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Front running Front running is the illegal practice of a stock broker executing orders on a security for his own account (and thus affecting prices) before filling orders previously submitted by his customers. After the broker has made his original transactions, he can expect to close out his position at a profit based on the new price level.
Front Range The Front Range is a mountain range in the United States on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, and on the western edge of the Great Plains. The range is mostly within the state of Colorado, and runs roughly north-south, from near the Wyoming-Colorado border to south-central Colorado.
Front Range Commuter Rail The Front Range Commuter Rail is a non-profit corporation whose goal is to bring a high-speed commuter rail corridor to the Front Range of Colorado, with extensions to neighboring Wyoming and New Mexico. The group is affiliated with an intergovernmental agreement called the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority (RMRA).
Front Range Express (FREX) Front Range Express (FREX) is a commuter bus service operating between the cities of Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fountain, Greenwood Village, and Monument in Colorado. FREX operates on Interstate 25 except when exiting to make stops at each city.
Front Row Front Row is a software application for Apple's Macintosh computers that acts as a front-end for QuickTime, DVD Player and the iTunes and iPhoto libraries and allows for users to browse media on their computers using the Apple Remote. The software is included on all shipping Macs (although not enabled on the Mac Pro).
Front side bus In computers, the front side bus (FSB) or system bus is a term for the physical bi-directional data bus that carries all electronic signal information between the central processing unit (CPU) and other devices within the system such as random access memory (RAM), AGP video cards, PCI expansion cards, hard disks, the memory containing the system BIOS, etc.
Front vowel A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
Front-wheel drive Front-wheel drive is the most common form of engine/transmission layout used in modern passenger cars, where the engine drives the front wheels. Most front-wheel drive vehicles today feature transverse engine mounting, where as in past decades engines were mostly positioned longitudinally instead.
Frontage Frontage is the full length of a plot of land or a building measured alongside the road on to which the plot or building fronts. This is considered especially important for certain types of commercial and retail real estate, in applying zoning bylaws and property tax.
Frontage road A frontage road (also access road, service road, outer road, and especially surface road, or feeder) is a non-limited access road running parallel to a higher-speed road, usually a freeway, and feeding it at appropriate points of access (slip ramps). In many cases, the frontage road is a former highway already in existence when the limited access road was built.
Frontal assault The military tactic of frontal assault is a direct, hostile movement of forces towards enemy forces in a large number, in an attempt to overwhelm the enemy. This is often referred to as a "suicide strike," because it is often a commander's last resort when he has run out of strategies.
Frontal crest The internal surface of the squama frontalis of the frontal bone is concave and presents in the upper part of the middle line a vertical groove, the sagittal sulcus, the edges of which unite below to form a ridge, the frontal crest; the sulcus lodges the superior sagittal sinus, while its margins and the crest afford attachment to the falx cerebri.
Frontal eye fields The frontal eye fields (FEF) is a region located in the dorsolateral frontal cortex of the primate brain reported to be activated during the initiation of eye movements, such as voluntary saccades and pursuit eye movements. The FEF constitutes together with the supplementary eye fields (SEF) and the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) one of the three most important cortical areas involved in the generation of eye movements.
Frontal instruction Frontal instruction commonly refers to a school lesson held in the manner of a lecture, possibly including discussion directed by the teacher. Alternate forms for lessons are group work, solitary work or open learning.
Frontal lobe epilepsy Frontal lobe epilepsy is the second most common type of epilepsy, after temporal lobe epilepsy. It is similar to temporal lobe epilepsy because it is a type of focal seizure, which means that the seizure starts in a focal area of the brain, commonly referred to as the focus.
Frontal scale Frontal scale refers to the scales of a snake which lie in the general region of the forehead of a snake, more sprecifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area. These are analogous to the frontal bone on a human which corresponds to the forehead.
Frontal solver A frontal solver is an approach to solving sparse linear systems which is used extensively in finite element analysisIt is a variant of Gauss elimination] that automatically avoids all operations involving zero terms.Hayrettin Kardestuncer, Ed.
Frontal suture The frontal suture is a dense connective tissue structure that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. It usually disappears by the age of six, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together.
Frontbencher In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. The spokespeople for each group will often sit at the front of their group, and are then known as being on the frontbench and are described as frontbenchers.
FrontBridge The FrontBridge email filtering system, previously run by Frontbridge Inc of California, became a Microsoft product in 2005. Microsoft began to operate and market the system under the name "Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering".
