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Philippine-American War: a war between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902; the insurrection may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. The Treaty ... [2 Related Articles]
Philippines: island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of some 7,100 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast ... [48 Related Articles]
Philippines, Congress of the: (from the article "Philippines") ...a new constitution similar to the 1935 document was drafted and was ratified in a popular referendum held in February 1987. Its key provision was a return to a bicameral ...
Philippines, flag of the: national flag consisting of horizontal stripes of blue and red with a white hoist triangle incorporating a golden sun and three stars. The flag's width-to-length ratio is generally 1 to ...
Philippines, history of: (from the article "Philippines") The Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia that was subjected to Western colonization before it had the opportunity to develop either a centralized government ruling over a large ...
Philippoteaux, Paul: (from the article "panorama") ...a widespread, popular form of entertainment. Among the important works of this period was Henri Philippoteaux's "Siege of Paris," depicting an event in the Franco-Prussian War. His son Paul painted ...
Philippsburg: (from the article "Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre de") ...forces of the Netherlands, England, the Holy Roman Empire, and their lesser allies, Vauban was promoted to lieutenant general; and in October, under the command of the dauphin Louis, he ...
Philippus, Lucius Marcus: (from the article "ancient Rome") ...new blood, to its leading position in the process of government. But Drusus failed. Some members of each class affected were more conscious of the loss than of the gain; ...
Philips Electronics NV: major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment. [1 Related Articles]
Philips, Frits: Dutch industrialist (b. April 16, 1905, Eindhoven, Neth.-d. Dec. 5, 2005, Eindhoven), during a 48-year career (1930-77) with Philips Electronics, oversaw its expansion from a family-run manufacturer into a vast ...
Philips, Obbe: (from the article "Menno Simons") ...("Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm"). Late in 1536 or early in 1537, he received believer's baptism, was called to leadership by the peaceful Anabaptist group founded in 1534 by Obbe ...
Philips, Peter: English composer of madrigals, motets, and keyboard music of considerable reputation in his lifetime.
Philipsdam: (from the article "Eastern Schelde") ...mouth of the channel is a storm surge barrier that has transformed the channel into a tidal saltwater area. Secondary dams include the Oesterdam in the eastern part of the ...
Philipse, Frederick: (from the article "Yonkers") ...or "gentleman" (whence, phonetically, Yonkers)-was given a land grant in 1646 and established the patroonship (estate) of Colendonck in 1652. The lands were then bought by Frederick Philipse who built ...
Philipsz, Susan: (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...very broadly in the work of Pawel Althamer, who cut a path nearly 1 km (0.6 mi) long through meadows and fields on the outskirts of the town; another "sculpture" ...
Philistine: one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC, about the time of the arrival of the Israelites. According ... [15 Related Articles]
Philistine: (from the article "Europe, history of") ...The barrier was far more insurmountable than mere ignorance or illiteracy, and it was cutting off not just the populace but also-to use Arnold's terms-the barbarian upper class and the ...
Philistus: Greek historian of Sicily during the reigns of the tyrants Dionysius I and Dionysius II. [1 Related Articles]
Philitas of Cos: Greek poet and grammarian, regarded as the founder of the Hellenistic school of poetry, which flourished in Alexandria after about 323 BC. He is reputed to have been the tutor ...
Phillip Island: island astride the entrance to Western Port (bay) on the south coast of Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne. About 14 miles (23 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) at ... [1 Related Articles]
Phillip, Andrew: American basketball player (b. March 7, 1922, Granite City, Ill.-d. April 29, 2001, Rancho Mirage, Calif.), was an All-American basketball player at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the ...
Phillip, Arthur: British admiral whose convict settlement established at Sydney in 1788 was the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent. [4 Related Articles]
Phillips Academy: private, coeducational college-preparatory school (grades 9-12) in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. Features of its 500-acre (200-hectare) campus include a bird sanctuary, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Robert S. ... [2 Related Articles]
Phillips Collection: museum containing an outstanding small collection of late 19th- and 20th-century American and European painting and sculpture that was founded in 1918 by Duncan Phillips. It is housed in Phillips' ...
Phillips curve: representation of the economic relationship between the rate of unemployment (or the rate of change of unemployment) and the rate of change of money wages. Named for economist A. William ... [4 Related Articles]
Phillips Exeter Academy: private, coeducational, college-preparatory school (grades 9-12) in Exeter, N.H., U.S. It was founded as a boys' school in 1781 by John Phillips, a local merchant and uncle of Samuel Phillips, ... [1 Related Articles]
Phillips Petroleum Company: former U.S. petroleum company that merged with Conoco in August 2002 to form ConocoPhillips. [1 Related Articles]
Phillips, David Graham: (from the article "muckraker") ...Adams' Great American Fraud (1906), combined with the work of Harvey W. Wiley and Senator Albert J. Beveridge, brought about passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food ...
