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Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings. He was a principal at the Portland, Oregon office of the Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
Pietro Benvenuto degli Ordini Pietro Benvenuto degli Ordini of Ferrara (working second half of the fifteenth century) was the court architect of Borso d'Este. In the Castello Estense, Ferrara, he was responsible for the courtyard and the splendid external staircase of honour erected in 1481; it dominates the piazza.
Pietro Bordino Pietro Bordino (born in Turin, Italy, November 22, 1887 - died in Alessandria, April 16, 1928) Bordino was an Italian racecar driver, one of the three greatest from Italy in the 1920's (the others are Felice Nazzaro and Antonio Ascari). Bordino won the 1922 Italian Grand Prix, second edition.
Pietro Caproni Pietro Paulo Caproni (1862-1928) was founder and co-owner of PP Caproni & Brother, Boston, MA, manufacturers of plaster reproductions of classical and contemporary statues. These 'cast' reproductions were, in an era before commercial photography, an integral educational tool in teaching people the history of art and antiquities.
Pietro Cardinal Parente Pietro Cardinal Parente (born February 16, 1891, Casalnuovo Monterotaro, Italy; died December 29, 1986, Rome, Italy) was a long-serving theologian and inquisitor in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church. At his peak he was regarded as one of the foremost Italian theologians.
Pietro Castelli Pietro Castelli (1574-1662), Italian physician and botanist. Born at Rome, he was graduated in 1617, studied under the botanist Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603), and was professor at Rome from 1597 to 1634, when he went to Messina.
Pietro Cerone Pietro Cerone (1566–1625) was an Italian music theorist, singer and priest of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for an enormous music treatise he wrote in 1613, which is useful in the studying compositional practices of the 16th century.
Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini (November 1 1596- May 16, 1669) was a prolific artist and architect of High Baroque. Cortona is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he was equally facile and masterful with architectural design.
Pietro D'Abano Also known as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis, Pietro D' Abano (1250-1316) was an Italian physician, professor of medicine in Padua. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quœ inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur.
Pietro Damiani Pietro Damiani (Saint Peter Damian, also Pier Damiani -- c. 1007"five years after the death of the Emperor Otto III" – February 21/22, 1072) was one of the most celebrated, universally loved and zealous reforming monks in the circle of Hildebrand of the 11th century, made a cardinal and (in 1823) declared a Doctor of the Church.
Pietro Domenico Paradisi Pietro Domenico Paradisi (also Pier Domenico Paradies) (Naples, 1707 – Venice, August 25 1791) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled "Toccata in A".
Pietro Fontana (engraver) Pietro Fontana (Bassano Romano 1762 - Rome 18 September 1837) was an engraver, of some fame during his lifetime, working in Rome and often specializing in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy; he was a member of the Accademia di San Luca. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen, and is best known for his complete series of engravings of the sculptures of Canova.
Pietro Forquet Pietro Forquet (1925-) is an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 15 World championship titles with Blue Team, playing with Eugenio Chiaradia, Guglielmo Siniscalco and, for the most part, Benito Garozzo.
Pietro Francavilla Pierre Franqueville, generally called Pietro Francavilla (Cambrai, 1548 — Paris, 25 August1615) was a Franco-Flemish sculptor trained in Florence, who provided sculpture in the elegant Late Mannerist tradition established by Giambologna for Italian and French patrons.
Pietro Francisci Pietro Francisci (Sept 9 1906, Rome - 1977) was an Italian film director, best remembered for the film Hercules (1958) which inspired the sword and sandal boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His career took a distinct turn for the worse after he helmed the science-fiction film 2+5 Missione Hydra, released in the U.
Pietro Gasparri Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (Capovallazza di Ussita, Macerata province, May 5, 1852-November 18, 1934) was Roman Catholic archbishop, diplomat and politician in the Roman Curia. Gasparri served as the Apostolic delegate to Peru from 1898 to 1901, when he became a member of the Curia and returned to Rome.
Pietro Generali Pietro Generali (born October 10, 1958 in Bologna) is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He ended his career in 1994 at a club in Padova.
