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Piyama-Radu Piyama-Radu (also spelled Piyamaradu, Piyama Radu, Piyamaradus, Piyamaraduš) was a warlike aristocratic personage whose name figures prominently in the Hittite archives of the middle and late 13th century BC in western Anatolia. His history is of particular interest because it appears to intertwine with that of the Trojan War.
Piyashshili Piyashshili (died ca. 1315) was a Hittite prince, and a middle son of King Suppiluliuma I; younger than the heir Arnuwanda II, but older than the eventual successor Mursili II and probably older than the doomed Zannanza too.
Piyaz Piyaz is a kind of Turkish salad or Meze that is made from any kind of dry beans with hard-boiled egg and vegetables. In Antalya region of Turkey it is prepared differently from other regions with other ingredients like sesame oil.
Piyush Chawla Piyush Chawla (born 24 December 1988, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. He first played for India U-19 against the England U-19 team in 2004-05, claiming 13 wickets from two Under-19 Tests at a bowling average of just above 12.
Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra, actor, lyricist, playwright is an accomplished theatre personality and is a product of the National School of Drama, New Delhi. He started his career as a theatre actor and directed plays as part of his theatre group called Act One.
Piyyut A piyyut (plural piyyutim, Hebrew פיו×, and [pijutĂm]) is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, chanted, or recited during religious services. Piyyutim have been written since Mishnaic times.
Piz Gloria Piz Gloria is the name of the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn near MĂĽrren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The aerial tramway station and the restaurant were built by a Bernese architect, Konrad Wolf.
Pizitz Pizitz was a major regional department store chain in Alabama, with its flagship store in downtown Birmingham. At its peak it operated 12 other stores, mostly in the Birmingham area with several locations in Huntsville and other Alabama cities.
Pizmonim Pizmonim (Hebrew ×¤×–×ž×•× ×™×ť, singular pizmon) are traditional Jewish songs and melodies with the intentions of praising God as well as learning certain aspects of traditional religious teachings. They are sung throughout religious rituals and festivities such as prayers, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs, weddings and other ceremonies.
Pizon Pizon (Michael Scala) is an Italian-American rapper and producer from New York City. He is the son of the late actor Michael Scala (aka Mikey "Shades" Scala), who played Sally Gaga in Martin Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking At My Door?
Pizote The Pizote (Nasua narica), also known as the White-nosed Coati or Antoon, is a member of the raccoon family. It has a long shovel-shaped snout that extends beyond its lower jaw, and a 20-to-25-inch-long erect tail with six or seven light bands on it.
Pizza (film) Pizza is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by Mark Christopher It was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 27, 2005 and had a limited release on January 20, 2006. The region 1 DVD was released on October 24, 2006.
Pizza (TV series) Pizza is an Australian comedy television series on the Australian television network, SBS. It has also spun off a feature length movie (Fat Pizza) in 2003, and in 2004 released a highlights video/DVD which also included previously unshown footage and a schoolies exposé theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza" starring several characters from the show also tours the eastern coast of Australia.
Pizza 73 Pizza 73 is a delivery and take-out chain serving pizza and chicken wings. Founded in 1985 by its current President Guy Goodwin, Pizza 73 is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and operates regionally (focused on Western Canada, mainly Alberta), with 46 locations in 14 cities.
Pizza delivery Pizza delivery is the service of delivering a pizza to a customer. A number of variables that factor into the efficiency of pizza delivery include map knowledge, driving skills, route planning, the quality of the vehicle, and customer management on the part of the delivery-person.
Pizza Hut Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Addison, Texas USA (a northern suburb of Dallas, specializing in American-style pizza along with side dishes including buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant chain and is part of the YUM!
Pizza Hut Park Pizza Hut Park is a multi-purpose facility, featuring a 21,193 seat stadium, built and owned by the northern Dallas suburb of Frisco in Collin County, Texas. Its primary tenant is Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, which relocated from the Cotton Bowl in central Dallas to the fast-growing suburb.
Pizza cheese Pizza cheese is a specific cheese designed to melt well on pizza while remaining chewy. It is commonly used on commercially produced pizzas in the United States of America, where it is often mistaken for Mozzarella.
Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza is a Canadian franchise chain of pizza restaurants mainly located in the province of Ontario. It has over 300 locations across the province, including well over one hundred locations in the Greater Toronto Area alone, and claims to be Ontario's number-one pizza chain.
Pizza stone A pizza stone is a flat stone or piece of ceramic or earthenware used to evenly distribute oven heat to pizzas or other baked goods. The thermal mass and porous nature of the stone used also helps absorb moisture, resulting in a crisp crust.
Pizza Tycoon Pizza Tycoon is an economical simulator computer game designed by the German company Software 2000 and published by Microprose abroad. The game is centered around being the manager of a pizza-serving restaurant in a town in Europe or the USA.
Pizzelle A pizzelle (pronounced with tz sound, like "pizza") is a traditional Italian waffle cookie made from flour, eggs, sugar, butter or vegetable oil, and flavoring (often vanilla, anise, or lemon zest). Pizzelles can be hard and crisp or soft and chewy depending on the ingredients and method of preparation.
Pizzeria Napoli (Baghdad) The Pizzeria Napoli is a pizza restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq. The owner Waleed Mamoud previously lived in Italy and along with his brother, set up the restaurant on Saturday, June 27, 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Pizzetti (crater) Pizzetti is a partly-eroded lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is located due north of the similar-dimensioned Clark crater, and to the southeast of the large Milne walled plain.
Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five (often known simply by the initials P5) is a Japanese pop group best known to audiences in the West in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya (野宮真貴) and Yasuharu Konishi (小西康陽). The group, widely credited (along with Flipper's Guitar) with spearheading the shibuya-kei movement of Tokyo in the 1990s, is known for eclectic and energetic compositions that often sound like "new" releases from the late 1960s hipster scene. The catchphrase "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular" captured the group's ironic stance and eager attitude. The group broke up in March 2001.
Pizzigano map The Pizzigano map is one if the cartographs used by historian Gavin Menzies to advance his thesis that China discovered the Americas before Columbus in the book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World. It was supposedly drafted in 1424 and contains strange islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Pizzino Note: the information below is a summary of a single source, two April 2006 articles by Discovery Channel News, which in turn source the Italian daily La Stampa and an Italian biography. Link is provided below.
Pizzitola Sports Center The Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center is a 2,800-seat multi-purpose athletic center in Providence, Rhode Island and was built in 1989. It is home to the Brown University Bears men's and women's basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling & squash teams.
PIA Flight 688 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 (PK688, PIA688) was scheduled to operate from Multan to Lahore and Islamabad at 12:05 pm on July 10 2006. It crashed into a field after bursting into flames a few minutes after takeoff from Multan International Airport.
PIA Flight 740 Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK740 was a Boeing 707-340C that crashed after takeoff from Jeddah International Airport on November 26, 1979. Flight PK740 departed Jeddah at 01:29 for a flight to Karachi.
PIABA The Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) is an organization of attorneys who represent customers of securities brokerage firms in arbitration before panels of the NASD or NYSE, and other arbitration forums such as the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
PIAT The PIAT, for Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, was one of the earlier anti-tank weapons based on a HEAT (high-explosive anti-tank) projectile. It was developed by the British starting in 1941, reaching the field in time for the invasion of Sicily in 1943.
PICASSO (dark matter) The PICASSO (Project in CAnada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects) experiment is a direct dark matter search experiment that is located at SNOLAB in Canada. It is an international collaboration with members from the Université de Montréal, Queen's University, Indiana University South Bend and Czech Technical University in Prague and BTI, Chalk River, Ontario.
PICAXE PICAXE is the name of a UK-sourced microcontroller system based on the PIC chip. It was initially intended for education and electronics hobbyists, but has gained use in serious technical fields, especially for rapid prototype development.
PICISOC The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) serves the Internet Society’s purposes by serving the interests of the global Internet community through its presence in the Pacific Islands. In addition to ISOC interests, PICISOC also focuses on local issues and developments, and acts as an impartial advisor to governments and the public on matters of significant interest to Pacific Island people concerning the Internet and ICT technology in general.
PICMG The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is a consortium of over 450 companies that collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing and using leading edge products for these industries.
PICT PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of the Quickdraw Manager.
PIGUI A PIGUI (Platform Independent Graphical User Interface) package is a software library that a programmer uses to produce GUI code for multiple computer platforms. The package presents subroutines and/or objects (along with a programming approach) which are independent of the GUI that the programmer is targeting.
PILOT (finance) A PILOT is a payment in lieu of taxes (also sometimes abbreviated "PILT"), made to compensate a local government for some or all of the tax revenue that it loses because of the nature of the ownership or use of a particular piece of real property. Usually it relates to the foregone property tax revenue.
PILSARC The Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre (PILSARC) is a non-profit legal back-up centre based in New Delhi. It provides coordinated institutional support and solutions in the various fields of human rights, civil liberties, governance and social justice.
PIM Sparse Mode Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM) is a protocol for efficiently routing to multicast groups that may span wide-area (and inter-domain) internets. This protocol is named protocol independent because it is not dependent on any particular unicast routing protocol for topology discovery, and sparse-mode because it is suitable for groups where a very low percentage of the nodes (and their routers) will subscribe to the multicast session.
PIMBY PIMBY (an initialism for Please In My Back Yard) is an acronym for the phenomenon in which residents approve a development as being appropriate for their local area. This movement is born in contrast and opposition to the NIMBY phenomenon.
PIME PIME ( from the Latin Pontificium Institutum pro Missionibus Exteris) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.
PIPC Global Project Solutions PIPC is a global project solutions and program management company. Formed in 1992 by an entrepreneurial group of practitioners, PIPC has supported the delivery of some of the largest and most complex business projects and programs in corporate history.
PISP Fellowship The Program on International Security Policy (PISP) Fellowship is an undergraduate fellowship established in the University of Chicago by the Program on International Security Policy. Its main focus is on theories of international relation and is heavily rooted in the ideas of realism.
PIT maneuver The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it.
PITI In relation to a mortgage, PITI is an acronym for a mortgage payment that is the aggregate of monthly Principle Interest Taxes and Insurance. Lending institutions often use a (monthly) multiple of the PITI payment amount as the minimum amount of seasoned assets a borrower must document or 'state' when qualifying for a mortgage.
PIX (Microsoft) PIX (originally short for Performance Investigator for Xbox) is a performance analysis tool from Microsoft that can help software developers maximize the efficiency of Direct3D applications. Originally for the Xbox video game console, Microsoft has released it for the Windows platform as part of XNA to aid game developers.
PIX Scotty Server PIX Scotty is a server for both Counter-Strike and Counter Strike: Condition Zero. It uses a mod which allows players to enter commands such as "scotty lock 1 onto my coordinates" and "scotty energize 1" and cause players to be "beamed" to their locked locations.
PIXE PIXE (Particle-Induced X-ray Emission or Proton Induced X-ray Emission) is a technique used in the determining of the elemental make-up of a material or sample. When a material is exposed to an ion beam, atomic interactions occur that give off EM radiation of wavelengths in the x-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum specific to an element.
PjBmp2Avi PjBmp2Avi is a computer program designed by Paul RobertsPaul Cador Roberts, Cambridge graduate and Microsoft employee, not the lead singer of The Stranglers. for converting bitmap still images to AVI animations.
