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Floris (film) Floris is a 2004 Dutch film, directed by Jean van de Velde and starring Michiel Huisman as grandson of the original Floris from the 1969 TV series. The new side-kick is "Pi", played by popstar Birgit Schuurman.
Floris and Blancheflour Floris and Blancheflour is the name of a popular romantic story that was told in the Middle Ages in many different vernacular languages and versions. It first appears in Europe around 1160 in "aristocratic" French.
Floris Evers Floris Maarten Alphons Maria Evers (born on February 26, 1983 in Tilburg) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Floris I, Count of Holland Floris I of Holland (1017 in Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands - June 28, 1061 in Gelderland, Netherlands) was Count of Holland (which was called Frisia at that time) from 1049 to 1061. He was a son of Dirk III and Othelindis of Nordmark.
Floris Jan Bovelander Floris Jan Bovelander (born January 19, 1966 in Haarlem, Noord-Holland) is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the golden medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Six years earlier, at the Hockey World Cup in Lahore where he scored nine times, the defender won the world title with the Holland side at the expense of host nation Pakistan.
Floris of London Floris was founded in 1730 by Juan Famenias Floris, who arrived in England from his native island of Menorca to seek fortune. Shortly after his arrival, in 1730, he secured premises in Jermyn Street, in the elegant quarter of London's St.
Floris V, Count of Holland Count Floris V of Holland and Zeeland (june 24, 1254–june 27, 1296), "der Keerlen God" (God of the Peasants), is one of the most important figures of the first, native dynasty of Holland (833-1299). His life has been documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different landscape in Colorado of long ago.
Floristic province A floristic province is a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plant species. Adjacent floristic provinces do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a transitional area in which many species from both regions overlap.
Floristry Floristry, flower arranging, Floral Arrangement, or Floral Arts is the art of creating flower arrangements in vases, bowls or making bouquets and compositions from cut flowers, foliages, herbs, ornamental grasses and other botanical materials into floral designs; often the terms "floral design" and "floristry" are considered synonymous. A person who designs flower arrangements is known as a florist in Europe, Australia, New Zealand but in the US they are knows as floral designers.
Florists' Transworld Delivery Florists Transworld Delivery or FTD is a company based in Downers Grove, Illinois, in the United States. It operates two main businesses: The Consumer Business sells flowers and gift items through its websites and The Floral Business sells computer services, software and even fresh cut flowers to FTD affiliated florists.
Floro Dery Floro Dery was responsible for the look and feel of The Transformers cartoon series and was the visual creator of the Transformers: The Movie. He interpreted the toy box art and created the models that would become the visual guidelines both for the comics book and the animated cartoon.
Florodora Florodora was one of the first successful Broadway musicals of the 20th century. The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, music was by Leslie Stuart with additional songs by Paul Rubens, and lyrics by Edward Boyd-Jones and Rubens.
Floronic Man The Floronic Man is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. He was created as an enemy of the Atom, who remains his regular nemesis and still fights on a fairly regular basis, but his most famous appearance was in the Swamp Thing comic, particularly when it was written by Alan Moore.
Florrie Fisher Florence "Florrie" Fisher (1918/1920-unknown) was a motivational speaker in the 1960s and 1970s who traveled to high schools in the United States, speaking about her past as a heroin addict and prostitute, a profession which she took up in order to support her addiction.
Florus of Lyon Florus of Lyon (Florus Lugdunensis) was a deacon in Lyon, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century. After the year 852, no further information definite as to time has come down to us regarding Florus; so that his death may be said, with probable exactitude, to have occurred about the year 860.
Flory-Huggins solution theory Flory-Huggins solution theory is a mathematical model of the thermodynamics of polymer solutions which takes account of the great dissimilarity in molecular sizes in adapting the usual expression for the entropy of mixing. The result is an equation for the Gibbs free energy change Delta G_m for mixing a polymer with a solvent.
Floryshe Floryshe ("To Flourish") is an English term from at least the mid 1300s used in the brief English sword text, MS 39564, c. mid-1400s, to refer to the brandishing of a sword or other weapon with large showy movements during practice or prior to play or fight.
Flos Duellatorum The Flos Duellatorum is the name given to one of the editions of Fiore dei Liberi's fight book, written in 1410 (dated to 1409 in the old reckoning). There are two other surviving editions, under the title Fior di Battaglia.
Floss silk tree The floss silk tree (Ceiba speciosa, formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It has a host of local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken tree").