Pietro Gori Pietro Gori (14 August 1865 - 8 January 1911) was an Italian lawyer, journalist, intellectual and anarchist poet. He is known for his political activities, and as author of some of the most famous anarchist songs of the late 19th century, including Addio a Lugano ("Adieu Lugano"), Stornelli d'esilio ("Exile Songs"), Ballata per Sante Caserio ("Ballad for Sante Jeronimo Caserio").
Pietro il grande Pietro il Grande zar di tutte le Russie or Il falegname di Livonia also known as Pietro, il grande, tsar delle Russie is a comic melodrama (opera buffa) in two acts (1819) by Gaetano Donizetti to the libretto by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.
Pietro II Candiano Pietro II Candiano (872 – 939) was the 19th Doge of Venice between 932 and 939. He followed his father, Pietro I Candiano (887), Pietro Tribuno (888-912), and Orso II Participazio (912-932) to become Doge of Venice in 932.
Pietro IV Candiano Pietro IV Candiano (died 976) was the twenty-second (traditional) or twentieth (historical) Doge of Venice from 959 to his death. He was the eldest son of Pietro III Candiano, with whom he co-reigned and whom he was elected to succeed.
Pietro Maria Bardi Pietro Maria Bardi (La Spezia, February 21, 1900 – São Paulo, October 10, 1999) was the curator of the São Paulo Art Museum, Brazil. He was born Italian and stirred the Brazilian artistic community with his new ideas about popularizing museums by making both modern and classical art accessible to the masses.
Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer of opera. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.
Pietro Nenni Pietro Sandro Nenni (February 9, 1891—Rome, January 1, 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1951.
Pietro Pacciani Pietro Pacciani (7 January, 1925 – 22 February, 1998), was a peasant of Mercatale, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, suspected of being the ill-famed monster of Florence (mostro di Firenze). The case was the inspiration for the film Hannibal's setting in Florence.
Pietro Paolo Floriani Pietro Paolo Floriani (1585-1638) was a 17th century Italian engineer and architect of military and theatrical buildings. Historically, he is a key figure in his native town of Macerata and throughout the region of the Marche, thanks to his adventurous life as a man of arms, literary figure and military architect.
Pietro Paolo Sabbatini Pietro Paolo Sabbatino (1600, Rome, Italy-1657, Rome) was an Italian composer, orchestra director and musician, who worked mainly in Rome. He composed mostly popular songs of his time, such as villanellas, capriccios, canzones and canzonettas, but he also composed religious music works, such as psalms.
Pietro Perna Pietro Perna, (Lucca, 1522 - Basel, 1582) was an Italian Protestant who became the leading printer of his day in Late Renaissance Basel. He arrived in Basel in 1542 and was a disciple of Pietro Martire Vermigli.
Pietro Radillo Pietro Radillo (1820-1895), the Venitian puppeteer, made significant innovations in the marrionette arts. Expanding upon the traditional rod and two strings for control of marrionettes, Radillo's puppets worked with up to eight strings, significantly improving the control over the individual body parts.
Pietro Raimondi Pietro Raimondi (December 20, 1786, Rome – October 30, 1853) was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and sacred music, he was also as an innovator in contrapuntal technique as well as in creation of gigantic musical simultaneities.
Pietro Rosa Pietro Rosa (November 10 1810, Rome – August 15 1891, Rome) was an Italian architect and topographer. He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
Pietro Santi Bartoli Pietro Santi Bartoli (also Sante, Santo) (1615, Perugia - November 7, 1700, Rome) was an Italian engraver, draughtsman and painter. He moved to Rome in 1635, as the pupil of Poussin, later as antiquarian for Christina, Queen of Sweden.
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (or Pallavicini) (1607, Rome - June 5 1667, Rome), Italian cardinal and historian, son of the Marquis Alessandro Pallavicino of Parma. Having taken holy orders in 1630, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1638, he successively taught philosophy and theology in the Collegium Romanum; as professor of theology he was a member of the congregation appointed by Innocent X to investigate the Jansenist heresy.
