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Pirmin Zurbriggen Pirmin Zurbriggen (born February 4, 1963, Saas-Almagell, Kanton Wallis, Switzerland), was one of the all time great ski racers. He won the Overall World Cup title four times, an Olympic Gold Medal in Downhill, and 9 World Championships medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze).
Piro Pueblo Piro Pueblo (IPA ): The Piros (not to be confused with the Piros of the Ucayali basin in Peru) were a Native American Pueblo people that lived in a number of pueblos in the Rio Grande Valley around modern Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The now extinct Piro language was in the family of Tiwa languages.
Pirogov Hospital Pirogov Hospital is a large hospital for active treatment and emergency medicine in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was founded in the 1950s and as of 2002 had a capacity of 1,005 patients, 26 clinics and departments and employed over 1,025 medics.
Pirogue A pirogue is a small, flat-botomed boat of a design associated particularly with West African fishermen and the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. These boats are not usually intended for over-night travel but are light and small enough to be easily taken onto land.
Pironchamps Pironchamps is an old Carolingian municipality, in what is now Belgium, which, in 1979, amalgamated with the municipality of Farciennes. For many years, it was the poorest commune of Wallonia, with a population made up primarily of unemployed people.
Pirouette (dressage) A pirouette is a two-track lateral movement asked of a horse in dressage, in which the animal makes a circle with its front end around a smaller circle made by the hind end. Specifically, the front legs and outside hind leg should travel around the inside hind leg, with the horse remaining slightly bent in the direction of travel.
Pirro Colonna Pirro Colonna (1500 - November 1552) was an Italian military leader in the service of Charles V during the Italian War of 1542. He commanded the garrison of Carignano during the French sieges of the city before and after the Battle of Ceresole.
Pirsig's metaphysics of quality The metaphysics of quality (MOQ) is a theory of reality introduced in Pirsig's philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and expanded in Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991). The MOQ incorporates facets of East Asian philosophy, Pragmatism, the work of F.
Pirton, Hertfordshire Pirton is a small village three miles north-east of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The church, rebuilt in 1877, but with the remains of its 12th-century tower, is built within the bailey of a former castle.
Piru (spirit) The Piru is a minor evil spirit or Demon in Finnish mythology. In folklore the Piru often features as a nasty spirit of the forest with which a wise-aleck either wins or loses a battle of wits, giving or receiving a forfeit in return.
Piru Creek Piru Creek is a large stream in northern Los Angeles County and western Ventura County, California. It is a tributary of the Santa Clara River, the largest stream system in Southern California that is still relatively natural.
Piru Singh Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat was an officer in the Indian Army. For his valour in battle, CHM Piru Singh was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra during the Jammu and Kashmir Operations of 1947.
Pisanello Pisanello (or Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto), or erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, (c. 1395- probably 1455) was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento.
Pisano period In mathematics, the nth Pisano period, written π(n), is the period with which the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, modulo n repeats. For example, the Fibonacci numbers mod 3 are , 1, 1, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, etc.
Pisanosaurus Pisanosaurus mertii (the name comes from "Pisano", who was an associate of the finder, and "saurus" meaning lizard or reptile) is a primitive bipedal Ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic.
Piscataqua River The Piscataqua River, in the northeastern United States, is a 12 mile (19 km) long tidal estuary formed by the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Cochecho rivers. The drainage basin of the river is approximately 1,495 square miles, creating the third fastest-flowing navigable river in the world.
Piscataquis River The Piscataquis River is found in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, and starts from various branches in the region. The river flows in a mostly eastern direction until it meets the Penobscot River when it turns South.
Piscataway Indian Nation The Piscataway Indian Nation is a non-state, non-federally recognized Native American tribal nation, which, at one time, was one of the most populous and powerful Native polities of the Chesapeake region. By the early seventeenth century, the Piscataway had come to exercise hegemony over other Native American groups on the north bank of the Potomac River.
Piscataway Township High School Piscataway Township High School is a four-year public high school in Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in grades 9-12 as part of the Piscataway Township Schools.
Piscataway Township Schools The Piscataway Township Schools serves almost 7,000 students in grades kindergarten through 12the grade in Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. In addition to its high school, there are four schools that educate students in kindergarten through third grade, two intermediate schools serving grades 4-5, and three middle schools for students in grades six, seven, and eight.
Piscina A piscina (also known as a sacrarium) is a Latin word first applied to a fish-pond, and later used for any pool of water for bathing, either natural or artificial, and also for a tank or reservoir. In ecclesiastical usage the term was given to a shallow stone basin, the French cuvette, placed near the altar in a church, with drains to take away the water used in the ablutions at the mass.
