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Cambridge Encyclopedia Vol. 58

Persephone - The abduction myth, Modern scholarship on Persephone, Consorts/children

Persepolis - Construction, Archaeological Research, Site, Ruins, The Gate of All Nations, Apadana Palace, The Throne Hall

Perseus (astronomy) - Origin at Argos, Adventures with the Gorgons, Marriage with Andromeda, The oracle fulfilled, King of Mycenae

Perseus (mythology) - Origin at Argos, Adventures with the Gorgons, Marriage with Andromeda, The oracle fulfilled, King of Mycenae

Pershing missile - Development, Pershing I, Pershing Ia, Pershing II, Pershing Ib and Pershing 2 RR, Elimination

Persian Empire - Name, History, Timeline, Persia in fiction

Persian Gulf - Geography, Oil and gas, Naming dispute, British residency

Persian literature - Classical Persian literature, Dictionaries, Persian phrases, The influence of Persian literature on world literature

persimmon - Fruit, Culinary use, Wood

Persius - Life, Work

personal computer (PC) - History, Uses, Configuration, Laptop computers, Non IBM-compatible personal computers

perspective

Perth (Australia) - Geography, Sport, Other

Perth (Scotland) - Geography, Sport, Other

perturbation theory - Examples, History, Perturbation orders, First-order non-singular perturbation theory

Peru - History, Politics of Peru, Cities, Geography, Economy, Military, Demographics, Culture, Folkloric expressions, Transportation, Cuisine, Sports

Perugia - History

Pervez Musharraf - Family background, Early life, Military career, Coup d'état, Presidential elections, Electoral College elections

Pescasseroli

Peshawar - History, Geography and climate, Demographics, Culture, Educational institutions, Sites of interest, Famous people, Transport

pesticide - Types of Pesticides, History, Regulation, Effects of pesticide use, Pesticide residues in food, Dangers of pesticides

petal

Pete Maravich - Basketball career, Later life, Legacy, Awards and records, Further reading

Pete Rozelle - Early life, Commissioner, Retirement and death

Pete Sampras - Titles (66), Grand Slam singles finals, Masters Series singles finals, Performance timeline

Peter (Albert David) Singer - Applied ethics, Meta-ethics and foundational issues

Peter (Barker Howard) May - External references

Peter (Bradford) Benchley - Early life, Jaws, Subsequent career, Death, Work

Peter (Bruce) Lilley - Offices held

Peter (Carl) Goldmark

Peter (Charles) Doherty

Peter (Edward) Cook

Peter (Ferdinand) Drucker - Basic ideas, Awards and Critique, List of publications, Books about Peter Drucker

Peter (Gerald) Hain - Early life in South Africa, Move to the UK, Publications

Peter (Hardeman) Burnett

Peter (Henry) Barnes - Early years, Mature works, Later life, Reference

Peter (Jack) Gay - Works, Reference

Peter (John) Snow - Trivia

Peter (Joseph William) Debye - Early life, Scientific contributions prior to the Nobel Prize, His Nobel Prize, War years, Later life

Peter (Lindsay) Weir - Filmmaking in the United States, Themes and celebrity, Filmography

Peter (Mason) Opie - Reference

Peter (Racine) Fricker

Peter (Richard) Nichols - Plays

Peter (Robert) Garrett - Music and activism, Australian federal politics

Peter (Seamus) O'Toole - Early life, Career, Personal life, Academy Award nominations, Selected filmography, Stage appearances

Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook - Influences, Major Productions for the RSC, Films, Honors, Books

Peter (Sydney Ernest Aylen) Lawford - Biography, Filmography

Peter (Ulrich) Weiss - Life, Selected works

Peter (Victor) Ueberroth - Growing up, Trans International Airlines, The 1984 Olympics, Baseball Commissioner, Post-Baseball activities, Further reading

Peter (Ware) Higgs

Peter (William) Redgrove - Works

Peter Abelard - Life, Reception, Philosophical work, Bibliography, Music, Written works, Cultural references