Fronte Nazionale Fronte Nazionale was a Neofascist political party founded by Junio Valerio Borghese as a splinter group form the Italian Social Movement, which he felt was moving too far away from the ideals of Fascism. Like its close cousin in the National Vanguard the party was proved to have been promoting terrorism and to have been infiltrated by the Italian Secret Services which used it as a recruiting ground for expendable pawns to be used in 'wet' and 'dirty' operations which would have been outside their jurisdiction or supposed ethics (see strategy of tension).
Fronted (phonetics) In phonetics, a fronted or advanced sound is one that is pronounced further to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point. The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the subscript plus, .
Frontenac automobile The Frontenac was a compact car manufactured and sold by Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. Virtually identical to the Ford Falcon, this car had a busier front grille and taillight design than the Falcon's, and was a popular car in Canada.
Frontenac Company The Frontenac Company is a Chicago-based private equity firm with over $1 billion in capital with a focus on investments in the business-to-business services, information technology services, and communications services sectors. The Frontenac Company typically invests $15-75 million in management buyouts and expansion capital investments.
Frontenac grapevine Frontenac is a French-American hybrid grapevine that is a result of research and cross-breeding by the University of Minnesota. First released in 1996, the vines produce loose clusters of dark and highly acidic berries.
Frontenac Provincial Park Frontenac Provincial Park is located near the town of Sydenham, north of the city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The park lies on the Frontenac Axis, the southern-most extension of the Canadian Shield topography.
Frontenis Frontenis is one of the many variations of the Basque pilota game, itself a derivation of real tennis. It is played in one of the smallest courts on the sport with a tennis racquet that contains an optional custom double string called "doble encordado" and a tiny frontenis ball.
Frontera Corozal Frontera Corozal is a community of the municipality (municipio) of Ocosingo, Chiapas state, in Mexico. It is situated on the banks of the Usumacinta River, and serves as an international border river crossing point to Guatemala, which occupies the territory on the river's eastern bank.
Frontera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Valverde (Spanish meaning "green valley") is a municipality in the Canary Islands in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Frontera is the westernmost municipality in El Hierro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Canary Islands.
Frontex Frontex (from French: Frontières extérieures, legally: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union), headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, is the external border security agency of the European Union. It is also the first EU agency to be based in one of the 'new' members of the E.
Frontflip A front flip (also known as a front tuck and a front somersault) is a movement where the body spins or rotates around your center of gravity in mid-air by utilizing your forward momentum and sometimes incorporating a tuck (made by throwing your arms forward and grabbing onto your knees). Like the backflip, additional rotations may be added to make it a double or even a triple.
Frontier (company) Frontier is a telephone company that provides service serving rural communities in 30 states of the United States. Currently, they are owned by Citizens Communications, and are not connected to a Regional Bell Operating Company or AT&T.
Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) Frontier Airlines was formed by a merger of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines, and Monarch Airlines on June 1, 1950, with headquarters at Stapleton Field in Denver, Colorado. However, it dated it's origin to November 27, 1946 when Monarch began service over routes in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Frontier Areas The Frontier Areas, also known as the Excluded Areas or the Scheduled Areas, compose the majority of states within Myanmar today. They were administered separately by the British, and were united with Burma Proper to form Myanmar's geographic composition today.
Frontier Cavalry The Frontier Cavalry was a volunteer cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized under special authority of the War Department, to serve on the northern frontier of New England for one year.
Frontier Closed Area The Frontier Closed Area (FTA) (Chinese: 邊境禁區) is a 28-km² area in Hong Kong along the border with mainland China. It was gazetted and established in June 1951, and expanded to its current limit in 1962.
Frontier Community College Frontier Community College is a community college located in Fairfield, Illinois. It confers two-year associates degrees and technical certificates, and also offers on-line four year degrees through its affiliation with Franklin University.
Frontier Conference The Frontier Conference is a college athletic conference; it was founded in 1952 and is affiliated with the NAIA. Member institutions are located in the northwestern United States, in the states of Idaho, Montana, and Utah.
Frontier Crimes Regulations The Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) comprises a set of laws enforced by British Raj in the Pakhtun inhabited areas. They were specially devised to counter the fierce opposition of the Pakhtoons to British rule, and their main objective was to protect the interests of the British.
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, also referred to as the Frontier Culture Museum, and formerly known as the Museum of American Frontier Culture, is a living history museum based in Staunton, Virginia. Its focus is on the history of the groups that immigrated to America in the 1600s through 1800s.
Frontier Developments Frontier Developments is a British computer and video games development company. The company is based in Cambridge, England, and was originally founded by David Braben to develop Frontier, the sequel to the groundbreaking Elite.
