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Picnic hat A picnic hat is a hat, usually composed of straw (sometimes referred to as wicker), that is worn while partaking in a picnic. This hat is especially common in warm areas where it is needed to shade the picnic-goer from the sunlight beating down from above.
Picnic table A picnic table (or sometimes a picnic bench) is a modified table with benches expressly for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors (picnicking). In the past, picnic tables were typically made of wood, but modern tables can be made out of anything from recycled plastic to brushed metal.
Pico (F-Zero series) Pico is an alien character in the F-Zero series, Nintendo's fast paced futuristic racing video game. He is one of four characters from the original F-Zero SNES game and the only one out of the four that has not been seen outside of the F-Zero series.
Pico (Newgrounds) Pico is a fictional character depicted in a series of Flash based games created by Tom Fulp, founder of Newgrounds. Pico is one of three children created by Fulp, and still features in the Newgrounds GUI and elswhere throughout the site.
Pico da Bandeira Pico da Bandeira is the third highest mountain in Brazil. Nearing 3,000 meters (2891,9), it is situated between the verge of Minas Gerais and EspĂ­rito Santo states and close to it is CaparaĂł town, in Minas Gerais.
Pico da Cruz Pico da Cruz (Portuguese meaning the peak of the cross, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEC: Piku da Kruz, Santo AntĂŁo Crioulo: Pik' da Kruz) is a volcanic mountain in the eastern part of the island of Santo AntĂŁo. The mountain is accessed with a road linking with the island capital of Porto Novo.
Pico de gallo Pico de gallo (from Spanish, literally rooster's beak), is generally known as a fresh condiment made from chopped tomato, onion, and chiles (typically serranos or jalapeños). Other ingredients may also be added to the salsa, such as lime juice (or lemon ), fresh cilantro (also known as coriander), avocado, cucumber, or radish.
Pico do Vento Pico do Vento (Portuguese meaning the peak of the wind in which the wind blows around the area, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEC: Piku du Ventu, SĂŁo Vicente Crioulo: Pik' d' Vent') is a volcanic mountain in the easern part of the island of SĂŁo Vicente. The mountain is of volcanic origin.
Pico House The Pico House is a historic building in Los Angeles, California, dating from its days as a small town in Southern California. Located on 430 North Main Street, it sits across the old Los Angeles Plaza from Olvera Street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument.
Pico Island Pico Island (Portuguese: Ilha do Pico, pron. ) is an island of the Azores noted for its eponymous volcano, Ponta de Pico (Pico Alto), which is the highest mountain of Portugal and also the highest elevation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Pico, Cape Verde Pico (Portuguese for the "peak", Capeverdean Crioulo languages, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Piku, SĂŁo Vicente: Pik') is in central part of the central part of the municipality of Santiago, Cape Verde. The town is the 13th largest city in Cape Verde.
PicoBSD PicoBSD is a single-floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. In its different variations, PicoBSD allows one to have secure dialup access, a small diskless router, or even a dial-in server, all on only one standard 1.
Picoides Picoides is a genus of woodpeckers (family Picidae) found primarily in North America. The plumage in most species is predominantly black and white, brown and white in some southern species, with the male often having a red (or yellow) badge.
PicoJava picoJava is a RISC microprocessor specification dedicated to native execution of Java-based bytecode without the need for an interpreter or JIT compiler, thus speeding bytecode execution up to 20 times, compared to standard CPU. picoJava-based microprocessors can also execute legacy C/C++ code as efficiently as comparable RISC CPU architectures.
Picolinic acid Picolinic acid is an isomer of nicotinic acid; it is a six-membered ring structure compound composed of five carbon atoms and a nitrogen which replace one carbon-hydrogen unit in the benzene ring, plus a carboxyl side chain at 2-position (nicotinic acid has a carboxyl side chain at 3-position). It acts as a chelating agent of elements such as chromium, zinc, manganese, copper, iron, and molybdenum in the body.
Piconet A piconet is an ad-hoc computer network of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave devices (because a three-bit MAC address is used). Up to 255 further slave devices can be inactive, or parked, which the master device can bring into active status at any time.
Picoo Z The Picoo Z (also sold under the brand name of Havoc Heli as well as Honey Bee in Japan, China, and other countries) is a miniature remote control helicopter manufactured by Silverlit Toys. It is also known as the Picco Z.
