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Pallas, Peter Simon: German naturalist who advanced a theory of mountain formation and, by the age of 15, had outlined new classifications of certain animal groups. [1 Related Articles]
pallasite: (from the article "stony iron meteorite") ...which are often called stony irons, are an intermediate type between the two more common types, stony meteorites and iron meteorites. In specimens of one common type of stony iron, ...
Pallava Dynasty: early 4th-century to late 9th-century southern Indian line of rulers whose members originated as indigenous subordinates of the Satavahanas in the Deccan, moved into Andhra, and then to Kanci (Kanchipuram ... [5 Related Articles]
pallavi: (from the article "South Asian arts") ...which the singer uses meaningless words to produce more or less regular rhythms, but still without reference to time measure. This section, too, is without drum accompaniment. The final section, ...
Pallavicini, Gian Luca: (from the article "Italy") A first wave of reforms under Maria Theresa came to Milan in the early 1740s. The Genoese patrician Gian Luca Pallavicini prepared them as a minister after 1743 and then ...
Pallca: (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...platform with a wide stairway on which stands a feline head and paws, modeled from stone and mud, and painted. By the paws was buried a woman, believed to have ...
Pallenberg, Max: actor, an exponent of the Austrian tradition of extempore farce, whose talents contributed to the evolution of German theatrical practice.
Pallene: (from the article "Peisistratus") ...in Thebes, Argos, Naxos, and elsewhere. In 546 he went to Eretria on the island of Euboea, with the force provided by his own funds and by his friends, and ...
pallet: (from the article "logistics") ...buys and takes home. These containers fit into boxes that are about one cubic foot in dimension and are unloaded, item by item, by the person stocking the shelves. These ...
pallet: (from the article "organ") The pipes are arranged over a wind chest that is connected to the keys via a set of pallets, or valves, and fed with a supply of air by electrically ...
pallet load: (from the article "logistics") ...vehicles with two lifting prongs in front that fit into slots in the pallet and then lift it. Loaded pallets are moved by forklift trucks into and out of warehouses, ...
pallial line: (from the article "bivalve") ...margins, although increases in thickness take place everywhere. The mantle is withdrawn between the shell valves by mantle retractor muscles; their point of attachment to the shell being called the ...
palliative surgery: (from the article "cancer") Although surgery often is intended to be curative, it may sometimes be used to assuage pain or dysfunction. This type of surgery, called palliative surgery, can remove an intestinal obstruction ...
pallid harrier: (from the article "harrier") ...Also common are the marsh harrier (C. aeruginosus) and Montagu's harrier (C. pygargus) ranging over most of Europe and from the Mediterranean shores of North Africa to Mongolia. The pallid ...
pallidotomy: (from the article "parkinsonism") ...of dopamine, and bromocriptine and pergolide, two drugs that mimic the effects of dopamine. Surgical procedures are used to treat parkinsonism patients who have failed to respond to medications. Pallidotomy ...
Palliser, John: (from the article "Cypress Hills") ...acres [20,720 hectares] in Alberta, 44,800 acres in Saskatchewan), although coal has been mined in their eastern foothills near Shaunavon, Sask. Incorrectly named "cypress" (by Captain John Palliser, a British ...
Palliser, Sir Hugh: (from the article "Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, Baron Elden") ...When he fought against France in 1778 as commander of the western squadron, he believed that the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was then first lord of the Admiralty, would ...
pallium: liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble by the pope, archbishops, and some bishops in the Roman Catholic church. It is bestowed by the pope on archbishops and bishops having metropolitan ... [2 Related Articles]
Pallo, Jackie: British professional wrestler (b. Jan. 12, 1926, London, Eng.-d. Feb. 11, 2006, Ramsgate, Kent, Eng.), starred in the golden age of British professional wrestling and had a memorable rivalry with ...
palm: any member of the Arecaceae, or Palmae, the single family of monocotyledonous flowering plants of the order Arecales. [10 Related Articles]
palm: (from the article "measurement system") ...inch); the inch (uncia or pollicus), or 112 foot, was 24.67 mm (0.97 inch); and the palm (palmus), or 14 foot, ...
palm: (from the article "measurement system") ...20.62 inches) was subdivided in an extraordinarily complicated way. The basic subunit was the digit, doubtlessly a finger's breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit. Four digits ...
