PALEOLITHIC RELIGION. The term Paleolithic was coined more than a hundred years ago to distinguish the simple stone tools discovered in deep gravel pits or caves of the diluvial (or antediluvian) period from the polished stone tools of a l...

Paleontologists study the history of life on Earth as shown in the fossil record. Fossils are the traces of organisms that lived in the past and are preserved in Earth's crust. Paleontology involves the identification and naming of ...

In geologic time, the Paleozoic Era, the first era in the Phanerozoic Eon, covers the time between roughly 544 million years ago (mya) and until 245 mya. The Paleozoic Era spans six geologic time periods including the Cambrian Period (544 ...

PalÁgyi, Menyhert(1859–1924) Menyhert (or Melchior) Palágyi, a scientist, literary critic, and philosopher, was born in Paks in west central Hungary. He studied science at Budapest, but his main activity there was as a ...

PALI TEXT SOCIETY. In 1881 British scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) founded the Pali Text Society (PTS) to facilitate the study of Theravāda Buddhism by producing editions in roman characters of the Therav...

Palladium is in Row 5, Group 10 of the periodic table. Along with ruthenium, rhodium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, it belongs to the platinum group of metals. These metals are sometimes also called the noble metals because they are not v...

Societies in much of Southeast Asia, particularly Laos, and India used leaves of a type of palm tree, bai lan, as writing material. The leaves are cut into rectangular strips, and then a metal stylus is used to etch the text onto the leave...

A sensation in which a person is aware of an irregular, hard, or rapid heartbeat. Palpitations mean that the heart is not behaving normally. It can appear to skip beats, beat rapidly, beat irregularly, or thump in the chest. Although palpi...

In the early to mid-1970s, American actress Pam Grier emerged as a tough heroine in the genre of "blaxploitation" films. With Hollywood's history of relegating African Americans to demeaning roles and women to love int...

Pamela Smart May 1, 1990 AKA: Maiden of Metal Murderer Days before her first wedding anniversary, Pamela Smart had her teenage lover, Billy Flynn, murder her twenty-four-year old husband, Greg Smart. Flynn and two friends ambushed and shot ...

When Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, the United States and the United Kingdom joined forces to track down the guilty parties. They determined that two Libyan men were responsible and ordered Colonel Qadhafi, ...

Panaetius of Rhodes(C. 185–110 Bce) Panaetius of Rhodes was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus, both heads of the Stoic school in Athens, and he succeeded Antipater as scholarch in 129. Little is known about his ...

Abstract The purpose of my essay is to convey to the reader the purpose and process of the building of the Panama Canal. I believe that this essay is important to us today because if we did not have the Panama Canal our Naval force would...

The Camera Eye The Triumph of Color Synchronized sound was introduced to the silent movies in 1927 and promptly swept across the motion-picture production industry. Just as silent films were accompanied by music from the earliest years, te...

Francisco Villa (1878-1923) was a famous Mexican military commander and guerrilla of the warring phase of the Mexican Revolution. Pancho Villa was born Doroteo Arango on June 5, 1878, in San Juan del Rio, Durango. His life as an orphaned p...

Pancreatic cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells are found within the tissues of the pancreas. The pancreas is a pear-shaped gland that lies behind the stomach, surrounded by other digestive organs, such as the liver, gallbladder, a...

What wild animal is black, white, and very friendly? It's the Giant Panda of course. The giant panda is one of the most beloved and most endangered animals in the world. These very rare bears are found only in the mountainous forests of...

PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM. In Greek pan means "all," theos means "god," and en means "in." Pantheism means that all is God; panentheism, that all is in God. The two doctrines can be definitely dist...

Panic disorder is a condition in which a person feels sudden over-whelming fright, usually without any reasonable cause. A panic attack is generally accompanied by physical symptoms, such as a pounding heart, sweating, and rapid breathing...

United States 1893 A financial panic in May 1893 led the United States into the worst economic depression it had experienced up to that point in its history. Following the collapse of several Wall Street brokerage houses, over 600 banks a...

The Korean performance technique p'ansori (from p'an, meaning "performance," "performance space," or "event," and sori, meaning "sound," "voice," or ...

Pantheismusstreit Pantheismusstreit or the pantheism controversy, came to the attention of the public in 1785 when Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi published Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza, his correspondence with Moses Mendelssohn concerning Gotthol...

While the term puisi can mean any poetry in traditional Indonesian forms, such as the Malay pantun, the term commonly refers to modern Indonesian poetry, especially since the 1928 Youth Conference, which declared Indonesian to be the natio...

The Pao National Organization (PNO) is the main armed opposition force among the Pao (Pa-oh, Taungthu) people in rural districts around Taunggyi in southwestern Shan State in Myanmar (Burma). Pao nationalists took up arms with the Karens, ...

Paolo Ruffini made significant contributions in the areas of medicine and philosophy, as well as mathematics, where he developed the theory that a quintic equation cannot be solved by radicals. This theory later came to be known as the Abe...