Paul Vernier
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～ French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)
Paolo Veronese
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～ Italian painter of the Venetian school (1528-1588)
Palace of Versailles
— Noun
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～ a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles
Pan troglodytes verus
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～ masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa; distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees; possibly a distinct species
purple milk vetch
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～ perennial of southern and western Europe having dense racemes of purple or violet flowers
pocket veto
— Noun
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～ indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it
Pius VI
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～ Italian pope from 1775 to 1799 who served during the French Revolution; Napoleon attacked the Papal States and in 1797 Pius VI was taken to France where he died (1717-1799)
Pope Alexander VI
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～ Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503)
Philip VI
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～ king of France who founded the Valois dynasty; his dispute with Edward III over his succession led to the Hundred Years' War (1293-1350)
Paul VI
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～ Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)
Pyrrhic victory
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～ a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses
point of view
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～ a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"
point of view
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～ the spatial property of the position from which something is observed
panoramic view
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～ a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance
pay per view
— Noun
– Danish
～ ordning i forb. med et kabel-tv-anlæg e.l. hvor ma ...
Pius VII
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～ Italian pope from 1800 to 1823 who was humiliated by Napoleon and taken prisoner in 1809; he concluded a concordat with Napoleon and crowned him emperor of France; he returned to Rome in 1814 (1740-1823)