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Foghorn Foghorns are a navigation aid for mariners. In foggy conditions, when visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured by the weather, fog horns provide an audible warning of rocks, headlands, or other dangers to shipping.
Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn Leghorn is the name of a character appearing in numerous Warner Brothers animated cartoons, especially Looney Tunes. He is a large, anthropomorphic adult rooster with a strong southern accent and a penchant for mischief.
Foglight Experience Monitor Foglight Experience Monitor is a network-based appliance that monitors Web traffic to observe end-user experience and report on response times and problems. It examines all HTTP and, optionally, also HTTPS requests.
Foglight Experience Viewer Foglight Experience Viewer captures and replays Web traffic. It captures all web sessions in their entirety and is used by service-desk personnel to review problems by locating and replaying the user’s session in their browser.
Foglight Transaction Recorder Foglight Transaction Recorder (FTR) creates synthetic transactions that closely resemble those performed by end users. It uses Web-based recording technology to create consistently reproducible synthetic transactions.
Fogo Crioulo language The Fogo Crioulo (crioulo de Fogo in Portuguese) is the variant of Capeverdean creole spoken in the Fogo of Cape Verde. It has around 50,000 speakers or nearly 5% of Capeverdean Crioulo speakers including the diaspora's second language speakers.
Fogo Priory Fogo Priory was the a Tironensian monastic community in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, dedicated to St Nicholas. It was founded sometime between 1253 and 1297 by a local landlord named Patrick Corbet, who granted lands to Kelso Abbey in order to establish a cell there.
Foch (R 99) Foch (R 99) was the second Clemenceau class aircraft carrier. She was the second warship named in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, after a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1932, and scuttled in Toulon on November 27, 1942.
Fochabers Fochabers is a village in the Parish of Bellie, in Moray, Scotland, not far from the cathedral city of Elgin and located on the east bank of the River Spey. Around 2,000 people live in the village, which enjoys a rich musical and cultural history.
Foiba Foiba (Italian plural foibe) is the name adopted to define deep natural sinkholes common in the Kras region, a karstic plateau region shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. The name is derived from the Latin fovea (chasm); they are indeed chasms excavated by water's erosion, have the shape of an inverted funnel, and can be up to 200 meters deep.
Foibe massacres Foibe massacres were mass killings attributed to Yugoslav partisans during and shortly after World War II against Italians. The name derives from the local geological feature, foiba (a type of deep karst sinkhole).
Foice A term referring to a particularly ugly or unsightly face, often extended and shouted in a high pitched voice. The term was pioneered in The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree, but has quickly spread and is now very common across the North London area and beyond, particularly in public schools.
Foidolite Foidolite (IPA: ) is a rare coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a feldspathoid mineral content greater than 60%. Crystals of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, amphibole, pyroxene and/or olivine may be present within the rock.
Foie gras Foie gras (French for "fat liver") is "the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage" (as defined by French lawFrench rural code L654-27-1: "On entend par foie gras, le foie d'un canard ou d'une oie spécialement engraissé par gavage." ("By "foie gras" one is to understand the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by gavage").
Foil (fluid mechanics) A foil is a surface designed to maximize lift (force generated perpendicular to the fluid flow) while minimizing drag (force generated in the direction of the fluid flow) in a given range of conditions. Foils may be designed to operate in any fluid, such as air or water.
Foil (literature) A foil character is either one who is opposite to the main character or nearly the same as the main character. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast, and perhaps by setting up situations in which the protagonist can show his or her character traits.
Foil kite Foil kites are soft kites based on the design of the parafoil. They consist of a number of cells running fore to aft, some or all of which are open at the front to allow air to inflate the kite so it takes on an aerofoil section.
Foil stamping Foil stamping is the application of foil, a special film-backed material, to paper where a heated die is stamped onto the foil, making it adhere to the surface leaving the design of the die on the paper. Foil stamping can be combined with embossing to create a more striking 3D image.
Foilboard The Foilboard is a type of surfboard equipped with a hydrofoil that extends below the board, causing the board to completely lift out of the water at high speeds. A jetski is used to pull the surfer into a wave.
Foinaven Foinaven is a mountain in Scotland, situated in the far north-west corner of the Scottish Highlands. Like many of the monolithic mountains that surround it, the mountain is made up of a huge block of quartzite in the underlying rock, Lewisian gneiss.
Foire Brayonne The Foire Brayonne is a music and cultural festival held each summer in Edmundston, New Brunswick since 1979. The Foire is often considered the biggest French festival held in Canada outside the province of Quebec.