Palm Bay: city, Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S. It lies along the Indian River, a lagoon (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) which at that point is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by ...
Palm Beach: town, Palm Beach county, southeastern Florida, U.S., on a narrow barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean (east) and Lake Worth (west). The latter, actually a lagoon (part of the Intracoastal ...
palm borer: (from the article "branch and twig borer") any of approximately 700 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that live in dry wood or under tree bark. Branch and twig borers range in size from 3 to 20 ...
palm cabbage: (from the article "coconut palm") Other useful products derived from the coconut palm include toddy, palm cabbage, and construction materials. Toddy, a beverage drunk fresh, fermented, or distilled, is produced from the sweetish sap yielded ...
palm chestnut: edible nut of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes, or in some classifications Guilielma gasipaes), family Arecaceae (Palmae), that is grown extensively from Central America as far south as Ecuador. The ...
palm civet: (from the article "civet") Civets are usually solitary and live in tree hollows, among rocks, and in similar places, coming out to forage at night. Except for the arboreal palm civets, such as Paradoxurus ...
palm cockatoo: (from the article "cockatoo") Largest of cockatoos and with the biggest beak among psittaciform birds is the palm, or great black, cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), 65 to 75 cm (about 25 to 30 inches) long. ...
palm oil: (from the article "Biofuels-The Next Great Source of Energy?") ...as 100% ethanol fuel or in gasoline blends containing 85% ethanol. The second most common liquid biofuel is biodiesel, which is made primarily from oily plants (such as the soybean ...
Palm Pilot: (from the article "computer") The potential of this new kind of device was realized in 1996 when Palm Computing, Inc., released the Palm Pilot (see photograph), which was about the size of a deck ...
palm print: (from the article "hand") ...the tips of the fingers are covered by fingernails-a specialization that improves manipulation. The palms and undersides of the fingers are marked by creases and covered by ridges called palm ...
Palm Springs: city, Riverside county, southern California, U.S. It lies in the Coachella Valley, at the foot of Mount San Jacinto, which rises to 10,804 feet (3,293 metres). The area originally was ...
Palm Sunday: in the Christian tradition, first day of Holy Week and the Sunday before Easter, commemorating Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It is associated in many churches with the blessing ... [4 Related Articles]
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: series of tornados that struck the Midwestern region of the United States on April 11, 1965. A six-state area of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa was severely damaged ... [2 Related Articles]
palm-chat: (species Dulus dominicus), songbird of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and nearby Gonave Island, which may belong in the waxwing family (Bombycillidae) but which is usually separated as the ... [1 Related Articles]
palm-kernel oil: (from the article "common saturated fatty acids") ...in the fats and oils of many animals and plants, with palmitic and stearic acids being the most prevalent. Lauric acid (C₁₂) is the main acid in coconut oil (45-50 ...
palm-nut vulture: (from the article "vulture") The palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) lives in western and central Africa. It is about 50 cm (20 inches) long and has a bare orange face and yellow beak. It is ...
Palma: city, capital of the Balearic Islands provincia (province) and comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain, in the western Mediterranean Sea. The city lies on the ... [1 Related Articles]
palma: (from the article "Native American art") ...have been found throughout Central America from central Mexico to El Salvador, their centre seems to have been in the coastal Veracruz area. One of the objects, the
Palma Airport: (from the article "airport") ...just this type of passenger. Scheduled and charter passengers, meanwhile, tend to have very different needs in the terminal, especially at check-in and in the provision of ground transportation. Palma ...
