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Palladian architecture Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; what is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts.
Palladian International Palladian International, LLC is a staffing firm specializing in manufacturing, distribution, transportation and construction industries. Palladian works with both experienced professionals in these industries and military officers transitioning into the civilian workforce.
Palladian Villas of the Veneto The City centre of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his students which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 and expanded two years later.
Palladion The Palladion (more often spelled Palladium) was a xoanon (wooden effigy) of Athena Polias (Protectress of the City) that fell from heaven according to myth. It was kept in the Polias precinct of the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis of Athens and was considered the most sacred cult object on the hill by far.
Palladium Palladium (IPA: ) is a chemical element with symbol Pd and atomic number 46. A rare silver-white transition metal of the platinum group, palladium resembles platinum chemically and is extracted from some copper and nickel ores.
Palladium (mythology) In Greek and Roman mythology, a palladium was an image of immemorial antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend, especially the one that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy. It features in Graeco-Roman works such as the Aeneid.
Palladium Ballroom The Palladium Ballroom was a second-floor dancehall on 53rd and Broadway in New York City which became famous for its excellent Latin music. At the end of World War II people began moving from Puerto Rico to New York City in large numbers (NYC's Puerto Rican population was about 100,000 in 1940 and 600,000 in 1960) and the popularity of swing, foxtrot, big band, etc was waning.
Palladium Books Palladium Books (sometimes called "Palladium Games") is a role-playing game publisher founded by Kevin Siembieda and Erick Wujcik, best known for their popular, genre-crossing Rifts gaming series (1990-present). Although not created to be a universal system, they were one of the first companies to have success creating role-playing games in multiple genres.
Palladium CD Palladium is a CD produced by band Autopsia with early tape music experiments, recorded in 1989 in Studio of Radio Novi Sad - Yugoslavia. The CD is published by Hypnobeat and reissued by Illuminating Technologies.
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a game produced by Palladium Books. It is set in a unique world, called the Palladium World (the unofficial name of Palladia is disliked by Palladium), with the primary setting being some 10,000 years after a great war between the elves and their dwarven allies.
Palladium hydride Palladium hydride is metallic palladium that contains a substantial quantity of hydrogen within its crystal lattice. At room temperature and atmospheric pressure, palladium can adsorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen.
Palladium-Hydrogen electrode The Palladium-Hydrogen electrode (Abbreviation: Pd/H2) is one of the common reference electrodes used in electrochemical study. Most of its characteristics are similar to the standard hydrogen electrode (with platinum).
Palladium(II) chloride Palladium(II) chloride, also known as palladium dichloride, is the chemical compound with the formula PdCl2. It is a common starting material in palladium chemistry – palladium-based catalysts are of particular value in organic synthesis.
Pallamallawa, New South Wales Pallamallawa is a small rural village located approximately 35 kilometers from Moree, in Northwestern New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the banks of the Gwydir River, a few kilometers off the main Gwydir Highway between Inverell and Moree
Pallars Pallars is one of the historical Catalan counties, adjacent to the counties of Ribagorça and Urgell. Its territory was between the Pyrenees and the Montsec mountains, that is, the current comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Pallars Jussà.
Pallars SobirĂ  El Pallars SobirĂ  is a comarca (comparable to a county or shire in much of the English-speaking world) in the mountainous northwest of Catalonia, Spain. The name means "Upper Pallars," distinguishing it from the more populous (and less mountainous) Pallars JussĂ  to its southwest.
Pallas's Warbler The Pallas's Warbler or Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) is a leaf warbler which breeds in southern Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Tibet and China. It is strongly migratory and winters in subtropical Asia.
Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park (Pallas-Yllästunturin kansallispuisto) is a national park in Lapland Province, Finland. It was formally established in 2005, when Pallas-Ounastunturi National Park was joined with Ylläs-Aakenus protected area.
Pallasgreen Pallasgreen or Pallas Grean (Pailís Ghréine in Irish) is a village in East County Limerick, situated on the Limerick - Tipperary N24 road. The name means "the Stockade of Grian," referring to an ancient Irish Goddess of Love, whose is associated with the a nearby hill of Nicker.
Pallavaram Pallavaram is a suburban town within the city of Chennai [formerly Madras] and a municipality in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a suburb of Chennai and is located near Tambaram, a hub for suburban trains within Chennai and also to trains bound south.
Pallbearer A pallbearer is one of several funeral participants who bears the casket of a deceased person from a religious or memorial service or viewing either directly to a cemetery or mausoleum, or to and from the hearse which does so.
