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Prince Alexander Polder (region, The Netherlands)
...is below sea level, for instance. Natural sand dunes and a system of man-made sea walls and dikes protect the polders (artificially drained flat country largely below sea level) from flooding. The Prince Alexander Polder north of Rotterdam is the lowest point in the Low Countries and lies 22 feet (6.7 m) below sea level. The principal rivers of the Low Countries include the Schelde, Meuse......
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Prince and the Dervish, The (work by Abraham ben Samuel ibn Ḥisdai)
...renowned romance of Barlaam and Josaphat—a Christian adaptation of tales about the Buddha—found its Jewish counterpart in a compilation titled The Prince and the Dervish, adapted from an Arabic text by Abraham ben Samuel ibn Ḥisdai, a leader of Spanish Jewry in the 13th century....
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Prince and the Pauper, The (work by Twain)
...his removal to Europe for nearly two years. He published A Tramp Abroad (1880), about his travels with his friend Joseph Twichell in the Black Forest and the Swiss Alps, and The Prince and the Pauper (1881), a fanciful tale set in 16th-century England and written for “young people of all ages.” In 1882 he traveled up the Mississippi with Horace Bixby,......
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Prince and the Showgirl, The (film by Olivier)
...In 1956 she married playwright Arthur Miller and briefly retired from moviemaking, although she costarred with Sir Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won critical acclaim for the first time as a serious actress for Some Like It Hot (1959). Her last role, in The Misfits (1961), was written......
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Prince Demidoff’s bush baby (primate)
...and Grant’s bush baby (G. granti) and their relatives live in East African coastal forests from Kenya to Mozambique and Malawi and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. The tiny Prince Demidoff’s bush baby (G. demidoff), which weighs only 70 grams (2.5 ounces), is widespread and common in African rainforests from ......
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Prince Edward County (county, Virginia, United States)
...educational facilities, the Byrd administration, popularly called the “Byrd machine,” promoted a policy of “massive resistance” to the desegregation order. The schools of Prince Edward county gained nationwide attention by closing their doors from 1959 to 1964 rather than allowing black and white students to attend classes together. Although some large-scale protests...
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Prince Edward Island (island, South Africa)
one of the two Prince Edward Islands (the other being Marion Island) in the southern Indian Ocean. The subantarctic island lies about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) southeast of Cape Town and 12 miles (19 km) north-northea...
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Prince Edward Island (province, Canada)
Province (pop., 2006 est.: 135,851), Canada....
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Prince Edward Island, flag of (Canadian provincial flag)
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Prince Edward Island National Park (park, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
park in Canada, comprising a coastal strip along Prince Edward Island’s north shore, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Charlottetown. Established in 1937, the park extends along the Gulf of St. Lawrence for nearly 25 miles (40 km) and covers an area of 7 square miles (18 square km). It includes Rustico Island, natural habitat of the great blue heron...
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Prince Edward Island, University of (university, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
The University of Prince Edward Island, at Charlottetown, was chartered in 1969 as a merger of two institutions that had originated more than a century earlier, Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan’s University. In 1983 the Atlantic Veterinary College was established within the provincial university. Holland College, also established...
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Prince Edward Islands (islands, South Africa)
one of the two Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,190 miles (1,920 km) southeast of Cape Town. In 1947 South Africa proclaimed sovereignty of the islands and established a meteorological station on Marion......
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Prince, F. T. (South African poet)
South African-born poet who wrote long-lined poetry of quiet intensity. His work is best exemplified by his much-anthologized war poem Soldiers Bathing....
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Prince, Frank Templeton (South African poet)
South African-born poet who wrote long-lined poetry of quiet intensity. His work is best exemplified by his much-anthologized war poem Soldiers Bathing....
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Prince George (British Columbia, Canada)
city, central British Columbia, Canada. The city lies at the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser rivers, 487 miles (784 km) north of Vancouver by road. It originated in 1807 when Simon Fraser established a North West Company fur-trading post, Fort George, on the site. The settlement gre...
