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Look up Phoenix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Phoenix most often refers to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

Phoenix may also refer to: The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country State Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ...

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Arts, literature, entertainment

Comics

  • Phoenix (comics), a fictional cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe, and the associated characters:
    • "Phoenix", alias of Marvel Comics character Jean Grey
    • "Phoenix", alias of Marvel Comics character Rachel Grey
  • Phoenix (manga), a manga by Osamu Tezuka (original Japanese title: Hi no Tori)

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jean Grey-Summers (born Jean Grey) is a fictional superheroine who lives in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... Rachel Summers as the Phoenix Rachel Summers is a fictional character, a comic book superhero. ... Phoenix, originally Hi no Tori (火の鳥) in Japan, is a manga series made by Osamu Tezuka. ...

Films

Phoenix is an American film directed by Briton Danny Cannon in 1998. ... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name, by J. K. Rowling. ... The Flight of the Phoenix is the name of a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor, a 1965 movie, and its 2004 remake (as Flight of the Phoenix). ... Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, based on the book of the same name. ...

Television

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. ... For the American science fiction series starring Judson Scott, see The Phoenix (1982 TV series). ... The Phoenix is a 1982 television series starring Judson Scott. ... Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛星電視) SEHK: 8002 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. ... // Phoenix is a German publicly-funded television station and which was created by the television stations ARD and ZDF. Its programming is consisting of documentaries, news broadcasts, event coverage and debate rounds. ... The Phoenix In the science fiction series, Star Trek, the Phoenix was the first man-made spacecraft to travel beyond the speed of light. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Peter Kays Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working mens club in the northern English town of Bolton. ...

Literature

Morgan V. [1] Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonalds food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day... Lucius Caelius (or Caecilius?) Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author who wrote in Latin (c. ... The Phoenix (German: ) (ISBN 0-385-50677-5) is a 2000 historical novel written by German author Henning Boëtius. ... The Phoenix and the Turtle is a poem by William Shakespeare. ... Phoenix is the fifth book in Steven Brusts Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. ... “OotP” redirects here. ... David and the Phoenix is a 1957 childrens novel about a young boys adventures with a Phoenix. ...

Magazines and journals

The Phoenix was founded by James Cooney and his wife, Blanche Cooney (born Rosenthal) in 1938 at an artists commune in Woodstock, New York. ... This article describes the Irish magazine: for other uses of the word Phoenix, see Phoenix (disambiguation). ... Phoenix, originally The Phoenix, is one of two journals of the Classical Association of Canada (the other is Mouseion), and the oldest classics journal published in Canada. ... Phoenix was a samizdat literary journal published between 1960 and 1966 by Yuri Galanskov. ...

Newspapers

  • The Phoenix (newspaper), a collective name of alternative weekly newspapers in Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; and Portland, Maine
  • Loyola Phoenix, a newspaper of Loyola University Chicago
  • The Phoenix, a student newspaper of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

The Phoenix is an alternative weekly newspaper company based in Boston, Massachusetts that emphasizes arts and entertainment coverage, as well as alternative political viewpoints. ... Loyola Phoenix serves Loyola University Chicago and the northside Chicago neighborhoods of Edgewater and Rogers Park. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ...

Music

Phoenix are a French soft/pop-rock band who perform songs in the English language. ... Transsylvania-Phoenix band logo Transsylvania Phoenix or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian Rock and Roll bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to take musical inspiration from ancient Romanian folk themes. ... Phoenix Organs, formed in 1998, custom build digital organs in the pipe organ tradition. ... Phoenix Radio is a Greek internet radio station founded in 2005. ... Phoenix is Grand Funk Railroads sixth studio album, and was released in September of 1972 by Capitol Records. ... Labelle (with the b written in small caps, while the spelling LaBelle exclusively refers to the stage surname of the groups lead vocalist, Patti LaBelle) was an American R&B/soul group, who successfully melded disco with funk and glam rock, resulting in such memorable songs as Lady Marmalade... Phoenix is the sixth album by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Phoenix is the second album from R&B singer Lyfe Jennings. ... Infinite is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. ... Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is an album by electronica act The Prodigy. ... The Days of the Phoenix is a 2001 EP released by AFI. It is now out of print. ... Agathodaimon Agathodaimon is dark metal band from Germany. ...

