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PĂ©pino et Capucine PĂ©pino et Capucine was a French language children's television show made in Quebec. Its stories revolved around the adventures of puppets PĂ©pino and Capucine, as well as the plots of recurring villain Panpan.
Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague Pérák, the Spring Man was an urban legend originating from the Czechoslovakian city of Prague during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the midst of the Second World War. In the decades following the War, Pérák has also been portrayed as a Czech superhero.
Péreire brothers The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Emile (1800-1875) and brother Isaac Péreire (1806-1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank.
PĂ©rez Dynasty The PĂ©rez Dynasty (from the Spanish for son of Peter) is the family of kings which ruled in Asturias, Galicia, and LeĂłn from the succession of Alfonso the Catholic, son of Peter, duke of Cantabria. The dynasty died with Bermudo III of LeĂłn.
Périgueux Périgueux () (in the Gascon dialect of Occitan language: Peireguers / Periguers) is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Dordogne département and the capital of the Périgord area in the Aquitaine région. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
PĂ©tanque PĂ©tanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (piglet). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can also be played on grass or other surfaces.
Péter Abay Péter Abay (born 13 May, 1962) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team sabre competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with György Nébald, Bence Szabó, Imre Bujdosó and Csaba Köves.
PĂ©ter Boross PĂ©ter Boross (born August 27 1928) was Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He came into power with the death of the previous PM, JĂłzsef Antall, and held office until his coalition was defeated in elections.
PĂ©ter Disztl PĂ©ter Disztl (born 30 March 1960) is a retired Hungarian football goalkeeper, who made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1984, and got 37 caps until 1989. He was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage.
Péter Doszpot Péter Doszpot (born on 4 December 1962, in Debrecen) is a Hungarian Member of Parliament and a member of Hungarian Socialist Party. After the elections in 2002, he was working as the vice president of Parliament’s policing committee.
Péter Fröhlich Péter Fröhlich of Hungary in a noted Sabre Coach and was GB Olympic coach 1992, 1996, 2000 and coached many members of the Hungarian Team at U20 and senior level. 1999-2001 Currently President of the Honvéd Fencing Club, Budapest.
Péter Kovács Péter Kovács (born 7 February 1978) is a Hungarian footballer currently playing as a striker for Strømsgodset in the Norwegian First Division. He previously played for Újpest FC and Vác FC in Hungary, FC Lahti and FC Haka in Finland, and Tromsø IL and Viking FK in Norway.
Péter Lékó Péter Lékó (Serbian: Петер Леко) (born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Vojvodina) is a Yugoslav born Hungarian chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years (a world record at the time).
Péter Medgyessy (born October 19, 1942, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and was the Prime Minister of Hungary from May 27, 2002 until September 29, 2004, not completing his term. On August 25, 2004 he resigned over disputes with coalition partner Alliance of Free Democrats, but remained caretaker Prime Minister for a 30-day period as required by the Constitution, and a few additional days until his successor Ferenc Gyurcsány was confirmed by Parliament.
Péter Pázmány Péter Pázmány (October 4, 1570 – March 19, 1637) was a Hungarian philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in the Kingdom of Hungary, especially in present-day Slovakia.
Péter Szondi Péter Szondi [] (May 27, 1929, Budapest — November 9, 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, of Hungarian extraction. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release from Bergen-Belsen.
Pétroleuses According to popular rumours at the time, the pétroleuses were female supporters of the Paris Commune, accused of burning down much of Paris during the last days of the Commune in May 1871. During May, when Paris was being recaptured by loyalist Versaillais troops, rumours circulated that lower-class women were committing arson against private property and public buildings, using bottles full of petroleum or paraffin which they threw into cellar windows, in a deliberate act of spite against the government.
Pääskyvuori Pääskyvuori (Finnish; Svalberga in Swedish) is a district in the Itäharju-Varissuo ward of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the east of the city, between Varissuo and Itäharju and is largely a low-density residential suburb.
Pähkähullu Suomi Pähkähullu Suomi (Insane Finland) is a 1967 comedy by Spede Pasanen. It is occasionally cited as one of the best sources for his abstract sense of humour since the film has very little in the sense of plot and is more of a montage of various events.
Päijänne Tavastia Päijänne Tavastia is a region (maakunta / landskap) in Southern Finland south of the lake Päijänne. It borders the regions Uusimaa,Tavastia Proper, Pirkanmaa, central Finland, Southern Savonia, Kymenlaakso, and Eastern Uusimaa.
Pär Arvidsson Pär Arvidsson (born February 27, 1960 in Finspång) was a butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas.
Pärk Pärk or Paerk is a game, somewhat similar to tennis, that has been played for centuries on the island of Gotland in Baltic Sea. The game is played with two teams of 7 people on a field that is 30 metres wide and that can vary in length.
Pärnu County Pärnu County (Estonian: Pärnu maakond), or Pärnumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the north, Järva and Viljandi counties to the east, and Latvia to the south.
Põlva Põlva (Estonian: Põlva), is the capital of Põlva County (Estonian: Põlvamaa), one of 15 counties of Estonia. The county is situated in south-eastern part of the country and borders Tartu, Valga and Võru counties.
Pôle urbain In France an pôle urbain is a statistical area defined by INSEE (France's national statistics office) for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas. It shares the same definition as a unité urbaine ("urban area"), but differing in that it is not contained within the couronne périurbaine (commuter belt) of any other pôle urbain; in other words, a pôle urbain is an urban area that is a centre of demographic growth.
