Palaearctic vegetation (from the article "Africa") ...that as little as 15,000 years ago an amelioration of the present Saharan climate enabled ...
Palaechthon (from the article "primate") ...primates date to about 60 million years ago, as complete skulls and partial postcranial skeletons ...
Palaeobranchia (from the article "mollusk") ...ciliary suspension feeders burrowing in soft sediments or attached by byssus gland of foot on ...
Palaeocaridacea (from the article "crustacean") ...with pleopods and terminal uropods. Superorder Syncarida Carboniferous to present; no carapace. †Order Palaeocaridacea Carboniferous to Permian; first thoracic ...
Palaeocastor (from the article "beaver") ...history of 24 extinct genera extending back to the Late Eocene Epoch of Asia and ...
Palaeoctopus newboldi (from the article "cephalopod") In the Octopoda the shell persists as cartilaginous stylets or fin supports. Palaeoctopus newboldi , the ...
Palaeodonta (from the article "artiodactyl") ...in three suborders; the more primitive Suiformes, centred around pigs, the Tylopoda, centred on camels, ...
Palaeoheterodonta (from the article "bivalve") ...scallops capable of swimming; some deepwater scallops predatory; marine; epibyssate; cemented by lower or left ...
Palaeologus family Byzantine family that became prominent in the 11th century, the members of which married into ... [4 Related Articles]
Palaeologus, Thomas Komnenus (from the article "Greece, history of") ...Greek recovery, it was taken by the Serbs in 1348. Ioannina and Arta were its ...
Palaeologus, Zoe (from the article "Ivan III") ...only too real, and another wife had to be sought. Curiously, the initiative seems to ...
Palaeonisciformes (from the article "fish") ...fishes they had peculiar looking jaws and tails. Their tails were heterocercal. On their bodies ...
Palaeopalaemon (from the article "crustacean") ...evolved by this time. It is only when the later, more highly evolved class Malacostraca ...
Palaeopropithecidae (from the article "primate") ...Indridae (indris, sifakas, and avahis) 3 genera and about 14 species from Madagascar. Holocene. Family Palaeopropithecidae (sloth ...
Palaeoscincus (from the article "dinosaur") ...bony plates that completely encased the back and flanks. Most ankylosaurs, such as
Palaeospondyliformes (from the article "fish") ...covering skin in some; gill bars and jaws well developed in reasonably well-preserved specimens; marine. ...
Palaeospondylus genus of enigmatic fossil vertebrates that were very fishlike in appearance but of uncertain relationships. ... [1 Related Articles]
Palaeostomatopoda (from the article "crustacean") ...eyes stalked; 2 movable segments in head; carapace leaves 4 thoracic segments uncovered; second thoracic ...
Palaeotaxodonta (from the article "bivalve") ...parasitic, and some deepwater species predatory; microphagous feeding; mostly marine, at all depths, also estuarine ...
Palaestina Salutaris (from the article "Arabia") ...and Trachonitis, with Bozrah as the capital, and a southern province, with Petra as capital. ...
Palagonia, Villa (from the article "Bagheria") town, northwestern Sicily, Italy, 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of the city of Palermo. A ...
Palaic language one of the ancient Anatolian languages, Palaic was spoken in Pala, a land located to ... [2 Related Articles]
Palaiphatos (from the article "myth") ...the scrutiny of myths in such a way as to make sense of the statements ...
palais a volonte (from the article "theatre") ...1689 from a converted tennis court. The stage was equipped for flat wings and shutters, ...
Palais-Bourbon (from the article "Delacroix, Eugene") ...Delacroix was favoured with a string of important commissions to decorate government buildings. His first ...
Palais-Royal (from the article "Paris") Opposite the middle of the Louvre, the Place du Palais-Royal leads to the palace of ...
Palais-Royal Theatre Paris playhouse most noted for 17th-century productions by Moliere. [3 Related Articles]
Palakus (from the article "Scythian") ...the royal family intermarried with Greeks. In 339 the ruler Ateas was killed at the ...
