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Pierre-André Taguieff Pierre-André Taguieff, born in 1946 in Paris, is a philosopher and political economist, and director of research at CNRS (in an Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) laboratory, the CEVIPOF). He is the author of many essays in sociology, mainly concerning the questions of racism, racialism (or "scientific racism"), antisemitism and historical revisionism.
Pierre-Antoine Bellange Pierre-Antoine Bellange (1760–1844) was a French ébéniste (cabinetmaker) working in Paris. Bellange held an eminent position among the representatives of the decorative arts at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Pierre-Antoine Tabeau Pierre-Antoine Tabeau (11 October 1782 – May 18, 1835) was a Roman Catholic priest and vicar general. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Tabeau, a trader and militia man who was involved in the fur trade out of New France.
Pierre-Antoine-Marie Crozy Pierre-Antoine-Marie Crozy (1831-1903) [also called Crozy aîné -- French for "elder"]. A partner in Avoux & Crozy, La Guillotière, Lyon, France, he was active in rose-breeding from the 1850s to 1860s.
Pierre-Étienne Flandin Pierre Étienne Flandin (April 12, 1889 at Paris, France-June 13, 1958 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD), and Prime Minister of France from November 8, 1934 to May 31, 1935.
Pierre-Étienne Fortin Pierre-Étienne Fortin (December 14 1823 – June 15 1888) was a Quebec physician and political figure. He represented Gaspé in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1887 and also represented Gaspé in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1878.
Pierre-Florent Baillairgé Pierre-Florent Baillairgé, (29 June 1761 – 9 December 1812), was from Quebec, the son of Jean Baillairgé, and did spend some time in the wood carving and joinery end of his father's business. His brother, François, already was there and the three did decorative wood-carving for several churches in the region.
Pierre-François Bouchard Pierre-François Bouchard (1772 - 1832) was a French captain best known for discovering the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta (present-day Rashid) on July 15, 1799. The Bouchard Translator is named after Pierre-François.
Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville is a Pseudo French pseudo-aristocrat, 1719-1805. An amateur art dealer he introduced William Hamilton to the Porcinari family whose collection of antiquities Hamilton purchased forming the basis of the collection that was subsequently sold to the British Museum.
Pierre-François, Marquis de Rougé Pierre-François, Marquis de Rougé (1702 - 1761) was a French nobleman and General. The son of Pierre III, Marquis de Rougé and of Jeanne Prézeau de la Guilletière, he held the hereditary titles Marquis de Rougé, Baron de Coetmen, Lord of Le Tremblay and La Belliere.
Pierre-Francisque Caroubel Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (died 1611) was a French violinist and composer who collaborated with Michael Praetorius and is known for his dance music, bransles and gaillards, some of which were published after his death in the anthology Secret des muses (Amsterdam, 1615). Some of the music arranged by Praetorius in Terpsichore Musarum (1612) was also by Caroubel.
Pierre-Georges Latécoère Pierre-Georges Latécoère was pionneer of aeronautics born in 1883 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre that died in 1943. He studied in Ecole Centrale Paris and, after the First World War, started business in aeronautics.
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of the French and Spanish fleets defeated by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Pierre-Jean Mariette Pierre-Jean Mariette (Paris 1694–Paris 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists. He was a central figure in the artistic culture of Paris for decades.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in British English, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (15 January, 1809 – 19 January, 1865) was a French mutualist political philosopher who was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers. He was a workingman, a printer, who taught himself to read Latin so as to print books in that language well.
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was the first premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following Canadian Confederation in 1867. He led a Conservative Party government.
Pierre-Jules Hetzel Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily illustrated publications of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today.
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet (December 13, 1838 - December 15, 1902) was a French botanist and mycologist. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiberg and later became a professor of botany at the universities of Strasbourg (1869), Nancy (1872), and Bordeaux (1876).
