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Field Training Officer A Field Training Officer, as the name implies, is an experienced or senior member of an organization who is responsible for the training of a junior or probationary level member. The FTO program is utilized mostly by police and EMS/Fire departments, since these jobs require extensive training beyond what is taught in an academic setting.
Field Vole The field vole or short-tailed vole, Microtus agrestis, is a grey-brown vole, around 110mm in length, with only a short tail. They are one of the most common mammals in Europe, ranging from the Atlantic coast to Lake Baikal.
Field work Field work is a general descriptive term for the collection of raw data in the natural and social sciences, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, geology, geography, geophysics, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, and sociology. It is more technically known to scientific methodologists as field research.
Field-programmable gate array A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device containing programmable logic components and programmable interconnects. The programmable logic components can be programmed to duplicate the functionality of basic logic gates such as AND, OR, XOR, NOT or more complex combinational functions such as decoders or simple math functions.
Field, Minneapolis Field is a neighborhood in the Nokomis community in south Minneapolis. It is bordered by 46th Street East on the north, Chicago Avenue on the east, Minnehaha Parkway on the south, and Interstate 35W on the west.
Fieldata Fieldata was a pioneering computer project run by the US Army Signal Corps in the late 1950s that intended to create a single standard for collecting and distributing battlefield information. In this respect it could be thought of as a generalization of the US Air Force's SAGE system that was being created at about the same time.
Fieldbrook, California Fieldbrook is a small town located in Humboldt County in Northern California. Located mainly within the dense redwood forest, the area was once part of the thriving lumbering companies, as is the case with the rest of the forest.
Fieldbus Foundation The Fieldbus Foundation is an organization dedicated to a single international, interoperable fieldbus standard. It was established in September 1994 by a merger of WorldFIP North America and the Interoperable Systems Project (ISP).
Fielder Jones Fielder Allison Jones (August 13 1871 – March 13 1934) was an American center fielder and manager in baseball. Born in Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania, his playing career began with the Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Superbas in 1896.
Fielder's choice In baseball, a fielder's choice (abbreviated FC) is most often the act of a fielder, upon fielding a batted ball, choosing to try to put out one runner while in so doing allowing the batter-runner to advance to first base.
Fielding (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is what fielders do to collect the ball when it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out. A fielder may field the ball with any part of his person.
Fielding Graduate University Fielding Graduate University, previously Fielding Graduate School, Fielding Institute and Fielding Graduate Institute, is a post-graduate only institution of higher learning based in Santa Barbara, California. The university's structure is geared toward adult professionals seeking a higher degree.
Fielding H. Garrison Colonel Fielding Hudson Garrison (November 5, 1870 - April 18, 1935) was the author of major scholarly works in medical history, including hundreds of articles and several acclaimed books. Garrison's An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1929) is a landmark text in this field.
Fielding L. Wright Fielding Lewis Wright (May 16, 1895 – May 4, 1956) was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor after the incumbent, Thomas L. Bailey, died in office in 1946.
Fielding Lewis Fielding Lewis (1726-1781) married Elizabeth "Betty" Washington, the sister of the American President and Revolutionary War General George Washington, in 1746. Commissary General of Munitions during the Revolutionary War, he held the rank of brigadier general.
Fielding percentage In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player handles a batted or thrown ball properly. It is calculated by the sum of putouts and assists divided by the number of total chances.
Fielding restrictions (cricket) In the sport of cricket, different fielding restrictions are imposed depending on the type of match. They are used to discourage certain bowling tactics, or to encourage the batsmen to play big shots, enabling them to hit 4s and 6s.
Fieldmarshal (Role Variant) Fieldmarshal Rational is one of the 16 role variants the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is based on. David Keirsey originally described the Fieldmarshal role variant; however, the very brief personality descriptions of Isabel Myers greatly contributed to its development.
Fields (department store) Fields is a brand of Canadian discount department stores owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, with 145 locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. The first Fields store was established in Vancouver in 1948.
Fields Institute The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences is located on the University of Toronto campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, although the institute's first home was at the University of Waterloo, where it was founded in 1992. It is named in honour of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, who is best known for instituting the Fields Medal.
Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years.
Fields of Aplomb Fields of Aplomb, abbreviated FoA, is a Gothic and industrial band formed in 1998, known for surrealistic and gloomy lyrics. Their first album, Reverence for the Lost, addresses themes of extreme introversion.
Fields of the Nephilim Fields of the Nephilim is a Gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Wisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Nod Wright.
