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	Pan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pan- as a prefix means involving all members of that group (such as Pan-African or Pan-American).
		Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
		Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan (226 words)

	Pan
		Pan Africanist Congress The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) (later the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania), was a Johannesb...
		Pan pipes Pan pipes (also known as the panflute or the syrinx or quills) is an ancient harmonica, or mouth organ.
		Cooking pan The cooking pan is a frying pans (or fry pans), woks, double boilers, and bain-maries.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/pan.html (1008 words)

	Pan
		When Pan was born and the nurse saw the face and the beard of the newborn child, she was afraid and fled, and also for this it has been said that irrational terrors (panic) come from Pan.
		Pan was born there, on Mount Lycaeum, and in the hearts of a shepherding people who depended a lot on goats, and so naturally needed a goat-god.
		In another farce Pan was in persuit of Omphale, the queen of Lydia, but on the crucial night she had swapped clothes with Hercules (don't ask) and so Pan mistakenly got into bed with him instead and got kicked across the room.
	www.thanasis.com /pan.htm (1362 words)

	Mythography The Greek God Pan in Myth and Art
		Pan, the god of woods and fields, of flocks and shepherds, dwelt in grottos, wandered on the mountains and in valleys, and amused himself with the chase or in leading the dances of the nymphs.
		Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and loneliness of such scenes dispose the mind to superstitious fears.
		As the name of the god signifies all, Pan came to be considered a symbol of the universe and personification of Nature; and later still to be regarded as a representation of all the gods of paganism itself.
	www.loggia.com /myth/pan.html (271 words)

	Saturn's Small Moons
		Pan was the god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.
		Pan was discovered by reexamining the 10 year old Voyager photos at the predicted spot.
		Prior to the discovery of Pan, an analysis of the patterns in the edge of Saturn's A ring predicted the size and location of a small moon.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/satmoons.html (246 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Pan
		Pan is also said to have seduced the nymph Echo, upon whom he sired Iynx, and the moon goddess Selênê, by transforming himself into a white ram and luring her into the forest.
		Pan was a solitary god who wandered among the heaths and woods, and dwelt on mountains and in caves.
		means "all," and the Orpheans conceived of Pan as a symbol of the Universal, a personification of Nature; both Pangenetor, "all-begetter," and Panphage, "all-devourer." In this aspect he is portrayed in Tarot Trump XV.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/pan.htm (555 words)

	Pan
		Pan's name is said to derive from the Greek word "paein", which means "to pasture." He has horns and legs of a goat, and he is able to shout so loudly that he terrifies people and animals.
		Pan is the Greek god protector of shepherds, sheep, and goats.
		But unfortunately, Pan lost and Apollo received the prize for playing his lyre.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/pan.html (167 words)

	Pan on Encyclopedia.com
		Pan was supposed to make flocks fertile; when he did not, his image was flogged to stimulate him.
		Later, when Pan was worshiped in other parts of Greece and in Rome, he became associated with the Greek Dionysus and identified with the Roman Faunus, both gods of fertility.
		Pan Am turns its attention to buildup of Latin American service; carrier expects the region to generate one-third of its 1991 revenues.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pan.asp (653 words)

	Mexico - National Action Party
		The PAN won the governorships and congressional majorities in Baja California Norte and Chihuahua during the Salinas administration, and the local congress in the state of Guanajuato gave a third governorship to the PAN after a state election had been plagued with irregularities.
		The effects of PAN victories in the northern part of the country since the 1980s are highly significant, particularly in the states of Baja California Norte, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, and Sonora.
		The PAN emerged as a conservative reaction against the nationalizations and land confiscations undertaken by the Cárdenas government during the 1930s.
	countrystudies.us /mexico/85.htm (519 words)

	Peter Pan Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ LocalColorArt.Encyclopedia.com
		Peter Pan first appeared in print in a 1902 book called The Little White Bird, a fictionalised version of Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies children, and was then used in a very successful stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered in London on December 27, 1904.
		Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies, with whom he had forged a special relationship, while both were married.
		And in the morning, she meets Peter Pan, who asks her to marry him after a touching thimble scene.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Peter_Pan (3336 words)

