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Pećka BistricaThe Pećka Bistrica (Albanian: Bistrica e Pejës; Serbian Cyrillic: Пећка Бистрица) is a river in southern Serbia, a 62 km-long right tributary to the Beli Drim, it flows entirely within the Metohijan part of Kosovo and Metohija. Contents 1 Upper Course2 Rugovo Gorge3&nbs..
PekabetaPekabeta Subsidiary Information Founded 2002 Headquarters Belgrade, Serbia Managing Director Dragana Popović Pekabeta is a Serbian supermarket chain, a part of Delta Holding. External Links () [Pekabeta website][Delta Holding website] ..
PekahPekah ("open-eyed"), was king of Israel, the son of Remaliah, and a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 BCE-732 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 740 BCE-732 BCE. Although Pekah is said to reign for twenty years in the Book of Kings..
PekahiahPekahiah ("the Lord opened his eyes") was king of Israel and the son of Menahem. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 738 BCE-737 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 742 BCE-740 BCE. He was murdered in the royal palace at Samaria by Pekah, one of the captains of his army (2 Kings 15:23-2..
PekalachPekalach are bags containing sweets, which according to Jewish tradition are distributed or thrown at a Vacht Nacht, Aufruf and Upsherin. ..
PekalonganPekalongan is a city and regency on the northern coast of Central Java, Indonesia. The city is Central Java's most important port, and is known for its batik. Pekalongan became a part of the empire of the Sultanate of Mataram through treaty and marriage alliances by the early seventeenth century. T..
PekanPekan is the royal town of Pahang, Malaysia. It is situated 45 km south of the current state capital of Kuantan, near the coast of South China Sea and on the southern bank of Pahang River. Pekan is also the name of the district the town in situated in. It is the home of the state's royal family head..
PekanbaruPekanbaru is the capital of Riau province, Indonesia. The Siak River split this city, one to the north from Rumbai, to the South the city itself. Siak is the deepest river in Indonesia. Sultan Syarif Qasyim II is the airport that serves flights from and to Pekanbaru. In this city, there is a miniatu..
Pekan Air PanasPekan Air Panas is a small town in the district of Segamat, Johor, Malaysia which is named after the hot springs available there. It is located about 14 km from Labis via State Route J151. The town is also known as Tenang (not to be confused with Tenang Station, another town which is also located in..
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Pekan TutongPekan Tutong is a small city in Brunei and the capital of Tutong District. ..
PekeapooPekeapoo dog A Pekeapoo (or, sometimes, Peekapoo) is a crossbred dog created by breeding a Poodle with a Pekingese. In addition to being a combination of the two breed names, the name is probably a pun on Peekaboo (a game for amusing a small child, in which one covers one's face or hides and ..
PekelaPekela is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. Population centres Boven PekelaNieuwe PekelaOude Pekela External link [Official website] redirect [[Template:Groningen Province]] ..
Peki'inPeki'in is an agricultural settlement in the Galilee region Israel. Peki'in was one of settlements hit by Katyusha rockets sent by Hezbollah on July 14, 2006 during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. ..
PekinPekin is the name of some places in the United States of America: Pekin, IllinoisPekin, IndianaPekin Township, MichiganPekin, New YorkPekin, North Dakota The city of Peking in China was sometimes spelled Pekin. The city of Pekin, Illinois was named after Peking. See also: Pekin Robin This is a &#..
Pekin, IllinoisPekin is a city in Tazewell County, Illinois. The population was 33,857 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Tazewell County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Pekin is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria-Pekin MSA. Farmer Jonathan Tharp was the first non-Indian resident, build..
Pekin, North DakotaPekin is a city in Nelson County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 80 at the 2000 census. The first European settlers immigrated to the area in the mid 1800's and Pekin was founded in 1906. Geography Pekin is located at [47°47′29″N, 98°19′43″W] (47.791465, ..