FlossenbĂĽrg concentration camp FlossenbĂĽrg was a German concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Economic-Administrative Main Office at FlossenbĂĽrg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, near the pre-war border with Czechoslovakia. Between 1938, when the camp was established, and April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners passed through FlossenbĂĽrg.
Flossie Wong-Staal Flossie Wong-Staal, PhD (August 27, 1947 -) Yee Ching Wong (Flossie) is a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She is sometimes credited as a co-discoverer of the HIV virus along with Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier.
Flota system The flota system was the method of trade that the Spanish used to send trade goods to their early colonies in South America and "New Spain" (Mexico). Each year, a fleet of commercial vessels (the flota) controlled by Seville merchants was escorted to Spain's American colonies by a series of warships.
Flotation Toy Warning Flotation Toy Warning is a band from London, UK, formed in 2001. Their sound has been described as a cross between space rock and chamber pop, with musical similarities to bands such as Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, The Unicorns, and Air.
Flotherm Flotherm is 3D simulation software for thermal design of electronic components and systems; first released around 1990, it is a product of the British software company Flomerics. Flomerics claims that it is the top selling program in its market, with approximately a 70% share.
Flotilla A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a flota of small ships, and this from French flotte), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet. A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group of the same class of warship, such as destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, gunboats or minesweepers.
Flotilla Admiral Flotilla Admiral is the lowest flag rank, a rank above Captain, in the modern navies of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden. It is above the rank of Commodore and corresponds to Rear Admiral (Counter Admiral or Konteradmiral).
Flotilla leader A flotilla leader was a warship suitable for commanding a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships, typically a small cruiser or a large destroyer (known as a destroyer leader). The flotilla leader provided space, equipment and staff for the flotilla captain, including a wireless room, senior engineering and gunnery officers, and administrative staff to support the officers.
Flotilla of Hope The Flotilla of Hope was a voyage by yacht carried out in 2004 by protesters critical of the Australian government's asylum policy. The boats sailed to Nauru, a Pacific island nation which is host to Australia's offshore immigrant detention center.
Flotsam and jetsam Traditionally, flotsam and jetsam are words that describe goods of potential value that have been thrown into the ocean. There is a technical difference between the two: jetsam has been voluntarily cast into the sea (jettisoned) by the crew of a ship, usually in order to lighten it in an emergency; while flotsam describes goods that are floating on the water without having been thrown in deliberately, often after a shipwreck.
Flotsam and Jetsam (The Little Mermaid) Flotsam and Jetsam are fictional minions of the sea witch Ursula in the 1989 Disney animated feature film, The Little Mermaid. They were voiced by the late Paddi Edwards in the film and television series, but Corey Burton in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
Flour An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources. It is most commonly made from wheat, but also maize (also known as corn), rye, barley, and rice, amongst many other grasses and non-grain plants (including many Australian species of acacia).
Flour (band) Flour is the nickname of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway who wrote songs and played bass guitar in the bands Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus until the mid-1980s. He released four solo albums on Touch and Go Records from 1988 to 1994 on which he plays most of the instruments himself.
Flour Bluff NJROTC Flour Bluff NJROTC from Corpus Christi, Texas is a 10 time consecutive National Champion unit. The unit started in 1993 and is run by Senior Naval Science Instructor CDR Armando Solis Kenneth Kotts and Naval Science Instructors Senior Chief Lee Holloway and PO1 David Pitts.
Flourish Flourish, in magic, is a visual display of playing cards commonly requiring physical dexterity (sleight of hand). Unlike most other sleights, flourishes are performed openly (or by the way) in front of the audience, to entertain, display the performer's skill or to divert attention.
Flourish (film) Flourish (2006) is a comedic thriller written, produced and directed by Kevin Palys and starring Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer. The film tells the tale of Gabrielle Winters (Morrison), a tutor and proofreader who elaborately recounts the disappearance of the sixteen-year-old girl she was babysitting.
Flourish, Mighty Land (Prokofiev) Flourish, Mighty Land, Op. 114, (variably called Flourish, Mighty Homeland or Prosper, Mighty Country) is a cantata written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1947, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution, along with his Thirty Years.
Flow (journal) Flow is an online journal of television and media studies, published by the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. It was conceived by graduate students Christopher Lucas and Avi Santo and launched in October 2004.
Flow (mathematics) In mathematics, a flow formalizes, in mathematical terms, the general idea of "a variable that depends on time" that occurs very frequently in engineering, physics and the study of ordinary differential equations. Informally, if x(t) is some coordinate of some system that behaves continuously as a function of t, then x(t) is a flow.
