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# Pasikot

Pasikot, situated at Budhanilkantha Municipality, is a village in Budhanilkantha in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province before being incorporated into the city of Budhanilkantha (along with Chapali Bhadrakali, Mahankal, Bishnu, Chunikhel and Kapan) in Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 15,421.

## Gallery

* Clear view of Pasikot in the East
* Clear view of Pasikot in the South-East
* Clear view of Pasikot in the South
* Clear view of Pasikot in the North-West
* Clear view of Pasikot in the North-East
# Thomas Prendergast

Thomas Prendergast (1806 – 14 November 1886) was a British administrator in the service of the East India Company, and the inventor of the "mastery system" of learning foreign languages.

## Biography

Prendergast was the son of Sir Jeffery Prendergast, born at Clonmel in 1769, who was in the service of the East India Company, becoming colonel of the 39th native infantry in 1825. Sir Jeffery served in the Mysore War, was knighted in 1838, promoted to the rank of general in 1854, and died in 1856, having married in 1804 Elizabeth, daughter of Hew Dalrymple of Nunraw.
Thomas was nominated a writer in the East India Company's service on 23 June 1826, and became assistant to the collector of Tanjore, Madras Presidency, in 1828. He was acting head assistant to the collector of Nellore on 16 January 1829, and head assistant on 9 February 1830. In 1831 he became acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore, in 1833 acting assistant judge at Guntoor, and on 8 August 1834 assistant judge of Tinnevelly, where he remained until 1838. He was afterwards for many years collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry until his retirement on the annuity fund in 1859.
On his return to England he settled at Cheltenham, and soon became totally blind. Despite this misfortune, he devoted himself to literary work, and invented what he called the "mastery system" of learning languages, based on the process pursued by children in learning to speak. By frequently repeating conversational sentences Prendergast had himself acquired the Madras vernacular, Tamil, and Telugu. His system was to some extent a development of the Ollendorffian, but Prendergast elaborated its details on original lines. His success was considerable, and the various manuals in which he practically expounded his views went through numerous editions.
He died at Meldon Cottage, The Park, Cheltenham, and was buried in the new cemetery on 18 November. His son, Sir Harry Prendergast, G.C.B., V.C., was commander in Burma in 1883–6.

## Works

* The Mastery of Languages, or the Art of Speaking Foreign Tongues Idiomatically (1864)
* Handbook to the Mastery Series (1868)
* The Mastery Series: French (1868)
* The Mastery Series: German (1868)
* The Mastery Series: Spanish (1869)
* The Mastery Series: Hebrew (1871)
* The Mastery Series: Latin (1872)
# Patricia Altenbernd Johnson

Patricia Altenbernd Johnson (born 1945) is Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. She has written books about contemporary philosophers. She is a specialist in philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, and on the works of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Johnson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1979, and joined the University of Dayton in the same year. She was named to the Alumni Chair in the Humanities in 2009, becoming the first woman in the University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences to hold an endowed professorship. She also directed the women's studies program and chaired the philosophy department at the university, and served as an associate dean. She retired in 2014.
She was president of the Society for Philosophy of Religion in 2000.

## Works

* On Gadamer, Wadsworth Philosophers Series, Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.
* On Arendt, Wadsworth Philosophers Series, Wadsworth Publishing, 2000.
* On Heidegger, Wadsworth Philosophers Series, Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.
* On Wollstonecraft, Wadsworth Philosophers Series, Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.
* With Both Eyes Open: Seeing Beyond Gender, edited with Janet Kalven, Pilgrim Press, 1988.
# Thomas McCulloch (disambiguation)

Sir Thomas McCulloch was an early Sheriff of Wigtown
Thomas McCulloch (1776–1843) was a Scottish-born Canadian Presbyterian minister, author and educator.
Thomas or Tommy McCulloch may also refer to:
* Thomas McCulloch (footballer, born 1868) (1868–?), Scottish footballer
* Tommy McCulloch (footballer, born 1921) (1921–2001), Scottish footballer
* Tommy McCulloch (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2016), Scottish footballer
* Tom McCulloch (born 1964), Australian soccer player
# Patrick Keen

Patrick John Keen CMG MBE (30 June 1911 – 8 March 1983) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Indian Political Service, having previously served in both the British Army and the British Indian Army.

