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- (Korean: "Assembly of P'alkwan"), most important of Korea's ancient national festivals, a ritualistic celebration that was essentially Buddhist in form but tinged with elements of Taoism and indigenous folk beliefs. ...
- P'an Hill
- (from the article "Canton") ...Sung dynasty (960-1279) the increase in Canton's population and the growth of foreign trade made it necessary to enlarge the city. A second auxiliary wall and settlement were constructed on ...
- P'an Ku
- central figure in Chinese Taoist legends of creation. P'an Ku, the first man, is said to have come forth from chaos (an egg) with two horns, two tusks, and a ... [1 Related Articles]
- P'an-k'ang
- (from the article "Honan") ...culture, having a hierarchical class structure, advanced buildings, and elaborate ritual in which beautiful bronze vessels were used. Based on the dating of oracle bone inscriptions, the Shang king P'an ...
- p'an-t'ao
- (Chinese: "flat peach"), in Chinese Taoist mythology, the peach of immortality that grew in the garden of Hsi wang mu ("Queen Mother of the West"). When the fruit ripened every ...
- P'anmunjom
- village, central Korea, in the demilitarized zone established after the Korean War, 5 miles (8 km) east of Kaesong and 3 miles (5 km) south of the 38th parallel, on ... [2 Related Articles]
- p'ansori
- (from the article "Korean literature") The final type of folk literature is found in the texts of p'ansori of the Yi dynasty. These texts were first recorded in the 19th century as verse, but the ...
- p'Bitek, Okot
- Ugandan poet, novelist, and social anthropologist whose three verse collections-Song of Lawino (1966), Song of Ocol (1970), and Two Songs (1971)-are considered to be among the best African poetry in ... [2 Related Articles]
- P'eng-hu Islands
- archipelago and hsien (county) of Taiwan, consisting of about 64 small islands, approximately 30 miles (50 km) west of the coast of Taiwan, from which it is separated by the ... [1 Related Articles]
- P'ing-ting-shan
- (from the article "Honan") ...anthracite coal are found along the slopes of the T'ai-hang Mountains, and big reserves of good coking coal in thick, easily mined seams are found in the Fu-niu Mountains between ...
- P'ing-tung
- southernmost hsien (county) of Taiwan. It is bordered by Kao-hsiung hsien (northwest), T'ai-tung hsien (northeast), and by the Luzon Strait (southwest). The Central Range (2,300-10,000 feet [700-3,000 m] above sea ...
- P'ing-tung
- shih (municipality) and seat of P'ing-tung hsien (county), southwestern Taiwan. It is located 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Kao-hsiung city, in the southern part of the western plain. Founded ...
- p'iri
- Korean double-reed musical instrument, a type of cylindrical oboe. The large mouthpiece and the body are made of bamboo, and there are eight finger holes, seven on the front and ... [2 Related Articles]
- P'ohang
- city, Kyongsang-puk do (province), eastern South Korea. A fishing port, it lies on the eastern side of the Yongil Gulf, 51 miles (82 km) east-northeast of Taegu, the provincial capital. ...
- p'u
- (Chinese: "simple," "in primordial condition"), in Chinese Taoism, metaphorical expression often translated as "uncarved block" and signifying the primordial condition of the mind before it has been affected by experiences. ... [1 Related Articles]
- p'u-fang
- (from the article "dress") ...Ming portraits show officials clothed in red pao that have large bird or animal squares (called "mandarin squares," or pufang) on the breast, as ...
- P'u-mo Lake
- (from the article "Tibet") ...are located in central Tibet, northwest of Lhasa: Lakes T'ang-ku-la-yu-mu (Tibetan Tangra Yum), Na-mu (Nam), and Ch'i-lin (Ziling). South of Lhasa lie two large lakes, Yang-cho-yung (Yamdrok) and P'u-mo (Pomo). ...
- P'u-tu Lake
- (from the article "Yunnan") ...The water of the central and eastern parts of the plateau drains into the Nan-p'an River, which is a headstream of the Hsi River of Kwangsi and Kwangtung. In the ...
- p'ungsuchirisol
- (Korean: "theory of wind, water, and land"), in Korean religion, geomancy, a belief that the natural environment of a particular location can influence the fortune of its inhabitants and descendants. ...
