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Page France Page France is an indie folk-pop music band that plays simple melodic and emotional music. Page France is sometimes compared to Sufjan Stevens for their use of uncommon instruments such as the glockenspiel and banjo.
Page header A page header or simply header in typography is that material which is separated from the main body of text and appears at the top of a printed page. Word processing programs usually provide for the creation and maintenance of page headers, which are often the same from page to page, with merely small differences in information, such as page number.
Page hijacking Page hijacking is a form of spamming the index of a search engine (spamdexing). It is achieved by creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites.
Page Hamilton Page Nye Hamilton (born May 18, 1960 in Portland, Oregon) is a singer, guitarist and record producer, mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet. Most of his work has been in the heavy metal or hard rock styles, but Hamilton has an experimentalist streak, and has worked in other genres.
Page Interchange Language Publishing Interchange Language, or "PIL" is a public domain language that allows precise description of the layout of content on pages, groups of multiple pages or any 2-dimensional area, which it calls a "canvas." It was developed between June 1990 and June 1991 by the Professional Publishers Interchange Specification Workgroup, a committee of software and hardware vendors serving the newspaper, magazine and print advertising markets.
Page layout Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. Beginning from early illuminated pages in hand-copied books of the Middle Ages and proceeding down to intricate modern magazine and catalog layouts, proper page design has long been a consideration in printed material.
Page of Honour While a page is a comparatively low-ranking servant, a Page of Honour is a ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It requires attendance on state occasions, but does not now involve the daily duties which were once attached to the office of page.
Page of the Backstairs A Page of the Backstairs is a senior courtier of the British Royal Household who personally attends to the Sovereign and/or spouse (presently Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh).
Page of the Presence A Page of the Presence is a courtier of the British Royal Household who acts as a personal attendant to Royal visitors. During events at Buckingham Palace (such as receptions, state visits, garden parties or investitures), they are positioned at the Grand Entrance and supervise the arrival of guests and heads of state.
Page One Records Page One Records was the UK vehicle used by producer/manager Larry Page during a highly successful period as a hitmaker in the 1960s. The label released hits from the Troggs, Vanity Fare and Plastic Penny, as well as numerous failed attempts by Larry himself to sing his own hit record.
Page playoff system The Page playoff system is a playoff format used primarily in curling at the championship level. Teams are seeded using a round-robin tournament and the top four play a mix of a single-elimination and double-elimination tournament to determine the winner.
Page Parkes/713 Models The Page Parkes Corporation, which includes Page Parkes Center of Modeling and Acting, Page.713 Model and Talent Agency (Houston) and Page Parkes Management Agency (Dallas) founded in 1981 by Page Parkes Eveleth and Rachel Duran, represents more than 400 models and is the largest agency network in the southern and southwestern regions of the USA.
Page replacement algorithm In a computer operating system which utilises paging for virtual memory memory management, page replacement algorithms decide what pages to page out (swap out) when a page needs to be allocated. This happens when a page fault occurs and a free page cannot be used to satisfy the allocation, either because there are none, or because the number of free pages is lower than some threshold.
Page table A page table is the data structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer operating system to store the mapping between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are those unique to the accessing process.
Page Turn Page Turn is a piece of music for solo piano written by the Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. It is so named because it is physically impossible to turn the pages during a performance (except perhaps with one's teeth), due to the use of perpetuum mobile textures.
Page view A page view or page impression is a request to load a single page of an Internet site. On the World Wide Web a page request would result from a web surfer clicking on a link on another HTML page pointing to the page in question.
Page Valley The Page Valley is a small valley located between the Massanutten and Blue Ridge mountain ranges in western Virginia. The valley encompasses primarily the Page County, Virginia area and Southern Warren County, Virginia where it terminates a few miles before Front Royal, Virginia.
Page's trend test In statistics, the Page test for multiple comparisons between ordered correlated variables is the counterpart of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient which summarizes the association of continuous variables. It is also known as Page's trend test or Page's L test.
