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Puu Kukui (volcanic mountain, Hawaii, United States)
volcanic peak, Maui county, western Maui island, Hawaii, U.S. It is the highest peak (5,788 feet [1,764 metres]) of an 18-mile (30-km) stretch of mountains, the Honolua volcanic series, that dominates the western peninsula of Maui. Puu Kukui (Hawaiian: “Candlenut Hill”) was formed by a volcano whose caldera has eroded into the scenic Iao...
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Puuc style (Mayan architecture)
This elaborate ornamentation of buildings is far more restrained and orderly in the style called Puuc, so named from a string of low hills extending up from western Campeche into the state of Yucatán. The Puuc sites were for the Northern Subregion what the Petén sites were for the Central, for they are very numerous and clearly were the focal point for Maya artistic and......
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puuhonua (ancient Hawaiian sanctuary)
Located on a lava shelf that dips into the Pacific Ocean, the refuge (puuhonua), one of several sacred spots that provided sanctuary in times of war, was established by at least the 15th century. Warriors, fugitives, and taboo breakers escaped death if they reached the site ahead of their pursuers;......
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Pu‘uhonua O Honaunau (archaeological site, Honaunau, Hawaii, United States)
...of Kealakekua Bay, it was once the traditional seat of the Hawaiian kingdom of Kona and is now a small fishing community. It is also the site of numerous archaeological remains, principally those of Pu‘uhonua O Honaunau (variously translated as “City, Place, or Temple of Refuge at Honaunau”)....
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Pu‘uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park (national historical park, Hawaii, United States)
...deified kings and chiefs. During the reign of King Kamehameha II, the old religious practices were forbidden (1819) and the temples razed. In 1961 the area was declared a national historical park (Pu‘uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park), which includes some 180 acres (75 hectares)....
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Puukohola National Historic Site (national historical site, Kawaihae, Hawaii, United States)
...Kawaihae the island’s second port, after Hilo. It is particularly popular for sport fishing and scuba dive boats. Just south of the harbour is Puukohola National Historic Site, one of the best-preserved Hawaiian heiaus (ceremonial and religious structures), dedicated in 1791 by Kamehameha I. N...
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Pu‘ukūkae (volcanic mountain, Hawaii, United States)
volcanic peak, Maui county, western Maui island, Hawaii, U.S. It is the highest peak (5,788 feet [1,764 metres]) of an 18-mile (30-km) stretch of mountains, the Honolua volcanic series, that dominates the western peninsula of Maui. Puu Kukui (Hawaiian: “Candlenut Hill”) was formed by a volcano whose caldera has eroded into the scenic Iao...
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PUVA therapy (medicine)
...some fungal diseases of the skin. It is also widely employed in combination with a radiosensitizing agent such as 8-methoxypsoralen to treat psoriasis. In this approach, known as PUVA therapy, the entire surface of the skin is bathed repeatedly with ultraviolet radiation....
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Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cécile (French painter)
the leading French mural painter of the later 19th century. He was largely independent of the major artistic currents of his time and was much admired by a diverse group of artists and critics, including Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, ...
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PUWP (political party, Poland)
Beginning in 1948, Poland was governed by the Polish United Workers’ Party (PUWP; Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza), the country’s communist party, which was modeled on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The postwar government was run as a dual system in which state organs were controlled by parallel organs of the PUWP....
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Puy de Sancy (mountain, France)
...extensive ash and lava remains of three powerful volcanoes of the Quaternary Period (within the past 1.8 million years). They reach 6,184 feet (1,885 metres) at the summit of the Puy de Sancy, in Puy-de-Dôme, which is the highest point in central France. The Vivarais Mountains top out at Mount Mézenc, 5,751 feet (1,753 metres) above Haute-Loire, while in Cantal,...
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Puy, Le (France)
town, capital of Haute-Loire département, Auvergne région, south-central France. Le Puy-en-Velay is situated in the Massif Central, at 2,067 feet (630 m) above sea level, 2 miles (3 km) from the left bank of the ...
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Puy-de-Dôme (department, France)
...and historical region of France encompassing the central départements of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, and Haute-Loire. Auvergne is bounded by the régions of Centre and Burgundy (Bourgogne) to the north, Rhône-Alpes to the......