Palle Mikkelborg Palle Mikkelborg (born March 6, 1941), is a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960, and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene.
Palle Sørensen Palle Sørensen, a 38-year-old escaping car thief, shot four young police officers in September 1965 in Copenhagen. He was apprehended the following day after a huge search operation and was sentenced to life in prison.
Palle Torsson Palle Torsson (born 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live video games and performance. He received a MFA from Royal College University of Fine Arts Stockholm in 1998, where he also met up with artist colleague Tobias Bernstrup.
Pallet A pallet is a flat transport structure designed to support a variety of goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by any mobile forklift or other jacking device. The goods are placed on top of the pallet, and can be secured to it by straps or stretch-wrapped plastic film.
Pallet truck A pallet truck is a non-stacking lift truck with a lifting device and a fork-type load carrier for raising a load off the floor and the horizontal transport of pallets, lattice boxes etc. Some pallet trucks are electrically powered; these have become more popular in recent years.
Pallet Town is a fictional town in Kanto and the hometown of the main character in Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, FireRed and LeafGreen and is a visitable city in Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal. It is also the starting point and hometown for Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime.
Palletized load system The Palletized Load System (PLS) is a logistics supply program that entered service in the United States Army in 1993. It performs line haul (long distance), local haul (short distance), unit resupply, and other missions in the tactical environment to support modernized and highly mobile combat units.
Palliard Press Palliard Press was a small, independent comic book publishing house co-founded by Phil Foglio, illustrator of such titles as Buck Godot, Girl Genius, and Robert Asprin's MythAdventures, and Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Palliative care Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease, or slow the disease's progress, rather than provide a cure. However, it may occasionally be used in conjunction with curative therapy, providing that the curative therapy will not cause additional morbidity.
Pallid bat The Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of bat, which ranges from western Canada to central Mexico. Pallid bats have larger eyes than most other species of bats in North America and have pale and wide ears; their fur is generally lightly colored.
Pallid Beach Mouse The Pallid beach mouse or Ponce de Leon Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus decoloratus) was known from two locations in Florida, Ponce Park, Volusia County and Bulow, Flagler County. No individuals have been seen since 1959.
Pallid Swift The Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus) is a small bird, superficially similar to a Barn Swallow or House Martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since the swifts are in the order Apodiformes.
Pallid-winged grasshopper The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America. They are more active during the summer months, and their pale, mottled coloration makes them hard to see against surfaces such as the granite often found in the gravel of dry river beds.
Pallion Pallion is a suburb, parish and electoral ward in Sunderland. Most of the buildings in the area were built during the Victorian Era and consist of large terraced houses built for wealthy shipbuilders, but also smaller one storey houses in other areas for local shipyard workers (the shipyard industry has now long gone).
Palliser Bay Palliser Bay is located at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, to the southeast of Wellington. It runs for 40 kilometres along the Cook Strait coast from Turakirae Head at the southern end of the Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Palliser, the North Island's southernmost point.
Palliser Islands The Palliser Islands are a group of coral atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago. They were named "Palliser's Isles" in honor of Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, by Captain James Cook, who was the first European to sight them, on 19 April and 20 April, 1774.
Pallister Pallister is a housing estate in east Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Located within the TS3 postcode area, it is also known as Pallister Park or Pally Park because of the public park located at the estates northern edge.
Pallister-Hall syndrome Pallister-Hall syndrome is a disorder that affects the development of many parts of the body. Most people with this condition have extra fingers and/or toes (polydactyly), and the skin between some fingers or toes may be fused (cutaneous syndactyly).
Pallithura Pallithura is a village in the district of Trivandrum, the capital city of Kerala state in India. The villagers of Pallithura are now famous for their sacrifice in 1962 of most of their village for creating the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS).
Pallium The Pallium or Pall (derived, so far as the name is concerned, from the Roman pallium or palla, a woollen cloak) is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Roman Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the Pope, but for many centuries past bestowed by him on metropolitans and primates as a symbol of the jurisdiction delegated to them by the Holy See.
Palliyagodella massacre The Palliyagodella massacre was carried out by the LTTE, an organization which has been banned in 29 countries including the US, Australia, EU, India and Canada due to its terrorist activities. This was the largest massacre of Muslim civilians by the LTTE to date.
Pallopteridae Pallopteridae, or flutter-wing flies (or trembling-wing, or waving-wing flies, because of the striking vibration of the wings in many species) is a family of Diptera. Over 50 species in 15 genera are found in the temperate regions of the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Pallottine mission to Kamerun The Pallottine Mission to Kamerun (also spelled Pallotin or Pallotine) was a Roman Catholic mission to the German colony of Kamerun run by the Pallottines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the German Empire became the colonial power of Kamerun in 1884, French Catholic groups were denied permission to set up a mission in the territory.
