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Phoebe Holcroft Watson Phoebe Holcroft Watson was a tennis player from the United Kingdom whose best result in singles was reaching the final of the US Championships in 1929, losing to Helen Wills Moody 6-4, 6-2. According to Wallis Myers of the Daily Mail, Watson finished the year ranked in the world top 10 on four occasions: 8th in 1926, 5th in 1928, 2nd in 1929, and 3rd in 1930.
Phoebe Mills Phoebe Mills (born November 2, 1972 in Northfield, Illinois, USA) is an American attorney and athlete who has been active in the sports of artistic gymnastics, diving, speed skating and snowboarding. She is a 2004 graduate of Vermont Law School with a degree in environmental law.
Phoebe Nicholls Phoebe Nicholls (born 1958 in London, England), is an English actress best-remembered for her performance as Lady Cordelia Flyte, the youngest child of the Marchmain family, in the classic TV miniseries Brideshead Revisited .
Phoebe Palmer Phoebe Palmer (December 17, 1807 – November 2, 1874) was an evangelist and writer who promoted the doctrine of Christian perfection. She is considered one of the founders of the Holiness movement in the United States of America and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom.
Phoebe Pember Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (August 18, 1823 - March 4, 1913) of Savannah, Georgia was the woman in charge of housekeeping and patient diet at one of the divisions of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. She had the job at the age of 39, and over 15,000 patients were under her direct care during the war.
Phoebe Snetsinger Phoebe Snetsinger, nee Burnett (9 June 1931, Lake Zurich, Illinois, USA - November 23, 1999, Madagascar), a resident of Webster Groves, Missouri, was a birder famous for having seen over 8,500 species by the time of her death. The daughter of advertising magnate Leo Burnett, she inherited a small fortune, which she eventually used to fund numerous trips in pursuit of her hobby.
Phoebidas Phoebidas (Greek:)was a Spartan general who, in 382 BC, seized the Theban acropolis, giving Sparta control over Thebes. In punishment for this unauthorized action, Phoebidas was relieved of command, but the Spartans continued to hold Thebes.
Phoebus, Virginia Phoebus was an incorporated town located in Elizabeth City County on the Virginia Peninsula in eastern Virginia. The town and county are now extinct, as they were incorporated into the independent city of Hampton in 1952.
Phoenicia Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plains of what is now Lebanon. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC to 900 BC.
Phoenician alphabet The Phoenician alphabet is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, by convention taken to begin with a cut-off date of 1050 BC. It was used by the Phoenicians to write Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language.
Phoenician languages Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and Phoenicia in Greek and Latin. Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.
Phoenician Women The Phoenician Women (Also known by the Greek title, Phoenissae) is a tragedy by Euripides based on the same story as Aeschylus' play Seven Against Thebes. The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war.
Phoenicianism Phoenicianism is a form of Lebanese nationalism that promotes the controversial belief that Lebanese people are not Arabs and the Lebanese speak their own language and have their own culture, separate from the surrounding Arab countries. Followers maintain that Lebanese are descended from Phoenician origins, and are not Arab.
Phoenix (arcade game) Phoenix is a popular shoot 'em up arcade game created and manufactured by Amstar Electronics (which was located in Phoenix, Arizona) in 1980, and licensed to Centuri for US distribution, and to Taito for Japanese distribution.
Phoenix (boat) The Phoenix, built by John Stevens in June 1809, was the first steamboat to sail the open ocean, from New York to Philadelphia. Her captain at that occasion was Moses Rogers, who also was the captain of the Savannah the first United States steamer to cross the Atlantic.
Phoenix (comics) The alias of Phoenix has been used by several fictional comic book characters published by Marvel Comics. The first, Baron Zemo, used the alias only once, but the later bearers of the identity are far more notable, and all are associated with the Phoenix Force.
Phoenix (computer) Phoenix was the name of an IBM mainframe computer at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory. "Phoenix/MVS" was also the name of the computer's operating system, written in-house by Computer Laboratory members.