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Puya (plant genus)
genus of South American plants of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae) that contains about 200 species, including the tallest bromeliads. P. gigas (P. raimondii), native to northern South...
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Puya alpestris (plant)
...the cool, dry, stony slopes of the Andes mountains. The stems are rather thick and woody. The stiff, spiny-edged leaves are long and narrow and grow in a dense rosette. Several species, such as P. alpestris and P. chilensis, are cultivated indoors as decorative plants. The leaves of P. chilensis are the source of a fibre sometimes used to make fishing nets....
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Puya chilensis (plant)
...of the Andes mountains. The stems are rather thick and woody. The stiff, spiny-edged leaves are long and narrow and grow in a dense rosette. Several species, such as P. alpestris and P. chilensis, are cultivated indoors as decorative plants. The leaves of P. chilensis are the source of a fibre sometimes used to make fishing nets....
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Puya gigas (plant)
...American plants of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae) that contains about 200 species, including the tallest bromeliads. P. gigas (P. raimondii), native to northern South America, grows to more than 10 m (about 33 feet) tall and forms a ......
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Puya raimondii (plant)
...American plants of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae) that contains about 200 species, including the tallest bromeliads. P. gigas (P. raimondii), native to northern South America, grows to more than 10 m (about 33 feet) tall and forms a ......
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Puyallup (Washington, United States)
city, Pierce county, western Washington, U.S., on the Puyallup River. Settled in 1854 and known as Franklin, it was destroyed in a raid (1855) by Puyallup and Nisqually Indians from whom the land had been claimed. The area was resettled by Ezra Meeker in 1859. Laid out in 1877, it was named Puyallup, meaning “generous people” in the Puyallup language. Located in an...
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Puyguilhem, Antonin-Nompar de Caumont, marquis de (French military officer)
French military officer who was imprisoned by King Louis XIV to prevent him from marrying the Duchesse de Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle), the wealthiest heiress in Europe....
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Puyi (emperor of Qing dynasty)
last emperor (1908–1911/12) of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644–1911/12) in China and puppet emperor of the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo (Chinese: Manzhouguo) from 1934 to 1945....
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Puyi (people)
an official minority group inhabiting large parts of Guizhou province in south-central China. They call themselves Jui or Yoi. There are also some 50,000 Buyei living in Vietnam, where they are an official nationality. They had no written script of their own until 1956, when the Chinese communists supplied...
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Puyŏ (South Korea)
...were Buddha chapels. This arrangement, one pagoda with three surrounding halls, seems to have been the earliest Buddhist temple plan used. The very same plan can be seen at a Paekche temple site in Puyŏ and at the site of the Asuka-dera temple near Kyōto, Japan. The Paekche temple also had a central octagonal wooden pagoda. In Silla, however, as can be seen in the well-known......
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Puyo (Ecuador)
town, east-central Ecuador. It lies along an affluent of the Pastaza River near the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains. It is a missionary settlement and an important trading centre in the Oriente region (the forested lowland jungle east of the Andes). The town’s economy is based on local trade w...
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puys (French dramatic society)
...In such a case the jongleur became known as a ménestrel and devoted more of his time to literary creation than to entertainment. Fraternities of jongleurs became known as puys, groups that held competitions for lyric poets. The jongleur reached the height of his importance in the 13th century but lapsed into decline in the 14th, when various facets of his complex......
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Puzhou (China)
town, southwestern Shanxi sheng (province), China. It stands on the east bank of the Huang He (Yellow River), on the north side of the western spur of the Zhongtiao Mountains. A short distance to the south is Fenglingdu, from which there is a ferry...
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Puzo, Mario (American author)
American novelist and screenwriter (b. Oct. 15, 1920, New York, N.Y.—d. July 2, 1999, Bay Shore, N.Y.), chronicled a fictional Mafia family, the Corleones, in The Godfather (1969), which became one of the most successful novels ever—selling some 21 million copies worldwide, spawning three critically and financially successful motion pictures, and placing its character...
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Puzrish-Dagan (ancient structure, Nippur, Iraq)
...revenues not directly granted by a temple or a “palace,” such as by the king’s or an ensi’s household. The traditional picture is derived from the sources, the state archives of Puzrish-Dagan, a gigantic “stockyard” situated outside the gates of Nippur, which supplied the city’s temples with sacrificial animals but inevitably also comprise...
