Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett, was an EnglandUnited States playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
	Frances Wright Frances Wright was a lecturer, writer, feminist, and utopian. Wright was born to a wealthy family in Dundee, Scotland; when she was orphaned at the age of three, she was left with a substantial inheritance. By the age of 18, she had written her first book. She emigrated to United States in 1818, and with her sister toured from 1818 to 1820.
	Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, King's Council was an England philosopher, statesman and essayist but is best known for leading the scientific revolution with his new 'observation and experimentation' theory which is the way science has been conducted ever since.
	Francis Beaumont Francis Beaumont, was an English dramatist most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire, a justice of the common pleas. He was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall at age 13.
	Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick Order of Merit was an England
	Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, was an England privateer, Navigation, naval pioneer and raider, politics and civil engineering of the Elizabethan era, considered by many a pirate, and to the English, a privateer. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
	Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola is a five time Academy Award winning United States film director, Film producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, publisher, and hotelier. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded The Godfather trilogy and the Vietnam War Epic film Apocalypse Now.
	Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton Fellow of the Royal Society , half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an England Victorian era polymath, anthropologist, Eugenics, tropical List of explorers, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, Psychometrics, and statistician.
	Francis Hopkinson is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in leap years.
	Francis of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan Order or "Friars Minor". He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Italy, Catholic action, and the Natural environment.
	Francis Scott Key Francis Scott Key was an United States lawyer and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".
	Francis turbine The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine that was developed by James B. Francis. It is an inward flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. Francis turbines are the most common water turbine in use today. They operate in a head range of ten meters to several hundred meters and are primarily used for electrical power production.
	Franciscan The term Franciscan is used to refer to the Roman Catholic orders which follow the monastic Franciscan#The three rules of the order and the testament of Saint Francis. Among the most important Franciscans are its founders, Francis of Assisi and Clare of Assisi, as well as Anthony of Padua, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, Alexander of Hales, William of Ockham, and Giovanni da Pian del Carpini.
	Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Tedulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo , abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalissimo Francisco Franco , was the effective dictator and later formal head of state of parts of Spain from October 1936 and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
	Francisco Goya Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes was a Spain painter and Printmaking. Goya was a portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown, a chronicler of history, and, in his unofficial work, a revolutionary and a visionary. He has been regarded both as the last of the old masters and as the first of the moderns.
	Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro was a Spain conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of the city of Lima, Peru, the modern-day capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain, , Spain. Sources differ in the birth year they assign to him: 1471, 1475-1478, or unknown.
	Francisella Francisella is a genus of Pathogen, Gram-negative bacterium. They are small coccobacillus or bacillus, non-motile organisms, which are also facultative intracellular parasites of macrophages. Strict aerobic, Francisella colonies bear a morphological resemblance to those of the genus Brucella.
	Francisella tularensis Francisella tularensis is a pathogenic species of gram-negative bacterium. A member of the genus Francisella, F. tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia or rabbit fever. Due to its ease of spread by aerosol and its high virulence, F.
	Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War was declared by France on Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation and the south German states of Baden, Wrttemberg and Bavaria. The conflict marked the culmination of tension between the two powers following Prussia's rise to dominance in Germany, which before 1866 was still a loose federation of quasi-independent territories.
	Francoa Francoa is a genus of the Francoaceae family.
	François Couperin Franois Couperin was an esteemed France Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Franois Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand" to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family because of his immense virtuosity on the organ and the harpsichord.
	François Duvalier Dr. Franois Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc", was the List of Presidents of Hati of Haiti from 1957 and later dictator from 1964 until his death. His rule was marked by autocracy, political corruption, and reliance on private armies to maintain power.
	François Mansart Fran?ois Mansart (January 13, 1598 in Paris - September 23, 1666 in Paris) was a France architect credited with introducing Neoclassicism into French Baroque architecture. The Encyclop?dia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
	François Rabelais Franois Rabelais was a major France Renaissance writer.
	François Truffaut Franois Roland Truffaut was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he fulfilled the functions of screenwriter, film director, film producer or actor in over twentyfive films.
	François Villon Franois Villon was a France poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison. The question "Mais o sont les neiges d'antan?", taken from the Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis and translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?", is one of the most famous lines of translated secular poetry in the English language-speaking world.