Pökoot language Pökoot (also known as Pokot, Päkot, Pökot and in older literature as Suk) is a language spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda by the Pokot people. Pökoot is classified as the Northern branch of the Kalenjin languages found in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area (Pöyrisjärven erämaa-alue) is a wilderness reserve in Enontekiö municipality, Lapland Province, Finland. It was established in 1991 like all the other wilderness reserves in Lapland Province and covers 1,280 km² (494 mi²).
Pèlerinage de Charlemagne Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne or Voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople (Pilgrimage of Charlemagne or Charlemagne's Voyage to Jerusalem and Constantinople) is an Old French chanson de geste (epic poem) dealing with a fictional expedition by Charlemagne and his knights. The oldest known written version was probably composed around 1140.
Père Noël Père Noël is the French equivalent of the British Father Christmas and the American Santa Claus. In general, France has not adopted the modern garb of Santa Claus in jacket and trousers, but keeps to the older version with a long red hooded robe, edged with white fur.
PÄ“rkons (band) PÄ“rkons (Latvian for 'thunder') was one of the most important and scandalous Latvian rock bands of the 1980s and is still performing in concerts. The group's lineup was Juris Kulakovs (keyboard), Juris SÄ“jÄns (bass, vocals), Leons SÄ“jÄns (lead guitar), Ieva AkurÄtere (vocals), Raimonds Bartaševics (vocals), Dainis Strazdiņš (drums).
PÄ›tka The PÄ›tka, which is the Czech word for five, was an informal, extra-parliamentary forum, which played a crucial role in Czechoslovakian politics in the era of the first Republic. Created in 1920, by the leader of the Agrarian party, AntonĂn Ĺ vehla, it was originally designed as a means to stave off a potential crisis that seemed to be brewing, on account of the inability of the leading parties in parliament to form a governing coalition.
PÄṇini (DevanÄgarÄ«: ; a patronymic meaning "descendant of ) was an ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara (traditionally 520–460 BC, but estimates range from the 7th to 4th centuries BChe lived after Gautama Buddha, so that early estimates depend on an early estimate for the lifetime of Buddha.).
PÄkehÄ PÄkehÄ is a term generally used to describe New Zealanders of Anglo/European extraction, but some MÄori may use it to refer to any non-MÄori person. The word first came into use soon after the arrival of European settlers to New Zealand in the late 18th century.
PÄkehÄ MÄori PÄkehÄ MÄori is a term used to describe early European settlers in New Zealand (known as PÄkehÄ in the MÄori language) who lived among the MÄori. Some, the MÄori kept as slaves, but others settled in MÄori communities by choice, many being runaway seamen or escaped convicts.
PÄdurea Craiului The PÄdurea Craiului Mountains are in the northwestern part of the Apuseni Mountains of the Carpathian Mountain range, located between the Vad-Borod Depression and BeiuĹź Depression. The Dealurile Vestice (Vestice Hills) are located to the west of these mountains and the VlÄdeasa Mountains are to their east.
PB 01 Tyrrel Bay The Tyrrel Bay is a United States-built Guardian-class patrol boat ordered for the Grenadan Coast Guard, with the designation PB 01. She was built for Grenada at the US's request and entered service in November 1984.
PB 02 Levera The Levera is a United States-built Dauntless-class patrol boat ordered for the Grenadan Coast Guard, with the designation PB 02. She was in service by September 1995 and was donated to Grenada in a foreign aid package.
PB&J Otter PB&J Otter is an animated children's program which premiered on The Disney Channel on March 15, 1998. A total of 65 episodes were produced during the course of its three season run, with the "farewell" episode airing on September 10, 2000.
PB2Y Coronado The PB2Y Coronado was a large flying boat patrol bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft. After deliveries of the PBY Catalina, also a Consolidated aircraft, began in 1935, the United States Navy began planning for the next generation of patrol bombers.
PB4Y Privateer The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer was a United States Navy patrol bomber derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s under the name PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered very successful.
PBA Fiesta Conference The PBA Fiesta Conference is a tournament held during a Philippine Basketball Association season. Each PBA team is allowed to hire a single foreign player, with maximum height limitations set by the league, to play for the said tournament.
PBA Hall of Fame The Philippine Basketball Association Hall of Fame is an institution that honors selected former players and personalities of the Philippine Basketball Association. It was launched in 2005 during the Reunion Game pitting two teams comprising of the PBA 25 Greatest Players of All-Time.
PBA on ABC The PBA on ABC is a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on the Philippine television network Associated Broadcasting Company. The PBA on ABC premiered on February 2004, replacing the original broadcaster of the games, National Broadcasting Network and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (PBA on NBN-IBC).
PBA on Christmas Day The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has played games on Christmas since 2002. Due to the league's commitment to the National Team in the 2002 Asian Games, the schedule was forced to go beyond Christmas Day during the finals of the All-Filipino Conference.
PBA on NBN/IBC The PBA on NBN and the The PBA on IBC were presentations of Philippine Basketball Association games on Philippine television networks National Broadcasting Network and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, respectively. The PBA on NBN and The PBA on IBC succeeded PBA's longtime TV partner Vintage Television.
PBA on Vintage Sports The PBA on Vintage Sports was a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on Philippine television network People's Television from 1982 PBA season to 1995 and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation from 1996 - 1999. The PBA on Vintage Sports succeeded PBA on KBS 2
PBA Reinforced Conference The PBA Reinforced Conference was a tournament held during a Philippine Basketball Association season from 1985-1989, and again in 2003. The tournament usually allows team to hire one or two imports, although the 2003 edition rules that teams sign foreign players with a height-limit of 6-4 below.
PBC CSKA Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ПБК ЦСКРМоŃква) is a Russian basketball club, often referred to as "Red Army" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. They are the reigning Euroleague champions, having defeated two-time defending champions Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–69 in the 2006 final at Sazka Arena in Prague.
