Palmetto State
South Carolina. On its coat of arms is a delineation of one of these trees, for the growth of which the State is famous.
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Single-source entries: P (8)
These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Palmetto State, Palni Hills, Palo Alto.
Palni Hills
a range of southern India, linking the S. extremities of the Eastern and Western Ghats; average height of the higher ridge, 7,000 feet.
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Palo Alto
the name of a plain in southern Texas, 8 miles from Brownsville, where the first battle of the Mexican War was fought, May 8, 1846. Gen. Zachary Taylor was in command of the United States troops of 2,300 men, while the Mexicans, under General Arista, had about 3,500. The battle was fought principally with artillery and the Mexicans were defeated.
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Palolo
an edible annelid, allied to the lug worm, extremely abundant at certain seasons in the sea above and near the coral reefs which surround many of the Polynesian Islands. The body is cylindrical, slightly tapering at both ends, divided into nearly equal joints, each joint with a small tuft of gills on each side. In thickness the palolo resembles a very fine straw; in length it varies from 9 to 18 inches. These annelids made their appearance in great multitudes, apparently rising out of the coral reefs. They are eagerly sought after by the islanders. They often occur in such numbers that they may be grasped by handfuls. After sunrise the creatures break into pieces and the shoals are not seen till the next period; the two stated periods being in October and again in November.
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Palpitation
a sensible abnormal beating of the heart, most frequent in females, and in advanced life, indicating want of power adolescents, particularly and laborious efforts rather than increased excitement and action. It is frequently associated with dyspepsia, and morbid states of the heart.
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Palsy
the loss of the power of motion. It is a symptom of disease, usually of apoplexy. The two causes on which it depends are an affection of a nerve or nerves, or a morbid state of the nervous centers, the brain or spinal cord. Under the former head poisoning of nervous matter or any morbid process impairing the nerves or solution of continuity, or pressure may cause it; under the latter, it is due to a morbid state of the centers of the nervous system. The commonest form is hemiplegia, a paralytic stroke on one side or half, which may be complete, profound, or incomplete. There are six forms: Cerebral, spinal, epileptic, choreic, hysterical, and peripheral, their frequency being in the order named. Palsy is uncommon but serious in the young, and most common in advanced life. There are four modes of termination: (1) Death; (2) complete recovery with wasting muscles; (3) partial recovery with rigid muscles; (4) complete recovery. In hysterical hemiplegia the lower limb, instead of being dragged by
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Paltsits
VICTOR HUGO, an American historian, born in New York in 1867. He was educated in public and private schools in New York and took a scientific course at Cooper Institute. He also studied European and other languages. For many years he was assistant of the New York Public Library. He was appointed State historian in 1907, serving until 1911. In 1914 he was appointed keeper of manuscripts in the New York Public Library and in 1916 became chief of the Division of American History in the same institution. He was a member of many historical societies and was a prolific writer on historical subjects, and edited a large number of historical works and contributed largely to encyclopædias on historical subjects.
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Pamir
pa-mer', an elevated region of central Asia. It is the loftiest known plateau. The Persians called it the Roof of the World. The possessions of Great Britain , China, Russia, and Afghanistan meet in this region. Its boundaries are indefinite. It has a general elevation of 13,000 feet. It contains several small lakes and carries mountain peaks rising to a height of over 25,000 feet. The great portion is barren. The native Kirghiz pasture their flocks in its fields. It is traversed by two caravan routes from east to west.
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Pamirs
THE a rotary movement, is usually dragged straight forward.
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Pamlico
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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Pamlico Sound
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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Pampean Formation
a formation deposited and upheaved since the present Atlantic mollusca have been brought into existence.
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Pampeluna
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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Pamphylia
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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