Piscina Mirabilis The Piscina Mirabilis was the largest freshwater cistern ever built by the ancient Romans. It was located on the Miseno cliff at the western end of the Gulf of Naples, and was situated there in order to provide the Roman western imperial fleet at Portus Julius with drinking water.
Pisco punch Pisco punch was an alcoholic beverage invented by Duncan Nicol at a bar named Bank Exchange at the end of the 1800s, in San Francisco, California. The Bank Exchange was located in south-east corner of the intersection of the Montgomery and Washington streets, in the Montgomery Block building, where the Transamerica Pyramid now stands.
Pisco Sour A Pisco Sour is a cocktail from Peru and Chile which contains Pisco (a regional brandy made of Quebranta or Muscat grapes), lemon (green or yellow depending on personal preference), egg whites, simple syrup, and regional bitters (Angostura Bitters are one example).
Piseco, New York Piseco (pronounced pi-SEE-ko) is a small village in the town of Arietta, New York, in Hamilton County, New York. Located in the heart of the Adirondacks, the village is home to Piseco Lake and Piseco Airport (K09).
Pisg pisg is a customizable, open-source perl script originally written by Morten Brix Pedersen. It analyzes various formats of IRC log files and generates HTML pages containing statistics about the channel the logs were taken from.
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) (pronounced Perry) is an astronomical observatory located in the United States about 5 miles northwest of Rosman, North Carolina. It is operated as a not-for-profit public foundation.
Pisgah Covered Bridge Pisgah Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the west fork of the Little River in Randolph County, North Carolina. It is the only accessible covered bridge in North Carolina, and one of only two in existence in the state (the other being Bunker Hill covered bridge in Catawba County, North Carolina).
Pisgah High School Pisgah High School is a public senior high school located in Canton, North Carolina, USA approximately 25 miles west-southwest of Asheville. The school was founded in 1966 and is administered by the Haywood County school system.
Pisgah National Forest The Pisgah National Forest is a National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. It is administered by the United States Forest Service, part of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Pisgat Ze'ev Pisgat Ze'ev (; ), is the largest neighbourhood in Jerusalem, with over 45,000 residents. Built in 1982 and populated as of 1985, it is situated to the east of the neighbourhood of Shuafat, to the south of the neighbourhood of Neve Yaakov, and to the west of the Palestinian villages of Hizme and Anatah.
Pishan Pishan (Chinese: 皮山; pinyin: Píshān; also known as Guma or Goma; ) is an ancient town on the main caravan route between Khotan and Karghalik. It is located in the Taklamakan Desert, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, about 280 km southeast of Kashgar in modern Xinjiang, China.
Pisharody Pisharody (also spelled Pisharodi, Pisharadi, Pisharoty, or Pisharoti; colloquially known as Sharody) is a sub-caste of Pushpaka Brahmin caste in Kerala. As Vaishnavite Brahmins, Pisharodys were traditionally caretakers of Hindu temples, with temple related jobs (Kazhakam) and hence clubbed under Ambalavasis (ambalam = temple, vasi = resident in Malayalam).
Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty (Malayalam: പിഷാരത്ത് രാമ പിഷാരടി ;February 10, 1909 - September 24, 2002) was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in India.
Pishon The Pishon is mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (2:11) as one of four rivers branching off from a single river within Eden. The river is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah", which cannot be positively identified.
Pisidia Pisidia was a region of ancient Asia Minor (modern day Antalya, Turkey), located north of Lycia, and bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia. Among Pisidia's settlements were Termessus, Selge, Cremna, Sagalassos, Etenna, Antiochia, Neapolis, Tyriacum, Laodiceia Katakekaumene and Philomelium.
Pisidian language The Pisidian language is a member of the extinct Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family spoken in Pisidia, known from some two dozen short inscriptions. It is probably closely related to the Lycian and Sidetic languages, but there appears to be some Phrygian influence so that the language may be a creole of Phrygian and indigenous Anatolian dialects.
Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery (Russian, in full: Пискарёвское мемориальное кладбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, at the Avenue of the Unconquered (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad. It is probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people buried therein.
Pisonian conspiracy The conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso (65 CE) represented one of the major turning points in the reign of Nero (54-68 CE). Piso intended to have Nero assassinated and to have himself declared Emperor of Rome by the Praetorian Guard.
Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number In mathematics, a Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number, also called simply a Pisot number or a PV number, is an algebraic integer α which is real and exceeds 1, but such that its conjugate elements are all less than 1 in absolute value.