Page-Gilbert House The Page-Gilbert House is an historic home in the Hyde Park Historic District in Austin, Texas. It is also a part of the Shadow Lawn Historic District, a subdivision within the Hyde Park neighborhood established by Hyde Park founder Monroe Shipe.
Page-Ladson prehistory site The Page-Ladson prehistory site is a deep hole in the bed of the Aucilla River (between Jefferson and Taylor Counties in the Big Bend region of Florida) that has stratified deposits of late Pleistocene and early Holocene animal bones and human artifacts reaching back to about 14,500 to 12,500 years before the present. The earliest dates for artifacts recovered from the site are about 1,500 years before the advent of the Clovis culture.
Page-Vawter House Page-Vawter House in the town of Ansted in Fayette County, West Virginia was built in 1898 by company carpenters of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company for the family of William Nelson Page, who was company president. The palatial white Victorian mansion is located on a knoll in the middle of town.
Page, West Virginia Page is an unincorporated town in Fayette County, West Virginia. It was named for William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a civil engineer and industrialist who lived in nearby Ansted, where he managed Gauley Mountain Coal Company and many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises.
Page2 Page2 is a feature section of ESPN's website. The section contains humorous, opinionated articles on American sport, and regular contributors including "The Sports Guy" Bill Simmons, Jim Caple, Gregg Easterbrook and Chuck Klosterman.
Pageant (magazine) Pageant was a 20th-century monthly magazine, first published in the United States by Hillman Periodicals in November 1944. With its digest-size format, it became Coronet magazine's leading competition, although it aimed for comparison to Reader's Digest.
PageDefrag PageDefrag is a program, developed by Sysinternals but now distributed by Microsoft, for various Microsoft Windows operating systems that runs at start-up to defrag key files such as the virtual memory page file and the registry files.
Pageflakes Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.
PageNet Founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin, PageNet (Paging Network, Inc.) grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990's.
Pager A pager is an electronic device used to contact people via a paging network. It pre-dates mobile phone technology, being most popular during the 1980s and 1990s, but similarly uses radio transmissions to communicate between a control/call center and the recipient.
PageRank PageRank is a link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references.
Pages Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple Computer and a part of the iWork productivity suite sold by Apple for US$79 in the United States (£55 GBP in United Kingdom, €79 in most European countries). Pages 1.
PageStream PageStream, originally released under the name Publishing Partner, is a powerful desktop publishing package currently available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Amiga. It is believed to be favorably comparable, feature and capability-wise, to established industry standards such as QuarkXPress.
Pagham stream salamander The Pagham stream salamander or the Afghani brook salamander (Paradactylodon mustersi) is a salamander endemic to Afghanistan who inhabits cool highland streams. The total population is estimated to 1000-2000 adults.
Paghman Gardens After his 1927 – 1928 tour of Europe, India and Iran,King Amanullah brought in foreign experts to redesign Paghman. Paghman, a small village at the bottom of the Hindu Kush became a holiday retreat with villas and chalets as well as the summer capital.
Paging In computer operating systems, paging memory allocation (also called memory address translation) algorithms divide computer memory into small partitions, and allocate memory using a page as the smallest building block.
Pago Pago, American Samoa Pago Pago (pronounced ) by native Samoan-speakers and sometimes ( by others) is the capital city or the port city—of American Samoa, a territory of the United States of America. Its 1990 population was 10,640.
Pagoda A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly Buddhist, and were often located in or near temples.
Pagoda (band) Pagoda is a band from Brooklyn, New York with Michael Pitt as vocalist and guitarist, along with new additions: Reece on drums, Willy on bass, and Chris on cello. Their first self-titled album will be released later this year.
Pagoda Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia), also known as Alternate-leaved Dogwood) is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi.
Pagoda Mast The Pagoda mast was a type of superstructure, common on Japanese ships reconstructed during the 1930s in a bid to improve their fighting performance; these improvements were deemed necessary by the Imperial Japanese Navy owing the the "Battleships Holiday" imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, prohibiting the construction of new battleships until said Treaty's expiry in 1936.
