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- (from the article "airport") ...Unit terminals may be made up of a number of terminals of similar design (e.g., Dallas-Fort Worth and Kansas City in the United States), terminals of different design (e.g., London's ...
- Pearson, Arthur
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...promoted by contests. Within five years he produced a string of inexpensive magazines for the same popular market, including Comic Cuts and Home Chat. A similar empire was built up ...
- Pearson, Bill
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") Other notable novelists of the postwar period include Bill Pearson, whose one novel, Coal Flat (1963), gives a sober, faithful, strongly written account of life in a small mining town ...
- Pearson, Drew
- one of the most influential newspaper columnists in the United States. [1 Related Articles]
- Pearson, George
- (from the article "Jenner, Edward") ...was not successful. In London vaccination became popularized through the activities of others, particularly the surgeon Henry Cline, to whom Jenner had given some of the inoculant, and the doctors ...
- Pearson, Hesketh
- English actor, director, and biographer. [1 Related Articles]
- Pearson, John Loughborough
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...to Lonsdale Square in Islington, London-was consistently upheld for the "correctness" of his work, as were those far more original and competent architects William Butterfield and John Loughborough Pearson. Pearson's ...
- Pearson, Karl
- British statistician, leading founder of the modern field of statistics, prominent proponent of eugenics, and influential interpreter of the philosophy and social role of science. [7 Related Articles]
- Pearson, Lester B.
- politician, diplomat, and prime minister of Canada (1963-68), who was prominent as a mediator in international disputes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957. [8 Related Articles]
- Pearson, Richard
- (from the article "Bonhomme Richard and Serapis, engagement between") ...war conveying merchantmen loaded with naval stores, Jones's Bonhomme Richard engaged the British frigate Serapis, commanded by Captain Richard Pearson, in a memorable 3 ...
- Peary Land
- region, northern Greenland, extending about 200 miles (320 km) east and west along the Arctic Ocean, between Victoria Fjord and the Greenland Sea. One of the northernmost land regions of ...
- Peary, Robert Edwin
- U.S. Arctic explorer usually credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole (1909). [6 Related Articles]
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
- (from the article "Libraries and Museums") ...U.S. troops' famous capture of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, visitors boarded a replica Marine boat that re-created troops' experience with motion, sound, and video. On a smaller scale, ...
- Pearya
- (from the article "Silurian Period") Evidence of another Laurentian highland, called Pearya, is found in the Canadian Arctic in the vicinity of northern Ellesmere Island. Clastic sediments eroded from this source were deposited in the ...
- peasant
- any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural labourers. The term peasant originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic ... [54 Related Articles]
- Peasant Movement Training Institute
- (from the article "Mao Zedong") ...which capacity he edited its leading organ, the Political Weekly, and attended the Second Kuomintang Congress in January 1926-but he also served at the Peasant Movement Training ...
- Peasant Party
- (from the article "Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw") ...premier and minister of agriculture and land reform. At the Potsdam Conference, he tried to press the interests of a free Poland, a condition that was agreed upon but ignored. ...
- Peasant Party
- (from the article "Mihalache, Ion") Romanian statesman and popular political leader and founder of the Peasant Party.
- Peasants' Land Bank
- (from the article "Russia") ...of which more than half had been obtained by purchase from landowners and the remainder by the completion of the transfer of allotment land. Peasant purchases had been assisted by ...
- Peasants' Revolt
- (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, which brought to a head the economic discontent that ... [9 Related Articles]
- Peasants' War
- (from the article "Germany") ...of the revolutionary years 1524-25 impelled Lutheran rulers to establish centrally controlled church organizations. In their own time and often since then, these events were labeled a "peasant rebellion"; but ...
- peascod
- (from the article "doublet") The height and narrowness of the waist varied from country to country, as did the materials, which included rich fabrics such as velvet, satin, and cloth of gold. An extreme ...
- Pease, Edward
- (from the article "Stephenson, George") ...he heard of a project for a railroad, employing draft horses, to be built from Stockton to Darlington to facilitate exploitation of a rich vein of coal. At Darlington he ...
- Pease, Edward Reynolds
- English writer and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.
- peat
- an organic fuel consisting of spongy material formed by the partial decomposition of organic matter, primarily plant material, in wetlands such as swamps, muskegs, bogs, fens, and moors. The development ... [13 Related Articles]
- peat moss
- any of more than 150-300 species of plants in the subclass Sphagnidae, of the division Bryophyta, comprising the family Sphagnaceae, which contains one genus, Sphagnum. The taxonomy of Sphagnum species ... [6 Related Articles]
- peatification
- (from the article "peat") Peatification is influenced by several factors, including the nature of the plant material deposited, the availability of nutrients to support bacterial life, the availability of oxygen, the acidity of the ...
