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Firestorm (character)
Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein) is a DC Comics superhero, the fused "Nuclear Man" of the Firestorm Matrix, debuting in Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #1 (1978) by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, with transmutation powers and a 2026 Lemire series.
Firestorm (风暴) (2013 film)
Firestorm (風暴) is a 2013 Hong Kong–Chinese 3D action-crime film, Alan Yuen's directorial debut, starring Andy Lau, Gordon Lam, Yao Chen, and Hu Jun; it earned 165 million yuan in its first mainland week.
Firestreak
Firestreak, known as Blue Jay during development, was a British infrared-homing air-to-air missile developed by de Havilland Propellers and carried by RAF Javelin and Lightning interceptors from 1958 to 1988.
Fireteam
Fireteam (fire team): smallest infantry subdivision, typically 3-4 soldiers led by a corporal or sergeant, organized into squads for fire and movement; US Army, USMC, and British section structures differ in size.
Firewalking
Firewalking is the practice of walking barefoot across hot embers or heated stones, performed as a religious ritual in communities from India and Greece to Fiji and Japan.
Firewall (computing)
A network firewall, also called a computer firewall, is a device or program that controls traffic between networks with differing security postures, commonly placed at a network's perimeter.
Firewall (construction)
A fire wall is a fire-resistance-rated wall that separates buildings or subdivides one building, remaining standing under fire even if construction on either side collapses.
Firewall (film)
Firewall is a 2006 American crime thriller directed by Richard Loncraine, in which Harrison Ford plays a bank security chief forced to steal from his own bank.
Firewall (physics)
In theoretical physics, a firewall is a proposed high-energy barrier at an old black hole's event horizon that burns an infalling observer, proposed in 2012 as the AMPS paradox.
Firewall against the far-right in Germany
Brandmauer, or firewall against the far-right, is the German mainstream parties' commitment to exclude the AfD from coalitions and cooperation; formalized by the CDU in 2018, breached in January 2025, and strained by the AfD's record 44% Saxony-Anhalt win in 2026.
Firewatch
Firewatch (video game), Campo Santo's 2016 debut, a first-person walking simulator set in 1989 Shoshone National Forest, where fire lookout Henry talks with supervisor Delilah by handheld radio.
Firewire Surfboards
Firewire Surfboards is a surfboard manufacturer founded in 2006 on Australia's Gold Coast, known for epoxy boards with EPS cores, parabolic rails, and designs by Rob Machado.
Firework (song)
Firework (song): Katy Perry dance-pop single released October 26, 2010 as the third single from Teenage Dream; written with Stargate, Sandy Vee, and Ester Dean; fourth US Billboard Hot 100 number one for Perry, UK peak number 3, RIAA Diamond certified.
Fireworks
Fireworks are pyrotechnic devices that burn gunpowder and metal-salt compositions to produce explosions of light, color, and sound at celebrations like Chinese New Year, Diwali, and the Fourth of July.
Fireworks (1997 film)
Fireworks (HANA-BI) is a 1997 Japanese crime drama written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who won the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Film Festival.
Fireworks (2017 film)
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (打ち上げ花火、下から見るか？横から見るか？) is a 2017 Shaft anime film remaking Shunji Iwai's 1995 TV drama, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, starring Suzu Hirose and Masaki Suda.
Fireworks (2023 film)
Fireworks (Stranizza d'amuri) is Giuseppe Fiorello's 2023 Italian directorial debut, a drama about two teenage boys in love in 1982 Sicily, inspired by the unpunished 1980 Giarre homophobic killing.
Fireworks & Rollerblades
Fireworks & Rollerblades is the 2024 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Benson Boone, released on April 5, 2024, and led by the global hit "Beautiful Things".
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI is an independent inference provider founded in 2022 by former Meta PyTorch lead Lin Qiao, hosting open-weight models and reaching a $17.5 billion valuation by July 2026.
Firibastat
Firibastat (RB150, QGC001) is an oral brain aminopeptidase A inhibitor prodrug of EC33 developed by Quantum Genomics for hypertension; phase 3 FRESH missed its endpoint and development stopped in 2022.
Firidun bey Kocharli
Firidun bey Kocharli (Firidun bəy Köçərli, 1863–1920) was an Azerbaijani pedagogue and literary critic, executed in Ganja in 1920, whose two-volume history first treated Azerbaijani literature as a connected development.
Firing Line (TV program)
Firing Line is William F. Buckley Jr.'s American public affairs TV program, aired 1966-1999 (commercial TV, then SCETV/PBS), 1,505 episodes, Emmy 1969, longest-running single-host public-affairs show; revived with Margaret Hoover on PBS in 2018.
Firing order
Firing order is the sequence in which a multi-cylinder piston engine's cylinders produce their power strokes, chosen at design stage to control vibration and stress.
Firing pin
A firing pin is the part of a firearm that strikes the primer of a cartridge to fire the gun; its impression on the case aids forensic identification.
Firing temperature
Firing temperature, also called rotor inlet temperature, is the temperature of combustion gas entering the first rotating stage of a gas turbine and its key efficiency parameter.
Firishta
Firishta (فرشتہ), born Mohammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi around 1570, was a Persian historian at the court of Bijapur who wrote the Tarikh-i Firishta, a history of Muslim India to 1612.
Firm energy
Firm energy is the amount of electric energy a hydropower plant can guarantee to supply continuously under adverse water conditions, measured against a critical drought period.
Firmament
The firmament, from Hebrew raqia, is the expanse or dome in Genesis 1 that separates waters above from waters below and hosts the sun, moon, and stars.
Firmenich
Firmenich, formerly Chuit & Naef, is a Swiss fragrance and flavor company founded in Geneva in 1895, the world's largest privately owned fragrance and taste company before merging with DSM in 2023.
Firmenich family
The Firmenich family is the Geneva-based family that owned the fragrance and flavors firm Firmenich, becoming the largest shareholder group in DSM-Firmenich after the 2023 merger.