Fields Of Omagh Fields of Omagh (Rubiton by Finneto) was one of the outstanding Australian racehorses of his era. Trained out of South Australia's Lindsay Park by Peter Hayes, Tony McEvoy, and David Hayes, 'FOO' won seven races in a row in the early part of his career, and, nursed back from two serious injuries, later gained a reputation as a Moonee Valley specialist.
Fields Open in Hawaii The Fields Open in Hawaii is a golf tournament for professional female golfers, played on the LPGA Tour. It has been played since 2006 at the Ko Olina Resort in Kapolei, an incorporated community within the city of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Fields, Factories and Workshops Fields, Factories and Workshops is a landmark anarchist text by Peter Kropotkin, and arguably one of the most influential and positive statements of the anarchist political position. It is viewed by many as the central work of his writing career.
Fieldston, Bronx Fieldston is the name of a subsection of the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York City. It is bounded by Manhattan College Parkway to the south, Henry Hudson Parkway to the north and west, and Tibbett Avenue to the east.
FieldTurf FieldTurf is a Montreal-based company that installs artificial grass playing surfaces identified by the FieldTurf trademark. Artificial grass is designed to simulate natural grass and is often used where a grass-like field is required, but where natural grass is not feasible.
Fielfraz Fielfraz was a Danish band who had their heyday between 1990 and 1996. The band members were Claus Hempler on guitar and vocals, Nils Brakchi on bass, Kenneth Priisholm on guitar (lead) and Jens Langhorn on drums.
Fiend (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the player characters (fictional characters controlled by the players) often come into conflict with a variety of monsters from folklore and mythology. One of the game's more prominent monsters are the various races of demons, devils and other malicious otherworldly creatures, collectively referred to as fiends.
Fiend Folio Fiend Folio is the title shared by three products published for different editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. All three products are collections of monsters, making each Fiend Folio a sequel to its game's version of the Monster Manual.
Fiend Is Like Friend Without the "R" Fiend Is Like Friend Without the "R" is the 4th episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. It first aired October 5, 2001 on Cartoon Network, and marks the first appearance of the recurring character Nergal.
Fiendish creature In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Fiendish creatures are magical versions of regular creatures (such as wolves, bears, horses, elks, badgers and so on) which live in the Lower planes. Fiendish creatures fairly closely resemble their normal-plane counterparts but typically have a more evil, if not demonic and prehistoric, appearance.
Fiendish Feet Fiendish Feet were the names of popular desserts in the early 1990s, produced by St Ivel in the UK. They were so-named, as the pots containing the desserts had faces drawn in, but most importantly, they had plastic feet stuck to the bases of each pot, increasing their novelty values for kids.
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun is a video game developed by Gray Matter under the leadership of famed developer Chris Gray and published in 1990 by Mindscape. It originally appeared on the 16-bit Atari ST, IBM PC and Commodore Amiga, before later being converted to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC.
Fiera della Frecagnola Fiera della Frecagnola is a festival which is celebrated every 2nd Thursday to Saturday in September in a small south Italian mountain village called Cannalonga. The festival is an old tradition that can be traced back to around year 1450, then better known as Fiera di Santa Lucia.
Fierabras Fierabras (from French a bras fier, "on brave arm") or Ferumbras is a Saracen knight appearing in several chansons de geste and other material relating to the Matter of France. He is the son of Balan, king of Spain, and is frequently shown in conflict with Roland and the Twelve Peers, especially Oliver, whose prowess he easily rivals.
Fierce Deity Link Fierce Deity Link is an adult form of Link in the Nintendo 64 video game, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Unlike Ocarina of Time, Link doesn't need to wait seven years in order to assume an adult form, but instead acquire a rare mask named the Fierce Deity Mask.
Fierce Panda Records Fierce Panda Records is a London-based independent record label, with its first release in February 1994. It also produced a small number of releases that year by now famous artists such as Ash, The Bluetones, Baby Bird and Supergrass.
Fierce Ruling Diva Fierce Ruling Diva is a house music duo from Amsterdam The Netherlands consisting of producers Jeroen Flamman and Jeff Porter. In the early nineties they charted three songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, the most of successful of which was "You Gotta Believe," a #4 hit in 1992.
Fieri Fieri is an international organisation of students and young professionals between the ages of 18 and 39 who are of an Italian descent. Fieri was founded in 1984 by a group of young Italian people who were enrolled in college and post-graduate studies who saw the need to preserve Italian heritage and culture.
