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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: PLATAEA
 Plataea - battle in 479 BC
- attacked by Thebes in 431 BC
- siege of 431-427 BC
 - as a turning point in history
Plate, River - reached by Vespucci
- and Magellan
plates - in illustrated books
plate tectonics - in geology
- discovery of the process
 Plath, Sylvia
Plato
- on the habit of reading
- published in Latin in 1484
- in the School of Athens
Platonic Academy - in Florence
Platonic love - origin
Platt Amendment - and Cuba
Platt Hall - Manchester
Plautus - Roman playwright
- and intermezzi
- and Molière
Players Theatre - and music hall
Playfair, William - National Gallery Scotland
- Royal Scottish Academy
playing cards - origins in China
- in Europe
'Play up! Play up!' (Newbolt)
plebs - in Roman republic
Pléiade - Ronsard and his circle
Pleistocene epoch - identified and named
plenary indulgences - from AD 1095
Pleven - battle in 1877
Pleydell-Bouverie, Katharine - potter
Plimsoll line
Pliny the Elder - and the Canary Islands
- and rabbits
- his death at Pompeii
Pliocene epoch - identified and named
Plotinus - and Neo-Platonism
plough - origins
- first use
ploughing - and strip-farming
Plovdiv - and the uprising of 1876
plumed serpent - Quetzalcoatl
plus fours (garment)
Plutarch
- and Shakespeare
Pluto - surface temperature of planet
PLUTO (pipe line under the ocean)
Pluto and Proserpina - by Bernini
plutonists - in geology
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