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Fon language
Fon (Fongbe, fɔ̀ngbè), ISO 639-3 fon, is a Gbe Niger-Congo language of southern Benin, the historical language of Dahomey, with roughly 2 million speakers, SVO isolating grammar, five tones, and a growing low-resource NLP literature.
Fon people
Fon people, also called Dahomeans, a Gbe people of southern Benin and Togo; founders and core of the Kingdom of Dahomey (1625-1894), speakers of Fongbe, practitioners of Vodun, and Benin's largest ethnic group.
Fon-Fon
Fon-Fon was a Brazilian weekly illustrated humor and society magazine published in Rio de Janeiro from 1907 to 1958, whose title, coined by Emílio de Meneses, imitates an automobile horn.
Fonadelpar
Fonadelpar (NPS-005, SJP-0035) is an investigational Senju Pharmaceutical small-molecule PPARδ agonist, phase 3 as 0.001% eye drops for dry eye disease (DELTA-1, NCT03527212); not approved, also trialed in conduct disorder.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: county-seat city of about 44,700 at the foot of Lake Winnebago; French-named "far end of the lake," nearly Wisconsin's capital in 1836, council-manager government, Mercury Marine employer.
Fondant icing
Fondant icing: a partially crystalline sugar paste of tiny sucrose crystals in saturated syrup, used poured or rolled to glaze and decorate cakes; 10–15% water, 371 kcal/100 g.
Fondaparinux
Fondaparinux (Arixtra), first synthetic anticoagulant launched 2004, is a pentasaccharide factor Xa inhibitor given subcutaneously; OASIS-5 showed bleeding reduction versus enoxaparin, but it is contraindicated in severe renal impairment and not used alone for PCI.
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, or Policlinico di Milano, a Milan hospital founded by Duke Francesco Sforza in 1456; Italy's top-ranked public research hospital, IRCCS since 1981.
Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize
The Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize comprises awards, scholarships, and loans from an Argentine state body created in 1958, spanning literature, music, theater, and other fields.
Fondue
Fondue, from French fondre (to melt), is the Swiss dish of cheese melted with white wine in a caquelon, with bread dipped on long forks; earliest recipe 1699 Zurich, national dish via 1930s Swiss Cheese Union promotion.
Fong Der power station
Fong Der power station, also romanized Fengde, is a natural gas-fired power plant in Shanshang District, Tainan, Taiwan, operated by Sun Ba Power Corporation and selling its output to Taipower.
Fong Sai-yuk (方世玉)
Fong Sai-yuk is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Corey Yuen, starring Jet Li and released in the US as The Legend.
Fong Sai-yuk II (方世玉续集)
Fong Sai-yuk II (方世玉續集), aka The Legend II, is a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy directed by Corey Yuen, starring Jet Li as folk hero Fong Sai-yuk; sequel to Fong Sai-yuk, it earned HK$23,013,797 and features a stool-pyramid finale.
Fonias Tower
Fonias Tower (Πύργος του Φονιά), medieval Genoese tower at the mouth of the Fonias river, NE Samothrace, Greece; built after 1431 by the Gattilusi, square, three-storey, about 12 m high; western wall collapsed in 2017. Not the Laconian watchtower of the same name.
Fonoa
Fonoa is a Dublin-headquartered tax-automation software company founded in 2019 by three former Uber employees; in May 2026 it raised a $110 million Series C led by Headline.
Fonofos
Fonofos (Dyfonate), CAS 944-22-9, is an organophosphate soil insecticide introduced by Stauffer Chemical in 1967, used mainly on corn, cancelled in the US effective November 2, 1998, acting by acetylcholinesterase inhibition.
Fonotipia
Fonotipia was an Italian record label and record company founded in Milan in 1904 by Baron Frederic d'Erlanger, expressly for recording opera singers, and absorbed by Odeon after 1925.
Fonovisa Records
Fonovisa Records is a Mexican regional music label founded in 1984, known for Los Tigres del Norte and Jenni Rivera, now part of Universal Music Group.
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting is an American quilting TV series and magazine created by Marianne Fons and Liz Porter; the PBS series began in 1995 and the magazine became America's highest-circulated quilting magazine.
Fons Americanus
Fons Americanus is a 13-meter fountain by Kara Walker shown in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2019 and 2020, reworking the Victoria Memorial as an allegory of the slave trade.
Fons Clitumni
Fons Clitumni, the sacred spring of the river Clitunno in Umbria, Italy, cult site of the god Clitumnus noted by Pliny the Younger; nearby stands the early medieval Tempietto del Clitunno, a Corinthian-form Christian chapel of disputed 7th-8th-century Lombard date, part of the UNESCO Longobards in Italy site.
Fonseca
Fonseca, stage name of Juan Fernando Fonseca, is a Colombian singer-songwriter born in Bogotá in 1979 who fuses pop with vallenato and cumbia, and has won nine Latin Grammys.
Font
A font is a set of characters sharing one design, historically one size of metal type and today a digital file mapping character codes to glyphs.
Font family (HTML)
Font family in HTML is the named set of typefaces a document requests for text, set through the CSS font-family property as a prioritized list.
Font-du-Buis
La Font-du-Buis, Saze (Gard), France: a Gallo-Roman and barbarian necropolis near Avignon, quarried in 1954 and salvaged by volunteers; 23 late Roman inhumations published by Gagnière and Granier in 1972.
Fontager necropolis
The Fontager necropolis is an ancient burial ground in Roman Gaul, discovered in 1963-1964 at the Château de Fontager in Ponsas, Drôme, in the middle Rhône valley.
Fontaine (Genshin Impact)
Fontaine is the fifth playable nation of Teyvat in Genshin Impact, added in Version 4.0 (August 16, 2023). The Hydro nation of justice, inspired by France, ruled by Archon Focalors, with the Court of Fontaine city and first underwater exploration.
Fontaine progeroid syndrome
Fontaine progeroid syndrome (FPS, OMIM 612289), formerly Gorlin-Chaudhry-Moss and Fontaine-Farriaux syndromes, is an ultra-rare autosomal dominant progeroid disorder caused by de novo SLC25A24 codon 217 variants, with 13 molecularly confirmed cases worldwide.
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau is a Seine-et-Marne commune about 70 km southeast of Paris, home to the François I Renaissance château (UNESCO-listed since 1981) and the largest forest in Île-de-France, a 1998 biosphere reserve with 15–18 million annual visitors.
Fontainebleau et du Gâtinais Biosphere Reserve
Fontainebleau et du Gâtinais Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site designated in 1998, the only biosphere reserve in Île-de-France, covering 159,237 ha around the Fontainebleau forest and Gâtinais French Regional Natural Park.