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Phallales

Phallales is an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes whose best-known members are the stinkhorns, foul-smelling fungi that rely on insects rather than wind to disperse their spores.

Phallic graffiti

Phallic graffiti: drawings or carvings of penises on walls and objects, from Paleolithic decorated batons and apotropaic Pompeii inscriptions to modern latrinalia and Brussels street art.

Phallic stage (phallische Phase): Freud's third psychosexual stage, ages 3-6, genital libido, Oedipus and castration complexes; basis of phallic monism, Horney's critique, and Lacan's phallus as signifier.

Oct 15, 2026

Phalloidin

Phalloidin is a bicyclic heptapeptide toxin from the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides that stabilizes actin filaments, and its fluorescent forms are the gold standard probe for staining fixed cells.

Phallophobia

Phallophobia (ithyphallophobia, Medorthophobia) is the colloquial fear of the penis, especially erect; not a DSM-5/ICD-11 diagnosis, framed clinically as sexual aversion or sexual phobia, with conditioning, disgust, and religious-environment mechanisms and exposure-based treatment.

Phalloplasty

Phalloplasty: surgical construction of a phallus, first done by Bogoraz in 1936 and for a trans man by Gillies on Michael Dillon; radial forearm free flap is the standard technique.

Phallus

Phallus: the erect penis as cultural symbol, distinct from the anatomical penis. Sacred imagery attested some 30,000 years back; Greek fertility deities, Roman apotropaic amulets, the Vindolanda wooden phallus, and psychoanalytic theory.

Phallus impudicus

Phallus impudicus, the common stinkhorn, is a basidiomycete fungus (Phallales, Phallaceae) described by Linnaeus in 1753, whose fetid gleba attracts spore-dispersing flies; egg stage considered edible.

Phallus indusiatus

Phallus indusiatus, the bridal veil stinkhorn or veiled lady (synonym Dictyophora indusiata), is a tropical Phallaceae fungus with a lacy white indusium, insect-dispersed spores, edible and used in Chinese medicine since 618 AD; a species complex once thought circum-tropical.

Oct 21, 2026

Phalombe District

Phalombe District is a district of Malawi in the Southern Region, east of Blantyre and bordering Mozambique, created in June 1998 from Mulanje District and among Malawi's most flood-prone areas.

Phạm Đình Hổ

Phạm Đình Hổ (范廷琥, 1768–1839) was a Vietnamese scholar and poet known for the Chinese-language essay collection Vũ trung tùy bút, written during the late Lê and early Nguyễn periods.

Phạm Duy Tốn

Phạm Duy Tốn (1883–1924) was a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and translator who pioneered the modern short story; his Sống chết mặc bay (1918) is treated as the first of its kind.

Sep 27, 2026

Pham Gia Tuc

Pham Gia Tuc, born in 1965, is a Vietnamese Communist Party politician and Politburo member who became Standing Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam in 2026.

Phạm Ngọc Thạch

Phạm Ngọc Thạch (1909–1968) was a Vietnamese physician, tuberculosis specialist, and diplomat who served twice as Minister of Health of North Vietnam and developed a tuberculosis vaccine in 1950.

Pham Ngu Lao

Pham Ngu Lao (Phạm Ngũ Lão, 1255–1320) was a Tran dynasty general of peasant origin who fought the Mongol invasions and led campaigns against Ai Lao and Champa.

Sep 19, 2026

Pham Nhat Vuong

Pham Nhat Vuong is a Vietnamese business magnate who founded Vingroup, Vietnam's largest private conglomerate, and its electric-vehicle maker VinFast, after building his first fortune selling instant noodles in Ukraine.

Phạm Quỳnh

Phạm Quỳnh, who wrote as Thượng Chi, was a Vietnamese scholar and journalist who edited Nam Phong tạp chí from 1917 and served as a minister at the Huế court.

Sep 27, 2026

Pham Thi Thanh Tra

Pham Thi Thanh Tra (born 1964) is a Vietnamese politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam since October 2025, after serving as Minister of Home Affairs.

Sep 19, 2026

Pham Thu Huong

Pham Thu Huong is a Vietnamese businesswoman, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup and wife of its founder Pham Nhat Vuong, who became Vietnam's richest woman in 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Pham Thuy Hang

Pham Thuy Hang (Phạm Thúy Hằng) is a Vietnamese businesswoman, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup since 2010, who joined the Forbes billionaires list in 2026 with $3 billion.

Phạm Tiến Duật

Phạm Tiến Duật (1941–2007) was a Vietnamese poet known for his verse about the Trường Sơn road, later called the Ho Chi Minh Trail, winning the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2012.

Phạm Tuân

Phạm Tuân is a Vietnamese pilot and cosmonaut who became the first Vietnamese and first Asian in space, flying to Salyut 6 aboard Soyuz 37 in July 1980.

Phạm Văn Đồng

Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese communist leader who served as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1955 to 1987, the longest tenure in modern Vietnamese history.

Phan Bá Vành rebellion

The Phan Bá Vành rebellion (Cuộc nổi dậy Phan Bá Vành) was a peasant uprising against the Nguyễn dynasty in northern Vietnam, from about 1821 to 1827.

Phan Boi Chau

Phan Boi Chau (Phan Bội Châu) was a Vietnamese nationalist revolutionary and writer who led the early anti-French independence movement from exile in Japan and China.

Phan Chau Trinh

Phan Chau Trinh (Phan Châu Trinh, 1872–1926) was a Vietnamese nationalist reformer and Nguyen court mandarin who led the peaceful Duy Tan modernization movement of 1906–1908 and spent fourteen years in France campaigning for colonial reform.

Phan Dinh Phung

Phan Dinh Phung (Phan Đình Phùng, 1847–1895) was a Vietnamese mandarin of the Nguyen dynasty who led the Huong Khe uprising, a major anti-French rising in central Vietnam.

Phan Huy Chu

Phan Huy Chu (Phan Huy Chú, 1782–1840) was a Vietnamese scholar-official and poet who served Emperor Minh Mang and compiled the work regarded as Vietnam's first encyclopedia.