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“puertorriqueño dócil, El” (work by Marqués)
A collection of his essays, Ensayos (1966; some included in El puertorriqueño dócil [1967; The Docile Puerto Rican]), is also concerned with the problem of national identity in relation to the language, literature, and prevailing social conditions of Puerto Rico....
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (Argentine artist)
This interest in capturing the character of a specific region was shared by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, the son of one of the first presidents of the Argentine republic, who went to Paris with his family in political exile. He may have learned painting in the academy in Rio de Janeiro, but he made architecture his career after studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Successful......
Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von (German jurist and historian)
German jurist and historian, best known for his defense of the idea of natural law. He was created a baron in the last year of his life....
puff adder (snake, Bitis genus)
The puff adder (B. arietans and others) is a large extremely venomous snake found in the semiarid regions of Africa and Arabia. It is so named because it gives warning by inflating its body and hissing loudly. The puff adder is about 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) long and is coloured gray to dark brown with thin yellow chevrons on its back. It is a thick-bodied snake with a......
puff adder (reptile, Heterodon genus)
(genus Heterodon), any of three species of North American nonvenomous snakes belonging to the family Colubridae. They are named for the upturned snout, which is used for digging. These are the harmless but often-avoided puff adders, or blow snakes, of North America. When threatened, they flatten the head and neck, th...
Puff Daddy (American rapper, record producer, and clothing designer)
American rapper, record producer, and clothing designer, who founded an entertainment empire in the 1990s....
puff pastry (food)
...temperatures, exerts substantial pressure on the interior walls of bubbles already formed by other means as the interior of the loaf or cake approaches the boiling point. The expansion of such puff pastry as used for napoleons (rich desserts of puff pastry layers and whipped cream or custard) and vol-au-vents (puff pastry shells filled with meat, fowl, fish, or other mixtures) is......
Puff (the Magic Dragon) (song by Yarrow)
...movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War, Peter, Paul and Mary included protest songs in a repertoire that also featured plaintive ballads and children’s songs such as Yarrow’s “Puff (the Magic Dragon),” which often is mistakenly interpreted as drug-related. After splitting up in 1970 to pursue solo careers, the trio re-formed to release the album ......
puffback flycatcher (bird)
any of a number of small, stubby African songbirds of the family Platysteiridae; some authorities retain them in the flycatcher subfamily, Muscicapinae. Most species have bright, fleshy eye ornaments, or wattles: in the genus Platysteira they are found above the eyes in both sexes, while in Dyaphorophyia they are above and below the eyes in males and sometimes in females also. In ...
puffball (fungi)
Any of various fungi (see fungus) in the phylum Basidiomycota, found in soil or on decaying wood in grassy areas and woods. Puffballs are named for the fact that puffs of spores are released when the dry and powdery tissues of the mature spherical fruiting body (basidiocarp) are disturbed. Many are edible before matur...
puffbird (bird)
any of about 34 species of tropical American birds that constitute the family Bucconidae (order Piciformes). They are named for their habit of perching tamely in the open with the feathers of their large heads and short necks puffed out. Some species are known as nunlets and nunbirds....
puffed cereal (food)
...cereals are of four basic types: flaked, made from corn, wheat, or rice that has been broken down into grits, cooked with flavours and syrups, and then pressed into flakes between cooled rollers; puffed, made by exploding cooked wheat or rice from a pressure chamber, thus expanding the grain to several times its original size; shredded, made from pressure-cooked wheat that is squeezed into......
puffer (fish)
any of about 90 species of fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, noted for their ability when disturbed to inflate themselves so greatly with air or water that they become globular in form. Puffers are found in warm and temperate regions around the world, primarily in the sea but also, in some instances, in brackish or fresh water. They have to...
puffer fish chef (Japanese cooking)
...regions is contained in the viscera. The flesh of the poisonous species can be safely eaten only when the freshly caught specimen has been carefully cleaned and washed in the exacting manner of fugu (or puffer fish) chefs in Japan. The majority of tetraodontiforms are palatable, and in numerous tropical regions the flesh of various triggerfishes and trunkfishes is highly esteemed....
puffin (bird)
any of three species of diving birds that belong to the auk family, Alcidae (order Charadriiformes). They are distinguished by their large, brightly coloured, triangular beaks. Puffins nest in large colonies on seaside and island cliffs, usually laying only one egg, in a burrow dug one or two metres (three to six feet) deep. ...
