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Folkspartei The Folkspartei (yiddish: Yidishe folkspartay; People's Democratic Party, folkist party) was founded after the 1905 pogroms in Russia by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin. The party took part to several elections in Poland and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s and didn't survive the Shoah.
Folkspraak Folkspraak (other variants are common - see Name) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) project based on the Germanic languages, currently in development. It is intended to be quickly learnable by all Germanic speakers (a group including over 465 million native speakers, and an additional 300 to 900 million who speak English as a second language).
Folkston Railfan Platform The Folkston Railfan Platform is located in Folkston, Georgia, and provides a location where railfans can safely view and photograph trains. With the help of a $30,000 state grant, the city built the train-watching platform in 2001.
Folkton Folkton is a small village at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds and on the edge of the Vale of Pickering on an area known as Folkton Carr (carr meaning low lands) in the borough of Scarborough in North Yorkshire.
Folkvid the Lawspeaker Folkvid was the lawspeaker of Värmland during the last half of the 12th century. He is only known from the so-called Bagler sagas, where he is only mentioned by virtue of his marriage to Cecilia, the bastard daughter of the Norwegian king Sigurd Munn.
Folkways Records Folkways Records is a record label founded by Moses Asch and Marian Distler in 1948. The label became very influential on a generation of folk singers because of its release of a great number of old-time and bluegrass recordings by re-discovered performers from the 1920s and 1930s like Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley, as well as contemporary performers like the New Lost City Ramblers.
Folkworks Folkworks is a non-profit organisation affiliated to The Sage Gateshead and runs many workshops, summer schools and festivals to promote and encourage the furtherance of folk music. It was begun in 1988 by Alisdair Anderson and Ros Rigby and became part of The Sage Gateshead in 2002.
Folle Blanche Folle Blanche was the traditional grape variety of the Cognac and Armagnac regions of France. It is also known as Picpoule (with various variations of spelling (Piquepoul, Picpoul), however, it is in fact unrelated to the Picpoul of the Languedoc) as well as Gros Plant and Enrageat blanc.
Follicular atresia Follicular atresia is the break-down of the ovarian follicles. It occures continually throughout a woman's life, as she is born with approximately 2 000 000 follicles and will only ovulate around 500 in her lifetime.
Follicular Unit Transplantation Follicular Unit Transplantation is a modern hair restoration technique where the hair is transplanted in groups of 1-4 hairs – exactly as it grows in nature. It is a major advance over the older hair transplantation procedures that used larger grafts and often produced a pluggy, unnatural look.
Folliculogenesis In biology, folliculogenesis refers to the maturation of the ovarian follicle, a densely-packed shell of somatic cells that contains an immature oocyte. Folliculogenesis describes the progression of a number of small primordial follicles into large preovulatory follicles that enter the menstrual cycle.
Follis (bicycles) Cycles Follis, founded in 1903 and based in Lyon, France, is a long-established artisan manufacturer in the French bicycle industry. Cycles Follis builds a range of bicycles, but is particularly well-known for its tandem bicycles.
Follonica Follonica is a town and commune (township) of Grosseto province in the Italian region of Tuscany, on the Gulf of Follonica (Golfo di Follonica), about 40 km (25 mi) NW of the city of Grosseto. According to the 2003 census, its population was 21,200.
Follow focus A follow focus is a piece of equipment that attaches to the focus ring of a manual lens via a set of rods on the body of a film or video camera. It is ergonomic rather than strictly necessary; in other words it does not contribute to the basic functionality of a camera but instead allows the operator to be more efficient and precise.
Follow for Now (album) Follow for Now is the only album from pioneering black rock band Follow For Now. The group had a dedicated following long before the album's release, and anticipation for the album was very high throughout music circles in the early 1990s.