Phoenix (Iliad) In Homer's Iliad, Phoenix is one of the Myrmidons led by Achilles, who along with Odysseus and Ajax urges Achilles to re-enter battle, giving the most passionate speech of the three. There is no doubt that this was a later addition to the epic, as Achilles continually uses a special dual verb form in speaking with his guests, rather than a more appropriate plural form.
Phoenix (novel) Phoenix is the fifth book in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. Originally published in 1988 by Ace Books, it was reprinted in 2002 along with Taltos in the omnibus The Book of Taltos.
Phoenix (plant) Phoenix is a genus of about 15-20 species of palms, native from the Canary Islands east across northern and central Africa, the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and southern Asia from Turkey east to southern China and Malaysia.
Phoenix (roller coaster) While Knoebels had operated several small steel roller coasters over the course of its history, it did not have a traditional wooden roller coaster until 1985 when the park opened The Phoenix, a relocated wooden roller coaster from Playland Park in San Antonio, Texas where it was originally called, The Rocket.
Phoenix (spacecraft) The Phoenix is a planned multi-agency Mars lander, headed by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, under the direction of NASA, scheduled to launch on August 3 2007. It is a partnership of universities from the US, Canada, Switzerland and Germany, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the aerospace industry.
Phoenix (Star Trek) In the science fiction series, Star Trek, the Phoenix was the first man-made spacecraft to travel beyond the speed of light. The Phoenix was seen in the motion picture Star Trek: First Contact where it was used for the first successful test of warp drive by humans.
Phoenix (TV series) The Phoenix television series is a thirteen-part Australian police drama recounting the investigation of the bombing of the state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. First screened in 1992, it was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline.
Phoenix astronomical society Phoenix Astronomical Society an organization of individuals with many related interests: telescopes, binoculars, astrophotography, computer planetaria, astronautics, cosmology, meteors, rocketry, sky lore and celestial navigation are just a few examples. They are amateur and professional astronomers, teachers and learners, oldsters and youngsters, men and women ...
Phoenix Academy The Phoenix Academy is located on a Iraqi Army base in Taji, Iraq. The Iraqi Assistance Group (IAG), is in charge of the Phoenix Academy and it is the final additional training that the Military transition team (MiTT), receive before they are assigned to their Iraqi Units.
Phoenix AG Phoenix AG is an international company headquartered in Hamburg in Germany which specialises in products made of rubber, including sound and vibration insulation, conveyor-belt systems, and specialist industrial hose systems.
Phoenix Arts Centre The Phoenix Arts Centre is a fully functioning commercial theatre built nine years ago on the ruins of the old William Parker School assembly hall, which burnt down in ????. Since then The Phoenix Arts Centre has developed and Expanded into the venue you see today.
Phoenix boat A phoenix boat is a very long and narrow human-powered boat used in the team paddling sport of phoenix boat racing. Unlike a dragon boat, it is relatively small in size, and is always rigged with decorative Chinese phoenix heads and tails.
Phoenix breakwaters The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain in World War II. They were collected and sunk at Dungeness, the Cant, and Selsey Bay, and then towed across the English Channel to form the Mulberry harbour breakwaters together with the 'Gooseberry' block ships.
Phoenix Banat Storm Phoenix Banat Storm are an American soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and play in the Southwest Conference against teams from Albuquerque, Denver, La Mesa, Las Vegas and San Diego.
Phoenix Cinema The Phoenix Cinema is an independent cinema in East Finchley, London, which was opened in 1910 as the 'East Finchley Picturedrome'. It is probably the oldest continuously-running cinema in the UK, and shows mainly arthouse films.
Phoenix Clan In the fictional setting of Legend of the Five Rings, the Phoenix Clan is known throughout Rokugan mostly for their skilled shugenja and their mastery of elemental magic. The Phoenix are also noted pacifists, preferring diplomacy to war if at all possible.
Phoenix College Phoenix College is a community college located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Founded in 1920, it is one of the oldest community colleges in the country, which is arguably the reason why it is called Phoenix College as opposed to Phoenix Community College.
Phoenix Command Phoenix Command is a role-playing game system published by the now inactive Leading Edge games, and copyrighted by Barry Nakazono and David McKenzie. Various versions of the system featured in the out of print games Morning Star Missions, Living Steel, and Aliens among others.
