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PET film (biaxially oriented) Biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (boPET) polyester film is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, gas and aroma barrier properties and electrical insulation.
PET Real World Version PET Toys (Short for PErsonal Terminal(s)) were made by Takara (now TakaraTomy) and Bandai Japan in Japan in 2002. Bandai created the first PET and Battle Chips, along with a line of toys for the newly started Rockman EXE (ロックマンエグゼ/ Rokkuman Eguze/ Megaman NT Warrior) anime that was based loosely on the video game series of the same name (Rockman EXE/ Megaman Battle Network).
PETSCII PETSCII (PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), also known as CBM ASCII, is the variation of the ASCII character set used in Commodore Business Machines (CBM)'s 8-bit home computers, starting with the PET from 1977 and including the VIC-20, C64, Plus/4, C16 and C128.
Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Liechtensteins Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Liechtensteins (PPL, Scouts and Guides of Liechtenstein) is the national Scouting and Guiding association of Liechtenstein. Scouting in Liechtenstein started in 1931, Guiding followed in 1932.
Pfaff's beer cellar Charles Pfaff's beer cellar, located at 653 Broadway in New York City, is best-known for being the watering-hole of choice for a group of bohemian writers and artists from 1859-1870. Writers for Vanity Fair and the Saturday Press met there.
Pfeffernüsse Pfeffernüsse (also spelled pfefferneuse or pfeffernuesse in English, pebernød in Danish) are small, hard, round cookies. The name translates to pepper nuts in German, describing the cookie's spicy taste as well as the fact that many recipes actually call for a small amount of black pepper to be used.
Pfinztal Pfinztal is a municipality in the district Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It municipality consists of the villages Wöschbach, Berghausen, Söllingen and Kleinsteinbach, which were merged to one municipality in 1974.
Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation The Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation, sometimes referred to as simply the Moffatt oxidation, is a chemical reaction which describes the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols by reaction with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The resulting alkoxysulfonium ylide rearranges to generate aldehydes and ketones, respectively.
Pforta Pforta, or Schulpforta, is a former Cistercian monastery (1137-1540), near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is now a celebrated German public boarding school, called Landesschule Pforta.
Pforzheimer Zeitung Pforzheimer Zeitung is an independent local subscription newspaper with seat in Pforzheim, which is mainly distributed and read in the city of Pforzheim and the surrounding Enz district. Its language of publication is German and it appears daily, from Monday to Saturday.
Pfostenschlitzmauer Pfostenschlitzmauer (meaning post slot wall in German) is a method of constructing defensive walls protecting Iron Age hillforts and oppida in Central Europe, including Bavaria and the Czech Republic. It is characterized by vertical wooden posts set into the front stone facing.
Pfrondorf Pfrondorf is part of the city of TĂĽbingen and the district of TĂĽbingen within the state of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg in Germany. It located just at the north-eastern edge of the city, about 6 km (4 miles) from the city centre.
Pfs:Write pfs:Write is a simple early word processor for DOS systems created by Software Publishing Corporation. It included basic features such as automatic word wrapping, spell checking, copy and paste, underlining, and boldfacing.
PfSense pfSense is a FreeBSD based (firewall) operating system derived from m0n0wall, which, as the name implies, uses the pf packet filter from OpenBSD. Its goals differ from those of m0n0wall in that pfSense attempts to provide a heavy, feature rich routing platform.
Pfu DNA polymerase Pfu DNA polymerase is an enzyme found in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, where it functions in vivo to replicate the organism's DNA. In vitro, Pfu is used to quickly amplify DNA in the Polymerase Chain Reaction, where the enzyme serves the central function of copying a new strand of DNA during each extension step.
Pfund series In physics, the Pfund series is a series of absorption or emission lines of atomic hydrogen. The lines were experimentally discovered in 1924 by August Herman Pfund, and correspond to the electron jumping between the fifth and higher energy levels of the hydrogen atom.
PF (firewall) PF (Packet Filter) is OpenBSD's stateful packet filter, written by Daniel Hartmeier. It replaced Darren Reed's IPFilter in OpenBSD, due to problems with its license, specifically that Reed withheld permission from the OpenBSD developers to change his code.
PF Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon The PF Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This marathon is an Elite Racing (the same individuals who put on the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon of San Diego) Signature Event.
PF Magic PF Magic was a video game developer founded in 1991 and located in San Francisco, California. Though it developed other types of video games, it was best known for its virtual pet games, such as Dogz and Catz.
PF-89 The PF-89 is the new generation standard light anti-tank weapon (LAW) in service with the PLA to replace the obsolete Soviet-style 40 mm LAW. It is a rocket launcher used primarily by infantry squad for engagement and defeat of light armor and bunkers.
