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Palaeospheniscus biloculatus Paleospheniscus biloculatus was named after 2 characteristic humeri (AMNH 3341 and 3346) (Simpson 1946) from the Early Miocene Patagonian Molasse Formation which were found near Gaiman in Chubut Province, Argentina. It was the size of a small Gentoo Penguin.
Palaeospheniscus wimani The extinct penguin Palaeospheniscus wimani is a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus which belonged to the prehistoric subfamily Palaeospheniscinae. It was the largest member of its genus, being just as large as the Magellanic Penguin of today (to which it is quite unrelated).
Palafitte A palafitte is traditionally a small, single-storeyed house, that sits on stilts embedded into the ground. Most of the time these houses sit above water with the stilts set into the sediment below the water, however, they are sometimes just raised houses on land.
Palai Palai (also known as Pala (Malayalam : പാലാ), is a city and a municipality in Kottayam district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is situated on the banks of the Meenachil River and is the headquarters of the Meenachil Taluk and the Palai Revenue Division.
Palaia Fokaia Palaia Fokaia (Greek: Πάλαια Φώκαια meaning Old Phocaea), also Palea Fokea is a community and a suburban town in southeastern Attica. Palaia Fokaia is located approximately 40 km SE of Athens, S of the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport and the Attiki Odos (numbers 6 and 62), NW of Cape Sounio and south of the Hymettus Ring.
Palaic language Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa. Its name in Hittite is palaumnili, or "of the people of Pala"; Pala was probably to the northwest of the Hittite core area, so in the northwest of present mainland Turkey.
Palaio Faliro Palaio Faliro or Paleo Faliro (Greek, Modern: Παλαιό Φάληρο, Ancient/Katharevousa: Παλαιόν Φάληρον, meaning Old Faliro), older forms Palaion Faliron or Paleon Faliron is a suburb in the southern part of Athens, Greece. The area is famous for its beaches and is Athens' nearest beach and Piraeus' only beach.
Palaiochora Palaiochora (Greek Παλαιόχωρα or Παλιόχωρα) is a small town in Chania prefecture. Paleochora is located 77 km south of Chania, at the southwest coastline of Crete and it’s built on a small peninsula of 400m width and 700m length.
Palaiochoraki Palaiochoraki, Paleochoraki or Paleohoraki (Greek: Παλαιοχωράκι meaning "little old town"), older forms: Palaiochorakion and Paleohorakion may refer to several villages that begin with this name in Greece:
Palaiochori Palaiochori, Paleochori or Paleohori (Greek, Modern: Παλαιοχώρι meaning "old town"), older forms: Palaiochorio, Palaiochorion may refer to numerous settlements, villages, towns that begin with this name in Greece:
Palaiochori (Ilia), Greece Palaiochori, Palaiohori, Paleochori or Paleohori (Greek, Modern: Παλαιοχώρι, Ancient/Katharevoussa: -on meaning "old town"), older forms: Palaiochorio, Palaiochorion, Paleochorio, Paleochorion, Paleochorio, Paleochorion, Paleohorio and Paleohorion is a village in the municipality of Gastouni and the Elis Prefecture in Greece. Palaiochori is located about 2 km south of Gastouni, about 72 km SW of Patras, SE of Kyllini, 2 km W of Saravali and about 30 km NW of Pyrgos.
Palaiokastritsa Palaiokastritsa (Greek: Παλαιοκαστρίτσα meaning Old Castle place, referring to nearby Angelokastro) is a municipality in the Corfu Prefecture, Greece. Population 4,395 (2001) and is located on the west coast of Corfu just south of Angelokastro.
Palais Augarten The Palais Augarten is a baroque palace in the Viennese district of Leopoldstadt. Despite extensive damage from the Second World War, the palace has been maintained almost in its original appearance, and many of the original furnishings can still be found there.
Palais Bourbon The Palais Bourbon, a palace located on the left bank of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde, Paris (which is on the right bank), is the seat of the French National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French government.
