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Follow the queen
Follow the Queen (also Chase the Lady, Queens and After) is a seven-card stud home poker variant where a face-up queen makes the next up card's rank wild; a later queen moves the wild, and a final queen means no wilds.
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 1996 biographical book by Doris Pilkington, chronicling three Aboriginal girls who escaped a Western Australian settlement in 1931 as part of the Stolen Generations.
Follow Tour
The Follow Tour was a 2023–24 Asian concert tour by the South Korean boy band SEVENTEEN, opening in Seoul in July 2023 with 20 dates across Asia.
Follow Your Heart (颜心记)
Follow Your Heart (颜心记) is a 2024 iQIYI costume romance-mystery drama, 40 episodes, directed by Yu Zhongzhong, starring Luo Yunxi as a face-blind prince-investigator and Song Yi as a monthly-transforming healer, premiered June 21, 2024.
Follow-on
Follow-on: cricket rule under MCC Law 14 letting the side batting first, leading by at least 200 runs in a five-day Test, make the opposition bat again immediately; enforced in about half of eligible Tests since 2006.
Follow-up time
Follow-up time, also called follow-up headway or move-up time, is a traffic engineering gap acceptance parameter: the time between successive queued minor-street vehicles entering the same major-street gap.
Followers
Followers (FOLLOWERS, フォロワーズ) is a 2020 Netflix original Japanese drama series, Mika Ninagawa's first series as director, starring Miki Nakatani and Elaiza Ikeda in nine episodes about Tokyo women and Instagram fame, released February 27, 2020 in 190 countries.
Following
Following (1998) is Christopher Nolan's black-and-white 16mm neo-noir debut feature, made for about $6,000 over weekends in London, starring Jeremy Theobald and Alex Haw, with a non-linear triple-cross plot and a Tiger Award from Rotterdam.
Following (그녀가 죽었다) (2024 film)
Following (그녀가 죽었다) is a 2024 South Korean mystery thriller directed and written by Kim Sewi, who makes his feature debut in the film. It stars Byun Yo-han and Shin Hae-sun.
Following the Equator
Following the Equator is Mark Twain's 1897 travel book, his last, recording his 1895 and 1896 lecture tour through the British Empire; it was published in Britain as More Tramps Abroad.
Folly
A folly, or architectural folly, is a building constructed chiefly for a landscape idea, association, or view rather than practical use, common in 18th-century English gardens and parks.
Folorunso Alakija
Folorunso Alakija, also spelled Folorunsho Alakija, is a Nigerian businesswoman and philanthropist who became Nigeria's first female billionaire when Forbes valued her fortune at $2.5 billion in 2014.
Folpet
Folpet (CAS 133-07-3), N-(trichloromethylthio)phthalimide, is a broad-spectrum non-systemic phthalimide fungicide for grapes, pome and stone fruit, and vegetables; EU approval renewed 2024, ADI 0.1 mg/kg bw/day.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a 340-foot concrete gravity dam on the American River near Folsom, California, completed in 1956 to control floods and store water for Sacramento.
Folsom Lake
Folsom Lake is a reservoir on the American River northeast of Sacramento, California, created by Folsom Dam in 1956 for flood control, water storage, and recreation.
Folsom Prison Blues
"Folsom Prison Blues" is a Johnny Cash country song written in the Air Force, recorded at Sun Studio in 1955 (No. 4 country), and made famous by the 1968 live Folsom State Prison version that hit No. 1; its melody came from Gordon Jenkins' "Crescent City Blues."
Folsom State Prison
Folsom State Prison (FSP), in Represa, California, is the state's second oldest prison, opened July 26, 1880 after 1858 authorization, housing Level II/III medium-security men near California State Prison, Sacramento, known as New Folsom.
Folsom Street Fair
Folsom Street Fair is an annual adult leather, kink, and fetish street festival in San Francisco's SoMa, held the last Sunday of September since 1984, when it was founded as Megahood by Kathleen Connell and Michael Valerio as an anti-gentrification organizing tool; it is the world's largest leather event.
Folsom, California
Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, about 25 miles northeast of Sacramento on the American River, known for Folsom State Prison and its 1895 Powerhouse.
Foluke Akinradewo
Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, born 1987 in London, Ontario, is an American volleyball middle blocker, three-time Olympian with silver 2012, bronze 2016, gold 2020, 2014 world champion, Stanford record-holder, and Hisamitsu Springs V.League MVP.
Folwark
A folwark was a large commercial farm in old Poland, usually owned by a noble, that relied on serfs' unpaid corvée labor and produced grain mainly for sale.
Folylpolyglutamate synthase, eukaryota
Folylpolyglutamate synthase (FPGS, EC 6.3.2.17), the eukaryotic ATP-dependent enzyme that adds γ-linked L-glutamate residues to tetrahydrofolate and antifolates such as methotrexate, retaining folates in cytosolic and mitochondrial pools; loss causes antifolate resistance.
Folylpolyglutamate synthetase
Folylpolyglutamate synthetase (FPGS, EC 6.3.2.17) is an ATP-dependent ligase adding glutamate residues to folates and antifolates, retaining them in cells; cytosolic and mitochondrial isoforms determine folate homeostasis and methotrexate resistance.
Fomboni Agreement
The Fomboni Agreement, formally the General Agreement on National Reconciliation, was signed on 17 February 2001 in Fomboni, Mohéli, ending the Comorian secessionist crisis and leading to the Union of the Comoros constitution adopted that December.
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) is a Spanish construction and services group in Madrid, working in environmental services, water, and infrastructure, controlled by Carlos Slim.
Fomento Económico Mexicano
Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA) is a Monterrey-based Mexican company, begun as a brewery in 1890, that operates the OXXO convenience-store chain and owns 47.2% of Coca-Cola FEMSA, the world's largest Coca-Cola bottler.
Fomesafen
Fomesafen (fomesafen sodium, CAS 72178-02-0) is a diphenylether, PPO-inhibiting (Group 14) selective herbicide registered by EPA since 1987, sold as Reflex and Flexstar, used against broadleaf weeds in soybeans, with known waterhemp and Palmer amaranth resistance and groundwater leaching potential.
Fomite
Fomite (plural fomites, singular fomes): an inanimate object or surface, such as a doorknob or stethoscope, contaminated with microorganisms that transmits infection via indirect contact; importance varies by pathogen.
Fomivirsen
Fomivirsen (Vitravene), the first FDA-approved antisense drug (1998), a 21-mer phosphorothioate oligonucleotide targeting CMV IE2 mRNA, given intravitreally for CMV retinitis in AIDS; withdrawn in Europe 2002 and the US 2006.
Fomorians
Fomorians (Old Irish Fomoiri, Fomhóraigh): supernatural race in medieval Irish mythology, adversaries and kin of the Tuatha Dé Danann, led by Balor, Bres, and Elatha, defeated at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired.