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Pawtuxet River The Pawtuxet River is a river in Rhode Island which flows through five communities: Coventry, Cranston, Scituate, Warwick and West Warwick. Water from six other communities drains through the Pawtuxet Watershed to the Pawtuxet River: Foster, Glocester, Johnston, Providence, West Greenwich and Exeter.
Pax (mythology) In Roman mythology, Pax (Latin for peace) (she had the Greek equivalent Eἰρήνη) was recognized as a goddess during the rule of Augustus. On the Campus Martius, she had a temple called the Ara Pacis, and another temple on the Forum Pacis.
Pax Americana Pax Americana (Latin: "American Peace") is a term to describe the period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the dominant military and economic position of the United States. It places the United States in the military and diplomatic role of a modern-day Roman Empire (Pax Romana), succeeding the British Empire.
Pax Britannica Pax Britannica (Latin for "the British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) refers to a period of British imperialism after the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which led to a period of overseas British expansionism. The term is derived from, during this period, Europe being relatively peaceful and the British Empire controlling most key naval trade routes and enjoying unchallenged sea power.
Pax Cultura Pax Cultura ("Cultural Peace" or "Peace through Culture") is the motto of the cultural artifact protection movement founded by Nicholas Roerich, and is symbolized by a maroon on white emblem consisting on three solid circles in a surrounding circle.
Pax Draconis Pax Draconis is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Justin Dagna and published by Technicraft Design. The game utilizes the d100 system, where the outcome of any particular action is determined by a percentile.
Pax Europeana Pax Europeana, Latin for "the European peace", is the long period of relative peace experienced by Northern and Western Europe (including Greece and Turkey) in the period following World War II. After the Cold War this peace can be considered to be extended to most (but not all) of Central and Eastern Europe, with the exception of Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and the territories of former Yugoslavia (1990s).
Pax Germanica Pax Germanica, Latin for "German peace", refers to the world order that would have followed a German victory of World War II. The term is mostly used in the context of alternative history or counterfactual history literature, art and film.
Pax Hill Pax Hill, near Bentley, Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century. It is located at the end of a half-mile drive, off the main A31 road.
Pax Hispanica The Pax Hispanica refers to a period of time of twenty-three years (1598-1621), when Spain achieved European stability after conflicts with France, England and the Dutch United Provinces, coinciding with Spanish supremacy in Europe.
Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award The Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award is given out annually by the organization Pax Christi USA, a Catholic peace organization, to an individual who has exlemplified Pope Paul VI's World Day for Peace message: "To reach peace, teach peace."
Pax Khazarica Pax Khazarica (Latin for "Khazar Peace") is a term used by historians to refer to the period (roughly 700-950 CE) during which the Khazar Khaganate dominated the Pontic steppe and the Caucasus Mountains. During this period, Khazar dominion over vital trans-Eurasian trade routes facilitated travel and trade between Europe and Asia by such groups as the Radhanites and the early Rus.
Pax Mongolica The Pax Mongolica or "Mongol Peace" is a phrase coined by Western scholars to describe the alleged stabilizing effects of the conquest of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory they conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Pax Ottomana Pax Ottomana, the "Ottoman Peace" is a recent, post-1980's, phrase used in Turkey to describe the relative stability attained on the lands taken over by the Ottoman Empire. The term is derived from the more common Pax Romana, the "Roman Peace".
Pax Praetoriana Pax Praetoriana (or Pax Pretoriana) refers to the relative stability of modern South Africa and the (economically and politically) dominant foreign policy of the country towards the African continent and its encouragement of stable, accountable, democratic governments in other African states. The term Pax Nigeriana is sometimes used in relation to Nigeria's similar status in West Africa.
Pax Romana Pax Romana (27 BCE-180 CE), Latin for "the Roman peace", was the long period of relative peace experienced by the Roman Empire. The term stems from the fact that Roman rule and its legal system pacified regions, sometimes forcefully, which had suffered from the quarrels between rival leaders.
Pax Syriana In the study of the international relations of the Middle East, Pax Syriana is used both to refer to Syria, and in other contexts as an arbitrary label for hypothetical countries with varying degrees of resemblance to Syria.
Pax World Funds Pax World Funds is home to the first socially responsible mutual fund. Founded in 1971, Pax World Fund (now named Pax World Balanced Fund) was the first diversified public mutual fund to make sure its investments were both socially and financially responsible.
Paxi Paxi (Greek: Παξοί, pronounced Paksi though more commonly called "Paxos" in English ) is the smallest of the Ionian Islands (the Heptanese). In fact in Greek it is a plural form and it refers to a complex of islands, the largest of which are Paxi and Antipaxi (a smaller nearby island famous for its wine, which is unfortunately almost impossible to purchase in shops or tavernas, and two of the finest sandy beaches in the Ionian Sea).
Paxillus involutus The common or brown roll-rim, Paxillus involutus, also known as the poison pax, is a mushroom previously thought to be edible with some unusual recently-discovered poisonous properties. It can cause a haemolysis which can be fatal.
Paxon School for Advanced Studies Paxon School for Advanced Studies (PSAS) is one of three International Baccalaureate] schools (the others being [[Stanton College Preparatory School, and Jean Ribault High School) in Duval County, Florida. Stanton is considered their rival.
Paxos algorithm The Paxos algorithm, originally proposed by Leslie Lamport in a paper submitted in 1990 but not published until 1998, is a fault tolerant algorithm for reaching consensus in a distributed system. Within the algorithm, consensus is defined as a decision on an input value for a set of replicated state machines.
Paxton Boys The Paxton Boys were a group of backcountry Scots-Irish frontiersmen from the area around the central Pennsylvania village of Paxtang (Paxton), near present day Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who formed a vigilante group in response to the American Indian uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion. The Paxton Boys felt that the government of colonial Pennsylvania, dominated by Quaker pacifists, was negligent in providing them with protection, and so decided to take matters into their own hands.
Paxton Crawford Paxton Crawford (born August 4, 1977 in the Little Rock, Arkansas) is a former player in Major League Baseball who played from 2000 to 2004. He was drafted in 1995 by the Boston Red Sox and worked as reliever and spot starter for the team in the 2000 and 2001 seasons.
Paxton First Schoolhouse The Paxton First Schoolhouse, is located in the Ford County, Illinois city of Paxton, the county seat of Ford County. The Schoolhouse has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 1980.
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve Paxton Pits is an area of active and disused gravel pits at Little Paxton near St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England. The disused pits have been made into a nature reserve, especially for waterfowl but also for other birds, animals and plants.
Paxton Schulte Paxton Schulte (born July 16, 1972 in Onoway, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player in the Central Hockey League who who currently plays for the Tulsa Oilers but he made a huge reputation with the Belfast Giants, and he ended up leaving the team with his number 27 being retired. He plays left wing.
Paxton Whitehead Paxton Whitehead (born October 17, 1937 in Kent, England) is an actor who made his professional debut in 1956. He trained at London's Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts beginning when he was 17 years old.
PaX In computer security, PaX is a patch for the Linux kernel that implements least privilege protections for memory pages. The least-privilege approach allows computer programs to do only what they have to do in order to be able to execute properly, and nothing more.
Pay 'n' Display Pay 'n' Display is a ticketed parking system used by Transperth at Perth metropolitan railway stations which costs one Australian dollar for all day parking, which can be accessed anytime. Fees and monitoring is from 8:00am - 9:00pm.
Pay commission A Pay Commission is a panel comprised of members of the Union Cabinet of India for hiking the salaries of government employees. The first pay commission was constituted in May 1946, and had submitted its report in a year.
Pay driver A pay driver is a driver for a professional auto racing team who, instead of being paid by their car owner, drives for free and brings with him either personal sponsorship or personal or family funding to finance the team's operations. This may be done to gain on-track experience or to live the lifestyle of a driver in a particular series when one's talent or credentials do not merit a paying ride.
Pay for What You Get "Pay for What You Get" is a song recorded by the Dave Matthews Band on the album "Under the Table and Dreaming". The song was written as a reply to the band's request for Dave Matthews to write more songs.
Pay grade In the United States Military, a pay grade is a system denoting rate and indicates the rate at which a member receives basic pay. It is also a way to compare ranks, which may have different names in the different services.
Pay in lieu of notice In the United Kingdom, if an employer dismisses an employee without giving the requisite notice pursuant to law or the employee's contract, the employer should pay in lieu of notice. ‘In lieu’ means ‘instead of’.
Pay Me My Money Down Originally a protest song from Georgia and South Carolina, Pay Me My Money Down was the first single and video released from Bruce Springsteen's fourteenth studio album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. The song originated from black stevedores, who were often left unpaid by some ship captains.
Pay or play contract A pay or play clause in an entertainment contract means that the person who is being hired (typically an actor) is guaranteed payment regardless of whether he or she actually works. For example, if a natural disaster shuts down a production, or a new director is brought on who wants to make casting changes, actors with pay-or-play contracts will receive their contracted salary even though they are no longer on the project.
Pay stub A pay stub, paystub, payslip, pay advice, or sometimes paycheck stub, is a document that an employee receives either as a notice that the direct deposit transaction has gone through, or as part of their paycheck.
Pay-Pay Most notably Pay-Pay is the oldest brand of cigarette rolling paper in the world, Pay Pay rolling papers were originally traded by Spanish sailors for cotton and tobacco in North America (this is the earliest anyone has ever heard of a paper entering the North American market)1. Their packs and styles have changed a lot over the 200 years that this brand has been available.
Pay-TV (band) Pay-TV is the name of a Swedish trio of girls who make electro music. They have so far released 2 singles, "Trendy Discotheque" and "Refrain Refrain", both of which were entries into the Swedish Melodifestivalen contest (neither progressed past the semi finals).
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Secondary) Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Secondary) (PLMGSS) is an all-girls school running on a single session catering to pupils in the Special, Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical streams, hence fulfilling its mission of opening its doors to the very able as well as the less able. Since 1995, PLMGSS has been offering Higher Chinese (HCL) to her pupils.
Payable-through account A payable-through account (PTA) is a demand deposit account through which banking agencies located in the United States extend cheque writing privileges to the customers of other institutions, often foreign banks.
Payam-e Emrooz Before being shut down in 2000 by the Iranian Judiciary System, Payam-e Emrooz was the most professional monthly magazine with news and analyses in the areas of politics, society, culture, and economy. Its existence was a symbol of the "freedom of press" in a country with its own specific political system.
Payao Poontarat Payao Poontarat (October 18 1957 – August 13 2006), () was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (-48 kg) category at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medal ever won by a Thai sportsman. He later turned professional, and became WBC world champion.
Payaos A payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines. Payaos were traditionally bamboo rafts for handline fishing before World War II, but modern steel payaos use fish lights and fish location sonar to increase yields.
Payara The payara, Hydrolycus scomberoides, (also known as "Dog Tooth Characin" per the Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL) is a little known species of gamefish that lives in the Orinoco River in Venezuela. The payara's most noticeable features are the two long fangs portruding from its lower jaw.
Payas River The Payas river, in southern Anatolia near today's Turkey—Syria border, is thought during recent modern times to be the famous Pinarus river of antiquity, where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the First Battle of Issus, and the likely site of the second and third battles of the same name down through time into the middle ages. This case is made by historians N.
Payasos en la lavadora Payasos en la lavadora (Clowns in the Washing Machine) is a humorous novel written in Spanish by Spanish Basque film maker Álex de la Iglesia in 1997. It tells the experiences of a bohemian writer during Bilbao's Main Week fiestas.