Sports

This is the base page for the Arizona GP ... The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. ... The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team, based in Phoenix, Arizona. ... The Phoenix Mercury is a Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Phoenix, Arizona and the current WNBA champions. ... Phoenix International Raceway is a one mile tri-oval race track located in Avondale, AZ. It opened in 1964, but wasnt used by NASCAR until 1988, with the first race won by the late Alan Kulwicki. ... Elon University is a private, liberal arts university located in Elon, North Carolina. ... The Manchester Phoenix is a professional ice hockey team from Manchester, England. ... Wellington Phoenix is a football (soccer) team based in Wellington, New Zealand, competing in the Australian A-League. ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a county cricket club based at Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ... Phoenix Baia Mare old badge Phoenix Baia Mare was a Romanian football club based in Baia Mare, Northern Romania. ... Phoenix Racing is a NASCAR team owned by James Finch. ... The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, popularly known as KREC, is a premier autonomous university along the western shores of India. ... The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (known to students simply as UWGB or GB) is a public university located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System. ... Phoenix Cricket Club is a Dublin-based club that currently fields 5 mens teams, one womens team, three schoolboy teams and a Taverners team. ... The Melbourne Phoenix are an Australian netball team. ...

Video and arcade games

In each completed installment of the F-Zero series of racing games by Nintendo, new characters were unveiled as playable pilots. ... Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter video game created by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive in 1994. ... Look up Heretic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Fire Phoenix (also just Phoenix) is a Phoenix-type Zoid, one of over 200 species of biomechanical lifeforms depicted by TOMYs Zoids model, toy, and media franchise. ... 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 Wright: Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten (逆転裁判 蘇る逆転) or Turnabout Courtroom: Revival Turnabout in Japan) is an adventure game developed by Capcom in 2005, released exclusively for the Nintendo DS. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a remake of the Game Boy Advance video game Gyakuten Saiban (which was released in... Fenix is a fictional character in the StarCraft universe. ... “Starcraft” redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Gears of War characters & adversaries. ... Gears of War is a tactical third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games (the creators of the Unreal series) using Unreal Engine 3. ...

Astronomy and space exploration

Phoenix (IPA: ) is a minor southern constellation, introduced by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and popularized by Johann Bayers Uranometria in 1603. ... The Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was discovered in 1976 by H.E. Schuster and R.M. West and mistaken for a globular cluster. ... Phoenix is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission to Mars under the Mars Scout Program. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Hopper (spacecraft). ... Project Phoenix is a SETI project: a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by listening for radio signals. ...

Biology

  • Phoenix (plant), genus of trees within the palm family Arecaceae (including the Date Palm)

Species Phoenix abyssinica Phoenix acaulis Phoenix canariensis Canary Island Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera Date Palm Phoenix lourierii Phoenix paludosa Phoenix pusilla Phoenix reclinata Senegal Date Palm Phoenix roebelinii Pygmy Date Palm Phoenix rupicola Cliff Date Palm Phoenix sylvestris Indian Date Palm Phoenix theophrastii Cretan Date Palm Phoenix is a genus...

Companies

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 Motorcars is a California-based company that focuses on developing electric vehicles. ... Phoenix Natural Gas Limited is a Northern Ireland utility company which supplies natural gas to Greater Belfast and surrounding areas. ... PHOENIX Pharmahandel Aktiengesellschaft & Co KG (PHOENIX Group), is the largest pharmaceutical wholesalers in Germany, and the second largest in Europe with about 20 distribution centers across the country delivering drugs to some 12,000 independent pharmacies. ... 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 BMWs break-up of the Rover Group. ...

Computing

Phoenix Object Basic is an object-oriented RAD tool for Linux. ... Phoenix was the name of an IBM mainframe computer at Cambridge Universitys Computer Laboratory. ... Phoenix Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: PTEC) is a creator of computer BIOS software. ... “Firefox” redirects here. ...

Maritime (civil)

The Pheonix, built by John Stevens in 1807, was the first steamboat to sail the open ocean. ... Phoenix, or Phenix, was an American wooden whaler plying the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean from its base in Nantucket, Massachusetts, from 1821-1861. ... The Phoenix was a nineteenth century whaler. ... There are several ships bearing the name Phoenix. ...