Foistware Foistware is software which is installed with completely unrelated programs. That means that there is no particular property in the software that makes it foistware, but rather the context in which it was installed.
Foix-Alajouanine syndrome Foix-Alajouanine syndrome is a disorder caused by an arteriovenous malformation of the spinal cord. The patients present with symptoms indicating spinal cord involvement (paralysis of arms and legs, numbness and loss of sensation and sphincter dysfunction) and the pathological examination reveal disseminated nerve cell death in the spinal cord and abnormally dilated and tortuous vessels situated on the surface of the spinal cord.
Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome, also known as bilateral anterior opercular syndrome is a partial paralysis of the face, pharynx and jaw caused by a loss of blood supply in a specific region of the brain. It was described in 1926 by Charles Foix, Jean Alfred Émile Chavany and Julien Marie in the Revue Neurologique.
Foja Mountains The Foja Mountains or Foja Range (Indonesian: Pegunungan Foja) is located just north of the Mamberamo river basin in Papua, Indonesia. The mountains rise to 2,193 meters (7,195 ft), and contain more than 3,000 square kilometres of old growth tropical rainforest in the interior part of the range.
Foje FOJE was one of the most successful and best known Lithuanian rock bands. It was formed in the present-day Antakalnis Secondary School in Vilnius by Andrius Mamontovas, Arnoldas Lukošius and Darius Tarasevičius in 1983 under the name of "Sunki Muzika", few months later Algis Kriščiūnas joined the band.
Fokino, Primorsky Krai Fokino () is a closed town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Peter the Great between Vladivostok and Nakhodka. It is a closed town because the Russian Pacific Fleet is based there.
FokI (biology) The enzyme FokI, naturally found in Flavobacterium okeanokoites, is a bacterial type IIS restriction endonuclease consisting of an N-terminal DNA-binding domain and a non-specific DNA cleavage domain at the C-terminal. Once the protein is bound to duplex DNA via its DNA-binding domain at the 5'-GGATG-3': 5'-CATCC-3' recognition site, the DNA cleavage domain is activated and cleaves non-specifically between nine and 13 nucleotides downstream of the recognition site.
Fokker E.I The Fokker E.I was the first successful fighter aircraft, entering combat with the German Army Air Service in mid-1915 which marked the start of a period known as the "Fokker Scourge" during which the E.
Fokker Eindecker The Fokker Eindecker was a German First World War monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. Developed in April 1915, the Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with synchronizer gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the propeller without striking the blades.
Fokker S-14 The Fokker S-14 Machtrainer was a Dutch two seater military training jet aircraft designed and manufactured by Fokker for the Royal Netherlands Air Force in 1951. It was one of the first jet fighter training aircraft in the world.
Fokker XA-7 The General Aviation / Fokker XA-7 was a prototype attack aircraft built in 1930-1931 by Fokker and then General Aviation Corporation after it bought Fokker-America in 1930, and entered in a competition by the United States Army. However, the Curtiss XA-8 won the competition, and A-7 development was not continued.
Fokker-Planck equation The Fokker-Planck equation (named after Adriaan Fokker and Max Planck; also known as the Kolmogorov Forward equation) describes the time evolution of the probability density function of position and velocity of a particle, but it can be generalized to any other observable, too.
Folar The Folar is traditionally the bread of Passover in Portugal, an ancestral food mede of the ritual and alchimist mixture of the water, salt, eggs and flour of wheat. The form, the content and the secret of the confection varies as the regions of Portugal and goes since the salty one to the sweet, in the most diverse forms.
Fold (higher-order function) In functional programming, fold (or reduce) is a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure in some order and build up a return value. This is as opposed to the family of unfold functions which take a starting value and apply a function to it repeatedly to generate a data structure.
Fold equity Fold equity is a concept in poker strategy that is especially important when a player becomes short-stacked in a no limit (or possibly pot limit) tournament. It is the equity a player can consider him or herself likely to gain if he or she bets.
Folda Bridge Folda Bridge (Folda bru) is a suspension bridge that crosses Foldereidsundet in Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. The bridge is 336 metres long, the main span is 225 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 38 metres.
Foldamers A foldamer is a discrete chain molecule or oligomer that adopts a secondary structure stabilized by non-covalent interactions . They are artificial molecules that mimic the ability of proteins, nucleic acids, and polysaccharides to form well-defined conformations, such as helices and Ăź-sheets.
Foldback Foldback is the use of rear-facing loudspeakers on stage during a live music performance that is amplified with a public address system. This sound signal may be produced on the same mixing console as the main mix for the audience (called the 'front of house' mix), or there may be a separate sound engineer and mixing console on stage.