Palais d'Industrie The Palais d'Industrie (Palace of Industry) was an exhibition hall erected for the Paris World Fair in 1855. It was mainly designed by Jean-Marie-Victor Viel and Alexandre Barrault, and finally destroyed in 1897 to make way for the Grand Palais of the World Fair in 1900.
Palais de la Légion d'Honneur The Palais de la Légion d'Honneur (French for "Palace of the Legion of Honor") is the building on the west bank of the River Seine in Paris that houses the Musée national de la Legion d'Honneur ("National Museum of the Legion of Honour") and is the seat of the Légion d'honneur, the highest order of chivalry of France. The building is also known the Hôtel de Salm.
Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo is a contemporary art museum in Paris, France. The museum is situated in the eponymous building, the "Palais de Tokyo" (), built in 1937, located in the 16th district and also hosting the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris.
Palais des Nations The Palais des Nations (Palace of Nations in English) in Geneva, Switzerland, was built between 1929 and 1938 as the headquarters of the League of Nations. Since the 1950's it has served as the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, despite the fact that the host country did not become a member of the organisation itself until 2002.
Palais Garnier The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris as well as the Opéra Garnier, is a 2,200 seat opera house at the northern end of the Avenue de l'Opéra in the IXe arrondissement of Paris. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style, it is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time.
Palais Lanckoroński The Palais Lanckoroński was a palace in Vienna1. It was constructed in 1894-95 for Count Karol Lanckoroński (in German: Karl Graf Lanckoronski) and his family, as a personal residence, and it housed the count's enormous art collection.
Palais Rothschild Palais Rothschild is the name of several palaces in Vienna, built and owned by the Jewish Austrian noble family of Rothschild. Apart from their sheer size and elegance, they housed the large Rothschild Collection of art and reflected the wealth of the family.
Palais Royal The Palais-Royal is a palace and garden north of the Louvre in the Ier arrondissement of Paris. Opposite the north wing of the Louvre, its famous forecourt (cour d'honneur) screened with columns (since 1986 containing Daniel Buren's site-specific artpiece) faces the Place du Palais-Royal, which was much enlarged by Baron Haussmann after the Rue de Rivoli was built for Napoleon.
Palais Royal (store) Palais Royal is a middle class small scale department store chain located within Texas and Louisiana, that carries largely women's wear. The company was founded in 1921 by Isadore Erlich in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Palais Stoclet The Palais Stoclet is a mansion built in Brussels, Belgium between 1905 and 1911 for client Adolphe Stoclet in the Avenue de Tervuren. It was designed by architect Josef Hoffmann and is considered by many to be his masterpiece.
Palais Strousberg The Palais Strousberg was a large city mansion built in Berlin, Germany for the railway magnate Bethel Henry Strousberg.Strousberg is frequently referred to as "The Railway King" (Der Eisenbahnkönig).
Palais Wilson The current headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and situated in Geneva, Switzerland. It was also the headquarters of the League of Nations until that body moved its premises to the Palais des Nations, which was constructed between 1929 and 1938, also in Geneva.
Palak paneer Palak Paneer (Hindi: पालक पनीर, Urdu: پلک پنیر) is an Indian dish, made with spinach, paneer (an acid-set, unaged cheese), and a mixture of spices. It is one of the most popular dishes in Indian restaurants worldwide, and it is commonly served in buffets.
Palaka language Palaka (or 'Kpalaga') is a central Senufo language spoken by approximately 8 000 people (1995 SIL) in northern CĂ´te d'Ivoire. It is bordered to the south by Djimini, a southern Senufo language, and to the west by Nyarafolo, another Senufo language.
Palakkad Fort Palakkad Fort (Tipu's Fort) is an old granite fort situated in the heart of Palakkad town of Kerala state, southern India. It was built by Haider Ali in 1766 and remains one of the best preserved forts in Kerala.
Palakkad iyers Palakkad Iyers are Brahmin Tamilians who are believed to have migrated from the State of Tamil Nadu centuries ago. They are known as Palakkd Iyers because many of them settled down in the Palakkad district of Kerala.