Follow Me up to Carlow "Follow Me Up to Carlow" is an Irish folk song celebrating the defeat 3,000 English soldiers by Fiach (Feach) McHugh O'Byrne at the Battle of Glenmalure, during the Second Desmond Rebellion in 1580. It is notable as one of the most graphically violent of all Irish folk songs, containing lines such as " From Tassagart to Clonmore, there flows a steam of Saxon gore...
Follow Me/I Won't Play the Fool "Follow Me/I Won't Play the Fool" was the final single from Wild Orchid's self-titled debut, Wild Orchid. Not released in stores, the double-sided single was released to dance clubs across the US, it reached the top five of the US dance charts.
Follow shot Follow shot is a specific camera shot in which the subject being filmed is seemingly pursued by the camera. The follow shot can be achieved through tracking devices, panning, the use of a crane, and zoom lenses resulting in different qualitative images but, nevertheless, recording a subject (performer) in motion.
Follow the Fleet Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn and Betty Grable, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball also appears, in a bit part.
Follow That Girl Follow That Girl was adapted by Julian Slade & Dorothy Reynolds from their original Bristol Old Vic production Christmas in King Street. The story was about a girl named Victoria Rooms, whose parents wanted her to marry one of two businessmen.
Follow The Cops Back Home "Follow The Cops Back Home" is a song by the rock band Placebo. Follow The Cops Back Home was written as they explain: We wondered what teenagers get up to in Iceland, which we visit regularly, as there is no police and barely any crime.
Follow Your Footsteps Follow Your Footsteps is the second album released in 1986 by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, and his thirteenth overall, released as Corwood Industries #0751. It marked an entirely new, more tunefull direction for the artist, which would be expanded on Blue Corpse.
Follow Your Heart Follow Your Heart is the first album by Australian singer Nikki Webster, released in Australia on August 20, 2001 (see 2001 in music) by Gotham Records. The album has a genre of pop songs, and was produced by Chong Lim.
Follow-me Follow-me, also known as find-me, is a feature of private branch exchanges (PBXes) that determines the routing of incoming calls. It involves configuring the exchange with a list of numbers for any given person.
Followers of Set The Followers of Set (Setites) are a fictional clan of vampires (also known as "The Snake Clan"), from White Wolf Game Studio's books and role-playing games set in the World of Darkness (Vampire: The Dark Ages and Vampire: The Masquerade).
Following Following is a 1998 crime film directed by Christopher Nolan about a young man who follows people he sees on the streets and get sucked into a world of crime. The story is told in a non-linear style, a technique that Nolan would also use in his next movie, Memento.
Following sea A following sea is a boating term referring to tidal and wave direction in reference to your boats bearing. If the current and waves of the body of water you are transversing are heading in the same direction you are, then the water is 'following' your boat.
Followspot A followspot, sometimes known as a spotlight, is a powerful stage light which can be controlled by a human spotlight operator to "follow" actors around the stage. Followspots are commonly used in concerts, musical theatre and opera to highlight the stars of a performance, but might find use in a drama to briefly focus the audience's attention on a hand-motion or a prop (such as in a murder mystery or thriller).
Follyfoot Follyfoot was a television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 1971 and 1973, repeated for a couple of years after that and again in the late 1980s. A video release of the first three episodes in 1995 remains its only commercial appearance on video or DVD.
Folsom Borough School District Folsom Borough School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Folsom, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The district is participating in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program at Folsom Elementary School.
Folsom Lake Civic Ballet Folsom Lake Civic Ballet is the official dance company for Folsom, California, USA. It is primarily a children's ballet, and most performers are auditioned from the Folsom dance school: Hawkins School of Performing Arts although adult dancers are invited as 'guest artists'.
Folsom Lake College Folsom Lake College (FLC) is a comprehensive, public community college, the 109th community college in the State of California, and the fourth member of the Los Rios Community College District. In January of 2004, Folsom Lake College received initial accreditation from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), one of six regional accrediting associations in the United States.
Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park is a historical site located in Folsom near Sacramento, California, in the United States. Built in the late 1800s by the Natoma Water and Mining Company and prison labor from Folsom Prison, the hydroelelectric powerhouse first delivered power to Sacramento in 1895.
Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is an American country music song written by Johnny Cash in the early 1950s and originally recorded with his trio in 1956 for the Sun Records label. The song combines elements from two popular folk genres, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash would continue to use for the rest of his career.
Folsom State Prison Folsom State Prison, sometimes known as Folsom State Prison, Represa, is one of 33 prisons operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Folsom Prison is located in Folsom, California (with a postal address in Represa) in Sacramento County, 20 miles (30 km) from the state capital of Sacramento, California, USA.
Folsom Street Fair The annual Folsom Street Fair is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes simply referred to as Folsom, is located on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets, in San Francisco's South of Market district.
Folsom-Cordova Unified School District Folsom-Cordova Unified School District is a fairly large school district covering the cities of Folsom, CA; Rancho Cordova, CA; and most of Mather, CA. With 32 separate schools, it also has an adult education program.
Folwark Folwark is a Polish word for the giant farms (in Latin, "latifundia") that were operated in Poland or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 14th century into the 20th, whose purpose was to produce surplus produce for export. The first folwarks were created on church- and monastery-owned grounds; later they were adopted by both nobility (szlachta) and rich peasants (singular: sołtys).
Folwell, Minneapolis Folwell is a neighborhood within the Camden community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are Dowling Avenue to the north, Dupont Avenue North to the east, Lowry Avenue North to the south, and Penn Avenue North to the west.
Fomalhaut Fomalhaut (α PsA / α Piscis Austrini / Alpha Piscis Austrini) is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. Its name means "mouth of the whale", from the Arabic فم الحوت fum al-ḥawt.
Fome Zero Fome Zero (English: Zero Hunger) is a Brazilian government program introduced by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2003 with the objective to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in Brazil. According to the program's website, 44 million people in Brazil are threatened by hunger.
Fomor (World of Darkness) In the role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse by White Wolf Game Studio, a Fomor (Fomori plural) is a corporal living or undead being possessed by a Bane. This combination gives the creature strange powers but also even stranger urges, desires and goals.
Fomorians In Irish mythology, the Fomorians, Fomors, or Fomori (Irish FomĂłiri, FomĂłraig) were a semi-divine race who inhabited Ireland in ancient times. They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek Titans.
Fon of Bafut The Fon of Bafut is the fon or Mfor (ruler) of the village of Bafut and its adjoining areas in the Northwest Province, Cameroon. Presently, the Fon of Bafut is still a local ruler, but under jurisdiction from the Government of Cameroon, and a board of Fons.
Fon people Fon is a major West African ethnic and linguistic group in the country of Benin or Dahomey, and southwest Nigeria, made up of more than 2,000,000 people. The Fon language is the main language spoken in Southern Benin, and is a member of the Gbe language group.
Fond du Lac River (Mackenzie River) The Fond du Lac River is one of the upper branches of the Mackenzie River system, draining into the Arctic Ocean in Canada. The river is 277 kilometers long from its source, Wollaston Lake to its outflow into Black Lake, just above Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Fond du Lac is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The name is French for Foot of the Lake Fond du Lac at the State of Wisconsin tourism website, for it is located at the bottom (south end) of Lake Winnebago, the largest lake situated entirely within the State of Wisconsin.
Fondant Fondant is a confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to a point, specifically soft-ball stage, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency.
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (English: National Foundation of Political Science), or FNSP, was created by ordinance of Charles de Gaulle in 1945 to manage the transition of École Libre des Sciences Politiques into Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris or IEP Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies)
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a non profit, non partisan research institution carrying out research activities to promote sustainable development. The Fondazione was officially recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in 1989 and formally established in 1990.
