In Germanic mythology, Frigg, Frija, Frea (Langobardic), and Frige is a goddess. In nearly all sources, she is described as the wife of the god Odin. In Old High German and Old Norse sources, she is also connected with the goddess Fulla. The English weekday name Friday bears her name.
Frank Kelly Freas was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly based in Oakland, California, United States. The award winners are selected by polling magazine readers.
Bonitos are a tribe of medium-sized, ray-finned predatory fish in the family Scombridae – a family it shares with the mackerel, tuna, and Spanish mackerel tribes, and also the butterfly kingfish. Also called the Sardini tribe, it consists of eight species across four genera; three of those four genera are monotypic, having a single species each.
The unicolored jay is an Aphelocoma jay native to cloud forests of northwestern Central America and southern and southeastern Mexico, from central Honduras west to central Guerrero, southern Veracruz and extreme southern San Luis Potosí. It is apparently a basal member of its genus. At Montebello, Chiapas, it is a cooperative breeder.
The First Team were the first players known to have played the sport of basketball, having been taught the game in 1891 by James Naismith, who is recognized as the inventor of the sport. The team comprised 18 players who were studying in Springfield, Massachusetts, to become executive secretaries of the YMCA and who, as part of their coursework, studied physical education with Naismith, who is said to have invented the game to teach teamwork skills to his charges. The team was inducted as a group into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of that organization's inaugural 1959 induction class for their efforts in popularizing the sport and as the game's first practitioners.
The Arms and Equipment Guide is the name of two supplementary rule books for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Each describes various equipment that can be used in a campaign.
The Boridae are a small family of beetles with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name conifer bark beetles.
The short-furred Atlantic tree-rat or Wagner's Atlantic tree rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
The brown lanternshark or bristled lanternshark is a little-known species of deep-sea dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae. It is found off Japan and New Zealand, and possibly also South Africa and Australia, typically deeper than 300 m (980 ft). This species can be distinguished from other lanternsharks by its coloration, which is a uniform dark gray or brown without the ventral surface being much darker and clearly delineated from the rest of the body. The brown lanternshark feeds on small bony fishes, cephalopods, and crustaceans. Reproduction is ovoviviparous, with females giving birth to 9–18 young. An unusually high proportion of individuals in Suruga Bay are hermaphrodites, with both male and female characteristics.
Ingunar-Freyr is the name given to Freyr in the Lokasenna(43) and in the Great saga of Saint Olaf.
Brokencyde is an American hip hop group from Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 2006. The group's lineup consists of David "Se7en" Gallegos and Michael "Mikl" Shea, and musically are one of the founding groups in the crunkcore genre, which is crunk hip hop music with screamed vocals.
Byturidae, also known as Fruitworms, is a very small family of beetles, in the suborder Polyphaga, comprising fewer than 20 species worldwide. The larvae of some species develop in fruits. Byturus unicolor affects species of Rubus and Geum.
Frea is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Frea unifasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1858. It is known from Cameroon, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Ivory Coast, the Republic of the Congo, and Kenya. It feeds on Albizia adianthifolia, Celtis zenkeri, Petersianthus macrocarpus, and Antiaris africana.
Frea basalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Jordan in 1894. It is known from Cameroon, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Frea johannae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gahan in 1890.
Frea maculicornis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1858.
Frea sparsa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Klug in 1833. It is known from Madagascar. It contains the varietas Frea sparsa var. vagepicta.