PBCore The PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) was created by the public broadcasting community in the United States of America for use by public broadcasters and related communities. Initial development funding for PBCore was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PBDE PBDE, or polybrominated diphenyl ether is a flame-retardant sub-family of the brominated flame-retardant group. They have been used in a wide array of household products, including fabrics, furniture, and electronics.
PBKDF2 PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function) is a key derivation function that is part of RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series, specifically PKCS #5 v2.0, also published as Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 2898.
PBluescript In genetics, pBluescript (pBS) or pBluescript II is a commercially available phagemid containing several using sequences for use in cloning with bacteriophage. The sequences include a polylinker sequence, antibiotic resistance sequence and an E.
PBM (band) PBM is an American rock band based out of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1997 by lead singer Nate Castle and trumpet player Tom Torrento, PBM (Poor Boy Music) has released two full length albums - Overview (2003) and One Sip at a Time (2006).
PBMC A Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC) is a blood cell having a round nucleus, such as a lymphocyte or a monocyte. These blood cells are a critical component in the immune system to fight infection and adapt to intruders.
PBS A/S PBS A/S is a Danish company specialising in electronic payment systems. Established in 1968, it is responsible for the Danish national credit card, the Dankort, as well as the Betalingsservice direct debit system.
PBS idents PBS idents are the television idents used by the US Public Broadcasting Service. Programs distributed to its member stations end with an identification including the network's name and logo and often a voiceover, known in the industry as a "system cue".
PBS Kids PBS Kids (often styled all-caps as "PBS KIDS") is the umbrella brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial.
PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch was a three-hour Saturday morning lineup of shows produced by Nelvana and based on the popular children's books Corduroy, George Shrinks, Elliot Moose, Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, Seven Little Monsters, and Timothy Goes to School. The block aired on September 30, 2000.
PBS KIDS Sprout PBS KIDS Sprout is a US digital cable television channel, video-on-demand (VOD) service, and website providing PBS KIDS shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families. Sprout launched initially as a VOD service on April 4, 2005, and later as a cable and satellite channel on September 26, 2005.
PBS YOU PBS YOU (the latter word is an acronym for "Your Own University") was founded in the late 1990s as a 24/7 channel/network featuring formal and informal educational programs and college-related fare, largely to take advantage of available rights and satellite transponder space and eager customers for carriage among the satellite-dish and some cable television companies. PBS YOU has also included PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS) telecourses for college credit and foreign language instruction, but as of October, 2005, is dropping these; how-to programs and public affairs programs and news predominate (the Annenberg/CPB Channel remains in place as a source of networked feeds of credit courses; PBS ALS has been decommissioned as of September, 2005).
PBS-X PBS-X (also known as PBS Schedule X) is 24-hour alternate network from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) that provides a mixed variety of programming selected from PBS's regular network service. It is sometimes multicast by some PBS member stations on their over-the-air DTV channels along with their regular programming.
PBSBiH PBSBiH (Public Broadcasting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina, locally known as Javni radiotelevizijski servis Bosne i Hercegovine) is an umbrella broadcasting organization and the only member of the European Broadcasting Union from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
PBY Catalina PBY Catalina was the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s. PB stands for Patrol Bomber, with Y being Consolidated Aircraft’s manufacturer identification.
Pcmicro pcmicro was a large Bulletin Board System (BBS) support site from 1981 to 1998. Before the World Wide Web became popular, the pcmicro BBS served as a central file repository for all non-commercial BBS software and related utilities.
PC 97 The PC '97 standard is a set of design requirements and recommendations assembled by Microsoft and Intel and aimed at simplifying setup and use of Personal computers by maximizing cooperation between the operating system and hardware.
PC Accelerator PC Accelerator (PCXL) was a personal computer game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now a subsidiary of Future Publishing). It was known for its Maxim-like humor and photography, and its last issue was dated June 2000.
PC booter A PC booter, or booter, is a type of software for home computer era (early 1980s to early 1990s) personal computers. This type of software was loaded and run when the computer bootup (either warm boot or cold boot).
PC card In computing, PC card (originally PCMCIA card) is the form factor of a peripheral interface designed for laptop computers. It was originally for memory expansion, but the existence of a usable general standard for notebook peripherals led to all manner of devices being made available in this form.
PC Cathy Bradford Police Constable Cathy Bradford was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. She first arrived at Sun Hill in January 2002 and was eventually forced to leave both Sun Hill and the police force after she was arrested for several crimes she commited including abduction but she was sectioned and found unfit to stand trial for her crimes.
PC Club PC Club is a privately-owned, United States-based chain of computer hardware stores established in City of Industry, California in 1992. The stores are located primarily in west-coast states and stock hardware and peripherals for PCs and complete computer systems assembled under the brand name Enpower.
PC FĂştbol The PC FĂştbol video game series released for personal computers by Spanish software house Dinamic Multimedia were one of the biggest successes of the Spanish market, spawning several titles from 1992 until Dinamic's closure in 2001, and was later revived in 2005.
PC Format PC Format is a computer magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and licensed to other publishers in countries around the world. In publication since 1991, it is part of Future Publishing's Format series of magazines that include articles about games, entertainment and how to get the most out of the platform.
PC Gabriel Kent Police Constable Gabriel Kent (real name David Kent) was a character in The Bill. Gabriel was considered by some to be the most villainous character in the show's series and considered by others to be one of the worst characters ever but no-one denied that he was one of the darkest and most memorable.