	Frank Capra Frank Capra was an Academy Awards winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including the classics It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, among others.
	Frank Harris Frank Harris was an Irish-American author, editor, journalist and publisher who consorted with many well-known figures of his day.
	Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright , Master of the Organic Architecture, was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century. He not only developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career , he influenced the whole course of United States architecture and building.
	Frank Norris Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, the United States' first important naturalism writer. His notable works include McTeague, The Octopus: A California Story, and The Pit. Although he did not support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair.
	Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra was an American singer and actor. He was born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915. His career in the entertainment business lasted 65 years and included eleven Grammy Awards, several #1 hits, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1953. He is considered one of the most successful singers in modern history.
	Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society was a Royal Air Force officer who invented the jet engine. Due to funding and manufacturing problems and a lack of foresight on the part of the British Government in keeping sensitive patents secret, Hans von Ohain of Germany was able to beat him to production models but Whittle's work and tireless efforts to produce his designs given official lack of interest are legendary.
	Frankenstein Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Shelley. First published in London, England in 1818 , it is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romanticism movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution.
	Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein's monster is a creature first appearing in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. In the novel it has no name and is variously referred to as "the creature," "the fiend," "the daemon," or "the wretch." After the novel was adapted to film, the monster became best known in popular imagination as "Frankenstein".
	Frankfurt For the capital of the U.S. state of Kentucky, see Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with an estimated mid-2005 population of 648,325. The Frankfurt urban area, which extends beyond the city boundaries, had an estimated population of 1,468,140 in 2000.
	Frankincense Frankincense or olibanum is an Aroma compound resin obtained from the tree Boswellia thurifera or B. sacra, B. carterii. It is used in incense as well as in perfumes. Frankincense is tapped from Boswellia trees through slashing the bark and allowing the exuded resins to harden.
	Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce, Sr. was an Politics of the United States and the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. Pierce was a Democratic Party and a "doughface" who served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.
	Franklins Franklins is a discount supermarket chain selling packaged groceries and perishables throughout New South Wales, Australia. It owns the No Frills brand of generic products, promoted by their mascot, "Red Sock". It is known as "Australia's Original Discount Grocer". Franklins also had stores in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia until 2001.
	Franks The Franks or the Frankish people were one of several west Confederations of Germanic Tribes. The confederation was formed out of Germanic tribes: Salian Franks, Sugambri, Chamavi, Tencteri, Chattuarii, Bructeri, Usipetes, Ampsivarii, Chatti.
	Frans Hals Frans Hals was a Netherlands during the Dutch Golden Age. As a Portrait painting painter, considered by some as second in Holland only to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, he displayed extraordinary talent and quickness in his art.
	Franz Kafka Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language novel and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing — much of it unfinished work, and published posthumously despite his wish that it be destroyed — has become Icon in Western literature.
	Franz Kline Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionism group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and died in New York City.
	Franz Lehár Franz Lehr was an Austria composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas. Lehr was born in Komrno as the eldest son of a conducting in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied violin and Musical composition at the Prague Conservatory but was advised by Antonn Dvork to focus on composing music.
	Franz Liszt Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest pianists who ever lived, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist.
	Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer considered to be the last master of the classical music era and one of the earliest proponents of musical Romanticism. Although he died at the young age of 31, he managed to List of compositions by Schubert some six hundred songs in addition to nine symphonies, various sonata , string quartets, and other works.
	Franz Werfel Franz Werfel was an Austrian people-Czech people novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German language.
	Fraps Fraps is a benchmarking, screen capture, and real-time video capture utility for DirectX and OpenGL applications. It is commonly used to record gaming footage. The Fraps codec allows decoding of Fraps-encoded videos or conversion to other video formats. The Fraps video codec manages to capture videos with minimal impact on game performance, as it has been optimized to achieve compression higher than uncompressed RGB, resulting in smaller filesizes, though the format is considerably less space-efficient than more heavily compressed vide
	Fraser Fir Fraser Fir, is a coniferous tree, closely related to Balsam Fir. Its range is restricted to the southeastern Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The tree lives in acidic moist but well-drained sandy loam at high elevations, usually mixed with Red Spruce.