Frontier Flying Service Frontier Flying Service is an airline based in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. It operates an extensive network of year-round scheduled commuter services and postal services to Alaska bush communities, primarily north of Fairbanks, as well as charter services to the lower 48 and Canada.
Frontier House Frontier House was an educational reality TV type series that originally aired on PBS in April of 2002. The show, which was filmed over the course of five months, followed the lives of three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did on the American frontier in the 1880s.
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, better known by its initials FMW was a revolutionary Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 1989 by Atsushi ĹŚnita (often spelled Ohnita). It specialized in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire, and fire.
Frontier Of Dreams Frontier Of Dreams was a major New Zealand documentary television series. It covered the history of New Zealand from its geological past through to the present day in 13 one-hour episodes, and was broadcast by Television New Zealand from 24 September 2005 weekly until December.
Frontier Organic Research Farm Botanical Garden The Frontier Organic Research Farm Botanical Garden 1 acre (4,000 m²) is a botanical garden operated by the Frontier Co-op corporation, and located with the research farm at company headquarters in Norway, Iowa, in the United States.
Frontier Route The Frontier Route travels through Northern Ontario from the Manitoba-Ontario border, along Kings Highway 17 through Kenora, Dryden, Ignace, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, to the Kings Highway 11/Highway 17 intersection in Nipigon, Ontario. The Route follows Highway 11 all the way along its long routing through Northern Ontario, through the towns of Geraldton, Longlac, Hearst, Kapuskasing, Smooth Rock Falls, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Kirlkand Lake, New Liskeard, North Bay, Huntsville, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, and Orillia, before terminating at Kings Highway 400 in Barrie, Ontario.
Frontier Thesis The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis is the conclusion of Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism and vitality have always been the American frontier, the region between urbanized, civilized society and the untamed wilderness. In the thesis, the frontier created freedom, "breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, [and] calling out new institutions and activities.
Frontier: Elite II Frontier: Elite 2 is a computer game written by David Braben and published by Gametek in 1993. It is the first sequel to Ian Bell and David Braben's earlier game Elite, and is available for Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC computers.
Frontierland Shootin' Arcade Frontierland Shootin' Arcade, an attraction in Walt Disney World, simulates a shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, over Boothill in 1850. The gallery includes a jail, hotel, bank, and cemetery with targets which are animated when shot.
Frontiero v. Richardson Frontiero v. Richardson, , was an Equal Protection case in which the Supreme Court decided that benefits given by the United States military to the family of service members cannot be given out differently because of gender.
Frontiers Frontiers is Southern California's largest LGBT magazine. It is an independent biweekly publication that focuses on news related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities, as well as local and international coverage of HIV/AIDS-related topics.
Frontiers (program) Frontiers, hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Worcester, Massachusetts is a two-week research and learning experience geared toward students preparing to enter college. The program challenges students to explore the outer limits of knowledge in science, mathematics and engineering.
Frontiers (TV series) Frontiers was an eight-part BBC television series, and accompanying book, that explored the boundaries between different countries in the world. Eight writers and journalists in a variety of countries investigated the economic, political, geographical and historical reasons that account for why people are divided.
Frontiers of Science Frontiers of Science was a popular illustrated comic strip created by Professor Stuart Butler of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in collaboration with Robert Raymond, a documentary maker from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1962.
Frontiersman Camping Fellowship The Frontiersman Camping Fellowship is a program of the Royal Rangers, and serves as their service/honor organization, similar to the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow. It endeavors to develop in each member the same courageous and undaunted spirit of the early frontiersman.
Frontispiece *In architecture, a frontispiece constitutes the elements that frame and decorate the main, or front, door to a building; especially when the main entrance is the chief face of the building, rather than being kept behind columns or a portico.
Frontline Club The Frontline Club is a media club based in London near Paddington Station in West London that supports independent journalism. It has a restaurant, club and lodging for its members and is also a talking-shop in the UK for ethical issues affecting news coverage.
Frontline Israel Frontline Israel is an organization which stands untied with the Jewish people including those expelled from the communities of Gush Katif and the Gaza Strip under the terms of Israel's unilateral disengagement planor the "Road Map". After the expulsion, these refugees were not provided for by the Israeli government nor the loan guarantees promised by the United States.
Frontline Israel Project The Frontline Israel Project is an organization which provides support to the now refugees of Gush Katif and Northern Shomron. After the residents were expelled and the land was given to the Palestinian Authority, these refugees were not provided for by the Israeli government.
Frontline Plus Frontline Plus is one of the products from the Frontline group made by Merial - an animal health company. It is product for the treatment and prevention fleas and control of ticks on pets - mostly dogs and cats.
