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  • Páez (people)
    Indians of the southern highlands of Colombia. The Páez speak a Chibchan language very closely related to that of the now-extinct Pijao and Coconuco (see Chibchan languages)....
  • Páez, José Antonio (Venezuelan general)
    Venezuelan soldier and politician, a leader in the country’s independence movement and its first president. In the crucial early years of Venezuelan independence, he led the country as a dictator....
  • Páez, Pedro (Spanish priest)
    learned Jesuit priest who, in the tradition of Frumentius—founder of the Ethiopian church—went as a missionary to Ethiopia, where he became known as the second apostle of Ethiopia....
  • Páez, Pero (Spanish priest)
    learned Jesuit priest who, in the tradition of Frumentius—founder of the Ethiopian church—went as a missionary to Ethiopia, where he became known as the second apostle of Ethiopia....
  • Páez Xaramillo, Pedro (Spanish priest)
    learned Jesuit priest who, in the tradition of Frumentius—founder of the Ethiopian church—went as a missionary to Ethiopia, where he became known as the second apostle of Ethiopia....
  • Päffgen, Christa (German singer)
    ...Maureen (“Moe”) Tucker (b. Aug. 26, 1944Levittown, Long Island, N.Y.), Nico (original name Christa Päffgen; b. Oct. 16, 1938 Cologne, Germany—d...
  • Páfos (Cyprus)
    town, southwestern Republic of Cyprus. Paphos was also the name of two ancient cities that were the precursors of the modern town. The older ancient city (Greek: Palaipaphos) was located at modern Pírgos (Kouklia); New Paphos, which had superseded Old Paphos by Roman times, was 10 miles (16 km) farther west. New Paphos and Ktima together form modern Paphos....
  • Pagadian (Philippines)
    city, western Mindanao, Philippines. Located on Pagadian Bay (a northern extension of Illana Bay), it is a major port shipping rice and corn (maize); coconuts are the region’s main commercial crop. Fishing is the primary occupation of the city’s inhabitants; lumbering is also important. The city is a major point of entry for Visayan (Cebuano) migrants, who have res...
  • Pagai Island langur (primate)
    leaf-eating monkey found only on the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra. The body averages about half a metre (20 inches) in length, and it is unique among langurs in having a tail that is much shorter than the body (15 cm [6 inches]). Females weigh 7 kg (15.5 pounds) on average, and males are somewhat larger. Apart from the piglike tail, the ...
  • Pagalu (island, Equatorial Guinea)
    volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean near the Equator; it is part of Equatorial Guinea. Located about 350 miles (565 km) southwest of continental Equatorial Guinea, it occupies an area of 7 square miles (17 square km) and rises to an elevation of 2,200 feet (671 metres). Fishing and lumbering activities are centred in San Antonio, the chief settlement. Pop. (2001) 5,004....
  • Pagan (Myanmar)
    village, central Myanmar (Burma), situated on the left bank of the Irrawaddy River and approximately 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Mandalay. The site of an old capital city of Myanmar, Pagan is a pilgrimage centre and contains ancient Buddhist shrines that have been restored and redecorated and are in current use. Ruins of other shrines and pagodas cover a wide area. An earthqu...
  • pagan (religion)
    In the great pagan religions of the ancient Mediterranean, celibacy was practiced in various contexts. In Rome the institution of the Vestal Virgins, who were required to remain celibate for at least the 30 years of their service, indicates that celibacy was a very ancient aspect of Roman religion. As Classical civilization developed, two ideals of masculine celibacy appeared, that of the......
  • Pagan (king of Myanmar)
    king of Myanmar (1846–53), who suffered defeat in the Second Anglo-Burmese War, after which Yangon (Rangoon), the province of Pegu, and other areas in southern Myanmar were annexed by the British and became what was called Lower Burma....
