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- American gridiron football player who in 1971 became the first defensive player to win the Most Valuable Player award of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the ...
- Page, Anita
- American film actress briefly shone as one of Hollywood's top stars during the transition from silent films to talkies, starting with a role as a doomed jazz baby in the ...
- Page, Anne
- (from the article "Merry Wives of Windsor, The") A secondary plot centres on the wooing of the Pages' charming daughter Anne. Doctor Caius, Slender, and Fenton are rivals for Anne's affection. To great comic effect, all three suitors ...
- Page, Clarence
- American newspaper columnist and television commentator specializing in urban affairs.
- Page, Dorothy G.
- (from the article "Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race") ...A short race of about 25 miles (40 km) was organized in 1967 as part of the centennial celebration of the Alaska Purchase and evolved in 1973 into the current ...
- Page, Geraldine
- versatile American actress noted primarily for her interpretations of the heroines of Tennessee Williams's plays. [2 Related Articles]
- Page, Jimmy
- (from the article "Led Zeppelin") ...that was extremely popular in the 1970s. Although their musical style was diverse, they came to be well known for their influence on the development of heavy metal. The members ...
- Page, Larry
- American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most successful sites on the Internet. [3 Related Articles]
- Page, Mistress
- (from the article "Merry Wives of Windsor, The") ...Henry IV plays, such as Pistol, Bardolph, Nym, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow. They are all in a delightfully new environment. Falstaff takes a fancy to two married women, Mistress ...
- Page, P. K.
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...Contact (1952-54) and their publishing house, the Contact Press (1952-67)-urged poets to focus on realism and the local North American context. P.K. Page, one of Canada's most ...
- Page, Robert Morris
- American physicist known as the "father" of U.S. radar.
- Page, Ruth
- American dancer and choreographer, who reigned as the grand dame of dance in Chicago from the 1920s to the 1980s.
- Page, Sir Earle
- Australian statesman, coleader of the federal government (1923-29) in coalition with Stanley M. Bruce. As head of the Country Party (1920-39), he was a spokesman for the party's goal of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Page, Sir Frederick Handley
- British aircraft designer who built the Handley Page 0/400, one of the largest heavy bomber planes used in World War I.
- Page, Thomas J.
- (from the article "Water Witch incident") (1855), brief military skirmish near the Paraguayan Ft. Itapiru, involving the USS "Water Witch," commanded by Lt. Thomas J. Page, and Paraguayan troops who fired as the vessel was exploring ...
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- American author whose work fostered romantic legends of Southern plantation life. [1 Related Articles]
- Page, Walter
- black American swing-era musician, one of the first to play "walking" lines on the string bass. A pioneer of the Southwestern jazz style, he was a star of the Count ... [1 Related Articles]
- Page, Walter Hines
- journalist, book publisher, author, and diplomat who, as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain during World War I, worked strenuously to maintain close relations between the two countries while the United ... [1 Related Articles]
- Page, William
- American painter known for his sedate portraits of prominent mid-19th-century Americans and Britons.
- pageant
- a large-scale, spectacular theatrical production or procession. In its earlier meanings the term denoted specifically a car or float designed for the presentation of religious plays or cycles. By extension, ... [1 Related Articles]
- pageant wagon
- wheeled vehicle used in the processional staging of medieval vernacular cycle plays. Processional staging is most closely associated with the English cycle plays performed from about 1375 until the mid-16th ... [5 Related Articles]
- Pagels, Elaine
- Only a few academics are read by both their peers and the general public. Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine professor of religion at Princeton University, was part of that ...
- PageMaker
- (from the article "Apple Inc.") ...Under Sculley, Apple steadily improved the machine. However, what saved the Mac in those early years was Apple's 1985 introduction of an affordable laser printer along with Aldus Corporation's PageMaker, ...
- Pageos I
- (from the article "surveying") ...with observations by Rebound A-13, launched that year, and some prior work using the Echo 1 and Echo 2 passive reflecting satellites. The first satellite specifically designed for geodetic work, ...
- Paget disease of bone
- chronic disease of middle age, characterized by excessive breakdown and formation of bone tissue. The disease is common among people of northern European descent; it is almost nonexistent among people ... [3 Related Articles]
- Paget's disease
- (from the article "breast cancer") Paget disease is an uncommon type of breast cancer that begins at the nipple and initially causes a burning, itching, or tender sensation. Eventually the lesion becomes enlarged, cracks, oozes, ...
- Paget, Sir James, 1st Baronet
- British surgeon and surgical pathologist.
- Paglia, Camille
- The controversial academic, aesthete, and self-described feminist Camille Paglia enunciated her unorthodox views on sexuality and the development of culture and art in Western civilization in two books, Sexual Personae: ...
