Page (Royal or noble personage)
of a royal or noble personage, rather for formality or show than for servitude. The name "pages" appears to have been confined to slaves and attendants of an inferior class, in modern Europe, till the reigns of Charles VI. and Charles VII. of France. As chivalric institutions prevailed, the office, by whatever name it may be called, became of importance. Courts and castles were the schools in which the young noble passed through the degree of page, in order to reach the higher grades of esquire and knight, when he became hors de page. Pages are still, or were until recently, in the household of the Queen of Great Britain, with the title of "Pages of the Presence" etc. The word is also applied to messenger boys in National, State, and municipal legislative bodies.
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Page, David
David (1810-1848), a New England educator. Born at Epping, New Hampshire . He was educated on a farm and at the district school, supplemented by two years at Hampton Academy. Mr. Page taught district schools and was an instructor in an academy. He attracted attention at teachers' meetings and formed an attachment for Horace Mann. In 1844 Mr. Page was appointed principal of the Albany State Normal School . This was the first school for teachers as far west as the Hudson Valley. Mr. Page was much harassed by the unwise, not to say ignorant, opposition of New York politicians. His contribution to education is The Theory and Practice of Teaching, one of the earliest and still one of the best works of the kind that has appeared in this country.
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Page, Thomas Nelson
Thomas Nelson (1853-), an American author. He was a native of Virginia and received his education at Washington and Lee University and at the University of Virginia. He studied law and practiced for a time, but, after his first volume of poems was published in 1883, he devoted himself to literature. These poems were in the negro dialect and the volume was entitled Befo' de War. Page's short stories are graceful, pathetic, and humorous. Among them Marse Chan and Meh Lady are best known. They are collected in a volume entitled In Ole Virginia. Elsket and Red Rock are longer stories that have won a deserved popularity. 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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Pago Pago
a harbor in the island of Tutuila, Samoa. It is a long L-shaped expanse of water, extending mostly in mostly in an E. and W. direction, and surrounded by tall, almost precipitous cliffs, that run up into peaks from 2,000 to 3,000 feet high. The harbor was ceded to the United States for a naval and coaling station, first in 1872, and afterward confirmed by a treaty signed in Washington, Jan. 17, 1878, and ratifications exchanged on Feb. 13 of the same year, by which the United States was given the right to establish at that harbor a station for coaling, naval supplies, freedom of trade, commercial treatment, etc. This harbor was occupied by the United historic sang States in 1898. Tutuila, the island on whose coast this harbor is located, has a population of about 6,000, area 77 square miles, while Upolu has an area of 340 square miles, and Savaii 659 square miles. The Ge German and British governments withdrew their claims to this island in favor of the United States.
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Pagoda
the temple of an idol in India. They belong both to antiquity and modern times. Some are wonderfully large and magnificent. They consist of one or more quadrangular courts with towers at the corners, surrounded by a wall. Large pyramids nids rising in stages cover the entrance, behind which extend colonnades. Inside the courts are lustral pools, colonnades, and large halls, called Tschultris, which are used to lodge pilwith grims cupolas in. Small surmounting side temples the accessory appear the N. of Bombay, with an area of buildings. Behind the first often finally, a the second chief and a third, in which, temple stands. The 235,000. most celebrated is that of Juggernaut, in the island of Ramisseram, completed toward the end of the 12th century. Also a coin of gold or silver, current in Hindustan, and varying in value in different localities from $2 to $2.25. Its value, when made of gold, by weight is equivalent to about $1.80 of American standard gold coinage.
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Paguma
a group of mammals, genus Paradoxurus, family Viverridæ (civets and genets), inhabiting Asia. The peculiar masked paguma (P. eastern larvatus) has a white streak down the forehead and nose, and a white circle round the eyes, which give it the appearance of wearing an artificial mask.
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Pahang
a state on the E. coast of the Malay Peninsula; area, 14,000 square miles, pop; about 85,000. By the treaty concluded between Great Britain and the Sultan of Pahang in 1888 the control of the foreign relations of that state was conveyed red to the government of the Straits Settlements; and Pahang is now practically a dependency of that colony. In 1895 it was united with the Malay Federation. Capital, Kuala Lipis.
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Pahlanpur
or PALANPUR, a town of India, capital of a native state of the same name; 83 miles N. of Ahmadabad in Bombay presidency. Pop. about 20,000. The Pahlanpur agency comprises in Pahlanpur and 12 other states 8,000 square miles, and pop. about
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Paigoels, The
The devils of Hindustan. Some of the Hindus believe that the Paigoels were originally created devils ; others that they were put out of heaven because of their great sin, and of all worlds that the earth is the only one with which they are allowed intercourse. Some of these devils have individual names, and are the tempters of men to special sins, -others again enter into the bodies of men and take possession of them. The Hindus also believe that the souls of wicked men go to join the number of the paigoels.
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