Phoenix Desert Dogs The Phoenix Desert Dogs are an Arizona Fall League baseball team located in Phoenix, Arizona. They play their home games at Phoenix Municipal Stadium (Phoenix Muni for short), the spring training home of the Oakland Athletics.
Phoenix Eclipse The Phoenix Eclipse was an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The team began play in the fall of 2001 and played in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, however, it has since folded and is now defunct.
Phoenix Festival The Phoenix Festival was set up by Vince Power of the Mean Fiddler Music Group in 1993 as an alternative to the established Glastonbury and Reading Festivals. It was held at Long Marston Airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon and was one of the first four day festivals in Britain.
Phoenix Gate The Phoenix Gate is a fictional artifact from the animated series Gargoyles. The bearer of the Phoenix Gate is able to travel through time by thinking of a destination time and reciting the Latin incantation "deflagrate muri tempi et intervalia," loosely translated as "burn down the walls of space and time.
Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems is a company founded by Brent Astley, formerly of 7Seas. It came into existence shortly after the publicity surrounding the testimony of another 7Seas member against United States National Guardsman Ryan G.
Phoenix Group The Phoenix Group was founded by those attending a political meeting attended by George Soros and Peter Lewisin Scottsdale, Arizona]. Those attending included invited successful businesspeople, with sufficient resources to donate large amounts of money to [[liberal causes.
Phoenix Hebrew Academy The Phoenix Hebrew Academy, or PHA as it is known to most of its students, is a Jewish day school in north central Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix Hebrew Academy was the trailblazer of education in Phoenix, and Arizona for that matter, when it opened its doors in 1965.
Phoenix Hill Phoenix Hill is a neighborhood just east of Downtown Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Its boundaries are Market Street to the north, Preston Street to the west, Broadway to the south, and Baxter Avenue to the east.
Phoenix Hospital Group With 5 hosptials and two management companies, Phoenix Hospital Group is China's largest (by bed) private, for profit hospital group. Thus far, it has expanded by purchasing controlling shares of state-run hospitals before renovating privatizing operations.
Phoenix Championship Wrestling Phoenix Championship Wrestling was a small wrestling promotion based in Toms River, New Jersey, run by twin brother of former WWE Superstar and current talent agent Mike Bucci ; "Big 80's" Donnie B.. It was in operation from 2001 until 2003, and was a gateway for many wrestlers at that time to go onto bigger things.
Phoenix in Obsidian Phoenix in Obsidian (alternate title: The Silver Warriors) is a science fantasy novel by Michael Moorcock. First published in 1970, it is the second book in a series that follows the adventures of the Eternal Champion as he is flung from one existence to another.
Phoenix Ikki Phoenix Ikki (一輝, One/Singular Brilliance) is a character from the manga/anime, Saint Seiya. Although he was introduced later than the other four main bronze saints, Ikki's role in the story is quite significant -- he serves as the first antagonist in the series that the other bronze saints must defeat, as well as a powerful ally later in the series.
Phoenix Inferno The Phoenix Inferno, also known as the Phoenix Pride, was a soccer team based out of Phoenix that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League. They played from 1980 to 1983 as the Phoenix Inferno and in 1984 as the Phoenix Pride.
Phoenix Inn Suites Phoenix Inn Suites is a collection of 12 all-suite hotels located in business and leisure destinations in Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Phoenix Inn Suites is an independent brand, operated by Aimbridge Hospitality.
Phoenix International Raceway Phoenix International Raceway, or just PIR, is a one mile tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. It opened in 1964, as the new home of major open-wheel racing in the Phoenix area, replacing the track at the Arizona State Fairgrounds as an automobile racing venue.
Phoenix Iron Works The Phoenix Iron Works (1855: Phoenix Iron Company; 1949: Phoenix Iron & Steel Company; 1955: Phoenix Steel Corporation),Lemelson Center website located in the village of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was a significant manufacturer of iron and related products during the 19th Century and early 20th Century. It was a major producer of cannon for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Phoenix Labs Phoenix Labs (formerly Methlabs) is a software developing community founded by Tim Leonard and Ken McKelland and best known for PeerGuardian, an open-source software program optimized for use as a personal firewall on file sharing networks. The group is also working on developing several related products.