Peter Abrahams

Peter Ackroyd - Works, Television / documentary

Peter Agre

Peter and Paul Fortress - Gallery

Peter Artedi

Peter Barlow

Peter Behrens

Peter Bichsel

Peter Bogdanovich - Eruption into Stardom, Commercial Demise, The Dorothy Stratten Affair, Later Years, Filmography, Reference

Peter Carey - Biography, Awards, Bibliography

Peter Cooper - History, Death, Trivia

Peter Cornelius - Works

Peter Cushing - Biography

Peter Dawson

Peter De Vries - Selected works

Peter de Wint - Selected Paintings

Peter Falk - Television Work

Peter Faneuil

Peter Finch - Other, Filmography

Peter Gabriel - Genesis, Solo career, WOMAD and other projects, Recent work, Discography

Peter Greenaway - Films, Television

Peter Guthrie Tait - Early years, Middle years, Later years, Private life

Peter Hacks - Life

Peter Handke - Early life, Career, Works, List of works, English editions

Peter Harrison

Peter Huchel - Life, Works

Peter (of Russia) I

Peter (of Serbia) I

Peter (of Russia) II

Peter Jackson - Biography, Style, Awards, Jackson's cameo roles, Trivia, Footnotes and References

Peter Jay

Peter Lind Hayes

Peter Lombard

Peter Lorre - Background, Emulating Lorre, Filmography

Peter Mandelson - Early life, Work with Tony Blair, Cabinet post, First resignation, Second resignation

Peter Marshall

Peter Martins

Peter Matthiessen - Bibliography

Peter Mennin - Principal works

Peter Minnewit - Legacy, Trivia

Peter Minuit - Legacy, Trivia

Peter Oliver

Peter Rachman

Peter Rosegger - Life, Selected works, Further reading

Peter Sellars

Peter Sellers - Biography, Marriages, Premature death and legacy, Filmography, Other Scripts, Comedy Singles, Albums

Peter Serkin

Peter Shilton - Local Boy Made Good, England Calls, Stoke City, Nottingham Forest and cups with Clough

Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Snell - Olympic success, World records, New opportunities, Postage stamps

Peter Stein - Major productions

Peter Stuyvesant - Other Information

Peter Sutcliffe - Early life, Criminal Record, Arrest and trial, Controversy, The Byford Report, Related works

Peter the Hermit

Peter Thomson - Results in major championships

Peter V(ivian) Daniel

Peter van Brugh Livingston

Peter Van de Kamp - Life, Barnard's Star

Peter von Cornelius

Peter Voulkos - See also, Sources, Further reading

Peter Warlock - Life, Works

Peter Wilson

Peter Wright

Peterloo Massacre - Background, Attack, Aftermath, Popular culture

Petra - History, Petra today, Petra in movies and popular culture, Gallery

Petra Kelly - External resources

Petrarch - Biography, Laura and poetry, Works, Sample of his poetry, Philosophy, Legacy

petrel

petroleum - Extraction, History, Means of producing oil

petrology

Petronas Twin Towers - History, Comparison with other skyscrapers, Tenants of the Petronas Towers, Other facilities, Notable Events

Petrus Apianus - Life and work, Selected works

Petrus Christus

Petrus Peregrinus (de Maricourt) - About Epistola de magnete, The content of Epistola de magnete, Legacy, Sources

Petrus Ramus - Chronological bibliography

petunia

pewter

Peyton Randolph

Phaedra

Phaethon - Phaethon

phagocyte

Phalaris

phalarope - Habitat, Range

Phar Lap - Racing Record

pharaoh - Etymology, Regalia

Pharaoh hound - Appearance, Temperament, Care, History, Health

Pharisees - Background: The Religion of Ancient Israel, Pharisees in the Second Temple Era

pharmacology - Drug legislation and safety, Scientific background, Drugs used as medicines, Education

pharmacopoeia - Preparations

pharmacy - Disciplines, Pharmacists, Separation of prescribing from dispensing, Community pharmacy, Hospital pharmacy, Consultant pharmacy, Internet pharmacy

