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Phoenix Jones
Phoenix Jones is the costumed crime-fighting persona of Benjamin Fodor, a Seattle MMA fighter who led the Rain City Superhero Movement from 2010, was arrested for pepper spray assault in 2011 and drug dealing in 2020, and inspired the podcast The Superhero Complex.
Phoenix Lights
Phoenix Lights: mass UFO sighting over Arizona on March 13, 1997, in two events, an early V-shaped light formation and a ~10 p.m. row of flares near Gila Bend; seen by up to 10% of Arizonans, partly explained as military flares and A-10s.
Phoenix Linea
Phoenix Linea is a 1,621-km-long linea, an elongate tectonic marking, on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at latitude 16.6, named for Europa's mythological brother, approved 1985.
Phoenix Marie
Phoenix Marie (born 1981) is an American adult film performer active since 2006-2007, a Brazzers contract star with AVN, XRCO, and Urban X hall of fame inductions, known for over 1,500 scenes and her 2024 lawsuit against Aylo.
Phoenix Mercury
Phoenix Mercury: WNBA franchise founded 1997 in Phoenix, one of the original eight, playing at Footprint Center under Mat Ishbia. Three-time champions (2007, 2009, 2014) led by Diana Taurasi; lost the 2025 Finals to Las Vegas.
Phoenix metropolitan area
The Phoenix metropolitan area (Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ MSA) covers Maricopa and Pinal counties in the Sonoran Desert, holds about 68% of Arizona's population, exceeded 5 million residents, and is among the fastest-growing U.S. metros.
Phoenix Nights
Phoenix Nights, also known as Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, is a British sitcom set in a Bolton working men's club, broadcast on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2002.
Phoenix Open
The Phoenix Open (WM Phoenix Open) is a PGA Tour event dating to 1932, played at TPC Scottsdale since 1987; best-attended Tour stop, famous for the rowdy 20,000-seat par-3 16th hole, zero-waste certification, and 2024 crowd-control crisis.
Phoenix Park
Phoenix Park (Páirc an Fhionnuisce), also called Phoenix Park, Dublin, is a 707-hectare walled public park west of central Dublin, established in 1662 as a royal deer park.
Phoenix Pharma
Phoenix Pharma (ФЬОНИКС Фарма ЕООД) is a Bulgarian pharmaceutical wholesaler headquartered in Sofia, serving over 3,000 pharmacies and 250 hospitals as part of the German PHOENIX group.
Phoenix Program
Phoenix Program (Phung Hoang), a CIA-backed 1967–1975 South Vietnamese counterinsurgency operation targeting the Viet Cong Infrastructure through neutralization, intelligence lists, interrogation, and Provincial Reconnaissance Units.
Phoenix Raceway
Phoenix Raceway, known as Phoenix International Raceway until 2018, is a one-mile doglegged oval in Avondale, Arizona, opened in 1964 and home of NASCAR Championship Weekend.
Phoenix Raei
Phoenix Raei (Nima Raei), born 1990 in Shiraz, Iran, is an Iranian-born Australian actor, writer, and director known for Clickbait, The Night Agent, Tehran, Apple Cider Vinegar, and the AACTA-nominated lead in The Rooster.
Phoenix Rising FC
Phoenix Rising FC, formerly Arizona United Soccer Club until 2016, is a professional soccer club in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the second-tier USL Championship, which it won in 2023.
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the primary commercial airport of Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1928 and serving over 51 million passengers in 2025 as America's Friendliest Airport.
Phoenix Suns
Phoenix Suns, NBA Western Conference (Pacific) team founded 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona; three NBA Finals appearances (1976, 1993, 2021) without a title; owned by Mat Ishbia, play at Mortgage Matchup Center.
Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters
Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters (Phoenix Fuel Masters), PBA professional basketball team owned by Phoenix Petroleum Philippines; debuted 2016 Commissioner's Cup after buying the Barako Bull franchise; semifinal runs in 2020 and 2024.
Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is a Massachusetts company, founded by MIT alumni in 2019, that refines rare earth metals from mine tailings and recycled magnets into finished metals and alloys.
Phoenix Technologies
Phoenix Technologies is an American firmware company founded in 1979, best known for PhoenixBIOS, the first legally licensable IBM PC compatible BIOS, which made the 1980s clone industry possible.
Phoenix Television (凤凰卫视)
Phoenix Television (凤凰卫视, 鳳凰衛視), founded 31 March 1996 in Hong Kong by Liu Changle, is a Chinese-language satellite broadcaster with six Mandarin and Cantonese channels, over 500 million viewers, and state-owned Bauhinia Culture as its largest shareholder since 2021.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (逆転裁判)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (逆転裁判, Gyakuten Saiban) is Capcom's 2001 Game Boy Advance courtroom visual novel by Shu Takumi, localized on DS in 2005; defense attorney Phoenix Wright exposes witness contradictions using evidence.
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona: capital of Arizona and fifth-largest US city, 1,665,481 residents (2025 est.), 516.70 square miles in the Salt River Valley. Founded 1868, incorporated 1881; water from Salt/Verde Rivers (60%) and Colorado River (40%).
Phogat sisters
Phogat sisters: Indian women wrestlers from Balali, Haryana, trained by father Mahavir Singh Phogat; Geeta, Babita, Vinesh, Ritu, Sangita, Priyanka; subjects of the film Dangal.
Phoinikon (Egypt)
Phoinikon (Φοινικών), also Phenice or Laqeita, was a Roman praesidium in Egypt's Wadi Hammamat at the Koptos–Myos Hormos/Berenike route fork, built under Vespasian (76–79 CE) and garrisoned into late antiquity.
Pholcidae
Pholcidae, cellar spiders or daddy long-legs spiders, is a mainly tropical family of web-weaving spiders with five to seven subfamilies, early Mesozoic origins about 207 Ma, and the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of any major spider family.
Pholcodine
Pholcodine, an opioid cough suppressant used since the 1950s for dry cough, was withdrawn from the EU, UK, Australia, and Malaysia in 2022–2023 after the ALPHO study linked it to anaphylaxis risk during anaesthesia.
Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides, the daddy long-legs spider or longbodied cellar spider (Aranea phalangoides), a Pholcidae spider of Western Asian origin, introduced worldwide, living indoors in irregular webs, eating other spiders, and harmless to humans.
Pholiota
Pholiota (Fr.) P. Kumm., 1871, a genus of about 150-160 wood-rotting Strophariaceae mushrooms with scaly or slimy yellow-brown caps and brown spores; includes edible P. nameko and P. adiposa.
Phoma
Phoma is a genus of fungi in the family Didymellaceae, order Pleosporales, found in soil and on plants; its taxonomy was long confused, and Phoma macrostoma is used as a bioherbicide.
Phomoidride biosynthesis cluster protein B
Phomoidride biosynthesis cluster protein B (phiB, B8MKY9.1) is a putative hypothetical protein in the phomoidride BGC (MIBiG BGC0001913) of fungal sp. ATCC 74256, a PEBP-like homologue with no assigned function.