Frontline Television News Frontline Television News was a cooperative of freelance cameramen formed during the chaos of the Romanian revolution in 1989. Founded by Vaughan Smith, Peter Jouvenal, Rory Peck and Nicholas della Casa, during the next 15 years they went on to film some of the most memorable images of modern television, despite paying a huge cost.
Frontlines: Fuel of War Frontlines: Fuel of War is a new first-person shooter under development, which is set to be released in 2007 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. It is being produced by Kaos Studios, who were previously known as Trauma Studios whom produced Desert Combat a Battlefield 1942 modification before Digital Illusions CE purchased the studio for Battlefield 2 Research & Development.
Frontostriatal circuit Frontostriatal circuits connect frontal lobe regions with the basal ganglia mediate motor, cognitive, and behavioural programs within the brain (Alexander et al., 1986, 1990) and receive inputs from dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic, and cholinergic cell groups that modulate information processing (Tekin and Cummings, 2002).
Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder, which has three cardinal features: behavioral and personality changes, cognitive impairment, and motor symptoms. FTDP-17 was defined during the International Consensus Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1996.
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a form of dementia. In the over 65 age group it is probably the fourth most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia.
Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco is the former early evening newscast of GMA Network in the Philippines. It was formally the latenight newscast of the station from August 19, 1999 to June 2002 and became the early evening newscast from June 2002 until it was cancelled on March 12, 2004.
FrontPage Server Extensions Software technology that allows Frontpage clients communicate with web servers, and provide additional functionality intended for websites. Frequent security problems have marked the history of this Microsoft proprietary technology.
FrontPageMag.com FrontPageMag.com is an online conservative political magazine, edited by David Horowitz and is published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Public Culture), a non-profit organization in Los Angeles, California.
FrontRunner FrontRunner is a commuter rail line being built by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to serve the Wasatch Front area of Utah. Its initial phase will run from Pleasant View in Weber County in the north, through Davis County, and into Salt Lake City in the south, a total length of 44 miles.
Frontside Frontside and backside are surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and Aggressive Inline Skating terms that are used to describe how a person approaches an obstacle or performs a certain trick. In Aggressive Skating, frontside and backside are types of grinds.
Frood Fouladvand Frood Fouladvand is the leader of "Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran" (Kingdom Assembly of Iran), which broadcasts on the satellite channel “Your TV” that has been operating in London since 2002. “Your TV”, alike numerous other Persian channels, contributes for the endeavour to restore human rights in Iran by overthrowing the Islamic Republic, as they describe to be the root of terrorism.
Froot Loops Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cereal pieces come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial flavors.
Frosh (album) Frosh is a series of compilation albums, released on Polygram Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The albums collect popular party anthems frequently associated with university and college frosh week festivities.
Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan is a global growth consulting firm including financial analysis, international comparative reports, employee training, and client value enhancement seminars for over 45 years. With over 1000 analysts, offices in over 25 countries, and one of the largest most comprehensive databases of research in the international market system the company has established itself at the top of the field in helping create innovative strategies to induce growth for their clients.
Frost (crater) Frost is a lunar crater that is attached to the southern rim of the Landau walled-plain, and lies on the far side of the Moon. Just to the east is the Petropavlovskiy crater, and to the northeast along the edge of Landau is Razumov crater.
Frost and Fire (album) Frost and Fire is the debut album by the Heavy Metal band Cirith Ungol. Its music is generally faster and more simplistic than on King of the Dead, which saw the band adopt a doom metal style influenced heavily by progressive rock.
Frost Barbarians In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Frost Barbarians, properly known as the Kingdom of (the) Fruztii, is a political state of the Flanaess. The people themselves are sometimes referred to as simply the Fruztii.
Frost Brown Todd Frost Brown Todd LLC is one of the largest law firms based in the Midwestern United States. It resulted from the 2000 merger of Frost & Jacobs LLP, a Cincinnati-based firm, with Brown Todd & Heyburn PLLC, a Louisville-based firm.
Frost Building The Frost Building is a curved building on the south east side of Queen's Park Crescent in Toronto, Ontario, and is home to various ministries of the Ontario government, primarily the Ministry of Finance. It is divided into a north block and a south block, with the north block located on 95 Grosvenor Street and the south block located on 7 Queen's Park Crescent.
Frost column A Frost column is a phenomenon that occurs when the temperature of the soil is above 0°C and the surface temperature of the soil is below 0°C. The subterranean moisture is brought to the surface via capillary action.
Frost diagram A Frost diagram is used in electrochemistry to illustrate the relative stabilities of a number of different oxidation states of a particular substance. Frost diagrams will be different at different pHs so the pH must be specified.