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Puzur-Ashur III (king of Assyria)
...kingdom of the Mitanni for a long time, it seems that Ashur retained a certain autonomy. Located close to the boundary with Babylonia, it played that empire off against Mitanni whenever possible. Puzur-Ashur III concluded a border treaty with Babylonia about 1480, as did Ashur-bel-nisheshu about 1405. Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (c. 1392–c. 1383) was even able to obtain support......
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puzzle
...kingdom of the Mitanni for a long time, it seems that Ashur retained a certain autonomy. Located close to the boundary with Babylonia, it played that empire off against Mitanni whenever possible. Puzur-Ashur III concluded a border treaty with Babylonia about 1480, as did Ashur-bel-nisheshu about 1405. Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (c. 1392–c. 1383) was even able to obtain support.......
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puzzle game, electronic (electronic game genre)
electronic game genre, typically involving the use of logic, pattern recognition, or deduction....
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PV device (technology)
...photothermal and photovoltaic technologies. In photothermal devices, sunlight is used to heat a substance, as, for example, water, to produce steam with which to drive a generator. Photovoltaic devices, on the other hand, convert the energy in sunlight directly to electricity by use of the photovoltaic effect in a semiconductor junction. Solar panels consisting of photovoltaic......
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PVA (chemical compound)
a colourless, water-insoluble resin belonging to the family of organic polymers, prepared by treating its monomer, vinyl acetate, with peroxide catalysts. In its most important application, polyvinyl acetate comprises the film-forming ingredient of water-based (latex) paints; it also is used in adhesives, lacquers, and cements and as the starting material for making po...
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PVA (chemical compound)
a colourless, water-soluble, flammable resin belonging to the family of organic polymers. The resin is used in sizing agents that confer resistance to oils and greases upon paper and textiles, to make films resistant to attack by solvents or oxygen, as a component of adhesives and emulsifiers, and as a starting material for the preparation of other resins....
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PVAc (chemical compound)
a colourless, water-insoluble resin belonging to the family of organic polymers, prepared by treating its monomer, vinyl acetate, with peroxide catalysts. In its most important application, polyvinyl acetate comprises the film-forming ingredient of water-based (latex) paints; it also is used in adhesives, lacquers, and cements and as the starting material for making po...
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PVB (chemical compound)
...of additional resinous substances. Polyvinyl formal, made by the reaction with formaldehyde, and polyvinyl acetal, from acetaldehyde, are employed in making lacquers, coatings, and films; polyvinyl butyral, from butyraldehyde, is produced as a tough, clear, adhesive, and water-resistant film widely used in laminating glass to make it shatterproof (......
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PVC (chemical compound)
a synthetic resin belonging to the family of polymeric organic compounds, manufactured by treating vinyl chloride with a peroxide catalyst, usually in aqueous suspension or emulsion. After mixing with plasticizers, stabilizers, and p...
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PVD
...distributing the particles evenly over the surface. On the other hand, truly thin films (that is, films less than one micrometre thick) can be produced by such advanced techniques as physical vapour deposition (PVD) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD). PVD methods include laser ablation, in which a high-energy laser blasts material from a target and through a vapour to a......
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PVDC (chemical compound)
Vinylidene chloride (chemical formula CH2=CCl2, polymer repeating unit structure −[CH2−CCl2−]) can be made directly from ethylene and chlorine or by the further chlorination of vinyl chloride with subsequent removal of hydrogen chloride by alkali treatment. It is polymerized in suspension or......
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PVDF (chemical compound)
Polyvinyl fluoride is frequently extruded into transparent film of excellent weatherability; as such, it is laminated as a protective layer onto outdoor surfaces such as solar collectors. Polyvinylidene fluoride is made into injection-molded objects and extruded films for electrical applications. Polyvinylidene fluoride is also piezoelectric (changing its electrical charge in response to......
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PVF (chemical compound)
...three other industrial polymers begins with PVAc. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a water-soluble polymer employed in textile and paper treatment, is made by hydrolyzing PVAc. Polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and polyvinyl formal (PVF) are manufactured from PVA by reaction with butyraldehyde (CH3CH2CH2CHO) and formaldehyde (CH2O), respectively. PVB is employed as a.....