Palma Soriano: city, eastern Cuba. Lying on the Cauto River, on the northern slopes of the Sierra Maestra, Palma Soriano is a commercial and manufacturing centre for the agricultural and pastoral hinterland, ...
Palma, Jacopo: Venetian painter of the High Renaissance, noted for the craftsmanship of his religious and mythological works. He may have studied under Giovanni Bellini, the originator of the Venetian High Renaissance ...
Palma, Jose: (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...beginning with Noli me tangere ("Touch Me Not"). Other prominent writers, all essayists, were Mariano Ponce and Rafael Palma. There were poets also-for example, Jose Palma, whose poem
Palma, Ricardo: Peruvian writer best known for his collected legends of colonial Peru, one of the most popular collections in Spanish American literature. [2 Related Articles]
Palmach: (from the article "Allon, Yigal") Allon was one of the first commanders of the Palmach, an elite branch of the Haganah, a Zionist military organization representing the majority of the Jews in Palestine after World ...
palmar and plantar keratosis: (from the article "keratosis") 1. Palmar and plantar keratosis is a congenital, often hereditary, thickening of the horny layer of the skin of the palms and soles, sometimes with painful lesions resulting from the ...
Palmares: autonomous republic within Alagoas state in northeastern Brazil during the period 1630-94; it was formed by the coalescence of as many as 10 separate communities (called quilombos, or mocambos) of ...
Palmaria: (from the article "algae") ...absent; coralline red algae contribute to coral reefs and coral sands; predominantly marine; approximately 4,100 described species; Bangia, Palmaria, Polysiphonia,
Palmas: city, capital of Tocantins estado (state), north-central Brazil. It lies at the centre of the state, east of the Tocantins River. When Tocantins state was created in 1989, its provisional ...
palmately compound leaf: (from the article "angiosperm") ...leaves lack a petiole and so are attached directly to the stem (sessile), and others lack stipules (exstipulate). In compound leaves (Figure 2), a blade has two or more subunits ...
Palmatolepis: (from the article "conodont") ...different species of cones, bars, and blade types. The greatest abundance and diversity of conodont shape was in the Devonian Period, wherein more than 50 species and subspecies of the ...
Palmatolepis triangularis: (from the article "Famennian Stage") ...during the Upper Kellwasser Event. The boundary point between the underlying Frasnian Stage and the Famennian also corresponds to the first appearance of the conodont Palmatolepis triangularis. ...
Palmdale: city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. North of the city of Los Angeles, Palmdale lies at the southern end of Antelope Valley. The area was first settled in the ...
Palme d'Or: (from the article "International Film Awards 2007") In the world of culture, the brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (see Biographies) joined the rare group of film directors to have twice won the Palme d'Or ...
Palme, Olof: prime minister of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86), prominent leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sveriges Socialdemokratiska Arbetar Partiet), Sweden's oldest continuing party. He became Sweden's best-known international politician. [1 Related Articles]
Palmeiro, Rafael: (from the article "Baseball") ...for a third-time offender, with the right of appeal for reinstatement after two years. There was also a provision to institute the testing of players for use of amphetamines. The ...
Palmela, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Duke de: Portuguese liberal statesman and supporter of Queen Maria II.
palmella stage: (from the article "heterochlorid") ...chromatophores with yellow to yellow-green pigments. Food reserves are stored as leucosin (a carbohydrate) and lipids. Some genera may be amoeboid during part of the life cycle; others may include ...
Palmer: city, southern Alaska, U.S. Located near the mouth of the Matanuska River, it lies 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Anchorage. The area was long inhabited by Athabascan Indians. George ...
Palmer Archipelago: island group off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Gerlache and Bismarck straits. The archipelago, which includes the islands of Anvers (46 miles ...