Phillips, Dewey: (from the article "Dewey Phillips") Broadcasting on WHBQ in Memphis six nights a week from 9:00 PM until midnight, Dewey Phillips was tremendously popular with both black and white listeners in the 1950s. An excitable, ...
Phillips, James Frederick: American environmentalist (b. Nov. 20, 1930, Aurora, Ill.-d. Oct. 3, 2001, Aurora), employed a number of creative means of demonstrating his displeasure with pollution, especially that caused by corporations, and ...
Phillips, John: (from the article "Celtic literature") ...slow progress on the island is reflected in the comparatively late appearance of a Manx translation of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. The latter was completed about ...
Phillips, John: (from the article "geochronology") ...In 1838 Sedgwick proposed that all pre-Old Red Sandstone sediments be included in the rock succession designated the Paleozoic Series (or Era) that contained generally primitive fossil fauna. John Phillips, ...
Phillips, John Edmund Andrew: American singer and songwriter (b. Aug. 30, 1935, Parris Island, S.C.-d. March 18, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), was the guiding force behind the Mamas and the Papas, the folk-pop-rock group ... [1 Related Articles]
Phillips, Julia: American film producer and writer who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best picture, for The Sting (1973). [2 Related Articles]
Phillips, Lena Madesin: American lawyer and clubwoman, a moving force in establishing national and international organizations to address the interests and concerns of business and professional women.
Phillips, Michael: (from the article "1973: Best Picture") Other Nominees
Phillips, Michelle: (from the article "Mamas and the Papas, the") ...Island, South Carolina, U.S.-d. March 18, 2001Los Angeles, California), Michelle Phillips (original name Holly Michelle Gilliam; b. April 6, 1944Long Beach, California, U.S.),...
Phillips, Moses Dresser: (from the article "Atlantic Monthly, The") ...monthly journal of literature and opinion, published in Boston. One of the oldest and most respected of American reviews, The Atlantic Monthly was founded in 1857 by ...
Phillips, Robert A.: (from the article "cholera") The next round of major advances in cholera treatment did not occur until 1958, when Robert A. Phillips, a U.S. Navy physician, identified a solution that proved to be even ...
Phillips, Samuel Cornelius: American record producer (b. Jan. 5, 1923, Florence, Ala.-d. July 30, 2003, Memphis, Tenn.), recorded early works by blues greats Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland in his ... [3 Related Articles]
Phillips, Sir Richard: (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...French writer Pons-Augustin Alletz's Petite Encyclopedie (1766), to C.T. Watkins's Portable Cyclopaedia (1817). The last was issued by a remarkable publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, who realized the great demand for ...
Phillips, Stephen: English actor and poet who was briefly successful as a playwright.
Phillips, Tom: (from the article "Rove, Karl") ...state's highest office since Reconstruction (1865-77). Rove formed his own consulting business in 1981, with a list of clients that included Phil Gramm, elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984, ...
Phillips, W. T.: (from the article "Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God") black Pentecostal church founded in 1919 as the Ethiopian Overcoming Holy Church of God by Bishop W.T. Phillips in Mobile, Ala. The name was changed in 1927. The founder left ...
Phillips, Wendell: abolitionist crusader whose oratorical eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
Phillips, William: American editor (b. Nov. 14, 1907, New York, N.Y.-d. Sept. 13, 2002, New York City), was the cofounder of Partisan Review, an influential magazine of politics, literature, and culture. He ...
Phillips, William: (from the article "geochronology") ...Although the name did not remain in common usage for long, the Terrain Bituminifere found analogous application in the work of two English geologists, William D. Conybeare and William Phillips, ...
Phillips, William D.: American physicist whose experiments using laser light to cool and trap atoms earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. He shared the award with Steven Chu and Claude ... [2 Related Articles]
Phillips-head screwdriver: (from the article "screwdriver") ...and in a variety of sizes are used. Special screws with cross-shaped slots in their heads require a special screwdriver with a blade tip that fits the slots. The most ...
Phillipsia: genus of trilobites (an extinct group of aquatic arthropods) uncommonly found as fossils in Carboniferous and Permian rocks (359,000,000 to 251,000,000 years old) in Europe, North America, and the Far ...
phillipsite: hydrated calcium, sodium, and potassium aluminosilicate mineral in the zeolite family [(K,Na,Ca)_1-2(Si,Al)₈O₁₆·6H₂O]. It typically is found as brittle white crystals filling cavities and fissures in basalt and in phonolite lava, ... [1 Related Articles]
Phillpotts, Eden: British novelist, poet, and dramatist especially noted for novels evoking their Devon setting in a manner reminiscent of the style of Thomas Hardy.
Phillpotts, Henry: Church of England bishop of Exeter (from 1830), who represented the conservative High Church wing of the Oxford Movement and emphasized liturgical forms of worship, episcopal government, monastic life, and ...
