Bell Trade Act, 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. When the Philippines became

Philippine Trench, 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

Philippine-American War, war between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902, an insurrection that may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. It began after the United States assumed sovereignty of the Philippines following the defeat

Philippines, island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of more than 7,000 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Vietnam. Manila is the capital, but nearby Quezon City is the country’s most-populous city. Both are part

Philippine crocodile, (Crocodylus mindorensis), relatively small species of crocodile that lives primarily in freshwater rivers, ponds, and marshes on the islands of Dalupiri, Luzon, and Mindanao in the Philippines. The Philippine crocodile is considered to be one of the world’s most endangered

national flag consisting of horizontal stripes of blue and red with a white hoist triangle incorporating a golden sun and three stars. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is generally 1 to 2.The 1898 overthrow of Spanish authority by the United States led Filipinos to believe that their country’s

history of the Philippines, a survey of notable events and people in the history of the Philippines. The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because it was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under

Philippines: Education: …prominent tertiary institutions include the University of the Philippines (1908), which has numerous campuses and is the only national university in the country; the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (1904), another public institution, with its main campus in Manila and numerous affiliated campuses on Luzon; and the Philippine Women’s University…

Siege of Badajoz: …determined and resourceful Major General Armand Philippon, who, after withstanding a British siege in 1811, had greatly reinforced the already strong defenses of the city.

Plovdiv, 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

panorama: His son Paul painted the panorama The Battle of Gettysburg (1883), exhibiting it in several American cities before its permanent installation in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Other examples survive at The Hague and in Quebec city. A higher form of panoramic art is the Chinese and Japanese traditional hand…

Dawson’s Creek: …five, Audrey Liddell (played by Busy Philipps), was added to the core group of characters as Joey’s college roommate and, briefly, the girlfriend of Pacey. Many notable celebrities made cameos on Dawson’s Creek, including Seth Rogen, Jane Lynch, and Andy Griffith. The series ended with a two-hour finale entitled “...Must…

Philipps University of Marburg, 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

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: Innovations in siege craft: …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 before its force was spent. At the same time he was advocating…

ancient Rome: Developments in Italy: …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 (the Social War), and in Rome a special tribunal, manned by the Gracchan jury class, convicted many of…

Royal Philips (formerly Philips Electronics) is a major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment. PHG Philips & Company was founded in 1891 by Frederik

Royal Philips (formerly Philips Electronics) is a major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment. PHG Philips & Company was founded in 1891 by Frederik

Royal Philips (formerly Philips Electronics) is a major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment. PHG Philips & Company was founded in 1891 by Frederik

Ambrose Philips was an English poet and playwright associated with pastoral literature. Philips was educated at the University of Cambridge. His first and best-known poems were collected in Pastorals and were probably written while he was a fellow at Cambridge, although they were not published

Katherine Philips Edson was an 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. While studying music at a Chicago conservatory, Katherine Philips met

Katherine Philips was an English poet who, as Orinda, the central figure in a literary group in Cardigan, Wales, wrote lyrics on friendship that represent a transition from courtly poetry to the Augustan style typical of Restoration

Menno Simons: Life: …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 him, promising 100 guilders reward for his arrest. One…

Peter Philips was an English composer of madrigals, motets, and keyboard music of considerable reputation in his lifetime. Philips was a Roman Catholic, and in 1582 he left England for Italy, where he became organist of the English College in Rome. In 1585 he entered the service of Lord Thomas

Eastern Schelde: …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 Volkerak Channel. The dams accommodate road travel and frontage recreation areas.

Yonkers: …lands were then bought by Frederick Philipse, who built a manor there in 1682 (later used as the Yonkers city hall). The house, known as Philipse Manor Hall, was confiscated (1779) because the founder’s great grandson espoused the Tory cause during the American Revolution; it is now a state historic…

Palestine, region of Southwest Asia along the eastern Mediterranean, generally regarded as consisting of the southern coastal area between Egypt, where Asia meets Africa, and Tyre, which in ancient times was the most prominent of the Phoenician city-states. The term Palestine has been associated

Philistine, one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century bce, 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, although there

history of Europe: Modern culture: …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 middling ideas and “genteel” tastes halfway between those of the populace and those of the genuinely cultivated. Numerous artists and writers, high in repute and believed…

Philistus was a Greek historian of Sicily during the reigns of the tyrants Dionysius I and Dionysius II. Philistus helped Dionysius I to seize power in Syracuse in 405 bc and then became his right-hand man and commander of the citadel in Ortygia. He was later exiled (386/385) for unknown reasons

Philitas of Cos was a 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

the Crystals: Released on Spector’s Philles label in late 1961, “There’s No Other (Like My Baby)” reached the Billboard Top 20. The group followed with “Uptown,” a modest hit that allowed Spector to experiment with nontraditional pop instruments such as castinets and Spanish guitars.