	Pan# System
		Pan# saves animations by generating a set of frames that can be assembled using a separate Gif animation program.
		Pan# can write.gif or.jpg files but is not yet able to generate.mpeg files or animated gifs directly.
		Pan# combines basic mathematical operations with functional abstraction and a simple vocabulary of images.
	www.haskell.org /edsl/pansharp.html (328 words)

	Pan's Tarot - Kick-Ass, Uncensored Tarot Readings
		Pan is a kick-ass god who speaks in no uncertain terms.
		Pan will answer your question, by e-mail, as quickly as possible, usually within 48 hours.
		Pan's Tarot, Hawk Ridge Productions, and Philip H. Farber assume no responsibility for stained clothing or brain damage resulting from the use of this web page.
	www.hawkridgeproductions.com /panstarot (226 words)

	Pesticide Action Network International
		Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is a network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives.
		Its projects and campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers.
	www.pan-international.org (43 words)

	EUROPE: Western / Ancient Greece / Pan
		Pan was born there, on Mount Lycaeum, and in the hearts of a shepherding people who depended a lot on goats, and so naturally needed a goat-god....
		Pan is shown as a giant who encompasses everything in the universe.
		This is an engagingly chatty essay on Pan by "Diopan Nestor." It's a longer entry-level overview than most, has good hypertext, and also offers two fine illustrations, including the "Slipper Slapper" (Venus discouraging Pan's lusty attentions with her upraised sandal).
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~west~greece~Pan.html (1319 words)

	IBM-ARC: USER - Personal Area Networks (PAN)
		PAN technology takes advantage of this conductivity by creating an external electric field that passes an incredibly tiny current through the body, over which data is carried.
		PAN technology is being demonstrated publicly for the first time at the Comdex computer industry trade show in Las Vegas.
		PAN grew out of work between Professor Mike Hawley’s Personal Information Architecture Group and Professor Neil Gershenfeld’s Physics and Media Group, both located at the MIT Media Laboratory.
	www.almaden.ibm.com /cs/user/pan/pan.html (745 words)

	Pan * The Immortals * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Pan was hardly mentioned in the early myths but later stories recanted several of his lusty pursuits of the nymphs Echo, Syrinx and Pitys.
		Echo was made invisible and only capable of repeating the last words spoken to her, Syrinx was turned into a reed from which Pan made a flute (pan-pipe) which was named after her and Pitys was transformed into a pine tree.
		After the resounding defeat of the Persians, the worship of Pan was introduced at the city of Athens.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/bios/pan.html (398 words)

	NASA - Pan Found!
		Pan was discovered in 1990 in images returned by the Voyager spacecraft in 1980 and 1981.
		Pan is responsible for parting the Encke Gap in Saturn's outer A ring.
		Also of note is the faint, discontinuous ring material in the Encke Gap ahead of Pan at the movie's start, and a great deal of complex knotted structure in the F ring.
	www.nasa.gov /mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/conf0701-pia06085.html (413 words)

	PAN Features
		PAN expects the first number to appear without a hash mark to be the number of x values and the second without a hash to be the number of y values.
		PAN was written such that the amount of typing done by the user (in entering initial parameter guesses, for instance) is minimized.
		PAN is a general-purpose curve-fitting utility with a graphical user interface written in IDL.
	www.ncnr.nist.gov /staff/dimeo/panweb/pan.html (976 words)

	Pan Asia Networking: International Development Research Centre
		To meet this objective, PAN adapts its programing to the socioeconomic needs and technological shifting contexts of developing countries in Asia, ensuring that its research partners remain at the leading edge of technological improvements and development approaches.
		Pan Asia Networking (PAN) seeks to understand the positive and negative impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on people, culture, the economy, and society, so as to strengthen ICT uses that promote sustainable development on the Asian continent.
		The PAN program initiative supports research into innovative ways of adopting ICTs to address key development challenges, namely in the areas of health, education, livelihoods, and governance.
	www.idrc.ca /panasia (211 words)

