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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: PLAUTUS
 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
Plymouth, Devon
- bowls on Plymouth Hoe
- and bone china
 - offers warm welcome in 1940
Plymouth , New England - in 1620
- merged with Massachussetts
Plymouth Brethren
PNR - in Mexico
Pnyx - meeting place of ecclesia
Pobble who has no Toes (Lear)
Pocahontas - and John Smith
- brief biography
pocket boroughs - before the Reform Act
pocket watches - and spiral balance spring
Podebrady, George of - king of Bohemia
podestá - in Italian communes
- and The premature burial
Poema de mio Cid - Spanish epic
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