Picot A picot is a loop of thread created for functional or ornamental purposes along the edge of lace, ribbon, or crocheted or tatted material. These loops vary in size, according to their intended function and to their creator's artistic intention.
Picotee Picotee is a variety of carnation where the edge is a different colour than the flower's base colour.Daily Dictionary entry for picotee (URL accessed June 16, 2006) The word originates from the French picoté, meaning 'marked with points'.
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is, along with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, one of the three neuroscience groups at MIT. It was run by Nobel Prize laureate Susumu Tonegawa until his resignation on November 17, 2006.
Picpus Cemetery The Picpus Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Picpus) is the only private cemetery in the city of Paris, France. It was created from land seized from the convent of the Chanoinesses de St-Augustin, during the Revolution.
Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 85 species in 27 genera. These are subtropical to tropical and found in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, continental Africa as well as tropical America.
Picrous Day Picrous Day was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of Cornwall on the 2nd Thursday before Christmas. This is believed to be the feast of the discovery of tin by a man named Picrous who miners in the East of Cornwall celebrated as the founder of their industry instead of St Piran.
Picsearch Picsearch is a Swedish company that develops and provides visual search services, both for their own site picsearch.com (and other Picsearch properties) – their own search engine for pictures, and for license customers.
Picsel Picsel Technologies is a software company that designs and develops products for handheld devices such as mobile phones. Picsel began by producing browsers and file viewers, such as the viewer on the Samsung SGH-D600 mobile phone, and have continued on to sophisticated content publishing and delivery solutions.
PictBridge PictBridge is an industry standard from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for direct printing. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a printer, without having to connect the camera to a computer.
Pictet (crater) Pictet is a lunar impact crater located just to the east of the larger and more prominent Tycho crater. The high albedo rays and ejecta from Tycho lie across Pictet and spread far to the east and in other directions.
Pictet-Spengler reaction The Pictet-Spengler reaction is a chemical reaction in which a β-arylethylamine such as tryptamine undergoes ringclosure after condensation with an aldehyde. Usually an acidic catalyst is employed and the reaction mixture heated, but some reactive compounds give good yields already at physiologic conditions.
Pictionary (1997 game show) Pictionary was an American television game show which aired in syndication during the 1997-1998 season. The game was based on the board game, where contestants guessed words and phrases based on drawings, and was hosted by Alan Thicke.
Pictish Beast The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon) is an artistic representation of an animal, and is depicted on Pictish symbol stones. It is not easily identifiable with any real animal, but resembles a seahorse, especially when depicted upright.
Pictish Chronicle The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by (especially older) historians to a pseudo-historical account of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland. The original (albeit lost) manuscript seems to date from the early years of the reign of Kenneth II of Scotland (who ruled Scotland from 971 until 995) since he is the last king mentioned and the chronicler does not know the length of his reign.
Pictish language The Pictish language is the extinct language of the Picts, in what is now Scotland. Evidence of the language is limited to place names and to the names of people found on monuments and the contemporary records.
Pictogram A pictogram (also spelled "pictogramme") or pictograph is a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, place or event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing.
Pictograph Cave National Historic Landmark The Pictograph Cave National Historic Landmark are a 93 acre area of three caves (Pictograph, Middle, and Ghost caves) located 6 miles south of Billings, Montana. There are over 30,000 artifacts which have been identified.
Picton Castle Picton Castle is a medieval castle near Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, south Wales. It was built in the 13th century by Sir John Wogan and is still inhabited by his descendants, the Philipps family (see Baron Milford and Viscount St Davids).
Picton Express The Picton Express was a passenger express train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department between Christchurch and Picton. It ran from December 1945 until February 1956, and was thus the shortest-lived provincial express in New Zealand.
Picton Loop railway line, New South Wales The Bowral to Picton line is a coach service provided by CityRail in the Southern Highlands region south of Sydney, Australia. The coach route follows that of an old railway alignment that is now disused by commuter services.
Picton, Lennox and Nueva Picton, Lennox and Nueva is a group of three uninhabited islands (and their islets) located on the extreme south of South America, in the Chilean region Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, near Navarino island and the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands.
Picton, New South Wales Picton is a small town (2,924 in 2,001) in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly region in foothills of the Southern Highlands, 80 kilometres south west of Sydney. It is also the main town and administrative centre of Wollondilly Shire.
Pictophonetic Pictophonetic refers to a class of Chinese characters containing two parts: one indicating a general category of meaning and the other the sound. The sound is often only approximate to the modern pronunciation because of changes over time and differences between source languages.