Pekinel sistersPekinel sisters Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel (born March 29 1953, Istanbul) as identical twins, are world-renowned Turkish pianists performing mostly in duet. Contents 1 Early years2 Career3 Repertory4 Discography5 Recognition Early years The Pekinels received..
PekingesePekingese or Pekinese is an ancient breed of toy dog, originating in China. They were the favoured imperial pet. Good-natured and happy, these dogs enjoy family environments, but require regular cleaning if in outdoor environments. Their eyes are very delicate as they sit above the socket rathe..
Peking (ship)Type: 4 Masted Barque Hull: Steel Built: 1911, Hamburg, Germany Homeport: New York, NY, USA Designer: Blohm & Voss Sparred Length: 377.5 ft Length on deck: 320 ft Beam: 45.6 ft Draft: 16 ft Rig Height: 170.5 ft Displacement: 3,100 tons Sail Area: 44,132 sq. ..
Peking DuckA Quanjude chef slicing roasted Peking Duck Peking Duck, or more accurately, Peking Roast Duck (Simplified Chinese: }}}; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), is a famous duck dish from northeastern China. The name comes from the traditional, pre-Hanyu Pinyin anglicization of the name of Beijin..
Peking ManPeking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien) near Beijing (Peking), China. The finds have been date..
Peking Opera BluesPeking Opera Blues (TC: 刀馬旦, SC: 刀马旦, pinyin: Dāo Mǎ Dàn) is a 1986 movie directed by Tsui Hark. The movie contains such diverse elements as comedy, typical Hong Kong action, serious drama, and exploitation movie-type hyperbole. It stars Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Ext..
Peking Opera SchoolThe Peking Opera School was located in Hong Kong. The school is famous for being the childhood home of such famous actors as Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao. The Peking Opera school was run by Master Yu Jim Yuen (于占元), a northern kung fu practitioner and a very stern teacher. ..
Peking pedagogPeking Pedagog is a film production team in Norrköping, Sweden. It was founded in 1996, when three of its five active members first met at an AA meeting in Norrköping. They almost made it to national television (SVT), but the collage of comedy sketches they sent to SVT for consideration was ultima..
Peking PlanThe Peking PlanThe "Peking" in the name is the Wade-Giles rendering of the capital of China, Beijing, which before the Second World War in the Second Polish Republic was more prevalent than the now standard pinyin. In modern Polish the name is now written as "Pekin", which has led to the name bein..
Peking RoadPeking Road (Chinese: 北京道) is a road between Nathan Road and Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The road is mainly hotels and shopping area on the street level. The road was initially named Chater Road, after Paul Chater, who developed the southwest point of Tsim Sha Tsui through The W..
Peking to ParisThe Peking to Paris motor race was a race held in 1907 for automobiles between Peking (now Beijing), China and Paris, France, a distance of nearly 12,000 miles. The idea for the race came from a challenge published in the Paris newspaper Le Matin on 31 January 1907, that "What needs to be p..
Peking Union Medical CollegePeking Union Medical College (中国协和医科大学) is among the most selective medical colleges in the People's Republic of China and internationally renown. It was founded by China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1917 and was modeled after Johns Hopkins University School of Medi..
Peking UniversityPeking University (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ), colloquially known in Chinese as Beida (北大, Běidà), was established in 1898, and is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China. University policy has mandated the use of Peking University in Engli..
Peking University GymnasiumPeking University Gymnasium is an indoor arena located on the southeastern part of Peking University in Beijing, China. It is currently under construction for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It will host the Table Tennis events. The gymnasium has a floor space of 26,000 m², 6,000 permanent seats and 2,0..
Peking University Health Science CenterPeking University Health Science Campus is a top medical school in China attached to Peking University. History It was founded on October 26, 1912 as the first medical school to teach Western medicine. In 1923 it adopted the name Beijing Medical University. In 1927 it was combined with Jingshi Dax..
Peking WillowThe Peking Willow (Salix babylonica), also known as the Babylon Willow, is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the silk road to Babylon, whence the scientific name. It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tr..
