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12 unusual facts about Philip


Colin O'Donoghue

In 2009, O'Donoghue appeared as Duke Philip of Bavaria in an episode of season 3 of the Showtime historical-fiction series The Tudors.

Julie Chang

She was featured in the February 2007 issue of high fashion magazine W, for which she was photographed by Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953- ) is an artist and photographer who shows with the Pace/MacGill gallery in New York City.

Peter Vischer the Elder

He became "master" in 1489, and in 1494 was summoned by Philip, Elector Palatine to Heidelberg.

Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg

To mask her feelings, a devastated Mary (Sarah Bolger) declares that she could never have married a Lutheran anyway.

Philip, Count Palatine is portrayed as Duke Philip of Bavaria by Colin O'Donoghue in the third season of Showtime's The Tudors.

Philip, Duke of Parma

Philip was an enlightened ruler.

Philip, Elector Palatine

Margaret of Brabant

Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

A lease agreement was closed with the brothers François (1806-1877) and Louis Blanc (1806-1852) to operate a casino in Bad Homburg

Philip, Prince of Eulenburg

Fürst zu Eulenburg und Hertefeld Graf von Sandels (Starnberg, 19 September 1881 - Weeze, 1 August 1963), married at Liebenberg, 21 May 1904 Marie Freiin Mayr von Melnhof (Vienna, 8 April 1884 - Weeze, 3 February 1960)

Alexandrine (Adine) Elise Klara Antonia Gräfin zu Eulenburg (Liebenberg, 1 July 1880 - Friedelhausen, 3 February 1957), married at Liebenberg, 15 June 1910 Eberhard Graf von Schwerin (Weilburg, 11 July 1882 - Giessen, 4 April 1954)

Philip's Music Scribe

Hazel later observed that composers and arrangers generally preferred such WYSIWYG editors, while music engravers tended to prefer text input scorewriters, because of the increased degree of control available.


A Disappearing Number

The play includes live tabla playing, which "morphs seductively into pure mathematics", as the Financial Times review put it, "especially when … its rhythms shade into chants of number sequences reminiscent of the libretto to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. One can hear the beauty of the sequences without grasping the rules that govern them."

Anna of Eppstein-Königstein

Anna of Eppstein-Königstein (Königstein, 1481 – Stolberg, 7 August 1538) was the daughter of Philip I of Eppstein-Königstein and his wife, Louise de la Marck.

Archibald Thorburn

He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman (both in Nature in Art's collection), and he encouraged the young Donald Watson when he came to visit him in Dumfries and Galloway.

Cecil Blacker

In 1947 he married Felicity Mary Rew and together they went on to have two sons, writer Terence Blacker and sculptor Philip Blacker.

Colm Gilcreest

In the 2000 World Snooker Championship Gilcreest won six games against Philip Seaton, Simon Bedford, Robin Hull, Karl Burrows, Jimmy Michie and Stefan Mazrocis to reach the final qualifying round, losing 10-6 to Billy Snaddon.

Combined Islands cricket team

All-rounder Norbert Philip took more than 20 wickets for the second year running, and also hit 240 runs, while off spinner Derick Parry took a team record seven for 100 in the first innings of a drawn game against champions Barbados.

Count of Champagne

Joan (1274–1305) and Philip I (1284–1305), also Joan I of Navarre and Philip IV of France and I of Navarre

Philip II, also Philip V of France and II of Navarre (1316-1322)

Count of Chinchón

Philip then ceded the county to his younger brother, Luis on 28 May 1761.

Electric Dreams

"Together in Electric Dreams", a song by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder from the soundtrack

Foner

Jack D. Foner (1910-1999), American historian; brother of Moe Foner and twin brother of Philip S. Foner; father of Eric Foner

Grant-Suttie baronets

Sir (George) Philip Grant-Suttie, 8th Baronet (1938-1997) who was married 1962 (div 1969) to Elspeth Urquhart, a daughter of General Roy Urquhart (of Operation Market Garden fame), and now wife since 1970 of the Liberal Democrat politician Menzies Campbell.

Helen Willetts

Married to Philip Boulby in March 2004, she returned to Colwyn Bay for the ceremony.

Jean Gaspard de Vence

Then returned to the merchant navy and in 1767 aboard the ship «L'Auguste» take a cruise along the coast of Africa, near Cape St. Philip was in a shipwreck more than four months and get to Marseille, losing half the team from scurvy.

Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages

The war in Italy was fought between a French-Spanish coalition, commanded by Infante Felipe, son of king Philip V of Spain, assisted between others by the French Marshal Maillebois, and du Mont as Captain General of the Spanish and Neapolitan armies on the one hand, and an Austrian-Sardinian coalition, backed by Great-Britain on the other hand.