Military, naval and air forces

Full load of Phoenix missiles, 1989 The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile, carried in clusters of up to six missiles; formerly on the U.S. Navys and currently on the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Forces F-14 Tomcat fighters... Fifteen vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Phoenix, after the legendary phoenix bird. ... 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... The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Kế Hoạch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) or Operation Phoenix was a military, intelligence, and internal security coordination program designed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War. ... This chapter completes the discussion of international battlefield UAVs, focusing on UAVs from other European nations and from other regions. ... Project Phoenix is an ongoing programme within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to revive its Reserve Force and bring it on a par with the Regular Force under a One Force policy. ... Six United States Navy ships have borne the name Phoenix, the first two for the phoenix, a mythical bird of ancient Egypt that consumes itself in fire, only to rise again rejuvenated from its ashes, and the later three for the capital of Arizona. ...

Mythology

  • Phoenix (mythology), a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes
  • Fenghuang, the Asian phoenix
  • Phoenix (Iliad), a character in the Iliad, tutor of Achilles and father of Adonis; or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus
  • Phoenix (son of Agenor), in Greek mythology was a son of Agenor

The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ... Fenghuang sculpture, Nanning city, Guangxi, China. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Phoenix (mythology). ... For other Phoenix, see Phoenix (Iliad). ...

People

Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (pronounced IPA: ) (born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is as a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican film actor. ... River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe- nominated American film actor. ... Lauren Phoenix (born May 13, 1979, in Toronto) is a Canadian porn star. ... Nahshon Even-Chaim (b. ... Jerome (Jody) Fleisch nicknamed The Phoenix is an English professional wrestler working for independent promotions all over the world. ... David Michael Farrell (born on February 8, 1977), more commonly known as Phoenix, is the bassist for the alternative rock band Linkin Park. ... The character Simon Phoenix (played by Wesley Snipes) is a ruthless thug, murderer, and rapist who has evaded John Spartan and the police for too long. ...

Places

In the United States: Vacoas is one of the five main towns in Mauritius. ... The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls, plus two submerged coral reefs in the central Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. ... Deer grazing near the Papal Cross in the 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. ...

Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country State Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ... Phoenix is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ... Phoenix is an unincorporated community located in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. ... Phoenix is a village located in Oswego County, New York. ... Phoenix is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ... Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek with the Schuylkill River. ... Phenix City is a city located mostly in Russell County, Alabama, and partly in Lee County. ...

Other uses

Phénix is a small-scale (233 MWe) prototype fast breeder reactor in France, located in the Marcoule nuclear site. ... Scouts in Scouting Ireland are aged between 11 and a half to 16 years of age. ... Scouting Ireland (Irish: Gasóga na hÉireann) is the national Scouting association of Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) and a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). ... The Phoenix Program, known as Kế Hoạch Phụng Hoàng (a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) in Vietnamese, was a covert intelligence operation undertaken by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War. ... Phoenix (Greek Φοίνιξ). The first currency of the modern Greek state. ... The Phoenix was an adaptation of the Bristol Aeroplane Companys Pegasus engine, adapted to run on the Diesel cycle. ... The Phoenix 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 San Antonio, Texas. ... Phoenix LRT station (BP5) is a Light Rapid Transit station on the Bukit Panjang LRT Line. ... University of Phoenix (UOP) is a for-profit educational institution specializing in adult education, with campuses located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. ... A photograph of the lights taken on March 13, 1997 by Lynne D. Kitei The Phoenix Lights, sometimes referred to as the Lights over Phoenix, is the popular name given to a series of optical phenomena that took place in the sky over the U.S. states of Arizona, Nevada... Teatro La Fenice (the phoenix) is an opera house in Venice, Italy. ... IC codes are shorthand terms used by the British police in radio communications to describe the apparent ethnicity of a suspect. ... The new Phoenix line is a new family of V-6 engines scheduled to debut for model-year 2010 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles. ... 1980 Pontiac Phoenix The Pontiac Phoenix was a compact car sold from 1977 to 1984 by the Pontiac division of General Motors. ...

See also


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Phoenix Mars Mission - Home (281 words)
The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled for launch in August 2007, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program.
The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is,
International contributions for Phoenix are provided by the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), the University of Copenhagen, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
Phoenix, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7234 words)
Phoenix /ˈfiːˌnɪks/ is the state capital of Arizona, and was incorporated as a city on February 25, 1881.
Phoenix was incorporated with a population of approximately 2,500, and on May 3, 1881, Phoenix held its first city election, in which Judge John T. Alsap defeated James D. Monihon, 127 to 107, to become the city's first Mayor.
The Phoenix area is surrounded by the McDowell Mountains to the northeast, the White Tank Mountains to the west, the Superstition Mountains far to the east, and the Sierra Estrella to the southwest.
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