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First Student

First Student, Inc. is an American school bus company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, providing contracted home-to-school busing for school districts in the United States and Canada.

First Syrian War

The First Syrian War was a 270s BC conflict between Ptolemy II of Egypt and Antiochus I of the Seleucid Empire, fought chiefly over Coele Syria.

First Taiwan Strait Crisis

The First Taiwan Strait Crisis was the 1954–1955 confrontation across the Taiwan Strait in which the People's Republic of China bombarded Nationalist-held Jinmen and Mazu, ending in May 1955 after the Formosa Resolution and Dachen evacuation.

First Take (talk show)

First Take is ESPN's weekday 10 a.m.-noon sports debate show, launched May 7, 2007 on ESPN2 from Cold Pizza; famous for Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless, now hosted by Shae Cornette.

First tax on acreage (chushui mu)

The first tax on acreage (初税亩) was a land tax adopted by the state of Lu in the fifteenth year of Duke Xuan, taxing fields directly rather than service on the public field.

FIRST Tech Challenge

FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a FIRST robotics competition for students in grades 7-12, in which teams of up to 15 design and program classroom-scale robots.

First Test at Marrara Oval

First Test at Marrara Oval: Australia v Bangladesh, Test #1650, Darwin, 18-20 July 2003, Australia won by an innings and 132 runs; the 89th Test venue, later hosting Sri Lanka in 2004 and Bangladesh again in 2026.

First They Killed My Father

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is Loung Ung's 2000 memoir of surviving the Khmer Rouge as a five-year-old, adapted by Angelina Jolie into a 2017 Khmer-language Netflix film with an all-Cambodian cast.

First They Killed My Father (film)

First They Killed My Father is Angelina Jolie's 2017 Netflix film adaptation of Loung Ung's memoir, shot in Cambodia in Khmer with an all-Cambodian cast, released September 15, 2017.

First Time Again

First Time Again is the 90-minute season 6 premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead, aired October 11, 2015; directed by Greg Nicotero, written by Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete, it features Rick's quarry walker-horde plan, Morgan's return, and 19.5 million live+3 viewers.

First Toungoo Empire

The First Toungoo Empire (1510–1599), also the Second Burmese Empire, reunified Burma from the Toungoo principality under Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung, conquering Ava, the Shan states, Lan Na, Manipur, Siam, and Lan Xang before collapsing in 1599.

First transcontinental railroad

The first transcontinental railroad, originally called the Pacific Railroad and later the Overland Route, was a 1,776-mile line completed in 1869 connecting Omaha, Nebraska, with San Francisco Bay.

First transcontinental telegraph

The first transcontinental telegraph was a line completed on October 24, 1861, linking the eastern United States to California and ending the Pony Express two days later.

First Treaty of Prairie du Chien

First Treaty of Prairie du Chien (Treaty with the Sioux, etc., 1825), a US-tribal treaty signed 19 August 1825 by commissioners William Clark and Lewis Cass with the Sioux, Chippewa, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago, and Illinois River Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi, establishing intertribal peace and boundary lines.

First Triumvirate

The First Triumvirate (60-53 BCE) was the unofficial alliance of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus that dominated the late Roman Republic, unlike the legally constituted Second Triumvirate of 43 BCE.

First Turkic Civil War

The First Turkic Civil War, also known as the Göktürk civil war, was the succession conflict after Taspar Qaghan died in 581 that permanently split the khaganate by 603.

First Turkic Khaganate

The First Turkic Khaganate, founded in 552 by Bumin Khagan of the Ashina clan after defeating the Rouran, was the first Turkic steppe empire, stretching from China's frontiers to the Caspian before splitting in 603.

First United Front

The First United Front (第一次国共合作) was the alliance between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party, formed at the Kuomintang's First National Congress in Guangzhou in January 1924.

First universal common ancestor

First universal common ancestor (FUCA): hypothetical first ancestor of all modern and extinct life, predating LUCA (~4.2 Ga, ~2,600 proteins). Distinguished from LUCA, the oldest reconstructable ancestor; no direct genetic evidence exists for FUCA.

First university in the United States

First university in the United States: Harvard University, founded October 28, 1636 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony; William & Mary (1693 royal charter) and Penn also claim the title depending on criteria.

First Vatican Council

First Vatican Council (Vatican I), twentieth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, opened by Pius IX on 8 December 1869 and suspended 20 October 1870; defined papal primacy and infallibility in Pastor Aeternus.

First Venezuelan Republic

The First Venezuelan Republic (Primera República de Venezuela) was a confederation of provinces proclaimed at Caracas on 5 July 1811 and destroyed by royalist reconquest in July 1812.

First Vienna Award

The First Vienna Award, announced in Vienna on November 2, 1938, was a German-Italian arbitration transferring 11,927 km² of southern Slovakia from Czechoslovakia to Hungary.

First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline

The First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline (I. Wiener Hochquellwasserleitung) is a 120-kilometer aqueduct built from 1869 to 1873 that carries untreated Alpine spring water to Vienna entirely by gravity.

First voyage of Christopher Columbus

The first voyage of Christopher Columbus was a 1492 Spanish expedition that crossed the Atlantic with three ships, making landfall in the Bahamas on 12 October 1492.

First voyage of Columbus

The first voyage of Columbus (Primer viaje de Colón) was the 1492–1493 Atlantic expedition commanded by Christopher Columbus, which reached the Bahamas on 12 October 1492.

First voyage of James Cook

Cook's first voyage (1768–1771) in HM Bark Endeavour: Royal Society transit-of-Venus expedition to Tahiti, first circumnavigation of New Zealand, charting and claiming of eastern Australia, with Banks and Solander's 30,000-specimen natural history collection.

First War of Scottish Independence

First War of Scottish Independence (1296–1328): war between Scotland and England after Edward I deposed King John Balliol; William Wallace's Stirling Bridge victory, Robert the Bruce's Bannockburn (1314), Declaration of Arbroath (1320), and the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton recognizing Scottish independence.

First Winter Campaign

The First Winter Campaign was a five-month partisan raid by the Ukrainian People's Republic army behind Red Army and White lines from December 1919 to May 1920.

First Wives Club (TV series)

First Wives Club is a BET+ comedy series (2019–2022) created by Tracy Oliver, adapting the 1996 film with an all-Black lead cast: Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jill Scott, and Michelle Buteau as friends Ari, Hazel, and Bree.