John II, Count of Oldenburg

John II of Oldenburg is also the male-line ancestor of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and thus of Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

Livin' in These Troubled Times

"Livin' in These Troubled Times" is the title of a song written by Sam Hogin, Roger Cook and Philip Donnelly, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle.

Mark Pocan

On November 24, 2006, Pocan and his long-term partner, Philip Frank, were legally married in Toronto, Ontario.

Max Rayne

Rayne and his wife divorced in 1960 and on 2 June 1965, he married Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart (a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith) and they had four children: Natasha Deborah (b. 1966), Nicholas Alexander (b. 1969), Tamara Annabel (b. 1970) and Alexander Philip (b. 1973).

Moe Foner

His brothers Philip and Jack were professional historians (Jack was also the father of historian Eric Foner).

Nick Toczek

In 1977, as a spin-off from the magazine, he published and co-edited (with Philip Nanton and Yann Lovelock) Britain’s first substantial anthology of black writing, Melanthika: An Anthology of Pan-Caribbean Writing, under the imprint LWM Publications.

Nida Blanca

The case rests on the statements of witnesses and Philip Medel, a self-confessed killer who surrendered to PNP Task Force Marsha on November 19, 2001 and confessed that Strunk had hired him to kill Blanca.

Northwestern Bell

In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota.

Okhta Center

The core design team of the Okhta Centre includes Chief Design Architect Charles Phu, Russian architect Philip Nikandrov, Roger Whiteman and Tony Kettle.

Pezhetairos

At the Battle of the Granicus the battalions were those of (from right to left): Perdiccas, Coenus, Amyntas, Philip, Meleager, and Craterus.

Philip Bickerstaffe

Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714) was an English merchant and the owner of Amble Works.

Philip Cox

Professor Philip Cox designed many of the city's iconic buildings including a number of the buildings used for the Sydney Olympics, the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour and the Sydney Football Stadium.

Philip H. Gilbert

Philip H. Gilbert’s great-granddaughter, Jane M. Triche-Milazzo, daughter of Risley "Pappy" Triche, is a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Philip H. Hoff

Philip Henderson Hoff (born June 29, 1924) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont where he served as the 73rd Governor of Vermont from 1963 to 1969.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott is an American journalist employed by the Washington Post who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Philip le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer

Philip Le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despenser (18 October 1342 Gedney, Lincolnshire, England - 4 August 1402) was the son and heir of Sir Philip le Despenser of Goxhill, son of Sir Philip Le Despencer, the elder.

Philip Long

Philip Long (died 1832) was an American colonist who remained loyal to the British government during the American War of Independence.

Philip Palin

Philip Palin was born in Edinburgh on 8 August 1864, the son of Lieutenant-General C.T. Palin of the Bombay Army.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Philip the Apostle

Philip bore a Greek name (see Philip II of Macedon) and we may infer from the context that Philip spoke Greek.

Philippopolis

Plovdiv, Bulgaria (named after Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father)

Prince Philip Movement

The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect followed by the kastom people around Yaohnanen village on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

Rob Carter

He is the author of American Typography Today, the five-volume Working with Type series, Digital Colour and Type, Typographic Design: Form And Communication ISBN 0-471-38341-4 (this one along with Ben Day and Philip Meggs), and Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces (along with Philip Meggs).

TallyGenicom

Tally AG was founded in 1948 by Philip Renshaw, focusing on design, development, manufacturing, distribution and servicing of printers for high-volume industrial and business applications.

Tatiana Maslany

Maslany portrayed the lead character Dylan in the independent film Cas & Dylan, for which she won a Philip Borsos Award for Best Performance at the 2013 Whistler Film Festival.

The Virtues of War

Alexander first recounts of his younger days serving under his father, Philip II of Macedon, and Philip's expansion of Macedonian hegemony throughout Greece and Thrace.

The Winkies

The Winkies were formed by Canadian-born Philip Rambow with former Holy Rollers guitarist Guy Humphreys, and the rhythm section of Brian Turrington (bass) and Mike Desmaris (drums).

Thomas Simon

On the occasion of his contest with the brothers John, Joseph and Philip Roettiers, who were employed by the mint in 1662, Simon produced his celebrated crown of Charles II, on the margin of which he engraved a petition to the king.

Tredunnock

The graveyard contains the tomb of Isabella Gill, wife of Rev John Philip Gill and only daughter of Sir John Franklin pioneer of the Northwest Passage.

Venetian Interdict

Philip III ordered Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes in Milan to readiness, with the required cavalry and about half the infantry.

Wichita Vortex Sutra

In January 2010, the poem was performed on stage by Ira Glass to Philip Glass's live accompaniment at the SoHo Apple store in New York City.

William M. Gray

After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.