Palamas, Kostis Greek poet who was important in the evolution of modern Greek literature. [1 Related Articles]
Palamas, Saint Gregory Orthodox monk, theologian, and intellectual leader of Hesychasm, an ascetical method of mystical prayer that ... [10 Related Articles]
Palamedes in Greek legend, the son of Nauplius (king of Euboea) and Clymene and a hero ... [1 Related Articles]
Palamon (from the article "Two Noble Kinsmen, The") ...of Athens, is preparing to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, accompanied by her sister, ...
palampores (from the article "crewel work") Crewel work designs were inspired by source books of ornaments or embroidery pattern books that ...
Palana urban settlement and administrative centre of Koryak autonomous okrug (district), Kamchatka oblast (province), far eastern ...
Palance, Jack American actor (b. Feb. 18, 1919, Lattimer Mines, Pa.-d. Nov. 10, 2006, Montecito, Calif.), was ... [1 Related Articles]
Palangkaraya kotamadya (municipality), capital of Central Kalimantan propinsi (province), south-central Borneo, Indonesia. Palangkaraya lies west of ... [1 Related Articles] Palanpur city, Gujarat state, west-central India. It lies in the lowlands between the Aravalli Range and ...
Palaquium oblongifolia (from the article "gutta-percha") yellowish or brownish leathery material derived from the latex of certain trees in Malaysia, the ...
Palar River river in southern India. It rises near the Ponnaiyar River, southwest of Chintamani, in Karnataka ...
palas pileless, handwoven floor covering made in most of the rug-weaving areas of the Middle East. ...
palatal in phonetics, a consonant sound produced by raising the blade, or front, of the tongue ... [2 Related Articles]
palatal plate (from the article "cleft palate") a fairly common congenital deformity in which the palatal plates (in the roof of the ...
palatal vowel harmony (from the article "Altaic languages") The Altaic languages exhibit two kinds of sound harmony affecting the vowels and velar stops. ...
palatalization in phonetics, the production of consonants with the blade, or front, of the tongue drawn ... [2 Related Articles]
palate in vertebrate anatomy, the roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities. It ... [8 Related Articles]
Palatinate in German history, the lands of the count palatine, a title held by a leading ... [8 Related Articles]
Palatine village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Palatine is a suburb of Chicago, lying about 30 ...
palatine any of diverse officials found in numerous countries of medieval and early modern Europe. Originally ... [1 Related Articles]
Palatine Chapel private chapel associated with a residence, especially of an emperor. Many of the early Christian ... [4 Related Articles]
Palatine Chapel (from the article "Palermo") Palermo has some notable buildings from the Norman and succeeding periods. A distinctive Arab-Norman architecture ...
Palatine Gate (from the article "Turin") ...and Augusta Taurinorum, rebuilt by the emperor Augustus in the form of an enclosed rectangle ...
Palatine Hill four-sided plateau rising 131 feet (40 metres) south of the Forum in Rome and 168 ... [5 Related Articles]
Palatine Honour Guard (from the article "Pontifical Gendarmerie") ...Vatican City. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries they shared jurisdiction with the ...
palatine tonsil (from the article "digestive system, human") ...pharynx. The latter two are airways, whereas the oral pharynx is shared by both the ...
Palatino, Giovanni Battista (from the article "calligraphy") In Rome in 1540 Giovanni Battista Palatino published his Libro nuovo d'imparare ...
Palatka city, seat (1849) of Putnam county, northeastern Florida, U.S., on the broad St. Johns River, ...
palato-alveolar consonant (from the article "Romance languages") One noticeable difference between Latin and all the Romance languages is that the consonantal systems ...
Palau country in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of some 340 coral and volcanic islands ... [21 Related Articles]
Palau Declaration (from the article "Palau") ...Taiwan, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu to the first Taiwan-Pacific Allies Summit. ...
Palau owl (from the article "owl") ...most oceanic islands. Some, such as the barn owl (Tyto alba ) and the short-eared owl ...
Palau, flag of national flag consisting of a blue field with a prominent, off-centre golden disk. The flag's ...
