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Geology of a region at any given time in the distant past. Paleogeologic reconstructions in map form show not only the ancient topography of a region but also the distribution of rocks beneath the surface and such structural features as fa...
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Ancient technological or cultural stage characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. During the Lower Paleolithic (&circa; 2,500,000–200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools and crude stone choppers were made by the ea...
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Permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geologic age. It is a source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and plate tecto...
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scientific study of life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and animal fossils, including those of microscopic size, preserved in rocks. It is concerned with all aspects of the biology of ancient life forms: their sha...
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Paleopathology is the study of the evidence of trauma, disease, and congenital defects in human remains. Archaeologists, geneticists, and physical-anthropologists, conduct paleopathology studies in order to evaluate the effects of disease ...
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Major interval of geologic time, &circa; 542–251 million years ago. From the Greek for “ancient life,” it is the first era of the Phanerozoic Eon and is followed by the Mesozoic Era. It is divided into six periods: (from ...
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Region, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It extends east to the Jordan River, north to the border between Israel and Lebanon, west to the Mediterranean, and south to the Negev desert, reaching the Gulf of Aqaba. The political s...
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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 ...
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Pali is the archaic Prakrit language in which the Theravada canonical texts were orally transmitted from the time of the Buddha's death (486 BCE) until they were first written down in Sri Lanka by Sinhala monastic scribes around 100...
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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...
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A genetic palindrome refers to a sequence of nucleotides within a strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (ribonucleic acid) that contains the same series of nitrogenous bases regardless from which direction the strand is analyzed. Ak...
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Metallic chemical element, one of the transition elements, chemical symbol Pd, atomic number 46. A precious, silver-white metal that resembles platinum chemically, it is extremely ductile and easily worked and can be beaten into thin leaf....
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Palliative care is a philosophy of care, which insures the greatest emotional, physical, and spiritual comfort for terminally ill clients when aggressive treatment is no longer desirable or appropriate. In our community, we have a variety...
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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...
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town by Amos Tutuola Born in 1929 in western Nigeria, Amos Tutuola achieved only a sixth-grade education due to financial constraints following his father’s d...
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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...
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Palynology is the study of plant pollen, spores, and certain microscopic planktonic organisms (collectively termed palynomorphs) in both living and fossil form. Botanists use living pollen and spores (actuopalynology) in the study of plant...
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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...
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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson is among the most unlikely masters of English literature. He was born in 1688 in London and apprenticed to a printer at the age of 17. He worked hard, married his master�...
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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 ...
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High mountain region, Central Asia. Located mostly in Tajikistan, it also borders parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and Kyrgyzstan. It includes many peaks that are higher than 20,000 ft (6,100 m) in elevation, as well as many glaciers...
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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, ...
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in Greek mythology, a fertility deity, more or less bestial in form. He was associated by the Romans with Faunus. Originally an Arcadian deity, his name is a Doric contraction of paon (“pasturer”) but was commonly supposed in a...
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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 ...
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Country, Central America. It is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Area: 28,973 sq mi (75,040 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 3,140,000. Capital: Panama City. Most of the people are of mixed herit...
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lock-type canal, owned and administered by the Republic of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 65 km (40 miles) and...
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In Greek religion, an Athenian festival of great antiquity. Originally an annual event, it was eventually celebrated every fourth year, probably in deliberate rivalry to the Olympic Games. It consisted of the sacrifices and rites proper to...
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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...
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The Pancasila, or Five Pillars, contained in the preamble of the Indonesian constitution, have formed the foundation on which the Indonesian state ideology has been based since its independence. They comprise (1) belief in one God, (2) jus...
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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...
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Compound gland functioning as both an exocrine (secreting through a duct) and an endocrine (ductless) gland. It continuously secretes pancreatic juice (containing water, bicarbonate, and enzymes needed to digest carbohydrates, fat, and pro...
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Malignant tumour of the pancreas. Risk factors include smoking, a diet high in fat, exposure to certain industrial products, and diseases such as diabetes and chronic pancreatitis. Pancreatic cancer is more common in men. Symptoms often do...
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inflammation of the pancreas, either acute or chronic. The disorder is most commonly caused by excessive intake of alcohol, trauma, and obstruction of pancreatic ducts by gallstones. Inflammation is caused by the escape of pancreatic enzym...
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Species (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, family Ursidae) of white-and-black forest-dwelling carnivore, found in central China, that subsists almost exclusively on bamboo. Because they cannot digest cellulose, wild pandas (of which there are about ...
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Pandya was an Indian dynasty ruling much of the southern Tamil-speaking area in ancient times. The dynasty was first mentioned in the fourth century BCE by the Sanskrit grammarian Katyayana and rose to influence in the sixth century CE. Th...
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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...
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(1874) Treaty between the British government and Malay chiefs, named for the island where it was signed. In return for British backing in a complicated Perak succession dispute, Raja Abdullah accepted a British resident (adviser) with broa...
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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...
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United States 1873 After the economic devastation wrought by the panic of 1837, unions remained unable to regain their former power for several decades. Although scattered national unions took root during the 1850s, they faded quickly dur...
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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...
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(from Greek pan, “all”; psychē, “soul”), a philosophical theory asserting that a plurality of separate and distinct psychic beings or minds constitute reality. Panpsychism is distinguished from hylozoism (all ...
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A form of sung folk narrative. The form seems to have originated during the reign of Sukchong (1675–1720). Once a narrative performance that incorporated shamanistic chants, p'ansori became a vehicle for treating popular customs and ...
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the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe. The cognate doctrine of panentheism asserts that...
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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...
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Organic compound, essential in animal metabolism. The nature of the bound form was clarified through the discovery and synthesis (1947–50) of the compound pantetheine, which contains pantothenic acid combined with the compound thioet...
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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...
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In 1937 the invention of spinnable nylon made sheer, durable stockings affordable for the average woman, but in the 1960s, pantyhose, a convenient one-piece garment consisting of nylon-spandex stretchable stockings and underpants, made tra...
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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, ...
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1397-1482 Italian physician, mapmaker, and astrologer who suggested to Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) that he could reach Asia by sailing westward. In 1433 Toscanelli observed a comet and accurately depicted its position in relation to t...
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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...
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