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Peer Pressure (game show) Peer Pressure was an American television game show where youths performed stunts and answered questions about moral dilemmas. The show aired in syndication from 1997 to 2000, and was hosted by Nick Spano (Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens) and Valarie Rae Miller.
Peer review Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a process of subjecting an author's scholarly work or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the field. It is used primarily by editors to select and to screen submitted manuscripts, and by funding agencies, to decide the awarding of grants.
Peer Review (magazine) Peer Review is a quarterly magazine published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities that reports "emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate liberal education". First published early in 2000, the magazine is edited by Shelley Johnson Carey with an Advisory Board of nineteen members, all academics.
Peer supervision groups Peer Supervision Groups are professional support groups in the helping professions that provide a safe place to explore the personal and professional development of the practitioner. Professional Peer Supervision Groups provide a forum for self care that is essential when working with others in professions that require that the therapists/practitioners to give so much of themselves.
Peer Schneider Peer Schneider (born April 9, 1971) is the current Vice-President of Content Publishing at IGN Entertainment. He oversees all of the network's editorial content, including that of IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, and Rotten Tomatoes.
Peer to Peer Banking Peer to Peer Banking is an online system that allows individual members to complete financial transactions with one another by using an auction style process that lets members offer loans for a specific amount and at a specific rate. Buyers have the option to look for an amount and rate of interest that meets their needs.
Peer to Peer Remote Copy Peer to Peer Remote Copy or PPRC is a protocol to mirror a storage volume to another control unit in a remote site. Synchronous PPRC causes each write to the primary volume to be performed to the secondary as well, and the I/O is only considered complete when update to both primary and secondary have completed.
Peer tutor A peer tutor is anyone who is of a similar status as the person being tutored. In an undergraduate institution this would usually be other undergraduates, as distinct from the graduate students who may be teaching the writing classes.
Peer-to-peer A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely [hoc|ad hoc] connections.
Peer-to-peer (meme) Peer to Peer or P2P for short, in this context refers to the meme of egalitarian networking that is currently emerging throughout society, made possible by internet technologies and a critical look at current authoritarian and centralised social structures.
Peer-to-peer wiki Peer-to-peer wiki is a server-less system that allows wiki sites to be shared between peers. It is based on a peer-to-peer version control system, which takes care of sharing, transmitting the updates, and storing the history of pages.
Peerage The British Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title.
Peerage (disambiguation) Peerage is a system of titles of aristocracy, historically used in many monarchical systems of government. The term "peerage" technically refers to a subset of the complete system of titles of nobility, with the precise meaning varying from country to country.
Peerage of England The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain.
Peerage of England and Ireland by date From the early Middle Ages up until early modern times, the nobility was the true basis of power for the English crown. The peerage was where the king would turn for military, judicial and administrative purposes, and the ruler who ignored his nobility, like Edward II, did so at great risk to his position.
Peerage of Great Britain The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerages of England and Scotland, until it was itself replaced by the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801.
Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. Before 1801, Irish Peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, but after the Union in 1801, Irish peers elected 28 representative peers to the House of Lords (see List of Irish representative peers).
Peerage of Scotland The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced in which subsequent titles were granted.
Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Peerflix Peerflix is a DVD movie trading service based in Palo Alto, California, launched quietly in 2004 by founders Danny Robinson, Tim Stewart and Billy McNair. The concept behind the service is similar to that of file trading that is done through peer to peer software such as Kazaa, except physical DVDs are exchanged instead of files.
Peering Peering is voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic, instead, each derives revenue from its own customers.
Peerix Peerix is an UNIX-like operating system designed to run in a distributed environment in which the runtime objects in RAM, the filing system and network/internet mediums are all unified into a single tree called a nodal network. It aims to use the set of GNU UNIX-like components for low-level hardware integration operations such as memory-management and the nodal environment for high-level network and resource allocation layers, and to provide the user interface.
Peers Legh Sir Peers Legh was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt his Mastiff stood over him and protected him for many hours through the battle. Although Legh later died, the Mastiff returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs.
PeerWeb PeerWeb is a site dedicated to indexing files on the Gnutella2 network. The site itself does not host the files, but collects and sorts special Magnet links, which contain a hash value to identify files being shared by other Gnutella2 users through clients such as Shareaza.
Peet Coombes Peet Coombes (died 1997) was the guitarist and vocalist with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart in the two pre-Eurythmics bands, The Catch, who only released one single, "Borderline/Black Blood" (1977, Logo) and the Tourists, who had quite a few UK hits in the late '70s.
