Puteaux – Pyramids
Puteaux
a town 2 miles from the W. boundary of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, opposite to the Bois de Boulogne. Many Parisians have fine villas here. There are manufactures of dyestuffs and chemicals, dyeing, and calico printing. Pop. about 35,000.
Putnam
HERBERT, an American librarian; born in New York City, Sept. 20, 1861; was graduated at Harvard in 1883; studied at the Columbia Law School; was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1886; librarian of the Boston Public Library in 1895-1899; librarian of Congress since 1899. Twice President of the American Library Association.
Putnam
FORT, the principal defense of West Point during the Revolution. Now in ruins.
Putumayo
or ICA, a tributary of the Amazon, rising in Colombia, and flowing S. E. for 950 miles. a
Puvis De Chavannes
PIERRE, a French painter; born in Lyons, France, Dec. 14, 1824. He studied under Couture and Henri Scheffer; painted mural decorations for libraries, etc., in France, especially "Ste. Geneviève" at the Pantheon, Paris; "The Sacred Grove"; a mural painting for the Boston, Mass., Public Library (1894); etc. He died in Paris, Oct. 25, 1898.
Pycnogonum
a genus of Arachnida, the sea spiders. Some species are parasitic upon fishes and other marine animals.
Pygmalion
in Greek mythology, grandson of Agenor, King of Cyprus.
He fell in love with an ivory statue of a young maiden he himself had made, and prayed to Aphrodite to give it life. His prayer was granted, on which he married the maiden, who bore him Paphus.
Pygmy
or PIGMY, in classical mythology, one of a fabulous nation of dwarfs dwelling somewhere near the shores of the ocean, and maintaining perpetual wars with the cranes. Also, a very short or dwarfish person; dwarf; anything very little. In zoölogy, the chimpanzee. a
Pylades
in Greek mythology, son of Strophius, King of Phocis, and Anaxibia, the sister of Agamemnon, after whose murder by Clytemnestra, their son Orestes, being carried secretly to the court of Strophius, formed the friendship with Pylades which has become dering Cl proverbial. He assisted Orestes in murdering Clytemnestra, and eventually married his sister Electra.
Pylons
in Egyptian architecture, the name given to towers or masses of masonry, somewhat resembling truncated pyramids, placed one on each side at the entrance of temples.
Pylorus
the small and contracted end of the stomach leading into the small intestines.
Pyramids
EGYPT