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Pinopolis, South Carolina Pinopolis is a village in Berkeley County, South Carolina that was founded about 1845. It first was a high elevation in the "low country" of South Carolina and it gave an escape from mosquitos and uncomfortable heat.
Pinot Gris Pinot Gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot Noir grape, it has a grayish-white fruit, accounting for its name ("gris" meaning gray in French).
Pinout Pinout is a term used in electronics to describe how an electrical connector is wired. An electrical connector typically consists of several electrical contacts or pins that can be used to carry electrical power or signals.
Pinoy Pinoy is a demonym used by Filipinos for their compatriots in the Philippines and around the world. Filipinos usually refer to themselves informally as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of the word 'Pilipino' and adding the diminutive suffix -y.
Pinoy Big Brother Pinoy Big Brother is the Philippine version of the reality television show Big Brother (the word Pinoy is the colloquial term for Filipino). It follows the same premise as its many foreign counterparts around the world: twelve Philippine residents forced to live with each other inside a house for about 100 days (extended to another 12 days for the first season due to inefficient scheduling of nomination and eviction of housemates in the first week).
Pinoy Big Brother (season 1) Pinoy Big Brother, Season 1 officially started August 21, 2005 with an extravagant presentation by ABS-CBN. The first season ended December 10, 2005, with Nene Tamayo of Romblon emerging as the first-ever winner.
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition The first celebrity edition of Pinoy Big Brother, entitled Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition is a special edition of the original show. Its first edition officially began on February 5, 2006 and ran for 56 days (up to April 1, 2006), this new edition auditions Filipino celebrities from different fields such as those from movie and television, sports figures, notable personalities, and professional models.
Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition was the edition of Pinoy Big Brother for adolescents 16 to 18 years old shown on the ABS-CBN network. It began on April 23, 2006, three weeks after the end of the Celebrity Edition.
Pinoy Central TV Pinoy Central TV is a channel of ABS-CBN that features shows produced by the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group. It is available through Direct-To-Home cable subscription service (exclusive only on SkyCable) and worldwide through The Filipino Channel.
Pinoy rock Pinoy Rock, or Filipino Rock, is the brand of Rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos. It has become as diverse as the Rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like Alternative Rock, Ethnic, Metal, New Wave, Pop Rock, Punk Rock, Reggae, Heavy Metal and Ska.
Pinoy weekly Pinoy Weekly is a tabloid-magazine in the Philippines. Published by Prometheus Publishing Corporation, it focuses on investigative stories that concern what it terms as the "underrepresented" sectors of Philippine society: peasants, workers, overseas Filipinos, youth and women.
Pinpeat The pinpeat orchestra or musical ensemble performs the ceremonial music of the former courts and temples of Cambodia. The orchestra consists of approximately nine or ten instruments, mainly wind and percussion (including several varieties of xylophone and drums), and accompanies court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies.
Pins and Needles Pins and Needles is a musical revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph Schrank, Arnold B. Horwitt, John Latouche, and Harold Rome and music and lyrics by Rome.
Pinsetter In bowling, a pinsetter, or pinspotter, was originally a person who would manually reset bowling pins in their correct position, clear fallen pins, and return bowling balls to the players. Probably due to the nature of the work (low-paid, often part-time, manual labor which most frequently took place during evenings) many pinsetters were teenaged boys, and thus pinboy is another name used to describe the job.
Pinscher Pinscher is a German word meaning terrier. It is used as part of the breed name for several dog breeds developed originally as fighting or guarding dogs, although today most are more docile and can be kept comfortably as pets.
Pinsir 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 Pinsir in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Pinsk Marshes The Pinsk Marshes (Пинские болота) or Pripyat Marshes (Pripet Marshes, Припятские болота) are a vast territory of wetlands along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest, Belarus (west) to Mogilev (northeast) and Kiev (southeast).
Pinsk Voblast Pinsk Voblast (, ) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the annexation of West Belarus into the BSSR in November 1939. The administrative centre of the province was the city of Pinsk, the oblast was founded on 4th December 1939 with 16.
Pinta The Pinta (the "Painted") was fastest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. The new world was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana on the Pinta on October 12 1492.
Pinter's People Pinter's People is a sketch show based on the work of English playwright Harold Pinter which will run from 30th January 2007 for four weeks at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. It will star Bill Bailey, Geraldine McNulty, Sally Phillips and Kevin Eldon.
Pinto Colvig Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (born September 11, 1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA – died of lung cancer on October 3, 1967 in Woodland Hills, California, USA) was a vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1911.