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PVF (chemical compound)
a synthetic resin belonging to the family of organic polymers. It is a tough material resistant to attack by chemicals or by weathering, produced by treating vinyl fluoride under pressure in the presence of oxygen and peroxide catalysts. It is commonly manufactured in the form of films for use in coating such surfaces as si...
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PVV (political party, Netherlands)
...the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid; PvdA); the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie; VVD); the Socialist Party; Democrats 66 (D66); and the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid; PVV), led by Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam populist, who draws on support for the now defunct List Pim......
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PW (international law)
(pow, or Pw), any person captured or interned by a belligerent power during war. In the strictest sense it is applied only to members of regularly organized armed forces, but by broader definition it has also included guerrillas, civilians who take up arms against an enemy openly, or noncombatants associated with a military force....
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PWA (United States history)
in U.S. history, New Deal government agency (1933–39) designed to reduce unemployment and increase purchasing power through the construction of highways and public b...
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PWAP (United States federal arts project)
first of the U.S. federal art programs conceived as part of the New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Its purpose was to prove the feasibility of government patronage. It was organized in December 1933 within the Department of the Treasury with funds from the Civil Works Administration and aimed at giving meaningful work to unemployed artists. It was directed by the...
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pwe (Myanmar theatre)
...in a nonroyal context, among the masses. With the growth of nationalism and the regaining of independence, it gathered new strength. The most popular dramatic form is the pwe, which is performed outdoors. There are a variety of pwe genres, including both human and puppet theatre, and most draw subject matter from the......
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Pwo language
...on the borders of Thailand. The Karen languages are usually divided into three groups: northern (including Taungthu), central (including Bwe and Geba), and southern (including Pwo and Sgaw); only Pwo and Sgaw of the southern group have written forms....
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PWR (nuclear energy)
As noted above, LWRs are power reactors that are cooled and moderated with ordinary water. There are two basic types: the pressurized-water reactor (PWR) and the boiling-water reactor (BWR). In the first type, high-pressure, high-temperature water removes heat from the core and is then passed to a steam generator. Here the heat of the coolant is transferred to a stream of water in the generator......
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PWV area (metropolitan area, South Africa)
...which was established in 1886, had already surpassed it in size. Continued rapid growth since the early 20th century has created four major urban concentrations. Of these, by far the largest is the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging complex; centred on Johannesburg, it radiates about 45 miles (70 km) in each direction and is now mostly in Gauteng province. Other urban concentrations are centred...
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Pwyll (Celtic mythology)
in Celtic mythology, king of Dyfed, a beautiful land containing a magic caldron of plenty. He became a friend of Arawn, king of Annwn (the underworld), and exchanged shapes and kingdoms with him for a year and a day, thus gaining the name Pwyll Pen Annwn (“Head of Annwn”). With the aid of the goddess ...
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Pwyll Pen Annwn (Celtic mythology)
in Celtic mythology, king of Dyfed, a beautiful land containing a magic caldron of plenty. He became a friend of Arawn, king of Annwn (the underworld), and exchanged shapes and kingdoms with him for a year and a day, thus gaining the name Pwyll Pen Annwn (“Head of Annwn”). With the aid of the goddess ...
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pya zat (drama)
...in Konmara (c. 1875), U Ku in The Orangoutan Brother and Sister (1875), and others created a new type of drama, pya zat, that mixed royalty and commoners, emphasized humour, and added songs to appeal to a popular city audience. Hundreds of these works were published. Popular troupes in contempor...
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Pyandzh River (river, Asia)
headstream of the Amu Darya in Central Asia. It is 700 miles (1,125 km) long and constitutes part of the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The Panj River is formed between the Hindu Kush and the Pamir Mountains by the junction of the Vākhān River...
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Pyanepsia (Greek festival)
in ancient Greek religion, a festival in honour of Apollo, held at Athens on the seventh day of the month of Pyanopsion (October). The festival’s rites incorporated remnants of rustic magic, including two offerings, consisting of a hodgepodge of pulse (edible seeds) and a branch of olive or laurel bound with wool, around which were hung fruits of the season, pastries, and...
