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FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy is an electric utility holding company based in Akron, Ohio, serving about 6 million customers, formed in 1997 and known for the Ohio House Bill 6 bribery scandal.
FirstGroup
FirstGroup is a UK land transport group operating buses and trains. It serves over 20% of the UK population with a fleet of 5,800 buses and 320 trains.
Firstime
Firstime is a Tel Aviv-based Israeli venture capital firm investing in early-stage climate tech and digital health, led by co-founders Jonathan Benartzi and Nir Tarlovsky.
Firstminute Capital
Firstminute Capital is a London-based pre-seed and seed venture capital firm founded by Brent Hoberman and Spencer Crawley in 2017, with more than a hundred unicorn founders among its backers.
FirstNet
FirstNet is the nationwide wireless broadband network for United States first responders, created after the September 11 attacks and built by AT&T under a 25-year contract using dedicated Band 14 spectrum.
FirstService Corporation
FirstService Corporation is a Toronto-based North American property services company founded by Jay S. Hennick, operating FirstService Residential and FirstService Brands with about $5.5 billion in annual revenues.
Firstsource
Firstsource Solutions Limited is an Indian business process outsourcing company of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, serving banking, healthcare, and communications clients from delivery centers in twelve countries.
FirstVoices
FirstVoices is a Canadian web platform, run since 2003 by the First Peoples' Cultural Council, where Indigenous communities build secure language sites with dictionaries, audio, songs, keyboards, and offline apps under community data ownership.
Firth
Firth: Scottish English term for a large estuary or long sea inlet, from Old Norse fjǫrthr (same root as fjord). Names include Firth of Forth, Clyde, Moray, Solway, Tay.
Firth of Clyde
The Firth of Clyde is a fjordic sea basin in western Scotland into which the River Clyde flows, separated from the Irish Sea by a ~50 m sill. Known for Clyde shipbuilding, collapsed herring and cod fisheries, the Clyde cod seasonal closure, and the Clyde Sea Sill MPA.
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary of the River Forth in eastern Scotland, about 100 km from Stirling to the North Sea, crossed by the Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge, and Queensferry Crossing.
Firth of Thames
The Firth of Thames (Tikapa Moana) is a large shallow tidal embayment on New Zealand's North Island, about 52 km southeast of Auckland, with tidal flats hosting tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds.
Firtos Mons
Firtos Mons is a 143-km-wide mons, a radially fractured volcanic center (nova), on Venus at 47.35S 220.09E in Imdr Regio, named for a Hungarian fairy-queen goddess and IAU-approved May 5, 2023.
Firuz Shah Bahmani
Firuz Shah Bahmani (فیروز شاہ بہمنی) was sultan of the Bahmani sultanate in the Deccan from 1397 to 1422, a period regarded as its golden age.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (فیروز شاه تغلق)
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (فیروز شاه تغلق), third sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty, ruled Delhi 1351–1388; builder of Firoz Shah Kotla, canal networks, and 30 madrasas; tomb at Hauz Khas.
Firuz Shah Tughluq
Firuz Shah Tughluq (فیروز شاہ تغلق) ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1351 to 1388, succeeding his cousin Muhammad bin Tughluq and building canals, hospitals, and new towns.
Firuz Shah Tughluq's second Bengal campaign
Firuz Shah Tughluq's second Bengal campaign was a 1359 Delhi Sultanate invasion of Bengal against Sultan Sikandar Shah; the failed siege of Ekdala ended in peace recognizing Bengal's independence.
Firuz Shah's Bengal campaign
Firuz Shah's Bengal campaign was the invasion of the Bengal Sultanate by Firuz Shah Tughluq, sultan of Delhi, in 1353–1354; he besieged Ilyas Shah at Ekdala and retreated without success.
Firuz Shah's slave establishment
Firuz Shah's slave establishment (غلامان فیروز شاہی) was the corps of military and household slaves maintained by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughluq of Delhi, reportedly about 140,000 men.
Firuzan
Firuzan (فیروزان) was a Sasanian general serving Yazdegerd III who commanded the Iranian army at the battle of Nahavand in 641–642, the last organized Sasanian resistance.
FIS (company)
FIS, formally Fidelity National Information Services, is a Jacksonville, Florida financial technology company that supplies core banking processing, card-issuer processing, and capital-markets software to banks and institutional investors.
FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup
FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup (Coppa Europa), FIS's European continental alpine skiing cup below the World Cup; one of five Continental Cups; 100-to-1 points scale, quota-based entry, November-to-March season feeding World Cup qualification.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is an annual alpine ski racing series organized by FIS, first contested in 1967, with racers scoring points toward Crystal Globe titles.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 1980–1999
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons from 1980 to 1999 were dominated by repeat overall champions Pirmin Zurbriggen, Marc Girardelli, Lasse Kjus, and Hermann Maier.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 2000–2009
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men's seasons, 2000–2009, cover the overall titles won by Benjamin Raich, Aksel Lund Svindal, and Bode Miller from 2005–06 onward.
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup records and statistics
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup records and statistics cover overall crystal globe title holders, season points records, and discipline marks since the circuit began in 1966/67.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships: biennial alpine skiing world championship first held 1931 in Mürren, Switzerland; held every two years, most recently Saalbach 2025, next Crans-Montana 2027 and Val Gardena 2031.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1931–1939 (pre-war era)
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1931–1939 were the first nine editions of the alpine skiing world championship, run annually in Europe from Mürren in 1931 to Zakopane in 1939.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950, held at Aspen, Colorado, 13–18 February 1950; 11th edition, first outside Europe, giant slalom debuted; overall winners Zeno Colo and Dagmar Rom.
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1954
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1954, 13th edition, held in Åre, Sweden, 28 February to 7 March 1954; 134 competitors from 20 countries; Stein Eriksen of Norway won three golds.