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Fireface Fireface (original german title: Feuergesicht) is a play by Marius von Mayenburg, written in 1997 and first performed in 1998 in Munich on the theater Kammerspiele. This play was the breakthrough of von Mayenburg as a new dramatist.
Firefighter A firefighter is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people, aid and assist during natural disasters and, increasingly, provide emergency medical services. The fire service, also known in some countries as the fire brigade or fire department, is one of the emergency services.
Firefighter Assist and Search Team A Firefighter Assist and Search Team (FAST), also known as a Rapid Intervention Team (RIT), is a special team that comprises two or more firefighters dedicated solely to search and rescue of other firefighters in distress. FAST shall have no other purpose during an incident.
Fireflies (Faith Hill album) Fireflies is the sixth album by country artist and Grammy award winning Faith Hill. The long anticipated album was released on August 2 2005 which would make it nearly three years after the release of her fifth album, Cry.
Firefly (film) Firefly is an independent film from 2005 directed by Pete Marcy and produced by Failure Boys, a small production company based out of Minneapolis, MN. It was shot in Minnesota and Wisconsin with a $6,000 budget.
Firefly (TV series) Firefly is a cult American science fiction television series that premiered in the United States and Canada on September 20, 2002. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical science fiction backdrop for the narrative.
Firefly BSD Firefly BSD is a commercially-supported operating system based on the experimental DragonFlyBSD fork of FreeBSD. It comes with complete source and binaries for the kernel, compiler, libraries, and user utilities.
Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daapd) is an open-source media server (or daemon) for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol (RSP) and Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP).
Firehouse Five Plus Two The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Walt Disney Studios animation department; Danny Alguire, cornet, Harper Goff, banjo, Ward Kimball, trombone, Clarke Mallery, clarinet, Monte Mountjoy, drums, Ed Penner, tuba and Frank Thomas, piano.
FireHawk (NES Game) FireHawk is a game which was released by Camerica for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game has the player being commissioned by the President of the United States to stop the trafficking of drugs into the United States.
Fireking Fireking is a power pop/rock band that hails from Boston, Massachusetts. The group has released one album, entitled "Live a Little, Love a Little", which has generally received favorable reviews from critics.
Firelands Conference The Firelands Conference is an OHSAA athletic league located in north-central Ohio. The following schools are currently members, with the school name providing a link to the town or city that it is located in or near:
Firelands High School (Oberlin, Ohio) Firelands High School is a public high school in Lorain County, Ohio. The mailing address is Oberlin, Ohio, though the school is located in Henrietta Township (at 10643 Vermilion Road) and serves the townships of Brownhelm, Camden, Florence (in Erie County), Henrietta, and the village of South Amherst.
Fireless locomotive A fireless locomotive was a type of locomotive designed for use under conditions restricted by either the presence of flammable material (such as in mines) or the need for cleanliness. Thus a traditional steam locomotive is ruled out because of its open fire.
Fireman (train) On North American and Australian railways, a locomotive fireman is the driver's assistant, particularly on long distance or freight operations. The term is a remnant of the days of steam locomotives when the fireman was responsible for stoking the fire, maintaining boiler pressure and generally assisted the locomotive driver or engineer.
Fireman (TV series) , known as Magma Man in some markets, is a Japanese tokusatsu television series about superhero, the title character, who fights kaiju and other villains. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, the show was broadcast on Nippon Television from January 7 to July 31, 1973, with a total of 30 episodes.
Fireman Sam Fireman Sam () is a stop-motion animation Welsh children's television programme about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the Welsh town of Pontypandy (a mix of two actual places, Pontypridd and Tonypandy, in the South Wales valleys). The original idea for Fireman Sam came from two ex-firemen from Kent.
Fireman's carry The fireman's carry is a technique that allows one to carry another person without assistance. It is referred to as the "fireman's carry" because it is the most common way for firefighters to carry injured or unconscious people away from danger.
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Fireman's Fund Insurance Company is a Novato, California-based insurance company owned by Allianz AG of Germany. It was founded June 18 1863 and issued its first policy to Walter Hawxhurst covering one half interest in 1,000 kegs of Boston syrup for a premium of $12.
