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Pelagius (Christian cardinal and crusader)
...Crusaders had captured a strategic tower at Damietta. In September the expedition organized under papal auspices and consisting mainly of French Crusaders arrived under the legate Cardinal-Legate Pelagius. Since Pelagius maintained that the Crusaders were under the jurisdiction of the church, he declined to accept the leadership of John of Brienne and often interfered in military decisions....
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Pelagius I (pope)
pope from 556 to 561. His ecclesiastical roles under popes St. Agapetus I, St. Silverius, and Vigilius were highly important in the history of the church....
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Pelagius II (pope)
pope from 579 to 590....
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Pelamis platurus (reptile)
Reptiles occur in most habitats, from the open sea to the middle elevations in mountainous habitats. The yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus) spends all its life in marine environments. It feeds and gives birth far from any coastline and is helpless if washed ashore, whereas other sea snakes live in coastal waters of estuaries......
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Pelargonium (genus Pelargonium)
any of a group of about 300 species of perennial herbs or shrubs in the family Geraniaceae, native mostly to subtropical southern Africa. Geraniums are among the most popular of bedding and greenhouse plants. The closely related genus Pelargonium contains some 280 species of annual, biennial, and perennial ......
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Pelargonium × domesticum (plant)
...ornamentals. Geranium oil, used in perfumes, is produced by Pelargonium odoratissimum and related species. The florist’s geranium (Pelargonium ×domesticum) is a favourite house plant and is available in many varieties. These cultivars (horticultural......
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Pelargonium × hortorum (plant)
...(P. × domesticum, largely derived from P. cucullatum, P. angulosum, and P. grandiflorum) have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P. inguinans and P. zonale) are the familiar forms in garden culture and in pots indoors.......
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Pelargonium abrotanifolium (plant)
...peltatum) are grown as basket plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy fragrances are released readily when their leaves are rubbed...
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Pelargonium angulosum (plant)
The show, or Martha Washington, geraniums (P. × domesticum, largely derived from P. cucullatum, P. angulosum, and P. grandiflorum) have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P.......
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Pelargonium capitatum (plant)
...grown as basket plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy fragrances are released readily when their leaves are rubbed or bruised....
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Pelargonium citrosum (plant)
...plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy fragrances are released readily when their leaves are rubbed or bruised....
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Pelargonium crispum (plant)
...and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy fragrances are released readily when their leaves are rubbed or bruised....
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Pelargonium cucullatum (plant)
The show, or Martha Washington, geraniums (P. × domesticum, largely derived from P. cucullatum, P. angulosum, and P. grandiflorum) have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P.......
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Pelargonium grandiflorum (plant)
...show, or Martha Washington, geraniums (P. × domesticum, largely derived from P. cucullatum, P. angulosum, and P. grandiflorum) have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P. inguinans....
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Pelargonium graveolens (plant)
...they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found in several species, including P. abrotanifolium, P. capitatum, P. citrosum, P. crispum, P. graveolens, and P. odoratissimum. Minty, fruity, floral, and spicy fragrances are released readily when their leaves are rubbed or bruised....
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Pelargonium inguinans (plant)
...and P. grandiflorum) have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P. inguinans and P. zonale) are the familiar forms in garden culture and in pots indoors. Ivy, or hanging, geraniums (P. peltatum) are grown as basket plants indoors and out; they......
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Pelargonium odoratissimum (plant)
...The family is known for the production of essential oils and cultivated ornamentals. Geranium oil, used in perfumes, is produced by Pelargonium odoratissimum and related species. The florist’s geranium (Pelargonium ×domesticum) is a favourite ......
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pelargonium oil
Several African Pelargonium species are commercially important for geranium oil, an essential oil used in perfumery. Geranium oil, which is also called pelargonium oil, or rose-geranium oil, is colourless to pale yellow-brown or greenish and has an odour like that of roses. It is......