PC Laura Bryant Police Constable Laura Bryant was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. PC Bryant joined Sun Hill in January 2005 and completed her time there in May 2006 when she transferred to Barton Street to a unit that would be more suited to her being a single parent.
PC Life PC Life was a disk magazine for the IBM PC published in 1986. In contrast to the mostly text-based disk magazines in existence at the time, PC Life was more graphical and multimedia in style, with various animation and interaction, although the extent of the graphical style was limited by the technology of the time, which required that the publication fit on a floppy disk and be compatible with CGA graphics.
PC Luke Ashton Police Constable Luke Ashton was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. Luke joined Sun Hill for the first time in 1997 and left for the final time in June 2003 after a failed marriage to PC Kerry Young and the rest of the relief finding out that he was gay.
PC Paintbrush PC Paintbrush (also known simply as Paintbrush) was a graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system. It was originally developed as a response to MacPaint on Apple Computer's new Macintosh platform.
PC Plum PC Plum, played by Andrew Agnew in the BBC hit kid's television show Balamory, is the town's police officer, always there to solve any crime, from who stole the biscuit to who dropped the litter. The Mysteries with PC Plum DVD released in 2003 features 4 episodes showing Plum's finest hours.
PC Plus PC Plus is a British computer magazine. It features the usual reviews, previews, features and opinions, as well several monthly tutorials on Linux, programming, web design, and often a tutorial on 3D modelling or some other artisic pursuit.
PC Power and Cooling PC Power and Cooling is a California-based company that manufactures computer power supplies. Their products tend to be priced higher than products made by similar companies such as OCZ Technology and Corsair.
PC PowerPlay PC PowerPlay (abbreviated as PCPP) is one of Australia's best-selling PC games magazines. Also available in New Zealand, PC PowerPlay focuses on news and reviews for upcoming and newly released games on the Microsoft Windows platform.
PC Pro PC Pro is a computer magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. PC Pro also licenses individual articles (or even the whole magazine) for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages.
PC Reg Hollis Police Constable Reginald "Reg" Percival Hollis is a popular fictional character in the long-running ITV drama The Bill. He is one of the most instantly recogniseable and popular characters in the show's history.
PC Reservation System A PC reservation system is a system whereby publicly accessible computers can be reserved for a period of time. These systems are commonly used in facilities such as public libraries to ensure equitable use of limited numbers of computers.
PC speaker The PC speaker is the most primitive sound system used in IBM compatible PCs, and in fact used to be the only one in use in PC games before more technologically advanced sound cards such as AdLib or the Sound Blaster were introduced as ISA plug-in cards in the late 1980s. However, even some years after these sound cards became mainstream and widely used, game manufacturers continued to support PC-speaker-only sound/music in their games in order to maximise their customer base.
PC Weasel 2000 PC Weasel 2000 is a line of graphics cards designed by Middle Digital Incorporated which output to a serial port instead of a monitor. This allows servers using PC hardware with conventional BIOSes, or operating systems lacking serial capability to be administered remotely.
PC Zone PC Zone (founded in 1993) was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. (Earlier PC magazines such as PC Leisure, PC Format and PC Plus covered games as part of a wider remit.
PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes Since the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers. They are also referred to as plug-compatible mainframes, a term used for the original System/360 and 370 compatible clones.
PC-BSD PC-BSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD similar to DesktopBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy- and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE as the default, pre-installed graphical user interface.
PC-Write PC-Write was a computer text processor and was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. It was originally written by Bob Wallace, in early 1983.
PC(USA) seminaries PC(USA) seminaries are educational institutions run by the Presbyterian Church (USA), geared primarily towards the training of ministers. All PCUSA seminaries grant the Master of Divinity with some also granting other degrees including the Master of Theological Studies, Master of Theology, Doctor of Ministry, Doctor of Theology, and many grant the Doctor of Philosophydegree.
PC/104 PC/104 (or PC104) is an embedded computer standard controlled by the PC/104 Consortium, that defines both a form factor and computer bus. PC/104 is intended for specialized embedded computing environments where applications depend on reliable data acquisition despite an often extreme environment.
PC/Computing PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Computing) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM-compatible (or "Wintel") hardware and software and tips and reference information for users of such software and hardware.
PC100 PC100 is a standard for internal removable computer random access memory, defined by the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC). PC100 refers to Synchronous DRAM operating at a clock frequency of 100 MHz, on a 64-bit bus, at a voltage of 3.
PC532 The PC532 was a "home-brew" microcomputer design created by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in 1989-90, based around the National Semiconductor NS32532 microprocessor (a member of the NS320xx series). Full hardware documentation for the design, including schematics and PAL programming data, was made freely available, and a short run (around 200) of motherboard PCBs were produced for hobbyists to populate and assemble into fully-functional systems.
PCAM The Pacific Coast Association of Magicians (PCAM) is an organization for professional, semi-professional and amateur magicians, that incorporates chapters around the entire Pacific Rim, including Japan, Hawaii, California, and western Canada. Founded in 1933, they host a well-known annual magic convention, which is limited to a few hundred registrants and gives out awards in an annual competition.
PCAST PCAST is the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The council follows a tradition of presidential advisory panels focused on science and technology that dates back to the administrations of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman.
PC² PC² is the Programming Contest Control System developed at California State University, Sacramento in support of Computer Programming Contest activities of the ACM, and in particular the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and its Regional Contests around the world.
PCBoard PCBoard was an MS-DOS / OS/2 bulletin board system (BBS) software package first created by the Clark Development Corporation, and originally introduced in 1983. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems.
PCBT Photography PCBT Photography was formed in 1999 and Business Name was registered in 2000. It was formed by Patrick Trollope BA (Hons) LBPPA as a media group covering news in the UK and supplying international photojournalism, video journalists and radio and written reporters.
Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague Pérák, the Spring Man was an urban legend originating from the Czechoslovakian city of Prague during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the midst of the Second World War. In the decades following the War, Pérák has also been portrayed as a Czech superhero.
Péreire brothers The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Emile (1800-1875) and brother Isaac Péreire (1806-1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank.
PĂ©rez Dynasty The PĂ©rez Dynasty (from the Spanish for son of Peter) is the family of kings which ruled in Asturias, Galicia, and LeĂłn from the succession of Alfonso the Catholic, son of Peter, duke of Cantabria. The dynasty died with Bermudo III of LeĂłn.
Périgueux Périgueux () (in the Gascon dialect of Occitan language: Peireguers / Periguers) is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Dordogne département and the capital of the Périgord area in the Aquitaine région. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
PĂ©tanque PĂ©tanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (piglet). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can also be played on grass or other surfaces.
Péter Abay Péter Abay (born 13 May, 1962) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team sabre competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with György Nébald, Bence Szabó, Imre Bujdosó and Csaba Köves.
PĂ©ter Boross PĂ©ter Boross (born August 27 1928) was Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He came into power with the death of the previous PM, JĂłzsef Antall, and held office until his coalition was defeated in elections.
PĂ©ter Disztl PĂ©ter Disztl (born 30 March 1960) is a retired Hungarian football goalkeeper, who made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1984, and got 37 caps until 1989. He was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage.
Péter Doszpot Péter Doszpot (born on 4 December 1962, in Debrecen) is a Hungarian Member of Parliament and a member of Hungarian Socialist Party. After the elections in 2002, he was working as the vice president of Parliament’s policing committee.
Péter Fröhlich Péter Fröhlich of Hungary in a noted Sabre Coach and was GB Olympic coach 1992, 1996, 2000 and coached many members of the Hungarian Team at U20 and senior level. 1999-2001 Currently President of the Honvéd Fencing Club, Budapest.
Péter Kovács Péter Kovács (born 7 February 1978) is a Hungarian footballer currently playing as a striker for Strømsgodset in the Norwegian First Division. He previously played for Újpest FC and Vác FC in Hungary, FC Lahti and FC Haka in Finland, and Tromsø IL and Viking FK in Norway.
Péter Lékó Péter Lékó (Serbian: Петер Леко) (born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Vojvodina) is a Yugoslav born Hungarian chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years (a world record at the time).
Péter Medgyessy (born October 19, 1942, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and was the Prime Minister of Hungary from May 27, 2002 until September 29, 2004, not completing his term. On August 25, 2004 he resigned over disputes with coalition partner Alliance of Free Democrats, but remained caretaker Prime Minister for a 30-day period as required by the Constitution, and a few additional days until his successor Ferenc Gyurcsány was confirmed by Parliament.
Péter Pázmány Péter Pázmány (October 4, 1570 – March 19, 1637) was a Hungarian philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in the Kingdom of Hungary, especially in present-day Slovakia.
Péter Szondi Péter Szondi [] (May 27, 1929, Budapest — November 9, 1971, Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, of Hungarian extraction. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release from Bergen-Belsen.
Pétroleuses According to popular rumours at the time, the pétroleuses were female supporters of the Paris Commune, accused of burning down much of Paris during the last days of the Commune in May 1871. During May, when Paris was being recaptured by loyalist Versaillais troops, rumours circulated that lower-class women were committing arson against private property and public buildings, using bottles full of petroleum or paraffin which they threw into cellar windows, in a deliberate act of spite against the government.
Pääskyvuori Pääskyvuori (Finnish; Svalberga in Swedish) is a district in the Itäharju-Varissuo ward of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the east of the city, between Varissuo and Itäharju and is largely a low-density residential suburb.
Pähkähullu Suomi Pähkähullu Suomi (Insane Finland) is a 1967 comedy by Spede Pasanen. It is occasionally cited as one of the best sources for his abstract sense of humour since the film has very little in the sense of plot and is more of a montage of various events.
Päijänne Tavastia Päijänne Tavastia is a region (maakunta / landskap) in Southern Finland south of the lake Päijänne. It borders the regions Uusimaa,Tavastia Proper, Pirkanmaa, central Finland, Southern Savonia, Kymenlaakso, and Eastern Uusimaa.
Pär Arvidsson Pär Arvidsson (born February 27, 1960 in Finspång) was a butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas.
Pärk Pärk or Paerk is a game, somewhat similar to tennis, that has been played for centuries on the island of Gotland in Baltic Sea. The game is played with two teams of 7 people on a field that is 30 metres wide and that can vary in length.
Pärnu County Pärnu County (Estonian: Pärnu maakond), or Pärnumaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the north, Järva and Viljandi counties to the east, and Latvia to the south.
Põlva Põlva (Estonian: Põlva), is the capital of Põlva County (Estonian: Põlvamaa), one of 15 counties of Estonia. The county is situated in south-eastern part of the country and borders Tartu, Valga and Võru counties.
Pôle urbain In France an pôle urbain is a statistical area defined by INSEE (France's national statistics office) for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas. It shares the same definition as a unité urbaine ("urban area"), but differing in that it is not contained within the couronne périurbaine (commuter belt) of any other pôle urbain; in other words, a pôle urbain is an urban area that is a centre of demographic growth.
Pökoot language Pökoot (also known as Pokot, Päkot, Pökot and in older literature as Suk) is a language spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda by the Pokot people. Pökoot is classified as the Northern branch of the Kalenjin languages found in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area Pöyrisjärvi Wilderness Area (Pöyrisjärven erämaa-alue) is a wilderness reserve in Enontekiö municipality, Lapland Province, Finland. It was established in 1991 like all the other wilderness reserves in Lapland Province and covers 1,280 km² (494 mi²).
