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Palagonia, Villa (villa, Bagheria, Italy)
town, northwestern Sicily, Italy, 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of the city of Palermo. A resort of wealthy Palermitans, Bagheria is noted for several historic villas. The best-known are Villa Palagonia (1715), containing more than 60 Byzantine statues of beggars, dwarfs, monsters, and other oddities; the Villa Butera, with wax figures of monks wearing the Carthusian habit (1639); and the......
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Palaic language
one of the ancient Anatolian languages, Palaic was spoken in Palā, a land located to the northwest of Hittite territory and across the Halys (now the Kızıl) River. The resemblance of Palā to the later place-names Blaëne (Greek) and Paphlagonia (Roman) is surely not coincidental. Evidence ...
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Palaiologos family (Byzantine family)
Byzantine family that became prominent in the 11th century, the members of which married into the imperial houses of Comnenus, Ducas, and Angelus. Michael VIII Palaeologus, emperor at Nicaea in 1259, founded the dynasty of the Palaeologi in Constantinople in 1261. His son Andronicus II (reigned 1282–1328) and his gran...
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Palaiopréveza (Greece)
city about 4 miles (6 km) north of Préveza, northwestern Greece, opposite Actium (now Áktion) at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf (now Amvrakikós Gulf). It was founded in 31 bc by Octavian (who in 27 bc was to become the Roman emperor Augustus) in commemoration of his victory over ...
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Palaipaphos (historical city, Cyprus)
town, southwestern Republic of Cyprus. Paphos was also the name of two ancient cities that were the precursors of the modern town. The older ancient city (Greek: Palaipaphos) was located at modern Pírgos (Kouklia); New Paphos, which had superseded Old Paphos by Roman times, was 10 miles (16 km) farther west. New Paphos and Ktima together form modern Paphos....
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Palaiphatos (ancient writer)
...the scrutiny of myths in such a way as to make sense of the statements contained in them without taking literally their references to gods, monsters, or the supernatural. Thus, the ancient writer Palaiphatos interpreted the story of Europa (carried off to Crete on the back of a handsome bull, which was actually Zeus in disguise) as that of a woman abducted by a Cretan called Tauros, the Greek.....
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palais à volonté (theatrical scene)
...court. The stage was equipped for flat wings and shutters, but since scene changes were few, the machinery was minimal. The typical background for tragedies was the palais à volonté (literally “palace to order”), a neutral setting without particularized details. For comedy the typical scene was chambre à quatre portes......
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Palais de la gloire, Le (work by Anselm of Saint Mary)
...genealogical studies. Among his early works are Le Palais de l’honneur (1663–1668; “The Palace of Honour”), concerning the genealogy of the houses of Lorraine and Savoy; Le Palais de la gloire (1664; “The Palace of Glory”), dealing with the genealogy of various illustrious French and European families; and La Science héraldique...
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Palais de l’honneur, Le (work by Anselm of Saint Mary)
...of the Discalced Hermits of St. Augustine in 1644 and, remaining in their monastery (Couvent des Petits Pères), devoted his entire life to genealogical studies. Among his early works are Le Palais de l’honneur (1663–1668; “The Palace of Honour”), concerning the genealogy of the houses of Lorraine and Savoy; Le Palais de la gloire (1664; “T...
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Palais Grand-Ducal (palace, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
The Grand Ducal Palace (Palais Grand-Ducal) is home to the royal family, heirs of William I (1772–1843), king of The Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg (1815–40). The palace dates from 1572, and later additions were made in 1895. After renovations were completed in the....
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Palais-Bourbon (building, Paris, France)
...Delacroix was favoured with a string of important commissions to decorate government buildings. His first commission, in 1833–36, was to paint a group of murals for the Salon du Roi at the Palais-Bourbon. He was subsequently commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the Library of the Palais-Bourbon (1838–47), the Library of the Palais du Luxembourg (1840–47), the ceiling of....
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Palais-Royal (palace, Paris, France)
Opposite the middle of the Louvre, the Place du Palais-Royal leads to the palace of Cardinal de Richelieu, which he willed to the royal family. Louis XIV lived there as a child, and during the minority of Louis XV the kingdom was ruled from there by the debauched regent Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, from 1715 to 1723. Late in the 18th century Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d’Orl...
