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Foraminiferal isotope and trace-element proxies

Foraminiferal isotope and trace-element proxies are chemical measurements on foraminiferal shells, such as δ18O, Mg/Ca, and δ11B, used to reconstruct past ocean temperature, salinity, ice volume, and seawater pH.

Foraminiferal sample preparation and picking methods

Foraminiferal sample preparation is the laboratory workflow that turns raw sediment into counted, identified, and mounted foraminifera assemblages, through sieving, picking under a stereomicroscope, and imaging.

Foraminiferal sediments

Foraminiferal sediments are marine sediments and rocks composed mainly of foraminifera shells, accumulating as deep-sea ooze above the calcite compensation depth at a few centimeters per thousand years.

Foraminoplasty

Foraminoplasty is a surgical procedure that enlarges the intervertebral foramen by undercutting the superior articular process and ablating the foraminal ligament, a key step in the TESSYS technique.

Foraminotomy

Foraminotomy is a spinal decompression procedure that enlarges the neural foramen, the opening where a nerve root exits the spine, to relieve compression causing radiating pain, numbness, or weakness.

Foramsulfuron

Foramsulfuron (CAS 173159-57-4), a sulfonylurea ALS-inhibiting herbicide used post-emergence in corn and turf; EU-approved 2020-2035, low mammalian toxicity, highly mobile in soil.

Foran Mining Corporation

Foran Mining Corporation was a Vancouver, British Columbia-based mineral exploration company whose flagship asset was the McIlvenna Bay copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit in Saskatchewan; Eldorado Gold acquired it in 2026 for about C$3.8 billion.

Forbes

Forbes, American business magazine founded 1917, known for the World's Billionaires, Forbes 400, and 30 Under 30 lists, its 2010 contributor model, majority ownership by Integrated Whale Media since 2014, and the 2026 firing of editor Randall Lane.

Forbes 30 Under 30

Forbes 30 Under 30, also styled Forbes Under 30, is Forbes magazine's annual list of 600 US honorees under 30 across 20 categories, launched in 2011 by Randall Lane, with regional Asia and Europe editions, judge-based selection, and notable alumni and fraud controversies.

Forbes 400

The Forbes 400 is Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans, published since 1982; the 2025 edition put combined wealth at a record $6.6 trillion.

Forbes Burnham

Forbes Burnham, born Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, was a Guyanese lawyer and politician who led Guyana to independence in 1966 and ruled it until his death in 1985.

Forbes Celebrity 100

Forbes Celebrity 100, annual 1999-2020 ranking of the world's most powerful celebrities by pretax earnings plus press, TV, magazine, and social media metrics; topped by Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Mayweather, and Kanye West before retirement.

Forbes family

The Forbes family was a Boston merchant dynasty whose members made their fortune in the 19th-century China trade, leading Russell & Co. and investing wealth in American railroads.

Forbes Field

Forbes Field, Pittsburgh ballpark in Oakland, home of the Pirates 1909-1970; first all-steel-and-concrete park, site of Mazeroski's 1960 Series-ending homer, Babe Ruth's last three home runs, demolished 1971-72.

Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models

Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models: annual pretax earnings ranking published 2003 to 2018, dominated by Gisele Bündchen (record $47 million, 2014) and ended with Kendall Jenner at $22.5 million in December 2018.

Forbidden (band)

Forbidden (band): American thrash metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area, founded 1985 as Forbidden Evil; best known for Forbidden Evil (1988) and Twisted Into Form (1990), reformed 2023.

Forbidden City (film)

The Forbidden City (La città proibita) is a 2025 Italian martial arts action film by Gabriele Mainetti, starring stuntwoman Yaxi Liu as Mei, who searches Rome's Esquilino for her trafficked sister; released in Italy 13 March 2025.

Forbidden City (紫禁城)

The Forbidden City (紫禁城) is the former imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in central Beijing, home to 24 emperors from 1420 until the monarchy ended in 1912.

Forbidden City Cop (大内密探零零发)

Forbidden City Cop (大內密探零零發, aka 鹿鼎大帝) is a 1996 Hong Kong mo lei tau action comedy co-directed by Stephen Chow and Vincent Kok, a James Bond spoof in which agent Ling Ling Fat saves the emperor with his inventions.

Forbidden Door (2023)

Forbidden Door 2023, AEW x NJPW joint pay-per-view, June 25, 2023, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto; second annual event; record AEW live gate; Ospreay beat Omega for IWGP US title; Danielson submitted Okada.

Forbidden Door (2024)

Forbidden Door (2024) was a joint AEW and NJPW pay-per-view held on June 30, 2024 at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, the third in the series.

Forbidden Door (2025)

Forbidden Door (2025): AEW x NJPW pay-per-view, August 24, 2025, O2 Arena London; attendance 18,992; Brodido won the AEW Tag Team titles; Lights Out steel cage main event; Page, Storm, Moné retained.

Forbidden Door (2026)

Forbidden Door (2026), June 28, SAP Center San Jose, AEW x NJPW x CMLL x STARDOM PPV; Ospreay and Moné won Owen Hart finals, Team Briscoe won the steel cage, attendance 9,082.

Forbidden Fairytale

Forbidden Fairytale (동화지만 청불입니다) is a 2025 South Korean sex comedy directed by Lee Jong-suk, starring Park Ji-hyun, Choi Si-won, and Sung Dong-il, about a pornography censor forced to write adult web novels to repay a car-repair debt; released January 8, 2025, 109 minutes.

Forbidden Forest (video game)

Forbidden Forest is a 1983 side-view action game for the Commodore 64 by Paul Norman and Cospi, in which an archer fights monsters to defeat the Demogorgon.

Forbidden Forest Festival (festival)

Forbidden Forest is a UK electronic music festival of house, techno, and drum and bass, held in the woods of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, since 2016.

Forbidden fruit

The forbidden fruit, also called the apple of knowledge, is the unnamed fruit of the tree of knowledge in Genesis, eaten by Adam and Eve in the Fall.

Forbidden Fruits

Forbidden Fruits is a 2026 American horror comedy, Meredith Alloway's directorial debut, adapted from Lily Houghton's play; mall employees at Free Eden run a witch cult, starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, and Alexandra Shipp.

Forbidden Kingdom (festival)

Forbidden Kingdom, also billed as Forbidden Kingdom Music Festival, is a bass music festival founded in South Florida in 2019 and held at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando since 2021.

Forbidden knowledge

Forbidden knowledge: knowledge considered too sensitive, dangerous, or taboo to produce, a concept in sociology of science from Kempner, Merz, and Bosk's 2011 interview study, related to agnotology and undone science.