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Fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro General Motors discontinued the Chevrolet Camaro after the 2002 model year which had been in production since 1967. After a six year hiatus, GM will begin production of the fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro for the 2009 model year.
Fifth-generation programming language A fifth-generation programming language (abbreviated 5GL) is a programming language based around solving problems using constraints given to the program, rather than using an algorithm written by a programmer. Most constraint-based and logic programming languages and some declarative languages are fifth-generation languages.
Fiftieth United States Congress - Political Parties Fiftieth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1889.
Fiftieth United States Congress - State Delegations The Fiftieth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1889.
Fifty Degrees Below Fifty Degrees Below (2005) is the second book in the hard science fiction Science in the Capital trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It directly follows the events of Forty Signs of Rain, with a greater focus on character Frank Vanderwal, and his decision to remain at the National Science Foundation, following the earlier novel’s superstorm and devastating flood of Washington DC.
Fifty Fifty Fifty Fifty (Urdu script: ففٹی ففٹی) is a television series from Pakistan which was aired on the national television network PTV during the 1980's. The show is considered by many critics as one of the best television shows to be produced in Pakistan.
Fifty Foot Penguin Theater Fifty Foot Penguin Theater (FFPT) is an independent theater company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is dedicated to performing contemporary classic works, mostly by American playwrights, and to producing plays by local Minneapolis playwrights.
Fifty London First opened in 1827 by a flamboyant entrepreneur of the day, the casino at 50 St James Street was designed by the fashionable architect Benjamin Wyatt, and quickly became known as "the Ascot of gambling" or "the most talked about gambling hall in the most talked about street in the most talked about city in the world."
Fifty move rule The fifty move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty consecutive moves. The relevant part of the official FIDE laws of chess is rule 9.
Fifty nine Particulars laid down for the Regulating things "Fifty nine Particulars laid down for the Regulating things" was a pamphlet believed by scholars to have been published in 1659 by George Fox (though some dispute this; see discussion page), one of the primary founders of the Quakers, and sent to members of the Parliament of England, calling for a long list of social reforms. Parliament ignored it.
Fifty-first United States Congress - Political Parties The Fifty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1891.
Fifty-first United States Congress - State Delegations The Fifty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1891.
Fifty-fourth United States Congress - Political Parties The Fifty-fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897.
Fifty-fourth United States Congress - State Delegations The Fifty-fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1897.
Fifty-Niner The Fifty-Niners were the estimated 100,000 gold seekers who streamed into the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory in 1859. The discovery of placer gold deposits along the South Platte River at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Kansas Territory by a party of miners lead by William Greeneberry "Green" Russell in July 1858 precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
Fifty-second United States Congress - Political Parties The Fifty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893.
Fifty-second United States Congress - State Delegations The Fifty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, including the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893.
Fifty-third United States Congress - Political Parties The Fifty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1895.
Fifty-third United States Congress - State Delegations The Fifty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895.
Fig leaf A fig leaf is the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or disagreeable. The term is a metaphorical reference to the Biblical Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to cover themselves after they realize that they are naked.
Fig Newton The Fig Newton is a brand of fig bar (in Europe, a fig roll), a soft, cake-like pastry filled with fig jam. A trademarked product of Nabisco, Fig Newtons originated in the United States and have since spread across the world.
Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland Fig Tree Pocket is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 8km south-west of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. Placed within a pocket of the Brisbane River, the suburb is rather remote with low density housing and large numbers of trees
Figali Convention Center The Figali Convention Center is an indoor sporting arena located in Fort Amador, Panama City, Panama. It has a high-class structure and architecture, making it one of the best if not the best Convention Center in Central America.
Figeater beetle The figeater beetle (Cotinis mutabilis), also known as the June bug or June beetle, green fruit beetle, and several other local variants, is a beetle of the family of the dung beetles, the Scarabaeidae. It occurs in the southern half of North America.
Figge Art Museum The Figge Art Museum opened in Davenport, Iowa on August 6, 2005. Designed by London architect David Chipperfield, the Figge replaced the Davenport Museum of Art, which had its beginnings with a municipal art gallery that began in 1925.
Figgs The Figgs are a rock band out of Saratoga Springs, New York. First formed in 1987, their output has included at least nine traditional full length albums (two on major labels in the mid 90s), multiple EPs and singles, a live album, and gigs backing Graham Parker since 1996 and on Graham's 2005 release Songs of No Consequence, as well as Tommy Stinson of The Replacements fame.
Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior (; 1989) is a Chinese film about a forbidden love between a court lady and a soldier in the Qin dynasty that is reborn in the 1930s when the reincarnation of the girl who remembers nothing enters the grave of Emperor Qin only to find a still living ancient warrior.
Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network The Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, or FACTNet, is a Colorado-based organization committed to educating and facilitating communication about destructive mind control. Coercive tactics, or "coercive psychological systems", are defined on their website as "unethical mind control such as brainwashing, thought reform, destructive persuasion and coercive persuasion".
Fight Back to School Fight Back To School (traditional Chinese: 逃學威龍) is one of the more successful films Stephen Chow was able to make during his more prolific years, arguably due to the commercial and critical success of 1990's All For The Winner. The talented cast features many of Chow's would-be long-term collaborators, such as Cheung Man and Ng Man-Tat, who both starred in All For The Winner.
Fight card Fight card is a term used to refer to all of the boxing, or another hand-to-hand contact sport such as MMA or kickboxing, matches that occur in the evening of a boxing event. The fight card typically consists of the main event and the undercard.
Fight Club (video game) Fight Club is a fighting video game based on the film Fight Club, which was based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It was released in 2004 by Vivendi Universal, but it was mostly dismissed by devoted fans of the book and film as milking it for commercial worth.
Fight Club in popular culture Fight Club in popular culture covers the influences of the novel Fight Club and the film based on it on popular culture and mass media. Much of this came as a result of the film's popularity, though due to similarities between the novel and film it is difficult to determine which version of the story is being referenced in some situations.
Fight for Life (game) Fight for Life is the title of a video game developed and published by Atari for its ill-fated Jaguar system in 1996. By rendering all the characters in polygons, the fighting game was hyped as a demonstration of the power of the Atari Jaquar system in the face of the upcoming 32-bit CD-based Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.
Fight for the Right Tournament The Fight for the Right Tournament is a professional wrestling tournament in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling designed to find a new number 1 contender to Sting's newly won NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The tournament began on the October 26, 2006 episode of TNA iMPACT!
Fight for Your Life Fight for Your Life is a 1977 action film starring William Sanderson (of Blade Runner fame), who plays Kane, a hate-fuelled redneck who absconds from jail with his sidekicks (an Asian and a Mexican). They hole up in the secluded house of a black Minister and his family, where harsh epithets are exchanged and the Minister is forced to take action to defend his family.
Fight Klub Fight Klub is a circuit for battle rappers, founded on the goal do defeat opponents with skills and win money, hosted by its founder, International P. Originally a DVD series, they eventually provided MTV2 with their pilot episode, featuring the battle between 40 Cal (of Dipset infamy) and Cardi, followed by the battle between Remy Ma of Terror Squad with Lady Luck (rapper).
Fight Night: Round 2 Fight Night: Round 2 is the sequel to EA Sports acclaimed Fight Night 2004. It is a boxing game descended from the lineage of the Knockout Kings series of games and is produced for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube consoles.
Fight of the Century Fight of the Century was the promotional nickname given to the first boxing match between champion Joe Frazier (26-0, 23 KOs) and challenger Muhammad Ali (31-0, 26 KOs), held on March 8, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Fight of the Week After NBC's cancellation of The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports in the spring of 1960, ABC took over the prime time boxing program, although it was renamed as the Fight of the Week. Legendary boxing commentator Don Dunphy did the blow-by-blow description of the bouts each week.
Fight Science Fight Science is a television program shown on the National Geographic Channel in which scientists and martial arts masters work together to analyze the world's fighting techniques, to compare the disciplines and to find out which one has the strongest hits, kicks and deadliest weapons. The show also tries to prove through science if certain legends in fighting are possible, such as whether a one-punch knockout is possible, or if ninjas are as nimble and deadly as stories tell.
Fight School Fight School was a reality series where 10 British contestants, five male and five female, travel to an ancient Kung-Fu school in China to compete in gruelling mental and physical tasks. Every week the student deemed weakest must engage in combat with that chosen by the strongest.
Fight Songs Fight Songs is the fourth studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on April 27, 1999 (see 1999 in music). It features the song, "Murder (Or a Heart Attack)", which was named one of the top songs of all time by Blender magazine.
Fight the Power "Fight the Power" was a 1989 song by the hip-hop group Public Enemy. It is featured prominently in the opening credits of the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing, and is heard at numerous points throughout the movie as the character Radio Raheem plays it nonstop through Brooklyn, New York on his boombox.