Pinto horse Pinto is a horse coloring that consists of large patches of white and another color. In Britain and Ireland, the terms "Coloured," piebald and skewbald are often used to describe horses of this color pattern.
Pinto, Maryland Pinto is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland across from Rocket Center, West Virginia. While the town is officially named Potomac, its post office is referred to as Pinto because there already exists a Potomac, Maryland.
Pintos Pintos is an instructional operating system introduced at Stanford University in 2004 used in teaching the undergraduate operating systems course ever since. Pintos is a derivative of NACHOS, a similar system written and used at UC Berkeley.
Pintsch gas Pintsch gas was a compressed gas derived from distilled naphtha for illumination purposes during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was invented in 1851 by German inventor and manufacturer Julius Pintsch (1815-1884).
Pintupi Pintupi refers to an Australian Aboriginal group who are part of the Western Desert cultural group and whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia. These people moved (or were moved) into the Aboriginal communities of Papunya and Haasts Bluff in the west of the Northern Territory in the 1940s-1980s.
Pinturas River Canyon The Pinturas River Canyon (Spanish:Cañadón Río Pinturas) located 160km from the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz, Argentina. It is most famous for containing the Cueva de las Manos, ancient cave art dating back some 13,000 years.
Pinus classification There are three main subgenera of Pinus, the subgenus Strobus (White pines or soft pines), the subgenus Ducampopinus (Pinyon, Bristlecone and Lacebark pines), and the subgenus Pinus (Typical pines, or yellow or hard pines). This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:
Pinute The Pinute or Pinuti is a Filipino sword, which is long, straight, and well balanced. It is a variation of the agricultural bolo machete and is a popular sword of the Visayan warriors of Cebu, Negros, Leyte, and Bohol.
Pinwheel (cryptography) In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery.
Pinwheel (TV series) Pinwheel was a children's television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1979 to 1989. The show was the original program featured on the Nickelodeon network (the channel itself was known as "Pinwheel" until 1981).
Pinwright's Progress Pinwright's Progress was a British television programme, the first regular sitcom to be transmitted in the UK. It was screened by the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947, and centred around the character of J.
PinWee PINWEE is a one of the largest poultry integrated outfit in Malaysia and is currently listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities, the main capital market in Malaysia. Their business encompass broiler farming, breeder farming, feedmilling, agri-chemicals manufacturing, trading of grains and agricultural products.
Pinyon Jay The Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) is a jay between the North American Blue Jay and the Eurasian Jay in size. Its overall proportions are very Nutcracker-like and indeed this can be seen as convergent evolution as both birds fill similar ecological niches.
Pinyon pine The pinyon pines (or piñon pines), are a group of pines, which grow in the southwestern United States and Mexico; they yield edible pinyon nuts, which were a staple of the Native Americans, and are still widely eaten. The fragrance of the wood, especially when burned, is unmistakable.
Pinzgauer High Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle Pinzgauer is a high mobility all-terrain 4x4 and 6x6 military utility vehicle manufactured in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, by Automotive Technik (ATL). ATL has been manufacturing the Pinzgauer since the year 2000.
Pio di Savoia Pio di Savoia, an ancient noble Italian family, first mentioned by good authorities in the 14th century. From the house of Este they received the lordship of Carpi, and later they acquired the fiefs of Meldola, Sassuolo, etc.
Pio of Pietrelcina Francesco Forgione (May 25 1887 — September 23 1968), canonized Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian priest. He took the name Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood.
Pio Pico State Historic Park Pio Pico State Historic Park is the site of "El Ranchito," also known as the Pio Pico Adobe or Pio Pico Mansion, the final home of PĂ­o Pico, the last Mexican Governor of Alta California and a pivotal figure in early California history. Located in Whittier, California, on 6003 Pioneer Blvd off of Whittier Blvd.
Pio Terei Pio Terei (born 1958) is a Māori actor, singer and comedian on New Zealand TV. A former Auckland Toyota car salesman, he came to notice in 1995 when he headlined his own TV3 show Pete and Pio with fellow comedian Peter Rowley.
Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor In the case of finite deformations, the Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors are used to express the stress relative to the reference configuration. This is in contrast to the Cauchy stress tensor which expresses the stress relative to the present configuration.
Piolet d'Or The Piolet d'Or (French for The Golden Ice Axe) is an annual mountaineering award, which has been given by the French magazine Montagnes and The Groupe de Haute Montagne since 1991. Nominations are selected by GHM and Montagnes, and the award is chosen by a jury consisting of Guy Chaumereuil (the chief editor of Montagnes when the award was inaugurated), (until 1998) Jean-Claude Marmier (president of GHM when the award was inaugurated), the current president of GHM, the current editor of Montagnes, the previous year's winners and three members invited by GHM, one of whom becomes the president of the jury.
