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First Dates

First Dates is a British Channel 4 observational dating show, debuting June 2013, where singles meet on blind dates in a fixed-rig-filmed restaurant hosted by maître d' Fred Sirieix; produced by Twenty Twenty and licensed to over 20 territories.

First Daughter (2004 film)

First Daughter is a 2004 American romantic comedy directed by Forest Whitaker, starring Katie Holmes as the president's daughter who falls for an undercover Secret Service agent at college.

First Day First Show

First Day First Show (ఫస్ట్ డే ఫస్ట్ షో), also FDFS, is a 2022 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Vamshidhar Goud and Lakshminarayana Puttamchetty, starring Srikanth Reddy and Sanchita Bashu, about a Pawan Kalyan fan chasing Kushi tickets in 2001.

First Day on Earth

First Day on Earth is a ten-episode British-American drama series co-produced by HBO and the BBC. It stars Michaela Coel as Henri, a novelist who travels to Ghana.

First day on the Somme

First day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 opening day of the Somme offensive (Bataille de la Somme) near the Somme river, France. 14 British divisions attacked at 7:30am; 57,470 British casualties including 19,240 killed, the deadliest day in British military history.

First Defenestration of Prague

The First Defenestration of Prague (První pražská defenestrace) was the killing of Prague's New Town councillors by a Hussite crowd on 30 July 1419, starting the Hussite Wars.

First degree haemorrhoids

First degree haemorrhoids (grade I, ICD-11 DB60.0) are internal haemorrhoids that bulge into the anal canal and bleed but do not prolapse; treated first with fiber, fluids, and bowel-habit counseling, then office banding if refractory.

First Division (Konishi's corps), Bunroku campaign

The First Division (一番隊) was the 18,700-man vanguard of Japan's 1592 invasion of Korea, commanded by Konishi Yukinaga, which marched from Busan to Seoul and Pyongyang ahead of the army.

First Doctor

The First Doctor is the original incarnation of Doctor Who's lead character, a Time Lord from Gallifrey played by William Hartnell 1963–1966, later by Richard Hurndall and David Bradley, regenerating into the Second Doctor in The Tenth Planet.

First Dominican Republic

The First Dominican Republic was the Dominican republic between independence from Haiti in 1844 and annexation to Spain in 1861, led mainly by Pedro Santana and Buenaventura Báez.

First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC

The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is a 1945 report by John von Neumann giving the first published description of a stored-program computer.

First Dream

First Dream (Primero sueño, also El Sueño) is a long philosophical poem by the New Spanish nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, narrating the soul's nocturnal attempt to comprehend the universe.

First Due

First Due (First Due Holdings, Inc.) is a Miami, Florida software company founded in 2016 that sells an all-in-one cloud records-management platform for fire and EMS agencies.

First Duma and its dissolution (1906)

The First Duma, or Первая Государственная дума, was the Russian Empire's first elected legislature, dominated by Kadets and dissolved by Nicholas II after 72 days in 1906, prompting the Vyborg appeal.

First Dynasty of Egypt

First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3100-2890 BC): first dynasty of unified Egypt, founded by Narmer or Aha, whom Manetho called Menes; capital Memphis, royal tombs at Abydos, Den first with dual-crown title.

First Dynasty of Isin

The First Dynasty of Isin, also called the Isin dynasty, was a Mesopotamian dynasty founded by Ishbi-Erra that ruled from about 2017 to 1794 BC.

First Dynasty of Lagash

The First Dynasty of Lagash, or Dynasty of Lagash I, ruled the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in southern Mesopotamia from about 2500 to 2300 BC, ending with Urukagina.

First Dynasty of Ur

The First Dynasty of Ur was an Early Dynastic Sumerian dynasty of the city of Ur, whose founder Mesannepada reigned from about 2560 BC and overthrew Uruk's last king.

First Dynasty of Uruk

The First Dynasty of Uruk, the second dynasty on the Sumerian King List, comprises twelve largely legendary rulers of Uruk, including Enmerkar, Lugalbanda, Dumuzi, and Gilgamesh.

First Empire of Haiti

The First Empire of Haiti was the state proclaimed in 1804 by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first formed by leaders of a successful slave revolt, ruled as Emperor Jacques I until 1806.

First English Civil War

First English Civil War (1642–1646): armed conflict between Charles I's Royalists and Parliament, part of the British Civil Wars. Key battles Edgehill, Marston Moor, Naseby; ended with Charles's surrender to the Scots at Newark and Oxford's fall in 1646.

First Epistle of Clement

The First Epistle of Clement, or 1 Clement, is a letter from the Roman church to the Corinthian church, written about A.D. 95 to settle a leadership dispute.

First Epistle of John

The First Epistle of John, also known as First John, is a book of the New Testament famous for the disputed Comma Johanneum at 1 John 5:7–8.

First Epistle of Peter

The First Epistle of Peter, also called 1 Peter, is a New Testament letter attributed to the apostle Peter and addressed to Christian communities in northern Asia Minor.

First Epistle to the Corinthians (Πρὸς Κορινθίους Αʹ)

The First Epistle to the Corinthians, or First Corinthians, is a letter by the apostle Paul to the church at Corinth, written from Ephesus in the mid-50s CE.

First Epistle to the Thessalonians (Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς Αʹ)

The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as I Thessalonians, is a letter by Paul written around 49 to 52 CE, likely the earliest New Testament document.

First Epistle to Timothy

The First Epistle to Timothy, also called First Timothy, is a New Testament letter attributed to Paul and addressed to Timothy in Ephesus, one of the three Pastoral Epistles.

First Evil

The First Evil, or the First, is the incorporeal personification of evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, debuting in "Amends" and serving as the final season's Big Bad, acting through Bringers, Turok-Han, and Caleb.

First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company

First Exploration & Petroleum Development Company, known as FIRST E&P, is a Nigerian indigenous oil and gas company founded in 2012 that operates the Anyala and Madu fields in the Niger Delta.

First fall of Ayutthaya

The first fall of Ayutthaya was the defeat of the Ayutthaya kingdom by Burma's Toungoo dynasty in 1569, after which Ayutthaya became a Burmese tributary under an installed ruler.