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Foederati
Foederati (from Latin foedus, treaty) were Rome's treaty-bound allies: independent Italian states furnishing contingents in the Republic, and in the late empire barbarian peoples settled under treaty and paid in money, supplies, or land while keeping their own leaders.
Foedus Cassianum
Foedus Cassianum, the Treaty of Cassius of 493 BC, was the defensive alliance between the Roman Republic and the Latin cities, drafted by consul Spurius Cassius, with mutual aid, equal booty, and private-contract rights.
Foehn wind
A foehn wind (German: Föhn) is a warm, dry wind that descends the lee side of a mountain range, warmed and dried by adiabatic compression during its descent.
Foekje Dillema
Foekje Dillema (1926–2007) was a Dutch sprinter from Burum who took Fanny Blankers-Koen's national 100 m record in 1950, then was banned for life after a sex test.
Foeni
Foeni is a village and commune in Timiș County, Romania, and a cluster of archaeological sites nearby occupied from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Ages.
Fofao
Fofão (Hélia Rogério de Souza Pinto, born 1970) is a Brazilian volleyball setter, five-time Olympian (1992–2008), 340 caps, Beijing 2008 Olympic champion and Best Setter, 2015 Hall of Famer, and since 2023 the first woman to coach a Brazilian national volleyball team.
Fog
Fog is a suspension of microscopic water droplets in air at the Earth's surface, essentially a cloud in contact with the ground that reduces visibility below 1 kilometer.
Fog City (film)
Fog City is a 2023 American comedy-horror film directed by Steve Wolsh, in which friends trapped in a Cape Cod house face a strange orange fog.
Fog computing
Fog computing, also known as fog networking, is a layered computing model coined by Cisco in 2012 that places compute and storage on nodes between end devices and the cloud.
Fog drip
Fog drip, also called fog precipitation or cloud water interception, is water that drips from forest canopies after fog droplets intercepted by leaves coalesce, sustaining ecosystems through rainless summers.
Fog of war
Fog of war: the uncertainty pervading military operations, tied to Clausewitz's friction though the phrase never appears in On War. Covers literal battlefield haze, mission-type orders as the doctrinal response, and its persistence amid sensors, AI, and game mechanics.
Fog seal
A fog seal is a light spray of diluted asphalt emulsion, applied without aggregate cover, that seals asphalt pavement, reduces raveling, and enriches weathered surfaces.
Foggia
Foggia, Apulia, Italy: provincial capital on the Tavoliere delle Puglie plain, first recorded 1069, Frederick II residence, rebuilt after the 1731 earthquake; agriculture-led economy, cathedral, Teatro Giordano.
Foggia Airfield Complex
The Foggia Airfield Complex was a group of more than 30 Allied airfields around Foggia, Italy, used from late 1943 by the Fifteenth Air Force.
Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom is a northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood between 17th Street, Rock Creek, the Potomac, and Pennsylvania Avenue; founded as Hamburg in 1763 by Joseph Funk, industrialized by German and Irish immigrants, and now home to GWU and the State Department.
Foggy Nelson
Foggy Nelson (Franklin Percy Nelson), Matt Murdock's best friend and law partner in Marvel's Daredevil, debuts in Daredevil #1 (1964); New York District Attorney in the comics; played by Jon Favreau (2003 film) and Elden Henson (Netflix series, Born Again, where Bullseye kills him in the 2025 premiere).
Foghat
Foghat: British blues-rock/boogie band formed in London in 1971 by ex-Savoy Brown members Lonesome Dave Peverett, Tony Stevens, Roger Earl, plus Rod Price; gold and platinum 1970s US hits "Slow Ride" and "Fool for the City"; still touring under drummer Earl.
Foghorn Leghorn
Foghorn Leghorn is the loud Southern rooster of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes, created by Robert McKimson and voiced by Mel Blanc, debuting in Walky Talky Hawky (1946), inspired by radio's Senator Claghorn and the Sheriff.
Fogo (volcano)
Fogo (Pico do Fogo) is Cape Verde's active 2,829 m stratovolcano, the archipelago's only historically erupting island, with a 9-km breached caldera, flank-collapse history, and 2014-2015 eruption destroying Portela and Bangaeira.
Fogo Biosphere Reserve
Fogo Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera da Ilha do Fogo), a UNESCO MAB site designated 2020 covering all of Fogo Island, Cabo Verde, and its marine space: 102,142 ha, 37,074 people, Fogo volcano at 2,829 m.
Fogo de Chão; later Corrientes 348
Fogo de Chão is a Brazilian churrascaria chain founded in 1979 in Porto Alegre by the Coser brothers, known for rodízio dining and later owned by Bain Capital.
Fogo Morto
Fogo Morto is a 1943 regionalist novel by Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego, considered his masterpiece and the culminating work of his Sugar-Cane Cycle.
FogPharma
FogPharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2016 by Harvard chemist Gregory Verdine, whose lead candidate FOG-001, a beta-catenin inhibitor, is in Phase 1/2 testing.
Foguang Temple
Foguang Temple (佛光寺) is a Buddhist temple on Mount Wutai in Shanxi, China, whose East Main Hall of 857 is the finest surviving Tang Dynasty timber building.
Fogwill
Fogwill was the pen name of Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941–2010), an Argentine writer of novels, stories, poetry, and essays, best known for the Malvinas War novel Los pichiciegos.
Foho Tatamailau
Foho Tatamailau, also called Mount Ramelau or Tata Mailau, is Timor-Leste's and Timor island's highest peak at 2,963 m, in Ainaro and Ermera municipalities, a Mambai sacred mountain, Marian pilgrimage site, and 20,000-ha national park.
Foie gras
Foie gras is a French food product made from the liver of a duck or goose fattened by force-feeding. It is a centerpiece of French festive cuisine.
Foie gras controversy
Foie gras controversy: dispute over force-feeding (gavage) of mulard ducks and geese for fatty liver. EFSA 2023 says all foie gras husbandry systems should be avoided; France protects it as heritage; bans exist in California, NYC, Portland, Brookline, and Brazil.
Foil (fencing)
Foil (fleuret), one of fencing's three weapons: a thrust-only weapon scoring on the trunk with right-of-way priority, under 500 g, 110 cm max, introduced in 17th-century France.
FOIL method
The FOIL method, or foil rule, is a mnemonic in elementary algebra for multiplying two binomials, standing for First, Outer, Inner, Last; it is a special case of the distributive property first named in 1929.