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Putty Putty is a generic term for a plastic material similar in texture to clay or dough typically used in domestic construction and repair as a sealant or filler. Painter's Putty is typically a linseed oil based product used for filling holes, minor cracks and defacements in wood only.
Putty Patrol The Putty Patrollers are the usually incompetent foot soldiers dressed in gray suits by Rita Repulsa, arch-villainess of the 1990s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series. They are created in Finster's Monster-Matic from a special mold, allowing many to be produced at once.
Putumayo World Music Putumayo World Music is a New York City based record label, specialised in folk, Latin and Afro-Cuban music, as well as other genres that may be classified as world music. It was established in 1993 to introduce people to the music of the world’s cultures.
Putyata Putyata (Russian: Путята) was the first tysyatsky of Novgorod whose name is found in Slavonic chronicles. According to the Ioachim Chronicle, he was active during the reign of Vladimir the Great and forced the Novgorodians to accept Christian faith "by sword", while the posadnik Dobrynya forced them into Christianity "by fire".
PuTiNa Purohita Tirunarayana Narasimhachar (commonly known as PuTiNa) is a playwright and poet of the Kannada language. He was born into an orthodox Brahmin family in Melkote, Mysore, so Sanskrit was an important part of his education and upbringing, as was English, being the primary language of instruction at the time.
PuTTY PuTTY is a free software SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client. It was originally available only for Windows, but is now also available on various Unix platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X.
Puuhamaa Puuhamaa is a Finnish amusement park opened in 1984 in the town of Tervakoski, in the county of Janakkala. Instead of electrical rides, it mainly offers things to do for children: slides and waterslides, bouncy castles, race tracks, etc.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located on the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii. The site preserves the ruins of Pu'ukoholā Heiau ("Temple on the Hill of the Whale"), a temple built by King Kamehameha the Great between 1790 and 1791 to incur the favor of the war god Kuka'ilimoku.
Puula Lake Puula (or Puulavesi) is the largest lake in the Kymi River area in the Finnish municipalities of Hirvensalmi, Kangasniemi and Mikkeli. Puula is 94,7 meters above the sea level, the area is 331 km² it is 60 meters deep at its deepest point, what is near Porttisalmi at Simpiän Selkä, what is the biggest open area of the lake.
Puvunga Puvunga (alternate spelling: Puvungna) is an ancient village and burial site believed to have once been populated by the Tongva (Gabrielino) people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the region around Los Angeles, California. The site is located on the campus of present day California State University, Long Beach along the banks of a now channelized creek, about three miles from the Pacific Ocean.
Puwersa ng Masa Puwersa ng Masa (Force of the Masses) was the Philippine opposition's coalition party in the May 14, 2001 midterm Legislative elections. The coalition was created after the EDSA II revolution in January 2001 that ousted Joseph Estrada from the presidency.
Puy Puy is a geological term used locally in the Auvergne, France for a volcanic hill (the word deriving from the Provencal "Puech", meaning an isolated hill). Most of the puys of central France are small cinder cones, with or without associated lava, whilst others are domes of trachytic rock, like the domite of the Puy-de-DĂ´me.
Puya raimondii Puya Raimondi (Puya raimondii) is an endemic species of the zone altoandina of Peru and Bolivia found at an altitude of 3200 - 4800 m. It is not only the largest of the Puya species, but also the largest Bromeliad.
Puyallup River The Puyallup River is a river in Pierce County, Washington in the United States, that is approximately 45 mi (72 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of about 1000 sq mi in Pierce County and southern King County.
Puyang Puyang () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, China. Located on the northern shore of the Yellow River, it borders Anyang in the west, Xinxiang in the southwest, and the provinces of Shandong and Hebei in the east and north respectively.
Puyi Pǔyí () (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family was the last Emperor of China between 1908 and 1924 (ruling emperor between 1908 and 1912, and non-ruling emperor between 1912 and 1924), the twelfth emperor of the Qing Dynasty to rule over China.
Puyo Pop Fever Puyo Pop Fever, known in Japan as , is a puzzle game released on a wide variety of systems and was developed by Sonic Team. Sega published all versions of it in Japan, but due to a reluctance to carry it over to other countries, international versions of it were sometimes published by others.
Puyo Puyo Puyo Pop, known in Japan as , and outside Japan as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Mega Drive version), Kirby's Ghost Trap (European Super NintendĹŤ version) or Kirby's Avalanche (North American Super NintendĹŤ version), is a computer puzzle game made in 1991 by Compile for various video game systems.