Puffinus (bird genus)
...of long-winged oceanic birds belonging to the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes), which also includes the fulmars and the petrels. Typical shearwaters are classified in the genus Puffinus, which has approximately 20 species. Shearwaters are drab, slender-billed birds that range from 35 to 65 cm (14 to 26 inches) in length. The common name shearwater describes the......
Puffinus auricularis (bird)
Townshend’s shearwater (P. auricularis) and the Balearic shearwater (P. mauretanicus), both also 33 cm in length, are classified as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List. Townshend’s shearwater faces the greatest threat of extinction of all shearwaters, because it breeds in a single location, Socorro Island, where many individuals are preyed upon by feral cats. A p...
Puffinus griseus (bird)
Several shearwater species have extremely large geographic ranges. The sooty shearwater (P. griseus) is about 50 cm (19.5 inches) long with a wingspread of approximately 85 cm (33 inches). It breeds near Australia, New Zealand, and southern South America and winters in the offshore waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. The common, or Manx, shearwater (P. puffinus), whose length is......
Puffinus mauretanicus (bird)
Townshend’s shearwater (P. auricularis) and the Balearic shearwater (P. mauretanicus), both also 33 cm in length, are classified as critically endangered in the IUCN Red List. Townshend’s shearwater faces the greatest threat of extinction of all shearwaters, because it breeds in a single location, Socorro Island, where many individuals are preyed upon by feral cats. A p...
Puffinus puffinus (bird)
...of strong homing ability are among birds, particularly racing, or homing, pigeons; many other birds, especially seabirds and also swallows, are known to have equal or better homing abilities. A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), transported in a closed container to a point about 5,500 km (3,400 miles) from its nest, returned to the nest in 12 12......
Puffinus puffinus (bird)
...of strong homing ability are among birds, particularly racing, or homing, pigeons; many other birds, especially seabirds and also swallows, are known to have equal or better homing abilities. A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), transported in a closed container to a point about 5,500 km (3,400 miles) from its nest, returned to the nest in 12 12......
Puffinus puffinus newelli (bird)
Newell’s shearwater (P. newelli) is about 33 cm (13 inches) long and has a geographic range that spans a large portion of the North Pacific Ocean. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species classified it as endangered despite the presence of several breeding colonies throughout the Hawaiian Islands. The Newell’s shearwater population declined by some three-fifths after Hurricane ...
Puffinus tenuirostris (bird)
...where bird populations have survived, people have continued to harvest the eggs, the plump young birds (at fledging time), or both. Many thousands of slender-billed, or short-tailed, shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris) are taken on the Bass Strait islands off Tasmania and sold fresh, salted, or deep-frozen as “muttonbirds.” In all likelihood, the name muttonbird was....
Puffy AmiYumi (Japanese music group)
Japanese popular music (commonly called J-pop) group that skyrocketed to stardom in Japan in the mid-1990s and later helped to establish J-pop in the Western world. The group’s two lead singers—Ami Onuki (b. Sept. 18, 1973Tokyo, Japan) and Yumi Yoshimura...
pug (breed of dog)
breed of toy dog that probably originated in China and was introduced to England near the end of the 17th century by Dutch traders. The pug has a short muzzle and a tightly curled tail. It is a squarely built, muscular dog, with a large head, prominent, dark eyes, and small, drooping ears. At maturity it stands 10 to 11 inches (25.5 to 28 cm) and weighs about 14 to 18 pounds (6 ...