Philadelphia Phillies, American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia that plays in the National League (NL). The Phillies have won eight NL pennants and two World Series titles (1980 and 2008) and are the oldest continuously run, single-name, single-city franchise in American

Phillip Island, island astride the entrance to Western Port (bay) on the south coast of Victoria, Australia, southeast of Melbourne. About 14 miles (23 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) at its widest, the island occupies 40 square miles (100 square km) and rises to 360 feet (110 metres). Visited in 1798

Arthur Phillip was a British admiral whose convict settlement established at Sydney in 1788 was the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent. Phillip joined the British Navy in 1755, retired in 1763 to farm for 13 years in England, then served with the Portuguese Navy against

Crash: …white partner, Tom Hansen (Ryan Phillippe), leave the diner and pull over an SUV containing an African American couple, TV director Cameron Thayer (Terrence Howard) and his wife, Christine (Thandie Newton). Cameron is deferential but Christine is argumentative, and Ryan molests and humiliates her while patting her down. The…

ConocoPhillips: The ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 split: The former downstream portions became Phillips 66, a separate company engaged in the refining and marketing of petroleum products around the world under brand names such as Phillips 66, 76, and Jet; it also retained the parent company’s interests in the production of petrochemicals. The new ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66…

Phillips Academy, private, coeducational college-preparatory school (grades 9–12) in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. Features of its 500-acre (200-hectare) campus include a wildlife sanctuary, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology. It was founded as a

Phillips Academy, private, coeducational college-preparatory school (grades 9–12) in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. Features of its 500-acre (200-hectare) campus include a wildlife sanctuary, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology. It was founded as a

Phillips Collection, museum containing an outstanding small collection of late 19th- and 20th-century American and European painting and sculpture that was founded in 1918 by Duncan Phillips. It is housed in Phillips’s residence (built 1897) in Washington, D.C. The museum sponsors concerts, docent

The Phillips curve visualizes the economic relationship between unemployment rates and changes in money wages. The concept was named after economist William Phillips, who pointed out that wages tend to rise faster when the unemployment rate is low. In other words, the Phillips curve suggests an

Phillips Exeter Academy, private, coeducational, college-preparatory school (grades 9–12) in Exeter, N.H., U.S. It was founded as a boys’ school in 1781 by John Phillips, a local merchant and uncle of Samuel Phillips, the founder three years earlier of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Exeter’s

Phillips Petroleum Company, former U.S. petroleum company that merged with Conoco in August 2002 to form ConocoPhillips. Phillips was incorporated in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1917 to acquire the Oklahoma and Kansas oil-producing properties of Frank and L.E. Phillips. The acquisition of a refinery

Phillips curve: …concept was named after economist William Phillips, who pointed out that wages tend to rise faster when the unemployment rate is low.

Lena Madesin Phillips was an American lawyer and clubwoman, a moving force in establishing national and international organizations to address the interests and concerns of business and professional women. Phillips, who adopted the given names Lena Madesin at age 11, was educated at Jessamine

Tennessee Titans: …and, after colorful head coach Bum Phillips was hired in 1975 to reinvigorate the team, they returned to the postseason in 1978. Behind an offense featuring bruising running back Earl Campbell and flashy wide receiver and kick returner Billy (“White Shoes”) Johnson and a defense led by linebacker Robert Brazile…

muckraker: David Graham Phillips’s series “The Treason of the Senate” (Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired Pres. Roosevelt’s speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for popular senatorial elections. Muckraking as a movement largely disappeared

Dewey Phillips: Broadcasting on WHBQ in Memphis six nights a week from 9:00 pm until midnight, Dewey Phillips was tremendously popular with both black and white listeners in the 1950s. An excitable, flamboyant good old boy who seemed to have stepped from the pages of Al Capp’s…

Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews was a Canadian-born American pacifist and writer, a tireless advocate, nationally and internationally, for education and peace. Fannie Phillips grew up in Nova Scotia and, from about 1876, in Lynn, Massachusetts. She graduated from the Salem Normal School (now Salem

