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Fancy girl
Fancy girl: antebellum US term for a light-skinned enslaved girl or woman sold for sex and concubinage in the profitable 'fancy trade', centered on New Orleans, priced above ordinary slaves.
Fancy Nancy (TV series)
Fancy Nancy (TV series) is an animated Disney Junior family comedy (2018) adapted from Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser's books, following six-year-old Nancy Clancy; three seasons, episodes of two 11-minute stories, Jamie Mitchell executive producer.
Fancy rat
Fancy rat: domesticated brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) kept as pet or show animal. First bred in Edo Japan (1603–1868), then Victorian England via rat-baiting; Mary Douglas founded the rat fancy; varieties include dumbo, rex, satin.
Fancy Some More?
Fancy Some More? is PinkPantheress's 2025 remix album expanding her mixtape Fancy That with 22 remixes by 23 artists including Kylie Minogue, Anitta, SEVENTEEN, and Basement Jaxx, released by Warner Records UK.
Fancy That
Fancy That is a 2025 mixtape by English artist PinkPantheress. It peaked at number 3 on the UK Official Albums Chart and was nominated for the Mercury Prize.
Fand Mons
Fand Mons is a 300 km diameter mountain (mons) on Venus at 7.00°N, 158.00°E, quadrangle v25, named for a Celtic goddess of healing and pleasure and adopted by the IAU in 2003.
Fandango
Fandango: a Spanish triple-time couple dance and song genre from Andalusia, documented from 1705; in flamenco a family of song forms (tarantas, mineras), and in Mexico and Brazil a community festival around music and dance.
Fandango (1985 film)
Fandango (1985) is Kevin Reynolds's road comedy-drama, from his student film Proof, starring Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson as 1971 Texas graduates on a final trip before the Vietnam draft; a Warner Bros. release that grossed only $86,134.
Fandango (wrestler)
Fandango (Curtis Hussey), also Johnny Curtis, Dirty Dango, and JDC, is a retired American wrestler (1999-2026) known for the WWE ballroom-dancer gimmick, beating Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 29, and Breezango.
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, also called Fandango, is an American digital entertainment company under Versant (formerly NBCUniversal/Comcast) operating movie ticketing for 31,000 U.S. screens, Rotten Tomatoes, MovieTickets, Flixster, and Fandango streaming (formerly Vudu), earning revenue through per-ticket convenience fees.
Fandango!
Fandango! is ZZ Top's fourth album, released April 18, 1975 on London Records: half live at The Warehouse, New Orleans, half studio, featuring the No. 20 hit "Tush" and "Heard It on the X."
Fandi Ahmad
Fandi Ahmad (born 1962), Singapore's most famous footballer; national striker from 1979, 55 international goals, FC Groningen 1983-85, Malaysia Cup winner 1980 and 1994, later coach.
Fandom
Fandom is a community of people with sustained emotional attachment to a cultural object, engaging in discussion, fan works, collecting, and conventions; term dates to turn of the 20th century, from 19th-century fan culture, now largely platform-mediated online.
Fandom (website)
Fandom, formerly Wikicities and then Wikia, is a free wiki hosting service founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling, hosting pop culture wikis on MediaWiki.
Fandom color
A fandom color in K-pop is a color associated with a musical act's fan community, designated by its agency and carried into concerts on light sticks since the mid-1990s.
Fandral
Fandral, also Fandral the Dashing, is a Marvel Comics Asgardian swordsman of the Warriors Three with Hogun and Volstagg, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey Into Mystery #119 (1965), modeled on Errol Flynn and played in the MCU by Josh Dallas and Zachary Levi.
Fandry (फंद्र्य)
Fandry (फंद्र्य, फँड्री) is Nagraj Manjule's 2013 Marathi debut drama about Dalit teenager Jabya's love for an upper-caste classmate; it won two 61st National Film Awards and IFFLA's Grand Jury Prize.
FanDuel
FanDuel: U.S. sports gaming company founded 2009 in Edinburgh as a daily fantasy sports operator, acquired by Flutter Entertainment in 2018; now runs Sportsbook, Casino, Fantasy, Predicts, Racing, and TV, with about 43% U.S. sports betting share.
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty," is Boston's 1742 market and meeting hall funded by slave trader Peter Faneuil, expanded by Bulfinch in 1806, and a National Historic Landmark.
Fanfair
Fanfair, a spelling variant of funfair, is a travelling fairground with rides, stalls, and generators; covered by UK ADIPS testing, HSE HSG175 guidance, site inspections, and US ADA exemptions for portable rides.
Fanfan
Fanfan (also Fanfan & Alexandre) is a 1993 French romantic comedy directed by Alexandre Jardin from his 1990 novel, starring Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, and Marine Delterme, released 16 June 1993 by Gaumont.
Fanfare for the Common Man
Fanfare for the Common Man is Aaron Copland's 1942 brass-and-percussion work, commissioned by Eugene Goossens for the Cincinnati Symphony, premiered March 12, 1943, the only survivor of eighteen wartime fanfares and later a 1977 hit for Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
FanFiction.Net
FanFiction.net (FFN), launched October 1998 by Xing Li, is the largest fan fiction archive per Guinness World Records, with 8M+ pages, 2M+ users, K-M ratings, no explicit content, and a 2002 NC-17 purge driving migration to AO3.
Fang
Fang (方棋, square chess) is a traditional Chinese alignment-and-capture board game of Xinjiang and northern China, played on a 7x7 grid with 25 black and 24 white pieces; players form squares and seven-piece rows to capture, and a player reduced to three pieces loses.
Fang Bao
Fang Bao (方苞, 1668–1749) was a Qing dynasty scholar and classical prose writer from Tongcheng who served three emperors and founded the yifa doctrine of the Tongcheng school.
Fang Congzhe
Fang Congzhe (方从哲), courtesy name Zhonghan, was a grand secretary of the Ming dynasty who served as the sole grand secretary through the succession crises of the Wanli-to-Taichang transition.
Fang Fang
Fang Fang is a Swedish-based neuroepidemiologist and professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on suicide after cancer diagnosis and ALS risk factors.
Fang Guan
Fang Guan (房琯, courtesy name Cilü, 697–763) was a Tang dynasty official who became chancellor under Emperor Xuanzong in 756 and later served under Suzong; his army was disastrously defeated at Chen Taoxie in 756.
Fang Guozhen
Fang Guozhen (方国珍, 1319–1374) was a Zhejiang salt trader who rebelled against the Yuan dynasty, holding the coastal prefectures of Taizhou, Wenzhou, and Qingyuan until surrendering to the Ming.
Fang Guozhen's rebellion
Fang Guozhen's rebellion (方国珍起事) was the first armed challenge to Yuan rule, begun around 1348 by Fang Guozhen, a salt trader from Huangyan who held eastern Zhejiang.