teams representing those same two cities or areas. These wagers are most commonly made on the results of playoffs in the National Hockey League, National Football League and Major League Baseball.
Friendly society A friendly society (sometimes called a mutual society, benevolent society or fraternal organization) is a mutual association for insurance-like purposes, and often, especially in the past, serving ceremonial and friendship purposes also. It is a benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose.
Friendly TV Friendly TV is a British television station, owned by Hi2 Ltd. Much of the channels output is made up of interactive programmes and games which allow the viewer to phone in or send an SMS message to take part in the programme.
Friendlyware Friendlyware was a set of 30 computer programs that were written in BASIC and bundled with certain IBM personal computers. They were a collection of business, gaming and personal analysis software that pushed the power of BASIC to the maximum.
Friends (1971 film) Friends is a 1971 film directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by Gilbert, Vernon Harris and Jack Russell. Though the movie was a flop, the soundtrack by Elton John and Bernie Taupin was a success, and was released as the Friends album.
Friends (group) Friends were a Swedish pop group made up of Stefan Brunzell, Tony Haglund, Kristian Hermanson, Nina Inhammar, Kim Kärnfalk and Peter Strandberg. They won Melodifestivalen 2001 with "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with the English version of the song, "Listen To Your Heartbeat".
Friends (Jody Watley song) "Friends" was the second single from Jody Watley's second album, Larger Than Life. "Friends" like her previous single "Real Love" became a multi-format top 10 smash, reaching the top ten of the pop, R&B and dance charts, as well as being her biggest single in the UK since her debut "Looking for a New Love".
Friends (Led Zeppelin song) "Friends" is the second track from the 1970 album Led Zeppelin III, the third studio album of English rock band Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote the song in 1970 at Bron-Yr-Aur, a small cottage in Wales where they stayed after completing gruelling concert tour of the United States.
Friends (television soundtrack) Friends Original TV Soundtrack was an album released by WEA in 1995 featuring songs from the TV show Friends. The songs were not originals written for the series but rather they were tracks either used directly in the show or "inspired" by the show.
Friends and Nervous Breakdowns Friends and Nervous Breakdowns is the first album by rapper Weerd Science (real name Josh Eppard) also the former drummer of prog rock band Coheed and Cambria. A video was released for "Conspiracy Theories w/ out Mel Gibson" .
Friends Can Be Lovers Friends Can Be Loves was Dionne Warwick's second, best and most successful album of the 1990's. The album is a sophisticated, smooth, album of sensual, romantic, sentimental love songs with lush, soulful production.
Friends DVD releases Friends was a long-running and widely acclaimed situation comedy about a group of six friends living in New York City. The following is a list of DVD releases of each of the show's 10 seasons, ordered by region and their relevant release dates.
Friends for Life Program The Friends for Life program (FRIENDS) is the only anxiety prevention program acknowledged by the World Health Organisation for its ten years of comprehensive evaluation and practice. The program was developed in 1992 by Dr.
Friends For All Children Friends For All Children was an adoption assistance agency that was located in Boulder, Colorado. It operated during the Vietnam War in 'Operation Babylift' to bring South Vietnamese children to the United States, during the Fall of Saigon, when the Communist North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong agents invaded South Vietnam.
Friends General Conference The Friends General Conference (FGC) is a North American Quaker organization primarily serving the Quaker yearly and monthly meetings in the United States and Canada that choose to be members of FGC. FGC founded in 1900.
Friends Hospital Friends Hospital, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is recognized as one of the premier mental hospitals in America. Founded by Quakers in 1813 as "The Asylum for Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason," it was the first private psychiatric hospital in the U.
Friends in Action Friends in Action International (FIA) is an evangelical missionary agency based in Mansfield, MO. They exist "to accelerate the work of proclaiming the Gospel to isolated people groups around the world that have not had the opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Friends meeting house A Friends meeting house is a place of worship for the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). George Fox, founder of the Society, spoke contemptuously of churches as "steeple houses" and Friends were convinced that there was no necessity for special buildings for worship.