- Peavy, Jake
- (from the article "Baseball") ...Troy Tulowitzki. Beckett topped AL pitchers with 20 victories; however, C.C. Sabathia, with an impressive ratio of 209 strikeouts to only 39 walks, won the AL Cy Young. The NL ...
- pebble
- (from the article "gravel") Fragments in gravel range in size from pebbles (4-64 mm [0.16-2.52 inches] in diameter), through cobbles (64-256 mm [2.52-10.08 inches]), to boulders (larger than 256 mm). The rounding of gravel ...
- pebble chopper
- primordial cutting tool, the oldest type of tool made by forerunners of modern humans. The tool consists of a rounded stone struck a number of blows with a similar stone ... [5 Related Articles]
- pebble dash
- (from the article "plaster") ...may be applied directly to concrete, brick, tile, or a supporting metal lath base. Various types of finish, including colours and textures, may be incorporated in the finish coat. Splatter ...
- pebble mosaic
- type of mosaic work that uses natural pebbles arranged to form decorative or pictorial patterns. It was used only for pavements and was the earliest type of mosaic in all ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pebbles
- (from the article "number game") Games of this sort seem to be widely played the world over. The game of Pebbles, also known as the game of Odds, is played by two people who start ...
- pebbly mudstone
- (from the article "sedimentary rock") Other rarer diamictites, known as laminated pebbly (or cobbly or bouldery) mudstones, consist of delicately laminated mudrocks in which scattered coarser clasts occur. Laminations within the muddy component are broken ...
- pebrine
- (from the article "microsporidian") ...and repeatedly divide asexually. The mature parasites (trophozoites) eventually give rise to sexually produced zygotes that produce new spores. The species Nosema bombycis causes the disease pebrine in silkworms (see ...
- Pec
- town, western Kosovo. It lies on a small tributary of the Beli Drim River, between the North Albanian Alps (Prokletije) and the Mokra Mountain Range. It is populated largely by ... [2 Related Articles]
- pecan
- (Carya illinoinensis, or illinoensis), nut and tree of the walnut family (Juglandaceae), native to temperate North America. The tree occasionally reaches a height of about 50 m (160 feet) and ... [3 Related Articles]
- peccary
- any of the three species of piglike mammal found in the southern deserts of the United States southward through the Amazon Basin to Patagonian South America (see Patagonia). Closely resembling ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pecevi
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of turgidity, but even his style was surpassed by some later writers. These stylistic tendencies deeply influenced Turkish prose writing: 17th-century Turkish historical works, such as those of Pecevi (died ...
- Pecham, John
- (from the article "Archbishops of Canterbury") ...and the "Stabat Mater" ("The Mother Stands"). The cults of the Holy Cross and of the Passion are the impetus to the poetry of two Franciscans, the Italian St. Bonaventura ...
- Pechenegs
- a seminomadic, apparently Turkic people who occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea (8th-12th century) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don ... [5 Related Articles]
- Pechenga
- town, Murmansk oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It lies at the head of Pechenga Bay on the Barents Sea coast. Dating from the 16th century, the town was in northern Finland ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pechersky
- (from the article "Kiev") ...with a rectangular pattern of streets and the old merchants' trading exchange, the House of Contracts, built in 1817. Also north of the old centre is the river port. South ...
- Pechiney
- French state-owned, multinational holding company formed in December 1971 as Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann SA after the merger of Pechiney SA, an aluminum producer established in 1855, and Societe Ugine Kuhlmann, ...
- Pechiney, A. R.
- (from the article "Pechiney") ...Produits Chimiques d'Alais et de la Camargue, produced its first aluminum, using a chemical process developed by Henri Sainte-Clair Deville, in 1860. The company's manager from 1877 to 1906 was ...
- Pechini process
- (from the article "advanced ceramics") A process related to the sol-gel route is the Pechini, or liquid mix, process (named after its American inventor, Maggio Pechini). An aqueous solution of suitable oxides or salts is ...
- Pechmann, Hans von
- (from the article "industrial polymers, major") In 1899 a German chemist, Hans von Pechmann, observed the formation of a white precipitate during the autodecomposition of diazomethane in ether. In 1900 this compound was identified by the ...
- Pechora River
- river in Russia, having a course of 1,124 miles (1,809 km). Rising in the northern Urals near Mount Koyp, it flows south in a narrow, deep valley, then west and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pechora Sea
- sea lying to the north of European Russia, between Kolguyev Island to the west and the Yugorsky Peninsula to the east. To the north is Novaya Zemlya. The Pechora Sea ...
