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Pittsburgh Forge In 2001 Kevin Constantine, a former coach of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins, founded the North American Hockey League's Pittsburgh Forge, a hockey team in the NAHL. The team compiled an 80-24-8 record in the first two seasons.
Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad The Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad operating about 42 miles of track over the Chartiers Branch in southwest Pennsylvania. It is owned by RailTex, who bought the line from Conrail in 1996.
Pittsburgh Left The "Pittsburgh Left" is a colloquial term for a rule of the road that is obeyed almost exclusively in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. It refers to the counter-intuitive practice of giving left-turning vehicles precedence over vehicles going straight through intersections.
Pittsburgh Maulers The Pittsburgh Maulers were a team which competed in the 1984 season of the United States Football League, ceasing operation after the season. Their most prominent player was running back Mike Rozier, former winner of collegiate football's most prestigious individual award, the Heisman Trophy.
Pittsburgh Media Market The Pittsburgh Media Market is part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State region and is a larger extension of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. It is primarily a definition of the reach of the Pittsburgh television and radio media as defined by Neilsen in a prime sense.
Pittsburgh Mills Pittsburgh Mills, or simply The Mills to locals, was conceived and originally developed by the Mills Corporation. On December 30, 2006, it was announced that the Mills Corporation sold its stake in Pittsburgh Mills to its partner in the project, Zamias Services Inc.
Pittsburgh Organizing Group POG (Pittsburgh Organizing Group) is a Pittsburgh based progressive group concerned with peace, autonomy, social justice, economic justice, and environmental issues locally, nationally, and internationally. POG was started by four friends in June of 2002.
Pittsburgh Phantoms The Pittsburgh Phantoms were a soccer team based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that played in the non-FIFA sanctioned National Professional Soccer League. They played at Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates (nicknamed The Bucs and sometimes referred to as The Buccos) are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League.
Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL) The Pittsburgh Pirates were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1925-26 to 1929-30. The nickname comes from the baseball team also based in the city.
Pittsburgh Police The Pittsburgh Police, or officially the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, is the largest law enforcement agency in Western Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1857 but dates back to the night watchmen of the late 1700's in the then borough of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Press The Pittsburgh Press, now defunct, was a major daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was one of many competing city newspapers published prior to the First World War including The Hearst Corporation owned Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and the Block Communications Inc.
Pittsburgh rare A Pittsburgh rare steak is one that has been heated to a very high temperature very quickly, so it is charred on the outside but still rare or raw on the inside. This has the effect of intensifying the meat's flavor by cooking, without destroying the flavor of the uncooked meat.
Pittsburgh Rebels The Pittsburgh Rebels were a professional baseball club in the short-lived Federal League, which was a minor league in 1913 and a full-fledged outlaw major league the next two years. Originally called the Pittsburgh Stogies after an earlier Pittsburgh team, the team changed its name in the middle of the 1914 season when outfielder Rebel Oakes took over as manager.
Pittsburgh Six The Pittsburgh Six was an American automobile manufactured between 1908 and 1910. Billed as "simple, powerful, and efficient", the 70 hp car was powered by a 9147cc side-valve engine; it also featured shaft drive.
Pittsburgh South Side Pittsburgh South Side was an American basketball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was a member of the Central Basketball League and the various incarnations of the Western Pennsylvania Basketball League.
Pittsburgh Steelerettes The Pittsburgh Steelerettes were the first cheerleading squad in the National Football League, serving as the cheerleaders for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1960s. The squad was fired eventually, and the Steelers to this day are among the few NFL teams that do not have cheerleaders.
Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC), in the National Football League (NFL).
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse Electric Company. PSC was founded in 1986 by its two Scientific Directors, Dr.
Pittsburgh Technology Center Pittsburgh Technology Center (PTC) is an office park located in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PTC, on the site of a former Jones and Laughlin steel mill, is a hub of advanced academic and corporate technology research.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, founded in 1794, is a graduate theological institution associated with the Presbyterian Church USA. It is located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and houses one of the largest theological libraries in the nation.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is a newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1992 as an offshoot of the Greensburg Tribune-Review following a press strike at the two previously dominant Pittsburgh dailies.
Pittsburgh Xplosion Pittsburgh Xplosion is team of the Continental Basketball Association founded in 2004 but owning the ABA Franchise license from the now defunct Pittsburgh Hardhats from 2000-2004. The ABA tradition goes back even further in Pittsburgh to the Pipers and Condors of the original ABA of the 1960's and 1970's.