- Pagliarani, Elio
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...I Novissimi: poesie per gli anni '60 ("The Newest Poets: Poems for the '60s"), edited by Alfredo Giuliani. In addition to the editor, the poets represented were Elio Pagliarani, author ...
- Pagliero, Marcello
- Italian motion picture director, screenwriter, and actor who worked primarily outside Italy, often in France.
- Pagnani, Andreina
- Italian dramatic actress who worked primarily in the theatre.
- Pagninus, Santes
- Dominican scholar whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible-the first since St. Jerome's-greatly aided other 16th-century scriptural translators.
- Pagnol, Marcel Paul
- French writer and motion-picture producer-director who won both fame as the master of stage comedy and critical acclaim for his filmmaking. He was elected to the French Academy in 1946, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pago Pago
- port and administrative capital (since 1899) of American Samoa, south-central Pacific Ocean. Backed by densely wooded mountains, it is situated on an inlet that deeply indents the southeast shore of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pago Pago International Airport
- (from the article "Pago Pago") ...for the U.S. Navy from the Samoan high chief Mauga. It remained an active naval base from 1900 to 1951 and is now a regular port of call for all ...
- pagoda
- in East and Southeast Asia, a towerlike, multistoried structure of stone, brick, or wood, usually associated with a Buddhist temple complex. The pagoda derives from the stupa of ancient India, ... [9 Related Articles]
- pagoda dogwood
- (from the article "pagoda tree") The pagoda dogwood is Cornus alternifolia, a member of the family Cornaceae; it is used in landscaping for its horizontal branching habit.
- pagoda tree
- any of several trees of erect, conical form suggesting a pagoda, particularly Sophora japonica, commonly called the Japanese pagoda tree, or the Chinese scholar tree. A member of the pea ...
- Pagon, Mount
- (from the article "Brunei") Brunei consists of a narrow coastal plain in the north, which gives way to rugged hills in the south. The country's highest point is Pagon Peak (6,070 feet [1,850 metres]), ...
- Pagosa Springs
- city, seat (1891) of Archuleta county, south-central Colorado, U.S. Located near large mineral springs, the town site was established in 1874 after control of the area was wrested from the ...
- Pagurus bernhardus
- (from the article "hermit crab") Some species live in close association with other animals. Pagurus (Eupagurus) bernhardus, a common, bright red hermit crab of European and North American coastal waters, often carries one or more ...
- Pagurus pollicaris
- (from the article "hermit crab") Pagurus pollicaris, a large hermit crab of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America, is reddish brown and about 10 to 12 cm (4 to 5 inches) long. P. longicarpus, ...
- pagus
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...was delegated to counts who had control of counties, or gauen (pagi), some of which corresponded to Roman civitates. Among these counties in the Low Countries were the pagus Taruanensis ...
- Pahang
- region, eastern West Malaysia (Malaya). Its eastern coastline stretches along the South China Sea. Pahang occupies the vast Pahang River basin, which is enclosed by the Main Range to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pahang River
- river in Pahang region, West Malaysia (Malaya). It is the longest river on the Malay Peninsula. It rises in two headstreams, the Jelai and Tembeling, about 10 miles (16 km) ...
- Pahari
- people who constitute about three-fifths the population of Nepal and a majority of the population of neighbouring Himalayan India (in Himachal Pradesh and northern Uttar Pradesh). They speak languages belonging ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pahari languages
- group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas (pahari is Hindi for "of the mountains"). Three divisions are distinguished: Eastern Pahari, represented by Nepali of Nepal; ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pahari painting
- style of miniature painting and book illustration that developed in the independent states of the Himalayan foothills in India. The style is made up of two markedly contrasting schools, the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pahawh Hmong writing system
- (from the article "Hmong-Mien languages") ...the Chinese. A second system of writing Hmong languages was developed in 1959-71 in Laos by native leader Shong Lue Yang. He invented and developed increasingly sophisticated versions of the ...
- Pahia, Mount
- (from the article "Bora-Bora") ...Ocean, about 165 miles (265 km) northwest of Tahiti. The mountainous island, some 6 miles (10 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, has Mount Otemanu (Temanu; 2,385 feet ...
- Pahiatua
- town, southern North Island, New Zealand, at the confluence of the Mangatainoka River and Mangaramarama Creek, 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Wellington. It was founded in 1881 by Scandinavian ...
- Pahlavan Mahmoud mausoleum
- (from the article "Khiva") ...century; the pillars are recognized for the quality of their carving and decoration. Built to honour the 14th-century poet and wrestler Pahlavan Mahmoud, who is revered as Khiva's protector, the ...