Palakol Palakol (also called as Palakollu or palacole) is a coastal town in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It's an important trading town in West Godavari district and is in proximity with other trading towns such as Bhimavaram, Eluru, and Tanuku.
Palamadai S. Lokanathan Palamadai S Lokanathan was the First Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), which later became the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Palamaner Palamaner is one of the prominent towns of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh located on the NH4 Highway which connects Bangalore and Chennai. Being on the border of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka you encounter a mixture of languages and cultures.
Palamedes (Arthurian legend) Palamedes, (also called Palamede, Palomides or some other variant) was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He was a Saracen pagan who converted to Christianity later in his life, and his unrequited love for Iseult brought him into frequent conflict with Tristan.
Palamedes (video game) Palamedes is a simplistic Tetris-like game for the NES and Game Boy game systems requiring the player to match the dice they are holding to the dice on top of the screen. Using the "B" button, the player can change the number on his dice, then throw the dice using the "A" button when it matches the dice at the top of the screen, which wipes the target dice off the screen.
Palamon and Arcite Part of "Fables, Ancient and Modern", a modernized translation of one story from "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale" written by John Dryden. The plot line is identical as Dryden was only translating from the Middle English of Chaucer's original text.
Palampore A palampore is a type of hand-painted and mordant-dyed bed hanging that was made in India for the export market during the eighteenth century and very early nineteenth century. Only the wealthiest classes could afford to buy palampore; therefore, few examples have survived and are often quite valuable today.
Palanca Awards The Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines' most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the "Pulitzer Prize" of the Philippines. Most, if not all, important or major Philippine authors have one or more Palancas in their belts.
Palanivel Palanivel Govindasamy (Tamil: பழனிவேல் கோவிந்தசாமி) (born 1949), commonly known as Datuk G. Palanivel, is currently the Deputy Minister of Women and Family Development in Malaysia.
Palanpur Agency Palanpur Agency A former collection of native states in what is now northern Gujarat, India. Established in 1819, the Agency was under the political control of the Bombay Presidency until 10 October 1924, from which date it was merged into the Western India States Agency and placed under the political control of the Government of India.
Palapa Palapa was a series of communication satellites owned by Telkom, an Indonesian telecommunication company. Its well-known satellite is Palapa B2, which was launched from the Space Shuttle, but failed to reach orbit and was salvaged with a second Shuttle mission.
Palapa Azul Palapa Azul is a frozen-desserts company based in Los Angeles, California. The company, founded in 2002 by Mexico City natives Roni Goldberg and Michel Algazi, produces Mexican-style ice cream, sorbet, and frozen fruit bars that are sold in retail stores throughout the United States.
Palappuram Palappuram (Written as പാലപ്പുറം in Malayalam) is a small, peaceful quiet town, located 4 km from Ottapalam, between Palghat and the Shoranur Highway in Kerala, South India. Noted for the famous Chinakkathur Temple festival (known as Chinakkathur pooram) held every year during March/April.
Palapye Palapye is a large town in Botswana, situated about halfway between Francistown and Gaborone. Over the years its position has made it a convenient stopover on one of southern Africa's principal north–south rail and road routes.
Palar River The Palar is a river of southern India. It rises in Kolar district of Karnataka state, and flows 295 km (183 miles) southeast through Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, emptying into the Bay of Bengal south of Chennai near Sadras.
Palashi Pâlāshi (Bangla: পলাশী, English: Plassey) is a small hamlet on the Bhagirathi river, located approximately 25 kilometres south of the city of Murshidabad in the Murshidabad District of West Bengal, India. The nearest major town is Cassim Bazar (called Cassembuzer by the English, who also lend this name to the river flowing nearby).
Palasport Olimpico and Stadio Comunale area in Turin The facilities for the 2006 Winter Olympics are located in various places in and around the city of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. The recently completed Torino Palasport Olimpico, which is hosting the ice hockey competitions, is located in the Santa Rita community in southern Turin, which is very close to the Olympic District.
