Phalanx

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Phalanx (Greek word from phalangos, meaning Finger) can have many more modern meanings, mostly allusory to its original Greek meaning.

Phalanx may refer to:

• The Spanish Falange
• The Lebanese Kataeb Party
• The falanges (legions of spirits) of the Brazilian Umbanda religion

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Contents 1 Medicine 2 Military 3 Politics 4 The arts 4.1 Architecture 4.2 Literature 4.3 Music 4.4 Computers

[edit] Medicine

• Phalanx bones, in hands and feet

[edit] Military

• Phalanx formation, in ancient warfare
• Phalanx CIWS, a U.S. Navy defense system to protect against an anti-ship missile

[edit] Politics

• North American Phalanx, a utopian community organized on proto-communist Fourierist principles, or its journal The Phalanx

[edit] The arts

• Phalanx art school, a private art school in Munich

[edit] Architecture

• Phalanstère, a building layout developed by utopian socialist Charles Fourier

[edit] Literature

• Phalanx (comics), a species of villainous mechanical aliens in Marvel Comics, most recently appearing in Annihilation: Conquest
• The Phalanx, a Fourierist journal

[edit] Music

• Phalanx (album), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

[edit] Computers

• Phalanx (computer programming quality assurance technique)
• Phalanx (video game), a Super NES and Game Boy Advance video game
• the 13th Colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
• Phalanx, a system that uses swarms of bots (a good botnet) to defend internet servers from criminal botnets,developed by the University of Washington.