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• See Palladium (mythology) . In particular:
  • The Palladium is the statue that Athena erected of Pallas, daughter of Triton.
  • A palladium is a cult figure of Pallas Athena, especially the one that wily Odysseus stole from the citadel of Troy, on which the city's security was believed to depend. "The most ancient talismanic effigies of Athena," Ruck and Staples report (see References below), "...were magical found objects, faceless pillars of Earth in the old manner, before the Goddess was anthropomorphized and given form through the intervention of human intellectual meddling."

• By a usage derived from the foregoing, a palladium is a safeguard that protects a social institution. For example, the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli said that trial by jury is "the palladium of our liberties."

• Palladium is one of the chemical elements, a metalFor alternative meanings see metal (disambiguation). In chemistry, a metal is an element that readily forms cations and has metallic bonds, and it is sometimes said that it is similar to a cation in a cloud of electrons. The metals are one of the three gr, discovered in 1803Events January 30 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase. February 24 The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison establishes the principle of judicial r and named by its discoverer, WollastonFor the English philosophical writer, see William Wollaston. William Hyde Wollaston ( August 6, 1766 December 22, 1828) was an English chemist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore. He was bor, after the recently discovered asteroid, 2 Pallas2 Pallas ("PAL us") was the first asteroid discovered after 1 Ceres. It was found and named by H. Wilhelm Olbers on March 28, 1802. It was named after Pallas of Greek mythology, the daughter of Triton and friend of Athena. There is another Pallas in Greek.

• The Hollywood PalladiumThe Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It opened in September 23, 1940 with Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The facility includes a 11,200 square foot dance floor with room for up to 3 is a theater on the Sunset StripThe Sunset Strip is a mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, that runs from Crescent Heights Boulevard and Hollywood to Doheny Drive and Beverly Hills, and is probably the best known portion of Sunset, embracing a premi that opened in 1940.
• The London PalladiumThe London Palladium is the most famous of London's West End theatres. If you top the bill at the Palladium, you're a star. It is also one of London's largest theatres, boasting 2,286 seats. In the 1950s it was the setting for the top-rated ITV variety sh, which opened in 1910 as a Music HallMusic Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to 1) A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts. 2) Th, is a grand theater in the West End, and was bought by Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber at the end of 1990. Many theaters in smaller U.K. cities are named "the Palladium" to catch a little of its legendary glamour. According to Brewer, the theatre was named based on a mistaken notion that the ancient Palladium was a sort of colosseum.

• In New York City in 1947 the mambo craze began at the Palladium Ballroom at Broadway and 53rd, which had been a swing-era venue with a giant dance floor and introduced the cha-cha-cha in 1954. Downtown, in the early 1980s a disco on East 14th Street that bore the same name was a stop on tours of U2 and Ozzy Osbourne and home to classic house music; it was the last public use of Oscar Hammerstein I's Opera House on East 14th Street. It has been replaced by a high rise sports facility and residence hall, still bearing the name, at New York University

• In an even newer usage, Palladium is Microsoft's codename for their new " trusted computing" architecture, the Palladium operating system. Following numerous critical comments about the system (which Microsoft says come from misunderstanding its goals) that gave Palladium a bad name, Microsoft is changing the name of the project into "Next-generation secure computing base."

• Palladium (XPD) is one of the ISO 4217 currency codes.

• Palladium is a fantasy role-playing game created by Palladium Games.

• The Palladium is the original name of a sports arena in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada now known as the Corel Centre.

• The Palladian style of architecture was the creation of Andrea Palladio and is not related to palladium.