## Life and military career

The son of the Brigadier P. H. Keen, he was born in British India at Kohat in March 1983. He came from a family of colonial administrators in India, with his grandfather and uncle both holding positions in the Indian Political Department. Keen was educated in England at Haileybury, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. From there, he graduated into the Hampshire Regiment as a second lieutenant in January 1931, with promotion to lieutenant following in January 1934. He was appointed to the British Indian Army as an aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Griffith, Governors of the North-West Frontier Province. He was promoted to lieutenant in the British Indian Army October 1936, with promotion to captain following in January 1939. In India, Keen made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Indians at Madras in the 1939–40 Madras Presidency Match. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Europeans first innings by A. G. Ram Singh, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by C. K. Nayudu.
Keen was a member of the Indian Political Service during the Second World War, being assistant-director of the Intelligence Bureau at Quetta. In May 1943, he was appointed to be His Majesty's vice-consul at Bushehr. He was made an MBE in the 1944 New Year Honours. After the end of the war, he was promoted to major in December 1949, having retired from the British Indian Army following Indian Independence. He was later made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1968 New Year Honours for his post-war work with the Foreign Office. Keen later retired to Hampshire, where he died in March 1983. He was married to Anna Cunitia Gordon-Smith of Stansted Park, with the couple marrying at St James' Church in Emsworth in January 1958.
# Patricia M. Byrne

Patricia Mary Byrne (June 1, 1925 – November 23, 2007) was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983, and United States Ambassador to Mali from December 1976 to October 1979.

## Early life and education

Byrne was born in Cleveland, the daughter of Edward F. and Mary Kreutzer Byrne, and was a resident of South Euclid, Ohio. She graduated second in her class from high school in Cleveland. She credits her father for encouraging her independence and her ambition to enter the foreign service.
Byrne was an honors student at Vassar College, where she shaped her studies toward her foreign service career goals, studying French, Spanish and Russian. She graduated in 1946 with an A.B. degree. During two of her college summers she returned to Cleveland, one year working as a riveter in a warplane factory, and another year assembling gun parts. A Vassar fellowship allowed her to attend graduate school at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C. and she earned a master's degree there in 1947.
Byrne attended the National War College from 1968 to 1969 when she became the school's first female graduate.

## Career

After completing her studies, Byrne began working for the Central Intelligence Agency and took the competitive Foreign Service examination. She was one of 19 women selected for U.S. Foreign Service, where she served from 1949 to 1989.
After Byrne joined the Foreign Service, she was posted to Athens. She was assigned to Saigon from 1950 to 1955. After serving as a desk officer for Laos at the State Department, she accepted international assignments in Turkey and Laos. Byrne served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Conference on Laos from 1961 to 1962.
After graduating, she served at the embassy in Paris. In 1973 she became deputy chief of mission in Columbo, Sri Lanka. From 1975 to 1976, Byrne took the Senior Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute in foreign policy.
In 1984 Byrne was a foreign affairs fellow assigned to Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

## Personal life

Byrne retired in Washington, where she was a member of the Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired, and was twice elected to the group's board. She died on November 23, 2007.
# Sebastian Castro (painter)

Sebastiaen Castro or Sebastian a Castro, in English sources also referred to as Sebastian Castro or Sebastianus a Castro was a Flemish painter specialized in marine painting who was active in Antwerp between 1633 and 1656.

## Life

Very few details about Sebastian Castro's life and training are known. It has been speculated that he was of Portuguese descent and a member of a family, which had escaped the persecution of Jews during the Portuguese Inquisition of the early 1600s. He may have trained under Andries van Eertvelt, the leading Flemish marine painter of the first half of the 17th century but there is no evidence of this.
Castro is first recorded as a master painter in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1633–34. In 1656 he was still in Antwerp when he was registered as present at the distribution of the moveable assets of the father of the painters Gaspar van Eyck and Nicolaes van Eyck.
He married Anna van Beneden in Antwerp on 9 January 1636. After the death of his wife, he married Anna Wuijlens (died c. 1660) in Antwerp on 20 October 1643. The couple is believed to be the parents of Laureys a Castro (also known as Laureys Castro, Laureys A. Castro or Lorenzo A. Castro) (1644–1700), a marine painter who became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1664-65 and was later active in England. If the speculation on the Jewish roots of the family is correct, the family must have converted to Catholicism as the newborn Laureys was baptized in the Saint George parish of Antwerp on 20 March 1644.

## Work

Castro was active in Antwerp as a marine painter. The few works by his hand that are currently known cover the range of subjects typical for marine painters in the 17th century such as sailing ships, port scenes and naval battles. These works show an influence by the Dutch development towards tonal painting while retaining typically Flemish stylistic elements. This is demonstrated in the Spanish Ships at Anchor (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) which through the tonality of its color scheme, low horizon and build-up of clouds in the background reveals a Dutch influence while its more theatrical lighting and schematic depiction of the ships reflect typically 'Flemish' stylistic traits.
His composition Spanish Ships Approaching a Jetty (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) shows a similar tonality of colour and a low perspective. The painting testifies to Castro's skill in depicting figures and boats in a landscape setting without sacrificing an overall painterly effect. The brushwork of the work is open and fluid.
# Thomas Kennedy of Culzean

Thomas Kennedy of Culzean (died 1602) was a Scottish landowner involved in a feud and a murder victim.

