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- (from the article "Eusebius of Caesarea") Eusebius was baptized and ordained at Caesarea, where he was taught by the learned presbyter Pamphilus, to whom he was bound by ties of respect and affection and from whom he derived the name "Eusebius Pamphili" (the son or servant ...
- pamphlet
- brief booklet; in the UNESCO definition, it is an unbound publication that is not a periodical and contains no fewer than 5 and no more than 48 pages, exclusive of any cover. [1 Related Articles]
- Pamphylia
- ancient maritime district of southern Anatolia, originally a narrow strip of land that curved along the Mediterranean between Cilicia and Lycia but that, under Roman administration, included large parts of Pisidia to the north. The Pamphylians, a mixture of aboriginal ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pamphylia Secunda
- (from the article "Perga") ...(Acts of the Apostles 13:13). A difficult mountain route into Phrygia began at Perga, and Alexander the Great used it for his invasion of the interior. Long the chief city of the district of Pamphylia Secunda, Perga was superseded in ...
- Pamphylian
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...with Lycia as early as about 700. Curiously, it was under the aegis of Persian rule that Greek civilization penetrated into this region. Among the peoples subject to Croesus, Herodotus mentions the Pamphylians, whose country lay in the south, between ...
- Pamplona
- city, Norte de Santander departamento, northeastern Colombia. It is sited in the Andean Cordillera Oriental at an elevation of 7,503 feet (2,287 m), on the Pamplonita River. Founded in 1548, it was famed during the colonial era ...
- Pamplona
- capital of both the provincia (province) and the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Navarra, northeastern Spain. It lies on the western bank of the Arga River in the fertile La Cuenca region. Situated in ... [4 Related Articles]
- Pampulha
- (from the article "Latin American architecture") ...in Brazil. Future Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, then the mayor of Belo Horizonte, commissioned Niemeyer to design a casino, dance hall, and yacht club for the new development of Pampulha, a garden suburb. The extraordinary casino (1942), sited on a ...
- Pamuk, Orhan
- Turkish novelist, best known for works that probe Turkish identity and history. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. [6 Related Articles]
- Pamunkey
- (from the article "Virginia") ...Algonquian-speaking population at the time of European settlement range roughly from 14,000 to 22,000 in the Tidewater region alone. Today only two reservations remain in the state, one each for the Pamunkey and Mattaponi peoples, respectively situated along the Pamunkey ...
- Pamyat
- (from the article "fascism") In the 1980s the leading group espousing Black Hundred ideology was Pamyat ("Memory"), whose main spokesman after 1984 was Dmitry Vasiliev. During the communist era Pamyat worked for the restoration of churches and national monuments in Moscow, and Vasiliev generally ...
- Pan
- 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 antiquity to ... [2 Related Articles]
- pan
- type of Chinese bronze vessel produced during the Shang dynasty (c. 18th-12th century BC) and, more commonly, during the Zhou dynasty (c. 1111-256/255 BC). A low bowl or pan used as a water container or for ceremonial washing, the [1 Related Articles]
- Pan
- (from the article "human evolution") ...human lineage, containing Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo, whereas others entertain the possibility that Graecopithecus is close to the great-ape ancestry of Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) and Gorilla as well. In the former model, Dryopithecus is ancestral to Pan and Gorilla. ...
- pan
- card game played only in the western United States, where it is popular as a gambling game in many clubs. It developed from conquian, the ancestor of rummy games.
- Pan
- (from the article "Amalthea") ...probably results from contamination by particles of sulfur and sulfur compounds that are continually shed by the nearby volcanically active satellite Io. The largest impact crater on Amalthea is Pan, which has a diameter of about 90 km (55 miles).
- Pan Am flight 103 disaster
- terrorist bombing of a passenger airliner operated by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) on Dec. 21, 1988, that killed 270 people.
- Pan America, Operation
- (from the article "Brazil") ...the project, but most Brazilians in other regions regarded the nascent city as a symbol of the nation's future greatness. In inter-American relations, the Kubitschek administration proposed adopting Operation Pan America, an economic development program for Latin America that foreshadowed ...