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Pelargonium peltatum (plant)
...or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P. inguinans and P. zonale) are the familiar forms in garden culture and in pots indoors. Ivy, or hanging, geraniums (P. peltatum) are grown as basket plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground covers in warm areas. The aromatic, or scented-leaved, geraniums are found i...
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Pelargonium zonale (plant)
...have large pansylike flowers, few to the cluster. Zonal, house, or bedding geraniums (P. × hortorum, a complex hybrid largely derived from P. inguinans and P. zonale) are the familiar forms in garden culture and in pots indoors. Ivy, or hanging, geraniums (P. peltatum) are grown as basket plants indoors and out; they are also used as ground......
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Pelasgi (people)
the people who occupied Greece before the 12th century bc. The name was used only by ancient Greeks. The Pelasgi were mentioned as a specific people by several Greek authors, including Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides, and were said to have inhabited various areas, such as Thrace, Argos, Crete, and Chalcidice. In the 5th century bc the surviving villages apparently pres...
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Pelasgians (people)
the people who occupied Greece before the 12th century bc. The name was used only by ancient Greeks. The Pelasgi were mentioned as a specific people by several Greek authors, including Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides, and were said to have inhabited various areas, such as Thrace, Argos, Crete, and Chalcidice. In the 5th century bc the surviving villages apparently pres...
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Pelavicino, Oberto (Italian leader)
leader of the Ghibelline (imperial) party in northern Italy and powerful supporter of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and his sons....
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Pelayo (king of Asturias)
founder of the Christian kingdom of Asturias in northern Spain, which survived through the period of Moorish hegemony to become the spearhead of the Christian Reconquista in the later Middle Ages....
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Pelé (Brazilian athlete)
football (soccer) player, in his time probably the most famous and possibly the best-paid athlete in the world. He was part of the Brazilian national teams that won three World Cup championships (1958, 1962, and 1970)....
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Pele (Hawaiian deity)
...flows, contains the Halema‘uma‘u (“Fern House”) Crater, an inner crater that is Kilauea’s most active vent. Halema‘uma‘u is the legendary home of Pele, the Hawaiian fire goddess. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is at Uwēkahuna Bluff on the western rim of Kilauea, near Halema‘uma‘u....
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Pelean eruption (volcanism)
A Pelean eruption is associated with explosive outbursts that generate pyroclastic flows, dense mixtures of hot volcanic fragments and gas described in the section Lava, gas, and other hazards. Pelean eruptions are named for the destructive eruption of Mount Pelée on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1902. The fluidized slurries......
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Pelecani (bird suborder)
...thin-shelled egg. Young naked at birth, soon acquire thick white down. 1 genus, Fregata; 5 living species; worldwide in tropical oceans.Suborder Pelecani Horny sheath of bill divided by deep grooves (largely suppressed in anhingas). Naked gular pouch; facial skin and pouch colourful, especially in bree...
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Pelecanidae (bird)
any of seven or eight species of water birds constituting the family Pelecanidae (order Pelecaniformes), distinguished by their large, elastic throat pouches. Pelicans inhabit lakes, rivers, and seacoasts in many parts of the world. With some species reaching a length of 180 cm (70 inches), having a wingspan of 3 m (10 feet), and weighing up to 13 kg (30 pounds), they are among the largest of livi...
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pelecaniform (bird)
any of the relatively large and diverse group of aquatic birds that share the common characteristic of webbing between all four toes. Order Pelecaniformes contains the three suborders Fregatae, Pelecani, and Phaethontes and the six families Ahingidae (ahingas or snakebirds), Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants), Phaethontidae (tropic bird...
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Pelecaniformes (bird)
any of the relatively large and diverse group of aquatic birds that share the common characteristic of webbing between all four toes. Order Pelecaniformes contains the three suborders Fregatae, Pelecani, and Phaethontes and the six families Ahingidae (ahingas or snakebirds), Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants), Phaethontidae (tropic bird...
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Pelecanoides garnotii (bird)
...The smallest and most widespread is the common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), about 16 cm (6.5 inches) long; the largest is the Peruvian diving petrel (P. garnotii), about 25 cm long, restricted to the west coast of South America from about 6° to 37°...