Palast der Republik The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) was a building in Berlin, on the bank of the River Spree between Schlossplatz and the Lustgarten (both referred to jointly as Marx-Engels-Platz from 1951 to 1994). It served primarily as the seat of the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, but it also housed two large auditoriums, art galleries, restaurants and a bowling alley.
Palatal consonant Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). Consonants with the tip of the tongue curled back against the palate are called retroflex.
Palatal ejective The palatal ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c_>.
Palatal hook The palatal hook () is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent palatalized consonants. It is a small, leftwards-facing hook joined to the bottom-right side of a letter, and is distinguished from various other hooks indicating retroflexion, etc.
Palatal lateral approximant The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , which is a turned letter "y", and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.
Palatal lift A palatal lift is an oral prosthesis which elevates the soft palate superiorly and aids in restoration of soft palate functions which may be lost due to an acquired, congenital or developmental defect. [http://www.
Palathulli (water conservation campaign) The Pala Thulli (Many a Drop) program is a water conservation campaign run by the Malayala Manorama newspaper in Kerala, India, for raising awareness on the importance of water conservation and rainwater harvesting.
Palatinate A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of the sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown's overlordship. This article discusses the historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire known as the Palatinate of the Rhine or Electoral Palatinate ().
Palatinate (colour) Palatinate is a colour associated with the County of Durham in the United Kingdom. It comes in two versions, a Palatinate blue associated with the county and a Palatinate purple associated with the university.
Palatinate (newspaper) Palatinate is the Durham University student newspaper. Its name derives from the colour Palatinate, a shade of purple associated with the university and derived from County Durham's political history as a County Palatine.
Palatinate German P(f)älzisch (Palatinate German) is a West Franconian dialect of German which is spoken in the Rhine Valley between the cities of Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, and Mannheim. Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch is descended primarily from the Palatine German dialects spoken by Germans who immigrated to North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and who chose to maintain their native language.
Palatine (Kingdom of Hungary) The palatine (Latin: comes palatii, comes palatinus, later: palatinus (regni), Hungarian: nádorispán/ nádor, Slovak: nádvorný župan/ nádvorný špán, later: palatín / nádvorník, German: Palatin) was the highest dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary after the king (a kind of powerful prime minister and supreme judge) from the kingdom's rise up to 1848/1918.
Palatine Hill The Palatine Hill (Latin: Palatium) is the centermost of the seven hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city of Rome in Italy. It is some 70 metres high and looks down on one side upon the Forum Romanum and on the other side upon the Circus Maximus.
Palatine Chapel in Aachen The Palatine Chapel in Aachen is the chapel of Charlemagne's winter palace, now part of Aachen Cathedral. It is Aachen's major landmark, the central monument of the Carolingian Renaissance, and the reason the French call the city Aix-la-Chapelle.
Palats Sportu (Kiev Metro) Palats Sportu (, ) is a station on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line of the Kiev Metro. Opened on December 31, 1989 as part of the first stage of the line, it formed third and (so far) last transfer point of the system.
Palatschinken The Central European pancake, called Palatschinken in German, plăcintă in Romanian, Palacsinta in Hungarian is thin and comparable to the French crêpe. Unlike thick American pancakes, it is filled with different types of food and can be eaten for lunch or dinner.
Palatua Palatua was a Roman Goddess who was provided a Flamen, the Flamen Palatualis, and was charged with guarding the Palatine Hill. Aside from this little else is known about her, and it is a safe assumption that her cult, like those of Falacer or Volturnus, had diminished during the late republican period, and that by the beginning of the Empire there were few, if any, followers aside from the Flamen.
Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship (administered by the United States) in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest nations.
Palau Blaugrana Palau Blaugrana (Catalan for Palace of Blue and Deep Red) is an arena in Barcelona, Spain belonging to FC Barcelona (FCB). The 8,250 capacity arena is home to the basketball, handball, roller hockey, and futsal sections of FCB.
Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya The Palau de la Generalitat houses the offices of the Presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It is one of the few buildings of mediaeval origin in Europe that still functions as a seat of government and houses the institution that originally built it.
