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Phillis is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Dennis Phillis (born 1948), Australian rules footballer * Jodi Phillis (born 1965), Australian guitarist * Rob Phillis (born 1956), Australian retired motorcycle road racer * Tom Phillis (1931-1962), Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer * Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), first published African American poet See also * Operation Phillis, the British service-assisted evacuation operation for British citizens in Côte d'Ivoire in November 2004 * James Fillis * Phyllis (other) * Phillips (other) Phillips may refer to: Businesses Energy * Chevron Phillips Chemical, American petrochemical firm jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips 66. * ConocoPhillips, American energy company * Phillips 66, American energy company * Philli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Phillis
Dennis Keith "Fred" Phillis (born 9 September 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Background Born Dennis Keith Phillis, his schoolmates likened him to noted England cricket team, English Test cricket pace bowler Fred Trueman. He is almost exclusively known by his nickname. Phillis is the brother of fellow Glenelg player and businessman Wayne Phillis.https://www.waynephilliskia.com.au History Phillis began his senior career with Glenelg in the SANFL in 1966 as a Centre half back under the coaching of Len Fitzgerald. He was soon moved to Centre half-forward and later Full-forward by incoming 1967 coach Neil Kerley. This lateral thinking paid off with Phillis kicking a then SANFL record of 137 goals in 1969. He polled 18 votes in the 1969 Magarey Medal to be the first player to win the medal having played chiefly at full-forward for the season. He played in Glenelg's 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodi Phillis
Jodi Christine Phillis (born 11 April 1965 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist. She spent her childhood in California, and moved back to Sydney, Australia to begin school. She quit school at 15, then spent eight years working as a graphic artist with surfwear company Mambo Graphics until she formed the band The Clouds, where she met fellow frontwoman and bassist Trish Young. Phillis is best known for her vocal ability in many of her songs, such as " Hieronymus", "Souleater" and "Ghost of Love Returned". Career 1989–1997: The Clouds The Clouds formed in December 1989 and released four studio albums between 1990 and 1996, all of which peaked within the ARIA top 50.Australian (ARIA) chart peaks: *Top 50 peaks: *Top 100 peaks to December 2010: 1996–present: Solo While still in The Clouds, Phillis explored a more mellow, acoustic direction with her debut solo album ''Lounge o' Sound'', released in 1996. In 2001, she released ''In Dreams I Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Phillis
Rob Phillis (born 27 April 1956) is a retired motorcycle road racer from Australia. He began his motorcycling career competing in dirt bike and motocross events before crossing over to road racing in 1974. He won the Australian Superbike and Australian Endurance title in 1987 and also won the Australian 1000cc title in 1989 riding a ZXR750 Kawasaki winning himself a sponsorship from Team Kawasaki Australia in the Superbike World Championship. He began competing at the international level full-time, finishing third overall in and on a Kawasaki. In his career, he totalled 4 wins, 23 other podiums, 3 poles and 6 fastest laps. He remained close friends with Aaron Slight Aaron Tony Slight (born 19 January 1966) is a New Zealand former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Superbike World Championships from to , finishing second in the championship twice and third four times. He later competed ..., his teammate at the time, and was Slight's first visitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Phillis
Thomas Edward Phillis (9 April 1934 – 6 June 1962) was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 1961 125cc motorcycle road racing World Championship and was the first person to lap the Isle of Man TT mountain circuit at over 100 mph on a pushrod engined motorcycle. He was also the first person to win a World Championship motorcycle race on a Japanese machine. Personal and early life Phillis was born in Sydney and grew up in Marrickville where his father was a despatch rider. He became a keen bicycle racer, but retired from that sport after a serious crash at Henson Park. After leaving school at 16, Phillis had taken up a motor mechanic apprenticeship. His first experience of motorcycling came with the job, where he had to use a 125cc Excelsior motorcycle to deliver messages around Sydney, and it was there that he began to develop an interest in motorcycles. His father was supportive, and when he was 17, Phillis bought his first bike, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly ( – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Gates, Henry Louis, ''Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers'', Basic Civitas Books, 2010, p. 5. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into enslavement at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where she was bought by the Wheatley family of Boston. After she learned to read and write, they encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent. On a 1773 trip to London with her enslaver's son, seeking publication of her work, Wheatley met prominent people who became patrons. The publication in London of her '' Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'' on September 1, 1773, brought her fame both in England and the American colonies. Figures such as George Washington praised her work. A few ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Phillis
Operation Phillis was the British service-assisted evacuation operation for British citizens in Côte d'Ivoire in November 2004. It was put into effect on 11 November of that year in response to the Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire. A company of the Royal Gurkha Rifles was initially deployed to neighbouring Ghana, Royal Air Force transport aircraft were put on standby and HMS ''Albion'' was also directed towards the area to assist. Later troops of the 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment were placed on standby to move to the area if reinforcements were needed. On 12 November the evacuation began to proceed as two RAF Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the ... and a C17 Globemaster aircraft flew evacuees to Ghana, with 120 Ghurkas escorting the evacuees from Abidjan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fillis
James Fillis (17 December 1834 – 3 May 1913) was a British-born French horseman and riding master. He had a profound influence on the development of the ''haute école'' of dressage in both France and Russia. He travelled widely in Europe, and lived for about twelve years in Russia. He believed he had ridden over a hundred and fifty thousand horses in his lifetime. Life Fillis was born in London on 17 December 1834, into family of circus performers and horse trainers. His father Thomas Fillis died in 1842, and the young Fillis went to live in Paris. There are indications that he found work in the circus of Louis Soullier, and it may have been there that he met the noted riding-master François Baucher; he was never a pupil of Baucher, but between 1847 and 1850 followed him on various journeys to Austria, the Italian peninsula and Switzerland. He left the circus for a time, and found employment as a in the stables of Richard Wallace in Paris. From 1851 he worked as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis (other)
Phyllis is a feminine given name. Phyllis may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Phyllis Township, Ontario, Canada * Phyllis Province, Greece * Phyllis, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community * Phyllis Lake, Idaho, United States * Phyllis Bay Phyllis Bay () is a small bight between Allen and Scarlett Points at the south end of Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. The feature was roughly outlined by Bellingshausen in 1819–20. Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the '' Discov ..., Montagu Island, part of the South Sandwich Islands * 556 Phyllis, an asteroid Transportation * ''Phyllis'' (ship), a British ship that was shipwrecked in 1795 * Fiat Phyllis, a prototype fuel cell-type hydrogen vehicle * ''Phyllis'', a LCDR Acis class steam locomotive Other uses * ''Phyllis'' (TV series), a 1970s American sitcom * Typhoon Phyllis (other) * ''Phyllis'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae See also * Phillis * {{disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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