	Fray Fray is an eight-issue comic book limited series about Melaka Fray, a Slayer in the future, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and drawn by Karl Moline and Andy Owens. The series was published by Dark Horse Comics beginning in 2001, with delays between the first six and the final two issues caused by Whedon's TV commitments, during which Moline illustrated Route 666 for CrossGen Comics.
	Freak In current usage, the word freak is used to refer a person with an unusual personality. The older usage, referring to the physically deformed, such as would be seen in a sideshow, is nowadays generally considered offensive and inappropriate. The word is still used when referring to mutations in plants and animals, but less often for humans.
	Freaks Freaks is a Pre-Code 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed by Tod Browning. The movie was adapted by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, and Edgar Allan Woolf from the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins. Browning, famed at the time for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula, took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks", rather than using costumes and makeup.
	Freckle Freckles are small tan spots of melanin on the skin of people with fair complexions. Having freckles is genetic and is related to the presence of the melanocortin-1 receptor MC1R gene variant. Freckling can also be triggered by long exposure to sunlight, such as suntanning. When the sun's rays penetrate the skin, they activate melanocytes which can cause freckles to become darker and more numerous, although the distribution of melanin is not the same.
	Fred Astaire Fred Astaire , born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an United States film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films.
	Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle was a United Kingdom astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by his son Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at University of Cambridge, and was director of the institute for a number of years.
	Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was an United States Abolitionism, editing, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia," Douglass was one of the most prominent figures of African American history during his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history.
	Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner was, with Charles A. Beard, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History. Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.
	Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, New York, the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal#Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, Cherokee Park
	Frederick Sanger Frederick Sanger, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society is an England biochemistry and a two times Nobel laureate in Chemistry. He is the fourth person in the world who has been awarded two Nobel Prizes .
	Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy was an England radiochemistry. Soddy was born in Eastbourne, England. He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and University of Oxford . He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900.
	Free Hand Free Hand is an album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Gentle Giant which was released in 1975. It also marked their first album under their new label, Chrysalis Records.
	Free love The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. Much of the free love tradition has a Civil libertarianism philosophy that seeks freedom from State regulation and Church interference in personal relationships.
	Free People Free People is a women's clothing store operated by Urban Outfitters. The first location opened at the Garden State Plaza shopping mall in Paramus, New Jersey in 2002. As of August 2006, there are 7 store locations. The newest store is in Garden City, New York at the Roosevelt Field Mall.
	Free Soil Party The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. It was a breakaway faction of the History of the United States Democratic Party and was largely absorbed by the History of the United States Republican Party in 1854.
	Free State The Free State is a Provinces of South Africa of South Africa. The name is a popular contraction of the previous name the Orange Free State. Its capital is Bloemfontein which is also South Africa's judicial capital. On 9 June 1995 its name was changed from Orange Free State to Free State.
	Free throw In basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points from a restricted area on the court, and are generally awarded after a personal foul by the opposing team. Each free throw is worth one point, and normally more than one is awarded. The importance of free throws is nevertheless sometimes underestimated; games have been known to be decided on them, especially if the score was close.
	Free will The problem of free will is the problem of whether human beings exercise control over their own actions and decisions. Addressing this problem requires understanding the relation between freedom and causation, and determining whether or not the laws of nature are causally deterministic. The various positions taken on the problem therefore differ on whether all events are determined or not—determinism versus indeterminism—and differ on whether freedom can co-exist with determinism or not—compatibilism
	Freedom of assembly Freedom of assembly is the Freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one wishes. It is held to be a key right in liberal democracy, whereby citizens may form or join any political party, special interest group, or trade union without government restrictions.
	Freedom of religion Freedom of religion and belief is considered by many to be a fundamental human right. It is also a guarantee by a government for freedom of belief for individuals and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. Freedom of religion must also include the freedom not to follow any religion or not having any belief in god .
	Freedom of speech Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracy. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries.
	Freedom of the press Freedom of the press is the guarantee by a government of free speech for its citizens and freedom of association, extended to members of news gathering journalism, and their published reporting. It also extends to news gathering, and processes involved in obtaining information for public distribution.