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Pyanopsia (Greek festival)
in ancient Greek religion, a festival in honour of Apollo, held at Athens on the seventh day of the month of Pyanopsion (October). The festival’s rites incorporated remnants of rustic magic, including two offerings, consisting of a hodgepodge of pulse (edible seeds) and a branch of olive or laurel bound with wool, around which were hung fruits of the season, pastries, and...
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Pyany Byk (ravine, Russia)
...the northern Baikal Mountains. The width of the river valley varies from 1 to 6 miles (2 to 10 km), but occasionally it narrows in ravines to only 700 feet (200 metres). The best-known ravine, named Pyany Byk (Russian: “Drunken Bull”), is situated 147 miles (237 km) below Kirensk....
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Pyapon (Myanmar)
town, southern Myanmar (Burma). It lies along the Pyapon River, 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Yangon (Rangoon). It is a rice-collecting centre and the site of a diesel electric plant. The surrounding area, part of the Irrawaddy River delta, is drained by the Pyapon and Bogale distributaries, and its broken coastline fronts t...
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Pyarnu (Estonia)
city, Estonia, at the mouth of the Pärnu River on Pärnu Bay of the Gulf of Riga. First mentioned in 1251 as a member of the Hanseatic League, Pärnu was successively controlled by the ...
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Pyat, Aimé-Félix (French journalist and politician)
French journalist, dramatist, and member of the Paris Commune of 1871....
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Pyat, Félix (French journalist and politician)
French journalist, dramatist, and member of the Paris Commune of 1871....
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Pyatakov, Georgy Leonidovich (Soviet official)
Old Bolshevik economist who held prominent administrative posts in the Soviet government during the 1920s and ’30s. He was a victim of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge....
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Pyatigorsk (Russia)
city, Stavropol kray (territory), southwestern Russia. It lies along the Podkumok River in the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It has long been a spa famous for its gentle climate and mineral springs....
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Pyay (Myanmar)
town, southern Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River. It is a trading centre and the site of a diesel electric plant. The name Prome is a mispronunciation of the town’s Burmese name by non-Burmese natives and the British; it has become so conventional as to be virtually official. The Burmans call the town Pyay (...
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Pycnanthemum (plant)
Other members of the family Lamiaceae are also called mints: Monarda, the bergamots, are called horsemint; Pycnanthemum is called mountain mint; Nepeta cataria is called catnip, or catmint; Cunila origanoides is called stonemint, or Maryland dittany;......
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pycnidia (biology)
variable and complex flask-shaped asexual reproductive structure, or fruiting body, in fungi (kingdom Fungi) of the phylum Ascomycota; also a male sex-cell-producing organ in the order Uredinales (rust fungi). It bears spores (conidia) variously known as pycnidiospores, oidia, or spermat...
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pycnidiospore (fungal structure)
...brown or colourless; the Pertusaria spore, however, is a single cell containing 200 nuclei. Another type of fungal spore may be what are sometimes called spermatia (male fungal sex cells) or pycnidiospores; it is not certain that these structures have the ability to germinate and develop into a fungal colony. Few lichen fungi produce conidia, a type of asexual spore common among......
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pycnidium (biology)
variable and complex flask-shaped asexual reproductive structure, or fruiting body, in fungi (kingdom Fungi) of the phylum Ascomycota; also a male sex-cell-producing organ in the order Uredinales (rust fungi). It bears spores (conidia) variously known as pycnidiospores, oidia, or spermat...
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pycnocline (geology)
in geology, boundary separating two liquid layers of different densities. In oceans a large density difference between surface waters (or upper 100 metres [330 feet]) and deep ocean water effectively prevents vertical currents; the one exception is in polar regions where pycnocline is absent. Formation of pycnocline may resu...
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Pycnodontiformes (paleontology)
order of extinct fishes of the class Actinopterygii, containing the genus Pycnodus, common in the Jurassic seas of 200 million to 146 million years ago. Pycnodus is typical of pycnodonts, which were characterized by deep, narrow bodies that were very circular in outline in side view. The pycnodonts had a downturned beak and small mouth with an abundance of bulblike, rounded teeth wit...