PJ Harvey Polly Jean Harvey (born October 9 1969) is an English singer and songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey, but she began her career as part of a trio (with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan) also named PJ Harvey.
PJ Ladd PJ Ladd (January 11, 1983-) is a professional skateboarder who currently rides for Plan B, ES Footwear, Venture, Hubba, and 4 Star. He was known in the local Boston underground skateboarding scene before headlining Coliseum Skateshop's critically acclaimed video, "PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life.
PJ Marsh PJ Marsh (born Peter-John Marsh, February 19, 1980 in Calliope, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian rugby league player for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League competition and for Queensland in State of Origin. He began his NRL career at Parramatta and played for the Eels from 2000 to 2001 before returning to Parramatta in 2005 following a two year stint with the New Zealand Warriors (2002-2003).
PJ Morris PJ Morris (full name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Leicestershire at Coalville (one of only two first-class games played there) in 1914. He made 71 in the second innings, but Worcestershire still fell to an innings defeat.
PJ Powers Penelope Jane Dunlop also known as PJ Powers or Thandeka (16 July 1960 - ) has enjoyed a highly successful musical career in South Africa spanning more than 15 years, during which time she has been one of the few white entertainers who has crossed cultural barriers and been loved by both black and white audiences alike. P.
PJ Stars PJ Stars, full name Promise Jessica Stars Football Club, are a football (soccer) based in Dobsonville, Soweto playing in South Africa's Mvela Golden League. Former owner Mike Marabe named the club after his two daughters, Promise and Jessica.
PJ Trailers PJ Trailers is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of trailers. Founded in 1991, the company started as a true 'Mom & Pop' operation and has grown to become one of the top trailer manufacturers in North America.
PJ's Coffee of New Orleans PJ’s Coffee is part of the Raving Brands! family of franchises, which includes Moe's Southwest Grill, Mama Fu’s Asian House, Doc Green's Gourmet Salads, Shane's Rib Shack, Monkey Joe's, Boneheads Grilled Seafood & Piri Piri Chicken, and Planet Smoothie.
Pkg-config pkg-config is a piece of computer software that provides a unified interface for querying installed libraries for the purpose of compiling software from its source code. pkg-config was originally designed for Linux but is now also available for Microsoft Windows platforms.
Pkill pkill is a command line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating systems and the ported to GNU/Linux. It sends a signal, like kill, to all the named process, that can be specified as ERE patterns; the signal specified on the command line (SIGTERM by default).
PK Tech Girl "PK Tech Girl" is an episode of the television program Farscape from the first season, written by Nan Hagan and directed by Tony Tilse. It was the seventh episode produced, but was the sixth to air in the show's premiere season.
PK-AFV PK-AFV, previously PH-ALP, and also known as Pelikaan, was a Douglas DC-3 (Dakota) airliner operated by KLM from 1937 to 1942. On March 3, 1942, while on a flight from Bandung, Netherlands East Indies, to Broome, Australia, the plane was attacked by Japanese fighter planes; crash-landed near Broome.
PKC (conference) PKC or Public-Key Cryptography is the short name of the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, a cryptography conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
PKN Orlen PKN Orlen () is a major European oil refinerer, and petrol retailer. The company as of June 2006 is Poland's and Central Europe's largest publicly traded firm with major operations in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and the Baltic States.
PKN3 PKN3 is a protein kinase C-related molecule and thought to be an effector mediating malignant cell growth downstream of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K). It is thought that chronic activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/PTEN signal transduction pathway contributes to metastatic cell growth and that PKN3 may mediate that growth.
PKNA PKNA - Paperinik New Adventures is a Disney comic, published in Italy from 14 March 1996 to 20 December 2000, about the new adventures of Paperinik, the superhero created in 1969 by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi, which served as Donald Duck's secret identity.
PKNA Arcs The storyline in PKNA was developed in a very random way. This was due to PKNA being the first serialization experiment for Disney, which may explain the continuity-errors occurring at times, especially in the last issues.
PKP class Ok22 Ok22 is the name for a Polish passenger steam locomotive used by PKP. Soon after World War I, a locomotive industry did not exist in Poland at all, so it is obvious that the first constructions were based on tested German machines - in this case P8 (Polish PKP class Ok1)
PKP Group PKP Group (pl: Grupa PKP) is a Polish conglomerate founded in 2001 from the former single national rail operator, Polskie Koleje Państwowe. The purpose of this change was to match European Union directives of dividing transport service from rail system management and founding separate companies able to sell their service outside the rail business.
PKP LHS PKP LHS is a company of PKP Group responsible for freight transport on wide gauge (1520 mm) line. The line runs for 400 km from Polish-Ukrainian border in Izow-Hrubieszów to Sławków Południowy (near Katowice).
PKP Open Archives Harvester The PKP Open Archives Harvester is software used to accumulate and index freely available metadata, providing a searchable, web-based interface. It is open source, released under the GNU General Public License.
PKWN Manifesto The Manifesto of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) known as July or PKWN Manifesto () was a political programme of the communist-led and Soviet-backed authorities of Poland created in 1944 in opposition to the Polish government in exile.
Plaçage Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in which predominantly wealthy and white Creole men in Louisiana entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages (mariages de le main gauche or left-handed marriages as the free people of color called them) with women of African, Indian and White Creole descent. These women became known as placées (from the French word placer which means to place with) or as some came to call themselves, quarterrones.
Plac Konstytucji (Warsaw Metro) Plac Konstytucji (en:Constitution Square) is a Warsaw Metro station, which has been ommited while building the first line in 1989. It will be built in Śródmieście, under the Marszałkowska street, near the crossroad with Hoża street.
