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PHI
PHI is a three-letter acronym that can refer to: Protected Health Information as part of the HIPPA regulationsThe Golden ratioThe Philippines ..
Phi-Phi
This is a French musical from 1918. ..
Phi-X174 phage
|} The Phi-X174 phage was the first organism to have its genome sequenced. This phage has a very small amount of DNA. It has 11 genes in 5386 bases (it is single stranded) in a circular topology. Several of them expressing similar function in two groups. The GC content is 44% and 95% of nucleotid..
Phi1 Cancri
For other star systems with this Bayer designation, see Phi Cancri. Phi¹ Cancri (φ¹ Cnc / φ¹ Cancri) is a star in the constellation Cancer. φ¹ Cancri is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.58. It is approximately 398 light years from Earth. ..
Phi2 Cancri
For other star systems with this Bayer designation, see Phi Cancri. Phi² Cancri (φ² Cnc / φ² Cancri) is a binary star in the constellation Cancer. It is approximately 277 light years from Earth. Both binary components are white A-type main sequence dwarfs have similar apparent magnitudes ..
Phi2 Pavonis
Phi2 Pavonis (HD 196378) is a yellow dwarf star about 82 light-years away in the constellation Pavo. As of 1998, a susspected extrasolar planet was announced. Contents 1 Planet1.1 Phi2 Pavonis b2 See also3 External links Planet Phi2 Pavonis b Phi2 Pavonis b (HD 196378..
Phiale
Phiale is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Phiale albovittata Schenkel, 1953 (Venezuela)Phiale aschnae Makhan, 2006 (Surinam)Phiale bicuspidata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Costa Rica, Panama)Phiale bilobata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) (Guatemala, Panama)Phiale bip..
Phials of Acid Jazz
Phials of Acid Jazz is a various artists acid jazz compilation. Track listing "Mr Freedom" - Mother Earth"Whole Lotta Love" - James Taylor Quartet"Mothers Tongue" - The Brand New Heavies"Taurus Woman" - The Subterraneans"Love Will Keep Us Together" - JTQ Ft Alison Limerick"I'm The One" - D-Influ..
Phialuse
Phialuse is a monotypic moth genus of the family Hepialidae. The only described species is P. palmar of Bolivia. External link [Hepialidae genera] ..
Phial of Galadriel
Frodo using the Phial against Shelob In Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Phial of Galadriel was the parting gift to Frodo Baggins by Galadriel when the Fellowship of the Ring left Lórien. It was also known as the Star-glass, because it held a little fragment of the light of ..
PHIBRON
PHIBRON is the United States Navy abbreviation for Amphibious Squadron. A PHIBRON usually consists of three amphibious ships, typically one LHD, an LSD and an LPD. When the ships of a PHIBRON are loaded up with the forces of a Marine Expeditionary Unit and some additional Navy units (including landi..
Phibsboro
St. Peter's Church Phibsboro. Intersection of North Circular and Cabra Road Contents 1 Location2 Development3 Amenities4 External links Location Phibsboro, (Baile Phib, Phibsborough), is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is located in the Dublin 7 postal district on the no..
Phichit
Phichit is a town in Thailand, capital of the Phichit province. ..
Phichit Province
Phichit (Thai พิจิตร) is one of the provinces (changwat) of Thailand, located in the north of the country. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Phitsanulok, Phetchabun, Nakhon Sawan and Kamphaeng Phet. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Symbols4 Administra..
Phidar
Phidar is a texed based fantasy MUD created in 1994 which is still presently operational. It is programmed in heavily modified SMAUG 1.03 code and has such exemplary features as a fully established clan system, voluntary "deadly" player enrollment and an advanced overhead map. Phidar is a huge MUD..
Phideaux Xavier
Phideaux Xavier is a composer of modern technological music which he describes as "space folk concept rock", who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles. He is also one of the directors of the popular soap opera Passions. Life and Work Phideaux was born and raised in New York City, o..
Phidget
A phidget is a physical representation and/or implementation of a widget. For example, an on-screen dial widget could be implemented physically by creating a hardware based widget. Phidgets are a set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from a personal computer. Using the Universal ..
Phidias
Phidias (or Pheidias) son of Charmides, (c. 490 BC-c. 430 BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor, universally regarded as the greatest of all Classical sculptors. Phidias designed the towering statues of the goddess Athena in the Parthenon(Athena Parthenos) in Athens and the colossal seated Statue of Zeu..
Phidippides
Phidippides (mythical Marathon runner): see PheidippidesPhidippides (dramatic character) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ar..
Phidippus
Phidippus is a genus in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Some of the largest jumping spiders inhabit this genus, and many species are characterized by their brilliant, iridescent green chelicerae. Phidippus appears to be distributed almost exclusively in the new world. Species Phidippus a..
Phidippus audax
Phidippus audax is a jumping spider. Its common name is Bold Jumping Spider. It is the jumping spider found most often in the United States. P. audax has iridescent green chelicerae. It is a common predator of many crop pests, including boll weevils, spotted cucumber beetles, bollworms, cotton l..
Phidippus cardinalis
Phidippus cardinalis is a species of jumping spider. It is commonly called Cardinal jumper. Distribution P. cardinalis occurs in USA and Mexico, and possibly Panama. External links [Photographs of P. cardinalis][Diagnostic drawings][Taxonomic references][Roach,..
Phidippus regius
Phidippus regius (commonly called Regal Jumper) is a species of jumping spider. It is the largest jumping spider in eastern North America (up to 22mm). Distribution P. regius occurs in USA and the West Indies, and has been introduced to Easter Island. External links [Florida Department of ..
Phidippus whitmani
Phidippus whitmani is a species of jumping spider. Distribution P. whitmani occurs in USA and Canada. External links [Photographs of P. whitmani][More photographs of P. whitman and other Phidippus species][Diagnostic drawings] ..
Phidron
A phidron is one unit on the pH (Latin, pondus hydrogenii) scale for the acidity of a substance. See pH. ..
Phife Dawg
Phife Dawg (born Malik Taylor on April 20 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper who was a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and for a short time Jarobi White. He has since started a solo career. Contents..
Phigalia
Phigalia, or Phigaleia (Greek Φιγαλεία or Φιγάλεια) is an ancient Greek city in the south-west angle of Arcadia. It is also the present name of a nearby modern village, known up to the 20th century as Pavlitsa (Παύλιτσα). It is situated on an elevated rocky site, among some o..
PHIGS
PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) is an API standard for rendering 3D computer graphics, at one time considered to be the 3D graphics standard for the 1990s. Instead a combination of features and power led to the rise of OpenGL, which remains the de facto 3D standard to t..
Phigus Simenon
Lieutenant Phigus Simenon is a fictional character in the non-canon Star Trek series Stargazer. Phigus Simenon is the chief engineer of the USS Stargazer. He is a Gnalish, a lizard-like alien who only cares about his work and has no time for camaraderie with his subordinates. He is a skilled engine..
Phil, Kentucky
Phil, KY is hamlet located in southern Casey County. It was named by F. P. Combest, the community's first postmaster, for his favorite polititian, US Congressman Phil Thompson. External links ..
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is the ruler of Lower Heck in Scott Adams's Dilbert comic strip. He punishes people for minor infractions not worthy of damnation in hell, such as using copier paper for the printer or stealing a chair from another cubicle (both of which Dilbert has done). ..
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia is a city in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,303 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Neshoba County[Geographic references#6GR6]. It is the site of the Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders about which the movie Mississippi Burning w..
Philadelphia, Missouri
Philadelphia is an unincorporated community in western Marion County, Missouri. It is located about ten miles west of Palmyra on Missouri State Highway 168. It was named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The town of Phliadelphia is more of a hmalet than a city, it is perhaps what you would ca..
Philadelphia, New York
Philadelphia, New York may refer to either: The Town of Philadelphia, located in Jefferson County orThe Village of Philadelphia, located within the Town of Philadelphia. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you t..
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Philadelphia" redirects here. For , see . Philadelphia, (commonly called Philly) and known as The City of Brotherly Love (from Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, /fi.la.ˈðɛl.fja/, "brotherly love" from philos "loving" and adelphos "brothers") is the fifth most populous city in the United States and..
Philadelphia, Tennessee
Philadelphia is a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 533 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 External links Geography Philadelphia is located at [35°40′42″N, 84°24′5″W] (35.678236, -84.401430..
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad was the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania southwest to Baltimore, Maryland. It is now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor; freight is handled by Norfolk Southern. Contents 1 History1.1 Independent Oper..
Philadelphians
The Philadelphians were a Protestant 17th century religious sect in England. They were organized around John Pordage (1607 - 1681), a priest from Bradfield, Berkshire, who had been ejected from his parish in 1655 and then reinstated in 1660. Pordage was attracted to the ideas of Jakob Boehme, the ..
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge carries Norfolk Southern rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was originally built by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to connect its Harrisburg and Lurgan lines. ..
Philadelphia (disambiguation)
Philadelphia (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια, /fi.la.ˈðɛl.fja/, "city of brotherly love") refers to the following places: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAPhiladelphia, now called Amman, JordanPhiladelphia, now called Alaşehir, Turkey, one of the first seven churches mentioned in the Book of Revel..
Philadelphia (film)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Philadelphia is a controversial 1993 drama movie written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. It stars Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas, Lisa Summerour, and Mary Steenburgen. Hanks' character, Andrew Beckett, is a ..
Philadelphia (orchestra)
Contents 1 Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra (1974 - 1979)2 ..
Philadelphia (town), New York
Philadelphia is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 2,140 at the 2000 census. The Town of Philadelphia contains a village called Philadelphia. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 97.4 km² (37.6 mi²), all land...
Philadelphia (village), New York
Philadelphia is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,519 at the 2000 census. The Village of Philadelphia (formerly Friends Settlement and Benezet) is in the Town of Philadelphia on U.S. 11. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the villag..
Philadelphia 1964 race riot
The Philadelphia race riot took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia from August 28 to August 30, 1964. Tensions between black residents of the city and police had been escalating for several months over several well-publicized allegations of police brutality. The..
Philadelphia 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers Conference Eastern Conference Division Atlantic Division Founded 1939 Joined NBA in 1949. History Syracuse Nationals (1939-1963) Philadelphia 76ers (1963-present) Arena Wachovia Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Team Colors black, r..
Philadelphia accent
The Philadelphia accent, the accent of American English spoken in and around Philadelphia, varies among different ethnic groups and to a minor extent among different neighborhoods. Unlike most accents heard in most part of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia accent is very closely identical to the New..
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad was originally called the Sunbury and Erie Railroad. The name was changed in 1861 by the state of Pennsylvania to encourage its completion from Williamsport, Pennsylvania to Erie, Pennsylvania, which was finished in 1864. Never a prosperous line, it was shortly a..
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike
The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, first used in 1795, was the first long-distance, paved road built in the United States according to engineered plans and specifications. It linked the cities of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, stretching for sixty-two miles. It was the first turnpi..
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad was a railroad from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Trenton, New Jersey that became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. The majority of it is now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Contents 1 History2 Realignments3 The line today4 ..
Philadelphia and Western Railroad
The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was an interurban railroad company operating in the western suburbs of the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of its lines is now SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line; the other has been abandoned. Part of the abandoned line within Radnor Township is now..
Philadelphia Arena
The Philadelphia Arena was an arena used mainly for sporting events located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. redirect[[Template:Portal]] The building, which was originally named the Philadelphia Ice Palace and Auditorium, was located at 4530 Market Street, next to what would become the WFIL TV Studio ..
Philadelphia Association
The Philadelphia Association is a UK "charity concerned with the understanding and relief of mental suffering." It was founded in 1965 by the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst R. D. Laing along with Clancy Sigal, Aaron Esterson, David Cooper and Sid Briskin. The first of a number of community house..
Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists
The Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (PABJ) is a Non-profit organization founded in 1973 by journalists concerned about the lack of black journalists in the media and the dearth of coverage of the black community. PABJ is an alliance of print and broadcast journalist in the Philadelphia..
Philadelphia Athletics (American Association)
For the baseball team that played in the National Association 1871-1875 and in the National League in 1876, see: Athletic of Philadelphia. For the American League baseball team see: Oakland Athletics. The Philadelphia Athletics were one of six charter members of the American Association, a 19th Ce..
Philadelphia Athletics (disambiguation)
There have been four professional baseball teams based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania known as the Philadelphia Athletics: The Athletic of Philadelphia were a baseball team that played in the National Association of Professional Baseball Players from 1871-1875 and in the National League in 1876.The ..
Philadelphia Atoms
The Philadelphia Atoms were a soccer team based out of Philadelphia that played in the North American Soccer League (NASL). They played from 1973 to 1976, at Veterans Stadium (1973-75) and Franklin Field (1976). The Atoms were founded by Philadelphia construction mogul Thomas McCloskey in 1973 a..
Philadelphia Barrage
The Philadelphia Barrage are Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's professional field lacrosse team. Founded: 2001, as a member of Major League Lacrosse Formerly known as: Bridgeport Barrage 2001-2003 Home Field: Villanova Stadium Uniform colors: orange, navy blue and white Logo design: MLL Championshi..
Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame
The Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame was established in 1978 to honor former stars of both the Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Athletics. Its original location was behind the 200 level concourse at Veterans Stadium. From 1978 to 1982 and 1984 to 2003, one member from both teams was inducted..
Philadelphia Bell
The Philadelphia Bell was a franchise of the World Football League, which operated in 1974 and for a portion of a season in 1975. It played its home games in massive (and ancient) JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The team logo consisted of a representation of the Liberty Bell. At first the team seeme..
Philadelphia Biblical University
Philadelphia Biblical University is a school located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. It was formerly called the Philadelphia College of Bible which began in 1913. Every undergrad student who graduates will graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Bible. Some programs offer a dual major, such as the Busine..
Philadelphia Big 5
For other uses of the term "Big Five" and its variants, see Big five (disambiguation). The Philadelphia Big 5 is an informal association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is not a conference; indeed the five schools that are members of the Big 5 are members of three sep..
Philadelphia Brigade
The Philadelphia Brigade (also known as the California Brigade) was a Union Army brigade which served in the American Civil War. It was raised in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has the distinction of being the only brigade composed of troops entirely from a single city. History The reg..
Philadelphia Bulletin
The Evening Bulletin is the name of two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania newspapers. The Old Bulletin The first Evening Bulletin was first published on Monday, April 17, 1847 as Cummings' Evening Telegraphic Bulletin and served Philadelphia for 134 years, ceasing publication as The Bulletin on Friday, Ja..
Philadelphia campaign
Philadelphia campaign, 1777–1778 Brandywine – Paoli – Germantown – White Marsh – Matson's Ford – Crooked Billet – Monmouth The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British initiative in the American Revolutionary War. The campaign was controversial be..
Philadelphia Catholic League
The Philadelphia Catholic League is a high school sports league composed of 20 Catholic High Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania suburbs. The schools are split into two geographical divisions (North and South) in all sports except football in which the schools are divided by siz..
Philadelphia Céilí Group
The Philadelphia Céilí Group is a music organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for an annual Philadelphia Céilí Festival. The Group claims that its festival is the only in the area that is "truly a traditional festival" and it is "one of the oldest continuous (if not the oldest) trad..
Philadelphia Charge
The Philadelphia Charge is a professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Villanova Stadium on the campus of Villanova University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The team began play in 2001. The league announced on September 15, 2003 it was su..
Philadelphia chromosome
Philadelphia chromosome or Philadelphia translocation is a specific genetic, chromosomal abnormality that is associated with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and involves an exchange of material between chromosomes 9 and 22. 95% of patients with CML show this abnormality; the remainder harbour eit..
Philadelphia Church of God
Led by Gerald Flurry, the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG) is one of the major churches to form in the wake of the Worldwide Church of God's major doctrinal revisions of the 1980s and 1990s. The PCG, headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma, claims to be the only break-away church that is truly following ..
Philadelphia City Council
City Hall from postcard, c. 1900 redirect[[Template:Portal]]The Philadelphia City Council, the legislative body of Philadelphia, consists of ten members elected by district and seven members elected at-large. The council president is elected by the members from among their number. Each member'..
Philadelphia City Hall
City Hall from postcard, c. 1900 City Hall at night, from Broad Street, 2005 Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 167 m (548 ft), including statue, it is the world's tallest masonry building: the weight of the building is borne by brick ..
Philadelphia City Paper
The Philadelphia City Paper, a free weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in November, 1981 as a spinoff of the now defunct WXPN Express newsletter. New issues are released every Thursday. As an alternative to traditional newspapers, the Philadelphia City Paper caters..
Philadelphia Civic Center
Philadelphia Civic Center was a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The arena was located at 3400 Civic Center Blvd, on the edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, and just to the southwest of Franklin Field. It was built in 1930 and its highest capacity w..
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Name Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia Established January 24, 1899 Community Urban Type Private coeducational Classification Medical Enrollment 1,300 President M..
Philadelphia Convention
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy. The Philadelphia Convention (now also known as the Constitutional Convention or the Federal Convention, but in the newspapers of the time the "Federal Convention" Catherine Drinker Bowen, "Miracle at ..
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia Cricket Club
The Philadelphia Cricket Club is the oldest cricket club in the US city of Philadelphia. It was founded in 1854 by a group of English expatriates while studying in the University of Pennsylvania. Up to the 20th century, the cricket team did not have any fixed ground to play on and used to play o..
Philadelphia Daily News
The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that began publishing on March 31, 1925, under founding editor Lee Ellmaker. In its early years, it was dominated by crime stories, sports and sensationalism. By 1930, daily circulation of the morning paper exceeded 200,000. It is owned by Philadel..
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won three NFL titles and has two Super Bowl appear..
Philadelphia Experiment
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Philadelphia Experiment allegedly was a secret experiment conducted by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia N..
Philadelphia Fever
Philadelphia Fever logo . The Philadelphia Fever were a soccer team based out of Philadelphia that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League. They played from 1978 to 1982. Their home arena was the Spectrum. They moved to Los Angeles in 1982 and became the Lazers. External Links [Fever ..
Philadelphia Field Club
Contents 1 Philadelphia F.C.2 Year-by-year3 Philadelphia F.C./Celtic4 Year-by-year5 Philadelphia F.C. III6 Year-by-year7 Bridgeport Bears/Philadelphia F.C.8 Year-by-year Philadelphia F.C. The Philadelphia Field Club, also known as Philadelphia F.C. was an i..
Philadelphia Fight
The Philadelphia Fight are a rugby league team from Philadelphia in the United States. They were founded in 1998. History The Fight are a foundation club of the American National Rugby League, being established in 1998. Although the Fight have never won the AMNRL Championship, they have appeared..
Philadelphia Film Festival
The Philadelphia Film Festival is held annually, generally during the first weeks of April in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over 200 films from around the world are exhibited in multiple venues in and around center city Philadelphia. The festival has been managed by the TLA Entertainment Group since..
Philadelphia Firebirds
The Philadelphia Firebirds were a minor league hockey team that played in Philadelphia, Pa. from 1974-1979. They played in the defunct North American Hockey League from 1974-1977, winning the league championship in 1976. When the NAHL folded in 1977, they then joined the American Hockey League, wher..
Philadelphia Flower Show
The Philadelphia Flower Show is an annual event organized by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in early March. It is the "largest indoor flower show in the world" [link], and it the second largest convention ..
Philadelphia Flyers
redirect[[Template:Portal]]The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Contents 1 Facts2 Franchise history2.1 Team name/logo3 Season-by-season record4 Notable players4.1&nb..
Philadelphia Folk Festival
The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a three-day festival of folk music that has been held annually in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Philadelphia by the non-profit Philadelphia Folksong Society since 1957. Gene Shay has for the entire history of the festival been the Master of Ceremoni..
Philadelphia Force
Philadelphia Force Founded 2006 Ballpark ECTB Stadium at Bicentennial Park Based in Allentown, Pennsylvania Colors navy blue, red League National Pro Fastpitch Head coach General manager The Philadelphia Force is a women's softball team based in Allentow..
Philadelphia Freedom
Philadelphia Freedom can refer to: Philadelphia Freedom (soccer), the United Soccer Leagues club"Philadelphia Freedom (song)", a 1975 number one song by Elton John This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to thi..
Philadelphia Freedom (soccer)
The Philadelphia Freedom was a soccer club that competed in the United Soccer Leagues from 1994 to 1997. The team was known as the Pennsylvania Freedom through the 1995/96 indoor season before changing its name prior to the 1996 outdoor season. Year-by-year Year Division League Reg. Season Playoff..
Philadelphia Freedom (song)
"Philadelphia Freedom" is a song released by Elton John (as "Elton John Band") as a single in 1975. The song was one of John's numerous number-one U.S. hit singles during the early and mid-1970s, which saw his recordings dominating the charts. The song was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin a..
Philadelphia Fury
The Philadelphia Fury was a soccer team based out of Philadelphia that played in the North American Soccer League from 1978 to 1980. Among the club's investors were rock musicians Rick Wakeman, Peter Frampton and Paul Simon. The team played at Veterans Stadium. The Fury returned NASL soccer to Ph..
Philadelphia Fusion
The Philadelphia Fusion was an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Philadelphia. The team folded in February of 2005 with a record of 3-10. Were originally known as the Jersey Squires during the 2003-2004 ABA season. External links [Philadelphia Fusion official website] ..
Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus
The Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus (PGMC) is a choral organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1981, it is one of the oldest gay men's choruses in the nation. The Chorus is affiliated with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). The Chorus has performed with the Rainbow C..
Philadelphia Glider Council
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. The Philadelphia Glider Co..
Philadelphia Gryphons
The Philadelphia Gryphons is the first rugby football club in Philadelphia established to invite members from traditionally under-represented groups, particularly gay men, to engage in the world’s third most popular team sport. The Gryphons has an open-door policy for newcomers, experie..
Philadelphia Gum
The Philadelphia Chewing Gum Company is an American candy, chewing gum, and confectionary company. The company was established in 1948 in Havertown, Pennsylvania, by Edward P. Fenimore (a long time chewing gum expert who was with Bowman Gum). His son Edward L. Fenimore, served as president of the c..
Philadelphia Here I Come!
Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a play written by Brian Friel in 1964 about a restless young man named Gareth "Gar" O'Donnell who resides in the backwater of Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland, and longs for more from his life. He does not enjoy a close relationship with his distant, widowed father, b..
Philadelphia Herpetological Society
The Philadelphia Herpetological Society (PHS) is the oldest, continually operated reptile group in North America. It was founded by Roger Conant and a group of like-minded herpetologists in 1952, while the current president is Mark Miller. PHS has published the Bulletin and occasional newsletters ..
Philadelphia Highway Patrol
The Philadelphia Highway Patrol is a specialized unit within the Philadelphia Police Department that shares a dual role as both the primary enforcers of traffic laws within the city and as a unique anti-crime task force. The Highway Patrol uses a combination of traditional police cruisers and mo..
Philadelphia High School for Girls
redirect[[Template:Portal]]The Philadelphia High School for Girls, or more commonly known as Girls’ High, is a public college preparatory school for female students in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Girls’ High was established in 1848 as one of the first public schools for women. Currently one of t..
Philadelphia Improv
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Philadelphia International Airport
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Philadelphia International Championship
Philadelphia International Championship is the current name given to an annual bicycle race held in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is described as "America's top international cycling classic, and one of the richest and most prestigious one day races outside of Europe." It is the longest..