- Pahlavi alphabet
- until the advent of Islam (7th century AD); the Zoroastrian sacred book, the Avesta, is written in a variant of Pahlavi called Avestan. [7 Related Articles]
- Pahlavi dynasty
- (from the article "Iran") The Pahlavi dynasty (1925-79)establishment by Reza Shah PahlaviReza Shah PahlaviCoup of 1921....the strong opposition to the idea by the majority ...
- Pahlavi language
- major form of the Middle Persian language (see Persian language), which existed from the 3rd to the 10th century and was the official language of the Sasanian empire (AD 226-652). ... [6 Related Articles]
- pahoehoe
- (from the article "lava") Mafic (ferromagnesian, dark-coloured) lavas such as basalt characteristically form flows known by the Hawaiian names pahoehoe and aa (or a'a). Pahoehoe lava flows are characterized by smooth, gently undulating, or ...
- Pahor, Borut
- (from the article "Slovenia") ...party known as Zares (For Real), whose leaders emanated primarily from the Liberal Democrats. Its popularity remained unclear, however, and the strongest leader on the left continued to be Borut ...
- Pahud de Mortanges, Charles Ferdinand
- Dutch equestrian who was one of the most successful riders in Olympic history, winning four gold medals and a silver in the 1920s and '30s.
- Pai Hsien-yung
- (from the article "Chinese literature") ...the modernist era by publishing their own craftsmanlike stories, which were heavily indebted to such Western masters as Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Many of these writers, such ...
- Pai Lu Tung Academy
- (from the article "Kiangsi") In the Sung dynasty (960-1279) Kiangsi became a model of the Confucian state, governed by scholar-officials. The Pai Lu Tung ("White Deer Grotto") Academy, near Lu-shan, where Chu Hsi taught, ...
- Pai Marire
- (from the article "Hauhau") any of the radical members of the Maori Pai Marire (Maori: "Good and Peaceful") religion, founded in 1862 in Taranaki on North Island, New Zealand. The movement was founded by ...
- Pai-gow poker
- (from the article "poker") Pai-gow poker is a house-banked even-payout game. Each player is given seven cards, as is the dealer. Each then makes his best two-card and best five-card hand. If both of ...
- Pai-yun-o-po
- (from the article "Inner Mongolia") Inner Mongolia's industry is based on the territory's great mineral wealth. There are rich iron-ore deposits at Pai-yun-o-po, about 75 miles north of Pao-t'ou, and Inner Mongolia has one of ...
- Paichi Mountains
- (from the article "Anhwei") ...extension of the Tsinling-Fu-niu ranges lying to the north of the Yangtze-form a convex curve of steep slopes facing east and northeast on the southwestern Hupeh-Anhwei border. The Paichi Mountains ...
- paid-in capital
- (from the article "accounting") In the United States, for example, the owners' equity is divided between paid-in capital and retained earnings. Paid-in capital represents the amounts paid to the corporation in exchange for shares ...
- paideia
- (Greek: "education," or "learning"), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Paiement, Andre
- (from the article "Canadian literature") Franco-Ontarian culture underwent tremendous revitalization in the 1970s, particularly in northern Ontario with the development of regional theatre in French. Andre Paiement, one of the founders of the Theatre du ...
- Paige, Satchel
- American professional baseball pitcher whose prowess became legendary during his many years in the Negro leagues; he finally was allowed to enter the major leagues in 1948 after the unwritten ... [5 Related Articles]
- Paijanne, Lake
- lake located in south-central Finland. The lake has an area of 407 sq mi (1,054 sq km) and a maximum depth of 305 ft (93 m). It is about 85 ...
- Paik, Nam June
- Korean-born composer, performer, and artist who was from the early 1960s one of postmodern art's most provocative and innovative figures. [3 Related Articles]
- Paikuli
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...After Bahram II died, Narses, the youngest son of Shapur I, contested the succession of Bahram III and won the crown. In memory of his victory, Narses erected a tower ...
- pailu
- (from the article "lushi") ...form of lushi consisting of quatrains and depending for its artistry on suggestiveness and economy. Another variation, pailu, followed most of the rules of ...
- Paimio
- (from the article "Aalto, Alvar") ...him as the most advanced architect in Finland and brought him worldwide recognition as well. These were the Turun Sanomat Building (newspaper office) in Turku, the tuberculosis sanatorium at Paimio, ...
- pain
- a complex experience consisting of a physiological and emotional response to a noxious stimulus. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful ... [35 Related Articles]
- Pain, Jeff
- (from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") In men's skeleton Jeff Pain of Canada started and ended the season on top of the podium. Pain earned one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals on his way ...
- Paine, John Knowles
- composer and organist, the first American to win wide recognition as a composer and the first professor of music at an American university.
