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Fortuna Muliebris, T.
Fortuna Muliebris, the Roman "Fortune of women," was a goddess protecting married women, whose Via Latina temple tradition says matrons founded in 487 BC after Coriolanus lifted his siege.
Fortuna Sittard
Fortuna Sittard, Dutch Eredivisie club from Sittard, Limburg, formed 1 July 1968 from merger of Fortuna '54 and RKSV Sittardia; cup finals 1984 and 1999, promoted 1982 and 2018.
Fortuna Tessera
Fortuna Tessera is a 2,801 km-wide deformed tessera region of Ishtar Terra, Venus, IAU-named 1985, beside Maxwell Montes; studied for ribbons, crustal thickening, and semiconductor-mineral emissivity.
Fortunata y Jacinta
Fortunata y Jacinta is Benito Pérez Galdós's 1887 four-tome realist novel about two Madrid women of different classes linked to Juanito Santa Cruz. Adapted for stage by López Aranda (1969), film by Angelino Fons (1970), and a landmark 1980 TVE series by Mario Camus.
Fortunate Isles
Fortunate Isles (Fortunatae Insulae, makáron nêsoi): mythical Atlantic paradise islands of Greco-Roman tradition, from Hesiod to Ptolemy's six islands, most closely identified with the Canary Islands.
Fortunate Son
Fortunate Son: 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival song written by John Fogerty, B-side of "Down on the Corner" on Willy and the Poor Boys; a protest against draft class privilege, peaked at No. 3, National Recording Registry inductee.
Fortunato Ciardiello
Fortunato Ciardiello, born in Naples in 1960, is an Italian medical oncologist and professor at the University of Campania whose work established RAS mutation testing before anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer.
Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero was an Italian Futurist painter, designer, and illustrator who co-wrote the 1915 Reconstruction of the Universe manifesto and designed the Campari Soda bottle.
Fortune (Chris Brown album)
Fortune is Chris Brown's fifth studio album, released July 3, 2012 on RCA Records. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 134,000 copies, gave Brown his first UK Number 1, scored 38 on Metacritic, and was Grammy-nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Fortune (magazine)
Fortune, American business magazine founded by Henry Luce, first issue February 1930; creator of the Fortune 500 list; sold by Meredith in 2018 for $150 million to Chatchaval Jiaravanon; six print issues yearly, 28 million digital users.
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list published by Fortune magazine since 1955, ranking the 500 largest US companies, public and private, by total revenue.
Fortune cookie
Fortune cookie: a crisp folded wafer with a paper fortune, served in Chinese-American restaurants. Also called tsujiura senbei in Japan. Japanese origin, American invention, rare in China; WWII internment shifted production to Chinese-American makers.
Fortune Electric Co., Ltd.
Fortune Electric Co., Ltd. (华城电机股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese heavy electrical equipment manufacturer of transformers and switchgear, founded in 1969, headquartered in Zhongli, Taoyuan, and supplying most Taiwanese transformer exports.
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん)
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん, Gyokou no Nikuko-chan) is a 2021 Studio 4°C anime film directed by Ayumu Watanabe, adapted from Kanako Nishi's novel, produced by Sanma Akashiya, released June 11, 2021, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize winner.
Fortune favours the bold
Fortune favours the bold, also rendered fortune favours the brave, is a proverb stating luck helps the daring, with Latin roots in Terence's Phormio and Virgil's Aeneid.
Fortune Global 500
The Fortune Global 500 is an annual Fortune magazine ranking of the world's 500 largest corporations by total revenue, first compiled in 1990 as the global counterpart of the US-only Fortune 500.
Fortune Gordien
Fortune Gordien (Fortune Everett Gordien, 1922–1990), American discus thrower: four-time world record holder (best 59.28 m, 1953), Olympic bronze 1948, silver 1956, fourth 1952, also a shot putter, coach, and actor.
Fortune India 500
The Fortune India 500 is an annual ranking of the 500 largest Indian companies, listed and unlisted, by total revenue, published by Fortune India since December 2010.
Fortune-telling
Fortune-telling is the commercial practice of predicting a person's life or future for a fee through astrology, tarot, palmistry, and numerology, distinct from religious divination.
Forty acres and a mule
Forty acres and a mule refers to Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15 of January 16, 1865, granting freed families possessory title to 40-acre plots on 400,000 acres of coastal land, reversed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and central to later reparations debates.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns (1957), also known by its working title Woman with a Whip, is a Samuel Fuller black-and-white CinemaScope Western starring Barbara Stanwyck as rancher Jessica Drummond, who rules Cochise County with forty hired guns, and Barry Sullivan as marshal Griff Bonnell.
Forty Hadith genre (arba'iniyyat)
The Forty Hadith genre (Arabic al-arba'un hadith, Persian chihil hadith) is a hadith literature genre of forty selected sayings of Muhammad, practiced since the ninth century.
Forty Licks
Forty Licks (2002) is the Rolling Stones' double-CD, 40-track career-spanning compilation on ABKCO/Virgin, the first to unite their Decca-era and post-1970 catalogs, adding four new songs and selling over 7 million copies.
Forty Six & 2
Forty Six & 2 is a 1996 Tool song, fifth track on Ænima, referencing Drunvalo Melchizedek's 46+2 chromosome idea and Jung's shadow, with a Justin Chancellor bass riff in D Phrygian Dominant.
Forty Years' War
The Forty Years' War (Burmese: အနှစ်လေးဆယ်စစ်) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Ava and the Hanthawaddy kingdom of Pegu, fought in what is now Myanmar from 1385 to 1424.
Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India
Forty-second Amendment Act, 1976: Emergency-era Indian constitutional amendment, the "mini-Constitution", that added socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted Fundamental Duties, and had its judicial-review clauses struck down in Minerva Mills (1980).
Forty-seven rōnin (四十七士)
Forty-seven rōnin (四十七士, Akō rōshi), the Akō retainers who killed Kira Yoshinaka in Edo in 1702–03 to avenge their lord Asano Naganori; sentenced to seppuku, immortalized as Chūshingura.
Forty-Two Kids
Forty-Two Kids is a 1907 oil painting by the American realist George Bellows, showing boys swimming and sunbathing on a rundown wharf over New York's East River.
Forugh Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad was a leading Iranian modernist poet and filmmaker who published five collections and directed The House is Black in 1962. Her work explored love and gender.
Forughi Bastami
Forughi Bastami (فروغی بسطامی) was a Persian poet of the Qajar era, a leading ghazal writer born in Karbala in 1798 who died in Tehran in 1857.