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Flora Pili

Flora Pili (born 1997, Saint-Avold, France) is a French super lightweight boxer, French, EBU European, WBO International and IBO champion, 12-0 before losing a 2026 undisputed-title fight to Katie Taylor.

Flora Robson

Dame Flora McKenzie Robson (1902–1984), English character actress of stage and screen; played Elizabeth I in Fire Over England and The Sea Hawk, Oscar-nominated for Saratoga Trunk, CBE 1952, DBE 1960.

Flora Saini

Flora Saini (born Asha Saini; also billed Ayesha Saini, Mayuri) is an Indian actress born in Chandigarh, debuting in Telugu with Prema Kosam (1999), nicknamed Lux Papa after Narasimha Naidu (2002), and known for Stree (2018) and Gandii Baat 2.

FLORA Ventures

FLORA Ventures is a Tel Aviv venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Gil Horsky and Esther Barak-Landes, investing in early-stage sustainable AgriFood tech startups in Israel and Europe.

Floral clock

A floral clock is a clock face planted with flowers and fitted with working hands; the first, created in Edinburgh in 1903, is described as the world's oldest.

Floral clock (Frankfort, Kentucky)

The Floral Clock in Frankfort, Kentucky, is a working clock with a 34-foot flower-planted face on the Kentucky State Capitol grounds, dedicated in 1961 under Governor Bert T. Combs.

Floral Shoppe

Floral Shoppe (フローラルの専門店) is Vektroid's December 9, 2011 vaporwave album as Macintosh Plus on Beer on the Rug, known for Lisa Frank 420, its pink bust cover, and its status as the genre's most famous release.

Floral symmetry

Floral symmetry, also called flower symmetry, is the pattern in which a flower's parts are arranged around its axes: radial symmetry (actinomorphy) or bilateral symmetry (zygomorphy).

Floraland (国色天乡 · 童话世界)

Floraland (国色天乡·童话世界) is a fairy-tale theme park in Wenjiang, Chengdu, opened 2007 after the 2005 Flower Expo park; free entry, pay-per-ride, four-phase Guosetianxiang resort, over 20 million early visitors.

Floraland (国色天乡 · 陆地乐园)

Floraland (国色天乡·陆地乐园), Guosetianxiang Land Park, is Phase III of the Guosetianxiang resort in Wanchun Town, Wenjiang District, Chengdu: a 275-mu family and challenge theme park with five themed zones and nearly 30 rides.

Florante A. Quiocho

Florante A. Quiocho, also cited as F.A. Quiocho, is a structural biologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for crystal structures of bacterial transport receptors.

Florante at Laura

Florante at Laura (Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at ni Laura sa Kahariang Albania) is an 1838 Tagalog awit by Francisco Balagtas, 399 dodecasyllabic quatrains, written in prison, never out of print, and read as veiled anti-colonial protest.

Florasis

Florasis, also known as Hua Xizi or Huaxizi (花西子), is a Chinese cosmetics brand founded in Hangzhou in 2017, known for 'Eastern beauty' makeup with floral essences and heritage crafts.

Florasulam

Florasulam (CAS 145701-23-1), a triazolopyrimidine sulfonanilide ALS-inhibiting herbicide from Dow AgroSciences/Corteva, controls broadleaf weeds in cereals; EU-approved to 2030, short soil half-life, resistance via ALS mutations and NTSR.

Florbela Espanca

Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) was a Portuguese poet, born in Vila Viçosa, who made the sonnet the vehicle for confessional poems of love, sensuality, solitude, and death.

Florbetaben

Florbetaben (18F), brand name Neuraceq, code 18F-BAY94-9172, is an 18F-labeled stilbene PET radiotracer for brain beta-amyloid plaque imaging in cognitive impairment, approved by EMA and FDA in 2014, dosed at 300 MBq.

Florbetapir

Florbetapir (Amyvid, florbetapir F 18) is an FDA-approved fluorine-18 PET radiotracer binding beta-amyloid neuritic plaques, used to evaluate Alzheimer's disease and select patients for amyloid beta-directed therapy.

Floreanismo

Floreanismo, also written florianismo, was the Brazilian political-military movement of support for Marshal Floriano Peixoto, the second president of Brazil's Republic from 1891 to 1894, later honored as the Consolidator of the Republic.

Floreña Oil and Gas Field

Floreña is an oil and gas condensate field in the Llanos foothills near Yopal, Casanare, Colombia, discovered by British Petroleum in the 1990s and operated by Ecopetrol.

Florence

Florence (Firenze), capital of Tuscany, Italy: Renaissance-era city of about 362,000 residents, UNESCO-listed historic centre inscribed 1982, known for the Duomo, Uffizi, Medici history, and overtourism management.

Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine (Florence + the Machine), English indie rock band formed 2007 in London by Florence Welch and Isabella "Machine" Summers. Six albums from Lungs (2009, UK No. 1) to Everybody Scream (2025); headlined Glastonbury 2015.

Florence and the Machine discography

Florence and the Machine discography: six studio albums by Florence Welch's English indie rock band, Lungs (2009) through Everybody Scream (2025), with five UK number-one albums and the singles Spectrum and Sweet Nothing.

Florence Ballard

Florence Ballard (1943-1976), Detroit singer who founded the Supremes with Mary Wilson and Diana Ross, chose the group's name, sang on 16 Top 40 hits, was replaced by Cindy Birdsong in 1967, and died at 32.

Florence Baptistery

The Florence Baptistery, or Battistero di San Giovanni, is an octagonal Romanesque building facing Florence Cathedral, known for its marble cladding, medieval mosaics, and Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise.

Florence Baverel Robert

Florence Baverel-Robert (born Florence Baverel, 1974, Pontarlier) is a retired French biathlete, France's first individual Olympic biathlon champion, winning sprint gold at Turin 2006.

Florence by Mills

Florence by Mills is a consumer brand founded in August 2019 by Millie Bobby Brown, the British actress known for Netflix's Stranger Things, as a clean beauty and skincare line.

Florence Cassell

Florence Cassell is a fictional police detective in the BBC drama Death in Paradise. She serves on the Honoré Police team on the Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Florence Cathedral

Florence Cathedral, also known as the Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 and crowned by Brunelleschi's dome.

Florence Chadwick

Florence Chadwick (1918-1995), San Diego marathon swimmer; first woman to swim the English Channel both ways (1950 France-England 13:23 record, 1951 England-France 16:22); four crossings in ten attempts; first woman to swim the Catalina Channel (1952).

Florence County, South Carolina, United States

Florence County is a county in northeastern South Carolina with its seat at the city of Florence, created in 1888 and home to 137,059 people.