Petrograd
the name given St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire, following the outbreak of the World War in 1914. The estimated popиlation in 1920 was 600,000.
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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 Petrograd, Petrography, Petroleuse.
Petrography
the art of writing on stone. Also the study of rocks; a scientific description of or treatise on rocks; that branch of geology which deals with the constitution of rocks; petrology. PETROLATUM. Vaseline, petroleum pale yellow to amber colored jelly. A , oily, translucent, semi-solid substance, obtained by purifying the residue from the distillation of petroleum. Soluble in all common oil solvents, slightly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in water. Used in medicine, in the manufacture of shoe and metal polishes, and as a lubricant. Liquid Petrolatum is a colorless, oily liquid, obtained from petrolatum, and consists of the fraction distilling between 330° and 390° C. It is chiefly used in medicine as an emollient.
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Petroleuse
a name given to the women of the French Commune in 1871, accused of helping to burn the Tuileries, city hall, and other public buildings by pouring petroleum on them. The charge has been denied by some historians.
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Petrology
the study of the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks; including the various changes they have undergone through physical and chemical agencies, either combined or separate. Macroscopic and microscopic examination, together with chemical analysis, are the methods pursued.
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Petronius Arbiter
A favorite of Emperor Nero, and one of the ministers and associates of his pleasures and vices. He was made proconsul of Bithynia , and afterward was honored with the consulship. Eventually having gained the disfavor of Nero, he resolved to destroy himself, which he did by having his veins opened, A. D. 66. Petronius distinguished himself by his writings as well as by his voluptuousness. He is the author of many elegant compositions, which are, however, often characterized by impropriety of language.
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Petropavlovsk
a town of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Akmolinsk, on the river Ishim, 175 miles W. N. W. of Omsk. It is an important military station, with a fort founded in 1752, and has a large transit trade. Pop. (1913) 42,340.
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Petropavlovski
a fortified town on the E. coast of Kamchatka, was at tacked by an English and French squadron, Aug. 30, 1854. They destroyed the batteries, but failed in taking some Russian frigates, except the "Sitka," a store ship and the "Pique." Admiral Price was killed. A party of 700 sailors and marines landed to assault the place, but fell into an ambuscade; many were killed, including Captain Parker and M. Bourasset, English and French officers. The objects of the attack were not attained. After this the Russians greatly strengthened their defenses, but on May 30, 1855, the allied squadron in the Pacific arriving here found the place deserted. The fortifications were destroyed, but the town was spared. The Russian ships escaped.
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Petrovitch
a Russian statesman and author. He was born in 1827 at Moscow, and became professor of civil law in the university of his native city, and tutor to the czar's family. In 1880 he became procurator of the Holy Synod, and established elementary schools. In politics he favored absolutism, and wrote numerous works, mostly legal, to that end. He died in 1907.
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Petrozavodsk
a town of Russia, on the W. shore of Lake Onega, 300 miles N. E. of St. Petersburg, has a cannon foundry and small-arms factory, built in 1774.
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Pewee
. See Phoebe ; Wood Pewee
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Pewterer's Solders
These are of three kinds: the hard and soft pale, and the middling. Hard pale is made from 2 tin and 1 lead; for the soft pale an addition of 1 bismuth is made; and for the middling pale an equal mixture of both. See SOLDERING; SOLDERS.
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Pewterer's Temper
Tin 2 and copper 1, fused together, make the alloy above named. This temper, mixed in certain proportions with pig tin, produces the pewter named "tin-and-temper." See PEWTER; TIN.
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Pezet
FEDERICO ALFONSO, a Peruvian diplomat. He was born in London, England, in 1859, and there partly educated, later going to Peru, and serving in the war with Chile. In 1886 he became consul at Panama, and later in England and New York. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Panama in 1909, and from that year to 1912 special envoy to Central America and Panama. In 1912 he became minister to the United States. His books include: "Peru: Its Commerce and Resources"; "The Question of the Pacific"; "What the Panama Canal Means to Peru." PFÄFERS, hot springs in the canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, in the deep and gloomy gorge of the Tamina torrent, which joins the Rhine at Ragatz, 24/2 miles to the N. They were discovered toward the middle of the 11th century, and have been used ever since. The water is conducted in pipes to Ragatz, though there are bath houses (1704) in the ravine. Near the village of Pfäfers, which stands above and outside the ravine, is a Benedictine abbey, founded in the 8th century, but converted into a lunatic asylum after its dissolution in 1838.
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Pfennig
or PFENNING, a small copper coin of various values, current in Germany and the neighboring states. The pfennig of the German empire is the hundredth part of the mark..
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Pfleiderer
OTto, a theologian; born in Stetten, Württemberg, Sept. 1, 1839; studied under Baur, at Tübingen, from 1857 till 1861; became pastor at Heilbronn in 1868, and superintendent at Jena in 1870, exchanged for the chair of Theology there. ry there. In 1875 he was called to be Professor of Systematic Theology at Berlin. In New Testament criticism Pfleiderer belonged to the younger critical school. He made his name as well known in England and America as in Germany by a series of works which no serious student of philosophy or theology can afford to overlook. Of these the chief are "Religion, its Essence and History" (1869); "Paulinism" (1873 English translation 1877); "Philosophy of Religion" (1878); "Outlines of Christian Faith and Ethics" (1880); "The Development of Theology since Kant" (1880); "The Philosophy and Development of Religion" (1904). He died July 18, 1908. His brother, EDMUND PFLEIDERER, born in Stetten Oct. 12, 1842, studied at Tübingen; was made Professor of Philosophy at Kiel in 1873, whence he was called to Tübingen in 1878. His writings include "Studies on Leibnitz" (1870); "On Empiricism and Scepticism in Hume's Philosophy" (1874); "Modern Pessimism" (1875); "Kantian Criticism and English Philosophy" (1881); "Lotze" (2d ed. 1884); "Heraclitus of Ephesus" (1886), etc. He died April 2, 1902.
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