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Pine Ridge (Lum and Abner) Pine Ridge, Arkansas, was the fictional setting for the radio program Lum and Abner, which ran for 13 weeks every year from 1932 to 1954 on WNBC. It was based on the town of Waters, Arkansas, and some of its residents.
Pine Ridge (region) The Pine Ridge is an escarpment between the Niobrara River and the White River in far northwestern Nebraska (a small section extends into South Dakota). The high tableland between the rivers has been eroded into a region of forested buttes, ridges and canyons.
Pine Ridge Campaign The Pine Ridge Campaign (November, 1890–January, 1891) was the result of a number of unresolved grievances which led to the last major "conflict" with the Sioux, the Wounded Knee Massacre. A lopsided engagement that involved almost half the infantry and cavalry of the Regular Army caused the surviving warriors to lay down their arms and retreat to their reservations in January, 1891.
Pine Ridge National Recreation Area The Pine Ridge National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area located in the Pine Ridge region of northwestern Nebraska. The recreation area is managed by the Pine Ridge Ranger District of the Nebraska National Forest.
Pine Ridge, Oklahoma Pine Ridge is a unincorporated community that is 6 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma in Caddo County. During the community's heyday in the 1940's there were a Grocery Store, a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ, but today only the Baptist Church building remains (which is now used as a barn).
Pine Rivers Shire Council Pine Rivers Shire is a Local Government Area of South East Queensland, Australia. The Shire lies immediately north of Brisbane City, and is bordered by Caboolture Shire to the north, Redcliffe City to the east, and Esk Shire to the west.
Pine Robbers Pine Robbers were British sympathizers or Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War who used the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to wreak havoc in the area. While the Tories who had received their land from the King were amiable neighbors during the day and enemies by night, the Pine Robbers were disgruntled British sailors who had jumped ship.
Pine tar Pine tar is a sticky material produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar.
Pine Valley (VIVA) Pine Valley, or Pine Valley Drive is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on October 16, 2005, on the intersection of Pine Valley Drive and Highway 7 in Vaughan, Ontario.
Pine Valley Creek Bridge The Pine Valley Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete box girder bridge in California, built in 1974 as part of the Interstate 8 freeway traffic. At the time, it was the largest bridge constructed using a segmental balanced cantilever method.
Pine Valley Golf Club Pine Valley Golf Club in Pine Valley, New Jersey in Camden County, in southern New Jersey, is one of the most esteemed golf courses in the world. It has regularly topped Golf Digest's list of America's 100 greatest courses.
Pine Valley, New Jersey Pine Valley is a Walsh Act Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 20, making it the second smallest municipality by population in New Jersey, with just two more residents than the 18 residing in Teterboro, in Bergen County.
Pine Village Elementary School Pine Village Elementary School is a public elementary school located in the town of Pine Village, Indiana, and is one of three in Warren County. (The others are Warren Central Elementary and Williamsport Elementary.
Pineapple bun A pineapple bun is a kind of pastry that is popular in Hong Kong, and some other areas in southern China. It is known in Cantonese Chinese as bo lo baau , in which "bo lo" means "pineapple", and "baau" refers to a kind of bun-like item in Chinese cuisine.
Pineapple Poll Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. Pineapple Poll is based on "The Bumboat Woman's Story," one of W.
Pineapple sage Pineapple sage (Salvia elegans) is a tender perennial plant with tubular red flowers and an attractive scent to the leaves. The scent has been compared to pineapple, while others have compared it to the odor of a martini.
Pineapple wine Pineapple wine is a non-vintage wine made from the juice of pineapples, which is produced and fermented in the similar manner as grape wines. Fermentation of the pineapple juice take place in temperature controlled vats and is stopped at near dryness.
Pineau d'Aunis Pineau d'Aunis is a red wine grape that is grown primarily in the Loire Valley around Anjou and Touraine. A favourite of Henry Plantagenet, wine made from the grape was first exported to England in the thirteenth century.
Pineau des Charentes Pineau des Charentes, (Pineau Charentais, or simply Pineau) is an alcoholic aperitif drink, made from a blend of unfermented grape must and Cognac brandy. It is made in the départements of Charente and Charente-Maritime in western France.
Pinebank Mansion Built in 1868 by John Hubbard Sturgis, Pinebank Mansion is a Queen Anne-style house that sits on a hill overlooking Jamaica Pond in Boston, Massachusetts. Pinebank remains the only original building in Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace Park system.