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Pelecanoides urinatrix (bird)
...evolution. Like the auks, black-and-white diving petrels are short-winged and heavy-bodied and use their wings for propulsion underwater. The smallest and most widespread is the common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), about 16 cm (6.5 inches) long; the largest is the Peruvian diving petrel (P.......
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Pelecanoididae (bird)
any of five species of small seabirds of the sub-Antarctic regions that constitute the family Pelecanoididae (order Procellariiformes). Although their nearest relatives are the storm petrels, shearwaters, and albatrosses, diving petrels differ from th...
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Pelecanus (bird genus)
any of five species of small seabirds of the sub-Antarctic regions that constitute the family Pelecanoididae (order Procellariiformes). Although their nearest relatives are the storm petrels, shearwaters, and albatrosses, diving petrels differ from th...
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Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
The best-known pelicans are the two species called white pelicans: Pelecanus erythrorhynchos of the New World, the North American white pelican, and P. onocrotalus of the Old World, the European white pelican. The smaller, 107–137-centimetre brown pelican (P. occidentalis) of the New World is a coastal species......
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Pelecanus occidentalis (bird)
(Pelecanus occidentalis), pelican species common along the southern U.S. coast. See pelican....
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Pelecanus onocrotalus (bird)
...pelicans: Pelecanus erythrorhynchos of the New World, the North American white pelican, and P. onocrotalus of the Old World, the European white pelican. The smaller, 107–137-centimetre brown pelican (P. occidentalis) of the New World is a coastal species listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service....
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Pelecypoda (class of mollusks)
Any member of the mollusk class Bivalvia, or Pelecypoda, characterized by having a two-halved (valved) shell....
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Pelee Island (island, Ontario, Canada)
island, in Lake Erie, southern Ontario, Canada. It lies near the Ohio boundary, a few miles south of Point Pelee National Park and has an area of 18 square miles (47 square km). Originally leased from the Indians b...
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Pelée, Montagne (volcano, Martinique)
active volcanic mountain on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Situated 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Fort-de-France, it reaches an elevation of 4,583 feet (1,397 metres). Pelée, whose name is a French term meaning “Bald,” consists of layers of ...
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Pelée, Mount (volcano, Martinique)
active volcanic mountain on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Situated 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Fort-de-France, it reaches an elevation of 4,583 feet (1,397 metres). Pelée, whose name is a French term meaning “Bald,” consists of layers of ...
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Peleng (island, Indonesia)
...Sulawesi Tengah provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. The archipelago is situated between the Sula and Celebes islands at the entrance to Tolo Gulf. Peleng, the largest of the Banggai Islands, is well forested and mountainous; the bays affording anchorage have reefs. The chief town and port of the group is Banggai, which is on the western coast......
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Pèlerin de Maricourt, Pierre (French scientist)
French crusader and scholar who wrote the first extant treatise describing the properties of magnets....
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Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (work by Guillaume de Deguileville)
...such authorities as Augustine, Prudentius, Martianus Capella, and, in the late 12th century, Alain de Lille. It was used widely in religious and moralizing works, as in the long Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (“The Pilgrimage of Human Life”) by Guillaume de Deguileville, Dante’s contemporary and a precursor of John Bunyan. But the most influ...
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“Pélerins de la Mecque, Les” (opera by Gluck)
...(1760), and Le Cadi dupé (1761), which contained, in addition to the overture, a steadily increasing number of new songs in place of the stock vaudeville tunes. In La Rencontre imprévue, first performed in Vienna on Jan. 7, 1764, no vaudeville elements remain at all, with the result that the work is a perfect example of opéra......
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Peletier, Jacques (French poet)
French poet and critic whose knowledge and love of Greek and Latin poetry earned him a membership in the important and prestigious group of French poetry reformers known as La Pléiade....
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Peleus (Greek mythology)
in Greek mythology, king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly; he was most famous as the husband of Thetis (a sea nymph) and the father of the hero Achilles, whom he outlived. When Peleus and his brother Telamon were banished from their father Aeacus’ kingdom of Aegina, Peleus went to Phthia to be purified...