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Palais-Royal Theatre (theatre, Paris, France)
Paris playhouse most noted for 17th-century productions by Molière....
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Palakkad (India)
city, central Kerala state, southwestern India. The city lies on the Ponnani River in the Palghat Gap, a break in the Western Ghats range. Its location has always given the town strategic and commercial importance. It is a marketplace for grain, toba...
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Palakus (Scythian ruler)
...the royal family intermarried with Greeks. In 339 the ruler Ateas was killed at the age of 90 while fighting Philip II of Macedonia. The community was eventually destroyed in the 2nd century bc, Palakus being the last sovereign whose name is preserved in history....
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Palamás, Kostís (Greek poet)
Greek poet who was important in the evolution of modern Greek literature....
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Palamas, Saint Gregory (Greek theologian)
Orthodox monk, theologian, and intellectual leader of Hesychasm, an ascetical method of mystical prayer that integrates repetitive prayer formulas with bodily postures and controlled breathing. He was appointed bishop of Thessalonica in 1347. In 1368 he was acclaimed a saint and was named “Father and Doctor of the Orthodox Church.”...
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Palamcottah (India)
town, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies across the Tambraparni River, slightly downstream from the city of Tirunelveli, with which it is now merged administratively. Palayankottai is a residential and educational centre in the Tirunelveli urban agglomeration. It is a major centre of ...
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Palamède (medieval literature)
...Thus the prose Tristan brings together the stories of Tristan and Iseult, the rise and fall of Arthur’s kingdom, and the Grail Quest. It early gave rise to an offshoot, the romance of Palamède (before 1240), which deals with the older generation of Arthur’s knights. A similar example of “extension backward” is the Perceforest, which associ...
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Palamedes (Greek legend)
in Greek legend, the son of Nauplius (king of Euboea) and Clymene and a hero of the Trojan War. Palamedes is a prominent figure in post-Homeric legends about the siege of Troy. Before the war, according to the lost epic Cypria, he exposed the trickery of Odysseus, who had feigned madness to avoid...
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Palamon (fictional character)
...of Athens, is preparing to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, accompanied by her sister, Emilia, and his friend, Pirithous, when he is called upon to wage war on the corrupt Theban king, Creon. Palamon and Arcite, two noble nephews of Creon, are captured. As they languish in prison, their protestations of eternal friendship stop the instant they glimpse Emilia through a window, and they......
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palampores (fabric)
...work designs were inspired by source books of ornaments or embroidery pattern books that had been published in Europe since the 16th century. Palampores, hand-painted (stenciled) cotton fabrics imported during the 17th century to England from India, were clearly influential in developing such traditional crewel work designs as the tree of.....
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Palana (Russia)
urban settlement, Kamchatka kray (territory), far eastern Russia. Palana was the administrative centre of Koryak autonomous okrug (district), which was formed in 1930 and merged with Kamchatka oblast (region) in 2007. The settlement is situated on the western coast of the ...
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Palance, Jack (American actor)
American actor (b. Feb. 18, 1919, Lattimer Mines, Pa.—d. Nov. 10, 2006, Montecito, Calif.), was often typecast in menacing roles, largely because of his chiseled features and imposing physique. As a young man, Palance was a professional boxer, and his breakthrough role was as the fighter in the live television production of Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956). He earned Academy Award no...
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Palance, Walter Jack (American actor)
American actor (b. Feb. 18, 1919, Lattimer Mines, Pa.—d. Nov. 10, 2006, Montecito, Calif.), was often typecast in menacing roles, largely because of his chiseled features and imposing physique. As a young man, Palance was a professional boxer, and his breakthrough role was as the fighter in the live television production of Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956). He earned Academy Award no...
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Palangkaraya (Indonesia)
kotamadya (municipality), capital of Central Kalimantan propinsi (province), south-central Borneo, Indonesia. Palangkaraya lies west of the Kahayan River. It was occupied by the Japanese during World War II and was the principal city of Great Dayak, an autonomous state (one of five) created i...
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Palanpur (India)
city, northeastern Gujarat state, west-central India. It lies in the lowlands between the Aravalli Range and the Kathiawar Peninsula. The former capital of the princely state of Palanpur, the city is now a trade and processing centre for agricultural produce and a rail and road junction. Palanpur is also known for its hand...