Pineco are 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. The purpose of Pineco in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures that characters encounter while embarking on various adventures— and tamed Pokémon creatures owned by Pokémon trainers.
Pineland Farms Pineland Farms is a large complex of property spread out through the eastern part of New Gloucester, Maine. Pineland has a "campus," where many buildings are located, with some satellite buildings located elsewhere nearby.
Pinelands Regional High School Pinelands Regional High School is a a three-year regional public high school that serves students from four communities in ninth through twelfth grade from Ocean County, New Jersey. The high school is part of the Pinelands Regional School District, which serves students from Bass River Township, Eagleswood Township, Little Egg Harbor Township and Tuckerton Borough
Pinelands Regional School District Pinelands Regional School District is a regional school district in Ocean County, New Jersey, serving students from Bass River Township (168 students), Eagleswood Township (123 students), Little Egg Harbor Township (1,396 students) and Tuckerton Borough (232 students).
Pinelands, Cape Town The "garden city" suburb of Pinelands is located on the edge of the southern suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa and is known for its large thatched houses. The suburb is primarily residential and is often praised for its peacefulness and abundance of trees.
Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) provides public transportation for Pinellas County, Florida. The authority manages a bus system that encomapsses 39 local routes and two express routes, and the Suncoast Beach Trolley.
Pinellia ternata Pinellia ternata (Chinese:半夏, Japanese:カラスビシャク) is a plant native to Japan, but also grows as an invasive weed in parts of North America. The leaves are trifoliate, while the flowers are of the spathe and spadix form typical of plants in Araceae.
Pines Comics Pines Comics was a short-lived comic book publisher that existed from 1956-59. Due to the name, there may be a connection to Ned Pines, who established the so-called Nedor Comics (later known as "Standard Comics").
Pinetop Perkins Pinetop Perkins (born Joe Willie Perkins on July 13, 1913 in Belzoni, Mississippi) is an American blues musician from Mississippi. He began his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas.
Pinetown Bushong's Mill Covered Bridge Pinetown Bushong's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Big Conestoga #6 Bridge.
Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal Pinetown is an industrial town just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was established in 1850 around the Wayside Hotel, itself built the year before along the main wagon route between Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
Pinetree Line The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations located across southern Canada at about the 50th parallel, along with a number of other stations located on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Run by NORAD (after its creation), over half were manned by United States Air Force personnel with the balance operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Pineview Dam Pineview Dam is located in the Ogden River Canyon, 7 miles (11 km) east of Ogden, Utah. It was developed as a means of providing reliable irrigation to 25,000 acres (100 km²) located between the Wasatch mountains and the Great Salt Lake.
Pineview Elementary Pineview Elementary is small, rural elementary school was established at its present location in 1967, on the outskirts of Prince George, British Columbia. During the earliest part of the twentieth century, Pineview Elementary was situated on the corner of Poolie Road and Bendixon, next to the historical Pineview Community Hall.
Pinewood derby The Pinewood Derby is an annual event of the Cub Scouts (the young-age division of the Boy Scouts of America). It is the most popular event for many scouts and is probably the best known scouting event among non-scouts.
Pinewood Indians The Pinewood Indians are audio-animatronic American Indians from Anaheim, California. They can be seen on any of the three Disneyland water attractions (the Mark Twain riverboat, the Sailing Ship Columbia, and the Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes) that circle the Rivers of America.
Pinewood Studios Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Approximately 30 miles west of London on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, the studios were created in 1934 by Charles Boot and built within 12 months by the Henry Boot Company of Sheffield.
Piney Creek Wilderness The United States Congress designated the Piney Creek Wilderness in 1980 and it now has a total of 8,122 acres. The Piney Creek Wilderness is located within the Ava-Cassville-Willow Springs Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, east of Cassville, Missouri.
Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation Before English settlement in the seventeenth century the Southall plantation site in Charles City County was the homeland of the Chickahominy (tribe). The plantation site is located near the Mattahunk village site and the trail known as Necotowance's Path.
Piney Grove United Methodist Church Piney Grove United Methodist Church on Bowleys Quarters Road in Baltimore County. The church began in 1874 after the Pennsylvania Railroad gave the small congregation an acre of land to construct a church building.
Piney Point Light The Piney Point Light was built in 1836 located at Piney Point on the Potomac River in Maryland just up the river from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Coast Guard decommissioned it in 1964 and it has since become a museum.
Piney River (East Tennessee) The Piney River drains a portion of East Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau generally referred to in the area as Walden Ridge. It rises near the Rhea County - Bledsoe County line and is referred to in its upper reaches, roughly until its confluence with Bumbee Creek, as Piney Creek.