Palauan (from the article "Palau") ...in a diverse population, which since the late 18th century has also included Europeans, Japanese, ...
Palauan language major language of Palau, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is classified as belonging to ... [3 Related Articles]
Palaung hill people of the Shan region and adjacent areas of eastern Myanmar (Burma), as well ... [1 Related Articles]
Palaungic languages branch of the Mon-Khmer group of the Austroasiatic languages. Palaungic languages are spoken primarily in ...
Palawan island, the southwesternmost large island of the Philippines. Palawan is long and narrow and trends ... [1 Related Articles]
Palawan stink badger (from the article "badger") Stink badgers consist of two species, the Malayan stink badger (Mydaus javanensis ), ...
Palayankottai city, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It lies across the Tambraparni River from its ...
Palazzeschi, Aldo (from the article "Italian literature") ...(1927; The Devil at the Long Bridge ) and Il mulino del Po (1938-40; The Mill ...
Palazzetto dello Sport (from the article "stadium") ...17,500 (both original structures have been demolished). For the 1960 Olympics in Rome, the leading ...
Palazzo del Te summer palace and horse farm near Mantua, Italy, of Duke Federico Gonzaga II. It was ... [2 Related Articles]
Palazzolo Acreide town, southeastern Sicily, Italy. It lies in the Iblei Mountains, west of Syracuse. The successor ...
Palcephalopoda (from the article "mollusk") ...about 600 recent species (some 10,000 fossil forms) of 1 cm to 8 m (+14 ...
pale (from the article "heraldry") The honourable ordinaries and subordinaries may be generally agreed as numbering about 20. Among them ...
pale (from Latin palus, "stake"), district separated from the surrounding country by defined boundaries or distinguished ...
pale ale (from the article "beer") ...by the market porters in London. Brewers in Burton upon Trent, using the famous hard ...
pale fox (from the article "fox") ...slopes and streambeds of Nepal; length to 70 cm, weight up to 4 kg or ...
pale kangaroo mouse (from the article "kangaroo mouse") ...megacephalus ) has buff or brownish upperparts tinted with black and has gray or whitish underparts ...
Pale of Settlement (from the article "pale") In imperial Russia, what came to be called the Pale of Settlement (Cherta Osedlosti) came ...
pale, soft, and exudative meat (from the article "meat processing") Pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) meat is the result of a rapid postmortem pH decline ...
Pale, The (from the article "pale") Other examples of pales include the English pales in Ireland and France. "The Pale" in ...
pale-headed saki (from the article "saki") The male pale-headed saki (P. pithecia ) is black with a whitish face ...
palea (from the article "Poaceae") ...overlapping scales. There are three kinds of scales. The lowermost, called glumes, are usually two ...
palea (from the article "fern") ...a headlike cluster of secretory terminal cells), simple (unbranched) nonglandular hairs; dendroid hairs (branching filaments), ...
Palec, Stepan (from the article "Hus, Jan") ...Hus did not share all of Wycliffe's radical views, such as that on remanence, but ...
Palembang kotamadya (municipality) and capital of South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) propinsi (province), Indonesia. It lies on ... [2 Related Articles]
Palencia provincia (province) in the Castile-Leon comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), ... Palencia capital of Palencia provincia (province), in Castile-Leon comunidad autonoma ...
Palencia, University of (from the article "Spain") ...Islamic religious texts in the 12th century for Peter the Venerable, the abbot of Cluny. ...
Palenque Indian tribe of northern Venezuela at the time of the Spanish conquest (16th century). The ... [1 Related Articles]
Palenque ruined ancient Mayan city of the Late Classic Period (c. AD 600-900) in what is ... [2 Related Articles]
Paleo Tethys Sea (from the article "Asia") ...collage was coeval with the late Paleozoic assembly of the Pangaea supercontinent (between about 320 ...
Paleo-Indian culture (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...reached widespread agreement that the first settlement of the Americas took place almost 20,000 years ...