PF-98 The PF-98 is an up-and-coming light anti-tank rocket primarily for the PLA's infantry. The PF-98--weighing in at 6 pounds--is the replacement for the obsolete Type 65 and Type 78 - weighing in considerably heavier at 12 and 75 pounds, respectively.
PFA Players' Player of the Year At the end of every English football season the members of the PFA, the players union, vote on which of its members has played the best football in the previous year. As the award is voted on by the players it is often viewed as the premier individual honour given in domestic English football, especially by the players themselves.
PFA Young Player of the Year The PFA Young Player of the Year is awarded at the end of every English football season, by the members of the Professional Footballers' Association, the players union. All professional footballers, regardless of nationality, under the age of 23 playing in the English leagues are eligible for the award.
PFC Dobrudzha Dobrich PFC Dobrudzha (ПФК Добруджа) is a professional Bulgarian football club from the town of Dobrich. It plays its home matches at Druzhbda Stadium with a capacity of 12,500 seats, and its team colours are green and yellow.
PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia PFC Chernomorets Bourgas Sofia (formerly known as FC Conegliano German) are a Bulgarian football club from the city of Sofia. They were founded in 2001 and play their home games at the Vasil Levski National Stadium.
PFC Pirin 1922 Blagoevgrad PFC Pirin 1922 Blagoevgrad (ПФК Пирин 1922 Благоевград) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Blagoevgrad, currently playing in the Bulgarian B Professional Football Group, the second division of Bulgarian football.
PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad PFC Pirin Blagoevgrad (ПФК Пирин Благоевград) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Blagoevgrad, currently playing in the Bulgarian B Professional Football Group, the second division of Bulgarian football.
PFC Rilski Sportist Samokov PFC Rilski Sportist Samokov (ПФК Рилски спортист Самоков) are a Bulgarian football club from the town of Samokov founded in 1924. They played in the A PFG, the second division of Bulgarian football, in 2005/06, but have also played in the top division, in season 2002/03, which is their most important achievement overall.
PFC Rodopa Smolyan PFC Rodopa Smolyan (ПФК Родопа Смолян) is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Smolyan, currently playing in the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the top division of football in Bulgaria. The team is named after the Rhodope Mountains and plays its home matches at the local Septemvri Stadium.
PFC Spartak Nalchik PFC Spartak Nalchik (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб "Спартак" Нальчик) is a Russian football club based in Nalchik. Spartak plays in Russian Premier League since 2006.
PFC Spartak Pleven PFC Spartak Pleven (ПФК Спартак Плевен) is a Bulgarian football club from Pleven founded in 1919 that currently plays in the western division of the Bulgarian B Football Group. The team's greatest achievements are the Bulgarian Cup final in 1957 and the third place in the Bulgarian Championship the following season.
PFD Otter PFD Otter is a spokesman and advocate for water safety, who spearheads the "Kids Don't Float" program created in Homer, Alaska. The program loans Personal Floatation Devices (PFDs) to children and teenagers to combat the increasing number of drowning deaths.
PFIQ PFIQ is the acronym and common name for a publication known as Piercing Fans International Quarterly, which was published by Jim Ward from the 1970s through the 1990s. Ward pioneered the field of body piercing and operated The Gauntlet, which was the first commercial establishment to offer the service in the United States.
PFK2 Phosphofructokinase-2 (PFK2) is one activity of a bifunctional enzyme (), the other of which is Fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase (aka Fructose bisphosphatase-2; FBPase2). The bifunctional enzyme is present principally in cells that have responsibility for regulation of glucose concentrations in the bloodstream, for example, some liver cells.
PFLEX The Pflex Inspiratory Muscle Trainer is a therapeutic device designed to increase respiratory muscle strength for pulmonary rehabilitation patients, by providing an adjustable resistance to inhalation in order to exercise and strengthen respiratory muscles.
PFM-1 PFM-1 (Russian: ПФМ-1, short for противопехотная фугасная мина - anti-infantry cluster landmine; NATO name: Blue parrot, also known as butterfly mine) is a land mine of Soviet production, very similar to BLU-43 US Army landmine. Both devices are very similar in shape and principles, although they use different explosive.
PFMEA Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) recognizes and evaluates the potential failure of a process and its effects. It also identifies actions that will eliminate or reduce the probability of that failure occurring.
PFP (enzyme) PFP or Pyrophosphate:Fructose 6-phosphate Phosphotransferase is an enzyme of carbohydrate metabolism in plants and some bacteria. The enzyme () catalyses the reversible interconversion of fructose 6-phosphate and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate using inorganic pyrophosphate as the phosphoryl donor.