- Pechstein, Claudia
- When the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, ended on Feb. 24, 2002, Claudia Pechstein of Germany had carved out a remarkable place for herself in the history of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pechstein, Max
- painter and printmaker, who was a leading member of the group of German Expressionist artists known as Die Brucke ("The Bridge"). He is best known for his paintings of nudes ... [1 Related Articles]
- peck
- unit of capacity in the U.S. Customary and the British Imperial Systems of measurement. In the United States the peck is used only for dry measure and is equal to ...
- Peck, Annie Smith
- American mountain climber whose numerous ascents-often record-setting and some at an advanced age-made her a remarkable figure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Peck, Gregory
- tall, imposing American actor with a deep, mellow voice, best known for conveying characters of honesty and integrity. [2 Related Articles]
- Peck, M Scott
- American psychiatrist (b. May 22, 1936, New York, N.Y.-d. Sept. 25, 2005, Warren, Conn.), wrote the best-selling book The Road Less Traveled (1978), which was credited with revolutionizing the self-help ...
- Peckham, Rufus Wheeler
- associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1896 to 1909.
- pecking method
- (from the article "hand tool") A last innovation of the Neolithic was the augmentation of the two older techniques of working stone, chipping (or flaking) and grinding, by a third, the pecking, or crumbling, method. ...
- Peckinpah, Sam
- American motion-picture director and screenwriter known for spectacular, violent westerns.
- Pecos
- city, seat (1883) of Reeves county, southwestern Texas, U.S. It is situated in the Pecos River valley, some 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Odessa. It originated in 1881 as ...
- Pecos Bill
- in American folklore, cowboy hero of the Pecos River region of Texas who was an exaggerated personification of Western stamina and values; his vivid exploits are analogous to those of ...
- Pecos River
- river in the southwestern United States, rising in Mora County, north-central New Mexico, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and flowing about 926 miles (1,490 km) through eastern New Mexico ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pecos River Compact
- (from the article "Rio Grande") ...as the Rio Grande Compact (1939) among Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, concerning shared use of the waters of the upper Rio Grande subbasin (above the site of former Fort ...
- Pecquet, Antoine
- (from the article "diplomacy") ...diplomatist, the example must be regarded as an exception, for it is a commonplace of human experience that skilled work requires a skilled workman." By 1737 another French diplomat-theorist, Antoine ...
- Pecqueur, Onesiphore
- (from the article "differential gear") The conventional automobile differential was invented in 1827 by a Frenchman, Onesiphore Pecqueur. It was used first on steam-driven vehicles and was a well-known device when internal-combustion engines appeared at ...
- Pecs
- ("Five Churches"), city of county status and seat of Baranya megye (county), southwestern Hungary. It lies at the southern foot of the wooded Mecsek Mountains, 135 mi (220 km) south-southwest ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pecten
- (from the article "photoreception") Scallops (Pecten) have about 50-100 single-chambered eyes in which the image is formed not by a lens but by a concave mirror. In 1965 British neurobiologist Michael ...
- pectin
- any of a group of water-soluble carbohydrate substances that are found in the cell walls and intercellular tissues of certain plants. In the fruits of plants, pectin helps keep the ... [8 Related Articles]
- Pectinatella
- (from the article "moss animal") ...however, can reach one metre (3.3 feet) or more in circumference; a warm-water gymnolaemate genus, Zoobotryon, which hangs from harbour pilings, and the freshwater phylactolaemate Pectinatella each produce masses that ...
- pectine
- (from the article "scorpion") The mesosoma has seven segments. The first (pregenital) segment is reduced and bears the sternum, while the second (genital) bears the ventral gonopore, which is covered. The unique comblike pectines ...
- pectinization
- (from the article "fruit processing") If the juice is to be clarified further or concentrated after extraction, treatment with pectinase may be required. The juice is monitored for pectin content using a qualitative pectin check, ...
- pectoral
- (from the article "jewelry") The concept of symmetry was utilized on the small pectoral or pendant (3.3 × 2.4 inches, or 8.4 × 6.1 centimetres) that belonged to Sesostris III in the 12th dynasty ...
- pectoral fin
- (from the article "skeleton") The pectoral fin of the elasmobranchs possesses basal cartilages that articulate with the pectoral girdle. They carry a number of radial cartilages consisting of varying numbers of short segments; beyond ...
- pectoral girdle
- (from the article "muscle") In tetrapods, unlike fishes, the pectoral girdle does not have a solid bony connection to the axial skeleton but rather is supported by a series of muscles derived from the ...
- pectoralis major
- (from the article "pectoralis muscle") any of the muscles that connect the front walls of the chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder. There are two such muscles on each side of ...
- pectoralis minor
- (from the article "pectoralis muscle") ...rotation of the arm forward about the axis of the body. When the raised arms are fixed (as in mountain climbing), it assists the latissimus dorsi and teres major muscles ...