  • Pagan (island, North Mariana Islands)
    ...km]), Tinian (39 square miles [101 square km]), and Rota (33 square miles [85 square km]) are the principal islands and, together with Anatahan, Alamagan, and Agrihan, are inhabited. Another island, Pagan, was evacuated in 1981 after a severe volcanic eruption there. The capital is on Saipan. Area 176.5 square miles (457 square km). Pop. (2000) 69,221....
  • Pagan Federation (religious organization)
    ...the 21st century began, Wiccans and Neo-Pagans were found throughout the English-speaking world and across northern and western Europe. Two international fellowships, the Pagan Federation and the Universal Federation of Pagans, now serve the larger Wiccan/Neo-Pagan community....
  • Pagan kingdom (historical kingdom, Myanmar)
    The kingdom of Pagan (849–c. 1300)...
  • Pagan, Mount (volcano, North Mariana Islands)
    ...southern islands (Farallon de Medinilla, Saipan, Tinian, and Aguijan) are composed of limestone and have gently rolling elevations and few mountains. The islands farther north are volcanic peaks. Mount Pagan erupted in 1922 and again in 1981, 1983, 1988, and 1994; Farallon de Pajaros, the northernmost of the Marianas, and Asuncion are also active volcanoes. Agrihan volcano, the highest of the.....
  • Pagan Way (religious organization)
    ...Church of All Worlds, the largest of all the pagan movements, which centres on worship of the earth-mother goddess; Feraferia, based on ancient Greek religion and also centred on goddess worship; Pagan Way, a nature religion centred on goddess worship and the seasons; the Reformed Druids of North America; the Church of the Eternal Source, which has revived ancient Egyptian religion; and the......
  • Paganelli di Montemagno, Bernardo (pope)
    pope from 1145 to 1153....
  • paganica (game)
    The origin of golf has long been debated. Some historians trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, which involved using a bent stick to hit a wool- or feather-stuffed leather ball. According to one view, paganica spread throughout several countries as the Romans conquered much of Europe during the 1st century......
  • Paganini, Niccolò (Italian composer)
    Italian composer and principal violin virtuoso of the 19th century. A popular idol, he inspired the Romantic mystique of the virtuoso and revolutionized violin technique....
  • paganism (religion)
    In the great pagan religions of the ancient Mediterranean, celibacy was practiced in various contexts. In Rome the institution of the Vestal Virgins, who were required to remain celibate for at least the 30 years of their service, indicates that celibacy was a very ancient aspect of Roman religion. As Classical civilization developed, two ideals of masculine celibacy appeared, that of the......
  • paganus (Roman social class)
    ...Syriac, Libyphoenician, or Coptic, which further isolated them—and their own religion, marriage customs, and forms of entertainment. In time, the very term “country dweller,” paganus, set the rural population still further apart from the empire’s Christianized urban population....
  • Pagasae (ancient port, Greece)
    ...of the Bronze Age (c. 2500 bc) and capital of Mycenaean Thessaly. The Neolithic towns of Sesklo and Dimini also stood near present-day Vólos, and just south of it are the ruins of Pagasae, a prominent port from Mycenaean to late Classical times. In 293 bc Pagasae was eclipsed by the newly founded Macedonian town of Demetrias to the north of it....
  • Pagasaí, Gulf of (gulf, Greece)
    gulf of the Aegean Sea, nomós (department) of Magnisía, Thessaly, Greece. The gulf is almost landlocked by a fishhook prong of the Magnesia peninsula, which forms the Tríkkeri Strait. At the head of the gulf is Vólos, the primary port of Thessaly. It lies on the site of ancient Iolcos and its port, Pagasae, from whence is derived the gulf ’s present name. ...
  • Pagasitikós Kólpos (gulf, Greece)
    gulf of the Aegean Sea, nomós (department) of Magnisía, Thessaly, Greece. The gulf is almost landlocked by a fishhook prong of the Magnesia peninsula, which forms the Tríkkeri Strait. At the head of the gulf is Vólos, the primary port of Thessaly. It lies on the site of ancient Iolcos and its port, Pagasae, from whence is derived the gulf ’s present name. ...