PFPP Parafluorophenylpiperazine (flippiperazine, fluoperazine, pFPP, 4FPP) is a piperazine derivative with mildly hallucinogenic and euphoric effects which has been sold as an ingredient in legal recreational drugs known as "Party pills", initially in New Zealand and subsequently in other countries around the world.
PFR PFR (aka Pray For Rain) was an influential Christian music group in the mid 1990s. Although the group disbanded in 1997, they reunited in 2000 and have since recorded two albums, and they continue to play together.
PFS Polarstern PFS Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. The Polarstern was put into commission in 1982 and is mainly used for research in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Pgrep pgrep is a command line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating systems and then ported to GNU/Linux. It searches for all the named processes, that can be specified as ERE patterns, and, by default, returns their ID.
PG Tips PG Tips is a popular brand of tea in the United Kingdom; its manufacturers Unilever UK Foods say that Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day. The brand is also popular with British expatriates the world over.
PG-7VR The PG-7VR is a tandem charge RPG warhead designed to penetrate up to 600 mm rolled homogeneous armour equivalence of explosive reactive armor and the conventional armor underneath. It is also capable of penetrating 500 mm of steel, two metres of brick or 1.
PGA European Tour The PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England.
PGA Grand Slam of Golf The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is the world's most exclusive tournament. It is an annual off season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of the four major championships of regular men's golf, which are The Masters, the U.
PGA Championship The PGA Championship (referred to as the US PGA Championship outside of North America) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America as part of the PGA Tour. The PGA Championship is one of the four major championships in men's golf, and it is the golf season's final major, played in August (customarily the 4th weekend after the The Open Championship, but being advanced a week in 2007 and 2008 because of local scheduling conflicts).
PGA Professional National Championship The PGA Professional National Championship is a golf tournament that is run by the Professional Golfers' Association of America. It is for golf club professionals and teachers who are members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America.
PGA Seniors Championship The PGA Seniors Championship is a European Seniors Tour golf tournament for men aged fifty and above. It was founded in 1992, and was played at the Royal Dublin club in the Republic of Ireland that year, but since 1993 it has been played at various golf clubs in England.
PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USA's main professional golf tours dominated by men. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR".
PGA Tour 96 PGA Tour 96 is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System golf game that takes place during the 1995 PGA season. The game features many professional golfing stars and various modes from stroke play to match play and even tournament mode.
PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award Created in 1996, the Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the PGA Tour over an extended period of time through their actions on and off the golf course. http://www.
PGA Tour series PGA Tour is the collective name of a series of golf computer and video games published by Electronic Arts and later their EA Sports sub-label from 1990 to 1998, when EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement of Tiger Woods. After Tiger Woods '99 was released, subsequent titles were named Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and for the first time, regularly.
PGE Park (MAX station) PGE Park is a light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. The station, consisting of separate east and westbound platforms built into city sidewalks between SW 17th and SW 18th Avenues on SW Yamhill and SW Morrisson Streets, opened on August 29, 1997.
PGLO pGLO is an engineered plasmid used in biotechnology as a vector for creating transgenic organisms. The plasmid contains several reporter genes, most notably for the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the beta-lactamase antibiotic resistance gene.
PGNiG Polskie GĂłrnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) is a Polish state-owned oil and natural gas company, which deals with the exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil, natural gas import, storage and distribution and sales of the natural gas and crude oil. It owns around 16,400 km of transmission pipelines.
PGP Corporation PGP Corporation based in Palo Alto, California is the current owner of the Pretty Good Privacy codebase, which was originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. PGP Corporation acquired the code and rights to the name from Network Associates (NAI) in 2002.
PGP word list The PGP Word List (also called a biometric word list for reasons explained below) is a list of words for conveying data bytes in a clear unambiguous way via a voice channel. They are analogous in purpose to the NATO phonetic alphabet used by pilots, except a longer list of words is used, each word corresponding to one of the 256 unique numeric byte values.
PGPfone PGPfone is a secure voice telephony system developed by Philip Zimmermann in 1995. The PGPfone protocol had little in common with Zimmermann's popular PGP email encryption package, except for the use of the name.
PGPLOT PGPLOT is a device-independent graphics subroutine library written starting in 1983 by Tim Pearson, a professor at Caltech. PGPLOT is written mostly in FORTRAN with a modular output API that allows output to several dozen types of plotting device.
PGY PGY, short for post-graduate year, is a numerical scheme denoting the duration of residency of medical residents and house officers in North America. The graduation that this nomenclature refers to is from (usually) four years of medical school.