Puyo Puyo SUN Puyo Puyo SUN is the third installment of the Puyo Puyo games series, and the sequel to Puyo Puyo Tsu, made in 1997 by Compile. After the highly acclaimed success of its predecessor, Compile took a slightly more retro approach, so players had a more original feel to the game over that of Tsu.
Puyo Puyo Tsu Puyo Puyo Tsu (Also known as Puyo Puyo 2, or Puyo Puyo Tsuu) is the sequel to Puyo Puyo, made in 1994 by Compile. Compile put more thought into this game after its predecessor became successful, but never knew how much of a turnaround the game would bring.
Puyo Puyon Puyo Puyon, also known as Puyo Puyo 4, a "well"-type puzzle game a la Tetris and Columns, and is the only entry in the series to contain a four-player mode. Created by Sega and Compile, it was never officially released outside of Japan.
Puyuma people The Puyuma (; POJ: Puyuma-cho̍k, Pi-lâm-cho̍k), also known as the Peinan or Beinan tribe, are one of the tribal groups of the Taiwanese aborigines. The tribe is generally divided into the Chihpen and Nanwang groups, both resident in Taitung County on the east coast of Taiwan.
Puzz-3D Puzz-3D is the brand name of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles, manufactured by Wrebbit, Inc. Unlike tranditional puzzles which are composed of series of flat pieces with parts of an image on them, when put together, create a single unified image, the Puzz-3d series of puzzles are composed on plastic foam, with the part of an image graphed on a stiff paper facade glued to the underlying foam piece and cut to match the piece's dimensions.
Puzzle A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. Puzzles are often contrived as a form of entertainment, but they can also stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems — in such cases, their successful resolution can be a significant contribution to mathematical research.
Puzzle Bobble 2 Puzzle Bobble 2 is the first sequel to "Puzzle Bobble", and is known as Bust-A-Move 2 in Europe and North America (in the latter market, the arcade version is called "Bust-A-Move Again). Released into the arcades in 1995, Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and PC conversions followed.
Puzzle mystery The puzzle mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction where the emphasis is on the "whodunnit" aspect. The entire novel or film is oriented to the puzzle and its solution, and characterization takes a distinctly secondary place.
Puzzle People Puzzle People is a 1969 album recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. Entirely produced by Norman Whitfield, Puzzle People takes the next step along the path that Cloud Nine started, and takes the Temptations further away from a classic soul sound, and more towards the realm of psychedelic soul.
Puzzle Productions Puzzle Productions is an American toy and company, better known under its brand name First 4 Figures. First 4 Figures produces merchandise statues of well-known licenses, such as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Magic: The Gathering and Transformers.
Puzzlehunt A puzzlehunt is a puzzle-cum-game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles, usually leading to a final answer or goal. Puzzlehunts are often site-specific, taking place on college and corporate campuses (MIT, Microsoft) or in major cities (New York, Miami).
Puzzletown, Pennsylvania Puzzletown, Pennsylvania () is a small region, formerly known as Marionsville or Poplar Run, in Blair County, Pennsylvania. It is found at the bottom of a valley which leads up to Blue Knob, the second-highest mountain in the state and part of the Allegheny Front, the eastern edge of the Appalachian Plateau.
Puzzlewood Puzzlewood is an area of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire which was used by the Romans for iron mining, using the method of shallow trenches to get at the iron ore. It is now a tourist location of the forest.
Puzzling World, New Zealand Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wanaka, New Zealand. It started out as just a maze in 1973, but over the years expanded to accommodate a "puzzling café" where guests could try out several puzzles, rooms with optical illusions, the Leaning Tower of Wanaka (which has a backwards clock that was started on the eve of the new millennium) and other things.
PUFF-PLUME PUFF-PLUME is a model used to help predict how air pollution disperses in the atmosphere. It is a Gaussian atmospheric transport chemical/radionuclide dispersion model that includes wet and dry deposition, real-time input of meteorological observations and forecasts, dose estimates from inhalation and gamma shine (i.
PUREX raffinate The term PUREX raffinate is a better term for the mixture of metals in nitric acid which are left behind when the uranium and plutonium have been removed by the PUREX process from a nuclear fuel dissolution liquor. This mixture is oftein known as high level nuclear waste.
PURPLE In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki oobun Inji-ki (九七式欧文印字機) ("System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters") or Angooki Taipu-B (暗号機 タイプB) ("Type B Cipher Machine"), codenamed PURPLE by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during World War II. The machine was an electromechanical stepping-switch device.