Piss proud Piss-proud is a British idiom, which means a false erection or more generally falsely proud. It refers to the common phenomenon of men waking up in the morning with an erect penis, usually attributed to be the result of a full bladder.
Piss Pot Island Piss Pot Island is an island on the South Branch Potomac River west of Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Piss Pot Island received its unflattering name before 1755, the year it was included on Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson's Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland.
Pissaladière Pissaladiere (pissaladiera in Provencal) is a type of pizza made in and around the city of Nice, France. It generally has a topping consisting of sauteed onions, olives, and anchovies and occasionally cheese, and generally would be classed as a type of white pizza due to a lack of tomato products.
Pissant A pissant, also seen as piss ant and piss-ant, is a small or tiny ant. The word is often used in reference to an inconsequential, irrelevant, or worthless person, especially one who is irritating or contemptible out of proportion to his significance.
Pissed and Proud Pissed and Proud is an album of live recordings by English punk rock band, Peter and the Test Tube Babies. It was originally released in 1982 on No Future Records and was recorded at three different venues – Hammersmith, Wood Green, and their hometown, Brighton – during the August bank holiday of 1982.
Pissouri Pissouri is a seaside village] located in [[Limassol District|Limassol’s district, Cyprus (thirty kilometres westwards of Limassol’s centre), between Limassol and Pafos. Pissouri’s administrative area is the third biggest in Limassol District.
Pista Cláudio Coutinho Located beneath Sugarloaf Mountain in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Urca, this walking trail leads from the Praia Vermelha to the top of the first of Sugarloaf Mountain's two humps. Also called the "Caminho do Bem-te-vi", the path follows the curve of the beach for several hundred meters.
Pista DankĂł Pista DankĂł (July 13, 1858 - March 19, 1903), was a Hungarian-born bandleader and composer belonging to the Roma people, also referred to as "gypsies". He primarily worked in the folk music styles popular in Hungary in the 19th century.
Pistachio The pistachio (Pistacia vera, Anacardiaceae; sometimes placed in Pistaciaceae) is a small tree up to 10 m tall, native to mountainous regions of central and southwestern Asia such as the Kopet Dag mountains of Turkmenistan southwest to northeastern Iran and western Afghanistan. It has deciduous pinnate leaves 10-20 cm long.
Piste (fencing) In modern fencing, the piste or strip is the playing area. It is roughly 14 meters long and 2 meters wide; the last two meters on each end are hash-marked, so as to warn a fencer before he/she backs off the end of the strip.
Pistia Pistia is a genus of aquatic plant in the family Araceae, comprising a single species, Pistia stratiotes, often called water lettuce. Its native distribution in uncertain, but probably pantropical; it was first described from the Nile near Lake Victoria in Africa.
Pisto Pisto is a Spanish dish made of tomatoes, onions, eggplant or courgettes, green and red peppers and olive oil. It is similar to ratatouille and is usually served warm to accompany a dish or with a fried egg and bread.
Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory The Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese (Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory), also known as Osservatorio di Pian dei Termini (Pian dei Termini Observatory), or San Marcello Pistoiese for short...
Pistol A pistol or handgun is a small firearm (typically less than about 30 cm [about 12 inches] long) designed with only one handgrip and intended to be used with one hand or with two hands wrapped around the one handgrip.
Pistol Daimyo no Bouken Pistol Daimyo no Bouken (ピストル大名の冒険) is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1990 only in Japan. It runs on Namco System 1 hardware and its name translates from Japanese as "Adventure of the Pistol Feudal Lord".
Pistol grip On a firearm or other tool, the pistol grip is that portion of the mechanism that is held by the hand and orients the hand in a manner similar to the position one would take with a conventional pistol such as a Colt 1911.
Pistol slide The slide (or slideback) is the part of a semi-automatic pistol that moves during the operating cycle and generally houses the firing pin or striker, extractor, and serves as the bolt face. It is spring loaded so that once it has moved to its rearmost point in the firing cycle, spring tension brings it back to chamber a fresh cartridge.
Pistol Star The Pistol Star, is one of the most luminous known stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Early reports suggested that it might be the most extreme known star, producing almost 10 million times as much power as the Sun.
Pistol-whipping To pistol whip someone means to hit a person with the butt or barrel of a handgun (pistol), typically in the head or shoulder area. This is usually done in order to knock them unconscious or as a method of torture, sometimes to elicit information and sometimes to punish.
Pistole Pistole is the French name given to a Spanish gold coin in use from 1537; it was a double escudo, the gold unit. The name was also given to the Louis d'Or of Louis XIII of France, and to other European gold coins of about the value of the Spanish coin.