Ph (digraph) Ph is a digraph in the English language and many other languages that represents the sound // (voiceless labiodental fricative). Ph in English generally occurs in words derived from Greek, due to Latin transcription of Greek Phi (Φ φ) as ph.
Pha That Luang Pha That Luang (T-had Lu-uang) (Great Stupa in Laos) is a Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos. It was built in the 16th century on the ruins of an earlier 13th century Khmer temple, which the Lao believe was in turn built on a 3rd century Indian temple built by Buddhist missionaries from the Mauryan Empire who were sent by the Emperor Ashoka.
Phaal Phaal, sometimes spelt as phall or paal, is an Indian curry dish, red to red-orange in colour. It is widely reputed to be one of the hottest form of curry available, even hotter than the Vindaloo, with at least 10 or 12 ground chillies included in a standard portion.
Phaëton In Greek mythology, Phaëton or Phaethon (Greek Φαέθων "shining") (can also be translated into carriage, most often pulled by two horses), was the son of Helios (Phoebus, the "shining one", an epithet later assumed by Apollo), or of Clymenus by Merope or Clymene.
Phacelia calthifolia Phacelia calthifolia (Caltha-leaved Phacelia), is a flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mojave Desert in southeastern California and western Nevada, between Barstow, California, and the Death Valley area, where it occurs below 1,000 m in sandy soils.
Phacelia cicutaria Phacelia cicutaria (Caterpillar Phacelia or Caterpillar Scorpionweed) is an annual species of Phacelia native to California and southern Nevada. It grows mainly in chaparral, frequently in burnt areasDale 1986, pg.
Phacelift Phacelift is the personal psychedelic trance project of Hellas-born and UK based Kostas Alekoglou ex half of Greek psytrance pioneers Magus. Phacelift have had various releases with labels such as Candyflip Records, Headstick Recordings, EMI (Portugal), Digital Psionics, Interzone Records, Uphonic and others.
Phacellophora camtschatica Phacellophora camtschatica, known as the fried egg jellyfish or egg-yolk jellyfish, is a very large jellyfish, with a bell up to two feet in diameter and sixteen clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to twenty feet long. They can be found in many parts of the world's oceans.
Phacoemulsification Phacoemulsification refers to modern cataract surgery in which the eye's internal lens is emulsified with an ultrasonic handpiece, and aspirated from the eye. Aspirated fluids are replaced with irrigation of balanced salt solution, thus maintaining the anterior chamber, as well as cooling the handpiece.
Phacolith A phacolith is a pluton parallel to the bedding plane or foliation of folded country rock. More specifically, it is a typically lens-shaped pluton that occupies either the crest of an anticline or the trough of a syncline.
Phaedriades In Greece, the Phaedriades ("the shining ones") were the pair of cliffs, ca 700 m high on the lower southern slope of Mt. Parnassos, which enclose the sacred site of Delphi, the center of the Hellenic world.
Phaedrus (Plato) The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's main protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, around the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium; with those two texts, it is often considered one of Plato's literary high points.
Phaenarete Phaenarete (Greek Φαιναρέτη), wife of Sophroniscus, was the mother of the Greek philosopher Socrates and his half-brother, Patrocles. (Since Sophroniscus had died before 424 BC, he was probably Phaenarete's first husband, while Chaeredemus, father of Patrocles, was her second.
Phaeodarea The Phaeodarea are a group of amoeboid protists. They are traditionally considered radiolarians, but in molecular trees do not appear to be close relatives of the other groups, and are instead placed among the Cercozoa.
Phaeophytin Phaeophytin is a grey pigment that appears in chromatographs of photosynthetic pigments. Phaeophytin has the same structure as chlorophyll; excluding the central magnesium ion, which is replaced by two protons.
Phaeton (carriage) Phaeton is the fanciful early 19th-century term for a sporty carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, with extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, fast and dangerous (illustration, right). The rather self-consciously classicizing name refers to the disastrous ride of mythical Phaëton.
Phaeton body A Phaeton is a car body style, similar to a sedan or convertible sedan, where the rear seat area is extended for added leg room or for an additional row of seating. This gives the vehicle the appearance that it is meant to be chaffuer-operated.
Phage ecology Bacteriophage (phage), potentially the most numerous "organisms" on Earth, are the viruses of bacteria (more generally, of prokaryotesThe term "prokaryotes" is useful to mean the sum of the bacteria and archaeabacteria but otherwise can be controversial, as discussed by Woese, 2004; see also pp. 103-104 of Woese, C.
