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Pasadena city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is located in the San Gabriel Valley, at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The area was part of Rancho el Rincon de San Pasqual, a northeast section of the San Gabriel Mission (1771). The city was founded in 1874 by ... Pasadena city, Harris county, southeastern Texas, U.S. It borders Houston (west) between the Houston Ship Channel and the Clear Lake area. It was founded in 1895 by J.H. Burnett and named after Pasadena, California. Several oil refineries had been built in the area by 1920. The city's rapid growth after World ... Pasadena Playhouse theatre in Pasadena, California, that was one of the first community theatres in the United States. It was founded in 1917-18 when Gilmor Brown organized a semiprofessional acting company known as the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association. The group obtained its own 700-seat theatre (the Pasadena Playhouse) in 1925, and it ... Pasargadae first dynastic capital of the Persian Achaemenian dynasty, situated on a plain northeast of Persepolis in southwestern Iran. According to tradition, Cyrus II (the Great; reigned 559-c. 529 BCE) chose the site because it lay near the scene of his victory over Astyages the Mede (550). The name of the ... Pasay city, central Luzon, Philippines, situated on the eastern shore of Manila Bay. A major residential suburb of Manila (immediately north), it is well known for the nightclubs that line the waterfront along Roxas (formerly Dewey) Boulevard. Pasay is densely populated and highly commercialized. Araneta University (1946) is located in the ... Pascagoula city, seat (1812) of Jackson county, southeastern Mississippi, U.S. It is situated on Pascagoula Bay of Mississippi Sound (an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico), at the mouth of the Pascagoula River adjacent to Moss Point (north) and Gautier (west), 21 miles (34 km) east of Biloxi. The Gulf Coast ... Pascal a computer programming language developed about 1970 by Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland to teach structured programming, which emphasizes the orderly use of conditional and loop control structures without GOTO statements. Although Pascal resembled ALGOL in notation, it provided the ability to define data types with which to organize complex information, ... pascal unit of pressure in the metre-kilogram-second system. (See the International System of Units.) It was named in honour of the French mathematician-physicist Blaise Pascal (1623-62). A pascal is a pressure of one newton per square metre; this unit is inconveniently small for many purposes, and the kilopascal (kPa) of 1,000 ... Pascal's principle in fluid (gas or liquid) mechanics, statement that, in a fluid at rest in a closed container, a pressure change in one part is transmitted without loss to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the container. The principle was first enunciated by the French scientist Blaise ... Pascal's triangle in algebra, a triangular arrangement of numbers that gives the coefficients in the expansion of any binomial expression, such as (x+y)n. It is named for the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, but it is far older. Chinese mathematician Jia Xian devised a triangular representation for the coefficients in the 11th ... Pascal's wager Practical argument for belief in God formulated by Blaise Pascal. In his Pensees (1657-58), Pascal posed the following argument to show that belief in the Christian religion is rational: If the Christian God does not exist, the agnostic loses little by believing in him and gains correspondingly little by not ... Pascal, Blaise French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal's law of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason. The establishment ... Pascaline the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644. It could only do addition and subtraction, with numbers being entered by manipulating its dials. Pascal invented the machine ... Paschal (I) antipope against both the rival antipope Theodore and the legitimate pope St. Sergius I during 687. Paschal (III) antipope from 1164 to 1168. Paschal controversies in the Christian Church, disputes concerning the correct date for observing Easter (Greek Pascha). The earliest controversy was over the question of whether Easter should always be celebrated on a Sunday or on the actual day of the Jewish lunar month (14th of Nisan) on which the Paschal lamb was ... Paschal I, Saint pope from 817 to 824. Paschal II pope from 1099 to 1118. Paschal lamb in Judaism, the lamb sacrificed at the first Passover, on the eve of the Exodus from Egypt, the most momentous event in Jewish history. According to the story of the Passover (Exodus, chapter 12), the Jews marked their doorposts with the blood of the lamb, and this sign spared them ... Paschasius Radbertus, Saint French abbot, theologian, and author whose monograph De corpore et sanguine Christi ("Concerning Christ's Body and Blood") later became the dominant interpretation of the Eucharist. Pascin, Jules Bulgarian-born painter, renowned for his delicate draftsmanship and sensitive studies of women. Pasco city, seat (1889) of Franklin county, southeastern Washington, U.S., situated at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, opposite Kennewick and immediately southeast of Richland. Established on the site of a prehistoric Indian village in 1880, when the Northern Pacific Railway (now Burlington Northern Sante Fe) reached that point, ... Pascoaes, Teixeira de Portuguese poet-philosopher who attempted to create a cult of nationalistic mystique based on saudade ("yearning"; an overtone in Portuguese and Brazilian lyric poetry that fuses hope and nostalgia). His work, together with that of Antonio Nobre, was at the core of the Renascenca Portuguesa (Portuguese Renaissance) of the early 20th ... Pascoli, Giovanni Italian classical scholar and poet whose graceful and melancholy Italian lyric poems, perfect in form, rhythmic in style, and innovative in wording, were an important influence on the crepuscolari ("twilight poets"; see crepuscolarismo). Pasek, Jan Chryzostom Polish soldier best remembered for his memoirs, which provide an excellent example of Polish Baroque prose. pasha title of a man of high rank or office in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. It was the highest official title of honour in the