- P'yongan-pukto
- (from the article "Korea, North") ...each with a different natural environment and historical background. Of the eight Korean provinces of the Choson (Yi) dynasty (1392-1910), North Korea contains the three provinces of P'yongan, Hwanghae, and ...
- P'yongsong
- city, western North Korea, located about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of P'yongyang, the national capital. P'yongsong is a new city built near the old provincial capital of Sain-ni, at ...
- P'yongyang
- capital of North Korea, on the Taedong River about 30 miles (48 km) inland from the Korea Bay of the Yellow Sea. It is reputed to be the oldest city ... [7 Related Articles]
- P-38
- fighter and fighter-bomber employed by the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. A large and powerful aircraft, it served as a bomber escort, a tactical bomber, and a ... [2 Related Articles]
- P-47
- fighter and fighter-bomber used by the Allied air forces during World War II. A single-seat low-wing fighter developed for the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) by Republic Aviation, it was ... [2 Related Articles]
- P-51
- a single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft originally designed and produced by North American Aviation for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and later adopted by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF). ... [3 Related Articles]
- P-51B
- (from the article "World War II") ...ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, for instance, on Oct. 14, 1943, lost 60 out of the 291 bombers participating, and 138 of those that returned were damaged. Not until December 1943 ...
- P-51D
- (from the article "P-51") ...for daylight duties over Europe, and the plane was produced under license in Australia toward the end of the war. A few were delivered to Nationalist China. The most widely ...
- P-59A
- (from the article "military aircraft") Meanwhile, the U.S. aviation industry entered the jet race with the receipt by General Electric of a Whittle engine in 1941. The first U.S. jet, the Bell P-59A Airacomet, made ...
- P-61 Black Widow
- (from the article "Northrop Grumman Corporation") ...Two years later Northrop reestablished his company as Northrop Aircraft, Inc., which he directed until his retirement in 1952. During World War II he developed the radar-equipped, twin-engine P-61 Black ...
- P-80 Shooting Star
- (from the article "military aircraft") ...first flight the following year. It was slower than contemporary piston-engined fighters, but in 1943-44 a small team under Lockheed designer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson developed the P-80 Shooting Star. The ...
- p-adic completion of the rational numbers
- (from the article "metalogic") A widely known application to the area of algebra is that which deals with certain fields of rational numbers Qp, called the p-adic completion of the rational numbers. The conjecture ...
- p-aminohippuric acid
- (from the article "renal system") The concept of clearance is also useful in the measurement of renal blood flow. Para-aminohippuric acid (PAH), when introduced into the bloodstream and kept at relatively low plasma concentrations, is ...
- p-block element
- (from the article "organometallic compound") The metal in main-group organometallic compounds can be any of the elements in the s block (i.e., groups 1 and 2) or any of the heavier elements in groups 13 ...
- P-class asteroid
- (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") P- and T-class asteroids have low albedos and no known meteorite or naturally occurring mineralogical counterparts, but they may contain a large fraction of carbon polymers or organic-rich silicates or ...
- p-i-n diode
- (from the article "semiconductor device") A p-i-n diode is a p-n junction with an impurity profile tailored so that an intrinsic layer, the "i region," is sandwiched between a ...
- p-n junction
- in electronics, the interface within diodes, transistors, and other semiconductor devices between two different types of materials called p-type and n-type semiconductors. These materials are formed by the deliberate addition ... [10 Related Articles]
- p-n-p transistor
- (from the article "electronics") The use of a p-n-p second amplifier allows direct connection between the amplifiers (see figure). If properly designed, this arrangement provides useful amplifying properties from DC to quite high frequencies. ...
- p-orbital
- (from the article "chemical bonding") ...orbitals. Thus, an s subshell (l = 0) consists of a single orbital, which is called an s orbital; a p subshell (l = 1) consists of three orbitals, called ...
- P-protein
- (from the article "sieve tube") The small pores of sieve cells and the larger ones of sieve elements are traversed by strands of cytoplasm called P-protein. It is not known whether P-protein is active in ...
