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FrieslandCampina
FrieslandCampina, formally Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., is a Dutch dairy company owned by a cooperative of about 15,000 member dairy farmers, formed in 2008 from the merger of Friesland Foods and Campina.
Frieza (フリーザ)
Frieza (フリーザ, also Freeza) is Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball villain, the 'Emperor of the Universe' who destroyed Planet Vegeta; four forms, first-form power level 530,000, Golden Frieza, and the roughly 3.5-hour Namek fight.
Frigate
A frigate is a warship: in the age of sail a fast, lightly built cruiser, and since the 20th century a mid-sized escort for anti-submarine, surface, and air warfare.
Frigate Pallada
Frigate Pallada (Фрегат «Паллада») is a book of travel sketches by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, based on his 1852–1854 circumnavigation aboard the frigate Pallada.
Frigatebird
Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) are tropical seabirds known as pirate birds for kleptoparasitism, though stealing supplies only about 5% of their food; great frigatebirds stay aloft for months, and the Christmas Island frigatebird is endangered.
Frigg
Frigg (Old Norse Frigg, also Frigga) is the queen of the Æsir in Norse mythology, wife of Odin, mother of Baldr, dweller in Fensalir, and namesake of Friday; she knows all fates but speaks none, and is debated as identical to or distinct from Freyja.
Frigg Dorsa
Frigg Dorsa is an 896-km-long NNE-trending ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus's northern lowlands, mostly in Vellamo Planitia, IAU-named in 1985 for the Norse wife of Odin, older than surrounding regional plains.
Frigg UK Gas Pipeline
The Frigg UK Gas Pipeline is a 361-kilometer subsea gas pipeline from the Frigg field in the North Sea to St Fergus, Scotland, in service since 1977.
Fright Krewe
Fright Krewe is a DreamWorks Animation 2D animated horror series created by Eli Roth and James Frey, streaming on Hulu and Peacock since October 2, 2023, about five New Orleans teens given Loa powers to fight the demon Belial.
Fright Night
Fright Night (1985) is Tom Holland's directorial debut, a Columbia Pictures vampire horror-comedy starring William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, and Roddy McDowall; it grossed $24.9 million, won three Saturn Awards, and was remade in 2011.
Fright Night (2011 film)
Fright Night is a 2011 American horror-comedy film directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Anton Yelchin and Colin Farrell, a remake of Tom Holland's 1985 film of the same name.
Fright Night Part 2
Fright Night Part 2 (1988/1989) is Tommy Lee Wallace's horror-comedy sequel to Fright Night, with Roddy McDowall and William Ragsdale returning as Peter Vincent and Charley Brewster against vampire Regine Dandridge; it grossed $2,983,784 domestically on a reported $8 million budget.
Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit, Scottish indie rock band formed in 2003 by Scott Hutchison and based in Glasgow, known for The Midnight Organ Fight (2008) and five albums on Fat Cat and Atlantic; disbanded after Hutchison's 2018 death.
Frightful Four
Frightful Four: Marvel Comics supervillain team, evil counterpart to the Fantastic Four; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #36 (March 1965) with Wizard, Sandman, Paste-Pot Pete, and Medusa.
Frigidae
Frigidae, a Roman castellum and Antonine Itinerary station 18 km south of Lixus in Mauretania Tingitana (Morocco), identified with Azib el Harrak; linked to the cohors Friglensis of the Notitia Dignitatum.
Frigidaire
Frigidaire, founded in 1916 as the Guardian Refrigerator Company, is an American appliance brand owned by Electrolux, known for the first home freezer and room air conditioner.
Friguia Safari Park
Friguia Safari Park, also called Friguia Park, is an open-air zoological park near Bouficha, Tunisia; opened in 2000, it is the country's largest wildlife park.
Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (Karinthy Frigyes, 1887–1938) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and critic, one of the creators of 20th-century humorous literature, known for the 1912 parody volume Így írtok ti.
Frigyes Riesz
Frigyes Riesz (Frédéric Riesz, 1880–1956) was a Hungarian mathematician and founder of functional analysis, known for the Riesz–Fischer theorem, the Riesz representation theorem, and the theory of subharmonic functions.
Frikandel
Frikandel (also frikadel, curryworst): skinless deep-fried Dutch/Belgian minced-meat snack, invented 1954 in Dordrecht by Gerrit de Vries; smooth 18 cm form by Bekkers 1958; ~600 million eaten yearly in the Netherlands.
Friko
Friko is a Chicago indie rock band formed in 2019 by Niko Kapetan and Bailey Minzenberger, later joined by Korgan Robb and David Fuller. Albums: Where we've been, Where we go from here (2024, ATO, Metascore 86) and Something Worth Waiting For (2026, John Congleton).
Frilford
Frilford, Oxfordshire village with an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Roman villa, and the Marcham/Frilford Iron Age and Romano-Celtic temple complex at Noah's Ark, excavated 2001-2011 by Lock and Gosden.
Frilled shark
Frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), a rare deepwater Hexanchiformes shark with six frilly gill slits, three-cusped teeth, eel-like body to 2 m, 120–1500 m depth, Near Threatened, gestation possibly 3.5 years.
Frimmersdorf power station
Frimmersdorf power station (Kraftwerk Frimmersdorf) was a lignite-fired power station in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, for a time the largest power plant in the world.
Fringe (TV series)
Fringe (2008–2013) is an American Fox science fiction series by Abrams, Kurtzman, and Orci: 5 seasons, 100 episodes, FBI Fringe Division, Olivia Dunham, Walter and Peter Bishop, and a parallel-universe war, often compared with The X-Files.
Fringe projection profilometry
Fringe projection profilometry is a non-contact, non-interferometric optical technique that measures 3D surface shape by projecting fringes onto an object and analyzing how the surface deforms them.
Fringe science
Fringe science is scientific inquiry that departs from mainstream theories and methods while still presenting itself as science, differing from pseudoscience in attempting the scientific method.
Fringe shift
A fringe shift is a displacement of an interference pattern caused by a change in the optical path difference between two beams, and is the working signal of interferometry.
Fringe theatre
Fringe theater is a platform for productions with political content or experimental nature that are unlikely to succeed in conventional surroundings, a term dating from the late 1960s.
Fringilla
Fringilla (chaffinches and brambling) is a Linnaean 1758 genus of finches in Fringillidae, subfamily Fringillinae, sister to Carduelinae; includes F. coelebs, F. montifringilla, and Macaronesian chaffinch species.