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Philip the Arabian (Roman emperor)
Roman emperor from 244 to 249....
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Philip the Bastard (fictional character)
...influence him, each bringing irresolvable and individual problems into dramatic focus. Chief among these characters are John’s domineering mother, Queen Eleanor (formerly Eleanor of Aquitaine), and Philip the Bastard, who supports the king and yet mocks all political and moral pretensions....
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Philip the Bold (duke of Burgundy)
duke of Burgundy (1363–1404) and the youngest son of the French king John II the Good. One of the most powerful men of his day in France, he was for a time regent for his nephew Charles VI; and when Charles went insane, he became virtual ruler of France....
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Philip the Bold (king of France)
king of France (1270–85), in whose reign the power of the monarchy was enlarged and the royal domain extended, though his foreign policy and military ventures were largely unsuccessful....
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Philip the Deacon (Christian saint)
in the early Christian church, one of the seven deacons appointed to tend the Christians of Jerusalem, thereby enabling the Apostles to freely conduct their missions. His energetic preaching, however, earned him the title of Philip the Evangelist and led him to minister successfully in Samaria, in Palestine, where he converted, among others, the famous magician Simon Magus (Acts...
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Philip the Evangelist, Saint (Christian saint)
in the early Christian church, one of the seven deacons appointed to tend the Christians of Jerusalem, thereby enabling the Apostles to freely conduct their missions. His energetic preaching, however, earned him the title of Philip the Evangelist and led him to minister successfully in Samaria, in Palestine, where he converted, among others, the famous magician Simon Magus (Acts...
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Philip the Fair (king of France)
king of France from 1285 to 1314 (and of Navarre, as Philip I, from 1284 to 1305, ruling jointly with his wife, Joan I of Navarre). His long struggle with the Roman papacy ended with the transfer of the Curia to Avignon, Fr. (beginning the so-called Babylonian Captivity, 1309–78). He also secured French royal power by wars on barons and neighbours and by restriction of fe...
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Philip the Good (duke of Burgundy)
the most important of the Valois dukes of Burgundy (reigned 1419–67) and the true founder of the Burgundian state that rivaled France in the 15th century....
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Philip the Handsome (king of Castile)
king of Castile for less than a month before his death and the founder of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain....
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Philip the Magnanimous (landgrave of Hesse)
landgrave (Landgraf) of Hesse (1509–67), one of the great figures of German Protestantism, who championed the independence of German princes against the Holy Roman emperor Charles V....
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Philip the Tall (king of France)
king of France (from 1316) and king of Navarre (as Philip II, from 1314), who largely succeeded in restoring the royal power to what it had been under his father, Philip IV....
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Philip V (king of Spain)
king of Spain from 1700 (except for a brief period from January to August 1724) and founder of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. During his reign Spain regained much of its former influence in international affairs....
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Philip V (king of France)
king of France (from 1316) and king of Navarre (as Philip II, from 1314), who largely succeeded in restoring the royal power to what it had been under his father, Philip IV....
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Philip V (king of Macedonia)
king of Macedonia from 221 to 179, whose attempt to extend Macedonian influence throughout Greece resulted in his defeat by Rome. His career is significant mainly as an episode in Rome’s expansion. The son of Demetrius II and his wife Phthia (Chryseis), the young prince was adopted, after his father’s death in 229, by his half-cousin Antigonus Doson, who took the t...
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Philip VI (king of France)
first French king of the Valois dynasty. Reigning at the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), he had no means of imposing on his country the measures necessary for the maintenance of his monarchical power, though he continued t...
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Philip William (prince of Orange)
...between Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, “advocate” of Holland (the legal and executive secretary of the provincial States), and Maurice of Nassau, William I’s second son (the first, Philip William, became prince of Orange and remained loyal to Spain), who was named stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland and became the commander of the republic’s armies. The result was a series...
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Philipe, Gérard (French actor)
one of France’s most popular and versatile actors, whose brilliant performances on both stage and screen established his international reputation....
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Philipon, Charles (French caricaturist)
French caricaturist, lithographer, and liberal journalist who made caricatures a regular journalistic feature....
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Philipp der Grossmütige (landgrave of Hesse)
landgrave (Landgraf) of Hesse (1509–67), one of the great figures of German Protestantism, who championed the independence of German princes against the Holy Roman emperor Charles V....