Phoenix Media/Communications Group Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a Boston, Massachusetts corporation with several publishing and broadcasting interests. In addition to the Boston Phoenix, the Providence Phoenix and the Portland Phoenix, the company publishes a biweekly publication about Boston nightlife called Stuff@night and operates an alternative music radio station WFNX which went on the air in 1983.
Phoenix Memo The Phoenix Memo is a letter sent to FBI headquarters on July 10, 2001 by FBI special agent Kenneth Williams, then stationed in Phoenix, Arizona, recommending the assembling of a worldwide listing of civil aviation schools. At the time Williams was investigating students at some of these schools for possible terrorist links.
Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury is a Women's National Basketball Association] (WNBA) team based in [[Phoenix, Arizona. The Mercury began in 1997 as one of the league's original eight teams and quickly established itself as a major franchise.
Phoenix Metropolitan Area The Phoenix metropolitan area, sometimes referred to locally as the Valley of the Sun, is a metropolitan area that includes the City of Phoenix, most of the rest of Maricopa County, a large section of Pinal County, and small parts of southern Yavapai County. The Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the US Census Bureau, includes Maricopa and Pinal counties.
Phoenix Motorcars Phoenix Motorcars is a California-based company that focuses on developing electric vehicles. At present, Phoenix partners with other corporations for development of key vehicle components, such as AltairNano's fast-charge lithium ion battery technology.
Phoenix Natural Gas Phoenix Natural Gas Limited is a Northern Ireland utility company which supplies natural gas to Greater Belfast and surrounding areas. Gas is supplied to Northern Ireland via the Scotland-Northern Ireland Pipeline (SNIP).
Phoenix of New Orleans Phoenix of New Orleans, or PNOLA, was formed by residents, volunteers and donors after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Since November 2005, it has become one of the most active disaster recovery and community associations for Tulane/Gravier - a historically poor, badly flooded and widely neglected downtown neighborhood in New Orleans.
Phoenix of Tenedos Phoenix (in Greek Φoινιξ; lived 4th century BC) was a native of Tenedos, who held a high rank in the army of Eumenes, 321 BC. In the great battle fought by the latter against Craterus and Neoptolemus, the command of the left wing, which was opposed to Craterus, was entrusted to Phoenix and Pharnabazus, and composed principally of Asiatic troops; Eumenes being apprehensive of opposing any Macedonians to a general so popular with his countrymen.
Phoenix Park Phoenix Park (in Irish, Páirc an Fhionn-Uisce) is a large park located 3 km to the north west of Dublin city centre in Ireland. It measures 712 hectares (1752 acres), with a walled circumference of 16 km that contains large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues.
Phoenix Points of Pride The Phoenix Points of Pride are 30 landmarks and attractions within the Phoenix, Arizona city limits that represent the best features of the city for both residents and visitors. Each Point of Pride was selected through an election process that involved 40,000 residents voting for their favorite destinations and resources.
Phoenix Pride Commission The Phoenix Pride Commission is a city board staffed by citizen volunteers who work to create a sense of community pride and promote the unique quality of life in Phoenix, Arizona through the commission’s four goals:
Phoenix Program The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Kế Hoạch Phụng Hoà ng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) or Operation Phoenix was a covert intelligence operation and assassination program undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War. The program was designed to identify and "neutralize"—capture; induce to surrender; kill; or otherwise disrupt—the noncombatant infrastructure of Viet Cong (VCI) cadres who were engaged both in recruiting and training insurgents within South Vietnamese villages, as well as providing support to the North Vietnamese war effort.
Phoenix Project Manager Phoenix Project Manager is Critical Path Method of Scheduling based project management software that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating system. It features a Network Diagram view to create schedules using ADM (Arrow Diagram Method), as well as the traditional Gantt chart view using the Precedence Diagram Method.
Phoenix Public Library The Phoenix Public Library is a municipal library system serving Phoenix, Arizona, and owned and operated by the City of Phoenix. There are 14 branches currently in operation citywide, anchored by the flagship Burton Barr Central Library on the northern edge of downtown Phoenix.
