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Frei Otto
Frei Otto (1925–2015) was a German architect and structural engineer, a pioneer of lightweight tensile architecture known for the Munich Olympic Stadium roof and the Expo 67 German pavilion.
Freiberg disease
Freiberg disease (Freiberg infraction, Freiberg-Köhler syndrome) is osteonecrosis of a metatarsal head, usually the second, in adolescent females (5:1 female ratio). Described by Freiberg in 1914; staged by Smillie I–V; treated conservatively first, then with osteotomy or osteochondral grafting.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau, a city of about 234,000 in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, near the French and Swiss borders; home of the 1457 university and Germany's best-known "Green City" with Vauban, Rieselfeld, and a strong cycling and solar culture.
Freiburg Region
Regierungsbezirk Freiburg, one of four administrative regions of Baden-Württemberg, Germany; seat Freiburg im Breisgau; nine rural districts plus Stadtkreis Freiburg, 295 municipalities, about 2.32 million people, borders France, Switzerland, Austria; formed by 1973 reform from Südbaden.
Freida McFadden
Freida McFadden, also known as Sara Cohen, is an American physician and bestselling author of psychological thrillers. She is known for The Housemaid and has sold 90 million copies worldwide.
Freida Pinto
Freida Pinto (Freida Selena Pinto), Indian actress born 1984 in Mumbai, broke out as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire (2008), earning a BAFTA nomination; known for Trishna, Love Sonia, Mr. Malcolm's List, and Netflix's Unaccustomed Earth.
Freie Arbeiter Stimme (פרייע ארבעטער שטימע)
Freie Arbeiter Stimme (פרייע ארבייטער שטימע, Free Voice of Labor), New York anarchist-communist Yiddish weekly, 1890–1977; founded by the Pioneers of Liberty; peak circulation 30,000 in 1914.
Freight brokerage
Freight brokerage is the business of arranging freight transportation between shippers and motor carriers without moving the freight itself, matching loads to trucks and negotiating rates. In the United States it requires authority from the FMCSA.
Freight forwarder
A freight forwarder, also called a forwarding agent, is a firm that organizes shipments for others by sea, air, road, or rail, without necessarily moving the goods itself.
Freight house
A freight house is a railroad building for receiving, storing, and delivering freight, most notably less-than-carload shipments; in Britain it was called a goods shed.
Freight transport
Freight transport, also called cargo transport, is the movement of goods by ocean shipping, rail, air cargo, and trucking, with about three quarters of global freight tonne-kilometers moved by sea in 2025.
Freightliner Business Class M2
The Freightliner Business Class M2, also known as the Freightliner M2, is a line of medium-duty Class 5-8 commercial trucks built by Freightliner Trucks since 2002.
Freightliner Cascadia
The Freightliner Cascadia is a Class 8 on-highway semi-truck built by Freightliner Trucks in Portland, Oregon. Introduced in 2007, it has sold over one million units.
Freightliner Century Class
The Freightliner Century Class is a Class 8 heavy-duty conventional truck produced by Freightliner from 1995 until 2010 in North America, with export production continuing to 2020.
Freightliner Trucks
Freightliner Trucks is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, founded in 1942, owned by Daimler-Benz since 1981, and headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Freightquote.com
Freightquote.com is an online freight brokerage headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, founded by Tim Barton, letting shippers compare and book truckload and LTL freight; C.H. Robinson acquired it in 2015.
Freightways
Freightways is a New Zealand transport and logistics company, founded as New Zealand Couriers in 1964 and listed on the NZX since 2003, delivering around 100 million items a year.
Freikörperkultur
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or free body culture, is the German movement and practice of nude bathing and recreation in nature, arising around 1900 with Lebensreform, mass-based in the GDR, and organized today by the DFK with declining membership.
Freikorps
Freikorps (Free Corps) were German volunteer paramilitary units formed from November 1918 from former WWI front soldiers, about 400,000 men in roughly 120 units, that crushed left-wing uprisings, fought in the Baltic, and launched the 1920 Kapp Putsch.
Freilichtmuseum Römerbad
Freilichtmuseum Römerbad: German name shared by several Roman-heritage open-air sites, including the Archäologische Freilichtanlage Güglingen with Mithräum II, the Römisches Freilichtmuseum, and the Thermal-Römerbad spa in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria.
Freiman's theorem
Freiman's theorem is a result of additive combinatorics, proved by Gregory Freiman, stating that sets of integers with a small sumset lie in generalized arithmetic progressions.
Frej Liewendahl
Frej Liewendahl (Frey Fritiof Liewendahl, 1902–1966), Finnish middle-distance runner from Jomala, Åland; 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the 3,000 m team race, eighth in the 1,500 m final, 1928 non-starter.
Frejat
Frejat (Roberto Frejat) is a Brazilian rock singer, composer, and guitarist who co-founded Barão Vermelho in 1981, fronted it from 1985 to 2017, and has recorded solo since 2001.
Fréjus Road Tunnel
The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a 12,868 m motorway tunnel under the Alps connecting Modane, France, with Bardonecchia, Italy. Built between 1974 and 1980, it gained a second tube in 2025.
FRELIMO
FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) is the political party that has governed Mozambique since independence in 1975, after fighting a liberation war against Portuguese rule from 1964.
Fremanezumab
Fremanezumab (Ajovy, Teva) is a humanized anti-CGRP monoclonal antibody for migraine prevention; FDA-approved 2018 for adults, 2025 for children 6–17, dosed 225 mg monthly or 675 mg quarterly.
Fremantle
Fremantle (Walyalup) is a port city at the mouth of the Swan River, 20 km southwest of Perth, Western Australia. Founded 1829, proclaimed a city 1929, population about 31,700, home to WA's main container port.
Fremantle (company)
Fremantle (formerly FremantleMedia) is the global television and film production and distribution group owned by RTL Group under Bertelsmann, known for Got Talent, The X Factor, and The Price is Right, operating in 28 countries.
Fremantle Football Club
Fremantle Football Club, the Dockers or Freo, an Australian rules football club in the AFL since 1995; lost the 2013 grand final to Hawthorn, plays at Optus Stadium, fields an AFLW team at Fremantle Oval.
Fremantle-class patrol boat
The Fremantle-class patrol boat was a class of fifteen coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1980 to 2007, replaced by the Armidale class.