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Philipp, Isidor (French musician)
French pianist who had a long, highly successful tenure at the Paris Conservatoire....
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Philipp von Schwaben (king of Germany)
German Hohenstaufen king whose rivalry for the crown involved him in a decade of warfare with the Welf Otto IV....
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Philippa of Hainaut (queen of England)
queen consort of King Edward III of England (ruled 1327–77); her popularity helped Edward maintain peace in England during his long reign. ...
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Philippe and Mathilde, Prince and Princess of Belgium
The social event of the decade in Belgium was the marriage of Crown Prince Philippe to Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz on Dec. 4, 1999. The 39-year-old prince had kept his relationship with the 26-year-old speech therapist private until their engagement was announced in September 1999. In three months’ time, Mathilde went from a life of relative anonymity to becoming one of Belgium...
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Philippe Auguste (king of France)
the first of the great Capetian kings of medieval France (reigned 1179–1223), who gradually reconquered the French territories held by the kings of England and also furthered the royal domains northward into Flanders and southward into Languedoc. He was a major figure in the Third Crusade to the Holy Land in 1191....
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Philippe, Charles-Louis (French author)
writer of novels that describe from personal experience the sufferings of the poor....
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Philippe, Count de Paris (French noble)
...Orleanists remained at odds, but a compromise seemed possible. The Bourbon pretender, the comte de Chambord (“the miracle child” of 1820), was old and childless; the Orleanist pretender, Philippe d’Orléans, comte de Paris, was young and prolific. The natural solution was to restore Chambord, with the comte de Paris as his successor. Chambord, however, refused to acce...
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Philippe de Rouvres (duke of Burgundy)
last Capetian duke of Burgundy (1349–61) and count of Boulogne and Artois....
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Philippe de Thaon (French author)
Natural history and science. One of the earliest writers in Anglo-Norman, Philippe de Thaon, or Thaün, wrote Li Cumpoz (The Computus), the first French bestiary, and a work on precious stones. Simund de Freine based his Roman de philosophie on Boethius, to whom the 13th-century Petite Philosophie also owes much....
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Philippe de Thaün (French author)
Natural history and science. One of the earliest writers in Anglo-Norman, Philippe de Thaon, or Thaün, wrote Li Cumpoz (The Computus), the first French bestiary, and a work on precious stones. Simund de Freine based his Roman de philosophie on Boethius, to whom the 13th-century Petite Philosophie also owes much....
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Philippe de Valois (king of France)
first French king of the Valois dynasty. Reigning at the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), he had no means of imposing on his country the measures necessary for the maintenance of his monarchical power, though he continued t...
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Philippe Egalité (French prince)
Bourbon prince who became a supporter of popular democracy during the Revolution of 1789....
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Philippe II et la Franche-Comte: etude d’histoire politique, religieuse et sociale (work by Febvre)
...in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Normale Supérieure (1899–1902), where he graduated as agrégé in history and geography. His first books, Philippe II et la Franche-Comté: étude d’histoire politique, religieuse et sociale (1911), a brilliant local as well as global study of an isolated, strife-ridden province ...
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Philippe, Jacques, II (artist)
early Romantic painter, illustrator, printmaker, and scenographer, especially known for his paintings of landscapes and battles and for his innovative scenery designs and special effects for the theatre....
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Philippe le Bel (king of France)
king of France from 1285 to 1314 (and of Navarre, as Philip I, from 1284 to 1305, ruling jointly with his wife, Joan I of Navarre). His long struggle with the Roman papacy ended with the transfer of the Curia to Avignon, Fr. (beginning the so-called Babylonian Captivity, 1309–78). He also secured French royal power by wars on barons and neighbours and by restriction of fe...
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Philippe le Bon (duke of Burgundy)
the most important of the Valois dukes of Burgundy (reigned 1419–67) and the true founder of the Burgundian state that rivaled France in the 15th century....
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Philippe le Hardi (duke of Burgundy)
duke of Burgundy (1363–1404) and the youngest son of the French king John II the Good. One of the most powerful men of his day in France, he was for a time regent for his nephew Charles VI; and when Charles went insane, he became virtual ruler of France....
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Philippe le Hardi (king of France)
king of France (1270–85), in whose reign the power of the monarchy was enlarged and the royal domain extended, though his foreign policy and military ventures were largely unsuccessful....