Frost flowers Frost flowers is the name commonly given to a condition in which thin layers of ice are extruded from long-stemmed plants in autumn or early winter. The thin layers of ice are often formed into exquisite patterns that curl into "petals" that resemble flowers.
Frost Fire Ski and Snow Board Area The Frost Fire Ski and Snow Board Area is locate in the Pembina River Gorge near Walhalla, North Dakota. Frost Fire consists of two lifts, 10 runs, ski rentals, Frost Fire Daylodge, and the Wintersköl lounge.
Frost Glacier Frost Glacier () is a channel glacier flowing to the head of Porpoise Bay. It was delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John Frost, boatswain on the brig Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Charles Wilkes.
Frost heaving Frost heaving (or frost heave) occurs when soil expands and contracts due to freezing and thawing. This process can damage plant roots through breaking or desiccation, cause cracks in pavement, and damage the foundations of buildings, even below the frost line.
Frost line In soil, the frost line or freezing depth is the level down to which the soil will normally freeze each winter in a given area. The depth this reaches depends on three factors, the length of the period below freezing (two months of −5 °C freezes deeper than a month of −5 °C), how much below freezing the temperature is (a month of −10 °C freezes deeper than a month of −5 °C), and the amount of snow cover (snow insulates the ground from the effect of the cold.
Frost line (astrophysics) In astronomy or planetary physics, the frost line refers to a particular distance in the solar nebula from the central protosun where it is cool enough for hydrogen compounds such as water, ammonia, and methane to condense into solid ice grains. Depending on density, that temperature is estimated to be about 150K.
Frost line (polymers) The frost line is a term used in plastic film manufacturing by extrusion. It refers to the point beyond the die where the temperature of the molten plastic falls below the softening point and the diameter of the extruded plastic bubble stabilizes.
Frost/Nixon Frost/Nixon is a play by the British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan. Its subject is the series of televised interviews that the disgraced Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
Frostating When Norway was united as a kingdom (900 - 1030 AD), the existing lagtings were constituted as superior regional assemblies, Frostating being one of them. These were representative assemblies at which delegates from the various districts in each region met to award legal judgments and pass laws.
Frostback Frostback, Niagaraback, or Iceback, is a derogatory term used to refer to illegal immigrants from Canada, as opposed to illegal immigrants from Mexico or other Latin American countries, who are derogatorily referred to as "wetbacks". Another possible origin of the slur is that most illegal immigrants from Canada cross the border during severe blizzards around Christmas time.
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota Frostbite Falls, Minnesota is a fictional small town seen on the American animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show. It is located in the (real world) location of Koochiching County in Minnesota.
Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo, is an independent horror-comedy movie, filmed sometime in the late 1980s but released in 1996 by Troma Entertainment. One of the stars, Ron Ashton, is the former guitarist for Iggy & the Stooges.
Frostburn Frostburn is a supplement to Dungeons and Dragons (3.5 edition) that provides rules for adventuring in a cold environment as well as an environment known as Frostfell, which is a sort of arctic environment with extreme (sometimes even magical) cold.
Frostcrag Spire Frostcrag Spire is the in-game name given to the content added by the downloadable Wizards Tower addon in the video game Oblivion. It is an official plugin made by the creators of the original game, Bethesda Softworks LLC.
Frosted Ambassador Frosted Ambassador was an enigmatic release on Kindercore Records in 1999. While press releases claimed a long career in bands named Chronicle Ape and the New Sound and a failed solo career before "moving to Belgium to study toast," evidence suggests that the project was actually the brainchild of The Olivia Tremor Control's drummer Eric Harris, as the two bands shared a song on the album and a compilation, and William Cullen Hart created the artwork for the album.
Frosted Flakes Frosties (or Frosted Flakes in North America and various other areas) is a cereal similar to Corn Flakes from Kellogg's, but coated with frosted sugar. Tony the Tiger has been the mascot in Frosted Flakes since it was first introduced in 1952 as Sugar Frosted Flakes (the word "sugar" was dropped in the mid-1970s), and he is known for uttering the cereal's slogan: "They're Grrreat!
Frostfell In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Frostfell lies at the northern extreme of the world, separated from Khorvaire by the Bitter Sea. It is a place of eternal ice and snow, mostly unknown and seldom visited by mortals.
Frostie Root Beer Frostie Root Beer is a brand currently marketed by Leading Edge Brands, of Temple, Texas. Frostie was originally bottled by The Frostie Beverage Company of Catonsville, Maryland, owned by George Rackensperger.

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