Pittsburgh Young Professionals Pittsburgh Young Professionals (PYP) is a non-profit professional networking organization in Pittsburgh dedicated to providing career-minded individuals with opportunities to develop socially, professionally, and civically. Pittsburgh Young Professionsals is a volunteer-run organization known for its network of young professionals dedicated to supporting their local community, especially through attraction and retention of new talent to Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Pittsburgh Youth Ballet is a nonprofit organization founded and run by former Pittsburgh Ballet Theater ballerina Jean Gedeon, which draws young dancers from across the country to train for careers as ballet dancers. Graduates of the PYB have won positions in the most prestigious schools and companies in the world including the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Kirov Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow.
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium The Pittsburgh Zoo located in Pittsburgh's Highland Park, is one of only six major zoo and aquarium combinations in the country. Sitting on 77 acres of park land, the zoo participates in 64 Species Survival Plans.
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was a major part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, extending the PRR west from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania via Fort Wayne, Indiana to Chicago. It included the current Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary.
Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway The Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, commonly called the Harmony Line, was an interurban streetcar line connecting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States to Butler and New Castle via Harmony and a split at Evans City.
Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Belt System The Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Belt System is a unique system by which Pittsburgh and surrounding neighborhoods are looped by color-coded, streets that also retained their previous names, instead of the number-coded limited-access roads that surround most American cities.
Pittsburghia Pittsburghia is an asteroid that is in orbit around the sun 150 million miles from Earth. It is named in honor of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its scientific and industrial heritage that produced some of the finest astronomy equipment of the day The planet is part of the constellation [[Aquarius (constellation)|Aquarius].
Pittsfield Historic District Pittsfield Historic District is a designated historic district in Pike County, Illinois. The district is bounded by Washington Court, Sycamore, Griggsville and Morrison Streets in the county seat of Pittsfield.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts Pittsfield is the largest city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County.
Pittston Area School District Pittston Area School District (PASD) was created in 1966 by merging Pittston School District, Hughestown School District, Dupont School District, Duryea School District, and Avoca School District. The first superintendent was Martin Mattei.
Pittston, Pennsylvania Pittston (properly pronounced pits-ton) is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It gained prominence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an active coal mining city, drawing a large portion of its labor force from European immigrants.
Pittstown, New Jersey Pittstown is an unincorporated area within portions of Alexandria Township and Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08867.
Pittsworth Shire Council Pittsworth Shire Council is a Local Government Area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. Towns in the shire include Brookstead, Southbrook, Mount Tyson and the administrative centre, Pittsworth.
Pittville Pittville is a northern area of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, founded in the early Nineteenth Century by Joseph Pitt. It contains Pittville park, with its two lakes, skatepark, tennis courts and Pump Room, Pittville School (the largest school in the town), the arts and media campus of the University of Gloucestershire, and some of the finest examples of Regency & Victorian housing in the town.
Pittwater Council Pittwater Council is a Local Government Area on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburbs which comprise the Pittwater LGA were detached from the Warringah local government area in 1993.
Pittwater Road Pittwater Road is an urban Main Road within the Sydney suburbs of North Manly, Brookvale, Dee Why, Collaroy, Collaroy, Narrabeen, North Narrabeen, Warriewood, Mona Vale, Bayview and Church Point. There are about 2200 houses along the road.
Pitu Guli Pitu Guli (Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian: Питу Гули), also called Dimitrios Gouli and Peto the Vlach (1865, Krushevo (present day Republic of Macedonia)—1903, Krushevo) was an ethnic Aromanian (Vlach) revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia, a local leader of, what is commonly referred to, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Pituffik Pituffik (approximately ) was the northernmost hunting village of the Greenlandic Inuit until the United States was given permission to build Thule Air Base in 1951. By 1953, all residents of Pituffik and nearby Dundas had been forced to move 130 km north to the new town of Qaanaaq, commonly known at the time as "New Thule".
Pituophis catenifer affinis The Sonoran Gopher Snake (Pituophis catenifer affinis) is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake found throughout the southwestern United States, from west Texas, across to southern Arizona, and southeast California, and south into the northern states of Mexico.
Pituriaspida The Pituriaspida (" Pituri Shield") are a small group of armored jawless fishes with tremendous nose-like rostrums, which lived in the marine, deltaic environments of Middle Devonian Australia (about 390 Ma). They are known only by two species, Pituriaspis doylei and Neeyambaspis enigmatica found in a single sandstone location of the Georgina Basin, in Western Queensland, Australia.
