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Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, published by Columbia University Press
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia contains entries on people, places, events, historical facts and terms, with bibliographies for further reading.
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Plassey (city, India)
plaster casting (in sculpture)
plastering (construction, technique)
plastic (material)
plastic surgery (in surgery)
Plata, Río de la (body of water, South America)
Plataea (ancient city, ancient Greece)
plate tectonics (in geology)
plateau (in geography)
plateresque (style)
platform tennis (in tennis)
plating (material, process)
platinite (alloy)
platinum (metal, element)
Platte (river, Nebraska)
Plattsburgh (city, New York)
Platyhelminthes (flatworm)
Plauen (city, Germany)
Pleasant Hill (city, California)
Pleasanton (city, California)
Pleasantville (city, New York)
Pleasantville (city, New Jersey)
Pleasure Ridge Park (city, Kentucky)
plebiscite (in politics)
plebs (sociology, ancient Rome)
Pledge of Allegiance (government, United States)
Pleiad (poetry, ancient Greece/ancient Egypt/France)
Pleiades (in astronomy)
Pleiku (city, Vietnam)
plein-air (in painting, art)
Plesiosaurus (reptile)
Plessy v. Ferguson (case, United States)
pleura (in anatomy)
pleurisy (condition)
Pleven (city, Bulgaria)
Pliocene epoch (division)
Ploieşti (city, Romania)
Plombières (city, France)
Plovdiv (city, Bulgaria)
plover (bird)
plow (mechanical device)
Plum (city, Pennsylvania)
plum (in botany)
plumbing (system)
pluralism (in philosophy)