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pycnogonid (Pycnogonida)
any of the spiderlike marine animals comprising the class Pycnogonida (also called Pantopoda) of the phylum Arthropoda. Sea spiders walk about on the ocean bottom on their slender legs or crawl among plants and animals; some may tread water....
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Pycnogonida (Pycnogonida)
any of the spiderlike marine animals comprising the class Pycnogonida (also called Pantopoda) of the phylum Arthropoda. Sea spiders walk about on the ocean bottom on their slender legs or crawl among plants and animals; some may tread water....
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pycnometer (instrument)
...aid in the quantitative analysis of aqueous sugar solutions. Liquid densities usually are measured by using a calibrated glass vessel called a pycnometer, which typically has a volume of about 10 millilitres. The vessel is weighed by using an analytical balance with an accuracy of at......
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Pycnonotidae (bird)
any of about 119 species of birds of the family Pycnonotidae (order Passeriformes) of Africa and Asia, including some called greenbuls and brownbuls. Members range in size from 14 to 28 cm (5.5 to 11 inches) long. They are active, noisy, plain-coloured birds that sometimes damage orchards. Representative of the 47 species of the genus Pycnonotus is the ...
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Pycnopodia helianthoides (echinoderm)
...most common sea star of the American Pacific coast is P. ochraceus, a five-rayed species sometimes 35 cm (14 inches) across; it is usually reddish but has other colour phases. The many-rayed sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) of Alaska to California has 15 to 24 arms and is often 60 cm (24 inches) across.......
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Pydna, Battle of (ancient Roman history)
(June 22, 168 bc), decisive military engagement in the Roman victory over Macedonia in the Third Macedonian War. The Roman general Lucius Aemilius Paullus, by means of adroit tactical maneuvering, enticed the Macedonian king Perseus from his impregnable position on the Elpeus (Mavrólon...
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Pyè (Myanmar)
town, southern Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River. It is a trading centre and the site of a diesel electric plant. The name Prome is a mispronunciation of the town’s Burmese name by non-Burmese natives and the British; it has become so conventional as to be virtually official. The Burmans call the town Pyay (...
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Pye, Henry James (British poet)
British poet laureate from 1790 to 1813....
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pyelogram (medicine)
...directly into the area being examined. Tumours, tuberculous abscesses, kidney stones, and obstruction by prostatic enlargement may be detected by this method. Specific types of urography include pyelography (examination of the kidney and ureter) and cystography (examination of the bladder). Motion-picture “voiding cystograms” provide evidence of gross reflux of urine into the......
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pyelography (medicine)
...directly into the area being examined. Tumours, tuberculous abscesses, kidney stones, and obstruction by prostatic enlargement may be detected by this method. Specific types of urography include pyelography (examination of the kidney and ureter) and cystography (examination of the bladder). Motion-picture “voiding cystograms” provide evidence of gross reflux of urine into the......
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pyelonephritis (pathology)
infection and inflammation of the kidney tissue and the renal pelvis (the cavity formed by the expansion of the upper end of the ureter, the tube that conveys urine to the bladder). The infection is usually bacterial. The most common type of renal disorder, pyelonephritis may be chronic or acute....
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Pygathrix (primate)
any of three colourful species of langur monkeys found in the tropical forests of central and southern Vietnam, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. Doucs are among the most strikingly coloured primates. The head is brownish, but the body appears blue-gray owing to black-and-white bands on each hair. The tail and long cheek whiskers are...
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Pygathrix cinerea (primate)
...black legs, gray arms, and a darker face. The ranges of the two species overlap, apparently with very little interbreeding, in the Southern Highlands of Vietnam. In the 1990s a third species, the gray-legged douc (P. cinerea), was discovered in Vietnam in a few isolated forests around 14° N....
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Pygathrix nemaeus (primate)
The red-legged douc (P. nemaeus) lives from 14° to 20° N latitude. The legs are maroon below the knees, and the forearms are white. The black-shanked douc (P. nigripes) is found south of 14° N and has black legs, gray arms, and a darker face. The ranges of the two species overlap, apparently with very little interbreedi...
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Pygathrix nigripes (primate)
The red-legged douc (P. nemaeus) lives from 14° to 20° N latitude. The legs are maroon below the knees, and the forearms are white. The black-shanked douc (P. nigripes) is found south of 14° N and has black legs, gray arms, and a darker face. The ranges of the two species overlap, apparently with very little interbreedi...