Fireman's switch When a fire alarm is going off, all the lifts are supposed to go down to the ground floor and stay there the entire time the fire alarm is active. Firefighters can use the fireman's switch located near a lift to reactivate individual lifts in order to use them to reach the affected floor (saves wear and tear on the firefighters in cases where there are no obvious signs of fire like smoke and flames).
Firemen's pole A firemen's pole or sliding pole is a wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations, which was invented in the 1870s by Chicago, Illinois resident David Kenyon, although it is often incorrectly credited to the Boston Fire Department.
Firemonger Firemonger is a community-run project with a goal of developing a multilingual easy-to-use compilation CD with Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, and a selection of useful extensions, themes and utilities.
Fireplace A fireplace is an architectural element consisting of a space designed to contain a fire, generally for heating but sometimes also for cooking. The space where the fire is contained is called a firebox or firepit; a chimney or other flue allows gas and particulate exhaust to escape the building.
Fireplace poker A fireplace poker (also known as a "stoker") is a short, rigid rod, preferably of fireproof material, used to adjust coals and wood fuel burning in a fireplace. It is often metallic and has a point at one end for pushing burning materials (or a hook for pulling/raking, or a combination) and a handle at the opposite end, sometimes with an insulated grip.
Firepower (computer game) Firepower is a video game of the combat flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe.Firepower adds 18 new aircraft bringing the total of 36 military aircraft (or 56 with variants) to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe.
Fireproofing Fireproofing, a passive fire protection measure, subject to bounding, refers to the act of making materials or structures more resistant to fire, or to those materials themselves. Applying a bounded fireproofing system to certain structures allows these to have a fire-resistance rating.
Fires of Eden (novel) Fires of Eden, a book by Dan Simmons, centres on the history and mythology of Hawaii, the moral and ethical issues of the United States occupation of Hawaii, and various other issues. Fires Of Eden takes place around the adventures of two different generations, a woman and her granddaughter.
Fires of London The Fires of London, first formed in 1967 as the Pierrot Players under the joint direction of the composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, were an English chamber ensemble. The ensemble was originally created in order to play Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, scored for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier in the routed Imperial Japanese Army on the Philippines in the final days of World War II.
Fires Were Started Fires Were Started (1943) is a British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firemen through the Blitz in World War II. The film uses actual firemen rather than professional actors.
Firescale Firescale, also known as firestain, is a red or purple stain that appears on mixtures of silver and copper, such as sterling silver. At high temperatures, oxygen mixes with the copper to form cuprous oxide and then cupric oxide.
Fireside chats The fireside chats was a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. According to Roosevelt’s principal speechwriter, Judge Samuel Rosenman, he first used “fireside chats” in 1929 during his first term as Governor of New York.
Fireside Poets The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England. The group is usually described as comprising Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Firestar Firestar (Angelica "Angel" Jones) is a fictional mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She has the ability to generate and manipulate microwave radiation, which allows her to generate intense heat and flames and to fly.
Firestar (limited series) Firestar was a four-issue comic book limited series, published in 1986 by Marvel Comics, that established the origin story of the titular character within Marvel Comics continuity. Firestar was previously a character created solely for the animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, as a "fire" counterpart for previously established character Iceman, and had no appearances in a Marvel comic book prior to the animated series.
Firestar Records Firestar Records, Inc. is a record label and management company that specialized in a new genre called reggae bop which is a collective of dancehall-reggae, hip hop and R&B based out of Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Firestarter (firewall) Firestarter is a free and open source personal firewall tool that uses the Netfilter (iptables/ipchains) system built into the Linux kernel. Firestarter provides a graphical interface for configuring firewall rules and settings.
Firestarter 2: Rekindled Firestarter 2: Rekindled (also known simply as Firestarter: Rekindled) is a 2002 television miniseries and the sequel to the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter. It stars Marguerite Moreau, Danny Nucci, Dennis Hopper and Malcolm McDowell.
Firesteel Firesteel is a piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox together with flint and tinder. From the Iron Age onwards, the use of flint and steel was the most common method of fire lighting prior to the invention of the friction match.
Firestone (Pern) Firestone is a phosphine bearing rock found on the fictional planet Pern. When chewed by the Pernese dragons, they are able to produce phosphorus gases, which then ignite and are used, primarily, for burning Thread out of the air.
