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Foi (other)
FOI or Foi may refer to: Organisations * Family Opera Initiative, an American opera company * Fellowship of Isis, an international spiritual organization * Forum Oratori Italiani, a Catholic youth organization * Fruit of Islam, paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam * Swedish Defence Research Agency (Swedish: ' (FOI)) Other uses * Foi language, spoken in Papua New Guinea * Freedom of information * Saint Faith Saint Faith or Saint Faith of Conques (Latin: Sancta Fides; French: Sainte-Foy; Spanish: Santa Fe) is a saint who is said to have been a girl or young woman of Agen in Aquitaine. Her legend recounts how she was arrested during persecution of Chri ... (Foy or sometimes Foi), a third-century French saint * Foi, a village in Crăciunești, Romania See also * Foy (other) * Sainte-Foi, a place in France {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Opera Initiative
Family Opera Initiative (FOI) is an American opera company based in New York City that commissions, develops, and premieres original works for cross-generational audiences. It was founded in 1995 by Grethe Barrett Holby, originally as part of American Opera Projects (also founded by Holby). Its mission was and remains to create new repertory for family audiences, to bring the experience of opera to a diverse audience, and to engage the community in the process and performance of their works.Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (May 2007) Since its founding, Family Opera Initiative has developed a series of "opera-musicals" for family audiences: ''Flurry Tale'' (1999), ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' (2001), ''Fireworks!'' (2002), and ''Animal Tales'' (2008). Past and present collaborators on their productions include Billy Aronson, George Plimpton, Kitty Brazelton, Rusty Magee, Franco Colavecchia, Richard Peaslee, and :it:Eugenio Carmi, Eugenio Carmi. The company performs around the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellowship Of Isis
The Fellowship of Isis (FOI) is an international spiritual organisation devoted to promoting awareness of the Goddess. It is dedicated specifically to the Egyptian goddess Isis because the FOI co-founders believed Isis best represented the energies of the dawning Aquarian Age. The FOI is a multi-faith, multi-racial, and multi-cultural organisation, and despite worshipping pagan deities, does not consider itself to be a Neopagan faith. History The FOI was founded at Huntington Castle, Co. Carlow, Ireland at the Vernal equinox of 1976. The three co-founders were Olivia Robertson and her brother, Lawrence Durdin-Robertson (grandchildren of Thomas Herbert Robertson) and Lawrence's wife Pamela. Their aim was to create a fellowship to "help the Goddess actively in the manifestation of Her divine plan." Olivia has described Isis as "God in female form." The FOI grew out of a "working group" created in 1963 called the Huntington Castle Centre for Meditation and Study. This Centre w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Oratori Italiani
Forum Oratori Italiani (FOI) is a Catholic youth organization in Italy. FOI is a member of the Catholic umbrella of youth organizations Fimcap. Structure FOI is a national umbrella organization of religious associations and bodies involved in youthwork at parish level in Italy. FOI can count almost 40 member organization and about 6,000 parochial recreation centres, which are called “oratori”. About 1,000,000 young people are attending the activities of FOI. About 150.000 volunteers work for FOI as leaders, catechists Catechesis (; from Greek language, Greek: , "instruction by word of mouth", generally "instruction") is basic Christian religious education of children and adults, often from a catechism book. It started as education of Conversion to Christian ... and helpers with different roles. Refere ...