Peet Pienaar Peet Pienaar (born 29 August 1971 near Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000. The discarded foreskin, displayed in a small perspex case, was part of an installation with a three-monitor video showing the circumcision operation in excruciating close-up.
Peeter Põld Peeter Siegfried Nikolaus Põld (born 12 July 1878, died 1 September 1930) was an Estonian pedagogic scientist, school director and politician (member of the the Estonian People's Party). He was the first Estonian Minister of Education.
Peetie Wheatstraw Peetie Wheatstraw (December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941) was the name adopted by singer William Bunch, a greatly influential figure among 1930s blues singers. Although the only known picture of Bunch shows him holding a National brand tricone resonator guitar, his primary instrument was the piano.
Peetre theorem In mathematics, the (linear) Peetre theorem is a result of functional analysis that gives a characterisation of differential operators in terms of their effect on generalized function spaces, and without mentioning differentiation in explicit terms. The Peetre theorem is an example of a finite order theorem in which a function or a functor, defined in a very general way, can in fact be shown to be a polynomial because of some extraneous condition or symmetry imposed upon it.
Peewee Moke Peewee Moke (born January 12, 1986 in Samoa) is a Samoan rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition. Moke previously played for the Sydney Roosters though never represented the club at first grade level, he also played for the Australian schoolboys.
Pe̍h-ōe-jī Peh-ōe-jī (POJ) () is an orthography in the Latin alphabet created and introduced to Taiwan by Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century. POJ is a popular orthography for the Taiwanese language, and Min Nan in general.
Pefferlaw, Ontario Pefferlaw is a suburban community of the Town of Georgina, located on the southeast corner of Lake Simcoe in Ontario in the northeastern and eastern parts of Georgina. A river, known officially as the Pefferlaw Brook, runs through the downtown area of the community.
Pefko (Messenia), Greece Pefko or "Πευκο" is a small but scenic Greek village in Messenia, west of the Tayegetus Mountain and in between Sparta and Kalamata, in Messenian Mani. The village has been called "Pefko" (meaning "pine tree" in Greek) for the past few decades.
Pefkochori Pefkochori or Pefkohori (Greek, Modern: Πευκοχώρι, Katharevousa: -on meaning "pine town), older forms: Pefkochorion and Pefkohorio is a touristic town located in the southeast of the peninsula of Cassandreia and Chalkidiki (also a prefecture) in Greece. Pefkochori is named after the pine trees which are abundant in the mountains of the area.
Peg DHCP Peg DHCP is a method defined in RFC 2322 to assign IP addresses in a context where regular DHCP wouldn't work. The "server" hands out wooden clothes-pegs numbered with the IPs to allocate and an additional leaflet with network information.
Peg Kehret Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on November 11, 1936; last name pronounced like carrot) is an American writer, who writes for children aged 8–14. Her family and her moved to Austin, Minnesota in 1944, and in 1948 she was diagnosed with polio.
Peg Norman Peg Norman (born 1964 in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her role in the film My Left Breast, which documented her partner Gerry Rogers' battle with breast cancer. Previously a social worker, Norman was a manager of Henry Morgentaler's clinic for ten years.
Peg o' My Heart Peg O' My Heart is a popular song with words by Alfred Bryan and music by Fred Fisher, published March 15, 1913 and featured in the musical Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913. The song, performed by Max Harris and his Novelty Trio (based on a version by The Harmonicats), was used as the theme of the BBC miniseries The Singing Detective.
Peg Powler The Peg Powler is a hag from English folklore with a green skin, long hair and sharp teeth who is said to inhabit the River Tees. She grabs the ankles of those who wander too close to the water's edge, especially naughty children, and pulls them under water and drowns them.
Peg Productions Peg Productions a production company that was founded in the early 1990's as an umbrella organization by two brothers and a friend of theirs. They put their avant garde and eclectic skills together for just under a decade.
Peg Putt Margaret Ann (Peg) Putt (born 5 June 1953, Sydney) is an Australian politician and parliamentary leader of the Tasmanian Greens. She first entered the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1993 after Bob Brown resigned and votes in the Hobart electorate of Denison were recounted.
Peg wooden dolls Peg wooden dolls are some of the oldest surviving dolls, and were made worldwide. Although the term "peg-wooden" refers to a jointing technique where the arms and/or legs are attached to the body with pegs, this term came to be synonymous with simple lathe turned dolls from the Groden Valley in the Alps.
