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FDN (other)
FDN may refer to: Organizations * Dolphin Air, a defunct Ermirati airline * Flying Doctors Nigeria, an air ambulance service * French Data Network, a French non-profit Internet service provider * Fruta del Norte mine, an Ecuadorian gold mine Politics * National Democratic Front (Mexico) (Spanish: '), a defunct political coalition * National Democratic Front (Peru) (Spanish: '), a defunct political party * New Democratic Forces (French: '), a defunct political party in the Republic of the Congo * Nicaraguan Democratic Force (Spanish: '), a Nicaraguan Contra group * Nigerien Democratic Front (French: '), a defunct political party of Niger Other uses * '' Fairbanks Daily News-Miner'', a newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska, US * Faridabad New Town railway station, in Haryana, India * Fixed Dialing Number Fixed Dialing Number (FDN) is a service mode of a GSM mobile phone's SIM card. Numbers are added to the FDN list, and when activated, FDN restricts outgoing calls to only those numbers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolphin Air
Dolphin Air was a charter airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operated charter services within the Middle East and Pakistan. Its main base was Dubai International Airport. History The airline started operations in 2002.It was a charter airline based in Dubai that was founded in 1996 as Santa Cruz Imperial Airlines in Liberia, acquired later by Flying Dolphin Airlines and relocated. It was reorganised by Arabian Devt Trading and Construction, taking over assets from Santa Cruz Imperial. It had 68 employees (at March 2007). Fleet The Dolphin Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft: *2 Boeing 737-200 References External links Official website Defunct airlines of the United Arab Emirates Airlines established in 1996 Airlines disestablished in 2008 Emirati companies established in 1996 {{UnitedArabEmirates-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Doctors Nigeria
Flying Doctors of Nigeria is an air ambulance service established by Dr Ola Orekunrin. Description It has its main office in Lagos and another in Port Harcourt with 20 aircraft and 47 staff, 44 of whom are doctors. As well as moving injured and ill patients to the hospital, the organisation has set up medical infrastructure for the government and worked with private companies to improve their on-site medical services. Flying doctor plane It contracts with the government and private companies. Helicopters are provided for corporate clients running large events, and wealthy families and individuals can set up a membership plan for private emergency healthcare. The company has entered into an agreement with a UK-based call centre to operate telephone services to provide stable communications. References {{reflist External links Flying Doctors Nigeria Limited Air ambulance services in Nigeria Healthcare in Nigeria Health care companies of Nigeria Companies based in Lagos Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Data Network
French Data Network (FDN) is a French non-profit organization ( association loi 1901) founded on June 2, 1992. Its purpose is: "the promotion, use and development of the Internet and Usenet networks in accordance with their ethics, in particular by encouraging non-commercial use for research and educational purposes", "the defense of public liberties on the Internet and the defense of the neutrality of telecommunication networks". FDN is the oldest Internet Service Provider in France still in business, offering RTC (since 1992), ADSL (since 2005) and VPN (since 2013) access to its members. It is a founding member of Gitoyen, a non-profit tier 2 operator. FDN has also been politically active, taking a strong position against the HADOPI law. During the internet blackout in some countries during the Arab spring, it proposed RTC services to anyone able to access international phone calls. It has a strong position against censorship and in favor of network neutrality Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruta Del Norte Mine
The Fruta del Norte deposit is the largest gold deposit in Ecuador. The deposit is part of the Corriente Copper Belt located in the Amazon province of Zamora-Chinchipe. In 2006 Aurelian Resources discovered a large deposit at Fruta del Norte, estimated between 6.8 and 10 million ounces of gold and between 9.1 and 14 million ounces of silver. Following changes to Ecuadorian mining laws that limited foreign ownership of mining projects, the Canadian company Kinross Gold Kinross Gold Corporation is a Canadian-based gold mining, gold and silver mining company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kinross currently operates six active gold mines, and was ranked fifth of the "10 Top Gold-mining ... acquired Aurelian Resources in 2009 and took on the project. Despite the project's potential, and just days before Congress passed a new mining law in 2013, Kinross pulled out of Ecuador after a dispute over windfall taxes, reporting a loss of $720 million. In 2014 Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Front (Mexico)
The National Democratic Front () was a coalition of left-wing Mexican political parties created to compete in the 1988 presidential elections, being the immediate predecessor of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). It was result of an agglutination of small political left and center-left forces with dissident members from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Their candidate for the presidential election was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. History Background The National Democratic Front had its origins in the PRI, where the Democratic Current - founded in 1986 and led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, César Buenrostro, Ifigenia Martínez, among others - tried to democratize the internal selection of the PRI's presidential candidate, while also protesting against the economic policies of then-president Miguel de la Madrid. When in October 1987 Carlos Salinas de Gortari was nominated the official PRI candidate De la Madrid, the members of the Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Front (Peru)