Piołunówka Piołunówka is a very bitter alcoholic infusion made by macerating wormwood in alcohol with other herbs like anise, dill, cardamom, marjoram, coriander, pepper etc. Its name comes from "piołun" which means "wormwood" in Polish.
Pion decay constant In particle physics, the pion decay constant is the square root of the coefficient in front of the kinetic term for the pion in the low-energy effective action. It is dimensionally an energy scale and it determines the strength of the chiral symmetry breaking.
Pionýr Pionýr (in English Pioneer) is a Czech-based democratic, voluntary, independent and non-political movement of children, youth and adult people. It focuses on non-formal, educational activities and is organised during leisure time.
Pioneer (Amtrak) The Pioneer was a passenger train service run by Amtrak from Portland, Oregon, through Boise, Idaho (and other stops), to Salt Lake City, Utah. At Salt Lake City it, along with the Desert Wind, joined the California Zephyr on its way to Chicago, Illinois.
Pioneer (locomotive) Pioneer is the name of the first railroad locomotive to operate in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1837 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Utica and Schenectady Railroad (U&S) in New York, then purchased used by William B.
Pioneer 0 The Pioneer 0 (also known as Thor-Able 1) probe was designed to go into orbit around the Moon and carried a TV camera and other instruments as part of the first International Geophysical Year (IGY) science payload. It was the first attempt by the USA at a lunar mission, and the first attempted launch beyond Earth orbit by any country.
Pioneer 10 Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and was the first spacecraft to make direct observations of Jupiter. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 36A on March 2, 1972.
Pioneer 11 Pioneer 11 was the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the first to explore the planet Saturn and its main rings. Pioneer 11 (also called Pioneer G), unlike Pioneer 10 which only visited Jupiter, used Jupiter's mass in a gravitational slingshot to alter its trajectory toward Saturn.
Pioneer 2 Pioneer 2 was the last of the three project Able space probes designed to probe lunar and cislunar space. Shortly after launch on 8 November 1958, the third stage of the launch vehicle separated but failed to ignite, and Pioneer 2 did not achieve its intended lunar orbit.
Pioneer 5 Pioneer 5 (1960 Alpha 1) was a spin-stabilized space probe in the Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus. It was launched on March 11 1960 13:00:00 UTC with an on-orbit dry mass of 43 kg.
Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9 Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9 were space probes in the Pioneer program. Together, they formed a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements on a continuing basis of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space.
Pioneer anomaly The Pioneer anomaly or Pioneer effect is the observed deviation from expectations of the trajectories of various unmanned spacecraft visiting the outer solar system, notably number 10 and 11 of the Pioneer program. At present, there is no universally accepted explanation for this phenomenon; while it is possible that the explanation will be mundane—such as thrust from gas leakage—the possibility of entirely new physics is also being considered.
Pioneer Amphitheatre The Pioneer Amphitheatre is an amphitheatre located at the north-eastern corner of the Hayward Hills Campus of California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California. The venue is managed by the Sequoia Management Group.
Pioneer BDR-101A The Pioneer BDR-101A is the world's first PC compatible Blu-ray Disc recorder. It utilizes an ATAPI connection and complies with the latest specifications for BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable), BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable) and BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read-only memory).
Pioneer Bowl The Pioneer Bowl is a bowl game between the highest placing football team from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. It has been played since 1997.
Pioneer CLD-D703 The Pioneer CLD-D703 was a part of Pioneer's seven-hundred-series of upper-mid-range Laserdisc players, and the first player in the family. It was evolved into the CLD-D704, which itself was the basis for the CLD-79 and CLD-99 "Elite" line high-end players.
Pioneer Column The Pioneer Column was a force raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The column consisted of a Pioneer Corps of 180 men, accompanied by a paramilitary police force (later christened the British South Africa Police) of 300; it was commanded by Major Frank Johnson and guided by the hunter Frederick Selous.
Pioneer Courthouse Square Pioneer Courthouse Square, affectionately known as Portland's Living Room, is a public space occupying a full 40,000 ft² (3700 m²) city block in the center of downtown Portland, Oregon. The square is bounded by Southwest Morrison Street on the north, Southwest 6th Avenue on the east, Southwest Yamhill Street on the south, and Southwest Broadway on the west.
Pioneer District The Pioneer District is one of the 16 geographical districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society, an all-male North American singing fraternity. It is composed of male barbershop singers living in the state of Michigan.
Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps The Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps is a Division I drum and bugle corps based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International and Drum Corps Midwest. Pioneer has won 3 DCI world championships as a member of Divisions II/III and 9 DCM championships.
Pioneer DVJ-X1 The DVJ-X1 is a DVD quasi-turntable that allows VJ's to scratch and mix video like a vinyl record. Released in 2004 and designed for professional use in clubs, it features real-time digital video scratching, looping and instant hot cueing.
Pioneer DVL The DVL-XXXX Series of LaserDisc Home Video Players were manufactured by The Pioneer Corporation and were some of the last LaserDisc Players made before its Retirement. They Included the capability of playing LaserDisc, CD Video, Audio CD, and the newest(at the time)Consumer Video Product, The DVD.
Pioneer Elite Pioneer Elite is a line of Pioneer Corporation that produces higher-end electronics that are usually higher in price and quality. Pioneer Elite branded electronics usually have a shiny black plastic case around the component.
Pioneer Football League The Pioneer Football League is a college athletic conference which operates literally from coast to coast in the United States. It has member schools that range from North Carolina and Florida in the east to California in the west.
Pioneer Fund The Pioneer Fund is a controversial American non-profit foundation that was "established in 1937 to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences." Established by several prominent eugenicists, the fund states that emphasis is placed on projects not likely to be financed by other institutions partly due to subject matters often considered controversial.
Pioneer Group The Pioneer Group were a number of red-figure vase painters working in Kerameikos or the potters' quarter of Athens around the beginning of the 5th century BCE. Characterized by John Boardman as perhaps the first conscious art movement in the western tradition, the group comprised the painters Euphronios, Euthymides, Smikros, Hypsias, the 'Dikaios Painter' and Phintias.
Pioneer H Pioneer H is an unlaunched unmanned space mission that was part of the US Pioneer program for a planned 1974 launch. Had this mission and spacecraft been launched, it would have been designated Pioneer 12; that designation was later applied to the Pioneer Venus Orbiter.
Pioneer High School Pioneer High School is a public school located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that is widely known for its strong academics, sports, and music programs. Pioneer was designated the National GRAMMY Signature High School for 2005-2006.
Pioneer HLD-X0 The Pioneer HLD-XO is a Laserdisc player manufactured by Pioneer Electronics in 1995 for sale in Japan. The unit differs from normal Laserdisc players in that it is capable of playing "Hi-Vision" discs containing "MUSE" encoded high-definition video material.
Pioneer Jazz Pioneer Jazz was a Malian band from the 1960s, one of the most popular of the era. The band emerged from the city of Bamako after Modibo Keita, the Malian leader, began subsidizing musical groups as long as they used indigenous praise song, and the kora and balafon musical instruments, in their music.
Pioneer LaserActive The Pioneer LaserActive was a short-lived Laserdisc-based game console released by Pioneer in 1993. In addition to LaserActive games, separately sold add-on modules (referred to as "PAC" by Pioneer) expanded the hardware to include compatibility with the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis and PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 game cartridges and HuCards and CDs.
Pioneer Limited (passenger train) The Pioneer Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") on an overnight schedule between Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis/St.
Pioneer MRT Station Pioneer MRT Station, tentatively (EW28), is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station under construction on the East West MRT Line in Singapore. It is part of the Boon Lay extension announced by the Land Transport Authority in December 2004.
Pioneer plaque The Pioneer plaques are a pair of aluminum plaques which were placed on board the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message from humanity. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft.
Pioneer program The US Pioneer program of unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system.
Pioneer P-3 Pioneer P-3 (also known as Atlas-Able 4 or Pioneer X) was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to investigate the environment between the Earth and Moon, and to develop technology for controlling and maneuvering spacecraft from Earth.
Pioneer P-30 Pioneer P-30 (also known as Atlas-Able 5A, or Pioneer Y) was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to investigate the environment between the Earth and Moon, and to develop technology for controlling and maneuvering spacecraft from Earth.
Pioneer P-31 Pioneer P-31 (also known as Atlas-Able 5B or Pioneer Z) was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to investigate the environment between the Earth and Moon, and to develop technology for controlling and maneuvering spacecraft from Earth.
Pioneer Park Pioneer Park is a 44-acre (109-ha) amusement park in Fairbanks, Alaska, run by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Department of Parks and Recreation. It opened in 1967 as Alaskaland to celebrate the centennial of the Alaska Purchase.
Pioneer Park (stadium) Pioneer Park is a stadium on the campus of Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field for both the college's baseball team and a professional minor league team, the Greeneville Astros.