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Prince George County (Virginia, United States)
city, central British Columbia, Canada. The city lies at the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser rivers, 487 miles (784 km) north of Vancouver by road. It originated in 1807 when Simon Fraser established a North West Company fur-trading post, Fort George, on the site. The settlement gre...
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Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church (church, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States)
...Occupied by the British during the American Revolution, the town was attacked several times by the American soldier Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox.” Historic structures include Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church (c. 1750), the Kaminski House (c. 1760), and the Old Market Building (c. 1842), now the site of a rice museum. Georgetown’s harbour, on the Intracoastal......
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Prince George’s (county, Maryland, United States)
county, south-central Maryland, U.S. It consists of a piedmont and plains region bounded by the Patuxent River to the northeast and east and the Potomac River (constituting the border with Virginia) and Washington, D.C., to the west. Prince George’s county is home to Andrews Air Force Base, the National Agricultural Research Center, a...
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Prince Hal (fictional character in “Henry V”)
...14th and early 15th centuries. The main source of the play was Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, but Shakespeare may also have been influenced by an earlier play about King Henry V called The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth....
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Prince, Hal (American theatrical producer and director)
American theatrical producer and director who from the 1960s was recognized as one of the most creative and innovative figures on Broadway....
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Prince Hal (fictional character in “Henry IV, Part 1” and “Henry IV, Part 2”)
...with rebellion, treachery, and shifting alliances in the period following the deposition of King Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV focus especially on the development of Prince Hal (later Henry V) from wastrel to ruler rather than on the title character. Indeed, the king is often overshadowed not only by his son but also by Hotspur, the young rebel military leader,....
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Prince, Harold (American theatrical producer and director)
American theatrical producer and director who from the 1960s was recognized as one of the most creative and innovative figures on Broadway....
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Prince, Harold Smith (American theatrical producer and director)
American theatrical producer and director who from the 1960s was recognized as one of the most creative and innovative figures on Broadway....
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Prince Henry’s Men (English theatrical company)
a theatrical company in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. About 1576–79 they were known as Lord Howard’s Men, so called after their patron Charles Howard, 1st earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham. In 1585, when Lord Howard became England’s ...
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Prince Igor (ballet by Fokine)
In Prince Igor (1909) and L’Oiseau de feu (1910; The Firebird) Fokine incorporated the vigorous style and athletic steps of Russian folk dances. These works revealed his talent for organizing large crowds of dancers on stage and transforming their previously ornamental function into a powerful dramatic force. Neither ballet is longer than a single act, because Fokine......
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Prince Igor (opera by Borodin)
...operas of Aleksandr Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky have remained on opera programs around the world. Borodin’s incomplete Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor, his own libretto; completed and edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and Aleksandr Glazunov) was staged posthumously in 1890; the work is notable for its colourful Slavic and Oriental.....
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Prince, Jean-Batiste Le (French printmaker)
In the 17th century a number of attempts were made at producing what later became known as aquatint prints. None of the efforts was successful, however, until 1768, when the French printmaker Jean-Baptiste Le Prince discovered that granulated resin gave satisfactory results. Aquatint became the most popular method of producing toned prints in the late 18th century, especially among......
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Prince, Lucy (American poet and activist)
poet, storyteller, and activist of colonial and postcolonial America....
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Prince, Morton (American psychologist)
American psychologist and physician who advocated the study of abnormal psychology and formulated concepts such as the neurogram, or neurological record of psychological behaviour, and the coconscious, a parallel, possibly rival, well-organized system of awareness comparable to the ordinary, familiar consciousness....
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Prince, Morton Henry (American psychologist)
American psychologist and physician who advocated the study of abnormal psychology and formulated concepts such as the neurogram, or neurological record of psychological behaviour, and the coconscious, a parallel, possibly rival, well-organized system of awareness comparable to the ordinary, familiar consciousness....