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Peleus Taming Thetis (pelike by Marsyas Painter)
...late Classical period, known for a pelike (wine container), now in the British Museum, of “Peleus Taming Thetis,” and for a “Nuptial Lebes” (the bringing of gifts to the newly wed bride), now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg. Both vases date from 340–...
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Pelevin, Viktor (Russian writer)
The reputation of the Russian writer Viktor Pelevin continued to grow among readers in the West in 2000. Buddha’s Little Finger, the English translation of his novel Chapayev i pustota (1996), appeared during the year, and a number of articles about him turned up in the popular press. His depiction of the grotesqueries and absurdities of contemporary life in his country, of it...
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Pelew
Island country, western Pacific Ocean....
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Pelger, Susanne (Swedish zoologist)
...because it was “an organ of extreme perfection and complication.” Thus, it might be expected that eye evolution would take a long time. In 1994 Swedish zoologists Dan-Eric Nilsson and Susanne Pelger took up the challenge of “evolving” an eye of the fish type from a patch of photosensitive skin. Using pessimistic estimates of variation, heritability, and selection......
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Pelham (Massachusetts, United States)
...of the Hawthornes. Past the Old Mill and Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury are Worcester and then Springfield, where the armoury and arsenal are reminders of the city’s famous rifle. In nearby Pelham the town hall complex has the oldest continuously used meetinghouse in the country and a monument to Capt. Daniel Shays, who l...
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Pelham (work by Lytton of Knebworth)
...he visited Paris and Versailles. Back in England, he met Rosina Doyle Wheeler, an Irish woman, whom he married in 1827. He published an unsuccessful novel during the same year, but Pelham (1828), the adventures of a dandy, inaugurated his career as a fluent, popular novelist. The couple’s extravagant style of living necessitated a large output of work, and the strain made......
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Pelham (horsemanship)
The Pelham is a snaffle with a straight mouthpiece; cheekpieces with rings at the lower ends for curb action; and a curb chain, with which pressure may be applied to the lower outside of the mouth. The Pelham gives control with only slight discomfort and is popular for polo....
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Pelham, Henry (prime minister of United Kingdom)
prime minister of Great Britain from 1743 to 1754. A somewhat colourless politician, he worked for peace abroad and introduced important financial reforms....
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Pelham, Peter (American artist)
Little is known of Copley’s boyhood. He gained familiarity with graphic art from his stepfather, the limner and engraver Peter Pelham, and developed an early sense of vocation: before he was 20 he was already an accomplished draughtsman. Copley soon discovered that his skills were most pronounced in the genre of portraiture. In his......
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Pelham, Thomas (prime minister of United Kingdom)
prime minister of Great Britain from 1754 to 1756 and from 1757 to 1762. Through his control of government patronage, he wielded enormous political influence during the reigns of the kings George I and George II....
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Pelias (Greek mythology)
in Greek mythology, a king of Iolcus in Thessaly who imposed on his half-nephew Jason the task of bearing off the Golden Fleece. According to Homer, Pelias and Neleus were twin sons of Tyro (daughter of Salmoneus, founder of Salmonia in Elis) by the sea god Poseidon, who came to her disg...
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pelican (bird)
any of seven or eight species of water birds constituting the family Pelecanidae (order Pelecaniformes), distinguished by their large, elastic throat pouches. Pelicans inhabit lakes, rivers, and seacoasts in many parts of the world. With some species reaching a length of 180 cm (70 inches), having a wingspan of 3 m (10 feet), and weighing up to 13 kg (30 pounds), they are among the largest of livi...
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“Pelican” (ship)
...manned by fewer than 200 men, and reached the Brazilian coast in the spring of 1578. His flagship, the Pelican, which Drake later renamed the Golden Hind (or Hinde), weighed only about 100 tons. It seemed little enough with which to undertake a venture into the domain of the most powerful monarch......