Pallywood The term Pallywood (a portmanteau of Palestinian and Hollywood) refers to admitted stagingsJenin Jenin Film-Maker Admits Fraud and alleged stagingsFrenchmen go on trial in Paris for questioning al-dura videotape of news events by Palestinian (and foreign) cameramen, video teams and pseudo-documentarists, putting Israel in an unfavorable light, in which cameramen sometimes use equipment from Western news agencies. The resulting footage is sent to news outlets, such as Al Jazeera, BBC, France 2, etc.
Palūšė Palūšė () is a touristic village in Aukštaitija National Park in eastern Lithuania, south-west of Ignalina. The church of Palūšė, built in 1750, is considered to be the oldest surviving wooden church in Lithuania.
Palm (PDA) The Palm corporation produces a number of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) which run the Palm operating system. This page describes the range of Palm devices, from the first generation of Palm machines known as the Pilot through to the latest models.
Palm Avenue Palm Avenue is a street in South Bay San Diego, that begins at the intersection with Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach. It goes through Imperial Beach and San Diego's South Bay neighborhoods along Egger Heighlands, Palm City, Del Sol, and Otay Mesa.
Palm Bay Primary School Palm Bay Primary School is an LEA maintained school catering for boys and girls in the primary phase of education, from 4 -11 years of age. It opened in September 1995 and has had two highly successful Ofsted inspections and reports, both resulting in no Action Plans necessary.
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area The Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consisting of Brevard County in the state of Florida in the USA. The principal cities in the MSA are Palm Bay, Melbourne and Titusville.
Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) is a comprehensive Christian university with a core emphasis in the liberal arts. Its purpose is to offer a curriculum of studies and a program of student activities dedicated to the development of moral character, the enrichment of spiritual lives, and the perpetuation of growth in Christian ideals.
Palm Beach Central High School Palm Beach Central High School is a high school located in Wellington, Florida in the Palm Beach County school district. Opened in 2003, Palm Beach Central currently has approximately 2,735 enrolled students for the 2006-2007 year.
Palm Beach Community College Located in Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach Community College (PBCC) enrolls over 48,000 students in more than 100 programs of study including associate of arts and associate of science degree programs and short-term certificates.
Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue (PBCFR) is a combination career/volunteer fire department responsible for providing Fire Protection, Emergency Medical Services, ALS Transport, Hazardous Materials Mitigation, Special Operations, Aircraft Firefighting, 9-1-1 Dispatching, Public Education, Fire Inspections, Fire Investigations, and Building Plans Review for unincorporated Palm Beach County, Florida and certain cities under contract.
Palm Beach Day School Palm Beach Day School is a coeducational independent day school located in Palm Beach, Florida. An enrollment of over 350 students in Kindergarten through Ninth Grade is drawn from Palm Beach and outlying communities as far south as Manalapan, west as Wellington and north as Jupiter.
Palm Beach Imperials The Palm Beach Imperials are an American Basketball Association (ABA) team in Palm Beach County, Florida. The team was named after the ownership group, the Imperiali Organization, which was founded by Daniel Imperato.
Palm Beach Marg The Palm Beach Marg is a 10 Km long 6 lane road that connects Vashi to Belapur running parallel to the Thane creek. The quality of the road, combined with the low density of vehicles has resulted in this road being a dream stretch for motorists coming from congested Mumbai.
Palm Beach Phantoms The Palm Beach Phantoms were a team in the National Indoor Football League. Formed in time for the 2006 season, the Phantoms were scheduled to play their home games at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida.
Palm Beach Pumas Palm Beach Pumas are an American soccer team, founded in 2000. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southeast Division of the Southern Conference against teams from Atlanta, Bradenton, Cocoa, Greensboro, Nashville, Orlando and Raleigh.
Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is a city (collectively classified as a town) located in Palm Beach County, Florida, 65 miles north of Miami. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth.
Palm Beach, Queensland Palm Beach is a suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek. It is an area with little in the way of natural features to enclose it or to set it apart from other places at the Gold Coast, though it has twice been voted cleanest beach in Queenland.
Palm Bible Plus Palm Bible Plus is an open source document viewing program for Palm OS-based PDAs, focused on displaying the Bible and commentaries about the Bible. It allows the user to read Bibles stored in RAM or on a memory card via VFS.
