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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: PICTURESQUE
 picturesque - discovered in the 1770s
 - brief account
Picture of Dorian Gray
Picture Post
pidgin English - in New Guinea
- brief account
Piedmont - annexed by Napoleon in 1802
- revolution in 1821
Pied Piper of Hamelin
pieds-noirs - French colonists in Algeria
Pierce, Edward - Sudbury Hall
Piero della Francesca
Pierrepoint, Albert - hangman
Piers Plowman - and alliterative verse
- brief account
Pietà - by Michelangelo
Pietermaritzburg - capital of Natalia
pigeon post - early uses
- between Cairo and Damascus
pigeons - domesticated
Piggott, Lester
Piglet - A.A. Milne
pigs - domestication
- in Britain
pigtail - and the Manchus
pike - as used by the Swiss
Pilâatre de Rozier - first balloonist
pilgrimage - in medieval Europe
Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)
Pilgrim Fathers - and the Mayflower
- and the Wampanoag confederacy
- brief account
Pilgrim's Progress - by John Bunyan
Pilgrims' Way (Kent to Wiltshire)
Pilkington - glass manufacturers
pillar box (in Britain)
- in the Hindenburg Line
pillory and stocks (in Britain)
 - on Richmond Green
Pillow Book - of Sei Shonagon
Pillnitz - declaration of 1791
Piltdown man
Pimm's (drink)
Pinax theatri botanici - by Bauhin
Pineapple Poll (ballet)
Pinel, Philippe - unchains the insane in Paris
Pinero, Arthur Wing
pink gin (drink)
Pinochet, Augusto
Pinta - sailing with Columbus
- The Caretaker
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