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Fanzine
Fanzine (also zine): an amateur, noncommercial magazine coined by sf fans; term created by Russ Chauvenet in Detours, October 1940; earliest titles The Comet (1930), The Planet (1930), The Time Traveller (1932); later spread to punk, music, and sport.
FAO Schwarz
FAO Schwarz is an American luxury toy retailer founded in 1862 by Frederick August Otto Schwarz, known for its New York flagship and dance-on floor piano.
Faora
Faora (Faora Hu-Ul) is a DC Comics Kryptonian supervillain and Phantom Zone criminal, created by Cary Bates and Curt Swan in Action Comics #471 (May 1977); a serial killer and Horu-Kanu martial artist, distinct from the film character Ursa, and played by Antje Traue in Man of Steel (2013).
Faouzia
Faouzia (Faouzia Ouihya, born 2000, Casablanca) is a Moroccan-Canadian pop singer and multi-instrumentalist known for "Tears of Gold," "Minefields" with John Legend, and her independent debut album FILM NOIR (2025).
Faping
Faping (法平) was a Buddhist monk of Zhihuan Monastery in the Liu Song capital (420–479), remembered in the Gaoseng zhuan for a chanting voice that moved the Song Grand General.
FAPS Holdings, Inc.
FAPS Holdings, Inc., known publicly as First American Payment Systems, was a Fort Worth, Texas merchant payment processor founded in 1990 and acquired by Deluxe Corporation for $960 million in 2021.
FAQ
An FAQ, or frequently asked questions, is a document or webpage listing common questions about a subject with prepared answers, a convention that began on Usenet and became standard on websites in the 1990s.
Faqir of Ipi
The Faqir of Ipi (فقیر ایپی) was the guerrilla leader Mirza Ali Khan, a Waziristan holy man who waged an eleven-year revolt against British rule and was never captured.
Far and Away
Far and Away is a 1992 American romantic adventure drama directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as Irish immigrants chasing free land in Oklahoma.
Far away
Far away names two tabletop games: Faraway (Catch Up Games, 2023), a 2-6 player card game with reverse scoring by Goupy and Lebrat, and Far Away (Cherry Picked Games, 2020), a two-player cooperative sci-fi survival game by Jerabek.
Far Beyond Driven
Far Beyond Driven is Pantera's seventh studio album, released March 22, 1994 on East West. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified Platinum by the RIAA, and is noted as the heaviest album to reach that chart position.
Far Beyond the Stars
"Far Beyond the Stars" is a 1998 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (S6E13) in which Captain Benjamin Sisko visions himself as Benny Russell, a Black 1950s Harlem science fiction writer whose story of a Black space-station captain is suppressed; Avery Brooks directed and starred.
Far Cry
Far Cry is Ubisoft's open-world first-person shooter franchise, begun by Crytek in 2004. Includes Far Cry 2-6, Primal, Blood Dragon, New Dawn; 100 million unique players; Far Cry 7 unannounced.
Far Cry (film)
Far Cry is a 2008 German-Canadian biopunk action film directed by Uwe Boll, based on the Ubisoft video game and starring Til Schweiger and Emmanuelle Vaugier.
Far Cry (video game)
Far Cry (2004) is a first-person shooter by Crytek, published by Ubisoft, starring Jack Carver on a tropical island; it introduced the CryEngine, sold nearly 3 million copies, and launched the Far Cry franchise.
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal, 2008) is an open-world African first-person shooter on the Dunia engine, starring the Jackal hunt, malaria, jamming guns, fire propagation, and a 12-buddy dynamic narrative; PC Metascore 85.
Far Cry 3
Far Cry 3 is Ubisoft's 2012 open-world FPS set on the fictional Rook archipelago, starring Jason Brody and villain Vaas Montenegro; developed by Ubisoft Montreal, Massive, and Shanghai, it scored 88 on Metacritic and defined the series' outpost, crafting, and skill-tree loop.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a 2013 standalone Ubisoft Montreal spin-off of Far Cry 3, a neon 1980s-parody shooter starring cyber-commando Rex Colt (Michael Biehn) fighting cyborgs and laser-eyed Blood Dragons; Metascore 80, later re-released as Classic Edition.
Far Cry 4
Far Cry 4 is a 2014 open-world first-person shooter by Ubisoft Montreal, set in Kyrat, a fictional Himalayan country based on Nepal and Bhutan, where Ajay Ghale joins the Golden Path rebellion against self-appointed king Pagan Min.
Far Cry 5
Far Cry 5 is a 2018 Ubisoft Montreal open-world FPS set in Hope County, Montana, fighting the cult Project at Eden's Gate led by Joseph Seed; first US-set Far Cry, fastest-selling in the franchise, Metacritic 81.
Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 is Ubisoft's 2021 open-world first-person shooter set on the Caribbean island of Yara, where Dani Rojas fights dictator Antón Castillo (Giancarlo Esposito) using Resolver weapons, Supremo backpacks, and Amigos; Metacritic 73-79.
Far Cry New Dawn
Far Cry New Dawn is a 2019 Ubisoft Montreal first-person shooter, a standalone sequel to Far Cry 5 set 17 years after a nuclear apocalypse in Hope County, Montana, against the Highwaymen twins Mickey and Lou; Metacritic 71.
Far Cry Primal
Far Cry Primal is a 2016 open-world first-person action-adventure game by Ubisoft Montreal, set in 10,000 BC Oros, central Europe, where hunter Takkar of the Wenja tribe tames beasts against the Udam and Izila tribes.
Far East
Far East: European geopolitical term for East and Southeast Asia plus the Russian Far East, the farthest of the Near, Middle, and Far Easts; now largely replaced by East Asia and Southeast Asia as Eurocentric.
Far East Cup
The Far East Cup is the FIS alpine skiing Continental Cup for East Asia, run since 1994/95, whose winners earn guaranteed World Cup starts the next season.
Far East Horizon
Far East Horizon Limited is a Hong Kong-headquartered Chinese financial services group founded in 1991, built on financial leasing and ranked among China's top five leasing companies.
Far East Movement
Far East Movement is a Los Angeles Asian American electro-hop group formed in 2003 (Kev Nish, Prohgress, J-Splif, DJ Virman), whose 2010 single "Like a G6" made them the first Asian-American group to top the Billboard Hot 100; albums include Free Wired, Dirty Bass, and Identity.
Far Eastern Federal District (Дальневосточный федеральный округ)
Far Eastern Federal District (Дальневосточный федеральный округ), Russia's largest federal district at 6,942,900 km² (41% of the country), 11 subjects, capital Khabarovsk, population 7.86 million in 2023, created 2000, enlarged 2018.
Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная республика)
The Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная республика) was a nominally democratic buffer state between Soviet Russia and Japan, April 1920 to November 1922, with capital at Chita, about 3,000,000 sq km, absorbed by Soviet Russia in 1922.
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV-FE, formerly Russian spring-summer encephalitis) is the most severe TBE virus subtype, tick-borne via Ixodes persulcatus in far-eastern Russia, China, and Japan, with case fatality around 20% or higher.