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palanquin (bed)
portable bed or couch, open or enclosed, that is mounted on two poles and carried at each end on the shoulders of porters or by animals. Litters, which may have been adapted from sledges that were pushed or dragged on the ground, appear in Egyptian paintings and were used by the Persians; they are mentioned in the Book of Isaiah...
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Palanyuk, Volodymyr (American actor)
American actor (b. Feb. 18, 1919, Lattimer Mines, Pa.—d. Nov. 10, 2006, Montecito, Calif.), was often typecast in menacing roles, largely because of his chiseled features and imposing physique. As a young man, Palance was a professional boxer, and his breakthrough role was as the fighter in the live television production of Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956). He earned Academy Award no...
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Palaquium oblongifolia (plant)
...or brownish leathery material derived from the latex of certain trees in Malaysia, the South Pacific, and South America, especially Palaquium oblongifolia and, formerly, P. gutta. To obtain the latex, the tree may be felled and rings cut in the bark; in plantation cultivation the fresh leaves are gathered, chopped, and......
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Palar River (river, India)
river in southern India. It rises near the Ponnaiyar River, southwest of Chintamani, in Karnataka state, and flows 183 miles (295 km) southeastward through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal, ...
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palas (rug)
pileless, handwoven floor covering made in most of the rug-weaving areas of the Middle East. The term is used variously as a label for rugs woven in different techniques, and usage varies with the location. While slit-tapestry kilims...
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Palāshi (India)
historic village, east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Bhagirathi River. Plassey was the scene of the decisive victory of British forces under Robert Clive over those of the nawab of Bengal, Sirāj al-Dawlah, in 1757. Dispatched from Madras...
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Palast der Republik (palace, Berlin, Germany)
Two structures erected by the communist state dominate central Berlin—a 1,197-foot (365-metre) television tower and the Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik), both adjacent to the Alexanderplatz. The tower, completed in 1969 to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of East Germany, commands the Berlin skyline. The Palace of the Republic was opened in 1976 as the new seat of the.....
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palatal (phonetics)
in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by raising the blade, or front, of the tongue toward or against the hard palate just behind the alveolar ridge (the gums). The German ch sound in ich and the French gn (pronounced ny) in agneau are ...
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palatal consonant (phonetics)
in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by raising the blade, or front, of the tongue toward or against the hard palate just behind the alveolar ridge (the gums). The German ch sound in ich and the French gn (pronounced ny) in agneau are ...
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palatal plate (anatomy)
a fairly common congenital deformity in which the palatal plates (in the roof of the mouth) fail to close during the second month of prenatal life. The resulting fissure may occur on the soft palate only, or it may extend forward through the hard palate, in which case the ......
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palatal stop (phonetics)
in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by raising the blade, or front, of the tongue toward or against the hard palate just behind the alveolar ridge (the gums). The German ch sound in ich and the French gn (pronounced ny) in agneau are ...
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palatal vowel harmony (linguistics)
The Altaic languages exhibit two kinds of sound harmony affecting the vowels and velar stops. In palatal vowel harmony, all the vowels of a given word are back or they are all front; further, front velar consonants /k g/ occur only with front......
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palatalization (phonetics)
in phonetics, the production of consonants with the blade, or front, of the tongue drawn up farther toward the roof of the mouth (hard palate) than in their normal pronunciation. Palatalized consonants in Russian are pronounced as if attempting simultaneously to pronounce a particular consonant and a y sound; in English, the ny ...
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palate (anatomy)
in vertebrate anatomy, the roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities. It consists of an anterior hard palate of bone and, in mammals, a posterior soft palate that has no skeletal support and terminates in a fleshy, elongated projection called the uvula....
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Palatinate (historical region, Germany)
in German history, the lands of the count palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between two small territorial clusters: the Rhenish, or Lower, Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate. The Rhenish Palatinate included lands on both sides of the middl...
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palatine (medieval official)
any of diverse officials found in numerous countries of medieval and early modern Europe. Originally the term was applied to the chamberlains and troops guarding the palace of the Roman emperor. In Constantine’s time (early 4th century), the designation was also used for the senior field force of the army that might accompany the emperor on his campaigns....
