Partridge Berry
. See Wintergreen
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Partridge Berry, Partridge Wood, Parts Brass Parts Zinc.
Partridge Wood
believed to be derived from various West Indian and South American trees, specially Andira inermis. It is beautifully variegated, and was formerly used in Brazil for shipbuilding. In dockyards it is called cabbage wood.
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Parts Brass Parts Zinc
Parts Tin. Refractory 4.00 1.00 Readily Fusible, 5.00 4.00 Half White, 12 00 5.00 1.00 White, 40.00 2 00 8.00 Very Ductile, 78.25 17 25
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Parts Fine Silver
Parts Copper. Parts Brass Parts Zinc. First 4 3 Second 2 1 Third 19 1 10 5 Fourth 57 28.6 14.3
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Parts Gold
Parts Silver. Parts Copper. Parts Zinc. Hard solder for 750 fine 9.0 2.0 1.0 Soft solder for 750 fine 12.0 7.0 3.0 Solder for 583 fine 3.0 2.0 1.0 Solder for less than 583 fine 2.0 2.0 Readily Fusible Solder 11.94 54.74 28.17 5.01 Solder for yellow Gold 10.0 5.0 1.0
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Party
an American political party founded at Cincinnati in 1891. It was the outgrowth of the "Grangers" and "Farmers' Alliance" parties, and was composed of great numbers from the farming and industrial classes of the Middle and Far West. Its political principles were the free coinage of silver, national ownership of the railroads, popular election of United States Senators and a graduated income_tax. In 1892 the party nominated James B. Weaver of Iowa for President, and in that national election polled a popular vote of 1,055,424. In the succeeding ng presidential election the Populists i indorsed the Democratic nominee, William J. Bryan, but named Thos. E. Watson of Georgia, for Vice-President. In 1900 the Populists again endorsed Bryan for President, but as in 1896, named a different man than the Democrats for Vice- President, this time, Charles A. Towne of Minnesota. Towne later withdrew and the National Executive Committee of the party nominated the Democratic tic nominee, A. E. Stevenson of Illinois. In addition to their principles hitherto mentioned the Populists added to their plata plank condemning the in form imperialism in world politics of the Republicans and expressed their sympathy for the Boers in South Africa in their struggle against nst Great Britain. After 1900 the party rty lost strength either by by the adoption of many of their principles by the the indisposition Democratic party or by the of the voters to their radical ideas. They were never serious contenders in the political field after that date.
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Parysatis
Daughter of Artaxerxes I. Longimanus, king of Persia, and wife of her own brother Darius Ochus, and mother of Artaxerxes Mnemon and Cyrus. She supported the latter in his rebellion against his brother Artaxerxes, B. C. 401. She afterwards poisoned Statira, the wife of Artaxerxes, and induced the king to put Tissaphernes to death, whom she hated as having been the first to discover the designs of Cyrus to his brother. Pasiphaë. A daughter of the Sun and of Perseis, who married Minos , king of Crete . She became the mother of the Minotaur, which was killed by Theseus . Patavium (Padua). An ancient town of the Veneti in the north of Italy. It is celebrated as the birthplace of the historian Livy. 2026 Editor's Note: While this text identifies her husband as Darius Ochus, he is more commonly known to history as Darius II , the Achaemenid King of Kings who reigned until approximately 404 BC. She should not be confused with her namesake Parysatis II , the daughter of Artaxerxes III who married Alexander the Great in 324 BC. (Ed: BR 2026-06-18)
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Pas-De-Calais
a department in the N. of France, formed out of Artois and Picardy, and bounded on the W. by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel; area, 255 square miles. The surface is level, with the exception of a low ridge running to the N. W., and ending in Cape Gris-nez. The soil is fertile, mostly under cultivation, and watered by numerous short rivers, the majority of which are navigable and connected by canals. The coast line is 80 miles in length. Fishing is actively carried on, particularly in the neighborhood of Boulogne. Coal, iron, and other minerals are mined and worked. The industrial establishments are iron foundries, beet root sugar factories, glass works, potteries, tanneries, and others. Boulogne and Calais are the principal harbors. The capital is Arras. Pop. (1911) 26,000. In the first week of October, 1914, the Germans attempted to take Arras by storm, but were repulsed by the French. The attack was renewed on Oct. 20, when the town was bombarded. This continued for six days. The Germans attacked on Oct. 24, but the French lines held fast. On Oct. 26 General Maud'huy made a drive against the enemy, who was forced back so far that Arras was soon beyond the range of the howitzers. The Germans' effort was to break the Allied line, which would have enabled them to reach the Channel ports and open up the northern road to Paris.
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Pasadena
a city in Los Angeles co., Cal.; on the Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé and Salt Lake railroads; 9 miles N. E. of Los Angeles. It is a fan is a famous health re resort, built at the foot of the Sierra Madrè Mountains in a region of equable climate and such superb scenery that it has been named the "Italy of America." There being no marsh lands, malarial fevers and like ailments are entirely unknown. The soil of the region is very fertile and almost every kind of fruit belonging to temperate and semi-tropical climes is grown in great profusion. Pasadena contains the kindergartens, a public library, a number of churches, banks, and many hotels. There are large packing industries, canneries, flour mills, and other manufactories. The city city was settled by a colony from Indianapolis in 1874, since which time it has greatly developed in horticultural enterprises. Pop. (1910) 30,291; (1920) 45,334.
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Pascagoula
a navigable river in the S. E. part of Mississippi, and formed by the junction of the Leaf and Chickasawha. It flows 85 miles S. to a small bay of the same name on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Pasewalk
a town of Prussia, 26 miles W. N. W. of Stettin, has varied industries. It was plundered and burned three times by the Imperialists in the Thirty Years' War, by the Poles in 1657, and by the Russians in 1713. Pop. about 12,000.
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