- p-type semiconductor
- (from the article "integrated circuit") The process of introducing impurities is known as doping or implantation. Depending on a dopant's atomic structure, the result of implantation will be either an n-type (negative) or a p-type ...
- p-value
- (from the article "statistics") A concept known as the p-value provides a convenient basis for drawing conclusions in hypothesis-testing applications. The p-value is a measure of how likely the sample results are, assuming the ...
- P/51 rifle
- (from the article "small arm") ...several countries, notably Britain and the United States, saw the significance of Minie's invention. In 1851 the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, embarked upon production of the .702-inch Pattern 1851 ...
- P1
- (from the article "Pluto") Pluto's other two moons, called Hydra and Nix (provisionally designated S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, respectively, on their discovery), are much smaller than Charon-about 60 and 50 km (37 and ...
- P2
- (from the article "Pluto") Pluto's other two moons, called Hydra and Nix (provisionally designated S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, respectively, on their discovery), are much smaller than Charon-about 60 and 50 km (37 and ...
- p53
- (from the article "tumour suppressor gene") ...Subsequent research revealed that mutations in this gene also play a role in cancers of the bone, lung, breast, cervix, prostate, and bladder. A number of other tumour suppressor genes, ...
- pa
- (from the article "Maori") The war consisted essentially of a series of generally successful sieges of Maori pas (fortified villages) by British troops and militia. The British were defeated during an ...
- Pa Hsien
- heterogeneous group of holy Taoists, each of whom earned the right to immortality and had free access to the Peach Festival of Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pa Sak River
- river in central Thailand. It rises in the northern portion of the Phetchabun Range and flows south through a narrow valley for 319 miles (513 km). It empties into the ...
- Pa-an
- town, southern Myanmar (Burma). Situated on the left bank of the Salween River, 27 miles (43 km) north of Moulmein (Mawlamyine), it has an airfield and is linked by road ...
- pa-ku wen-chang
- (from the article "China") ...By the end of the Ming dynasty, the writing of examination responses had become highly stylized and formalized in a pattern called "the eight-legged essay" (baguwen), which ...
- Pa-kua Shan
- (from the article "Chang-hua") ...(east), and Yun-lin (south) and by the Formosa Strait (west). Its northern and southern boundaries are roughly parallel to the Ta-tu Hsi (river) and the Hsi-lo Ch'i (river), respectively. The ...
- Paamiut
- town, southwestern Greenland, on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of 30-miles- (48-km-) long Kvanefjord and south-southeast of Frederikshabs Isblink (ice field), a navigation landmark. It was founded in 1742. ...
- Paar family
- (from the article "postal system") ...The growth of demand made letter carrying a profitable business, leading to the rise of private undertakings-the majority, like the Swiss Stumpelbotten, purely local in scope. Some, like the Paar ...
- Paar, Jack
- American humorist who, as host (1957-62) of The Tonight Show (later called The Jack Paar Show), was one of the pioneers of late night ... [2 Related Articles]
- Paarl
- town, Western Cape province, South Africa, east of Cape Town, on the Groot-Berg River between the Paarl Mountain and the Drakenstein Range. Settled in 1688 by Huguenots, who introduced viticulture, ...
- Paasche index
- index developed by German economist Hermann Paasche for measuring current price or quantity levels relative to those of a selected base period. It differs from the Laspeyres index in that ...
- Paasche, Hermann
- (from the article "Paasche index") index developed by German economist Hermann Paasche for measuring current price or quantity levels relative to those of a selected base period. It differs from the Laspeyres index in that ...
- Paasikivi, Juho Kusti
- Finnish statesman and diplomat who, as prime minister (1918, 1944-46) and then president (1946-56) of Finland, cultivated harmonious relations with the Soviet Union in an effort to ensure some measure ... [2 Related Articles]
- paatere
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...Some chants are recited rather than sung. These include karakia (forms of incantation invoking a power to protect or to assist the chanter), paatere (chants by women in rebuttal of ...
- Paats River
- (from the article "Finland") In the extreme north the Paats River and its tributaries drain large areas into the Arctic. On Finland's western coast a series of rivers flow into the Gulf of Bothnia. ...