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“Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, The” (work by Johnson)
Johnson’s essays included numerous short fictions, but his only long fiction is Rasselas (originally published as The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale), which he wrote in 1759, during the evenings of a single week, in order to be able to pay for the funeral of his mother. This “Oriental tale,” a popular form at the time, explores an...
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Prince of Centres (English rugby player)
English rugby player who was a member of the noted Huddersfield team of 1914–15....
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Prince of Gymnastics, the (Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur)
Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur, who amassed six medals at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Later he founded Li-Ning Sports Goods, an athletic apparel and shoe company....
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Prince of Persia (electronic game series)
electronic action-adventure game series, originally developed by the American game company Brøderbund Software in 1989 for Apple Inc.’s Apple II home computer. (Brøderbund was acquired by the Learning Company [a division of Mattel, Inc., an American toy company] in 1998.) The Prince of ...
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prince of the empire (European title)
...and who did not possess the superior jurisdiction of a duke, a margrave, a count palatine, or a landgrave. They and they alone were now called princes of the empire. To lend a certain cohesion to their varied rights, they were willing to surrender their house lands to the empire and receive them back again as a princely fief. For the......
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Prince of Wales (British ship)
...aircraft sent practically the entire British Home Fleet into action to intercept it. Two cruisers made contact off the coast of Iceland, and the battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Hood soon engaged it. After destroying the Hood with a shell that exploded in the magazine,......
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Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans, The (collection by Covarrubias)
...caricatures soon began to appear in magazines such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. A collection of his caricatures, The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans, was published in 1925. His illustrations showing his interest in the study of racial types also appeared in numerous magazines and books. In......
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Prince of Wales Island (island, Malaysia)
island of Malaysia, lying in the Strait of Malacca off the northwest coast of peninsular Malaya, from which it is separated by a narrow strait whose smallest width is 2.5 miles (4 km). Penang Island is roughly oval in shape. It has a granitic, mountainous interior—reaching a high point of 2,428 feet (740 metres)—and is ringed by narrow ...
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Prince of Wales Island (island, Queensland, Australia)
island, largest of those in the Torres Strait connecting the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the tip of ...
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Prince of Wales Island (island, Nunavut, Canada)
island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Baffin and Kitikmeot regions, Nunavut territory. It is separated from Victoria Island (west) by M’Clintock Channel and from Somerset Island (east) by Peel Sound. Prince of Wales Island is about 190 miles (310 km) long, 40–130 miles (65–210 k...
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Prince of Wales Mountains (mountains, Canada)
...Boundary Ranges on the mainland is the rugged and scenic island complex of the Alexander Archipelago. The mountains of the archipelago range in elevation from 2,000–3,500 feet in the southern Prince of Wales Mountains to more than 4,000–7,500 feet in the Chilkat Range and the mountains of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof islands. These islands have small glaciers and rugged......
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Prince of Wales Museum of Western India (museum, Bombay, India)
museum in Bombay that was begun in 1905 and is housed in a domed building in the Indo-Saracenic style. Its collections include Tibetan art, Chinese porcelain, Mughal and Rājput miniatures, and the Jehangir Art Gallery, completed in 1952. The jewelry and glass collections are also noteworthy. The natural-history section of the museum started with the collection of the Bombay Natural History...
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Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada)
...established in 1985, advises the territorial minister of education, culture, and employment on policies regarding the arts. It also recommends financial awards for various artistic projects. The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife is dedicated to preserving the culture and heritage of the people of the territories. In addition to providing many services and programs......
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Prince of Wales Strait (strait, Arctic Ocean)
arm of the Arctic Ocean, extending northeastward for 170 miles (275 km) from Amundsen Gulf to Viscount Melville Sound and separating Banks and Victoria islands, ...
