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- major form of the Middle Persian language (see Persian language), which existed from the 3rd to the 10th century and was the official language of the Sasanian empire (AD 226-652). It is attested by Zoroastrian books, coins, and inscriptions. Pahlavi ... [6 Related Articles]
- pahoehoe
- (from the article "lava") Mafic (ferromagnesian, dark-coloured) lavas such as basalt characteristically form flows known by the Hawaiian names pahoehoe and aa (or a'a). Pahoehoe lava flows are characterized by smooth, gently undulating, or broadly hummocky surfaces. The liquid lava flowing beneath a thin, ...
- Pahor, Borut
- (from the article "Slovenia") ...party known as Zares (For Real), whose leaders emanated primarily from the Liberal Democrats. Its popularity remained unclear, however, and the strongest leader on the left continued to be Borut Pahor, head of the Social Democrats, who declined an anticipated ...
- Pahud de Mortanges, Charles Ferdinand
- Dutch equestrian who was one of the most successful riders in Olympic history, winning four gold medals and a silver in the 1920s and '30s.
- Pai Hsien-yung
- (from the article "Chinese literature") ...the modernist era by publishing their own craftsmanlike stories, which were heavily indebted to such Western masters as Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Many of these writers, such as Pai Hsien-yung, author of Yu-yuan ching-meng (1982; Wandering in ...
- Pai Lu Tung Academy
- (from the article "Kiangsi") In the Sung dynasty (960-1279) Kiangsi became a model of the Confucian state, governed by scholar-officials. The Pai Lu Tung ("White Deer Grotto") Academy, near Lu-shan, where Chu Hsi taught, became a renowned centre of Confucian learning. From 1069 to ...
- Pai Marire
- (from the article "Hauhau") any of the radical members of the Maori Pai Marire (Maori: "Good and Peaceful") religion, founded in 1862 in Taranaki on North Island, New Zealand. The movement was founded by Te Ua Haumene, a Maori prophet who had been captured ...
- Pai-gow poker
- (from the article "poker") Pai-gow poker is a house-banked even-payout game. Each player is given seven cards, as is the dealer. Each then makes his best two-card and best five-card hand. If both of a player's hands are better than the dealer's two hands, ...
- Pai-yun-o-po
- (from the article "Inner Mongolia") Inner Mongolia's industry is based on the territory's great mineral wealth. There are rich iron-ore deposits at Pai-yun-o-po, about 75 miles north of Pao-t'ou, and Inner Mongolia has one of the world's largest deposits of rare earth metals. Coal is ...
- Paichi Mountains
- (from the article "Anhwei") ...extension of the Tsinling-Fu-niu ranges lying to the north of the Yangtze-form a convex curve of steep slopes facing east and northeast on the southwestern Hupeh-Anhwei border. The Paichi Mountains lie south and east of the Yangtze and form the ...
- paid-in capital
- (from the article "accounting") In the United States, for example, the owners' equity is divided between paid-in capital and retained earnings. Paid-in capital represents the amounts paid to the corporation in exchange for shares of the company's preferred and common stock. The major part ...
- paideia
- (Greek: "education," or "learning"), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called ... [5 Related Articles]
- Paiement, Andre
- (from the article "Canadian literature") Franco-Ontarian culture underwent tremendous revitalization in the 1970s, particularly in northern Ontario with the development of regional theatre in French. Andre Paiement, one of the founders of the Theatre du Nouvel-Ontario in the early 1970s, achieved popular success with his ...
- Paige, Satchel
- American professional baseball pitcher whose prowess became legendary during his many years in the Negro leagues; he finally was allowed to enter the major leagues in 1948 after the unwritten rule against black players was abolished. A right-handed, flexible "beanpole" ... [5 Related Articles]
- Paijanne, Lake
- lake located in south-central Finland. The lake has an area of 407 sq mi (1,054 sq km) and a maximum depth of 305 ft (93 m). It is about 85 mi (135 km) long and between 2 and 18 mi ...