Palau de la Música Catalana The Palau de la Música Catalana ("Palace of Catalan Music") in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a concert hall built between 1905 and 1908, designed by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. It was inaugurated in 1908, and its style is known as modernisme, the local term to design the Art Nouveau, whose most noteworthy practitioner was Antoni Gaudí.
Palau National Congress Palau has bicameral legislature, the Palau National Congress (Olbiil era Kelulau), consisting of the House of Delegates and the Senate of Palau. The House of Delegates has 16 members, each serving four-year terms in single-seat constituencies.
Palau Trans Pacific Palau Trans Pacific (Palau Trans Pacific Airlines) was an airline based in Koror, Palau. It was a regional airline linking Palau with key cities in East Asia, including Taipei, using wet-leased aircraft Flight International 12-18 April 2005.
Palauan language Palauan (also spelled Belauan) is the language spoken on Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia (the other being Chamorro) belonging to the Western Malayo-Polynesian group, all others considered to be members of either the Micronesian or Polynesian outlier subgroups of Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.
Palawan Broadcasting Corporation Palawan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), also known by its call sign DYPR, was the first local radio station to serve the island of Palawan, the Philippines. It was established in 1965, in the capital Puerto Princesa City, by Ramon Oliveros (Ray Oliver) Decolongon.
Palawan Peacock-pheasant The Palawan Peacock-pheasant, Polyplectron napoleonis also known as Napoleon Peacock-pheasant is a medium-sized, up to 50cm long, bird in the family Phasianidae. It was long known as Polyplectron emphanum (Dickinson 2001).
Palazzina di caccia di Stupinigi The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early eighteenth century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the town of Nichelino, 10 km southwest of Turin.
Palazzo Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent "palace". In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what the English call a "block of flats".
Palazzo Ajutamicristo Palazzo Ajutamicristo in Palermo was constructed by Guglielmo Ajutamicristo, Baron of Misilmeri and Calatafimi between 1495 and 1501. Originally a merchant Ajutamicristo made his fortune trading in Sicilian cheese and cereals.
Palazzo Buonaccorsi The Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata was built 1700-1720 for Count Raimondo Buonaccorsi and his son Cardinal Simone Buonaccorsi using designs by Giovanni Battista Contini. The piano nobile is known for the Sala dell'Eneide, (Hall of the Aenid) decorated with frescoes by the Bolognese Carlo Antonio Rambaldi, Antonio Dardani (Apotheosis of Aeneas in vault), the Napoletan Francesco Solimena (Dido welcomes Aeneas) and canvases by Luigi Garzi (Venus in the Forge of Vulcan).
Palazzo Colonna The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over ruins of an old Roman Serapeum, and has belonged to the prestigious Colonna family for over twenty generations.
Palazzo Corvaia Palazzo Corvaia (sometimes spelt Palazzo Corvaja) in Taormina, Sicily was principally built at the end of the 14th century. On four main floors and constructed around a courtyard the Moorish Gothic palazzo is crenellated.
Palazzo della Cancelleria The Palazzo della Cancelleria (Italian for "Palace of the Chancellery", meaning the Papal Chancellery) is a palace in Rome, situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori, in the rione of Parione.
Palazzo Doria d'Angri The Palazzo Doria d’Angri is an historic building and monument in Naples in southern Italy. It was begun by Luigi Vanvitelli on commission of Marcantonio Doria and was finished by the architect's son Carlo Vanvitelli in the late 18th century.
Palazzo Ducale di Mantova The Palazzo Ducale di Mantova ("Ducal Palace") is a set edifices in the Italian city of Mantua (Lombardy), built between the 14th and the 17th century mainly by the noble family of Gonzaga as their royal residence in the capital of their Duchy. The edifices are connected by corridors and galleries, enriched by inner courts and wide gardens.
Palazzo Foscari The Palazzo Foscari (known in Venice as Ca' Foscari) is a palace in Venice, Italy. It was built on the waterfront of the city's Grand Canal circa 1452 by the Doge Francesco Foscari, who required its design to demonstrate his wealth and power.