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
The Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by TLA Entertainment Group in 1995. The event is the third largest of its kind in the US, and the largest on the East Coast. It takes place every year for two weeks in July and shows as many as 200..
Philadelphia International Records
Philadelphia International Records is a record label founded by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff in 1971. It was famous for showcasing the subgenre of Philadelphia soul, and had a distribution deal with CBS Records until 1984. Since then, it has been distributed by EMI. In 1974, it formed a subsidiary,..
Philadelphia in film and television
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This is an alphabetized list of films and television series that have been set in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: 10th & Wolf (feature film, 2006)12 Monkeys (feature film, 1996)1776 (feature film version of Broadway musical, 1972)The 24th Day (2004)..
Philadelphia Jewish Voice
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice is a monthly online journal that addresses the critical social and political issues facing the Jewish community of the metropolitan Philadelphia area and beyond. Founded in the summer of 2005, Philadelphia Jewish Voice functions as a non-profit corporation and is staffe..
Philadelphia KiXX
The Philadelphia KiXX is an indoor soccer team, founded in 1995 as a NPSL expansion franchise, that plays its games at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The team's original owner was Ed Tepper, who had been one of the co-founders of the original MISL. Initially, the KiXX were on..
Philadelphia Liberty Medal
The Philadelphia Liberty Medal is an annual award presented by the National Constitution Center to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom. List of recipients Year Name 2006 George H. W. Bush & William J. Clinton 2005 Viktor Yushchenko 2004 Hamid Karzai 2003 Sandra Day O'Connor 20..
Philadelphia Magazine
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Philadelphia Magazine is a regional monthly magazine published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Metrocorp. The coverage area, in addition to the City of Philadelphia, includes the surrounding counties of Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, as well..
Philadelphia Marathon
The Philadelphia Marathon (aka the Philadelphia Independence Marathon), founded in 1954, is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the third Sunday of November each year. The course is a certified 26.2 miles, and is sanctioned by the USA Track & Field...
Philadelphia Metro
For the region, see Philadelphia metropolitan area. Metro is a free daily newspaper in Philadelphia published by [TPI Metro Inc.,] which began publishing on January 24, 2000. Its main competition is The Philadelphia Daily News. In 2004, Metro surpassed The Daily News in circulation, 143,7..
Philadelphia Mint
The Philadelphia Mint was created from the need to establish a national identity and the needs of commerce. This led America's founding fathers to make an establishment of a continental national mint a main priority after the ratification of the Constitution. The Mint Act of 1792 was entered into l..
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art June, 2006. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important..
Philadelphia Nationals
Philadelphia Passon was an American soccer club based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was a member of the professional American Soccer League. Before the 1941/42 season, the club became the Philadelphia Nationals. Due to financial difficulties, the club folded after four games during the 1953/54..
Philadelphia National Cemetery
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Philadelphia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located north of Germantown in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 13.3 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 13,143 interments. It is maintained by the Beverly National Cemetery in Beve..
Philadelphia Nativist Riots
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots (also known as the Philadelphia prayer riots of 1844 and the Bible Riots) were a series of riots that took place May 3 and July 4, 1844. The riots involved conflicts between nativists and recent Irish Catholic immigrants. Principally these arguments were over religion..
Philadelphia Naval Asylum
The Philadelphia Naval Asylum, later the Naval Home, was a hospital, the Philadelphia Naval School, and a home for retired sailors for the United States Navy from 1834 to 1976, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on over 20 acres, the central building, Biddle Hall, was completed in 1833...
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
redirect[[Template:Portal]]The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, formerly Navy Yard, was the first naval shipyard of the United States. It officially closed 30 September, 1995, although various projects were still underway in 2003 under new ownership. Reserve Fleet in Philadelphia in 1955 The ya..
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the "Big Five" symphony orchestras in the United States and usually considered among the finest in the world. Since 2001, its annual series of concerts have been performed in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Veriz..
Philadelphia Park Racetrack
Philadelphia Park Racetrack is a thoroughbred horse racetrack in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. redirect[[Template:Portal]] Contents 1 History2 Physical Attributes3 Racing4 Trivia5 External links History Originally called Keystone Racetrack, it opened in November of 1974 in Ben..
Philadelphia Pepper Pot
redirect[[Template:Portal]]Pepper Pot is a thick soup of beef tripe, vegetables, pepper and other seasonings. History The soup is said to have been created during the winter of 1777-1778, when Washington's army was down to tripe, peppercorns and various scraps of other food. The cook devised this ..
Philadelphia Phantoms
Philadelphia Phantoms Founded 1996 Home ice Wachovia Spectrum Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Colors purple, orange, and black League American Hockey League Head coach Craig Berube General manager Bob Clarke Owner Comcast-Spectacor redirect[[Template..
Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia Phillies Established 1883 Based in Philadelphia since 1883 Major league affiliations National League (1883-present)*East Division (1969-present) Current uniform Ballpark Citizens Bank Park (2004-present) Major league titles World Series titles (1) 198..
Philadelphia Phillies/Award winners and league leaders
Award Winners Most Valuable Player (5):*Chuck Klein (1932)*Jim Konstanty (1950)*Mike Schmidt (1980, 1981, 1986) Cy Young (6):*Steve Carlton (1972, 1977, 1980, 1982)*John Denny (1983)*Steve Bedrosian (1987) Rookie of the Year (4):*Jack Sanford (1957)*Dick Allen (1964)*Scott Rolen (1997)*Ryan Howard (..
Philadelphia Phillies/Managers and ownership
General Managers Herb Pennock (12/1/1943-1/30/1948)Robert R.M. Carpenter (1/30/1948-4/16/1954)Roy Hamey (4/16/1954-1/13/1959)John Quinn (1/13/1959-6/3/1972)Paul Owens (6/3/1972-10/20/1984)Tony Siegle (1985-87)Woody Woodward (10/28/1987-6/7/1988)Lee Thomas (6/21/1988-12/10/1997)Ed Wade (12/10/1997-1..
Philadelphia Phillies/Team records
Individual Single Season Records Batting average: Ed Delahanty, .410 (1899)Home runs: Mike Schmidt, 48 (1980)RBI: Chuck Klein, 170 (1930) [equals NL record]Runs: Billy Hamilton, 192 (1894)Hits: Lefty O'Doul, 254 (1929)Singles: Richie Ashburn, 181, (1951); and Lefty O'Doul, 181 (1929)Doubles..
Philadelphia Phillies 2006 Schedule
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Philadelphia Phillies roster
25-man roster Updated on July 16, 2006 Pitchers 52 Fabio Castro37 Rheal Cormier23 Ryan Franklin46 Aaron Fultz56 Geoff Geary45 Tom Gordon35 Cole Hamels30 Cory Lidle21 Jon Lieber63 Ryan Madson39 Brett Myers22 Arthur Rhodes00 Rick White Catchers 24 Mike Lieberthal Infielders 25 Davi..
Philadelphia Phoenix
Philadelphia Phoenix is a women's football team in the NWFA based in Philadelphia. Their home games are played at Northeast High School each Saturday night. ..
Philadelphia Pirates
The Philadelphia Pirates are a WPSL soccer club based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ..
Philadelphia Police Department
The Philadelphia Police Department is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest municipal police agencies in the United States, and the fourth largest in the country. Contents 1 History2 P..
Philadelphia Press
The Philadelphia Press (The Press) was published from August 1, 1857 to October 1, 1920. It was founded by John W. Forney. Charles E. Smith was editor and owned a stake in the paper from 1880 to his death in 1908. In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus Curtis, who owned several other newspapers in Phil..
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The Philadelphia Public Ledger was published from March 25, 1836 to January 1942. For a time, it was Philadelphia's most popular newspaper, but circulation declined in the mid-1930s. Founded by William M. Swain, Arunah S. Abell, and Azariah H. Simmons, and edited by Swain, it was the first penny pa..
Philadelphia Quakers
The Philadelphia Quakers were a National Hockey League team that played only one full season, 1930-31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates, the third American-based NHL team, got off to a promising start in 1925-2..
Philadelphia Quakers (AFL)
Not to be confused with the defunct Philadelphia Quakers team of the National Hockey League or the Philadelphia Quakers baseball team who became the Philadelphia Phillies in 1890. The Philadelphia Quakers were a professional American football team of the American Football League, which lasted just ..
Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
Philadelphia Quakers - were a team in the National Hockey League that existed for 1 season in 1930-31. The franchise was originally based in Pittsburgh, PA and was known as the Pittsburgh Pirates. ..
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building Founded on December 20, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PSFS, or the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, was the first savings bank in the United States. In 1986, PSFS changed its corporate name to Meritor Savings Bank. On December 11 1992..
Philadelphia Slang
Philadelphia Slang are words normally affliated with the City of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. Contents 1 A2 B3 C4 E5 F6 I7 K8 L9 M10 N11 P12 S13 T14 V15 W16 Y A The Airport: Philadelphia Internationa..
Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
redirect[[Template:Portal]]The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks (aka the Landmarks Society) founded in 1931, maintains and preserves four historic house museums in the region around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. These are: Powel HouseGrumblethorpePhysick HouseWaynesborough ..
Philadelphia Soul
Philadelphia Soul Conference National Division Eastern Year founded 2004 Home arena Wachovia Spectrum (Sat.) & Wachovia Center (Sun.) City, State Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wild card titles 1 (2006) Division titles none Conference titles none Aren..
Philadelphia soul
For the American arena football team, see Philadelphia Soul. Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound or Sweet Philly, is a style of soul music characterized by lush instrumental arrangements often featuring sweeping strings and horns. The result is a much smoother sou..
Philadelphia Spartans
The Philadelphia Spartans was an American soccer club based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was a member of the American Soccer League. Year-by-year Year Division League Reg. Season Playoffs U.S. Open Cup 1969 2 ASL 2nd, Southern Did not qualify Did not enter 1970 2 ASL 2nd No playoff Did not..
Philadelphia Sphas
The Philadelphia Sphas were a team that competed in the former American Basketball League and Eastern Basketball League. They played their home games in the Philadelphia Arena. They were one of the league's best teams. The name "Spha" was originally an acronym, derived from South Philadelphia Heb..
Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame
Contents 1 About the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame2 Inductee Roster3 Special Honorees4 External Resources About the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Philadelphia boasts an amazing sports history, dating to the mid-1800’s. The story of sports in Philadelphia is a tapest..
Philadelphia Stars
Philadelphia Stars can refer to different things: The Philadelphia Stars (baseball) were a baseball team in the Negro National League from 1934 to 1948.The Philadelphia Stars (football) were a football team in the USFL in 1983-84, after which they became the Baltimore Stars for their final season i..
Philadelphia Stars (baseball)
The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro League baseball team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden reorganized the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, an established powerhouse. In 1934, led by a 20-year-old lefthander named Slim Jones, the Stars defeated the..
Philadelphia Stars (football)
The Philadelphia Stars (later Baltimore Stars) were a professional American football team which played in the United States Football League in the mid-1980s. The Stars began in Philadelphia in the 1983 season. They played their home games at Veterans Stadium, and made it to the 1983 USFL champion..
Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry
The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry (est.1907, closed 1990), also known as Byberry Mental Hospital, opened in 1907 in Northeast Philadelphia. It originally followed the theory of physician Benjamin Rush that mental illness was a disease and could be cured with proper treatment, but the mental..
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) is the oldest stock exchange in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was founded in 1790. It merged with the Baltimore Stock Exchange in 1949 and the Washington Stock Exchange in 1954. redirect[[Template:Portal]] In December 1968, in res..
Philadelphia Tapers
The Philadelphia Tapers were originally the New York Tapers, an NABL club team sponsored by the Tuck Tape Company. They were a top AAU club team in the 1950's featuring many former collegiate stars and pro players. In 1960, Tuck Tape owner Paul Cohen moved the Tapers to Washington and joined the fle..
Philadelphia Ten
The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten was a group of female artists who exhibited together. The group was active from 1917 to 1945. The group exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at other museums throughout the East Coast and the Midwest. Contents 1 ..
Philadelphia Tigers
The Philadelphia Tigers were a Negro League baseball team that played briefly in the 1928 Eastern Colored League before the circuit disbanded in early June. The Tigers, organized by Smittie Lucas, featured a few well-known east coast players, such as Bill Yancey, George Johnson, and McKinley Downs,..
Philadelphia Toboggan Company
The Philadelphia Toboggan Company is the oldest existing roller coaster manufacturing company in the world. Based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, it was established in 1904 by Henry Auchey and Chester Albright, making various amusement devices, including carousels, wooden roller coasters, and their tr..
Philadelphia Ukrainians
Contents 1 Philadelphia Ukrainians2 Year-by-year3 Ukrainian Nationals/Philadelphia Ukrainians4 Year-by-year Philadelphia Ukrainians The first Philadelphia Ukrainians was an American soccer club based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was a member of the American Soccer League..
Philadelphia University
Philadelphia University Established 1884 School type Private President Dr. James P. Gallagher Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Campus Suburban, 100 acres Enrollment 2,706 undergraduate, 794 graduate & continuing education Faculty 150+ full and part time Mascot Rams En..
Philadelphia Vireo
The Philadelphia Vireo, Vireo philadelphicus, is a small songbird. Adults are mainly olive-brown on the upperparts with yellow underparts; they have dark eyes and a grey crown. There is a dark line through the eyes and a white stripe just over them. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill..
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra (PVCO) is a chamber orchestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1991 by Daniel Spalding. redirect[[Template:Portal]]Reference [Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra] ..
Philadelphia Warriors (ABL)
The Philadelphia Phillies were an American basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was a member of the American Basketball League. During their first season, the team was renamed the Philadelphia Warriors (also known as the Quakers). Year-by-year Year League Reg. Season Playoffs..
Philadelphia Weekly
Philadelphia Weekly (PW), is a free alternative newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published every Wednesday. The paper was founded as the Welcomat in 1971 as a sister publication to the South Philadelphia Press. In 1995, the name was changed to Philadelphia Weekly. The paper features loca..
Philadelphia Whiskey Festival
The annual Philadelphia Whiskey Festival is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and Philadelphia Magazine. Sixty or more distilled spirits companies present a wide variety of whiskey, Canadian and Irish whiskies, Bourbon, Scotch, single-malts, tequila, rum, gin, vodka and cognac for..
Philadelphia Whitemarsh RFC
Philadelphia Whitemarsh RFC |} Philadelphia Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club is a SuperLeague rugby union team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History Philadelphia Whitemarsh RFC formed in 1985 as the result of a merger between the former Philadelphia and Whitemarsh clubs. Prior to the merg..
Philadelphia Wings
Philadelphia Wings Founded 1987 Home arena Wachovia Center Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Colors Black, Red Head coach Lindsay Sanderson General manager Lindsay Sanderson #redirect[[Template:Portal]] The Philadelphia Wings are a member of the National Lacro..
Philadelphia Wings (1974-75)
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Philadelphia Wireman
The Philadelphia Wireman is the working name given to an unknown outsider artist responsible for approximately 1,200 small-scale wire-frame sculptures that were found abandoned on a street outside a transient home in Philadelphia in 1982. The artist is assumed to be male due to the strength required..
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends or simply Philadelphia Yearly Meeting or PYM is the central organizing body for Quaker meetings in the Philadelphia, PA, USA area. PYM is one of the oldest Yearly meetings in the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeti..
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) is a youth orchestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1939 in Germantown, Philadelphia. The Orchestra works with a "companion ensemble", the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), which was established in 1996, and Bravo Brass, a brass ensemble..
Philadelphia Zoo
The zoo's welcome sign The Philadelphia Zoo, located in Fairmount Park on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, was the first zoo in the United States. Chartered by the state on March 21, 1859, its opening was delayed by the American Civil War until July 1, 1874. The Philade..
Philadelphi Route
The Philadelphi Route (corridor / buffer zone) was an IDF code name for the strip of land along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Under the Oslo Accords, it remained under direct Israeli military control. One purpose of the Philadephi Route was to prevent the movement of illegal materia..
Philadelphonic
Philadelphonic (1999) was the fourth album released by the trio known as G. Love & Special Sauce. G. Love & Special Sauce are, G. Love (lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Jeffrey Clemens (percussion and background vocals), and Jimmy Jazz Prescott (string bass). Other musicians appearing on th..
Philadelphus lewisii
Philadelphus lewisii (Lewis's Mock-orange) is a deciduous shrub which is native to the western United States, from northwestern California in the Sierra Nevada, north to Washington in the Cascade Range, and east to Idaho and Montana. Philadelphus lewisii flowers It is generally less than 2 ..
Philae
Complex viewed from southeast, ca. 1890 Philae (Greek: Φιλαί) or Pilak or P'aaleq (Egyptian: remote place or the end or the angle island) or Arabic: Anas el Wagud, is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The comple..
Philaeus
Philaeus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Philaeus albovariegatus (Simon, 1871) (Spain, Sicily)Philaeus chrysops (Poda, 1761) (Palearctic)Philaeus corrugatulus Strand, 1917 (Algeria)Philaeus fallax (Lucas, 1846) (Algeria)Philaeus jugatus (L. Koch, 1856) (Spain..
Philaeus chrysops
Philaeus chrysops is a species of jumping spider (Salticidae). Normal body length is 7 to 12mm, but 5mm small males do occur. The sexes differ extremely: males are very colorful with a glaringly red opisthosoma. The spider prefers open and warm areas. Distribution P. chrysops occurs in the Pale..
Philae lander
Philae (previously known as RoLand) is the name of the lander that accompanies the Rosetta spacecraft. It is designed to land on a comet (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) shortly after arrival. Design The lander is designed to touch down on the comet’s surface after detaching itself from the main spac..
Philagrafika
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Philammon
In Greek mythology, Philammon was the son of Chione and Apollo. He was an excellent musician, a talent he received from his father. He had two children, Eumolpus and Thamyris. Ovid XI, 317. ..
Philander
Philander may mean: Philander, a genus of opossums.To womanize.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Philander C. Knox
Philander C. Knox Philander Chase Knox (May 6, 1853–October 12, 1921) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General and U.S. Senator and was Secretary of State from 1909-1913. Knox was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Brownsville, Pennsylvania and graduated from ..
Philander Chase
Philander Chase (December 14, 1775 - September 20, 1852) was an Episcopal bishop and founder and first president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1824. He was the First Rector of Christ Church, New Orleans. He later became Episcopal Bishop of Ohio, Illinois and later Presiding Bishop of the ..
Philander Claxton
Philander Priestly Claxton (1862-1957) was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, He was educated at the University of Tennessee where he obtained both his Bachelor (1882) and Masters of Arts (1887). He continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University, as well as in Germany. Claxton received a Litt.D..
Philander Smith College
Philander Smith College is a private, historically black college that is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It is located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The student body averages around 850 attendees, with around 30% of that figure attending part time. Although known historically as a school f..
Philanthrocapitalism
Investing in social programs that demand return on investment over the long term, or through secondary benefits from investing in the program. Originally called "venture philanthropy" by Rockefeller, demands careful monitoring of the programs to ensure long term sustainability and benefits. Charity ..
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is someone who devotes his/her time, money, or effort towards helping others. The label is most often applied to someone who gives large amounts to charity but can refer to anyone that gives their time, talent or money for the betterment of their community. See also philanthropy. A ..
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods or providing some other support to a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time. In a more fundamental sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity which is intended to promote good or improve human well-being...
Philanthropy (Metal Gear)
Philanthrophy is a fictional organization in the Metal Gear series of video games, first appearing in Metal Gear Solid 2. It was founded by Nastasha Romanenko succeeding the events of Shadow Moses (depicted in ''Metal Gear Solid'. Its members are comprised of Otacon (Hal Emmerich), Solid Snake a..
Philanthropy Roundtable
The Philanthropy Roundtable was established by the Bradley Foundation to help facilitate conservative grantmaking. Contents 1 About the Roundtable2 History3 Board of directors4 Funding5 External links About the Roundtable "The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national associ..
Philanthus
The genus 'Philanthus' of the subfamilly Philanthinae is in the family Crabronidae. The genus consists of solitary, predatory wasps, most of which prey on bees, giving them the common name "beewolves." The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the territorial males mark twigs ..
Philanthus triangulum
Philanthus triangulum, or the European beewolf is a solitary wasp, that lives in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, although sightings have been found as far north as the Isle of Wight. Though the adults of the species are herbivores (feeding on nectar and pollen), and do not eat bees, the speci..
Philarète Chasles
Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles (8 October 1798 - 18 July 1873) was a French critic and man of letters. He was born at Mainvilliers (Eure et Loir). His father, Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles (1754-1826), was a member of the Convention, and was one of those who voted the death of Louis XVI. He br..
Philaretos Brachamios
Philaretos Brachamios (Փիլարտոս Վարաժնունի, Pilartos Varajnuni in Armenian) was a distinguished Byzantine general and warlord of Armenian heritage. Philaretos is testified on seals as Taxiarches (Commander of an infantry regiment), as well as Protospatharios & Topoteretes (deput..
Philaster
Philaster may be Philastrius, bishop in the fourth centuryPhilaster (play) by Beaumont and Fletcher This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the..
Philastrius
St. Philastrius or Philaster, Bishop of Brescia, died before 397. He was one of the bishops present at a synod held in Aquileia in 381. St. Augustine met him at Milan about 383, or perhaps a little later (St. Augustine, Ep. ccxxii). He composed a catalogue of heresies (Diversarum Hereseon Liber) a..
Philatelic cover
A philatelic cover is a cover sent through the mails for the purpose of creating a collectible item. While some collectors specialize in philatelic covers, especially first day covers and cacheted covers, others regard them as artificial objects that are not reflective of real-world usage, and will ..
Philatelic investment
Philatelic Investment, the investment of funds in collectible postage stamps for the purpose of realizing a profit, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Stamp collecting has long had the reputation of being an unprofitable hobby for most beginning collectors; nevertheless, investing in stamps is growi..
Philatelic literature
Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history. It is generally divided into the following categories: Stamp catalogs# Single country catalog# Worldwide catalog# Geographic area catalog (e.g., Africa)# Time period catal..
Philately
Philately is the study of revenue or postage stamps. This includes the design, production and uses of stamps after they are issued by postal authorities. Although many equate it with stamp collecting, it is a distinct activity. For instance, philatelists will study extremely rare stamps without ex..
Philates
Philates is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Philates chelifer (Simon, 1900) (Java, Borneo)Philates courti (Zabka, 1999) (New Guinea)Philates grammicus Simon, 1900 (Philippines, Indonesia)Philates platnicki (Zabka, 1999) (New Guinea)Philates proszynskii (Zabka, 1..
Philautus
Philautus is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. Many species in this genus is now considered extinct by IUCN. This genus is unique in that there is direct development, with all growth inside the egg and no free swimming tadpole stage. (Biju, 2003) Species Philautus abditus Inger, Orl..
Phila of Macedonia
Phila (in Greek Φιλια; died in 287 BC), daughter of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, is celebrated by the ancient sources as one of the noblest and most virtuous women of the age in which she lived. Her abilities and judgment were so conspicuous even at an early age, that her father, Antipat..
Philberth-Transformer
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Philbrook Museum of Art
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma is a fine art museum and former home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve. Contents 1 History2 Collection3 Other features4 Contact4.1 Location5 External links History An Italian Renaissance ..
Philby
Philby can refer to two people Kim Philby, Soviet double agent in the United Kingdom's MI6His father St. John Philby This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poin..