- Paik, Nam June
- Korean-born composer, performer, and artist who was from the early 1960s one of postmodern art's most provocative and innovative figures. [3 Related Articles]
- Paikuli
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...After Bahram II died, Narses, the youngest son of Shapur I, contested the succession of Bahram III and won the crown. In memory of his victory, Narses erected a tower at Paikuli, in the mountains west of the upper Diyala ...
- pailu
- (from the article "lushi") ...form of lushi consisting of quatrains and depending for its artistry on suggestiveness and economy. Another variation, pailu, followed most of the rules of lushi but also allowed the poet to ...
- Paimio
- (from the article "Aalto, Alvar") ...him as the most advanced architect in Finland and brought him worldwide recognition as well. These were the Turun Sanomat Building (newspaper office) in Turku, the tuberculosis sanatorium at Paimio, and the Municipal Library at Viipuri (now Vyborg, Russia). His ...
- pain
- a complex experience consisting of a physiological and emotional response to a noxious stimulus. Pain is a warning mechanism that protects an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli; it is primarily associated with injury or the threat ... [35 Related Articles]
- Pain, Jeff
- (from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") In men's skeleton Jeff Pain of Canada started and ended the season on top of the podium. Pain earned one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals on his way to the World Cup overall title. Pain, who lived in ...
- Paine, John Knowles
- composer and organist, the first American to win wide recognition as a composer and the first professor of music at an American university.
- Paine, Robert
- (from the article "boundary ecosystem") At the next level in the food web (that of consumers), predators such as starfish control the abundance of grazing animals. In classic experiments on the coast of Washington state, the ecologist Robert Paine demonstrated that removal of the starfish ...
- Paine, Robert Treat
- American politician, jurist, member of the Continental Congress (1774-78), and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Paine, Thomas
- English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and "Crisis" papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that contributed to his reputation as one of the greatest political propagandists in history were Rights of Man, a defense ... [10 Related Articles]
- Painesville
- city, seat (1840) of Lake county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., near the mouth of the Grand River and Lake Erie, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Cleveland. The site, first settled permanently by Gen. Edward Paine with a party of 66, ...
- Painleve, Paul
- French politician, mathematician, and patron of aviation who was prime minister at a crucial period of World War I and again during the 1925 financial crisis.
- pains and penalties, bill of
- (from the article "attainder") Historically, a legislative act attainting a person without a judicial trial was known as a bill of attainder or-if punishment was less than death-as a bill of pains and penalties. The power of Parliament to declare guilt and impose punishment ...
- paint
- decorative and protective coating commonly applied to rigid surfaces as a liquid consisting of a pigment suspended in a vehicle, or binder. The vehicle, usually a resin dissolved in a solvent, dries to a tough film, binding the pigment to ... [20 Related Articles]
- paint pot
- (from the article "mud volcano") ...small amounts of water react chemically with the surrounding rocks and form a boiling mud. Variations are the porridge pot (a basin of boiling mud that erodes chunks of the surrounding rock) and the paint pot (a basin of boiling ...
- Paint Rock
- (from the article "San Angelo") The town of Paint Rock, 30 miles (50 km) east of San Angelo, was named for the approximately 1,500 Indian pictographs on a nearby river bluff. Inc. 1903. Pop. (1990) city, 84,474; San Angelo MSA, 98,458; (2000) city, 88,439; San ...
- painted buckeye
- (from the article "buckeye") Bottlebrush buckeye (A. parviflora), from Georgia and Alabama, is an attractive shrub, up to 3.5 m (11 feet) high. The white flowers are borne in erect spikes about 30 cm (1 foot) long. Painted, or Georgia, buckeye (A. sylvatica), a ...
- painted bunting
- (from the article "bunting") ...songs. The bright blue male indigo bunting (P. cyanea) is a conspicuous bird along eastern American roadsides; the drab brown female hides among thickets and incubates the eggs. The painted bunting (P. ciris), native to the American Southeast, is sometimes ...