National Democratic Front (in Spanish: ''Frente Democrático Nacional'') was a political coalition in Peru that was founded in 1944 in Arequipa by ultraconservative Manuel J. Bustamante de la Fuente. Future president Fernando Belaúnde Terry was also present during the party's foundation. The initial coalition comprised APRA, the far-right Reformist Democratic Party and the fascist Revolutionary Union party, ultimately excluding the Peruvian Communist Party. The alliance led to the triumph of ultraconservative José Luis Bustamante y Rivero José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (January 15, 1894 – January 11, 1989) was a lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 44th President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague ... becoming president the same year. References Defunct political parties in Peru Political parties established in 1945 Political parties with year of disestablishment missing {{Peru-par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Democratic Forces
The New Democratic Forces (French: ''Forces démocratiques nouvelles'') was a political party in Congo-Brazzaville from 2007 to 2011. Seven parties,Cyr Armel Yabbat-Ngo"Bokilo, Opimbat, Tassoua, Loumouamou et les autres se mettent ensemble et créent leur parti, les F.d.n", ''Le Semaine Africaine'', N° 2686, 13 April 2007, page 3 . which were formerly members of the United Democratic Forces (FDU),"Les Forces démocratiques nouvelles et le Parti congolais du travail signent un accord électoral" , ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 16 May 2007 . agreed to merge to form the FDN on 27 March 2007.Roger N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaraguan Democratic Force
The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (', or FDN) was one of the earliest Contra groups, formed on August 11, 1981 in Guatemala City. It was formed to oppose Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government following the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. It merged the 15th of September Legion, which comprised mostly former members of Somoza's National Guard, with the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, an organization of émigrés from the business and professional classes. The new FDN also began assimilating the MILPAS movement, bands led by disenchanted former MAP-ML guerrillas. The FDN military was under the command of former National Guard colonel Enrique Bermúdez. The FDN was heavily backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Reagan administration. Famous commanders These are some of the FDN's better-known ''comandantes'': *Suicida – ''Pedro Pablo Ortiz Centeno''. Former Guard sergeant, operated in the Jalapa area. Legendary for his eagerness for battle, but never fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerien Democratic Front
The Nigerien Democratic Front (french: Front démocratique nigérien, FDN) was a political party in Niger. It published the party journal ''L'Unité'' ('Unity'). History The party was founded by Zodi Ikhia and his followers on March 6, 1957, assembling the remainder of the Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers. It became a Nigerien affiliate of the African Convention, an inter-territorial political party led by Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ....Mamoudou Djibo (2003Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger(1944-1960)''Autrepart'' Vol. 27, pp41–60 The FDN contested the March 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, but received 0.5% of the vote and failed to win a seat. References {{Nigerien political parties Defunct politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The '' Fairbanks Daily News-Miner'' is a morning daily newspaper serving the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Denali Borough, and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the farthest north daily in the United States, and one of the farthest north in the world. The oldest continuously operating daily in Alaska, by circulation it is the second-largest daily in the state. It was purchased by the Helen E. Snedden Foundation in 2016. The Snedden family were longtime owners of the ''News-Miner'', selling it to a family trust for Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder, founders of the Media News Group in 1992. The ''News-Miner'' was founded as the ''Weekly Fairbanks News'' in 1903 by George M. Hill and assumed the ''News-Miner'' name in 1909, under editor William Fentress Thompson, when Zachary Hickman sold his newspaper, ''The Miner News'', to the ''Fairbanks News''. Thompson guided the paper through tough economic times as the gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faridabad New Town Railway Station
Faridabad New Town Railway Station is on the Agra–Delhi chord. It is located in Faridabad district in the Indian state of Haryana. It serves Faridabad and surrounding areas. History The Agra–Delhi chord was opened in 1904. Some parts of it were relaid during the construction of New Delhi (inaugurated in 1927–28). Electrification The Faridabad–Mathura–Agra section was electrified in 1982–85. Suburban railway Faridabad New Town is part of the Delhi Suburban Railway and is served by EMU The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ... trains. Passengers Faridabad New Town railway station handles around 129,000 passengers every day. References External links Trains at Faridabad New Town* Railway stations in Faridabad district Delhi railway division Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
