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Fukushima Robot Test Field
The Fukushima Robot Test Field (福島ロボットテストフィールド), abbreviated RTF, is a Japanese development and demonstration base for land, sea, and air robots in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, opened in March 2020.
Fukushima, Fukushima
Fukushima (福島市), capital of Fukushima Prefecture in Tohoku, Japan; a basin city of 767.72 km² with hot springs, fruit orchards, and a 1907 city charter; heavily affected by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear accident, with decontamination completed in 2018.
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare is a 2026 HBO Original documentary by James Jones and Megumi Inman reconstructing the nine days after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster, featuring the Fukushima 50 workers, hydrogen explosions, and the threatened Tokyo evacuation.
Fukushū o Koinegau Saikyō Yūsha wa
Fukushū o Koinegau Saikyō Yūsha wa (復讐を希う最強勇者は、闇の力で殲滅無双する), aka The Dark Massacre of the Vengeful Hero: Japanese revenge dark fantasy light novel by Manimani Ononata and Shueisha manga adaptation, both debuting February 2019.
Fukutin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R13
Fukutin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R13 (LGMD R13, LGMD2M) is an autosomal recessive dystroglycanopathy caused by FKTN mutations, with infantile hypotonia, proximal weakness, and cardiomyopathy; prevalence under 1 in 1,000,000.
Fukuyama
Fukuyama (福山市) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, facing the Seto Inland Sea. It grew from a castle town founded in 1619 and is the prefecture's second largest city, with about 470,000 people.
Fukuyama coupling
The Fukuyama coupling is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of thioesters with organozinc reagents to form ketones, stopping before tertiary alcohol formation; Tohru Fukuyama discovered it in 1998.
Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤諭吉)
Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤諭吉, 1835–1901), Meiji Japan's leading enlightenment thinker, rangaku-trained educator, author of Gakumon no Susume and Bunmeiron no Gairyaku, founder of Keio Gijuku and the newspaper Jiji Shinpō.
Fukyouwaon
Fukyouwa (不協和音, "Dishony") is the fourth single by Keyakaka46, released in 2017, featuring Hirate Yurina and serving as the theme for the NTV drama Zankoku na Kankyakutachi.
Ful medames (فول مدمس)
Ful medames (فول مدمس), Egyptian slow-stewed fava beans with oil, lemon, and cumin; Egypt's national breakfast dish, documented in medieval Cairo, eaten across the Levant, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa.
Fula language
Fula (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular, Peul, Fulani) is a Niger–Congo Atlantic dialect continuum across about 20 West and Central African states, with 15–37 million speakers, noun-class grammar, and Latin, Ajami and Adlam scripts.
Fula people
Fula people (Fulɓe, Fulani, Peul), a West African pastoralist people from Senegal to Sudan speaking Pulaar/Fulfulde (Niger-Congo Atlantic); founded Sokoto, Hamdullahi, Fuuta Tooro, and Fuuta Jalon Islamic states; population estimates 5–65 million.
Fuladu
Fuladu, known in Fula as Fulaadu and French as Fouladou, was a 19th-century West African kingdom of the Fulbe people in the Upper Gambia region.
Fulaerji-2 power station
Fulaerji-2 power station (华电富拉尔基发电厂; Huadian Fulaerji-2) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired heat and power plant in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, owned by Huadian Energy, running six 200 MW lignite units.
Fulani oral epic
The Fulani oral epic is the heroic narrative tradition of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul) peoples of West Africa, performed by griots with musical accompaniment, best documented in the Massina region of Mali.
Fulani War
The Fulani War, also called the Sokoto Jihad, was a religious and military uprising in what is now northern Nigeria, launched in 1804 by the scholar Usman dan Fodio against the Hausa kings.
Fulbert Youlou
Fulbert Youlou was a Congolese Catholic priest and politician, the first president of the Republic of the Congo from independence in 1960 until his overthrow in 1963.
Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, also called the Fulbright Act program, is the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange program, founded in 1946 by Senator J. William Fulbright, funding about 8,000 annual grants across 160+ countries, with 400,000 alumni, binational commissions, and the Fulbright-Hays counterpart programs.
Fulci (band)
Fulci (band): Italian brutal death metal trio from Caserta, formed 2013, named for director Lucio Fulci; concept albums based on his films, including Tropical Sun (2019) and Duck Face Killings (2024) on 20 Buck Spin.
Fulcrum Bioenergy
Fulcrum BioEnergy was a Pleasanton, California startup that gasified municipal waste into low-carbon fuel; its Nevada plant shut down and it filed Chapter 11 in 2024.
Fulcrum Global Capital
Fulcrum Global Capital is a Shawnee, Kansas venture capital firm investing in early-stage agriculture, animal health, and agri-food technology, founded by three former Kansas Bioscience Authority executives.
Fulcrum Therapeutics
Fulcrum Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts biopharmaceutical company that developed small molecules to modulate gene expression for rare diseases, traded on Nasdaq under FULC since 2019.
Fulda
Fulda, a baroque town in eastern Hesse, Germany, on the river Fulda; founded around a Benedictine monastery (744) and town charter (774). About 71,000 residents, Fulda Cathedral with St Boniface's tomb, St Michael's Church, and Hochschule Fulda distinguish it.
Fulda Gap
The Fulda Gap (Fulda-Lücke) is a pair of lowland corridors from Eisenach to Frankfurt that NATO, especially U.S. V Corps and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, defended as the likeliest Warsaw Pact invasion route until 1990.
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Fulfillingness' First Finale is Stevie Wonder's 1974 Tamla album, fourth of his classic period; it topped the Billboard pop chart, yielded two No. 1 singles, and won the 1975 Album of the Year Grammy.
Fulfinium/Fertinium
Fulfinium/Fertinium was a Roman municipium and port on Curicta (Krk), Croatia, in Sepen bay near Omišalj; founded near the Fertinates' oppidum, made a municipium under Vespasian, with a 5th-century basilica and noted Roman glass finds.
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (1901–1973), Cuban soldier and president 1940–1944, ruled as dictator after his March 10, 1952 coup until fleeing to the Dominican Republic in January 1959, when Fidel Castro's revolution toppled his regime.
Fulgentius of Ruspe
Fulgentius of Ruspe, born Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius around 468, was bishop of Ruspe in North Africa who defended Augustine's theology against Arian Vandals and died in 533.
Fulgora Dorsa
Fulgora Dorsa is a 463-km-wide dorsum (ridge system) on Venus near the north pole, centered at 78.5°N, 342°E, named for the Roman goddess of lightning and IAU-approved in 2009.
Fulgoridae
Fulgoridae, commonly called lanternflies, is a family of about 770 planthopper species, mostly tropical, including some of the largest at up to 95 mm and the pest spotted lanternfly.