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Piecewise linear manifold In mathematics, a piecewise linear (PL) manifold is a topological manifold together with a piecewise linear structure on it. Such a structure can be defined by means of an atlas, such that one can pass from chart to chart in it by piecewise linear functions.
Pied Bushchat The Pied Bushchat, Saxicola caprata, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small species in the family, are often called chats.
Pied Butcherbird The Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) is a medium-sized songbird native to Australia. It grows about 35 centimetres long and the colour of juvenile birds, which are accompanied by their parents, is brown and white as seen in the picture.
Pied Crow The Pied Crow (Corvus albus) is approximately the size of the European Carrion Crow or a little larger (46-50 cm in length) but has a proportionately larger bill and slightly longer tail, wings and longer legs. As its name suggests, its glossy black head and neck are interrupted by a large area of white feathering from the shoulders down to the lower breast.
Pied Currawong The Pied Currawong, Strepera graculina is a common omnivorous songbird of eastern Australia. Its specific name is derived from the Latin graculina, resembling a Jackdaw, though Grackles of the genus Gracula are members of the Sturnidae.
Pied Imperial-Pigeon The Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird on mainly small islands adjoining the Indian Ocean from the Nicobars in an arc to New Guinea. It is also found in northern Australia in coastal areas from the Kimberlies (in Western Australia) to the Great Barrier Reef, in the east (off Queensland).
Pied Piper's House Although the stone facade dates from 1602, The half-timbered building known colloquially as the Pied Piper’s House is actually much older. The facade was built for Mayor Hermann Arendes by the architects Johann Hundertossen and/or Eberhard Wilkening in the style of the Renaissance.
Pied Wheatear The Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka, is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.
Pied-noir Pied-noir (plural: pieds-noirs) is a term for the former population of European descent of North Africa, especially Algeria, which was divided into three French departments until its 1962 independence. It also includes the Algerian Jewish population, some of whose ancestors had fled Spain after the Reconquista, whilst others were descendants of Jews who come much earlier or even Berber converts to Judaism.
Piedigrotta Piedigrotta Literally, "at the foot of the grotto". A section of the Mergellina quarter of Naples, Italy, so-called for the presence of the Church of the Madonna of Piedigrotta near the entrance to an ancient Roman tunnel.
Piedmon Piedmon (known as Piemon in Japan) is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Majin Digimon modeled after a pierrot. A master of deception, Piedmon is the most powerful, cruel and demonic of the four Dark Masters.
Piedmont (United States) Piedmont is the plateau region of the eastern United States which lies between the Atlantic Coastal Plain, from which it is divided by the fall line, and the eastern mountain ranges, the Appalachian Mountains. The width of the Piedmont varies, being quite narrow above the Delaware River (and non-existent above the Hudson River), but nearly 300 miles (475 km) wide in the state of North Carolina.
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 on a scheduled airline flight in the United States from Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina to Roanoke Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia. Shortly after departure, the flight collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on approach to the same airport.
Piedmont Baptist College Piedmont Baptist College is a private, Christian college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Originally called Piedmont Bible Institute (and later Piedmont Bible College), the school changed its name in 2001 to its current name to reflect its Baptist heritage and beliefs.
Piedmont Community College Piedmont Community College is a two-year post-secondary institution in Caswell and Person counties in North Carolina. It serves approximately 55,000 residents in the rural area, and is one of fifty-eight schools in the North Carolina Community College System.
Piedmont Geriatric Hospital Piedmont Geriatric Hospital is Virginia's only state facility solely dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of persons over the age of 65The 135-bed geriatric] hospital is located in [[Burkeville, Virginia on the 300 acre (1.2 km²) site of the former Piedmont Sanatorium.
Piedmont Hills High School Piedmont Hills High School is a comprehensive public four-year high school located in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose, California, USA. It is part of the East Side Union High School District and is the second highest performing school in the district, based on California's Academic Performance Index.
Piedmont Triad The Piedmont Triad, Triad, or North Carolina Triad is a region of North Carolina in the Piedmont that consists of the area within and surrounding the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. The area is connected by Interstates 40, 85, 73, & 74 and is served by the Piedmont Triad International Airport.
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments The Piedmont Triad Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region G) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, it serves Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell, and Alamance counties.
Piedmont Triad Research Park Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP), located in downtown Winston Salem is a highly interactive, master-planned innovation community developed to support life science and information technology research and development. The PTRP is the fourth largest research park in the state behind Research Triangle Park, NC State University's Centennial Campus and Charlotte's University Research Park.
