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Phoui Sananikone

Phoui Sananikone (1903-1983) was a Lao politician and nationalist who twice served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos, in 1950-1951 and 1958-1959, and led the Lao delegation to the 1954 Geneva Conference.

Phoumi Nosavan

Phoumi Nosavan (ພູມີ ໂນສະຫວັນ, 1920–1985) was a right-wing Lao general and politician who dominated Laotian politics from 1960 to 1962 as Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense.

Phourni

Phourni (Φουρνί) is a Minoan cemetery at Archanes, Crete, used from about 2400 to 1200 BCE. Excavated from 1964 by the Sakellarakises, it has tholos and house tombs, ossuaries, and royal Mycenaean-era burials.

Phoxim

Phoxim (CAS 14816-18-3), also sold as Baythion or Volaton, is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting insecticide and acaricide used against ectoparasites in pigs, sheep, and laying hens; not EU-approved as a pesticide, with JECFA ADI 0-4 µg/kg bw.

Sep 17, 2026

PHP

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source scripting language suited for web development, created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 and used by most websites with a known server-side language.

Sep 17, 2026

PhpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a free, open-source web application written in PHP for administering MySQL and MariaDB servers from a browser, first released by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998.

Sep 29, 2026

PHQ-9

The PHQ-9, or Patient Health Questionnaire-9, is a public-domain nine-item questionnaire introduced in 1999 that screens for and grades depression severity, with scores of 10 or higher suggesting major depression.

Phra Achana

Phra Achana (พระอจนะ), meaning "one who is not frightened," is a colossal seated Buddha at Wat Si Chum in Sukhothai, Thailand, about 15 meters tall.

Phra Aphai Mani

Phra Aphai Mani (พระอภัยมณี) is a Thai epic verse tale by Sunthorn Phu, begun around 1821, telling of a prince and his wars with Lanka.

Phra Bang

The Phra Bang (ພະບາງ) is a standing Buddha image of gold, silver, and bronze that serves as the sacred palladium of Laos from the fourteenth century onward.

Phra Horathibodi

Phra Horathibodi (พระโหราธิบดี) was the title of the chief royal astrologer of seventeenth-century Ayutthaya, who served King Narai and wrote the Chindamani, the earliest manual of Thai language and prosody.

Phra Lak Phra Lam

Phra Lak Phra Lam (ພຣະລັກ ພຣະລາມ) is the Lao version of the Ramayana, named after the brothers Phra Lam and Phra Lak and treated in Laos as a jataka, a past life of the Buddha.

Phra Lo

Phra Lo (พระลอ) is the hero of Lilit Phra Lo, a Thai narrative poem regarded as a masterpiece of tragic romance and one of Thai literature's five great works.

Phra Maha Ratchakhru

Phra Maha Ratchakhru (พระมหาราชครู, also rendered Maharajaguru) was a major poet at King Narai's Ayutthaya court, remembered for the chan poem Samutthakot Kham Chan, commissioned for court performance.

Phra Maha Upali

Phra Maha Upali (พระมหาอุปาลี) was a Siamese elder monk who led King Borommakot's 1753 mission to Kandy, reestablishing Buddhist higher ordination in Sri Lanka and founding the Siam Nikaya.

Phra Malai

Phra Malai (พระมาลัย) is a legendary Buddhist monk of Sri Lanka whose journey to hell and heaven is among the most popular stories in Thai culture.

Phra Naret Corona

Phra Naret Corona is a 150-km-diameter corona on Venus at 66.60° S, 209.60° E, named for a Thai fertility goddess (IAU, 1994) and the type locality for arcuate ridge and groove material in USGS mapping.

Phra Phonnarat

Phra Phonnarat (สมเด็จพระรัตน) was a Thai male author and chronicler of the Ayutthaya period, born 1734–1813. He is remembered for providing a principal recension of the Ayutthaya royal chronicle.

Phra Phuttha Chinnarat

Phra Buddha Chinnarat (พระพุทธชินราช) is a 3.75-meter bronze Buddha image in Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Phitsanulok, Thailand, created in the reign of King Lithai of Sukhothai.

Phra Phuttha Sihing

Phra Phuttha Sihing is one of Thailand's most revered Buddha images, a name held by gilded bronze images enshrined in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Phra Pradaeng

Phra Pradaeng (พระประแดง) is a district of Samut Prakan province, Thailand, south of Bangkok on the Chao Phraya. Known for Mon heritage, Pak Lat Songkran festival, Nakhon Khuean Khan history, and the Bang Kachao green lung.

Phra Ruang

Phra Ruang (พระร่วง) is a name in Thai tradition used both for the kings of the Sukhothai region and for a legendary folk hero endowed with magical speech.

Phra Ruang dynasty

The Phra Ruang dynasty (ราชวงศ์พระร่วง) was the royal line that ruled the Sukhothai kingdom in Thailand from 1238, founded by Sri Indraditya after a revolt against the Khmer.

Phra Singh Buddha

The Phra Singh Buddha (Phra Phuttha Sihing) is a gilded bronze Buddha image in Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai, venerated as the principal sacred image of the Lan Na region.

Phra Sirimangala

Phra Sirimangala (พระสิริมังคลาจารย์) was a Buddhist monk and Pali scholar active in Chiang Mai in the early 16th century who wrote four works, including the influential Mangalatthadipani.

Phra Suthon Manora

Phra Suthon Manora, also called the Sudhana-Manohara tale, is a popular Thai literary tale of the love between Prince Suthon and Manora, a mythical half-woman half-bird kinnari.

Phra Tabong Province

Phra Tabong Province was a Thai province corresponding to Battambang in Cambodia, held by Siam from 1795 to 1907 and again from 1941 to 1946.

Phra That Phanom

Phra That Phanom (พระธาตุพนม) is a venerated Buddhist reliquary stupa in That Phanom district, northeastern Thailand, near the Mekong River, dating to about the 7th–8th century.