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Packer's Inn
31;

Paco
375; trumpet player

Padzhitnoff, Igor ("Padzy")
123; Randolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart". c.f. Alexy Pazhitnov, inventor of Tetris.

Palacio del Cristal, El
378; in Guanajuato;

Palmer House
30;

pantechnicon
611;

Paramorphoscope
435; 436; paramorfico, 568; used to view map of Shambhala, 609;

Paranoia
33; "counter-transformer" 34; 54; 94; "Something" 132; 180; paranoia querulans (litigious paranoia), 455; Ostend as "western anchors of a continental system" 567; "silent army of operatives" from Hell, 586; 624; 681;

Paris Commune
372;

Parry, Hubert
49; Blake's Jerusalem Wikpedia Entry

Patio Method
374; silver extraction method

Pearl Street
333; location of Vibe Corp.

Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)
149; Peary was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole; Wikipedia entry

pelota games
7; Pelota (in Basque and Catalan, pilota; in French pelote, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque, frontó in Catalan) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.

Penhallow, Constance
127; Iceland spar magnates, in Iceland

Penhallow, Hunter
127; grandson of Constance; witnessing Tunguska, 154; "English painter type" 575; one of the Trespassers? 576; switch to nocturnes, 580;

permanent siege
19;

perpetual-motion machine
6; Perpetual motion refers to a condition in which an object continues to move indefinitely without being driven by an external source of energy. Wikipedia entry

Peter and Paul Fortress
595; in Russia

pétroleurs of Paris
19;

P.E.T.N.
182; PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, also known as Penthrite) is one of the strongest known high explosives, with a relative effectiveness factor (R.E. factor) of 1.66. It is more sensitive to shock or friction than TNT or tetryl, and it is never used alone as a booster; Wikipedia entry

Peychaud, Monsieur
368; It is said that the Sazerac drink was invented by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole apothecary who moved to New Orleans from the West Indies and set up shop in the French Quarter in the early 1800s. He dispensed a proprietary mix of aromatic bitters from an old family recipe, to relieve the ails of his clients (Peychaud's Bitters are still made in New Orleans and sold today, and are an essential component of any truly complete bar), and around the 1830s he became famous for a toddy he made for his friends. It consisted of French brandy mixed with his secret blend of bitters, a splash of water and a bit of sugar. According to legend he served his drink in the large end of an egg cup that was called a coquetier in French, and some say that the Americanized pronunciation of this as "cocktail" gave this type of drink its name (unlikely as that may be); (From The Gumbo Pages. Read on...)

Philippe
655; in Swiss Alps, drilling with Reef; alumnus of Petit Roquette child's prison, 658;

Philosopher's Stone
77; The philosopher's stone, in Latin philosophi lapis, is a legendary substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals such as lead into gold ("chrysopoeia") and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death. It was a longtime "holy grail" of Western alchemy; Wikipedia entry

Philosophic Mercury
77; Mercury minus "everything not essential"

Piggot's
678;

Pigs
"pigs can fly" 427; "Pitch Integrity Guard" 421;

Pike's Peak
112;

Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884)
43; Allan Pinkerton was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency.; "The Unsleeping Eye" 51; 112; Wikipedia entry

Plafond Luminex
687;

plasmic hysteresis
555;

P.L.M.
381;

podpol'niki
663; "underground men" in Russia

Polo, Marco (1254-1324)
432; the Venetian, greatest of medieval travellers. Venetian genealogies and traditions of uncertain value trace the Polo family to Sebenico in Dalmatia, and before the end of the 11th century one Domenico Polo is found in the great council of the republic (1094). But the ascertained line of the traveller begins only with his grandfather.

Polo was the first traveller to trace a route across the whole longitude of Asia, naming and describing kingdom after kingdom which he had seen; the first to speak of the new and brilliant court which had been established at Peking; the first to reveal China in all its wealth and vastness, and to tell of the nations on its borders; the first to tell more of Tibet than its name, to speak of Burma, of Laos, of Siam, of Cochin-China, of Japan, of Java, of Sumatra and of other islands of the archipelago, of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, of Ceylon and its sacred peak, of India but as a country seen and partially explored; the first in medieval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and of the semi-Christian island of Sokotra, and to speak, however dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast and distant Madagascar; whilst he carries us also to the remotely opposite region of Siberia and the Arctic shores, to speak of dog-sledges, white bears and reindeerriding Tunguses; From the 11th Edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica; 569;

Ponghill, Brad
174; youngest brother of Burke

Ponghill, Buddy
174; brother of Burke

Ponghill, Burke
172; Editor of the Lodazal Weekly Tidings

Poussin
590;

Poutine
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor; also the name of a French-Canadian dish.

Prandtl
603; discovery of boundary layer

Priest, Judas
656;

Prime Number Theorem
590;

Princess Casamassima, The
6; an Italian Romance; The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. Wikipedia entry

Privett, Nate
24; White City Investigations, 43; in Denver, 179;

Propaganda of Deed
81; Propaganda of the deed is an anarchist doctrine that promotes the practical application of anarchist ideas in hopes that such actions will set an example and inspire others. A violent variant of the concept was popular around the world in the late 19th century. According to the 19th century take, it was thought that a spectacular action, such as a political assassination, would ignite a revolutionary fervor among the working classes. Peter Kropotkin, an early proponent of propaganda by the deed, wrote that "A single deed is better propaganda than a thousand pamphlets." From the InfoShop Open Wiki

Provecho, Dwayne
379; in cell with Frank Traverse and Ewball; in Mexico, 642;

Provenance, Wren
anthropologist...922;

Pugnax
5; (Latin: pugnax = fond of fighting) sentient canine aboard The Inconvenience; 17; Also, there's a bird called the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) which is a medium-sized wader; cuisine, 111; 143; Buddha nature, 412; "sophisticated defensive system" 550;

Pullman Strike
177;

Pythagoras
500; Pythagoreans, 633;