Pistolet-pulemet Pistolet-pulemet (Пистоле́т-пулемёт) means submachine gun in Russian. The name is most often used in relation to a series of weapons made by the Soviet Union which includes PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS-43.
Pistolita Pistolita is an indie rock band from San Diego, California. They have previously toured as an opening act for bands such as Brand New and Saves the Day, and were featured on the Volcom Stage at Warped Tour 2006.
Pistols at Dawn Pistols at Dawn is the second full-length album by English punk rock band, Consumed. It was there first for Golf Records (and was distributed by BYO Records) after having recorded two releases on Fat Wreck Chords, but the band split shortly afterwards.
Piston (optics) In optics, the term piston is simply the mean value of a wavefront or phase profile across the pupil of an optical system. The piston coefficient is typically expressed in wavelengths of light at a particular wavelength.
Pistonless rotary engine A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does, but instead uses one or more rotors, sometimes called rotary pistons. An example of a pistonless rotary engine is the Wankel engine.
Pistons-Celtics rivalry The Pistons-Celtics Rivalry or Celtics-Pistons rivalry refers to the rivalry between two teams in the National Basketball Association's Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics. The rivalry peaked in the late 1980s, featuring players such as Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Isiah Thomas, and Joe Dumars.
Pistyll Rhaeadr Pistyll Rhaeadr is the tallest waterfall in Wales. Located a few miles from the village of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, it is formed by the Afon Disgynfa river passing over a 240-foot (75 m) Silurian cliff-face, after which the river is known as the Afon Rhaeadr.
Pisum Pisum is a genus of the family Fabaceae, native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It contains one to five species, depending on taxonomic interpretation; the International Legume Database (ILDIS) accepts three species, one with two subspecies abyssinicum] (syn.
Pisuquia District Pisuquia is a district of the province of Luya. For his place in the mountains it is very difficult to gain access and it does not take any access as a highway, who wants to enter the District of PisuquĂ­a has the options to be travelling or in horse.
Pit and Pendulum The Pit and Pendulum is a public house situated in Hockley, Nottingham. It is part of the Eerie Pub Company chain, which runs many themed public houses across the country, including locations in London and Edinburgh.
Pit bull Pit Bull is a term used to describe several breeds of dogs with similar physical characteristics. The American Pit Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier commonly fall under the category of "pit bull.
Pit Cave A "Pit Cave", often called a "Pit"; is a type of Cave passage that is vertical instead of horizontal. Pit caves require a special kind of caving technique, called SRT (Single Rope Technique), which involves the use of 11-12mm nylon static rope and Mechanical Descenders / Ascenders.
Pit fired pottery Pit fired pottery is the oldest known method of firing clay-- and the ultimate source of all the modern firing variations used by potters. Unfired pots are nestled together in a pit in the ground and are then covered with burnable materials such as wood shavings, leaves, metal oxides, salts, sawdust and dried manure.
Pit Martin Hubert Jacques "Pit" Martin (Born - December 9, 1943 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional hockey centreman who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks.
Pit of despair The pit of despair, or vertical chamber, was a device used in experiments conducted on rhesus macaque monkeys during the 1970s by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow and his students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blum, Deborah.
Pit stop In motorsport, a pit stop is where a racing vehicle stops in the pits during a race for refuelling, new tires, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, or any combination of the above. The pits usually comprise of a pit lane which runs parallel to the start/finish straight and is connected at each end to the main track, and a row of garages (usually one per team) outside which the work is done.
Pit toilet A pit or compost toilet is a method of collection of human waste, used for composting, controlled decomposition, or waste disposal used most often in areas with no sewer system. Pit toilets are used in rural and wilderness areas as well as in much of the so-called 'developing world'.
Pit-Comb Ware culture The Comb Ceramic Culture or the Pit-Comb Ware culture was a North-East European stone age culture, ca 4200 BC - 2000 BC. The name is derived from the most common decoration on the ceramic finds that look like the imprints of a comb.
Pita Pita (also called pitta (British English) or pita bread, Arabic كماج Kmaj or خبز عربي, Cyrillic пита, Greek πίτα, Hebrew פִּתָּה or פיתה Pitta, Romanian pită, Turkish pide bread) is a round, wheat flatbread made with yeast. Pita being a Greek word meaning flat.
Pita Amor Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (30 May 1918 – 8 May 2000) who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. She was born in Mexico City, the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French, German and Spanish ancestry, a member of the decaying Mexican aristocracy.
Pita Nacuva Pita Kewa Nacuva is a Fijian politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from June to December 2006, when a military coup deposed the government and resulted in the dissolution of Parliament. Previously, he had served in the Cabinet as Minister for Tourism.