Firestone and Ford tire controversy In May 2000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Ford and Firestone about the high incidence of tire failure on Ford Explorers, Mercury Mountaineers, and Mazda Navajos fitted with Firestone tires. Ford investigated and found that several models of 15" Firestone tires (ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT) had very high failure rates, especially those made at Firestone's Decatur, Illinois plant.
Firestone Fieldhouse Firestone Fieldhouse is a multipurpose arena located in Malibu, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was built in 1973 as the home of the Pepperdine University Waves basketball and volleyball teams, who still play at the Fieldhouse today.
Firestone Walker Fine Ales Firestone Walker Fine Ales is a microbrewery located in Paso Robles, Central California. The company was formed in 1996 by Adam Firestone and David Walker, after developing a patented oak barrel brewing system named "Firestone Union" based off of the 19th century Burton Union brewing method.
Firestop A firestop is a passive fire protection system of various components used to seal openings in fire-resistance rated wall and/or floor assemblies through bounding, which is based on elaborate fire testing as well as environmental testing, in some cases.
Firestorm: Songs of the Third World War Firestorm: Songs of the Third World War is an album of songs composed by Leslie Fish, on the subject of the Third World War and survival. It is one of the most influential and controversial albums in the filk subgenre.
FireStore A FireStore is an add-on firewire hard disk drive unit developed by Focus Enhancement that can be plugged into any DV camcorder with a firewire output terminal. It records video directly to a disk instead of a tape, allowing the user to edit the footage directly, instead of logging and capturing.
Fireteam A fireteam is a small military unit of infantry. It is the smallest unit in the militaries that use it and is the primary unit upon which infantry organization is based in the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, Canadian Forces, Australian Army and British Army.
Firetrack Firetrack is a vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up computer game released for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 and programmed by Orlando. It resembles the 1982 arcade game Xevious in style and gameplay.
Firewall (construction) In construction, a firewall is a passive fire protection item that is required to have a special and unique Fire-resistance rating and is subject to stringent bounding. It is a fire-resistance rated wall assembly that has been constructed in such a manner as to subdivide a building into legal and practical segments in accordance with the locally applicable building code.
Firewall (film) Firewall is a 2006 American action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job.
Firewall (networking) A firewall is an information technology (IT) security device which is configured to permit, deny or proxy data connections set and configured by the organization's security policy. Firewalls can either be hardware and/or software based.
Fireworks A fireworks event (also called a fireworks display or fireworks show) is a spectacular display of the effects produced by firework devices on various occasions. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places.
Fireworks (song) "Fireworks" is a song written, produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees in 1982. It was released as a stand-alone single in between the Banshees albums Juju and A Kiss in the Dreamhouse.
Fireworks EP "Fireworks" (released 5th May 1997) was the first main single by English band Embrace, and the first to reach the top 40. This was an EP, consisting of 3 songs from the debut album "The Good Will Out", which reached #1 in the UK charts.
Fireworks Music The Fireworks Music (also known as Music for the Royal Fireworks) was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. It was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
Fireworks Regulations 2004 The Fireworks Regulations 2004 represent the most comprehensive regulation of fireworks] ever attempted in the [[United Kingdom. Made under the Fireworks Act 2003 the Regulations impose restrictions on the importation, sale, possession and use of fireworks in the UK.
Firhouse Firhouse (pronounced Fear-house or Fur-house) was a small village that has in recent decades become a suburb of South Dublin County in Leinster. Like the adjacent residential areas of Knocklyon, Ballycullen and Ballycragh, it is located in a once rural setting close to the foothills of the Dublin-Wicklow mountains.
Firimita Florin Ion Firimita is an art teacher at Pomperaug Regional High School in Southbury CT. He was born in Romania in 1965 he moved to the United States in 1990 and in 1997 he graduated with a degree in Art Education and with a masters degree in 2005.
Firing order The firing order is the sequence of sparking of the spark plugs in a reciprocating engine, or the sequence of fuel injection in each cylinder in a Diesel engine. Choosing an appropriate firing order is critical to minimizing vibration and achieving smooth running, for long engine fatigue life and user comfort.
Firing pin The firing pin or striker is part of the firing mechanism of a firearm. The firing pin may take many shapes, but all firing pins have a small, rounded portion designed to strike the primer of a cartridge, detonating the priming compound, which then ignites the propellant.