Friends of a Democratic Cuba Friends of a Democratic Cuba is a group formed in the year 2006 that is comprised of representatives from six former Soviet-bloc nations – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. They long to end totalitarianism by helping the Cuban people obtained uncensored information and promote democratic change in Cuba.
Friends of Antara UK Antara is a psychiatric and general hospital providing care to all, especially the poor, in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Friends of Antara UK is a British charity which aims to support the work of Antara, both financially and otherwise.
Friends of Coal Bowl The Friends of Coal Bowl is an annual college football game played between the West Virginia University Mountaineers and the Marshall University Thundering Herd. The game is sponsored by the Friends of Coal, a coal industry trade group.
Friends of Dorothy Society The Friends of Dorothy Society, (commonly abbreviated to 'fods'), is a Bellringing society for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people and their friends. The society is based in the United Kingdom but has members throughout the world; particularly in the United States of America and Australia.
Friends of Fiddler's Green The Friends of Fiddler's Green are a traditional English, Scottish and Irish folk music band that formed out of the Fiddler's Green Folk Club (now the Flying Cloud) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Since then they have achieved institutional status among the North American folk music scene, having influenced a generation of folk musicians and were awarded the Estelle Klein award for their contribution to folk music in 2003.
Friends of Friendless Churches The Friends of Friendless Churches are a registered charity, founded by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas in 1957 to save disused but beautiful places of worship from demolition, decay and unsympathetic conversion. The Friends now own 38 redundant churches and chapels, and have campaigned on behalf of hundreds more.
Friends of great falls Friends of Great Falls (FOGF) is a coalition of rock climbers in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. The organization was created in Fall of 2005 in response to the debut of the draft General Management Plan for Great Falls Park, VA.
Friends of God The Friends of God (German: Gottesfreunde) was a Middle Age lay mystical group (though it was never an organized sect) and a center of German mysticism. It was founded between 1339 and 1343 in Basel, Switzerland, and was also fairly important in Strasbourg and Cologne, because around those times, some of the area was placed under a Papal interdict.
Friends of Holy Trinity Cathedral Parnell The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, or Holy Trinity Cathedral as it is popularly known, is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Auckland, one of seven dioceses of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the area stretching from North Cape down to the Waikato River, across the Hauraki Plains and including the Coromandel Peninsula.
Friends of Humanity The Friends of Humanity are one of the many anti-mutant hate groups in the Marvel Universe. Notable anti-mutant activists such as one time presidential-hopeful Graydon Creed and the robotic Bastion were among its members.
Friends of Chernobyl's Children Friends of Chernobyl's Children (UK) is a charity founded in 1995 that brings children, who are at risk, from Belarussia to the United Kingdom for a month every year. The charity is named after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
Friends of Labatt Park Friends of Labatt Park is a grassroots, non-profit (unincorporated) group of volunteers dedicated to "promoting and enhancing Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada, as the world's oldest baseball grounds in continuous use in its original location."
Friends of Science Friends of Science is a Canadian non-profit organization founded in 2002 and presenting itself as "a non-profit organization made up of active and retired engineers, earth scientists and other professionals, as well as many concerned Canadians, who believe the science behind the Kyoto Protocol is questionable". Its scientific advisors include Dr.
Friends of South Asia Friends of South Asia (FOSA, established 2001) is a volunteer South Asian American peace activism group based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group's stated basic mission is to "achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia...
Friends of Soviet Russia The Friends of Soviet Russia (FSR) was formally established on 9 August 1921 as an offshoot of the American Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with Soviet Russia (ALA). It was launched as a "mass organization" dedicated to raising funds for the relief of the extreme famine that swept Soviet Russia in 1921, both in terms of food and clothing for immediate amelioration of the crisis and agricultural tools and equipment for the reconstruction of Soviet agriculture.
Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail (FBT) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded in 2003 to advocate for the conversion of the unused elevated Bloomingdale Line on the near northwest side of Chicago to a multiuse greenspace and linear park.
