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Palatin Technologies
A palatine (palatine guard) was a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. Palatine may also refer to: Personal titles * Palatine (Kingdom of Hungary), vice-regent of Hungary *Count palatine, vice-regal office-bearers in Germany *Voivode or Count palatine, a governor in Poland *The holder of a county palatine, northern counties/duchies in England Places * Palatine, County Carlow, Ireland, a hamlet *Palatine Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome * Palatine Township, Cook County, Illinois, near Chicago ** Palatine, Illinois, a village predominantly in Palatine Township * Palatine, New York, a town in New York State ** Palatine Bridge, New York, a village inside this town People * Palatines, people from the Palatinates of the Holy Roman Empire * Guy Palatin (born 2000), Israeli basketball player Biology *Palatine bone, a bone in the palate *The palatine tonsils in the back of the throat Entertainment and media *''Palatine'', a four- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatine
A palatine or palatinus (Latin; : ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman Empire, Roman times."Palatine" . From the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Retrieved November 19, 2008. The term ''palatinus'' was first used in Ancient Rome for Chamberlain (office), chamberlains of the Emperor due to their association with the Palatine Hill. The imperial palace guard, after the rise of Constantine I, were also called the ''Scholae Palatinae'' for the same reason. In the Early Middle Ages the title became attached to courts beyond the imperial one; one of the highest level of officials in the papal administration were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatine Tonsil
Palatine tonsils, commonly called the tonsils and occasionally called the faucial tonsils, are tonsils located on the left and right sides at the back of the throat in humans and other mammals, which can often be seen as flesh-colored, pinkish lumps. Tonsils only present as "white lumps" if they are inflamed or infected with symptoms of exudates (pus drainage) and severe swelling. Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils and will often, but not necessarily, cause a sore throat and fever. In chronic cases, tonsillectomy may be indicated. Structure The palatine tonsils are located in the isthmus of the fauces, between the palatoglossal arch and the palatopharyngeal arch of the soft palate. The palatine tonsil is one of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues (MALT), located at the entrance to the upper respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts to protect the body from the entry of exogenous material through mucosal sites. In consequence it is a site of, and potentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paladin (other)
A paladin is one of the legendary knights of Charlemagne's court. Paladin may also refer to: People * Dan Paladin (born 1979), American video game artist and designer * Soraya Paladin (born 1993), Italian cyclist Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Paladin (comics), a Marvel character * Paladin (Western character), the main character in the television and radio Western series '' Have Gun – Will Travel'' * Paladin, a talking lamp in '' Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade'' * Paladins of Voltron, characters from television series '' Voltron Legendary Defender'' * Paladins, a secret society of religious fanatics in the 2008 film '' Jumper'' * Paladin Took II, a Hobbit mentioned in Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings ''The Lord of the Rings'' is an Epic (genre), epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book ''The Hobbit'' but eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatino (other)
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Palatino is a family of typefaces. Palatino may also refer to: * Palatino Express, a passenger train, formerly called the Rome Express, operating from 1890 * Palatine Hill, also called Palatino, the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome People with the surname * Giovanni Battista Palatino (c. 1515 – c. 1575), Italian calligrapher * Raymond Palatino (born 1979), Filipino activist See also *Palatine (other) A palatine (palatine guard) was a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. Palatine may also refer to: Personal titles *Palatine (Kingdom of Hungary), vice-regent of Hungary *Count palatine, vice-reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatinate (other)
Palatinate or county palatine may refer to: *the territory or jurisdiction of a count palatine United Kingdom and Ireland * County palatine in England and Ireland * Palatinate (colour), a shade of purple used by the City of Durham and Durham University * ''Palatinate'' (newspaper), student newspaper of Durham University Germany * Electoral Palatinate (1085–1803), or County Palatine of the Rhine (1085–1803; ), a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire *Rhineland-Palatinate ('), federal state in western Germany **Palatinate (region) (', former '), in Rhineland-Palatinate ** Palatinate (wine region), in Rhineland-Palatinate **Palatinate Forest * Upper Palatinate ('), administrative region in Bavaria *Several sub-branches of the Palatine branch of the House of Wittelsbach: ** House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld, based in ** Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, based in ** Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen, based in ** Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, based in ** Palatinate-Kleebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Palatinate
The Electoral Palatinate was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire until it was annexed by the Electorate of Baden in 1803. From the end of the 13th century, its ruler was one of the Prince-electors who elected the Holy Roman Emperor, ranking them among the most significant secular Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The Palatinate consisted of a number of widely dispersed territories, ranging from the left bank of the Upper Rhine in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate, adjacent parts of the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine to the opposite territory on the east bank of the Rhine in present-day Hesse and Baden-Württemberg up to the Odenwald range and the southern Kraichgau region, containing the capital cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. In 1541, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine converted to Lutheranism, while his Calvinist descendant, Frederick V, sparked the Thirty Years' War in 1618 by accepting the Crown of Bohemia. Occupied until the 1648 Peace o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatine GAA