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Palatine (Illinois, United States)
village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Palatine is a suburb of Chicago, lying about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of the city. The community, established in 1855 when a Chicago and North Western Railway siding and depot was built, was named for Palatine, New York, the original hometown of one of the early settlers. Manufactures include outdoor grills, ...
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“Palatine Anthology” (Greek literature)
collection of Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs, and rhetorical exercises that includes about 3,700 short poems, mostly written in elegiac couplets. Some of the poems were written as early as the 7th century bc, others as late as ad 1000. The nucleus of the Anthology is a collection made early in the 1st century bc by Meleager, who called ...
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Palatine Chapel (chapel, Palermo, Italy)
Palermo has some notable buildings from the Norman and succeeding periods. A distinctive Arab-Norman architecture is seen in the Royal Palace, which contains the Palatine Chapel (1132–89), one of the masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The chapel’s vaulted wooden roof is carved and painted in Arab style, while the cupola and upper walls are covered with mosaics executed by Greek workmen...
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Palatine Chapel (chapel, Aachen, Germany)
private chapel associated with a residence, especially of an emperor. Many of the early Christian emperors built private churches in their palaces—often more than one—as described in literary sources of the Byzantine period. Such structures in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Tur.) inspired the impressive 12th-century Palatine Chapel (Cappella Palatina) of the Sicilia...
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Palatine Gate (gate, Turin, Italy)
...and Augusta Taurinorum, rebuilt by the emperor Augustus in the form of an enclosed rectangle divided into 72 blocks (insulae). The remains of the walls and the Palatine Gate and the Palatine Towers are still visible....
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Palatine Hill (hill, Rome, Italy)
four-sided plateau rising 131 feet (40 metres) south of the Forum in Rome and 168 feet (51 metres) above sea level. It has a circumference of 5,700 feet (1,740 metres). The city of Rome was founded on the Palatine, where archaeological discoveries range from prehistoric remains to the ruins of imperial pal...
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Palatine Honour Guard (Vatican City police)
...Vatican City. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries they shared jurisdiction with the long-established Swiss Guards (responsible for the personal security of the pope) and the largely ceremonial Palatine Honour Guard (Guardia Palatina d’Onore) and Noble Guard (Guardia Nobile)....
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palatine tonsil (anatomy)
...pharynx is shared by both the respiratory and digestive tracts. On either side of the opening between the mouth cavity and the oral pharynx is a palatine tonsil, so called because of its proximity to the palate. Each palatine tonsil is located between two vertical folds of mucous membrane called the glossopalatine arches. The nasal pharynx,....
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Palatino, Giovanni Battista (Italian calligrapher)
In Rome in 1540 Giovanni Battista Palatino published his Libro nuovo d’imparare a scrivere (“New Book for Learning to Write”), which proved to be, along with the manuals of Arrighi and Tagliente, one of the most influential books on writing cancelleresca issued in the first half of the 16th century. These three aut...
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Palatino, Monte (hill, Rome, Italy)
four-sided plateau rising 131 feet (40 metres) south of the Forum in Rome and 168 feet (51 metres) above sea level. It has a circumference of 5,700 feet (1,740 metres). The city of Rome was founded on the Palatine, where archaeological discoveries range from prehistoric remains to the ruins of imperial pal...
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Palation (ancient city, Turkey)
ancient Greek city of western Anatolia, some 20 miles (30 km) south of the present city of Söke, Turkey. It lies near the mouth of the Büyükmenderes (Menderes) River....
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Palatka (Florida, United States)
city, seat (1849) of Putnam county, northeastern Florida, U.S., on the broad St. Johns River, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Jacksonville. Beginning in the 17th century the area was used for cattle ranching, and the city site was a crossing point of the river. James Marver established a trading po...
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palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
One noticeable difference between Latin and all the Romance languages is that the consonantal systems of the latter include a number of palatal and palato-alveolar consonants which did not exist in Latin. (Palatal consonants are formed with the tongue touching the hard palate; palato-alveolar sounds are made with the tongue touching the region of the ......
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Palau (island, Palau)
largest of the Caroline Islands and largest island within the country of Palau. It has an area of 143 square miles (370 square km) and lies in the western Pacific Ocean, 550 miles (885 km) east of the Philippines. Partly elevated limestone and partly volcanic in origin, Babelthuap measur...