Pierre-Samuel Gendron Pierre-Samuel Gendron (1828 – June 11 1889) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He represented Bagot in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative from 1867 to 1874 and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1876.
Pierre-Simon Ballanche Pierre-Simon Ballanche (August 4, 1776 – June 12, 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23 1749 – March 5 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and extending the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This masterpiece translated the geometrical study of mechanics used by Isaac Newton to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (Brussels, 5 September, 1796- Brussels, 1862) was a Belgian lawyer, founder of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and liberal politician. He was Chairman of the Belgian House of Parliament (of 28 June 1848 up to 28 September 1852 and of 17 December 1857 up to June 1859)
Pierre-Yves Gerbeau Pierre-Yves Gerbeau (born 1965/66, name almost always shortened to PYP-Y Gerbeau: King of the Dome, BBC News Online, 31 December 2000, accessed 9 December 2006) is a French management consultant. He is married to Kate Gerbeau (née Sanderson), a British television presenter, and has a daughter from another relationship.
Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School (PCHS) is a non-denominational, English speaking educational facility located in Montreal, (formerly Pierrefonds), Quebec, Canada with an enrolment of approximately 1,200 students, in grades 7 through 11. It operates within the Lester B.
Pierrefonds-Senneville Pierrefonds-Senneville is a former Montreal borough in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec. After Senneville voted to demerge from Montreal and returned to being an independent municipality on January 1, 2006, the Pierrefonds sector was merged with Roxboro to create the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
Pierrick Lilliu Pierrick Lilliu, born July 13, 1986, is a French rock-singer living in Brittany and was born in Alsace. Eldest of three children, he appeared in the French reality show Nouvelle Star and placed 2nd against Myriam Abel on May 12, 2005.
Pierrot Lunaire Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot lunaire, ("three times seven poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"), commonly known as Pierrot Lunaire ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the moonlight"), Op. 21, is a song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg.
Piers Akerman Piers Akerman is a right wing columnist for the Australian News Limited newspaper The Daily Telegraph. He was born in New Guinea, but raised in Perth, in Western Australia, by his parents John and Eve Akerman.
Piers Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret Piers James Richard Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret was born on 15 April 1961, the eldest son of Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret and Gillian Buckley. He was educated at Eton College and St.
Piers Dick-Lauder Sir Piers Robert Dick Lauder, 13th Baronet of the Fountainhall creation (the family having sold this estate) was born 3 October 1947 at Nicosia, Cyprus, where his father Sir George Andrew Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet was an officer serving in the British Army.
Piers Gaveston Society The Piers Gaveston Society is an exclusive dining club at the University of Oxford with a membership limited to 12 undergraduates. Named after the eponymous lover of King Edward II of England, its members have a reputation for indulging in bizarre entertainments and sexual excess.
Piers Lane Piers Lane is an acclaimed Australian classical pianist who lives in London, England. He has played concertos with great international orchestras such as the [American Symphony Orchestra] and the [London Philharmonic Orchestra]and has played in more than forty different countries.
Piers Langtoft Piers Langtoft (died ~1307), also known as 'Pierre de Langtoft' was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in what was then Yorkshire (now East Riding of Yorkshire).
Piers Morgan Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born 30 March 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) is a former editor of British tabloid newspapers the News of the World (1994 – 1995) and the Daily Mirror (1995 – 2004). His career has also taken in books and factual television programmes, but he is best known in the United States as a judge on the NBC show America's Got Talent.
Piers North, 10th Earl of Guilford Piers Edward Brownlow North, 10th Earl of Guilford (born 1971) is a British noble, formerly known as Lord North. He sat in the House of Lords for a time, complicated by his missing birth certificate (which caused a delay in receiving his Writ of Summons).
Piers Plowman tradition The Piers Plowman tradition is made up of about 14 different poetic and prose works from about the time of John Ball and the Great Rising of 1381 through the reign of Elizabeth I. Their chief common trait is their more or less intentional association with William Langland's poem Piers Plowman by naming or adopting one or more of its characters, typically Piers himself.
Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood (born 20 September 1954) is the fourth Baron Wedgwood of the pottery dynasty and is an international ambassador for the Wedgwood company. He is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.
Pierse Long Pierse Long (1739– April 13, 1789) was an American merchant from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He served as a Colonel of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War and served as a New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786.
Pierson B. Reading Pierson Barton Reading (November 26, 1816-1868) was an early California pioneer. An admirer of John Sutter, he received a Mexican land grant in 1844 for the area occupied by today's Redding, California, and Cottonwood, California, along the Sacramento River.
Pierson College Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University, founded in 1933. The buildings were built in the Georgian style in 1933, and were renovated in 2003-2004, adding a new building and basement facilities.
Pierwsza komunia, drugie śniadanie, trzecia Rzeczpospolita Pierwsza komunia, drugie śniadanie, trzecia Rzeczpospolita - (Polish First Communion, second breakfast, third Rzeczpospolita, second breakfast is a Polish idiom for lunch) is studio album of punk rock band Big Cyc, released on 1997.
Pies Descalzos Foundation Pies Descalzos Foundation (Bare Feet Foundation) is a colombian charity founded by pop artist Shakira in 2001 with special schools for poor kids in QuibdĂł (a city on the Pacific coast of Colombia) and Barranquilla.
Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" (English: Bare Feet, White Dreams) is the second single off Shakira's third album, Pies Descalzos (1996). Written and composed by her, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" talks about all the rules that the human race has invented since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Piesporter A term used to describe a wine made in and around the village of Piesport on the north bank of the Middle Mosel region of Germany. A white, light body wine that ranges from dry to off-dry, it can be made from Riesling, MĂĽller-Thurgau or Elbling grapes.
Piesseville, Western Australia Piesseville (; post code: 6315) is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 215km south-east of Perth on the Great Southern Highway between Narrogin and Wagin. It is also on the Great Southern Railway.
Piestewa Peak Piestewa Peak (formerly Squaw Peak), at 2608 feet (795 meters) is the second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains, and the third highest in the City of Phoenix. It is located in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve at the end of Squaw Peak Drive.
Piet Blom Piet Blom (Feb 8 1934, Amsterdam – Jun 8 1999, Denmark) was a Dutch architect best known for his 'Kubuswonigen' (Cube houses) built in Helmond in the mid-1970s and in Rotterdam in the early 1980s. He studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Building-Arts as a student of Aldo van Eyck.
Piet Cleij Piet Cleij (born 27 May 1927) is a Dutch linguist who lives in Bilthoven, Netherlands. He is currently the vice-secretary of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua and the chief lexicographer in the Interlingua community.
Piet de Zwarte Pieter ("Piet") Karel de Zwarte (born February 16, 1948 in Renkum, Gelderland) is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
Piet Hein (Denmark) Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 17, 1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym Kumbel Kumbell.
Piet Hein Donner Jan Pieter Hendrik Donner (born 20 October 1948 in Amsterdam) was Dutch Minister of Justice in the third Balkenende cabinet as member of the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He previously served as Minister of Justice in the second and first Balkenende cabinet and was member of the Dutch Council of State.
Piet Keizer Peter ("Piet") Johannes Keizer (born June 14 1943 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch professional football player. Having played 364 matches from 1961 to 1974, he's the fourth in number of matches played for Ajax Amsterdam.
Piet Klynveld Piet Klynveld opened a small accountancy practice in 1917 in Amsterdam, Holland, a bustling trade and investment hub for European and Asian industrialists. Many foreign enterprises, including royalty, governments, and even the Bank of England, traded extensively in Holland at the time, making it an active market for financiers as well as importers and exporters of virtually everything.
Piet Kramer Pieter Lodewijk Kramer (1881-1961) was a Dutch architect, one of the most important architects of the Amsterdam School. Kramer collaborated with his friend Michel de Klerk in the architectural practice of Eduard Cuypers.
