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Paznaun The Paznaun is a valley in Tyrol, Austria leading south-west from Pians (850m) to the Bielerhöhe (2036), a mountain pass at the border of Vorarlberg and Tyrol. The Paznaun is watered by the Trisanna and surrounded by the mountain ranges of Verwall in the north, Samnaun in the south-east and Silvretta in the south-west.
Pazyryk Pazyryk is a local name for a valley in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It is part of the Ukok Plateau, where many ancient Bronze Age barrow-like tomb mounds of larch logs covered over by large cairns of boulders and stones have been found.
Pazz & Jop The Pazz & Jop critics' poll is a highly influential poll of music critics run by The Village Voice newspaper. It is compiled every year from the top ten lists of hundreds of music critics (roughly 800 in the 2004 poll).
Pazzi The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who had become bankers in Florence in the 14th century. They are now best known for the "Pazzi conspiracy" to assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici on April 26, 1478.
PA Sport PA Sport is the world's leading sports news provider and is part of the PA Group of information companies. At the heart of the PA Group is The Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, which was founded in 1868.
PA-RISC family PA-RISC is a microprocessor architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard's Systems & VLSI Technology Operation. As the name implies, it is an implementation using a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) design, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture.
PAAMS The Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS) is a joint French/Italian/British program for a naval anti-aircraft weapon. The prime contractor is EUROPAAMS, a joint venture between Eurosam (66%) and MBDA subsidiary UKAMS (33%).
PABCO Transit, Inc PABCO Transit, Inc is a public transport company based in Dover, New Jersey and operates the Morris County Metro for New Jersey Transit. The company was originally called Passaic - Athena Bus Lines which operated service in Passaic and Clifton, New Jersey.
PABPII PABPII, or polyadenine binding protein II, is a protein involved in the assembly of the polyadenine tail added to newly synthesized pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules during the process of gene transcription. It is a regulatory protein that controls the rate at which polyadenine polymerase (PAP) adds adenine nucleotides to the 3' end of the growing tail.
PAC 750XL A utility aircraft, combing the engine and wings of the PAC Cresco with a new large fuselage and modified tail, the PAC 750 is a conventional metal monoplane with tricycle undercarriage; all versions to date have been powered by a 750 hp (560 kW) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop. It is designed and manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand by the Pacific Aerospace Corporation.
PAC Cresco The PAC Cresco is a turbo-prop powered derivative of the FU-24 PAC Fletcher aerial topdressing aircraft, manufactured by the Pacific Aerospace Corporation in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is not directly related to the turbo-prop powered Fletcher which flew in the late 1970s.
PAC Fletcher PAC Fletcher is an Agricultural aircraft, made in New Zealand was, together with the Auster Agricola, the first designed for aerial topdressing. The Fletcher has also been used for other Aerial applications, as a utility aircraft, and for sky diving.
PAC-1 PAC-1 (first procaspase activating compound) is a synthesized chemical compound that selectively induces apoptosis, or cell suicide, in cancerous cells. PAC-1 has shown good results in mouse models and is being further evaluated for use in humans.
PACER The PACER project, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small hydrogen bombs (fusion bombs)—or, as stated in a later proposal, fission bombs—inside an underground cavity.
PACER (law) PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service of the United States federal courts run by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. It allows users to obtain case and docket information from the Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts.
PADD In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Personal Access Display Device is a hand-held LCARS-based computerized device resembling a PDA which provides wireless access to the main computers, other portable devices, or data stored on isolinear chips.
PADRES PADRES is the acronym by which Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos, y Sociales (Spanish for "Priests Associated for Religious, Education, and Social Rights"), a Chicano Catholic priest's organization, was known. Founded in October of 1979, the group of Mexican-American priests pushed for an end to discrimination towards Mexican Americans within the church hierarchy and in American society in general.
PAEEK PAEEK (GR:Podosfairiki Athlitiki Enosi Eparxeias Kerynias = "Football and sport union of Kyrenia District"). It was founded in Kyrenia in 1953 by graduates of Kyrenia Gymnasium and represented the first force to be reckoned from the small city.