Pagoda Street Pagoda Street (Chinese: 宝塔街) is a street located in Chinatown within the Outram Planning Area in Singapore. The road links New Bridge Road and South Bridge Road, but has since been converted to a pedestrian mall with the construction of an entrance to Chinatown MRT Station at its New Bridge Road end.
Pagué District Pagué is the single district of Príncipe Province. Out of the seven districts that make up the equatorial Atlantic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, its population is the smallest with approximately 5,400 residents.
Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte Pagudpud is a coastal resort town on the northernmost tip of Luzon in the Philippines. It is bounded to the south by the town of Bangui and to the east by the Cordillera Mountain Range, the town of Adams and the province of Cagayan.
Pagus In the later Western Roman Empire, following the reorganization of Diocletian, a pagus (compare French pays) became the smallest administrative district of a province. Previously it had been an informal designation for a rural district, as flexible in regard to its imprecise borders as the cultural horizons of those folk whose lives were circumscribed by their locality: agricultural workers, peasants, slaves.
Pah-Ute County, Arizona Pah-Ute County is a former county in the Arizona Territory, created from the division of the existing Mohave County on December 22 1865. Much of Pah-Ute County was in the small triangular section of what is now the southern part of the U.
Pah-wraith In the fictional Star Trek universe, Pah Wraiths (also spelled Pagh Wraiths, Bajoran for Soul Wraiths) are evil Bajoran Prophets, non-corporeal life-forms, who were expelled from the Bajoran wormhole and are imprisoned in the Bajoran Fire Caves on the planet Bajor. They serve as the ultimate villains of the DS9 series, being served by the show's arch-villain Gul Dukat and threatening to destroy the galaxy in the show's final episodes.
Pahan Silu Pahan Silu, which roughly translates to dancing candlelight from its original Sinhala (one of the three primary languages spoken on the island of Sri Lanka); is also the name of the band formed in late 2002 by American-born musician Priyan Weerappuli. Pahan Silu began performing publicly at the April 2003 Sri Lankan New Year celebration held in Detroit, Michigan; and within two years, had begun performing their original compositions alongside those of classically trained Sri Lankan musicians - including Sangeet Nipun Sanath Nandasiri during his 2005 tour of the United States.
Pahang Pahang (Jawi: ڨهڠ) is the largest state on Peninsular Malaysia, occupying the huge Pahang River river basin. It is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea.
Paharganj Paharganj (Hindi: पहाड़गंज, Urdu: پہاڑگںج , Punjabi: ਪਹਾੜਗਂਜ, literally 'hilly neighbourhood') is a section of Delhi, located just west of the New Delhi Railway Station. It is known for its concentration of affordable hotels, restaurants, and a wide variety of shops catering to both domestic travellers and foreign tourists, especially those travelling on a relatively low budget.
Pahari languages The Pahari languages, also known as Northern Zone languages, are a group of related Indo-Aryan languages or dialects spoken in the lower ranges of the Himalayas from Nepal in the east to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in the west. These languages fall into three groups: an eastern, consisting of the various dialects of Nepali, also known as Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, or Parbatiya; a central, spoken in Uttaranchal state, in Kumaon and Garhwal; and a western, spoken in Himachal Pradesh.
Pahari painting Pahari painting (literal meaning a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar means a mountain in Hindi) is a form of Indian painting, which developed and flourished during 17th-19th centuries in certain sub-Himalayan areas of India, particularly Himachal Pradesh. Pahari paintings were done mostly in miniature forms.
Paharpur Paharpur is a ruined city in Bangladesh which was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. The city was inhabited from the 800s until the 1300s by Mahayana Buddhists and served as an important intellectual and cultural center.
Paheli Paheli (Hindi: पहेली, Urdu: پہیلی, English: Riddle) is a Bollywood movie, released in India on June 24 2005, directed by Amol Palekar and produced by Gauri Khan, Sanjiv Chawla and Shahrukh Khan, who also plays the male lead. Paheli is based on the short story written by Vijayadan Detha and tells the story of a wife (Rani Mukerji) who is left by her husband (Shahrukh Khan) and visited by a ghost, disguised as her husband, who is in love with her and takes her husband's place.