Pietro Testa Pietro Testa (1611–1650) was an Italian High Baroque artist, mainly a printmaker and draftsman, active mostly in Rome. Born in Lucca, hence sometimes called il Lucchesino, took up residence in Rome early in life.
Pietro Torrigiano Pietro Torrigiano (24 november, 1472 - August 1522) was a Florentine sculptor. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was one of the group of talented youths who studied art under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence.
Pietroasele treasure The Pietroasele treasure (the Petrossa treasure) found in Pietroasele, Buzău, Romania, in 1837, is a late fourth-century Ostrogothic treasure that included some twenty-two objects of gold, among the most famous examples of the polychrome style of Migration Period art. Of the twenty-two pieces, only twelve have survived, conserved in the Museul Nacional de Istorie, Bucharest: a large eagle-headed fibula and three smaller ones encrusted with semi-precious stones; a patera, or round sacrificial dish, modelled with figures of what appear to be Gothic gods in Greek dress surrounding a seated three-dimensional goddess in the center; a twelve-sided cup, a torse with a Runic inscription, a large tray, two other necklaces and a pitcher.
Piezo ignition Piezo ignition is a type of ignition that is used in portable camping stoves and gas grills. It consists of a small, spring-loaded hammer which, when a button is pressed, hits a crystal of PZT or quartz crystal.
Piezoelectric motor A piezoelectric motor or piezo motor is a type of electric motor based upon the change in shape of a piezoelectric material when an electric field is applied. Piezoelectric motors make use of the converse piezoelectric effect whereby the material produces acoustic or ultrasonic vibrations in order to produce a linear or rotary motion.
Piezoelectricity Piezoelectricity is the ability of crystals and certain ceramic materials to generate a voltage in response to applied mechanical stress. Piezoelectricity was discovered by Pierre Curie and the word is derived from the Greek piezein, which means to squeeze or press.
Piezometer A piezometer is a small diameter water well used to measure the hydraulic head of groundwater in aquifers. Similarly, it may also be a tube or manometer used to measure the pressure of a fluid at a specific location in a column.
Pif Magazine Pif Magazine is one of the oldest, continually published literary zines online. Founded in 1995 by Richard Luck, the magazine has published original works by authors such as Amy Hempel, Julia Slavin, Richard Yates, and David Lehman, as well as interviews with modern literary greats like A.
Piffaro (band) Piffaro, sometimes referred to as "Piffaro, the Renaissance Band" or "The Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band", is a Philadelphia-based early music ensemble. It generally performs a concert series of four to five concerts a year in addition to various other appearances.
Piffi allkrydda Piffi allkrydda ("Piffi allround spice"), or commonly just Piffi, is a ubiquitous spice mix found in Scandinavia. Originally from the Swedish company Kockens ("The Chef's"), it is now produced by Unilever under the Knorr brand.
Pig Pigs, also called hogs or swine, are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. The nearest relatives of the swine family are the peccaries and hippopotamuses.
Pig (card game) Pig is a children's card-matching and bluffing game also enjoyed by adults, Pig is a fast-action game requiring the players to pay attention to 2 things at once. It is related to the game spoons, but doesn't require the extra equipment and can be more embarrassing (fingers often end up up the nose instead of aside).
Pig (song) "Pig" is a Dave Matthews Band song from the album Before These Crowded Streets. The song evolved from an earlier tune entitled "Don't Burn the Pig," which was written about a television program Dave Matthews viewed in England where pigs were burned to test their reaction to pain.
Pig (zodiac) In China, the Pig ( 亥 ) (a more correct form would be the Boar) is associated with fertility and virility. To bear children in the year of the pig is considered very fortunate, for they will be happy and honest.
Pig dragon A pig dragon or zhulong (Chinese 猪龍) is a type of jade artifact from neolithic China. Zhulong are zoomorphic forms with a piglike head and elongated limbless body coiled around to the head in the manner of an ouroboros.
Pig Destroyer Pig Destroyer is an extreme metal band from Virginia, United States. Combining elements of grindcore, death metal, and doom metal, Pig Destroyer have pushed the boundaries of their chosen genres and gained a loyal following in the process.