  • page (computer memory)
    ...the illusion of working with a large block of contiguous memory space (perhaps even larger than real memory), when in actuality most of their work is on auxiliary storage (disk). Fixed-size blocks (pages) or variable-size blocks (segments) of the job are read into main memory as needed. Questions such as how much actual main memory space to allocate to users and which page should be returned to...
  • page (rank)
    in medieval Europe, a youth of noble birth who left his home at an early age to serve an apprenticeship in the duties of chivalry in the family of some prince or man of rank. Beginning as assistants to squires who attended knights and their ladies, pages were trained in arms and in the art of heraldry and received instruction in hunting, music, dancing, and such other accomplis...
  • Page, Alan (American athlete and jurist)
    American gridiron football player who in 1971 became the first defensive player to win the Most Valuable Player award of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988....
  • Page, Alan Cedric (American athlete and jurist)
    American gridiron football player who in 1971 became the first defensive player to win the Most Valuable Player award of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988....
  • Page, Anita (American actress)
    American film actress who briefly shone as one of Hollywood’s top stars during the transition from silent films to talkies, starting with a role as a doomed jazz baby in the 1928 silent picture Our Dancing Daughters. Other notable films include While the City Sleeps (1928), The Flying Fleet (1929), and the early talkie The Broadway Melody (1929), which won the Ac...
  • Page, Anne (fictional character)
    A secondary plot centres on the wooing of the Pages’ charming daughter Anne. Doctor Caius, Slender, and Fenton are rivals for Anne’s affection. To great comic effect, all three suitors use Caius’s servant Mistress Quickly to argue their case to young Anne. Slender is favoured by Master Page, who devises a plan for Slender and Anne to elope after the play’s climactic sce...
  • Page, Clarence (American journalist)
    American newspaper columnist and television commentator specializing in urban affairs....
  • Page disgracié, Le (novel by Tristan)
    ...was attached as page to the marquise of Verneuil but was exiled to England after a duel. This incident and his vagabond life in the years that followed are described in his autobiographical novel Le Page disgracié (1643; “The Disgraced Page”). Tristan remained in England until his pardon by Louis XIII in 1621; but it is unlikely, as has been suggested, that his work ...
  • Page, Dorothy G. (American sled dog race organizer)
    ...A short race of about 25 miles (40 km) was organized in 1967 as part of the centennial celebration of the Alaska Purchase and evolved in 1973 into the current race. The architects of the race were Dorothy G. Page, chairman of one of Alaska’s centennial committees, and Joe Redington, Sr., a musher and kennel owner; they are known as the mother and father of the Iditarod. Enthusiasts call ...
  • Page, Geraldine (American actress)
    versatile American actress noted primarily for her interpretations of the heroines of Tennessee Williams’s plays....
  • Page, Geraldine Sue (American actress)
    versatile American actress noted primarily for her interpretations of the heroines of Tennessee Williams’s plays....
  • Page, Jimmy (British musician)
    ...that was extremely popular in the 1970s. Although their musical style was diverse, they came to be well known for their influence on the development of heavy metal. The members were Jimmy Page (b. Jan. 9, 1944Heston, Middlesex, Eng.), Robert......
  • Page, Larry (American computer scientist and entrepreneur)
    American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most successful sites on the Internet....
  • Page, Lawrence Edward (American computer scientist and entrepreneur)
    American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most successful sites on the Internet....
  • Page, Mary Caroline (American religious leader)
    American religious leader, founder, with her husband, of the Unity School of Christianity, a movement that propounded a pragmatic healing and problem-solving faith....
  • Page, Mistress (fictional character)
    ...Henry IV plays, such as Pistol, Bardolph, Nym, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow. They are all in a delightfully new environment. Falstaff takes a fancy to two married women, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, who are said to control their own financial affairs and thus to be moderately wealthy. He writes identical love letters to them, hoping to swindle some money from......
  • Page, P. K. (Canadian poet)
    ...Contact (1952–54) and their publishing house, the Contact Press (1952–67)—urged poets to focus on realism and the local North American context. P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most intellectually rigorous poets, was associated with the Preview group in the ’40s when she published her first collection, ...