Fight The Bear Fight The Bear is the first full-length album from the Simi Valley, CA based punk rock band Midget Fan Club. The title of the album was derived from a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Mike Myers as the head of Columbia Pictures presenting "wacky new television shows for the American audience to consume.
Fight-or-flight response The fight-or-flight response, also called the acute stress response, was first described by Walter Cannon in 1929. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
FightAIDS@Home FightAIDS@Home ("Fight AIDS at home") is a distributed computing project for Internet-connected home computers, operated by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute. It aims to use biomedical software simulation techniques to search for ways to cure or prevent the spread of AIDS and HIV.
Fighter aircraft [A-10 Thunderbolt II], [[F-86 Sabre, P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang fly in formation during an air show at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The formation displays three generations of Air Force aircraft - the first three being fighters]]
Fighter Ace Fighter Ace is a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots. It is a Ketsujin Studios game, and players must make an account with the website and connect to the servers to play the game.
Fighter Emergency Program The Fighter Emergency Program (in German, Jägernotprogramm) was a shift in 1944 by the Luftwaffe to halt all production of bombers and shift production to defensive fighters. The program included development of experimental jet aircraft and one fighter featuring vertical takeoff.
Fighter in the Wind Fighter in the Wind is a 2004 South Korean film. It is based on the story of Karate competitor Choi Bae-dal who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead.
Fighter Ops Fighter Ops is a modern air combat simulation product being developed by Xtreme Simulations International (XSI). The project was born out of a frustration at the lack of high fidelity combat simulations in the market place and is aimed at replacing the venerable but aging Falcon 4.
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (ISBN 0-7126-7423-3) is a Second World War military history book by English author Len Deighton. Published in 1977, Fighter was Deighton's first history book, having made his name as a writer of spy fiction.
Fighters + Lovers Fighters+Lovers is a Scandinavian clothing company which sells controversial shirts. These shirts feature logos of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Fighters Megamix Fighters Megamix is a 1997 fighting game developed by AM2 and published by Sega exclusively for the Sega Saturn. It combines several characters from various Sega games, from the complete cast of Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers to Janet from Virtua Cop 2 and the Hornet car from Daytona USA, while allowing to play the bosses of both games without codes.
Fightin' Texas Aggie Band The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band (often just called the Aggie Band) is the precision military marching band of Texas A&M University. The Aggie Band is composed of approximately 350 men and women from the school's Corps of Cadets and the group is the largest military marching band in the United States, performing at all of the school's football games and in other special events, such as inaugural parades for presidents and governors.
Fightin' Whites The Fightin' Whites are an intramural basketball team from the University of Northern Colorado. The team chose its name to make a statement about the inappropriate use of Native American names and imagery for sports team names and mascots, which are often racist, inaccurate, and derogatory in nature.
Fighting anime Fighting anime is the genre of anime that entails any type of combative action to include but not limited to: martial arts, street fighting, mecha combat, brawling, powering up and training. The genre is usually aimed at the male audience(Shonen, Seinen), but can be enjoyed by all enthusiastic fans from both sexes.
Fighting American Fighting American is a patriotic comic book character created in 1954 by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby, published by Cretswood Publication / Prize Comics and, against normal industry practices, creator-owned. It was later published by Harvey Comics, with Marvel Comics in 1989 publishing a hardcover collection of all his stories.
Fighting Back Fighting Back, released in 1988, is a live album by the NWOBHM band Cloven Hoof. Unusually for a live album, it features a selection of new tracks not featured on previous albums, although the song "Eye of the Sun" would later resurface on their 2006 album of the same name.
Fighting Cattle Fighting Cattle or Fighting Bull (toro de lidia, toro lidiado, ganado bravo, Touro de Lide) is a Iberian cattle breed. It is primarily bred free-range in extensive estates in Southern Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries where bull fighting is organized.
Fighting Dems The Fighting Dems is a nickname given to more than 60 military veterans who ran for Congress as Democrats in the United States' 2006 congressional elections. Five of these candidates were elected to the House of Representatives and one was elected to the Senate.
Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, originally published by Puffin and now by Wizard Books. Despite common claims to the contrary, Fighting Fantasy was not the very first series of gamebooks.
Fighting Fifth Hurdle The "Fighting Fifth" Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 2 miles (3,219 metres) at Newcastle Racecourse in November. There are nine hurdles to be jumped in the race.