- Pan American Institute of Geography and History
- (from the article "map") The Pan American Institute of Geography and History has sponsored regular meetings and consultations on cartography, much in the manner of scientific societies. The consultations are held in different countries each year.
- Pan American Sports Games
- quadrennial sports event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, patterned after the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee. The games are conducted by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), or Organizacion Deportiva Panamericana (ODEPA), headquartered in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pan American World Airways, Inc.
- former American airline that was founded in 1927 and, up until the final two decades of the 20th century, had service to cities in many countries in North and South America, the Caribbean Islands, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle ... [8 Related Articles]
- pan joist system
- (from the article "building construction") ...rest on girders, and girders rest on columns in a regular pattern. This system needs much handmade timber formwork, and in economies where labour is expensive other systems are employed. One is the pan joist system, a standardized beam and ...
- pan o palo
- (from the article "Mexico") ...and development. The emphasis was on economic development to assure social progress. How such development was to be achieved was translated into one of Diaz's political slogans, "Pan o palo" ("Bread or the stick"), meaning that acquiescence to official policies ...
- Pan Tianshou
- Chinese painter, art educator, and art theorist who was one of the most important traditional Chinese painters of the 20th century.
- Pan, Hermes
- U.S. choreographer of dazzling motion picture dance sequences, especially in his work with Fred Astaire.
- Pan-African congresses
- (from the article "Kenyatta, Jomo") Kenyatta helped organize the fifth Pan-African Congress, which met in Manchester, England, on October 15-18, 1945, with W.E.B. Du Bois of the United States in the chair; Kwame Nkrumah, the future leader of Ghana, was also present. Resolutions were passed ...
- Pan-African e-Network
- (from the article "Mauritius") ...affairs. Following the inspection of several Indian-sponsored development projects and after meetings with local scientists and communications experts, a bilateral agreement was signed to expand the Pan-African e-Network project that sought to connect the 53-member African Union to the Internet. ...
- Pan-African orogeny
- (from the article "Asia") ...also created some of the microcontinents with basements older than 2 billion years (such as that exposed at Mount Khida' in Saudi Arabia) that later participated in what is known as the Pan-African episode, a tectonic evolution that also encompassed ...
- Pan-African Parliament
- (from the article "African Union") ...the African Union, was ratified by two-thirds of the OAU's members and came into force on May 26, 2001. After a transition period, the African Union replaced the OAU in July 2002. In 2004 the AU's Pan-African Parliament was inaugurated, ...
- Pan-Africanism
- (from the article "Afrocentrism") Afrocentrism was influenced by several earlier black nationalist movements, including Ethiopianism and Pan-Africanism. The latter became a major presence in the United States and elsewhere with the emergence of the Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey, who promoted the idea of an ...
- Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania
- political organization of South African blacks who joined together to work for majority rule and equal rights. (Azania is an African name for South Africa.) [5 Related Articles]
- Pan-American Association of Composers
- (from the article "Varese, Edgard") Varese actively promoted performances of works by other 20th-century performers and founded the International Composers' Guild in 1921 and the Pan-American Association of Composers in 1926; these organizations were responsible for performances and premieres of works by Bela Bartok, Alban ...
- Pan-American conferences
- various meetings between representatives of some or all of the independent states of the Western Hemisphere (Canada usually excluded). Between 1826 and 1889, several meetings between American states were held to discuss problems of common defense and juridical matters. The ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pan-American Health Organization
- (from the article "Literature") ...first three volumes of his multivolume study of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-85). A ditadura encurralada (2004), the fourth volume, dealt with the years 1974-77. The Pan American Health Organization awarded its 2003 Champion of Health in the Americas prize ...
- Pan-American Highway
- network of highways connecting North America and South America. Originally conceived in 1923 as a single route, the road grew to include a great number of designated highways in participating countries. The Inter-American Highway, from Nuevo Laredo, Mex., to Panama ... [7 Related Articles]
- Pan-Babylonism
- (from the article "sacred kingship") ...ethnological reports and studies, Frazer concentrated on the preliminary stage. With the discovery of texts in cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, a new stage of research began. Called Pan-Babylonism by some scholars, the theories based on the results ...