Pictoplasma Pictoplasma is an organisation dedicated to the art of character design, and are notable for bringing it into the mainstream. Since 1999, they have encouraged the international character design scene by publishing collections of characters, organising character design conferences and by maintaining the Pictoplasma Archives, an extensive inventory, collection and showcase of contemporary character design.
Pictorial cancellation A pictorial cancellation, in philately, is a cancellation in which part of the cancellation or postmark or a combination of the two contains some sort of picture or image; the term is sometimes used, loosely and perhaps technically incorrectly, for slogan cancellations, which contain some sort of commemorative phrase in addition to the regular format of the cancellation.
Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: being an illustrated account of a study and exploration of the mountains in the English Lake District is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in north-west England.
Pictorialism Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism.
Picts in fantasy Many writers have been drawn to the idea of the Picts and created fictional stories and mythology about them in the absence of much real data. This romanticised view tends to portray them as occasionally noble savages, much as the view of Europeans on Native Americans in the 18th century.
Picture (string theory) In superstring theory, each state may be represented by many ways, depending on the way the ground state is defined. Each representation is called a picture, and is denoted by a number, such as 0 picture, -1 picture, etc.
Picture Arrangement Test The Picture Arrangement Test is a psycological test performed by giving the subject pictures of a person with various facial expressions. The administor of the test then has the subject tell a story based on the images.
Picture book A picture book is a popular form of illustrated literature—more precisely, a book with comparatively few words and at least one picture on each of its openings—popularized in the 20th century Western world.
Picture bride The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th Century of immigrant workers (chiefly Japanese and Korean) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidates. This is an abbreviated form of the traditional matchmaking process, and is similar in a number of ways to the concept of the mail-order bride.
Picture communication symbols Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) are a set of color and black & white drawings originally developed by Mayer-Johnson, LLC for use in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. These AAC systems may be high-tech (Dynamyte) or low-tech such as a communication board.
Picture Editors' Awards The Picture Editors' Awards were established to recognise and reward the very best of photographic journalism throughout the UK and Ireland, and to promote the interests of press photography. The Award’s were founded by a group of newspaper picture editors in 1993 as a non-profit organisation, and each year since have set the benchmark against which editorial photography is judged.
Picture line-up generation equipment In television, picture line-up generation equipment (PLUGE or pluge, pronounced "plooj") is equipment used to generate greyscale test patterns in order to adjust the black level and contrast of a video signal. Various PLUGE patterns can be generated, the most common consisting of three vertical bars of super-black, normal black, and near-black and two rectangles of mid-gray and white.
Picture lock Picture lock is a stage in editing a film or editing a television production. After all changes to the edit have been done and approved, the edit then achieves picture lock It is then sent to subsequent stages in the process, such as online editing] and [[audio mixing.
Picture plane A picture plane is the imaginary flat surface which is usually located between the station point and the object being viewed and is ordinarily a vertical plane perpendicular to the horizontal projection of the line of sight to the object's order of interest.
Picture puzzle A Picture puzzle is a puzzle consisting of a large image or pattern which has been broken up into smaller pieces and scrambled. The challenge is to organize or assemble the smaller pieces to reform the original image.
Picture Page Picture Page was a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the service's hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. It was the first British television series to become a long-running and regular popular hit.
Picture Pages Picture Pages was an educational television segment aimed at preschoolers, teaching lessons on basic arithmetic, geometry, and drawing through a series of interactive lessons that uses a workbook where the child would follow along with the lesson.
Picture Post Picture Post, a magazine that pioneered photojournalism along with its competitor Lilliput, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The magazine was an immediate success and after six months was selling 1,600,000 copies a week.
Picture This (song) "Picture This" is track number 3 from the 1978 album Parallel Lines by Blondie, and was also, the fourth single release from Chrysalis Records, reaching number 12 in 1978. It was written by, what were to become the principal song writers for the band; Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri.
Picture Transfer Protocol Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) is a widely-supported protocol developed by the International Imaging Industry Association to allow the transfer of images from digital cameras to computers and other peripheral devices without the need of additional device drivers. The protocol has been standardised as ISO 15740.
Picture-in-picture Picture in Picture (PiP), invented by Greg Dockery allows one to watch more than one TV program (channel) at the same time on television sets or other devices. With PiP feature of TV, one program will be displayed on the entire TV screen, and another program or programs will be displayed in individual smaller squares on the screen.