Palm Cockatoo The Palm Cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus is a large black parrot of the cockatoo family and this species is unique in its kind. It is the only member in subfamily Microglossinae and monotypic genus Probosciger.
Palm Court (Vancouver) Palm Court is a skyscraper that has received re-zoning approval in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located at 1133 West Georgia Street. Proposed in 2005, Palm Court will be a 56 storey, 183 metre (600 foot) high, mixed-use tower, scheduled to be completed in 2008.
Palm Crow The Palm Crow (Corvus palmarum) is a relatively small black bird in the crow family that occurs mostly on the large Caribbean island of Hispaniola, itself divided into the two countries of Dominican Republic and Haiti. It was formerly quite frequent on Cuba but has sadly become severely reduced in number and may be almost extinct there.
Palm Desert Scene The Palm Desert Scene is a name given to a group of closely related bands and musicians which originated in the early nineties in Palm Desert, Southern California. The scene is notorious for its influence on modern day stoner rock and its kins, and the creation of desert rock.
Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census.
Palm Desktop Palm Desktop is the computer program for Microsoft Windows or Macintosh OS, a personal information manager which can be used alone or in combination with the Palm OS personal digital assistant. The original Macintosh and Windows versions were similar, until 3COM purchased Claris Organizer from Claris and rebranded that as Palm Desktop 2.
Palm Handheld Modifications Several Palm (PDA) enthusiasts have successfully documented internal and external Handheld Battery modifications to allow longer charge times for their handheld device. Rapidly advancing battery technology allows smaller and longer lasting batteries to be placed into the space of the original batteries.
Palm Harbor University High School Palm Harbor University High School, also known as "PHUHS", is a nationally-performing public high school for grades 9-12 located in Palm Harbor, Florida. The school's nickname is the "Hurricanes" and the school's colors are navy and maroon.
Palm III The Palm III was the first PDA in the Palm III lineup and is also Palm Computing's first handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM capable operating system. The first Palm IIIs went on sale in 1998.
Palm Island, Queensland Palm Island is an island and community 65 km north-east of Townsville, Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Palm Island is the main island of the Greater Palm group and takes in 64 km2 of small bays, sandy beaches and steep forested hills rising to a peak of 548 metres.
Palm Jumeirah The Palm Jumeirah is the world's largest man-made island - a residential and tourism destination created by Nakheel, a key company in the transformation of Dubai from a sleepy fishing village into one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It is a part of the trilogy of three islands called The Palm Islands which will increase Dubai’s shoreline by a total of 520 kms.
Palm m500 series The Palm m500 series of handheld personal digital assistants consisted of three devices: the Palm m500, Palm m505, and Palm m515. The series was a follow-up to the popular Palm V series with a similar, though slightly shorter, footprint and form factor.
Palm oil Palm oil is a form of edible vegetable oil obtained from the fruit of the oil palm tree. Previously the second-most widely produced edible oil, after soybean oil,United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics 2004.
Palm OS Viruses Recently the threat of viruses on Palm OS devices has become reality . There are currently 4 viruses for Palm OS in the wild which wreak havoc upon Palm OS devices usually causing serious data loss for Palm OS users .
Palm Pictures Palm Pictures is a US based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires and distributes innovative music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD format.
Palm Products GmbH Palm Products GmbH (commonly abbreviated to PPG) was a highly-regarded manufacturer of audio synthesizers. Founded and owned by Wolfgang Palm, PPG was located in Hamburg, Germany and, for 12 years from around 1975 to 1987, manufactured an acclaimed and eclectic range of electronic musical instruments, all designed by Palm.
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California opened in September 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the Coachella Valley to near the top of San Jacinto Peak. Prior to its construction, the only way to the top of the mountain was to hike for several hours from Idyllwild.
Palm Springs Air Museum The Palm Springs Air Museum, is a non-profit educational institution, whose mission is to exhibit, educate and eternalize the role of the World War II combat aircraft and the role the pilots and American citizens had in winning the war. In addition to flying aircraft, related artifacts, artwork, and library sources are used to perpetuate American history.
Palm Springs Angels The Palm Springs Halos are a minor league baseball team of the Class A California League existed from 1986 to 1993 and an affiliate of the California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). They relocated to Lake Elsinore, California after the 1993 season (now the Lake Elsinore Storm).
Palm Springs Stadium Palm Springs Stadium is a stadium in Palm Springs, California. It is primarily used for baseball formerly named Angels Stadium and was the home field of the Palm Springs Suns of the Western Baseball League in 1995 and 1996.
