All articles starting with F

Florida stone crab

Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria), a Gulf and Atlantic crab harvested claw-only in Florida, which supplies 99% of U.S. landings; season October 15–May 1, minimum claw 2 7/8 inches, claws regenerate after molting.

Florida woods cockroach

Florida woods cockroach (Eurycotis floridana), also called palmetto bug or skunk roach: a large wingless southeastern US cockroach that sprays a foul defensive secretion and rarely infests homes.

Florida–Florida State football rivalry

Florida–Florida State football rivalry: annual end-of-season game between the Florida Gators and FSU Seminoles, played since 1958 except 2020; Florida leads 39-28-2, defined by the Bowden-Spurrier 1990s and the 1997 Sugar Bowl.

Florida–Georgia football rivalry

Florida–Georgia football rivalry: annual SEC game between the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs, played in Jacksonville since 1933 (two exceptions), nicknamed the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party; Georgia leads the disputed series 56-44-2 or 44-57-2 by Florida's count.

Florida's 1st congressional district

Florida's 1st congressional district covers the western Panhandle, Florida's most Republican House seat. Matt Gaetz's former district; Jimmy Patronis (R) has held it since winning the April 2025 special election; new 2026 map in effect.

Florida's congressional districts

Florida's 28 U.S. House districts, redrawn under the Fair Districts amendment; DeSantis's 2022 map eliminated a North Florida Black-opportunity district for a 20-8 GOP edge, and a 2026 mid-decade map adds up to four more Republican seats amid ongoing lawsuits.

Florida's Turnpike

Florida's Turnpike, also called the Sunshine State Parkway, is a toll road network in Florida operated by the state; its mainline runs 312 miles from Miami to Wildwood.

Floridablanca

Floridablanca is a municipality in Santander Department, Colombia, south of Bucaramanga in its metropolitan area. Founded as a parish in 1817, about 267,000 residents, 928 m elevation, known for obleas and rapid urban growth.

Floridan Aquifer

The Floridan Aquifer is one of the world's most productive aquifers, underlying all of Florida and parts of four neighboring states and supplying drinking water to nearly 10 million people.

Floridian (train)

The Floridian, also known as the Amtrak Floridian, is an Amtrak long-distance train between Chicago and Miami, launched in 2024 and combining the former Capitol Limited and Silver Star.

Florimond Cornellie

Florimond Cornellie (Florimond Joseph Cornellie, 1894–1978), Belgian sailor of Royal Yacht Club Oostende; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the Three-Person Keelboat (6m, 1907 rating) aboard Edelweiss II with his father Émile Cornellie and Frédéric-Albert Bruynseels.

Florimond Cornet

Florimond Cornet, French race walker of the early 1940s; ranked in the 1941 world 50 km walk list (4:32:36, Paris) and held the 30-mile track walk world best, 4:24:54.2 (Paris, 1942). Distinct from Belgian Olympic sailor Florimond Cornellie.

Oct 20, 2026

Florin Popescu

Florin Popescu (born 1974, Iancu Jianu, Romania) is a sprint canoeist and coach, Olympic C2 1000 m gold and C2 500 m bronze medalist at Sydney 2000 with Mitică Pricop, and a seven-time flatwater world champion.

Florinda Batson

Florinda Batson, also spelled Florieda Batson, American sprint hurdler and captain of the 13-woman US team at the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris; held FSFI-era records in the 60- and 100-yard hurdles before an ankle injury at the 1922 meet.

Florinda Meza

Florinda Meza (Florinda Meza García, born 1949, Juchipila, Zacatecas) is a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and producer, known as Doña Florinda and La Popis in El Chavo del Ocho and La Chimoltrufia in Chespirito, second wife of Roberto Gómez Bolaños and later a telenovela writer-producer.

Oct 22, 2026

Florine Stettheimer

Florine Stettheimer was an American painter, poet, and theatrical designer who chronicled Jazz Age New York and designed the sets for Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts.

Florio (shipping company)

Florio refers to the Palermo-based shipping companies founded by Vincenzo Florio from 1840, which merged with Rubattino in 1881 to form the Navigazione Generale Italiana, Italy's largest shipping company.

Floris Jan Bovelander

Floris Jan Bovelander (born 1966, Haarlem), nicknamed Flop, Dutch field hockey penalty corner specialist; 241 caps, 215 goals; Olympic gold Atlanta 1996, bronze Seoul 1988, 1990 World Cup and 1987 European titles; HC Bloemendaal record scorer.

Oct 10, 2026

Floris Takens

Floris Takens (1940–2010) was a Dutch mathematician and professor at Groningen, known for the 1981 Takens embedding theorem and for coining "strange attractor" with David Ruelle.

Floris Wortelboer

Floris Wortelboer (born 1996) is a Dutch field hockey defender for Bloemendaal and the Netherlands, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024, European champion 2017 and 2023, debut 18 June 2017, about 151 caps.

Florisbad

Florisbad is a fossil-bearing spring mound 45 km northwest of Bloemfontein, South Africa, source of the 1932 Florisbad cranium (Homo helmei, archaic Homo sapiens debate), ESR-dated about 259 ka, and type site of the Florisian Land Mammal Age.

Florisil

Florisil is a trademarked synthetic magnesium silicate adsorbent of U.S. Silica Company, used mainly to clean up and fractionate pesticide and PCB residues in analytical chromatography.

Floristry

Floristry: the cultivation, trade, and arrangement of cut flowers by floral designers (florists). Covers duties, Dutch trade origins, Constance Spry, U.S. employment of 45,200 with $37,360 median wage, and sustainability and pesticide concerns.

Floronic Man

Floronic Man, also Plant Master, Floro, and the Seeder, is the plant-human hybrid form of DC Comics botanist Jason Woodrue, created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane in The Atom #1 (1962), an enemy of the Atom and Swamp Thing who created Poison Ivy.

Florpyrauxifen benzyl

Florpyrauxifen-benzyl (Rinskor active, Loyant) is an arylpicolinate synthetic auxin herbicide, WSSA Group 4, binding AFB5 over TIR1, used at 15-60 g ai/ha in rice to control grasses, sedges, and broadleaf weeds including resistant biotypes.

Flörsheim

Flörsheim am Main is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, on the right bank of the lower Main. Merovingian origins, Mainz rule until 1803, 1484–1548 town walls, Mainturm, protected old town, Pleiades 108986.

Flortaucipir

Flortaucipir (¹⁸F, Tauvid, AV-1451, T807) is an FDA-approved (2020) PET radiotracer binding aggregated tau neurofibrillary tangles to evaluate Alzheimer's disease; 370 MBq dose, 0.57 nM PHF-tau affinity, not indicated for CTE.

Oct 22, 2026

Florvil Hyppolite

Florvil Hyppolite was a Haitian general who took power by revolt and served as president of Haiti from 1889 to 1896, remembered for public works.

Flory–Huggins solution theory

Flory–Huggins solution theory is a thermodynamic theory of polymer solutions developed independently by Paul Flory and Maurice Huggins in the early 1940s, using a lattice entropy of mixing.