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P.E.I. Rocket
P.E.I. Rocket City: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island League: Q.M.J.H.L. Conference: none Division: Eastern Founded: 2003-04 Home Arena: Charlottetown Civic Centre Colours: Red, White and Blue Head Coach: Yannick Jean General Manager: Serge Savard Jr. The P.E...
Pećinci
ПећинциPećinci Municipality coat of arms Location in Serbia General Information Mayor or municipality president ? Land area ? Population || ? |- | Coordinates|| [link] |- | Area code|| +381 22 |- | Subdivisions|| 15 settlements in the municipality |- | Lice..
Pei
Pei may refer to: I. M. Pei, (born April 26, 1917), a Chinese-American architect. Mario Pei (1901-1978), an Italian-American linguist and polyglot. the Shar Pei, a breed of dog whose distinctive feature is deep wrinkles. See also PEI. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list..
Pei-yuan Chia
Mr. Chia was vice chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., its principal subsidiary, from 1994 to 1996 when he retired. From 1993 to 1996, he served as a director of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., and assumed responsibility for their global consumer business in 1992. Between 1974 and 1992, Mr. Chia he..
Pei-Yuan Wei
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán) is a former undergraduate student at the Unive..
Peider Lansel
Peider Lansel (August 15, 1863 - December 9, 1943) was a Swiss Romansh lyric poet. He is most known for having revived Rhaeto-Romansh as a literary language. His family was from Sent, Switzerland, (although he was born in Pisa) and worked as a merchant, as well as being a poet. External links �..
Peierls bracket
In theoretical physics, the Peierls bracket is an equivalent description of the Poisson bracket. It directly follows from the action and does not require the canonical coordinates and their canonical momenta to be defined in advance. The bracket [[A,B]] is defined as [D..
Peigan
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Peigan refers to two Native tribes in the Blackfoot Confederacy: The Norther..
Peignoir
A peignoir is a long nightgown for women usually sheer and made of chiffon. It is repeatedly mentioned in the novel The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, somewhat like a show of when she is awakening. Peignoir is also notably featured in the opening stanza of the poem Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens. P..
Peignot
Peignot is a French, Bauhaus-influenced Art Deco typeface. It was designed in 1937 by A. M. Cassandre for the foundry of the same name. It is notable for its lower-case, which is a mix of “true” lower-case and reduced-size upper-case letters. It was a popular decorative font in the late-1930..
Peig Sayers
Peig Sayers (1873 - 1958) was an Irish author. Life Peig Sayers was born in Dunquin (Dún Chaoin), a small town in County Kerry, Ireland. She moved to the Blasket Islands after marrying Pádraig Ó Gaoithín, a native of the island. Peig was illiterate, but dictated many of her stories to Seosamh ..
Peijainen
In Finland, Peijainen is the ritual burial of a bear that has been communally brought down and has died. A bear was never "hunted"; it was merely brought down. A single man could claim to have hunted and killed a bear, but in a community effort, the bear simply died. The ceremony was always a much m..
Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation
Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation Peiking – Suiyuan Railway Operation was the Chinese operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War to counter the Japanese Operation Chahar to invade Suiyuan in August 1937. ..
Peiligang culture
The Peiligang culture (裴李崗文化) is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Neolithic communities who lived in the Yiluo river valley in Henan Province, China. The culture existed from 7000 BC to 5000 BC. Over 70 sites have been identified with the Peiligang culture. The culture is named..
Peili Vocational Institute
The Peili Vocational Institute is a private three-year school located in Beijing, founded by Rewi Alley. Its history dates back to the anti-Japanese war. Its current form was formally established in 1983. ..
Peinado
Peinado Imagecaption Elevation: 5,740 m (18,832 feet) Latitude: 26.62° S (26° 37' 0" S) Longitude: 68.15° W (68° 9' 0" W) Location: Argentina Type: Stratovolcano Last eruption: Unknown First ascent: Easiest route: Peinado is a stratovolcano in Argentina. Source Siebert, L. and ..
Peine
Peine is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Peine. It is situated on the river Fuhse and the Mittellandkanal, approx. 20 km west of Braunschweig, and 35 km east of Hanover. Notable natives Fritz HartjensteinHans-Hermann HoppeSolomon PerelHerma Auguste Wittstock ..
Peine (district)
Peine Statistics State: Lower Saxony Capital: Peine |- | Area:||535 km² |- | Inhabitants:||133,900 (2003) |- | pop. density:||251 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||PE |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-peine.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| ..