Pig Iron - The Album Pig Iron - The Album is the sixth studio album by English punk rock band, the Anti-Nowhere League. It consists of a newly remastered copy of their Scum album along with their Pig Iron EP and 3 brand new tracks.
Pig Latin Pig Latin is a language game primarily used in English. An alternative British name for Pig Latin is backslang (not to be confused with the backslang used by the criminals of 19th century London, which was based on turning words backwards), or Butcher's Backslang which was common in English Butcher's shops at least until WW IIPig Latin is usually used by children for amusement or to converse in (perceived) privacy from adults or other children.
Pig scalder A Pig scalder is a tool that was used to soften the skin of a pig after it had been killed to remove the hair from the its skin. Due to the fact that people rarely slaughter and process their own pigs anymore, pig scalders are seldom, if ever, used now.
Pig stick A pig stick is a staff that carries a flag or pennant above a mast of a sailboat, it's connected to a halyard so when it's raised the top of the "pig stick" extends above the mast allowing the flag to be seen flying above the boats sails.
Pig Sty Pig Sty was a sitcom that premiered on UPN on January 23, 1995 during that network’s disastrous first season. Like every other UPN show premiering that year save Star Trek: Voyager, it did not survive its first season.
Pig War The Pig War (also called the Pig Episode, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute) was a confrontation in 1859 between American and British authorities, resulting from a dispute over the boundary between the United States and British North America, specifically in regards to San Juan Island, one of many islands which separate Washington state and British Columbia. It is so called because the war was triggered by a pig.
Pig War (Serbia) The term Pig War is used to refer to an economic conflict (1906-1909) in which the Habsburg Empire imposed a customs blockade on Serbia. It is known as the Customs War (Serbian: Царински рат or Carinski rat) in Serbia.
Pig-tailed Langur The Pig-tailed Langur (Simias concolor, monotypic in genus Simias) is a large, rather heavily built Old World monkey, which is adapted to climbing with its long arms. Its fur is black-brown, and its hairless face is also black.
Pigasus (literature) The Pigasus was used by John Steinbeck as a personal stamp with the Latin motto Ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig). The pigasus was supposed to symbolize Steinbeck as "earthbound but aspiring....
PigĂĽĂ© PigĂĽĂ© is an Argentinian town located in the Pampas, 584 km south-west of Buenos Aires. It was founded by 165 Occitan-speaking French migrants from Aveyron and one Argentine of direct Irish descent on December 4, 1884.
Pigeon Boy Pigeon Boy is a cartoon created by Milimages and shown on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia. It centers on the lives of three teenagers: Randy, and his two companions, one who is extremely fat and the other who is the complete opposite.
Pigeon drop Pigeon drop is the name of a confidence trick in which a mark or "pigeon" is convinced to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object. In reality the scammers make off with the money and the mark is left with nothing.
Pigeon Guillemot The Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a medium-sized alcid endemic to the Pacific. They closely resemble the other members of the genus Cepphus, particularly the Black Guillemot, which it is slightly larger than.
Pigeon House Mountain Pigeon House Mountain was named by Captain James Cook during his voyage of discovery along Australia's eastern coast in 1770. The prominent remnant of a two tier sandstone structure, the summit rises to 720 m above sea level.
Pigeon plum The Pigeon plum (Coccoloba diversifolia), sometimes called doveplum or pigeon seagrape, is a tree that commonly reaches 30 to 40 feet tall, and exceptionally to 60 to 80 feet. It is native to Florida coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys, the West Indies and the Bahamas.
Pigeon post The use of homing pigeons to carry messages is as old as the ancient Persians from whom the art of training the birds probably came from. The Greeks conveyed the names of Olympic victors to their various cities by this means.
Pigeon Racing Clock A Pigeon Racing Clock is a clock specifically designed for the sport of Pigeon Racing. The Clock is set and sealed before a race starts and when the bird returns home a rubber ring, carried by the pigeon, is placed inside the clock.
Pigeon River (Minnesota-Ontario) The Pigeon River forms part of the US-Canada border between the State of Minnesota and the Province of Ontario west of Lake Superior. In pre-industrial times the river was a waterway of great importance for transportation and trade.