Palmer Land: broad southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula, about 400 miles (640 km) east of Peter I Island (in the Bellingshausen Sea), claimed by Britain as part of the British Antarctic ... [1 Related Articles]
Palmer raids: (from the article "Palmer, A. Mitchell") ...On Jan. 2, 1920, government agents in 33 cities rounded up thousands of persons, many of whom were detained without charge for long periods. The disregard of basic civil liberties ...
Palmer, A. Mitchell: American lawyer, legislator, and U.S. attorney general (1919-21) whose highly publicized campaigns against suspected radicals touched off the so-called Red Scare of 1919-20.
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman: American educator who exerted a strong and lasting influence on the academic and administrative character of Wellesley (Massachusetts) College during her brief tenure as its president. [1 Related Articles]
Palmer, Arnold: professional American golfer, the first to win the Masters Tournament (Augusta, Ga.) four times and the first to earn $1 million in tournament prize money. During his professional career (1954-75) ... [1 Related Articles]
Palmer, Bertha Honore: American socialite remembered especially for her active contributions to women's, artistic, and Chicago civic affairs. [2 Related Articles]
Palmer, Bruce: American four-star general and U.S. Army vice chief of staff (b. April 13, 1913, Austin, Texas-d. Oct. 10, 2000, Alexandria, Va.), was the author of The 25-Year War: America's Military ...
Palmer, Bruce: Canadian bass guitarist (b. Sept. 9, 1946, Liverpool, N.S.-d. Oct. 1, 2004, Belleville, Ont.), was a founding member of the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield. The group, which also included ...
Palmer, Carl: (from the article "Emerson, Lake and Palmer") ...Greg Lake (b. Nov. 10, 1948Bournemouth, Dorset), and Carl Palmer (b. March 20, 1951Birmingham).
Palmer, Carson: (from the article "Football") ...a record 28 touchdowns. The unusually high number of MVP candidates included league leaders Tiki Barber with 2,390 yd from scrimmage for the Giants, Tom Brady with 4,110 yd passing ...
Palmer, D. D.: (from the article "chiropractic") ...the musculoskeletal structures and functions of the body and the nervous system in the restoration and maintenance of health. The chiropractic method was founded in 1895 by an Iowa merchant, ...
Palmer, David: (from the article "Squash") ...during his career, saved what might go down as his most monumental effort until his final season. At the Commonwealth Games, he looked beaten in the final, having been run ...
Palmer, E H: English Orientalist, distinguished as a linguist and as a traveler, among whose many translations is a version of the Qur'an-the sacred scripture of Islam-that, despite some inaccuracies, captures the spirit ...
Palmer, Earl: American drummer provided the "solid stickwork and feverish backbeat" that laid the foundations for rock and roll drumming; his distinctive style was notable on such recordings as Little Richard's "Tutti ...
Palmer, Ernest: (from the article "1941: Other Winners") ...JordanOriginal Screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles for Citizen KaneCinematography, Black-and-White: Arthur Miller for How Green Was My ValleyCinematography, Color: Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan for Blood and SandArt ...
Palmer, John: (from the article "Bath") ...built by John Wood the Elder between 1728 and 1735; the Circus, begun by Wood in 1754 and completed by his son; the Royal Crescent, 1767-75; the Guildhall, 1775; Lansdown ...
Palmer, Nathaniel: American sea captain and explorer after whom Palmer Land, a stretch of western Antarctic coast and islands, is named. [3 Related Articles]
Palmer, Patrick: (from the article "Ozma, Project") A second experiment, called Ozma II, was conducted at the same observatory by Benjamin Zuckerman and Patrick Palmer, who intermittently monitored more than 650 nearby stars for about four years ...
Palmer, Phoebe Worrall: American evangelist and religious writer, an influential and active figure in the 19th-century Holiness movement in Christian fundamentalism.
Palmer, Potter: American merchant and real-estate promoter who was responsible for the development of much of the downtown district and the Lake Shore Drive area of Chicago after the city's great fire ... [2 Related Articles]
Palmer, Robert Alan: British singer (b. Jan. 19, 1949, Batley, Yorkshire, Eng.-d. Sept. 26, 2003, Paris, France), was a respected practitioner of "blue-eyed soul," best known for his iconic 1985 song and music ...