Pvfs PVFS is an Open Source parallel file system. A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application.
Pvserver pvServer is a 3GPP/2 standards compliant multimedia server that provides streaming and broadcast services to mobile devices. pvServer is developed by PacketVideo Network Solutions a wholly owned company of Alcatel-Lucent].
PV mount A PV mount is a lens mount developed by Panavision for use with both 16 mm and 35 mm movie cameras. It is the only mount offered with Panavision cameras and Panavision-designed lenses, and since the company only rents its equipment, this is likely to remain an exclusive arrangement for the time being.
PVAXX PVAXX Research & Development Ltd is a Bermuda-based material science and technology group operating in a wide range of logistical, household and recreational product fields providing a combination of advanced proprietary manufacturing and materials technologies with next-generation environmental responsibility. Founded by Henry Stevens.
PVLAS PVLAS (acronym for Polarizzazione del Vuoto con LASer) is an apparatus dedicated to the detection of dark matter. It is located at the Legarno National Laboratory of National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Padova, Italy.
PVR (Priya Village Roadshow) PVR (Priya Village Roadshow) Cinemas is the largest cinema exhibitor in India. The company, part of the Australian Village Roadshow group, began its commercial operations in June 1997 with the launch of PVR Anupam in Saket, India's first multiplex.
Pwd The pwd command (print working directory) is used to print the name of current working directory from a computer's command-line interface. If the shell prompt does not already show this, the user can use this command to find their place in the directory tree.
Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Filipino Masses), formerly Partido ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Filipino Masses) is a populist political party in the Philippines. It was the political party of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, which merged with other political parties to create Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino or LAMMP (Struggle of the Patriotic Filipino Masses) in the 1998 Presidential Elections.
Pwn The slang term pwn (see pronunciation note below), used primarily in the Internet gaming culture, means to soundly defeat an opponent. It is sometimes used for taunting of an in-game enemy, and rubbing in victories.
Pwo Pwo, a sacred initiation ritual, in which a student of traditional navigation in the Carolinian Islands in Micronesia become master navigators and the associates secrets. Many islanders in the area indicate that this ceremony originated on the island of Polap, or nearby islands.
PWB shell The PWB shell (also known as the Mashey shell) was an early Unix shell distributed with some versions of Programmer's Workbench UNIX circa 1975-1977. It was a modified (and generally constrained to be upward-compatible) version of the Thompson shell with additional features to increase usability for programming, and was maintained by John Mashey and various others (Dick Haight, Alan Glasser).
PWF Heavyweight Championship The Pacific Wrestling Federation (World) Heavyweight Championship is one of the three titles that make up the AJPW Triple Crown Championship. It was created in 1973 by All Japan owner Giant Baba, after he won a series of ten matches against Bruno Sammartino (twice - one win, one draw), Terry Funk, Abdullah The Butcher, The Destroyer, Wilbur Snyder (twice - one win, one draw), Don Leo Jonathan, Pat O'Connor and Bobo Brazil.
PWF Tag Team Championship The PWF (Pacific Wrestling Federation) Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in All Japan Pro Wrestling, created in 1984. It was unified with the NWA International Tag Team Championship in 1988, to create the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship, or Double Cup.
PWI Announcer of the Year The PWI Announcer of the Year Award, given in the year 1977 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best announcer of the year as voted by readers of the magazine. This award was only given in 1977, it then became defunct.
PWI Comeback of the Year The PWI Comeback of the Year Award, given yearly since 1992 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the most impressive comeback by a professional wrestler during the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Feud of the Year The PWI Feud of the Year Award, given yearly since 1986 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best feud of the year in professional wrestling as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Girl Wrestler of the Year The PWI Girl Wrestler Of The Year Award, given yearly from 1972 through 1976 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best girl wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine. This award became defunct in 1976.
PWI Midget Wrestler of the Year The PWI Midget Wrestler Of The Year Award, given yearly from 1972 through 1976 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best midget wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine. This award became defunct in 1976.
PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year The PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the most disliked professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year The PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year Award, given yearly since 1978 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the most improved professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year The PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the most inspirational professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Most Popular Wrestler of the Year The PWI Most Popular Wrestler of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the most popular professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Rookie of the Year The PWI Rookie of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best professional wrestler of the year who, in that year, had their first year in the business, as voted by readers of the magazine. As it is a rookie award, wrestlers can qualify only once.