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Palau
Island country, western Pacific Ocean....
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Palau, flag of
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Palau owl (bird)
...islands. Some, such as the barn owl (Tyto alba) and the short-eared owl (Asio flammeus), are among the most widely distributed birds; others, such as the Palau owl (Pyrroglaux podargina) and the Seychelles owl (Otus insularis), are endemic island species with small populations. Owls often attain higher ......
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Palauan (people)
...in a diverse population, which since the late 18th century has also included Europeans, Japanese, and Americans. The southwest islanders, who are culturally and linguistically distinct from the Palauans, are the only minority group; they trace their origin to a group of ancestral survivors of one or more canoes that drifted to Sonsorol from Ulithi Atoll, northeast of Yap....
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Palauan language
major language of Palau, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is classified as belonging to the eastern branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages. Like Chamorro, which is spoken in the Mariana Islands, it is considered to be of the...
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Palaumnili
one of the ancient Anatolian languages, Palaic was spoken in Palā, a land located to the northwest of Hittite territory and across the Halys (now the Kızıl) River. The resemblance of Palā to the later place-names Blaëne (Greek) and Paphlagonia (Roman) is surely not coincidental. Evidence ...
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Palaung (people)
hill people of the Shan region and adjacent areas of eastern Myanmar (Burma), as well as southwestern Yunnan province of China. They numbered about 240,000 in the late 20th century and speak dialects of the Palaungic branch of Austro-Asiatic languages. The Palaung’s language is quite distinct from the Tai speech of the Shan (see Tai), with whom they live closely in...
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Palaung-wa languages
branch of the Mon-Khmer group of the Austroasiatic languages. Palaungic languages are spoken primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and secondarily in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan province in China. The members of the Palaungic branch are somewhat controversial but are generally given as Kano’ (Danau, or Danaw), Mang, and sometimes Lamet (which are often grouped in the ...
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Palaungic languages
branch of the Mon-Khmer group of the Austroasiatic languages. Palaungic languages are spoken primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and secondarily in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan province in China. The members of the Palaungic branch are somewhat controversial but are generally given as Kano’ (Danau, or Danaw), Mang, and sometimes Lamet (which are often grouped in the ...
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Palawan (island, Philippines)
island, the southwesternmost large island of the Philippines. Palawan is long and narrow and trends northeast-southwest between the South China and Sulu seas. It has a maximum width of 24 miles (39 km) and a mountainous backbone that runs its entire 270-mile (434-km) length, with Mount Mantalingajan (6,840 feet [2,085 m]) in the south as its highest peak. The Balabac-Bugsuk grou...
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Palawan stink badger (mammal)
...of two species, the Malayan stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the skunk badger or teledu, and the Palawan, or Calamanian, stink badger (M. marchei). The Malayan stink badger is an island dweller of Southeast Asia......
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Palayankottai (India)
town, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies across the Tambraparni River, slightly downstream from the city of Tirunelveli, with which it is now merged administratively. Palayankottai is a residential and educational centre in the Tirunelveli urban agglomeration. It is a major centre of ...
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Palazzeschi, Aldo (Italian author)
...and Il mulino del Po (1938–40; The Mill on the Po), produced historical narrative writing of lasting quality. Aldo Palazzeschi, in Stampe dell’Ottocento (1932; “Nineteenth-Century Engravings”) and Sorelle Materassi (1934; The Sisters Materassi), rea...
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Palazzetto dello Sport (stadium, Rome, Italy)
...17,500 (both original structures have been demolished). For the 1960 Olympics in Rome, the leading Italian architect-engineer Pier Luigi Nervi created the Roman sports complex, which included the Palazzetto dello Sport with a ribbed-dome roof. The Astrodome, however, was, by comparison, gigantic, with a seating capacity of 62,000 people and a large playing field. The dome, of transparent......
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Palazzo Abbatellis (building, Palermo, Italy)
...decorative elements taken from the Flamboyant style, from the Catalan Gothic, and even from Arabic architecture. This is evident in the buildings in Palermo that have been attributed to him, such as Palazzo Abbatellis (1491–95) and Palazzo Aiutamicristo (c. 1491), which preserve the compact, powerful masses typical of Palermo’s medieval architecture yet are graced with inte...