	Absolute Anime / Dragon Ball Z / Pan
		However, according to the timeline and complete character guide, Pan is born in 779 AD and the 28th World Tourament (occuring at the end of Dragon Ball Z when Pan is introduced) happened in 784 AD.
		For Pan, it is stated in the anime that she is 4 years old.
		Pan is the daughter of Gohan and Videl.
	www.absoluteanime.com /dragon_ball/pan.htm (659 words)

	PAN Project
		PAN will develop common research strategies, filling of gaps in "know-what, -where and -why" in ecosystem and landscape functioning and their sustainable usage.
		PAN operates by close collaboration during workshops and excursions to a diverse set of Cultural Landscapes and Ecosystems.
		PAN is a Thematic Network on Cultural Landscapes and their Ecosystems.
	pan.cultland.org (151 words)

	Pan, Greece, Greek mythology
		Pan asked him why the Athenians did not worship him and said he would gladly help them against their enemy.
		Pan had invented the flute when the nymph Syrinx had turned into reeds in order to escape him.
		, Pan was half goat half man who lived in the forests of Arcadia surrounded by
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/pan.htm (227 words)

	freshmeat.net: Project details for Pan
		Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users.
		Pan is the best their is and will only continue to get better.
		Pan is already the graphical newsreader of choice for downloading binaries, period.
	freshmeat.net /projects/pan (958 words)

	Peter Pan (2003)
		Jeremy finally breaks the mold, successfully, of middle aged gamine women who had played Pan in the past, and it is refreshing for sure to see Peter the way he should really be.
		She is the focus of the story of Peter Pan.
		The Pan, the tempter at the bedroom window.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0316396 (1355 words)

	personal area network - a Whatis.com definition - see also: PAN, intrabody signaling
		Conceptually, the difference between a PAN and a wireless LAN is that the former tends to be centered around one person while the latter is a local area network (LAN) that is connected without wires and serving multiple users.
		The concept of a PAN first was developed by Thomas Zimmerman and other researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab and later supported by IBM's Almaden research lab.
		2) In another usage, a personal area network (PAN) is a technology that could enable wearable computer devices to communicate with other nearby computers and exchange digital information using the electrical conductivity of the human body as a data network.
	searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci546288,00.html (500 words)

	Pesticide Action Network International
		PAN Asia and the Pacific is dedicated to ensuring the empowerment of people, especially women, agricultural workers, farmers and peasants.
		PAN's Regional Center for Asia and the Pacific is coordinated by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN Asia and the Pacific).
		PAN AP 54 Lorong Batu Uban Satu Taman Century
	www.pan-international.org /asiaPacificEn.html (70 words)

	The Pan American Health Organization
		Officials at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) note that the spread of avian influenza from Asia to Europe has raised public concerns that the H5N1 virus could reach the countries of the Americas.
		Presentations from the 1st Pan American Conference on Alcohol Public Policies.
		The number of people with mental disorders in the Region of the Americas is forecast to increase from 114 million in 1990 to 176 million in 2010, according to the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Mirta Roses.
	www.paho.org (684 words)

	Pan's Grove
		Pan is viewed at this site as a force (since Pan could have came from the Sanskrit word pavana meaning the wind).
		The Pan's Grove efforts at this site, are strictly in existance to educate the general public, and the Pagan and New-Age population (as a whole).
		Pan is an entity of joy, happiness and freedom.
	pages.prodigy.net /pansgrove/pansgrove.htm (747 words)

	Peter Pan FAQS
		What they own is the copyright to their cartoon adaptations of Peter Pan and the copyright to their 1927 silent-movie screen adaptation.
		According to Greek mythology, "Pan" was the spirit of nature (a term Barrie adopted to describe Peter), who lived in the woods and spent his days annoying the "wood nymphs."
		James Barrie based the characters in various editions about Peter Pan on himself and on the children in his life, including a little boy named Peter Davies.
	daisybooks.com /FAQS.html (353 words)

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