Philco
Philco, the Philadelphia Electric Company (formerly known as the Spencer Company), was a pioneer in early radio and television and former employer of Philo Farnsworth, inventor of cathode ray tube television. Philco built many iconic radios and TV sets, including the classic cathedral-shaped wooden..
Phile
''For the suffix -phile see -phil-. Philes commonly refer to files about hacking in the days of BBSs. Ph may have been originally used as homage to the phone/phreak. Other common abstractions of the word are t-files (shorthand for textfiles) and g-files. The use of ph in lieu of f is arbitrary. ..
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The character of Phileas Fogg was played by David Niven in the 1956 film adaptation of the book, by Pierce Brosnan in the 1989 film adaptation, and by Steve Coogan in the 2004 film adaptatio..
Phileas Fogg (SAJV)
The fictional character of Phileas Fogg was re-written for the science fiction television series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and is a substantially different character than the Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's book Around the World in Eighty Days. The television series character has a recentl..
Philece Sampler
Philece Sampler is a voice actor, whose credits include various characters in anime. She also goes by the aliases of Sue Beth Arden, Victoria Pryne, and Debra Cunningham. She got her start on the soap opera Another World in the late 80's. Roles As Philece Sampler Mimi Tachikawa - Digimon Adventur..
Phileine Says Sorry
Phileine Says Sorry (Dutch title: Phileine zegt sorry) is a 2003 film directed by Robert Jan Westdijk. It is based on the novel Phileine zegt sorry by Ronald Giphart. Main cast Kim van Kooten – PhileineMichiel Huisman – MaxHadewych Minis – Gulpje External links ..
Philemon
Philemon may refer to: People Saint Paul's Epistle to Philemon or the recipient Philemon of Colossae.The husband of Baucis in Greek mythology. See Baucis and PhilemonPhilemon, a poet of the Athenian DemocracySaint Philemon the actor, early fourth century Christian martyrPhilemon of Valaam and Jorda..
Philemon (poet)
Philemon (c. 362 BC – c. 262 BC) was an Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy. He was born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse in Sicily but moved to Athens some time before 330 BC, when he is known to have been producing plays. He must have enjoyed remarkable popularity, for he rep..
Philemon Arthur and the Dung
Philemon Arthur and the Dung is a mysterious music group from Scania, Sweden, consisting of two members known only by the pseudonyms Philemon Arthur and the Dung. The band formed in the early 1960s under the name The Popbeams, which they changed before the release of their first album. The duo's t..
Philemon Beecher
Philemon Beecher (March 19, 1776 – November 30, 1839) was an attorney and legislator who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Philemon Beecher was born in Oxford, Connecticut, the son of Abraham Beecher and Desire Tolles. Philemon received a classical education, ..
Philemon Bliss
Philemon Bliss (July 28, 1813 – August 25, 1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, and a Missouri Supreme Court justice. Bliss was born in Canton, Connecticut in 1813 to Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss. He attended Fairfie..
Philémon Cousineau
Philémon Cousineau (October 25 1874 - March 3 1959) was a Canadian politician born in Saint-Laurent (today part of Montreal). He was mayor of St-Laurent from 1905 to 1909, and Quebec Conservative Party leader from 1915 to 1916. He resigned following his defeat in the 1916 Quebec provincial el..
Philemon Dickerson
Philemon Dickerson (January 11, 1788; Succasunna, New Jersey – December 10, 1862; Paterson, New Jersey) was a United States congressman representing New Jersey and brother of politician Mahlon Dickerson. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1808), Dickerson practiced law in Paterson,..
Philemon Dickinson
Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739–February 4, 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. He was an general officer of the New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and a United States Senator from New Jersey. Dickins..
Philemon Ewer
There were a number of Philemon Ewers who were shipbuilders and shipwrights in Bursledon and Hamble in the Hamble Valley area in Hampshire, England (just to the east of Southampton) in the 18th century. They also had a shipyard in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The main 'master' shipbuilder wa..
Philemon Holland
Philemon Holland (1552 - 1637) was an English translator. His father, John Holland, was a clergyman who fled the Kingdom of England during the persecutions of Mary I of England. Philemon was born at Chelmsford, Essex, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford (where, more than thr..
Philemon Masinga
Philemon ("Phil") Masinga (born 28 June, 1969, Klerksdorp) is a South African international footballer. He is a former player for Jomo Cosmos and Mamelodi Sundowns. He grew up playing for Jomo Cosmos. He played for South African major league with Mamelodi Sundowns and then left for England to play..
Philemon Munyagisaka
Philemon Munyagisaka is one of two Free Methodist bishops in Rwanda. ..
Philemon of Colossae
redirect [[Template:TotallyDisputed]] Philemon was a citizen of Colossae in Phrygia in the 1st century, to whom Paul of Tarsus addressed a private letter, unique in the New Testament, which bears his name, the Epistle to Philemon. As appears from this epistle, Philemon was his dear and intimate frie..
Philemon T. Herbert
Philemon Thomas Herbert (November 1, 1825 - July 23, 1864) was a democratic congressman from California. He served as representative for the second district (1855-1857). External links [Congressional biography] ..
Philemon the actor
For other people of the same name, see Philemon. Saint Philemon (d.305) was an actor at Antinoe who was converted by saint Appolonius. They were martyred together under the persecutions of Diocletian. Their feast day is 8 March. External links [Philemon at Catholic Online][Philemon..
Philemon Thomas
Philemon Thomas (February 9, 1763 – November 18, 1847) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served two terms as a Democrat. Thomas was born in Virginia and later moved to Kentucky. He was a member of that state's Consitutional Convention..
Philemon Wright
Philemon Wright (September 3, 1760 – June 3, 1839) was a farmer and entrepreneur who founded Wrightville, the first settlement in the national capital region of Canada and that would later become Hull, Quebec. He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, but in 1799, searching for a less crowded p..
Philemon Wright High School
Philemon Wright High School is an anglophone high school located in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec. It is administered by the Western Quebec School Board. Philemon Wright School is twinned with Mamohau High School in Lesotho. The twinning is helped by the organization Help Lesotho. ..
Philémon Yunji Yang
Philémon Yunji Yang is Cameroon's current (as of 2004) High Commissioner to Canada. He has served in that position since October 23, 1984. His time in Ottawa has been dedicated to securing more foreign aid for his country, despite human rights abuses and Canadian concerns about corruption. Along..
Philesiaceae
Philesiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. It con..
Philetaerus
Philetaerus (circa 343 BC–263 BC) was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia. He was born in Tieum1 a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia between Bithynia to the west and Paphlagonia to the east. His father was Attalus (perhaps from Macedon) and his mother Boa..
Philetas of Cos
Philetas of Cos, Alexandrian poet and critic, flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC. He was tutor to the son of Ptolemy I of Egypt, and also taught Theocritus and the grammarian Zenodotus. His thinness made him an object of ridicule; according to the comic poets, he carried lead in hi..
Philetus Norris
Philetus W. Norris was the second superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and was the first person to be paid for that position. In June of 1878, Congress finally approved a salary for the park's superintendent, as well as minimal funds "to protect, preserve, and improve the Park." It was only ..
Philetus Sawyer
Philetus Sawyer (September 22, 1816 – March 29, 1900) was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin in both houses of Congress. Philetus Sawyer was born in 1816 in Whiting, Vermont, and moved to Crown Point, New York, as an infant in 1817. He moved to Wisconsin ..
Philharmonia
The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. Since 1995 it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the Resident Orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Bedford Corn Exchange. The orchestra was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, and although it did give the occas..
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is a San Francisco-based orchestra dedicated to historically-informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on original instruments. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra was founded in 1981 by harpsichordist, teacher and early music pioneer, Laurette..
Philharmonia Hungarica
The Philharmonia Hungarica was a symphony orchestra based in Germany which existed between 1956 and 2001. It was first established in Vienna by Hungarian musicians who had fled their homeland after it was invaded by Soviet troops. This refugee ensemble gathered together some of Hungary's finest musi..
Philharmonic Academy of Bologna
Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna (The Philharmonic Academy of Bologna) - is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy. It was established in 1666. Saint Anthony of Padua was chosen as its patron saint and the image of an organ bearing the motto Unitate melos was chosen as its coat of ar..
Philharmonic Hall
The Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall located mid way along Hope Street in Liverpool, England. The current hall was completed in 1939, designed by Herbert J Rowse. It was built on the site of the previous hall, providing the city with some of the best acoustics and facilities in Europe. The hall ..
Philharmonic Society of Corfu
The Philharmonic Society of Corfu (Philarmoniki Etaireia Kerkyras, Φιλαρμονική Εταιρεία Κέρκυρας) is a community band in Corfu, Greece. It is the oldest philarmonic band in Greece. ..
Philhellenism
Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") was the intellectual fashion at the turn of the 19th century that led Europeans like Lord Byron to lend their support for the Greek movement towards independence from the Ottoman Empire. Byron provided some more concrete assistance in commissioning several..
Philia
For other uses of "philia", see Philia (disambiguation). "Philia" (Greek: φιλíα) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is usually translated "friendship",And also sometimes as "love". though in fact his use of the term is rather broader than that. As Gerard Hughes points out, in Books VIII and IX..
Philiae
PHILIAE, [ˈfiːllˌjaː], is a Post Industrial Rock Band, founded 2001 in Hamburg, Germany. Contents 1 Biography2 Latest line-Up3 Discography4 Videography5 Concerts6 External links Biography Formed in 2001 by drummer Julien Schmidt and former singer Jane..
Philia (disambiguation)
Philia might refer to: Philia (Greek: φιλíα), as used by Aristotle in his Nichomachean Ethics.Philia, Cyprus, a transitional Copper Age/Bronze Age site in Cyprus, the centre of the Philia culture.Philia, a character in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.The R/V Philia, a twenty-six..
Philibert, comte de Gramont
Philibert, comte de Gramont (1621 - January 10, 1707), the subject of the famous Mémoirs, came of a noble Gascon family, said to have been of Basque origin. His grandmother, Diane d'Andouins, comtesse de Gramont, was "la belle Corisande," one of the mistresses of Henry IV. The grandson assumed tha..
Philibert Berthelier
Philibert Berthelier (ca 1465 – August 23, 1519), often known just as Berthelier, was a Swiss patriot, an uncompromising enemy of the Duke of Savoy in his ambition to lord it over Geneva. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ..
Philibert Commerçon
Philibert Commerçon Dr. Philibert Commerçon (also sometimes spelled Commerson) (November 18, 1727–March 13, 1773) was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. Commerçon was born at Châtillon..
Philibert de l'Orme
Philibert de l'Orme (c. 1510 – January 8, 1570) was a French architect, one of the great masters of the Renaissance. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jehan de l'Orme, who practised the same art and brought his son up to it. At an early age Philibert was sent to Italy to study (1533–1536)..
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy
Philibert I (b.1465-d.1482), surnamed the Hunter, was the Duke of Savoy from 1472 to 1482. He married in 1476 to Bianca Maria Sforza and had no children. Therefore his duchy was inherited by his younger brother Charles. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Philibert II, Duke of Savoy
Statue of Philibert II Philibert II (b.1480-d.1504), surnamed the Handsome or the Good was the Duke of Savoy from 1497 to 1504. He was the son of Philip (Filippo) the Landless 1436-1497, who until 1496 was a younger son of the ducal family of Savoy, and his first wife Marguerite of Bourbon. ..
Philibert Jacques Melotte
Asteroids discovered: 1 676 Melitta January 16 1909 Philibert Jacques Melotte (January 29, 1880 – March 30, 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" a..
Philibert Jambe de Fer
French renaissance composer of religious music Born: 1515/1525 ? Died: 1566 ? Contents 1 Biography2 Works3 Source4 music on the internet Biography This composter is only known from his publications. The first known publication is a chansonfour 4 voices, which dates from 1548..
Philibert Mees
Philibert Mees (Mechelen, May 13 1929 - Mechelen, July 2 2006) was a Flemish composer and pianist. He was murdered in July 2006. In 1952, Mees obtained a degree at the Koninklijk Vlaams Conservatorium, the royal conservatory of Antwerp. He studied under the pianists Stevan Bergmann and Geza Anda. ..
Philibert of Châlon
Philibert de Châlon (° 18 March 1502, Nozeroy - † 3 August 1530, outside Florence) was the last prince of Orange from the house of Châlon. Philibert served Emperor Charles V as commander in Italy. He was killed during the final stages of the siege of Florence (1530). The interesting exchange ..
Philibert of Jumièges
Saint Philibert of Jumièges (circa 608–685) was an abbot and monastic founder, particularly associated with Jumièges Abbey. He was born in Gascony, the son of a courtier of Dagobert I, and was educated by Saint Ouen. He later entered the monastery of Rebais as a monk, and was promoted to a..
Philibert Tsiranana
Philibert Tsiranana (1912 - 1978) was a Malagasy politician and leader, who became the first President of Madagascar. Biography Tsiranana was born and raised in the province of Mahajanga on Madagascar's north coast, where he would always have the most political support. He was part of the Tsimihety..
Philidor Defence
tright The Philidor Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves (in algebraic notation): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6. Named after the 18th century player François-André Danican Philidor, it ..
Philidor position
Philidor's position usually refers to an important chess endgame which illustrates a drawing technique when the defender has a king and rook versus a king, rook, and pawn. It is also known as the third rank defense, because of the importance of the rook on the third rank cutting off the opposing kin..
Philiform
Philiform was a construction toy similar to Lego, made by Philips from 1969 until 1972. It isn't compatible with Lego. External link [Philiform homepage] ..
Philinda Rand
Philinda Parsons Rand Anglemyer (1876–1972) was an American English-language teacher in the Philippines. She was among the pioneering five-hundred Thomasites who landed on the shores of the Philippines in August 1901 on board the U.S. sea vessel, USS Thomas, a converted cattle ship. She is a nat..
Philinus of Athens
Philinus (in Greek Φιλινος; lived 4th century BC) was an Athenian orator, a contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus. He is mentioned by De­mosthenes in his oration against Meidias1, who calls him the son of Nicostratus, and says that he was trierarch with him. Harpocration mentions three ..
Philip
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Philip is a personal name, derived from Greek Philippos, meaning "lover of horses", from philo "love" and hippos "horse". Philip (and alternative spellings Phillip, Philipp, Philippe, Felip, Felipe, Filip, Filipe, Phil, Phillipe) m..
Philip, Count of Flanders
Philip of Alsace (1143-August 1, 1191) was count of Flanders from 1168 to 1191. He succeeded his father Thierry of Alsace. Contents 1 Count of Flanders2 Philip's first crusade3 War with France4 Philip's second crusade and death5 Legacy6 Sources Count of Flanders Hi..
Philip, Count Palatine of Burgundy
may refer to: Philip I of Savoy, consort Count Palatine of Burgundy as second husband of Adelaide, Countess Palatine of Burgundy Philip V of France, consort Count Palatine of Burgundy as husband of Joan II, Countess Palatine of Burgundy Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, grandson and heir of Joan III, Cou..
Philip, Duke of Parma
Spanish RoyaltyHouse of Bourbon ..
Philip, Elector Palatine
Philip, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (German: ) (14 July 1448, Heidelberg – 28 February 1508, Germersheim) was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1476 - 1508. He was the only son of Louis IV, Count Palatine of the Rhine and his wife Margarete of Savoy. At the..
Philip, South Dakota
Philip is a city in Haakon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 885 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Haakon County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Philip is located at [44°2′24″N, 101°39′58″W] (44.039949, -101.666208)[Geograp..
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. Hartford, Connecticut 1953) is an American artist photographer. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he earned a Diploma in 1975 and a 5th year certificate in 1976. He received a M.F.A from Yale University in Photography in 1979. Much of diCo..
Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot
Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (1526-1595), governor-general of Flanders, was born at Valenciennes and inherited the estates of the ancient and wealthy family of Croÿ. Becoming a soldier, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip II, king of Spain, and was afterwards em..
Philiphaugh
Philiphaugh, is an area in the Royal Burgh of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders Originally referred to as the land owned as part of Philiphaugh Estate, the name is today more commonly used to describe the most southern parts of Selkirk, most of which is now privately owned, inculding Philiphaugh rug..
Philiphaugh (stadium)
Philiphaugh is a rugby union ground in the Royal Burgh of Selkirk, Scotland with a capacity of approximately 6,000. It is the home of Selkirk Rugby Football Club, who currently play in BT Premiership 2 and the Border League. Rugby was first recorded being played in the town of Selkirk in 1877, not..
Philipose Mar Chrysostom
His Grace The Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Metropolitan, who is commonly addressed and referred to as Chrysostom Thirumeni, Valiya Thirumeni, or Thirumeni, is the current Metropolitan Bishop of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church and consequently occupies the Malankara Throne o..
Philipp, Mississippi
Philipp, Mississippi is a small community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was founded by Emanuel L. Philipp, who was Governor of Wisconsin, when he was manager of a lumber company in the mid 1890s in Mississippi. ..
Philippa
Philippa is a personal name meaning lover of horses. It is composed of the Greek elements philein (to love) and hippos (horse). Philippa is the name of many notable people. People Philippa Boyens ..
Philippa (de) Roet
Philippa Roet was the second daughter of Payne (Gilles) Roet of Hainault and the wife of writer Geoffrey Chaucer. She had an elder sister, Isabel, who became Chanoinness of the Convent of St. Waudru, Mons, by nomination of the Empress Margaret of Bavaria, sister to Queen consort Philippa of Hainaul..
Philippa Baker
Philippa Baker is an Australian-based actor best known for her role in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96, playing Roma Godolfus. Baker joined Number 96 early in its run in 1972, becoming part of a comedy double-act with Johnny Lockwood who played her character's soon-to-be husband Aldo. T..
Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens 2003 with her son Calum Gittins and her daughter Phoebe Gittins in Wellington (New Zealand) Philippa Boyens is a New Zealand screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's film series The Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, for which the trio won ..
Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Fawcett Philippa Garrett Fawcett (April 4, 1868 - June 10, 1948) was an English mathematician and educationalist. She was the daughter of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist and Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University. Her aunt was Elizabeth Garrett An..
Philippa Foot
Philippa Ruth Foot (1920-), née Bosanquet, is a British philosopher, most notable for her works in ethics. She is one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics (see also aretaic turn). Her work may be seen as an attempt to modernize Aristotelian philosophy; to show that it was adaptable to cur..
Philippa Forrester
Philippa Forrester (born 20 September 1968 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a British television presenter and producer as well as an author. She first worked for the BBC as a presenter on children's television and went on to present programmes including Tomorrow's World, The Heaven and Earth Show and..
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory (born 9 January, 1954) is a British novelist, mainly associated with the historical fiction genre. She was born in Kenya, and educated at the University of Sussex and University of Edinburgh. Her doctorate in 18th century literature led her into a teaching career. Several of her ..
Philippa of Hainault
Philippa of Hainault Philippa of Hainault (c. 1314 – August 15 1369) was the Queen consort of Edward III of England. Philippa was born in Valenciennes (then in Flanders, now France) and was the daughter of William III, Count of Hainaut and Jeanne of Valois, the granddaughter of Philip I..
Philippa of Lancaster
House of Plantagenet Henry II Children    William, Count of Poitiers Henry, Count of Anjou Richard I Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany John Matilda, Duchess of Saxony Leonora, Queen of Castile Joan, Queen of Sicily Richard I John Children Henry III Richard, Earl of..
Philippa Pearce
Philippa Pearce is an English children's author born in 1920 and brought up in the King's Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Educated at the Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, and at Girton College, Cambridge, she then moved to London and worked for many years writing and p..
Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster
House of Plantagenet Henry II Children    William, Count of Poitiers Henry, Count of Anjou Richard I Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany John Matilda, Duchess of Saxony Leonora, Queen of Castile Joan, Queen of Sicily Richard I John Children Henry III Richard, Earl of..
Philippa Schuyler
Philippa Duke Schuyler (August 2, 1931-May 9, 1967) was a noted American child prodigy and pianist who became famous in the 1930s and 1940s as a result of her talent, mixed race parentage, and the eccentric methods employed by her mother to bring her up. Schuyler (pronounced "sky-lerr") was the da..
Philippa Urquhart
Philippa Urquhart is a British actress, best known for her performance as Lillian Cartland in the 1980s BBC television drama Tenko. Other TV credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, A Very Peculiar Practice, Dempsey and Makepeace, The Bill and Casualty. External link ..
Philippe's
Philippe's Philippe's is a restaurant located in downtown Los Angeles, California. It is just adjacent to Chinatown. Continuously operating (although not at its original location) since 1908, it is famous for being one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles. It is also renowned for the cla..
Philippe, Comte de Paris
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Philippe, Duke of Brabant
The Duke of Brabant Belgian Royal Family HM The KingHM The QueenHM Queen Fabiola*HRH The Duke of Brabant*HRH The Duchess of Brabant**HRH Princess Elisabeth**HRH Prince Gabriel**HRH Prince Emmanuel*HI&RH Princess Astrid*HI&RH Prince Lorenz**HI&RH Prince Amedeo**HI&RH Princess Maria Lau..
Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun ..
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Philippe Antoine, comte Merlin, or Merlin of Douai in short (October 30, 1754—December 26, 1838), was a French politician and lawyer. His son, Antoine François Eugène Merlin (1778-1854), was a well-known general in the French army, and served through most of the Napoleonic Wars. Contents ..
Philippe-Auguste Choquette
Philippe-Auguste Choquette (January 6, 1854 – December 20, 1948) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator. He was born in Beloeil, Canada East, the son of Joseph Coquette and Thaïs Audet and studied at Université Laval. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1880 and to the King's Coun..
Philippe-François-Armand-Marie, 7th duc de Mouchy
Philippe François Armand Marie Duc de Mouchy, Pr-Duc de Poix (b.Paris 17 April 1922) is a cadet of the French ducal house of Noailles (cr. ducs and peers of France 1663 by Louis XIV), and second in succession to the senior title. The Noailles family first rose to prominence with Antoine de Noailles..
Philippe-François Véras
Philippe-François Véras was a French organist and harpsichordist who worked in Lille somewhere around 1740. No other details about his life are known, except the facts that he was organist of the St Maurice church in Lille and that he published a small collection of harpsichord works in 1740. The..
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
Philippe Jean Bunau-Varilla (fēlēp' zhäN bünō'-värēyä') (1859-1940) was a French engineer and soldier. Notably with the assistance of American lobbyist and lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, Bunau-Varrilla greatly influenced the United States's decision upon the site of construction for the fam..
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
For other members of the family see Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé (30 October 1786 – 29 January 1871) was a French Canadian writer, politician and seigneur. The Aubert de Gaspé family was distinguished, ennobled by Louis XIV in 1693. Philippe-Joseph's grandfather fought..
Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy
Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine, comte de Noailles, prince-duc de Poix, and duc de Mouchy (November 21 or December 21, 1752—February 15 or February 17, 1819), was a French politician of the Revolution, the son of Philippe de Noailles and grandson of Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles. He held the..
Philippeion
The Philippeion at Olympia was an Ionic memorial which contained a statue of King Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. ..
Philippeville
See also Philippeville, Algeria. Map of Namur province, showing Dinant arrondissement (in dark grey) and Philippeville municipality (in red) Philippeville is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. On 1 July 2005 the municipality had 8,300 inhabitants (4,090 males and 4,210 f..
Philippe Adams
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Philippe Adjutor Talbot
Philippe Adjutor Talbot (November 11, 1877—January 1967) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1936, and was Speaker of the Assembly from 1923 to 1936. Talbot was born at St. Pierre du Sud, in the county of Montmagny, Québec, and ed..