Piney River (Middle Tennessee) The Piney River of Middle Tennessee rises in Dickson County, Tennessee near the city of Dickson. Dickson is located on the "Tennessee Valley Divide", which corresponds for some distance with the downtown's Main Street.
Piney Woods The Piney Woods is a terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 mi² (140,900 km²) of East Texas, Southern Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Southeastern Oklahoma. This coniferous forest, is dominated by several species of pine, including Longleaf Pine, Shortleaf Pine and Loblolly Pine, as well as several varieties of hardwoods including Hickory and Oak.
Pinfall (professional wrestling) A pinfall, also known just as a pin or a fall, is a victory condition in professional wrestling that is met by holding an opponent's shoulder blades to the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time (normally a three-count).
Ping (blogging) Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post (or updates an old one.) That is, the tool sends an XML-RPC signal to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material.
Ping (video games) Players of multiplayer online video games often use the term ping to refer to the network latency seen between their computer and the game server (or another player). This could be reported as an averaged time in milliseconds, or more generally as "low ping" or "high ping".
Ping flood A ping flood is a simple Denial of service attack where the attacker overwhelms the victim with ICMP Echo Request (ping) packets. It only succeeds if the attacker has more bandwidth than the victim (for instance an attacker with a T1 line and the victim on a dial-up modem).
Ping of death A ping of death (abbreviated "POD") is a type of attack on a computer that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. A ping is normally 64 bytes in size; many computer systems cannot handle a ping larger than the maximum IP packet size, which is 65,535 bytes.
Ping pong recording technique The Ping Pong recording technique (also called ping-ponging or "bouncing" tracks, and reduction mixing) is used in sound recording, to condense program material by dubbing multiple parts to just one or two tracks, allowing more room for overdubbing or to simplify mixdowns.
Ping Pong (film) Ping Pong (ピンポン; Pin pon) is a 2002 sports film directed by the Japanese filmmaker Fumihiko Sori. It is based on Taiyō Matsumoto's manga of the same name, and is about the friendship between two high school table tennis players.
Ping Pong Bitches The (Magnificent) Ping Pong Bitches (a name apparently given to them by their ex-boyfriends) is an all girl electroclash band from England, who formed in 2000. Fronted by three rather risque members (Emily Hell, Mandy Wong and Louise Prey), they released their self-titled debut EP in 2000 on Alan McGee's Poptones label.
Ping Pung Ping Pung is a Hong Kong Canto-pop music group. Gathered by Gold Label in summer 2003, the group consists of 4 members: Kary Ng, Jan and Jerry (who are the younger brothers of the renowned local composer, Mark Lui) and DJ Tin Ho.
Ping Shek Estate Ping Shek Estate (坪石邨) is a major public housing estate in Jordon Valley of New Kowloon in Hong Kong. The estate is situated between the Kowloon entrance of Clear Water Bay Road to Sai Kung and the entrance of Kwun Tong Road to Kwun Tong.
Ping-Pong rocket The Ping-Pong rocket was an American reconnaissance rocket, which flew back after making photographs of the target area by a rocket engine in its head. The Ping-Pong rocket was developed by Lockheed in 1964, but it was not produced in serial.
Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. It was likely the most common and best known boot sector virus until outnumbered by the Stoned virus.
Pingale Devidas Anandrao Pingale Devidas Anandrao (born 12 March, 1961) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Nashik constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) political party.
Pingao Pingao Desmoschoenus spiralis is a coastal sedge endemic to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands). Originally widespread, it has suffered severely from competition with introduced marram grass and now has only a patchy distribution.
Pingat Gagah Perkasa The Pingat Gagah Perkasa (Conspicuous Gallantry Medal), instituted in 1962, is awarded to members of the Singapore Armed Forces, the Singapore Police Force, as well as members of the Singaporean public who displayed outstanding performance or exceptional bravery in situations involving a threat to personal danger. For these acts to be recognised, they have to be performed in Singapore, although exceptions may be made.
Pingat Keberanian Polis The Pingat Keberanian Polis, also known as the Police Medal of Valour and the Police Gallantry Medal, is awarded to a police officer of the Singapore Police Force who displays exceptional courage during situations of danger. The last time the rarely awarded medal was conferred was to six officers from the Police Coast Guard, for their rescue efforts in the RSS Courageous collision with another ship in 2003.
Pingback A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.
Pingdingshan Pingdingshan (), also known as the Eagle City, with 891,814 inhabitants (estimated 2006) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the north, Xuchang and Luohe to the east, Zhumadian to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, and Luoyang to the west.