## Background

He was a son of Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Cassilis and Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis. Thomas Kennedy married Elizabeth McGill, after she divorced Robert Logan of Restalrig. He became a gentleman of the privy chamber of James VI of Scotland in October 1580, and was knighted at the coronation of Anne of Denmark in May 1590.

## Feud

He was involved in a feud between Cassilis and Bargany Kennedy families. Kennedy was the Tutor of Cassilis, administrator of the estates of his nephew, John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis. In a battle between these factions, in December 1601, the Earl's men fatally wounded the Laird of Bargany who was returning home from Ayr. Bargany's younger brother, Thomas Kennedy of Drummurchie, murdered Thomas Kennedy at Saint Leonard's Chapel near Ayr on 11 May 1602. The body was taken to Greenan Castle and later buried at Maybole. Culzean's son-in-law, James Mure of Auchindrayne, was executed for the murder.

## Portrait

A portrait of Thomas Kennedy dated 1592 giving his age as 43, attributed to the Edinburgh-based artist Adrian Vanson, is displayed by the National Trust for Scotland at Culzean Castle. The painting has his arms and a motto "AVISE A LA FIN".
* Portrait of Sir Thomas Kennedy, ArtUK
# Patrick Flannery

Patrick Flannery may refer to:
* Paddy Flannery (born 1976), Scottish footballer
* Patrick Flannery (piper) (died 1855), Irish piper
* Patrick Flannery (politician), Kentucky politician
# Patricia Adams

Patricia Adams may refer to:
* Patricia J. Adams (born 1952), Anguillan writer
* Patricia Emily Adams, South African politician
* Pat Adams (born 1928), American painter and printmaker
# Patricia Fili-Krushel

Patricia Fili-Krushel (born 1953) is an American businesswoman and media executive. She is currently CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation and sits on the board of directors for Reddit, Dollar General and Chipotle Mexican Grill. Fili-Krushel has served as Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group, Executive Vice President, Administration at Time Warner Inc., CEO of WebMD, President of the ABC Television Network, and President of ABC Daytime.

## Early life

Fili-Krushel attended St. John's University, graduating with a B. S. Degree. She earned an M.B.A. degree from Fordham University.

## Career

Fili-Krushel worked at HBO, where she became Vice President of Business Affairs and Production in December 1984. She then joined Lifetime Television in 1988 as both group vice president of Hearst/ABC-Viacom Entertainment Services (HAVES), and senior vice president of programming and production of Lifetime Television, where she was responsible for launching “the first network for women”.
Fili-Krushel joined ABC in 1993, as president of ABC Daytime (ABC-D)and then as network president. She was responsible for introducing the daytime talk show The View. While at ABC, she launched Soap Net, a 24-hour soap opera cable network.
She joined Time Warner in 2001. In 2006, she was inducted into the Museum of Television & Radio’s “She Made It” Collection. From 2012 until 2015 she was chairman of NBCUniversal news group.
In September 2012, Fili-Krushel made her second appearance on Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women” list.
In 2019, Fili-Krushel serves on the board of Dollar General Corporation, Chipotle Mexican Grill, The Public Theater of New York, where she is Vice Chair, PEN America, and the Berkshire International Film Festival.
Past service includes: board of directors of Lifetime Television, Central Park Conservancy, Oxygen Media, NowThis News, Fordham University, and Revere Media, as well as the executive committee and the board of governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Advertising Council and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy's Media Task Force. Pat is past president of New York Women in Film and TV.
Fili-Krushel has been named to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women” list a number of times. She has been recognized by New York Women in Communications through their Matrix Awards. She is the recipient of the Women's Project & Productions' Women of Achievement Award, honored by the Police Athletic League as Woman of the Year, awarded the Women in Film Muse Award, and the Crystal Apple Award by the City of New York. She was named to Mayor Bloomberg's Commission on Women's Issues. In 2009, Harvard Business School published a case study on Pat; “Patricia Fili-Krushel: Traversing a Career Path.”

## Personal

Fili-Krushel currently lives in New York with her husband, Ken, and her two grown children.
# Paul Brain

Paul Anthony Brain born 26 June 1964 in Stratford-upon-Avon is a British Slalom Canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He finished 17th in the C-2 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Paul was introduced to Canoeing in the local Scouts Group in Stratford upon Avon at the age of 13.
He started in competitive canoeing in June 1978, entering the Novice event at Shepperton Weir on the River Thames in Surrey. Over the next few years, along with his Stratford on Avon Kayakists (SOAK) fellow canoeists, he competed in all of the canoe competition disciplines of:
Canoe Slalom in the disciplines of Kayak Singles (K1), Canadian Singles (C1) and Canadian Doubles (C2) - in the Canadian classes paddlers kneel in their boat with a small cockpit sealed with a Spraydeck. Pauls's Slalom Ranking History is listed below.
(Canoe Polo) - in single Kayak (K1)
(Wild Water Racing) - in Single Kayak (K1)
(Marathon Canoe Racing) - in Single Kayak (K1)
Paul's Canoe Slalom history:
Canadian Doubles (C2) Ranking and Results - with Chris Arrowsmith
Canadian Singles (C1) Ranking and Results
Kayak Singles (K1) Ranking and Results
Canadian Doubles (C2) Ranking and Results - with Tina Brain
Canoe Polo Achievements
# Patricia O'Connor (veterinarian)