Philippe Aerts
Philippe Aerts (born June 21, 1964) is a Belgian jazz double bassist. He is a member of Philip Catherine trio. He also has his own trio with John Ruocco (tenor saxophone and clarinet) and Tony Levin (drums) and quartet with on top Bert Joris (trumpet). He won the Belgian Golden Django in 2002 for..
Philippe Albert
Philippe Albert (born August 10, 1967 in Bouillon, Belgium) is a former football defender. He played with R. Charleroi S.C., KV Mechelen, R.S.C. Anderlecht and Newcastle United F.C. in England. Albert was a regular in his national team where he played in the 1994 World Cup. He was a cult hero at N..
Philippe Alegambe
Phillipe Alegambe was a Jesuit historiographer, born in Brussels, 22 January, 1592; died in Rome, 6 September, 1652. After finishing his studies he went to Spain, in the service of the Duke of Osuna, whom he accompanied to Sicily. There he entered the Society of Jesus at Palermo, on 7 September 16..
Philippe Alliot
Philippe Alliot ..
Philippe Almeras
Philippe Almeras is a race car driver born in France. He competed in both the 2001 and 2002 French Formula Renault championships, and drove some races in 2002 for LD in French Formula Three. ..
Philippe Amaury
Philippe Amaury (6 March 1940 - 23 May 2006) was a French publishing tycoon and entrepreneur who dominated the French media world, establishing an empire that also ran major sporting events such as the Tour de France. Links [Obituary, The Times (1 June 2006)] ..
Philippe Antoine d'Ornano
Comte Philippe Antoine d’Ornano, (January 17, 1784 - October 13, 1863) was a Frech soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France. He was made Count d'Ornan of the French Empire in 1808. He was born a son of Lodovico Antonio Ornano and Isabella Maria Buonaparte, making him ..
Philippe Ariès
Philippe Ariès (July 21 1914 (Blois)- February 08. 1984 (Paris)) was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. He is known for his book Centuries of Childhood. In medival society, the idea of childhood just simply did not exist. Child..
Philippe Auguste (Paris Metro)
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Philippe Auguste Hennequin
Philippe Auguste Hennequin (1763 - May, 1833), French painter, was a pupil of David. He was born at Lyon in 1763, distinguished himself early by winning the "Grand Prix," and left France for Italy. The disturbances at Rome, during the course of the Revolution, obliged him to return to Paris, where ..
Philippe Ayoub
Philippe Ayoub is a bilingual actor who was born in Montreal, Canada. He is married to and currently lives with voice actor Barbara Radecki and his two daughters, Stefanie and Michelle. External links [Philippe Ayoub] on the Internet Movie Database ..
Philippe Barrès
Philippe Barrès, French journalist, son of Maurice Barrès. He was a member of the short-lived Fascist party the Faisceau in the late 1920's. During the Second World War he lived in the United States and wrote for French-language journals. ..
Philippe Basiron
Philippe Basiron (Philippon de Bourges) (c.1449 – just before May 31, 1491) was a French composer, singer, and organist of the Renaissance. He was an innovative and prominent composer of the late 15th century, and was praised by many of his contemporaries. Contents 1 Life2 Music..
Philippe Beaussant
Philippe Beaussant (born 6 May 1930) French musicologist and novelist, an expert on French baroque music, on which he has published widely. He is the founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, of which he was the artistic adviser of 1987 to 1996. He has also been a producer of musical p..
Philippe Bernat-Salles
Philippe Bernat-Salles (born February 17, 1970) is a French Rugby Union player, usually deployed as wing. Biography Born in Pau, Bernat-Salles played for the first time for the French national team on November 14, 1992, against Argentina. In 1998 he won the Five Nations. For France, he totalled 41 ..
Philippe Berthelot
Philippe Berthelot (Sèvres, October 9, 1866 – Paris, November 22, 1934) was an important French diplomat, son of Marcellin Berthelot. He was a republican. He entered the French diplomatic service in 1889 and joined the foreign office in 1904. In 1920, he became secretary to the Ministry of F..
Philippe Blasband
Philippe Blasband (born 26 July 1964 in Teheran, Iran) is a filmaker and a writer in French language from Belgium. He lives currently in Brussels Work Novels* De cendres et de fumées (1990). Prix Rossel* L'Effet-cathédrale (1994)* Max et Minnie (1996)* Le Livre des Rabinovitch (1998)* Johnny Br..
Philippe Boesmans
Philippe Boesmans (17 May, 1936 - ) is a Belgian composer. He was born in Tongeren, studied at the Conservatory in Liège, and in 1971 won the Prix Italia for his composition Upon La-Mi. He currently works as a producer for the radio station RTBF and is composer in residence at La Monnaie. Opera..
Philippe Boisse
Philippe Boisse (born March 18, 1955) is a gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics in men's épée. He is currently a vice-president of the French fencing federation, and a practicing physician (radiology). He is also the father of Erik Boisse a 2004 Olympics gold medal winner in team men's..
Philippe Boucher
Philippe Boucher (b. March 24, 1973 in Ste-Apollinaire, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian professional hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, First Round, Thirteenth Overall. He has pla..
Philippe Boullé
Philippe Boullé is a Seychellois lawyer and politician. In the country's first multiparty presidential election, held in July 1993, he was the candidate of a three-party coalition known as the 'United Opposition'. He won 3.78% of the vote, finishing a distant third behind the incumbent President Fr..
Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois (b. 1956) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Ce..
Philippe Bourret
Philippe Bourret (born 24 April 1979) is a male badminton player from Canada. Bourret competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Denyse Julien. They lost to Daniel Shirley and Sara Petersen of New Zealand in the round of 32. ..
Philippe Buchez
Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (March 31, 1796 - 1866) was a French author and politician. He was born at Matagne-la-Petite, now in Belgium, then in the French département of the Ardennes. He finished his general education in Paris, and afterwards applied himself to the study of natural science a..
Philippe Buonarroti
Philippe Buonarroti Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti more usually referred to under the French version Philippe Buonarroti (1761 - 1837), Italian egalitarian and utopian socialist revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason; he was mainly active in France. Contents..
Philippe Busquin
Philippe Busquin (born on 6 January 1941 in Feluy) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a sub..
Philippe Candeloro
Philippe Candeloro (born February 17, 1972 in Courbevoie) is a French figure skater. Contents 1 Early years2 Skating career3 Artistry4 Trivia5 Competitive highlights6 See also7 External links Early years Philippe Candeloro was born in Courbevoie, in France, on..
Philippe Cardinal Barbarin
Philippe Barbarin Philippe Xavier Christian Ignace Marie Cardinal Barbarin (born October 17, 1950 in Rabat, Morocco) is the current archbishop of Lyon, France, and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected P..
Philippe Caubère
Philippe Caubère (born on September 21, 1950 in Marseille, France) is a noted French film actor, writer and producer. He is known for his memorable performances as Molière in the 1978 French movie and the TV series as well. His other movies include La gloire de mon père (My Father's Glory) and L..
Philippe Cavoret
Philippe Cavoret (born January 11, 1968) is a French male skeleton racer, who takes part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup trying to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics. World Cup 2005/2006 Results 12th on November 10, 2005, Calgary CAN25th on November 17, 2005, Lake Placid USA ..
Philippe Charbonneaux
Philippe Charbonneaux (1917-1998) was a French product designer, best-known for car and truck design, but also known for other products such as television sets. Many of his works are now exhibits in places such as Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, or Museum of Modern Art in New York. He specialised ..
Philippe Christanval
Phillippe Charles Lucien Christanval (born August 31, 1978 in Paris) is a French football player who currently plays for Fulham as a defender. His career began at AS Monaco in 1999 before signing for FC Barcelona in 2001. He spent a torrid time from then on attempting to cope with various injuries,..
Philippe Clement
Philippe Clement (born March 22, 1974) is a Belgian football defender who, as of 2005, is playing for Club Brugge. His former clubs include Beerschot, Genk and Coventry City in England. Clement played 33 times with Belgium as of August 3, 2005 and was in the team for the Euro 2000 and the 1998 Wor..
Philippe Comtois
Philippe Comtois (born August 25, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian diver. He began diving at age 9, and is a student at the Université du Québec. He won a gold medal at the Canada Cup in the 3-metre springboard synchro in 2003. Comtois, who trains at Club de Plongeon CAMO, at the Complexe ..
Philippe Curtius
Phillippe Curtius (1741-1794) was the teacher who taught Marie Tussaud the art of wax modelling. http://www.expressevents.com/tussauds/ ..
Philippe Danfrie
Philippe Danfrie the elder (about 1532 in Cornouaille in Brittany - 1606 in Paris) 1556 he went to Paris. References: A. J. Turner, "Paper, Print, and Mathematics: Philippe Danfrie and the Making of Mathematical Instruments in late 16th century Paris", in C. Blondel, et al. (eds.), Studies in the..
Philippe Dauman
Philippe Dauman is a corporate director of the Viacom and CBS Corporations. CBS Corporation Corporate Directors: David R. Andelman | Joseph A. Califano, Jr. | William S. Cohen | Philippe P. Dauman | Charles K. Gifford | Bruce S. Gordon | Leslie Moonves | Shari Redstone | Sumner Redstone | Ann N..
Philippe Decourroux
Philippe Decourroux (born November 21, 1962) is a Christian Swiss singer-songwriter. Philippe Bieri took the stage name Philipe Decourroux meaning "from Courroux" (his home town). He's a drumer and singer, but he also plays the piano and the guitar. He wrote a lots of songs and did eight albums. Di..
Philippe Delerm
Philippe Delerm (born November 27, 1950 in Auvers-sur-Oise) is a French writer, professor at the Collège Marie Curie in Bernay and father of singer and song-writer Vincent Delerm. ..
Philippe Delorme
Philippe Delorme (born January 22, 1960) is a French historian and journalist, whose articles have appeared in Point de Vue and Historia, among others. He was born in Pantin. He has written numerous biographies of France's great queens, all published by Editions Pygmalion. His most celebrated b..
Philippe DeRouville
Philippe DeRouville (b. August 7, 1974 in Victoriaville, Quebec) is a retired professional ice hockey player. Contents 1 Career2 Statistics3 Awards4 External Links Career Netminder Phillippe DeRouville was top prospect in junior but his NHL tenure lasted all of three games..
Philippe Desan
Dr. Philippe Desan is a professor of Romance languages at the University of Chicago. Originally from France, Dr. Desan is among the top Montaigne scholars alive today. He received his Phd. from the University of California Davis, and has published widely on several topics pertaining to the French Re..
Philippe Desportes
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Philippe de Broca
Phillipe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac (March 15, 1933 in Paris, France - November 26, 2004 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a film director, best known for his comedies with Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was an assistant to Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut before making his own films. He married Mar..
Philippe de Carteret I
Philippe de Carteret I, 2nd Seigneur of Sark from 1578 to 1594. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Philippe de Carteret II
Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur of Sark (February 18, 1584 – 1643) was the son of Philippe de Carteret I. He matriculated at the University of Oxford at an early age in 1594, the same year he succeeded his father as Seigneur of Sark. He was knighted in 1617, and became Bailiff of Jerse..
Philippe de Carteret III
Philippe de Carteret III, 4th Seigneur of Sark (1620–1663) was the son of Philippe de Carteret II. He succeeded to the Seigneurie of Sark on the death of his father in 1643. During the English Civil War he acted as lieutenant to George Carteret, and was knighted on the beach of St Aubin's Bay..
Philippe de Carteret IV
Philippe de Carteret IV, 5th Seigneur of Sark from 1663 to 1693. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Philippe de Chabot
Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur De Brion, Count of Charny and Buzançois (c. 1492 - June 1, 1543), also known as Admiral De Brion, was an admiral of France. The Chabot family was one of the oldest and most powerful in Poitou. Philippe was a cadet of the Jarnac branch. He was a companion of Francis I ..
Philippe de Champaigne
Ex Voto (1662) by Philippe de Champaigne Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 - 12 August 1674) was a Baroque era painter of the French school. Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. He moved to Parisin 1621, where he worked wi..
Philippe de Chérisey
Philippe de Chérisey (February 13,1923 – July 17, 1985) was a French writer, radio humorist, and actor (under the name of Amédée). He is best known for his involvement in the creation of fake documents concerning the "history" of the Priory of Sion. Contents 1 Biography2 Deta..
Philippe de Commines
Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines", Latin Philippus Cominaeus) (1447-1511) was a French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France, a diplomat, and a writer, and he has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first cr..
Philippe de Dangeau
Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (September 21, 1638 - September 9, 1720) was a French officer and author. Born in Chartres, he is most remembered for keeping a diary from 1684 till the year of his death. These Memoirs, which, as Saint-Simon said "of an insipidity to make you sick", cont..
Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien
Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (born 1928) was a Canadian media proprietor, who was chairman and CEO of Telemedia. He founded the company in 1968, and went on to acquire a number of radio stations in Quebec and Ontario, and launched magazines such as Canadian Living, Harrowsmith and the Canadian editio..
Philippe de Gaulle
Philippe de Gaulle (born December 28, 1921) is a French politician and admiral. He is the son of General Charles de Gaulle. He is a former senator and general inspector of the Navy. ..
Philippe de Girard
Philippe Henri de Girard (1775 - 1845), was a French engineer and inventor of the linen spinning mill, as well as the name-sake for the town of Żyrardów in Poland. Girard was born in the village of Lourmarin in the département of Vaucluse, France, to a wealthy aristocratic family. As a child..
Philippe De Lacy
Philippe De Lacy a.k.a. Philippe deLacy (Nancy, France, July 25, 1917 - Carmel, California, July 29, 1995) was a former silent film era child actor. Contents 1 Early life2 Career2.0.0.1 Early career2.0.0.2 Later career3 Filmography3.0.0.1 Director3.0.0.2 Cin..
Philippe de La Guêpière
(Pierre Louis) Philippe de La Guêpière, (ca 1715, Sceaux, south of Paris – October 30, 1773, Paris), was a French architect, trained in Paris—from 1734 to 1736, he attended the Académie royale d'architecture—whose main commissions were from Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg. Ph..
Philippe de La Hire
Philippe de La Hire (or Lahire or Phillipe de La Hire) (March 18, 1640 — April 21, 1719), was a French mathematician and astronomer. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself". He was born in Paris, the son of Laurent de La Hire, a distinguished artist. In 1660..
Philippe de Mézières
Philippe de Mézières (c. 1327 - May 29, 1405), French soldier and author, was born at the chateau of Mézières in Picardy. He belonged to the poorer nobility, and first served under Lucchino Visconti in Lombardy, but within a year he entered the service of Andrew, King of Naples, who was assassi..
Philippe de Monte
Philippe de Monte (1521 – July 4, 1603) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the Renaissance, and was one of the most influential composers of the form. Life He was born in Mechelen. After boyhood musical training in St. Rumbolds Ca..
Philippe de Montebello
Philippe de Montebello (born 1936) is a French-born museum curator. As of 2006 he is the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the longest-serving director in the institution's history. Biography He was born Guy-Philippe Lannes de Montebello in Paris in 1936 to parents of aristocra..
Philippe de Mornay
Philippe de Mornay (November 5, 1549 – November 11, 1623), seigneur du Plessis Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, was a French Protestant writer. Duplessis-Mornay He was born at Buhy in Normandy. His mother had leanings toward Protestantism, but his father..
Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy
Philippe, comte de Noailles and later prince de Poix, duc de Mouchy, and duc de Poix à brevêt (27 December 1715 – 27 June 1794), was a younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his brother. He served at Minden and in other campaigns, and was made a ..
Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle
Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle (c.1661 – October, 1717) naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland, Canada, born Languedoc died Louisbourg. Costebelle served in the navy and in 1692 as lieutenant at Plaisance defending the colony from British naval assaults. In 1695 he was named as the kin..
Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir
Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir (c. 1250 - 1296), French jurist, was born in the early part of the 13th century. The few facts known regarding his life are to be gathered from legal documents in which his name occurs. From these it appears that in 1273 he filled the post of bailli at Senlis, a..
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (c. 1643 – October 10, 1725) was Governor-general of New France (now Canada) from 1703 to 1725. He was born in the castle of Vaudreuil, near Castelnaudary, France. As Chevalier de Vaudreuil, he was sent to command French forces in New France before be..
Philippe de Rothschild
Baron Philippe de Rothschild (13 April, 1902 - 20 January, 1988) was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a scriptwriter, a theatrical producer, a poet, and one of the most successful wine growers in the world. Born in Paris, Georges Philippe de Rothsc..
Philippe de Savoie, 1st Duc de Nemours
Philippe de Savoie, duc de Nemours (1490–November 25 1533), was a son of Philip, duke of Savoy, and brother of Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I of France. Originally destined for the priesthood, he was given the bishopric of Geneva at the age of five, but resigned it in 1510, when he was ..
Philippe de Villiers
Philippe de Villiers Philippe de Villiers (born March 25, 1949 as Viscount Philippe le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon) is a French conservative politician. Born in Boulogne in the département of Vendée, he is, as of 2004, deputy to the French National Assembly for the département of Vendé..
Philippe de Vitry
Philippe de Vitry (October 31, 1291 – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was the defining music theorist of the early Ars Nova, as well as an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer. He was born in Paris. Biographical details of his life are sketchy...
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian (born 1949) is a popular French author of Armenian descent. Djian was born in Paris in 1949. After a period of wandering and odd jobs he published first a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), then novels Bleu comme l'enfer (1982), and Zone érogène (1984), before becoming f..
Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy at the United Nations summit on September 16, 2005 Philippe Douste-Blazy (b. January 1, 1953) is a cardiologist and a French Christian Democrat politician from Lourdes. Formerly from the UDF party, he has joined UMP. He currently is Minister of Foreign Affairs in Dominiqu..
Philippe Druillet
Poster for an exhibition of Druillet's art. Philippe Druillet (born June 28 1944) is a French comic book artist and writer. Biography Druillet was born in Toulouse, but spent his youth in Spain, returning to France in 1952 after the death of his father. A science fiction and comics fan, Philip..
Philippe Duron
Philippe Duron, president of the regional council of Basse-Normandie, was elected on March 28, 2004, the first member of France's Socialist Party to be elected to this office. He defeated the 18-year incumbent, René Garrec. Philippe Duron has also been the mayor of Louvigny (Calvados) since 1989. A..
Philippe du Contant de la Molette
Philippe du Contant de la Molette (1737-1793) was a theologian and biblical scholar, born at Côte-Saint-André, in Dauphiné, France, August 29 1737. He studied at the Sorbonne, and, in 1765, defended a thesis on Job, in six languages. Louis XV was so well pleased that he allowed him to pass the ..
Philippe Ebly
Philippe Ebly is a belgian science-fiction and fantasy writer born in Paris (France) in 1920. Novels The Fantastic Conquerors Series (Les Conquérants de l'Impossible)The Time Runaways Series (Les évadés du Temps)The 4003 Patrol Series (Les Patrouilleurs de l'an 4003) Publishing Houses French pub..
Philippe Egorov
Philippe of Russia is a bobsledder who competed in the bobsleigh events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Egorov won silver in the four-person bobsleigh event with teammates Alexandre Zoubkov, Alexei Seliverstov, and Alexey Voevoda. ..
Philippe Eidel
Philippe Eidel is a French music producer/writer. External links [Philippe Eidel Official Homepage][Philippe Eidel] ..
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur
Philippe Emmanuel of Lorraine-Mercoeur, Duke of Mercoeur (September 9, 1558, Nancy – February 19, 1602, Nürnberg), the eldest surviving son of Nicholas, Duke of Mercoeur and Joanna of Savoy-Nemours, was a French soldier and prominent member of the Catholic League. He was made a knight of ..
Philippe Entremont
Philippe Entremont (b. Reims, June 7, 1934) is a French pianist and conductor. Conductor Laureate of both the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Israel Chamber Orchestra, he founded the biennial Santo Domingo Music Festival in 1997. Since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of China�..
Philippe Étancelin
Philippe Étancelin (December 29, 1896 - October 13, 1981) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver who joined the new Formula One circuit at its inception. Philippe Étancelin. Biography Born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in Normandy, he began racing with a Bugatti in 1926, making an immediat..
Philippe Falardeau
Philippe Falardeau is a film director and screenwriter from Quebec, Canada. His first feature film, La Moitié gauche du frigo (2000) won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards. Falardeau also receiv..
Philippe Flajolet
Philippe (Patrick, Michel) Flajolet (December 1, 1948) is a French computer scientist. A former student of École Polytechnique, Philippe Flajolet got a Ph.D. in computer science from University Paris VII in 1977 and a doctorate of state in 1979. Most of Philippe Flajolet's research work was dedica..
Philippe Foriel-Destezet
Philippe Foriel-Destezet (b 1936) is one of the world's richest people, according to a 2004 listing by Forbes. He owns 18% of the Swiss employment agency Adecco. He graduated from École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Paris, France. See also List of billionairesFrench Rich List External links ..
Philippe Forquet
Philippe Forquet Viscount de Dorne born September 27, 1940 in Paris, France, is an actor and the son of a wealthy aristocrat, Marcius Forquet Viscount de Dorne. Image:Philippe Forquet made his film debut in 1960 in La Menace while still an art student and over the next few years became popular i..
Philippe Francq
Philipe Francq (b. 1961 in Etterbeek) is a Belgian comic book artist. Biography Philippe Francq was since his youth an ardent comic reader, who grew up with the comics from Tintin magazine from the 1950s. His early favourites were Blake and Mortimer, Spike and Suzy, Alix and Tintin. Later, he st..
Philippe Gache
Philippe Gache (born May 31, 1962, Avignon, France), is a French racecar driver. He has raced in a number of diciplines, but for the last 20 years (as of 2006) has specialized in off-road racing. He has driven in the Dakar Rally in 2003-2006 as well as the 1992 Indianapolis 500, and 7 times in the..
Philippe Galle
Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537–Antwerp 1612) was best known as a designer and engraver, known for his copperplate engravings reproducing paintings. He was born at Haarlem in the Netherlands, and worked at Antwerp with Hieronymus Cock from 1557. He managed Cock's press and succeeded Cock in 157..
Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel (born April 6, 1948 in Paris, France) is a French director, cinemtographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. He had a ten year relationsp with German singer and actress Nico between 196..
Philippe Gaubert
Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) was a French musician who was a brilliant performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute. Gaubert was born in Cahors in Southwest France. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two world wars. After a dis..
Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier (born in Paris, 1943) is founder of L'École Philippe Gauliere, a theatre school located in Paris, France. He is notable for his work in Physical theatre, particularly in the areas of Clown and Bouffon. Gaulier is generally recognized as the worlds leading teacher in Bouffon, an art..
Philippe Gaumont
Philippe Gaumont (born February 22, 1973 in Amiens) is a former French professional road cyclist. He is notorious for having confessed to extensive doping and explaining a lot of the tricks of the trade. Racing results He got the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 100 km against the c..
Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck (born May 7, 1954 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian comedian, humorist and cartoonist. His best-known work is the comic strip Le Chat. External links [Official website] ..
Philippe Gigantès
Philippe Deane Gigantès (August 16, 1923–December 9, 2004) was a war hero, journalist, and Liberal Canadian Senator. He left behind three daughters Eleni (Brussels), Claire (San Diego) and Eve Marie (Montreal), two grandsons and a granddaughter. Gigantès, who was born in Salonica, Greece, serve..
