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Frogmore Cottage
Frogmore Cottage is a Grade II-listed house in the Home Park of Windsor Castle, built in 1801 for Queen Charlotte and known since 2018 as Prince Harry and Meghan's UK home.
Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house in Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, near Windsor Castle, a royal retreat since 1792 under Queen Charlotte.
Frontinus
Frontinus, or Sextus Julius Frontinus, was a Roman senator and general who served as water commissioner of Rome and wrote the surviving treatise on its aqueducts.
Fryingpan–Arkansas Project
The Fryingpan–Arkansas Project (Fry-Ark) is a Bureau of Reclamation project in Colorado, authorized in 1962, that diverts water under the Continental Divide into the Arkansas River basin for irrigation, municipal use, and hydropower.
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.
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.
Fuller Warren Bridge
The Fuller Warren Bridge carries Interstate 95 over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, named for Governor Fuller Warren; about 170,000 vehicles cross daily.
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
The Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE exam) is a computer-based licensing test administered by NCEES, typically the first step toward becoming a professional engineer in the United States.
Furness Abbey
Furness Abbey is the ruin of a medieval Cistercian monastery at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, once the second richest Cistercian abbey in England until its surrender in 1537.
Fuse plug spillway
A fuse plug spillway is an auxiliary dam spillway whose erodible embankment behaves as a stable dam until a set reservoir level, then breaches at a controlled rate during extreme floods.
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社)
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社), also called Fushimi Inari, is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, dating to 711, known for its thousands of vermillion torii gates.
G. O. Wessenauer
G. O. Wessenauer, full name Gabriel Otto Wessenauer, was an American power and civil engineer who led the Tennessee Valley Authority power system and was a National Academy of Engineering member.
G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway
The G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway, known as the Shenhai Expressway, is a national expressway in China running along the coast from Shenyang, Liaoning, to Haikou, Hainan.
Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams
The Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams were a planned system of dams, locks, and hydroelectric plants on the Danube, agreed by Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1977; only the Gabčíkovo portion was completed.
Gabion
A gabion, from the Italian gabbione meaning big cage, is a wire mesh basket filled with rock or soil and stacked into retaining walls, channel linings, and erosion controls.
Gable roof
A gable roof is a roof with a central ridge sloping in two directions, forming a triangular gable at each end wall; it is one of the two most common sloped roof types.
Gadara Aqueduct
The Gadara Aqueduct, known in Arabic as the Qanat Fir'aun, was a Roman aqueduct about 170 km long that carried spring water to Gadara in northern Jordan.
Galata Bridge
Galata Bridge (Galata Köprüsü) is a 490 m double-deck bascule bridge in Istanbul carrying road, tram, and pedestrian traffic across the Golden Horn between Eminönü and Karaköy since 1992.
Galata Tower
Galata Tower, known in Turkish as Galata Kulesi, is a medieval stone tower in Istanbul built by the Genoese in 1348 as a fortified entrance to their colony.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as the Galleria Victor Emmanuel, is a monumental shopping arcade in Milan linking Piazza del Duomo with Piazza della Scala under a glass dome.
Gamble House (Pasadena, California)
The Gamble House is a 1908 residence in Pasadena, California, designed by Greene and Greene for David Gamble of Procter & Gamble, a landmark of the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
Gamble Plantation Historic State Park is a Florida state park in Ellenton, preserving the only surviving antebellum mansion in South Florida, home of Major Robert Gamble's sugar plantation.
Gambrel roof
The gambrel roof, also called a barn roof, is a two-sided roof with a steep lower slope and flatter upper slope, known from American barns and Dutch Colonial houses.
Gameunsa
Gameunsa (감은사) was a Unified Silla Buddhist temple on the coast of Gyeongju, South Korea, begun by King Munmu and completed by his son Sinmun in 682.
Ganga Ram (ਗੰਗਾ ਰਾਮ)
Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927) was a Punjabi civil engineer and philanthropist of British India who built many Lahore landmarks and endowed hospitals in Lahore and New Delhi.
Ganghwa Island fortifications
The Ganghwa Island fortifications are the walls, forts, and batteries built on Ganghwado near Seoul to defend the Goryeo and Joseon capitals from the 13th to the 19th century.
Garamantes
The Garamantes were an ancient Libyan people of the central Sahara whose kingdom, centered on the Wadi al-Ajal in Fazzan, Libya, flourished from about the first millennium BC.
Garbhagriha
The garbhagriha, Sanskrit for "womb-chamber," is the innermost sanctum of a Hindu temple, a small, dark, usually square chamber housing the deity's image or linga.
Garden city movement
The garden city movement, founded by Ebenezer Howard in his 1898 book, proposes self-contained towns combining town and country, producing Letchworth and Welwyn and shaping the UK's post-war New Towns.
Gargar (river)
Gargar (river), also Gargar canal or channel, is an artificial branch of the Karun at Shushtar, Iran, fed via the Mizan dam, still supplying the city and irrigating the 40,000 ha Mianab plain.