Pèlerinage de Charlemagne Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne or Voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople (Pilgrimage of Charlemagne or Charlemagne's Voyage to Jerusalem and Constantinople) is an Old French chanson de geste (epic poem) dealing with a fictional expedition by Charlemagne and his knights. The oldest known written version was probably composed around 1140.
Père Noël Père Noël is the French equivalent of the British Father Christmas and the American Santa Claus. In general, France has not adopted the modern garb of Santa Claus in jacket and trousers, but keeps to the older version with a long red hooded robe, edged with white fur.
PÄ“rkons (band) PÄ“rkons (Latvian for 'thunder') was one of the most important and scandalous Latvian rock bands of the 1980s and is still performing in concerts. The group's lineup was Juris Kulakovs (keyboard), Juris SÄ“jÄns (bass, vocals), Leons SÄ“jÄns (lead guitar), Ieva AkurÄtere (vocals), Raimonds Bartaševics (vocals), Dainis Strazdiņš (drums).
PÄ›tka The PÄ›tka, which is the Czech word for five, was an informal, extra-parliamentary forum, which played a crucial role in Czechoslovakian politics in the era of the first Republic. Created in 1920, by the leader of the Agrarian party, AntonĂn Ĺ vehla, it was originally designed as a means to stave off a potential crisis that seemed to be brewing, on account of the inability of the leading parties in parliament to form a governing coalition.
PÄṇini (DevanÄgarÄ«: ; a patronymic meaning "descendant of ) was an ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara (traditionally 520–460 BC, but estimates range from the 7th to 4th centuries BChe lived after Gautama Buddha, so that early estimates depend on an early estimate for the lifetime of Buddha.).
PÄkehÄ PÄkehÄ is a term generally used to describe New Zealanders of Anglo/European extraction, but some MÄori may use it to refer to any non-MÄori person. The word first came into use soon after the arrival of European settlers to New Zealand in the late 18th century.
PÄkehÄ MÄori PÄkehÄ MÄori is a term used to describe early European settlers in New Zealand (known as PÄkehÄ in the MÄori language) who lived among the MÄori. Some, the MÄori kept as slaves, but others settled in MÄori communities by choice, many being runaway seamen or escaped convicts.
PÄdurea Craiului The PÄdurea Craiului Mountains are in the northwestern part of the Apuseni Mountains of the Carpathian Mountain range, located between the Vad-Borod Depression and BeiuĹź Depression. The Dealurile Vestice (Vestice Hills) are located to the west of these mountains and the VlÄdeasa Mountains are to their east.
PB 01 Tyrrel Bay The Tyrrel Bay is a United States-built Guardian-class patrol boat ordered for the Grenadan Coast Guard, with the designation PB 01. She was built for Grenada at the US's request and entered service in November 1984.
PB 02 Levera The Levera is a United States-built Dauntless-class patrol boat ordered for the Grenadan Coast Guard, with the designation PB 02. She was in service by September 1995 and was donated to Grenada in a foreign aid package.
PB&J Otter PB&J Otter is an animated children's program which premiered on The Disney Channel on March 15, 1998. A total of 65 episodes were produced during the course of its three season run, with the "farewell" episode airing on September 10, 2000.
PB2Y Coronado The PB2Y Coronado was a large flying boat patrol bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft. After deliveries of the PBY Catalina, also a Consolidated aircraft, began in 1935, the United States Navy began planning for the next generation of patrol bombers.
PB4Y Privateer The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer was a United States Navy patrol bomber derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s under the name PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered very successful.
PBA Fiesta Conference The PBA Fiesta Conference is a tournament held during a Philippine Basketball Association season. Each PBA team is allowed to hire a single foreign player, with maximum height limitations set by the league, to play for the said tournament.
PBA Hall of Fame The Philippine Basketball Association Hall of Fame is an institution that honors selected former players and personalities of the Philippine Basketball Association. It was launched in 2005 during the Reunion Game pitting two teams comprising of the PBA 25 Greatest Players of All-Time.
PBA on ABC The PBA on ABC is a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on the Philippine television network Associated Broadcasting Company. The PBA on ABC premiered on February 2004, replacing the original broadcaster of the games, National Broadcasting Network and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (PBA on NBN-IBC).
PBA on Christmas Day The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has played games on Christmas since 2002. Due to the league's commitment to the National Team in the 2002 Asian Games, the schedule was forced to go beyond Christmas Day during the finals of the All-Filipino Conference.
PBA on NBN/IBC The PBA on NBN and the The PBA on IBC were presentations of Philippine Basketball Association games on Philippine television networks National Broadcasting Network and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, respectively. The PBA on NBN and The PBA on IBC succeeded PBA's longtime TV partner Vintage Television.
PBA on Vintage Sports The PBA on Vintage Sports was a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on Philippine television network People's Television from 1982 PBA season to 1995 and Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation from 1996 - 1999. The PBA on Vintage Sports succeeded PBA on KBS 2
PBA Reinforced Conference The PBA Reinforced Conference was a tournament held during a Philippine Basketball Association season from 1985-1989, and again in 2003. The tournament usually allows team to hire one or two imports, although the 2003 edition rules that teams sign foreign players with a height-limit of 6-4 below.
PBC CSKA Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ПБК ЦСКРМоŃква) is a Russian basketball club, often referred to as "Red Army" for its past affiliation with the Soviet Army. They are the reigning Euroleague champions, having defeated two-time defending champions Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–69 in the 2006 final at Sazka Arena in Prague.