Payathonzu Temple The Payathonzu Temple (; literally "group of three Buddhas") is a Buddhist temple located in the village of Minnanthu (southeast of Bagan) in Myanmar. It is unique in the sense that the temple consists of three temples conjoined through narrow passages.
Payazzo Payazzo (or pajatso) is a traditional Finnish gambling arcade game, dating back to the 1920s, when it was introduced into Finland from Germany. The object of payazzo is to successfully flick coins into one of the winning slots.
Payback (film) Payback is a 1999 action film starring Mel Gibson and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film is a remake of the 1967 noir-classic Point Blank, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin, which in turn was based on the book The Hunter by Donald E.
Payback (game) Payback is a videogame by Apex Designs. It was originally one fan's project to make an Amiga clone of Grand Theft Auto, but, in the author's own words, "every effort has been made to ensure that Payback beats GTA in every way.
Payback (TV series) Payback is a television show on the Speed Channel that debuted in 2006. In the show, celebrities who have made it big pay back one of the people in their lives who in the past helped them along the way to their success, by building them a tricked out, one of a kind, new car designed specifically for them.
Payback period Payback period in business and economics refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment. For example, a $1000 investment which returned $500 per year would have a two year payback period.
Paydex Paydex is a term used in business, for a numerical score granted by Dun and Bradstreet to Business as a credit score for the promptness of their payments to creditors. The Paydex score is used for commercial organizations in a manner similar to the way the FICO score is used for individuals.
Payload fraction In aerospace engineering, payload fraction is a common term used to characterize the efficiency of a particular design. Payload fraction is calculated by dividing the weight of the payload by the weight of the otherwise empty aircraft when fully fueled.
Payload Specialist In NASA vernacular, a Payload Specialist (PS) was a Space Shuttle crewmember selected for a single specific mission. Payload Specialists were selected outside the astronaut training process and were not required to be United States citizens, but had to be approved by NASA and undergo rigorous training.
Paymaster A paymaster is a a civil servant appointed by a government to dispense wages or salaries within the public sector, especially a military. Specific titles within the British government are Paymaster of the Forces, Paymaster-General and Paymaster of Pensions.
Paymaster of Pensions In 18th century Britain, the Paymaster of Pensions was the official in charge of payments of Crown pensions and bounties. The first paymaster was Edward Nicholas in 1703, and the post was abolished in 1782 by the Act of Parliament 22 Geo.
Paymaster-General Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom. The Paymaster-General is the third ranking minister in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Payment A payment is the transfer of wealth from one party (such as a person or company) to another. A payment is usually made in exchange for the provision of goods, services, or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation.
Payment gateway A Payment Gateway is an e-commerce ASP service that authorizes payments for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks or traditional brick and mortar. It is the equivalent of a physical POS(Point-of-sale) terminal located in most retail outlets.
Payment protection insurance Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) is a type of insurance that provides an income to maintain a borrower’s debt repayments in the event of an accident or sickness that prevents them from working, or unemployment.
Payment system A payment system is the procedures and associated computer networks used to settle financial transactions in bond markets, currency markets, and futures, derivatives and options markets, and to transfer funds between financial institutions. Due to the backing of modern fiat currencies with government bonds, payment systems are a core part of modern currency systems.
Payne (TV series) Payne was a short-lived American television series, patterned after the British program Fawlty Towers. It starred American actor John Larroquette, who starred on the much-loved American television program Night Court.
Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism The Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism were created at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism & Communications in 1999. In the words of the school's dean, Tim Gleason, the awards were created “to honor the journalist of integrity and character who reports with insight and clarity in the face of political or economic pressures and to reward performance that inspires public trust in the media.
Payne Stewart Payne Stewart (January 30 1957 – October 25 1999), born William Payne Stewart, was an American golfer who won three Majors in his career, the last of which occurred only months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42.