PWI Stanley Weston Award The PWI Stanley Weston Award, given yearly since 1981 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes lifetime achievement by a professional wrestling personality as decided by the editors of the magazine. The award was originally known as the PWI Editor's Award.
PWI Woman of the Year The PWI Woman of the Year Award, given yearly since 1999 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best female professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWI Wrestler of the Year The PWI Wrestler of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best professional wrestler of the year as voted by readers of the magazine.
PWL PWL (Pete Waterman Ltd) is the production company one-time pop and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. The label is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman.
PWL Radio PWL Radio is an internet Dance Top 40 radio station broadcasting from London, England. The station is part of Pete Waterman Limited (PWL) and was launched in January 2005 to coincide with the 20th anniversary release of the first single that was produced by the label, Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)".
PWM (window manager) In Unix computing, PWM is a lightweight X11 window manager, and the first to feature tabbed windows at the window manager level. The first version was released to the public in the spring 2000 under the Artistic License.
PWP PWP (Pers' Wastaiset Produktiot) is a Finnish demogroup founded in 1994. Having originally concentrated on humorous games and storyline-based text mode demos on the low-end PC's, PWP is now one of the leading demogroups on the Commodore VIC-20.
PWscf PWscf (Plane-Wave Self-Consistent Field) is a set of programs for electronic structure calculations within density functional theory and density functional perturbation theory, using plane wave basis sets and pseudopotentials. The software is released under the GNU General Public License.
PWS-26 The PWS-26 was a Polish advanced trainer aircraft, used from 1937 to 1939 by the Polish Air Force, constructed in the PWS (Podlaska WytwĂłrnia SamolotĂłw - Podlasie Aircraft Factory). It was second most numerous Polish pre-war aircraft, after RWD-8.
PWS-33 Wyżeł The PWS-33 Wyżeł was a Polish twin-engined military trainer aircraft from a period before World War II constructed by Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów or PWS ("Podlasie Aircraft Factory"). Although destined for production it got no further than the prototypes before Poland was invaded.
PX Index The PX Index (formerly till march 2006 PX 50) is an index of major stocks that trade on the Prague Stock Exchange. Selected as the starting exchange day (a benchmark date) for the Index PX 50 was 5 April 1994 and its opening value was fixed at 1,000 points.
PXES PXES also known as PXES Universal Linux Thin Client, created in early 2001 by Diego Torres Milano, is a micro Linux distribution allowing you to build thin clients. It is mainly used to boot (diskless) workstations over a network using PXE but it is possible to boot PXES from a CDROM or hard disk if the NIC or BIOS do not support PXE.
PXI PXI is one of several electronic instrumentation platforms in current use. These platforms are used as a basis for building electronic test equipment or automation systems, such as might be used in a mobile phone manufacturing test environment.
PXL-2000 The Fisher-Price PXL-2000 (also known as the PixelVision by Fisher-Price, and the KiddieCorder by some of its fans) was a toy black-and-white camcorder produced in 1987 that used an ordinary compact audio cassette as its recording medium.
Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai (Hindi: प्यार दीवाना होता है, Urdu: پیار دیوانہ ہوتا ہے, English: Love Is Crazy) is a 2002 Indian movie directed by Kirti Kumar, starring Govinda and Rani Mukerji.
Pyaasa Pyaasa (Hindi: प्यासा, Urdu: پیاسا; Eternal Thirst in English) is a 1957 Hindi film directed by Guru Dutt. The film tells the story of struggling poet, Vijay, trying to make his works known in post-independence India.
Pyaemia Pyaemia is a type of septicaemia that leads to widespread abscesses and is usually caused by the staphylococcus bacteria. (Apart from the abscesses) pyaemia has the same symptons as other forms of septicaemia.
Pyambuu Tuul Pyambuu Tuul is a retired long-distance runner from Mongolia, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. As the sole member of the Mongolian track and field team, he was the first ever Mongolian entered in the marathon.
Pyapon Pyapon is a town in the Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a tributary of the Ayeyarwady River. It is located about 15 km inland from the Andaman Sea, about 75 miles south of the capital, Yangon.
Pyatigorsk Pyatigorsk () is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River in the Southern Federal District of Russia, about twenty kilometers from Mineralnye Vody. The name Pyatigorsk means "five mountains" in Russian and is so called because of the five peaks of the Beshtau (which also means "five mountains" in Turkic) of the Caucasian mountain range overlooking the city.
Pyatizvyozdnaya Pyatizvyozdnaya (Russian пятизвездная: "with five stars" (the highest grade in the school)) is a Russian vodka produced by the Saint Petersburg based distillery Liviz. It has as an extra ingredient honey and is 40% vol..