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Palazzo Aiutamicristo (building, Palermo, Italy)
...style, from the Catalan Gothic, and even from Arabic architecture. This is evident in the buildings in Palermo that have been attributed to him, such as Palazzo Abbatellis (1491–95) and Palazzo Aiutamicristo (c. 1491), which preserve the compact, powerful masses typical of Palermo’s medieval architecture yet are graced with interior courtyards and arches embellished with Go...
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Palazzo Venezia, Museo di (museum, Rome, Italy)
in Rome, museum occupying part of the papal apartment of the first great Renaissance palace of Rome. Dating from the middle of the 15th century, the Palazzo Venezia was built for Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II. Displayed are fine medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a series of 15th-century c...
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Palazzolo Acreide (Italy)
town, southeastern Sicily, Italy. It lies in the Iblei Mountains, west of Syracuse. The successor to the Syracusan colony of Acrae (founded nearby in 663 bc), which was ravaged by the Muslims in the 9th century, the town was ruled by a succession of families in the Middle Ages, later passing to the Kingdom of the...
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Palcephalopoda (cephalopod subclass)
...about 600 recent species (some 10,000 fossil forms) of 1 cm to 8 m (+14 m arms) in size; basically pelagic marine carnivores from the surface to 5,400 m depth or benthic to 8,100 m; 4 subclasses are Palcephalopoda (Orthoceroida; fossils); Nautiloida (fossil groups and 3–5 recent species); Ammonoida (fossils); and Coleoida (fossils and 4 recent......
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pale (heraldry)
...honourable ordinaries and subordinaries may be generally agreed as numbering about 20. Among them are: the chief, being the top third of the shield; the pale, a third of the shield, drawn perpendicularly through the centre; the bend, a third of the shield, drawn from the dexter chief to sinister base (when drawn from the dexter base to......
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pale (restricted area)
(from Latin palus, “stake”), district separated from the surrounding country by defined boundaries or distinguished by a different administrative and legal system. It is this definition of pale from which the phrase “beyond the pale” is derived....
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pale ale (alcoholic beverage)
...using the famous hard waters of that region and pale malts roasted in coke-fired kilns, created pale ales, also called best bitter. Pale ale is less strong, less bitter, paler in colour, and clearer than porter. Mild ales—weaker, darker, and sweeter than bitter—are a common variation; more colour is obtained by......
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pale catechu (plant)
...include quinine, which is derived from the bark of Cinchona species; coffee, from the seeds of Coffea species; ipecac, obtained from the roots of Psychotria ipecacuanha; and gambier, a substance that is used in tanning, from Uncaria gambir. Some trees in the family provide useful timber. Species that are cultivated as ornamentals include those of Gardenia,......
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pale corydalis (plant)
...corydalis (C. lutea) of southern Europe is a popular garden perennial with 22-centimetre- (about 9-inch-) tall sprays of yellow tubular blooms. Native North American species include pale or pink corydalis, or Roman wormwood (C. sempervirens), a 60-centimetre-tall annual with pink, yellow-tipped flowers; and golden corydalis......
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Pale Fire (novel by Nabokov)
...distinguished by linguistic and formal innovation. Despite their artificiality, his best novels written in English—including Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—are highly personal books that have a strong emotional thread running through them....
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pale fox (mammal)
...slopes and streambeds of Nepal; length to 70 cm, weight up to 4 kg or more; colour is variable.V. pallida (pale fox)1.5–3.5-kg fox inhabiting the Sahel savannas and southern desert margin of northern Africa; coat yellow to brown; similar in form to the red fox, ...
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider (work by Porter)
...though she also wrote one long, ambitious novel, Ship of Fools (1962). Her use of the stream-of-consciousness method in Flowering Judas (1930) as well as in Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) had the complexity, the irony, and the symbolic sophistication characteristic of these poets, whose work the Modernists had brought into fashion....
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pale kangaroo mouse (rodent)
...megacephalus) has buff or brownish upperparts tinted with black and has gray or whitish underparts with a black-tipped tail, whereas the upperparts and entire tail of the pale kangaroo mouse (M. pallidus) are creamy buff and the underparts are white. Kangaroo mice weigh 10 to 17 grams (0.4 to 0.6 ounce) and have a body length of 7 to 8 cm (about 3......