Peini
Map of Belize showing location of Peini Peini is a small community in southern part of Belize, mostly inhabited by the Garifuna and Indian populations. ..
Peintre Celebre
Peintre Celebre, (born 1994), is a champion thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and owned by Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001), the renowned French art dealer and highly successful horseman, Peintre Celebre came from a line of outstanding thoroughbreds. A son of Nureyev, France's champion miler in 1980, who ..
Peiping-Hankow Operation
The "Peiping-Hankow Operation" or "Operation 1" was the Japanese Army planwith taken some important districs in Peiping-Hankow railway line,such planwas annex to "Siang-Kwei Operation",in similary poses the order tocapture of Siang-Kwei railways. Around the summer of 1943 the Chungking Government ..
Peirce
Peirce may mean: Bill Peirce - Economist, Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate. Charles Peirce - American polymath and founder of pragmatism. Benjamin Peirce - Mathematician and author of an article on rejection of data outliers Peirce's Crit..
Peirce's criterion
Peirce's criterion is a method that may be used to eliminate suspect experimental data using probability theory. For scientists, engineers and others involved in real data collection, the situation often arises in which one or more of the measured values appears to be outside the usual range. T..
Peirce's law
Peirce's law in logic is named after the philosopher and logician Charles Sanders Peirce. It was taken as an axiom in his first axiomatisation of propositional logic. The axiom can be used as an alternative to the law of excluded middle. In propositional calculus, Peirce's law says that ((P→Q)..
Peirce-Nichols House
Located in Salem, Massachusetts and owned by the Peabody Essex Museum, Samuel McIntire designed the Peirce-Nichols House (80 Federal Street), ca. 1782, in a transitional late-Georgian/early Federal style for Jerathmiel Peirce, co-owner of the merchant ship Friendship. McIntire remodeled portions of ..
Peirce (crater)
Crater characteristics Peirce (center) from Apollo 17. NASA photo. Coordinates ..
Peirce Crosby
Peirce Crosby (16 January 1824 - 15 June 1899) was an admiral in the United States Navy, whose active duty career included service in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Contents 1 Early life and career2 Civil War3 Post-Civil War activities4 Flag assignments and ..
Peirce Lynch
Peirce Lynch was the first Mayor of Galway. The son of John Lynch fitz Edmond and a brother of Dominick Dubh Lynch, Peirce became the first Mayor of Galway in August 1485, being succeeded by his brother Dominck in August 1486. Namesakes who served as Mayor included Peirce Lynch fitz Oliver (1573-74..
Peirce Middle School
--> Peirce Middle School is one of 3 middle schools in the West Chester Area School District The 4 elementary schools that feed into it are East Bradford Elementary, 70% of Hillsdale Elementary, 65% of Fern Hill Elementary, and Mary C. Howse Elementary It teaches many subjects like English, Math,..
Peirene
Peirene is the name of a fountain or spring in Greek mythology, physically located in Corinth. It was said to be a favored watering-hole of Pegasus, sacred to the Muses. Poets would travel there to drink and receive inspiration. The historian Pausanias describes Peirene as follows: "On leaving the..
Peirescius (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..
Peire Cardenal
Peire Cardenal (1180 - 1278) was a Provençal troubadour known for his satirical pieces and for his dislike of the clergy. Peire Cardenal was born in Puy-en-Velay, apparently of a noble family; he was educated as a canon himself. Around a hundred pieces of his remain, a number rarely matched by ot..
Peiron
Peiron (ペーロンPeron) is a traditional Japanese rowing sport that has its roots in Chinese dragon boat racing. The term Peiron is derived from the Chinese word 白龍 (Pairon). ..
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall (July 31, 1894—December 8, 1979) was the first person to represent the eleventh district of the Los Angeles City Council under the new charter in 1925. He served until 1929. References Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials: 1850—1938, Compiled under Directio..
Peisander
For the Spartan general, see Peisander (general). Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 B.C. He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Hercules costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of ..
Peisander (general)
Peisander was a Spartan general during the Corinthian War. In 395 BC, he was placed in command of the Spartan fleet in the Aegean by his half-brother, the king Agesilaus II. Peisander was a relatively inexperienced general, and in the first action his fleet saw, at the Battle of Cnidus, the Sparta..
Peishansaurus
Peishansaurus (PAY-SHAHN-SAWR-us - meaning North Mountain lizard) named after Peishan North Mountain in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. It was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, roughly 97.5-65 million years ago. Peishansaurus was named by Bohlin in 1..