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Philippe le Long (king of France)
king of France (from 1316) and king of Navarre (as Philip II, from 1314), who largely succeeded in restoring the royal power to what it had been under his father, Philip IV....
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Philippe Léopold Louis Marie, duke of Brabant and prince of Belgium (prince of Belgium)
heir apparent to the Belgian throne, eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola....
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Philippe, prince of Belgium (prince of Belgium)
heir apparent to the Belgian throne, eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola....
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Philippeum (memorial, Olympia, Greece)
The Philippeum, a circular building of the Ionic order, with Corinthian half columns on the inside, was begun by Philip II (Philip of Macedon) and probably finished by his son, Alexander the Great. Containing gold and ivory statues of Philip, Alexander, and other members of the family, it commemorated Philip’s victory over the Greeks at...
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Philippeville (Algeria)
town, Mediterranean port, northeastern Algeria, situated on the Gulf of Stora. Founded by French Marshal Sylvain-Charles Valée in 1838 as the port of Constantine, it has an artificial harbour. Skikda occupies the site of ancient Rusicade, port of 4th-century Cirta, and has the largest Roman theatre in Algeria (used as a quarry, this has been greatly depleted). Roman artif...
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Philippi (West Virginia, United States)
city, seat (1844) of Barbour county, northeastern West Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Tygart Valley River valley, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Grafton. Settled in 1780, it was early called Anglin’s Ford and then Booths Ferry until it was chartered in 1844 and named for ...
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Philippi (Greece)
hill town in the nomós (department) of Kavála, Greece, overlooking the coastal plain and the bay at Neapolis (Kavála). Philip II of Macedon fortified the Thasian settlement called Crenides in 356 bc to control neighbouring gold mines. He derived a fortune from the gold mines but trea...
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Philippi, Battle of (United States history)
...Fought on June 3, 1861, the engagement was initiated by Union troops who, led by Colonel B.F. Kelley, were attempting to protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Locally the battle is called the Philippi Races because of the speed with which the Confederate forces under Colonel George A. Porterfield retreated. A marker at the site on Broaddus Hill, now on the campus of Alderson-Broaddus......
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Philippi, Battle of (Roman history [42 BC])
...for five years and secured control of Italy by massive proscriptions and confiscations (Cicero, Antony’s chief enemy, was among the first to die). They then defeated and killed Brutus and Cassius at Philippi (42) and divided the Roman world among themselves, with Lepidus, a weak man accidentally thrust into prominence, getting the smallest share. Octavian, who was to control Italy, met a...
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Philippi Races (United States history)
...Fought on June 3, 1861, the engagement was initiated by Union troops who, led by Colonel B.F. Kelley, were attempting to protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Locally the battle is called the Philippi Races because of the speed with which the Confederate forces under Colonel George A. Porterfield retreated. A marker at the site on Broaddus Hill, now on the campus of Alderson-Broaddus......
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Philippians, Letter of Paul to the (work by Saint Paul)
New Testament letter written by Paul the Apostle, while he was in prison (probably at Rome about ad 62), and addressed to the Christian congregation he had established in Macedonia. Apprehensive that his execution was close at hand, yet hoping somehow to visit the Philippians again, Paul explains that he was im...
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Philippians, Letter to the (work by Polycarp)
By his major writing, The Letter to the Philippians, and by his widespread moral authority, Polycarp combated various heretical sects, including certain Gnostic groups that claimed religious salvation exclusively through their arcane spiritual knowledge. Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians contains a classic formulation in which he refutes the Gnostics’ argument that G...
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“Philippic Histories” (work by Trogus)
Roman historian who was the author of Epitome, an abridgment of the Historiae Philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs (Philippic Histories) by Pompeius Trogus, whose work is lost. Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus, connected by colourless moralizing by Justin. Nothing is known of Justin’s personal......
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Philippica (work by Theopompus of Chios)
Greek historian and rhetorician whose Philippica, though lost in its original form, has survived through the work of later writers to form one element in the tradition concerning the reign of Philip II of Macedon. Theopompus was twice exiled from his native town, first as a young man and then in 323 bc, after the death of Alexander the Great, and he was one of the leader...
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Philippics (orations by Cicero)
...a general amnesty, but then he returned to his philosophical writing and contemplated visiting his son, who was studying in Athens. But instead he returned to Rome at the end of August, and his 14 Philippic orations (so called in imitation of Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip II of Macedonia), the first delivered on Sept. 2, 44, the last on April 21, 43, mark his vigorous reentry into...