Peg-billed Finch The Peg-billed Finch, Acanthidops bairdii, is a passerine bird which is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and extrene western Panama. Despite its name, it is not a true finch, but rather a member of the large Emberizidae family, which also includes buntings, American sparrows, juncos and towhees.
Pegabovine Pegabovine, originally known as "A Meeting About Laughter", was created in 2001 in Exeter, England after Matthew Henry Johnson and Davis Wateracre, two students in the Drama department at Exeter University had the idea of setting up a comedy company. Using the basement of a local pub, they held a fortnightly open forum for comedy writers (including Luke Kennard, poet and winner of an Eric Gregory Award) and performers.
Pegabtanib Pegaptanib sodium injection (Macugen) is a medicine for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It was discovered by EyeTech Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Pfizer for late stage development and marketing.
Pegaso Pegaso (; Spanish for "Pegasus") was a Spanish brand of trucks, buses, tractors and armoured vehicles, and, for a while, of impressive sport cars. The parent company, Enasa, was created in 1946 based on the old Hispano-Suiza factory, under the direction of the renowned automotive engineer Wifredo Ricart.
Pegasoferae Pegasoferae is a superorder of mammals that has recently been proposed on the basis of genomic research in molecular systematics by Nishihara, Hasegawa and Okada (2006). To the surprise of the authors, their data led them to propose a clade that includes bats (order Chiroptera), carnivores such as cats and dogs (order Carnivora), horses and their relatives (order Perissodactyla) and pangolins (order Pholidota) as springing from a single evolutionary origin within the mammals.
Pegasos Pegasos is a MicroATX motherboard powered by a PowerPC G3/G4 microprocessor, featuring 3 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot, two Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 & 10/100), USB, DDR, AC97 sound, and FireWire. Like the PowerPC Apple Macintosh counterparts, it boots using an Open Firmware solution.
Pegasus In Greek mythology, Pegasus (Greek: Πήγασος (Pégasos)) was a winged horse that was the son of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and the Gorgon Medusa. Depending on the historical source, the plural for pegasus is pegasi or pegasuses.
Pegasus (constellation) Pegasus (IPA: ) is a northern constellation, named after the mythological Pegasus, named for the winged horse. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy.
Pegasus Airlines Pegasus Airlines (Pegasus Hava Tasimaciligi AS) is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey. It operates holiday charter flights to Turkish resorts from northern and western Europe, and leases aircraft and crew to other operators on demand.
Pegasus Bridge Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham. The bridge, also known as the BĂ©nouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a major objective of the British 6th Airborne Division, which was landed units by glider near it during the Normandy Invasion on the 5th/6 June 1944.
Pegasus crossing A pegasus crossing or equestrian crossing is a type of signalised pedestrian crossing in the United Kingdom which has a special consideration for horse riders. They are named after the mythical winged horse, the Pegasus.
Pegasus Cup The Pegasus Cup is a Cambridge rowing prize first awarded in 2006. It was donated by Milton Brewery and will be awarded anually to the most successful college boat club competing in the Cambridge May Bumping Races.
Pegasus Ladies Hockey Club Pegasus Ladies Hockey Club is a hockey club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Club was founded in 1961, with the name being an anacronym for Physical Education Girls And Staff Ulster College and Stranmillis.
Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a freeware, proprietary, electronic mail client that was developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for MS-DOS, but was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows.
Pegasus Networks Pegasus Networks was set up in 1989, and became Australia's first public internet provider. It acted as a "gateway" to emerging online networks working the fields of environment, labour, peace, women's and the human rights movement.
Pegasus satellite program The Pegasus satellite program was a series of three satellites, which were launched in 1965 to study the frequency of micrometeorite impacts. All three Pegasus satellites were lauched by Saturn 1 rockets, and remained connected with the upper stage.
Pegasus Seiya Pegasus Seiya (星矢, Star Arrow) is the main character of the manga/anime, Saint Seiya. He, along with fellow bronze saints Dragon Shiryu, Cygnus Hyoga, Andromeda Shun, and Phoenix Ikki, are the main protagonists in the epic adventure.
Pegasus Software Pegasus Software is based in Kettering, England and develops accounting and financial management and payroll software applications for small and medium sized businesses. The company was founded in 1981 and was among the first software houses in the UK to launch its applications for the MS-DOS platform.
Pegasus-Class Assault Landing Craft In the fictional universe of Mobile Suit Gundam, the Pegasus-Class Assault Landing Craft was the first ship of the Earth Federation to be designed around a capacity to carry mobile suits (MS). These Assault Carriers are functionally equivalent to an aircraft carrier, as their primary function is to launch and recover mobile suits.