- pectoralis muscle
- any of the muscles that connect the front walls of the chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder. There are two such muscles on each side of ... [3 Related Articles]
- pectus excavatum
- a chest deformity caused by depression of the breastbone, or sternum. Pectus excavatum is generally not noticeable at birth but becomes more evident with age unless surgically corrected. In most ...
- peculiar motion
- (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...of space. To solve for solar motion, two assumptions are made. The first is that the stars that form the standard of rest are symmetrically distributed over the sky, and ...
- peculium
- (from the article "slavery") ...Ch'ing China, medieval Spain, and the northern Nigerian emirates, slaves had the right of property ownership. Some places, such as Rome, allowed slaves to accumulate, manage, and use property in ...
- peculium castrense
- (from the article "patria potestas") By classical times, the father's power of life and death had shrunk to that of light punishment, and sons could keep as their own what they earned as soldiers (peculium ...
- ped
- (from the article "soil") Aggregates of soil particles whose formation has not been influenced by human intervention are called peds. The peds in the surface horizons of soils develop into clods under the effects ...
- pedagogy
- study of teaching methods, including the aims of education and the ways in which such goals may be achieved. The field relies heavily on educational psychology, or theories about the ... [19 Related Articles]
- pedal
- (from the article "bicycle") The word bicycle came into use in Europe in 1868 to replace the cumbersome velocipede de pedale. The first velocipede powered via pedals mounted on the front ...
- pedal
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") Unlike their Austrian and German counterparts, English pianos had two or, at most, three pedals. One of the two ordinary pedals shifted the keyboard sideways so that the hammers struck ...
- pedal disk
- (from the article "sea anemone") ...at the upper end of the body is surrounded by petal-like tentacles, which are often present in multiples of six. Sea anemones are commonly yellow, green, or blue; they are ...
- pedal harp
- musical instrument in which pedals control a mechanism raising the pitch of given strings by a semitone (single action) or by both a semitone and a whole tone (double action). ... [1 Related Articles]
- pedal locomotion
- (from the article "locomotion") In pedal locomotion, which is a slow, continuous gliding that is superficially indistinguishable from ciliary locomotion, propulsion along the bottom is generated by the passage of contraction waves through the ...
- pedal point
- in music, a tone sustained through several changes of harmony that may be consonant or dissonant with it; in instrumental music it is typically in the bass. The name originates ...
- pedal retractor muscle
- (from the article "bivalve") ...gastropods, does not have a flat creeping sole but is bladelike (laterally compressed) and pointed for digging. The muscles mainly responsible for movement of the foot are the anterior and ...
- pedalboard
- (from the article "organ") ...with each pipe corresponding to one key on the keyboard, or manual. Organs usually possess several sets of pipes (also known as stops, or registers), however, playable from several keyboards ...
- pedalfer
- (from the article "China") ...two classifications. Generally speaking, the soils north of the Qin Mountains-Huai River line are pedocals (calcareous) and are neutral to alkaline in reaction; those south of this line are pedalfers ...
- Pedaliaceae
- (from the article "Lamiales") Pedaliaceae, or the sesame family, is a small family of 13 genera and 70 species. Its native distribution is exclusively Old World, in tropical and dry habitats, and its best-known ...
- Pedder, Lake
- (from the article "Gordon River") The first stage of the Gordon River hydroelectric project was completed in 1978; Gordon Dam and dams on the Serpentine and Huon rivers have created Lakes Gordon and Pedder, the ...
- pederasty
- (from the article "pedophilia") ...of sexual offenses. In general, the younger the child and the greater the disparity in age between pedophile and victim, the more severe the penalty. Most severe penalties are usually ...
- Pedernales
- city, southwestern Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean coast just across from Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti. It was founded in 1915 and serves as a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural region, which ...
- Pedersen conductivity
- (from the article "geomagnetic field") The electrical conductivity parallel to the electric field in the Earth's ionosphere is referred to as the Pedersen conductivity, and it is usually a factor of two less than the ...
- Pedersen, Carl-Henning
- Danish artist was a significant figure in the short-lived (1949-51) but influential COBRA (an acronym for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) group of Expressionist painters, with whom he exhibited some ...
- Pedersen, Charles J.
- American chemist who, along with Jean-Marie Lehn and Donald J. Cram, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his synthesis of the crown ethers-a group of organic compounds ...
- Pedersen, Christiern
- Danish humanist who was among the first to rediscover Denmark's national literary and historical heritage and to encourage the development of a vernacular style in Danish literature.
- Pedersen, Hilde
- (from the article "The XX Olympic Winter Games") ...of China to 54-year-old American Scott Baird, who shared the silver medal won by the U.S. men's curling team. The oldest athlete to earn an individual medal at the Turin ...
- Pedersen, Holger
- Danish linguist of exceptional accomplishment, especially in comparative Celtic grammar. [3 Related Articles]
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