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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: PUNCH
 punch (the drink)
Punch (the magazine)
 Punch - and the commedia dell'arte
Punch and Judy (in Britain)
Punchao - Inca sun god
PUNIC WARS
 - tour through time
Punjab - settled by Aryans
punk (in Britain)
Punt - trading mission sent by Hatshepsut
PUP (Party of Unity and Progress) - in Guinea
Purcell, Henry - and Dido and Aeneas
- brief biography
Purchas's Pilgrimage - and Kubla Khan
Pure Food and Drug Act - in 1906
Pure Land Buddhism - or the cult of Amida
purges - in Russia in 1934-8
 purging - as routine treatment in 18th century
Puritans - in 16th-century England
- brief account
purple - symbol of authority
Purusha - in Indian creation story
pus - origin of 'laudable pus'
Pushkin - and Mozart and Salieri
Pushto - and the Pathan tribes
Puss in Boots (pantomime)
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
Putney - bridge in 1729
- and Swinburne
Puy de Dôme - and atmospheric pressure
Pwllheli - and Plaid Cymru
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Pygmies - in equatorial Africa
Pym, John - one of the Five Members
- brief biography
pyramid - at Saqqara
- at Giza
- at Moche, Peru
pyramids - method of building in Egypt
Pyramids, Battle of the - in 1798
Pyramids of Sun and Moon - Teotihuacan
Pyrenees - treaty in 1659
pyrite - making fire
Pyrrhus - and Pyrrhic victories
Pythagoras
Pythagoreans - and music
- and astronomy
Pythagorean theorem - right-angle triangle
Pytheas - Greek explorer
Pythia - priestess of Apollo at Delphi
Pythian games - at Delphi
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