Palm Springs Suns The Palm Springs Suns were a minor league baseball team located in Palm Springs, California. The team played in the independent Western Baseball League, and was not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team.
Palm Springs Unified School District The Palm Springs Unified School District is one of three public education governing bodies in the Coachella Valley desert region of Southern California. PSUSD governs the western half of the valley; the Coachella Valley Unified School District and Desert Sands Unified School District oversee communities in the eastern half.
Palm Springs Walk of Stars The Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California renders hommage to the Hollywood actors, actresses, directors, singers, entertainers, TV personalities and other show business related personalities of Palm Springs. You can find out which Hollywood celebrities lived and played in Palm Springs by searching for their "stars" embedded in the sidewalk of Palm Canyon Drive.
Palm Sunday Compromise The Palm Sunday Compromise, formally known as the Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo, is an Act of Congress passed on March 21, 2005, to allow the case of Terri Schiavo to be moved into a federal court. The name "Palm Sunday Compromise" was coined by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, reflecting the combustible mixture of religion and politics that characterized the Schiavo case.
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 The second Palm Sunday tornado outbreak occurred on April 11, 1965. Seventy-eight tornadoes (38 significant, 19 violent, 21 killers) hit the Midwest, making it the second (or third depending on the final tally of the March 12, 2006 tornado outbreak) biggest outbreak on record.
Palm tree king The Palm Tree King was one of the monsters later known as the "Slain Heroes" in the Sumerian epic, Lugale, which centered around the quest of Ninurta to recover the Tablets of Destiny, which were stolen by the Slain Heroes, from Ninurta's father, Enlil, the angry, jealous god of Air, and early head of the Sumerian pantheon (though replaced as other gods came into favor). The Palm Tree King, in the Lugale epic, was subservient to Imdugud (Assyrian Anzu), who held the Tablets until his defeat in combat with Ninurta.
Palm V The Palm V was a Palm handheld device introduced in October of 1999, distinguished from its predecessors (the popular Palm III models) by its sleeker, metal-clad body. In addition, with hardware extensions such as compact keyboards and scanners, the device's capabilities could be extended far beyond its base competences.
Palm wine Palm wine, also called palm toddy or simply toddy, is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree. The drink is particularly common in parts of Africa, South India (particularly Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, where it is known by the name of kallu (కల్లు in Telugu, கள்ளு in Tamil, കള്ള് in Malayalam) and in the Philippines, where it is known as tuba.
Palm World Voices: Mandela Palm World Voices: Mandela is a DVD Box set featuring Nelson Mandela. It includes Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation DVD, as well as the Mandela Original Soundtrack CD: The Essential Music of South Africa and a 48 page book with art images, photos and an essay by British journalist Robin Denselow.
Palm-nut Vulture The Palm-nut Vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards and harriers. It is the only member of the genus Gypohierax.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to more than 140 short stories he wrote over his long career, the earliest published in the 1920 and the last appearing posthumously in 1972. The stories are characterized by their brevity, some less than a page long, and their dramatic concision.
Palm-thrush The palm-thrushes are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Cichladusa. They were formerly in the thrush family Turdidae, but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher Muscicapidae.
Palm-wine music Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso.
Palma High School Palma High School is a grade 7-12 Catholic boys school located in Salinas, California. Palma is dedicated to providing young men an excellent college preparatory education in a Roman Catholic environment that embraces the Essential Elements of an Edmund Rice Christian Brother Education and challenges each individual to develop spiritually, intellectually, morally, physically, and socially.
Palma il Vecchio Palma il Vecchio (1480 - July 1528), born Jacopo Palma, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school was born at Serinalta near Bergamo. He is called Palma il Vecchio (Palma the Elder) to distinguish him from Palma il Giovane, his grand-nephew.
Palmach The Palmach (in Hebrew - " פלמ"ח ") was the regular fighting force of the Haganah (the underground army of Jewish Palestinians during the British Mandate of Palestine). The Palmach was established on May 15, 1941.
Palmar interossei muscles The palmar interossei (interossei volares) are small muscles in the hand that lie on the anterior aspect of the metacarpals. They are smaller than the dorsal interossei of the hand, which lie between the metacarpals.
Palmar radiocarpal ligament The palmar radiocarpal ligament (anterior ligament, volar radiocarpal ligament)) is a broad membranous band, attached above to the anterior margin of the lower end of the radius, to its styloid process, and to the front of the lower end of the ulna; its fibers pass downward and medialward to be inserted into the volar surfaces of the scaphoid, lunate, and triangular bones, some being continued to the capitate.

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