Phillyrea decora: (from the article "mock privet") ...Phillyrea in the olive family, Oleaceae. The four species of mock privet, native to the Mediterranean area, sometimes are grown as ornamentals for their handsome, glossy, evergreen leaves. P. decora ...
Philo Judaeus: Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide the clearest view of this development of Judaism in the Diaspora. As the first to attempt to ... [18 Related Articles]
Philo of Byblos: (from the article "Sanchuniathon") ancient Phoenician writer. All information about him is derived from the works of Philo of Byblos (flourished AD 100). Excavations at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in Syria in 1929 revealed ...
Philo of Larissa: (from the article "Platonism") ...by Carneades (214/213-129/128 BC). Though he wrote nothing, he was regarded as the founder of the New Academy. A return to dogmatic and positive philosophical teaching was effected by Philo ...
Philo of Megara: (from the article "logic, history of") ...followers of Euclid (or Euclides) of Megara (c. 430-c. 360 BC), a pupil of Socrates. In logic the most important Megarians were Diodorus Cronus (4th century BC) and his pupil ...
Philocalian Calendar: (from the article "church year") ...day, with his birth following nine months later at the winter solstice, December 25. The oldest extant notice of a feast of Christ's Nativity occurs in a Roman almanac (the ...
Philochorus: (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...(not merely to reinterpret) the facts about it. These men, who are known as Atthidographers, were not simply antiquarians escaping from the monarchic present. On the contrary, the greatest of ...
Philocrates, Peace of: (from the article "ancient Greek civilization") ...and Sparta. The Phocian commander Phalaecus, however, unexpectedly declined to allow the Athenians and Spartans to occupy Thermopylae, and Athens was forced to make peace. This was the notorious Peace ...
Philoctetes: Greek legendary hero who played a decisive part in the final stages of the Trojan War. [1 Related Articles]
Philodemus: Greek poet and Epicurean philosopher who did much to spread Epicureanism to Rome. [1 Related Articles]
Philodendron: approximately 350 species of stout-stemmed, climbing herbs of tropical America, which begin life as vines and then transform into epiphytes (plants that live upon other plants). [1 Related Articles]
Philodendron pertusum: (from the article "houseplant") ...are the philodendrons. These are handsome tropical American plants, generally climbers, with attractive leathery leaves, heart-shaped, and often cut into lobes. Monstera deliciosa, or Philodendron pertusum, the Swiss cheese plant, ...
Philokalia: (Greek: "Love of the Good, the Beautiful"), prose anthology of Greek Christian monastic texts that was part of a movement for spiritual renewal in Eastern monasticism and Orthodox devotional life ... [5 Related Articles]
Philolaus: philosopher of the Pythagorean school, named after the Greek thinker Pythagoras (fl. c. 530 BC). [2 Related Articles]
philological criticism: (from the article "biblical literature") Philological criticism consists mainly in the study of the biblical languages in their widest scope, so that the vocabulary, grammar, and style of the biblical writings can be understood as ...
Philological Society: (from the article "dictionary") Scholars more and more felt the need for a full historical dictionary that would display the English language in accordance with the most rigorous scientific principles of lexicography. The Philological ...
philology: a term now rarely used but once applied to the study of language and literature. Nowadays a distinction is usually made between literary and linguistic scholarship, and the term philology, ... [9 Related Articles]
Philombe, Rene: African novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. The Cameroon Tribune called him "one of the most influential personalities in the new wave of creative writing in Cameroon."
Philomela: (from the article "Tereus") in Greek legend, king of Thrace, or of Phocis, who married Procne, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens. Later Tereus seduced his wife's sister Philomela, pretending that Procne was dead. ...
Philomycidae: (from the article "gastropod") ...group possessing marginal teeth of radula with squarish basal plates and 1 to several cusps; small litter or tree snails mainly in Southern Hemisphere (Endodontidae); slugs (Arionidae and Philomycidae) in ...
Philopoemen: general of the Achaean League notable for his restoration of Achaean military efficiency. [1 Related Articles]
Philoponus, John: Greek Christian philosopher, theologian, and literary scholar whose writings expressed an independent Christian synthesis of classical Hellenistic thought, which in translation contributed to Syriac and Arabic cultures and to medieval ... [3 Related Articles]
philosophe: any of the literary men, scientists, and thinkers of 18th-century France who were united, in spite of divergent personal views, in their conviction of the supremacy and efficacy of human ... [16 Related Articles]
philosopher's stone: (from the article "alchemy") ...It was also sometimes called "the powder" (xerion), which was to pass through Arabic into Latin as elixir and finally (signifying its inorganic nature) as the "philosopher's stone," "a stone ...