- Paats, William
- (from the article "football (soccer)") ...famous Penarol), which played both cricket and football. In Chile, British sailors initiated play in Valparaiso, establishing the Valparaiso FC in 1889. In Paraguay, Dutchman William Paats introduced the game ...
- paauw
- (from the article "bustard") The little bustard (Otis tetrax) ranges from western Europe and Morocco to Afghanistan. The bustards of South Africa are known as paauw, the largest being the great paauw or kori ...
- pabbajja
- Buddhist rite of ordination by which a layman becomes a novice (Pali samanera; Sanskrit sramanera). The ceremony is also the preliminary part of higher ordination, raising a novice to a ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pabianice
- town and suburb of Lodz, in Lodzkie wojewodztwo (province), central Poland, in the Lodz Highlands on the Dobrzynka River. The second most important town in the surrounding ...
- Pablo, Augustus
- Jamaican reggae musician who was renowned as a master of the melodica, a harmonica with a keyboard, and who helped invent "dub" music, a meditative instrumental style of reggae; he ...
- Pablo, Michel
- (from the article "International, Fourth") Trotsky died in 1940, and after World War II the Fourth International's leadership fell to Michel Pablo and Ernest Germain, two Belgian Trotskyists. When in 1949 Pablo predicted "degenerated workers' ...
- Pablos, Juan
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...during this early period. In 1539 Juan Cromberger of Sevilla, whose father, Jacob, had set up a press there in 1502, secured the privilege for printing in Mexico and sent ...
- Pabna
- city, west-central Bangladesh. It lies along the Ichamati River, which is a tributary of the upper Padma River (Ganges [Ganga] River). An industrial centre, Pabna has mills for jute, cotton, ...
- Pabst, G.W.
- German film director whose films were among the most artistically successful of the 1920s. Pabst's films are marked by social and political concerns, deep psychological insight, memorable female protagonists, and ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pac-Man
- In 1980 the Japanese arcade game manufacturer Namco Limited introduced the world to Pac-Man. The lead designer was Iwatani Tohru, who intended to create a game that ...
- paca
- either of two species of South American rodents with piglike bodies, large heads, and swollen cheeks. They have short ears, large eyes, and long whiskers, and their bodies are stout, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pacaraima Mountains
- central tabular upland of the Guiana Highlands in Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. The Pacaraima Mountains form the drainage divide between the Orinoco Valley to the north and the Amazon Basin ... [1 Related Articles]
- pacarana
- a rare and slow-moving South American rodent found only in tropical forests of the western Amazon River basin and adjacent foothills of the Andes Mountains from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia ...
- Pacasmayo
- seaport town, northwestern Peru. It lies near the mouth of the Jequetepeque River. The surrounding valley is an agricultural oasis for growing sugarcane and rice. A railroad constructed in the ...
- Pacatus Drepanius, Latinius
- Gallo-Roman orator and poet, the author of an extant panegyric addressed to Theodosius I at Rome in 389 after the defeat of the usurper Maximus. He was a friend of ...
- Pacaya
- (from the article "Guatemala") ...continued. Although major highways reopened, some temporary repairs were still unfinished, and others were washed out during the annual rainy season. In August there was a major eruption of the ...
- pacca
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...sages) wear towering headgear and billowing skirts and have their fingers fitted with long silver nails to accentuate hand gestures. The principal characters are classified into seven types. (1) Pacca ...
- Paccard, Michel-Gabriel
- (from the article "Blanc, Mont") ...de Saussure first drew attention to Mont Blanc's distinction as western Europe's highest mountain. That designation stirred adventurers to climb the peak. The summit was conquered in 1786 by Michel-Gabriel ...
- Pacciani, Pietro
- (from the article "Monster of Florence") In 1994 Pietro Pacciani, an itinerant farm labourer, was convicted of murdering seven of the eight couples. Pacciani's conviction was overturned, however, and a new trial was ordered. Police then ...
- pace
- (from the article "measurement system") ...units were always expressed in feet. The cubit (cubitum) was 112 feet (444 mm, or 17.48 inches). Five Roman feet made the pace (passus), ...