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Pelican Rapids (Wisconsin, United States)
city, seat (1887) of Oneida county, northern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Pelican rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Wausau. It is surrounded by a heavy concentration of lakes, and Nicolet National Forest lies to the east. The city, originally called ...
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Pelican Waterholes (Queensland, Australia)
town, central Queensland, Australia, on Western Mills Creek, an intermittent tributary of the Diamantina River. Settled in 1873 and originally called Pelican Waterholes, it became a village in 1875 and a town in 1879. It was later re...
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pelican’s foot shell (gastropod family)
...and operculum greatly modified and move with a lurching motion; feed on algae and plants; some species used for human food; conchs (Strombidae) of tropical oceans and the pelican’s foot shells (Aporrhaidae) of near Arctic waters.Superfamily CalyptraeaceaCap shells (Capulidae) and slipper shells (Calyptraeidae) are ...
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Pelidnota punctata (insect)
...about 20 to 26 mm (0.8–1 inch) long. It is coloured a shining gold on the head and thorax (region behind the head) and is copper-coloured on the underside of the body. A related species, the common vine pelidnota (Pelidnota punctata), occurs throughout North America. It is bright orange-brown with three ......
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Péligot, Eugène-Melchior (French chemist)
...is a poor conductor of electricity. Though discovered (1789) by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named it after the then recently discovered planet Uranus, the metal itself was first isolated (1841) by Eugène-Melchior Péligot by the reduction of uranium tetrachloride (UCl4) with potassium....
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Péligre (Haiti)
...near the Dominican border, where they join the river proper as it turns westward, skirting the Noires Mountains as it flows to the Gulf of Gonâve. In eastern Haiti the river was impounded as Lake Péligre in the mid-20th century; a hydroelectric complex began operating at Péligre in 1971, but its power output has been unreliable during the ......
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Péligre Dam (dam, Haiti)
Large tracts of irrigated land were developed as part of the Artibonite Valley Agricultural Project. The focus of the project was the Péligre Dam, which was initiated in 1930 as a flood-control project; its completion in 1956 resulted in the creation of a large reservoir (Péligre Lake). Soil erosion, induced by forest denudation in the Artibonite valley, has resulted in severe......
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Pelikan, Jaroslav (American historian)
American historian (b. Dec. 17, 1923, Akron, Ohio—d. May 13, 2006, Hamden, Conn.), was widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of the Christian church. Pelikan earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree (1942) from Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., and a Ph.D. (1946) from the University of Chicago. He taught at Valparaiso (Ind.) University and Concordia Theological Semin...
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Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, Jr. (American historian)
American historian (b. Dec. 17, 1923, Akron, Ohio—d. May 13, 2006, Hamden, Conn.), was widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of the Christian church. Pelikan earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree (1942) from Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., and a Ph.D. (1946) from the University of Chicago. He taught at Valparaiso (Ind.) University and Concordia Theological Semin...
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pelike (ancient Greek pottery)
Greek painter of the late Classical period, known for a pelike (wine container), now in the British Museum, of “Peleus Taming Thetis,” and for a “Nuptial Lebes” (the bringing of gifts to the newly wed bride), now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg. Both vases dat...
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Pelin, Elin (Bulgarian writer)
...and Sreshta (1908; “Meeting”) and the dramas Vampir (1902) and Svekǔrva (1906; “Mother-in-Law”). His contemporary Elin Pelin portrayed his native rural province with wit and humanity in Razkazi (1904 and 1911; “Stories”) and in the tragic novellas Geratsite (1911; “The Gerak......
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Pelion, Mount (mountain, Greece)
mountain on the Magnesia peninsula of southeastern Thessaly (Modern Greek: Thessalía), Greece, rising to 5,417 feet (1,651 m) at its highest point. Pelion peak (5,075 feet), just northeast of Vólos, has a wooded western flank overlooking a gulf whose ancient ports were Iolcus and Pagasae....