Pahiatua Pahiatua is a rural service town in the southeastern North Island of New Zealand. Pahiatua is 60 kilometres north of Masterton and 30 kilometres east of Palmerston North, and is usually regarded as being in Wairarapa, although for local government purposes it is considered part of the Tararua district (which encompasses Eketahuna, Pahiatua, Woodville and Dannevirke).
Pahiatua Railcar Society The Pahiatua Railcar Society (PRS) is a society located in Pahiatua, New Zealand, dedicated to the restoration of railcars and other locomotives and rolling stock formerly operated by the New Zealand Railways Department. It is notable for possessing the sole remaining examples of the RM class 88 seater and Wairarapa railcars.
Pahiño Manuel Fernández Fernández (born January 21 1923, San Pelayo de Navia, Spain), commonly referred to as Pahíño, is a former Spanish footballer who played for Celta de Vigo, Real Madrid, Deportivo de La Coruña and Spain during the 1940s and 1950s. A prolific goalscorer, he twice won the Pichichi.
Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty (in Persian: دودمان پهلوی) of Iran began with the crowning of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925 and ended with the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and the subsequent collapse of the ancient tradition of Iranian monarchy.
Pahlavi script The Pahlavi script is one of the two essential characteristics of the Pahlavi system, a particular and exclusively written form of various Middle Iranian languages. The use of the Pahlavi system has so far been attested for Middle Iranian dialects of Parthia, Parsa, Sogdiana, Scythia and Khotan.
Pahoran In the Book of Mormon, Pahoran was the third chief judge over the people of Nephi, having inherited the judgement-seat from his father Nephihah, at the end of the 24th year of the reign of the judges over the Nephites, or 67 B.C.
Pahranagat Valley The Pahranagat Valley is located in Lincoln County, Nevada and is home to the Pahranagat Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The Rolling Stones of Pahranagat, a hoax article written by Dan De Quille of the Territorial Enterprise made this valley world famous in 1862.
Pahu The pahu is a traditional musical instrument of the native Hawaiian people. Carved from a single log and covered on the playing end with a stretched sharkskin, the pahu is played with the palms and fingers of the hand.
Pacha (The Emperor's New Groove) Pacha is a fictional character from the Walt Disney animated canon movie The Emperor's New Groove, in which he was voiced by John Goodman. He is a well-meaning peasant and family man, and a subject in the domain of the selfish Emperor Kuzco.
Pacha Khan Zadran Pacha Khan Zadran is a powerful militia leader, politician and Pashtun nationalist in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was the ex Soviet-fighter militia leader that drove the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 invasion, with American backing, and he subsequently assumed the governorship of the province.
Pachacamac The ancient city of Pachacamac is a ruin 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the LurĂ­n River. This site had at least one pyramid, cemetery and multicolored fresco of fish by the Early Intermediate period (c.
Pachadi Pachadi refers to traditional South Indian side-dish. In Kerela and Tamilnadu states Pachadi is typically composed of finely chopped and boiled vegetable added to yogurt with essentially coconut, green or red chillies,ginger, curry leaves and mustard seeds sauted in oil with other specific spices based on the South Indian region.
Pachaiyappa's College Pachaiyappa's College is one of the oldest educational institutions in Chennai, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Founded by Pachaiyappa Mudaliar in 1842 as Pachaiyappa's Central Institution, it was the first Hindu educational institution in South India, which was not funded by the British.
Pachaiyar River Pachaiyar River originates on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats approximately 1000 meters above sea level in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. It then flows in a winding course over the boundary between Cuddalore and Villupuram Taluks until in converges with the Tambaraparani River.
Pachakutic Pachakutic, from the Quechua language, is originally a concept associated with pre-Columbian Andean cultures, meaning "a change in the sun", or a movement of the Earth which will bring a new era. In its original context, it was associated with the type of creation myth found in much of the pre-Columbian Americas in which the present World had undergone several previous cycles of creation and renewal, and the present age was likewise part of such a great cycle; pachakutic referred to the completion of these cycles and the coming of a new era.
Pachamanca Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia), of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices. Other Andean produce, such as potato, sweet potato, and occasionally cassava, as well as ground maize and chile, is included in the baking.
