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Fouad Haddad
Fouad Haddad (فؤاد حداد) was an Egyptian poet and writer (1927–1985), a founder of epic colloquial poetry in Egypt, best known for the Ramadan song "Al-Masaharati".
Foucault pendulum
A Foucault pendulum is a pendulum free to swing in any direction, used to demonstrate Earth's rotation, first shown by Léon Foucault in Paris in 1851.
Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault) is Umberto Eco's 1988 second novel about three Milan editors whose invented Templar conspiracy takes over their lives; published by Bompiani, translated 1989.
Fouga CM.170 Magister
The Fouga CM.170 Magister, also known as the Fouga Magister, is a French two-seat jet trainer with a V-shaped butterfly tail, first flown in 1952.
Fougères
Fougères, a commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France, is a medieval frontier town of about 20,300 people, dominated by the Château de Fougères, one of Europe's largest preserved medieval fortresses, and formerly the French shoe capital.
Fouillouse
Fouillouse is the name of several places in France: a village at about 1,900 m in the Ubaye valley of the Hautes-Alpes, a commune in the Loire near Saint-Étienne, and a commune in Lozère.
FouKi
FouKi, born Léo Fougères in 1996 in Montreal, is a Quebec rapper and songwriter who has released six albums since 2018 and won Félix awards for "Copilote".
Foul (basketball)
A foul in basketball is illegal personal contact with an opponent. Excessive contact draws flagrant fouls, and players are disqualified after six fouls in the NBA or five under FIBA rules.
Foul ball
Foul ball: a batted ball outside fair territory in baseball. Dead ball, strike unless count has two strikes; foul tip caught by catcher stays live. Modern definition dates to 1920; foul-strike rule adopted 1901-03.
Foul Bay (Red Sea)
Foul Bay (Acathartos Kolpos, Sinus Immundus) is a reef-fringed bay on Egypt's western Red Sea coast, running over 90 km from Berenice to the Sudanese border.
Foul Play (1978 film)
Foul Play (1978) is a Colin Higgins comedy-thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase as a librarian and detective facing a plot to assassinate the Pope in San Francisco; a Hitchcock homage that ranked among 1978's top-grossing films.
Fouls and misconduct (association football)
Fouls and misconduct in association football are the offenses governed by Law 12 of the Laws of the Game, punished with free kicks, penalty kicks, and yellow or red cards.
Found (2012 film)
Found (2012) is an American coming-of-age horror film directed by Scott Schirmer, based on Todd Rigney's novel, starring Gavin Brown and Ethan Philbeck; it played 40+ festivals, won 15 best-film awards, and holds 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Found (Shameless)
"Found" (S09E14, aired March 11, 2019) is the ninth-season finale of the US series Shameless and Emmy Rossum's final episode as Fiona Gallagher; written and directed by John Wells, it sends Fiona leaving Chicago with echoes of the pilot.
Found (TV series)
Found (2023–2025) is an NBC crime drama created by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, starring Shanola Hampton as crisis manager Gabi Mosely, who finds overlooked missing people while secretly imprisoning her kidnapper Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). Canceled after 35 episodes; now on Netflix.
Found footage (film technique)
Found footage is a film technique presenting fiction as recovered recordings such as camcorder tapes, security video, or phone clips. Known from Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and the screenlife offshoot, it is chiefly a horror subgenre.
Found Heaven
Found Heaven is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray, released April 5, 2024 on Republic Records. A 13-track, 36-minute retro album of 1980s-style synth-pop, glam rock, and new wave produced mainly by Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, and Shawn Everett.
Found poetry
Found poetry is poetry created by reframing words, phrases, or passages from existing texts as poems, a form prominent in the 20th century and likened to a collage.
Foundation (Asimov novel)
Foundation is a 1951 science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov and the first in his Foundation series, introducing the mathematician Hari Seldon and the science of psychohistory.
Foundation (cosmetics)
Foundation, also known as fond de teint, is a flesh-toned cosmetic applied to the face to even skin tone and conceal imperfections, sold as liquids, creams, and powders.
Foundation (engineering)
A foundation, or building foundation, is the part of a structure that transfers loads into soil or rock without shear failure or damaging settlement, either shallow or deep.
Foundation (nonprofit)
Foundation (nonprofit): a nonprofit corporation or charitable trust making grants for charitable purposes; in US tax law usually a private foundation under 501(c)(3), subject to a 5% payout, 1.39% investment excise tax, and public Form 990-PF filings, distinct from donor-advised funds.
Foundation (TV series)
Foundation is an Apple TV+ science-fiction series (2021–present) created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, adapting Isaac Asimov's novels; Jared Harris plays Hari Seldon, and a fourth season was renewed in September 2025.
Foundation (video game)
Foundation is a gridless medieval city-building game by Polymorph Games for PC, in Steam Early Access from February 2019 and fully released January 31, 2025, known for organic city growth, modular monuments, and the Harvest Festival DLC.
Foundation and geotechnical failure of bridges
Foundation and geotechnical failure of bridges is collapse or severe distress caused by the soil and rock supporting a bridge, through settlement, liquefaction, lateral spreading, and embankment instability.
Foundation Capital Leadership
Foundation Capital Leadership is a series of Delaware co-investment venture funds that invest alongside Foundation Capital's main funds; Fund IV raised $175 million by June 2025.
Foundation Charter of the University of Pécs (1367)
The Foundation Charter of the University of Pécs (Pécsi egyetem alapítólevele) was issued by Pope Urban V at Viterbo on 1 September 1367, creating the first university in Hungary.
Foundation figures
Foundation figures are cast copper peg figurines of rulers or deities that Mesopotamian builders buried in temple and palace foundations, above all in Early Dynastic Sumer.
Foundation Medicine
Foundation Medicine is a cancer clinical-genomics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2010 by Broad Institute and Harvard researchers, known for FoundationOne CDx and wholly owned by Roche since 2018.
Foundation of Akhetaten
The foundation of Akhetaten was the creation, in year 5 of Akhenaten's reign around 1347 BCE, of a purpose-built royal capital in Middle Egypt, the modern Amarna.