Irna Phillips was an American radio and television writer who developed the modern soap opera. She worked as a teacher before turning to writing for radio and creating the first soap opera, Painted Dreams (1930). Later known as “Queen of the Soaps,” she introduced techniques such as the organ

Titanic: Sinking: radio operators on the Titanic, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, had been receiving iceberg warnings, most of which were passed along to the bridge. The two men worked for the Marconi Company, and much of their job was relaying passengers’ messages. On the evening of April 14 the Titanic began…

geochronology: Completion of the Phanerozoic time scale: John Phillips, another English geologist, went on to describe the Mesozoic Era to accommodate what then was the Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, and partially Permian strata, and the Kainozoic (Cainozoic, or Cenozoic) era to include Lyell’s Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene. This subdivision of the generally fossiliferous…

Celtic literature: Manx: …about 1610 by a Welshman, John Phillips, bishop of Sodor and Man, but it remained unpublished until it was printed in 1893–94 side by side with the 1765 version made by the Manx clergy.

the Mamas and the Papas: The original members were John Phillips (b. August 30, 1935, Parris Island, South Carolina, U.S.—d. March 18, 2001, Los Angeles, California), Michelle Phillips (original name Holly Michelle Gilliam; b. June 4, 1944, Long Beach, California, U.S.), (“Mama”) Cass Elliot (original name Ellen Naomi Cohen; b. September 19, 1943, Baltimore,…

Julia Phillips was an American film producer and writer who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best picture, for The Sting (1973). Phillips was educated at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (B.A., 1965), and worked in publishing before becoming a story editor for

Lena Madesin Phillips was an American lawyer and clubwoman, a moving force in establishing national and international organizations to address the interests and concerns of business and professional women. Phillips, who adopted the given names Lena Madesin at age 11, was educated at Jessamine

T Bone Burnett: …album by Christian pop artist Leslie Phillips, proved significant personally. Burnett and Phillips—who recorded as Sam on later albums—became involved romantically, and the two were married in 1989 (they divorced in 2004).

American Graffiti: Production, casting, and storyline: …a smart-aleck played by 12-year-old Mackenzie Phillips. She would go on to star in the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–84). Ford plays Milner’s nemesis, Bob Falfa, who is itching for a drag race. Charles Martin Smith plays Terry, also called Terry the Toad, a nerdy kid who gets…

Prince William and Catherine Middleton: The Royal Wedding of 2011: Princess Anne and Mark Phillips: The marriage of Princess Anne and Capt. Mark Phillips could trace its roots, as a dual biography published in the Britannica Book of the Year in 1974 put it, to “their joint interest and prowess in competitive horsemanship.” It was a sport in…

the Mamas and the Papas: …18, 2001, Los Angeles, California), Michelle Phillips (original name Holly Michelle Gilliam; b. June 4, 1944, Long Beach, California, U.S.), (“Mama”) Cass Elliot (original name Ellen Naomi Cohen; b. September 19, 1943, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—d. July 29, 1974, London, England), and Dennis Doherty (b. November 29, 1941, Halifax, Nova Scotia,…

The Atlantic: Storied past: …Atlantic Monthly was created by Moses Dresser Phillips and Francis H. Underwood in Boston, and the first issue was published in November 1857. The journal quickly became known for the quality of its fiction and general articles, contributed by a long line of distinguished editors and authors that includes James…

Northern Exposure: …exploitative businessman; Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips), proprietor of the general store with a Native American employee, Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows), an aspiring cinematographer and shaman; bush pilot Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner), Fleischman’s hot-cold love interest; radio disc jockey Chris Stevens (John Corbett), whose on-air monologues were both folksy…

Maersk Alabama hijacking: …crew eventually repelled the attackers, Capt. Richard Phillips was taken hostage aboard one of the Maersk Alabama’s lifeboats. The resulting standoff with the U.S. Navy ended on April 12 after Navy SEAL snipers killed three of the captors; a fourth had already surrendered.

cholera: Development of treatments: …not occur until 1958, when Robert A. Phillips, a U.S. Navy physician, identified a solution that proved to be even more effective. Further refinements of Phillips’s solution and the methods of administering treatment occurred in Bangkok (Thailand), Taiwan, Manila, and Dhaka. By the mid-1960s, mortality rates in those areas were…

Elvis Presley: From Tupelo to Sam Phillips and Sun Records: …a few weeks when producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records, a local blues label, responded to his audition tape with a phone call. Several weeks worth of recording sessions ensued with a band consisting of Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black. Their repertoire consisted of the kind

T Bone Burnett: …album by Christian pop artist Leslie Phillips, proved significant personally. Burnett and Phillips—who recorded as Sam on later albums—became involved romantically, and the two were married in 1989 (they divorced in 2004).