Plac Wilsona Plac Wilsona (Polish for Wilson Square) is the main square of Warsaw's borough of Żoliborz. It is also one of the main transportation hubs of the city, with several bus and tramway stops located there (opened to the public on June 1, 1934).
Plac Zamkowy Plac Zamkowy (English Castle Square) is the square in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The square is a visitor's first view of the reconstructed Old Town (Polish Stare Miasto), when coming from the more modern center of Warsaw.
Place Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location.
Place Bell Place Bell is one of the tallest buildings in Ottawa, Canada (the fifth tallest in the downtown area). The 27 storey building stands on Elgin Street in the city's downtown, and is distinguishable by the wide nature (the building is unusually large in dimensions considering its height, presumably to avoid having a 50+ storey building greatly overshadow the Peace Tower).
Place Bonaventure Place Bonaventure is a retail and office complex in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, adjacent to Central Station (Gare Centrale). It houses the headquarters of the Société de transport de Montréal and hosts many wholesalers from Montreal's fashion industry.
Place Branding Place branding is the application of classic marketing practices and models to locations (countries, states, cities, regions) for the purpose of building economic value. Similar to consumer products, place brands are a promise of performance.
Place cell Place cells are principal neurons in the hippocampus that fire strongly whenever an animal is in a specific location in an environment - the cell's "place field". These neurons are distinct from other neurons with spatial firing properties, such as grid cells, head direction cells, and spatial view cells.
Place d'Orleans Place d'Orléans is a large shopping mall in the eastern end of Ottawa, Ontario, in the community of Orléans. The property is about 756,300 square feet (70,262 m²)It currently holds three large department stores (Sportchek], [[Zellers and The Bay) and about 175 small shops, including a food court.
Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville The Place de Grève was, before 1803, the name of the plaza now the City Hall Plaza (place de l'Hôtel de Ville]) in [[Paris, France. Its name is derived from the French word "grève" meaning a flat terrain covered with gravel or sand situated on the shores of the sea or on the banks of a watercourse.
Place de la Bastille The Place de la Bastille () is a square in Paris], where the [[Bastille prison stood until it was stormed and subsequently torn down between July 14, 1789 and July 14, 1790 during the French Revolution; no vestige of it remains.
Place de la Comédie The Place de la Comédie is the main focus point of the city of Montpellier, in the Hérault département in France. It is located at the south-west point of the city centre, at , where in previous times the fortifications of the city were located.
Place de la Concorde (painting) Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde is an 1875 oil by Edgar Degas. It depicts the cigar smoking Vicomte Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters, and his dog, and a solitary man on the left in Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Place des Martyrs Place des Martyrs (or el Bourj, (); English: Martyr's Square) is the heart of the downtown district of Beirut, Lebanon (see Beirut Central District). Its central statue commemorates six Lebanese nationalists who were hanged during World War I by the Ottomans.
Place des Victoires The Place des Victoires is a monument in honor of King Louis XIV in the heart of Paris, celebrating the peace of Nimègue in 1681. A loyal courtesan, the Viscount of Aubusson, demolished the old private mansions around the area and, in 1685, gave architect Jule-Hardouin Mansart a superb area to accommodate the majestic statue of the triumphant king.
Place du Tertre The Place du Tertre, is a square in Paris' XVIIIe arrondissement. Only a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is the heart of the city's elevated Montmartre quarter.
Place De La Concorde (concert) Place De La Concorde was Jean-Michel Jarre's first concert, held on 14th July of 1979, celebrating the Bastille Day. 1 million spectators attended this concert, setting up a new record for Jean-Michel to the Guinness Book of Records.
Place Denfert-Rochereau Place Denfert-Rochereau, previously known as Place d'Enfer, is located in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France, in the Montparnasse area and is situated at the intersection of boulevards Raspail, Arago and Saint-Jacques, and avenues René Coty, Général Leclerc, Denfert-Rochereau and rue Froidevaux. Its coordinates are .
Place Jacques-Cartier Place Jacques-Cartier is, perhaps, the central street of Montreal's Vieux Port (Old Port). The street is named for Jacques Cartier, a French explorer popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of Canada.
Place Montreal Trust Place Montréal Trust is a large shopping mall in downtown Montreal just next door to the Eaton Centre. With over 320,000 square feet (29,729 m²) of stores and services, Place Montreal Trust attracts 14 million visitors each year.
Place names in Irish Many place names in Ireland in the English language are either anglicisations of those in the Irish language, or completely different, such as the name for the capital of the Republic of Ireland, which in English is Dublin, but in Irish is Baile Ătha Cliath. The former means black hole/pool (anglicised from dubh and linn) and the latter means town of the hurdle ford.
Place names in Zimbabwe Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) began renaming cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate symbols of British colonialism and white minority rule, starting in 1982, on the second anniversary of independence. The capital Salisbury, which had been named after the British Prime Minister, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was renamed Harare, after the Shona chief Neharawa.
Place names with English meanings All place names have meanings, though often they are not immediately obvious, and occasionally they are now completely lost to us. Place-name etymology is a serious and complex branch of linguistics which researches this.
Place of articulation In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active (moving) articulator (typically some part of the tongue) and a passive (stationary) articulator (typically some part of the roof of the mouth). Along with the manner of articulation and phonation, this gives the consonant its distinctive sound.
Place of the Relevant Intermediary Approach The Place of the Relevant Intermediary Approach, or PRIMA, is a conflict of laws rule applied to the proprietary aspects of security transactions, especially collateral transactions. It is an alternative approach to the historically important look-through approach, and was a in its earliest form the basis for the initial draft of the Hague Securities Convention.
Place of worship A place of worship or house of worship is a building or other location where a group of people (a congregation) comes to perform acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion. The form and function of religious architecture has evolved over thousands of years of both changing beliefs and architectural style.