Piet Malan Pieter Malan (born 13 February 1919 in Parys, South Africa), more commonly known simply as Piet, played rugby union for the then Transvaal province as well as the Springbok rugby teams. He played the position of flanker.
Piet Norval Piet Norval (born April 7, 1970 in Bellville, Cape Town) is a former tennis player from South Africa, who turned professional in 1988. The righthander represented his native country in the doubles competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he partnered Wayne Ferreira.
Piet Oudolf Piet Oudolf is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" or "New Wave Planting" movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennial plants and grasses which are chosen for their structure as much as for their flower colour (if not more so).
Piet Paaltjens [Haverschmidt.]François Haverschmidt (Leeuwarden, February 14, 1835 – Schiedam, January 19, 1894) was a Dutch minister and writer, who wrote prose under his own name but remains best known for the poetry published under the pen name of Piet Paaltjens.
Piet Rinke Harry Piet Rinke (born 5 November 1981, Marondera, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean cricketer who debuted for the international team against Kenya in 2005–06. Rinke made 168 runs during the four-match series, more than any other Zimbabwean batsman, his innings of 72 in the fourth match was the highest by a Zimbabwean in the series, and he was the only Zimbabwean to make more than one half-centuryKenya in Zimbabwe, 2005-06 One-Day Series Averages, from Cricinfo, retrieved 14 April 2006.
Piet Schrijvers Pieter ("Piet") Schrijvers (born December 15, 1946) a retired football goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who obtained 46 caps for his national team in the years 1971–1984. He played for DWS, FC Twente (1967-1974), Ajax Amsterdam (1974-1983), and FC Zwolle (1983-1985).
Piet van Klaveren Pieter ("Piet") van Klaveren (born September 1, 1930 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a former boxer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Men's Light Welterweight (-63.
Piet Wijn Pieter Cornelis Wijn (1929-05-17 —) is a prolific Dutch comics creator. His creations include the cartoon versions of Marten Toonder's Tom Puss and Kappie, Gloria van Goes, Douwe Dabbert, and many other cartoons.
Piet Wildschut Pieter ("Piet") Wildschut (born October 25, 1957 in Leeuwarden, Friesland) is a retired football defender from the Netherlands, who obtained a total number of eleven international caps for the Dutch national team. A player of FC Twente, he represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where Holland finished second.
Piet-Hein Geeris Piet-Hein Willem Geeris (born on March 29, 1972 in Boxtel) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 194 international matches for The Netherlands, in which he scored 29 goals. The forward and midfielder made his debut for the Dutch on May 5, 1993 in a friendly match against Ireland.
Pietas (goddess) In Roman mythology, Pietas was the goddess of duty to one's state, gods and family and a personification of the Roman virtue of pietas. One of the di indigetes, her main temple was a 2nd century BC one in the Forum Holitorium.
Pietas (virtue) Pietas was one of the Roman virtues, along with gravitas and dignitas. Pietas is usually translated as "duty" or "devotion," and it simultaneously suggests duty to the gods and duty to family - particularly to the father (which is expanded to duty to the community and duty to the state thanks to the analogy between the family and the state, conventional in the ancient world – see, for example, Plato's Crito).
Pieter and François Hemony François Hemony (±1609-1667) and his brother Pieter (Pierre) Hemony (1619-1680) were the greatest carillon bell founders in the history of the Low Countries. They developed the carillon into a full-fledged musical instrument by casting the first tuned carillon in 1644.
Pieter Aertsen Pieter Aertsen (1507–1575), called "Long Peter" because of his height, was a Dutch historical painter. He was born and died in Amsterdam, and painted there and in Antwerp, though his genre scenes were influential in Italy.