Elvis Presley: From Tupelo to Sam Phillips and Sun Records: …a few weeks when producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records, a local blues label, responded to his audition tape with a phone call. Several weeks worth of recording sessions ensued with a band consisting of Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black. Their repertoire consisted of the kind

encyclopaedia: The reader’s needs: …issued by a remarkable publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, who realized the great demand for pocket-size compendia and drove a thriving trade in issuing a number of these; he is thought to have written large sections of these himself.

Stephen Phillips was an English actor and poet who was briefly successful as a playwright. Phillips was educated at Trinity College School, Stratford-upon-Avon, and at King’s School, Peterborough. In 1885 he joined an acting company founded by Frank Benson, his cousin. Phillips’s first collection

Karl Rove: Senate in 1984, and Tom Phillips, who in 1988 became the first Republican ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court.

Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God: Phillips in Mobile, Ala. The name was changed in 1927. The founder left the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he served as a minister, after becoming concerned about the doctrine of holiness and the process of sanctification.

Wendell Phillips was an abolitionist crusader whose oratorical eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War. After opening a law office in Boston, Phillips, a wealthy Harvard Law School graduate, sacrificed social status and a prospective

geochronology: Completion of the Phanerozoic time scale: Conybeare and William Phillips, in their synthesis of the geology of England and Wales in 1822. Conybeare and Phillips coined the term Carboniferous (or coal-bearing) to apply to the succession of rocks from north-central England that contained the Coal Measures. The unit also included several underlying rock…

William D. Phillips is an American physicist whose experiments using laser light to cool and trap atoms earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. He shared the award with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who also developed methods of laser cooling and atom trapping. Phillips received

screwdriver: …common special screw is the Phillips head (Phillips Screw) as shown in the Figure.

Phillipsia, genus of trilobites (an extinct group of aquatic arthropods) uncommonly found as fossils in Carboniferous and Permian rocks (about 251 million to 359 million years old) in Europe, North America, and the Far East. One of the last known trilobite genera, Phillipsia is characterized by a

phillipsite, hydrated calcium, sodium, and potassium aluminosilicate mineral in the zeolite family [(K,Na,Ca)1-2(Si,Al)8O16·6H2O]. It typically is found as brittle white crystals filling cavities and fissures in basalt and in phonolite lava, occurring near Rome; on Sicily; in Victoria, Australia;

Elliot Page is a Canadian actor best known for his performances in the comedy-drama film Juno (2007) and the Netflix television series The Umbrella Academy (2019– ). Page was assigned female at birth and named Ellen by his parents, graphic designer Dennis Page and elementary school teacher Martha

Eden Phillpotts was a British novelist, poet, and dramatist especially noted for novels evoking their Devon setting in a manner reminiscent of the style of Thomas Hardy. Phillpotts was educated at Plymouth and for 10 years was a clerk in an insurance office. He then studied for the stage and later

Henry Phillpotts was a Church of England bishop of Exeter (from 1830), who represented the conservative High Church wing of the Oxford Movement and emphasized liturgical forms of worship, episcopal government, monastic life, and early Christian doctrine as normative of orthodoxy. His unsuccessful

cheesesteak, a sandwich made with sliced or chopped steak and melted cheese on a long sandwich roll. While its origins are subject to debate, brothers Pat and Harry Olivieri are often credited with coming up with the idea in South Philadelphia in the 1930s. The sandwich soon gained popularity, and

mock privet, any shrub or small tree of the genus Phillyrea in the olive family, Oleaceae. The four species of mock privet, native to the Mediterranean area, sometimes are grown as ornamentals for their handsome, glossy, evergreen leaves. P. decora reaches 3 m (10 feet) and has shining leaves and

mock privet: P. decora reaches 3 m (10 feet) and has shining leaves and clusters of small, white flowers. The small, bright red, one-seeded fruits turn purple-black as they mature. P. latifolia reaches 10 m, and P. angustifolia, about 5 m.