Piyashshili Piyashshili (died ca. 1315) was a Hittite prince, and a middle son of King Suppiluliuma I; younger than the heir Arnuwanda II, but older than the eventual successor Mursili II and probably older than the doomed Zannanza too.
Piyaz Piyaz is a kind of Turkish salad or Meze that is made from any kind of dry beans with hard-boiled egg and vegetables. In Antalya region of Turkey it is prepared differently from other regions with other ingredients like sesame oil.
Piyush Chawla Piyush Chawla (born 24 December 1988, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. He first played for India U-19 against the England U-19 team in 2004-05, claiming 13 wickets from two Under-19 Tests at a bowling average of just above 12.
Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra, actor, lyricist, playwright is an accomplished theatre personality and is a product of the National School of Drama, New Delhi. He started his career as a theatre actor and directed plays as part of his theatre group called Act One.
Piyyut A piyyut (plural piyyutim, Hebrew פיו×, and [pijutĂm]) is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, chanted, or recited during religious services. Piyyutim have been written since Mishnaic times.
Piz Gloria Piz Gloria is the name of the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn near MĂĽrren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The aerial tramway station and the restaurant were built by a Bernese architect, Konrad Wolf.
Pizitz Pizitz was a major regional department store chain in Alabama, with its flagship store in downtown Birmingham. At its peak it operated 12 other stores, mostly in the Birmingham area with several locations in Huntsville and other Alabama cities.
Pizmonim Pizmonim (Hebrew ×¤×–×ž×•× ×™×ť, singular pizmon) are traditional Jewish songs and melodies with the intentions of praising God as well as learning certain aspects of traditional religious teachings. They are sung throughout religious rituals and festivities such as prayers, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs, weddings and other ceremonies.
Pizon Pizon (Michael Scala) is an Italian-American rapper and producer from New York City. He is the son of the late actor Michael Scala (aka Mikey "Shades" Scala), who played Sally Gaga in Martin Scorsese's first feature film Who's That Knocking At My Door?
Pizote The Pizote (Nasua narica), also known as the White-nosed Coati or Antoon, is a member of the raccoon family. It has a long shovel-shaped snout that extends beyond its lower jaw, and a 20-to-25-inch-long erect tail with six or seven light bands on it.
Pizza (film) Pizza is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by Mark Christopher It was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 27, 2005 and had a limited release on January 20, 2006. The region 1 DVD was released on October 24, 2006.
Pizza (TV series) Pizza is an Australian comedy television series on the Australian television network, SBS. It has also spun off a feature length movie (Fat Pizza) in 2003, and in 2004 released a highlights video/DVD which also included previously unshown footage and a schoolies exposé theatre show entitled "Fat Pizza" starring several characters from the show also tours the eastern coast of Australia.
Pizza 73 Pizza 73 is a delivery and take-out chain serving pizza and chicken wings. Founded in 1985 by its current President Guy Goodwin, Pizza 73 is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and operates regionally (focused on Western Canada, mainly Alberta), with 46 locations in 14 cities.
Pizza delivery Pizza delivery is the service of delivering a pizza to a customer. A number of variables that factor into the efficiency of pizza delivery include map knowledge, driving skills, route planning, the quality of the vehicle, and customer management on the part of the delivery-person.
Pizza Hut Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Addison, Texas USA (a northern suburb of Dallas, specializing in American-style pizza along with side dishes including buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant chain and is part of the YUM!
Pizza Hut Park Pizza Hut Park is a multi-purpose facility, featuring a 21,193 seat stadium, built and owned by the northern Dallas suburb of Frisco in Collin County, Texas. Its primary tenant is Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, which relocated from the Cotton Bowl in central Dallas to the fast-growing suburb.
Pizza cheese Pizza cheese is a specific cheese designed to melt well on pizza while remaining chewy. It is commonly used on commercially produced pizzas in the United States of America, where it is often mistaken for Mozzarella.
Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza is a Canadian franchise chain of pizza restaurants mainly located in the province of Ontario. It has over 300 locations across the province, including well over one hundred locations in the Greater Toronto Area alone, and claims to be Ontario's number-one pizza chain.
Pizza stone A pizza stone is a flat stone or piece of ceramic or earthenware used to evenly distribute oven heat to pizzas or other baked goods. The thermal mass and porous nature of the stone used also helps absorb moisture, resulting in a crisp crust.
Pizza Tycoon Pizza Tycoon is an economical simulator computer game designed by the German company Software 2000 and published by Microprose abroad. The game is centered around being the manager of a pizza-serving restaurant in a town in Europe or the USA.
Pizzelle A pizzelle (pronounced with tz sound, like "pizza") is a traditional Italian waffle cookie made from flour, eggs, sugar, butter or vegetable oil, and flavoring (often vanilla, anise, or lemon zest). Pizzelles can be hard and crisp or soft and chewy depending on the ingredients and method of preparation.
Pizzeria Napoli (Baghdad) The Pizzeria Napoli is a pizza restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq. The owner Waleed Mamoud previously lived in Italy and along with his brother, set up the restaurant on Saturday, June 27, 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Pizzetti (crater) Pizzetti is a partly-eroded lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It is located due north of the similar-dimensioned Clark crater, and to the southeast of the large Milne walled plain.
Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five (often known simply by the initials P5) is a Japanese pop group best known to audiences in the West in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya (野宮真貴) and Yasuharu Konishi (小西康陽). The group, widely credited (along with Flipper's Guitar) with spearheading the shibuya-kei movement of Tokyo in the 1990s, is known for eclectic and energetic compositions that often sound like "new" releases from the late 1960s hipster scene. The catchphrase "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular" captured the group's ironic stance and eager attitude. The group broke up in March 2001.
