All articles starting with P
28,818 articles
Philippines women's national football team
Philippines women's national football team, the Filipinas, the PFF-governed women's side. First Philippine team of either gender at a World Cup (2023), beat New Zealand 1-0, and qualified again for 2027.
Philippines women's national volleyball team
Alas Pilipinas, the Philippines women's national volleyball team, won silver at the 2025 AVC Women's Nations Cup, its best AVC finish in 64 years, coached since 2026 by Taka Minowa.
Philippines–United States relations
Philippines–United States relations: bilateral ties spanning U.S. colonial rule (1898–1946), the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty, the 2014 EDCA expanded in 2023, South China Sea cooperation, and trade under the 1989 TIFA.
Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant
The Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant (Kernkraftwerk Philippsburg) was a two-unit nuclear plant on the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; its reactors ran from 1979 and 1984 until 2011 and 2019.
Philippus Baldaeus
Philippus Baldaeus, also known as Philips Baelde, was a Dutch clergyman who served the VOC in Ceylon from 1655 and in 1672 published a detailed account of Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
Philips
Philips, also known as Koninklijke Philips N.V., is a Dutch health-technology company headquartered in Amsterdam. Founded in 1891 as an Eindhoven lamp factory, it now focuses on medical imaging, monitoring, and personal health.
Philips Hue
Philips Hue is a smart lighting system of networked LED bulbs launched by Philips in 2012 and now produced by Signify, controlled via app, voice, or a hub.
Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium
Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Dutch for Philips Physics Laboratory), known as NatLab, was Philips's central physics research laboratory in Eindhoven, founded in 1914 under Gilles Holst and later renamed Philips Research.
Philips Respironics
Philips Respironics is a Pennsylvania-based medical device company making CPAP, BiPAP, and ventilator devices, founded in 1976 and acquired by Philips in 2008; it recalled 15 million devices in 2021 over degrading foam.
Philips Sonicare
Philips Sonicare is a line of sonic electric toothbrushes made by Royal Philips, first introduced in 1992 and acquired by Philips in 2000 for EUR 291 million.
Philips VCR format
Philips VCR (Video Cassette Recording) was a home videocassette system introduced by Philips in 1972, generally regarded as the first commercially successful, predating Betamax and VHS.
Philips Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Haarlem, active from 1639 to 1668 and best known for small paintings of horses in battle scenes.
Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
Philipsburg is the capital of Dutch Sint Maarten, a four-street town on a sandbar between Great Bay and the Great Salt Pond, named after John Philips, living on cruise tourism and duty-free Front Street shopping.
Philipsdam
The Philipsdam is a 7-kilometer dam in the Netherlands, part of the Delta Works flood-defense system, built between 1976 and 1987 to separate the freshwater Volkerak-Zoommeer from the saltwater Oosterschelde.
Philistia (Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ)
Philistia (Greek Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ), the Iron Age southern coastal plain of Canaan, home of the Philistine Pentapolis cities Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, defined by Aegean-derived material culture and later Assyrian-era olive oil and wine economies.
Philistine bichrome ware
Philistine bichrome ware, also called Philistine 2, is red-and-black painted Iron Age I pottery of Philistia, dated about 1150–1000 BC and a key marker of early Philistine settlement.
Philistine language
The Philistine language is the poorly attested language of the Philistines of Iron Age Philistia, known from about 40 inscriptions, of which only the Ekron dedication is a complete text.
Philistine settlement
The Philistine settlement was the establishment of Philistine communities in southern Canaan around 1175 BCE, founding the pentapolis of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.
Philistines (פלשתים)
Philistines (פלשתים, Pelishtim), Iron Age people of the Peleset/Sea Peoples who settled five city-states (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, Gaza) in southern coastal Canaan after Ramesses III's era, with Aegean-style material culture, biblical conflicts with Israel, and exile to Babylon around 600 BC.
Philistinism
Philistinism is a derogatory term for indifference to art, literature, and intellectual life. It arose from 17th-century Jena town-and-gown slang, was popularized by Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), and was later theorized by Adorno, Beech and Roberts, and Nabokov.
Philitas of Cos
Philitas of Cos (Philetas, c. 340 – c. 285 BC) was a Greek poet and scholar who tutored the future Ptolemy II and wrote the glossary Ataktoi glossai.
Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus (born 1962, Newport, Isle of Wight), also Porky the Poet, English comedian, poet, broadcaster and actor; Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain 1996, BBC 6 Music breakfast host, musicals including Hairspray.
Phill Lewis
Phill Lewis (Phillip David Lewis, born 1968, Uganda) is an American actor and TV director, best known as Mr. Moseby on Disney Channel's Suite Life series and later a prolific sitcom director.
Phillauri (film)
Phillauri is a 2017 Hindi romantic comedy-fantasy film directed by Anshai Lal, starring Anushka Sharma as a tree spirit whose unfinished romance in 1919 Punjab is revisited when a young man marries a tree.
Philleo Nash
Philleo Nash (1909-1987), American anthropologist and Wisconsin Democratic politician, Truman minority-affairs adviser and Lieutenant Governor, was U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1961-1966, shifting federal policy from termination toward reservation development before his forced 1966 resignation.
Philles Records
Philles Records: American indie label founded 1961 by Phil Spector and Lester Sill, home of the Wall of Sound, the Crystals and the Ronettes; 18 Top 40 hits, 12 albums, closed 1967, catalog now with Sony Legacy.
Phillie Phanatic
Phillie Phanatic, official mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies MLB team since April 25, 1978; green flightless bird designed by Bonnie Erickson and Wayde Harrison (Miss Piggy creators); center of a copyright lawsuit and 2020 redesign.
Phillip A. Low
Phillip A. Low is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic known for inventing the QSART test and co-authoring the diagnostic criteria for multiple system atrophy.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist at MIT who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering split genes.
Phillip Adams (American football)
Phillip Matthew Adams (1988-2021), NFL cornerback drafted 224th overall by the 49ers in 2010 who played for six teams through 2015; killed six people in Rock Hill, SC in 2021 and was found to have stage 2 CTE.