Pachaug State Forest Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in the Connecticut state forest system, encompassing over 27,000 acres of land. It is located on the Rhode Island border in New London County, and parcels of the forest lie in the towns of Voluntown, Griswold, Plainfield, Sterling, North Stonington, and Preston.
Pacheedaht First Nation The Pacheedaht First Nation is a First Nation based on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Although the Pacheedaht people are Nuu-chah-nulth-aht by culture and language, they are not a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and define themselves differently.
Pachinko is a gaming device used for amusement and prizes and is related to pinball machines. Although originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine.
Pachir Wa Agam District Pachir Wa Agam is a district in the south-east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 39,280 in 2002, of whom 15,700 were children under 12.
Pachira aquatica Pachira aquatica (previously Bombax glabrum and also known as "Money tree") is a tropical wetland tree which is known by the common names Malabar chestnut, Guiana chestnut, and saba nut. It is native to Central and South America, where it grows in swamps.
Pachliopta aristolochiae The Common Rose (Atrophaneura (Pachliopta) aristolochiae) is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Pachliopta subgenus, the Roses, of the genus Atrophaneura or Red-bodied Swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across South and South East Asia.
Pachliopta pandiyana Malabar Rose Atrophaneura (Pachliopta) pandiyana is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Pachliopta subgenus, the Roses, of the genus Atrophaneura or the Red-bodied Swallowtails. It resembles the Common Rose, Pachliopta aristolochiae from which it can be differentiated by the much larger white patch on its hindwings.
Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve is a conservation area in the Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh state, India. It was created on March 3 1999 by the Indian Government, and covers parts of Hoshangabad, Betul, and Chhindwara districts.
Pacho Galan Pacho Galan (1906—1979) was a Colombian composer and band leader of several Colombian music forms, including porro, cumbia, gaita and merercumbe. His songs include Boquita Sala, Rio Y Mar, Fiesta de Cumbia, Cumbia Alegre and Ay Cosita Linda, which became one of his most famous after Nat King Cole recorded his own rendition of the song.
Pacho O'Donnell Mario O'Donnell (Buenos Aires, 1941), best known as Pacho O'Donnell, is an Argentine writer, politician and physician specialized in psychoanalysis. He is the son of Mario Antonio O'Donnell and Susana Lucrecia Ure, and is married to Susana Evans Civit, with whom he had five children.
Pachuco Pachucos were Mexican American youth who developed their own subculture during the 1930s and 1940s in the Southwestern United States. They wore distinctive clothes (such as Zoot Suits) and spoke their own dialect (CalĂł).
Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the Australo-Papuan corvid lineage. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia: Australia in particular, but also New Guinea, New Zealand, and in the case of the whistlers, the South Pacific islands and parts of Indonesia.
Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosauria (Greek for 'thick headed lizards') is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs. Candidates for the earliest known pachycephalosaur include Ferganocephale adenticulatum from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now Kyrgyzstan and Stenopelix valdensis from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Germany, although Sullivan (2006) doubts that either of these species are pachycephalosaurs.
Pachycereus Pachycereus is a genus of 9-12 species of large cacti, native to Mexico and just into southern Arizona, USA. They form large shrubs or small trees up to 5-15 m or more tall, with stout stems up to 1 m diameter.
Pachyderm Studio The Pachyderm Recording Studio, located in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota southeast of the Twin Cities, is one of the most famous recording studios in Minnesota, perhaps second after Prince's Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. A secluded location on a 40 acre private park in old-growth woods with a trout stream, along with vintage recording equipment including tube microphones and a Neve 8068 console (the same board that was used in Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio) have lured many well-known artists to the site.
Pachydermata The Pachydermata (meaning "thick skin") is an obsolete order of mammals described by Georges Cuvier and at one time recognised by many systematists. Because it is polyphyletic, the order Pachydermata is no longer in use, but it is important in the history of systematics.
Pachylia ficus The Fig sphinx (Pachylia ficus) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It lives from the northern tip of South America in Uruguay through Central America to the southern tip of the United States straying into Arizona and Texas.