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Prince of Wales Theatre (theatre, London, United Kingdom)
The most important management team was that of Sir Squire Bancroft and his wife, Marie Wilton, at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Producing plays by Thomas W. Robertson, they succeeded in melding character and stage business. Spectacle was no longer embellishment but an emphasizing of realistic visual details. The Bancrofts’ productions also finally won general acceptance for the box set; they...
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Prince Otto (work by Stevenson)
...started as a serial in Young Folks, under the title The Sea-Cook, in October 1881. Stevenson finished the story in Davos, to which he had returned in the autumn, and then started on Prince Otto (1885), a more complex but less successful work. Treasure Island is an adventure presented with consummate skill, with atmosphere, character, and action superbly geared to one...
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Prince Patrick Island (island, Canada)
westernmost of the Parry Islands, in the Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is separated from Melville Island (southeast) by the Kellett and Fitzwilliam straits and from Banks Island (south) by ...
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Prince Patutsky Command (painting by Olitski)
...attended the Zadkine School of Sculpture in Paris (1949), presenting his first one-man show in Paris in 1951. In the 1960s he gained prominence with his colour field paintings. Prince Patutsky Command (1965) typifies the opulent results Olitski achieved with his technique of dyeing and spraying. Large areas saturated with brilliant colour alternate with bare canvas....
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Prince Rupert (British Columbia, Canada)
city, on Kaien Island in Chatham Sound, western British Columbia, Canada. It lies near the mouth of the Skeena River on the Pacific coast, 934 miles (1,503 km) northwest of Vancouver. Named in 1906 for Prince Rupert, first governor of the ...
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Prince Rupert’s Land (historical region, Canada)
historic region in northern and western Canada. The name was applied to the territory comprising the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, granted by King Charles II in 1670 to the Hudson’s Bay Compan...
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Prince Souphanouvong (president of Laos)
leader of the revolutionary Pathet Lao movement and first president of Communist-governed Laos....
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Prince Teh (Mongolian leader)
At that time, refugees from Inner Mongolia swarmed into the Mongolian People’s Republic. The Japanese had organized a puppet government of Inner Mongolia under Teh Wang (Prince Teh, Demchukdongrub). He had, however, tried to minimize Japanese control and to promote Mongol nationalism. When the Chinese communists came to power in Inner Mongolia, he was condemned as a war criminal but later.....
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Prince, The (work by Machiavelli)
The first and most persistent view of Machiavelli is that of a teacher of evil. The German-born American philosopher Leo Strauss (1899–1973) begins his interpretation from this point. The Prince is in the tradition of the “Mirror for Princes”—i.e., books of advice that enabled princes to see themselves as though reflected in a mirror—which began with...
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Prince Valiant (comic strip by Foster)
Canadian-born cartoonist and creator of “Prince Valiant,” a comic strip notable for its fine drawing and authentic historical detail....
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Prince William Sound (inlet, Alaska, United States)
irregular inlet of the Gulf of Alaska, Alaska, U.S. It lies east of the Kenai Peninsula and spans about 90 to 100 miles (145 to 160 km). Hinchinbrook and Montague islands are at its oceanward entrance. The area lies within Chugach National Forest and has supported considerable fishing, mining, and forestry. Shipping is centred at the port of Valdez...
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Prince Yi Conservatory (institution, Seoul, South Korea)
...to four resident companies: the National Drama Company, National Changgŭk (traditional Korean musical drama) Company, National Dance Company, and National Traditional Music Orchestra. The National Classical Music Institute (formerly the Prince Yi Conservatory) plays an important role in the preservation of folk music. It has had......
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princeps (ancient Roman title)
the unofficial title used by the Roman emperors from Augustus (reigned 27 bc–ad 14) to Diocletian (reigned ad 284–305). Thus this period in Roman history is known as the principate (principatus), whereas the government of the empire under Diocletian and his successors is known as the dominate, from ...
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Princeps Ulidae (Anglo-Norman conqueror)
Anglo-Norman conqueror of Ulster, who was a member of a celebrated Norman family of Oxfordshire and Somerset....