Fierna In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Lady Fierna is the ruler of the Fourth Layer of the Nine Hells of Baator. She is the daughter of arch-Duke Belial and his late consort Naome, and currently shares the rulership with her father.
Fieseler (aerobatics) A Fieseler is an aerobatic maneuver named after Gerhard Fieseler. The pilot puts the aircraft into a vertical climb, then quickly points the nose straight down into a dive, pulling out at the same altitude as the maneuver started, but with the nose of the aircraft pointed in the opposite direction.
Fieseler Fi 167 The Fieseler Fi 167 biplane was designed as the prime torpedo and reconnaissance bomber for the new German aircraft carriers then in planning. With the beginning of the construction of the first carrier: German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin in 1937, two aircraft producers, Fieseler and Arado, were ordered to produce prototypes for a carrier based torpedo bomber.
Fieseler Fi 2 The Fieseler Fi 2, better known as the F2 Tiger (the name which adorned the plane itself), was an aerobatic biplane which was flown to victory in the 1934 World Aerobatics Competition (WAC) by the German aerobatics star, Gerhard Fieseler. Fieseler was a World War I German fighter ace with almost 20 kills to his credit.
Fieseler Fi 5 The Fieseler F5 (Fi-5 was a secondary later designation) was a single-engined two-seat sportplane of the 1930's. Produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler Flugzeugbau, which was started by the World War I figher ace and German aerobatic star, Gerhard Fieseler.
Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006.
Fiesta San Antonio Fiesta San Antonio (or simply Fiesta) is an annual event in which the citizens of San Antonio, Texas, celebrate their city's diverse history, heritage, and culture for 10 days in April. Fiesta honors the memory of the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto.
Fiestas of Nuevo LeĂłn Most of the fiestas of the state of Nuevo LeĂłn, Mexico are related to the anniversaries of the foundation of municipalities, the celebration of local Roman Catholic patron saints or exhibitions of the most popular produce of the particular region. The majority are observed at the local level and, given that the greater part of the municipalities have few inhabitants, the festivals can be a bit austere.
Fife Fife (Fìobh in Gaelic) is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.
Fife (musical instrument) A fife is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in military and marching bands.
Fife Circle Line The Fife Circle is the local rail service north from Edinburgh. It links all the attractive towns of south Fife and the inner Firth of Forth facing them, all in all the heartland of Scotland around both its modern and mediaeval capitals and Forth Bridges (old Queensferry Passage).
Fife Flyers The Fife Flyers, established in 1938, are the oldest ice hockey team in the United Kingdom, beating the Nottingham Panthers by some 10 years. Based at the Fife Ice Arena, the team has a history of success through the ages, with over 60 Scottish and British cups and titles to their name, most recently, the British National League title, won in season 2003/4.
Fife Herald & Post The Fife Herald & Post is a weekly Scottish freesheet that delivers to households in Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Cowdenbeath, Inverkeithing and surrounding areas. The paper used to be called the Dunfermline Herald & Post.
Fife Ness Fife Ness is a headland (ness is an archaic Norse word meaning "nose"), forming the most eastern point in Fife. It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map.
Fife Public Schools The public school system in Fife, Washington consists of Discovery Primary [Pre-1], Endeavor Elementary [2-5], Hedden Elementary [2-5], Surprise Lake Middle School [6-7], Columbia Junior High [8-9], and Fife High School [10-12].
Fife Scottish Fife Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was formed as a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from Walter Alexander & Sons (Fife) Ltd and is now part of the Stagecoach Group, trading as Stageoach in Fife.
Fife Socialist League The Fife Socialist League was a left-wing political party founded in Fife, Scotland in 1953. Led by the miners activist Lawrence Daly, they contested the West Fife constituency in the 1959 general election, polling 4,886 votes, more than the total received by the candidate of the Communist Party of Great Britain (until 1950 the seat was held by the Communist MP William Gallacher).
Fifehead Magdalen Fifehead Magdalen is a hamlet and civil parish in the north of Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale three miles south of Gillingham and five miles west of Shaftesbury. The village has a population of 88 (2001).
Fifehead Neville Fifehead Neville is a village in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale two miles south west of Sturminster Newton. The village has a population of 127ONS & Dorset County Council, 2001 Census data..
Fifer In earlier military conflicts, such as the American Revolution, fifers were soldiers who played the fife (musical instrument). These soldiers, often boys too young to fight, kept marching pace with the drummers and relayed orders in the form of sequences of musical notes.