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pelisse (military uniform)
...preserved the most characteristic elements of Eastern-style dress of the 16th and 17th centuries (as well as its terminology): under the outer coat, the mente (pelisse), was the dolmány (a fitted jacket decorated with braids); tight trousers and a hat with egret feathers completed the ensemble. The style was......
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Pélissier, Aimable-Jean-Jacques, duc de Malakoff (marshal of France)
French general during the Algerian conquest and the last French commander in chief in the Crimean War....
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pelitic rock
...sedimentary rock types that can recrystallize into metamorphic rocks, most metamorphic rocks can be described with reference to only four chemical systems: pelitic, calcareous, felsic, and mafic. Pelitic rocksare derived from mudstone (shale) protoliths and are rich in potassium (K), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and water (H2O), with lesser amounts of......
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Pell, Claiborne deBorda (United States senator)
American politician who served (1961–97) as a Democratic U.S. senator from Rhode Island, during which time he became widely known as the originator of a federal program that provided financial grants to college students; known as the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants when they were created in 1972, they were renamed the Pell Grants in 1980. Pell was also credited with having spearheaded ...
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Pell equation (mathematics)
Meanwhile, Indian mathematicians were hard at work. In the 7th century Brahmagupta took up what is now (erroneously) called the Pell equation. He posed the challenge to find a perfect square that, when multiplied by 92 and increased by 1, yields another perfect square. That is, he sought whole numbers x and y such that......
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Pella (ancient city, Greece)
ancient capital of King Archelaus of Macedonia at the end of the 5th century bc and birthplace of Alexander the Great. The city lay in northern Greece, about 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Thessaloníki. Originally known as Bounomos, the city developed rapidly under Philip II, but, after the defeat of the ...
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Pellaea (plant, genus Pellaea)
any of about 40 species of ferns of the genus Pellaea (family Pteridaceae). Cliff brake ferns grow on or among rocks, mostly limestone, throughout the world. Small plants with mostly leathery leaves, they are characterized by spore-bearing structures (sporangia) that occur in round or elongated clusters (sori) on the margins of fertile leaves. Overlapping leaf margins form a protective cove...
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pellagra (pathology)
nutritional disorder caused by a dietary deficiency of niacin (also called nicotinic acid) or a failure of the body to absorb this vitamin or the amino acid tryptophan, which is converted to niacin in the body. Pellagra is characteriz...
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pellagra-preventive vitamin (vitamin)
water-soluble vitamin of the B complex. It is also called the pellagra-preventive vitamin because an adequate amount in the diet prevents pellagra, a chronic disease characterized by skin lesions, gastrointestinal disturbance, and nervous symptoms. Niacin is interchangeable in metabolism...
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Pellatt, Apsley (British craftsman)
...ceramic object is embedded. A Bohemian invention of the 18th century, cameo incrustation was taken up in Paris but had no vogue until Apsley Pellatt, an English glassmaker, developed a technique that resulted in specimens of genuine beauty. In 1819 Pellatt patented his process under the name crystallo ceramie and began to......
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“Pelle erobreren” (work by Nexø)
...son to militant labour leader. Several portraits of Danish social life emerge, including life on a rural estate and in the slums of Copenhagen. A four-volume English translation, Pelle the Conqueror, appeared in 1913–16. In 1989 and 1991 a revised version of parts 1 and 2 of the 1913–16 translation was published. Although the Academy Award-winning film mad...
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“Pelle erobreren” (film by August [1987])
...son to militant labour leader. Several portraits of Danish social life emerge, including life on a rural estate and in the slums of Copenhagen. A four-volume English translation, Pelle the Conqueror, appeared in 1913–16. In 1989 and 1991 a revised version of parts 1 and 2 of the 1913–16 translation was published. Although the Academy Award-winning film mad...
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Pelle erovraren (film by August [1987])
...son to militant labour leader. Several portraits of Danish social life emerge, including life on a rural estate and in the slums of Copenhagen. A four-volume English translation, Pelle the Conqueror, appeared in 1913–16. In 1989 and 1991 a revised version of parts 1 and 2 of the 1913–16 translation was published. Although the Academy Award-winning film mad...