Folded Normal Distribution The Folded Normal distribution is a probability distribution related to the Normal distribution. Given a Normally distributed random variable X with mean μ and variance σ2, the random variable Y = |X| has a Folded Normal distribution.
Folder redirection In computing, and specifically in the context of Microsoft Windows operating systems, Microsoft refers to folder redirection when automatically re-routing I/O to/from standard folders (directories) to use storage elsewhere on a network.
FolderShare FolderShare is a free to use Microsoft application designed to synchronize folders between and allow remote access to files stored on Windows and Mac OS X based computers. Microsoft bought FolderShare from ByteTaxi Inc on November 3rd 2005, and made it a part of their Windows Live range of services.
Folding bicycle A folding bicycle or folder is a type of bicycle that incorporates a number of hinges or joints, which may be lockable, that permit it to be folded into a more compact size. Typically this works by folding one or more of the bicycle's components, most often the frame.
Folding camera A folding camera is a camera that can be folded to a compact and rugged package when not in use. The camera objective is sometimes attached to a pantograph-like mechanism, in which the lid usually is a component.
Folding editor A folding editor is a text editor that supports text folding or code folding, a mechanism allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text—typically this is done to allow the user to better see the overall structure of a document or program.
Folding funnel The folding funnel hypothesis is a specific version of the energy landscape theory of protein folding, which assumes that a protein's native state corresponds to its energetic minimum under the solution conditions usually encountered in cells. Although energy landscapes may be "rough", with many non-native local minima in which partially folded proteins can become trapped, the folding funnel hypothesis assumes that the native state is a deep energy minimum with steep walls, corresponding to single well-defined tertiary structure.
Folding chair A folding chair is a light portable chair that can be stored in a stack or row. They are usually used for parties, card games, and temporary seating, and are also commonly used as a weapon in professional wrestling .
Folding kayak A folding kayak is a direct descendant of the original Inuit kayak made of animal skins stretched over frames made from wood and bones. A modern folder has a collapsable frame made of some combination of wood, aluminum and plastic, and a skin made of a tough fabric with a waterproof coating.
Folding wing A folding wing is a design feature of aircraft in order to save space, and is typical of naval aircraft that operate from the limited deck space of aircraft carriers. The folding allows the aircraft to occupy less space in a confined hangar because the folded wing normally rises over the fuselage decreasing the floor area of the aircraft.
Folding@home Folding@home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics simulations. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's Chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay S.
Foldover frequencies "Foldover frequency" is a Digital Signal Processing term describing a signal component above the Nyquist frequency, or half the sampling frequency. When these frequencies are modulated against the sampling signal, they "fold over" into the same space as (and become indistinguishable from) the baseband signal in an effect known as aliasing.
Folegandros Folegandros, or Pholegandros, is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea which, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is about 32 square kilometres (12.
Foley (musician) Joe McCreary, known professionally as Foley, played bass guitar for Miles Davis from 1987 until 1991. Foley spent many years playing in Columbus, Ohio and his native Cincinnati, composing and recording his own music.
Foley artist The Foley artist on a film crew is the person who creates and records many of the natural, everyday sound effects in a film, in contrast to the production of special (audio) effects, which is generally left to the sound designer. The roles of Foley artists, sound designers, editors, and supervisors are highly specialized and are essential to producing a professional-sounding soundtrack that is suitable for distribution and exhibition.
Foley catheter Foley catheters are flexible (usually latex) tubes that are passed through the urethra during urinary catheterization and into the bladder to drain urine. They are retained by means of a balloon at the tip which is inflated with sterile water.
Foley is Good: And The Real World is Faker Than Wrestling Foley Is Good: And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling is the second autobiography (2001) of New York Times best-selling author and WWE wrestler Mick Foley. It details his career from January 1999 until his retirement in April 2000 at WrestleMania 2000.
Foley Island Foley Island is one of the Canadian arctic islands located in Nunavut, Canada. It is along the southern coast of Baffin Island in the Foxe Basin at 68°32'N 75°05'W, and measures 637 square kilometers in area.
Foley's Foley’s was a chain of department stores owned by Federated Department Stores and headquartered in Houston, Texas. As of February 1, 2006, the division was dissolved and operation of the stores was assumed by Federated's Macy's West and Macy's South divisions.
Foleyet, Ontario Foleyet is a small isolated community in Ontario, Canada, midway between Chapleau and Timmins on highway 101. The town was created during the construction of the Canadian Northern Railway through the area in the early years of the 20th century.
