All articles starting with F
15,892 articles
Folk etymology
Folk etymology, or popular etymology (German Volksetymologie), is the reshaping of a word's form or meaning from a false belief about its origin, as in cucaracha becoming cockroach; coined by Ernst Förstemann in 1852.
Folk festivals in Australia and New Zealand
Folk festivals in Australia and New Zealand are community-run multi-day events of folk music, dance, and oral performance, grown from the 1960s folk revival, with over 75 held annually in Australia alone.
Folk festivals in continental Europe
Folk festivals in continental Europe are recurring events for folk, traditional, and roots music, from Prague's 1947 folklore competition to festivals like Rudolstadt in Germany.
Folk festivals in the United States and Canada
Folk festivals in the United States and Canada are outdoor summer events built around traditional, blues, Celtic, and Americana music, with roots in the 1950s folk revival.
Folk hero
Folk hero: a real, legendary, or fictional person celebrated by ordinary people for championing their interests and values, from Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan to outlaw figures, distinguished from culture heroes.
Folk high school
Folk high school (folkehøjskole, folkehøgskole) is a Nordic non-formal residential school for adults with no exams, founded on Grundtvig's ideas; first school Rødding, Denmark, 1844; Denmark 72, Finland 73, Norway 81 schools in 2025.
Folk museum herbarium
Folk museum herbarium (FKE): a herbarium registered under the Index Herbariorum code FKE, listed as "Folk Museum" in the NCBI institution codes; a preserved-specimen plant collection identified by that code.
Folk music
Folk music: traditional, orally transmitted, regionally based music distinct from popular and art music; shaped by revivals, the Lomax archives, indie-folk, and UNESCO heritage listings.
Folk narrative
Folk narrative is a prose story passed orally from teller to teller with no known author, kept alive in Arab heritage by tales like One Thousand and One Nights.
Folk Nation
Folk Nation ("Folks") is a Chicago-origin alliance of street and prison gangs formed in Illinois prisons in the late 1970s under Larry Hoover's Gangster Disciples, using six-point stars and right-side representation, rival to the People Nation.
Folk religion
Folk religion, also known as popular or vernacular religion, is the religious belief and practice of ordinary people existing alongside institutional religions, defined by Don Yoder in 1974.
Folk rock
Folk rock, also folk-rock, is a music genre combining folk and rock: electric renditions of traditional material, from the Byrds' 1965 "Mr. Tambourine Man" through British folk rock to modern indie folk-rock.
Folk tale
A folk tale is a story of oral tradition, passed on by word of mouth and reshaped by each teller, distinguished in German scholarship from the authored art tale.
Folke Bernadotte
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish count and Red Cross vice president, led the 1945 White Buses rescue of over 15,000 camp prisoners and became the UN's first mediator in Palestine, assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem on 17 September 1948.
Folke Bohlin
Folke Ivar Reinhold Bohlin (1906–1972) was a Swedish sailor from Göteborg who won Olympic silver in the Dragon class in 1948 and gold in 1956, helming boats named Slaghoken.
Folke Henschen
Folke Henschen (1881–1977) was a Swedish pathologist and anatomist, professor of pathological anatomy at the Karolinska Institutet from 1920 to 1946, who described Morgagni's syndrome and initiated Swedish geriatrics research.
Folke K. Skoog
Folke K. Skoog was a Swedish-born American plant physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for discovering kinetin and creating the Murashige and Skoog tissue culture medium.
Folke Sjöqvist
Folke Sjöqvist (1933–2020) was a Swedish clinical pharmacologist who became Sweden's first professor of clinical pharmacology and pioneered pharmacogenetics, showing genetic causes of 30-fold differences in antidepressant drug levels.
Folkeslunda Limestone
Folkeslunda Limestone: Middle Ordovician (late Darriwilian, Lasnamägian, ca. 463.5–460.9 Ma) grey calcarenitic limestone unit in Sweden, uppermost unit of the traditional Orthoceras Limestone, spanning the Pygodus serra conodont Zone.
Folkestone
Folkestone: coastal town in Kent, England (population about 50,000), former cross-channel ferry port and Victorian resort at the Channel Tunnel entrance, now known for the Folkestone Triennial, Creative Quarter, and the £22m A Brighter Future regeneration scheme.
Folketing
Folketing (Folketinget), the unicameral parliament of Denmark since 1953, with 179 seats (175 Denmark, 2 Faroe Islands, 2 Greenland), formerly the lower chamber of the Rigsdagen created by the 1849 constitution.
Folketrygdfondet (FTF)
Folketrygdfondet is a Norwegian state-owned asset manager, established in 1967, that manages the Government Pension Fund Norway, the largest institutional investor on Oslo Stock Exchange.
Folklore
Folklore is the informal, tradition-based expressive culture of a group, also called folk culture, spanning tales, songs, proverbs, rituals, and customs. Distinguished by person-to-person transmission, variant evolution, and study through folkloristics, comparative method, and education.
Folklore (Taylor Swift album)
Folklore (styled lowercase) is Taylor Swift's eighth studio album, a surprise indie-folk release on July 24, 2020, made remotely with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, and Bon Iver during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by sister album Evermore.
Folklore of the United States
Folklore of the United States, also known as American folk culture, is the traditional knowledge, stories, songs, and customs of its inhabitants, studied as a scholarly field since 1888.
Folklore studies
Folklore studies (folkloristics) is the academic study of traditional culture, from tales and ballads to customs and crafts. Term coined by William John Thoms in 1846; known for the historic-geographic method and motif-index classification.
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions is Taylor Swift's 2020 Disney+ concert documentary, directed by Swift, performing all 17 folklore songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, and Justin Vernon at Long Pond Studio, New York.
Fólkvangr
Fólkvangr, translated as "field of the people," is the afterlife field of Freyja. It is a destination for the battle-dead, where she receives half of those slain.
Folland Gnat
The Folland Gnat, later built as the Hawker Siddeley Gnat, is a British lightweight jet aircraft that trained RAF pilots and fought for India in the 1965 and 1971 wars.
Folleville
Folleville, Somme (INSEE 80321), a small Picardy commune with a Roman military camp, château ruins (11th-15th centuries, Louis XI, Talbot 1440), and the UNESCO-listed church tied to Vincent de Paul and the Compostela route.