Pigeon River (Tennessee - North Carolina) The Pigeon River of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, United States, rises above Canton, North Carolina, the site of a large Champion Paper Co. paper mill, formerly the source of considerable pollution to the river.
Pigeonhole messagebox In organisations and educational institutes, especially those in Britain, people often communicate using "pigeonholes". Documents and messages are placed in a person's pigeonhole for them to collect; they can reply by putting a response inside the sender's pigeonhole.
Pigeonhole principle The pigeonhole principle, also known as Dirichlet's box (or drawer) principle, states that, given two natural numbers n and m with n > m, if n items are put into m pigeonholes, then at least one pigeonhole must contain more than one item. Another way of stating this would be that m holes can hold at most m objects with one object to a hole; adding another object will force you to reuse one of the holes (provided that m is finite; otherwise, see below on infinite sets).
Pigeonhole sort Pigeonhole sorting, also known as count sort, is a sorting algorithm that takes linear time (Θ(n)), which is the best possible performance for a sorting algorithm since one must inevitably look at each of the elements being sorted at least once, regardless of the sorting algorithm. However, pigeonhole sorting is only practical if the objects you are sorting fall within (or can be mapped into) a range of possible values that is small compared to the size of the list to be sorted.
Pigeonite Pigeonite is a mineral in the clinopyroxene group. It has a general formula of (Ca,Mg,Fe)(Mg,Fe)Si2O6 The calcium cation fraction can vary from 5% to 25%, with iron and magnesium making up the rest of the cations.
Pigespejdernes Fællesråd Danmark Pigespejdernes Fællesråd Danmark (PFD, The Joint Committee of Girl Guides in Denmark) is the national Guiding federation of Denmark. Danish Guiding started in 1910, the PDF was founded in 1923 and was among the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1928.
Pigeye shark The pigeye shark, Carcharhinus amboinensis, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in tropical waters between latitudes 26° N and 26° S, from the surface to 150 m. Its length is up to about 2.
Pigge Pigge or Lapigge is a village in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria, stretching from the plain of the Clitunno river up the lower SW flank of Mt. Serano, 42°51N 12°46E; central altitude 297 m (974 ft) above sea-level.
Piggies "Piggies" is a Beatles song from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It was written by George Harrison, and it features a Baroque-style harpsichord and string quartet — which take an unexpected turn at one point playing a blues riff.
Pigging [pig used in natural gas pipelines]Pigging in the maintenance of pipelines refers to the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges or 'pigs' to perform various operations on a pipeline without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline. Pigs get their name from the squealing sound they make while traveling through a pipeline.
Piggott, Arkansas Piggott is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, one of that county's two seats (Corning is the other), and the northern terminus of the Arkansas segment of Crowley's Ridge Parkway. As of the 2000 census, Piggott's population was 3,894.
Piggy bank Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin accumulation and storage container, most often used by children. A piggy bank is known among collectors as a still bank as opposed to the mechanical banks popular in the early 20th century.
Piggy Bank (song) "Piggy Bank" is a song from 50 Cent's second album, The Massacre. It was not released as a single, but charted at eighty-eight because of controversy over its attack on long-time rival Ja Rule, as well as Jadakiss and Fat Joe, who had worked with Ja Rule on his song "New York".
Piggy Sneed Piggy Sneed is a character from John Irving’s short story "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed." In the story, Sneed is a garbage collector ridiculed by Irving and his childhood friends, largely because of his stench, pig-like appearance, and mental retardation.
Piggybacking Piggybacking is a bi-directional data transmission technique in network layer (OSI model). It makes the most of the sent data frames from receiver to emitter, adding to them the confirmation that the data frame sent from emitter has arrived successfully (ACK acknowledge).
Pigin English Despite its evident descent from the English language, Pigin English or, better, Pigin is an entirely distinct language, with very few similarities to English besides the fact that a significant proportion of its vocabulary is etymologically related to English, in much the same way that Spanish or French words can be backtraced to Latin words. A more direct ancestor of Pigin would very likely be Jamaican slang because of the grammatical similarity.