  • Page, Robert Morris (American physicist)
    American physicist known as the “father” of U.S. radar....
  • Page, Ruth (American dancer and choreographer)
    American dancer and choreographer, who reigned as the grand dame of dance in Chicago from the 1920s to the 1980s....
  • Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton (prime minister of Australia)
    Australian statesman, coleader of the federal government (1923–29) in coalition with Stanley M. Bruce. As head of the Country Party (1920–39), he was a spokesman for the party’s goal of rural economic development and was briefly prime minister of Australia in 1939....
  • Page, Sir Frederick Handley (British aircraft designer)
    British aircraft designer who built the Handley Page 0/400, one of the largest heavy bomber planes used in World War I....
  • Page, Stanton (American novelist)
    American novelist who wrote about his native city of Chicago....
  • Page, Thomas J. (United States military officer)
    (1855), brief military skirmish near the Paraguayan Ft. Itapirú, involving the USS “Water Witch,” commanded by Lt. Thomas J. Page, and Paraguayan troops who fired as the vessel was exploring the Paraná River, in international waters....
  • Page, Thomas Nelson (American author)
    American author whose work fostered romantic legends of Southern plantation life....
  • Page, Walter (American musician)
    black American swing-era musician, one of the first to play “walking” lines on the string bass. A pioneer of the Southwestern jazz style, he was a star of the Count Basie band during its greatest period....
  • Page, Walter Hines (American author and diplomat)
    journalist, book publisher, author, and diplomat who, as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain during World War I, worked strenuously to maintain close relations between the two countries while the United States remained neutral and who, from an early stage of the war, urged U.S. intervention on an unwilling President Woodrow Wilson....
  • Page, Walter Sylvester (American musician)
    black American swing-era musician, one of the first to play “walking” lines on the string bass. A pioneer of the Southwestern jazz style, he was a star of the Count Basie band during its greatest period....
  • Page, William (American painter)
    American painter known for his sedate portraits of prominent mid-19th-century Americans and Britons....
  • pageant
    a large-scale, spectacular theatrical production or procession. In its earlier meanings the term denoted specifically a car or float designed for the presentation of religious plays or cycles. By extension, the term came to mean not only the apparatus for the presentations but the presentations themselves. Because these plays were generally accompanied by great ceremony and showmanship, pageant ha...
  • Pageant of the Pacific (work by Covarrubias)
    ...also painted six mural maps illustrating the cultures of the Pacific area for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco; these maps were then published as Pageant of the Pacific (1939)....
  • pageant wagon (vehicle)
    wheeled vehicle used in the processional staging of medieval vernacular cycle plays. Processional staging is most closely associated with the English cycle plays performed from about 1375 until the mid-16th century in such cities as York and Chester as part of the Corpus Christi festival, but it was also common in Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Each play in the cycle may have been mounted o...
  • Pagels, Elaine (American scholar)
    Only a few academics are read by both their peers and the general public. Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine professor of religion at Princeton University, was part of that elite group. Throughout her career she was lauded for her concise elucidations of early Christian texts, and her books are a happy marriage of elegant scholarship and lucid prose....
  • PageMaker (software program)
    ...Under Sculley, Apple steadily improved the machine. However, what saved the Mac in those early years was Apple’s 1985 introduction of an affordable laser printer along with Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker, the Mac’s first killer app. Together these two innovations launched the desktop publishing revolution. Suddenly, small businesses and print shops could produce professional...
  • Pageos I (United States satellite)
    ...with observations by Rebound A-13, launched that year, and some prior work using the Echo 1 and Echo 2 passive reflecting satellites. The first satellite specifically designed for geodetic work, Pageos 1, was launched in 1966....
  • Paget disease of bone (bone disease)
    chronic disease of middle age, characterized by excessive breakdown and formation of bone tissue. The disease is common among people of northern European descent; it is almost nonexistent among people of Asian and African descent. The disease leads to deformities, fractures, and arthritis and may cause an increased risk of cancer...