Pizzigano map The Pizzigano map is one if the cartographs used by historian Gavin Menzies to advance his thesis that China discovered the Americas before Columbus in the book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World. It was supposedly drafted in 1424 and contains strange islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
Pizzino Note: the information below is a summary of a single source, two April 2006 articles by Discovery Channel News, which in turn source the Italian daily La Stampa and an Italian biography. Link is provided below.
Pizzitola Sports Center The Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center is a 2,800-seat multi-purpose athletic center in Providence, Rhode Island and was built in 1989. It is home to the Brown University Bears men's and women's basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling & squash teams.
PIA Flight 688 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 (PK688, PIA688) was scheduled to operate from Multan to Lahore and Islamabad at 12:05 pm on July 10 2006. It crashed into a field after bursting into flames a few minutes after takeoff from Multan International Airport.
PIA Flight 740 Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK740 was a Boeing 707-340C that crashed after takeoff from Jeddah International Airport on November 26, 1979. Flight PK740 departed Jeddah at 01:29 for a flight to Karachi.
PIABA The Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) is an organization of attorneys who represent customers of securities brokerage firms in arbitration before panels of the NASD or NYSE, and other arbitration forums such as the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
PIAT The PIAT, for Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, was one of the earlier anti-tank weapons based on a HEAT (high-explosive anti-tank) projectile. It was developed by the British starting in 1941, reaching the field in time for the invasion of Sicily in 1943.
PICASSO (dark matter) The PICASSO (Project in CAnada to Search for Supersymmetric Objects) experiment is a direct dark matter search experiment that is located at SNOLAB in Canada. It is an international collaboration with members from the Université de Montréal, Queen's University, Indiana University South Bend and Czech Technical University in Prague and BTI, Chalk River, Ontario.
PICAXE PICAXE is the name of a UK-sourced microcontroller system based on the PIC chip. It was initially intended for education and electronics hobbyists, but has gained use in serious technical fields, especially for rapid prototype development.
PICISOC The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) serves the Internet Society’s purposes by serving the interests of the global Internet community through its presence in the Pacific Islands. In addition to ISOC interests, PICISOC also focuses on local issues and developments, and acts as an impartial advisor to governments and the public on matters of significant interest to Pacific Island people concerning the Internet and ICT technology in general.
PICMG The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is a consortium of over 450 companies that collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing and using leading edge products for these industries.
PICT PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of the Quickdraw Manager.
PIGUI A PIGUI (Platform Independent Graphical User Interface) package is a software library that a programmer uses to produce GUI code for multiple computer platforms. The package presents subroutines and/or objects (along with a programming approach) which are independent of the GUI that the programmer is targeting.
PILOT (finance) A PILOT is a payment in lieu of taxes (also sometimes abbreviated "PILT"), made to compensate a local government for some or all of the tax revenue that it loses because of the nature of the ownership or use of a particular piece of real property. Usually it relates to the foregone property tax revenue.
PILSARC The Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre (PILSARC) is a non-profit legal back-up centre based in New Delhi. It provides coordinated institutional support and solutions in the various fields of human rights, civil liberties, governance and social justice.
PIM Sparse Mode Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM) is a protocol for efficiently routing to multicast groups that may span wide-area (and inter-domain) internets. This protocol is named protocol independent because it is not dependent on any particular unicast routing protocol for topology discovery, and sparse-mode because it is suitable for groups where a very low percentage of the nodes (and their routers) will subscribe to the multicast session.
PIMBY PIMBY (an initialism for Please In My Back Yard) is an acronym for the phenomenon in which residents approve a development as being appropriate for their local area. This movement is born in contrast and opposition to the NIMBY phenomenon.
PIME PIME ( from the Latin Pontificium Institutum pro Missionibus Exteris) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.
PIPC Global Project Solutions PIPC is a global project solutions and program management company. Formed in 1992 by an entrepreneurial group of practitioners, PIPC has supported the delivery of some of the largest and most complex business projects and programs in corporate history.
PISP Fellowship The Program on International Security Policy (PISP) Fellowship is an undergraduate fellowship established in the University of Chicago by the Program on International Security Policy. Its main focus is on theories of international relation and is heavily rooted in the ideas of realism.
PIT maneuver The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it.
PITI In relation to a mortgage, PITI is an acronym for a mortgage payment that is the aggregate of monthly Principle Interest Taxes and Insurance. Lending institutions often use a (monthly) multiple of the PITI payment amount as the minimum amount of seasoned assets a borrower must document or 'state' when qualifying for a mortgage.
PIX (Microsoft) PIX (originally short for Performance Investigator for Xbox) is a performance analysis tool from Microsoft that can help software developers maximize the efficiency of Direct3D applications. Originally for the Xbox video game console, Microsoft has released it for the Windows platform as part of XNA to aid game developers.
PIX Scotty Server PIX Scotty is a server for both Counter-Strike and Counter Strike: Condition Zero. It uses a mod which allows players to enter commands such as "scotty lock 1 onto my coordinates" and "scotty energize 1" and cause players to be "beamed" to their locked locations.
PIXE PIXE (Particle-Induced X-ray Emission or Proton Induced X-ray Emission) is a technique used in the determining of the elemental make-up of a material or sample. When a material is exposed to an ion beam, atomic interactions occur that give off EM radiation of wavelengths in the x-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum specific to an element.
PjBmp2Avi PjBmp2Avi is a computer program designed by Paul RobertsPaul Cador Roberts, Cambridge graduate and Microsoft employee, not the lead singer of The Stranglers. for converting bitmap still images to AVI animations.