PAETEC Park PAETEC Park is a soccer-specific stadium in Rochester, New York, for the Rochester Raging Rhinos soccer team of the USL First Division. The stadium, designed by HOK Sport, also hosts other sporting events such as Rochester Rattlers lacrosse games, collegiate soccer and football, field hockey and drum and bugle corps competitions as well as concerts.
PAF (gambling monopoly) Ålands Penningautomatförening or PAF is a Finnish company that operates a legal gambling monopoly on the Åland Islands, Finland. PAF also has an Internet-based gambling and gaming operation, in addition to operating and maintaining casino and gaming activities on a large number of cruise ships.
PAF-KIET Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology (KIET) was established in 1997 with the aim of providing quality education at affordable cost. Its academic programs are designed to prepare the students to meet the challenges of the nation and industry.
PAGEOS PAGEOS (PAssive GEOdetic Satellite) was a balloon satellite which was launched by the NASA in June 1966. Pageos had a diameter of 31 m (thin polyester foil plus a reflecting layer) and was used for the Weltnetz der Satellitentriangulation (Worldwide Satellite Triangulation Network) -- a global cooperation organized by Hellmut Schmid (Switzerland & USA) 1969-1973.
PAH (gene) PAH (phenylalanine hydroxylase) is a human gene that provides instructions for making an enzyme called phenylalanine hydroxylase. Phenylalanine hydroxylase is responsible for the first step in processing the amino acid phenylalanine, which is a building block of proteins.
PAJ PAJ, originally Performing Arts Journal, is a [journal founded in 1976] by [[Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. Originally a theater journal, it expanded to include dance, the visual arts, film, videography, and cultural politics.
PAKSA PakSA (The Pakistani Student Association at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) was founded by the Rensselaer Student Union in 1988. It is cultural organization presenting and promoting Pakistani culture to the RPI campus and catering to the needs of students with Pakistani heritage.
PAL PAL, short for phase-alternating line, phase alternation by line or phase alternation line, is a colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. Other common analogue television systems are SECAM and NTSC.
PAL region The PAL region is a video game publication territory which covers Australasia and the majority of Eurasia. The majority of games designated as part of the region will not play on NTSC-US or NTSC-J region consoles because of regional lockout.
PALcode In computing, on the DEC Alpha microprocessor, PALcode (Privileged Architecture Library code) is the name used by DEC for a set of functions in the SRM or AlphaBIOS firmware, providing a hardware abstraction layer for system software, covering features such as cache management, translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss handling, interrupt handling and exception handling.
PALCS The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS) is a public (tuition-free) K-12 cyber charter school, approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and open to all students in the state of Pennsylvania.
PALINET PALINET is a non-profit member-owned and governed organization, representing hundreds of libraries, information centers, museums, archives, and other similar organizations throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and elsewhere. PALINET was established on January 11, 1936 out of a need for local and then regionwide union cataloging (an effort to combine library catalog records).
PALplus PALplus is an extension of the PAL analogue broadcasting system for transmitting 16:9 programs without sacrificing vertical resolution. A standard PAL receiver will display the image in letterbox format with 432 active lines, while a PALplus receiver can use extra information hidden in the black bars above and below the image to recreate 576 lines of vertical resolution.
PALS Peers Assisting Learning Support (PALS) is a non-profit organization that fosters relationships between students with and without developmental disabilities through one-on-one and group activities. PALS works to allow all students to experience the benefits of friendship, dedication, and responsibility.
PAMS PAMS (an acronym for Production, Advertising, and Merchandising Services), based in Dallas, Texas, was the most famous jingle production company in American broadcasting. The company was founded by Bill Meeks (Willam B.
PAN Parks PAN Parks or Protected Area Network Parks are a network of protected wilderness areas in Europe. Established in 1997 under the auspices of the World Wildlife Fund, the programme aims to provide better long-term conservation and tourism management of those National Parks which were previously undervalued due to their location in remote and/or poorer areas of the continent.
PANAMA PANAMA is a cryptographic primitive which can be used both as a hash function and a stream cipher. It was designed by Joan Daemen and Craig Clapp and presented in the paper Fast Hashing and Stream Encryption with PANAMA on the Fast Software Encryption (FSE) conference 1998.