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Pygge, Edward (British author and critic)
British television critic and author of inventive and intellectual novels about obsessed characters curious about the past....
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Pygmalion (work by Benda)
...toured Italy (1765–66) and composed Italian operas and intermezzi, but the works that won him renown throughout Europe were his melodramas Ariadne auf Naxos, Medea (both 1775), and Pygmalion (1779), in which an orchestral accompaniment was provided for the action and spoken words. Benda also wrote several Singspiele (“song-plays”), of which the most......
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Pygmalion (opera by Rameau)
The zenith of Rameau’s career may be said to have encompassed the brief span from 1748, when he tossed off the masterpiece Pygmalion in eight days and had six other operas on the boards, through 1754, when he wrote La Naissance d’Osiris (“The Birth of Osiris”) for the birth of the future ......
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Pygmalion (Greek mythology)
in Greek mythology, a king who was the father of Metharme and, through her marriage to Cinyras, the grandfather of Adonis, according to Apollodorus of Athens. The Roman poet Ovid, in his Metamorphoses...
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Pygmalion (ballet by Sallé)
...a highly ambitious dramatic dancer. Despairing of the opéras-ballets of Paris, she went to London, where she performed in pantomimes and produced a miniature dance-drama of her own, Pygmalion (1734). In it she appeared in a flimsy muslin dress and loose, flowing hair rather than the heavy costumes and elaborate wigs usually worn by ballerinas. Thus lightened, the dancer was...
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Pygmalion (play by Shaw)
Possibly Shaw’s comedic masterpiece, and certainly his funniest and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913). It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its antiheroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. The play is about the training Higgins gives to a Coc...
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Pygmalion (film by Asquith and Howard [1938])
Screenplay: George Bernard Shaw; adaptation by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb for PygmalionOriginal Story: Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary for Boys TownCinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg for The Great WaltzArt Direction: Carl J. Weyl for The Adventures of Robin......
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pygmoid (people)
in anthropology, member of any human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 inches (150 cm) in average height. A member of a slightly taller group is termed pygmoid....
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Pygmy (people)
in anthropology, member of any human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 inches (150 cm) in average height. A member of a slightly taller group is termed pygmoid....
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pygmy anomalure (rodent)
Large and pygmy anomalures are nocturnal and nest in hollow trees, entering and exiting through holes located at various heights along the trunk. Colonies of up to 100 pygmy anomalures live in some trees. Large anomalures gnaw bark and then lick the exuding sap; they also eat flowers, leaves, nuts, termites, and ants. Pygmy anomalures eat oil palm pulp and insects but also gnaw bark, possibly......
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pygmy anteater (mammal)
Also known as the two-toed, pygmy, or dwarf anteater, the silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) is the smallest and least-known member of the family. The silky anteater is found from southern Mexico southward to Bolivia and Brazil. It is not rare but is difficult to spot because it is nocturnal and lives high in......
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pygmy beaked whale (mammal)
...features are small rounded flippers and a dorsal fin located toward the rear of the body. Ranging in length from 3.7 metres (12.1 feet) for the dwarf, or pygmy, beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus) to nearly 13 metres for the giant bottlenose whale (Berardius bairdii), these mammals weigh between 1,000 and......
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pygmy chimpanzee (mammal)
ape that was regarded as a subspecies of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) until 1933, when it was first classified separately. The bonobo is found only in lowland rainforests along the south bank of the Congo River in the ...
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pygmy corydoras (fish)
There are more than 100 species. Popular aquarium pets include: the bronze corydoras (C. aeneus), a common, metallic brown or green fish with a large dark patch on its body; the dwarf, or pygmy, corydoras (C. hastatus), an active, 4-centimetre-long species with a black band on each side; the leopard corydoras (C. julii), a silvery catfish patterned in black with stripes,......
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pygmy crake (bird)
...(Limnocorax flavirostra) is a 20-centimetre- (8-inch-) long form, black with a green bill and pink legs. It is less secretive than most. Pygmy crakes (Sarothrura species), about 14 cm (6 inches) long, are very secretive, inhabiting swampy African forests. Other New World crakes are the several species of Laterallus......
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