PBCore The PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) was created by the public broadcasting community in the United States of America for use by public broadcasters and related communities. Initial development funding for PBCore was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PBDE PBDE, or polybrominated diphenyl ether is a flame-retardant sub-family of the brominated flame-retardant group. They have been used in a wide array of household products, including fabrics, furniture, and electronics.
PBKDF2 PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function) is a key derivation function that is part of RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series, specifically PKCS #5 v2.0, also published as Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 2898.
PBluescript In genetics, pBluescript (pBS) or pBluescript II is a commercially available phagemid containing several using sequences for use in cloning with bacteriophage. The sequences include a polylinker sequence, antibiotic resistance sequence and an E.
PBM (band) PBM is an American rock band based out of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1997 by lead singer Nate Castle and trumpet player Tom Torrento, PBM (Poor Boy Music) has released two full length albums - Overview (2003) and One Sip at a Time (2006).
PBMC A Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC) is a blood cell having a round nucleus, such as a lymphocyte or a monocyte. These blood cells are a critical component in the immune system to fight infection and adapt to intruders.
PBS A/S PBS A/S is a Danish company specialising in electronic payment systems. Established in 1968, it is responsible for the Danish national credit card, the Dankort, as well as the Betalingsservice direct debit system.
PBS idents PBS idents are the television idents used by the US Public Broadcasting Service. Programs distributed to its member stations end with an identification including the network's name and logo and often a voiceover, known in the industry as a "system cue".
PBS Kids PBS Kids (often styled all-caps as "PBS KIDS") is the umbrella brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial.
PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch was a three-hour Saturday morning lineup of shows produced by Nelvana and based on the popular children's books Corduroy, George Shrinks, Elliot Moose, Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, Seven Little Monsters, and Timothy Goes to School. The block aired on September 30, 2000.
PBS KIDS Sprout PBS KIDS Sprout is a US digital cable television channel, video-on-demand (VOD) service, and website providing PBS KIDS shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families. Sprout launched initially as a VOD service on April 4, 2005, and later as a cable and satellite channel on September 26, 2005.
PBS YOU PBS YOU (the latter word is an acronym for "Your Own University") was founded in the late 1990s as a 24/7 channel/network featuring formal and informal educational programs and college-related fare, largely to take advantage of available rights and satellite transponder space and eager customers for carriage among the satellite-dish and some cable television companies. PBS YOU has also included PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS) telecourses for college credit and foreign language instruction, but as of October, 2005, is dropping these; how-to programs and public affairs programs and news predominate (the Annenberg/CPB Channel remains in place as a source of networked feeds of credit courses; PBS ALS has been decommissioned as of September, 2005).
PBS-X PBS-X (also known as PBS Schedule X) is 24-hour alternate network from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) that provides a mixed variety of programming selected from PBS's regular network service. It is sometimes multicast by some PBS member stations on their over-the-air DTV channels along with their regular programming.
PBSBiH PBSBiH (Public Broadcasting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina, locally known as Javni radiotelevizijski servis Bosne i Hercegovine) is an umbrella broadcasting organization and the only member of the European Broadcasting Union from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
PBY Catalina PBY Catalina was the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s. PB stands for Patrol Bomber, with Y being Consolidated Aircraft’s manufacturer identification.
Pcmicro pcmicro was a large Bulletin Board System (BBS) support site from 1981 to 1998. Before the World Wide Web became popular, the pcmicro BBS served as a central file repository for all non-commercial BBS software and related utilities.
PC 97 The PC '97 standard is a set of design requirements and recommendations assembled by Microsoft and Intel and aimed at simplifying setup and use of Personal computers by maximizing cooperation between the operating system and hardware.
PC Accelerator PC Accelerator (PCXL) was a personal computer game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now a subsidiary of Future Publishing). It was known for its Maxim-like humor and photography, and its last issue was dated June 2000.
PC booter A PC booter, or booter, is a type of software for home computer era (early 1980s to early 1990s) personal computers. This type of software was loaded and run when the computer bootup (either warm boot or cold boot).
PC card In computing, PC card (originally PCMCIA card) is the form factor of a peripheral interface designed for laptop computers. It was originally for memory expansion, but the existence of a usable general standard for notebook peripherals led to all manner of devices being made available in this form.
PC Cathy Bradford Police Constable Cathy Bradford was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. She first arrived at Sun Hill in January 2002 and was eventually forced to leave both Sun Hill and the police force after she was arrested for several crimes she commited including abduction but she was sectioned and found unfit to stand trial for her crimes.
PC Club PC Club is a privately-owned, United States-based chain of computer hardware stores established in City of Industry, California in 1992. The stores are located primarily in west-coast states and stock hardware and peripherals for PCs and complete computer systems assembled under the brand name Enpower.
PC FĂştbol The PC FĂştbol video game series released for personal computers by Spanish software house Dinamic Multimedia were one of the biggest successes of the Spanish market, spawning several titles from 1992 until Dinamic's closure in 2001, and was later revived in 2005.
PC Format PC Format is a computer magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and licensed to other publishers in countries around the world. In publication since 1991, it is part of Future Publishing's Format series of magazines that include articles about games, entertainment and how to get the most out of the platform.
PC Gabriel Kent Police Constable Gabriel Kent (real name David Kent) was a character in The Bill. Gabriel was considered by some to be the most villainous character in the show's series and considered by others to be one of the worst characters ever but no-one denied that he was one of the darkest and most memorable.
PC Laura Bryant Police Constable Laura Bryant was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. PC Bryant joined Sun Hill in January 2005 and completed her time there in May 2006 when she transferred to Barton Street to a unit that would be more suited to her being a single parent.