Palmer, Samuel: English painter and etcher of visionary landscapes who was a disciple of William Blake. [1 Related Articles]
Palmer, Sir Geoffrey: New Zealand Labour Party leader and prime minister of New Zealand for a year in 1989-90.
Palmer, Timothy: U.S. pioneer builder of covered timber truss bridges. [1 Related Articles]
Palmer, Vance: Australian author of novels, short stories, and plays whose work is noted for disciplined diction and frequent understatement. He is considered one of the founders of Australian drama. [1 Related Articles]
Palmerston Atoll: atoll of the northern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. A coral formation, it has a lagoon that lacks clear ...
Palmerston North: city, southern North Island, New Zealand, overlooking the Manawatu River. The settlement, named after Lord Palmerston, prime minister of England, was founded in 1866 and declared successively a town (1868), ...
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, Baron Temple Of Mount Temple: English Whig-Liberal statesman whose long career, including many years as British foreign secretary (1830-34, 1835-41, 1846-51) and prime minister (1855-58, 1859-65), made him a symbol of British nationalism. [8 Related Articles]
Palmesel: (from the article "folk art") ...of "nuns' work," including small devotional objects, many in collage, as well as vestments and church textiles. A particular German sculptural type is the Palmesel, a half-size ...
Palmgren, Selim: Finnish pianist and composer who helped establish the nationalist movement in Finnish music.
Palmieri, Eddie: (from the article "salsa") ...and through huge contributions by a number of musicians of Puerto Rican heritage, most notably bandleaders Tito Rodriguez, Tito Puente (a virtuoso timbale player and vibraphonist), and Eddie Palmieri (a ...
Palmieri, Luigi: (from the article "seismograph") A device involving water spillage was developed in 17th-century Italy. Later a water-filled bowl and still later a cup filled with mercury were used for detecting earthquakes and tremors. In ...
Palmieri, Matteo: (from the article "humanism") Matteo Palmieri wrote thatthe true merit of virtue lies in effective action, and effective action is impossible without the faculties that are necessary for it. He who has nothing to ...
Palmira: city, Valle del Cauca departamento (department), southwestern Colombia. It lies in the rich Cauca River valley. Founded in 1688, the city has long been an important agricultural and livestock-raising centre. ...
palmistry: reading of character and divination of the future by interpretation of lines and undulations on the palm of the hand. The origins of palmistry are uncertain. It may have begun ...
palmitic acid: (from the article "common saturated fatty acids") ...meaning "goat." Some hard cheeses (e.g., Swiss cheese) contain natural propanoic acid. The higher even-numbered saturated acids, from C₁₂ to C₁₈ (lauric, myristic, palmitic, and stearic), are present in the ...
palmityl-S-ACP: (from the article "metabolism") Ultimately, a molecule with 16 carbon atoms, palmityl-S-ACP, is formed. In most organisms a deacylase catalyzes the release of free palmitic acid; in a few, synthesis continues, and an acid ...
Palmolive-Peet Company: (from the article "Colgate-Palmolive Company") In 1928 Colgate & Company was bought by Palmolive-Peet Company. Palmolive-Peet's founder, B.J. Johnson, had developed the formula for Palmolive soap in 1898. At the turn of the century Palmolive, ...
Palmoxylon cliffwoodensis: (from the article "palm") The earliest fossils of palms are leaves of Sabal magothiensis and stems of Palmoxylon cliffwoodensis from the Late Cretaceous, about 80 million years ago. By the middle of the Maastrichtian, ...
Palmquist, Gustaf: (from the article "Baptist General Conference") conservative Baptist denomination that was organized in 1879 as the Swedish Baptist General Conference of America; the present name was adopted in 1945. It developed from the work of Gustaf ...