Piedmont Virginia Community College Piedmont Virginia Community College is a two-year, post-secondary educational institution located in Albemarle County, Virginia immediately south of Charlottesville. As part of the statewide Virginia Community College System, PVCC serves the residents of five counties surrounding Charlottesville and Albemarle, and an enrollment of over 2,200 full-time equivalent students as of 2005.
Piedmont, Quebec Piedmont, Quebec is a small municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec and the administrative region of Laurentides in the Laurentian mountains about 40 minutes north of Montreal. Its population in 2001 was 2,122.
Piedmont, Virginia Piedmont, Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region is 50 miles wide, more or less, and 100 miles in length.
Piedmontese language Piedmontese (also known as Piemontèis, and Piemontese in Italian) is spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is part of the western group of Romance languages, like French, Provençal and Catalan, and it is geographically and linguistically close to the northern Italian regional languages – Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian and Venetian – that, according to the Ethnologue classification, constitute the group of Gallo-Italic languages, also known as Cisalpine.
Piedra del Águila Dam The Piedra del Águila Dam (in Spanish, Embalse Piedra del Águila) is the second of five dams on the Limay River in northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region), approximately at , and 590 m above mean sea level, downstream from the confluence of the Limay and the Collón Curá River. It was inaugurated in 1993.
Piedra Volada The Piedra Volada falls (Spanish: Cascada de Piedra Volada) is located in Cañon Candameña of the Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre) in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. At the height of 1,486 feet (453 meters) it is the tallest waterfall in Mexico.
Piedras Blancas National Park Piedras Blancas National Park is a National Park part of the Osa Conservation Area it is found in the Puntarenas Province of southern Costa Rica near the town of La Gamba. It protects rainforests and beaches near the Golfo Dulce on the Pacific Coast.
Piedras Negras (Maya site) Piedras Negras is the modern name for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Petén department of Guatemala. The name Piedras Negras means "black stones" in the Spanish language.
Pieg Pieg is a 15th century litery term which is commonly used to identify naturalistic notions from prominent works of art. Pieg is a term also glorified by the late William Shakespeare when describing the gaudy appearance of ariel in 'The Tempest.
Pieing Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at someone. Originally a staple of slapstick comedy, the term has also acquired a political dimension and has come to mean throwing a pie at an authority figure, politician, or celebrity as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against a perceived flaw — arrogance, hubris — in the target's character.
Piekary ĹšlÄ…skie Piekary ĹšlÄ…skie (German: Deutsch Piekar) is a town in south Poland, situated in the Silesian Voivodship since 1999 (previously in the Katowice Voivodship from 1975). Piekary is a spiritual centre of Upper Silesia, a place of St.
Piel Castle Piel Castle also known as Fouldry (or Fouldrey) Castle, is situated on the south-eastern point of Piel Island, 1 km off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula, protecting the deep water harbour of Barrow-in-Furness ().
Piel de otoño is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcasted on Televisa in 2004. It was also broadcasted later that year in the United States through Univision and in 2005 in Latin America through the Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica.
Piel de Sapo Piel de Sapo (Cucumis melo, Inodorus group, family Cucurbitaceae) is a variety of cultivar melon widely available in the Northern Hemisphere, with a green and yellow blotched skin after which it is named. (Piel De Sapo translates as "toad skin").
Piel Island Piel Island lies half a mile (1 km) off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, though formerly in the area of Lancashire north of the sands. It is located at (OS grid ref.
Piemont-Liguria Ocean The Piemont-Liguria basin or the Piemont-Liguria Ocean (sometimes only one of the two names is used, for example: Piemonte Ocean) was a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basins that existed between the continents Europe and Africa the Piemont-Liguria Ocean is called the Western or Alpine Tethys Ocean.
Pier A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely-spaced piles of a wharf can act as breakwaters, and are consequently more liable to silting.
Pier 39 Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco. Around the Pier there are shops, restaurants, a video arcade, street performances, ferry trips to Alcatraz, an interpretive center for the Marine Mammal Center, an aquarium, virtual 3D rides, and views of California sea lions hauled out on docks on Pier 39's marina.
Pier 63 Pier 63 is a former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad railroad barge which is sited on the Hudson River in New York City, on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan, close to 23rd Street and near Chelsea Piers and Hudson River Park. It was purchased from a used car salesman in Staten Island by John Krevey in October 1996 and delivered by a tugboat.