PC Life PC Life was a disk magazine for the IBM PC published in 1986. In contrast to the mostly text-based disk magazines in existence at the time, PC Life was more graphical and multimedia in style, with various animation and interaction, although the extent of the graphical style was limited by the technology of the time, which required that the publication fit on a floppy disk and be compatible with CGA graphics.
PC Luke Ashton Police Constable Luke Ashton was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill. Luke joined Sun Hill for the first time in 1997 and left for the final time in June 2003 after a failed marriage to PC Kerry Young and the rest of the relief finding out that he was gay.
PC Paintbrush PC Paintbrush (also known simply as Paintbrush) was a graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system. It was originally developed as a response to MacPaint on Apple Computer's new Macintosh platform.
PC Plum PC Plum, played by Andrew Agnew in the BBC hit kid's television show Balamory, is the town's police officer, always there to solve any crime, from who stole the biscuit to who dropped the litter. The Mysteries with PC Plum DVD released in 2003 features 4 episodes showing Plum's finest hours.
PC Plus PC Plus is a British computer magazine. It features the usual reviews, previews, features and opinions, as well several monthly tutorials on Linux, programming, web design, and often a tutorial on 3D modelling or some other artisic pursuit.
PC Power and Cooling PC Power and Cooling is a California-based company that manufactures computer power supplies. Their products tend to be priced higher than products made by similar companies such as OCZ Technology and Corsair.
PC PowerPlay PC PowerPlay (abbreviated as PCPP) is one of Australia's best-selling PC games magazines. Also available in New Zealand, PC PowerPlay focuses on news and reviews for upcoming and newly released games on the Microsoft Windows platform.
PC Pro PC Pro is a computer magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. PC Pro also licenses individual articles (or even the whole magazine) for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages.
PC Reg Hollis Police Constable Reginald "Reg" Percival Hollis is a popular fictional character in the long-running ITV drama The Bill. He is one of the most instantly recogniseable and popular characters in the show's history.
PC Reservation System A PC reservation system is a system whereby publicly accessible computers can be reserved for a period of time. These systems are commonly used in facilities such as public libraries to ensure equitable use of limited numbers of computers.
PC speaker The PC speaker is the most primitive sound system used in IBM compatible PCs, and in fact used to be the only one in use in PC games before more technologically advanced sound cards such as AdLib or the Sound Blaster were introduced as ISA plug-in cards in the late 1980s. However, even some years after these sound cards became mainstream and widely used, game manufacturers continued to support PC-speaker-only sound/music in their games in order to maximise their customer base.
PC Weasel 2000 PC Weasel 2000 is a line of graphics cards designed by Middle Digital Incorporated which output to a serial port instead of a monitor. This allows servers using PC hardware with conventional BIOSes, or operating systems lacking serial capability to be administered remotely.
PC Zone PC Zone (founded in 1993) was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. (Earlier PC magazines such as PC Leisure, PC Format and PC Plus covered games as part of a wider remit.
PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes Since the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers. They are also referred to as plug-compatible mainframes, a term used for the original System/360 and 370 compatible clones.
PC-BSD PC-BSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD similar to DesktopBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy- and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE as the default, pre-installed graphical user interface.
PC-Write PC-Write was a computer text processor and was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. It was originally written by Bob Wallace, in early 1983.
PC(USA) seminaries PC(USA) seminaries are educational institutions run by the Presbyterian Church (USA), geared primarily towards the training of ministers. All PCUSA seminaries grant the Master of Divinity with some also granting other degrees including the Master of Theological Studies, Master of Theology, Doctor of Ministry, Doctor of Theology, and many grant the Doctor of Philosophydegree.
PC/104 PC/104 (or PC104) is an embedded computer standard controlled by the PC/104 Consortium, that defines both a form factor and computer bus. PC/104 is intended for specialized embedded computing environments where applications depend on reliable data acquisition despite an often extreme environment.
PC/Computing PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Computing) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM-compatible (or "Wintel") hardware and software and tips and reference information for users of such software and hardware.
PC100 PC100 is a standard for internal removable computer random access memory, defined by the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC). PC100 refers to Synchronous DRAM operating at a clock frequency of 100 MHz, on a 64-bit bus, at a voltage of 3.
PC532 The PC532 was a "home-brew" microcomputer design created by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in 1989-90, based around the National Semiconductor NS32532 microprocessor (a member of the NS320xx series). Full hardware documentation for the design, including schematics and PAL programming data, was made freely available, and a short run (around 200) of motherboard PCBs were produced for hobbyists to populate and assemble into fully-functional systems.
PCAM The Pacific Coast Association of Magicians (PCAM) is an organization for professional, semi-professional and amateur magicians, that incorporates chapters around the entire Pacific Rim, including Japan, Hawaii, California, and western Canada. Founded in 1933, they host a well-known annual magic convention, which is limited to a few hundred registrants and gives out awards in an annual competition.
PCAST PCAST is the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The council follows a tradition of presidential advisory panels focused on science and technology that dates back to the administrations of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman.
PC² PC² is the Programming Contest Control System developed at California State University, Sacramento in support of Computer Programming Contest activities of the ACM, and in particular the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and its Regional Contests around the world.
PCBoard PCBoard was an MS-DOS / OS/2 bulletin board system (BBS) software package first created by the Clark Development Corporation, and originally introduced in 1983. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems.
PCBT Photography PCBT Photography was formed in 1999 and Business Name was registered in 2000. It was formed by Patrick Trollope BA (Hons) LBPPA as a media group covering news in the UK and supplying international photojournalism, video journalists and radio and written reporters.
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