Philo Judaeus was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide the clearest view of this development of Judaism in the Diaspora. As the first to attempt to synthesize revealed faith and philosophic reason, he occupies a unique

Philo Judaeus was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide the clearest view of this development of Judaism in the Diaspora. As the first to attempt to synthesize revealed faith and philosophic reason, he occupies a unique

Sanchuniathon: …derived from the works of Philo of Byblos (flourished ad 100). Excavations at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in Syria in 1929 revealed Phoenician documents supporting much of Sanchuniathon’s information on Phoenician mythology and religious beliefs. According to Philo, Sanchuniathon derived the sacred lore from inscriptions on the Ammouneis (i.e., images…

Platonism: Greek Platonism from Aristotle through Middle Platonism: its nature and history: …philosophical teaching was effected by Philo of Larissa (died c. 79 bce) and his pupil Antiochus of Ascalon, who was head of the school in 79–78 bce.

history of logic: The Megarians and the Stoics: …century bce) and his pupil Philo of Megara. The Stoics were followers of Zeno of Citium (c. 336–c. 265 bce). By far the most important Stoic logician was Chrysippus (c. 279–206 bce). The influence of Megarian on Stoic logic is indisputable, but many details are uncertain, since all but fragments…

Phoebe Philo is a British fashion designer who developed a loyal following with her modern yet wearable wardrobe essentials. She served as creative director of the French fashion houses Chloé (2001–06) and Céline (2008–17) before launching an eponymous line in 2023. Philo’s British parents were

history of publishing: The revival of the secular book trade: This is evident in Philobiblon, a book finished in 1345 describing the book-collecting activities of Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham. The book relates how the bishop established good relations with stationers and booksellers in England, France, Germany, and Italy by sending advance payments. Evidence from the same century…

St. Gregory of Nazianzus: …friends collaborated in editing the Philocalia, an anthology of theological and devotional selections from the works of Origen.

church year: Christmas: …(the Chronographer of 354, or Philocalian Calendar), which indicates that the festival was observed by the church in Rome by the year 336.

ancient Greek civilization: Historical writings: …contrary, the greatest of them, Philochorus, was put to death in the 3rd century by a Macedonian king for his excessive partiality toward King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt. All these authors were, in different ways, coming to terms with monarchy.

John Bulwer: …Language of the Hand (1644); Philocopus; or, The Deaf and Dumb Man’s Friend (1648); Pathomyotamia; or, A Dissection of the Significative Muscles of the Affections of the Mind (1649); and Anthropometamorphosis; or, The Artificial Changeling (1650).

ancient Greek civilization: Macedonian supremacy in Greece: This was the notorious Peace of Philocrates—notorious because of the attempts by various leading Athenian orator-politicians to saddle each other with responsibility for what was in fact an inevitability.

Philoctetes, play by Sophocles, first performed in 409 bce. The play opens after the Troy-bound Greeks have cast away the title character on the desert island of Lemnos because of a foul-smelling and incurable ulcer on his foot. In the course of battle, the Greeks discover that they cannot defeat

Philoctetes, Greek legendary hero who played a decisive part in the final stages of the Trojan War. He (or his father, Poeas) had been bequeathed the bow and arrows of the Greek hero Heracles in return for lighting his funeral pyre; Philoctetes thus became a notable archer. En route to Troy he was

Philodemus was a Greek poet and Epicurean philosopher who did much to spread Epicureanism to Rome. After studying under the Epicurean Zeno of Sidon at Athens, he moved to Rome c. 75 bc and became the mentor of the Roman aristocrat Lucius Calpurnius Piso, who invited Philodemus to live in his villa

philodendron, (genus Philodendron), approximately 450 species of stout-stemmed climbing herbs of the family Araceae, native to tropical America. Many species begin life as vines and then transform into epiphytes (plants that live upon other plants). Because many young philodendrons are adapted to

philodendron, (genus Philodendron), approximately 450 species of stout-stemmed climbing herbs of the family Araceae, native to tropical America. Many species begin life as vines and then transform into epiphytes (plants that live upon other plants). Because many young philodendrons are adapted to

philodendron: Major species: Of moderate size is the fiddle-leaf, or horsehead, philodendron (P. bipennifolium), with large fiddle-shaped glossy green leaves up to 15–25 cm (6–10 inches) wide and 45 cm (18 inches) long. Larger types include the spade-leaf philodendron (P. domesticum), with triangular leaves up to 60 cm (24 inches) long, and the…