Ottoman Empire, always used with a proper name, which it followed. It was given to soldiers and high civil officials, not to men of ... Pashto language member of the Iranian division of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages. Extensive borrowing has caused Pashto to share many features of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European languages as well. Originally spoken by the Pashtun people, Pashto became the national language of Afghanistan in 1936. It is spoken by ... Pashtun Pashto-speaking people residing primarily in the region that lies between the Hindu Kush in northeastern Afghanistan and the northern stretch of the Indus River in Pakistan. They constitute the majority of the population of Afghanistan and bore the exclusive name of Afghan before that name came to denote any native ... Pashupata perhaps the earliest Hindu sect to worship the god Shiva as the supreme deity; it gave rise in turn to numerous subsects that flourished in Gujarat and Rajasthan, at least until the 12th century, and also travelled to Java and Cambodia. The sect takes its name from Pashupati, an epithet ... Pashupati town, central Nepal, situated in the Kathmandu Valley on the Baghmati River, just east of Kathmandu. Regarded as the holiest place in Nepal, it is the site of an ancient Saivite (i.e., devoted to the Hindu god Siva) temple of Pasupatinatha (Pashupatinath). The temple is built in pagoda style with ... Pasic, Nikola prime minister of Serbia (1891-92, 1904-05, 1906-08, 1909-11, 1912-18) and prime minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1918, 1921-24, 1924-26). He was one of the founders, in 1918, of the kingdom that would later (from 1929 to 2003) be called Yugoslavia. Pasig River river draining Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines, into Manila Bay at Manila. It flows north-northwest through the market town of Pasig and bisects Manila, then enters the bay between the North and South harbours. Its length is 14 mi (23 km). The wharves and quays at ... Pasinetti, Francesco Italian motion picture director, historian, critic, comedy writer, screenwriter, and film scholar. Pasiteles Greek sculptor notable for having written a book, in five volumes, about works of art throughout the world. None of Pasiteles' own sculpture has survived. Paskevich, Ivan Fyodorovich, Graf Yerevansky, Knyaz Varshchavsky military officer and administrator in the Russian government who suppressed the Polish insurrection of 1830-31. Paso, Fernando del Mexican novelist and artist known for his long, experimental, often humorous novels covering the breadth and history of Mexican culture. Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italian motion-picture director, poet, and novelist, noted for his socially critical, stylistically unorthodox films. Paspalum genus of annual and perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, containing about 400 species distributed throughout warm regions of the world. Some are valuable forage grasses. Paspalum dilatatum, a South American species, is also grown in pastures in Australia and North America (where it is known as dallis grass). P. ... Pasqua, Charles French businessman and politician who served as interior minister of France (1986-88; 1993-95). Pasquier, Etienne French lawyer and man of letters who is known for his Recherches de la France, 10 vol. (1560-1621), which is not only encyclopaedic but also an important work of historical scholarship. Pasquier, Etienne, duc de French statesman and the last chancellor of France. pasquinade brief and generally anonymous satirical comment in prose or verse that ridicules a contemporary leader or national event. Pasquinade is derived from "Pasquino," the popular name for the remains of an ancient Roman statue unearthed in Rome in 1501. "Pasquino," supposedly named after a local shopkeeper near whose house or ... Pass Christian city, Harrison county, southern Mississippi, U.S., just west-southwest of Gulfport, on Mississippi Sound (an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico). It is named for the nearby deepwater channel known as Christian's Pass, which runs through the sound along the Gulf Coast, supposedly navigated in 1699 by Christian L'Adnier, a member ... passacaglia (Italian, from Spanish passacalle, or pasacalle: "street song"), musical form of continuous variation in 34 time; and a courtly dance. The dance, as it first appeared in 17th-century Spain, was of unsavoury reputation and possibly quite fiery. In the French theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries it was a ... Passage to India, A novel by E.M. Forster published in 1924 and considered one of the author's finest works. The novel examines racism and colonialism as well as a theme Forster developed in many earlier works, namely, the need to maintain both ties to the earth and a cerebral life of the imagination. Passaic county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., bordered by New York state to the north and the Pequannock and Pompton rivers to the south; the Passaic River, which crosses the southeastern portion of the county, forms part of the southern and eastern borders. The terrain of the rural northwestern arm of the ... Passaic city, Passaic county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., on the Passaic River, 9 miles (14 km) north of Newark. It was established by the Dutch in 1678 as a fur-trading post. In 1685 Hartman Michielson purchased the site, then called Acquackanonk, from the Delaware Indians. It was renamed for the Passaic ... Passaic River river, rising near Morristown, southeastern Morris county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It flows south past Millington, then north and east to Paterson and its Great Falls (70 feet [21 metres] high), at which point it turns south and east past Passaic and Newark and into Newark Bay. Some 80 miles ... Passamaquoddy Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived on Passamaquoddy Bay, the St. Croix River, and Schoodic Lake on the boundary between what are now Maine, U.S., and New Brunswick, Can. Passamaquoddy Bay inlet of the Bay of Fundy (Atlantic Ocean), between southwestern New Brunswick, Can., and southeastern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Deer Island and Campobello Island are in its southern part. The bay has an immense tidal flow, with about 70,000,000,000 cu ft (2,000,000,000 cu m) ... Passarge, Siegfried geographer and geomorphologist known for his studies of southern Africa.