Piglet's Big Game Piglet's Big Game is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2003 by Gotham Games and Disney Interactive and developed by Doki Denki Studio. Piglet's Big Game was released on PS2, NGC,GBA and PC.
Pigment A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light.
Pigment dispersion syndrome Pigment dispersion syndrome (PDS) is an affliction of the eye that, if left untreated, can lead a form of glaucoma known as pigmentary glaucoma. It takes place when pigment cells slough off from the back of the iris and float around in the aqueous humor.
Pigment Red 170 Pigment red 170 is an organic pigment extensively used in automotive coatings. It is produced industrially by converting p-aminobenzamide into the corresponding diazonium compound followed by diazotation with 3-hydroxy-2-naphththoic acid (2-ethoxy)anilide.
Pigna (rione of Rome) Pigna is the name of rione IX of Rome. The name means "pine cone" in Italian, and the symbol for the rione is the colossal bronze pine cone, the Pigna, which decorated a fountain in Ancient Rome next to a vast Temple of Isis.
Pigou Club The Pigou Club is described as an "an elite group of economists and pundits with the good sense to have publicly advocated higher Pigovian taxes, such as gasoline taxes or carbon taxes." A Pigovian tax (also spelled Pigouvian tax) is a tax levied to correct the negative externalities (negative side-effects) of a market activity.
Pigovian tax A Pigovian tax (also spelled Pigouvian tax) is a tax levied to correct the negative externalities of a market activity. For instance, a Pigovian tax may be levied on producers who pollute the environment to encourage them to reduce pollution, and to provide revenue which may be used to counteract the negative effects of the pollution.
Pigpen (film) Pigpen () is a 1969 Italian language film, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clémenti, Alberto Lionello, and Anne Wiazemsky. Cinematographer is Tonino Delli Colli.
Pigpen cipher The pigpen cipher (sometimes called the masonic cipher or Freemason's cipher) is a simple substitution cipher exchanging letters for symbols based on a grid. The use of symbols is no impediment to cryptanalysis however, and cryptanalysis is identical to that of other simple substitution schemes.
Pigs (Three Different Ones) "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals. In the album's three parts, "Dogs," "Pigs," and "Sheep," pigs represent the people whom Roger Waters considers to be at the top of the social ladder, the ones with wealth and power; they also manipulate the rest of society and encourage them to be viciously competitive and cutthroat, so the pigs can remain powerful.
Pigs I Have Known Pigs I Have Known is the title of an account of the trials and tribulations of pig-keeping in Scotland in the 1950's by Sacha Carnegie (1920-1999); published in the United Kingdom in 1958. Carnegie runs a pig farm not far from Aberdeen which he builds up from scratch into a paying concern.
Pigs on the Wing "Pigs on the Wing" is a two-parted song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album, Animals, starting and wrapping up the album. According to various interviews, it was written by Roger Waters as a declaration of love to his wife.
Pigskin Parade Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M.
Pigskin Politics Pigskin politics is a political epithet used to describe or dismiss a person's pavlovian attachment to a political persuasion or party, given that parties/persuasions past influence within the persons region. Its usually used within the context of a persons attachment to a region or state where by the person holds a specific set of beliefs and ideas as a result of having lived there.
Pigstick The pigstick is a device that disables improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It fires an explosively-propelled jet of water to disrupt the circuitry of a bomb and thereby disable it with a low risk of detonation.
Pigtronix Pigtronix is an analog effects pedal designer and producer that was launched in January 2004 under the Portola Valley, CA based company Absara Audio LLC. David Koltai serves as the president and the sales and marketing director, while Brian Bethke serves as the CEO and general manager.
Piguaquan Piguaquan (Traditional Chinese: 劈掛拳, literally "chop-hanging fist"), also known as piguazhang (劈掛掌, "chop-hanging palm") due to its emphasis on palm techniques, is often practiced along with Bajiquan (八極拳, literally "eight extremes fist") and is a style of wushu (Chinese martial arts) that features explosive, long-range power. It originated in Hebei Province of North China, but today is also well-known in other places, including Taiwan.

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