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Porus: 44
Poseidon (myth.)* 1535, 1320
Posen, Germany: 1535
Postal Savings Banks: 1537
Post-Morteni Examination: 1535
Post-Office: 1536, 1973; dead-letter office
510; department 1985; postage rates
1536; stamps 1809 Potameides (myth.): 1366 Potash: 50; mica 1218 Potassium: 1537 Potato: 1537 Potato-Bug: 1537 Potential (in science): 1537 Potomac, Army of the: 1739, 1847 Potomac River: 1538 Potosi, Bolivia: 1538 Potpourri: 1538 Potsdam, Prussia: 1538 Potstone: 1538
Pottawattomy Indians: 1538,380 Potter, Humphrey: 1815 Potter, Paul: 1538 Pottery: 1538-40; Chinese 665; Egyptian
591, 2005; Etruscan 630; Greek 669;
Limoges 1072; majolica 1151, 15395
Rookwood 400; Sevres 1729; Wedgwood
1539, 2064; Worcester 2109 Pottstown, Pa: 1540 Pottsville, Pa: 1540 Pouchet, F. A: 1371, 1803 Poughkeepsie, N. Y: 1540 Poulsen: 1474 Poultry* 1540 Pound: 1541 Pouter (pigeon): 1489 Powder: 1541 Powderhorn: 885 Powderly, Terence Vincent: 1541 Powell, John Wesley; 1541 Power: 1541, 1346 Powers, Hiram: 1542, 1712 Powhatan: 1509, 1770 Pozzuoli, Italy: 1542 Prsetor: 1542 Prastorian Guard: 1542 Pragmatic Sanction: 1542 Prague, Bohemia ^542,1728; university 1987 Prairie: 1543; pampas 61, 1415 Prairie-Dog: 1543 Pratt Institute: 1543 Praxiteles: 1544, 83, 670, 1683, 1712 Precession: 1544 Precious Stones: 1832 Preemption of Land: 1544 Pre-Raphaelitism: 1544 Presbyterians: 1976 Prescott, Arizona: 1544 Prescott, William Hickling: 1544, 1094 President of the United States: 1545,1980-3;
election 595; veto 2017 Presque Isle: 1652 Press: 1549: linotype 1077; type 1080, 1961;
typesetting machines 1962 Press, Freedom of the: 1546 Pressburg, Hungary: 1545 Pressure (in science): 1546
Pressure-Gauge: 1161
Prester John (myth.): 733, 1322
Prestonpans, Battle of: 37©
Pretender, The Old: 958
Pretender, The Young: 377, 1299
Pretoria, Transvaal: 1546, 1305
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Society
for: 202
Priam (myth.): 1546, 71 Pribylof Islands: 37, 1714 Prickle: 1547 Pride, Colonel: 1112 Priestly, Joseph: 376 Prim, Juan: 1547 Primates: 1154 Primrose: 1547 Prince: 1547
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan: 1547 Prince Edward Island, Can: 1547 Prince of Wales: 1548 Prince Rupert, B. C: 1548 Princess, The (poem): 1548 Prince's Metal: 1644 Princeton, N. J: 1548 Princeton University: 1548 Principe or Prince's Island, W. A: 1549 Pr'inctpia: 1344 Printing: 1549, 1080, 1088; Caxton 354;
Faust 651; Gutenberg 817; ink 926;
newspapers 1343 Prism: 1550 Prisoners of War: 1550 Prisons: 1550; Andersonville 70; Bastille
180; Dartmoor 504; Elmira, 1562 Pritchard, Lieutenant-Colonel: 508 Privats-Docent: 1987 Privateer: 1550 Privy Council: 1551, 467 Proa: 1551 Proboscidia: 1154 Procne (myth.): 949 Proctor, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall):
i55i
Proctor, Richard Anthony: 1551 Profile Lake: 2079 Profit-Sharing: 1044
Progressive Party: 1520; Prohibition: 1520 Projectiles: 1551 Prometheus (myth.): 1552 Pronghorn Antelope: 78 Proofreading: 1552 Propaganda: 1992 Propagation: 1552 Prosenchyma: 1552 Proserpina (myth.): 1552 Protagoras: 1552 Protandry: 1553 Protection: 1553 Protector: 1553 Proteids: 1553
Proterozoic Era (geology): 748 Protestantism: 1553 Proteus (myth.): 1553 Prothallium: 1553 Prothero, George Walter: 1553 Protococcus: 1554 Protogyny: 1554