Pier Angelo Manzolli Pier Angelo Manzo(l)li was an Italian author, born about the end of the fifteenth century at La Stellata, near Ferrara. He is identified with the pseudonymous Marcus Stellatus Palingenius (Marcello Palingenio Stellato).
Pier Antonio Micheli Pier Antonio Micheli (December 11, 1679 - January 1, 1737) was a noted Italian botanist, professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze, author of Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita. He discovered the spores of mushrooms, was a leading authority on cryptogams, and coined several important genera of microfungi including Aspergillus and Botrytis.
Pier Antonio Panzeri Pier Antonio Panzeri (born on 6 June 1955 in Rivolta d'Adda, Cremona Province) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North-West with the Democrats of the Left (DS), part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Pier Art Gallery The Pier Art Gallery in Stromness, Orkney, was opened to the public in 1979. Margaret Gardiner 1904-2005 first visited the Orkneys in the 1950s and converted the old quay-side building to house her collection of modern paintings and sculpture .
Pier Francesco Orsini Pier Francesco Orsini, also called Vicino Orsini (July 4, 1523 - 1583) was an Italian condottiero and patron of the arts. He is famous as the commissioner of the Mannerist Park of the Monsters in Bomarzo (northern Lazio).
Pier glass A pier glass is a long tall mirror which is placed flush on a wall between two windows, often of the same shape and design as the windows themselves. This was a common decorating feature in the reception rooms of large 18th century houses.
Pier Leoni Pier Leoni or Pierleone () (died 2 June 1128) was the son of the Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto and founder of the great and important medieval Roman family of the Pierleoni. He was called the Jewish Crassus by Gregorovius.
Pier Luigi Bersani Pier Luigi Bersani (born on 29 September 1951) is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election. Subsequently, on May 17, 2006, he was appointed as Minister of Productive Assets in the cabinet of Romano Prodi.
Pier Ruggero Piccio Pier Ruggero Piccio (September 27, 1880–July 30, 1965) was a renowned Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force. With 24 victories during his career he is considered as one of the principal aces of Italian aviation.
Pier Shops at Caesars The Pier Shops at Caesars is a shopping mall located on the four-story Pier at Caesars on the Atlantic City Boardwalk adjacent to Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey via second-story skybridge. The mall was formely the Shops on Ocean One mall.
Piera The municipality of Piera covers a lage portion of the southeastern corner of the comarca of Anoia in Catalonia, on the left bank of the Anoia river. The agricultural land, mostly non-irrigated, is used for the cultivation of cereals, grapes, olives and almonds.
Pierangelo Garegnani Pierangelo Garegnani is an Italian economist and professor of the Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre. He is the Director of the Fondazione Centro Piero Sraffa di Studi e Documenti at the Facoltá di Economia "Federico Caffè", and also the literary executor of the works, documents and papers left by the eminent Italian economist Piero Sraffa to the University of Cambridge's Wren Library.
Pierce Butler Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 - February 15, 1822) was a soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.
Pierce Butler (justice) Pierce Butler (March 17, 1866 – November 16, 1939) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He is notable for being the first justice from Minnesota, and for being a Democrat appointed by a Republican.
Pierce College (LACMTA station) Pierce College is a station on the Los Angeles Orange Line Transitway. It is named after Los Angeles Pierce College, which is located immediately across Victory Boulevard from the station, which lies on the border between the Los Angeles districts of Winnetka, and Woodland Hills.
Pierce County Library System The Pierce County Library System was established by the Washington State Legislature in 1946 as an independent rural library district to serve county areas without city library service. As of 2006, PCLS has 17 branches serving more than 500,000 people in unincorporated Pierce County and 14 cities and towns which have annexed to the System for library service.
Pierce Dod Pierce Dod (1683 - 1754) was a British physician and opponent of smallpox inoculation. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1701, received his MA in 1705, MD in 1714 and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1720.
Pierce Egan Pierce Egan (1772-1849), early journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism (1813-1828), in which he originated the description of boxing as "the sweet science".
Pierce M. B. Young Pierce Manning Butler Young (November 15, 1839 – July 6, 1896) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a post-war politician, diplomat, and four-term United States Congressman from Georgia.
Pierce Mason Butler Pierce Mason Butler (April 11, 1798 – August 20, 1847) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838. He was killed on while seving as Colonel of the Palmetto Regiment at the Battle of Charubusco during the Mexican-American War.
