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Fuerza Regida
Fuerza Regida, San Bernardino corridos tumbados band formed 2015, led by Jesús Ortiz Paz (JOP) with Jáimez, Ramos, García, López; 111XPANTIA hit Billboard 200 No. 2, This Is Our Dream Tour sold out Dodger Stadium.
Fufei Vallis
Fufei Vallis (宓妃) is a 170 km valley on Venus at 46°N, 341°E, named by the IAU in 1997 after Fufei, the Chinese goddess of the Luo River; one of 72 named Venusian valles.
Fufeng Dou Clan
The Fufeng Dou Clan (扶风窦氏) was an Eastern Han consort-kin political family, raised to power by Dou Rong, Marquis of Anfeng, and destroyed after Dou Xian's downfall under Emperor He.
Fufu
Fufu (Twi fufuu; also foufou, foutou) is a West and Central African staple dough of boiled, pounded cassava, yam, cocoyam, or plantain, eaten by hand with soups; fermented cassava fufu reduces cyanide by about 91%.
Fufufafa
Fufufafa is an anonymous Kaskus account, allegedly owned by Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, that went viral in September 2024 for insulting Prabowo Subianto, SBY, and celebrities; ownership was never verified.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
Fuga: Melodies of Steel (戦場のフーガ) is a 2021 tactical turn-based RPG by CyberConnect2, its first self-published title and fourth Little Tail Bronx game, where 12 children crew the tank Taranis and its child-sacrificing Soul Cannon.
Fugacity
Fugacity is a pressure-like thermodynamic quantity that replaces pressure in the chemical potential expression for real gases; at equilibrium, each component's fugacity is equal in every phase.
Fugaku (富岳) (supercomputer)
Fugaku (富岳) is a Japanese supercomputer in Kobe, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu as the successor to the K computer and TOP500 leader from June 2020 to June 2022.
Fugazi
Fugazi, the Washington D.C. post-hardcore band of Ian MacKaye, Guy Picciotto, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty, formed 1987, released seven albums on Dischord, played 1,000+ all-ages $5 shows, and has been on hiatus since 2002/2003.
Fugees
The Fugees were an American hip-hop trio (Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras Michel), formerly Tranzlator Crew, whose 1996 album The Score sold over 20 million copies, won two Grammys, and defined alternative hip-hop.
Fugen (nuclear reactor)
Fugen (ふげん) was a 165 MWe prototype Advanced Thermal Reactor at Tsuruga, Japan, the first Japanese plant to demonstrate a complete plutonium fuel cycle with MOX fuel.
Fuggerei
The Fuggerei is a walled social housing complex in Augsburg, Bavaria, founded by the banker Jakob Fugger in 1521 and regarded as the world's oldest social housing still operating.
Fugget About It
Fugget About It is a Canadian adult animated sitcom (2012–2021) by Nicholas Tabarrok and Willem Wennekers, following mobster Jimmy Falcone relocated to Regina, Saskatchewan under witness protection as a MacDougal.
Fugging, Upper Austria
Fugging, formerly Fucking, is a village of about 100 people in Tarsdorf, Braunau am Inn district, Upper Austria. It renamed itself from Fucking to Fugging effective 1 January 2021 after tourist mockery and repeated theft of its village signs.
Fuggler
Fuggler (funny ugly monster): collectible plush toy brand created in 2010 by British designer Louise McGettrick, known for human-like teeth and butt-on holes; trademark held by Spin Master, licensed to Libertas Brands, made by ZURU.
Fugitive
A fugitive is a person evading arrest, prosecution, or custody. Also called fugitive from justice (18 U.S.C. 921). Distinguished from ordinary travelers by intent to avoid legal process; subject to extradition, disentitlement, and benefit bars.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 (1 Stat. 302), signed by Washington on February 12, 1793, was the first federal fugitive slave law, letting claimants seize alleged runaways before any magistrate without jury trial, enabling kidnappings of free Black people, upheld in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, and repealed June 28, 1864.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (9 Stat. 462), Compromise of 1850 statute strengthening capture and return of escaped enslaved people via federal commissioners, $10/$5 fees, $1,000 fines for aiders; resisted in the North, repealed 1864.
Fugitive slaves in the United States
Fugitive slaves in the United States: enslaved people who escaped bondage and the legal fight over their return under the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, resisted through the Underground Railroad, Prigg v. Pennsylvania, and flight to Canada and Mexico.
Fugly (film)
Fugly (फगली) is a 2014 Hindi drama-thriller directed by Kabir Sadanand, produced by Akshay Kumar's Grazing Goat Productions, starring Jimmy Shergill as a corrupt cop blackmailing four Delhi friends; debut film of Mohit Marwah, Kiara Advani, and boxer Vijender Singh. Distinct from the 2014 American comedy Fugly! starring John Leguizamo.
Fugu (河豚)
Fugu (河豚, fuku) is Japanese pufferfish cuisine containing tetrodotoxin, served only by licensed handlers; 22 of 50+ Japanese species are edible, liver is banned, and poisoning cases still occur yearly.
Fugu Miaogoumen power station
Fugu Miaogoumen power station (府谷庙沟门电厂), also known as Shenhua Fugu power station, is a 2,520 MW coal-fired power station in Fugu, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, with two phases from 2008 and 2020.
Fugu Qingshuichuan power station
The Fugu Qingshuichuan power station (府谷清水川电厂) is a 4,600 MW coal-fired power station in Fugu County, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, built in three phases between 2008 and 2024.
Fugue
Fugue (Latin fuga, flight): a Baroque polyphonic form in which a subject is imitated voice by voice through exposition, episodes, countersubject, and stretto; descended from the 16th-century ricercare, perfected by Bach.
Fuguo Capital City Site
祓国都城遗址 (Fuguo Capital City Site), also called 牧马城, a Han-dynasty walled city in Lizha Town, Jiaozhou, Qingdao, Shandong; capital of the small Western Han state of Fuguo (119 BC–37 AD), a seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit since 2013.
Fuheng
Fuheng (傅恒) was a Manchu grand secretary of the Qing dynasty, brother of Empress Xiaoxianchun, who directed the first Jinchuan campaign and the Burma campaign under the Qianlong Emperor.
Führer
Führer, German for "leader"; title of Adolf Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler from 2 August 1934, created by merging presidency and chancellorship after Hindenburg's death, basis of the Führerprinzip.
Führer Headquarters
Führerhauptquartiere (FHQ), Hitler's fortified WWII command centers: nearly 20 built 1939–45 by Organisation Todt, including Wolfsschanze (800+ days), Felsennest, Wehrwolf, Adlerhorst; site of the 20 July 1944 bomb plot.
Führerbunker
The Führerbunker, also known as Hitler's bunker, was the underground Berlin shelter where Adolf Hitler lived his final months and died on 30 April 1945.
Führerprinzip
Führerprinzip (leader principle): Nazi doctrine of absolute obedience to a single charismatic leader, organizing the NSDAP and German state 1933–1945; also common to interwar fascist movements, critiqued via Kershaw's 'working towards the Führer'.