Pugachev, Yemelyan Ivanovich (Russian leader)
leader of a major Cossack and peasant rebellion in Russia (Pugachov Rebellion, 1773–75)....
Pugacheva, Alla Borisovna (Russian singer)
Russian popular singer, known for her unique combination of Slavic musical sensibility and Western musical aesthetics....
Pugachov, Yemelyan Ivanovich (Russian leader)
leader of a major Cossack and peasant rebellion in Russia (Pugachov Rebellion, 1773–75)....
Puget, Pierre (French sculptor)
the most original of French Baroque sculptors, also a painter and architect....
Puget Sound (inlet, United States)
deep inlet of the eastern North Pacific Ocean indenting northwestern Washington, U.S. It stretches south for 100 miles (160 km) from Admiralty Inlet and Whidbey Island (beyond which lie the straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca). Hood Canal is a large western extension. The sound is the submerged northern end of the Cowlitz-Puget trough, which...
Pugettia producta (crab)
Pacific species of spider crab....
puggala (religious concept)
Matter (pudgala) has the characteristics of touch, taste, smell, and colour; however, its essential characteristic is lack of consciousness. The smallest unit of matter is the atom (paramanu). Heat, light, and shade are all forms of fine matter....
Puggalapannatti (Buddhist text)
...a kind of supplement to the Dhammasangani, treating many of the same topics, (3) Dhatukatha (“Discussion of Elements”), another supplementary work, (4) Puggalapannatti (“Designation of Person”), largely a collection of excerpts from the Anguttara Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka, classifying human......
Pugh, Virginia Wynette (American singer)
American singer, who was revered as the “first lady of country music” from the 1950s to the ’80s, perhaps best known for her 1968 hit Stand by Your Man....
Pughe-Morgan, Piers Stefan (British journalist and television personality)
British journalist and media figure who attracted controversy as a tabloid editor for his aggressive tactics in breaking stories and who later achieved international fame as a television personality. Beginning in 2011, he hosted the talk show Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN....
pugilism (sport)
sport, both amateur and professional, involving attack and defense with the fists. Boxers usually wear padded gloves and generally observe the code set forth in the marquess of Queensberry rules. Matched in weight and ability, boxing contestants try to land blows hard and often with their fists, each attempting to avoid the blows of the opponent. A boxer wins a match either by o...
pugilistic parkinsonism (pathology)
...also causes a form of toxin-induced parkinsonism. The ability of this substance to destroy neurons suggests that an environmental toxin similar to MPTP may be responsible for Parkinson disease. Pugilistic parkinsonism results from head trauma and has affected professional boxers such as Jack Dempsey and Muhammad Ali. The parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam, which occurs among the Chamorro......
Pugin, A. W. N. (British architect and author)
English architect, designer, author, theorist, and leading figure in the English Roman Catholic and Gothic revivals....
Pugin, Auguste Charles (French architect)
...Rude, the creator of the Marseillaise panel on the Arc de Triomphe, showed any signs of the new passions. As for architecture, it may have been the love of history that prevented distinctive work. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc did grasp the principles of what a new style should be, the former’s love of Gothic reinstating the merit of framework construction and the latter’s breadth of v...
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (British architect and author)
English architect, designer, author, theorist, and leading figure in the English Roman Catholic and Gothic revivals....
Puglia (region, Italy)
regione, southeastern Italy. It extends from the Fortore River in the northwest to Cape Santa Maria di Leuca at the tip of the Salentine Peninsula (the “heel” of Italy) and comprises the provincie of Bari, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Brindisi, Foggia, Lecce, and Taranto. The northern third of the region is centred on the Puglia Tableland, which is flanked ...
Puglia, Plain of (plain, Italy)
Plains cover less than one-fourth of the area of Italy. Some of these, such as the Po valley and the Apulian Plain, are ancient sea gulfs filled by alluvium. Others, such as the Lecce Plain in Puglia, flank the sea on rocky plateaus about 65 to 100 ft (20 to 30 m) high, formed of ancient land leveled by the sea and subsequently uplifted. Plains in the interior, such as the long Chiana Valley,......
