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Founding of Yasodharapura
The founding of Yasodharapura (យសោធរបុរៈ) was King Yasovarman I's late 9th-century relocation of the Khmer capital from Hariharalaya to the Angkor area around Phnom Bakheng, which remained the empire's seat for five centuries.
Founding treaties of intergovernmental organizations
Founding treaties of intergovernmental organizations are the agreements by which states create standing bodies, like the UN Charter, signed in 1945 and in force that October.
Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital was a London institution founded by Thomas Coram, chartered in 1739 to care for and educate abandoned children; it operated until 1954.
Foundress behavior and colony founding in social wasps
Foundress behavior in social wasps is the spring founding of new paper nests by overwintered females, singly or in groups, with group founding improving survival.
Foundry
A foundry, also known as an iron foundry, is an industrial facility where metal is melted and poured into molds to produce castings, most often iron, aluminum, or zinc.
Foundry Group
Foundry Group was a Boulder, Colorado early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006, investing in over 200 companies including Fitbit and Zynga before winding down in 2024.
Foundry model
The foundry model is a semiconductor business model in which a company manufactures chips only from customer designs and sells none of its own, pioneered by TSMC in 1987.
Foundry Venture Capital
Foundry Venture Capital is the SEC fund-filing name of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm founded in 2007 and shut down in 2024.
Foundry-Logic
Foundry-Logic is a Washington, DC energy company founded in 2025 and led by CEO Brian Deese that builds an energy services platform to operate, maintain, and upgrade energy systems.
Fountain
A fountain is a structure that issues pressurized water into a basin or the air, used for ornament, drinking water, and cooling in gardens and public squares.
Fountain (Duchamp)
Fountain (Fontaine), Marcel Duchamp's 1917 readymade: a porcelain urinal laid on its back and signed "R. Mutt 1917", rejected by the Society of Independent Artists, known through a Stieglitz photograph and eleven authorized replicas.
Fountain code
A fountain code is a rateless erasure code that generates a limitless stream of encoded symbols, letting a receiver recover a message from any sufficiently large set received.
Fountain Life, LLC
Fountain Life, LLC is an Orlando, Florida company selling membership-based longevity diagnostics, founded in 2020 by physician William Kapp with Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins.
Fountain of Anna Perenna
Fountain of Anna Perenna (Fonte di Anna Perenna): Roman spring sanctuary at Piazza Euclide, Rome, found in 1999; dedicated to Anna Perenna's nymphs, later used for magic, with defixiones, wax figurines, and a copper potion pot.
Fountain of Neptune, Bologna
The Fountain of Neptune (Fontana del Nettuno) is a monumental Renaissance fountain in Bologna, Italy, built between 1563 and 1567 by Tommaso Laureti and Giambologna.
Fountain of the Innocents
The Fountain of the Innocents (French: Fontaine des Innocents) is a Renaissance fountain on the Place Joachim-du-Bellay in Paris, adorned with reliefs by the sculptor Jean Goujon.
Fountain of the Lions
The Fountain of the Lions (Fuente de los Leones) is a 14th-century marble fountain at the center of the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
Fountain of Youth
Fountain of Youth: legendary spring restoring youth, tied to Juan Ponce de León's 1513 Florida voyage though he never mentioned it; also a typology of false longevity claims and a discredited anti-aging idea.
Fountain of Youth (film)
Fountain of Youth (2025) is a Guy Ritchie action-adventure film for Apple TV+, written by James Vanderbilt, starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as estranged siblings hunting the mythical Fountain of Youth; filmed in Bangkok, Liverpool, Vienna, and Giza; 125 minutes, PG-13, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fountain pen
A fountain pen is a writing instrument whose metal nib draws ink from an internal reservoir to the paper, first patented by Petrache Poenaru in France in 1827.
Fountain with a thousand amphorae
The Fountain with a thousand amphorae (Fontaine aux mille amphores) is an ancient water monument at Carthage, Tunisia, excavated by Louis Carton in 1918 and 1919.
Fountains Abbey
Fountains Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon in North Yorkshire. Founded in 1132, it was dissolved in 1539 and holds the largest monastic ruins in England.
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne, American power-pop band from New York (formed 1995 or 1996) by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood; five albums, the 2003 hit "Stacy's Mom" (Hot 100 No. 21), two 2004 Grammy nominations, and Schlesinger's 2020 death from COVID-19.
Fountains of Wayne (album)
Fountains of Wayne is the American power pop band's 1996 self-titled debut album on Atlantic/TAG: 12 songs, 36 minutes, written and recorded in about two weeks by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, with singles Radiation Vibe and Sink to the Bottom.
Fouquieria fasciculata
Fouquieria fasciculata (ocotillo, árbol del barril, tzitcó) is a Vulnerable, CITES Appendix I caudex shrub of southern Hidalgo, Mexico, in subg. Bronnia with F. purpusii, bearing white ten-stamened winter flowers.
Four (One Direction album)
Four (stylized FOUR) is One Direction's fourth studio album, released 17 November 2014 by Syco and Columbia. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 387,000 copies, sold 3.2 million worldwide in 2014, and was the band's last album with Zayn Malik.
Four Articles of Prague
The Four Articles of Prague (Čtyři artikuly pražské) were the Hussite program of 1420, demanding free preaching, communion in both kinds, clerical poverty, and punishment of sins.
Four Asian Tigers
The Four Asian Tigers, also known as the Four Dragons, are Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, four economies with exceptionally rapid, export-led industrialization from the 1960s.
Four Beauties
The Four Beauties (四大美女) of ancient China: Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan, and Yang Guifei, famed for beauty tied to fish, geese, moon, and flower legends; one, Diao Chan, is fictional.
Four Books and Five Classics
The Four Books and Five Classics (Sishu Wujing) are the authoritative texts of the Confucian canon, established under the Han and made the basis of China's imperial civil service examinations.