Phoenix Racing Phoenix Racing is a NASCAR team owned by James Finch. It currently fields the #09 Miccosukee Indian Gaming Chevy for Mike Wallace in the Nextel Cup Series, also the #7 GEICO Chevy for Mike Wallace and the #1 Miccosukee Indian Gaming Chevy for J.
Phoenix Recordings The Phoenix Recordings are a set of unreleased recordings by Kate Bush, made in 1976. They give the listener a fascinating perspective of Kate Bush's work, particularly now that we have become accustomed to the painstaking perfectionism that is an important characteristic of her modern recordings.
Phoenix Ridge The Phoenix Ridge (also called the Aluk Ridge) was an ancient mid-ocean ridge that existed between the Phoenix Plate and the Pacific Plate. The Phoenix Ridge consisted of three ridges and had a spreading rate of 18-20 cm per year until around 84 Ma.
Phoenix Rising (Temptations album) Phoenix Rising is a 1998 album by The Temptations for the Motown label, featuring the debut of new Temptations Barrington "Bo" Henderson, Terry Weeks, and Harry McGillberry. The album, the Temptation's first million-selling album in twenty years, features the hit single "Stay", which samples the group's 1965 hit "My Girl".
Phoenix RoadRunners The Phoenix RoadRunners are an ECHL hockey team that began play in the 2005-2006 season in Phoenix, Arizona. The team is owned by the same group as the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury and also plays in the US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix.
Phoenix serial killers Since mid-2005, Phoenix, Arizona has been the home of a rare event — two serial killers operating independently at the same time in the same city. The Baseline Killer and the Phoenix Serial Shooter are believed to be responsible for 14 murders and more than 60 attacks in the Phoenix area since that time.
Phoenix street circuit The Formula One United States Grand Prix was held on the Phoenix street circuit in Phoenix, Arizona between 1989 - 1991. It was held downtown by the Phoenix Civic Plaza and the America West Arena, prior to the introduction of the state's baseball stadium, Bank One Ballpark.
Phoenix School for Girls The Phoenix School for Girls is a non-profit secondary school for girls in rural Xiaoshicun, Hunan Province, China. The school was established to address the shortage in educational options for rural girls, who are often denied educations due to the high costs of tuition.
Phoenix Symphony Guild The Phoenix Symphony Guild is a youth orchestral training program located in Phoenix, Arizona that consists of four orchestras and an ensemble. These five groups differ include Percussion Ensemble, String Orchestra, Symphonic Winds, Symphonette Orchestra, and Youth Orchestra.
Phoenix Tabernacle Phoenix Tabernacle is a sovereign non-denominational church located on the foothils of South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded by its current Senior Pastor Bernabe Gonzalez Garcia in 1970 and is attended by over 600 people.
Phoenix Technologies Phoenix Technologies Ltd () is a creator of computer BIOS software. The chip which contains the BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) is located on the mainboard, and it initializes before the operating system, and helps the OS communicate with the hardware.
Phoenix Television Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛ćźé›»č¦–) is a Hong Kong-based Mandarin Chinese television broadcaster that aims to promote a free flow of information and entertainment within the Greater China region. It has 5 different television channels.
Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings (PVH), also known as the Phoenix Consortium, is a British company formed by four businessmen, John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards, in March 2000 during BMW's break-up of the Rover Group. In a financially complex deal involving a ÂŁ500 million "dowry payment" from BMW, PVH purchased Rover in May 2000 for the notional sum of ÂŁ10, relaunching the car company as MG Rover.
Phoenix-bot Phoenix King Phoenix King (피닉스킹) is a South Korean animated feature film that features a knock-off of the Transformers character Inferno. It was later dubbed into English and released in America and Europe as Defenders of Space.
Phojo A phojo is a type of digital photo album. Short for Photo Journal, phojo's are used to store people's photographs, often with text, that deplicts a persons experience, something that caught their attention, or a series of images that someone wants to share with the world.