Pugni, Società dei (Italian intellectual group)
Verri studied in Monzi, Milan, Rome, and Parma, then served as a captain in the Austrian army during the Seven Years’ War. After his return to Milan, he became the moving spirit of the Società dei Pugni, a group of Milanese intellectuals influenced by the French Encyclopedists. From 1764 to 1766 he directed the society’s periodical, Il caffè...
Pugno, Raoul (French musician and composer)
French pianist, organist, composer, and teacher renowned particularly for his chamber recitals with violinist Eugène Ysaÿe....
Pugno, Raoul Stephane (French musician and composer)
French pianist, organist, composer, and teacher renowned particularly for his chamber recitals with violinist Eugène Ysaÿe....
Pugwash Conferences (international meeting of science)
series of international meetings of scientists to discuss problems of nuclear weapons and world security. The first of the conferences met in July 1957 at the estate of the American philanthropist Cyrus Eaton in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, in response to an appeal by ...
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (international meeting of science)
series of international meetings of scientists to discuss problems of nuclear weapons and world security. The first of the conferences met in July 1957 at the estate of the American philanthropist Cyrus Eaton in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, in response to an appeal by ...
Puig, Manuel (Argentine author)
Argentine novelist and motion-picture scriptwriter who achieved international acclaim with his novel El beso de la mujer araña (1976; Kiss of the Spider Woman, filmed 1985)....
Puig Mayor (mountain, Majorca Island, Spain)
...separated by a lowland that terminates in Palma Bay on the south and Alcudia and Pollensa bays on the north. The western mountains are the higher of the two and rise to 4,741 feet (1,445 metres) at Mayor Peak (Puig Major). Precipitous cliffs, often about 1,000 feet (300 metres) high, characterize much of the north coast. The island’s varied landscape includes pine forests, olive groves, ...
Puir Nor, Battle of (Chinese-Mongolian history)
...to Karakorum, which was partly rebuilt. It was then known as Erdeni Dzu (the Mongol name for Buddha), because during the 13th century lamaistic Buddhism had made progress under Kublai Khan. In the Battle of Puir Nor in 1388, Chinese forces under the leadership of the emperor Hung-wu invaded Mongolia and won a decisive victory, capturing 70,000 Mongols and destroying Karakorum. Later it was......
Puissance (equestrian sport)
The contest based on jumping ability alone, called Puissance, requires the horse to run over a set number of obstacles in progressively more difficult courses; there is a limit of four jump-offs for Puissance competitions....
puja (Hinduism)
in Hinduism, ceremonial worship, ranging from brief daily rites in the home to elaborate temple rituals. The components of a puja vary greatly according to the sect, community, part of the country, time of day, needs of the worshipper, and religious text followed. Generally speaking, in a puja, a d...
pūjā (Hinduism)
in Hinduism, ceremonial worship, ranging from brief daily rites in the home to elaborate temple rituals. The components of a puja vary greatly according to the sect, community, part of the country, time of day, needs of the worshipper, and religious text followed. Generally speaking, in a puja, a d...
Pujol i Soley, Jordí (president of Catalonia)
For most of the 1980s and ’90s, the CiU and Jordí Pujol i Soley, the president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, supported the national government led by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which in return agreed to generous tax transfers to the Catalonian government. However, in 1994, demanding that greater autonomy and more powers be devolved to Catalonia, the CiU wit...
Pujols, Albert (American baseball player)
Dominican-born American professional baseball player who was one of the most prolific hitters of the early 21st century....
Pujols Alcántara, José Alberto (American baseball player)
Dominican-born American professional baseball player who was one of the most prolific hitters of the early 21st century....
puk (musical instrument)
a genre of narrative song of Korea, typically performed dramatically by a vocalist, accompanied by a puk (double-headed barrel drum). Built from the word p’an, meaning “open space,” and sori, meaning “singing” or “sound,” the term ......
