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Flamenco nuevo
Flamenco nuevo is a Spanish movement of the late 1970s through the 1990s that fused flamenco with jazz, rock, pop, blues, and salsa, anchored by Camarón de la Isla's 1979 album La leyenda del tiempo.
FLAMENCO trial
FLAMENCO (Fitness League Against MENopause COst) trial, NCT02358109: Spanish randomized controlled trial at University of Granada testing a 16-week, 3-day/week multicomponent exercise program in 160 women aged 45-60, improving menopause symptoms, body composition, and quality of life.
FLAMES
Flames (FLAMES) is a Hindi-language Indian teenage romance web series by TVF's Timeliners, starring Ritvik Sahore and Tanya Maniktala as tuition-center students Rajat and Ishita; four seasons ran 2018-2023 on TVFPlay, MX Player, and Prime Video, rated 8.8 on IMDb.
FLAMES (game)
FLAMES is a deterministic pen-and-paper name game from South Asian schoolyards of the 1980s-1990s: cancel shared letters between two names, count survivors, and eliminate around F-L-A-M-E-S to predict Friends, Lovers, Affection, Marriage, Enemies, or Siblings.
Flamethrower
A flamethrower (Flammenwerfer) is an incendiary weapon that projects a stream of burning liquid fuel at a target, first used on a large scale by Germany at Hooge, Belgium, in 1915.
Flamin' Hot
Flamin' Hot (2023) is Eva Longoria's biographical comedy-drama for Searchlight Pictures about Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor claiming to have invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, a story Frito-Lay disputes; starring Jesse Garcia, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Flămînda
Flămînda (Flămânda, La Culă), a Roman auxiliary fort at Traian, Teleorman County, Romania: first fort of the Transalutanus limes on the Danube; wood-and-earth, 350×390 m, legio XIII Gemina stamp, excavated by Bogdan Cătăniciu.
Flaming (Internet term)
Flaming is hostile, insulting online communication, a term popularized on Usenet. Distinguished from trolling by reactive provocation; driven by disinhibition, anonymity, assertiveness, and sensation seeking; studied since Kiesler's 1984 experiments.
Flaming Gorge Dam
Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam on the Green River in northeastern Utah, built by the Bureau of Reclamation between 1958 and 1964.
Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Flaming Gorge Reservoir is a reservoir on the Green River in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming, impounded by Flaming Gorge Dam, which was completed in 1962.
Flaming Pie
Flaming Pie is Paul McCartney's 1997 solo studio album, his first in four years, produced with Jeff Lynne and George Martin, featuring Ringo Starr, Steve Miller, and James McCartney, titled after John Lennon's Mersey Beat flaming pie anecdote and reissued in 2020.
Flamingo
Flamingo (Phoenicopteridae, Phoenicopteriformes): six pink filter-feeding wading bird species, sister to grebes in Mirandornithes, split ~43 Mya, Plio-Pleistocene radiation, vortical-trap feeding.
Flamingo (AI model)
Flamingo is a family of visual language models introduced by DeepMind in April 2022, built at 3B to 80B sizes to answer questions about interleaved images, videos, and text.
Flamingo Las Vegas
Flamingo Las Vegas, also The Fabulous Flamingo or Flamingo Hilton, is a Caesars Entertainment casino hotel on the center Strip, opened by Bugsy Siegel on December 26, 1946; oldest continuously operating Strip resort, 3,500+ rooms.
Flamingo Revolution
The Flamingo Revolution is a leaderless anti-government protest movement in Albania. It began in May 2026 against a luxury resort project by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Flaminia Catteruccia
Flaminia Catteruccia is a malaria researcher and Irene Heinz Given Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies how Plasmodium parasites develop inside Anopheles mosquitoes.
Flaminio Maphia
Flaminio Maphia is an Italian rap group from Rome formed in 1994, among the first acts of Italian hip-hop, known for "Ragazze acidelle" and named after piazzale Flaminio.
Flaminio Obelisk (Rome)
Flaminio Obelisk (Obelisco Flaminio), ancient Egyptian red granite obelisk from Heliopolis by Seti I and Ramesses II, in Rome's Piazza del Popolo; brought by Augustus in 10 BC to the Circus Maximus, re-erected 1589 under Sixtus V.
Flamm's paraboloid
Flamm's paraboloid is the funnel-shaped surface of revolution that embeds the equatorial spatial slice of the Schwarzschild black hole geometry, described by Ludwig Flamm in 1916.
Flammability limit
A flammability limit, also called an explosive limit, is the lower or upper fuel concentration in air within which a gas or vapor mixture can ignite, expressed as percent fuel by volume.
Flammability standards for textiles
Flammability standards for textiles are regulatory rules and test methods limiting how easily clothing and household fabrics ignite, based in the US on the 1953 Flammable Fabrics Act.
Flammarion (Martian crater)
Flammarion is a 173-km-wide impact crater in Terra Sabaea on Mars at about 25°N, 48°E, named for French astronomer Camille Flammarion; HiRISE imaged an inverted channel on its floor.
Flammekueche
Flammekueche (tarte flambée, Flammkuchen) is an Alsatian thin bread-dough tart with crème fraîche, onions, and lardons, baked about 3 minutes in a wood-fired oven; it originated in the Kochersberg as an oven-heat test.
Flammulina
Flammulina is a genus of slimy-capped agaric fungi in Physalacriaceae, source of cultivated enoki (F. filiformis) and the European velvet shank (F. velutipes), with deadly Galerina lookalikes.
Flamsteed designation
The Flamsteed designation, also called a Flamsteed number, is a star identifier combining a number with the Latin genitive of its constellation, such as 61 Cygni or 58 Orionis.
FLAN
FLAN (Finetuned Language Net) is a Google instruction-tuning method and dataset collection introduced in 2021, fine-tuning pretrained models on many NLP tasks phrased as natural-language instructions; its 2022 Flan Collection produced the publicly released Flan-T5 checkpoints.
Flanagan South Oil Pipeline
The Flanagan South Oil Pipeline (Enbridge Line 59) is a 593-mile, 36-inch Enbridge crude oil pipeline running from Pontiac, Illinois, to Cushing, Oklahoma, placed in service in 2014.
Flanders
Flanders (Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium, a merged Community and Region with one 124-member parliament and government, five provinces, 6.7 million people, and a 2021 GDP of 506,205 million euros.
Flanders Fields
Flanders Fields: the First World War battlefields of West Flanders, Belgium, 1914–1918, centred on Ypres; name from McCrae's 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields", source of the remembrance poppy and Menin Gate, Tyne Cot memorials.
Flandrau State Park
Flandrau State Park is a Minnesota state park on the Cottonwood River adjacent to New Ulm, established in 1936, known for its chlorinated sand-bottom swim pond and campgrounds.