philosopher-king: (from the article "Islam") ...Starting with the view that religion is analogous or similar to philosophy, al-Farabi argued that the idea of the true prophet-lawgiver ought to be the same as that of the ...
philosophical anthropology: discipline within philosophy that seeks to unify the several empirical investigations of human nature in an effort to understand individuals as both creatures of their environment and creators of their ... [2 Related Articles]
philosophical radical: adherent of the utilitarian political philosophy that stemmed from the 18th- and 19th-century English jurist Jeremy Bentham and culminated in the doctrine of the 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill. ... [1 Related Articles]
philosophical realism: (from the article "education") As a young man of 18, Herbart had studied at the University of Jena under the idealist philosopher Fichte. It was a long while before he broke from the spell ...
philosophy: (from the article "philosophy") (from Greek, by way of Latin, philosophia, "love of wisdom") the critical examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs and an analysis of the basic concepts employed ...
philosophy, Western: history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present. [5 Related Articles]
Philostorgius: Byzantine historian, partisan of Arianism, a Christian heresy asserting the inferiority of Christ to God the Father. His church history, preserved in part, was the most extensive collection of Arian ...
Philostratus the Lemnian: ancient Greek writer, son-in-law of Flavius Philostratus. He was the author of a letter to Aspasius of Ravenna and of the first series of the Imagines in two books, discussing, ... [1 Related Articles]
Philostratus the Younger: (from the article "Philostratus the Lemnian") Philostratus the Younger, grandson of Philostratus the Lemnian, wrote a second, shorter series of Imagines in the 3rd century AD.
Philostratus, Flavius: Greek writer of Roman imperial times who studied at Athens and some time after AD 202 entered the circle of the philosophical Syrian empress of Rome, Julia Domna. On her ... [1 Related Articles]
Philotas: (from the article "Alexander the Great") ...of the Arians (modern Herat). At Phrada in Drangiana (either near modern Nad-e 'Ali in Seistan or farther north at Farah), he at last took steps to destroy Parmenio and ...
Philoteria: (from the article "Beth Yerah") ...BC) and was also populated from the Hellenistic to the Arab periods (c. 2nd century BC to 12th century AD). Archaeological findings suggest that it may be the location of ...
Philotheus: (from the article "Russian literature") ...imperii ("translation of empire"), which constructed genealogies and described the transmission of imperial and ecclesiastical regalia to Russia. Particularly important is the monk Philotheus' (Filofei's) epistle to Vasily III (written ...
Philotheus Kokkinos: theologian, monk, and patriarch of Constantinople, a leader of the Byzantine monastic and religious revival in the 14th century. His numerous theological, liturgical, and canonical works received wide circulation not ...
Philoxenian Bible: (from the article "Philoxenus Of Mabbug") ...subject in Christ, the Logos, and followed the theology of Cyril of Alexandria (c. 375-444). He also contributed significantly to the Syriac literary heritage, particularly with the Philoxenian New Testament ...
Philoxenus Of Mabbug: Syriac Akhsenaya Syrian bishop, theologian, and classical author. He was a leader of the Jacobite Monophysite church, a heterodox group that taught the existence of a single subject in Christ, ... [3 Related Articles]
Philydraceae: (from the article "Commelinales") ...and organization. The seeds possess starchy endosperm. Many members of Commelinales are rooted or free-floating aquatics that occur in marshy habitats, especially members of Pontederiaceae and Philydraceae.
Phimeanakas: (from the article "Angkor") In the later history of the city, the central temples were completely architectural creations (i.e., pyramid temples), such as the Phimeanakas of Suryavarman I (reigned c. 1000-50); the Baphuon of ...
phimosis: (from the article "reproductive system disease") The only anomaly of the foreskin is congenital phimosis, characterized by a contracture of the foreskin, or prepuce, which prevents its retraction over the glans (the conical structure that forms ...
Phineas the Priest: (from the article "Hebrew literature") ...of new words. Such poems, presupposing a highly educated audience, abound in recondite allusions and contain exhaustive lists of rites and laws. It is known that the most outstanding poets-Phineas ...
Phinehas: (from the article "biblical literature") Chapter 25 (combining JE and P strands) provides a lurid interlude in which the Israelites go whoring after Moabite women and offer sacrifices and worship to their god, Baal of ...
Phineus: (from the article "Argonaut") ...by the king Amycus, who forced all passing travelers to box with him in the hope of killing them. Polydeuces accepted the challenge and slew him. At the entrance to ...
Phintella vittata: (from the article "jumping spider") Males and females of the species Phintella vittata are able to detect ultraviolet light from the so-called UVB band (315-280 nm) and have specialized surfaces on their ...
Phipps, Ogden: American racehorse owner and breeder (b. Nov. 26, 1908, New York, N.Y.-d. April 22, 2002, West Palm Beach, Fla.), was one of the dominant figures in Thoroughbred horse racing in ...