pharyngitis - Types

pharynx - Parts, Additional images

phase (electricity)

phase (physics)

pheasant - Species in taxonomic order

Pheidippides - Further reading

phenol - Phenols, Properties, Production, Uses

phenology - Phenological Records from the past, Modern phenological recording

phenomenalism - Historical overview, Phenomenalism and the bundle theory, Phenomenalism of the positivists, Other criticisms

phenomenology - Historical overview of the use of the term, Husserl and the origin of his Phenomenology

phenotype

phenylketonuria - Defects, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, Therapy, Maternal phenylketonuria, Inheritance

pheromone - Origin of the term, Types of pheromones, Human pheromones

Phidias

Phil Silvers - Stage credits, Filmography

Phil Spector - Early life, Career, Influence, Eccentricity, Murder charges

Philadelphia Phillies - Franchise history, Recent seasons, Team uniform, Fan support, Trivia, Season-by-Season Records

philately - Types of philately, Organizations

Philetus Sawyer

Philip

Philip (Arthur) Larkin - Life, Career, Legacy

Philip (Babcock) Gove

Philip (Jerome Quinn) Barry - Plays

Philip (Milton) Roth - Life and career, Bibliography, Awards, Further reading and literary criticism

Philip (Morin) Freneau

Philip Astley - Trivia

Philip Carteret

Philip Carteret

Philip Glass - Works, Trivia

Philip Guston - Life and work

Philip Hardwick - Pupil

Philip Henslowe - Life, Business Interests, Henslowe's Diary, The History of the Diary

Philip (of France) II

Philip (of Macedon) II

Philip (of Spain) II

Philip (of Spain) III - Ancestors, Marriage and Issue

Philip K(huri) Hitti - Biography, Works

Philip Kaufman

Philip Kearny - Early life and career, Civil War, In memoriam

Philip Livingston

Philip Massinger - Early life, Massinger and the King's Men, Death, Religion and politics, Style and influence

Philip Murray

Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pendleton Barbour

Philip Potter - Early life and career, Later life and career, Recordings

Philip Pullman - Brief biography, His Dark Materials, Philosophical and Religious perspective, Bibliography, Further reading

Philip S(howalter) Hench

Philip Schaff - Bibliography

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Filmography

Philip Syng Physick

Philip W(arren) Anderson

Philip Webb - Projects

Philip Wilson Steer

Philip-Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philipp (Eduard Anton) Lenard - Photoelectric investigation, Later Years and Legacy, Books by Philipp Lenard

Philipp Franz von Siebold - Career

Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar

Philipp Melanchthon - Early life and education, Professor at Wittenberg, Theological disputes, Augsburg confession

Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin

Philipp Scheidemann - Cabinet February 1919 - June 1919

Philippa of Hainault - Reference

Philippe Collet - Achievements

Philippe de Broca - Filmography as director includes

Philippe de Champaigne

Philippe de la Hire - Selected works

Philippe Desportes

Philippe Noiret - Awards, Filmography (partial)

Philippe Sella

Philippe Soupault

philippic

Philippines - Politics and government, Administrative divisions, Geography, Economy, Demographics, Culture

Philistines - History, Origin of the Philistines, Other uses of the term 'Philistine'

Phillip A(llen) Sharp - Selected publications

Phillip Burton - Bibliography

Phillips Brooks

Phillips curve

Phillis Wheatley - Poetry, Later years, Writings

Philo - Biography, Influence of Hellenism, Knowledge of Hebrew, Exegesis, Stoic influence, Attitude toward literal meaning, Numbers, Cosmology