Paleo-Siberian any member of those peoples of northeastern Siberia who are believed to be remnants of ... [2 Related Articles]
Paleo-Siberian languages languages spoken in Asian Russia (Siberia) that belong to four genetically unrelated groups-Yeniseian, Luorawetlan, Yukaghir, ... [2 Related Articles]
paleoanthropology interdisciplinary branch of anthropology concerned with the origins and development of early humans. Fossils are ... [6 Related Articles]
paleobiogeography (from the article "paleogeography") The past distribution of plants and animals can give important clues about the latitudinal position ...
paleobotany (from the article "geology") Paleobotany is the study of fossil plants. The oldest widely occurring fossils are various forms ...
paleoceanography (from the article "ocean") Through knowledge of the ocean sedimentary record, the history of plate motions, glacial changes, and ...
Paleocene Epoch first major worldwide division of rocks and time of the Paleogene Period, spanning the interval ... [12 Related Articles]
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (from the article "climate change") ...interval of maximum temperature occurred during the late Paleocene and early Eocene epochs (48 million ...
paleocerebellum (from the article "nervous system") ...part of the cerebellum-the archicerebellum-is concerned with equilibrium and connected with the inner ear and ...
paleoclimatology scientific study of the climatic conditions of past geologic ages. Paleoclimatologists seek to explain climate ... [21 Related Articles]
paleoconservatism (from the article "conservatism") ...Abortion, immigration, national sovereignty, and "family values" were among the issues that rallied supporters but ...
paleocontinent (from the article "Silurian Period") Much of North America (including Greenland), northwestern Ireland, Scotland, and the Chukotskiy Peninsula of northeastern ...
paleoecology (from the article "Silurian Period") ...that commonly conformed to ecological zonation. One way in which zonation expresses itself is through ...
paleoform (from the article "inselberg") The occurrence of inselbergs implies immense variations in the rates of degradational activity on the ...
Paleogammarus (from the article "amphipod") ...ones. One enigma is the enormous diversity of species, more than 290 in the Siberian ...
Paleogene Period older of the two stratigraphic divisions of the Cenozoic Era spanning the interval between 65.5 ... [1 Related Articles]
paleogeography the ancient geography of Earth's surface. Earth's geography is constantly changing: continents move as a ... [12 Related Articles]
paleogeology the geology of a region at any given time in the distant past. Paleogeologic reconstructions ...
paleography study of ancient and medieval handwriting. The term is derived from the Greek [7 Related Articles]
paleohydrology science concerned with hydrologic systems as they existed during previous periods of Earth history. Changing ...
paleolake (from the article "playa") Modern geochronologic techniques, such as radiocarbon dating, permit the comparison of fluctuations in the paleolakes ...
Paleolithic Period ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development, characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped ... [32 Related Articles]
Paleologue, Maurice-Georges French diplomat and writer who encouraged the Franco-Russian alliance before and during World War I. [1 Related Articles]
paleontology scientific study of life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and ... [34 Related Articles]
paleopallium (from the article "nervous system") ...the older vertebrates the forebrain is divided into the olfactory bulb-where the olfactory nerve fibres ...
paleoprimatology (from the article "primate") The Miocene Epoch (23.8 million to 5.3 million years ago) is probably the most fruitful ...
paleoprotistology (from the article "protist") Paleoprotistology, the study of extinct protists (i.e., of the parts that were capable of becoming ...
Paleoptera (from the article "insect") ...the insects, that is, all the Pterygota (as shown in Figure 1) arose from a ...
paleosol (from the article "Earth, geologic history of") ...an oxygenous atmosphere. Yet, these minerals are well preserved in their original unoxidized state in ...
Paleothyris (from the article "reptile") The earliest known reptiles, Hylonomus and Paleothyris , date from Late Carboniferous deposits of North America. ...
Paleotropical kingdom (from the article "biogeographic region") This kingdom extends from Africa, excluding strips along the northern and southern edges, through the ...
Paleotropical realm (from the article "biogeographic region") The Paleotropical, or Afro-Tethyan, realm (Figure 2) is clearly divided into two regions, which are ...
paleovalley (from the article "valley") The southwestern desert of Egypt is one of the most arid places on Earth. The ...
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