Philippe Gilbert
Philippe Gilbert (born July 5, 1980 in Verviers) is a Belgian road racing cyclist, known as a climbing specialist. A professional rider since 2003, Gilbert rides on the 2006 UCI ProTour for the Française des Jeux squad. In 2004, he represented his country and participated in the men's road race a..
Philippe Grandjean
Philippe Grandjean (1666-1714) was a French type engraver notable for his series of Roman and italic types known as Romain du Roi (French: King's Roman). King Louis XIV, in 1692, directed that a typeface be designed at any necessary expense for the exclusive use of the Royal printer. The design was ..
Philippe Guerrier
Philippe Guerrier (1773 - 1845) was a career officer and general in the Haïtian Army, He became President of Haïti on May 3, 1844, and died in office on April 15, 1845. A respected soldier, Guerrier had successfully commanded the southern black army during the Haïtian Revolution. After Haïti be..
Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant
Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte De Pontécoulant (1795-1874) was a French astronomer. He was born the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant, the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849. Following his retirement he dedicated himse..
Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant
Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1795-1874) was a French scientist, the son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant and the younger brother of Louis Adolphe le Doulcet. He served in the French Army until 1849, when he retired to devote himself to mathematics and ast..
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman self portrait Philippe Halsman (2 May, 1906 Riga, Latvia - 25 June, 1979 New York City) was a Latvian-born American portrait photographer. Born to a Jewish family of Max Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Latvia. Halsman studied electrica..
Philippe Harel
Philippe Harel is a French film director, actor and screenwriter born in 1956. He appeared in and directed Extension du domaine de la lutte. ..
Philippe Henri, Comte de Grimoard
Philippe Henri, comte de Grimoard (1753-1815), French soldier and military writer. He entered the royal army at the age of sixteen, and in 1775 published his Essai théorique et practique sur les batailles. Shortly afterwards Louis XVI placed him in his own military cabinet and employed him especia..
Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur
Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur (1724 – 3 October 1801) was a marshal of France. Son of Henri François, comte de Ségur, and his wife Anglique de Froissy, he was appointed to the command of an infantry regiment at eighteen, and served under his father in Italy and Bohemia. He was wounded a..
Philippe Henriot
Philippe Henriot (January 7 1889, Reims—June 28 1944, Paris) was a French politician. Moving to the far right after beginnings in Roman Catholic conservatism, Henriot was elected to the Third Republic's Chamber of Deputies for the Gironde département in 1932 and 1936. His speeches showed him..
Philippe Hériat
Philippe Hériat (September 15, 1898 - October 10, 1971) was a multi-talented French novelist, playwright and actor. Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in anoth..
Philippe Herreweghe
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Philippe Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor. Herreweghe was born in Ghent. In his hometown he combined studies at university (medical science and psychiatry) with a musical education at the Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompagnist, was hi..
Philippe Hirschhorn
Philippe Hirschhorn (1946, Lettorie – 1996, Brussels) won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1967 (the year in which Gidon Kremer ended third). He played concerts all over the world (Europe, America and Japan) with the most prestigious orchestras conducted by amongst others von Karajan. He pla..
Philippe Honoré
Philippe Honoré is a French-born violinist who has been a regular recitalist in both France and the UK. He has performed widely in broadcast recitals on French radio and television. He studied violin at the Paris Conservatoire with Pierre Doukan and was awarded the Premier Prix as both soloist an..
Philippe Hurepel
Philippe de France, a.k.a Philippe Hurepel (1201–1235), was count of Clermont-en-Beauvais, Boulogne, Mortain, Aumale, and Dammartin. He was the son of Philip II of France and his controversial third wife Agnes of Merania. Illegitimacy shadowed his birth and career. He was married in c 1223 to..
Philippe Huttenlocher
Philippe Huttenlocher (born November 29, 1942) is a Swiss baritone. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He first studied violin at the conservatory in Neuchâtel, and then voice in Fribourg. In 1972, he won the international singing competition in Bratislava. He is married to the soprano Danie..
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
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Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe of Orléans Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Philippe Charles (August 2, 1674 – December 2, 1723) called Duke of Chartres (1674–1701), and then Duke of Orléans (1701–1723) was Regent of France from 1715 to 1723. His regency during the minority of Louis XV being the l..
Philippe Jacottet
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan
Msgr. Philippe Jourdan Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan (born 30 August 1960 in Dax, France) is a Roman Catholic dignitary, Apostolic Administrator of Estonia and Titular Bishop of Pertusa. Msgr. Philippe Jourdan is of Basque origin. He is diplomed in mathematics and engineering at the Ecole Nati..
Philippe Jeantot
Philippe Jeantot is a French former deep sea diver, who achieved recognition as a sailor for long-distance, single-handed racing and record-setting. He founded the Vendée Globe, a single-handed, round-the-world, non-stop yacht race.[Philippe Jeantot], from sevenoceans.com Biography Phi..
Philippe Jouvion
Philippe Jouvion is a professional researcher, freelance reporter and film producer. He worked for several years with the Cité des Sciences de la Villette in Paris producing films, and a number of his documentaries have won awards. At present he is working as a freelance journalist and is complet..
Philippe Jullian
Philippe Jullian (1921-1977) was a French illustrator, art historian, biographer, and novelist. Jullian's book illustrations (for works by Honoré de Balzac, Colette, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald Firbank, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde, among others, as well as for his own books) are witty, ornate, a..
Philippe Junot
Philippe Junot was born in Paris on April 19, 1940. He is an investment banker and property developer with business interests in Paris, Montreal and Detroit. In 1978 he married Princess Caroline, eldest daughter of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and former Hollywood icon Grace Kelly. The couple wer..
Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn (March 16, 1952 –)Darrow is a French-born mathematician and entrepreneur known as the inventor of the camera phone, a pioneer in the wireless industry, and the founder of Borland. He is currently the CEO of Fullpower Technologies, a company which provides solutions converging l..
Philippe Keyaerts
Philippe Keyaerts is a Belgian designer of German-style board games. His two most popular games are Evo and Vinci. Those two games use the mechanism of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play. He also invented Space Blast, a small space battle game...
Philippe Kieffer
Philippe Kieffer Philippe Kieffer (24 October 1899–20 November 1962) , capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and one of the greatest heroes of the Free French Forces. Contents 1 Early life2 Beginning of the War3 Establ..
Philippe Kirsch
Philippe Kirsch has been President of the International Criminal Court and a judge in its Appeals Division since March 2003. Judge Kirsch is member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and of the Canadian Council on International Law and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988. He has extensive exper..
Philippe Kruchten
Philippe Kruchten was formerly the Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software. He then held the same title when Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003. He is currently a Professor of Software Engineering at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Much of Philippe Kruchten..
Philippe Labbe
Philippe Labbe (b. Borges, 10 July1607, d. at Paris, at the College of Clermont, 16 or 17 March, 1667 was a distinguished French Jesuit writer on historical, geographical, and philological questions. He entered the Society of Jesus on 28 September 1623. After literary, philosophical, and theologic..
Philippe Labro
Philippe Labro, author, journalist and film director was born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2. He is a laureate of the Prix Interallié, a french literary distinction founded in 1930, which was aw..
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (born 1940) is a contemporary French philosopher, literary critic, and translator. Contents 1 Summary1.1 Influences and associations1.2 Professional milestones1.3 On Heidegger and Celan2 Bibliography2.1 Works by Lacoue-Labarthe2.2 Works ..
Philippe Lafontaine
Singer and composer Philippe Lafontaine was born on May 24, 1955 in Gosselies, Belgium. Lafontaine spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials (including Stell..
Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque
Leclerc in east of France, on 1944 Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (November 22, 1902 - November 28, 1947), was a famous French general. He was born Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, but changed his legal name in 1945 to incorporate his French resistance alias Jacques-Philippe..
Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a British economist, journalist and writer. He writes about globalisation and European issues. He was previously chief economist and director of policy for the pro-European pressure group, Britain in Europe, special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore, and trade and econom..
Philippe Léonard
Philippe Léonard (born February 14, 1974) is a Belgian football left fullback who, as of 2005, is playing for Standard Liège. He started his professional career at Standard and then moved to France where he played for AS Monaco for a while and OGC Nice. He played 19 times with Belgium as of Augu..
Philippe le Bon
Philippe le Bon (or Lebon) (May 29, 1767 – December 2, 1804. Born in Brachay, France. This brief article is about the early French engineer Philippe le Bon (D'Humbersin). There is much confusion about his life and accomplishments. His main contributions were improvements to steam engines and ind..
Philippe Lheureux
Philippe Lheureux has written two books on the subject of Apollo moon landing hoax accusations: "Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie?", and "Lumières sur la Lune : La NASA a t-elle menti!". External links [BBC article on Lheureux] ..
Philippe Liégeois
Philippe Liégeois is a Belgian comic book artist, born on 8 July 1947. He is best known by his penname Turk. He is the co-author of numerous comic books, including Colonel Clifton, Léonard and Robin Dubois. His usual scenarist for all three series is Bob de Groot, and the duo "Turk & De Groot" ha..
Philippe Manoury
Philippe Manoury (born June 19, 1952) is a French composer. Philippe Manoury was born in Tulle. From 1975 he undertook studies in computer assisted composition with Pierre Barbaud. He joined IRCAM in 1980. Works such as Sound and Fury are of interest because of the use of computer assisted composi..
Philippe Massoni
Philippe Massoni is a French politician. He has been Jacques Chirac's representative to Andorra since July 26, 2002, replacing Frédéric de Saint-Sernin. He had previously been chief of police for Paris. ..
Philippe Maystadt
Philippe Maystadt (born March 14, 1948, Petit-Rechain) is a Belgian politician. He is the current President of the European Investment Bank (EIB). He was appointed to this office on January 1 2000. His other past and present appointments include: Governor of European Bank for Reconstruction and De..
Philippe Mexès
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Philippe Miguet
Philippe Miguet (born 1958) is a traditionalist Catholic bishop from Verneuil-sur-Avre, France. He was ordained priest by Jean Laborie and (sub conditione) ordained a priest and (sub conditione) consecrated a bishop on December 2, 1987 by George Musey. Apparently he had already been consecrated a ..
Philippe Mora
Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French-born Australian film director. Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melb..
Philippe Morillon
Philippe Morillon (born October 24, 1935 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French general and a currently a Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. On July 23, 2004 he was elec..
Philippe Nahon
Philippe Nahon is a french actor born 24th of december 1938 in Paris Filmography (incomplete) 2005 : Ma vie en l'air2005 : Virgil2005 : Vendredi ou un autre jour2004 : Ressac2004 : Calvaire2004 : Doo Wop2004 : La Quille2004 : Le Salopard2003 : Haute Tension2002 : Irréversible2002 : Une affaire pr..
Philippe Néricault Destouches
Philippe Néricault Destouches (April 9, 1680 - July 4, 1754) was a French dramatist. Biography Destouches was born at Tours, in the today's department of Indre-et-Loire. When he was nineteen years of age he became secretary to M. de Puysieux, the French ambassador in Switzerland. In 1716 he was a..
Philippe Nicolet
Philippe Nicolet, born January 4, 1953, is a Swiss film director of both documentaries and fiction. Journalist and scriptwriter, he was the first editor-in-chief of the Lausanne television station from 1994 to 1999, before embarking on a project tracing the history of relations between Switzerland a..
Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (born October 1, 1930 in Lille, Nord, France) is a French actor. He failed several times to pass his baccalaureate exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years. There, he met hi..
Philippe Ouédraogo
Philippe Ouédraogo (born 15 July 1942, Diapaga, Tapoa province) is a Burkinabé politician and the leader of the African Independence Party (PAI). Ouédraogo was Minister of Equipment and Telecommunication in the first government of Thomas Sankara 1983-1984. He then represented the then mass front ..
Philippe Panneton
Philippe Panneton (pseudonym Ringuet, which was his mother's maiden name) (April 30, 1895 – December 29, 1960) was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, he received a degree in medicine from Université Laval in 1920. In 1935 he became a profess..
Philippe Park
Philippe Park is a County park located in Safety Harbor, Florida. The park is named after Count Odet Philippe who is credited with introducing grapefruit to the state of Florida in 1823. It is situated on 122 acres that was once part of Philippe's plantation. Philippe was the county's first non-nat..
Philippe Parreno
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Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur
Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur (November 4, 1780 - February 25, 1873), French general and historian, son of Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur, was born in Paris. He enlisted in the cavalry in 1800, and forthwith obtained a commission. He served with General Macdonald in the Grisons in 1800-1801, and ..
Philippe Perrin
Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) is (accurate at January 2005) a test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut. Contents 1 Background2 Awards and honors3 Military and flight experience4 NASA experience5 Space flight experience6 Post-fligh..
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French general, later Head of State of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944. Due to his military leadership in World War I, he was viewed as a h..
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7 1974. 24-year-old Petit made eight crossings between the still unfinished towers, a quarter mile above the Earth. The stunt took six yea..
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre is a songwriter who is best known for the hit single he co-wrote for Mariah Carey, "Reflections (Care Enough)". ..
Philippe Pinel
270px Philippe Pinel (April 20, 1745 - October 25, 1826), regarded by many as the father of modern psychiatry, was born in Saint-André, Tarn the son and nephew of physicians. After receiving a degree from the faculty of medicine in Toulouse, he studied an additional four years at the Faculty ..
Philippe Quinault
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • ..
Philippe Ramos
Philippe Ramos is a French movie director. He was born in France in 1964. He is an ancient student of French school La Femis. He directed in 2004 a very unusual adaptation of Moby Dick : Capitaine Achab with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart. Philippe Ramos is one of the excellent young Fre..
Philippe Ranaivomanana
Bishop Philippe Ranaivomanana (born 12 May 1949) is the bishop of the Diocese of Ihosy in Ihosy, Madagascar. He was ordained priest on 16 October 1977. He was appointed and confirmed as bishop in January 1999. External Links [Profile of Bishop Ranaivomanana] ..
Philippe Ricord
Philippe Ricord (born December 10, 1800 in Baltimore; died 1889) was a French physician. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and moved to Paris in 1820, where he worked there as a surgeon, specializing in venereal diseases. In 1838, he proved John Hunters self-experiment wrong, thus showing that ..
Philippe Roch
Philippe Roch is a Swiss politician born on September 13, 1949 Contents 1 Biography2 Actions at the national level3 Actions at the international level4 External links Biography Philippe Roch was born in Lancy (canton of Geneva) on 13 September 1949 . Having received his doct..
Philippe Rondot
Philippe Rondot (1936 - ) is a French retired general, formerly an important personality of the French intelligence. He worked for both the DST and the DGSE (traditionally rival services) and was councelor to several Defence ministers (either Right or Left-wing). Career Philippe Rondot was born in ..
Philippe Saint-André
France 1990-1997 POSITION Winger BORN Wednesday, 19th April 1967. Romans-sur-Isere, France INTERNATIONAL DEBUT Thursday, 24th May 1990 v Romania (Auch) lost 12-6 (Aged: 23) FINAL APPEARANCE 22/11/1997 v South Africa (Paris) lost 52-10 TOTAL CAPS: 69 Phillipe Saint-andre is a former..
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is a British Queen's Counsel and professor of International law at University College London.[#endnote_Guardian060202] Sands is notable for authoring a book, "Lawless World", where he accuses US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of conspiring to invade I..
Philippe Sauve
Philippe Sauve (born. February 27, 1980 in Buffalo, New York) is an American ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL. Contents 1 Playing career2 Awards3 Records4 Career statistics4.1 Regular season4.2 Playoffs5 Internation..
Philippe Séguin
Philippe Séguin Philippe Séguin wearing the ceremonial gown of first president of the Cour des Comptes Philippe Séguin OQ is a former French politician, and is now first president of France's Cour des Comptes (Court of Financial Auditors). Philippe Séguin entered the Court of Financ..
Philippe Sella
Philippe Sella (born 14 February 1962 in Tonneins) is a French rugby union player, who until recently held the record for most international appearances in that sport. Philippe joined Saracens in 1996 from French side Agen. He and Australian Michael Lynagh were the catalysts for Saracens as they ma..
Philippe Senderos
Philippe Sylvain Senderos (born February 14, 1985 in Geneva) is a Serbo-Spanish-Swiss football player currently playing for Arsenal of the English Premier League as a defender. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Youth Development1.2 Arsenal Career1.3 International Career2 Personal3..
Philippe Sollers
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Philippe Soupault
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Philippe Starck
A book about Starck by Taschen Philippe Patrick Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a well-known French designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style. His designs range from spectacular interior designs to mass produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and eve..
Philippe Streiff
Philippe Streiff (b. June 26, 1955) is a former Formula One driver from France. He participated in 54 Grands Prix, debuting on October 21, 1984. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 11 championship points. A pre-season testing crash in 1989 left him paralysed and in a wheelchair, with the q..
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave (1863 - 1926) was a Haïtian general and political figure. He served as the president of Haïti between 12 August 1915 and 15 May 1922. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Philippe Tatartcheff
Philippe Tatartcheff (born in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Canadian poet and songwriter, who is best known as the lyricist for French language songs by folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle. ..
Philippe Thys
Philippe Thys Philippe Thys (October 8, 1890 - January 16, 1971) was a Belgian cyclist and three-time winner of the Tour de France. Born in Brussels, in 1910 he won Belgium's first national cyclo-cross championship. He went on to win the Tour de France in 1913 and 1914, but the race was cance..
Philippe Toussaint
Philippe Toussaint (born 30 June 1949) was one of Belgium's most successful golfers. As an amateur he won the French Junior Championship and the Italian Amateur Championship and twice represented Belgium in the Eisenhower Trophy. He turned professional in the early 1970s and made the top one hundred..
Philippe Tromeur
Philippe Tromeur is a French RPG freelancer. He is the creator of Wuthering Heights, a parodic role-playing game. He also worked on the French version of Nobilis, and on In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas. In 2005, he founded the publishing association Tud Glas, to publish a French translation of th..
Philippe Troussier
Phillipe Troussier (born March 21, 1955 in Paris) is a former French football (soccer) player and now a manager. --> Known as the "White Witch Doctor" for his success with African club teams such as Asec Abidjan of the Côte d'Ivoire and the national teams of Nigeria, South Africa and Burkina Fas..
Philippe Val
Philippe Val (born September 14, 1952 in Paris) is a French journalist who is the editor and director of publication of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical political weekly newspaper. Every week Philippe Val supplies the editorial for Charlie Hebdo. Philippe Val first became known as a member of the comed..
Philippe Vandevelde
Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome or Philippe Tome (born February 24, 1957 in Brussels), is a comic strip script writer. With Janry he works on Spirou and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and Bruno Gazzotti on Soda (comic strip). He also makes comics together with Ralf Meyer..
Philippe Vande Walle
Philippe Vande Walle (born December 22, 1961) is a former Belgian football goalkeeper. His former clubs include Germinal Ekeren and Eendracht Aalst. Vande Walle was part of the Belgium national team for the 1998 World Cup. ..
Philippe van Lansberge
Johan Philip Lansberge (August 25 1561–December 8 1632) was a Dutch astronomer. His name is sometimes written Lansberg, and his first name is sometimes given as Philip or Johannes Philippus. He published under the Latin name Philippus Lansbergius. He is best known as the author of a set of..
Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs (born 1951) is a Belgian philosopher and political economist, mainly known as a proponent and main defender of the basic income concept. He was also secretary of the Basic Income European Network. Van Parijs's work is often associated with the September Group of analytic Marxism..
Philippe Vasset
Philippe Vasset (born 1974) is a French novelist and journalist. He edits the investigative newsletter Africa Energy Intelligence, based in Paris. He worked as a corporate detective in the US before becoming a journalist and, in 1993, won the prize of Best Young Writer awarded by the French daily Le..
Philippe Verdelot
Philippe Verdelot was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He was born around 1475 in France, and died sometime before 1552, probably in Florence or Venice. Details of his life are obscure. He is known to have been maestro di cappella at the Baptisterium Sa..
Philippe Véron
Philippe Véron is a French astronomer. He works at Observatoire de Haute Provence, whom he was director. He studies variability and statistics of quasars, as well as elliptical galaxies. He is married with French astronomer Marie-Paule Véron-Cetty. Asteroid 5260 Philvéron is named after him. ..
Philippe Villers
Philippe Villers founded the company Computervision with Marty Allen in 1969. In 1980 he co-founded Automatix, an early robotics company, which he led until 1986. He later served as president of Cognition Corporation for 3 years. He is currently (2006) president of GrainPro, Inc., and board mem..
Philippe Voarino
Philippe Voarino is an aikido teacher. He received (directly from Morihiro Saito) the grade of 6th dan in Iwama Ryu Aikido and 5th dan Iwama Ryu aiki-ken and aiki-jo. Voarino began studying aikido under Nobuyoshi Tamura in 1977. ..
Philippe Volter
Philippe Volter (nee Wolter) (23 March 1959 - 13 April 2005) child of director Claude Volter and actress Jacqueline Bir, was a Belgian actor. He began his career in Brussels in 1985. He made many stage and film appearances, the latter of which peaked with such successful arthouse films as Double Lif..
Philippe Wamba
Philippe Wamba (June 3, 1971 - September 11, 2002) was African American editor and writer. He went to Harvard University, then to graduate school at Columbia University, before working in a variety of writing and publishing projects, culminating in his serving as editor-in-chief of a now defunct onl..
Philippe Wynne
Philippe Wynne (April 3, 1941 - July 14, 1984) was an African-American R&B vocalist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he began his singing career as a gospel singer. He soon switched to the newly emerging R&B style and attained some measure of success, singing with Bootsy Collins's Pacesetters in 1968 w..
Philippi
For the U.S. town, see Philippi, West Virginia, and for the town in the Golan Heights, see Caesarea Philippi. For the zoologist, see Rodolfo Amando Philippi. Map of Greece showing Philippi Philippi (in Ancient Greek Φἱλιπποι/ Philippoi) was a city in eastern Macedonia, founded by ..
Philippi, West Virginia
Philippi (pronounced 'FILL-uh-pea') is a city in Barbour County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 2,870 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Barbour County[Geographic references#6GR6], and lies along the Tygart Valley River. In 1861 the Battle of Philippi Races took place her..
Philippians 2
Philippians 2 is the second chapter in the Epistle to the Philippians, one of the books of the Christian New Testament. ..
Philippic
A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivered an attack on Philip II of Macedon in the fourth century BC. Cicero consciously modeled his own attacks on Mark Antony, in 44 BC and 43 BC, on Demosthenes..
Philippikos
Philippikos (FILIPICUS) coin, celebrating the victories of the emperor (VICTORIA AVGU). Once emperor, this Armenian general neglected military affairs, in favour of religious politic. Philippikos or Philippicus (Greek: Φιλιππικός), was Eastern Roman emperor from 711 to 713. Philippi..
Philippine-American War
The Philippine-American WarThis conflict is also known as the 'Philippine Insurrection'. This name was historically the most commonly used in the U.S., but Filipinos and some American historians refer to these hostilities as the Philippine-American War, and in 1999 the U.S. Library of Congress re..
Philippine-Japanese relations
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Philippines
The Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), is an island nation located in the Malay archipelago in Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital. It lies 1,210 kilometers (750 mi) from mainland Asia and comprises 7,107 islands ..
Philippines's At-large congressional district
In the early 20th century, the Philippines was a territory of the United States. A representative, known as a "Resident Commissioner" had non-voting delegate status in the United States House of Representatives, much like Resident Commissioners from Puerto Rico do today. Since 1945, however, the P..
