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Foundation of Alexandria
The foundation of Alexandria, also called the founding of Alexandria, was Alexander the Great's establishment of the city in 331 BC, which became the Ptolemaic capital.
Foundation of Dur-Sharrukin
The foundation of Dur-Sharrukin was the creation of an entirely new Assyrian capital by King Sargon II, begun in 717 BCE at modern Khorsabad in northern Iraq.
Foundation of Erebuni
The foundation of Erebuni was the founding of a fortress city by Argishti I, king of Urartu, in 782 BC on the hill of Arin Berd, now in Yerevan, Armenia.
Foundation of Nimrud (Kalhu) as capital
The foundation of Nimrud as capital, also called the refoundation of Calah, was Ashurnasirpal II's 879 BC rebuilding of ruined Kalhu as the Assyrian capital.
Foundation of Teishebaini
The Foundation of Teishebaini was the founding of the Urartian fortress city Teishebaini by King Rusa II near present-day Yerevan in the early 7th century BC.
Foundation of the Eanna precinct at Uruk
The foundation of the Eanna precinct at Uruk was the successive monumental rebuilding of the goddess Inanna's sacred precinct at Uruk, Iraq, c. 3300–3000 BC.
Foundation of the Indian National Congress
The Foundation of the Indian National Congress (भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस की स्थापना) was the party's first meeting, held at Bombay from 28 December 1885 under president W. C. Bonnerjee.
Foundation of the kingdom of Urartu
The foundation of the kingdom of Urartu was the mid-9th-century BC unification of tribes around Lake Van, first attested under King Arame and consolidated by Sarduri I at Tushpa.
Foundation of the Madurai Sultanate
The foundation of the Madurai Sultanate was Jalal-ud-din Ahsan Shah's declaration of independence from Muhammad bin Tughluq's Delhi Sultanate at Madurai around 1335, founding a line that lasted until Vijayanagara destroyed it in the 1370s.
Foundation of the temple complex at Musawwarat es-Sufra
Musawwarat es-Sufra is a large temple complex of the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan's Butana steppe, built mainly from the late 4th to 2nd centuries BC under King Arnekhamani.
Foundation of the United Arab Emirates
Foundation of the United Arab Emirates: creation of the UAE federation on 2 December 1971 by six Trucial States, with Ras Al Khaimah joining 10 February 1972, after Britain's 1968 East of Suez withdrawal announcement and the 18 July 1971 Union Accord.
Foundation of Wallachia
The foundation of Wallachia, or Țara Românească, was the unification of polities south of the Carpathians in the early 14th century under Basarab I, confirmed by his victory over Hungary at Posada in 1330.
Foundation Stone (אבן השתייה)
Foundation Stone (אבן השתייה, Even ha-Shetiyah), also called Even Shetiyah, is the rabbinic stone of the Jerusalem Temple's Holy of Holies, first named in Mishnah Yoma 5:2, later mythologized as the world's foundation and traditionally identified with the bedrock under Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock.
Foundational Black Americans
Foundational Black Americans (FBA), a term coined by Tariq Nasheed, describes Black Americans descended from people enslaved in the United States, related to ADOS, and central to lineage-based reparations eligibility debates.
Foundationalism
Foundationalism is an epistemological view holding that some basic beliefs are justified without depending on other beliefs, and all other justified beliefs ultimately rest on them.
Foundations of Economic Analysis
Foundations of Economic Analysis is a 1947 treatise by Paul Samuelson, published by Harvard University Press, that recast economic theory as constrained maximization and served for decades as a core graduate microeconomics textbook.
Foundations of Geopolitics
Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia, also known as Osnovy geopolitiki, is a 1997 book by Aleksandr Dugin setting out a program for Russian dominance over Eurasia.
Foundations of Leninism
Foundations of Leninism (Основы ленинизма) is a 1924 series of lectures by Stalin defining Leninism as Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolution.
Foundations of mathematics
Foundations of mathematics, also known as foundations of math, studies the logical and set-theoretic frameworks underlying mathematics, from Russell's paradox and Gödel's incompleteness theorems to modern proof assistants.
Foundations of Physics (journal)
Foundations of Physics is a peer-reviewed Springer journal covering the conceptual and fundamental theories of modern physics, founded in 1970 by Henry Margenau and Wolfgang Yourgrau.
Foundations of Science
Foundations of Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer in the Netherlands that covers methodological and philosophical topics about the structure and growth of science.
Founder effect
Founder effect: random shift in allele frequencies when a small group founds a new isolated population, an extreme case of genetic drift. Classic examples include Ellis-van Creveld syndrome in the Old Order Amish, traced to one 18th-century immigrant couple.
Founderful
Founderful, formerly Wingman Ventures, is a Zurich-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests exclusively in Swiss startups, closing a $140 million Fund II in November 2024.
Founders Day (film)
Founders Day is a 2024 American political slasher film directed by Erik Bloomquist and co-written with Carson Bloomquist, about a masked killer terrorizing the town of Fairwood during a mayoral election; released by Dark Sky Films, it scored 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, known for backing SpaceX, Palantir, and Airbnb.
Founders Future
Founders Future is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Marc Menasé, investing in early-stage and growth technology companies across Europe, with about $400 million under management.
Founders Table Restaurant Group (parent of Chop't)
Founders Table Restaurant Group, formerly Chop't Holdings, LLC, is a New York restaurant company that owns the Chop't salad chain and Dos Toros Taqueria, launched in January 2020.
Founders4Schools
Founders4Schools (F4S) is a London-based British education charity, registered in 2015 by entrepreneur Sherry Coutu, whose platform connects schools with volunteer business professionals for career encounters.
Founding Charter of Charles University
The Founding Charter of Charles University (Zakládací listina Univerzity Karlovy) is the deed by which Charles IV founded a studium generale in Prague on 7 April 1348.
Founding Fathers of the United States
The Founding Fathers of the United States are the political leaders of the Revolutionary era who declared independence, drafted the Constitution, and established the first federal government.