Pholadidae Members of Pholadidae, or piddocks, are a type of mollusk similar to a clam; however, they are unique in that each side of their shells are divided into 2-3 separate sections. Furthermore, one of the piddock's shells has a set of ridges or "teeth," which they use to grind away at clay or soft rock and create tubular burrows.
Pholcodine Pholcodine is a modified opiate cough suppressant (antitussive) that acts primarily on the central nervous system (CNS) causing depression of the cough reflex, partly by a direct effect on the cough centre in the medulla. It also has a mild sedative effect, yet has little or no analgesic action.
Pholde Pholde is the dark ambient project of Alan Bloor (originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada and currently residing in Toronto) who is also known for his extreme noise music project called Knurl (founded in 1995). Bloor has performed at festivals with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Alan Licht, and has toured the eastern United States and Japan.
Pholistoma auritum The small flowering herb Pholistoma auritum, which has the common name fiesta flower, is similar in appearance and habitat preference to another familiar plant in the waterleaf family, the baby-blue-eyes (Nemophila menziesii). Fiesta flower is native to the southwestern United States where it grows in woodlands and canyons.
Pholtus In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Pholtus of the Blinding Light is the Oeridian god of Light, Resolution, Law, Order, Inflexibility, the Sun, and the Moons. Pholtus's symbol is a silvery sun with a crescent moon on the lower right quadrant.
Phonak (cycling team) Phonak Hearing Systems (UCI Team Code: PHO) was a Swiss professional cycling team active from 2002 until 2006. The Phonak team was one of the 20 teams invited to the first UCI ProTour for the 2005 season, where the team showed consistency.
Phone (film) Phone (폰, Pon) is a 2002 South Korean horror film directed by Ahn Byeong-ki and starring Ha Ji-Won and Kim Yu-Mi. It is partly based on a popular South Korean urban legend about a high school student who commits suicide and haunts her school, playing piano when nobody is around.
Phone Booth (film) Phone Booth is a 2002 movie about a man who is trapped in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell and Forest Whitaker, and was directed by Joel Schumacher.
Phone card depot Based in Toronto, Ontario, Phone Card Depot sells prepaid phone cards (Telephone Card) to customers in USA, Canada, Germany, Argentina, Belgium, UK and Spain. Merchandise is sold through one e-commerce store front and via a North American Toll-Free number.
Phone cloning Phone cloning is the transfer of identity between one mobile telephone and another, generally for the purpose of making fraudulent calls, the bill for which would be sent to the victim as opposed to the perpetrator.
Phone Car The Phone Car was created by business owner, Howard Davis (seen here as his alter-ego, Teleman), as a way to promote his business telephone company. It was featured in various magazines including Motor Trend and Weekly World News, and was also in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles for its exhibit on art cars.
Phone Co-op The Phone Co-op is a British telecommunications co-operative, which operates under self-imposed environmental and ethical guidelines. They provide telephone and internet services, including web hosting and broadband to private customers, charities and other co-operatives.
Phone fraud Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost from the beginning.
Phone in In broadcasting, a phone in, or call in, is where viewers or listeners air comments on-air via telephone, often regarding a specific topic of discussion for that day. On radio (especially talk radio), it's common for an entire program to be a phone in.
Phone Losers of America The Phone Losers of America (PLA) is an American phreaking group founded in the 1990s, whose knowledge, coupled with humor and general mischief, set it apart in the underground hacking scene. The PLA e-zine was first written in 1990, and the official web site went up in 1994.
Phone sex Phone sex is a type of virtual sex that refers to sexually explicit conversation between two or more persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy. Phone sex conversation may take many forms, including (but not limited to): guided, narrated, and enacted suggestions; sexual anecdotes and confessions; candid expression of sexual feelings or love; discussion of very personal and sensitive sexual topics; or just two people listening to each other masturbate.
Phone strap A phone strap, cell phone strap, or mobile phone strap, was originally a string or loop to help the user hold their cell phone, which was invented and became popular in Japan (called a or "keitai strap" in Japanese).
Phone theme A phone theme or phone skin refers to the general look and feel of a mobile phone’s user interface (UI). It includes color schemes for menus and highlights, background images and, for Series 60 (S60) themes, user and folder icons.
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