Pituriaspis doylei Pituriaspis doylei ("Doyle's Pituri Shield") was one of two known species of jawless fish belonging to the Class Pituriaspida, and is the better known of the two. The species lived in estuaries during the Middle Devonian, in what is now the Georgina Basin of Western Queensland, Australia.
Pity Pity is an emotion, usually resulting from an encounter with an unfortunate, injured, or pathetic person or creature. A person experiencing pity will often take mercy on the person/creature, giving them aid or money.
Pity sex Pity sex (also called sympathy sex or, colloquially, a mercy fuck) is a popular term used to describe sexual intercourse that is provided based solely on feelings of pity or sympathy that at least one partner feels for the other. One or all of those involved may lack any feelings of attraction toward the person(s) they have sex with, and there is a high chance that the event will never be repeated (resulting in a one-night stand).
Pitzer College Pitzer College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Claremont, California. Pitzer College is the fifth of seven institutions of higher learning known as The Claremont Colleges and coordinated through the Claremont University Consortium.
Pitzhanger Manor The Pitzhanger Manor Gallery and House comprises Pitzhanger Manor House, a restored Georgian villa once owned and designed by Sir John Soane in Ealing, London, in 1800. It is a Grade I listed building and serves as the London Borough of Ealing's main museum.
PiTaPa is a contactless smart card ticketing and electronic money system used in the Kansai region (and some areas in Okayama Prefecture) of Japan. The name PiTaPa is an acronym of "Postpay IC for Touch and Pay".
PiTiVi PiTiVi is free video editing software. It allows users to easily edit audio/video projects based on the GStreamer framework: Capture audio and video; mix, resize, cut, apply effects to audio/video sources; Render/Save the projects to any format supported by the GStreamer framework.
Piura Region Piura is a coastal region in northwestern Peru. "Piura" is derived from the Quechua word pirhua, whose approximate meaning is "supply base", as the area was used by the Incas as a stop to get provisions during their conquest of the area's original inhabitants.
Pius Keller Pius Keller (September 30 1825, Ballingshausen, Bavaria, Germany – March 15, 1904 Münnerstadt, Germany) was an Augustinian friar, a teacher, and a leader who revitalized The Order of Saint Augustine in Germany.
Pius Ncube Pius Ncube (1946 - ) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, widely known as a human rights advocate and an outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe. He heads a multi-denominational church coalition that seeks to improve the conditions of Zimbabweans.
Piute Range The Piute Range is located mostly in eastern California in the United States, but a small portion lies in Nevada. The mountains lie to the east of Lanfair Valley and southeast of the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, and northeast of the Piute Mountains.
Piveteausaurus Piveteausarus was a megalosaurid dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Europe known largely from a fossilized braincase. The fossil is similar to Allosaurus, but the braincase is larger, and the eye 'crests' are not as pronounced.
Pivot (album) [(2000]) is an album by the [[United States|American experimental pop music group Amoeba. The style of this album is similar to that of Amoeba’s previous album Watchful (1997) except with a somewhat more active and direct approach.
Pivot Entertainment Pivot Entertainment is a creator and publisher of entertainment properties located in Downtown Hollywood, Florida. Pivot's properties include music, film, books and role-playing games, as well as other material.
Pivot gun A pivot gun was a type of cannon mounted on a fixed central emplacement which permitted it to be moved through a wide horizontal arc. They were a common weapon aboard ships and in land fortifications for several centuries but became obsolete after the invention of gun turrets.
Pivot language A pivot language is an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation. Using a pivot language avoids the combinatorial explosion of having translators across every combination of the supported languages.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a simple easy-to-use frame-by-frame stickfigure animator created by Peter Bone in Delphi. Stick figures are moved in the animations by clicking and dragging 'pivot' points connected to certain parts of the figure, then simply clicking a button to move to the next frame and repeat the process.
PivotPoint Technology PivotPoint Technology Corporation is a software and systems engineering services company headquartered in Fallbrook, California. PivotPoint was founded in 2003 by Cris Kobryn, a noted expert in visual modeling languages and model-driven development technologies.
Piwi-interacting RNA Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) is a class of small RNA molecules that forms RNA-protein complexes with Piwi proteins (Piwi is a mammalian subclade of the Argonaute family of proteins). These piRNA complexes (piRCs) have been linked to transcriptional gene silencing.
