Philip Pike in CO (Colorado)

Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean, and consists of about 7,640 islands, that are brread more...oadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Philippines is bounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the southwest, and shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Palau to the east and southeast, Indonesia to the south, Malaysia and Brunei to the southwest, Vietnam to the west, and China to the northwest. Manila is the nation's capital, while the largest city is Quezon City, both lying within the urban area of Metro Manila.read less...

Philip Pierre

Philip J. Pierre is a Saint Lucian politician who is the political leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party and Opposition Leader of Saint Lucia. He has been the parliamentary representative for the Casread more...tries East constituency since 1997. He became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Port Services and Transport in 2011.read less...

Philippine–American War

The Philippine–American War, also referred to as the Filipino–American War, the Philippine War, and previously referred to as the Philippine Insurrection or the Tagalog Insurgency, was an armed coread more...nflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899 to July 2, 1902. While Filipino nationalists viewed the conflict as a continuation of the struggle for independence that began in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution, the U.S. government regarded it as an insurrection. The conflict arose when the First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris under which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain, ending the Spanish–American War.read less...

Philippine peso

The Philippine peso, also referred to by its Filipino name piso, is the official currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 centavos or sentimos in Filipino. As a former colony of the Unitread more...ed States, the country used English on its currency, with the word "peso" appearing on notes and coinage until 1967. Since the adoption of the usage of the Filipino language on banknotes and coins, the term "piso" is now used.read less...

Philippines campaign (1941–42)

The Philippines campaign, also known as the Battle of the Philippines or the Fall of the Philippines, was from December 8, 1941 to May 8, 1942 the invasion of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan anread more...d the defense of the islands by United States and the Philippine Armies during World War II.read less...

Philippine Revolution

The Philippine Revolution, called the Tagalog War by the Spanish, was a revolution and subsequent conflict fought between the people and insurgents of the Philippines and the Spanish colonial authoritread more...ies of the Spanish East Indies, under the Spanish Empire.read less...