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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: PURCELL
 Purcell, Henry - and Dido and Aeneas
 - brief biography
Purchas's Pilgrimage - and Kubla Khan
Pure Food and Drug Act - in 1906
Pure Land Buddhism - or the cult of Amida
purges - in Russia in 1934-8
 purging - as routine treatment in 18th century
Puritans - in 16th-century England
- brief account
purple - symbol of authority
Purusha - in Indian creation story
pus - origin of 'laudable pus'
Pushkin - and Mozart and Salieri
Pushto - and the Pathan tribes
Puss in Boots (pantomime)
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
Putney - bridge in 1729
- and Swinburne
Puy de Dôme - and atmospheric pressure
Pwllheli - and Plaid Cymru
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Pygmies - in equatorial Africa
Pym, John - one of the Five Members
- brief biography
pyramid - at Saqqara
- at Giza
- at Moche, Peru
pyramids - method of building in Egypt
Pyramids, Battle of the - in 1798
Pyramids of Sun and Moon - Teotihuacan
Pyrenees - treaty in 1659
pyrite - making fire
Pyrrhus - and Pyrrhic victories
Pythagoras
Pythagoreans - and music
- and astronomy
Pythagorean theorem - right-angle triangle
Pytheas - Greek explorer
Pythia - priestess of Apollo at Delphi
Pythian games - at Delphi
- and Charioteer of Delphi
Pyx, Trial of the
Qaboos bin Sa'id - sultan of Oman
Qafzeh - and early modern man
Qalabani - ambush by the Sotho in 1880
Al-Qanun f'il-Tibb - by Avicenna
qasidah - Arabic poem
Al Qasr as Sa'id - treaty of 1881
QE2 - launched in 1967
- brief account
Qianlong emperor - and embassies from Europe
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