Pachyornis The genus Pachyornis is an extinct group of ratites from New Zealand which belonged to the moa family. They are the largest genus of moa, containing 3-5 species, and are part of the Anomalopteryginae or Lesser Moa subfamily.
Pachypleurosaur Pachypleurosaurs were primitive Triassic sauropterygian reptiles that vaguely resembled aquatic lizards, and are limited to the Triassic period. They were elongate animals, ranging in size from 20 cm to about a meter in length, with small heads, long necks, paddle-like limbs, and long deep tails.
Pachypodium ambongense Pachypodium ambongense belongs to the dogbane family Apocynaceae, which has recently been merged with the milkweed family Asclepiadaceae. It was first published as a species of the genus Pachypodium in 1924 by the botanist Henri Louis Poisson.
Pachypodium baronii Madagascar palm (Pachypodium baronii), also known as bontaka, is a flowering plant in the Dogbane family Apocynaceae (which has been recently merged with Milkweed family Asclepiadaceae). It has the habit of a robust shrub with a spherical or bottle-shaped trunk.
Pachypodium habitats Pachypodium habitats consist of isolated, specialized, micro-environmental niches, generally xeric, rocky, frost-free areas within parts of western Madagascar and southern Africa. Pachypodium species are often indifferent to the regional ecological, biotic zone of vegetation, a fact which explains some of Pachypodium morphology and architecture.
Pachypodium lealii The Bottle tree (Pachypodium lealii) is a species of plant included in the genus Pachypodium. The scientific name derives from the 19th century Portuguese geologist Fernando da Costa Leal, who described the Bottle tree during an exploration in southern Angola.
Pachysandra Pachysandra is a genus of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the Boxwood Family, Buxaceae. The species are native to eastern Asia and southeast North America, some reaching a height of 20-45 cm, with only weakly woody stems.
Pachysandra procumbens Pachysandra procumbens (Allegheny Pachysandra or Allegheny Spurge) is a flowering plant in the family Buxaceae, native to southeast United States from West Virginia and Kentucky south to Florida, and west to Louisiana. The name Allegheny is sometimes spelled Alleghany.
Pai gow poker Pai Gow poker (or Double-hand poker) is an Americanized version of Pai Gow, in that it is played with playing cards using poker hand rankings, while Pai Gow is played with Chinese dominoes. The games of Pai Gow poker and Super Pan-9 — though the latter is not a poker game — were co-created by Sam Torosian and Fred Wolf.
Pai Hsien-yung Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (白先勇, pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng, born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War.
Pai Mei Pai Mei (Chinese: 白眉; Wade-Giles: Pai Mei; pinyin: Bái Méi; literally White Eyebrow) is a fictional character popularized in the west in Kill Bill (2004), a film by Quentin Tarantino. The character is based on Bak Mei, a historical martial artist from China.
Paibi Paibi (), a village in Hunan, China, is the location of the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) which marks the boundary between the third and Furongian epochs of the Cambrian era on the geologic time scale. Paibi was selected over the Kyrshabakty River section, Malyi Karatau, Kazakhstan, and the GSSP was ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences in late 2003.
Paice, Ashton & Lord Paice, Ashton and Lord (PAL), was a rhythm and blues, funky-soul, rock band founded after the break-up of the British superband Deep Purple in 1977. Ian Paice and Jon Lord, Deep Purple's drummer and keyboardist, joined friend Tony Ashton, a British keyboardist and singer, for this project; the band was completed with Bernie Marsden on guitar and Paul Martinez on bass.
Paid content Paid Content is the non-free electronic commerce of digital content and information goods in digital media. Examples of digital media are, for example, the Internet, the World Wide Web or mobile media (cellphones, PDA).
Paid Family Leave California's Paid Family Leave (PFL) insurance program, which is also known as the Family Temporary Disability Insurance (FTDI) program, is a law enacted in 2002 that extends unemployment disability compensation to cover individuals who take time off of work to care for a seriously ill family member or bond with a new minor child. Benefits equal approximately 55% of earnings and have a maximum per week.

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