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Princes, Association of (German history)
league founded on July 23, 1785, under the leadership of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia to preserve the status quo among the several German states and curb the ambitions in Germany of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II. It represented the final phase of the conflict between Frederick and the Austrian Habsburgs. Earlier, Frederick had thwarted Joseph...
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Prince’s Canal (canal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
...fortifications still stand. Outside the Singel are the three main canals dating from the early 17th century: the Herengracht (Gentlemen’s Canal), Keizersgracht (Emperor’s Canal), and Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal). These concentric canals, together with the smaller radial canals, form a characteristic spiderweb pattern, which was extended east along the harbour and west int...
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prince’s feather (plant)
...genus Amaranthus contains about 60 species of herbs, including the ornamentals love-lies-bleeding, or Inca wheat (A. caudatus), prince’s feather (A. hybridus), and Joseph’s-coat (A. tricolor), and many weedy plants known as pigweed, especially A. retroflexus. Prostrate pigweed (A. graeciza...
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Princes, Fronde of the (French history)
The Fronde of the Princes, the second phase of the civil war (January 1650 to September 1653), was a complex of intrigues, rivalries, and shifts of allegiance in which constitutional issues gave way to personal ambitions. One common factor among the aristocratic rebels was opposition to Mazarin, who, throughout the Fronde, was the target of fierce attacks by pamphleteers. The Great......
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Princes Islands (islands, Turkey)
group of nine islands (adalar) in the Sea of Marmara a few miles southeast of Istanbul; they are part of Turkey. There are permanent inhabitants on the smallest island, Sedef Adası (ancient Antirobethos), and on the four larger islands, Büyükada (Prinkipo, anc...
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Princes, League of (German history)
league founded on July 23, 1785, under the leadership of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia to preserve the status quo among the several German states and curb the ambitions in Germany of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II. It represented the final phase of the conflict between Frederick and the Austrian Habsburgs. Earlier, Frederick had thwarted Joseph...
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prince’s pine (plant)
...the heath family (Ericaceae). C. umbellata, sometimes also called prince’s pine, love-in-winter, and wintergreen, occurs in North America from Canada to Mexico and in Europe and Japan. C. maculata, sometimes cal...
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Prince’s Quest, The (work by Watson)
His first volume, The Prince’s Quest (1880), was in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. Thereafter he became a poet of statement, concerned with current affairs. Watson’s Wordsworth’s Grave (1890), his Lachrymae Musarum (1892; on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate), a...
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Princes’ Sermon (speech by Müntzer)
...Of Written Faith, and Precise Exposure of False Belief. Here, too, he drafted a speech, “Motivation for Defense,” and delivered his “Princes’ Sermon,” in which he unsuccessfully tried to urge the Saxon rulers to take their place in reforming Christendom to its biblical splendour....
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Princes Street Gardens (garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
The Princes Street Gardens, laid out between the Old and New towns in the drained lake bed of the old North Loch, have a distinct character. Flowers are set out in beds that are changed several times a year, and a floral clock planted in 1903 (the first in the world), which embowers a quarter-hour cuckoo, has some 24,000 plants in its 36-foot (11-metre) circumference. Among the lawns, flower......
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princess (European title)
a European title of rank, usually denoting a person exercising complete or almost complete sovereignty or a member of a royal family, but in some cases used to designate high-ranking nobles....
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Princess Casamassima, The (novel by James)
In the 1880s James wrote two novels dealing with social reformers and revolutionaries, The Bostonians (1886) and The Princess Casamassima (1886). In the novel of Boston life, James analyzed the struggle between conservative masculinity embodied in a Southerner living in the North and an embittered man-hating suffragist. The Bostonians remains the fullest and most rounded......
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Princess Charlotte Bay (bay, Queensland, Australia)
inlet of the Coral Sea, indenting northeastern Queensland, Australia. Lying on the east shore, at the base of Cape York Peninsula, it is bounded on the east by Cape Melville and on the west by Claremont Point and measures 38 by 15 miles (61 by 24 km). ...
