Philippe
a French general, born 1856; educated in Saint Cyr Military Academy, and Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Entering the army, he was rapidly promoted on account of his remarkable capacity for training cadets. In 1901 he was appointed to the faculty of the Ecole Superieure de Guerre uerre.. When the war broke out, in 1914, he was a of colonel a, and as such, was in command Charleroi, in Belgium, where he distinguished himself by holding back a vastly superior force of Germans. His skillful retreat on this occasion lead to his being given command of a division with which he participated in the first battle of the Marne. În May, 10 MARSHAL HENRI PÉTAIN 1915, in the Artois sector, he captured over 10,000 Gernans and a corresponding amount of war material. In the early part of 1916, he was placed in command of the troops defending Verdun, 4 days after the German attack had begun. At that moment, and at that point, Ger- Germany made her supreme effort. General Pétain met the Germans with a counterattack which drove them back and defeated them decisively. In recognition of this deed, he was made a marshal of France. In April, 1917, he became Chief of Staff, and a month later became French Commander-in-Chief, which position he held until the unification of all Allied forces under General Foch, in April, 1918, when he became a member of the General Staff. He visited the United States in 1920.
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Philippeville
a seaport of Algeria, the harbor of Constantine, from which it lies distant 54 miles N. N. E. There is a magnificent harbor (1882) protected by two moles, one 4,590 feet long, the other 1,310 feet. The town is quite new, having been built since 1838 on the site of the ancient Rusicada. Pop. about 30,000.
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Philippian
of or pertaining to PHILIPPI (q. v.), or its inhabitants; also a native or inhabitant of Philippi. The Epistle of Paul the apostle to the Philippians, an epistle addressed by St. Paul, in conjunction with Timothy, "to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons."
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Philippium
an element closely allied to cerium. Though described by Delafontain in 1888 as a newly discovered element, it was not till 1897 that it was acknowledged to be such by English chemists. Philippium has been found in gadolinite, samarskite and fergusonite.
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Philippopolis
Bulgaria, on the navigable Maritza; 110 miles W. by N. of Adrianople. It manufactures silk, cotton, tobacco, leather, etc., and prepares and exports attar of roses. outpost of the Macedonian kingdom, it was ruined by the Goths, captured by the Turks (1363), destroyed by an earthnovels quake (1818), burned (1846), and oc- (1909); cupied by the Russians 1878. Pop. about 50,000, of whom nearly half are Turks, Greeks, and others than Bulgarians.
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Philippus (King of Macedonia son)
King of Macedonia, son of Amyntas, king of Macedonia. He learned the art of war from Epaminondas . He married Olympias , the daughter of Neoptolemus , king of the Molossi, and became father of Alexander the Great. Among the most important events of his reign was the battle of Chaeronea , which he won from the Greeks. The character of Philip is that of a sagacious, prudent, but artful and intriguing monarch. He was assassinated by Pausanias at the celebration of the nuptials of his daughter, in the forty-seventh year of his age and the twenty-fourth of his reign, about 336 years before the Christian era. 2026 Editor's Note: Philippus (son of Philip V) was an Antigonid prince who lived in the 2nd century BC, not the 4th-century BC father of Alexander the Great. The text here mistakenly attributes the life of Philip II—including his marriage to Olympias and victory at Chaeronea—to this later figure. The historical Philippus was the adopted son of Perseus, the last king of Macedon, and was paraded in a Roman triumph before dying in captivity at age 18. (Ed: BR 2026-06-30)
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Philippus (Last king of Macedonia)
The last king of Macedonia of that IOOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS name, a son of Demetrius. He aspired to become the friend of Hannibal. His intrigues were discovered by the Romans, who invaded his territories, and extorted peace from him on terms which were humiliating. He died in the forty-second year of his reign, 179 years before the Christian era.
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Phillips
the name of two celebrated New England academies. The first, known as Phillips Andover Academy, was founded at Andover, Massachusetts, April 25, 1778. The original endowment consisted of 140 acres of land with buildings, some 200 acres in New Hampshire , and about $8,000 in cash. It was the gift of three brothers, Samuel, John, and William, instigated by a younger Phillips, the prospective heir of much of the property. The present endowment of the school amounts to about $400,000, with an annual income of $70,000. There are about 400 students and twenty-five instructors.
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Phillips
DAVID GRAHAM, an American newspaper man and novelist. Born in 1867 in Madison, Ind., and graduated from Princeton at twenty years of age. He soon became a reporter on the staff of the New York "Sun." For a few years he was the private secretary of Joseph Pulitzer, the owner and founder of the "World." He also became the London correspondent of that newspaper, and later one of its chief editorial writers. In 1901, with the publication of his first novel he ceased newspaper work to give himself up entirely to the writing of novels, dealing An mainly with pressing social and ethical problems. He was killed by a lunatic on Jan. 24, 1911. Among the best of his "The Hungry Heart" are: "The Second Generation" (1907); "The Fortune Hunter" (190 (1906); "The Worth of a Woman" (1908).
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Phillips (STEPHEN an English poet Born)
STEPHEN, an English poet. Born at Oxford in 1868; entered Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1886. For a few years he joined a company of players and played in Shakespearean drama, playing in the Globe Theater in London as in other large cities of Eng- After leaving the stage he turned literature. In 1890 appeared a volume , " Primavera. " In the few sucyears appeared " Christ in , " and a volume entitled " Poems " contained " Marpessa sa," which in ," respects is his best work. These won him the prize from the Lon- Academy for the best verse of the Phillips also wrote some dramas, most famous of which are: " Ulysses " (1902); "Herod" (1900); "Paolo and Francesca" (1899); "Pietro of Siena" (1910); "Armageddon" (1915). This was the last work of Stephen Phillips. He died in 1915.
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