PUK (political party, Kurdistan)
...had strong backing from the poorer Shiʿite classes, who voted for him en masse. The Kurdistan Alliance, composed of the two main Kurdish parties, the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), won 43 seats. A new Kurdish party, Change (Gorran) won eight seats, while other, smaller Kurdish parties won six. These parties, however, were expected to join ...
Pukaki, Lake (lake, New Zealand)
lake in central South Island, New Zealand, occupying 65 square miles (169 square km) of a valley dammed by a terminal moraine (glacial debris). The lake, 1,640 feet (500 m) above ...
pukao (sculpture)
...constructed within the ahus in the middle period. The sizes of the statues made were increased until they reached stupendous dimensions; the slim and lofty busts also had huge cylindrical pukao (topknots) of red tuff placed on top of their slender heads. Most middle-period statues range from about 10 to 20 feet in height, but the biggest among those formerly standing on top of an....
Pukapuka Atoll (atoll, Cook Islands)
one of the northern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. First seen (1595) by the Spanish explorer Álvaro ...
Pukaskwa National Park (park, Ontario, Canada)
national park, central Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern shore of Lake Superior. Established in 1971, it is the province’s largest national park, with an area of 725 square miles (1,878 square km). Pukaskwa includes areas of rugged Canadian Shi...
pukeko (bird)
...is extant, though only in secluded bush areas. Wekas and takahes (barely rescued from extinction) probably became flightless after their ancestors’ arrival on the islands millions of years ago. The pukeko, a swamp hen related to the weka, moves primarily by walking and swimming; though it can fly, it does so only with great effort. Some birds, such as saddlebacks, are peculiar to New Zea...
Puketakauere Pa (New Zealand)
...series of generally successful sieges of Maori pas (fortified villages) by British troops and militia. The British were defeated during an attack (June 1860) on Puketakauere pa when the Maori executed a surprise counterattack, but the Maori were defeated at Orongomai in October and Mahoetahi in November. The war ended i...
pukío (pre-Inca architecture)
...burial platform with rows of chambers arranged in three levels. All these features are connected by narrow and tortuous passages. The southern part is an open area, containing one or more pukíos (rectangular areas where the ground has been lowered to the water table, either to supply water or to grow plants). In the spaces between the enclosures, and elsewhere in.....
pukka (housing)
There are three general classes of housing in Pakistan: pukka houses, built of substantial material such as stone, brick, cement, concrete, or timber; katchi (or kuchha [“ramshackle”]) houses, constructed of less-durable material (e.g., mud, bamboo, reeds, or thatch);......
puku (mammal)
antelope species of the genus Kobus....
Pula (Croatia)
major port and industrial centre and seat of the kotar regional administration in Croatia, at the southern tip of the Istria Peninsula at the head of the Bay of Pula. It is linked to Trieste and Ljubljana by road and rail. Pula has a large, almost landlocked harbour in which there is a naval base and the Uljanik shipyards....
Pulakeshin II (Cālukya king)
...Andhra Pradesh); and the renascent later Calukyas of Kalyani (between the Bhima and Godavari rivers), who rose to power in the 10th century. Calukya power reached its zenith during the reign of Pulakeshin II (610–642), a contemporary of Harsha (see above Successor states). The early years of Pulakeshin’s reign were taken up with a civil war, after...
Pular language (African language)
The fact that, uniquely in western Africa, the Fulani are pastoralists has led to suggestions that they were originally a Saharan people. The Fulani language, however, is classified as part of the Niger-Congo family of languages spoken by black Africans, and the earliest historical documentation reports that the Fulani were living in the westernmost Sudan close to ancient Ghana. The development......
Pulaski, Casimir (Polish patriot and United States army officer)
Polish patriot and U.S. colonial army officer, hero of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar) and of the American Revolution....
