More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Passport
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a state document authorizing the bearer to travel, and commending him to the courtesy of foreign officials. A passport serves also as a certificate of citizenship and as a useful means of identification. Reputable citizens of the United States obtain passports on application to the department of state at Washington. Travelers are not required to exhibit passports in the United States, Canada, England, France, or the Scandinavian countries. Casual travelers are not required to hold passports in Germany. If residence is extended beyond ten days it is necessary to submit one's passport to the police authorities for inspection and approval. A boardinghouse keeper or the proprietor of a hotel who harbors a guest without having his passport approved is subject to fine and imprisonment. A passport is necessary even to enter Russia.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a warrant of protection protection and authority to travel, granted canted to persons moving from place to place, by a competent authority. In some states no foreigner is allowed to travel without a passport from his government. In Russia and Turkey, in particular, a passport is indispensable. Passports to British subjects are granted at the Foreign Office, London. In the United States passports, with description of the applicant, are issued by the State Department at Washington. They are Issued only to citizens, native born and naturalized.
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Patmos
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a rocky and barren island, of most irregular outline, in the Ægean Sea, one of the Sporades, lying to the S. of Samos, now called Patino; area, 16 square miles. It is celebrated as the place to which the apostle John was exiled; in a cave here, it is said, he saw the visions recorded in the Book of Revelations. On the top of mountain stands the famous monastery of "John a the Divine," built in 1088. The island was awarded to Greece by the Treaty of Versailles. It was occupied by the Italians in the Turko-Italian War (1912).
1000 Classical Characters: One of the islands called Sporades , in the Icarian Sea, celebrated as the place to which the Apostle John was banished, and in which he wrote the Apocalypse.
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Patroclus
1000 Classical Characters: One of the Grecian chiefs during the Trojan war. He contracted an intimate friendship with Achilles , and when the Greeks went to the Trojan war Patroclus accompanied them. He was the constant companion of Achilles, living in the same tent, and when his friend refused to appear in the field of battle, because of being offended with Agamemnon , Patroclus imitated his example. Nestor , however, prevailed on him again to take the field, and Achilles lent him his armor. Hector encountered him, and after a desperate fight slew him. The Greeks obtained his dead body, which was brought into the Grecian camp, where Achilles received it with great lamentation, and again taking the field, killed Hector, thus avenging the death of his friend.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in Greek story, the friend of Achilles, whom he accompanied was at to the Trojan war. His success first brilliant; but, Apollo having rendered him defensestunned him and less, he was slain by Euphorbus and Hector. See ACHILLES.
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Pausanias
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a Lacedæmonian general, nephew of Leonidas. He commanded the allied Greeks against the Persians at the battle of Platæa in 479 B. C. He afterward, with a combined Greek fleet, delivered Greece, Cyprus, and finally Byzantium from the Persian rule. He entered into secret negotiations with Xerxes and planned to make himself master of Greece. To escape arrest he sought shelter in the temple of Athene at Sparta, where he was shut in by the enraged people and starved to death (467 b. c.).
1000 Classical Characters: A Spartan general who greatly signalized himself at the battle of Plataea against the Persians. He afterward, at the head of the Spartan armies, extended his conquests in Asia , but the haughtiness of his behavior made him many enemies. He offered, on certain conditions, to betray Greece to the Persians, but his perfidy was discovered, on which he fled for safety to a temple of Minerva, where he was starved to death, в. C. 471. Pavor (Fate). The attendant of Mars .
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Pawnees
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a tribe of American Indians who formerly resided in Nebraska, with branches extending into Kansas and Texas. They surrendered their lands S. of the Platte by treaty in 1833; suffered much thereafter at the hands of their hereditary enemies, the Sioux; and in 1876 removed, only 2,026 strong, to a reservation of 283,020 acres in Indian Territory. They numbered less than 1,000 in 1920.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a confederacy of tribes of North American Indians. They inhabited formerly the valleys of the Platte and the Republican rivers of Nebraska. Their hereditary foes, by whom they were surrounded, were the Sioux and the Shoshones. In 1833 they surrendered all their lands south of the Platte. In 1876 a remnant removed to Indian Territory , where about 500 of their descendants still exist.
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Pebble
Collier's New Encyclopedia: or PEBBLESTONE, a name given to roundish nodules and geodes, especially of siliceous minerals, such as rock crystal, agate, etc.; but commonly and more correctly applied to small fragments of rocks and minerals which have become rounded and water worn, like the shingle forming the beach on a seashore. Thus, pebbles may be composed of any rock or mineral. Pebbles of gold are known by the name of nuggets or pepitas. The term pebble, among opticians, generally means the transparent and colorless rock crystal or quartz (pure silica) which is used as a substitute for glass in spectacles.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: a small, rounded stone, intermediate in size between a cobblestone and gravel. The term is restricted usually to small stones, well rounded by the action of water or glacial action. They are, of course, of all colors and material, corresponding to the ledges of rock of which they were originally fragments. Conglomerate rock is composed of pebbles and cementing material. Agate is known to the jeweler as pebble. Scotch agates are known as Scotch pebbles. A transparent rock crystal, known also as pebble, is ground into lenses for spectacles.
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Pegasus
Aiton's Encyclopedia: in Greek legend, the winged horse of the Muses. He arose from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa when she was slain by Perseus. The myth of Pegasus is connected with that of Bellerophon. When the latter was considering how to meet the monster Chimaera, he was advised to sleep in the temple of Minerva. The goddess gave him a golden bridle, which, on awakening, he found controlled Pegasus. He mounted the steed and overcame the monster. Bellerophon became too much elated over his victory, so Jupiter sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus. The horse threw its rider, who became lame and blind in consequence. Hippocrene, the inspiring spring of the Muses on Mount Helicon, was created by a kick from the hoof of Pegasus. Longfellow follows a portion of the legend in his Pegasus in Pound.
1000 Classical Characters: A winged horse sprung from the blood of Medusa . According to Ovid he fixed his abode on Mount Helicon, where, by striking the earth with his foot, he raised a fountain which has been called Hippocrene . 2026 Editor's Note: Pegasus was captured by the hero Bellerophon to defeat the monster Chimera. Bellerophon later fell from Pegasus's back while trying to reach Mount Olympus and was killed by Zeus for this transgression. (Ed: BR 2026-06-20)
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