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Peter Simon Pallas

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Simon Pallas , 1741-1811, German naturalist and explorer. He became (1768) professor at the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. In 1769, Pallas was a member of an expedition to observe the transit of Venus, and until 1774 he explored the upper Amur, the Caspian Sea, and the Ural and Altai mts., collecting valuable specimens in natural history. Pallas published (1771-76) an account of the journey and also wrote on natural history and on Bering's discoveries. ... Read more
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A Dictionary of Astronomy pallasite A class of stony-iron meteorite named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), who found a 680-kg specimen near Krasnojarsk, Russia, in 1772. In pallasites, cavities in the nickel–... Read more

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Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; Since Peter Simon Pallas' eighteenth-century Vocabularia comparativa and Matthias Alexander Castren's nineteenth-century Tungus grammar, many important... Read more
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Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 5/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...Bainbridge (Con)522 Steven Bridgett (LD)587 Peter Dawson (LD)722 Andrew Duffield (LD)496...HAVANNAH (3) Kevin Howe (Lab) 595 Mary Pallas (Lab) 536 Tom Pattinson (Ind) 672 David...Morgan 277 David Anthony Newell (Lab) 579 Peter Sewell (BNP) 117 Margaret Waller (Con...Fenwick (Con) 93 David Graham (Lab) ... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...have contained any mineral specimens. Peter the Great (1672-1725) was born to...life of other nations. In 1697-1698 Peter traveled through Western Europe with...Aryeskin, as its curator. By 1714 Peter's natural history collection had become...Danzig. A few years later, in 1724, Peter placed his ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 7/27/2005; 608 words ; ...In the Fours final, the rink of Steve Pallas, Bill Bolam (deputising for Stephen Harvey), Peter Duffy and Chris Palmer from Gosforth were...two to record the first point and, with Pallas, Duffy, Harris and Palmer once again recording...This left the Triple of Bryan Taylor, Simon Richardson and ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: The Topeka ; 6/12/2003; ; 557 words ; ...ssia's St. Petersburg. The city, built by Peter the Great in a malarial flood plain...the West," by the 6-foot- 6-inch-tall Peter, who imported architects and artists...enlightened, Western-looking city. Not that Peter himself was entirely enlightened. In...up in a volume by German collector Peter ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 5/16/1999; 700+ words ; Byline: Jane Dickinson LONG SON By Peter Bowen (St. Martin's Press, $22.95). Somewhere...of the Wolf Mountains is the land of Peter Bowen, who writes about the rural West...her she's too small to ride a horse: ``Pallas looked at her grandfather for a long...get a horth, I be a lawyer now,' said ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 7/26/2006; 551 words ; ...Electric and his Middleton Cup colleague Simon Richardson from Gosforth. After a very...in 1985. Palmer played club-mate Steve Pallas in an enthralling tie at Portland. Trailing...champions from Gosforth, Tony Kempster, Simon Richardson and Bryan Taylor, who had to...Cooper and Jim Curtis, who were ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 5/13/2006; 700+ words ; ...Guarino, Elizabeth Heisler, Meagan Hohman, Peter Koffler, Caroline Lay, Jarrett Ley, Arthur...Schneider, Sage Snider, Colin Taylor, Peter Thompson, Victoria Vidal, Alexandra Weissburg...Ellon Scherer, Eric Sessa, Tori Skurow, Pallas Snider, Nina Vujanovic, Rebecca Wilsman...Rogers, Amy Ross, Tyler Ross, ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 5/6/2006; 700+ words ; ...Guarino, Elizabeth Heisler, Meagan Hohman, Peter Koffler, Caroline Lay, Jarrett Ley, Arthur...Schneider, Sage Snider, Colin Taylor, Peter Thompson, Victoria Vidal, Alexandra Weissburg...Ellon Scherer, Eric Sessa, Tori Skurow, Pallas Snider, Nina Vujanovic, Rebecca Wilsman...Rogers, Amy Ross, Tyler Ross, ... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 7/20/2005; 595 words ; ...Davidson from Wooler 21-6 and will now meet Peter Duffy of Gosforth in the final. Peter battled through against Robert Chisholm...final: Stephen Harvey, Chris Palmer, Peter Duffy & Stephen Pallas v Bernard Craig, Darren Cooper, Malcolm...15pm) ( Triples final: Tony Kempster, Simon ... Read more

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