Flow (psychology) Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
Flow (television) In television programming, flow is how channels and networks try to hold their audience from program to program, or from one segment of a program to another. Thus, it is the "flow" of television material from one element to the next.
Flow battery A Flow Battery is a form of battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive species is flowed through a power cell / reactor in which chemical energy is converted to electricity. Additional electrolyte is stored externally, generally in tanks, and is usually pumped through the cell (or cells) of the reactor (although gravity feed systems are also known ).
Flow birefringence In biochemistry, flow birefringence is a hydrodynamic technique for measuring the rotational diffusion constants (or, equivalently, the rotational drag coefficients]]. The birefringence of a solution sandwiched between two concentric cylinders is measured as a function of the difference in rotational speed between the iner and outer cylinders.
Flow blue Flow blue is a style of stoneware, sometimes porcelain, that originated in the Victorian era among the Staffordshire potters of England. The name is derived from the blue glaze that blurred or "flowed" during the firing process.
Flow control In computer networking, flow control is the process of managing the rate of data transmission between two nodes. This should be distinguished from congestion control, which is used for controlling the flow of data when congestion has actually occurred .
Flow control structure A flow control structure is some type of construction that alters the flow of water in some way. As a group these are passive structures since they operate without intervention under different amounts of water flow and their impact changes based on the quantity of water available.
Flow cytometry Flow cytometry is a technique for counting, examining and sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid. It allows simultaneous multiparametric analysis of the physical and/or chemical characteristics of single cells flowing through an optical and/or electronic detection apparatus.
Flow chemistry In flow chemistry, a chemical reaction is run in a continuously flowing stream rather than in batch production. In other words, pumps move fluid into a tube, and where tubes join one another, the fluids contact one another.
Flow my tears Flow my tears is a lute song (specifically, an "ayre") by the accomplished lutenist and composer John Dowland. Flow my tears is Dowland's most famous ayre,Greer and became his signature song, literally as well as metaphorically: he would occasionally sign his name "Jo.
Flow on Mic, Skate on Board Flow on Mic, Skate on Board is about a two friends, one who dreams to become a rapper, and the other to become a skateboarder. Allen "Yung Jay" Johnson and Ian Lastie "Lil'E" Cole two real life rappers doing a movie about, Friendship, Rhyming, and Skate tricks.
Flow separation All solid objects travelling through a fluid (or alternatively a stationary object exposed to a moving fluid) acquire a boundary layer of fluid around them where friction between the fluid molecules and the object's rough surface occurs. Boundary layers can be either laminar or turbulent.
Flow-based programming In computer science, flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of "black box" processes, which exchange data across predefined connections. These black box processes can be reconnected endlessly to form different applications without having to be changed internally.
Flow-driven programming Flow-driven programming is a computer programming paradigm used by traditional programs, which follow their own control flow pattern, only sometimes changing course at branch points (in this, it is markedly similar to procedural programming). Many common programs will fall under this paradigm, for example, wget would seem to fall under it, as the flow of the program is not based on outside events, but rather on the operations as structured in the program being performed.
Flow-through entity A flow-through entity (FTE) is a corporate legal entity where income "flows through" to investors (unitholders) in the form of regular cash distributions. The FTE is normally the operating arm of a holdings company or trust to which the earnings from operations are transferred as a taxable deduction in the form of a lease, interest, or royalty payment.
Flowable fill The use of flowable fill as a highway construction material is becoming more widespread throughout the United States. Data received from questionnaires sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) in 1991 and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in 1992 indicated that approximately 30 states had some experience with the use of flowable fill, and at least 24 states have a specification for flowable fill.
Flowbee The Flowbee is a vacuum-powered device made for cutting hair invented by San Diego carpenter Rick Hunt in the late 1980s. The product was touted as being capable of performing "hundreds of precision layered haircuts" and was frequently displayed on late-night television infomercials.
Flower Alley Flower Alley, born in Georgetown, Kentucky on May 7, 2002, is an American thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred at Bona Terra Farms by George Brunacini who was killed in the August 27, 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191 at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.
Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes The Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes is a Grade I race for thoroughbred fillies and mares on the turf run on Belmont Park's turf course. For ages three and up, it's raced at a distance of one and a quarter miles and offers a purse of $600,000.
Flower car A flower car is a type of vehicle used in the funeral industry, used to carry flowers for the burial service, or sometimes to carry the coffin under a bed of flowers. Built on the same commercial chassis as a hearse, the flower car has half-height rear bodywork on the rear similar to a pickup truck bed.