Fifi Box Fiona "Fifi" Box (born 1976) is an Australian radio broadcaster, currently co-hosting the hit show The Shebang on the Triple M radio station with Marty Sheargold. Box worked at Victorian radio stations in Traralgon and Gippsland before arriving at Triple M.
Fifi D'Orsay Fifi D'Orsay (April 16, 1904 - December 2, 1983) was an actress. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City.
Fifi Le Fume Fifi Le Fume is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic skunk featured in the Warner Brothers 1990-1992 animated series Tiny Toon Adventures. She was voiced by Kath Soucie in the English version and by Junko Asami in the Japanese version.
Fifinella Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed from Roald Dahl's book, The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission to use the image as their official mascot and the Disney Company granted them the rights.
Fifteen (band) Fifteen is a punk rock band featuring Jeff Ott from Crimpshrine, with the rest of the line-up changing from album to album. Fifteen was born out of the ashes of Bay area punk rock icons Crimpshrine back in 1988.
Fifteen Minutes - A Tribute to the Velvet Underground Fifteen Minutes - A Tribute to the Velvet Underground was an album released by Imaginary Records in the UK in 1994.The album consisted of contemporary artists performing cover versions of songs by The Velvet Underground.
Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland repealed the constitutional prohibition of divorce. It was effected by the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1995, which was approved by referendum on 24th November, 1995 and signed into law on the 17th June, 1996.
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Amendment XV (the Fifteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution provides that governments in the United States may not prevent a citizen from voting because of his race, color, or previous status as a slave.
Fifth Air Force The Fifth Air Force (5AF), with headquarters currently located at Yokota Air Base, Japan, is one of very few numbered air forces of the United States Air Force never to have been based in the United States itself. It is also one of the oldest and continuously active US air forces.
Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, the founding legal document of the Republic of Ireland, removed from the constitution a controversial reference to the "special position" of the Roman Catholic Church as well as recognition of certain other named religious denominations. It was effected by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1972 which was approved by referendum on 7 December, 1972 and signed into law on 5 January, 1973.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Amendment V (the Fifth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, is related to legal procedure. Its guarantees stem from English common law as established by Magna Carta in 1215.
Fifth Army (France) The French Fifth Army (French: Ve Armée) was a famous fighting force that participated in World War I. Under its enthusiastic and offensive-minded commander, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, it led the decisive attacks which resulted in the spectacular victory at the First Battle of the Marne in 1914.
Fifth Army (Turkey) The Turkish Fifth Army was formed on March 24, 1915 with the responsibility for the defence of the Dardanelles straits after the Ottoman Empire entered World War I. The original commander of the army was the German military advisor to the Ottoman Empire, General Otto Liman von Sanders, who had previously commanded the Turkish First Army in Constantinople.
Fifth Army (United Kingdom) The Fifth Army was a field army of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916 by renaming the British Reserve Army of General Sir Hubert Gough and as such it fought the Battle of the Ancre which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme.
Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It runs through the heart of Midtown and along the eastern side of Central Park, and because of the expensive park-view real estate and historical mansions along its course, it is a symbol of wealthy New York.
Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn surface) The Fifth Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mainly along Fifth Avenue and Atlantic Avenue between Fort Hamilton and Cobble Hill. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B63 bus route, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot.
Fifth Avenue-59th Street (BMT Broadway Line) Fifth Avenue–59th Street is a station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan, it is served by the train (all times), the train (all times except late nights), and the train (weekdays).
Fifth Beatle The Fifth Beatle is a title that has over the years been applied to several people who were at one point a member of The Beatles, or who had a strong association with the "Fab Four" other than John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The "Fifth Beatle" claims appeared in the press immediately upon the band's achievement of global notoriety as the most famous quartet in pop culture in 1963-1964.
Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources The 5C Survey of Radio Sources (5C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources as measured at 408-MHz and 1407-MHz. It was published in a number of parts between 1975 and 1995 by the Radio Astronomy Group of the University of Cambridge.
Fifth Circuit Four The "Fifth Circuit Four" (or simply "The Four") were four judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit who, during the late 1950s, became known for a series of decisions (which continued into the late 1960s) crucial in advancing the civil rights of African Americans; in this they were opposed by fellow fifth-circuit judge Ben Cameron, a strong advocate of states' rights. At that time, the Fifth Circuit included not only Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (its jurisdiction as of 2004), but also Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Panama Canal Zone.