Pulaski, Fort (fort, Savannah, Georgia, United States)
When the War of 1812 once again made clear the need for coastal defense, Fort Pulaski (named for the U.S. colonial army officer Kazimierz Pulaski) was built (1829–47). Following its completion, the fort remained ungarrisoned until it was seized by Confederate troops in January 1861, just before the outbreak of the American Civil War. It was bombarded and captured by Union troops in 1862,......
Pułaski, Kazimierz (Polish patriot and United States army officer)
Polish patriot and U.S. colonial army officer, hero of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar) and of the American Revolution....
Pulau Laoet (island, Indonesia)
island off the southeastern coast of Borneo, Kalimantan Selatan provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Laut Island lies in the Makassar Strait, 105 miles (169 km) east of Banjarmasin city. It is 60 miles (100 km) long north to south and...
Pulau Laut (island, Indonesia)
island off the southeastern coast of Borneo, Kalimantan Selatan provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Laut Island lies in the Makassar Strait, 105 miles (169 km) east of Banjarmasin city. It is 60 miles (100 km) long north to south and...
Pulau Lomblen (island, Indonesia)
largest of the Solor Islands, in the Lesser Sundas, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Lomblen lies between the Flores Sea (north) and the...
Pulau Misool (island, Indonesia)
island in the Raja Ampat group in the Ceram Sea, Irian Jaya provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Misool is located about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula on Irian Jaya. Flat lowlands cover the coastal regions except in the south, which is hilly and mountainous; the hills in the...
Pulau Muna (island and regency, Indonesia)
island and kabupaten (regency), Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) propinsi (or provinsi; province), Indonesia. The island lies in the Flores Sea south of the southeastern arm of Celebes. With an area of 658 squa...
Pulau Nias (island, Indonesia)
island, Sumatera Utara propinsi (province), Indonesia. The largest island in a chain paralleling the west coast of Sumatra, Nias has a topography much like that of western Sumatra but without volcanoes. The highest elevation is 2,907 feet (886 metres). The coasts are rocky or sandy and lack ports; ships must anchor offshore of Guningsitoli...
Pulau Pantar (island, Indonesia)
island in the Alor group, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Pantar lies about 45 miles (72 km) north of Timor, across the Ombai Strait. It is 30 miles (50 km) long north-south and 7 to 18 miles (11 to 29 km) wide east-west, and it has an area of 281 square miles (728 square km)...
Pulau Pinang (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 ...
Pulau Roti (island, Indonesia)
island about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Timor, across the narrow Roti Strait, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia. Roti lies between the Indian Ocean on the west and the Timo...
Pulau Rupat (island, Indonesia)
island in the Strait of Malacca, Riau provinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies just off the eastern coast of Sumatra across a 3-mile- (5-kilometre-) wide channel, opposite Melaka, Malaysia. The island is very low and swampy and circular in shape, with a diameter of about 30 miles (48 km). The climate is hot and humid, ...
Pulau Sawu (island, Indonesia)
island and island group in the Savu Sea, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. The island group includes Sawu (160 square miles [414 square km]), Raijua (14 square miles [36 square km]), and several other islets loc...
Pulau Siberut (island, Indonesia)
largest island in the Mentawai group of islands, Sumatera Barat provinsi (province), Indonesia. Siberut lies off the western coast of Sumatra, about 90 miles (145 km) west-southwest of and across the Mentawai Strait from Padang city. The island is 25 miles (40 km) wide and 70 miles (110 km) long. Its terrain is genera...
Pulau Simeuloeë (island, Indonesia)
island in the Indian Ocean, Aceh daerah istimewa (special district), Indonesia. Simeulue lies off the northwestern coast of Sumatra, about 170 mi (274 km) southwest of Medan city. The island, 65 mi long and 20 mi wide, covers an area of 712 sq mi (1,844 sq km). It...
Pulau Simeulue (island, Indonesia)
island in the Indian Ocean, Aceh daerah istimewa (special district), Indonesia. Simeulue lies off the northwestern coast of Sumatra, about 170 mi (274 km) southwest of Medan city. The island, 65 mi long and 20 mi wide, covers an area of 712 sq mi (1,844 sq km). It...