Philoctetes - In modern literature

philodendron

philosophy - Origin, Branches of philosophy, History of philosophy, Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy, African philosophy, Metaphysics and epistemology

philosophy of science - Nature of scientific concepts and statements, Grounds of validity of scientific reasoning, Social accountability

phlebitis - Signs and Symptoms, Phlebitis in popular culture

phloem - Structure, Function, Origin, Nutritional use, Girdling

phlogiston theory - Theory, Challenge and demise, Enduring aspects, Bibliography

phlogopite

phlox

Phnom Penh - Geography and climate, History, Tourism, Transport, Administration, Sister cities

phobia - Prevalence, Other uses of term, Clinical phobias, Non-clinical uses of the term

Phobos

Phocion

Phocis - Provinces, Municipalities, Persons, External link and references

Phoebe (astronomy) - Books, Mythology, Nature, Radio and television, Railroads

Phoebe (mythology)

Phoebus (Aaron Theodor) Levene

Phoenicia - Origins, Phoenician trade, Decline, Important Phoenician cities and colonies, Language and literature, Phoenicians in the Bible

Phoenix (astronomy) - Astronomy and space exploration, Biology, Companies, Computing, Maritime (civil), Military, naval and air forces

Phoenix (USA) - Astronomy and space exploration, Biology, Companies, Computing, Maritime (civil), Military, naval and air forces

Phoenix Islands

Phoenix Park murders

phoneme - Restricted phonemes, Neutralization, archiphoneme, underspecification

phonetics - External links and references, Bibliography

phonics - Phonics in English, Different phonics approaches

phonograph - Terminology, History, British and American, and Australian language usage differences

phonology - Representing phonemes, Phoneme inventories, Other topics in phonology

phonon - Modelling phonons, Phonon behavior and properties

Phoolan Devi - Early life, Death, Film

phospholipid - Sphingomyelin

phosphorescence - Equation

phosphoric acid - Orthophosphoric acid chemistry

phosphorus - Precautions, Compounds

photochemistry - Main concepts

photoconductivity - Application

photocopying - How a photocopier works (using xerography), Invention, Use, Color photocopiers, Copyright issues, Forensic identification

photoelasticity - History, Principles

photoelectric effect - Explanation

photoemission spectroscopy - Instrument details

photoengraving

photogrammetry - Photogrammetric methods

photography - Photographic image-forming devices, Uses of photography, History of photography, Photography types, Photography styles

photomultiplier - Structure and operating principles, Usage considerations

photon

photonic crystal

photoperiodism

Photorealism

photosphere

photosynthesis - Overview, The evolution of photosynthesis, Molecular production, Discovery, Factors affecting photosynthesis

phrenology - History, Popular culture, Related disciplines

Phrygia - Geography, Culture, Mythic past, History

Phryne - Early life, Notoriety

Phuket

Phyllis Kirk

Phyllis Lehmann - People, Places

phylloxera - Fighting the "Phylloxera plague"

phylum - List of animal phyla, List of principal protista phyla, Groups formerly ranked as phyla

physalis

physical chemistry - Importance of Physical Chemistry, Important physical chemists, Fictional physical chemist, Literature

physical fitness - General fitness, Task-oriented fitness, Notable fitness instructors

physicalism - Token and Type, A priori and A posteriori, Reductive physicalism, Non-reductive physicalism, Materialism

physician - Education and training, Regulation

physics - Introduction, Connected Studies, Branches of physics, Classical, quantum and modern physics, Theoretical and experimental physics

Physiocrats - Origins, Quesnay's Tableau Économique

physiological psychology

physiology - Areas of physiology

phytic acid - Food science

phytochrome - Isoforms, Biochemistry, Discovery, Genetic engineering

phytosaur - Early Discoveries, Differences from Crocodiles, Three Morphotypes, Evolutionary History and Relationships

Piacenza - History, Main sights, Dialect, Food, Famous inhabitants

piano - Early history, Development of the modern piano, The modern piano, The role of the piano

piapiac

Piazza del Popolo

Picardy

picaresque novel - History, Influence on modern fiction

piccolo - Traditional use

picketing - Types of picket, Disruptive picketing, Picketing and the law

picric acid - Properties, History, Other

Pictor

Picts - Society, Religion, History, Pictish kings and kingdoms, Language, Further reading

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