PJ Harvey Polly Jean Harvey (born October 9 1969) is an English singer and songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist under the name PJ Harvey, but she began her career as part of a trio (with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan) also named PJ Harvey.
PJ Ladd PJ Ladd (January 11, 1983-) is a professional skateboarder who currently rides for Plan B, ES Footwear, Venture, Hubba, and 4 Star. He was known in the local Boston underground skateboarding scene before headlining Coliseum Skateshop's critically acclaimed video, "PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life.
PJ Marsh PJ Marsh (born Peter-John Marsh, February 19, 1980 in Calliope, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian rugby league player for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League competition and for Queensland in State of Origin. He began his NRL career at Parramatta and played for the Eels from 2000 to 2001 before returning to Parramatta in 2005 following a two year stint with the New Zealand Warriors (2002-2003).
PJ Morris PJ Morris (full name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Leicestershire at Coalville (one of only two first-class games played there) in 1914. He made 71 in the second innings, but Worcestershire still fell to an innings defeat.
PJ Powers Penelope Jane Dunlop also known as PJ Powers or Thandeka (16 July 1960 - ) has enjoyed a highly successful musical career in South Africa spanning more than 15 years, during which time she has been one of the few white entertainers who has crossed cultural barriers and been loved by both black and white audiences alike. P.
PJ Stars PJ Stars, full name Promise Jessica Stars Football Club, are a football (soccer) based in Dobsonville, Soweto playing in South Africa's Mvela Golden League. Former owner Mike Marabe named the club after his two daughters, Promise and Jessica.
PJ Trailers PJ Trailers is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of trailers. Founded in 1991, the company started as a true 'Mom & Pop' operation and has grown to become one of the top trailer manufacturers in North America.
PJ's Coffee of New Orleans PJ’s Coffee is part of the Raving Brands! family of franchises, which includes Moe's Southwest Grill, Mama Fu’s Asian House, Doc Green's Gourmet Salads, Shane's Rib Shack, Monkey Joe's, Boneheads Grilled Seafood & Piri Piri Chicken, and Planet Smoothie.
Pkg-config pkg-config is a piece of computer software that provides a unified interface for querying installed libraries for the purpose of compiling software from its source code. pkg-config was originally designed for Linux but is now also available for Microsoft Windows platforms.
Pkill pkill is a command line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating systems and the ported to GNU/Linux. It sends a signal, like kill, to all the named process, that can be specified as ERE patterns; the signal specified on the command line (SIGTERM by default).
PK Tech Girl "PK Tech Girl" is an episode of the television program Farscape from the first season, written by Nan Hagan and directed by Tony Tilse. It was the seventh episode produced, but was the sixth to air in the show's premiere season.
PK-AFV PK-AFV, previously PH-ALP, and also known as Pelikaan, was a Douglas DC-3 (Dakota) airliner operated by KLM from 1937 to 1942. On March 3, 1942, while on a flight from Bandung, Netherlands East Indies, to Broome, Australia, the plane was attacked by Japanese fighter planes; crash-landed near Broome.
PKC (conference) PKC or Public-Key Cryptography is the short name of the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, a cryptography conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
PKN Orlen PKN Orlen () is a major European oil refinerer, and petrol retailer. The company as of June 2006 is Poland's and Central Europe's largest publicly traded firm with major operations in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, and the Baltic States.
PKN3 PKN3 is a protein kinase C-related molecule and thought to be an effector mediating malignant cell growth downstream of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K). It is thought that chronic activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/PTEN signal transduction pathway contributes to metastatic cell growth and that PKN3 may mediate that growth.
PKNA PKNA - Paperinik New Adventures is a Disney comic, published in Italy from 14 March 1996 to 20 December 2000, about the new adventures of Paperinik, the superhero created in 1969 by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi, which served as Donald Duck's secret identity.
PKNA Arcs The storyline in PKNA was developed in a very random way. This was due to PKNA being the first serialization experiment for Disney, which may explain the continuity-errors occurring at times, especially in the last issues.
PKP class Ok22 Ok22 is the name for a Polish passenger steam locomotive used by PKP. Soon after World War I, a locomotive industry did not exist in Poland at all, so it is obvious that the first constructions were based on tested German machines - in this case P8 (Polish PKP class Ok1)
PKP Group PKP Group (pl: Grupa PKP) is a Polish conglomerate founded in 2001 from the former single national rail operator, Polskie Koleje Państwowe. The purpose of this change was to match European Union directives of dividing transport service from rail system management and founding separate companies able to sell their service outside the rail business.
PKP LHS PKP LHS is a company of PKP Group responsible for freight transport on wide gauge (1520 mm) line. The line runs for 400 km from Polish-Ukrainian border in Izow-Hrubieszów to Sławków Południowy (near Katowice).
PKP Open Archives Harvester The PKP Open Archives Harvester is software used to accumulate and index freely available metadata, providing a searchable, web-based interface. It is open source, released under the GNU General Public License.
PKWN Manifesto The Manifesto of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) known as July or PKWN Manifesto () was a political programme of the communist-led and Soviet-backed authorities of Poland created in 1944 in opposition to the Polish government in exile.
Plaçage Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in which predominantly wealthy and white Creole men in Louisiana entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages (mariages de le main gauche or left-handed marriages as the free people of color called them) with women of African, Indian and White Creole descent. These women became known as placées (from the French word placer which means to place with) or as some came to call themselves, quarterrones.
Plac Konstytucji (Warsaw Metro) Plac Konstytucji (en:Constitution Square) is a Warsaw Metro station, which has been ommited while building the first line in 1989. It will be built in Śródmieście, under the Marszałkowska street, near the crossroad with Hoża street.
Plac Wilsona Plac Wilsona (Polish for Wilson Square) is the main square of Warsaw's borough of Żoliborz. It is also one of the main transportation hubs of the city, with several bus and tramway stops located there (opened to the public on June 1, 1934).