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Philippics, The (orations by Demosthenes)
The Philippics. Early in 351 Demosthenes delivered a speech against Philip, the so-called “First Philippic,” that established him as the leader of the opposition to Macedonian imperial ambitions. For the next 29 years Demosthenes never wavered; as Plutarch says, “The object which he chose for himself in the commonwealth was noble and just, the defense of the Grecians......
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Philippicus Bardanes (Byzantine emperor)
Byzantine emperor whose brief reign (711–713) was marked by his quarrels with the papacy and his ineffectiveness in defending the empire from Bulgar and Arab invaders....
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Philippikos Vardan (Byzantine emperor)
Byzantine emperor whose brief reign (711–713) was marked by his quarrels with the papacy and his ineffectiveness in defending the empire from Bulgar and Arab invaders....
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Philippine (nationality)
Byzantine emperor whose brief reign (711–713) was marked by his quarrels with the papacy and his ineffectiveness in defending the empire from Bulgar and Arab invaders.......
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Philippine Autonomy Act (United States [1916])
statute announcing the intention of the United States government to “withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands as soon as a stable government can be established therein.” The U.S. had acquired the Philippines in 1898 as a result of the Spanish–American War; and from 1901 legislative power in...
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Philippine Commissions (United States mission)
Taft resigned his judgeship on March 15, 1900, to accept appointment by President William McKinley to serve as chairman of the Second Philippine Commission. Charged with organizing civil government in the islands following the Spanish-American War (1898), Taft displayed considerable talent as an executive and administrator. In 1901 he became the first civilian governor of the Philippines,......
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Philippine Commonwealth and Independence Act (United States [1934])
the U.S. statute that provided for Philippine independence, to take effect on July 4, 1946, after a 10-year transitional period of Commonwealth government. The bill was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 24, 1934, and was sent to the Philippine Senate for approval. Although that body had previously rejected the similar Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, it approved the Tydi...
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Philippine Deep (trench, Pacific Ocean)
submarine trench in the floor of the Philippine Sea of the western North Pacific Ocean bordering the east coast of the island of Mindanao. The abyss, which reaches the second greatest depth known in any ocean, was first plumbed in 1927 by the German ship Emden. The reading obtained at that time was the first indicatio...
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Philippine eagle (bird)
...Sultan Alonto (formerly called Lake Lanao), created by a lava dam, has an area of 134 square miles (347 square km). The island has a marsh-game refuge and bird sanctuary. The rare Philippine eagle is found on Mindanao....
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Philippine fairy bluebird
...Irena puella) lives in the wetter parts of India, the Himalayas, southwestern China, and Southeast Asia. The Philippine fairy bluebird (I. cyanogaster) is found on Luzon, Polillo, Leyte, Samar, Mindanao, Dinagat, and Basilan. The two species are notable for the very long upper and lower tail coverts......
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Philippine forest rat (rodent)
...pheasant, pigeons, poultry, rabbits, and carrion. Many rainforest species, including the Sulawesian white-tailed rat and Hoffman’s rat, eat only fruit and the seeds within, but some, such as the Philippine forest rat (R. everetti), also eat insects and worms. Other tropical species, such as the rice-field rat (R. argentiventer) and Malayan field rat (......
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Philippine gymnure (mammal)
Philippine gymnures (genus Podogymnura) dwell in tropical rainforest on only two islands. They are also terrestrial and eat insects and worms, but their ecology is otherwise unknown. The Mindanao gymnure (P. truei) resembles Asian gymnures. The body is 12 to 15 cm long, with long, dense, and soft......
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Philippine Independent Church (church, Philippines)
independent church organized in 1902 after the Philippine revolution of 1896–98 as a protest against the Spanish clergy’s control of the Roman Catholic Church. Cofounders of the church were Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino, author, labour leader, and senator, who was imprisoned during the revolution for his cr...
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Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (institution, Quezon City, Philippines)
...shape of a volcano because erosion had carved its summit into a ragged ridge with steep jungle-covered slopes, and there was no written record of any eruptions. Nevertheless, scientists at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) took the awakening of Pinatubo very seriously, knowing that the longer the repose......