Fighting Force Fighting Force is a 1997 3D beat 'em up developed by Core Design and published by Eidos in the same lines of classics such as Streets of Rage and Double Dragon. It was released for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Windows and Nintendo 64 (on the last of these as Fighting Force 64).
Fighting Force 2 Fighting Force 2 is the sequel to 1997's original Fighting Force, which was one of the first 3D takes on the 2D beat-em-up genre. Set in the not-too-distant future, human cloning has become a reality but has been banned by international treaty.
Fighting game "Fighting game" is a term confusingly and interchangeably used, often depending on locality, to describe two separate genres of video games: "Versus fighting games" (or "fighters") and "Beat 'em ups" (or "brawlers"), in which players fight each other or computer-controlled enemies, usually employing some variation of the martial arts. Along with fixed shoot 'em ups, they are traditionally at home in the arcades, and are considered separate from sports games such as wrestling, boxing and "ultimate fighting" games.
Fighting Golf Fighting Golf (also known as Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf) was a modestly successful golfing simulation released by SNK for the NES in 1988. The player could control one of four golfers (Pretty Amy, Miracle Chosuke, Super Mex, and Big Jumbo) each with his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Fighting Gravity Fighting Gravity is a music group based out of Richmond, Virginia. Originally a ska band called Boy O Boy, Fighting Gravity has incorporated a variety of music into their style, including reggae, rock, and pop.
Fighting Mania Fighting Mania is an arcade game from Konami in the "Mania" series of arcade games by Konami, and features characters from the anime, Fist of the North Star (or Hokuto no Ken). The "Mania" series of games from Konami mostly feature the word "Mania" in their title or subtitle, but not always, and they also tend to be more interactive than a simple joystick and buttons.
Fighting Masters Fighting Masters is a Mega Drive/Genesis fighting game from Treco that takes place in a pre-apocalyptic universe. The giant red sun is about to go supernova within hours and representatives from each alien race must fight each other in order to gain the trust and service of an ultra-intelligent race known as the Primaries who will grant them and their future generations another galaxy to live in.
Fighting McCooks The Fighting McCooks were members of a family of Ohioans who reached prominence as officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Two brothers, Daniel and John McCook, and thirteen of their sons served their country in the army, making it perhaps the most prolific family in American military history.
Fighting Norway Fighting Norway is a 1943 Canadian documentary film, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Sydney Newman. Ten minutes in length, the film examines the role of the free forces of occupied Norway during the Second World War.
Fighting Sioux Sports Network The Fighting Sioux Sports Network (or FSSN) is a local cable channel operated in Grand Forks, North Dakota by the University of North Dakota in conjunction with WDAZ-TV also of Grand Forks. The channel airs in North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota on cable television provided by Midcontinent Communications as well as other cable television systems in North Dakota and Minnesota, and is also available throughout the North American continent via Free-To-Air satellite.
Fighting Solidarity Fighting Solidarity () was a Polish anti-communist underground organization, founded in 1982 by Kornel Morawiecki in Wrocław in response to the delegalization of Solidarity and government repression of the opposition after martial law was declared in 1981. Created in June 1982KENNEY, Padraic.
Fighting Spirit (Power Rangers) Fighting Spirit is the 27th episode of the American children's television series Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, the tenth series produced as part of the Power Rangers franchise. As with all Power Rangers: Dino Thunder episodes, some of the footage is taken from the Japanese Super Sentai series that Dino Thunder is adapted from, Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger.
Fighting words Fighting words are written or spoken words, generally expressed to incite hatred or violence and to place the targets of the words in danger of harm. Specific definitions, freedoms, and limitations of fighting words vary by jurisdiction.
Fighting Whites The Fighting Whites were an [basketball] team formed at the [[University of Northern Colorado in 2002. The reason that an intramural college team briefly attracted a storm of national attention is that, in order to make a satirical protest about stereotypes of Native Americans being used as sports mascots (such as the Florida State Seminoles or the NFL's Washington Redskins), the team adopted the name "Fighting Whites", with an accompanying logo of a stereotypical "white man" (styled after advertising art of the 1950s) as their team mascot.
Fighting Yank Fighting Yank first appeared in Nedor Comics' Startling Comics #10 (September 1941), created by writer Richard E. Hughes (The American Comics Group, Commander Battle, John Force, Herbie Popnecker) and the artist Joe Blummer (Ultra-man, Hop Harrigan, Little Boy Blue).