Piwnice radio observatory Piwnice radio observatory is located at Piwnice, 15 km north of Toruń, Poland (). Since 1981 the observatory has been a part of world wide network of radio telescopes participating in VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry).
Pix firewall Initially advertised as the Private Internet Exchange Firewall, the PIX firewall was originally deployed to solve the then-burgeoning registered IP address shortage in the mid 1990’s. Developed by two of the founders of Palo Alto, CA-based, privately held Network Translation, Inc.
Pixanne Pixanne was a popular children's television program hosted by singer-actress Jane Norman (born about 1935) that ran from 1960 to 1976, primarily on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. The show was syndicated nationally from 1970 to 1976.
Pixar Pixar Animation Studios is American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). It is best known for its CGI animated feature films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles, achieved through its own industry-standard rendering software RenderMan, which is used to generate high-quality, photorealistic images.
Pixel A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is a single point in a graphic image. Each such information element is not really a dot, nor a square, but an abstract sample.
Pixel art Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old (or relatively limited) computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.
Pixel aspect ratio The term pixel aspect ratio, sometimes shortened to aspect ratio, is also used in the context of computer graphics to describe the distribution of pixel in a digitized image. Most digital imaging systems use a square grid of pixels—that is, they sample an image at the same resolution horizontally and vertically.
Pixel crack Pixel crack is a slang term used to refer to brightly-hued artwork in games (especially MMOs). Many times, the items which are given such a hue by developers are created for the sole purpose of collection by players so that they might be displayed as a form of eye-catching prize.
Pixel Chix Pixel Chix are interactive electronic games based on teenage girls, fashion and so forth. They are similar to Tamagotchi in that they have an LCD screen and controlling buttons, although they are slightly larger.
Pixel Pop Pixel Pop is a musical art-form lying along side the Pixel Art movement. It provides an interesting and diverse range of music but due to the retro synthesis used within the music provides a recognisable sound no matter what the style.
Pixel2Life Pixel2Life is one of the largest tutorial indexing websites on the web. In addition to having a huge variety of tutorials to choose from, it also offers other webmaster resources such as top sites, and a message board.
Pixelante Pixelante is a term coined in October 2005 by Miami, Florida-based Attorney Jack Thompson (also known as John B. Thompson) to describe what he believes to be corrupted members of the computer and video game community, driven to harassment, threats, violence, and other illegal activities as a result of games like Grand Theft Auto and Doom III.
Pixelation In computer graphics, pixelation is an effect caused by displaying a bitmap or a section of a bitmap at such a large size that individual pixels, small single-colored square display elements that comprise the bitmap, are visible to the eye.
Pixelh8 Pixelh8 pronounced "pixel hate" started life as a side projects to Matthew Carl Applegate's Hidden Fortress. Pixelh8 is one of many of Matthew's "characters", this one with a specific love/hate towards video games, toys, and educational toys, combining elements of [Circuit Bending], [reverse engineering] & [Chip Tunes].
Pixelito Pixelito is a miniature remote-controlled helicopter prototype developed in Nov 2003 and is the latest addition to the Pixel range of R/C helicopter prototypes developed by Belgian Alexander Van de Royne since 1997. The Pixelito is controlled via a 4-channel infra-red control and weighs a mere 6.
Pixelization Pixelization is a video- and image-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution. A familiar example of pixelization can be found in television news and documentary production, where vehicle license plates and faces of suspects at crime scenes are routinely obscured to maintain the presumption of innocence, and footage showing nude genitalia, buttocks, or breasts is likewise obscured to preserve common decency.
Pixelon Pixelon was a dot-com company founded in 1998 that gained fame for its extravagant launch party and sudden and violent decline less than a year afterwards. It promised better distribution of high-quality video over the internet using technologies that were, in fact, fake or misrepresented.
Pixels per inch Pixels per inch (PPI) or pixel density is a measurement of the resolution of a computer display, related to the size of the display in inches and the total number of pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions. This measurement is often referred to as dots per inch, though that measurement more accurately refers to the resolution of a computer printer.
Pixelsurgeon Pixelsurgeon is an online design and culture magazine featuring news, reviews and interviews. It's a digest of the creative, strange and interesting from the internet with a growing readership and popular following.
PixelShips PixelShips is a horizontal scrolling shooter game developed by Kris Asick for the Windows platform. In it, players start out with one PixelShip (a small toy loosely resembling a fighter plane) and complete a variety of missions, their ultimate task being to collect all 160 known PixelShips and a secret one.
