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Philadelphia Union
Philadelphia Union, MLS soccer club in Chester, Pennsylvania (Subaru Park), founded 2010; Supporters' Shield winners 2020 and 2025, first MLS Cup finalist berth 2022, lost to LAFC on penalties.
Philadelphia Water Works
The Philadelphia Water Works is the municipal water supply system Philadelphia began operating in 1801, one of the first city-owned systems in the United States.
Philadelphia WNBA team
Philadelphia WNBA team: an expansion franchise awarded June 30, 2025 as the WNBA's 18th team, owned by Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment with a Comcast stake, playing in South Philadelphia from the 2030 season.
Philadelphia's Been Good to Me
Philadelphia's Been Good to Me (also styled Philadelphia's been good to me) is Kurt Vile's tenth studio album, released May 29, 2026 on Verve Forecast; a Philadelphia tribute largely recorded at his OKV Central home studio, Metascore 81.
Philadelphus
Philadelphus, commonly called mock orange, is a genus of about 44 species of deciduous flowering shrubs in the family Hydrangeaceae, named by Linnaeus in 1753.
Philae
Philae (Egyptian Pilak) is a Nile island near Aswan, Egypt, and its temple complex dedicated to Isis, begun ca. 280 BCE under Ptolemy II. It was relocated stone by stone to Agilkia Island during the UNESCO Nubia Campaign and is part of the 1979 Nubian Monuments World Heritage site.
Philae (spacecraft)
Philae was a comet lander carried by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, and in 2014 it became the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus.
Philae obelisk
The Philae obelisk is a Ptolemaic granite obelisk from Philae, Egypt, brought to England by William John Bankes and erected at Kingston Lacy in Dorset in 1829.
Philae Sulcus
Philae Sulcus is a grooved-terrain band on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, bordering Galileo Regio at about 63°N, 168°W, imaged by Galileo on September 6, 1996; distinct from Nippur/Philus Sulci.
Philae temple complex
The Philae temple complex, also known as the Temple of Isis at Philae, is an Egyptian temple complex near Aswan, rebuilt on Agilkia island in 1980.
Philammon
Philammon is a Greek personal name attested in ancient Egypt, borne by 161 known individuals, and also the name of a legendary musician said to be a son of Apollo.
Philander
Philander Brisson, 1762, the four-eyed opossums (gray and black four-eyed opossums), a Neotropical didelphid marsupial genus from Mexico to northern Argentina; scansorial predators, revised into several species by Voss, Díaz-Nieto, and Jansa (2018–2020).
Philanthotoxin
Philanthotoxin (PhTX) is a polyamine neurotoxin from the venom of the beewolf wasp Philanthus triangulum, which paralyzes honeybee prey and blocks glutamate and acetylcholine receptors.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy (Greek philos + anthropos, love of humankind) is voluntary giving for public purposes, distinct from charity and taxation; spans ancient gift traditions, Carnegie-era foundations, and modern nonprofit, foundation, and donor-advised fund giving.
Philanthropy and advocacy of Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton's philanthropy, run through The Dollywood Foundation (1988), includes the Imagination Library book-gifting program (1995), the My People Fund wildfire relief, Vanderbilt COVID-19 vaccine research funding, and scholarships.
Philanthus gibbosus
Philanthus gibbosus, the beewolf, a North American solitary crabronid digger wasp (Fabricius, 1775) that nests in sandy soil, provisions brood cells with paralyzed halictid bees, embalms prey with postpharyngeal gland hydrocarbons, and hosts Streptomyces symbionts.
Philately
Philately: the collection and study of postage stamps, covers, revenue stamps, and postal history. Born after Rowland Hill's 1840 stamp; organized societies since 1886; long-run returns between bonds and equities.
Philautus
Philautus (Gistel, 1848) is a genus of 48 Oriental shrub frogs in Rhacophoridae, now mainly Sunda Shelf and Philippine; its former Indian and Sri Lankan members were split into Pseudophilautus and Raorchestes.
Philco
Philco, an American electronics company founded in 1906 as the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, led US radio manufacturing in the 1930s before Ford bought it in 1961.
Philco TRANSAC S-2000
The Philco TRANSAC S-2000 is an all-transistor mainframe computer introduced by the Philco Corporation of Philadelphia in 1957, generally regarded as the first transistorized scientific computer sold by a manufacturer.
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg is the hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours), a wealthy, punctual London gentleman of the Reform Club who bets £20,000 he can circle the globe in eighty days and wins by seconds after a date-line oversight.
Phileas of Thmuis
Phileas of Thmuis was the first known bishop of Thmuis in Egypt's Nile Delta, a wealthy former official martyred around 305 whose prison letter Eusebius preserved.
Philemon
Philemon (friarbirds, leatherheads) is a genus of about 15 large honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) of Australia, New Guinea, and Wallacea, with bare grey heads, some with a bill casque, feeding on nectar, fruit, and insects.
Philensis decrees
The Philensis decrees, also called the Decrees of Philae, are two priestly decrees of Ptolemy V Epiphanes inscribed side by side on the temple wall at Philae in 186 and 185 BC.
Philhellenism
Philhellenism (Greek: Φιλελληνισμός) is the 19th-century movement of sympathy and support for the Greeks that peaked during the Greek War of Independence, drawing about 1,200 European volunteers.
Philia (φιλία)
Philia (φιλία) is the ancient Greek term for friendship love, one of four classical loves with eros, storge, agape; Aristotle analyzed it in the Nicomachean Ethics as utility, pleasure, or virtue-based friendship.
Philibert Tsiranana
Philibert Tsiranana was a Malagasy teacher and politician who served as the first president of Madagascar from 1960 to 1972, leading it to independence from France.
Philidor Defence
Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6), ECO C41, a solid but passive chess opening for Black named after François-André Danican Philidor; main lines are the Exchange, Nimzowitsch, and Hanham variations after 3.d4.
Philine Huizing
Philine Huizing is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, where she has worked since 2016 investing in infrastructure software, cybersecurity, and DevOps, with board roles at Cynomi, Delinea, Kaseya, and Knak.
Philinna papyrus
The Philinna papyrus is a Greek papyrus from Egypt, dated to the 1st century BC, preserving three magical healing spells in hexameter verse, including spells against burns and headache.