Folch solution Folch solution is a solution containing chloroform and methanol, usually in a 2:1 ratio. One of its uses is in separating polar from nonpolar compounds, for example separating nonpolar lipids from polar proteins and carbohydrates in blood serum.
Foliar feeding Foliar Feeding is a relatively new, slightly controversial technique of feeding plants by applying liquid fertiliser directly to their leaves. In some cases, a dramatic example being tomatoes, this goes against long-standing strictures against ever allowing the leaves to get wet.
Folie Ă  deux Folie Ă  deux (literally, "a madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie Ă  trois, folie Ă  quatre, folie Ă  famille or even folie Ă  plusieurs (madness of many).
Folinic acid Folinic acid (INN) or leucovorin (USAN), generally administered as calcium folinate (or leucovorin calcium), is an adjuvant used in cancer chemotherapy involving the drug methotrexate. It is also used in synergistic combination with the chemotherapy agent 5-fluorouracil.
Folk Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of) the people" or "our people" (as opposed to different clans, tribes, or nations). The English word folk has cognates in most of the other Germanic languages.
Folk art Folk Art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions, and traditional social values, of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture.
Folk culture Folk culture refers to the localized lifestyle of a subsistence or otherwise inward looking culture. It is usually handed down through oral tradition and a strong sense of community, and values the "old ways" over novelty.
Folk Catholicism Folk Catholicism is a term used to refer to varieties of Catholicism as actually practiced in Catholic communities around the world. Practices that are identified by outside observers as "folk Catholicism" vary from place to place, and often vary as well from official Roman Catholic Church doctrine.
Folk hero A folk hero is type of hero, real or possibly mythological. The single salient characteristic which makes a character a folk hero is the imprinting of the name, personality and deeds of the character in the popular consciousness.
Folk high school Folk high schools are institutions of adult and continuing education common in the Nordic countries (where they are most common in Norway) and in Germany. Despite similar names and remotely similar goals, the institutions are quite different in Germany and the Nordic countries.
Folk jazz Folk Jazz is a general term for music that pairs traditional Anglo-American folk music with traditional African-American jazz/ragtime, featuring songs and styles of both traditions. Variations of the concept are "Folk_rock", "Blue_eyed_soul" "Jazz_fusion" and others that reflect the substantial interplay of European and African musical traditions in 20th century American music.
Folk medicine Folk medicine refers collectively to procedures traditionally used for treatment of illness and injury, aid to childbirth, and maintenance of wellness. It is a body of knowledge distinct from "scientific medicine" and may coexist in the same culture.
Folk memory Folk memories is a term not often used to describe stories, folklore or myths about past events that have passed orally from generation to generation. The events described by the memories may date back tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years and often have a local significance.
Folk metal Folk metal is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. As the name suggests, the one common ground between folk metal bands is a shared interest in fusing heavy metal music with elements of folk music.
Folk Next Door The Folk Next Door was the name of a concert series and CD releases produced on by WWUH, the University of Hartford radio station in West Hartford, CT, USA. There were nine concerts and CDs in all, one each year starting in 1991.
Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by (People and robbers in Cardamom Town, ISBN 8202139775) is a children's book by Thorbjørn Egner, which telles the story of Kardemomme by (Cardamom Town). It is considered as one of the most important norwegian children's books.
Folk play Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mumming and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs, private houses or the open air, at set times of the year such as the Winter or Summer solstices. Many have long traditions, although they are frequently updated to retain their relevance for modern audiences.
Folk psychology Folk psychology (sometimes called naĂŻve psychology or common sense psychology) is the set of background assumptions, socially-conditioned prejudices and convictions that are implicit in our everyday descriptions of others' behavior and in our ascriptions of their mental states. It includes concepts such as belief ("he thinks that Peter is wise"), desire ("she wants that piece of cake"), fear ("Alex is afraid of spiders") and hope ("she hopes that he is on time today").
Folk religion Folk religion consists of beliefs, superstitions and cultural practices transmitted from generation to generation. It could be contrasted with the "organized religion" or "historical religion" in which founders, creed, theology and ecclesiastical organizations are present.
Folk science Folk science describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of rigorous methodologies (see Scientific method). One could label all understanding of nature predating the Greeks as "folk science".
Folk theorem (game theory) In game theory, folk theorems are a class of theorems which imply that in repeated games, any outcome is a feasible solution concept, if under that outcome the players' minimax conditions are satisfied. The minimax condition states that a player will minimize the maximum possible loss which they could face in the game.