Fondazione Roberto Longhi Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Via Benedetto Fortini, Florence, is an institute established by Italian scholar Roberto Longhi, who in 1971 left his library, photo library and collection of art "for the benefit of future generations". The headquarters is the villa "Il Tasso" which Longhi acquired in 1939.
Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique FGA, or Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique, is a book that collected together seminar notes of Alexander Grothendieck. It is an important source for his pioneering work on scheme theory, which laid foundations for algebraic geometry in its modern technical developments.
Fondo de Cultura Económica Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE, Fondo) is the most important publishing house in MexicoAccording to numbers and data published by the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana (CANIEM) which tracks Mexican publishing statistics, in its report for the year 2004, FCE´s title production of new titles and reprintings, represented 4.7% of all books published in Mexico (690 titles out of a national total of 14,726) for all types of books measured (textbooks, general interest, scientific and religion).
Fonds de solidarité FTQ The Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a union-sponsored investment fund operated in Quebec. It is sponsored by the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (Quebec Federation of Labour) and was founded in June 1983.
Fondue Fondue refers to several French Swiss communal dishes shared at the table in an earthenware pot ("caquelon") over a small burner ("rechaud"). The term "fondue" comes from the French "fondre" ("to melt"), referring to the fact that the contents of the pot are kept in a liquid state so that diners can use forks to dip into the sauce.
Fonem FONEM: A female graffiti artist, painter, photographer, and musician who, after graduating from the Atlanta College of Art aka SCAD Atlanta, moved to San Francisco and now works mainly out of New York City. Famous not only for her eternally questioning owls but also for her works of fine art.
FonePlus FonePlus is a smartphone device that connects to a TV for basic productivity and Internet operations. It was demonstrated on 18 July, 2006 by Hugh Teegan, a Mobile Devices architect at Microsoft focusing on emerging marketsand at Microsoft]'s Financial Analyst Meeting on [[27 July 2006, by Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie.
Fong Po Kuan Fong Po Kuan (Chinese : 冯宝君; pinyin: Féng Bǎojūn) (born 15 September, 1973 in Perak) is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party (DAP) political party. She is able to communicate in Chinese, English, Malay and Arabic.
Fong Sai-Yuk Fong Sai-Yuk (; Yale Cantonese: Fong1 Sai3 Yuk6) was trained in the martial arts by his mother Miu Tsui-FaMiu Tsui-Fa, daughter of Miu HinMiu Hin, one of the Five Elders who escaped the destruction of the Shaolin Monastery by the Qing Dynasty, according to many Chinese legends.
Fongafale Fongafale (also spelt Fogale or Fagafale) is the largest of Funafuti's islets in Tuvalu. It's a long snake-like sliver of land, 12 kilometres long and between 10 and 400 metres wide, with the South Pacific Ocean on the east and the protected lagoon on the west.
Fongshan City Fongshan City (; POJ: Hōng-soaⁿ-chhī) is located in southern Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Immediately east of Kaohsiung City, Fongshan is capital of Kaohsiung County and is home to the Chinese Military Academy.
Fonio White fonio (Digitaria exilis) is the most important of a diverse group of wild and domesticated Digitaria species that are harvested in the savannas of west Africa. Fonio is the smallest of all species of millet.
Fonky Family La Fonky Family (often shortened to La Fonky, or La FF) are a French hip hop group from Marseille. They are composed of four rappers, Le Rat Luciano, Menzo, Don Choa and Sat, the producer Pone, DJ Djel, the dancer Blaze, the singer Karima, Flex (fetus) Nandell, and manager Fafa.
Fonlupt The Fonlupt was a French automobile manufactured in Levallois from 1920 until 1922. The company made a small number of the 1539cc 10 hp Sport and the 10 hp 2155cc Ville, both of which were four-cylinders; they also built an eight-cylinder of 4310cc.
Fons Trompenaars Fons Trompenaars is an author in the field of cross-cultural communication. His books include: Riding the Waves of Culture, Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.