Flower class corvette The Flower class corvettes were a class of 267 corvettes developed by the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy specifically for the protection of shipping convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) in World War II. They were a stop-gap measure in the war against the German U-boats: small ships that could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers.
Flower class sloop The Flower class comprised five classes of sloops built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy during World War I, all of which were named after various flowers. They were popularly known as the "herbaceous borders" or the "cabbage class"
Flower Communion Flower Communion is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalism, though the specific practices vary from one congregation to another. It is usually held before summer, when some congregations recess from holding services.
Flower differentiation Plant process by which the shoot apical meristem changes its anatomy to generate a flower or inflorescence in lieu of new nodes with leaves. Anatomical changes begin at the edge of the meristem, generating first the outer whorls of the flower - the calyx and the corolla, and later the androecium and gynoecium.
Flower Forest Flower Forest is a horticultural park and attractive tourist attraction near the village of Bathsheba, Saint Joseph in Barbados. It is a beautiful scenic park with strikingly attractive flowering plants and tropical trees and one of the most alluring parks on the island.
Flower garden A flower garden is a form of garden usually grown for decorative purposes, centering primarily on the kinds of flowers produced by the plants involved. Because flowers bloom at varying times of the year, and some plants are annual, dying each winter, the design of flower gardens can be sophisticated, taking such matters into consideration to keep blooms, even of specific color combinations, consistent or present through varying seasons.
Flower Garden (solitaire) Flower Garden is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is not known why the game is called such, but the terms used in this game do have a relation to those in gardening and it takes merit that some skill is needed.
Flower hat jelly The flower hat jelly (Olindias formosa) is a rare species of jellyfish occurring primarily in Brazil, Argentina, and off southern Japan. Characterized by lustrous tentacles that coil and adhere to its rim when not in use, the flower hat jelly's bell is translucent and pinstriped with opaque bands, making it easily recognizable.
Flower child Flower child or Flower Children originated as a synonym for hippie, especially those who gathered in San Francisco and environs during the summer of 1967, which was called the Summer of Love. It was the custom of "Flower Children" to wear flowers to symbolize peace and love.
Flower Nagai Line The Flower Nagai Line (フラワー長井線) is a rail line in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Operated by the Yamagata Tetsudō Company, it runs from Akayu Station in Nanyō City to Arato Station in Shirataka Town.
Flower of Life The Flower of Life (FOL) is a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so that they form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry like a hexagon. The center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter.
Flower of Scotland Flower of Scotland (The technically correct, but rarely used, title of the song is The Flower of Scotland) (FlĂąir na h-Alba in Gaelic) is an unofficial national anthem of Scotland, a role for which it competes against the older Scotland the Brave. In common with other UK nations, Scotland has no official national anthem.
Flower war A flower war or "Flowery war" (from Nahuatl xōchiyāōyōtl) is the name given to the battles fought between the Aztec Triple Alliance and some of their enemies: most notably the city-states of Tlaxcala, Huexotzinco, Atlixco and Cholula. The exact nature of the Flower Wars is not well determined but a number of different interpretations of the concept exist.
Flower-of-an-Hour Flower-of-an-Hour (Hibiscus trionum) is an annual plant that originally grew to the east of the Mediterranean, but it spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. The plant grows to a height of 20-50 cm, sometimes as much as 80 cm and has white or yellow flowers with a purple centre.
Flowering Dogwood The Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida, syn. Benthamidia florida) is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas, with a disjunct population in eastern Mexico in Nuevo LeĂłn and Veracruz.
Flowering rush The flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus), also known as grass rush, is a perennial aquatic plant, constituting the family Butomaceae. Its name is derived from Greek bous, meaning "cow", "ox" etc and tome, a cut (the verb 'temnein' meaning "to cut"), which refers to the plant's swordlike leaves.
Flowers and Trees Flowers and Trees was a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process, after several years of two-color Technicolor films.
Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction story written by Daniel Keyes. It was originally published as a novelette in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, winning a Hugo award for Best Short Fiction in 1960.
Flowers for Algernon (album) Flowers for Algernon is the first solo album by Japanese singer Kyosuke Himuro. The Japanese rock group BOØWY to which he once belonged disbanded, and this album was released as his solo debut five months later.
Flowers for Hitler Flowers for Hitler is Canadian poet Leonard Cohen's third collection of poetry, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Like other artworks regarding Adolf Hitler as a subject, it was somewhat controversial in its day.