Payne Whitney Gymnasium The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University. Built in the prevailing Gothic architecture style of the campus in 1932, it is a remarkable building, possessing a Gothic tower, a third-floor swimming pool, a polo practice room, and a rooftop running track.
Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic At his death in 1929, Payne Whitney bestowed the funds to build and endow the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (PWC) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. An eight story free-standing hospital, it was immediately affiliated with Cornell University's medical school (now Weill Cornell Medical College) and with the New York Hospital (now New York-Presbyterian Hospital), both of which are adjacent to PWC.
Payneham South, South Australia Payneham South is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It has traditionally been market gardens but is currently undergoing a building boom in which many smaller houses are being built.
Payneham, South Australia Payneham is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is part of a string of suburbs in Adelaide's north-east with a high proportion of Adelaide's Italian-Australian residents, many of whom can be traced back to the large-scale migration following the Second World War.
Paynes Bay, Barbados Paynes Bay sometimes called the "Platinum Coast" is located on the west coast of Barbados. Many locals believe that it is one of the island's best swimming beaches for both the calm seas of the Caribbean (in comparison to the strong south or east coast surf) and the colorful neighborhood.
Paynes Find, Western Australia Paynes Find is a former gold rush settlement approximately 430 km (267 miles) northeast of Perth in the Mid West region of Western Australia, named after Thomas Payne. It is reachable by the Great Northern Highway.
Paynes Poppets Paynes Poppets or Poppets is confectionery manufactured by Fox's Confectionery and it comes in four different flavors ( Mint, Toffee, Raisin, and Orange ). It is made of a fondant centre with a dark chocolate covering.
Payo Enríquez de Rivera Payo Enríquez de Rivera Manrique, OSA (sometimes Payo Enríquez Afán de Rivera Manrique) (1622, Seville, Spain—April 8, 1684, Avila, Spain) was bishop of Guatemala (1657-67), archbishop of Mexico (1668-81) and viceroy of New Spain (December 13, 1673 to November 30, 1680).
Payoff dominant equilibrium In game theory, a payoff dominant equilibrium is a Nash equilibrium that is pareto superior. That is, among all the Nash equilibrium of a game, the payoff dominant equilibrium pays at least as well as any other equilibrium for all players and strictly more for at least one.
Payola In the music industry, the practice of record companies paying money for the broadcast of records on music radio is called payola, if the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. The practice is illegal in the U.
Payphone A payphone or pay phone is a public telephone, with payment by inserting money (usually coins) or a debit card (a special telephone card or a multi-purpose card) or credit card before a call is made. Some telephone companies have termed them, and tried (unsuccessfully) to get the public to identify them as "coin phones", because the term "pay phone" may imply that other phones are free.
Payphone prank A payphone prank is a prank committed by or to a person using a payphone, including ones in a telephone booth. Common payphone pranks involve the police, money theft, or embarrassing the person utilizing the payphone.
PayPaI PayPaI was a phishing scam in mid 2000 which targeted account holders of the widely used Internet payment service PayPal using the fact that an upper case "i" may be difficult to distinguish from a lower case "L" in some computer fonts. PayPal sends account holders a notification email when they receive payments.
PayPerPost PayPerPost is an advertising service that pays bloggers to write positive reviews about advertisers' products. It has generated much controversy over its allegedly unethical behaviour, such as initially not requiring bloggers to disclose the remuneration.
PayPoint In the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, PayPoint is a system for paying bills in cash, installed in over 16,000 convenience stores and petrol forecourts across the UK and operated by a company of the same name.
Payroll compliance practitioner A payroll compliance practitioner is a person who has taken and completed the courses of study required by the Canadian Payroll Association and is qualified to manage the payroll of a midsized business at the supervisor/midlevel manager.