Pioneer Playhouse The Pioneer Playhouse, founded 1950, is the oldest outdoor theater in the state of Kentucky. In 1962, it became the first theater in the nation to be accorded the legal status of State Theater (by act of Legislation).
Pioneer Railcorp Pioneer Railcorp () is a holding company for a number of American short-line railroads. Other subsidiaries offer locomotive and freight car leasing to its own railroads and to third parties, and also freight car cleaning.
Pioneer Rocketplane Pioneer Rocketplane was an aerospace design and development company intent on developing affordable manned space flight. The company is most famous for advocating a horizontal takeoff, turbo-jet and rocket propelled, aerial-refueled, rocket plane concept called the Pathfinder.
Pioneer species A pioneer species is a plant species which colonizes previously uncolonized land, usually leading to ecological succession. Since uncolonised land usually has thin, poor quality soils with few nutrients pioneer species are typically very hardy plants, with adaptions such as long roots, root nodes containing nitrogen fixing bacteria, and leaves which reduce transpiration.
Pioneer Sergeant A Pioneer Sergeant is a position in the British Army and several army units of the Commonwealth. Although a Pioneer Sergeant holds the rank of Sergeant in the army, the Pioneer Sergeant title itself is a regimental appointment rather than an official military rank.
Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North (MAX stations) The Pioneer Square South/Pioneer Square North stations are light rail stations on the MAX Blue, Red, and Yellow lines in Portland, Oregon. It is considered the central station on the MAX system, although the Eastside and Westside MAX lines technically end/begin just past the Galleria and Library stations to the west.
Pioneer Valley The Pioneer Valley is a region consisting of the three counties that the Connecticut River passes through in Western Massachusetts, and especially those towns that are in the lowlands of the Connecticut River Valley. See also Massachusetts geography.
Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School PVPA, or Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, is a public charter school for the performing arts located in South Hadley, MA. PVPA was founded in 1996 as part of the Massachusetts Educational Reform.
Pioneer Valley Transit Authority The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) oversees and coordinates public transportation in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Currently the PVTA offers fixed-route bus service as well as paratransit service for the elderly and disabled.
Pioneer Valley Zendo Pioneer Valley Zendo is a Soto Zen zendo established in 1976 in Charlemont, MA as a sister-temple to Antai-ji in Japan, where Kosho Uchiyama was roshi. Koshi Ichida, Eishin Ikeda and Shohaku Okumura were the zendo's original founders, and the place was run by Reverend Issho Fujita (1954 - present) from 1987 until 2005.
Pioneer Venus project The Pioneer mission to Venus consisted of two components, launched separately. Pioneer Venus 1, Pioneer Venus Orbiter was launched in 1978 and studied the planet for more than a decade after orbital insertion in 1978.
Pioneer Village Salem Massachusetts Pioneer Village was created in 1930 as a set for a play, held in Forest River Park. Audience members sat in the park and watched the recreation of what Salem, Massachusetts may have looked like in 1630 at the arrival of John Winthrop.
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden is a tribute to the pioneer women of South Australia. The garden was designed by landscape designer Elsie Cornish and the statue created by Ola Cohn was unveiled by Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey (the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey) on the 19 April 1941.
Pioneer Zephyr The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered railroad trainset (a set of railroad cars permanently coupled together, actually an articulated railcar with Jacobs Bogies) built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known by the shorter name of Burlington. The train, which featured extensive use of stainless steel, was originally named Zephyr and was meant as a promotional tool to advertise passenger rail service in the United States.
Pioneers Palace Young Pioneer Palaces or Palaces of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren were youth centers designated for the creative work, sport training and extracurricular activities of Young Pioneers and other schoolchildren. Young Pioneer Palaces originated in the Soviet Union (USSR) and still exist in some socialist states.
Pioneers Who Got Scalped Pioneers Who Got Scalped is an anthology by the rock band Devo, released in 2000. Notably on this compilation, the band recorded the long-time concert favorite The Words Get Stuck In My Throat in the studio for the first time.
Piosenka dla Europy 2007 "Piosenka dla Europy 2007" will be the Polish national selection for the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, to be held in Helsinki, Finland. It will be held in the TVP studios in Warsaw on the 3rd February 2007.
Piotr Dziewicki Piotr Dziewicki (born September 26, 1979 in Milanowek) is a Polish professional football player. He has played for Amica Wronki before and at the start of 2006-07 season, he has been transferred to Turkish side Antalyaspor with his fellow Jaroslaw Bieniuk.

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