Pierce Rafferty Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty (born 1952) grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City in 1982. Some of his relatives include grandfather Marvin Pierce, president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines Redbook and McCall's; and an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, also an ancestor to Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States.
Pierce Silver Arrow The Pierce Silver Arrow was a concept car of which five were built in a record three months, and introduced at the 1933 New York Auto Show. The car caused an absolute sensation, with a futuristic design, spare wheels hidden behind the front wheels, a wide-degree angle V-12 and a top speed of 115 mph.
Pierce Site The Pierce Site (also known as Pierce Mounds and Middens) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Apalachicola, Florida, United States. It is located approximately 1 mile northwest of Apalachicola on 12th Street.
Pierce v. Society of Sisters Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, , was an important early 20th century United States Supreme Court decision which significantly expanded legal understanding of the sorts of "liberty" and "property" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Pierce-Arrow Pierce-Arrow was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active between 1901 and 1938. Best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks, fire trucks, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles.
Pierce-Hichborn House The Pierce-Hichborn House (circa 1711) is a handsome early Georgian house located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, immediately adjacent to the Paul Revere House, and now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association and an admission fee is charged.
Piercefield House Piercefield House is a largely ruined neo-classical mansion designed by Sir John Soane, located near Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales. Its extensive surrounding park overlooking the Wye Valley includes Chepstow Racecourse.
Piercing the corporate veil The corporate law concept of piercing (lifting) the corporate veil describes a legal decision where a shareholder of a corporation is held personally liable for the debts of the corporation despite the general principle that those persons are immune from suits in contract or tort that otherwise would only hold the corporation liable. This doctrine is also known as "disregarding the corporate entity".
Piercing the Heart Piercing the Heart a philosophical method employed by the legendary Miyamoto Musashi within the Gorin no sho during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan. If the area of combat is rather tight when it comes to height and breadth, in which you have more difficulty in executing slash movements, you must stab your opponent.
Pierement Waltz The "Pierement Waltz" is a piece of music composed by Philip Green for the 1959 film Operation Amsterdam, in which it was played on a Dutch street organ. The piece of music was later released on record to the general public.
Pieres The Pieres are a Thracian people, occupying the narrow strip of plain land, or low hill, between the mouths of the Peneius and the Haliacmon rivers, at the foot of the great woody steeps of mount Olympus. This district, which, under the name of Pieria or Pieris, is mentioned in the Homeric poems, was, according to legend, the birthplace of the Muses and of Orpheus, the father of song.
Pierfrancesco Chili Pierfrancesco 'Frankie' Chili, born 20th June 1964 in Bologna, Italy, near the Imola race track, is a motorcycle racer who has raced in World Superbike and the 500cc World Championship. In WSBK he had a record number of starts, as well as 10 poles and 17 wins.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13 1950), is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist. By many, he is considered the Richard Dawkins of Italian science writing.
Pieris (plant) Pieris is a genus of seven species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba. Known commonly as andromedas or fetterbushes, they are broad-leaved evergreen shrubs growing to 1-6 m tall.
Pierle The Castle of Pierle, positioned south of Cortona and near Lake Trasimeno existed already in X the century and was property of the marquises of the Saint Mount Maria Tiberina. In 1428 there is a contract of sale by the Republic of Florence and payment of 1200 fiorini of gold when it became free of Cortona.
Pierleoni family The family of the Pierleoni, meaning "sons of Peter Leo", was a great Roman patrician clan of the Middle Ages, headquartered in a tower house in the Jewish quarter, Trastevere. The heads of the family often bore the title consul Romanorum, or "Consul of the Romans," in the early days.
Pierlucio Tinazzi Pierlucio Tinazzi (December 27, 1962 - March 24, 1999) was an Italian security guard who perished while rescuing survivors of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Part of his job involved riding back and forth through the tunnel on his motorcycle to keep traffic flowing, dispatching tow trucks and providing motorist assistance as needed.
Pierluigi Collina Pierluigi Collina (born 13 February 1960) is a former Italian football referee, who was widely regarded as one of the world's best officials. After his retirement in August 2005 he concentrated on his own business as a financial advisor.
Pierluigi Marzorati Pierluigi Marzorati (born September 12, 1952) is a basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Yugoslavia turned out to be too strong for Italy in the final: the match ended 77-86.
Piero Cappuccilli The Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli (9 November 1929 - 12 July 2005) was a famous opera singer, best know for his Verdi roles, particularly Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. He was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato.