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Fruit Of Islam
The Fruit of Islam (FOI) is the security and disciplinary wing of the Nation of Islam (NOI). It has also been described as its paramilitary wing. The Fruit of Islam wear distinctive blue, brown or white uniforms and caps and have units at all NOI temples. Louis Farrakhan, as head of the Nation of Islam, is commander-in-chief of the Fruit of Islam, and his son, Mustapha Farrakhan Sr., is second in command as the Supreme Captain. The women's counterpart to the Fruit of Islam is Muslim Girls Training (MGT). The Fruit of Islam draws its membership from male members in Nation of Islam mosques. All men registered in the Nation of Islam as members are by default a part of the FOI. While NOI does not release membership figures, estimates made in 2007 for total membership in the NOI range from 30,000 to 50,000. History The Fruit of Islam is one of the original institutions of the NOI, created by its founder W. D. Fard in 1933, shortly before his final disappearance. The men, mostly y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Defence Research Agency
The Swedish Defence Research Agency ( sv, Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI; literal translation: ''Total Defence Research Institute'') is a government agency in Sweden for defence research. FOI has its headquarters in Kista (Stockholm). Other FOI offices or research centres are located in Grindsjön, Linköping, and Umeå. History FOI was created in 2001 by combining the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA) with the National Aeronautical Research Institute (FFA). The first of these agencies, FFA, had been created in 1940 in Bromma, Stockholm as a governmental research institute for the Swedish aviation industry, large parts of which were devoted to military aircraft. The second, FOA, had been created in 1945 from three existing organisations: * The Swedish Armed Forces Chemical Institute (''Försvarsväsendets kemiska anstalt'', FKA), a government agency created in 1937 and located in Ursvik, Sundbyberg Municipality. FKA had predecessors in chemical warfare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foi Language
Foi, also known as Foe or Mubi River, is one of the two East Kutubuan languages of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken along Lake Kutubu and Mubi River, located in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi. A Swadesh list for the Foi language was documented by The Rosetta Project in 2010. The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000. Grammar Syntax Foi is a subject–object–verb language, similar to most languages in Papua New Guinea. Foe adopts the usage of focused objects as sentence-initial. In noun phrases, Foi follows the pattern of Noun + Quantifier and Adjective + Noun. Adverbial phrases are marked postpositionally by clitics in Foi. Foi also has a series of evidentials to mark the verbal aspect of seen, unseen, deduced, possibility, and mental deduction. Morphology The subject or focus transitive in a sentence is marked with ''-mo'' as shown in example (1) belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Of Information
Freedom of information is freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. Access to information is the ability for an individual to seek, receive and impart information effectively. This sometimes includes "scientific, indigenous, and traditional knowledge; freedom of information, building of open knowledge resources, including open Internet and open standards, and open access and availability of data; preservation of digital heritage; respect for cultural and linguistic diversity, such as fostering access to local content in accessible languages; quality education for all, including lifelong and e-learning; diffusion of new media and information literacy and skills, and social inclusion online, including addressing inequalities based on skills, education, gender, age, race, ethnicity, and accessibility by those with disabilities; and the development of connectivity and affordable ICTs, including mobile, the Internet, and broadband infrastructures". Public ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Faith
Saint Faith or Saint Faith of Conques (Latin: Sancta Fides; French: Sainte-Foy; Spanish: Santa Fe) is a saint who is said to have been a girl or young woman of Agen in Aquitaine. Her legend recounts how she was arrested during persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire and refused to make pagan sacrifices even under torture. Saint Faith was tortured to death with a red-hot brazier. Her death is sometimes said to have occurred in the year 287 or 290, sometimes in the large-scale persecution under Diocletian beginning in 303. She is listed as Sainte Foy, "Virgin and Martyr", in the martyrologies. The center of her veneration was transferred to the Abbey of Sainte-Foy, Conques, where her relics arrived in the ninth century, stolen from Agen by a monk from the Abbey nearby at Conques. Legend A number of legends exist regarding Faith, and she was confused with the three legendary sisters known as Faith, Hope, and Charity. She is recorded in the ''Martyrologium Hieronymianum'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crăciunești
Crăciunești ( Hungarian: ''Nyárádkarácson''; Hungarian pronunciation: ; yi, קרעטשניף, ''Kretshnif'') is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Budiu Mic (''Hagymásbodon''), Ciba (''Csiba''), Cinta (''Fintaháza''), Cornești (''Somosd''), Crăciunești, Foi (''Folyfalva''), Nicolești (''Káposztásszentmiklós'') and Tirimioara (''Kisteremi''). Ciba, Foi and Nicolești were established in 2006. See also * List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County) This is a list of Hungarian names for towns and communes in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Hungarian exonyms (Mures County) Mures County Hungarian exonyms in Mures Hungarian Hungarian Exonyms An endonym ... References Communes in Mureș County Localities in Transylvania {{Mureş-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foy (other)
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Foy may refer to: Places *Foy, Belgium *Foy, Herefordshire, England *Fowey, Cornwall, England (pronounced "Foy") *Foy Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada *Slieve Foy, a mountain near Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland Other uses *Foy (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Foy & Gibson, also known as Foy's, an early Australian department store chain *Mark Foy's, a Sydney, Australia, department store *Prix Foy, a French horse race See also * *Foi (other) *Sainte-Foy (other) Sainte Foy or Sainte Foi (French, 'Saint Faith' or 'holy faith') may refer to: Places France * Sainte-Foi, in the Ariège ''département'' * Sainte-Foy, Landes, in the Landes ''département'' * Sainte-Foy, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
