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Phurba
The phurba (Tibetan: ཕུར་པ, also phurpa or phurbu; Sanskrit: kila) is a three-sided ritual dagger used in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and Bön to exorcise obstructions and consecrate sacred space.
Phusro
Phusro (फुसरो) is a coal-town Nagar Parishad in Bermo block, Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, at the center of the Bermo-Phusro coalfield; 89,178 residents in 2011, 185,555 in its urban agglomeration.
Phuture
Phuture is an American house-music group formed in Chicago in 1985 by DJ Pierre, Spanky, and Herb J, whose 1987 single "Acid Tracks" gave acid house its name.
Phuzekhemisi
Phuzekhemisi, born Zibokwakhe Johnstone Mnyandu in 1963, is a South African maskandi singer and guitarist from KwaZulu-Natal, acclaimed as the King of maskandi, whose 1992 album Imbizo sold over 100,000 copies.
PHXLIGHTS (festival)
PHXLIGHTS, also known as Phoenix Lights, is a spring electronic dance music festival in the Phoenix, Arizona, area, founded by Relentless Beats in 2015 and named for the 1997 Phoenix Lights UFO encounter.
Phycobilisome linker protein
Phycobilisome linker proteins are nonchromophoric, basic, hydrophobic polypeptides (L_R, L_RC, ApcC/L_C, L_CM/ApcE) that assemble phycobiliproteins into cyanobacterial and red algal phycobilisomes, anchor them to thylakoid membranes, and tune energy transfer to photosystems.
Phycobilisome, alpha/beta subunit
Phycobilisome alpha/beta subunits: the homologous seven-helix polypeptide pairs forming phycobiliprotein heterodimers in cyanobacteria and red algae, carrying 1–3 phycobilin chromophores each and coevolving from a common ancestor.
Phycocyanin
Phycocyanin is a blue pigment-protein from cyanobacteria such as Spirulina and red algae, harvesting light for photosynthesis and used as a natural blue food colorant.
Phycodnaviridae
Phycodnaviridae (algal giant viruses) is an ICTV family of large icosahedral dsDNA viruses, genomes 100–560 kb, infecting freshwater and marine algae; type species PBCV-1, six genera, part of Nucleocytoviricota.
Phycology
Phycology (algology) is the study of algae, from Greek phykos, seaweed. It covers algal taxonomy, cryptic species, 14 phyla and 63 classes, harmful bloom monitoring, and omics-based ecology.
Phycomyces
Phycomyces is a genus of filamentous zygomycete fungi in the order Mucorales, saprophytes of humid environments worldwide, best known for the laboratory species Phycomyces blakesleeanus and its sensitive responses to light, gravity, and nearby objects.
Phyla
Phyla (frog fruit, matchweed) is a small genus of creeping Verbenaceae herbs in tribe Lantaneae, unique for malpighiaceous hairs; revisions reduced it from five species to two, P. betulifolia and the widespread P. nodiflora.
Phyla-Vell
Phyla-Vell, Marvel Comics Eternal/Kree hybrid cloned daughter of Mar-Vell and Elysius, created by Peter David and Paul Azaceta (Captain Marvel #16, 2004); held the Captain Marvel, Quasar, and Martyr mantles, joined the Guardians of the Galaxy, and debuted in the MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Phylake
Phylake (Φυλακή), ancient city in Achaea Phthiotis, Thessaly; Homeric home of Protesilaus (Iliad 2.695), later a village of Phthiotic Thebes with a temple of Protesilaus; distinct from Phylakopi on Melos.
Phylakitai
The phylakitai (Greek φυλακῖται, singular phylakites) were the police and guard force of Ptolemaic Egypt, attested by documentary papyri and ostraca from the 3rd to the 1st century BC.
Phylakopi
Phylakopi (Φυλακωπή), Bronze Age settlement on Melos in the Cyclades, occupied Phylakopi I–IV from the 3rd millennium BC; known for obsidian trade, a unique megaron, the sanctuary with the Lady of Phylakopi, and British School at Athens excavations.
Phyle
Phyle (Φυλή), Attic deme and mountain fortress on Mt. Parnes guarding the Athens–Thebes road; seized by Thrasybulus with 70 exiles in 404 BC, base for overthrowing the Thirty Tyrants; standing 4th-century BC pentagonal fort with five towers.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad (Phylicia Ayers-Allen), born 1948, American actress and director; Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, 2004 Tony winner for A Raisin in the Sun, former dean of Howard University's fine arts college.
Phylion Battery (星恒电源)
Phylion Battery (星恒电源) is a Chinese lithium battery manufacturer founded in December 2003 in Suzhou, known for manganese-based batteries for electric two-wheelers with over 33 million packs sold.
Phyllanthaceae
Phyllanthaceae Martinov, the leaf-flower family, is a pantropical family of about 60 genera and 2,000 species in Malpighiales, segregated from Euphorbiaceae sensu lato since APG II (2003), with two ovules per locule, no latex, and Phyllanthus as its largest genus.
Phyllanthus
Phyllanthus (leafflower), a large pantropical genus of Phyllanthaceae established by Linnaeus in 1753, with 700 to 1270 species depending on circumscription; paraphyletic with Breynia, Glochidion, Synostemon nested; many species used medicinally.
Phyllanthus amarus
Phyllanthus amarus (Bhumyamalaki, stone breaker) is a pantropical annual herb, native to the Americas, used in Ayurveda for liver disorders; marker lignans phyllanthin and hypophyllanthin; often confused with P. niruri; Cochrane finds no convincing HBV benefit.
Phyllanthus emblica
Phyllanthus emblica (syn. Emblica officinalis), Indian gooseberry or amla, an Asian Phyllanthaceae tree whose vitamin C-rich fruit is used in Ayurveda and shows lipid-lowering effects in randomized trials.
Phyllida Law
Phyllida Law, Phyllida Ann Law, Scottish stage, film and television character actress (1932-2026), mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson, known for Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Emma and The Winter Guest, OBE 2014.
Phyllis A. Dennery
Phyllis A. Dennery is an American physician-scientist in neonatology and lung biology who chairs pediatrics at Brown University and has studied bronchopulmonary dysplasia for over 35 years.
Phyllis Boyens
Phyllis Boyens (Phyllis Workman Boyens Liptak, 1947-2009), Appalachian singer-songwriter and actress from Lobata, West Virginia; daughter of Nimrod Workman; recorded Passing Thru the Garden and I Really Care; played Loretta Lynn's mother in Coal Miner's Daughter.
Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell, 1927–2023), American actress, first TV Lois Lane in Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and season one of Adventures of Superman; replaced by Noel Neill.
Phyllis Davis
Phyllis Davis (Phyllis Elizabeth Davis, 1940–2013), American actress, Beatrice Travis on Vega$ (1978–1981) opposite Robert Urich; also Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Sweet Sugar, Knight Rider pilot, Magnum P.I. Died of cancer in Henderson, Nevada.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller (Phyllis Ada Driver, 1917–2012), American stand-up comedian widely considered the first woman solo stand-up comic; creator of the Fang persona, Bob Hope collaborator, and concert pianist as Dame Illya Pillya.
Phyllis Dillon
Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004) was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer known as the "Queen of Rocksteady", celebrated for "Don't Stay Away", "Perfidia", and "One Life To Live, One Love To Give".