PANKOW The success of the Semantic Web depends on the availability of ontologies as well as of web pages annotated with metadata conforming to these ontologies. Acquiring the necessary metadata through manual definition of an information extraction system is a laborious task requiring a lot of time and expert know-how.
PANOSE The PANOSE System is method for classifying typefaces solely on their visual characteristics. It can be used to identify an unknown font from a sample image or to match a known font to its closest visual neighbor from a pool of candidates.
PANPP The PANPP, an acronym of "Pays Africains Non-Producteurs de PĂ©trole" (in English: the "Pan-African Non-Petroleum Producers Association"), is an association of 15 African nations that signed a treaty in July, 2006.
PANS-OPS PANS-OPS stands for the Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Aircraft Operations (PANS-OPS). The regulatory material surrounding PANS-OPS may vary from country to country, however there are international standards which all ICAOsignatory states must adhere to when deriving their own dervatives of these services.
PAOK PAOK or Panthessalonikios Athlitikos Omilos Konstantinoupoliton (Greek: Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών), or the Pan-Thessalonican Athletic Organisation of (the people of) Constantinople, is a sports club from Thessaloniki, Greece. PAOK maintains teams in many sports, including soccer, basketball, volleyball, handball, baseball, water polo, swimming, wrestling and weightlifting.
PAOK BC PAOK Marfin BC is the basketball team of the Greek PAOK sport franchise, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The club has established a firm reputation in Greek sports, especially for its success in European leagues.
PAP-UMNO relations The sometimes turbulent relationship between the People's Action Party (PAP) and United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), which were, and still are, the ruling parties respectively of Singapore and Malaysia, has impacted the recent history of both states.
PAQ PAQ is a series of open source data compression archivers that have evolved through collaborative development to top rankings on several benchmarks measuring compression ratio (although at the expense of speed and memory usage). The best compression in this series is obtained by PAQAR 4.
PAR thrust Power Augmented Ram Thrust (or PAR thrust for short) is the term used to describe the use of exhaust gases or displaced air from either the main engines or special assist engines in enhancing the air cushion under the wings or body of what is normally a Wing In Ground-effect or WIG craft. The system can also be used in boats to increase their top speed.
PARA Pan American Championship The Pan American Championship (Pan Am or Panamericano) is the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, held irregularly since 1995. The tournament is organized by the Pan American Rugby Association (PARA) and includes the World Cup teams of Argentina, Canada, Uruguay and the USA.
PARANOiA PARANOiA is a fast paced song primarily appeared in Dance Dance Revolution and being transplanted in beatmania IIDX in the BEMANI SERIES of KONAMI arcade games. It start appearing in the first Dance Dance Revolution up to Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA.
PARC Universal Packet The PARC Universal Packet (commonly abbreviated to PUP, although the original documents usually use Pup) was one of the two earliest internetwork protocol suites; it was created by researchers at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s. (Technically, the name "PUP" only refers to the internetwork-level protocol, but it is also applied to the whole protocol suite.
PAREF Southridge School The PAREF Southridge School, also known simply as Southridge, is a private school for boys in Hillsborough, Muntinlupa City, Philippines. It was a set up by the Parents for Education Foundation (PAREF), a group of parents who aims to provide an education geared towards the total development of children.
PAREF Woodrose School PAREF Woodrose School, also known simply as Woodrose, is a private, Opus Dei school for girls in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is accredited by the Philippine Department of Education.
PARIS21 Established in November 1999 in response to the UN Economic and Social Council resolution on the goals of the UN Conference on Development, the PARIS21 consortium was launched to act as a catalyst for promoting a culture of evidence-based policymaking and monitoring in all countries, and especially in developing countries. The consortium is a partnership of policymakers, analysts, and statisticians from all countries of the world, focusing on promoting high-quality statistics, making these data meaningful, and designing sound policies.
PARS PARS stands for Parallel Application from Rapid Simulation and is a software technology for generating parallel applications that target hardware systems comprising multiple DSP and FPGAs from a single Simulink model. There are many software that can generate code for a single DSP or FPGA from a Simulink model but PARS is the first system that supports multiple DSPs and FPGAs.