Palatine GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bennekerry, County Carlow in Ireland. It draws players mainly from the parish of Bennekerry, including the townlands of Brownshill, Ducketsgrove, Kernanstown, Russellstown and Palatine, County Carlow. The club was founded in 1909 and has won seven Carlow Senior Football Championships and one Carlow Senior Hurling Championship in its history. Football Formation and early history Football was being played in the Palatine area almost 20 years before the present Palatine GAA club was founded. The original team was Ballyhade Slashers,Cnoc Arda: Céad Bliain ag Fás by John Brown and though Ballyhade is in neighbouring County Kildare, they were allowed to compete in Carlow. Another club named Ardnehue folded in 1905. The current Palatine club was founded in 1909, and their first match on record is a 0–17 to 0–3 defeat to Carlow Graigue. They won their first championship in 1913; the Carlow Junior Championship. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Ship
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a ship, vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the ''Flying Dutchman'', or a physical Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the ''Mary Celeste''. The term is sometimes used for ships that have been Ship decommissioning, decommissioned but not yet Ship breaking, scrapped, as well as drifting boats that have been found after breaking loose of their ropes and being carried away by the wind or the waves. More recently, ships which travel with their mandated automatic identification system (AIS) turned off to avoid detection and monitoring, have also been referred to as ''ghost ships''. Chronology Folklore, legends, and mythology * Undated – ''Chasse-galerie'' is a haunted canoe doomed to paddle the skies of Quebec. * Undated – The ''Caleuche'' is a mythical ghost ship that, according to local folklore and Chilote mythology, sails the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatine Light
The Palatine Light is an apparition reported near Block Island, Rhode Island, said to be the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the ''Palatine''. The folklore account is based on the historical wreck of the ''Princess Augusta'' in 1738, which became known as the ''Palatine'' in 19th-century accounts, including John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Palatine". Historical background The legend is derived from the historical shipwreck of the ''Princess Augusta'' at Block Island in 1738. The ship is known from some contemporaneous accounts and from depositions taken from the surviving crew after the wreck, which were discovered in 1925 and reprinted in 1939. The 220-ton British ship ''Augusta'' sailed from Rotterdam in August 1738 under Captain George Long and a crew of fourteen, transporting 240 immigrants to English colonies in America. The passengers were German Palatines, natives of the Palatinate region, and as such the ship was described as the "Palatine ship" in conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Counties Palatine
The Northern Counties Palatine was a step-entrance 2-axle and 3-axle double-decker bus body built by Northern Counties from 1988 to 1999 in Wigan, England. The Palatine was built mainly on Leyland Olympian and Volvo Olympian chassis, although smaller sized orders were also built for customers on DAF DB250, Dennis Arrow, Dennis Dominator, Volvo B10M Citybus and Scania N113DRB chassis. Design Initially marketed as the Countybus in line with other Northern Counties bus bodies in production at the time, the Northern Counties Palatine was launched in October 1988 as a redesign of Northern Counties' standard double-decker bus bodywork. Available in both full-height and low-height form, the new design featured a revised front end with an arched roof dome, concealed windscreen wipers, squared headlight clusters and a rectangular front grille. The second-generation Northern Counties Palatine II was launched in 1993. Visually similar in design to its competitor, the Optare Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Palatine
''The Palatine'' was the name given to an express passenger train, introduced by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938: the 10.00 from Manchester Central to London St Pancras and the return working, the 16.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central. The name derives from the county of Lancashire, a County Palatine. A matching service, the 10.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central, and the 16.25 from Manchester Central to St Pancras, introduced in the same year, was named the ''Peaks Express''. Both services were suspended at the outbreak of World War II. However British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commis ... resurrected the ''Palatine'' name postwar for the 07.55 from St Pancras and the 14.25 from Manchester. This train made the trip in 3 hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien (creature In Alien Franchise)
The xenomorph (also known as a Xenomorph XX121, ''Internecivus raptus'', ''Plagiarus praepotens'', or simply the alien or the creature)Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report is a fictional parasitoid, endoparasitoid Extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial species that serves as the main antagonist of the Alien (franchise), ''Alien'' and ''Alien vs. Predator'' franchises. The species made its debut in the film ''Alien (film), Alien'' (1979) and reappeared in the sequels ''Aliens (film), Aliens'' (1986), ''Alien 3'' (1992), ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997), and ''Alien: Romulus'' (2024). The species returns in the prequel series, first with a predecessor in ''Prometheus (2012 film), Prometheus'' (2012) and a further evolved form in ''Alien: Covenant'' (2017), and the 2019 short films ''Alien: Containment'', ''Specimen'', ''Night Shift'', ''Ore'', ''Alien: Harvest, Harvest'', and ''Alien: Alone, Alone''. It also featured in the Alien vs. Predator, crossover films ''Alien vs. Predator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
