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The Pacific campaign was the largest and most deadly naval campaign ever. It brought superiority to one country and total devastation for another. The fleets that were involved were the mightiest fleets at the time: The United States Navy...
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Tales of the South Pacific reads like a novel, with its strong unity of mood and background and with its reappearing characters, notably Bus Adams and Tony Fry. It is a wide-ranging book—ranging over the whole strange and beautiful world ...
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Pacifier An artificial nipple designed for infants to suck, and which has a soothing effect. Infants have a strong desire to suck, which may not be entirely fulfilled while feeding. Both the newborn and older infant are often soothed by su...
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Throughout history, war had always brought out chaos and destruction. The wars killed a lot of innocent people for no reason. Although the wars were only a result of the bad leaders, a lot of movements were created to keep the peace, theref...
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Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Package labelling (BrE) or la...
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Packet switching is the process by which data is broken into smaller chunks, or packets, for transmission over a network. Packet switching divides a message into smaller units, sends each unit individually via the best route possible at th...
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Spanish guitarist Paco Peña (born 1942) is known for his continued contributions to and explorations of flamenco music. He has recorded frequently, but appears to be in his element when performing in front of an audience, which coul...
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The Pact (1998) is a novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a possible suicide pact between two teenagers....
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As the first successful steam engines were developed in the 1700s, many inventors wondered how these new machines could be harnessed to drive boats. The problem was to transfer the motion of the engine to some device that would propel the ...
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In June 1986, I bicycled from 186th Street and Amsterdam Avenue to the dock at the foot of Dyckman Street and the Harlem River; about one and a half miles down a steep hill. In the back of my bike, inside the folding baskets, I had my infla...
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Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon , GCMG , KBE , PC , (born 27 February 1941 ), commonly known as Paddy Ashdown , is a British politician. He is a former Leader of the UK Liberal Democrat party and former High ...
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With the birth of television in the late 1940s came a new medium through which writers could reach varied audiences. Paddy Chayefsky recognized the scope of this medium and produced some remarkable television plays, including Marty (1953) ...
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Television is democracy at its ugliest....
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SOURCE: Cosgrove, Brian. “Roddy Doyle's Backward Look: Tradition and Modernity in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 85, no. 339 (autumn 1996): 231-42. In the following essay, Cosgrove contrasts traditional Irish...
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Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1964 and was given the Boar's Head Poetry Prize and the George E. Woodberry Award in 1964. He studied in Paris as a Fulbright fellow in 1965-1966. Fr...
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An accomplished poet, a novelist of much promise, and an editor/publisher of energy and generosity, Ernesto Padilla is currently an assistant professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield. Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico,...
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PADMASAMBHAVA, an Indian Tantric adept of the eighth century who became a foremost Tibetan cultural hero, is the subject of greatly elaborated legends and serves as the eponymous source of much of the enormous corpus of revelatory textual ...
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The Irish-American author Padraic Colum (1881-1972), best known for his poetry and plays, was active in the Irish Literary Revival. Padraic Colum was born in County Longford and as a youth met many who had lived through the Great Famine, w...
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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thi...
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The Padri (or Paderi) War lasted from 1821 to 1837 and arose from a movement among the Minangkabau people of the central western coast of Sumatra both to purify Islamic practice and resist colonial rule. The Minangkabau social structure wa...
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Chebyshev has given his name to results in probabilityand analysis, one of the first Russian mathematicians by birth to be so recognized. His work reflected a great deal of mathematical sophistication, making connections between different ...
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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls....
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PAGANISM, ANGLO-SAXON. The "Anglo-Saxon" history of England stretches from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Even before then, however, in 98 CE, Tacitus cites the "Angli" as one of seven tribes on the northe...
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[The] excesses of the [Jeff Beck Group's] Truth album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin's debut album [Led Zeppelin]. Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, ...
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Louise Page is one of the most prominent English feminist playwrights of her generation. Her work is notable for its frank treatment of issues such as personal and political ethics, sexual mores, personal relationships, and death and berea...
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Francis Edward Paget is best known as one of the writers of Tractarian fiction, those children's and adult texts produced by members of the Oxford Movement that were intended to illustrate the doctrines of the Anglican High Church. Paget a...
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Paget's disease of bone (osteitis deformans) is the abnormal formation of bone tissue that results in weakened and deformed bones. Named for Sir James Paget (1814-1899), this disease affects 1-3% of people over 50 years of age, but affects...
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Starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there arose the problem that software programs and their data would take up more memory space than was available in the primary storage (RAM). It became necessary to think of ways to break up suc...
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Hassanal BolkiahSultan (pronounced "HAH-soh-nol boal-KYE-ah") "We have tried it. We had elections before 1962 and we had a few political parties, but people competed against each other and chaos resulted." ...
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Elio Pagliarani's vigorous and exacting experimentation with language accounts for his poetic importance. By his constant and documented ideological debate with the literary establishment, especially as a member of "Gruppo '63," Pagliarani...
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(2002 est. pop. 1.3 million). Pahang, the largest state in Malaysia, is located in the east coast region. It covers an area of 35,965 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 1.3 million—74 percent Malay, 19 percent C...
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The Pahari, an ethnic group in northern South Asia numbering about 17 million, are culturally and linguistically distinct from their neighbors to the north and south. They live in a crescent-shaped area of the lower Himalayas extending fro...
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The reign of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979) was a crucial and transitional period in Iranian history that began with Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944) and ended with his son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919–1980). For Ir...
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PAIN. Most religious traditions seek to minimize suffering and explain its causes. At the same time, many religions around the world promote painful behavior in specific ritual contexts and produce influential discourse that praises the va...
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Pain is a sensation unique to an individual. Its perception depends on the injury involved and the situation or context. A bruise obtained in a football game may not be appreciated at the time of the injury, yet in other circumstances the ...
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Philip Pain may well be the most shadowy figure in all of American literature; nothing is known of his birth, his family, or his place of residence, and all we know of his death comes from the title page of his only book, where we are told...
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Mrs. Sinico's character is not the main character in the story. We read the story mostly from the point of view, thoughts and inspirations of Mr. Duffy, thus he is the main source through which we can observe her character, along side with...
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