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Fortnight
A fortnight is a period of two weeks, or fourteen consecutive days, chiefly used in British English and rare in American English, where "two weeks" is normal.
Fortnight (song)
Fortnight: 2024 Taylor Swift song featuring Post Malone, lead single and opener of The Tortured Poets Department; two weeks at Hot 100 number one, Grammy-nominated Song and Record of the Year.
Fortnite
Fortnite is a free-to-play online multiplayer game developed and published by Epic Games, first released in 2017, with over 350 million players and modes including Battle Royale and Creative.
Fortnite Ballistic
Fortnite Ballistic: Epic Games' first-person, round-based 5v5 tactical shooter mode in Fortnite, launched in Early Access December 11, 2024 with the Rift Point Device objective; removed April 16, 2026.
Fortnite Battle Royale
Fortnite Battle Royale is Epic Games' free-to-play battle royale game, released in 2017, in which 100 players fight on one shrinking island until a single player or squad remains.
Fortnite Championship Series
Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS), also called Fortnite Champion Series, is Epic Games' annual global Fortnite Battle Royale esports circuit since August 2019, with Majors, Last Chance Qualifiers, a Global Championship, and a 2026 prize pool over $10,000,000.
Fortnite Festival
Fortnite Festival (Festival Main Stage, Jam Stage) is a free Harmonix-developed rhythm game mode in Fortnite, launched December 9, 2023, with licensed Jam Tracks, Pro Lead/Pro Bass guitar-controller parts, and Pro Drums MIDI support.
Fortnite Friday
Fortnite Friday is a 2020 American internet talk show on Twitch and YouTube, created and hosted by streamer ConnorEatsPants, whose celebrity interviews are conducted while playing Fortnite.
Fortnite seasonal events
Fortnite seasonal events are Epic Games' recurring content cycles: chapters of seasons every two to three months, Battle Passes, one-off live events like the 2018 Rocket Launch, and annual Winterfest and Fortnitemares events.
Fortnite World Cup
The Fortnite World Cup was the inaugural Fortnite world championship, held by Epic Games at Arthur Ashe Stadium in July 2019 with a $30 million prize pool.
Fortnite: Save the World
Fortnite: Save the World is Fortnite's original PvE co-op campaign, up to four players building forts against monster hordes. Announced 2011, Early Access July 2017, premium until free-to-play April 16, 2026; four hero classes, Storm King boss.
Fortnum & Mason
Fortnum & Mason: British luxury food retailer founded 1707 in Piccadilly, London by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason; only department store earning most revenue from food and drink; owned via Wittington by the Garfield Weston Foundation; holds two royal warrants and ships to 120+ countries.
Fortran
Fortran, short for "formula translation," is a compiled programming language created at IBM and released for the IBM 704 in 1957; it remains dominant in high-performance computing, climate modeling, and engineering simulation.
Fortran 77
Fortran 77 is the 1978 standardized version of the Fortran programming language that added structured control flow and remained the dominant Fortran dialect for over a decade.
Fortrea
Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) is a global contract research organization spun off from Labcorp on June 30, 2023, trading from July 3, 2023. Formerly Covance and Labcorp Drug Development, it provides phase I-IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, and decentralized trial services; FY2025 revenue $2,723.4 million.
Fortress
Fortress is a 1992 science fiction prison-break film directed by Stuart Gordon, starring Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, and Kurtwood Smith, and filmed in Queensland, Australia.
Fortress Besieged
Fortress Besieged (围城, Weicheng) is a satirical novel by Qian Zhongshu, published in Shanghai in 1947, following Fang Hongjian through courtship, sham academia, and a disintegrating marriage.
Fortress Investment Group
Fortress Investment Group is a New York-based alternative asset manager founded in 1998, managing about $54 billion and the first US hedge fund to go public in 2007.
Fortress of Louisbourg
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site: Parks Canada reconstruction in Nova Scotia of a French fortified town founded 1713, captured by Britain in 1745 and 1758, demolished, and partly rebuilt from 1961 as North America's largest historical reconstruction.
Fortress of Solitude
Fortress of Solitude, Superman's hidden DC Comics headquarters and retreat, first named in Action Comics #241 (1958), inspired by Doc Savage's 1932 fortress; crystalline movie version from 1978, Antarctic in 1989–2005, Arctic since 2006.
Fortresse
Fortresse is a Swiss traditional hunt board game, a reduced variant of Asalto, played on the Fox and Geese board with 2 defenders against 13 soldiers; rules recorded by Gabbud in 1917 and reconstructed in Ludii (DLP.Games.1265).
Fortresses of Lower Nubia
The Fortresses of Lower Nubia, also called the Fortress network of the Second Cataract, are Egyptian Middle Kingdom forts along the Nile built in the 12th Dynasty.
Fortrex (Fortrex Solutions / Fortrex Sanitation Holdings, LLC)
Fortrex, formerly Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), is a Georgia-based company providing outsourced cleaning, sanitation, and food-safety chemicals for food processing plants across the United States and Canada.
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions: Ghana's serial UNESCO World Heritage site of 28 fortified trading posts (1482-1786) along 500 km of coast, inscribed 1979 for the gold and slave trade.
Fortum
Fortum is a Finnish energy company, the third-largest power generator and largest electricity retailer in the Nordics with 2.0 million customers, focused on hydropower and nuclear.
Fortun hydroelectric plant
The Fortun hydroelectric plant is a Norwegian hydropower complex in Luster, Vestland, built 1959–1963 to power the Årdal aluminum smelter, with the 270 MW Skagen station as its main plant.
Fortuna
Fortuna (Fors), Roman goddess of chance and luck identified with Greek Tyche; no flamen or archaic feast-day, cults at Praeneste and Antium, cornucopia and rudder iconography, Isis-Fortuna syncretism, and the medieval wheel of Fortune from Boethius.
Fortuna Arena
Fortuna Arena, formerly Eden Arena and Sinobo Stadium, is Slavia Prague's 19,370-seat football stadium in Prague-Vršovice, the Czech Republic's largest, opened 2008 on the old Stadion Eden site and named Fortuna Arena since 2022.
Fortuna Düsseldorf
Fortuna Düsseldorf (Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V.), German football club founded 1895, 2. Bundesliga side at MERKUR SPIEL-ARENA; German champions 1933, DFB-Pokal 1979 and 1980, 1979 Cup Winners' Cup final.
Fortuna Fossae
Fortuna Fossae is an IAU-approved fossa (long, narrow depression) on Mars near the equator at 4.15°N, 266.90°E, about 330 km across, named from Antoniadi's 1930 albedo map and radar-dark in Arecibo imagery.