Pyay Pyay (, formerly Prome), is a town (1983 population 83,000) and district of the Bago Division in Lower Myanmar, located some 161 km, or 7 hours north of Yangon by road, or an overnight boat trip south of Bagan. The British Irrawaddy Flotilla Company established the current town in the late 1800s on the Ayeyarwady River as a transshipment point for cargo between upper and lower Myanmar.
Pybliographer Pybliographer is a reference management software tool that deals with bibliographic databases, used for viewing, editing, searching, and reformatting bibliographies. Written in Python and licensed under GNU GPL, it provides a scripting framework of classes and functions, which makes it extendable to many other applications.
Pycnanthemum incanum Pycnanthemum incanum (Hoary Mountainmint, Mountain Mint, Wild Basil, Hoary Basil) is a herbaceous perennial in the mint family, native to North America. It is listed as an endangered species in Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as parts of Canada.
Pycnocline A pycnocline is a layer across which there is a rapid change in water density with depth. In freshwater environments such as lakes this density change is primarily caused by water temperature, while in seawater environments such as oceans the density change may be caused by changes in water temperature and/or salinity.
Pycnometer The pycnometer or pyknometer is a device used for measuring fluid density, also known as a specific gravity bottle. Uses an appropriate working fluid such as water or mercury to find a volume for use in Archimedes' principle.
Pydna Pydna (in Greek: Πύδνα, older transliteration: Púdna), also Pidna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a rural municipality and coastal town in the northeastern part of the Prefecture of Pieria.
Pye Green BT Tower Pye Green BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of reinforced concrete at Pye Green, Staffordshire, England (). It is one of the few telecommunication towers in the United Kingdom built of reinforced concrete.
Pye International Records Pye International Records was a record label founded in 1958. The company distributed many American labels, including Chess Records, A&M Records, Kama Sutra Records, Buddah Records and King Records in the UK.
Pyeloplasty Pyeloplasty is the surgical reconstruction or revision of the renal pelvis to drain and decompress the kidney. Most commonly it is performed to treat an uretero-pelvic junction obstruction if residual renal function is adequate.
Pyewacket Pyewacket was one of the familiar spirits of a witch detected by the "witchfinder general" Matthew Hopkins in March 1644 in the town of Maningtree, Essex, UK. Hopkins claimed he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman.
Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on Ovid's tale of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined society lady merely by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette.
Pygmalion effect The Pygmalion effect, Rosenthal effect, or more commonly known as the "teacher-expectancy effect" refers to situations in which students perform better than other students simply because they are expected to do so.
Pygmy Beaked Whale The Pygmy Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon peruvianusquailsouthafricanbushmanius), also known as the Peruvian Beaked Whale and Lesser Beak Whale, is the smallest of the Mesoplodonts and one of the newest discoveries. Interestingly, there were at least two dozen sightings of an unknown beaked whale named Mesoplodon sp.
Pygmy corydoras The pygmy corydoras or pygmy catfish, Corydoras pygmaeus, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Madeira River basin in Brazil.
Pygmy forest A pygmy forest is a forest which, for pedological and geological reasons, contains only miniature trees. Pygmy forests are usually associated with the coastal terraces and inner coastal mountains of Northern California.
Pygmy goat A pygmy goat (Capra hicus) is a small species of goat; females weigh about 23 to 34 kg (35 to 50 lbs) and males about 27 to 39 kg (40 to 60 lbs). They were first imported into the United States from Africa in the 1950s; they have since become popular pets and exhibition animals.
Pygmy gourami The pygmy gourami (Trichopsis pumila) is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Trichopsis genus in the family (Osphronemidae). It is native to Southeast Asia, and is found in Thailand, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Pygmy Hippopotamus The Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) is a large mammal native to the forests and swamps of western Africa (the species name, meaning "of Liberia", reflects this). The pygmy hippo is an herbivore and also nocturnal.
Pygmy Killer Whale The Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) is a small, rarely-seen cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). It derives its common name from the fact that it shares some physical characteristics with the orca ("killer whale").
Pygmy lanternshark The pygmy lanternshark, Etmopterus fusus, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the eastern Indian Ocean from northern Western Australia and possibly Java, at depths of between 430 and 550 m. Its length is up to 26 cm.
Pygmy music The Pygmies are a broad group of people who live in Central Africa, especially in Congo, Central African Republic and Cameroon. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many of the day's events.

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