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pale laurel (shrub)
...American laurel, calico bush, and spoonwood; and K. polifolia, sometimes called pale laurel, bog laurel, or bog kalmia....
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Pale of Settlement (Russian history)
In imperial Russia, what came to be called the Pale of Settlement (Cherta Osedlosti) came into being as a result of the introduction of large numbers of Jews into the Russian sphere after the three partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795). Adjusting to a population often banned from Russia altogether was a problem that Russian leadership solved by allowing Jews to remain in their current areas......
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pale, soft, and exudative meat
Pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) meat is the result of a rapid postmortem pH decline while the muscle temperature is too high. This combination of low pH and high temperature adversely affects muscle proteins, reducing their ability to hold water (the meat drips and is soft and mushy) and causing them to reflect light from the surface of the meat (the meat appears pale). ......
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Pale, The (historical region, Ireland)
Other examples of pales include the English pales in Ireland and France. “The Pale” in Ireland (so named after the late 14th century) was established at the time of Henry II’s expedition (1171–72) and consisted of the territories conquered by England, where English settlements and rule were most secure. The pale existed until the entire area was subjugated under ......
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pale-headed saki (monkey)
The male pale-headed saki (P. pithecia) is black with a whitish face surrounding the dark muzzle, but the female is grizzled gray with a gray face and a white line on either side of the muzzle. The other four species, including the monk saki (P. monachus), are grizzled gray with less difference between the sexes. Sakis are active by day......
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palea (in ferns)
...a headlike cluster of secretory terminal cells), simple (unbranched) nonglandular hairs; dendroid hairs (branching filaments), and scales (flat cell plates) of many patterns. Scales (also known as paleae) are defined as a cell plate two or more cell rows wide, at least at the base, whereas hairs generally have a single row of cells.......
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palea (bract)
...overlapping scales. There are three kinds of scales. The lowermost, called glumes, are usually two in number, and they enclose some or all of the other scales. The other scales, the lemma and the palea, occur in pairs. Generally the lemma is larger than the palea, which is hidden between the lemma and the spikelet axis. The lemma and palea surround and protect the flower, and all three of......
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Paleacrita vernata (insect)
...gait by extending the front part of the body and bringing the rear up to meet it. The larvae resemble twigs or leaf stems, feed on foliage, and often seriously damage or destroy trees and crops. The spring cankerworm (species Paleacrita vernata) and the fall cankerworm (Alsophila......
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paleae (in ferns)
...a headlike cluster of secretory terminal cells), simple (unbranched) nonglandular hairs; dendroid hairs (branching filaments), and scales (flat cell plates) of many patterns. Scales (also known as paleae) are defined as a cell plate two or more cell rows wide, at least at the base, whereas hairs generally have a single row of cells.......
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paleae (bract)
...overlapping scales. There are three kinds of scales. The lowermost, called glumes, are usually two in number, and they enclose some or all of the other scales. The other scales, the lemma and the palea, occur in pairs. Generally the lemma is larger than the palea, which is hidden between the lemma and the spikelet axis. The lemma and palea surround and protect the flower, and all three of......
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Palearctic region (faunal region)
A distinction can be made between the animal life of the tundra in the north and that of the adjacent taiga farther south. The taiga in turn merges into the steppes, which have their own distinctive forms of animal life. Finally, the faunas of East and Southwest Asia have their own distinguishing characteristics....
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Páleč, Štěpán (Czech priest)
...Hus did not share all of Wycliffe’s radical views, such as that on remanence, but several members of the reform party did, among them Hus’s teacher, Stanislav of Znojmo, and his fellow student, Štěpán Páleč....
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Palembang (Indonesia)
kotamadya (municipality) and capital of South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) propinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies on both banks of the Musi River, there spanned by the Ampera Bridge. Sumatra’s second largest city...
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Palencia (Spain)
capital of Palencia provincia (province), in Castile-León comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), north-central Spain. It lies on the Campos Plain southwest of Burgos. Called the Pallantia by the ancient Greek geographers Strabo and Ptolemy, it w...
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Palencia (province, Spain)
provincia (province) in the Castile-León comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), northern Spain. It is bounded by the provinces of Cantabria to the north, Burgos to the east, Valladolid to the south and west, and León to the west. It was formed in 1833. The nort...
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