Payroll Room Payroll Room is a term that originated in 2005 with the NHL's new Collective Bargaining Agreement which was negotiated followong a season-long lockout. The new CBA includes a salary cap (formally titled the Upper Limit of the Payroll Range in the agreement).
Payroll service bureau A payroll service bureau is an accounting business whose main focus is the preparation of payroll for other businesses. Such firms are often run by Certified Public Accountants, though a typical payroll processing company will refer to itself as a service bureau rather than a CPA firm, to distinguish its payroll services from the general tax and accounting services that are generally not offered by a payroll service bureau.
Payroll tax Payroll tax generally refers to two kinds of taxes: Taxes which employers are required to withhold from employees' pay, also known as withholding, Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) or Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) tax; or taxes directly related to employing a worker paid from the employer's own funds: these may be either fixed charges or proportionally linked to an employee's pay.
Payroll vote Payroll vote is a term in the British Parliamentary System for the office-holders, paid or unpaid, among a party's MPs or peers who are obliged either to support their party's position in whippped votes or to resign. The payroll vote includes members of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet, whips, junior ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries and currently, for the government, numbers around 100 MPs.
Pays (France) In France, a pays is an area whose inhabitants share common geographical, economic, cultural, or social interests, who have a right to enter into communal planning contracts under a law known as the Loi Pasqua or LOADT (Loi d'Orientation pour l'Aménagement et le Développement du Territoire; English: Directive law concerning territorial planning and development), which took effect on February 4, 1995.
Pays d'Ouche The Pays d'Ouche is a wooded plateau southeast of Évreux in the department of Eure, one of two departments in the Haute-Normandie region, extending into the neighboring Orne department in the Basse-Normandie region. The Risle River and other tributaries of the Seine flow through this area.
Pays de Bray The Pays de Bray is a small (about 750 km²) natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French départements of the Seine-Maritime, Somme and Oise (hence divided among the official regions of Haute-Normandie and Picardie). The landscape is of bocage, a land use which arises from its clay soil; suited to the development of pasture for the raising of dairy cattle.
Pays de Caux The Pays de Caux, is an area in Normandy, occupying the greater part of the French département of Seine Maritime in Haute-Normandie. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cliffs on the English Channel coast.
Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire is one of the 26 regions of France. It is one of these regions of France created in the late 20th century to serve as an hinterland and zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful so-called "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre)¹.
Pays Plat First Nation Pays Plat First Nation is a small reserve community located about 175 km Northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Pays Plat reserve is in the boundaries of the territory described the Robinson-Superior Treaty in 1850.
Paysandu Sport Club Paysandu is a Brazilian football club located in Belém, Pará. Paysandu is also known as Papão da Curuzu—Papão because it won several titles in the 1940s and Curuzu from the name of the street where Paysandu's stadium sits.
Payton Jordan Payton Jordan (b. March 19, 1917, Whittier, California) was the head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, one of the most powerful track teams ever assembled, which won a record twenty-four medals, including twelve golds.
Pazala mandarinus The Spectacle Swordtail Pazala mandarinus, which is native to India, is a beautiful butterfly of the Swallowtails, (Papilionidae) family. It belongs to the Pazala subgenus of the Swordtails, that is, genus Graphium.
Pazend language The Pazend or Pazand language is a reduction of the Middle Persian language, "sanctified" by the removal or replacement (with Iranian words) of ideograms that had been borrowed from Semitic languages such as Aramaic.
Pazhamozhi Nanuru Pazhamozhi Nanuru is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the the Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 – 500 CE.
Pazhanji Church Pazhanji Church The Church known as "Pazhanji Palli" is situated at Pazhanji near Kunnamkulam in Thrissur district of Kerala state, south India. It has historical importance and is a part of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Pazmanitentempel The Pazmanitentempel, also known as the Synagogue in der Leopoldstadt, Pazmanitengasse 6 was a large synagogue in Vienna's second district Leopoldstadt. It was designed and constructed by the architect Ignaz Reiser.

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