  • Paget, Sir James, 1st Baronet (British surgeon and physiologist)
    British surgeon and surgical pathologist....
  • Paget, Violet (English essayist)
    English essayist and novelist who is best known for her works on aesthetics....
  • Paget’s disease (breast cancer)
    Paget disease is an uncommon type of breast cancer that begins at the nipple and initially causes a burning, itching, or tender sensation. Eventually the lesion becomes enlarged, cracks, oozes, and forms crusts....
  • Pagganck Island (island, New York City, New York, United States)
    island in Upper New York Bay, New York, New York, U.S., situated off the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Its area is 172 acres (70 hectares). Known as Pagganck to the Manahatas Indians, the island was acquired (1637) by the Dutch, who called it Nooten (Nutten) for the walnut and chestnut trees then found there. In 1698 it was reserved for use by colonial gov...
  • pagi (administrative region)
    ...was delegated to counts who had control of counties, or gauen (pagi), some of which corresponded to Roman civitates. Among these counties in the Low Countries were the pagus Taruanensis (centred on Thérouanne), pagus Mempiscus, pagus Flandrensis (around Brugge), pagus Turnacensis (around Tournai), pagus Gandensis (Ghent),......
  • paging (computer memory)
    ...the illusion of working with a large block of contiguous memory space (perhaps even larger than real memory), when in actuality most of their work is on auxiliary storage (disk). Fixed-size blocks (pages) or variable-size blocks (segments) of the job are read into main memory as needed. Questions such as how much actual main memory space to allocate to users and which page should be returned to...
  • Paglia, Camille (American author)
    The controversial academic, aesthete, and self-described feminist Camille Paglia enunciated her unorthodox views on sexuality and the development of culture and art in Western civilization in two books, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (1992). Her public persona and iconoclastic views enraged many a...
  • Pagliacci (opera by Leoncavallo)
    Neapolitan opera composer whose fame rests on the opera Pagliacci, which, with Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890), represented a reaction against Richard Wagner and against Romantic Italian opera; both works substituted for the quasi-historical plot a sensational story from everyday life....
  • Pagliarani, Elio (Italian poet)
    ...I Novissimi: poesie per gli anni ’60 (“The Newest Poets: Poems for the ’60s”), edited by Alfredo Giuliani. In addition to the editor, the poets represented were Elio Pagliarani, author of La ragazza Carla (1960; “The Girl Carla”), a longish poem incorporating found materials and dramatizing the alienation of a w...
  • Pagliero, Marcello (Italian filmmaker)
    Italian motion picture director, screenwriter, and actor who worked primarily outside Italy, often in France....
  • Pagnani, Andreina (Italian actress)
    Italian dramatic actress who worked primarily in the theatre....
  • Pagnini, Santes (Italian scholar)
    Dominican scholar whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible—the first since St. Jerome’s—greatly aided other 16th-century scriptural translators....
  • Pagnino, Santes (Italian scholar)
    Dominican scholar whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible—the first since St. Jerome’s—greatly aided other 16th-century scriptural translators....
  • Pagninus, Santes (Italian scholar)
    Dominican scholar whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible—the first since St. Jerome’s—greatly aided other 16th-century scriptural translators....
  • Pagnol, Marcel Paul (French author and director)
    French writer and motion-picture producer-director who won both fame as the master of stage comedy and critical acclaim for his filmmaking. He was elected to the French Academy in 1946, the first filmmaker to be so honoured....
  • Pago Chico (novel by Payró)
    ...Rivadavia Library, and various museums. The atmosphere of growth and commercialism that characterized early 20th-century Bahía Blanca inspired Roberto Payró to write Pago Chico (1908), a novel about the city. Pop. (2001) 274,509....