Patricia O’Connor Halloran (November 29, 1914 - July 8, 2003) was an American veterinarian and longtime head caretaker at New York's Staten Island Zoo.

## Early life

O'Connor was born in New York City and grew up in Buffalo, New York with her mother and stepfather. Between 1933 and 1934 she entered the University of Alabama. Then in 1935 she attended the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, graduating in 1939.
After graduating she moved to Charleston, West Virginia, and worked at a private practice. While there she married her classmate John Lewis Halloran, Jr in 1940. Their wedding took place in Stapleton, Staten Island and was announced in The New York Times society pages. The wedding announcement listed her profession as "physician".
Then they moved to Staten Island, NY and both worked at John's father's vet clinic. Patricia worked in the clinic and did house calls. However, she was never paid by her father-in-law, whereas her husband was.

## Staten Island Zoo

Patricia became pregnant with their first child in 1941. She became pregnant again in 1942. That same year in the fall, Patricia was hired by the Barrett Park Zoo (later known as the Staten Island Zoo) to work as a temporary veterinarian, as there were no men available during World War II. After the war ended she remained on staff as their chief animal caretaker for 28 years.
A 1943 article in The New York Times about an Open House at the zoo described O'Connor's work. The reporter suggested that she was "the only woman veterinarian in any zoo in the country." She was responsible for over 600 animals, including a binturong, an ocelot, a spider monkey, and a herring gull.
In 1944 O'Connor was in the news again, for removing an ingrown claw from a nine-year-old African leopard named Tommy. The article noted that Dr. O'Connor weighed 120 lbs; it did not mention the weight of the leopard. In 1949 she told the Times about her experience removing a cancer from a regal python.

## Other accomplishments

O'Connor helped found the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV), and was its first president from 1946 to 1957.
In 1955 O'Connor published A Bibliography of References to Diseases of Wild Mammals and Birds, a compendium and bibliography on the pathology of wild birds and mammals.

## Later life

Upon the death of her husband John Halloran in 1966, she retired from the zoo to run Halloran's small animal clinic. From 1966-1982 she was consultant for an experimental animal colony at the U.S. Public Health Hospital on Staten Island.
In 1999 she retired to Indiana. She died there on July 8, 2003. She is buried with her husband at St. Peter's Cemetery on Staten Island.
# Patricola

Patricola may refer to:
* Fratelli Patricola, Italian company producing musical instruments
* Isabella Patricola (1888-1965), known as Miss Patricola, Italian-American singer
* Tom Patricola (1891-1950), Italian-American dancer and actor
# Patriotic Lottery

The Patriotic Lottery (Chinese: 愛國獎券; pinyin: Àiguó jiǎngquàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ài-kok Chióng-koàn; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Oi-koet Chióng-khèn) was a Taiwanese state-run lottery that was active between 1950 and 1987. It was conceived to fund budget shortfalls after the tumultuous 1940s, with the first drawing of 10,000 tickets held in April 1950 reportedly being released earlier then expected due to the government's need for money. The lottery was successful during its lifetime, with over NT$68 billion in revenue, half of which went into the state's coffers. The lottery tickets have been noted for their art, representing common themes of each decade (such as efforts to retake the mainland in the 1950s, the Chinese Cultural Renaissance in the 1960s, and Confucianism and moral tales in the 1970s). Eventually, the growth of the Taiwanese economy made the prize amounts less attractive, and an illegal game based on the original lottery's winning numbers called "dajiale" (dàjiālè; 'happiness for all') emerged in the 1980s and became more popular as it had better odds and fewer people sharing any winnings. The original artist, Liang Youming (梁又銘), was succeeded by Lin Hsing-hsiung (林幸雄) in 1971, who was reportedly kidnapped three times by people who tried to get the winning numbers from him even though he had no knowledge of them. At the peak of dajiale, an estimated 20-30% of the Taiwanese population had participated in the operation. After various societal issues and crimes cropped up due to the game, the government ended the Patriotic lottery despite protests, issuing the last tickets on 17 December 1987. Nevertheless, dajiale continued with other lotteries, such as Hong Kong's Mark Six, through the decade.

## Gallery

* Ticket from the third drawing
* Ticket from the fifth drawing