Pulau Simulue (island, Indonesia)
island in the Indian Ocean, Aceh daerah istimewa (special district), Indonesia. Simeulue lies off the northwestern coast of Sumatra, about 170 mi (274 km) southwest of Medan city. The island, 65 mi long and 20 mi wide, covers an area of 712 sq mi (1,844 sq km). It...
Pulau Tarakan (island, Indonesia)
island in northern Kalimantan Timur provinsi (East Kalimantan province), northern Indonesia. It is situated in the eastern Celebes Sea, off the northeastern coast of Borneo. The island has a length of approximate...
Pulau Ternate (island, Indonesia)
one of the northernmost of a line of Indonesian islands stretching southward along the western coast of the island of Halmahera to the Bacan Islands east of the Molucca Sea. Ternate Island, which lies within North Maluku propinsi (province), is situated 14 miles (23 km) west of Halmahera. The island is dominated by a volcano (5,646 fe...
Pulau Tidore (island, Indonesia)
one of the Moluccas (Maluku) islands, east-central Indonesia. With an area of 45 square miles (116 square km), Tidore lies off the western coast of central Halmahera and forms part of Maluku Utara provinsi (North Moluccas province). The southern part is occupied almost entirely by an extinct volcanic peak (5,676 feet [1,730 metres]); the north is hilly, with...
Pulau Waigeo (island, Indonesia)
largest island of the Raja Ampat group in the Dampier Strait, Irian Jaya provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Waigeo Island lies about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of the Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula and across the strait from Irian Jaya. It is 70 miles (110 km) long (east-west) and 30 miles (48 km) wide (nor...
Pulau Waigeu (island, Indonesia)
largest island of the Raja Ampat group in the Dampier Strait, Irian Jaya provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Waigeo Island lies about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of the Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula and across the strait from Irian Jaya. It is 70 miles (110 km) long (east-west) and 30 miles (48 km) wide (nor...
Pulau Wetar (island, Indonesia)
island in the Banda Sea, Maluku provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. It lies 35 miles (56 km) north of and across the Wetar Strait from the northeastern coast of Timor. Wetar Island is 80 miles (130 km) long east-west and 28 miles (45 km) wide north-south; it is spread over an area of 1,400 square miles (3,6...
Pulau Yapen (island, Indonesia)
island, in Sarera Bay off the northern coast of Irian Jaya provinci (province), Indonesia. Its area of 936 square miles (2,424 square km) has an elevated central ridge that rises to 4,907 feet (1,496 metres). The chief settlement is Serui on the central southern coast....
Pulcheria (Roman empress)
Roman empress, regent for her younger brother Theodosius II (Eastern Roman emperor 408–450) from 414 to about 416, and an influential figure in his reign for many years thereafter....
Pulci, Luigi (Italian poet)
Italian poet whose name is chiefly associated with one of the outstanding epics of the Renaissance, Morgante, in which French chivalric material is infused with a comic spirit born of the streets of Florence. The use of the ottava rima stanza for the poem helped establish this form as a vehicle for ...
Pulcinella (puppet character)
hooknosed, humpbacked character, the most popular of marionettes and glove puppets and the chief figure in the Punch-and-Judy puppet show. Brutal, vindictive, and deceitful, he is usually at odds with authority....
Pulex irritans (insect)
...humans) can occasionally become sensitized after exposure and develop allergies. Species that attack people and livestock include the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), the so-called human flea (Pulex irritans), the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis), the sticktight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea), and the jigger, or chigoe, flea (Tunga penetrans).......
Pulguk Temple (temple, South Korea)
...(one of the Mahayana schools), which promised bliss in the next world. The legacy of Silla Buddhism can be seen in many beautiful temples and great works of art, the most remarkable of which—Pulguk Temple, Sŏkkuram (a grotto shrine), and the bell at Pongdŏk Temple—are in the Kyŏngju area and have been designated UNESCO World Heritage sites. Confucianism......