Pieter Baan Center The Pieter Baan Center (Pieter Baan Centrum) is a psychiatric observation clinic in Utrecht, The Netherlands, (operated by the Ministry of Justice) where suspects of crimes in the Netherlands are observed to ascertain whether they are applicable for TBS (Ter Beschikkingstelling aan de Staat), which means To be Held in the Interest of the State. This is a special punishment for inmates of crimes which are committed under psychological abnormal circumstances.
Pieter Bas Kwak [Stuart Harriman, Greg Edwards, Dan Lucking, Marc Mangiacapra, Pieter Bas Kwak, Marc Mangiacapra <Br>Bottom: Admin, Chris Hall, Jonny Neffgen, Doug Wright, Admin]Pieter Bas Kwak (born July 28, 1983 - Winterswijk, The Netherlands), also known under the pseudonym Darth, was one of the first Dutch professional cyberathletes. During his career he was the most internationally successful Dutch player of the team-based first person shooter game: Counter-Strike.
Pieter Custers Pieter Johan Jozef Maria Custers (born March 13, 1984 in Weert) is an athlete from the Netherlands, who competes in archery. He was a member of the Dutch junior archery team, that won the European championship in 2001.
Pieter de Carpentier Pieter de Carpentier (1586 or 88 – 5 September 1659) was a Dutch, or Flemish, administrator of the Dutch East Indies, and who served as Governor-General there from 1623–1627. The Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia is named after him.
Pieter de Coninc Pieter de Coninc (birthday unknown - died in 1332 or 1333) was a weaver from Bruges well-known for his role in the events surrounding the Battle of the Golden Spurs. He was not the head of the weavers' guild as is popularly believed (mostly because he was portrayed as such in the novel The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience).
Pieter de Hooch Pieter de Hooch (pronounced , also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe") (1629 - 1684) was a genre painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shared themes and style.
Pieter de la Court Pieter de la Court (1618 – May 28, 1685) was a Dutch economist and businessman. He pioneered modern thinking about the economic importance of free competition and was an uncompromising advocate of the republican form of government.
Pieter de Villiers (rugby player) Pieter De Villiers (born 3 July, 1972 in Malmesbury, South Africa) is a French rugby union footabller, currently playing for Stade Français in the Top 14 club competition in France. His usual position is at prop.
Pieter Grobbelaar General Pieter Grobbelaar DSO (1908-1988) was a South African military commander. He joined the South African Army as a part-time Citizen Force soldier in 1929 and became a full-time Permanent Force member in 1933.
Pieter Hellendaal Pieter Hellendaal (1 April 1721 in Rotterdam – 19 April 1799 in Cambridge) was an organist and violinist, and one of the most famous composers of Dutch origin in the 1700s. At age 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years.
Pieter Jelles Troelstra Pieter Jelles Troelstra (Leeuwarden, 20th April 1860 – The Hague, 12th May 1930) was a Dutch politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the end of World War I.
Pieter Keuneman Peter Keuneman was a prominent Marxist member of Parliament and a leading figure in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). He had studied at Royal College and the University of Cambridge where be became a communist, President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student magazine Granta.
Pieter Mulder Dr Pieter Mulder is a South African politician and the leader of the Freedom Front Plus. The son of former cabinet minister Connie Mulder, the young Mulder first worked as a lecturer at the Potchefstroom University, before being promoted to head of the university's communications department.
Pieter Ouburg Pieter Ouburg (1893 (Dordrecht) - 1956 )was a Dutch artist. He started out in life as a teacher; this profession was threatened with interruption by the outbreak of World War I when Ouburg was liable to enlistment.
Pieter Oud Mr Pieter Jacobus Oud (born 5 December, 1886 in Purmerend - died 12 August 1968 in Rotterdam) was a prominent liberal Dutch politician who served held numerous political offices, including member of the Tweede Kamer, Minister of Finance and mayor of Rotterdam. He was one of the founding member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Pieter Rijke Petrus Leonardus Rijke (July 11, 1812 – April 7, 1899) was a Dutch physicist, and a professor in experimental physics at the University of Leiden. Rijke spent his scientific career exploring the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube.