PAS (political party) The Islamic Party of Malaysia (commonly known as PAS or Pas, from the Malay Parti Islam SeMalaysia) is an Islamist political party in Malaysia and is currently headed by Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. PAS positions itself as an Islamist party that aims to establish Malaysia as a country based on Islamic legal theory derived from the primary sources of Islam, the Quran and Sunnah, as opposed to Barisan Nasional's Islam Hadhari, which PAS sees as based on a watered-down understanding of Islam.
PAS-9 PAS-9 is a PanAmSat Atlantic Ocean region satellite delivers communications services throughout the Americas, the Caribbean and Western Europe. Following its launch from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean (Sea Launch), PAS-9 succeeded the PAS-5 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite at 58 degrees west longitude, serving as the video neighborhood in the region as well as providing Internet and data services.
PASS device PASS device is an acronym for the Personal Alert Safety System, a one-way communications device used by firefighters entering a building to alert the outside Rapid Entry Team (Also known as Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) or Firefighter Assist and Search Team (FAST)), that the wearer of the PASS device is in trouble and in need of rescue.
PAST PAST (short for Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna, Polish Telephone Joint-stock Company) was a Polish telephone operator in the period between World War I and World War II. It is notable for its' main headquarters in Warsaw, which at the time of its construction was the first and tallest skyscraper in the Russian Empire and the tallest building of Warsaw.
PATCO Speedline Port Authority Transit Corporation operates the PATCO Speedline between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden County, New Jersey in the United States. The Speedline runs underground in Philadelphia, crosses the Delaware River on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, runs underground in Camden, then runs aboveground in the New Jersey suburbs after that.
PATCOB PATCOB (Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical, Other, and Blue Collar) are occupational categories established by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They are used for statistical reporting on data collected by the United States Census Bureau, employer reports or federal agencies.
PAVE PAWS PAVE PAWS is an United States' Air Force Space Command radar system operated by three 21st Space Wing squadrons for missile warning and space surveillance. Operational PAVE PAWS radars are located at:Air National Guard Base|Cape Cod Air Force Station], Massachusetts.
PAX 217 PAX 217 was a Christian rap/punk/reggae band from Orange County, California comprised of Dave Tosti (vocals), Jesse Craig (guitar), Josh Auer (bass, vocals), and Aaron "Skwid" Tosti (drums) (now in Hawk Nelson). The band's music was well known in the underground Christian scene at the time for its unique sound and optomistic, fun-filled lyrics.
PAYE PAYE (or pay-as-you-earn) is a payroll deduction system in which tax is deducted from a person's income when paid by the employer. The amount withheld is determined by a tax code which applies the taxpayer's individual tax liabilities.
PĂ­ÄŤa PĂ­ÄŤa // is a folk and vulgar name for the symbol of a rhombus standing on one of its sharper tips, with both of these tips connected by a vertical line, which often only suggest this connection. It represents a woman's vulva.
Pío de Tristán Pío de Tristán (in full, Juan Pío de Tristán y Moscoso) (July 11, 1773, Arequipa Peru—August 24, 1860, Lima) was a Peruvian general and politician. He was nominally the last Spanish viceroy of Peru, serving in that capacity from December 1824 to January 23, 1826, but not exercising power.
Pío Leyva Pío Leyva (May 5, 1917 – March 22, 2006), born Wilfredo Pascual, was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El mentiroso. Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards.
PĂ­o Valenzuela PĂ­o Valenzuela (July 11 1869-April 6 1956) was a Filipino physician and patriot who was among the leaders of the Katipunan that started the Philippine Revolution against Spain. Valenzuela City in northern Metro Manila was named after him.
PĂ­sac PĂ­sac is a Peruvian village in the Sacred Valley on the Urubamba River. The village is well-known for its market every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, an event which attracts heavy tourist traffic from nearby Cusco.
På lugnare vatten På lugnare vatten is a 1990 album from Kikki & Roosarna. "Vägg i vägg" is a text in Swedish of the song "Eit lag enn", which when performed by Stjórnin finished 4th for Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990.
