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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), also Part V, is Danny Steinmann's slasher sequel in which Tommy Jarvis faces murders at a halfway house by a killer who is not Jason Voorhees; it earned $21.9 million domestically.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), the fourth Friday the 13th film, directed by Joseph Zito, starring Corey Feldman as Tommy Jarvis and Ted White as Jason; intended as the series finale but followed by A New Beginning.
Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game is IllFonic and Gun Media's 2017 asymmetrical horror game, one Jason Voorhees versus seven counselors at Camp Crystal Lake; funded on Kickstarter, frozen by a rights lawsuit, servers closed December 31, 2024.
Friday the 13th: The Series
Friday the 13th: The Series is a horror show that aired from 1987 to 1990. It follows an antique shop that deals in cursed items, unlike the slasher films.
Fridays (TV series)
Fridays was ABC's late-night live sketch-comedy series (April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982), an SNL competitor from Studio 55, Los Angeles, whose cast included Larry David and Michael Richards and featured the staged 1981 Andy Kaufman brawl.
Fridays for Future
Fridays for Future (FFF) is a youth-led global climate strike movement begun in August 2018 by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, striking outside the Swedish parliament.
Friden Calculating Machine Company
The Friden Calculating Machine Company, founded by engineer Carl Friden in Oakland, California, in 1934, became a leading calculator maker and introduced the first transistorized electronic desktop calculator, the EC-130, in 1964.
Fridericia
Fridericia Mart. (Bignoniaceae, tribe Bignonieae) is a genus of about 62 neotropical liana species from Mexico to tropical America, formerly including most of Arrabidaea; best known for the medicinal, dye plant Fridericia chica.
Fridman (Friedmann) (lunar crater)
Fridman (Friedmann), IAU Feature ID 2027, is a 101.45-km lunar impact crater at -12.48°, -126.88° on the Moon's farside, named for Russian cosmologist Aleksandr Fridman (1888–1925).
Fridtjof Island
Fridtjof Island (Fridtjof, Isla; Îlot Fridtjof) is a small island in Gerlache Strait off Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898 and named, probably for explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1922). First League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; creator of the Nansen passport; first to cross Greenland's inland ice; Fram expedition record at 86° 14′ N.
Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate
The Fridtjof Nansen class, or Nansen class frigate, is a class of five frigates of the Royal Norwegian Navy, built in Spain between 2000 and 2010.
Fridtjof Sound
Fridtjof Sound, also Frithiofs Sund, is a 6-mile-long north-south Antarctic sound separating Tabarin Peninsula from Andersson and Jonassen Islands, charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and named after the relief ship Fridtjof.
Fried chicken
Fried chicken: chicken pieces coated in batter or breading and deep-fried, developed in the American South from Scottish and West African traditions; regional styles include Nashville hot, Korean double-fried, and Japanese karaage.
Fried dough
Fried dough: sweet foods made by deep-frying flour-based dough in fat or oil, also called doughnuts, fry bread, or youtiao; defined by dough (not batter), festive origins, and three dough categories.
Fried egg
A fried egg is a whole egg cooked in a pan with butter or oil; styles include sunny side up, over easy, over medium, and over hard, distinguished by flipping and yolk doneness, with FDA guidance of 2 to 3 minutes per side.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Jon Avnet's directorial debut, adapts Fannie Flagg's novel about Evelyn Couch, Ninny Threadgoode, and Idgie and Ruth of Whistle Stop, Alabama; a $11–12 million drama that grossed $119.4 million and became a queer-cinema touchstone.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, also called Fried Green Tomatoes, is Fannie Flagg's 1987 Random House novel set in Whistle Stop, Alabama, where Idgie and Ruth run a cafe and live as a lesbian couple, framed by Ninny Threadgoode's tales to Evelyn Couch.
Fried ice cream
Fried ice cream, also called deep-fried ice cream, is a dessert of hard-frozen ice cream coated in cereal, crumbs, or tempura batter and briefly deep-fried, popular in Mexican and Japanese restaurant styles.
Fried onion burger
Fried onion burger, also called Oklahoma onion burger or Depression burger: a smash-style hamburger from 1920s El Reno, Oklahoma, in which thinly sliced onions are pressed into a small beef patty, originally a 5-cent Depression-era way to stretch beef.
Fried rice (炒饭)
Fried rice (炒饭, chao fan) is a Chinese-origin stir-fried rice dish dating to the Sui dynasty, best known as Yangzhou fried rice, with regional versions like nasi goreng, khao pad, and chahan, cooked with day-old rice for wok hei flavor.
Fried spider
Fried spider, or a-ping (អាពីង), is a Cambodian delicacy of deep-fried tarantulas sold chiefly in Skuon, Kampong Cham; associated with Khmer Rouge famine eating, garlic-salt frying, and a declining wild harvest.
Fried syndrome
Fried syndrome is a rare X-linked intellectual disability syndrome featuring hydrocephalus and mild facial anomalies, caused by AP1S2 gene mutations and named after K. Fried, who described it in 1972.
Frieda (Peanuts)
Frieda (Peanuts) is a Charles Schulz comic-strip character introduced March 6, 1961, named for Schulz's friend Frieda Rich, defined by her naturally curly hair, her cat Faron, and her efforts to make Snoopy chase rabbits.
Frieda Bühner
Frieda Bühner (Frieda Mizzi Bühner), German forward-center born 2004 in Georgsmarienhütte; Portland Fire second-round pick (17th overall, 2026 WNBA Draft), former Florida Gator and Estudiantes player, German Olympian at Paris 2024.
Frieda Hughes
Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1960), English poet, painter and children's author, daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath; works include Wooroloo, Forty-Five, and George: A Magpie Memoir (2023).
Frieda Lawrence
Frieda Lawrence, also known as Frieda Weekley, was a German baroness and writer. She wrote the memoir Not I, But the Wind and managed D. H. Lawrence's estate.
Frieda Vizel
Frieda Vizel (born 1985) is an American YouTuber, blogger, and licensed NYC tour guide, formerly Satmar Hasidic of Kiryas Joel, known for her Williamsburg walking tours, YouTube interviews, and blog on Hasidic life.
Friedberg
Friedberg: name of two German towns. Friedberg (Bavaria), founded 1264 near Augsburg, salt depot and clockmaking center; Friedberg (Hesse), Wetterau town around the 1171–1180 imperial castle and Burgraviate on a Roman fort site.
Friedberg–Muchnik theorem
The Friedberg–Muchnik theorem, proved independently by Richard Friedberg and Andrei Muchnik in 1956–1957, is a computability theory result stating that there exist two computably enumerable sets whose Turing degrees are incomparable.