Public Debts
. See Debts
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Public Debts, Public Health Service, Public Prosecutor.
Public Health Service
a bureau of the United States Treasury Department, formerly going under the name of the Marine Hospital Service. The officials in its service have the work of managing the marine hospitals and relief stations established for men in the American merchant marine who are ill or disabled. It is also charged with the supervision of the quarantine stations, and the collection of data and dissemination of literature relating to mortality and health, including the examination of persons from abroad who may be suffering from infectious diseases. The Public Health Service dates from the year 1798, and its duties have developed considerably from that time. At first it was charged with the supervision of a small group of hospitals. Then in 1871 the bureau was brought more in touch with the Treasury Department and was established on a broader basis under a surgeon-general with headquarters in Washington. The staff was gradually increased till the number of surgeons has totaled over 400, and hospitals have been established both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on the coasts of the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and in other cadaveric poison. places in the more recent possessions. of ptomaines are In 1914 the hospitals numbered 24, and the relief stations 120. In the year previous the bureau distributed close on 1,500,000 pamphlets and similar pieces of literature dealing with matters of health.
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Public Prosecutor
an officer appointed to originate and conduct prosecutions in the public interest. In the United States his title is usually district attorney, though in some states special prosecutors are assigned to minor courts.
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Public Service
. See Franchise ; Municipal Ownership ; Corporation ; Stock-Watering
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Publican
in Roman antiquities, a collector of revenues, or farmer of the taxes consisting of tolls, tithes, harbor duties, duties for the use of pasture lands, mines, salt works, etc., in Roman provinces. Also, formerly a collector of toll, tribute, customs, or the like.
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Publicist
a term originally applied to a writer on international law, now used to denote a writer on current politics.
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Publicola
A surname, signifying a friend of the common people, acquired by Publius Valerius. He assisted Brutus to expel the Tarquins, and won the victory in the battle in which Brutus and the sons of Tarquin had fallen. He was four times consul, but died in poverty, and was buried at the public expense amid general mourning. Publilius, Volero. Tribune of the plebs, B. C. 472, and again 471, effected an important change in the Roman constitution. In virtue of the laws which he proposed, the tribunes of the plebs and the aediles were elected by the comitia tributa, instead of by the comitia centuriata, as had previously been the case, and the tribes obtained the power of deliberating and determining in all matters affecting the whole nation, and not such only as concerned the plebs. 2026 Editor's Note: Publius Valerius Poplicola , one of four aristocrats who led the overthrow of the monarchy, became consul in 509 BC at the Republic's founding. Nearly five centuries later, Lucius Gellius Poplicola held the same consulship in 36 BC and fought at the Battle of Actium. This persistence of the cognomen across the Republic and into the Triumviral period demonstrates how the name associated with popular leadership remained in use through Rome's major political transitions. (Ed: BR 2026-06-10)
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Puccini
GIACOMO, an Italian composer and musician; born at Lucca in 1858. He was trained in music at the conservatory of Milan. In 1884 appeared his first opera "Le Villi," but it was not until nine years later upon the appearance of "Manon Lescaut" that his genius received world-wide recognition. His best known operas include "La Bohême" (1896); "La Tosca" (1900); "Madame Butterfly" (1904), and "The Girl of the Golden West" (1910). The latter piece was written by Puccini especially for Americans, but it has had a doubtful success. In 1907 Puccini superintended the rehearsals and conducted the performance of his opera "Madame Butterfly" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. This opera is gen- GIACOMO PUCCINI erally conceded his masterpiece, and Puccini is usually regarded as the successor of Verdi in the development of Italian opera.
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Puccinia
in botany, the typical genus of Puccinxi. The genus is parato the plants on sitic and destructive which it grows. P. graminis, the common mildew, causes the rust or blight in corn.
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Pud
or POOD, a Russian weight which contains 40 Russian pounds, equivalent to 36 pounds avoirdupois.
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Pudding Berries
the berries of the Canadian dogwood (Cornus canadensis), common throughout North America.
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Pudding Stone
a name given to certain siliceous conglomerates, notably that of Hertfordshire, England, in which the rounded, jaspery flint pebbles resemble the plums in a plum pudding.
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Puddling-furnace
A furnace for separating the carbon and other impurities from cast iron. This furnace is usually of the reverberatory kind, and in the process the fire is not mingled with the metal, as in the case of smelting, the material being melted by causing the flame to impinge upon it on its way from the fireplace at one end to the chimney at the other. See MALLEABLE IRON; REVER-BERATORY FURNACE.
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Pudukkottai
a State of Madras, southern India, situated between the districts of Madura and Tanjore, mainly rocky and undulating plain, sparsely cultivated. Granite quarries, silk, cotton and perfume works represent the chief industries. Small export trade, chiefly groundnuts and bark of trees. Pop. about 450,000. Capital, Pudukkottai, pop. about 25,000.
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Puebla
the third city of Mexico, capital of the State of the same name; (area, 12,992 square miles; pop. about 1,250,000); on a fruitful plain, 7,120 feet above sea-level, and 68 miles S. E. of the city of Mexico. It was founded in 1531, and is one of the handsomest towns in the r republic. The city contains nearly 50 churches, theological, medical, art schools and a museum of antiquities dating from 1728. On the great square stands the cathedral, the interior of which is decorated in the most sumptuous manner with ornaments of gold and silver, paintings, statues, etc. Puebla has a thriving trade. The chief articles produced are cotton, paper, iron, glass, porcelain, leather. Puebla was besieged for two months by the French, and then taken by storm, May 17, 1863. Pop. about 100,000.
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