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Pan
Pan , in Greek religion and mythology, pastoral god of fertility. He was worshiped principally in Arcadia, and one legend states that he was the son of Hermes, another Arcadian god. Pan was supposed to make flocks fertile; when he did not, his image was flogged to stimulate him. He was depicted as a...
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Pan-American Union
Pan-American Union former name for the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS). It was founded (1889-90) at the first of the modern Inter-American Conferences (see Pan-Americanism ) as the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics and changed to the International Burea...
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panpipes
panpipes Pandean pipes , or syrinx , musical wind instrument, consisting of graduated tubes closed at one end and fastened together. The player holds the instrument vertically and blows into the open end of the tube; each tube has its own pitch. Of Chinese origin, the instrument was know...
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terra-cotta
terra-cotta [Ital.,=baked earth], form of hard-baked pottery, widely used in the decorative arts, especially as an architectural material, either in its natural red-brown color, or painted, or with a baked glaze.
The Ancient World
The prevalence of terra-cotta as a medium of artistic expr...
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Vicente Fox Quesada
Vicente Fox Quesada , 1942-, Mexican political leader, president of Mexico (2000-6). Raised on a ranch in rural central Mexico's Guanajuato state, he became a successful rancher and business executive. He joined Coca Cola in 1964 and rose to become the company's head in Mexico and the Caribbean. A c...
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes , 1928-, Mexican writer, editor, and diplomat. He was head of the department of cultural relations in Mexico's ministry of foreign affairs (1956-59) and Mexican ambassador to France (1975-77). Much of his fiction, which generally deals with themes of Mexican identity and history and o...
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Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael 1941-98, African-American social activist, b. Trinidad. He lived in New York City after 1952 and graduated from Howard Univ. in 1964. Carmichael participated in the Congress of Racial Equality's "freedom rides" in 1961, and by 1964 was a field organizer for the Student Nonvio...
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Clodion
Clodion or Claude Michel , 1738-1814, French rococo sculptor. He executed several important commissions under Louis XVI but is best remembered for his bas-reliefs and small figure groups in bronze and terra-cotta representing fauns, nymphs, and children. He is represented in the Louvre and in th...
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Cape Finisterre
Cape Finisterre [Lat. finis terrae =land's end], rocky promontory, extreme NW Spain, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia. Off the cape, the English won two naval battles against the French (1747, in the War of the Austrian Succession; 1805, in the Napoleonic Wars).
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Pan-Americanism
Pan-Americanism movement toward commercial, social, economic, military, and political cooperation among the nations of North, Central, and South America.
In the Nineteenth Century
The struggle for independence after 1810 among the Latin American nations evoked a sense of unity, especially...
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