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Princess Di (British princess)
former consort (1981–96) of Charles, prince of Wales, and mother of the heir second in line to the British throne, Prince William of Wales (born 1982)....
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Princess Diana (American comic-book character)
American comic-book heroine who was a perennially popular character and a feminist icon....
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Princess of France (fictional character)
...king of Navarre, and three of his noblemen—Berowne (Biron), Longaville, and Dumaine (Dumain)—debate their intellectual intentions. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when the Princess of France, attended by three ladies (Rosaline, Maria, and Katharine), arrives on a diplomatic mission from the king of France and must therefore be admitted into Navarre’s park. Th...
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Princess of Mars, A (novel by Burroughs)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his serialized story Under the Moons of Mars (1912; novelized as A Princess of Mars and Under the Moons of Mars), transformed European-style “literary” science fiction into a distinctly American genre directed at a juvenile audience. Combining European elements of fantasy and......
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Princess O’Rourke (film by Krasna)
Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch for CasablancaOriginal Story: William Saroyan for The Human ComedyOriginal Screenplay: Norman Krasna for Princess O’RourkeCinematography, Black-and-White: Arthur Miller for The Song of BernadetteCinematography, Color: W. Howard Greene and Hal Mohr for The Phantom of the OperaArt Direction,......
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Princess Royal Harbour (harbour, Western Australia, Australia)
southernmost town and seaport of Western Australia. It lies on the northern shore of Princess Royal Harbour, King George Sound. The naturally broad, deep, sheltered harbour was visited and charted by George Vancouver in 1791. In 1826 the first European settlement in the state, a......
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princess style (dress)
in dress design, style of women’s clothing characterized by garments that are closely fitted to the waistline, which is unbroken by a seam. The princess style first was introduced in 1848 but was little worn until the 1860s....
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Princess X (work by Brancusi)
Brancusi’s contribution to the Salon of 1920, Princess X, a portrait of an imaginary person that takes on a curiously phallic form, created a scandal. The police intervened and forced him to remove the work because it led to improper interpretation. In 1922 he sculpted the first versions of The Fish in marble and the ......
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Princesse de Clèves, La (work by La Fayette)
...friendship with La Rochefoucauld, author of the famous Maximes. With him she formed a distinguished literary circle. After producing two conventional romances, she wrote her masterpiece, La Princesse de Clèves, published anonymously in 1678. Set in the middle of the 16th century, though its manners are those of the author’s own time, it is notable as France’s ...
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Princesses Luise and Friederike, The (work by Schadow)
...of Victory” (1793), a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses, atop the Brandenburg Gate. Among his finest works is the group of the princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia (1797)....
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Princeteau, René (French painter)
His first professional teacher in painting was René Princeteau, a friend of the Lautrec family. Princeteau’s fame, such as it was, arose from his depiction of military and equestrian subjects, done in a 19th-century academic style. Though Toulouse-Lautrec got on well with Princeteau, he moved on to the atelier of Léon Bonnat at the end of 1882. In Bonnat, Toulouse-Lautrec......
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Princeton (United States ship)
...Ericsson, a Swede whom Stockton brought to America, the United States launched the world’s first screw-driven steam man-of-war, USS Princeton, a large 10-gun sloop....
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Princeton (New Jersey, United States)
borough (town) and township, Mercer county, western New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Millstone River, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Trenton. The borough was incorporated in 1813; it is surrounded by the township (incorporated 1838) that also includes the community of North Princeton....
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Princeton (West Virginia, United States)
city, seat (1837) of Mercer county, southern West Virginia, U.S., about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bluefield. The site was settled in 1826 and named for the American Revolutionary War general Hugh Mercer, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. During the American Civil War...
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Princeton, Battle of (United States War of Independence)
(1776–77), in the American Revolution, battles notable as the first successes won by the Revolutionary general George Washington in the open field. After the capture of Fort Washington on Manhattan Island in November 1776, the British general Sir William Howe forced the Americans to retreat through ...