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Philippine languages
about 70 to 75 aboriginal languages of the Philippine Islands. They belong to the Indonesian branch of the Austronesian family and are subdivided into two main subgroups—the central (or Mesophilippine) division and the northern (or Cordilleran) division—with a number of other member languages forming smaller groups or remaining unclassified....
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Philippine Revolution
(1896–98), Filipino independence struggle that, after more than 300 years of Spanish colonial rule, exposed the weakness of Spanish administration but failed to evict Spaniards from the islands. The Spanish-American War brought Spain’s rule in the Philippines to a close in 1898 but precipitated the Philippine-American War, a bloody war between Filipino revolutiona...
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Philippine Sea (sea, Pacific Ocean)
section of the western North Pacific Ocean, lying east and north of the Philippines. The floor of this portion of the ocean is formed into a structural basin by a series of geologic folds and faults that protrude above the surface in the form of bordering island arcs. The Philippine islands of Luzon, Samar, and Mindanao are...
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Philippine Sea, Battle of the (Japanese-United States history)
(June 19–20, 1944), naval battle of World War II between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the U.S. 5th Fleet. It accompanied the U.S. landing on Saipan and was known as “the greatest carrier battle of the war,” ending in a complete U.S. victory....
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Philippine striped rat (rodent)
...others the head is broad and the muzzle short. Nocturnal shrew rats have gray fur, but diurnal species are reddish brown to almost black. The Philippine striped rats (genus Chrotomys) and the blazed Luzon shrew rat (Celaenomys silaceus) have a stripe running down the back. Fur is generally short, dense, and......
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Philippine tarsier (primate)
...described scientifically. The most distinctive is the high-mountain pygmy tarsier (T. pumilus). Until it was rediscovered in 2008, the last living pygmy tarsier specimen was seen in 1921. The Philippine tarsier (T. syrichta) has a totally bald tail, and the feet are also nearly hairless. Human settlement in its habitat threatens its continued existence....
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Philippine Trade Act (United States [1946])
an act passed by the U.S. Congress specifying the economic conditions governing the emergence of the Republic of the Philippines from U.S. rule; the act included controversial provisions that tied the Philippine economy to that of the United States....
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Philippine Trench (trench, Pacific Ocean)
submarine trench in the floor of the Philippine Sea of the western North Pacific Ocean bordering the east coast of the island of Mindanao. The abyss, which reaches the second greatest depth known in any ocean, was first plumbed in 1927 by the German ship Emden. The reading obtained at that time was the first indicatio...
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Philippine-American War (Filipino history)
a war between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902; the insurrection may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. The Treaty of Paris (1898) transferred Philippine sovereignty from Spain to the United States but was not rec...
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Philippines
Island country, western Pacific Ocean, on an archipelago off the southeast coast of Asia....
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Philippines, Congress of the
...a new constitution similar to the 1935 document was drafted and was ratified in a popular referendum held in February 1987. Its key provision was a return to a bicameral legislature, called the Congress of the Philippines, consisting of a House of Representatives (with more than 200 members) and a much smaller Senate (some two dozen members). House members are elected from districts,......
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Philippines, flag of the
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Philippines, history of
The Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia that was subjected to Western colonization before it had the opportunity to develop either a centralized government ruling over a large territory or a dominant culture. In ancient times the inhabitants of the Philippines were a diverse agglomeration of peoples who arrived in various......
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Philippopolis (Bulgaria)
second largest city of Bulgaria, situated in the south-central part of the country. It lies along the Maritsa River and is situated amid six hills that rise from the Thracian Plain to a height of 400 feet (120 metres). Called Pulpudeva in Thracian times, it was renamed Philippopolis in 341 bc...
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Philippoteaux, Paul (artist)
...a widespread, popular form of entertainment. Among the important works of this period was Henri Philippoteaux’s “Siege of Paris,” depicting an event in the Franco-Prussian War. His son Paul painted the panorama “The Battle of Gettysburg” (1883), exhibiting it in several American cities before its permanent installation in Gettysburg, Pa. Other examples survive...
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Philipps-Universität Marburg (university, Marburg, Germany)
coeducational institution of higher learning at Marburg, Ger. Marburg was the first Protestant university in Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse as a state institution for the support and dissemination of Lutheranism. It rapidly became famous and attracted students from many ...