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici Piero de' Medici (the Gouty), Italian Piero "il Gottoso" (1416 – December 2, 1469), was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance. He was also the father of Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici.
Piero Gemelli Born in Rome in 1952, Piero Gemelli studied architecture and taught photography and advertising at the European Institut of Design until 1982. As a photographer, he started out creating advertising images and programs in multivision.
Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses (born 1944 in Venice, Italy) is a professor of American foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is an author of many books on the subject of Latin America.
Piero Gobetti Piero Gobetti (June 19, 1901 – February 15, 1926) was an Italian journalist, intellectual and radical liberal. He was an exceptionally active campaigner and critic in the crisis years in Italy after the First World War and into the early years of Fascist rule.
Piero Malvestiti Piero (Peter) Malvestiti (1899 - 1964) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who was a minister in successive governments in the 1940s and 1950s, a European Commissioner and President of the European Coal and Steel Community.
Piero Marini Piero Marini (born 13 Jan 1942) is a Roman Catholic archbishop, currently serving as the Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations. He heads the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff and works for Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor Pope John Paul II, a post he has held since 1982.
Piero Rodarte Piero Rodarte is a race car driver born in Mexico on November 30, 1983. Rodarte competed in the 2002 Barber Dodge Pro Series, finishing 12th in the final standings, and in 2005 returned to motorsport with the Spanish Formula Three team ECA.
Piero Taruffi Piero Taruffi (born in Rome, October 12, 1906 - died January 12, 1988), was a Formula One driver from Italy, father of lady racer Prisca Taruffi. He participated in 18 grands prix, debuting on September 3, 1950.
Piero Umiliani Piero Umiliani (born July 17 1926 in Florence, Italy –- died February 14 2001 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer, most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" of 1968, that was originally used for a Swedish soft porn documentary –- Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso ("Sweden, Heaven or Hell") –- but in 1977 became world-famous when it was performed on The Muppet Show. It is also a trademark song of the Benny Hill show.
Pierogi Pierogi are a kind of dumpling also known as perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, or pyrohy. Most English-speakers treat these forms as singular and form the plural by adding -s, but a few consider them plural and form the singular by removal of the -i or -y.
Pierogie Race The Pierogie Race is a promotion between innings during a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game that features four contestants racing in giant pierogies costumes: Jalapeño Hannah (green hat), Cheese Chester (yellow), Sauerkraut Saul (red) and Oliver Onion (purple).
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus Pierolapithecus catalaunicus was a species of primate which lived about 13 million years ago during the Miocene in what is now Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia (Spain) giving the name to the specie. It is believed by some to be a common ancestor of both modern humans and the other great apes, or at least a species that brings us closer to a common ancestor than any previous fossil discovery.
Pierpont Edwards Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750-April 5,1826) was a delegate to the American Continental Congress. He has been described as "a brilliant but erratic member of the Connecticut bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by stern Calvinists, a man whose personal morality resembled greatly that of Aaron Burr.
Pierre (restaurant) Pierre is a French Haute Cuisine restaurant situated on the 25th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong. It is managed by 3-star Michelin Chef Pierre Gagnaire which opened in October 2006 after a major renovation to the hotel.
Pierre Adet The chemist Pierre Auguste Adet was born on 1763-05-18 in Nevers in France. He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the chemical magazine Annales de chimie, founded in 1789.
Pierre Adolphe Piorry Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879) was a French physician. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of internal organs using percussion) and was the creator of medical terms toxin, toxemia and septicemia.
Pierre Akendengué Pierre-Claver Akendengué (born April 25, 1943) is a musician and composer of Gabon. In 1997, he received his country's "Prix d'excellence" at the Africa Music awards in Libreville, honoring his body of work.
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (8 July 1829 - 20 January 1871) was a French writer. He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy-three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of Rocambole.
Pierre Allain Pierre Allain (1904 – 2000) was a French alpinist who began climbing in the 1920s. In the 1930s he was joined by several others at Fontainebleau, where his group of "'Bleausards" developed a love of bouldering that went beyond simple training for the Alps.
Pierre Alphonse Laurent Pierre Alphonse Laurent (July 18, 1813 – September 2, 1854) was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France.
Pierre Amine Gemayel Pierre Amine Gemayel (Arabic: ; commonly known as Pierre Gemayel Jr., Pierre Amine or simply Pierre Gemayel; September 24 1972 – November 21 2006) was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, better known in English as the Phalange Party.

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