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Princeton School
...thought. Hodge continued to teach at the seminary until his retirement in 1877. In 1846 he served for one year as moderator of the “Old School” Presbyterian Church. This body, like the “Princeton School” of orthodox Calvinist theology, in which Hodge was a major figure, stressed the verbal infallibility of the Bible and asserted other generally conservative views....
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Princeton Theological Seminary (seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
...16th-century Reformers. Thus, any challenge to scriptural integrity had the potential to undermine Christianity as they understood and practiced it. In response to this challenge, theologians at the Princeton Theological Seminary argued for the verbal (word-for-word) inspiration of Scripture and affirmed that the Bible was not only infallible (correct when it spoke on matters of faith and......
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Princeton University (university, Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
coeducational, privately endowed institution of higher learning at Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. It was founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746, making it the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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Princetown (England, United Kingdom)
...sheep, and cattle; quarrying (granite and china clay) and tourism are other important activities. There are few settlements; the largest is Princetown, founded in 1806 to serve adjoining Dartmoor Prison, which was built to hold French captives from the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1850 it......
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Princip, Gavrilo (Slavic nationalist)
South Slav nationalist who assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his consort, Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg (née Chotek), at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914. Princip’s act gave Austria-Hungary the excuse...
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Principado de Asturias (region, Spain)
comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) and historic region of Spain that is coextensive with the northwestern Spanish provincia (province) of Asturias. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of Cantabria to the east, Castile-León to the south, and Galicia to the west. The Cantab...
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principal (suretyship)
...bonds fill the gap left by theft insurance, which always excludes losses from persons in a position of trust. A bond involves three contracting parties instead of two. The three parties are the principal, who is the person bonded; the obligee, the person who is protected; and the surety, the person or corporation agreeing to reimburse the obligee for any losses stemming from failures or......
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principal (organ stop)
...organ, the open and stopped diapason are two basic stops, or ranks of pipes sounding a given tone colour. Open diapason pipes are also known as principals....
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Principal Articles of the Religion (work by Chong Yak-jong)
...and served as the first president of Myŏngdo-hoe (“Society of Bright Truth”), an institute established for the study and spread of Roman Catholic doctrines. He also wrote the Principal Articles of the Religion, the first guidebook to Roman Catholicism written in Korean; it contributed toward the spread of the Korean......
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principal axis (optics)
...also aberration). The precise mounting also ensures that all lenses are properly centred; that is, the centres of curvature of all the lens surfaces lie on a single straight line called the principal axis of the lens. A frequently used measure of the quality of any lens system is its ability to form an image that is sharp enough to separate, or resolve, two very close dots or lines in......
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principal cell (biology)
...intermediate gastric glands produce most of the digestive substances secreted by the stomach. These glands are narrow tubules composed of three major cell types: zymogenic, parietal, and mucous neck cells. At the base of the gland are the zymogenic (chief) cells, which are thought to produce the enzymes......
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principal curvature (mathematics)
...two planes define the two so-called principal directions on the surface at the point; these directions lie at right angles to one another. The curvatures in the principal directions are called the principal curvatures of the surface. The mean curvature of the surface at the point is either the sum of the principal curvatures or half that......
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principal focus (optics)
...light beam are refracted through different angles, so that an entire beam of parallel rays can be caused to converge on, or to appear to diverge from, a single point. This point is called the focal point, or principal focus, of the lens, as shown on the right of Figure 1. Refraction of the rays of light reflected from or emitted by an object causes the rays to form a visual image of the......
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principal in the first degree (law)
The common-law tradition distinguishes four degrees of participation in crime. One who commits the act “with his own hand” is a principal in the first degree. His counterpart in French law is the auteur (literally, “author”), or coauteur when two or more persons are directly engaged. A principal in the second degree is one who intentionally aids or abets.....
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