Pingelly, Western Australia Pingelly (; post code: 6308) is a town and shire located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 160km from Perth via the Brookton Highway and Great Southern Highway. The town is also located on the Great Southern railway line.
Pingfang Pingfang (Chinese: 平房), today a district in the outskirts of Harbin, China (in the 1930s and 1940s a part of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo), Pingfang was the headquarters of the Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 during the Japanese invasion of China and World War II. It had an airport, railway and dungeons.
Pingjin Campaign Pingjin Campaign (), known as the Battle of Pingjin to the Nationalist Government, was part of the three major campaigns launched by the People's Liberation Army during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War. It began on November 29 1948, and ended on January 31 1949, lasted a total of 64 days.
Pingley POW Camp Pingley POW (prisoner of war) camp is one of the few prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom that remains in good condition. Unlike the relatively nearby Eden Camp which is preserved as a WW2 museum, Pingley Camp lays in a semi derelict state in the grounds of Pingley Farm.
Pingliang Pingliang () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu Province in China. Pingliang is famous for a local mountain range that includes Kongtong Mountain, a site sacred to Taoism and mythical meeting place of the Yellow Emperor and Guangchengzi, an immortal.
PingPong (band) PingPong is an Israeli pop quartet that represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2000 with the song Sameyakh. They were dis-endorsed by the Israel Broadcasting Authority after waving the flag of Syria during the rehearsal and the video-clip.
Pingré (crater) Pingré is a lunar impact crater that is located near the southwest limb of the Moon, beyond the large Phocylides crater. It lies to the northwest of the huge Bailly walled-basin, and to the east of the smaller Graff crater.
Pingree School Pingree School is a prestigious coeducational, independent secondary day school located in South Hamilton, MA serving the large geographic area north and east of Boston. Its students commute from 50 different cities and towns, from as far south as Everett, as far north as Newburyport and as far west as the Merrimack Valley.
Pingry School The Pingry School is a coeducational independent college preparatory country day school in New Jersey, with a Lower School (K-6) campus in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, and a Middle and Upper School campus in Martinsville. The school was founded in 1861 by Dr.
Pingsi Township Pingsi (; Tongyong Pinyin: Pingsi; historically spelled Pinghsi), is a rural township in the eastern part of Taipei County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. The source of the Keelung River is in Jingtong, which is inside the Pingsi Township.
Pinguecula A pinguecula is a type of conjunctival degeneration in the eye. It is extremely common and is seen as a yellow-white deposit on the conjunctiva adjacent to the limbus (the junction between the cornea and sclera).
Pinguicula The butterworts are a group of carnivorous plants comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments.
Pinguicula gypsicola Pinguicula gypsicola is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula native to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, a heterophyllous member of the section Orcheosanthus. It grows in gypsum soils and forms stemless rosettes of upright, narrow leaves.
Pinguicula laxifolia Pinguicula laxifolia is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula native to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the only member of the section Orchidioides. Its pendulous leaves are unusual in the genus, which features mostly species with stiff or succulent leaves.
Pinguicula lusitanica Pinguicula lusitanica, commonly known as the Pale Butterwort, is a small butterwort that grows wild in acidic peat bog areas along coastal western Europe from western Scotland (north to Orkney) and Ireland south through western England and western France to Iberia, and Morocco in northwestern Africa.
Pingus Pingus is a free software computer game inspired by Lemmings and created by Ingo Ruhnke. It features penguins instead of lemmings, deliberately designed to resemble Tux, the Linux mascot (although the author has stated that the penguins are not actually Tux).
Pingwings Pingwings was an animated black and white children's television series of 18 ten-minute episodes broadcast in the UK during the early 1960s. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguins who lived at the back of a barn on Berrydown Farm.
Pinhas Lavon Pinhas Lavon (born July 12, 1904 in Kopychintsy in what was previously Galicia and is now in Ukraine, died January 24, 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He studied law at the University of Lviv, where he organized Histadrut organizations in the region.
Pinhas Rutenberg Pinhas Rutenberg (February 5 1879 — January 3 1942; , Pyotr Moiseyevich Rutenberg; ) was a prominent engineer and a businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in 1905 and 1917.
Pinhead Gunpowder Pinhead Gunpowder is an East Bay Punk Rock band consisting of Aaron Cometbus (drums, lyrics), Bill Schneider (bass), Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Jason White (guitar, vocals). Mike Kirsch (guitar, vocals) was part of the original band formed in 1991 but left the band citing personal differences with Green Day (the band for which Billie Joe Armstrong is most famous).