  • Pago Pago (American Samoa)
    port and administrative capital (since 1899) of American Samoa, south-central Pacific Ocean. Backed by densely wooded mountains, it is situated on an inlet that deeply indents the southeast shore of Tutuila Island, almost bisecting the island while forming an extensive, naturally protected deepwater harbour. The site was chosen in 1872 by Commander R.W. Meade, who negotiated fac...
  • Pago Pago International Airport (airport, Pago Pago, American Samoa)
    ...for the U.S. Navy from the Samoan high chief Mauga. It remained an active naval base from 1900 to 1951 and is now a regular port of call for all types of vessels. Canned tuna is the dominant export. Pago Pago International Airport, built partly on a fringing reef, opened in 1964 and has stimulated tourist traffic. Pago Pago, once depicted as a sultry and shabby town by Somerset Maugham in his.....
  • pagoda (architecture)
    in East and Southeast Asia, a towerlike, multistoried structure of stone, brick, or wood, usually associated with a Buddhist temple complex. The pagoda derives from the stupa of ancient India, which was a dome-shaped commemorative monument, usually erected over the remains or relics of a holy man or king. The hemispherical domed stupa of ancient India evolved ...
  • pagoda dogwood (plant)
    The pagoda dogwood is Cornus alternifolia, a member of the family Cornaceae; it is used in landscaping for its horizontal branching habit....
  • pagoda tree (plant)
    any of several trees of erect, conical form suggesting a pagoda, particularly Sophora japonica, commonly called the Japanese pagoda tree, or the Chinese scholar tree. A member of the pea family (Fabaceae), it is native to East Asia and is sometimes cultivated in other regions as an ornamental. It grows 12–23 m (about 40–75 feet) tall. The alternate, compound leaves consist of...
  • Pagodroma nivea (bird)
    ...petrels. Among them are the pintado petrel, or Cape pigeon (Daption capensis), a sub-Antarctic species about 40 centimetres (16 inches) long, marked with bold patches of black and white. The snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea), 35 cm, a pure white species, and the Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica), 42 cm, a brown-and-white-pied species, are rarely seen outside Antarctic.....
  • Pagon, Mount (mountain, Brunei)
    Brunei consists of a narrow coastal plain in the north, which gives way to rugged hills in the south. The country’s highest point is Pagon Peak (6,070 feet [1,850 metres]), in the southeast. Brunei is drained by the Belait, Tutong, and Brunei rivers in the western segment and by the Pandaruan and Temburong rivers in the east; all flow generally northward to the South China Sea. The Belait i...
  • Pagophilus groenlandica (mammal)
    medium-sized, grayish earless seal possessing a black harp-shaped or saddle-shaped marking on its back. Harp seals are found on or near ice floes from the Kara Sea of Russia west to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada. The harp seal is both the best-known and among the most abundant of all seal species. Worldwide, the total...
  • Pagosa Springs (Colorado, United States)
    city, seat (1891) of Archuleta county, south-central Colorado, U.S. Located near large mineral springs, the town site was established in 1874 after control of the area was wrested from the Ute people (in whose language pagosa means “healing water”). Pagosa Springs originally served as a supply centre and railhead for mining camps in the ne...
  • Pagurus bernhardus (crustacean)
    Some species live in close association with other animals. Pagurus (Eupagurus) bernhardus, a common, bright red hermit crab of European and North American coastal waters, often carries one or more anemones on its shell. The robber crab, native to islands of the South Pacific, is a terrestrial species that has discarded the shell-dwelling habit....
  • Pagurus pollicaris (crustacean)
    Pagurus pollicaris, a large hermit crab of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America, is reddish brown and about 10 to 12 cm (4 to 5 inches) long. P. longicarpus, a much smaller hermit crab, occurs in shallow U.S. Atlantic coastal waters....
  • pagus (administrative region)
    ...was delegated to counts who had control of counties, or gauen (pagi), some of which corresponded to Roman civitates. Among these counties in the Low Countries were the pagus Taruanensis (centred on Thérouanne), pagus Mempiscus, pagus Flandrensis (around Brugge), pagus Turnacensis (around Tournai), pagus Gandensis (Ghent),......
