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Forsythia suspensa
Forsythia suspensa (连翘), weeping forsythia, Oleaceae shrub native to China; golden spring flowers on pendulous hollow-pith branches; source of TCM drug Forsythiae Fructus (lianqiao); parent of Forsythia × intermedia.
Fort Adams
Fort Adams is a large coastal fortification in Newport, Rhode Island, built by the US Army between 1824 and 1857, named after President John Adams and guarding Newport Harbor.
Fort Adams State Park
Fort Adams State Park, Newport, Rhode Island, surrounds historic Fort Adams (1824–1857), the largest U.S. coastal fortification, transferred to the state in 1965; home of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals and Sail Newport.
Fort Aguada
Fort Aguada, also known as Aguada Fortress, is a Portuguese-built coastal fort in Sinquerim, North Goa, India, built between 1609 and 1612 to guard the Mandovi River.
Fort Ancient
Fort Ancient: an archaeological culture of sedentary maize-farming village peoples of the middle Ohio Valley, A.D. 1000–1750 (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia), contemporaneous with but distinct from Mississippian culture; also the name of a Hopewell-era hilltop earthwork in Ohio, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore is a UNESCO World Heritage property combining the Lahore Fort and the Shalimar Gardens, Mughal complexes inscribed together in 1981.
Fort Apache (film)
Fort Apache (1948), John Ford's Western with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple, first of his Cavalry trilogy; based on Bellah's "Massacre," shot in Monument Valley, notable for portraying whites, not Apaches, as villains.
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) is a Daniel Petrie crime drama starring Paul Newman as veteran cop Murphy in the NYPD's 41st Precinct, with Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, and Pam Grier; it sparked community protests and lawsuits.
Fort at Great Wall of Gorgan (Iran)
Forts of the Great Wall of Gorgan (Sadd-e Iskandar, the Red Snake), about 38 Sasanian military forts lining a c. 200 km wall in northern Iran, built 420s-530s AD; Fort 4 alone may have housed some 2,000 soldiers.
Fort Belvoir
Fort Belvoir, formerly Camp A. A. Humphreys, is a US Army installation covering about 8,500 acres in Fairfax County, Virginia, 18 miles southwest of Washington, DC.
Fort Bend County, Texas
Fort Bend County is a county in the Houston metropolitan area of southeastern Texas, with its seat at Richmond. Created in 1837, it had 822,779 residents in 2020.
Fort Bend Independent School District
Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD), formed April 18, 1959 by consolidating Missouri City ISD and Sugar Land ISD, is a Houston-area Texas district serving Sugar Land and Missouri City with about 77,929 students in 83 schools.
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss is a United States Army installation headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Established in 1848, it spans 1.12 million acres and is home to the 1st Armored Division.
Fort Boyard (British game show)
Fort Boyard (British game show): UK adaptation of Jacques Antoine's French format, on Channel 5 1998-2001 with Melinda Messenger and Leslie Grantham, revived by Challenge in 2003 and as CITV's Ultimate Challenge 2012-2014.
Fort Boyard (fortification)
Fort Boyard is a sea fort built on a sandbank between the Île d'Aix and Île d'Oléron off the French Atlantic coast, now famous as a game show setting.
Fort Boyard (game show)
Fort Boyard is a French adventure game show created in 1990 by Jacques Antoine and others, filmed on the real 19th-century Fort Boyard off Charente-Maritime, with teams winning boyards for charity; adapted in over 30 countries.
Fort Bragg, California
Fort Bragg, California: coastal city in Mendocino County incorporated August 5, 1889, named for an 1857 army post on the Mendocino Indian Reservation; former lumber and fishing town, now a tourism hub with Glass Beach and the Skunk Train, distinct from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Fort Bridger
Fort Bridger, Wyoming trading post founded 1843 by Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez on Blacks Fork; emigrant resupply point on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails, later a Mormon way station and U.S. Army post until 1890, now a state historic site.
Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant
The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska, owned by the Omaha Public Power District, generated electricity from 1973 until it shut down in 2016 for economic reasons.
Fort Campbell
Fort Campbell, formerly Camp Campbell, is a United States Army installation straddling the Kentucky–Tennessee border between Hopkinsville and Clarksville, opened in 1942 and home since 1956 to the 101st Airborne Division.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson, an Army installation south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was established in 1942 as Camp Carson, named for Kit Carson. Home of the 4th Infantry Division, it hosts Stryker brigades and the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Fort Clatsop
Fort Clatsop: the Lewis and Clark Expedition's 1805-1806 winter fort on the Netul (Lewis and Clark) River near Astoria, Oregon; fifty feet square, seven rooms, given to Clatsop leader Coboway in March 1806.
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins, Colorado: home rule city and Larimer County seat at the Rocky Mountain foothills on the Cache la Poudre River; founded as Camp Collins in 1864, incorporated 1873, home of Colorado State University, population about 171,500.
Fort Cumberland
Fort Cumberland is an 18th-century bastioned fort at Eastney, Portsmouth, England, built from 1747 and rebuilt 1785–1812; the last fully bastioned fortress built in England, now Historic England's Fort Cumberland Laboratories heritage-science facility.
Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn, a U.S. Army stockade built in 1803 at the Chicago River mouth, was the site of the August 15, 1812 Battle of Fort Dearborn (also called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) during the War of 1812.
Fort Delaware
Fort Delaware is a coastal defense fort on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, completed in 1859 and best known as a Civil War prison.
Fort Detrick
Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army garrison in Frederick, Maryland, home of USAMRIID and NCI Frederick; center of U.S. biowarfare research 1943–1969, later biodefense and cancer research.
Fort Devens
Fort Devens was a U.S. Army installation in Ayer, Harvard, Lancaster, and Shirley, Massachusetts, established 1917, made permanent 1931, closed 1996 under BRAC, now the Devens RFTA and a redeveloped Superfund site.
Fort Dix
Fort Dix, established as Camp Dix in 1917, is a United States Army installation in New Jersey and now the Army portion of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
Fort Drum
Fort Drum is a United States Army installation in northern New York, near Watertown, covering about 168 square miles and home to the 10th Mountain Division.