Pinheirão The Centro Poliesportivo Pinheiro, also known as the Pinheirão is a football stadium inaugurated on June 15, 1985 in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, with a maximum capacity of 35,000 people. The stadium is owned by the Paranaense Football Federation (meaning Federação Paranaense de Futebol in Portuguese), and is the home ground of Paraná Clube.
Pinheiros River The Pinheiros River (Portuguese: Rio Pinheiros) is an affluent of the TietĂŞ River that runs 30 km through the city of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil. Until 1920, the river was known as Jurubatuba, and after being canalized its name was changed to Pinheiros.
Pinhoe Pinhoe is a village on the north-eastern outskirts of Exeter, which was incorporated into the city boundary in 1966. The 2001 census recorded a population of 6,108 people resident within Pinhoe Ward of 18 wards comprising the City of Exeter).
Pinhoe railway station Pinhoe railway station is a suburban railway station in the city of Exeter, Devon. It re-opened in the 1980s, having been closed by the Beeching Axe, and serves the development on the eastern edge of the city around the village of Pinhoe.
Pinhole glasses Pinhole glasses, also known as stenopeic glasses, are eyeglasses with a series of pinhole-sized perforations filling an opaque sheet of plastic in place of each lens. Similar to the workings of a pinhole camera, each perforation allows only very narrow beam of light to enter the eye which reduces the size of the circle of confusion on the retina and increases depth of field.
Pinhook, Indiana Pinhook, Indiana is a small farming community in Guthrie Township, Lawrence County, Indiana. It is the home of two churches (Pinhook Church of Christ and Pinhook Christian Church), a cemetery, and several small farms and homesteads.
Pinch (drummer) Pinch is the current drummer in punk band The Damned. He has been with the band since 1999 and is from Grantham, Lincolnshire where he attended the King's School, where he was a founder member of the English Dogs.
Pinch (magnetic fusion) A Pinch is a machine used to study plasmas, specifically fusion plasmas. A pinch must statisfy the equilibrium ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations, a series of equations that describe the motion of magnetized fluids.
Pinch analysis Pinch analysis is a methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes by calculating thermodynamically feasible energy targets and achieving them by optimising heat recovery systems, energy supply methods and process operating conditions. It is also known as process integration, heat integration, energy integration or pinch technology.
Pinch grip tie A pinch grip tie (also called an over-under bodylock) is a clinch hold and stand-up grappling position that is an extension of the over-under position, but having both hands locked behind the opponents back. The hands are typically locked with a palm-to-palm grip, palm-to-wrist grip or fingers-to-fingers grip.
Pinch hitter In baseball, a pinch hitter is a common term for a substitute batter. Batters can be substituted in at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager may use any player that has not yet entered the game as a substitute.
Pinch hitter (cricket) In cricket, pinch hitter is the usual term for a batsman (not a substitute, unlike in baseball) promoted up the batting order in order to score quick runs. As scoring runs quickly makes a batsman more likely to get out, it is generally considered unwise for a top-order batsman to attempt this.
Pinch runner A pinch runner is a baseball player substituted for the specific purpose of replacing a player on base. In the typical case, the pinch runner is faster or otherwise more skilled at base-running than the player for whom the pinch runner has been substituted.
Pinchas (parsha) Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin’has (פנחס – Hebrew for “Phinehas,” a name, the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 41st weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in July.
Pinchas Horowitz Pinchas Horowitz was a Rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Poland in 1731; died in Frankfurt am Main on July 1, 1805. The descendant of a long line of rabbinical ancestors and the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horowitz of Chortkiv, he received a thorough Talmudic education, chiefly from his older brother, Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg.
Pinchas Lapide Pinchas Lapide (1922 — 1997) was a Jewish theologian. He was an Israeli diplomat from 1951 to 1969, among other position acting as Israeli counsel to Milan, and was instrumental in gaining recognition for the young state of Israel.
Pinchas Menachem Alter Pinchas Menachem Alter (June 9 1926 - March 7 1996), was also known as the Pnei Menachem (for the name's of his Torah works). He was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the sixth rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Hasidic Judaism Ger in Israel from 1992 to 1996.
Pinchas Stolper Pinchas Stolper is a prominent Orthodox rabbi, writer, and has been a spokesman for Orthodoxy through his writings and books popularizing Orthodox Judaism. He was the founder and National Director of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) of the Orthodox Union.

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