Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a tribe of Indians living on the Pamlico river, in Beaufort co., N. C. They were greatly reduced in numbers by the smallpox in 1696, and by the Tuscarora War of 1711. Those left were absorbed in the Tuscarora tribe.
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a shallow lagoon of the United States, on the S. E. coast of North Carolina. It is 80 miles long, from 8 to 30 miles wide, and separated from the ocean by long, narrow, sandy islands.
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a formation deposited and upheaved since the present Atlantic mollusca have been brought into existence.
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or PAMPLONA, a fortified city of Spain; on a tributary of the Ebro; 111 miles N. W. of Saragossa. It has a citadel (a copy of that of Antwerp), a Gothic cathedral (1397), a viceregal palace, a fine aqueduct, a natural history collection, a college of surgery, and a bull ring, manufactures of pottery, leather, cloth, hardware, etc., and a trade in wine. It was called by the ancients Pompeiopolis, because built by Pompey in 68 b. c. It was taken by the Goths in 466, by the Franks in 542, and by Charlemagne in 778. From 907 it was the capital of Navarre. It was during the siege by the French in 1521 that Loyola received his wound. The town was seized by the French in 1808, and held by them till 1813, when it was captured by Wellington. It again capitulated to the French in 1823. In the Carlist wars it was held by Queen Christina's adherents from 1836 to 1840, and in 1873-1876 it was vainly attacked several times by the Carlists. Pop. (1917) 30,779.
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anciently a country on the S. coast of Asia Minor, with Cilicia Their trade through the pamirs is quite on the E. and Lycia on the W. It was originally bounded on the inland or N. side by Mount Taurus, but afterward enlarged, so as to reach the confines of Phrygia. Pamphylia is mountainous, was formerly well wooded, and had numerous maritime cities. The inhabitants were a mixed race of aborigines, Cilicians, and Greek colonists.
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a small river in Virginia formed by the union of the North and South Anna. It unites with the Mattapony at West Point to form the York river. In conjunction with the South Anna it is over 100 miles in length. PAN
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an assemblage of delegates from all the governments of South and Central America, convened at Washington in 1889-1890, at the instance of James G. Blaine, then Secretary of State. The conference had 100 PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS for its immediate object the furtherance of international comity and commerce among the races of the American continent. The sittings were protracted for nearly six months, the delegates meantime visiting every city of importance in the United States. The conference possessed no legislative or executive functions, its duties being purely advisory. The definite recommendations included a coinage of uniform weight and fineness, a common method of legalization of documents, the metrical decimal system, and a uniform system of weights and measures, regulation of the fees of consular agents, and certain conveniences of method in customs administration. Other important propositions were unanimously adopted, such as a great N. and S. trunk railway; government subsidies for steamship lines connecting the American countries represented; uniform protection for literary and art property, trade marks, and patents; uniform quarantine regulations; a uniform extradition treaty; and a great international bank. The second conference, in response to an invitation issued during the previous year by the Mexican Government, met in the City of Mexico, Oct. 22, 1901. A third conference was held at Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and a fourth at Buenos Aires in 1910. There were delegates from 19 states.
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the official international organization of the 21 independent governments of the western hemisphere. It was originally organized as the Bureau of the American Republic, and was founded at the first Pan-American Conference held in Washington in 1889-1890, and was continued through the second, third and fourth conferences. The name was changed to the Pan- American Union at the latter conference held in Buenos Aires in 1910. The organization is supported by the governments and is controlled by a governing board, composed of the Secretary of State of the United States, and the diplomatic representatives of the other American governments in Washington. The Union has a handsome building in Washington. It publishes the Pan- American "Bulletin" and a number of other reports and papers. The chief of this organization was John Bassett, who acted as its president until 1920, when he was succeeded by Dr. Leo S. Rowe. The Union has charge of the Pan-American conferences which are held periodically and are attended by representatives from the American countries. See PAN- AMERICAN CONFERENCE.
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A native of Rhodes, and a celebrated Stoic philosopher, lived some years at Rome, where he became an intimate friend of Laelius and of Scipio Africanus the younger. He succeeded Antipater as head of the Stoic school, and died at Athens . The principal work of Panaetius was his treatise on the theory of moral obligation, from which Cicero took the greater part of his work De Officiis.
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very fine plaited hats made from the fan-shaped leaves of Carludovica palmata, a dwarf palm tree which grows in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, and is called Jipijapa in Central America. PANAMA, ISTHMUS OF, formerly called the Isthmus of Darien, has a breadth of from 30 to 70 miles, connects North with South America, and separates the Pacific from the Atlantic. The coast is low and swampy along the Caribbean Sea, but less unwholesome along the Pacific.
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Exhibition held in San Francisco in 1915, contemporaneously with the fair at San Diego, and with a like object, namely the celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal. A total of $20,500,000 was raised for the purpose, but the initial cost was estimated to have exceeded twice that figure. The buildings included twelve great reat palaces, and around these were the pavilions of the various States of the Union and of foreign nations, with race track, thoroughfares, drill and pleasure grounds alternating. The preliminary work took nearly four years and the area covered 635 acres. The Court of the Universe, with sunken gardens, formed the core of the exposition, having decorative features representative of the different nations of the world. The Arch of the Rising Sun, the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Four Seasons, the Tower of Jewels, the Palace of Fine Arts, the palaces of mines, metallurgy, machinery, transportation, horticulture, education, and manufactures, formed wonderful ensemble. The a pieces of statuary ran into thousands. Over eighty different States and nations participated and sent exhibits.
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