Philippines at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Philippines before 1936 The Philippines competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam under the IOC country code PHI. It was the second time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Philippines before 1936 The Philippines competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles under the IOC country code PHI. It was the third time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin under the IOC country code PHI. It was the fourth time that the nation participated. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London under the IOC country code PHI. It was the fifth time that the Asian nation participated. ..
Philippines at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki under the IOC country code PHI. It was the sixth time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne under the IOC country code PHI. It was the seventh time that the Asian nation participated. ..
Philippines at the 1960 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome under the IOC country code PHI. It was the eighth time that the Asian nation participated. ..
Philippines at the 1964 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo under the IOC country code PHI. It was the ninth time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1968 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City under the IOC country code PHI. It was the tenth time that the Asian nation participated. ..
Philippines at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich under the IOC country code PHI. It was the eleventh time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1  Philippines 0 0 0 0 Results by event ..
Philippines at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul under the IOC country code PHI. It was the fourteenth appearance of the Asian nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1924. Contents 1  Philippines 0 0 1 1 Philippines finished in 46th position in the final medal rankings Go..
Philippines at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona under the IOC country code PHI. It was the fifteenth appearance of the Asian nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1924. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta under the IOC country code PHI. It was the fifteenth appearance of the Asian nation. Contents 1 ..
Philippines at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney under the IOC country code PHI. It was the seventeenth time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1  Philippines 0 0 0 0 Results by event ..
Philippines at the 2004 Summer Olympics
The Philippines competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens under the IOC country code PHI. It was the 18th time that the Asian nation participated. Contents 1  Philippines 0 0 0 0 Results by event ..
Philippines at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
The Philippines hosts the 2005 Southeast Asian Games under the IOC country code PHI. This is the third time the country is hosting the biennial meet and finally, winning the overall championship stilt, 26 golds ahead of Thailand. Team Philippines bagged 114 golds, the biggest golden harvest ever ..
Philippines Campaign, 1944-45
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Philippines Crocodile
The Philippine Crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a crocodile found only in the Philippines. Its status is critically treatened because of exploitation. Information Once considered as a subspecies of the New Guinea Crocodile, the Philippine Crocodile is only found in he Philippine Islands. The ..
Philippines Dream Team
The basketball league in the Philippines, the Philippine Basketball Association, and its basketball governing body formed their own "dream team" by establishing a team of PBA players who went on to represent the country in the 1990 Asian Games basketball tournament which was held in Beijing, China. ..
Philippines honey
Philippines honey is the honey production in The Republic of the Philippines. The "Apis cerana" species of bee's are the dominant in the region, when beekeeping was introduced by the Americans around a century ago. Many locals tried beekeeping themselves but with little success. When an "Apis cer..
Philippines national basketball team
The official national basketball team of the Philippines is a team currently under suspension by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after a series of disagrements between the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) which is still going..
Philippines national football team
The Philippines national football team is the national team of the Philippines and is controlled by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF). Despite being the oldest team in Asia (their first-ever match took place on home soil against China on February 1, 1913), the Philippines has never had an..
Philippines national rugby union team
The Philippine national rugby union team (also known as the "Volcanoes") is the newly established rugby union national team of the Philippines. Since Filipinos are largely unaware of rugby, the team is seen as one of the weakest teams in the world. However, the team won their first international t..
Philippines women's national football team
The Philippine women's national football team is the women's national team of the Philippines, and is controlled by the Philippines Football Federation (PFF). The women's team is ranked 84th in the world as of 2006. See also Philippines national football team ..
Philippine (Netherlands)
The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Philippine in the municipality of Terneuzen. Philippine ([51°17′N 3°46′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 23 km southeast of Vli..
Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language
The Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language is a group of academics and experts in the use of the spanish language in the Filipinas. It was established in Manila on July 25, 1924. It belongs to the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Contents 1 Academics1.1 Acadmics..
Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities
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Philippine Airlines
Philippine Airlines, also known as PAL, is the national airline of the Philippines. It is the first airline in Asia and the oldest of those currently in operation. With its corporate headquarters in Makati City, Philippine Airlines flies both domestic and international flights. As of 2005, it c..
Philippine Airlines destinations
Philippine Airlines flies to the following cities. This list does not include code-share destinations or flights to airports only served by Air Philippines. Contents 1 ..
Philippine Airlines Flight 137
Philippine Airlines Flight 137 align="center" colspan="2" class="hiddenStructure |- !align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" colspan="4"|Summary |- !align="right" valign="top"|Date |align="left" valign="top"|22 March 1998 |- !align="right" valign="top"|Type |align="left" valign="top"|Runway overrun |- !a..
Philippine Airlines Flight 434
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 align="center" colspan="2" class="hiddenStructure |- !align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc99" colspan="4"|Summary |- !align="right" valign="top"|Date |align="left" valign="top"|11 December 1994 |- !align="right" valign="top"|Type |align="left" valign="top"|In-flight bomb ex..
Philippine Airlines Flight 812
Flight 812. A jilted husband, Augusto Lacandula, hijacked a Philippine Airlines Airbus, flight 812 from Davao to Manila. He demanded the passengers place their valuables in a bag and then, James Bond style, commanded the pilot to descend and depressurise the aircraft so that he could escape by para..
Philippine Air Force
--> The Philippine Air Force (PAF) is the air force of the Philippines. Its official name in Filipino (Tagalog) is Hukbong Panghimpapawid ng Pilipinas. Contents 1 History2 Aircraft3 Organization in 20064 Expansion5 Air Bases6 See also7 External links History ..
Philippine Amusement and Gaming
Philippine Amusement and Gaming, more popularly known as PAGCOR is the country's leading amusement company, mostly in the form of the casino. It is owned by the state and is the government's third largest source of revenues. The company's most popular brand is Casino Filipino, a chain gambling estab..
Philippine Armed Forces rank insignia
After the establishment of the Philippine Armed Forces during the Spanish Occupation, and due to the influence of the U.S. Military, the Armed Forces of the Philippines adopted a series of rank insignias patterned after existing U.S. Military Ranks. **NOTE: The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)..
Philippine Army Air Corps
The ceremony at Camp Murphy in Rizal marking the induction of the Philippine Army Air Corps on 15 August 1941. Behind Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, from left to right, are Lt. Col. Richard K. Sutherland, Col. Harold H. George, Lt. Col. William F. Marquat, and Maj. LeGrande A. Diller. The Philipp..
Philippine Assembly
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. The Philippine Assembly was the Philippines' legislative body during the earlier ..
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, PAGASA, is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and..
Philippine Ballet Theatre
Founded in 1987, the Philippine Ballet Theatre has established itself as the pre-eminent classical ballet company in the Philippines today. It was borne out of an alliance of leading dance groups in the eighties but immediately won recognition as a resident ballet company of the Cultural Center of ..
Philippine Bank of Communications
The Philippine Bank of Communications, more commonly known as PBCom, is one of the largest commercial banks in the Philippines. The bank is also known for its towering headquarters, PBCom Tower, the tallest building in the Philippines, located in Makati City. Contents 1 History2 Subsi..
Philippine bare-backed fruit bat
The Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani) lived on Negros Island in the Philippines. Like other bare-backed fruit bats, its wings met along the midline of their bodies, making it a very agile flier. It roosted in caves, in areas where a little light penetrated the gloom. It was so abu..
Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1975. It is the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest existing professional basketball league in the world after the United States' National Bas..
Philippine Basketball Association Best Player of the Conference Award
The Philippine Basketball Association's Best Player of the Conference Award is given to the best local (Filipino or part-Filipino) player at the end of each conference (tournament). It was first awarded in the 1994 All-Filipino Conference. The Best Import Award is given to the best player (non-Fili..
Philippine Basketball Association Champions
The Philippine Basketball Association awards a championship trophy (or cup) to the winning team at the end of each conference (tournament). To determine a champion for a conference, a double-round elimination (since the 2004-05 season a classification) round is usually held. After the elimination ..
Philippine Basketball Association Most Valuable Player award
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) awards the Most Valuable Player award (MVP) at the end of the season. The winner is selected via votes from the press, players, coaches and top PBA officials. Note that from 1975 to 2003, PBA seasons have three tournaments (or conferences), so the regular..
Philippine Basketball Association Rookie of the Year award
This is a list of the '''Philippine Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year awardees: 1976: Gil Cortez (Crispa)1977: Jimmy Tanguines (Tanduay)1978: Jimmy Manansala (Tanduay)1979: Arnie Tuadles (Toyota)1980: Willie Generalao (Gilbey's Gin)1981: Rafael Sison (Presto)1982: Marte Saldaña (San Migu..
Philippine Basketball League
The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) is a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars in the fold. Contents 1 History2 Teams2.1 Current teams2.2 Notable former..
Philippine Campaign Medal
Army and Navy versions of the Philippine Campaign Medal The Philippine Campaign Medal is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces which was created to denote service of U.S. military members in the Philippine-American War between the years of 1898 and 1913. Although a single se..
Philippine celebrities
This is a list of all Philippine Celebrities in the Philippines. Contents 1 Filipinos2 Fil-Ams3 Foreign Celebrities4 Voice Overs Filipinos Asia AgcaoiliOgie AlcasidAi Ai delas AlasEugene DomingoJean GarciaBianca GonzalezMark LapidAngel LocsinLani MercadoCesar MontanoDominic O..
Philippine Centennial Team
The Philippine Centennial Team was the nickname of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)-backed national basketball team in 1998. The team consists of professional players in the country that includes national team veterans Allan Caidic and Alvin Patrimonio, both sharing the distinction of bei..
Philippine Children's Television Foundation
The Philippine Children's Television Foundation is a non-profit organization that partnered with Sesame Workshop (then Children's Television Workshop) to create Sesame!, later known as Batibot. Contents 1 Books1.1 Buhay-Bata1.2 Karapatan Ng Bata1.3 Aklat Tsinoy Books These ar..
Philippine Christian University
The Philippine Christian University (PCU), located along Taft Avenue, Manila, was founded in 1947 via the initiatives of the Laymen of the Evangelical Association of the Philippines. Originally named as Manila Union University, it was renamed as Philippine Christian College (PCC). In 1976, the PCC..
Philippine classical music
The Filipino kundiman is the voice of yearning love in song, plaintive in its lyrical heartbreak and yet transcendent through melodic expressiveness. The kundiman came to the fore as an art song at the end of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth, when Filipino composers such as..
Philippine Coast Artillery Command
The Philippine Coast Artillery Command was the command element of USAFFE's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, during the World War II era. This unit was commanded by Major General George F. Moore. See also Military History of the PhilippinesMilitary History of the United States ..
Philippine Coast Guard
The Philippine Coast Guard (Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas) is the coast guard of the Philippines. The PCG is involved in the broader enforcement of maritime laws in the country, especially against smuggling, illegal fishing and drug trafficking. Also, it is involved in maritime search and rescue (SA..
Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary
The Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary is the civilian support group for the Philippine Coast Guard. Although a volunteer, civilian organisation, the PCGA uses a military structure for organizational purposes. Like other volunteer sea rescue organisations around the world, it performs non-military and..
Philippine Cobra
The Philippine Cobra (Naja philippinensis) is a relatively small, stocky, very toxic snake native to the Philippines. They are found on the Luzon, Mindoro, Catanuanes and Masbate islands. Its average length is one meter. Its color is light to medium brown while the young cobra's color is a darke..
Philippine Collegian
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Philippine Collegian is the official student publication of the University of the Philippines, Diliman. No..
Philippine Communist Party
Communist Party of the Philippines (in Tagalog: Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas) is a communist party in the Philippines. The party was founded in 1930 and is often called PKP-1930 to separate it from its far more known splinter-group, the maoist Communist Party of the Philippines. The party was est..
Philippine Congressional Medal
Philippine Congressional Medal The Philippine Congressional Medal was a decoration of the United States Army which was established by the United States Congress on July 9, 1906. The decoration recognized those soldiers who had enlisted in the United States Army for the purpose of the Philipp..
Philippine Constabulary
The Philippine Constabulary (PC) was one of two national police forces of the Philippines and was organized in 1901 by the United States appointed administrative authority. It was later replaced by the current Philippine National Police. Contents 1 Establishment2 Organization3 Post..
Philippine copyright law
Philippine copyright law is enshirined in the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, officially known as Republic Act No. 8293. The law is partly based on United States copyright law and the principles of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Unlike many o..
Philippine creeper
The Philippine creepers (Rhabdornithidae) are a family of small passerine birds. The family is endemic to the Philippines. The family contains a single genus Rhabdornis with three species. They do not migrate other than local movements. The Philippine creepers are similar in appearance to treecre..
Philippine crocodile
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is a crocodile found only in the Philippines. It is also known as the Mindoro crocodile and the Philippine freshwater crocodile. In the Philippines, it is strictly prohibited to kill a crocodile, but its status is critically threatened from exploita..
Philippine Cyberservices Corridor
The Philippine Cyberservices Corridor is a plan that is being pursued by the government of the Philippines to create interconnected centers of technology-related services, that are spread out all over the country. Services include business process outsourcing, medical transcription, and the like. I..
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies (a 52-percent share of total circulation of broadsheets in the country) and an estimated 1.516 million readers in 2005. It is ..
Philippine Declaration of Independence
The Philippine Declaration of Independence occurred on June 12, 1898 in the Philippines, where Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo (later to become the Philippines' first Republican President) proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the co..
Philippine Defense Medal
The Philippine Defense Medal is a decoration of the Republic of the Philippines which is awarded to commemorate the initial resistance against Japanese invasion between the dates of December 1941 and June 1942.The decoration was first created as ribbon in December, 1944 and a full sized medal was a..
Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
The Democratic Socialist Party of the Philippines (Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas) is a political party in the Philippines. It is one of the member parties that compose the United Nationalists Democratic Organizations that supported the candidacy of Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel i..
Philippine Department
The Philippine Department (Philippine Garrison -- The Battling Bastards of Bataan) was a regular US Army unit, defeated in the Philippines, during World War II. The mission of the Philippine Department was to defend the Philippine Islands and train the Philippine Army. During World War II, on May 6,..
Philippine Duck
The Philippine Duck (Anas luzonica) is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas. References BirdLife International (2006). [Anas luzonica]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map, a brief justification of why this sp..
Philippine Dynasty
The Portuguese House of Habsburg commonly known as Philippine Dynasty is the third dynasty of Kings of Portugal named after the three Spanish kings who ruled Portugal between 1580 and 1640. The three kings, all named Philip (Spanish: Felipe; Portuguese: Filipe, pron. IPA: /fɨ.'li.p(ɨ)/) were from..
Philippine Eagle
The Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) is one of the rarest, largest and most powerful birds in the world. This bird of prey or raptor belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was first called the Monkey-eating Eagle upon discovery in 1896, based on reports from natives saying that it preyed..
Philippine Eagle Owl
The Philippine Eagle Owl, Bubo philippensis is an endangered and rare bird species belonging to the Strigidae family. A Philippines endemic, it lives near lakes in lowland jungles in the Philippines islands of Catanduanes, Samar, Mindanao, Luzon and Leyte. It's length is about 41cm and it has a w..
Philippine English
Philippine English is the variation of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of Filipinos. It is not officially taught at schools. English is one of the two official languages of the Republic of the Philippines, the other being Filipino. Most Filipinos understand, write..
Philippine epic poetry
Centuries before the Spaniards came, the Filipinos already had their own cultural traditions, folklore, mythologies and epics. There were substantial writings by early natives that Jesuit historian Fr. Pedro Chirino noted: "All of the islanders are much given to reading and writing. And there is har..
Philippine Executive Order 464
Executive Order No. 464 is a controversial executive order issued in the Philippines on September 26, 2005 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that prevents cabinet members, police and military generals, senior national security officials, and "such other officers as may be determined by the Presid..
Philippine Football Federation
Founded 1907 FIFA affiliation 1928 AFC affiliation 1954 PresidentJuan Miguel Romualdez CoachJose Ariston Caslib (?-) The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is the governing body of football in the Philippines. It organizes the Philippine national football team and is based in Pasig City,..
Philippine general election, 1941
Presidential and legislative elections were held on November 11, 1941 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Manuel Luis Quezon won an unprecedented second full term as President of the Philippines via landslide. His running mate, Vice President Sergio Osmeña also won via landslide. The elected ..
Philippine general election, 1946
Presidential and legislative elections were held on April 23, 1946 in the Philippines. The elections were supposed to happen on November 12, 1945 but was moved due to a major rehabilitiation after the end of World War II. Incumbent President Sergio Osmeña ran for a full term after the untimely dea..
Philippine general election, 1949
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 8, 1949 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Elpidio Quirino won a full term as President of the Philippines after the untimely death of President Manuel Roxas in 1948. His running mate, Senator Fernando Lopez won as Vice Presid..
Philippine general election, 1953
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 10, 1953 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Elpidio Quirino lost his opportunity to get a second full term as President of the Philippines to former Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay. His running mate, Senator Jose Yulo lost t..
Philippine general election, 1957
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 12, 1957 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Carlos P. Garcia won his opportunity to get a full term as President of the Philippines after the untimely death of President Ramon Magsaysay. His running mate, Senator Jose Laurel J..
Philippine general election, 1961
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 14, 1961 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Carlos P. Garcia lost his opportunity for a second full term as President of the Philippines to Vice President President Diosdado Macapagal. His running mate, Senator Sergio Osmeña,..
Philippine general election, 1965
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 19, 1965 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal lost his opportunity to get a second full term as President of the Philippines to Senate President Ferdinand Marcos. His running mate, Senator Gerardo Roxas lost t..
Philippine general election, 1969
Presidential, legislative and local elections were held on November 11, 1969 in the Philippines. Incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos won an unprecedented second full term as President of the Philippines. Marcos was the last president in the entire electoral history who ran and won for a second ter..
Philippine general election, 1981
Presidential elections and parliamentary elections were held on June 16, 1981 in the Philippines. President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan defeated former Gen. Alejo Santos of the Nacionalista Party in a landslide victory. Most opposition parties boycotted the elections as a sig..
Philippine general election, 1992
Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 11, 1992. This was the first general elections under the 1987 Philippine Constitution. An estimated 80,000 candidates ran for 17,000 posts from the presidency down to municipal councilors. Even if ..
Philippine general election, 1995
Legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 8, 1995. See also Commission on ElectionsPolitics of the PhilippinesPhilippine elections ..
Philippine general election, 1998
Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 11, 1998. In the presidential election, former Vice President Joseph Estrada won a six-year term as President by landslide. In the vice-presidential race, Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won a six-..
Philippine general election, 2001
Legislative elections and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 14, 2001. Independent candidate Noli De Castro, a popular mediaman, topped the count. This is the first election held after the ouster of former President Joseph Estrada in January due to a military-backed civilian upris..
Philippine general election, 2004
Presidential election results map. The colours indicate provinces where a candidate gathered the majority of votes: Red for Poe, Blue for Arroyo, Green for Lacson, and Gold for Roco. Villanueva was unable to secure a majority in any of the provinces. Presidential elections, legislative electio..
Philippine general election, 2007
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Philippine General Hospital
The Philippine General Hospital The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is a state-owned hospital operated by the University of the Philippines, Manila and is located at Ermita, Manila in the Philippines. It is the biggest hospital in the country with 1100 bed capacity. It offers one of the che..
Philippine General Order No. 5
General Order Number 5 is the ordinance that implemented Proclamation No. 1017 that placed the Philippine in a "state of national emergency" announced by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 24, 2006 after the alleged foiled coup attempt against the Arroyo administration. See a..
Philippine Heart Center
The Philippine Heart Center was established through Presidential Decree No. 673 issued by then-president Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1975. Its original name was the Philippine Heart Center for Asia and was changed to its current form in 1975. It was inaugurated on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1975 and ..
Philippine Honeynet Project
The [Philippine Honeynet Project] is a non-profit, all volunteer group dedicated to honeynet and security research in the Philippines. It is a member of the Honeynet Project Research Alliance. It was founded in 2005 by Ryan Talabis. ..
Philippine Idol
Philippine Idol is the Philippine franchise of the Idol series. The franchise was awarded by Fremantle Media, 19 Entertainment and CKX, Inc. to the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC), which also incidentally broadcasts American Idol and World Idol in the Philippines. Just like the premise of the..
Philippine independence
Philippine independence refers to the struggles of the Filipinos for independence from colonial rule —first by Spain, and then by the United States. The Philippine-American War, formerly called the Philippine Insurrection in the U.S., with its devastating use of military force, was a brutal e..
Philippine Independence Day Parade
The Philippine Independence Day Parade is a celebration for the Filipino community in the Northeast United States. Its main purpose is to create awareness of Philippine culture among our American sisters and brothers and to raise funds for charity projects in the USA and the Philippines. The 2006..
Philippine Independence Medal
The Philippine Independence Medal is a military decoration of the Republic of the Philippines which was created by order of the Philippine Army Headquarters on July 3, 1946. The Philippine Independence Medal was created to recognize those members of the military who had participated in multiple Ph..
Philippine Independent Church
The Philippine Independent Church, officially the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) in Spanish, is a Christian denomination of the Catholic tradition in the form of a national church. It is better known as the Aglipayan Church after its founder, Gregorio Aglipay. Since 1965 it has been part of th..
Philippine international church
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Philippine International Convention Center
The Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) is the most modern convention center the Philippines can offer to the world. Located at the reclaimed area now known as the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex in Pasay City (a Manila suburb), this state-of-the-art facility has be..
Philippine International Jazz & Ethnic Arts Festival
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Philippine International Jazz & Ethnic Arts Festival Artists
The 2006 Philippine International Jazz & Ethnic Arts Festival Artists- 1. Airto Moreira, innovative Brazilian jazz percussionist 2. Eumir Deodato, Brazilian composer-arranger-keyboardist 3. Crescendo, vocal group from the USA 4. Michael Allen, performing artist from the USA 5. David Gomes, perform..
Philippine Internet Commerce Society
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Philippine Internet Exchange
Philippine Internet eXchange (PhIX) is the first Internet Exchange Point in the Philippines. It is a joint project of Philippine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to interconnect through a common backbone or Internet Exchange Point (IX) for efficient infrastructure. It is currently interconnects ..
Philippine Legion of Honor
The Philippine Legion of Honor was established by President Manuel Roxas, through Philippine Army Circular No. 60 dated July 3, 1947. The Philippine Legion of Honor was patterned after the Legion of Merit of the United States of America, and was meant to honor both civilians and members of the milit..
Philippine Liberation Medal
The Philippine Liberation Medal is a military award of the Republic of the Philippines which was created by an order of Commonwealth of the Philippines Army Headquarters on December 20 1944. The award was presented to any service member, of both Philippine and allied militaries, who participated i..
Philippine literature in English
Philippine literature in English has its roots in the efforts of the American forces at the turn of the century to pacify the Filipino people and instill in them the American ideals of "universality, practicality, and democracy." By 1901, public education in the Philippines was institutionalized, wi..
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (, NYSE: [PHI]), commonly known as PLDT, is the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. Contents 1 History2 Subsidiaries and affiliates3 Ownership4 Competition5 See also6 External links Histor..
Philippine mahogany
Philippine mahogany is a common name for several different species of trees and their wood. Horticulturally, the name refers to the species Toona calantas in the mahogany family Meliaceae.In the timber trade, it is often applied to wood of the genus Shorea in the dipterocarp family Dipterocarpaceae..