Fonsaco Fonsaco (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo): Fonsaku), is a village located approximately 40 km east northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe, southeasteast of Mosteiros and north of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde and is one of the northeasternmost places on the island, Fonsaco are linked with the road encircling the island.
Fonse Faour Alphonsus (Fonse) Faour (born November 16, 1951 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland is a former Canadian politician. He is one of only two members of the New Democratic Party ever elected to the Canadian House of Commons from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the other being Jack Harris, in 1987.
Font (typographic term) In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size of a particular typeface. For example, all characters for 9 point Bulmer is a font, and the 10 point size would be another font.
Font hinting Font hinting, also known as grid-fitting, is the process of adjusting an outline font to make it line up with the grid to which it is being rasterized. At small sizes or without antialiasing, hinting is critical for producing a legible image.
Font Hill Beach Font Hill Beach is located in Saint Elizabeth, on the south coast of Jamaica, between Black River and Whitehouse. It is within a nature reserve on the Font Hill property owned by the Petroleum Company of Jamaica.
Font rasterization Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description. This often involves some anti-aliasing on screen text to make it smoother and easier to read.
Font Sense Font Sense is a technology developed by Extensis to aid in the auto-activation of fonts in their Extensis Suitcase font manager for Macintosh. When a font is added to Extensis Suitcase Fusion, a unique Font Sense identification number is created based on several values, including the font's name, version, foundry and metrics.
Fontaine Ferry Park Fontaine Ferry Park was an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky from 1905 to 1969. Located in Louisville's West End on 64 acres, it offered over 50 rides and attractions, as well as a swimming pool, skating rink and theatre.
Fontainebleau Hotel The Fontainebleau Hotel is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels on Miami Beach. Built in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it is considered the best hotel on Miami Beach at the time of its opening and for a long time after that, and is also thought to be the most significant building in Lapidus's career.
Fontan procedure The Fontan procedure is a palliative surgical procedure used in children with complex congenital heart defects. It involves diverting the venous blood from the right atrium to the pulmonary arteries without passing through the morphologic right ventricle.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers occupies the center of the large oval Piazza Navona in Rome. It is a masterpiece of Gianlorenzo Bernini's, and emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by high Baroque artists.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Unveiling The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was unveiled to the populace of Rome on 12th June 1651. According to a report from the time Antonio Bernal, Copiosissimo Discorso della Fontana, e Guglia Eretta in Piazza Navona, per ordine della SantitĂ  di Nostro Signore Innocentio X dal Signor Cavalier Bernini ...
Fontana della Barcaccia Fontana della Barcaccia (English: 'Fountain of the Old Boat) is a baroque fresh-water fountain in Rome, in the Piazza di Spagna, just below the Spanish Steps, and is so named because it is in the shape of a boat.
Fontana della Piazza d’Aracoeli The fountain in the Piazza d'Aracoeli, Rome is one of the earliest of the modern roman fountains, commissioned by Pope Sixtus V in 1589, designed by Giacomo della Porta and constructed by Andrea Brasca, Pietreo Gucci and Pace Naldini.
Fontana della Piazza dei Quiriti The fountain in the Piazza dei Quiriti (Sometimes called: 'La Fontana delle Cariati) in Rome was constructed in 1927-1928, designed by the sculptor Attilio Selva after he was inspired by the 17th century designs.
Fontana delle Anfore The Fontana delle Anfore (English: 'Fountain of the Amphorae), located in the Piazza dell'Emporio, near the Ponte Sublicio, in Rome. It was completed in 1927, by Pietro Lombardi after he won a competition the municipality of Rome set in 1924 for some new local fountains.
Fontana Distribution Fontana Distribution is the independent arm of Universal Music & Video Distribution (UMVD) and was launched in 2004. It provides sales and marketing support, as well as back office services, for a diverse roster of labels and their artists.