Pita Sharples Dr. Pita Russell Sharples CBE (born 20 July 1941), a Māori academic and politician, currently co-leads the Māori Party, he currently is the member for Tamaki Makaurau(Auckland City) in New Zealand's Parliament.
Pitambar Charairongba Pitambar Charairongba (17th century CE - early 18th Century CE) also known as "Eningthou Ningthem Charairongba" was the King of Manipur during the late 17th century. He was one of the first Manipuris to be converted to Hinduism.
Pitampura Pitampura is essentially a residential area planned by the DDA, which forms North-West part of Delhi is a potential commercial and retail centre. The area is encompassed between Outer and Inner Ring Roads, NH1 and Rohtak Road.
Pitar (alien race) The Pitar are an alien race featured in Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth book series. They are an example of concurrent evolution, appearing to be almost perfectly human in form, except for a wider range of hair and eye coloring (going into blue and violet hues), slightly taller and taking on an aspect, to the human mind, of god-like perfection.
Pitassa Pitassa is an as-yet undiscovered frontier city in western Anatolia, mentioned in Bronze Age archives at Hattusa. Its name seems Luwian, and it occasionally formed the border between Hatti and various iterations of Arzawa.
Pitavastatin Pitavastatin (usually as a calcium salt) is a novel member of the medication class of statinsKajinami K, Takekoshi N, Saito Y. Pitavastatin: efficacy and safety profiles of a novel synthetic HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor.
Pitaya The pitaya (also known as pitahaya, dragon fruit, huǒ lóng guǒ (火龍果/火龙果), strawberry pear, nanettikafruit, or thanh long) is the fruit of several cactus species, especially of the genus Hylocereus. Native to Mexico and Central and South America, these vine-like epiphytic cacti are also cultivated in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Malaysia.
Pitcairn Island honey Pitcairn Island honey is the honey production on the British-run Pitcairn Island. In May 1998, the UK Government aid agency, the Department for International Development, funded a programme for Pitcairn Island which included training for Pitcairn's bee keepers and a detailed analysis of the disease status of Pitcairn bees and honey.
Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern : Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands, are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory (formerly British colony), the last remaining in the Pacific.
Pitcairn Islands general election, 2004 An election was held in the Pitcairn Islands, the last remaining British dependency in Oceania, to elect a Mayor, a Council Chairman, and four Councillors to sit on the Island Council. (The six elected members of the Council, including the Mayor and the Council Chairman, both of whom hold membership ex officio, will co-opt a seventh member; the British Governor will appoint two more, and the non-elected Island Secretary will hold office ex-officio).
Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 On 30 September 2004, seven men living on Pitcairn Island (including Steve Christian, the Mayor), went on trial facing 55 charges relating to sexual offences. On 24 October, all but one of the defendants were found guilty on at least some of the charges they faced.
Pitcoudie Pitcoudie is a housing area in North Glenrothes in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland - comprising 396 terraced and semi-detached houses. Traditionally, a pitcoudie was a donkey, mule, or work-horse which ferried coal and slag from the coalmines - spending most of its life underground.
Pite River The Pite River (or Piteälven in Swedish) is a river in northern Sweden, flowing through the Norrbotten County. It is one of the four major rivers in Norrland that have been left untouched by water power plants.
Pite Sami Pite Sami, also known as Arjeplog Sami, is a Sami language spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a dying language that has only about 10 native speakers left and is spoken mainly on the Swedish side of the border along the Pite River in the north of Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur.
Piteado Piteado is an artisanal technique, where pita or ixtle (thread made from the fiber of maguey, Agave Americana) is embroidered onto leather in decorative patterns. The technique is used to make belts, sandals, hair bands, saddles and other leather accessories and goods.
Piteå Court District Piteå Court District, or Piteå tingslag, was a district of Västerbotten in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
PiteĂĄ IF PiteĂĄ IF is a Swedish football club located in PiteĂĄ. The club was formed 24 May 1918 but didn't take up football until 1920 when they united with their local rivaling club IFK PiteĂĄ, which then was dissolved.
PiteĹźti prison The PiteĹźti prison (Romanian: ĂŽnchisoarea PiteĹźti) was a penal facility in PiteĹźti, Romania, best remembered for the brainwashing experiment carried out by Communist authorities in 1949-1952 (also known as Experimentul PiteĹźti - the "PiteĹźti Experiment" or Fenomenul PiteĹźti - the "PiteĹźti Phenomenon"). The latter was designed as an attempt at violently "reeducating" the mostly young political prisoners, male members of banned groupings such as the National Peasants' and National Liberal
Piter De Vries Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is featured in Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J.

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