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Padiham. Market town and 



Illlian di~l. of Lancasliin 



land It >tand.s <-!i the Calder, 8 ra. 

 from BliirUuirn and :< in. from 

 Burnley, with a station on the 

 L. & Y! Rly. The clii-f building 

 oard's Church, an old foun- 

 dation rebuilt in the 19th century 

 Tin- indn-'ii,-, in.-lude tin- inaini 

 fartuie of cotton, while i-iml iiiim- 

 nnd stone quarries are worki -d in 

 tin- neighbourhood. Market day, 

 Kri. 1'op. 14,000. 



Padilla, .MAN UK (c. 1490-1521). 

 Spanish insurgent. Bom at Toledo. 

 lie entered tin- aiiny as a youth, 

 and in 1518 placed himself at the 

 head of a popular movement 

 against the subsidy granted by the 

 cortes to Charles V. With a con- 

 -iderable body of armed men he 

 seized Joanna, the king's mother, 

 ami \\itli his insurgent army 

 marched to Valladolid, but despite 

 various successes he was defeated 

 at Villalar, made prisoner, and 

 executed, April 23, 1521. 



Padishah. Eastern title. It is 

 applied to the shah of Persia, the 

 sultan of Turkey as ruler of the 

 Ottoman Empire, the Great Mogul, 

 by Indian natives to the sovereign 

 of Great Britain as emperor of 

 India, and by Orientals generally 

 to European monarchs. The 

 Persian padshah signifies lord king. 



Padre (Lat. pater, father). Title 

 given in certain Roman Catholic 

 countries to a priest. During the 

 Great War it came into use in the 

 British navy and army as a 

 general term for chaplains of all 

 denominations. After the war a 

 number of these chaplains formed a 

 fellowship of padres. See Chaplain. 



Padstow. Urban dist., town, 

 and seaport of Cornwall, England. 

 It stands on the N. coast, near the 

 estuary of the Camel, 12 in. from 

 Bodmin, with a station on the 

 L. & S.W. Rly. The church of S. 

 Petrock is an old building with 

 some features of interest. S. Eno- 

 dock's church has a Norman font. 

 Padstow has a little shipping and 



finding, for whieh there is a, harbour, 

 in. I a tnnle in agricultural pro- 

 duce. It is alto visited by pleasure 

 seekers. There WM a monastery at 

 Padstow, it* foundation being as- 

 cribed to 8. Petrock. Padatow 

 became a flourishing port, and is 

 -a id t<> have been made a corporate 

 town. Tin- name w a corruption of 

 Petrock's Stow. Padstow Bay is 

 formed by the Camel. Market day, 

 Sat. Pop. 2,500. 



Padua. Province of Italy, in 

 the N.E., in Venetia. It forma 

 part of the Venetian plain and is 

 crossed by the Adige, Brcnta, and 

 Bacchiglione. Wheat, rice, wine, 

 and silk are the chief products. 

 Area, 826 sq. m. Pop. 550,000. 



Padua. City of Italy. It stands 

 on several branches of the Bac- 

 chiglione, just above its confluence 



with the Brenta, 



22 m. W. of 

 Venice, for which 

 it is the r 1 v . 

 junction. A tri- 

 angular walled 

 city, it occupies 

 a strategic posi- 

 tion on the 

 Venetian plain. 

 In ancient days it was the chief 

 town of Venetia, was the birthplace 

 of Livy, and was sacked by Alaric 

 and Attila. Nearly all the ancient 

 monuments and buildings have 

 been destroyed. The city was an- 



Padua arms 



nexed by Venice in 1405. The 

 univentity, founded in 1222, had 

 sometime* 15,000 student*, and 

 was famous throughout the Middle 

 Ages. Many street* are bordered 

 by arcades ; the Renaissance 

 cathedral and the 13th century 

 of Sant' Antonio, before 

 stands Donatello's eques- 

 i at tic of (jttttamclata, the 

 soldier of fortune, are notable. 

 The Madonna dell' Arena and the 

 mi contain frescoes by 

 t;i"tto and Mantegna. Padua has 

 some manufactures and a trade in 

 mrieiiltural produce. Pop. 105,000. 

 Paducah. City of Kentucky, 

 the co. seat of McCracken 

 co. It stands at the junction of the 

 Tennessee and Ohio rivers, 170 m. 

 H.E. of St. l.oi i-i.and is served by 

 the Illinois Central and other rlys. 

 and by river steamers. It trades 

 in minerals, agricultural produce, 

 tobacco, etc. Boat-building is an in- 

 dustry. Founded in 1827, Paducah 

 was incorporated in 1828, and be- 

 came a city in 1856. Pop. 24,700. 

 Paean. In ancient Greece, name 

 for a hymn. Originally a hymn of 

 supplication against plague, so 

 called from Paean or Paeon, a god 

 of healing, sometimes identified 

 with Apollo, the paean became a 

 song of thanksgiving, used at festi- 

 vals of Apollo, and also a war-song. 

 Paeligni. Tribe occupying the 

 Apennine uplands east of Lake 

 Fucinus during the 

 early Roman age. 

 Their ethnic origin 

 and primitive cul- 

 ture resembled 

 those of the Marsi 

 (q.v. ), in whose war 

 (91-89 B.C.) they 

 shared, establish- 

 ing in their fast- 

 ness Corfinium, a 

 short-lived re- 

 publican capital. 

 Another of their 

 towns, Sul mo. was 

 the birthplace of 

 the poet Ovid. 



Padua, Italy. 



1. Loggia del Conriglio, an early Renaissance municipal building. 2. Church of Sant' Antonio and statue 

 of GattamelaUu 3. Market place and Palazzo della Ragione, a 12th century law court 