Palazzo Grassi Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is an imposing white marble palace on the Grand Canal of Venice. Designed by Giorgio Massari, the building was completed between 1748-1772 for the wealthy Bolognese Grassi family.
Palazzo Chiericati Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza (northern Italy), designed by Andrea Palladio. Since 1855 it has been the Museo Civico ("Town Museum") and, more recently, the City's art Gallery.
Palazzo Madama in Turin The Palazzo Madama (also called the "Palazzo Madama and Castle of the Acaja", is a palace in the Via Garibaldi, facing the Piazza Castello of central Turin. The imposing baroque facade designed in 1718 by the architect, Filippo Juvarra, mainly encloses a grandiose staircase, while behind stands a medieval (XIVth century) castle-like square block with four cylindrical end towers.
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne The Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne is an architecturally influential urban Renaissance palace in Rome. The palace was designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi in 1532-1536 on a site of three contiguous palaces owned by the old Roman Massimo family; built after arson of an earlier structure during the Sack of Rome (1527).
Palazzo Mattei The Palazzo Mattei di Giove is the most prominent among a group of Mattei houses that forms the insula Mattei in Rome, Italy, a block of buildings of many epochs. To distinguish this section from the others it carries the name of a Mattei fief, Giove.
Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the Casino. The famed patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V, wanted housing beside the massive Papal residence at Palazzo Quirinale.
Palazzo Pubblico The Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in the city of Siena, located in the Tuscany region of Italy. Construction began in 1297 and its original purpose was to house the republican government, consisting of the Podesta and Council of Nine.
Palazzo Rucellai Palazzo Rucellai is a Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy, designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451. Its splendid facade was one of the first announcing the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on pilasters, entablatures in proportional relationship to each other.
Palazzo Schifanoia Palazzo Schifanoia is a Renaissance palace in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna (Italy) built for the Este family. The name "Schifanoia" is thought to originate from "schivar la noia" meaning literally to "escape from boredom" which describes accurately the original intention of the palazzo and the other villas in close proximity where the Este court relaxed.
Palazzo Spada The Palazzo Spada is a palace in Rome that houses a grand art collection, the Galleria Spada. The collection was originally assembled by Cardinal Bernardino Spada in the 17th century and added to by his grand-nephew Cardinal Fabrizio Spada (1643-1717), and by Virginio Spada (1596-1662).
Palazzo Zacco Palazzo Zacco is a mansion in Ragusa, Sicily. It is most notable for the carvings in the Sicilian Baroque style which decorate its facades, especially the putti and masks which appear to support the palazzo's balconies on two of its symmetrical elevations.
Palácio da Alvorada The Palácio da Alvorada (Portuguese: Palace of the Dawn) is the official residence of the President of Brazil. The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958.
Palácio do Povo The Palácio do Povo (People's Palace), formerly the Palácio do Governador (Governor's Palace) is a building that is located near a small mountain in east Mindelo in Cape Verde. Its area is by 50 by 100 m and it is imaged on Mindelo Infos.
Palácio Presidencial The Palácio Presidencial (Portuguese meaning the Presidential Palace, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Palásiu Prizidensial or -Prezidensial, São Vicente Crioulo: Palácio Presidencial) is a Cape Verdean monument that was constructed in the end of the 19th century and used to house as a residence of the Portuguese governor until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975. Its location is around the downtown area.
Palcaraju Nevado Palcaraju is situated in the Andes cordillera and at 6,274 m the highest summit of Cordillera Blanca south of Nevado Huascarán (6,768 m). Summits of the mountain besides its main summit Palcaraju Centro are:
Pale A pale is a territory or jurisdiction (possibly non-territorial) under a given authority, or the limits of such a jurisdiction. The term was often used in cases where the territory or jurisdiction outside the pale was considered hostile.
Pale (disambiguation) A pale is a territory or jurisdiction (possibly non-territorial) under a given authority, or the limits of that jurisdiction. There is normally a strong nuance that the territory/jurisdiction beyond the "pale" is hostile.

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