Pixeltan Pixeltan are a Brooklyn based noise rock/electronic band consisting of Mika Yoneta (vocals/keyboard), Devin Flynn (bass/percussion), and Hisham Bharoocha (drums/electronics). They are currently signed to DFA Records and are working on new material and playing shows in New York City.
Pixie Pixies or Piskies as they are known in Cornwall are mythical creatures of English folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as piskies/piskeys or the little people.
Pixie (Dungeons & Dragons) The pixie is a small, winged creature with a knack for pranks and mischief. Pixies are always invisible (unless they choose not to be), and carry special arrows that either make victims fall asleep, or cause them to forget everything they know.
Pixie (porn star) Pixie (born January 28, 1979) is a popular English glamour model and lesbian porn star, though now retired. Born in Essex, she is half Cape Malay, with a look that has often been compared to Victoria Beckham and Björk.
Pixie dust Pixie dust is the trail of sparkling material that often follows mythical creatures such as pixies and fairies in general when they are visually represented. Sometimes, this trail is interpreted as being a tangible substance, often imbued with magic powers.
Pixilation Pixilation (from pixilated) is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet.
Pixinguinha Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho (1898-1973), better known as Pixinguinha, was a choro composer, arranger, flutist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Through the legacy of the pioneering choro composers of the 19th century and of the Afro-Brazilian tradition, Pixinguinha produced the most important choro works of all time.
Pixlet Pixlet is a video codec created by Apple Computer and based on wavelets, designed to enable viewing of full resolution, HD movies in real time at low DV data rates. According to Apple's claims, it allows for a 20-25:1 compression ratio.
Pixley (Green Acres) Pixley was the name of a town located 50 miles from Hooterville in the fictional world of the American 1960s sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Unlike tiny Hooterville, where the only businesses were the general store operated by Sam Drucker and the Shady Rest Hotel, Pixley apparently had a population of several thousand and was the location of the offices of services used by Hooterville residents such as the telephone company, and the site of radio and television stations (WPIXL).
Pixo Mobile Download Server The Pixo Mobile Download Server was a server software package designed to manage cell phone clients' downloads of ringtones and applications from a cell phone carrier service. It recorded billing and customer data.
Pixodarus of Caria Pixodarus (in Greek Πιξώδαρoς; ruled 340–335 BC), a prince or king of Caria, was the youngest of the three sons of Hecatomnus, all of whom successively held the sovereignty of their native country. Pixodarus obtained possession of the throne by the expulsion of his sister Ada, the widow and successor of her brother Idrieus, and held it without opposition for a period of five years, 340–335 BC.
Pixote Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (in English: Pixote: The Law of the Weakest), is a Brazilian drama film directed and written by Hector Babenco, released in 1981. It is the chilling, documentary-like account of Brazil's deliquent youth and how they are used by corrupt police and other crime organizations to commit crimes.
Pixueto Pixueto (Pixuetu) is a dialect of the Asturian language (a romance language), spoken almost exclusively in Cudillero, Spain. Every June 28 a long poem written in Pixueto (l'Amuravela), explaining the events of the previous year, is read to the St Peter´s figure during the village's main festivities.
Pixy Misa is a fictional character in the anime Pretty Sammy (also known as Magical Project S), a spinoff of Tenchi Muyo!. An evil magical girl, she is the rival and dramatic foil of the series' protagonist, magical girl Pretty Sammy.
Piya The Piya (; "Increased [Er]ya") was a Chinese dictionary compiled by Song Dynasty scholar Lu Dian (陸佃/陆佃, 1042-1102 CE). He wrote this Erya supplement along with his Erya Xinyi (爾雅新義 "New Exegesis of the Erya") commentary.
Piya Ka Ghar Piya Ka Ghar ("(My) Beloved's House," 1972) is a Bollywood comedy set (mainly) in Mumbai in the 1970s. It portrays the difficulties of life in India's biggest city in the form of a comic family drama.
Piyale Pasha Piyale Pasha (circa 1515-1578), also known as Piale Pasha in the West or Pialí Bajá in Spain; Turkish: Piyale Paşa), was an Ottoman-Turkish admiral between 1553 and 1567 and a high ranking Ottoman Vizier after 1568.
Piyama-Kurunta Piyama-Kurunta was a prince and regent for the last independent king of Arzawa, a Bronze Age kingdom of western Anatolia. The king of Arzawa Uhha-Ziti named his son "Gift of the god Kurunta", after a god (or hero) whose name had featured in the names of previous Arzawan kings.
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