Fontana Records Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records. When Philips restructured its music operations it dropped Fontana in favour of Vertigo Records and Mercury Records.
Fontane di Roma Fontane di Roma (Italian "Fountains of Rome") is a 1916 work by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, now considered part of the Roman Trilogy of symphonic poems along with Feste Romane and Pini di Roma. Each of the four movements is dedicated to one of Rome’s fountains during different periods of the day and night.
Fontanelle In human anatomy, a fontanelle (or fontanel) is one of two "soft spots" on a newborn human's skull. There are, however, two more fontanelles of interest, the mastoid fontanelle, and the sphenoidal fontanelle.
Fontanelle cemetery The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the city. It is the source of a fascinating chapter in the folklore of the city.
FontBook FontBook is a typeface compendium in hardback published by FontShop and edited by Erik Spiekermann, JĂĽrgen Sibert, and Mai-Linh Thi Truong. Originally published in 1991, it has been revised four times, with the latest edition published in September, 2006.
Fontconfig Fontconfig (the name is spelled in both capitalized and uncapitalized form) is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization, and application access. Fontconfig is written and maintained by Keith Packard.
FontDoctor FontDoctor is a software program used by graphic designers and technology consultants in the advertising industry. FontDoctor is used as a font problem diagnosis and repair tool on Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows desktop publishing computers.
Fonte Aleixo Fonte Aleixo (Portuguese meaning large mountain, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Fonti Alexu), is a village located approximately 20 km east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. Fonte Aleixo is linked with the road encircling the island as well as a road linking to several villages by the southern coast especially Patim.
Fonte Avellana Fonte-Avellana was a Roman Catholic hermitage in Serra Sant'Abbondio in the Marche in Italy.The Hermitage of the Holy Cross at Fonte Avellana - Official Site It was also the name of an order of hermits based at the hermitage.
Fonte di Fata Morgana The Fonte di Fata Morgana ('Fata Morgana's Spring'), locally called the Casina delle Fate ('Summerhouse of the Fates'), at Grassina, not far from Florence in the commune of Bagno a Ripoli, is a small garden building, built in 1573-4 as a garden feature in the extensive grounds of the Villa "Riposo" of Bernardo Vecchietti on the slope of the hill called Fattucchia.
Fontevraud Abbey Fontevraud Abbey (or Fontevrault Abbey) is located in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France. It was constructed between 1110 and 1119 and founded by Robert of Arbrissel who had just created a new order, the Order of Fontevrault.
Fontfroide Abbey Fontfroide Abbey or Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne near to the Spanish border. It was founded in 1093 by the Viscount of Narbonne.
FontForge FontForge (formerly known as PfaEdit) is a typeface (font) editor program supporting several font formats like TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, BDF, Datafork TrueType, etc. It is free software and distributed under the BSD license.
Fonthill (house) Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer, an archaeologist and tile maker. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is located in the borough of Doylestown, Pennsylvania and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Fonthill Abbey Fonthill Abbey — also known as Beckford's Folly — was a large Gothic-style building built in the turn of the 19th century in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford. It was constructed near the site of the Palladian house, later known as Fonthill Splendens, which was constructed by his father, William Beckford, to replace the Elizabethan house that Beckford père had purchased in 1744 and which had been destroyed by fire in 1755.
Fonthill Kame The Fonthill Kame is a geological feature (a kame is a giant hill) located in the centre of the Niagara Peninsula in Pelham, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of sand and gravel deposited by the retreating glaciers of the last ice age.
Fonthill, Ontario Fonthill is a community in the town of Pelham, Ontario, Canada. It has a few small industries, most notably Fonthill Lumber, but is primarily a residential suburb known for its upscale homes and community spirit.
FontLab FontLab is both the name of a company, FontLab Ltd, and the former name of their flagship font editor product, now called FontLab Studio. Since the early 2000's, FontLab Studio has been the dominant software tool for commercial/retail digital font development.

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