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Philippsburg (Germany)
...Holy Roman Empire, and their lesser allies, Vauban was promoted to lieutenant general; and in October, under the command of the dauphin Louis, he took Philippsburg, on the right bank of the Rhine south of Speyer. At this siege he introduced ricochet gunfire, whereby a cannonball was made to bounce forward over parapets and to hit several objectives......
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Philippus, Lucius Marcus (Roman consul)
...new blood, to its leading position in the process of government. But Drusus failed. Some members of each class affected were more conscious of the loss than of the gain; and an active consul, Lucius Philippus, provided leadership for their disparate opposition. After much violence, Drusus’ laws were declared invalid. Finally he himself was assassinated. The Italians now rose in revolt (t...
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Philips & Company (Dutch manufacturer)
major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment....
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Philips Electronics NV (Dutch manufacturer)
major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment....
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Philips, Frits (Dutch industrialist)
Dutch industrialist (b. April 16, 1905, Eindhoven, Neth.—d. Dec. 5, 2005, Eindhoven), during a 48-year career (1930–77) with Philips Electronics, oversaw its expansion from a family-run manufacturer into a vast multinational enterprise and Europe’s largest electronics firm. After obtaining (1929) a mechanical engineering degree from Delft Technical University, Philips joined t...
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Philips, Katherine (American reformer)
American reformer and public official, a strong influence on behalf of woman suffrage and an important figure in securing and enforcing labour standards both in California and at the federal level....
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Philips, Obbe (Dutch religious leader)
...(“Meditation on the Twenty-fifth Psalm”). Late in 1536 or early in 1537, he received believer’s baptism, was called to leadership by the peaceful Anabaptist group founded in 1534 by Obbe Philips, and was ordained by Obbe. He also married. From this time on his life was in constant danger as a heretic. In 1542 the Holy Roman emperor Charles V himself issued an edict against ...
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Philips, Peter (British composer)
English composer of madrigals, motets, and keyboard music of considerable reputation in his lifetime....
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Philipsdam (dam, The Netherlands)
...storm surge barrier that has transformed the channel into a tidal saltwater area. Secondary dams include the Oesterdam in the eastern part of the Eastern Schelde and the Philipsdam in the Volkerak Channel north of Sint Philipsland peninsula. The Oesterdam forms freshwater Lake Zoom and is connected by the Eendracht (Schelde-Rhine Canal) north to the freshwater......
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Philipse, Frederick (American colonist)
...or “gentleman” (whence, phonetically, Yonkers)—was given a land grant in 1646 and established the patroonship (estate) of Colendonck in 1652. The lands were then bought by Frederick Philipse who built a manor house there in 1682 (later used as the Yonkers city hall). The manor was confiscated (1779) because the......
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Philistia
Region, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea....
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Philistine (people)
one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century bc, about the time of the arrival of the Israelites. According to biblical tradition (Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4), the Philistines came from Caphtor (possibly Crete). They are mentioned in Egyptian records as prst, one of the Sea Peoples...
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Philistine (cultural term)
...or illiteracy, and it was cutting off not just the populace but also—to use Arnold’s terms—the barbarian upper class and the Philistine middle class. Similarly, Nietzsche anatomized what he called the culture-Philistine; that is, the person whose mind fed on middlin...
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Philistus (Greek historian)
Greek historian of Sicily during the reigns of the tyrants Dionysius I and Dionysius II....
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Philitas of Cos (Greek poet)
Greek poet and grammarian, regarded as the founder of the Hellenistic school of poetry, which flourished in Alexandria after about 323 bc. He is reputed to have been the tutor of Ptolemy II and the poet Theocritus. The Roman poets Propertius and Ovid mention him as their model, but only fragments of his work ...
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Phillies (American baseball team)
American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia that plays in the National League (NL). The Phillies won six NL pennants and two World Series titles (1980 and 2008) and are the oldest continuously run, single-name, single-city franchise in American professional sports...
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Phillip, Andrew (American basketball player)
American basketball player (b. March 7, 1922, Granite City, Ill.—d. April 29, 2001, Rancho Mirage, Calif.), was an All-American basketball player at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the first National Basketball Association (NBA) player to make 500 assists in a single season (1952). In 1943 he led an Illinois team that fans had dubbed the “Whiz Kids” to an un...
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Phillip, Arthur (British admiral)
British admiral whose convict settlement established at Sydney in 1788 was the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent....
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