  • PAH (enzyme)
    ...of the body to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine. Phenylalanine is normally converted in the human body to tyrosine, another amino acid, by a specific organic catalyst, or enzyme, called phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme is not active in individuals who have phenylketonuria. As a result of this metabolic block, abnormally high levels of phenylalanine accumulate in the blood,......
  • PAH (chemical compound)
    The concept of clearance is also useful in the measurement of renal blood flow. Para-aminohippuric acid (PAH), when introduced into the bloodstream and kept at relatively low plasma concentrations, is rapidly excreted into the urine by both glomerular filtration and tubular secretion. Sampling of blood from the renal vein reveals that 90 percent of PAH is removed by a single circulation of......
  • Pahang (region, Malaysia)
    region, eastern West Malaysia (Malaya). Its eastern coastline stretches along the South China Sea. Pahang occupies the vast Pahang River basin, which is enclosed by the Main Range to the west and the eastern highlands to the north....
  • Pahang River (river, Malaysia)
    river in Pahang region, West Malaysia (Malaya). It is the longest river on the Malay Peninsula. It rises in two headstreams, the Jelai and Tembeling, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Jerantut and flows south past Temerloh, paralleling the Main Range to Mengkarak, where, at the break of slope between the mountains and the plains, it abruptly turns eastward. The river then completes its 271-mile (43...
  • Pahāṛī (people)
    people who constitute about three-fifths the population of Nepal and a majority of the population of neighbouring Himalayan India (in Himachal Pradesh and northern Uttar Pradesh). They speak languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family; the people are historically ancient, having been mentioned by the authors Pliny and Herodotus and figuring in India...
  • Pahari languages
    group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas (pahāṛī is Hindi for “of the mountains”). Three divisions are distinguished: Eastern Pahari, represented by Nepali of Nepal; Central Pahari, spoken in the north of Uttar Pradesh state; and Western Pahari, found around Simla in Himachal Pradesh state. The most important language is ...
  • Pahari painting (art)
    style of miniature painting and book illustration that developed in the independent states of the Himalayan foothills in India. The style is made up of two markedly contrasting schools, the bold intense Basohli and the delicate and lyrical Kangra. Pahari painting—sometimes referred to as Hill painting (pahārī, “of the hills”)—is ...
  • Pahawh Hmong writing system
    ...the Chinese. A second system of writing Hmong languages was developed in 1959–71 in Laos by native leader Shong Lue Yang. He invented and developed increasingly sophisticated versions of the Pahawh Hmong writing system, which is based on the “onset” (the initial consonant or consonant cluster in a syllable) and the “rime” (the vowel or vowel cluster at the nuc...
  • Pahia, Mount (mountain, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia)
    ...Ocean, about 165 miles (265 km) northwest of Tahiti. The mountainous island, some 6 miles (10 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, has Mount Otemanu (Temanu; 2,385 feet [727 metres]) and twin-peaked Mount Pahia (2,159 feet [658 metres]) as its highest peaks. It is surrounded by coral reefs. On the west side of Bora-Bora is a large lagoon in which the smaller islands of Toopua and Toopua Iti......
  • Pahiatua (New Zealand)
    town, southern North Island, New Zealand, at the confluence of the Mangatainoka River and Mangaramarama Creek, 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Wellington. It was founded in 1881 by Scandinavian immigrants. The town was almost totally destroyed in 1897 when a fire occurred in the surrounding Forty Mile Bush Forest. Pahiatua now serves an area of dairy, mixed, and fat-lamb farming ...
  • Pähkinäsaari, Treaty of (Scandinavia [1323])
    ...the eastern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. In 1293 Torgils Knutsson launched an expedition in an attempt to conquer all of Karelia and built a fortress in Viipuri. The war lasted until 1323, when the Treaty of Pähkinäsaari (Nöteborg; now Petrokrepost) drew the boundary between the Russian and Swedish spheres of influence in a vague line from the eastern part of the Gulf of F...
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