Fifth Column (band) Fifth Column is an all-women experimental post punk band from Toronto, which came about during the early 1980s. Originally the group had been known as Second Unit, but they took the name Fifth Column after a military manoeuvre by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, in which nationalist insurrectionists within besieged Republican Madrid, called 'the fifth column', would aid the four columns (north, south, east and west) outside the perimeters.
Fifth Council of Constantinople The Fifth Council of Constantinople was really a series of councils, held in Constantinople in 1341, 1347 and 1351, which exonerated St. Gregory Palamas's hesychastic theology and condemned the rationalistic philosophy of Barlaam of Calabria.
Fifth Down The Fifth Down was the name of a college football play that was the result of an error by the crew officiating the game. This play enabled the Colorado Buffaloes to defeat the Missouri Tigers by scoring a touchdown on the last play of their game on October 6, 1990.
Fifth Encirclement Campaign The Fifth Encirclement Campaign was a series of battles fought during the Chinese Civil War from September 25, 1933 to October 1934 between Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (nationalist) and the Chinese communists. During this campaign, Kuomintang force has successfully overran the communist base of Jiangxi Soviet and forced the communists on the run, which would later known as the Long March.
Fifth Letter (Plato) The Fifth Letter of Plato, also called Epistle V or Letter V, is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It falls among those Epistles of Plato that have nothing to do with Sicilian politics and the intrigues between Dion and his nephew, Dionysius the Younger, tyrant of Syracuse.
Fifth metacarpal bone The fifth metacarpal bone (metacarpal bone of the little finger) presents on its base one facet on its superior surface, which is concavo-convex and articulates with the hamate, and one on its radial side, which articulates with the fourth metacarpal.
Fifth Monarchists The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were active from 1649 to 1661 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. They took their name from a belief in a world ruling kingdom to be established by a returning Jesus in which the year 1666 and its numerical relationship to a passage in the Biblical Book of Revelation indicating the end of earthly rule by carnal human beings.
Fifth normal form Fifth normal form (5NF), also known as Project-join normal form (PJ/NF) is a level of database normalisation, designed to reduce redundancy in relational databases recording multi-valued facts by isolating semantically related multiple relationships. A table is said to be in the 5NF if and only if it is in 4NF and every join dependency in it is implied by the candidate keys.
Fifth of July Fifth of July is a 1979 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment with America in the wake of the Vietnam War.
Fifth official In a game of football (soccer), the fifth official is a match official who assists the Fourth official in a variety of tasks, and who may be called upon to replace another match official if necessary, for example in the case of injury.
Fifth power The fifth power is a continuation of the series of three classic branches of Montesquieu's separation of powers and the fourth power, the mass media. The term fifth power can be used to refer either to economic systems or to the Internet.
Fifth Party System The Fifth Party System, also called the New Deal Party System, refers to the era of United States national politics that began with the New Deal in 1933. It followed the Fourth Party System, usually called the Progressive Era.
Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter (Random House Publishing, 2000) is a book written by Jennifer Allen about her late father George Allen (NFL coach) and her brother George, currently a (Republican Senator from Virginia). The book contains several sections about her brother's sadistic acts and selfishness.
Fifth Republic of South Korea The Fifth Republic of South Korea was the government of the country from 1979 to 1987. Throughout this period, the government was controlled by Chun Doo-hwan, a military colleague of the assassinated president Park Chung-hee.
Fifth Third Ballpark Fifth Third Ballpark is a baseball stadium located in Comstock Park, Michigan, just north of Grand Rapids. Fifth Third Ballpark is home to the West Michigan Whitecaps, a professional minor league baseball team, and class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.
Fifth Third Field (Dayton) Fifth Third Field is the name of a minor league baseball stadium in Dayton, Ohio in the United States. As in the case of another stadium in Toledo, the Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank purchased the naming rights to the facility.
Fifth wheel coupling The fifth wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. It consists of a nipple (also called a coupling pin or king pin) on the front of the semi-trailer and a horseshoe-shaped coupling device called fifth wheel on the rear of the towing vehicle.
Fifth World (Native American mythology) The Fifth World is either the present world, or the next world, in several Native American beliefs which center around a cyclical understanding of time. According to both Native American Hopi mythology and Maya mythology, the current world we inhabit is the "Fourth World.
Fifth year Fifth Year, also known as S5, refers to the fifth year of schooling in Scottish Secondary Schools. During this year pupils will generally sit Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2 or Higher exams, the latter being essential for entry to a Scottish university.

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