Plac Zamkowy Plac Zamkowy (English Castle Square) is the square in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The square is a visitor's first view of the reconstructed Old Town (Polish Stare Miasto), when coming from the more modern center of Warsaw.
Place Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location.
Place Bell Place Bell is one of the tallest buildings in Ottawa, Canada (the fifth tallest in the downtown area). The 27 storey building stands on Elgin Street in the city's downtown, and is distinguishable by the wide nature (the building is unusually large in dimensions considering its height, presumably to avoid having a 50+ storey building greatly overshadow the Peace Tower).
Place Bonaventure Place Bonaventure is a retail and office complex in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, adjacent to Central Station (Gare Centrale). It houses the headquarters of the Société de transport de Montréal and hosts many wholesalers from Montreal's fashion industry.
Place Branding Place branding is the application of classic marketing practices and models to locations (countries, states, cities, regions) for the purpose of building economic value. Similar to consumer products, place brands are a promise of performance.
Place cell Place cells are principal neurons in the hippocampus that fire strongly whenever an animal is in a specific location in an environment - the cell's "place field". These neurons are distinct from other neurons with spatial firing properties, such as grid cells, head direction cells, and spatial view cells.
Place d'Orleans Place d'Orléans is a large shopping mall in the eastern end of Ottawa, Ontario, in the community of Orléans. The property is about 756,300 square feet (70,262 m²)It currently holds three large department stores (Sportchek], [[Zellers and The Bay) and about 175 small shops, including a food court.
Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville The Place de Grève was, before 1803, the name of the plaza now the City Hall Plaza (place de l'Hôtel de Ville]) in [[Paris, France. Its name is derived from the French word "grève" meaning a flat terrain covered with gravel or sand situated on the shores of the sea or on the banks of a watercourse.
Place de la Bastille The Place de la Bastille () is a square in Paris], where the [[Bastille prison stood until it was stormed and subsequently torn down between July 14, 1789 and July 14, 1790 during the French Revolution; no vestige of it remains.
Place de la Comédie The Place de la Comédie is the main focus point of the city of Montpellier, in the Hérault département in France. It is located at the south-west point of the city centre, at , where in previous times the fortifications of the city were located.
Place de la Concorde (painting) Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde is an 1875 oil by Edgar Degas. It depicts the cigar smoking Vicomte Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters, and his dog, and a solitary man on the left in Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Place des Martyrs Place des Martyrs (or el Bourj, (); English: Martyr's Square) is the heart of the downtown district of Beirut, Lebanon (see Beirut Central District). Its central statue commemorates six Lebanese nationalists who were hanged during World War I by the Ottomans.
Place des Victoires The Place des Victoires is a monument in honor of King Louis XIV in the heart of Paris, celebrating the peace of Nimègue in 1681. A loyal courtesan, the Viscount of Aubusson, demolished the old private mansions around the area and, in 1685, gave architect Jule-Hardouin Mansart a superb area to accommodate the majestic statue of the triumphant king.
Place du Tertre The Place du Tertre, is a square in Paris' XVIIIe arrondissement. Only a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is the heart of the city's elevated Montmartre quarter.
Place De La Concorde (concert) Place De La Concorde was Jean-Michel Jarre's first concert, held on 14th July of 1979, celebrating the Bastille Day. 1 million spectators attended this concert, setting up a new record for Jean-Michel to the Guinness Book of Records.
Place Denfert-Rochereau Place Denfert-Rochereau, previously known as Place d'Enfer, is located in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France, in the Montparnasse area and is situated at the intersection of boulevards Raspail, Arago and Saint-Jacques, and avenues René Coty, Général Leclerc, Denfert-Rochereau and rue Froidevaux. Its coordinates are .
Place Jacques-Cartier Place Jacques-Cartier is, perhaps, the central street of Montreal's Vieux Port (Old Port). The street is named for Jacques Cartier, a French explorer popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of Canada.
Place Montreal Trust Place Montréal Trust is a large shopping mall in downtown Montreal just next door to the Eaton Centre. With over 320,000 square feet (29,729 m²) of stores and services, Place Montreal Trust attracts 14 million visitors each year.
Place names in Irish Many place names in Ireland in the English language are either anglicisations of those in the Irish language, or completely different, such as the name for the capital of the Republic of Ireland, which in English is Dublin, but in Irish is Baile Ătha Cliath. The former means black hole/pool (anglicised from dubh and linn) and the latter means town of the hurdle ford.
Place names in Zimbabwe Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) began renaming cities, towns and streets, in an attempt to eradicate symbols of British colonialism and white minority rule, starting in 1982, on the second anniversary of independence. The capital Salisbury, which had been named after the British Prime Minister, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was renamed Harare, after the Shona chief Neharawa.
Place names with English meanings All place names have meanings, though often they are not immediately obvious, and occasionally they are now completely lost to us. Place-name etymology is a serious and complex branch of linguistics which researches this.
Place of articulation In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active (moving) articulator (typically some part of the tongue) and a passive (stationary) articulator (typically some part of the roof of the mouth). Along with the manner of articulation and phonation, this gives the consonant its distinctive sound.
Place of the Relevant Intermediary Approach The Place of the Relevant Intermediary Approach, or PRIMA, is a conflict of laws rule applied to the proprietary aspects of security transactions, especially collateral transactions. It is an alternative approach to the historically important look-through approach, and was a in its earliest form the basis for the initial draft of the Hague Securities Convention.
Place of worship A place of worship or house of worship is a building or other location where a group of people (a congregation) comes to perform acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion. The form and function of religious architecture has evolved over thousands of years of both changing beliefs and architectural style.
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