Phage experimental evolution Bacteriophage (phage) are the viruses of bacteria and, as probably the most numerous "organisms" on Earth, are exceptionally abundant in many natural environments. Provided is an annotated bibliography of modern phage experimental evolution studies.
Phage meetings Bacteriophage are viruses of bacteria. They are likely the most numerous "organisms" on Earth and contributed greatly to the development of the disciplines of molecular biology and molecular genetics.
Phagocytosis Phagocytosis (literally "cell-eating") is a form of endocytosis wherein large particles are enveloped by the cell membrane of a (usually larger) cell and internalized to form a phagosome, or "food vacuole."
Phagor A race of fictional creature in Brian Aldiss' Helliconia trilogy. Also known as the ancipital race, due to their prominent double-edged horns, they are shaggy bipeds, remotely descended from bovine-type stock, and possess thought patterns, customs, and culture inimical and almost incomprehensible to humans.
Phagspa script The Phagspa script (also square script) was an abugida designed by the Tibetan Lama Phagspa for the emperor Kublai Khan during the Yuan Dynasty in China, as a unified script for all languages within the Mongolian Empire. It fell out of use after the empire was overturned by the Ming Dynasty.
Phagun Phagun is a Twelfth and last month in the Nanakshahi calendar, which governs activities within Sikhism. This month coincides with February - March of the Western/Gregorian/Julian Calendar and is 30 or 31 days long.
Phagy Phagy or phagia is an ecological or behavioral term that is used to identify particular nutritional systems or feeding behaviors. The suffixes -phagy, -phagous and -phage are used to name different types of phagy or animals that perform it, which include:
Phaic Tăn Phaic Tăn is an imaginary country created by Australians Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch, and is the basis for a parody travel guidebook Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring. It is the effective sequel to Molvanîa which was also published by Jetlag Travel and written by Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch.
Phaidon Press Phaidon Press is one of the leading publishers of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide. Competitors include other major art publishers such as Taschen, Harry N.
Phaistos Disc The Phaistos Disc (Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a curious archaeological find, likely dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology.
Phake Phake, also known as Phakial, is a Tai-speaking tribal group living in Dibrugarh district and Tinsukia district of Assam, principally along the areas of Dihing river, as well as adjacent parts of Lohit and Changlang districts in Arunachal Pradesh. As of 1990, their population stood at 5,000, which consists of less than 250 families.
Phalang Dharma Party The Phalang Dharma Party is a Thai political party founded by Chamlong Srimuang and supporters of the Santi Asoke sect of Buddhism in 1988. It was later led by business tycoon Boonchu Rojanastien and future Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Phalangerida Phalangerida is one of the two former suborders of the large marsupial order Diprotodontia. This large and diverse suborder included kangaroos, wallabies, quokkas, possums, gliding possum-like marsupials and others.
Phalanges of the foot The phalanges of the foot correspond, in number and general arrangement, with those of the hand; there are two in the great toe, and three in each of the other toes. They differ from them, however, in their size, the bodies being much reduced in length, and, especially in the first row, laterally compressed.
Phalanstère A phalanstère was a type of building designed for a utopian community and developed in the early 1800s by Charles Fourier. Based on the idea of a phalanx, this self-contained community consisted of 1,600 people working together for mutual benefit.
Phalanx (computer programming quality assurance technique) To phalanx means to improve the quality of an existing body of computer programming code by an iterative process of editing the code's documentation, extending the code's test suite and refactoring the code itself on the basis of the documentation and testing. Phalanxing a body of code entails guaranteeing that the documentation constitutes an accurate specification of the code's current, non-deprecated functionality and that a very high proportion of statements in the code is reached ("covered") by the test suite.
Phalanx (vaccine) Phalanx is a fictional prophylactic vaccine in the Max Brooks novel World War Z, effective against rabies but useless against the unrelated Solanum virus. This pathogen, also known as African rabies or jungle rabies, turns people into zombies.
Phalanx CIWS The Phalanx CIWS (Close-in weapon system, pronounced see-wiz) is an anti-missile system that was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division. It is now manufactured by the Raytheon Company.
Phalanx Covenant The Phalanx Covenant was a crossover event that ran through Marvel Comics' X-Men family of books in September and October 1994. One of its unique aspects was that the X-Men themselves only played a minor role in the story.
Phalanx formation A phalanx (plural phalanxes or phalanges) is a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, or similar weapons. The troops were disciplined to hold a line which created a nearly impenetrable forest of points to the front.
Phaleg Phaleg is an Italian musical group classified as "world music". Formed in 1995, it employs various combinations of ancient and modern language with the goal of being a modern musical expression of the culture of Calabria.

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