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“pelle, La” (work by Malaparte)
...The Volga Rises in Europe). He then acquired an international reputation with two passionately written, brilliantly realistic war novels: Kaputt (1944); and La pelle (1949; The Skin), a terrifying, surrealistically presented series of episodes showing the suffering and degradation that the war had brought to the people of Naples....
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Pelle the Conqueror (work by Nexø)
...son to militant labour leader. Several portraits of Danish social life emerge, including life on a rural estate and in the slums of Copenhagen. A four-volume English translation, Pelle the Conqueror, appeared in 1913–16. In 1989 and 1991 a revised version of parts 1 and 2 of the 1913–16 translation was published. Although the Academy Award-winning film mad...
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“Pelle the Conqueror” (film by August [1987])
...son to militant labour leader. Several portraits of Danish social life emerge, including life on a rural estate and in the slums of Copenhagen. A four-volume English translation, Pelle the Conqueror, appeared in 1913–16. In 1989 and 1991 a revised version of parts 1 and 2 of the 1913–16 translation was published. Although the Academy Award-winning film mad...
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Pelléas et Mélisande (opera by Debussy)
...25 years, Debussy was constantly breaking new ground. Explorations, he maintained, were the essence of music; they were his musical bread and wine. His single completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande (1st perf. 1902), demonstrates how the Wagnerian technique could be adapted to portray subjects like the dreamy nightmarish figures of this opera who were......
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Pelléas et Mélisande (play by Maeterlinck)
...two one-act plays, L’Intruse (The Intruder) and Les Aveugles (The Blind). His Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), produced in Paris at the avant-garde Théâtre de l’Oeuvre by the director Aurélien Lugné-Poë, is the un...
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Pelleas und Melisande (work by Schoenberg)
...awarded by the Society for German Music. With the encouragement of Strauss, Schoenberg composed his only symphonic poem for large orchestra, Pelleas und Melisande (1902–03), after the drama by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck. Back in Vienna in 1903, Schoenberg becam...
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Pellegrin, Abbé (French librettist)
...Rameau was replaced by the younger, avant-garde composer Karl Stamitz. Meanwhile, however, admittance to La Pouplinière’s circle had brought Rameau into contact with various literary lights. Abbé Pellegrin, whose biblical opera Jephté had been successfully set to music by Rameau’s rival Michel de Montéclair in 1732, was to beco...
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Pellegrini, Carlo (Italian caricaturist)
caricaturist notable for his portraits of prominent Englishmen appearing in Vanity Fair....
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Pellegrini, Carlos (president of Argentina)
...within the army, but it was defeated by loyal elements. Even so, Juárez Celman was forced to step down in favour of the vice president, Carlos Pellegrini (1890–92), a solid ally of Roca....
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Pellegrini, Il (Italian painter)
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect who spread the style of Italian Mannerist painting in Spain during the late 16th century....
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Pellegrini, Pellegrino (Italian painter)
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect who spread the style of Italian Mannerist painting in Spain during the late 16th century....
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Pellegrino, Mount (mountain, Italy)
...at the head of the Bay of Palermo, facing east. Inland the city is enclosed by a fertile plain known as the Conca d’Oro (Golden Shell), which is planted with citrus groves and backed by mountains. Mount Pellegrino rises to a height of 1,988 feet (606 m) north of the city....
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pellet (rock texture)
...after it was deposited (intraclasts). Silt- to sand-size particles of microcrystalline calcite or aragonite that lack the internal structure of oöids or bioclasts generally are called pellets or peloids. Most are fecal pellets generated by mud-ingesting organisms. Pellets can be cemented together into irregularly shaped composite grains dubbed lumpstones or grapestones....
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pellet (bead)
...areas are required. These are accomplished by ingenious microstructural engineering of the ceramic support structure. Two types of structure are made—pellets and honeycomb monoliths. The pellets are porous beads approximately 3 millimetres (18 inch) in diameter. With a single pellet having up to 10 square millimetres of internal pore surface area,......
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