Pieter Schuyler Pieter Schuyler (September 17, 1657 – February 19,1724) was the mayor of Albany, New York and the head of the Albany Commissioners for Indian Affairs. He also served as acting Governor of New York in 1709 and from 1719-1720.
Pieter van Bleiswijk Pieter van Bleiswijk (1724 - October 29, 1790 was grand pensionary of Holland from December 1], [[1772 to November 1787. He was an opponent of Duke Louis Ernst of Brunswick-WolffenbĂĽttel, the main adviser of Prince William V of Orange.
Pieter van den Hoogenband Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (born March 14, 1978, in Maastricht, Limburg) is a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion. He is the current world record holder in 100 m freestyle swimming (47.
Pieter Van den Abeele Pieter Van den Abeele is the founder of Gentoo/PowerPC, a foundation connected with a distribution of the Linux computer operating system. He joined Gentoo shortly after its conception, merging Gentoo's first port into the mainline Gentoo repository, paving the way for other Gentoo Linux ports by implementing amongst many other things the Gentoo architecture keywords and portage profiles.
Pieter Willem Botha Pieter Willem Botha (January 12 1916 – October 31 2006), commonly known as "PW" and Die Groot Krokodil (Afrikaans for "The Big Crocodile"), was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989. Botha was a long-time leader of South Africa's National Party and a staunch advocate of racial segregation and the apartheid system.
Pieter Zeeman Pieter Zeeman (Zonnemaire, May 25, 1865 – Amsterdam, October 9, 1943) (IPA {{IPA|was a Dutch] [[physics|physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
Pieter-Dirk Uys Pieter-Dirk Uys (pronounced or "ace") is a South African satirist (born 1945 in Cape Town), active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the height of the Apartheid era.
Pietism Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late-17th century to the mid-18th century. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptism, inspiring not only Anglican priest John Wesley to begin the Methodist movement, but also Alexander Mack to begin the Brethren movement.
Pietr-le-Letton Pietr-le-Letton (1931) (English title: Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett), a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is the very first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later feature in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.
Pietra Wexstun Pietra Wexstun is an electronic musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She has fronted for the band Hecate's Angels since 1996, and has performed with her husband Stan Ridgway since 1986.
Pietro Aglieri Pietro Aglieri (Palermo, June 6, 1959) was a powerful mafioso from the Guadagna neighbourhood in Palermo. He is known as "'U Signurinu" (The Little Gentleman) for his relatively sophisticated education and refined manners.
Pietro Alcionio Pietro Alcionio, or Petrus Alcyonitus (ca. 1487-1527), the Venetian humanist, was a classical scholar under the patronage of Pope Clement VII, a translator of Aristotle who was hurt in the Sack of Rome in May 1527, and died later that year.
Pietro Ameglio Pietro Ameglio (born in Italy 1958 Gandhian Civil Rights leader, Author on book on non-violence in Mexico. Has defended envionmentalists and humanitarians in Mexico, member of Serpaj, dedicated to promoting peace worldwide.
Pietro Antonio Magatti Pietro Antonio Magatti (1691-1767) was a Lombard painter, active in a late-Baroque (‘’barroccheto’’) style. Born in Varese, known for paintings and frescoes in his hometown, Milan, Pavia, Como, as well as in the Castello di Masnago.
Pietro Aretino Pietro Aretino (1492 - 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.Notably in La Cazzaria ("The Book of the Prick"), The School of Whoredom, The Ragionamenti: The lives of nuns, the lives of married women, the lives of courtesans and his bawdy Dialoghi.
Pietro Badoglio, 2nd Duke of Addis Abeba Pietro Badoglio, 2nd Duke of Addis Abeba is the son of Mario Badoglio and Giuliana Badoglio. He was bestowed the title of Duke of Addis Abeba upon the death of his grandfather Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba.

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