Pål Johansen Pål Ørjan Johansen (born Trondheim, 1973) is a Norwegian psychologist working at the Psykological Institute, NTNU. He was a Fulbright scholar and visiting reseacher at Harvard Medical School and the University of Washington.
Pålsundsbron Pålsundsbron (Swedish: "The Pole Sound/Strait Bridge") is a bridge in central Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching over the small water course Pålsundet, the bridge connects the major island Södermalm to the minor island Långholmen.
Püspökladány Püspökladány is the sixth largest town of Hajdú-Bihar county in North Eastern Hungary with a population of approximately 16,000 people. It is located southeast of Debrecen at the juncture of three regions: Sárrét, Hortobágy and Nagykunság.
Pól Brennan Pól Brennan (in Irish Pól Ó Braonáin) IPA: is an Irish singer, songwriter and producer. He was formerly a member of the family band Clannad, but since the early 1990s he has gained critical acclaim as a solo artist.
Púca The Púca (Old Irish), (also Pooka, Phooka, Phouka, Púka, Pwca in Welsh, pouque in Dgèrnésiais, also Glashtyn, Gruagach) is a creature of Celtic folklore, notably in Ireland and Wales. It is one of the myriad of fairy (faery) folk, and, like many faery folk, is both respected and feared by those who believe in it.
PĂŞro de Barcelos PĂŞro de Barcelos (15th century/16th century), sometimes Pedro de Barcelos, was a Portuguese explorer of North America, whom, together with JoĂŁo Fernandes Lavrador, was the first to sight the Coast of Labrador in 1498.
Pârvu Cantacuzino Pârvu or Pîrvu Cantacuzino (d. 1769) was a high-ranking Wallachian boyar, ban of Oltenia, and anti-Ottoman rebellion leader who also briefly served as as an officer in Russia's Imperial Army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.
Pâté A pâté (also spelled paté) is a spreadable paste, usually made from meat (although vegetarian variants exist), and often served with toast as a starter. It is a French word which designates a mixture of minced meat (often from the less desirable parts) and fat.
Pâté de Foie Gras (Asimov) Pâté de Foie Gras is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov which was first published in the September 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appeared in Asimov's 1957 science essay collection Only a Trillion, and also in his 1968 short story collection Asimov's Mysteries.
Pâté chinois Pâté chinois (literally, "Chinese pie", a dish similar to shepherd's pie in England) is a French Canadian dish made from layered ground beef (usually mixed with sautéed diced bell peppers and onions and seasoned with salt and pepper) on the bottom layer, canned corn (usually a 50/50 mix of whole-kernel and creamed corn) for the middle layer, and mashed potatoes on top. Prior to cooking, it is usually sprinkled with Paprika for color and is often served with pickled beets.
Pádraic Ó Conaire Pádraic Ó Conaire wrote realistic, even naturalistic, stories about the life of Irish emigrants in England about the turn of the century; he was also one of the first people ever to use Irish for journalism. His most important book is his only novel, Deoraíocht (Diaspora), which combines realism with absurd elements.
Pádraic McCormack Pádraic McCormack (born 15 May 1942) is an Irish Fine Gael politician and is currently a TD for Galway West constituency. He is deputy spokesman on the environment and local government, with special responsibility for urban renewal and housing policy.
Pádraig McKearney Pádraig Oliver McKearney (1954 – 1987), was a Marxist oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army Volunteer. He was killed in a Special Air Service ambush with 7 other IRA men at Loughgall, County Armagh in May 1987.
Páez language Páez (also Paez, Páes, Paes, Paisa, autonym: Nasa Yuwe, which is becoming increasingly used) is a language isolate of Colombia spoken by Páez people in the central Andes region near Popayán. The Ethnologue estimates about 71,400 to 83,300 speakers(2000 SIL), among which are counted 35,700 to 41,650 monolinguals of an ethnic population of 122,638.
Páirc Esler Páirc Esler formerly Páirc an Iúir (also called The Marshes) is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Newry, County Down, Ireland. It is the home of the Down Gaelic football and hurling teams and the Newry Shamrocks GAA club The ground has a capacity of about 15,000.
