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    A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church. There are also friars outside of the Roman Catholic Church, such as within...
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    Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written...
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  • Friars Club can refer to: Friars Club of Beverly Hills, also known as the "Friars Club of California" New York Friars Club The Friars (club), Louisiana...
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    meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as...
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    Franciscans (redirect from Friar minor)
    Assisi, these orders include three independent orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), orders for nuns such as...
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  • A friar is a term for a member of a religious order. Friar or Friars may also refer to: The Friars (club), American student club The Friars (Tasmania)...
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  • The Providence Friars are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Providence College, located in Providence, Rhode Island. They compete in the...
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  • The Friar Society is the oldest honor society at the University of Texas at Austin. The Friar Society was founded in 1911 by Curtice Rosser and Marion...
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    Sarah Jane Friar OBE (born 24 December 1972) is an Irish-American business executive who is the chief financial officer of OpenAI since June 2024. She...
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    Friar Tuck is one of the Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood. The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games...
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    Friar Park is a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England, construction began in 1889 and was completed in 1895. It was built for lawyer...
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  • "The Friar's Club" is the 128th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This is the 18th episode for the seventh season, originally airing on March 7, 1996...
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  • John Paul Friar (born 6 June 1963) is a Scottish footballer who played as a left back in the English and Scottish Leagues. "Paul Friar". Barry Hugman's...
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  • Friar's Inn (also called New Friar's Inn) was a nightclub and speakeasy in Chicago, Illinois, a famed jazz music venue in the 1920s. Though some sources...
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    The Weather friar (Catalan language, Frare del temps), is an absorption hygrometer created by Agapito Borràs Pedemonte in 1894. Borràs a native of Calella...
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  • Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the...
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    much is known about Juniper before he joined the friars. In 1210, he was received into the Order of Friars Minor by Francis himself. "Would to God, my brothers...
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    Kenneth John Friar OBE (born 13 August 1934) is a former board member, managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. In September 2020 he...
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  • Friars Aylesbury is a music club that runs in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It opened in 1969 but closed down twice, once in 1970 for a period of...
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    The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic...
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    Friars Quay is a residential development of a high density, urban design of the 1970s. The development is located in the Colegate area at the centre of...
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    The Friars Club was a private club in New York City. Famous for its risqué roasts, the club's membership is composed mostly of people who work in show...
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    Friar Julian (Hungarian: Julianus barát) was one of a group of Hungarian Dominican friars who, in 1235, left Hungary in order to find those Magyars who...
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    "The Friar's Tale" (Middle English: The Freres Tale) is a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, told by Huberd the Friar. The story centers...
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    Austin Friars is a coeducational private day school located in Carlisle, England. The Senior School provides secondary education for 350 boys and girls...
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    whose history is obscure. Crutched Friars or Fratres Cruciferi (cross-bearing friars) or Crossed Friars, Crouched Friars or Croziers, named after the staff...
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    The Spanish friars were the crucial elements in the Westernization of the Philippines, and in spreading the Christian faith in that part of the world....
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    The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former...
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    Friar Laurence or Friar Lawrence is a character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence is a friar who plays the part of a wise...
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  • The Amigonian Friars, officially named the Capuchin Tertiary Religious of Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Fratres Tertii Ordinis Sancti Francisci Capulatorum...
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