- Paine, Robert
- (from the article "boundary ecosystem") At the next level in the food web (that of consumers), predators such as starfish control the abundance of grazing animals. In classic experiments on the coast of Washington state, ...
- Paine, Robert Treat
- American politician, jurist, member of the Continental Congress (1774-78), and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Paine, Thomas
- English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and "Crisis" papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that contributed to his reputation as one of the greatest ... [10 Related Articles]
- Painesville
- city, seat (1840) of Lake county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., near the mouth of the Grand River and Lake Erie, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Cleveland. The site, first settled ...
- Painleve, Paul
- French politician, mathematician, and patron of aviation who was prime minister at a crucial period of World War I and again during the 1925 financial crisis.
- pains and penalties, bill of
- (from the article "attainder") Historically, a legislative act attainting a person without a judicial trial was known as a bill of attainder or-if punishment was less than death-as a bill of pains and penalties. ...
- paint
- decorative and protective coating commonly applied to rigid surfaces as a liquid consisting of a pigment suspended in a vehicle, or binder. The vehicle, usually a resin dissolved in a ... [20 Related Articles]
- paint pot
- (from the article "mud volcano") ...small amounts of water react chemically with the surrounding rocks and form a boiling mud. Variations are the porridge pot (a basin of boiling mud that erodes chunks of the ...
- Paint Rock
- (from the article "San Angelo") The town of Paint Rock, 30 miles (50 km) east of San Angelo, was named for the approximately 1,500 Indian pictographs on a nearby river bluff. Inc. 1903. Pop. (1990) ...
- painted buckeye
- (from the article "buckeye") Bottlebrush buckeye (A. parviflora), from Georgia and Alabama, is an attractive shrub, up to 3.5 m (11 feet) high. The white flowers are borne in erect spikes about 30 cm ...
- painted bunting
- (from the article "bunting") ...songs. The bright blue male indigo bunting (P. cyanea) is a conspicuous bird along eastern American roadsides; the drab brown female hides among thickets and incubates the eggs. The painted ...
- Painted Desert
- section of the high plateau in north-central Arizona, U.S. The Painted Desert extends from the Grand Canyon in a southeasterly direction along the north side of the Little Colorado River ... [2 Related Articles]
- painted enamel
- (from the article "enamelwork") ...paint on metal has a short life and, even when new, is overshadowed by the brilliance of the polished metal, enamelling gives the surface of metal a durable, coloured, decorative ...
- painted finch
- (from the article "grass finch") ...may be red, orange, or black. The star finch (Neochmia ruficauda) is greenish brown above and yellow below, with white-dotted red head, greenish gray breast, and white-barred red tail. The ...
- Painted Gray Ware culture
- (from the article "India") ...because the proximity of the Himalayas produced a higher level of rainfall. It is in this area that a new tendency emerges-the expansion of settlements associated with the pottery known ...
- painted lady
- species of butterfly in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera), that has broad wings (span about 4 to 5 cm [1.5 to 2 inches]), with beautifully elaborate patterns of ... [3 Related Articles]
- painted lady
- (from the article "pyrethrum") ...or pyrethrum. The plants were formerly considered a separate genus, Pyrethrum. The typical species, the perennial T. coccineum, is the florists' pyrethrum, commonly called painted lady. Large ...
- painted quail
- (from the article "galliform") ...the size of a pigeon to that of a domestic chicken, 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 inches) long and 500 to 2,500 grams (1 to 5.5 pounds) in ...
- painted snipe
- either of two species of marsh birds comprising the family Rostratulidae (order Charadriiformes). They are boldly marked birds with a snipelike body and bill. Painted snipes are about 25 cm ... [1 Related Articles]
- Painted Stoa
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...that the vase painters responded to the general enthusiasm and civic pride by adopting Theseus as a frequent subject. This development was reflected in monumental painting. About 460 BC the ...
- painted terrapin
- (from the article "turtle") ...ponds and streams. As with the softshell turtles, Asia has two of the largest species of pond turtles-the Asian river turtle, or batagur (Batagur baska), and the ...
- painted tree rat
- (from the article "American spiny rat") ...range of colours and markings. At one extreme is the plain punare (Thrichomys apereoides), with dull brown upperparts and grayish white underparts. At the other extreme is the painted tree ...
- painted turtle
- brightly marked North American turtle (family Emydidae) found from southern Canada to northern Mexico. The painted turtle is a smooth-shelled reptile with a shell about 14 to 18 cm (5.5 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Painter, Theophilus Shickel
- American zoologist and cytologist who first showed that the giant chromosomes linked to the development of salivary glands in fruit flies could be used to identify the position of individual ...
- Painter, William
- English author whose collection of tales The Palace of Pleasure, based on classical and Italian originals, served as a sourcebook for many Elizabethan dramatists.
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