Firing points A Firing point is a prepared position from which troops may use their firearms with minimal exposure to return fire. They may be anything from very simple constructions such as sandbag protection at the edge of the parapet in trench warfare to sophisticated heavily protected positions integrated into permanent fortifications.
Firing squad synchronization problem The Firing Squad Synchronization Problem is a problem in computer science and cellular automata first proposed by John Myhill in 1957 and published (with a solution) in 1962 by Edward Moore. The problem is analogous to problems of logical design, systems design, and programming, and can be stated as follows:
Firkraag Firkraag is a fictional character in the Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn computer role-playing game by Bioware, set in the Forgotten Realms universe of Dungeons & Dragons. He is a giant red dragon, who serves as one of the many antagonists the player will engage throughout the game.
Firm offer A firm offer is an offer defined by UCC 2-205 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the United States. It holds merchants to a high standard of care in making an offer by certain offers irrevocable for a certain length of time.
Firm service Firm services, also called uninterruptible services, are services, such as electricity and natural gas supplies, that are intended to be available at all times during a period covered by an agreement. The cost per unit with this service is called a firm rate or uninterruptible rate.
Firma y Odilo Estévez Municipal Decorative Art Museum Firma y Odilo Estévez Municipal Decorative Art Museum (in Spanish, Museo de Arte Decorativo Firma y Odilo Estévez) is the former home of the Estévez family in Rosario, Argentina, which was donated to the Municipality of Rosario and turned into a museum.
Firmament Firmament is a name for the sky or the heavens, generally used in the context of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In the Vulgate, the word firmamentum is used, which means in classical Latin a strengthening or support.
Firman A firman is a Royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, including the Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, and Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The word firman comes from the Persian farmân (فرمان) meaning "decree" or "order".
Firmenich Firmenich SA is a private business specialising in flavors and fragrances and is a major worldwide chemical manufacturer. Their fragrances and flavors are generally used in perfumes, cosmetics, beverages, food, and other household products.
Firmicutes The Firmicutes are a division of bacteria, most of which have Gram-positive cell wall structure. A few, the Mollicutes or mycoplasmas, lack cell walls altogether and so do not respond to Gram staining, but still lack the second membrane found in other Gram-negative forms.
Firmin Bouisset Etienne Maurice Firmin Bouisset (September 2, 1859 - 1925) was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker. He was born to a working class family in the town of Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France.
Firmin Didot Firmin Didot (1764–1836) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder. He invented the word "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages (as opposed to printing pages directly with movable type), and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions.
Firmin Dugas Firmin Dugas (March 8 1830–March 16 1889) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Montcalm from 1871 to 1887 and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1874.
Firmin Gillot Firmin Gillot father of Charles Gillot (1820-1872) invented in 1852 the paniconography for which he took a patent (photoengraving in relief according to the letterpress on several early plate). Later, he invented a new process, again in relief, but nonphotographic.
Firmin Lebel Firmin Lebel (early 16th century – December 27-31, 1573) was a French composer and choir director of the Renaissance, active in Rome. While relatively little music of his survives, he was notable as one of the likely teachers of Palestrina.
Firn Firn is partially-compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is ice that is at an intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice.
Firouzabad Firouzabad or Firuzabad (Sassanid Middle Persian Ardasher-Khwarrah اردشيرخوره, or The Glory of Ardasher, post-Arab invasion Fīrūzābād فيروزآباد) is a city in Iran. It is located in Fars province south of Shiraz.
Firozpur Firozpur (or Ferozepur, Ferozepore) is a city in Firozpur District in Punjab, India. Founded by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughluq (1351-88) on the banks of the Sutlej River, Ferozpur today is a mofussil transportation and administration center.
Firpo Marberry Frederick "Firpo" Marberry (November 30 1898 - June 30 1976) was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators. The sport's first prominent reliever, he has been retroactively credited as having been the first pitcher to record 20 saves in a season, the first to earn 100 career saves, the first to make 50 relief appearances in a season or 300 in a career, and the only pitcher to lead the major leagues in saves five times.
First (song) "First" is the third and last single from Lindsay Lohan's debut album Speak. The third single was originally going to be the song "Speak", with director Francis Lawrence according to MTV, but was changed so "First" ,with director Jake Nava shooting the clip, so it could be used for her film "Herbie: Fully Loaded".