Philippine Marine Corps Force Recon Battalion
Contents 1 Overview2 History3 The Scout Raider, The Forerunner4 External links Overview The Philippine Marine Corps Force Recon Battalion (Marine Force Recon) is the Philippine Naval Fleet's/ Philippine Marine Corps' elite ground forces unit for unconventional warfare..
Philippine Medal of Valor
The Medal of Valor is the highest military award given by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It is the equivalent to the Congressional Medal of Honor of the United States of America. This award is given by direction of the President of the Philippines, in pursuance to paragraph 1-6a, Section II,..
Philippine Military Academy
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is the training school for future officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It was established as an Officer's School of the Philippine Constabulary on February 17, 1905 at Intramuros, Manila, but was relocated on September 1, 1908 at Baguio City. -->..
Philippine Military Academy/Temp
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is a military academy in Loakan, Baguio City, Philippines. It is one of the principal defence training institutions for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. External links [Official web site of the Academy]..
Philippine music
Philippine music can refer to: Music in the PhilippinesOriginal Pilipino Music, which is music by any Filipino artist (not necessarily those living in the Philippines)..
Philippine mythology
Philippine mythology, and folklore are being studied as part of the curriculum of Philippine Psychology, and includes a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities. Some Filipinos, even though heavily Westernized and Christianized, still believe in such entities. The p..
Philippine names
In the Philippines, all Filipinos, Spaniards, and Americans follow the conventional Western form: First Name-Middle Name-Surname. For persons of legitimate descent, the mother's surname becomes the legal middle name. The Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese use their own naming scheme, that is, Surname-Fi..
Philippine National Bank
The Philippine National Bank (PNB) was established by the Philippine government on July 22, 1916 and became the first universal bank in the Philippines in 1980. It was privatized in 1989. PNB currently has over 100 branches throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. History The Ea..
Philippine National Construction Corporation
The Philippine National Construction Corporation is a government-owned and/or controlled corporation in the Philippines. It is usually tasked with major construction works, especially in the field of infrastructure. Some projects that the company has helped build include the Metro Manila Skyway, t..
Philippine National Heroes
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] The Philippine National Heroes Dr. Jose Rizal - The Greatest Filipino National Hero.Andres Bonifacio - The Great Plebeian and Father of the Katipunan.General Gregorio del Pilar - Hero of the Battle of Tirad Pass.General Emilio Aguinaldo - President of the First Phi..
Philippine National Oil Company
PNOC-operated geothermal power station in Valencia, Negros Oriental. Philippine National Oil Company, owners of Petron, is a Philippine state owned company. It was created by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree No. 334 in 1973. External link [Philippine National Oil Co..
Philippine National Police
The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it provides all law enforcement services throughout the Philippines. It was formed in 1989 by the merger of the Integrated National Police with the P..
Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command
The Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command (PASCOM) are responsible for security measures at major airports. History Their duties were performed by the Philippine Air Force Aviation Security Command (Avsecom). AVSECOM has ceased to exist, their responsibility has been turned over to..
Philippine National Railways
Philippine National Railways (PNR), a state-owned railway company under the Department of Transportation and Communication of the Philippines, was created in its present form in 1984. PNR currently operates around 1,060 route km on the island of Luzon. Contents 1 Main line2 History2.1&..
Philippine National Red Cross
The Philippine National Red Cross is member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. External link [Official website] ..
Philippine Navy
The Philippine Navy (PN) is the naval arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Its official name in Filipino is Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas. The Philippine Navy is one of the oldest navies in Asia in terms of lineage, but also in terms of ship age and technology. Most of its dwindling numb..
Philippine Navy Special Warfare Group
Special Warfare Group is an elite unit of the Philippine Navy trained in special operations, sabotage, psychological and unconventional warfare. It specializes in sea, air and land (SEAL) operations ranging from reconnaissance, close combat, demolition, intelligence and underwater operations in su..
Philippine Olympic Committee
The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) is the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines About the POC The Philippine Olympic Committee is a private, non-governmental organization composed of and serve as the mother organization of all National Sports Associations (NSAs) in the Philippines. I..
Philippine Ombudsman
The Philippine Ombudsman is an ombudsman responsible for investigating and prosecuting government officials in the Philippines who are allegedly guilty of crimes. The Offices of the Ombudsman independently monitor the government and all three of its branches. The Ombudsman is also responsible for ..
Philippine Open
Philippine Open may refer to several sporting events. Philippine Open (golf)Philippine Open (bowling)Philippines Open (badminton) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the..
Philippine Open (golf)
The Philippine Open is one of the world's longest running men's golf tournaments. First held in 1913, it is also Asia's oldest golf tournament and Asia's oldest national golf open. The most distinguished golfer who has won the tournament is five times British Open champion Peter Thomson of Australia..
Philippine orders and decorations
The orders and decorations conferred upon civilians and military personnel in the Republic of the Philippines, are listed by order of precedence. The first list is of civilian awards, which take precedence over and above military awards. The next list is of awards conferred upon the military or form..
Philippine parliamentary election, 1978
Philippine parliamentary election held April 7 for the election of the Interim Batasang Pambansa (English: National Assembly). External links [Philippine Commission on Elections] ..
Philippine parliamentary election, 1984
Parliamentary elections were held on May 14, 1984 in the Philippines. All seats in the Batasang Pambansa were up for grabs. It was also the first election in which a united opposition ran against the ruling Kilusang Bagong Lipunan. ..
Philippine peso
The Philippine peso (Filipino: piso) is the official currency of the Philippines. Since the Philippine peso uses the decimal system, it is divided into 100 centavos (Filipino: sentimo). Its ISO 4217 code is "PHP". The Philippines is one of a handful of countries formerly colonized by Spain that u..
Philippine peso bills
Philippine peso bills are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) for circulation in the Philippines. The smallest amount of legal tender in wide circulation is twenty pesos and the largest is 1000 pesos. The front side of each bill features prominent people in th..
Philippine peso coins
A 1-peso coin, depicting Jose Rizal. Philippine peso coins are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for circulation in the Philippines, and are currently available in seven denominations. History The United States minted coins for the Philippines from 1903-1945. These coins came in 1/2 c..
Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra is the Philippines' leading orchestra and is widely regarded as one of the top musical ensembles in the world. History The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra was formally inaugurated on May 15, 1973 as the CCP Philharmonic Orchestra and was initially intended t..
Philippine Plate
border=#000 solid 1px}} The Philippine Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippines. The easterly side is a convergent boundary with the subducting Pacific Plate at the Mariana Trench. The Philippine Plate is bounded on the west by the Eurasian P..
Philippine Pond Turtle
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Philippine Pond Turtle (Heosemys leytensis), also known as the Leyte Pond Turtle, is an extremely rare t..
Philippine Postal Corporation
The Philippine Postal Corporation, or Philpost for short, is a government-owned and operated corporation responsible for providing postal services in the Philippines. It has a total of 18,000 employees and runs more than 2,000 post offices. Philpost is based in the Philippines' primary post offic..
Philippine presidential election, 1935
The first Presidential election of the Commonwealth of the Philippines was held on September 16, 1935 in the Philippines. This was the first election since the enactment of the Tydings-McDuffie Act that paved the way for a transitory government. Senate President Manuel Luis Quezon won against revol..
Philippine presidential election, 1986
Presidential and vice-presidential "snap" elections were held on February 7, 1986 in the Philippines. President Ferdinand E. Marcos and former Foreign Affairs Minister and Senate President Arturo M. Tolentino were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa as well as the official election canvasse..
Philippine Proclamation 1017
Proclamation Number 1017 was delivered by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 24, 2006 in the Philippines, after an alleged coup attempt was foiled in the morning of the same day, thus, placing the country under a "State of National Emergency". This was leter revoked by Phili..
Philippine Proclamation 1021
Proclamation No. 1021 was made by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on March 3, 2006 to cease the state of emergency in the Philippines that lasted one week since February 24, 2006. This counters Proclamation No. 1017 that made the Philippines under the state of national emergency. The ..
Philippine psychology
Philippine psychology, or Sikolohiyang Pilipino, in Filipino, is defined as the psychology of concepts relevant to Filipino culture. It is rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Filipinos. Philippine Psychology is generally thought of as belonging to a wider perspective of ..
Philippine refugee processing center
Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) A large facility in a remote location of the Philippines used as the final stop for Indochinese refugees making their way to permanent resettlement in other nations. Opened in 1980, PRPC was located in the Province of Bataan, near the village of Morong, s..
Philippine revolts against Spain
During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, several revolts against Spain were undertaken for various reasons. However, it can be agreed upon that the common underlying cause of these revolts were the generally repressive policies of the Spanish colonial government against the native Fili..
Philippine Revolution
The Philippine Revolution (1896—1898) was a conflict between the native Katipuneros and Spanish colonizers in the Philippines. Contents 1 Divide and conquer2 Peaceful reformation3 Emergence of a Filipino Consciousness and Identity4 See also5 External links Divide ..
Philippine Revolutionary Army
The Philippine Revolutionary Army was founded on March 22, 1897, in Cavite. General Artemio Ricarte was the first Captain General. The core of this army consisted of the Katipunan. See also: Military History*Military History of Spain*Military History of the Philippines General de brigada Pió del ..
Philippine Rugby Football Union
The Philippine Rugby Football Union is the governing body for rugby union in the Philippines. It was founded January 19, 1998 and became affiliated to the International Rugby Board Monday, 1 November 2004. See also Philippines national rugby union team External links [Philippine Rugby Footba..
Philippine Savings Bank
The Philippine Savings Bank (), commonly known as PSBank or PSB, is a savings bank based in the Philippines. It is a subsidiary of Metrobank and is the second-largest savings bank in the Philippines. Contents 1 History2 Subsidiaries and affiliates3 Ownership4 Competition5&nb..
Philippine School of Business Administration
The Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA) is one of the Philippines' top accounting and business colleges, and is known for yielding CPA board top-notchers and board passers every year, the number of which consistently surpasses the county's national passing percentage. It is located ..
Philippine Science High School Bicol Region Campus
Philippine Science High School-Bicol Region Campus Established 1998 School type Public specialized high school Principal/School Head Mrs. Elsie G. Ferrer (OIC Campus Director) Prominent Faculty Enrollment 262 (school year 2004-2005) Location Tagontong, Goa, Camarines Sur ..
Philippine Science High School Central Mindanao Campus
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Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus
The Philippine Science High School- Eastern Visayas Campus is a Philippine Science High School, currently located at Pawing, Palo, Leyte under the governance of the present OIC Director Dr. Estrella A. de Dios. The creation of the PSHS Eastern Visayas Campus was signed into law by Republic Act 737..
Philippine Science High School Main Campus
Philippine Science High School-Main Campus Established 1964 School type Public specialized high school Principal/School Head Dr. Jessamyn O. Yazon(OIC Campus Director) Prominent Faculty Enrollment 934 (school year 2004-2005) Location Agham Road, Diliman, Quezon City Inf..
Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus
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Philippine Science High School System
Philippine Science High School System Established 1964 School type Public Principal/School Head Ramon Miranda, Ph. D. (System Executive Director) Prominent Faculty Enrollment 2,821 (school year 2004-2005) System offices Agham Road, North Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City Cam..
Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus
Established on July 1, 2003, the Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus is one of the campuses of the Philippine Science High School System. Located in Brgy. Bito-on, Jaro, Iloilo City, it caters to students with aptitude in the sciences and mathematics mostly in the Western, Central,..
Philippine Scops Owl
The Philippine Scops Owl (Otus megalotis) is a common owl, endemic to the Philippines, belonging to the family of the typical owls Strigidae. It is one of the sixteen owl species in the Philippines. This owl grows to a length of 20 cm. Their big forward-facing eyes are dark with an orange-red rim..
Philippine Scouts
Philippine Scouts at Fort McKinley firing a 37-mm. antitank gun in training Philippine Scouts were native Filipinos attached to the US Army's Philippine Department prior to, and during, World War II. These troops were generally enlisted and under the command of American officers, however, a han..
Philippine Sea
For other uses of this term, see (disambiguation). The Philippine Sea The Philippine Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas to the east and Palau to the south. The Philippine Plate forms the floor of th..
Philippine Sea (disambiguation)
Philippine Sea may have the following meanings Philippine Sea, part of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, the Marianas, and Palau.Battle of the Philippine Sea, a World War II naval battle between Japan and the United States.Two ships of the United States Navy have..
Philippine Society
The stereotypical Filipino commutes by jeep to work, goes to mass on Sunday, send messages by text in cell phones, is an aficionado of Basketball and is shocked that his cousin/brother is a born-again or attends a Protestant gathering. Filipinos love to put leaders on trial and turn up late in appo..
Philippine Spotted Deer
The Philippine Spotted Deer (Cervus alfredi) is a species of deer that is native to the forests of the Philippines. They are 125 to 130 cm long, 70 - 80 cm in height and 25 - 80 kg in weight. References Deer Specialist Group (1996). [Cervus alfredi]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Spec..
Philippine SQL Server Users Group
The Philippine SQL Server Users Group (PHISSUG) is a non-profit local community of Microsoft SQL Server DBAs, developers and enthusiasts coming together to share and learn from each other on the topics related to SQL Server. Discription The goal of the user group is to help SQL Server professiona..
Philippine Standard Time
For Pacific Standard Time, see Pacific Time zone. For Pakistan Standard Time, see Time in Pakistan. Philippine Standard Time (PST) or unofficially, Philippine Time (PHT), is the name used in the Philippines to describe its location among the world's time zones. Geographically, the Philippines lies..
Philippine Star
The Philippine Star is one of the leading daily newspapers in the Philippines. It is published by Maximo V. Soliven, a former political detainee of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos' administration during martial law. Its columnists include entertainment editor Ricky Lo, TV talk show host Atty. Dong Pun..
Philippine Stock Exchange
--> The Philippine Stock Exchange () is the only stock exchange in the Philippines and is also one of the major stock exchanges in Southeast Asia. The PSE has two trading floors, one in Makati City's Central Business District and one at its headquarters in Pasig City. Contents 1 History2&n..
Philippine Tarsier
The Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta; also called mal in T'boli) is a tarsier that was, for a very long time, believed to exist only in the provinces of Samar, Leyte, and Bohol, Philippines. Tribal people like the B'laans and T'bolis have been, for a long time, reporting sightings in the provi..
Philippine Touring Car Championship
The Philippine Touring Car Championships (PTCC), formerly the Philippine National Touring Car Championships, is the only touring car series running under the banner of the Automobile Association of the Philippines (AAP). Race Fans Incorporated, a private enterprise, has undertaken organizing, promo..
Philippine Trademark Law
Contents 1 Defining Concepts in Trademark Law2 Tracing Trademark History in Ascertaining Confusing Similarity3 Conflicting Application of the Tests in Jurisprudence4 Conclusion and Recommendations Defining Concepts in Trademark Law 1. International Sources On September 27, ..
Philippine Trench
The Philippine Trench is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippine Islands. It stretches with a length of approximately 1,320 kilometers and a width of round about 30 kilometers from the northeast top of the Philippine island of Luzon southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera i..
Philippine tung
The Philippine tung (Reutealis trisperma) is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monotypic genus Reutealis. References World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). [Reutealis trisperma]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 05 May 2006. Li..
Philippine vehicle license plates
Vehicle license plates in the Philippines are issued and regulated by the Land Transportation Office, a government agency under the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC). Contents 1 Formats1.1 High-ranking government plates1.2 Regular government plates1.3 Diplo..
Philippine Veterans Bank
The Philippine Veterans Bank, also known by its acronym, PVB, is a medium-sized commercial bank in the Philippines. True to its name, its services largely cater to World War II war veterans and their families, who are the bank's shareholders, but also serves non-veterans as well. Contents 1&nbs..
Philippine writers
Philippine writers are writers who qualify to one or both of the following criteria: He/she hails from the Philippines. That is, he/she spent a significant part of his/her life in the Philippines.He/she writes any Philippine language The term Filipino writer is avoided as this may connote one who wr..
Philippi Stadium
The Philippi Stadium is located in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and is used for Soccer matches. ..
Philippolis
Philippolis is a small town in the Free State Province of South Africa. It was founded as a missionary outpost in 1823, making it the oldest settlement in the Free State. It was named after Dr. John Philip. Adam Kok II, a Griqua leader, settled here with his people in 1826 and was made the protector..
Philippopolis
The term Philippopolis can be used to refer to the following cities: Plovdiv, BulgariaShahba, Syria This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the..
Philippos Constantinos
Filippos Constantinos was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1973 (but misled popular belief has it as 1977). He was born to be an artist and he started performing from childhood. He followed his dream of becoming an actor when he joined a drama school in Athens. He was short listed for the audition for the..
Philippos Syrigos
Philippos Syrigos (b. ?) is a Greek investigative journalist and sports reporter who has investigated doping cases in Greece. He was attacked October 18 2004 in a hit-an-run attack in Athens but has recovered. Syrigos works for a Greek daily newspaper Eleftherotypia. During the last Olympics, he re..
Philippsburg
Philippsburg is a small city in Germany, in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg. Note the spelling: one L, two P's. Before 1632 it was known as "Udenheim". The city was a possession of the Bishop of Speyer from 1371–1718, one of whom was Philipp Christoph von Sötern (bishop from..
Philippson
Philippson ([fi:lipzon]) is a German Jewish family made distinguished by Ludwig Philippson, the founder of the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums*"; it traces its descent back to Jacob Joshua, author of "Pene Yehoshua'", 1754. Alfred Philippson:Emil M. Philippson / Emil Philippson:Franz M..
Philippsthal
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Philippsthal is a village located in the Northeast of Hesse in central Germany, close to the border to Thuringi..
Philipps University of Marburg
University of Marburg - Department of Social Sciences and University library The old university The University of Marburg, officially Philipps-Universität Marburg, was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse (usually called the Magnanimous) as the world's first and oldest Pro..
Philippus Brietius
Philippus Brietius (1601–1668) (in French, Philippe Briet) was a seventeenth-century Jesuit historian and cartographer. List of works Acute dicta omnium veterum Latinorum poetarum opus editum ad usum serenissimi Ducis Guisii . . . de omnibus iisdem poeticis syntagma. Paris, F. Muguet, 1664The..
Philipp Albert Stapfer
Philipp Albert Stapfer (Bern, September 23 1766 - Paris, March 27 1840) was a Swiss politician and philosopher. He was the plenipotentiary envoi of the Helvetic Republic to the French consulate in Paris from 1801 till 1803. ( Act of Mediation ) He married and settled in France, at a summerhouse i..
Philipp August Böckh
Philipp August Böckh (November 24, 1785 - August 3, 1867), was a German classical scholar and antiquarian. He was born in Karlsruhe, and educated at the gymnasium there, leaving for the University of Halle (1803), where he studied theology. F.A. Wolf was teaching there, and creating an enthusias..
Philipp Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler (born 11 September 1899 in Munich; died 19 May 1945 in Dachau (suicide)) was a Nazi German government official, head of the Führer's Chancellery and leader of the euthanasia programme, the so-called Aktion T4. Bouhler was born to a retired colonel and spent five years in the Royal ..
Philipp Christoph Zeller
Philipp Christoph Zeller. Philipp Christoph Zeller (April 8, 1808 - March 27, 1883) was a German entomologist. Zeller was born at Steinheim (Murr) Württemberg, two miles from Marbach, the birthplace of Schiller. The family moved to Frankfurt (Oder) where Philip went to the gymnasium where na..
Philipp Degen
--> Philipp Degen (born 15 February 1983) is a Swiss national curently playing football for the German Borussia Dortmund team. Contents 1 Personal life2 Club Career3 Prizes (FC Basel 1893)4 External links Personal life He was born in Basel, Switzerland, and has a twin brot..
Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg (27 June 1771 - 21 November 1844) was a Swiss educationist. He was born at Bern. His father was of patrician family, and a man of importance in his canton, and his mother was a granddaughter of the Dutch admiral Van Tromp. From his mother and from Pfeffel, the blind ..
Philipp Etter
Philipp Etter (December 21, 1891 - December 23, 1977) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on March 28, 1934 and handed over office on December 31, 1959. He was affiliated to the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. During his office time he ..
Philipp Foltz
Philipp Foltz (1805-77) was a German historical painter, born at Bingen. He was the pupil of his father, Ludwig Foltz, and studied at Munich under Cornelius, whom he assisted with the frescoes in the Glyptothek. Afterward he decorated the Schiller Salon in the new Royal palace. He became prof..
Philipp Frank
Philipp Frank was an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was born 20 March 1884 in Vienna, Austria, and died on 21 July 1966 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His books include: The Philosophy of ScienceEi..
Philipp Franz von Siebold
statue in Akashicho (near Tsukiji), chuo-ku,Tokyo Japan Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (February 17, 1796 in Würzburg - October 18, 1866 in Munich) was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan. He obtained significance for his study of Japa..
Philipp Furtwängler
Philipp Furtwängler (April 21, 1869, Elze, Germany – May 19, 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a German number theorist. He was the brother of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. He wrote an 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen on cubic forms (Zur Theorie der in Linearfaktoren ze..
Philipp Graf von Brunnow
Philipp Graf von Brunnow (1797-1875) was a Russian diplomatist. Brunnow represented Russia in several conferences, and was twice ambassador at the British Court of St. James. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ..
Philipp Hafner
Philipp Hafner (1731-64) was an Austrian farce writer, born in Vienna. His principal productions are the following: Der alte Odoardo und der lächerliche Hanswurst (1755); Die reisenden Komödianten (1774), a comedy full of wit and humor; Dramatische Unterhaltungen ůnter guten Freu..
Philipp Hainhofer
Philipp Hainhofer (21 July 1578–1647) was a merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector in Augsburg. He is remembered, among other things, for the curiosity cabinets (Kunstschränke) which he created with the assistance of a large number of Augsburg artisans. Hainhofer studied Law at the Uni..
Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg
Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg (1368 – 2 July 1429), was Count of Nassau in Weilburg in 1371-1429. He was a son of Count John I of Nassau-Weilburg and Johanna of Saarbrücken. Family and children He was married two times. Firstly, he married in 1385 with Anna von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (d..
Philipp Jaffé
Philipp Jaffé (February 17, 1819 – April 3, 1870) was a German historian and philologist. The Schwersenz (then Prussia) native, despite being discriminated for his Jewish religion, was one of the most important German medievists of the 19th century. After graduating from the gymnasium at Posen..
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
Philipp Jacob Cretzschmar. Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (June 11, 1786 - May 4, 1845) was a German physician. Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and zoology at the Senckenberg Medical Institute in Frankfurt. Cretzschmar was th..
Philipp Jakob Spener
Philipp Jakob Spener. Philipp Jakob Spener (January 13, 1635 - February 5, 1705), was a German Christian theologian known as the "Father of Pietism." He was born in Rappoltsweiler in Upper Alsace. After a brief time at the grammar school of Colmar, he went to Strasbourg in 1651, where he devo..
Philipp Jarnach
Philipp Jarnach (b. July 26, 1892, Noisy-le-Sec; d. December 17, 1982, Börnsen) was considered in the 1920s to be one of the most important composers of modern music. Jarnach was the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Until 1914 he lived in Paris, where he studied piano under Édouard..
Philipp Jeningen
Venerable Philipp Jenigen (Jan. 5, 1642 Feb. 8, 1704)was a German priest from Eichstätt, Bavaria, who served as a popular missionary at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg. Jeningen entered the Society of Jesus on January 19, 1663, and became a successful popular missionary. He served at the sh..