Friends of the Don East Friends of the Don East (FODE) is an Canadian non-governmental organization based in Toronto, Ontario. They are an environmental group whose goal is to preserve and protect natural areas in the Don River watershed.
Friends of the Earth (EWNI) Friends of the Earth (EWNI) (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) is one of 70 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organizations. It is usually referred to just as Friends of the Earth within its home countries.
Friends of the Earth (HK) The Friends of the Earth (HK) Charity Limited is a Hong Kong based environmental organisation founded in 1983. It has a membership of more than 1000 individuals, over 140 schools and non-government organisations.
Friends of the East Broad Top Friends of the East Broad Top, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt educational and historical society dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the East Broad Top Railroad National Historic Landmark in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is a government-independent American charity that provides "social, educational, cultural and recreational programs and facilities"Excerpt from the FIDF Mission Statement:The FIDF initiates and helps support social, educational, cultural and recreational programs and facilities for the young men and women soldiers of Israel who defend the Jewish homeland. The FIDF also provides support for widows and orphans of fallen soldiers.
Friends of the People Society The Society of the Friends of the People (full title The Society of the Friends of the People, Associated for the Purpose of Obtaining a Parliamentary Reform) was formed by Whigs at the end of the eighteenth century as part of a movement seeking radical political reform that would widen electoral enfranchisement at a time when only a wealthy minority had the vote in Great Britain. The Society in England was aristocratic and exclusive, in contrast to the Friends of the People in Scotland who increasingly drew on a wider membership, before government clampdowns at the onset of the Napoleonic Wars ended the Societies.
Friends of the Soviet Union (India) Friends of the Soviet Union was an organisation in India. It was founded by members of the Indian National Congress and the All India Communist Party as an alternative to the CPI-controlled Indian-Soviet Cultural Society (ISCUS), after the break between CPI and the Congress in the national political scene.
Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Booksale The Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Booksale is a twice annual event which is billed as the third largest event of its type in the United States. This is quite a feat considering the diminuative size of the city of Ithaca, NY which was as of 2005 about 30,000 people.
Friends Select School Friends Select School is a private Quaker school located in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has approximately 500 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, and focuses on college preparation in the "upper school" (grades 9 through 12).
Friends School Mullica Hill Friends School Mullica Hill is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in the Mullica Hill section of Harrison Township, New Jersey, United States, serving 273 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
Friends School Saffron Walden Friends' School is an independent private fee-paying school located in Saffron Walden, Essex, situated approximately 12 miles south of the city of Cambridge. The school is co-educational and accommodates children between the ages of 3 and 18 (boarders and day pupils).
Friends United Meeting Friends United Meeting (FUM) is an association of twenty-six yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. In addintion there are several individual Monthly meetings and organizations that are members of FUM.
Friends Will Be Friends "Friends Will Be Friends", a Queen song written by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, from the album A Kind of Magic, was released in the UK on June 9, 1986. It was the band's 30th single release in the UK.
Friends With You Friends With You is a commercial art collective based in Miami, Florida, founded by Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval in 2002, that creates designer toys, particularly plush and modular wood toys, as well as motion graphics, stop motion animation, and art installations that incorporate music. The Friends With You website states that they "make magical toys" that "help the every day person cope with the daily routines of their every day lives.
Friends World Program Friends World Program is an international studies college with regional centers scattered around the globe. It was founded as Friends World College by the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1965, but became non-sectarian in the mid-1970s.
Friends' Ambulance Unit The Friends' Ambulance Unit was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), that operated from 1914-1919, 1939-1946 and 1946-1959 in twenty-five countries around the world. It was independent of the Quakers' organisation and mostly staffed by registered conscientious objectors.
Friends' Central School Friends' Central School (FCS) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) school located in Wynnewood, a section of Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. With more than 1000 students ranging from pre-kindergarten to grade 12, Friends' Central School is one of the largest friends schools in the Delaware Valley.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears is the first line of a famous and often-quoted speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. It literally means "Friends, Romans, fellow citizens, listen to me".