Flowers for Jack Starting January 21, 2006, two gamers, George Ettinger and Alyson Burch of Michigan, began a project to send Miami lawyer John B. "Jack" Thompson, an activist against violent video games, a large number of floral arrangements to draw his attention to a polite accompanying letter contesting his stereotyping of gamers.
Flowers for Rhino "Flowers for Rhino" is a critically acclaimed Spider-Man story by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Published in 2001, it is a pastiche of the classic Science Fiction story "Flowers for Algernon.
Flowers for the Judge Flowers for the Judge is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in February 1936, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York. It is the seventh novel to feature the mysterious Albert Campion, aided by his grouchy manservant Magersfontein Lugg.
Flowers of Shanghai Flowers of Shanghai (海上花, pinyin: hāi shàng huā) is a 1998 film directed by Guangdong-born Taiwanese Hou Hsiao-hsien starring Fang Shuan, Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei.
Flowing afterglow mass spectrometry One of the first papers reporting the use of the flowing afterglow was reported in Planet Space Sci in 1966 by Norton, Ferguson, Fehsenfeld, and Schmeltekopf. They studied ion-molecule reactions pertinent to the Martian atmosphere.
Flownet The construction of a Flownet is a graphical method used to solve two-dimensional steady-state groundwater flow problems through aquifers. The method is often used in civil engineering, hydrogeology or soil mechanics as a first check for problems of flow under hydraulic structures like dams or sheet pile walls.
Flowparty Flowparty is a Swedish musical artist who had a minor hit in the 2000s with the pop-dance release "Boys Boys Boys". Flowparty are managed by Michael Brinkenstjärna, who is famous as the manager who started the career of the globally successful Aqua.
FlowRider A Flowrider® or Flow Rider® is an artificial sheet wave surfing environment incorporated in many waterparks and hotels. It was originally invented by Tom Lochtefeld, a California surfer, for the Schlitterbahn resort in New Braunfels, Texas.
Flowsel are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Flowsel in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Flowstone Flowstones are composed of sheetlike deposits of calcite formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. They are typically found in "solution", or limestone caves, where they are the most common speleothem.
Floyd Allen Floyd Allen (1858–1913) was an American businessman convicted of murder in 1912, although the validity of this conviction is sometimes doubted. He is best remembered today for triggering the shooting at the Carroll County Courthouse in Hillsville, Virginia on March 14, 1912, in which five people were killed and seven wounded.
Floyd Baker Floyd Wilson Baker (October 10, 1916 - November 17, 2004) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Browns (1943-1944), Chicago White Sox (1945-1951), Washington Senators, (1952-1953), Boston Red Sox (1953-1954) and Philadelphia Phillies (1954-1955).
Floyd Bannister Floyd Franklin Bannister (born June 10, 1955 in Pierre, South Dakota) is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched for the Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals. This left-hander attended Arizona State University and was known for striking out a few hitters in his time, amassing 1723 over his career, an average of 147 a year.
Floyd Bennett Field Floyd Bennett Field, now defunct as an active airport, was New York City's first municipal airport. Located in Brooklyn, originally on Barren Island, it is now physically part of Long Island due to the filling of a channel.
Floyd Britton Floyd Britton, perhaps Panama's most important leftist leader of the twentieth century, came from a Black West Indian family that had gone to Panama for jobs, one of the two sources of Panama's Black population. A student leader from his days in secondary school, which he graduated in 1958, he participated in a failed guerrilla revolt the next year and enrolled in the University of Panama.
Floyd Collins (musical) Floyd Collins is a musical based on the death of Floyd Collins near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925. The book is by Tina Landau; the music by Adam Guettel and the lyrics by Adam Guettel and Tina Landau.
Floyd Dale, South Carolina Floyd Dale (or more properly, Floydale) is a small village in South Carolina USA. Near Floyd Dale, there is the Diversified Communications Tower, a guyed mast, which is one of the tallest constructions in the world.
Floyd Gahman Floyd Gahman was a noted American landscape and building artist who specialized in oil paintings of the New England and mid-Atlantic area. He was born in 1894 in Elida, Ohio, and died in 1979 in New York City, New York.
Floyd Gottfredson Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905—July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. Two decades after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Floyd H. Flake Reverend Dr. Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles) is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and president of Wilberforce University.
Floyd Henry Allport Floyd Henry Allport (* August 22, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; † October 15, 1978 in Los Altos, California, USA) was professor for social psychology and political psychology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (in Syracuse, NY, USA) from 1924 bis 1956, and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is considered the founder of social psychology as a scientific discipline.

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