- Painted Desert
- section of the high plateau in north-central Arizona, U.S. The Painted Desert extends from the Grand Canyon in a southeasterly direction along the north side of the Little Colorado River to Holbrook. It is approximately 150 miles (240 km) long ... [2 Related Articles]
- painted enamel
- (from the article "enamelwork") ...paint on metal has a short life and, even when new, is overshadowed by the brilliance of the polished metal, enamelling gives the surface of metal a durable, coloured, decorative finish. With the painted enamels of the Renaissance and the ...
- painted finch
- (from the article "grass finch") ...may be red, orange, or black. The star finch (Neochmia ruficauda) is greenish brown above and yellow below, with white-dotted red head, greenish gray breast, and white-barred red tail. The painted finch (Emblema, formerly Zonaeginthus, pictus) is red and brown, ...
- Painted Gray Ware culture
- (from the article "India") ...because the proximity of the Himalayas produced a higher level of rainfall. It is in this area that a new tendency emerges-the expansion of settlements associated with the pottery known as Painted Gray Ware. This characteristic ceramic accompanied a spread ...
- painted lady
- species of butterfly in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera), that has broad wings (span about 4 to 5 cm [1.5 to 2 inches]), with beautifully elaborate patterns of reddish orange, pink, brown, white, and blue scales. Vast numbers ... [3 Related Articles]
- painted lady
- (from the article "pyrethrum") ...or pyrethrum. The plants were formerly considered a separate genus, Pyrethrum. The typical species, the perennial T. coccineum, is the florists' pyrethrum, commonly called painted lady. Large deep rose-coloured petals surrounding the yellow centre, or disk, are ...
- painted quail
- (from the article "galliform") ...the size of a pigeon to that of a domestic chicken, 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 inches) long and 500 to 2,500 grams (1 to 5.5 pounds) in weight. The smallest members of the order are the sparrow-sized ...
- painted snipe
- either of two species of marsh birds comprising the family Rostratulidae (order Charadriiformes). They are boldly marked birds with a snipelike body and bill. Painted snipes are about 25 cm (10 inches) in length and are brown and white in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Painted Stoa
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...that the vase painters responded to the general enthusiasm and civic pride by adopting Theseus as a frequent subject. This development was reflected in monumental painting. About 460 BC the Painted Stoa at Athens was decorated with a series of ...
- painted terrapin
- (from the article "turtle") ...ponds and streams. As with the softshell turtles, Asia has two of the largest species of pond turtles-the Asian river turtle, or batagur (Batagur baska), and the painted terrapin (Callagur borneoensis)-with shell lengths to ...
- painted tree rat
- (from the article "American spiny rat") ...range of colours and markings. At one extreme is the plain punare (Thrichomys apereoides), with dull brown upperparts and grayish white underparts. At the other extreme is the painted tree rat (Callistomys pictus), whose whitish body has a wide, glossy ...
- painted turtle
- brightly marked North American turtle (family Emydidae) found from southern Canada to northern Mexico. The painted turtle is a smooth-shelled reptile with a shell about 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7 inches) long in adults. The upper shell, which ... [1 Related Articles]
- Painter, Theophilus Shickel
- American zoologist and cytologist who first showed that the giant chromosomes linked to the development of salivary glands in fruit flies could be used to identify the position of individual genes more precisely than any other previous methods.
- Painter, William
- English author whose collection of tales The Palace of Pleasure, based on classical and Italian originals, served as a sourcebook for many Elizabethan dramatists.
- Painters Eleven
- (from the article "Canada") ...the mid-1950s freed contemporary painting from its Surrealist style and directed it toward an emphasis on structure and colour. Similar trends occurred in the 1950s in Toronto, where a group called Painters Eleven, led by Harold Town and Jack Bush, ...
- painting
- the expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional visual language. The elements of this language-its shapes, lines, colours, tones, and textures-are used in various ways to produce sensations of volume, space, movement, ... [71 Related Articles]
- painting knife
- (from the article "oil painting") ...round (pointed), flat, bright (flat shape but shorter and less supple), and oval (flat but bluntly pointed). Red sable brushes are widely used for the smoother, less robust type of brushstroke. The painting knife, a finely tempered, thin, limber version ...
- painting, Western
- history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present. [22 Related Articles]
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