- Pan-Cake makeup
- (from the article "makeup") ...Various colour films caused existing greasepaint used on players' faces to appear yellowish or red and blue on the screen. After some experimentation, a solution was found with a successful solid (Pan-Cake) makeup that was applied with a moist sponge. ...
- Pan-ch'iao
- shih (municipality) and seat of T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan, 4 mi (7 km) southwest of Taipei city, in the northern part of the western coastal plain. Situated on the eastern bank of Tan-shui Ho (Tamsui River), it flourished in ...
- Pan-chiang Riot
- (from the article "Kweichow") ..."a riot every 30 years and a major rebellion every 60 years." In 1726 at the Battle of Mount Lei-kung, more than 10,000 Miao were beheaded and more than 400,000 starved to death. The Pan-chiang Riot of 1797 was said ...
- Pan-German League
- (from the article "Hasse, Ernst") German nationalist and political leader who turned the General German League (Allgemeiner Deutscher Verband), founded in 1891, into the militantly nationalistic and anti-Semitic Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband) in 1894.
- Pan-German Party
- (from the article "Schonerer, Georg, Ritter von") Austrian political extremist, founder of the Pan-German Party (1885). He was a virulent anti-Semite and was perhaps the best-known spokesman for popular antidemocratic sentiments in the late empire.
- Pan-Germanism
- movement whose goal was the political unification of all people speaking German or a Germanic language. Some of its adherents favoured the unification of only the German-speaking people of central and eastern Europe and the Low Countries (Dutch and Flemish ... [4 Related Articles]
- Pan-Islamism
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...a greater Muslim world community and their sense of being a "nation" rather than a welter of tribes and clans. Moreover, through the Tatars they were exposed to current Pan-Turkish and Pan-Islamic propaganda. In the 1870s the Russians countered Tatar ...
- pan-liang
- (from the article "coin") ...was issued about the mid-3rd century, but it was not until 221 BC that the reforming emperor Shih huang-ti (221-210/209 BC) superseded all other currencies by the issue of round coins (pan-liang) of half an ounce. (There were 24 grains ...
- Pan-Philippine Highway
- (from the article "Philippines") ...Thousands of miles of roads of various types have also been constructed on Mindanao, Mindoro, and Palawan and in the Visayas. A major achievement in road construction in the country is the Pan-Philippine Highway (also called the Maharlika Highway), a ...
- Pan-Russian Orthodox Council
- (from the article "Khrapovitsky, Antony") With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Antony participated in the 1917-18 Pan-Russian Orthodox Council and was named one of the three candidates for the Russian patriarchate. After Ukraine declared its independence from the tsarist regime, Antony was exiled to ...
- Pan-Scandinavianism
- an unsuccessful 19th-century movement for Scandinavian unity that enflamed passions during the Schleswig-Holstein crises. Like similar movements, Scandinavianism received its main impetus from philological and archaeological discoveries of the late 18th and the 19th century, which pointed to an early ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pan-Slavism
- 19th-century movement that recognized a common ethnic background among the various Slav peoples of eastern and east central Europe and sought to unite those peoples for the achievement of common cultural and political goals. The Pan-Slav movement originally was formed ... [11 Related Articles]
- Pan-Turanianism
- late 19th- and early 20th-century movement to unite politically and culturally all the Turkic, Tatar, and Uralic peoples living in Turkey and across Eurasia from Hungary to the Pacific. Its name is derived from Turan, the Persian word for Turkistan ... [3 Related Articles]
- Pan-Turkism
- political movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had as its goal the political union of all Turkish-speaking peoples in the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, Iran, and Afghanistan. The movement, which began among the Turks in the ... [6 Related Articles]
- panachage
- (from the article "list system") ...individual candidates, a number of variations on the system permit voter preferences for individuals to be taken into account. The Swiss system, one of the most extreme variations, is marked by panachage, the ability of the voter to mix candidates ...
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