Peisistratus
#Peisistratos is the name of a major Athenian ruler, as well as a minor character in the Odyssey. The name in Ancient Greek is Πεισίστρατος (Peisistratos). The standard spelling in English is Peisistratus; an alte..
Peitersen
The name Peitersen is Danish and is the surname of several familys residented in Denmark. The name originates from a man named Peiter, he had a son whom as tradition was named after his father. Thereby the name Peitersen / Peiter-son. ..
Peitho
Peitho is also the name of an Oceanid. See 118 Peitho for the asteroid. In Greek mythology, Peitho ("persuasion") was the personification of persuasion and seduction. Her Roman name was Suadela. Although this goddess did not wield much power beyond her own small sphere of influence, she is nonet..
Peithon
Peithon (about 355 BC - about 314 BC) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia. One of the bodyguards of Alexander the Great, later satrap of Media and one of the diadochi. Peithon was named one of the seven (later eight) bodyguards of Alexander in 325 BC. After Alexand..
Peiting
Peiting is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Lech, 3 km southeast of Schongau, and 17 km west of Weilheim in Oberbayern. ..
Peitz
Peitz is a town in the district of Spree-Neiße, in southeastern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 13 km northeast of Cottbus. ..
Peixoto's theorem
For dynamical systems on compact 2D manifolds, the structurally stable systems have the following properties: Finite number of hyperbolic equilibrium points.Finite number of attracting or repelling periodic orbits.No saddle-to-saddle connections.The set of non-wandering points consists only of peri..
Pei Chun Public School
Pei Chun Public School is a government-aided primary school, located in Toa Payoh, Singapore. Contents 1 History2 School Badge3 The School Motto4 Mission5 Vision6 Philosophy7 Achievements8 CCAs9 Notable alumni10 Reminise Pei Chun in the olden day..
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an architectural firm that was founded in 1955 by I.M. Pei as I.M.Pei & Associates, in 1966 called I.M. Pei & Partners, and received its current name and organization in 1989. The founders were I.M.Pei, Henry N. Cobb, and Eason H. Leonard. Pei and Leonrad retired in 199..
Pei Encai
Pei Encai (Simplified Chinese: 裴恩才) was the national coach of the China women's national football team between May 2005 and November 2005. He led the Wuhan Huanghelou Football Club to the top of the Chinese Football Association Jia League and the promotion to Chinese Super League in 2004, and ..
Pei Ho Street
Pei Ho Street (北河街) is street in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The street is also a market and full of hawkers. The former Urban Council had built a Pei Ho Street Municipal Services Building (then known as Pei Ho Street Urban Council Complex) accommodating some stalls in old mark..
Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School
Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary was formed in 1889 by Glory Church (now Glory Presbyterian Church), as a primary school for Chinese students in Singapore. The current principal is Chan Lai Peng, and the current Vice principal is Betty Tong. The school is located at Pei Wah Avenue in Bukit Timah. Th..
Pei Ji
Pei Ji 裴寂 (570-632) was the first Chancellor of Tang China. He was one of the follower of crown prince Li Jiancheng. During the Emperor Taizong era, he was a rival of Wei Zheng and Fang Yuanling. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pei Wei
Pei Wei may refer to: Pei-Yuan Wei, a web browser pioneerPei Wei Asian Diner, an American fast casual restaurant chainThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to poin..
Pei Xiu
Pei Xiu a minister of the Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Pei Xiu was very much trusted by Sima Zhao, and paricipated in the suppression of Zhuge Dan's coup. Following Sima Yan takeing the throne of the newly established Jin Dynasty, he and Jia Chong had Cao Huang deprive..
Pei Xuan
Pei Xuan(裴宣) is a character in the Water Margin. Pei Xuan was from Jingzhaofu, and served as a judge. He was an excellent swordsman, as well as a scholar. He was brave and loyal, and meted out sentences to criminals accordingly, without showing any mercy. He was thus nicknamed the 'Iron-faced j..
Pei Yaoqing
Pei Yaoqing 裴耀卿 (681-743) was a Chinese poet and politician of Tang China. He had close relationship and friendship with Zhang Jiuling and was removed from the court by Li Linfu in 737. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pei Yuanshao
Pei Yuanshao a notable officer under that of the Yellow Turbans. After the Yellow Turbans were eventually defeated during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Pei Yuanshao decided to become the leader of a gang of brigands. While Guan Yu at the time was in the possession of the Red Hare, Yuanshao attempted ..
Peißenberg
Peißenberg is a municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 7 km southwest of Weilheim in Oberbayern. ..

 


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