Pegative case In linguistics, the pegative case is a noun case that marks the agent of an action with a dative-like undergoer argument; that is, it marks the agent of a transitive verb that has only a partial or low-intensity effect on the undergoer argument.
Pegazus Pegazus is a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia. The band came to international notice after being signed by Nuclear Blast in 1997 and toured Europe the following year but since then the band has faded.
Pegboy Pegboy was an US-American punk band from Chicago, founded 1990 by John Haggerty (who played guitar with Naked Raygun), along with his brother Joe Haggerty (drums), Larry Damore (vocals/guitar), and Steve Saylors (bass). Both Damore and Saylors had been members of Chicago-based hardcore band Bhopal Stiffs, whose 1987 demo had been produced by John Haggerty.
Peggie Castle Peggie Castle (born Peggy Blair on December 22, 1927 in Appalachia, Virginia, died August 11, 1973 in Hollywood, California) was a film actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. She was also billed under the names Peggy Castle and Peggie Call.
Peggy Bulger Peggy Bulger is a folklorist and the director of the American Folklife Center at the (Library of Congress). A native of Albany, New York, she received her BA in Fine Arts from SUNY at Albany in 1972; her MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University in 1975; and her PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
Peggy Cartwright Peggy Cartwright (born November 14 1912, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; died June 12 2001, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) was a silent-era actress perhaps best known for her short stint as the leading lady of the Our Gang comedies. She appeared in four shorts in 1922 and, possibly, the pilot for the series (today a lost film).
Peggy Duff Margaret Doreen Duff, usually known as Peggy Duff (February 8, 1910 – April 16, 1981) was a British political activist who was principally known for her contribution to the Peace movement as the organiser of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Peggy Feltmate Peggy Feltmate is an Ottawa city councillor representing Kanata South Ward. She was born in Wallaceburg, Ontario in 1949 and was first elected in the 2003 Ottawa election to replace outgoing councillor Alex Munter in Kanata ward.
Peggy Foster, Bassplayer Peggy Foster, Bassplayer, played a fretless Travis Bean bass on some of Steve Vai's Albums; there is an MP3 clip of her and a photo on Steve Vai's website. She also played with The Runaways in 1976 and there is a long interview with her on The Runaways website.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce Peggy Hopkins Joyce (May 26, 1893 - June 12, 1957) was an American actress and celebrity, famed as much for her several marriages to wealthy men, colorful divorces, scandalous affairs, and generally lavish lifestyle as for her work on stage or screen.
Peggy Charren Peggy Charren (born 1928) founded Action for Children's Television (ACT) in 1968 in an effort to improve the quality of children's television programming. In 1989, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her its Trustees' Award.
Peggy Jean Peggy Jean was the girlfriend of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts for about two years in the early-1990s. Charlie Brown first met her at summer camp in 1990, and she appeared intermittently in the strip until the summer of 1999, a few months before the strip ended.
Peggy Krusick Margaret Ann "Peggy" Krusick, born October, 1956 is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Krusick represents the Seventh Assembly District, located on Milwaukee's southwest side.
Peggy Lee Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American Jazz and Traditional Pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom and was famous for her "soft and cool" singing style, which she is thought to have developed in response to noisy nightclub audiences.
Peggy Levitt Peggy Levitt is an American sociologist and associate professor at Wellesley College. Levitt is an expert on immigration and how the religious practices of both new and established immigrant groups are changing America and the homelands from which they come.
Peggy Lipton Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones (born August 30, 1946) is an American actress and socialite. She is best known for her portrayal of hip young detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show The Mod Squad and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama Twin Peaks.
Peggy March Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio on March 8, 1948, Lansdale, Pennsylvania) is an American pop music singer. She was discovered at age thirteen singing at a wedding and was introduced to the record producer duo Hugo & Luigi.
Peggy Mitchell Margaret "Peggy" Mitchell (née Martin, previously Butcher) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. Peggy was initially played by Jo Warne when she first appeared in the series on 30 April 1991.
Peggy Moffitt Peggy Moffitt (born in California in 1939) , is best known as the premier model and muse for the late fashion designer Rudi Gernreich. Though her unique look has now become iconic of the 60s fashion scene, Peggy started out pursuing a career in film, debuting in the 1955's You're Never Too Young.