Picture-winged fly The name picture-winged fly is sometimes used in a colloquial sense for various fly families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings, but is more correctly applied solely to the family Ulidiidae (which was formerly known as Otitidae). This is a large and diverse cosmopolitan family, and, as in related families, most species are herbivorous or saprophagous.
Picturehouse Picturehouse is a specialty film production company formed in 2005 as a joint-venture of New Line Cinema and HBO Films, both divisions of Time Warner. The company was formed from New Line and HBO's acquisition of the distribution arm of Newmarket Films and New Line's Fine Line Features specialty division.
Pictures (song) "Pictures" is the follow up single to "I Love It" by Australian dance group Sneaky Sound System. "Pictures" peaked at position 19 on the ARIA Singles Chart and the Tonite Only remix held position 1 for several weeks on the ARIA Club Chart.
Pictures at an Exhibition Pictures at an Exhibition (, Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, Pictures from an Exhibition – a Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann) is a famous suite of ten piano pieces composed by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. It is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky’s greatest solo piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists.
Pictures at an Exhibition (Stokowski orchestration) Conductor Leopold Stokowski first introduced Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to Philadelphia audiences. However, he was not fully satisfied with the arrangement--he felt it was too "French" and that it dampened Mussorgsky's Russian originality.
Pictures from an Institution Pictures from an Institution is a novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is what one might call an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the personal interpersonal relationships among the characters and their private lives.
Pictures in the Dark Pictures in the Dark is a song by Mike Oldfield released as a single mainly in Europe in 1985. Singers on this single includes his girlfriend at the time, Anita Hegerland, Barry Palmer and well-known Welsh choirboy Aled Jones.
Picturesque Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal first introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations of the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wakes, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1700, a practical book which instructed Englands leisured travelers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty".
PictureViewer PictureViewer is a software application from Apple Computer installed with the free part of the QuickTime media viewer system on versions of Mac OS prior to Mac OS X. It can be used to view picture files from most common still image formats.
Pidal María Goyri de Menéndez María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal (1873–1955) was a Spanish Hispanist, wife of Ramón Menéndez Pidal. She was born in Madrid and began her studies there in the normal and business courses of the Association for the Education of Women.
Piddle Brook The Piddle Brook is a watercourse in Worcestershire; two villages, North Piddle and Wyre Piddle lie along its course before it joins the River Avon near Pershore. A small brewery about a mile away named itself after the nearby brook, with its sole product being "Piddle Beer".
Pidgeon Island Pidgeon Island ( is a rocky Antarctic island, a mile long, between Midgley Island and Mitchell Peninsula in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948.
Pidgeon process The Pidgeon process is one of the methods of magnesium metal production, via a silicothermic reduction. Practical production requires roughly 35-40 MWh/ton of metal produced, which is on par with the molten salt electrolytic methods of production, though above the 7 MWh/ton theoretical minimum.
Pidgeotto is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. Pigeotto is well-known for evolving from one of the Pokémon encountered in the first route in Pokémon Red and Blue (and their remakes Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen) Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal.
Pidgin A pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues. Pidgins have simple grammars and few synonyms, serving as auxiliary contact languages.
Pidgin code In computer programming, pidgin code is a mixture of several programming languages in the same program, or pseudocode that is a mixture of a programming language with natural language descriptions. Hence the name: the mixture is a programming language analogy to a pidgin in natural languages.
Pidgin to Da Max Pidgin to Da Max (full title: Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max) is a humorous illustrated dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin words and phrases by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, and Ken Sakata. With the definitions of most of the words and phrases also given in Pidgin, the book is not clearly intended to be used as a Pidgin-English dictionary, although a reader unfamiliar with the dialect would likely understand most of the entries from context and the illustrations.
Pie A pie is a baked food, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies can be either "one-crust," where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking, or "two-crust," with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell.
Pie Box Enterprise Linux Pie Box Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution that is derived from open source software. Pie Box Enterprise Linux aims to be 100% binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux by introducing minimal changes to the upstream packages.
Pie Carver Kirsten "Pie" Carver is a fictional character from the Mirror-Image worlds in the Stephen King and Richard Bachman Novels "Desperation" and "The Regulators," respectively. Her nickname of "Pie" is given to her by the two people on both Earths who love her dearly; her older brother David Carver on the Desperation Earth, and her husband David Carver on the Regulators Earth.
Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero Pie de la Cuesta is a small beach resort town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, approximately 5 miles north of Acapulco, and it is the location of a military base of the Mexican Air Force. It is a long streach of land bordered by rough seas on one side and a very calm lagoon on the other.
Pie Geelen Pieke ("Pie") Geelen (born October 20, 1972 in Nijmegen, Gelderland) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he finished in fifth position with the Men's Relay Team in the 4x100m Freestyle, alongside Mark Veens, Martin van der Spoel, and Pieter van den Hoogenband.
Pie chart A pie chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating relative magnitudes or frequencies. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector (and consequently its central angle and area), is proportional to the quantity it represents.
Pie in the Sky Pie in the Sky was a British police drama starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, and broadcast on BBC-1 between 1994 and 1997, as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman (much against his wanting), is also the head chef of the title restaurant.
Pie IX Bridge The Pie IX Bridge is a Quebec bridge, spanning the Rivière des Prairies. It connects the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul area of Laval, on Île Jésus, and the borough of Montreal North in Montreal, on the Island of Montreal.
Pie Jesu Pie Jesu is a motet that is a part of some composers' musical settings of the Requiem Mass. Those by Gabriel Fauré, Antonín Dvořák, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Luigi Cherubini, and Andrew Lloyd Webber include a Pie Jesu.
Pie menu A pie menu (sometimes called radial menu), invented by Don Hopkins, is a circular popup menu where selection depends on direction. A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse.
Pie method The pie method is a method for fairly dividing a pie between two people (although the value of this approach is that it applies to any divisible goods). The basic idea is that one person cuts the pie, and the other person chooses which of the two pieces he wants.
Piebald A piebald is an animal, especially a horse, that has a spotting pattern of large white and black patches. The colour of the horse's skin underneath its coat may vary between black (under the black patches of hair) and pink (under the white patches).
Piebaldism Piebaldism is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development. Common characteristics include a congenital white forelock, scattered scattered normal pigmented and hyperpigmented macules and a triangular shaped depigmented patch on the forehead.
Piece by Piece (book) Piece by Piece is an autobiographical book by singer/songwriter Tori Amos and co-authored by rock music journalist Ann Powers. The book is told in a conversational style with questions posed by Ann and responded to by Tori.
Piece of Cake (TV series) Piece of Cake was a six part 1988 television series, depicting the life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain (7 September, 1940). The series was produced by London Weekend Television.
Piece of My Heart "Piece of My Heart" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to mainstream attention when Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company performed the song in 1968 on their album Cheap Thrills.
Piece of Wood Award Founded by Mr Greg Fleet Esq., the Piece of Wood Award is awarded during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to the best show as voted by a committee of comedians which includes all past winners of the award.
Piece work Piece work or piecework describes types of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed "piece rate" for each unit produced or action performed. Piece work is also a form of Performance-Related Pay (PRP) and is the oldest form of performance pay.
Pieces (film) Pieces (also known as Mil gritos tiene la noche, Rompecabezas and One Thousand Cries Has the Night) is a 1982 slasher film. The film was directed by Spanish film director Juan Piquer Simón, written by Joe D'Amato and co-written by Dick Randall, produced by Stephen Minasian, and starred Christopher George (of TV's Rat Patrol), Lynda Day George (of TV's Mission: Impossible), Edmund Purdom, spaghetti-western star Frank Braña and Paul Smith.
Pieces of a Dream (album) Pieces of a Dream is the 2005 greatest hits compilation by the American pop/rock singer Anastacia, covering singles from her first three studio albums Not That Kind, Freak of Nature and Anastacia. Just two of Anastacia's singles - "Boom", the official 2002 FIFA World Cup anthem, and "Love Is a Crime", the official soundtrack of the 2002 film Chicago - were omitted from the album, but are found as remixes in the Special Edition of the album).
Pieces of a Dream (song) "Pieces of a Dream" is a pop-rock ballad written by Anastacia, Glen Ballard and David Hodges for Anastacia's first greatest hits album Pieces of a Dream (2005). It was produced by Hodges and received a mixed reception from music critics- some believing it to be her best song to date, others thought it was boring and too much like previuos tracks.
Pieces of Modesty Pieces of Modesty is a short story collection by Peter O'Donnell featuring his secret agent heroine, Modesty Blaise, first published in 1972. It was O'Donnell's first such collection of stories (he would publish a second, Cobra Trap decades later).

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