Folk Tales From Chile A compilation of Chilean folklore and children's bedtime stories written by Brenda Hughes and illustrated by Dick de Wilde. It totals 15 stories The White Coulds Daughter, The Pincoya's Daughter, The Magic Cow, The Girl who turned to Stone, The Princess and the Riddle, The Old Man and the Beanstalk, The Little Tenca and the Snowflake, The Magic Ring, Daughters of the Kalku, The Strawberry Maid, The Story of the Chonchon(chonchĂłn), How Nanco won a Wife, The Machi and the Nguruvilu, How the Poppies grew, and, The Legend of Lake Aculeo.
Folk UnderGround Folk UnderGround is a musical group from Minneapolis, MN, USA, who blend traditional music and new songs with dark and darkly comic themes. The members include Lorraine Garland (violin and vocals), Trevor Hartman (drums, accordion, and vocals), and Paul Score (guitar and vocals).
Folk wrestling Folk wrestling is a generic term for traditional wrestling disciplines which may or may not be codified as a modern sport. Most human cultures have some sort of grappling style, and "folk wrestling" is a catch-all term for such styles.
Folk-Legacy Records Folk-Legacy Records is an independent recording company specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world. It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton along with the late Lee Baker Haggerty.
Folkcore Folkcore is a modern musical genre. The term can either refer to a musical group that is influenced by both folk and hardcore music genres, or, more specifically, to a group that plays punk rock and hardcore with acoustic instruments and a lo-fi sensibility.
Folke Bernadotte Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (2 January 1895 - 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of about 15,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II. Sune Persson, Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses, Journal of Holocaust Education, Vol 9, Iss 2-3, 2000, 237-268.
Folkearth Folkearth is an international music project, created by musicians playing folk metal and viking metal. Starting in 2004 the first edition was made with the bands: Dol Amroth (Greece), Ravenclaw (Lithuania), Forefather (Great Britain), Eluveitie (Switzerland), Hrossharsgrani (Austria), Yggdrasil, Nae`blis, Broken Dagger and Trymheim (Sweden).
Folkes Brothers The Folkes Brothers were a Jamaican mento group, composed of John, Mico, and Junior Folkes. Their 1960 single "Oh Carolina" was the first hit song produced by Prince Buster and is regarded as a landmark in the history of ska and reggae music.
Folkestone Harbour railway station Folkestone Harbour station is a railway station built to serve the port of Folkestone in Kent, and is one of three stations in the town. The station provided a terminus for the boat trains from London which connected with the ferry services to Calais and Boulogne.
Folkhemmet Folkhemmet () is a political concept that played an important role in the history of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish welfare state. It is also sometimes used to refer to the long period between 1932-76 when the Social democrats were in power and the concept was put into practice.
Folkland The Folklands (Folklanden) are the name for the original Swedish provinces of Tiundaland, Attundaland, Fjärdhundraland, and Roden (Roslagen) which in the 1296 united to form the modern province of Uppland. They were originally united by electing a common king who administered the sacrifices at Uppsala and who was the commander of the leidang during wars.
Folklife Folklife is an extension of, and often an alternate term for the subject of, folklore. The term gained usage in the United States in the 1960s from its use by such folklore scholars as Don Yoder and Warren Roberts, who wished to recognize that the study of folklore goes beyond oral genres to include all aspects of everyday life including material culture (craft, vernacular architecture, etc.
Folklorama Folklorama is an event that runs for two weeks each August in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Folkorama, the longest running multi-cultural event in the world, allows guests to sample exquisite cuisine and celebrate the culture and ethnic heritage of people from more than 60 countries who have made Winnipeg their home.
Folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.
Folklore in Hawaii Folklore in Hawaii in modern times is a mixture of various aspects of Hawaiian mythology and various urban legends that have been passed on regarding various places in the Hawaiian islands. The following is a partial list of some of these legends.
Folklore in the Old Testament Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law written in 1918 by Sir James Frazer, compares episodes of the Old Testament with similar legends from other cultures in the ancient world.
Folklore of Lancashire Folklore of Lancashire is the folklore of Lancashire which, like all other counties of England, has historically had its own peculiar superstitions, manners, and customs, which may or may not find parallels in those of other localities. The following list of Folklore of Lancashire was collected in 1851 by one T.
Folklore of the United States The folklore of the United States, or American folklore, is the folk tradition which has evolved on the North American continent since Europeans arrived in the 16th century. While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the actual tribal beliefs of any real band, nation or community of native people.
Folkloristics Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.
Folksonomy A folksonomy is an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. A folksonomy is most notably contrasted from a taxonomy in that the authors of the labeling system are often the main users (and sometimes originators) of the content to which the labels are applied.

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