Friendship (Mortal Kombat) A Friendship is a finishing move introduced in Mortal Kombat II in order to soften the violence and the controversy that surrounded the Fatality in the original Mortal Kombat. Friendships allowed players to perform an act of friendship and goodwill towards their opponent rather than kill them after winning the match.
Friendship (Pittsburgh) Friendship is a neighborhood of large Victorian houses in the East End of the City of Pittsburgh. It was built by upper middle class industrial managers at the dawn of the 20th century, abandoned in the 1960s, and rediscovered by graduate students and professionals in the 1990s.
Friendship ball A friendship ball is a hollow sphere of plain or striated glass hung in cottage windows in 20th century North America as an act of friendship. Friendship balls started in central Europe as holiday decoration, and are commonly referred to as Kugels.
Friendship book Friendship books (also known as "FBs" in their abbreviated form) are small booklets made by stapling paper together, or are sometimes just sheets or strips of paper. They are usually decorated and the person who starts the book writes their name and address as the first person sending the book.
Friendship Bridge (China–Pakistan) The Friendship Bridge (Chinese: 友誼橋, Urdu: to be added), also called Youyi Bridge, is a bridge linking the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Pakistan. It connects the Tibet Autonomous Region of the PRC to the Thakolt Province of Pakistan.
Friendship Bridge (Paraguay–Brazil) The Friendship Bridge (a direct translation from "Ponte da Amizade" or "Puente de la Amistad") is an arch bridge connecting the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu and the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este.
Friendship Cup The Friendship Cup is a traditional Lombardic wooden cup, originating from mountainous Valle d'Aosta of Italy region and used for drinking specially prepared coffee drink in a good company of friends. This version of a friendship cup is transformed into an artistic object to decorate your home or make a nice surprise to a friend.
Friendship Festival The Friendship Festival is a summer event that takes place every August in the town of Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Small trinkets and valuable goods are sold in a lively outdoor market that is open from sunrise to sunset.
Friendship highway, Tibet The Friendship Highway is a celebrated route in the Tibetan Plateau, renowned for its scenic wonders. The highway itself starts from Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, passing the turquoise Yamdrok Lake lake, before connecting to Shigatse, the home of the Panchen Lama, via Gyantse.
Friendship Heights Friendship Heights is an upscale residential neighborhood in northwest Washington, DC and southern Montgomery County, Maryland. Though its borders are not clearly defined, Friendship Heights consists roughly of the neighborhoods and commercial areas around Wisconsin Avenue north of Fessenden Street NW and Tenleytown to Somerset Terrace and Willard Avenue in Maryland, and from River Road in the west to Reno Road and 41st Street in the east.
Friendship Hill National Historic Site Friendship Hill National Historic Site, maintained by the National Park Service, was the home of early American politician Albert Gallatin. It overlooks the Monongahela River near Point Marion, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.
Friendship House Friendship House is a missionary movement founded in Toronto in the early 1930s by Catholic social justice activist Catherine de Hueck Doherty, one of the leading proponents of interracial justice in pre-Martin Luther King, Jr. America.
Friendship network Friendship networks colloquially describes interconnected networks of people who are connected through friendship, often described as overlapping circles of friends. Internet developments such as Friendster, Penpals Network and MySpace are databases which allow people to explore their friendship networks, as well as map one's various relationships to others.
Friendship Nine The Friendship Nine was a group of African American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961. The group gained nationwide attention because they followed an untried strategy called "jail, no bail," which lessened the huge financial burden civil rights groups were facing as the sit-in movement spread across the South.
Friendship Peak Friendship Peak (mongolian , Nairamdal orgil) is the name of a mountain peak in the Bayan-Ă–lgiy aymag (province) in the far west of Mongolia. It is one of five peaks in the Tavan Bogd ("five saints") massiv, together with the Khuiten (the highest mountain of Mongolia), the Naran, the Ă–lgiy, and the Buraed.
Friendship Radiosport Games The Friendship Radiosport Games (FRG) is an international multi-sport event that includes competitions in the various sports collectively referred to as radiosport. The Friendship Radiosport Games began in 1989 as a result of a sister city agreement between Khabarovsk, Russia and Portland, Oregon, USA.

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