Fightstar Fightstar is a rock band from London, England. In late January 2005, Charlie Simpson left the highly successful British guitar trio Busted, citing his marked preference and love for alternative rock - based music over the lighter pop punk music he had produced with Busted and his intention to carry on carving out a musical niche, in a different genre, with his band Fightstar.
Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes is a fictional band from George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars. The group first appeared in the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and were depicted as aliens with dome-shaped heads and round, black eyes called Biths.
Figueira da Naus Figueira da Naus (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or São Vicente: Fgéra da Naus) is a village and a stream situated at the east of Santiago Island in Cape Verde. The village is linked with the a rural road and is approximately 70 to 80 km away from the capital.
Figueira PavĂŁo Figueira PavĂŁo (also in Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo), Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Figera Pavon), is a village located approximately 15 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. Figueira PavĂŁo are linked the road encircling as well as a road to ChĂŁ das Caldeiras and its national park.
Figueiras, Cape Verde Figueiras (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: FigérasSão Vicente and the Santo Antão Crioulos: F'géras) is a village in the northcentral part of the island of Santo Antão. The village is around 30 km WSW of Ribeira Grande.
Figueiredo's Video and DVD Figueiredo's Video and DVD is a local movie rental business located in Northern California. It was opened in 1983 and currently has seven locations within Humboldt and Mendocino County: Arcata, two locations in Eureka, Fort Bragg, Fortuna, McKinleyville, and Rio Dell.
Figueroa Street Tunnels The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 (the Pasadena Freeway) through Elysian Park in Los Angeles, California, United States. From south to north, the four tunnels measure 755, 461, 130 and 405 feet (230, 141, 40 and 123 m) in length, 46.
Figura etymologica Figura etymologica is a rhetorical figure in which words with the same etymological derivation are used adjacently. Note that to count as a figura etymologica, it is necessary that the two words be genuinely different words, and not just different inflections of the same word.
Figural urn A Figural urn is a style of vase or larger container where the basic urn shape, of either a classic amphora or a crucible style, is ornamented with figures. These may be attached to the main body, forming handles or simply extraneous decorations, or may be shown in relief on the body itself.
Figurational Sociology Figurational sociology is a research tradition in which figurations of humans - evolving networks of interdependent humans - are the unit of investigation. Although more a methodological stance than a determinate school of practice, the tradition has one essential feature:
Figurative art Figurative art describes artwork - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational. The term "figurative art" is often taken to mean art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so:
Figurative system of human knowledge The "figurative system of human knowledge", sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert, was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot.
Figure (music) In music, a figure is a recurring fragment or succession of notes that may be used to construct the accompaniment. A figure is distinguished from a motif in that a figure is background while a motif is foreground: "A figure resembles a moulding in architecture: it is 'open at both ends', so as to be endlessly repeatable.
Figure (publishing) A figure in writing and publishing is any graphic, text, table or other representation that is unaligned from the main flow of text. Figures are commonly found in scientific and non-scientific articles, but also in books.
Figure 8 roller coaster A Figure 8 roller coaster is the generic name given to any roller coaster where the train runs through a figure 8 shaped course before returning to the boarding station. This design was one of the first designs to be featured in roller coaster design, along with the out and back roller coaster.
Figure International The Figure International is an annual women's figure competition run by the International Federation of BodyBuilders. The contest is held annually as part of the Arnold Classic, and was first held in 2003 (this was the first professional figure contest in the IFBB).
Figure It Out (board game) The Figure It Out board game was based on the popular kids game show Figure It Out on Nickelodeon. It was produced by [Cardinal Games] in 1998 and included a Billy the Answer Head board that was coated allow for writing and erasing with crayon, two sets of game cards, and a timer.
Figure moe zoku Figure moe zoku () (literally "Figure Budding Tribe") is a coinage made by Japanese journalist Akihiro Otani who claims "Otaku(or Geek)" are potential criminals, based on the 2004 Nara 1st grade girl's murder.
Figure of Eighty The Figure of Eighty (Tethea ocularis) is a moth of the family Drepanidae. It is found throughout continental Europe and has a scattered distribution in England and Wales, although it is absent from Scotland and Ireland.
Figure of Insensitivity Figure of Insensitiveness (or FofI) is an inverse scale of measure of the sensitivity of an explosive substance. In this context, sensitivity refers to how sensitive an explosive is to factors such as rough handling, elevated storage temperature etc.
Figure of merit A Figure of merit is a quantity used to characterize the performance of a device relative to other devices of the same type. It is often used as a marketing tool to convince consumers to choose a particular brand.
Figure of speech A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetorical, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity.

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