First 4 Internet First 4 Internet is a British company based in Bridgend, South Wales that develops copy prevention software used on compact discs, for protecting pre release music CDs prior to commercial release in an attempt to prevent music piracy in the early stages. The technology includes audio watermarking to create "double dip" copy control.
First aid First Aid is the immediate and temporary proper aid provided to a sick or injured person or animal until medical treatment can be provided. It generally consists of series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that an individual without formal medical training can be trained to perform with minimal equipment.
First aid kit A first aid kit is a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid, particularly in a medical emergency. Most first aid kits contain bandages for controlling bleeding, personal protective equipment such as gloves and a breathing barrier for performing rescue breathing and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and sometimes instructions on how to perform first aid.
First air-dropped bomb In 1912, during the Balkan War, Bulgarian Air Force pilot Christo Toprakchiev suggested the use of airplanes to drop "bombs" (as grenades were called in the Bulgarian army at this time) on Turkish positions. Captain Simeon Petrov developed the idea and created several prototypes by adapting different types of grenades and increasing their payload.
First and Third Trinity Boat Club The First and Third Trinity Boat Club is the rowing club of Trinity College in Cambridge, England. The club formally came into existence in 1946 when the First Trinity Boat Club and the Third Trinity Boat Club merged, although the 2 clubs had been rowing together for several years before that date.
First anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks On September 11 2002, various memorials and services across the world marked the first anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks, the greatest number being in Manhattan. Church bells tolled at 8:46 am, when the first plane struck, and 10:29 am, when the second tower fell.
First anti-partisan offensive First enemy offensive (Serbo-Croatian: Prva neprijateljska ofanziva/ofenziva) was a battle during World War II between Partisans on one side and German and Chetnik troops on the other side. It took place in western Serbia between September and December 1941.
First appearance datum First appearance datum is a term used by geologists and paleontologists to designate the first (oldest) appearance of a species in the geologic record. In other words, FADs represent the geologically oldest fossil of a particular species that has yet been discovered.
First ascent In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first modern recorded climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. First ascents are notable because they are the climbs that entail genuine exploration; the risks are higher and the challenge greater than for any later climber.
First assistant In surgery, the first assistant, sometimes called a first assist, is a person other than the surgeon who directly assists the surgeon with the operation at hand. Where more than one assistant is used, the other assistants are similarly termed second assistant and so on.
First Aid Basics First Aid Basics is a freeware educational software for Microsoft Windows providing basic information on medical first aid, that can be used as introduction to medical help and as prepare for study of official publications.
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) (FANY(PRVC) - pronounced Fanny) is a British independent all-female unit and registered charity affiliated to, but not part of, the Territorial Army.
First Alaskans Institute The First Alaskans Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to developing the capacities of Alaska Native Peoples and their communities to meet the educational, economic and social challenges of the future. With a Board of Trustees composed of current and former presidents and chairs of the Alaska Federation of Natives, the Institute is committed to promoting healthy Native communities through public policy analysis/research and leadership development.
First Alcibiades The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates, ascribed to Plato, but scholars are divided regarding it's authenticity, though probably written by someone within a century or two of Plato's other works.
First Aliyah The First Aliyah is the first Zionist aliyah, having taken place between 1882 and 1903. An estimated 25,000Jews immigrated to Ottoman] Palestine during the First Aliyah, mostly from [[Eastern Europe, but also from Yemen.
First Allied Corporation First Allied Corporation is a company based in Florida, in the United States. The company is controlled by the Glazer family, who are involved financially in Manchester United, a leading football club in Europe.
First Amendment Center The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The Center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government.
First Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The First Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the constitution of the state known today as the Republic of Ireland, was effected by the First Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1939, signed into law on 2 September, 1939. Its purpose was to extend the constitutional definition of "time of war" to include a period during which a war is occurring in which the state is not a direct participant.
First Amendment to the United States Constitution The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It prohibits the federal legislature from making laws that establish a state religion or prefer a certain religion (the "Establishment Clause"), prohibit free exercise of religion (the "Free Exercise Clause"), infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to assemble peaceably, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
First American International Bank First American National Bank (恆通銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in Brooklyn, with branch offices in Chinatown, Manhattan and Flushing, Queens, this privately-held community bank was first established on November 15, 1999.

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