- pace
- (from the article "horsemanship") ...in perfect cadence and rapid succession. The legs on either side move together, the hindleg striking the ground slightly before the foreleg. The single foot is similar to the rack ...
- Pace University
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville, and White Plains, New York, U.S. The university includes Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School ...
- Pace, Luigi da
- (from the article "mosaic") In Italy, many of the great painters of the 15th and 16th centuries delivered designs for decorations in mosaic. Best known among these decorations are the works of the Venetian ...
- pacemaker
- electronic cardiac-support device that produces rhythmic electrical impulses that take over the regulation of the heartbeat in patients with certain types of heart disease. [4 Related Articles]
- pacemaker
- (from the article "nervous system") Finally, pacemaker systems are present in animals with nerve nets. In the sea anemone Metridium these systems are expressed in a series of spontaneous rhythmic movements that occur in the ...
- pacemaker enzyme
- (from the article "metabolism") ...of metabolites through catabolic and anabolic pathways, and for integrating the numerous different pathways in the cell, is through the regulation of either the activity or the synthesis of key ...
- pacer
- (from the article "cycling") ...in Boston, two years after the start of professional baseball and 13 years before basketball was invented. Almost all of the early American racing was on tracks, in long races ...
- Pacetti, Camillo
- (from the article "Western sculpture") In Milan, Camillo Pacetti directed the sculptural decoration of the Arco della Pace. The work of Gaetano Monti, born in Ravenna, can be seen in many northern Italian churches. The ...
- Pach, Walter
- (from the article "Armory Show") ...with a broad, highly developed taste, capable of appreciating trends in art far more radical than his own style, and he was aware of developments in Europe. Davies, with the ...
- Pachacamac
- creator deity worshipped by the pre-Inca maritime population of Peru; it was also the name of a pilgrimage site in the Lurin Valley (south of Lima) dedicated to the god ...
- Pachacamac
- large pre-Columbian ruin located in the Lurin Valley on the central coast of present-day Peru. The earliest major occupation and construction of Pachacamac dates to the Early Intermediate Period (c. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
- Inca emperor (1438-71), an empire builder who, because he initiated the swift, far-ranging expansion of the Inca state, has been likened to Philip II of Macedonia. (Similarly, his son Topa ... [7 Related Articles]
- Pachaimalai Hills
- range of hills in Tamil Nadu state, southern India, an eastward extension of the Eastern Ghats in the northeastern Tamilnad Uplands. The Pachaimalai Hills, together with the Javadi, Shevaroy, and ...
- Pachamama
- (from the article "nature worship") ...free from warrior and nation-building peoples with their emphasis on war (as in western Sudan, pre-Aryan India, and the Indian agrarian area of northern Mexico). The Andean earth-mother figure, Pachamama ...
- Pachauri, R. K.
- (from the article "Climate Change-The Global Effects") ...bring severe stress on the capability of supplying such necessities as water, food, and health care. In accepting the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, the organization's ...
- Pacheco de la Espriella, Abel
- (from the article "Costa Rica") Area: 51,100 sq km (19,730 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 4,274,000 | Capital: San Jose | Head of state and government: Presidents Abel Pacheco de la Espriella and, from ...
- Pacheco Pereira, Duarte
- Portuguese seafarer and compiler of sailing directions. The Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes called him Aquiles Lusitano (the Portuguese Achilles) because of his military exploits in India. [1 Related Articles]
- Pacheco, Francisco
- Spanish painter, teacher, and scholar. Although an undistinguished artist himself, he is remembered as the teacher of both Diego Velazquez and Alonso Cano and as the author of [2 Related Articles]
- Pacheco, Gregorio
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...it profitable to withdraw from direct involvement in national political life. Whereas Bolivian presidents under Conservative rule in the 19th century had been either silver magnates themselves (Gregorio Pacheco, 1884-88; ...
- Pacheco, Jose Emilio
- Mexican critic, novelist, short-story writer, translator, and poet. His poetry transmits his metaphysical concerns in brilliant images.
- Pacheco, Juan, Marques of Villena
- (from the article "Spain") The nobles continued to engage in an intense struggle for influence and power in the reign of Henry IV (1454-74). Although Juan Pacheco, marques de Villena, initially gained ascendancy over ...
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