Philipp Karl Buttmann
Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764-1829), German philologist, was born at Frankfort-on-Main. He was educated in his native town and at the university of Göttingen. In 1789 he obtained an appointment in the library at Berlin, and for some years he edited Spener's Journal. In 1796 he became professor at th..
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Kohlschreiber (born October 16, 1983 in Augsburg) is a tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 2001. The righthander won one doubles title (2005, Ho Chi Minh City) so far. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 20, 2005, when he became the number 61 of the world. ..
Philipp Lahm
Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich. He played for Germany at Euro 2004 and is in their squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the opening goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of t..
Philipp Lenard
Philipp Lenard in 1905. Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, (Hungarian: Lénárd Fülöp) (June 7, 1862–May 20, 1947) was a physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. Contents 1 Biog..
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725 - 1776) was a German zoologist. Statius Müller was born in Esens and was Professor of Natural Science at Erlangen. Between 1773 and 1776 he published a German translation of Linnaeus's Natursystem. The supplement in 1776 contained the first scientific classifi..
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821–1896) was a German mathematician. In 1857, von Seidel decomposed the first order monochromatic aberrations into five constituent aberrations. They are now commonly referred to as the five Seidel Aberrations. There is a lunar crater named after him. External links..
Philipp Mainländer
Philipp Mainländer. Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 in Hessen - April 1, 1876, Offenbach) was the pseudonym of Philipp Batz, a German pessimist philosopher who believed that the beginning of time corresponded to the death of God and of spirituality. He endorsed virginity and suicide as ..
Philipp Melanchthon
Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Oil on panel. Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin Luther. Content..
Philipp Mißfelder
The title of this article contains the character ß. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Philipp Missfelder. Philipp Mißfelder (born August 25, 1979 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German politician. He is president of the Junge Union, the youth organization of the conserv..
Philipp Mohr
Philipp Mohr born (January 7, 1972) in Pforzheim, Germany. The architect and industrial designer lives in New York since 1995. He's the son of Herbert Mohr-Mayer and grand son of Victor Mayer. Mohr studied architecture at the Bauhaus, Columbia University and the Polytechnic University in Milan. In..
Philipp Nicolai
Philipp Nicolai was a German Lutheran pastor and poet (1566-1608), author of two famous hymns: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. These two chorales have inspired many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, whose cantata BWV 36 is based on Wie schön leucht..
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin (September 22, 1547 - November 29, 1590), German philologist and poet, was born at Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister. He was educated as a scholar of "Tübinger Stift" at the university of Tübingen, where in 1568 he was promoted to the chair..
Philipp Otto Runge
Self Portrait by Phillipp Otto Runge, at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg The Hunselbeck children, oil on canvas Morning(detail), oil on canvas Runge´s colour sphere Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [media] Phillip Otto Runge (1777-1810) was a Romantic German p..
Philipp Peter
Philipp Peter (born 6 April 1969 in Vienna) is a race car driver from Austria. In 2003 he won the 12 Hours of Sebring. External link http://www.phpeter.com/biography_e.shtml ..
Philipp Roth
Philipp Roth may refer to: Philipp Roth, 1779 - 1850, composerPhilipp Roth 1853 - 1898, German violoncellist; born at Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia ([link]) or Philip Roth, born 1933, American novelist. See also: Ross, Roth, Rot, Rother, Rothfels, Roth(en)stein.. etc ..
Philipp Roth (composer)
Philipp Roth (March 6 1779 - January 27 1850) was a composer. ..
Philipp Rupprecht
Phillip Rupprecht (4 September 1900 – 4 April 1975) was a cartoonist/caricaturist best known for his grotesque anti-Semitic caricatures in the Nazi publication Der Stürmer, under the pen-name Fips. Born in Nuremberg, Rupprecht emigrated to Argentina after World War One, working there as a cowboy..
Philipp Scharwenka
Philipp Scharwenka (February 2nd, 1847 - July 6th, 1917) was a Polish-German composer. His work includes a viola sonata (op. 106). ..
Philipp Scheidemann
redirect [[Template:Infobox President]]Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 1865 – 29 November 1939) was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Beginning his career as a journalist, Scheidemann..
Philipp Schoch
Philipp Schoch (born 10 October 1979) is a Swiss snowboarder. In Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Schoch won gold in Men's Parallel Giant Slalom. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, he faced his brother Simon Schoch in the Parallel Giant Slalom Final. Philipp raced away to an unassailable 0.88..
Philipp Uffenbach
Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636) was a German painter. Adam Elsheimer was apprenticed to him. External links [Art.com self-portrait][Artnet.com information] ..
Philipp van Limborch
Philipp van Limborch (June 19, 1633 - April 30, 1712), Dutch Remonstrant theologian, was born at Amsterdam, where his father was a lawyer. He received his education at Utrecht, at Leiden, in his native city, and finally at Utrecht University, which he entered in 1652. In 1657 he became a Remonstran..
Philipp Veit
Philipp Veit (1793—1877) was a German Romantic painter. He was the son of Simon Veit and his wife Dorothea, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, who subsequently left him to marry Friedrich Schlegel. Veit was born in Berlin. He received his first art education in Dresden and Vienna. He was strongly inf..
Philipp von Boeselager
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager (born 6 September 1917 at Burg Heimerzheim near Bonn) is one of the last surviving members of the July 20 Plot, a conspiracy among high-ranking Nazi officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. At the time Boeselager was a 25-year-old field lieutenant, and his role..
Philipp von Cobenzl
Philipp Graf von Cobenzl (May 28, 1741, Ljubljana - August 30, 1810, Vienna, Austria) was a statesman, foreign minister, and diplomat who served the Habsburg empire in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. He was Austrian foreign minister from 1792–1793. Notes Note regarding personal names: Graf i..
Philipp von Ferrary
Philipp la Renotière von Ferrary, Herzog von Gallièri in Genua, (January 11, 1850 - May 20, 1917) was a legendary stamp collector, owner of probably the most complete worldwide collection that ever existed, or is likely to exist. He was Duke of Gallièri in Genoa, but used the pseudonym "Ferrary"..
Philipp von Hutten
Philipp von Hutten. Portrait by an unknown artist (posthumously, c. 1600) Philipp von Hutten (* 1510; † 1546 in Tocuya, Venezuela), German knight, was a relative of Ulrich von Hutten and passed some of his early years at the court of the emperor Charles V. Later he joined the band of adven..
Philipp von Jolly
Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (* September 26 1809 in Mannheim, † December 24 1884 in Munich) was a German physicist and mathematician. Born in 1809 as the son of the merchant Louis Jolly and Marie Eleonore Jolly, he studied science in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. After his studies, he was a..
Philipp von Stosch
Baron Philipp von Stosch (22 March 1691 Küstrin, now Kostrzyn Poland – 7 November 1757 Florence) was a Prussian antiquarian who lived in Rome and Florence. in 1709, with the blessings of his father, a successful artist who became burgermaster of Küstrin, Philipp Stosch began a tour of Holla..
Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
Philipp Wilhelm of Neuburg, Elector Palatine (24 November 1615 – 2 September 1690), was Count Palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1690. Son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Pfalzgraf von Neuburg and Magdalene of Bavaria. In 1685, with the death of his Protestant cousin, the Elec..
Philipp zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld
Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg-Hertefeld (German: Philipp Fürst zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld) was born at Königsberg, Prussia in 1847. He became a close friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II prior to Wilhem’s accession to the imperial throne. Eulenburg entered the diplomatic corps in 1877, becoming Prussia's am..
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: [PHIA], NYSE: [PHG]) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2004, its sales were € 30.3 billion (US$38.7 billion) and it employed 159,709 people i..
Philipsburg
Philipsburg is the name of some places in the United States of America: Philipsburg, MontanaPhilipsburg, Pennsylvania (three places)*in Centre County*in Fayette County*in Washington County as well as on Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin), part of the Netherlands Antilles There ..
Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Philipsburg is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,056 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²), all land. Major roads through the area are US Route 322 and State Routes..
Philipsburg, Montana
Philipsburg is a town in Granite County, Montana, United States. The population was 914 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Granite County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Philipsburg is located at [46°19′59″N, 113°17′48″W] (46.333108, -113.296564)[..
Philipsburg, Netherlands Antilles
Philipsburg is the main town on the Dutch side of the Netherlands Antilles island of Sint Maarten. External links * Mapping from [Multimap] or [GlobalGuide]* Aerial image from [TerraServer]* Satellite image from [WikiMapia] or [Google Maps] ..
Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
There are three places named Philipsburg in the state of Pennsylvania: Philipsburg, Centre County, PennsylvaniaPhilipsburg, Fayette County, PennsylvaniaPhilipsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a..
Philipsburgh Building
The Philipsburgh Building, also known as Philipsburgh Hall, is an architectural landmark building of downtown Yonkers, New York. The grand, Beaux-Arts style structure was designed by G. Howard Chamberlain and built in 1904. For years, the enormous grand ballroom within, with its 30-foot (9.1 m) ce..
Philipsburg Manor
Philipsburg Manor is a historic house, water mill, and trading site located on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow, New York. It is now operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley; an admission fee is charged. The manor dates from 1693 when Frederick Philipse of Yonkers was granted a charter ..
Philipse Manor
The term "Philipse Manor" can be used in reference to several places in Westchester County, New York: Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, a building in Yonkers, New York, former residence of Frederick Philipse's descendants.Philipse Manor, a stop on the Hudson Line of the Metro-North Railroad...
Philipse Manor (Metro-North station)
The Philipse Manor Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Sleepy Hollow, New York via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. It is 26.5 miles (43 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately 57 minutes. {| c..
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is a historic house museum located in Yonkers, New York. It is Westchester County’s oldest standing building, and is currently owned and operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Contents 1 History2 ..
Philipstown, New York
The Town of Philipstown is a town located in the western part of Putnam County, New York, USA. The population was 9,422 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Communities and locations in Philipstown5 External links History The town was first..
Philips (disambiguation)
Philips can refer to: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics ltd.), usually known as Philips, is one of the largest consumer electronics producers in the world* Anton Philips, cofounder of the Royal Philips Electronics, brother of Gerard Philips.* Frits Philips, one of the ..
Philips 68070
The 68070 was a Philips-branded 68000-based Microcontroller with built in DMA controller, minimal MMU, i2c bus controller and other enhancements. It was used in the CD-i. Despite the name, this chip was not part of the Motorola 680x0 series - Motorola never produced a 68070. External links http://..
Philips Arena
The Philips Arena is an indoor arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Completed in 1999 at a cost of $213.5 million, it is home to the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL, the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and Arena Football League's Georgia Force. It is owned and operated by Atlanta Spirit, LLC, the group of investors ..
Philips Classics Records
Philips Classics Records was started in the eighties as the new classics record label for Philips Records. It was successful with artists like Andrea Bocelli and Andre Rieu. The label was merged by parent Universal Music into Decca Records. See also List of record labels ..
Philips Consumer Communications
Philips Consumer Communications, L.P. was a $2.5 billion joint venture of Lucent Technologies and Royal Philips Electronics formed on October 7, 1997. Philips owned 60% of the joint venture, with Lucent owning the other 40%. The company consisted of the communications equipment businesses of the co..
Philips Design
Philips Design is a global design agency of Dutch Philips Electronics . Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the agency also has offices in Paris, London, Vienna, Amersfoort, Seattle, Atlanta, Pune, Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Taipei. The agency offers a wide range of design services, rangin..
Philips Device Manager
The Philips Device Manager is a program which come with most Philips devices that can be pluged in to a computer. Known Problems Start-up problems Lock ups Not advised to be used with Philips sport MP3 Players ..
Philips Entertaible
Philips Entertaible is a new entertainment device revealed in the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that consists a digital board game using 30 inch LCD touch screen. External links [Press Release] ..
Philips GoGear
Philips GoGear is a series of small flash memory-based personal electronic devices from manufacturer Philips. The line includes digital cameras, mp3 players, and audio recorders. The GoGear line is named for the size of its products, all of which are quite tiny and, as a result, very portable. T..
Philips Head, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Philips Memorial Building
Philips Memorial Hall is not only the architectural gem of the West Chester University, but of West Chester Borough as well. The building, named after George M. Philips (principal from 1881-1920), was originally opened in 1927 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by ..
Philips P2000
The Philips P2000T home computer was Philips' first real entry in the home computer market, after the Philips Videopac G7000 game system (better known in the U.S. as the Magnavox Odyssey2) which they already sold to compete with the Atari 2600 and similar game systems. Basically the P2000T was a Z8..
Philips PM5544
The Philips PM5544 is a television pattern generator, most commonly used to provide a television station with a complex test card. It has been in use since the dawn of colour television, and is the most commonly used test card generator, with only the SMPTE bars and the BBC Test Card F coming c..
Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. It was started as Philips Phonografische Industries (PPI) in 1950. During much of the 1950s, it served to distribute recordings made by the US Columbia Records label in the United Kingdom. In 1962 Philips Records ..
Philips SAA 1099
The Philips SAA1099 sound generator was a 6-voice sound chip used by some 1980's devices, notably: The SAM Coupé British-made computerThe Creative Music System (C/MS) by Creative Labs, which was also marketed at RadioShack as the Game Blaster. They had 2 chips, for 12 voices.Their Sound Blaster 1...
Philips software centre
Philips Software Centre, Bangalore, India was established in August 1996 as a hundred percent subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., The Netherlands. The objective of starting such a software centre in India was to cost effectively develop high quality software for the Philips products. Globa..
Philips Stadion
Philips Stadion is the 36,500 seater stadium of the football club, PSV Eindhoven. It was first inaugurated on 31 August 1913. The area where the stadium is located is the Philipsdorp, where the Philips company is located. As late as 1933, its capacity was only 300, and remained that size until its e..
Philips van Almonde
Philips van Almonde (29 december 1646 in Briel –January 6, 1711) was a Dutch Lieutenant Admiral, who served in his nation’s maritime conflicts of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Philips was the son of Pieter Jansz van Almonde, a wealthy burgher. Almonde learned the maritime profession under ..
Philips van der Aa
Philips van der Aa (born in Mechelen, died after 1586), was a Dutch statesman during the Dutch struggle for independence, the Eighty Years' War. He had been mayor of the town of Mechelen in 1564, but was banished by the Duke of Alva. He returned on the side of William I, Prince of Orange (William t..
Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde
Portret by Jacques de Gheyn II Philips van Marnix, Lord of Sint-Aldegonde (1538 - December 15, 1598), was a Flemish, later Dutch, writer and statesman, and the probable author of the text of the Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus. He was born at Brussels, the son of Jacob van Marnix, baron o..
Philips Videopac + G7400
Philips Videopac G7400 console The Philips Videopac + G7400 was a video game console released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe; an American release as the Odyssey³ Command Center was planned but never occurred. The G7400 was the successor to the Philips Videopac G7000, the ..
Philip (general)
Philip (in Greek Φιλιππoς; lived 4th century BC) was son of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, and brother of Cassander, by whom he was sent in 313 BC, with an army to invade Aetolia. But on his arrival in Acarnania the news that Aeacides, king of Epirus, had recovered possession of his thro..
Philip (satrap)
Philip (in Greek Φιλιππoς; died 318 BC) was satrap of Sogdiana, to which government he was first appointed by Alexander the Great himself in 327 BC. He retained his post, as did most of the satraps of the more remote provinces, in the arrangements which followed the death of the king (323 BC)..
Philip (son of Antigonus)
Philip (in Greek Φιλιππoς; died 306 BC), son of Antigonus, king of Asia, was sent by his father in 310 BC, at the head of an army, to oppose the revolt of his general Phoenix, and to recover possession of the towns on the Hellespont held by the latter.1 He died in 306 BC, just as Antigonus wa..
Philip (son of Machatas)
Philip (in Greek Φιλιππoς; died 326 BC), son of Machatas, was an officer in the service of Alexander the Great, who was appointed by him in 327 BC satrap of India, including the provinces westward of the Hydaspes.1 After the conquest of the Malli and Oxydracae, these tribes also were added to..
Philip A. Burrows
Philip A. Burrows (born 1956) is a Bahamian theatre and cinema director. ..
Philip A. Vernon
Philip Anthony Vernon is a psychology professor and psychometrician. Vernon currently sits on the editorial board of IntelligenceIntelligence publisher's page.[link] and the board of directors for the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). He has taught at..
Philip Aaberg
Philip Aaberg (born 1953) is a Montana-born pianist. He has balanced classical, blues and rock interests since earning a degree at Harvard. He has performed with notable acts such as Peter Gabriel, John Hiatt, Elvin Bishop, The Doobie Brothers, among many others. In 1985, Aaberg embarked on a reco..
Philip Abbott
Philip Abbott was an American character actor, born March 21, 1923 in Lincoln, Nebraska and died February 23, 1998 from cancer. Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s. He made more than 100 guest appearances on various TV shows from 1952-1995. He is probably best rememb..
Philip Abelson
Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, editor of scientific literature, and science writer. Philip Abelson Philip Abelson was born in 1913 in Tacoma, Washington. As a young physicist, he collaborated with Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez in early nu..
Philip Absolon
The Cornfield by Philip Absolon Philip Absolon (born November 24, 1960) is an English artist and a member of the Stuckists. He was born in Erith, Kent, and is the great-great-grandson of the Victorian watercolourist John Absolon (1815-1895). He is dyslexic. He attended Medway College of Art..
Philip Achille
Philip Achille, Brittish harmonica player. Recent achievements: National Harmonica League Player of the Year 2005World Youth Solo Chromatic Harmonica Champion 2005Tabor Foundation Award winner 2006 External links [BBC news article of Philip winning Tabor Foundation Award] ..
Philip Affleck
Philip Affleck (1726—1799) was a British admiral—a younger brother of Sir Edmund Affleck. Although not equally fortunate in having had opportunities afforded to him to win for himself a degree of distinction similar to that which had been acquired by the commodore; still Philip, when ser..
Philip Agee
--> Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935 in Tacoma Park, Florida) is a former CIA employee and author who published a controversial book, [[Inside the Company: CIA Diary]], detailing his experiences in, and the operation of, the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957 and worked as a case of..
Philip Ahn
Philip Ahn (March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean-American actor. Ahn was born Pil Lip Ahn in Highland Park, California, believed to be the first American citizen of Korean parents born in the United States. His mother, Helen Lee, was only the second Korean woman admitted into the ..
Philip Akin
--> Section>sections].Please format the article according to the guidelines laid out at[Manual of Style]. Philip Akin is a Canadian actor who has been active for almost thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum ..
Philip Alexius de Laszlo
Philip Alexius de Laszlo (László Fülöp in Hungarian; 1869-1937), was a portrait painter. He was born in Budapest on June 1, 1869, the son of an unsuccessful tradesman, and later became a British citizen. Although his parents opposed his desire to paint, de Laszlo attended the Industrial Art Sch..
Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale
Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, GCB (born 8 July 1912) was a British civil servant. He was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Queens' College, Cambridge. Allen joined the Home Office in 1934. He served in the Offices of the War Cabinet 1943-44, then returned as Deputy Secre..
Philip Allen (U.S. Senator)
Philip Allen was a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1853 to 1859. He was a Democrat. ..
Philip Amelio
Philip John Amelio II (November 3, 1977 – April 1, 2005) was an American actor and teacher. At age nine, he played Lucille Ball's grandson on the Life With Lucy series. Amelio died from an infection on April 1, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. Philip was born in Sharon, CT and grew up in Pine P..
Philip Andersen
Philip Andersen is a Danish race car driver born the 15 november 1980 who competed in Danish Touring Cars from 2003 until 2004. For the two years before that he drove in Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup.This year (2006) is driving in Le Mans Series Championship in LMP1 for the team Zytek, he's the drive..
Philip Andrewes
Philip W. Andrewes (September 6, 1941—) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Andrewes was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Andre..
Philip Anglim
[[Image:Bariel Antos.jpg|thumb|Philip Anglim as Bareil Antos on [[Star Trek:Deep Space Nine]].]] Philip Charles Anglim (born February 11, 1953) is an American actor best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of The Elephant Man, a role for which he received..
Philip Anschutz
Philip Anschutz Philip F. Anschutz (born 1939, also known as Philip F. Anschütz) is an American billionaire who lives in Denver, Colorado. He was born in Great Bend, Kansas to Fred "Fritz" and Marian Pfister Anschutz. Contents 1 Life2 Land ownership3 Rail and petroleum busi..
Philip Antony Corri
Philip Antony Corri (also Arthur Clifton) (1784 - 1832) was a composer, born in Edinburgh and later working in London and Baltimore, Maryland. He began composing in 1802. He helped to found the London Philharmonic Society and the Royal Academy of Music. By the 1820s, however, Corri had adopted th..
Philip Appleman
Philip D. Appleman (born 1926) is an American poet. He is the distinguished Professor Emeritus of Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington. Philip Appleman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has published seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is New and S..
Philip Ardagh
Contents 1 Introduction2 Early years3 Sell! Sell!4 Eddie Dickens5 Movie6 Funny Peculiar7 Personally speaking8 Books9 FICTION10 NON-FICTION11 Awards12 External links Introduction Philip Ardagh is the best-selling British children’s ..
Philip Argall
Philip Argall (born 27 February 1855 at Adelaide, South Australia, died 3 April 1912 at Adelaide, South Australia) was a cricket Test match umpire. He umpired 7 Test matches between Australia and England. His first match, at Adelaide on 17 January to 23 January 1902 was a close affair, eventuall..
Philip Arnold
Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who was the brains behind a legendary 1872 scam to fool people into investing in western diamond mining operations. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars. Arnold was a poorly ..
Philip Astley
Philip Astley (January 8, 1742–January 27, 1814) is regarded as the "father of modern circus." He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in England and his father was a cabinetmaker. At the age of nine, he apprenticed to work with his father, but Astley's dream was to work with horses, so he joine..
Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar
Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar, was probably born at his ancestral seat of Millwich in Staffordshire, England. In 1751, he succeeded his distant cousin James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar, as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland. He died unmarried just four years later, in 175..
Philip Augar
Philip Augar is the author of The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of London's Investment Banks (Penguin, 2000) and The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game (Penguin, 2005). Augar was an equities broker in the city of London for twenty years from t..
Philip Augustus Barnard
Philip August Barnard (1840 - 1884) was a British painter, born in London. Barnard produced miniatures and portraits in oils, and his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy for almost forty-five years. He was married to fellow painter Hebe Saunders, who also exhibited works under her married name. ..
Philip Augustus Marquam
Philip A. Marquam (1823 - 1912) was a lawyer, judge, Oregon state legislator, and real estate developer. Marquam was born in Maryland, and went to law school in Bloomington, IN. He went to California as a "49er" during the gold rush of 1849, and was elected judge in Yolo County. He moved to Portlan..
Philip Avery
Philip Avery is a BBC Weather forecaster, appearing regularly on BBC News 24, Radio 4, BBC World and BBC One. He often appears on the BBC Six O'Clock News. ..
Philip Aziz
Philip J. Aziz (b. April 15, 1923) is an internationally acclaimed Canadian master artist (painter, sculptor and designer of buildings, jewelled metal works, chapels, alter pieces, chalices and crosses) who has been featured in the world's and Canada's book of Who's Who. Aziz is of Lebanese, Greek O..
Philip B. Heymann
Philip B. Heymann is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School. He has been known as an active critic of the George W. Bush administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program. ..
Philip B. Perlman
Philip B. Perlman (1890-1960) was a Baltimore native, the son of Benjamin and Rose Nathan Perlman. Graduating from City College in 1908, Perlman worked as a reporter for the Baltimore American while studyi