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Fontainebleau Las Vegas
Fontainebleau Las Vegas, briefly planned as The Drew Las Vegas, is a 67-story luxury hotel and casino on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 2023.
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
Fontainebleau Miami Beach is a luxury resort hotel designed by Morris Lapidus, opened in 1954 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Fontainebleau State Park
Fontainebleau State Park is a 2,800-acre Louisiana state park in Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, known for its sandy beach and 1829 sugar mill ruins.
Fontaines D.C.
Fontaines D.C., Irish post-punk band from Dublin formed 2017 at BIMM Institute; members Chatten, O'Connell, Curley, Deegan, Coll; albums Dogrel through Romance to Dopamine Chamber (2026).
Fontaines Salées
Fontaines Salées, archaeological site at Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay, Yonne, France: Neolithic oak-trunk salt-water wells (19 found, one felled 2238 BC) beneath a Gallo-Roman spring sanctuary and double baths, destroyed in the 3rd-4th century.
Fontan procedure
Fontan procedure: final palliative operation for single-ventricle congenital heart disease, connecting systemic venous return directly to the pulmonary arteries; staged after Norwood and Glenn, with venous hypertension and late liver, lymphatic, and thrombotic complications.
Fontan-associated liver disease
Fontan-associated liver disease (FALD), congestive hepatopathy after the Fontan operation for single ventricle heart disease; universal fibrosis, cirrhosis in about 21%, HCC risk, biopsy-based staging.
Fontana (Martian crater)
Fontana, Gazetteer Feature ID 1991, is an IAU-approved impact crater on Mars about 80 km across, named for Italian astronomer Francesco Fontana; a separate lunar crater shares the name.
Fontana Dam
Fontana Dam is a 480-foot hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in western North Carolina, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority during World War II to power aluminum production.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, or Fountain of the Four Rivers, is a Baroque fountain by Bernini at the center of Piazza Navona in Rome.
Fontana dell'Acqua Felice
The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, also called the Fountain of Moses, is a monumental fountain in Rome built in 1587 as the terminal of the Acqua Felice aqueduct.
Fontana, California
Fontana, California: a San Bernardino County city about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, founded 1913, incorporated 1952, shaped by Kaiser Steel (1942-1984), now a logistics hub of over 208,000 people.
Fontane-Preis
The Fontane-Preis, or Fontane Prize, is the name of several German literary awards honoring the writer Theodor Fontane, the best known a biennial prize in Neuruppin.
Fontanelle
Fontanelles (soft spots, fonticuli cranii) are the six membrane-covered gaps between skull bones in fetuses and infants, closing after birth; the anterior fontanelle closes around 4 to 26 months and signals raised pressure or dehydration when bulging or sunken.
Fontans
Fontans is a commune (INSEE 48063) in Lozère, Occitanie, France, in the Margeride plateau near Saint-Chély-d'Apcher; about 227 inhabitants, elevation ~1,031 m, with a classified Romanesque-Gothic church of Saint-Pierre and an ancient temple site.
Fontenay Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay (Abbaye cistercienne de Fontenay) is a former Cistercian monastery in Marmagne, northern Burgundy, France, founded by Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 in a marshy valley.
Fontenelle Dam
Fontenelle Dam is an earthfill dam on the Green River in Wyoming, completed in 1964 and best known for a near-failure from seepage in 1965.
Fonterra
Fonterra Co-operative Group, New Zealand's farmer-owned dairy cooperative formed in 2001 under DIRA, collects about 80% of NZ milk, exports 95% of it, sets the regulated farmgate milk price, and sold its Mainland consumer brands to Lactalis for $3.845 billion in 2026.
Fontevraud Abbey
Fontevraud Abbey (Abbaye de Fontevraud) is a former double monastery in Maine-et-Loire, France, founded in 1101 by Robert of Arbrissel, later the burial church of the Plantagenets.
Fontibón
Fontibón is the ninth locality of Bogotá, Colombia, in the city's northwest. A former Muisca settlement and colonial town, it was annexed to Bogotá in 1954.
Fontina
Fontina is an Italian PDO semi-cooked cheese from Valle d'Aosta, made from raw whole milk of Valdostana cows, aged at least 80 days, with Fontina DOP Alpeggio and Lunga Stagionatura variants.
Fontinalis Capital Partners
Fontinalis Capital Partners, formerly Fontinalis Partners, LLC, is a Detroit-based venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobility, co-founded in 2009 by Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company and four partners.
Fonts on Macintosh
Fonts on Macintosh covers the typeface formats and rendering tools Apple has used since 1984, moving from Susan Kare's bitmap fonts to TrueType in 1991 and OpenType today.
Fontvieille, Monaco
Fontvieille is Monaco's southwestern district built on reclaimed land (1966–1973) under Prince Rainier III, designed by Manfredi Nicoletti. It hosts Stade Louis II, the heliport, a marina, the highest state-housing share, and the Principality's richest green space.
Fonueha Planitia
Fonueha Planitia is a 3,000 km wide lowland plain (planitia) on Venus at 44°S, 48°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named after a Samoan folktale blind old woman who became a shark.
Fonzie
Fonzie, or the Fonz, is Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed Milwaukee greaser played by Henry Winkler on ABC's Happy Days (1974–1984); a fifth-billed minor role who became the show's star and gave English "jump the shark."
Fonzworth Bentley
Fonzworth Bentley, stage name of Derek Watkins (born 1974, Atlanta), is an American musician, actor, and author, formerly Sean Combs' valet on Making the Band 2, host of MTV's From G's to Gents, and Kanye West collaborator.
Foo fighter
Foo fighters were unexplained glowing objects, often red or orange balls of light, that Allied pilots reported beside their aircraft on night missions over Europe in late 1944 and 1945.
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters: American rock band formed 1994 in Seattle by ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl; debut album recorded solo, 12 albums, 15 Grammys, 32 million sales; drummers Goldsmith, Hawkins, Freese, Rubin.
Foo Fighters (album)
Foo Fighters (1995) is the self-titled debut album by Foo Fighters, recorded solo by Dave Grohl in a week at Robert Lang Studios, released July 4, 1995 on Roswell/Capitol, platinum in the US.