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Padua
City (pop., 1991: 215,000), N Italy. Legend holds that it was founded by the Trojan hero Antenor. First mentioned in 302 BC, it prospered as a Roman city and was under Lombard rule in the 7th-8th cent. A leading Italian commune in the 11th-13th cent., it passed to Venice, which held it from 1405 to 1797. Under Austrian rule 1815-66, it was active in the Risorgimento. It was heavily bombed in World War II, but was rebuilt.. Its historic buildings contain works by many artists, incl. Giotto, Titian, Donatello, and Mantegna. The Univ. of Padua (1222), the second-oldest in Italy, had Galileo among its teachers and Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso among its students. Padua's botanical garden (1545) is the oldest in Europe. The city is now a commercial and industrial center.
Paiute
Either of two distinct Amer. Indian groups that speak languages of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family. The Southern Paiute occupied S Utah, NW Arizona, S Nevada, and SW California. The Northern Paiute occupied E central California, W Nevada, and E Oregon. Both groups were primarily food collectors who subsisted on wild plant foods, supplemented by small game. They occupied temporary brush shelters, used rabbit-skin clothing, and made baskets for food gathering. They were organized in loosely knit bands. Most Paiute were directed onto reservations in the 19th cent.; today they number about 7,500. See also Ute.
Pakula
U.S. film producer and director. Born in New York City, he worked in Hollywood from 1949. He formed a production company with the director Robert Mulligan (b.1925) to produce To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and other movies. His directorial debut, The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), was followed by such films as Klute (1971), All the President's Men (1976), Sophie's Choice (1982), Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Pelican Brief (1993).
Palau
Independent island republic, W Pacific Ocean. Area: 188 sq mi (487 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 17,000. Capital: Koror. The population is of mixed Malay, Melanesian, Filipino, and Polynesian ancestry. Languages: Palauan, Sonsorolese-Tobian, English (all official). Religions: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Modekne. Currency: U.S. dollar. The islands of the Palau group are fertile, with mangrove swamps along the coasts, backed by savanna and palms rising to rain forests in the hills. The major source of employment is government service. Subsistence farming and fishing are the main occupations in the rural areas. It is a republic with two legislative houses; its head of state and government is the president. The islands were under nominal Spanish ownership for more than three centuries when they were sold to Germany in 1899. They were seized by Japan in 1914 and taken by Allied forces in 1944 during World War II. Palau became part of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 1947 and became a sovereign state in 1994; the U.S. provides economic ...
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