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- In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant...
- The Folly Boat is a boat that washed up alongside Folly Road in Folly Beach, South Carolina, during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. After nobody claimed the boat...
- folly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A folly is a decorative building. The term was also once used for a circular plantation or tree ring. Folly...
- In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium), is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius...
- Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The plot takes place in a crumbling Broadway theater, now...
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam is a book by Barbara W. Tuchman, an American historian and author. It was published on March 19, 1984, by Knopf...
- A folly fort or just folly is a specific type of fort built in shallow water, near the s****, in the second half of the 19th century. The main characteristic...
- Folly Beach is a public city on Folly Island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The po****tion was 2,617 at the 2010 census, up from...
- The stone of madness, also called stone of folly, was a hypothetical stone in a patient's head, thought to be the cause of madness, idiocy or dementia...
- Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 and in the UK...