Peggy Moran Peggy Moran, born Mary Jeanette Moran, (October 23, 1918--October 24, 2002) was an American film actress who appeared in 36 films between 1938 and 1943. She starred in B movies like The Mummy's Hand (1940), Slightly Tempted (1940), Treat 'Em Rough (1942) with Eddie Albert and William Frawley, and King of the Cowboys (1943) with Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette, and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the memorable "first cigarette girl" in Ninotchka (1939), which starred Greta Garbo.
Peggy Mount Peggy Mount (2 May 1916 - 13 November 2001), born Margaret Rose Mount, was an English actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps best known for playing a battleaxe character, though her real personality was said to have been far removed from such a role.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a nature museum located in Chicago, Illinois. The museum, which opened in October 1999, is located at the intersection of Fullerton Parkway and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park.
Peggy Parish Peggy Parish of Manning, South Carolina (July 14, 1927-November 19, 1988), was the author of the children's story series Amelia Bedelia. The series was continued after her sudden death of an aneurysm by her nephew Herman Parish.
Peggy Ryan Peggy Ryan (born Margaret O'Rene Ryan on 28 August 1924 in Long Beach, California - 30 October 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American dancer who starred in a series of movie musicals at Universal Studios tapping with Donald O'Connor.
Peggy Shippen Peggy Shippen, or Margaret Shippen (July 11 1760 - August 24 1804) was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold (following Margaret Mansfield, who died in 1775). She was the daughter of Judge Edward Shippen of a prominent Philadelphia family.
Peggy Sue "Peggy Sue" is a rock and roll song written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty, and originally performed, recorded and released as a single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets in early July of 1957. The song was also released on Buddy Holly's self-titled 1958 album.
Peggy Sue Got Married Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 comedy / drama film which tells the story of a woman, on the verge of divorce, who finds herself transplanted back to the days of her senior year in high school. The movie was written by Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner, and it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Peggy Zina Peggy Zina Kalliopi (Πέγκυ Ζήνα Καλλιόπη, more commonly known as simply Peggy Zina) born in Athens, Greece on 1975-03-08. She began singing at the age of 5 and began performing publicly while still in school.
Pegnitz River The Pegnitz is a small river in Franconia in the German federal state of Bavaria. The Pegnitz has its source in the city of the same name at an altitude of 425 m and meets the Rednitz at 283 m northwest of FĂĽrth.
Pegwell Bay Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast at the estuary of the River Stour between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent. Situated in the bay is a large nature reserve, known for its migrating waders and wildfowl, with a complete series of seashore habitats including extensive mudflats and saltmarsh.
Pehla Pehla Pyaar Pehla Pehla Pyaar (Urdu: پہلا پہلا پیار) is a Pakistani Urdu film directed by Mubasher Lucman which was released across theaters in Pakistan in January 2006. The film managed a lukewarm run at the main urban centers in Pakistan.
Pehlwani Modern Indian wrestling, or Pehlwani (Devanagari: पहलवानी), is a synthesis of an indigenous Aryan / Hindu form of wrestling that dates back at least to at least the 5th century BC and a Persian form of wrestling brought into South Asia by the Mughals.
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (December 15, 1861 – February 29, 1944) was the President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence.
Pehr G. Holmes Pehr Gustaf Holmes, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Mölnbacka, Värmland, Sweden, April 9, 1881; in 1886 immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Worcester, Massachusetts; attended the public schools; engaged in manufacturing; also engaged in the banking and insurance business; member of the common council of Worcester, Mass., 1908-1911; member of the board of aldermen 1913-1916, serving as president in 1915 and 1916; mayor of Worcester 1917-1919; member of the Governor’s council, seventh Massachusetts district 1925-1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; returned to Worcester, Mass.
Pehr Kalm Pehr Kalm (March 6 1716 - November 16 1779) (in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm) was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of Carolus Linnaeus's most important students.
Pech The Pech are an indigenous people in northeastern Honduras, whose population, as of early 2005, has been reduced to a few hundred. The Pech language is a member of the Chibchan family of languages, and, although it is still spoken by older people, it is in danger of extinction in the relatively near future.
Pech (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, pech are elemental creatures from the Inner Plane of Earth that are based on the pech of Scottish mythology. They are humanoid earth elementals who are related to gnomes.
Pech Merle Pech Merle, a hillside opening in the Lot département of Midi-Pyrénées region in France, about 35 minutes drive east of Cahors, is the site of one of the prehistoric cave painting remaining in France, which is open to the general public. Going back inside for more than a mile are caverns with walls painted in dramatic murals dating back to 25,000 B.
Pecha Kucha Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Kein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003. The format has spread to many cities across the world.

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