Páirc Uí Chaoimh Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Cork in Ireland, where major hurling and Gaelic football matches are played. It currently has a capacity of 52,000 with one covered stand, an open-air stand and two terraces behind each goalpost.
Páirc Uí Rinn Pairc Ui Rinn is a stadium in Cork owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It was formerly Flower Lodge, a soccer ground home to several Cork teams in the 20th century, named after a Big House on whose grounds it was built.
Pájara Pájara is a Canarian municipality in the central and the eastern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands The population is 16,279 (ISTAC, 2003), its density is 42.46/km² and the area is 383.
Pál Csernai Pál Csernai (born 21 October 1932) was a Hungarian football (soccer) player and coach. As a player he was denied great successes, but as a coach he revived the fortunes of Bayern Munich in the early 1980s after the end of their golden era.
Pál Gerevich Pál Gerevich (born 10 August, 1948) is a Hungarian fencer, who won two Olympic bronze medals in the team sabre competitions. Pál Gerevich won the world championships in sabre fencing in 1977 and is currently coaching the Viennese fencing club WSC.
Pál Kadosa Pál Kadosa (1903–1983) was a leading Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idoms.
Pál Lakatos Pál Lakatos (born June 7, 1968 in Vásárosnamény) is a retired boxer from Hungary, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain) and 2000 (Sydney, Australia). He once won the silver medal at the European Championships, in 1993 (Bursa, Turkey), and thrice captured the bronze medal in the Light Flyweight (– 48kg) at the European Championships, in 1991, 1998 and 2000.
Pál Maléter Pál Maléter (4 September 1917-June 16, 1958) was born to Hungarian parents in Eperjes, a city in the northern part of Historical Hungary, today part of Slovakia. He was the military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Pál Teleki Pál Count Teleki de Szék (November 1, 1879 – April 3, 1941) was prime minister of Hungary from 1920 till 1921 and from 1939 till 1941. He was also a famous expert in geography, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a prominent leader of the Scouting movement.
Pál Turán Paul (Pál) Turán (August 28 1910–September 26 1976) was a mathematician who made contributions in number theory, group theory and approximation theory. He proved one of the first major results in extremal graph theory.
Páll Magnússon Páll Magnússon (born June 17, 1954) is the president of RÚV, the National Icelandic Broadcasting Service. He has worked in the media for many years and was formerly executive news editor and president of Stöð 2.
Pánfilo de Narváez Pánfilo de Narváez (1470 – 1528) was a Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas. He is most remembered as the leader of two expeditions, one to Mexico in 1520 to oppose Hernán Cortés, and another, disastrous, one to Florida in 1527.
Pátria "Pátria" ("Fatherland" in the Portuguese language) is the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of East Timor. It was first used on November 28, 1975 when East Timor unilaterally declared independence from Portugal, shortly before the Indonesian invasion on December 7.
Pátzcuaro Pátzcuaro, which means "place of stones" in the Purepecha language, is a city in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. It is located at 19°51′N 101°61′W, about an hour drive between Morelia and Uruapan.
Pébrine Pébrine is a disease of silkworms, which is caused by a microsporidian parasite, Nosema bombycis. The silkworm larvae infected by pébrine are usually covered in brown dots and are unable to spin silkworm thread.
PĂ©clet number In physics, the PĂ©clet number is a dimensionless number relating the rate of advection of a flow to its rate of thermal diffusion. It is equivalent to the product of the Reynolds number with the Prandtl number.
Pécs Pécs (Latin: Quinque Ecclesiae, Croatian: Pečuh, German: Fünfkirchen, Serbian: Pečuj or Печуј, Slovak: Päťkostolie, Turkish: Peçuy, Italian: Cinquechiese) is the fourth largest city of Hungary, located in the south-west of the country. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county.
Péchés de vieillesse In Gioacchino Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse ("sins of old age"), the opera composer gathered together numerous vocal and solo piano pieces into fourteen unpublished albums, under his self-deprecating and ironic title. The grouping of pieces in albums do not reflect the sequence or the dates of their composition, which ranged from 1857 to shortly before his death in 1868.
Pépé le Moko Pépé le Moko is a 1937 film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, Pépé le Moko ('Moko' is slang for a man from Marseilles) who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers.

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