PekinosaurusPekinosaurus (meaning "Pekin Lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a basal ornithischian which lived in what is now North Carolina, in the United States. The type species, P. olseni, was described by Hunt and Lucas in 1994, based on fossils found in Pekin..
Pekin bantamThe Pekin bantam, or Cochin bantam, is a type of bantam chicken. They are shorter than the ordinary bantam, often only roughly 20-30 centimetres tall (with head upright) and their feet and legs are completely covered by their feathers. Pekin bantams are round, and their plumage hangs to the ground..
Pekin duckA Pekin duck is a breed of domesticated duck used primarily for egg and meat production. Bred from the Mallard in China, it was brought to the United States about 1873, where it is the most popular commercial duck breed. Adult Pekin ducks weigh approximately 8 pounds, and are characterized by a ..
Pekiti Tirsia KaliPekiti-Tirsia Kali is a system of Kali, a style specific to the Filipino Martial Arts which contains hundreds of systems and varied styles. Pekiti-Tirsia Kali was founded in 1897 and is the family system of the Tortal family. The sole heir and guardian of this system is Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr. ..
Pekka AiraksinenPekka Airaksinen is a Finnish composer of electronic music. Airaksinen formed his first band, The Sperm, in the 1960s. The Sperm mixed elements of avant-garde music with free jazz and psychedelic pop. Their concerts featured confrontational performance art, which resulted in two members being arre..
Pekka HalonenPekka Halonen (September 23, 1865 - December 1, 1933) was a Finnish painter. His father was a peasant from Lapinlahti. Halonen studied at the Art Society's drawing school in Helsinki. In 1980 he moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian and later under Paul Gauguin. ..
Pekka HeinoPekka Heino is a Swedish/Finnish TV-profile. He presents TV-programmes in the Swedish TV channel SVT. He's known for commentating Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden. ..
Pekka HimanenPekka Himanen (born October 19, 1973) is a Finnish philosopher. He studied philosophy (and computer science as a minor) at the University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university in 1994 for a thesis on philosophy of religion on The challenge of Bertrand Russell as..
Pekka ja PätkäPekka ja Pätkä is the name of several comedy films produced by Suomen Filmiteollisuus in the 1950s in Finland, based on the popular Finnish comic characters Pekka Puupää (played by Esa Pakarinen) and Pätkä (Masa Niemi). The director of the first movie was Ville Salminen and the rest of the mov..
Pekka KarjalainenPekka Karjalainen is a Finnish film director and sound producer. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie Hysteria. It won the Grand Prix at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 1993 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1994. Filmograp..
Pekka KuusistoPekka Kuusisto (born in 1976 in Espoo, Finland) is a classical violin virtuoso. Pekka Kuusisto began studying the violin at the ripe old age of three. His first violin teacher was Geza Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. In 1983 he enrolled in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He began t..
Pekka LagerblomPekka Lagerblom (born October 19, 1982 in Lahti) is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for 1. FC Köln in the German 2. Bundesliga. Lagerblom is a versatile midfielder who started his career at home-town club FC Lahti in Finland's Veikkausliiga. In January 2004 he moved to Werder Bremen, and ..
Pekka NiemiMen's Nordic skiing Bronze 1936 Cross-country 18 km Pekka Niemi was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930's. He won a bronze medal in the 18km event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Niemi's biggest success as a cross-country skier was at the 1937..
Pekka PohjolaPekka Pohjola (born January 13, 1952) is an influential Finnish bass player, composer and band leader. His music could be categorized as progressive. His early solo records are heavily Zappa-influenced, but later he has developed his own, unique style. Some Finns even claim to hear a hint of Sibeliu..
Pekka PuupääPekka Puupää (roughly Peter Blockhead) is a Finnish comic and film character, created by Ola "Fogeli" Fogelberg. The character appeared 1925–1975 in the popular comic Pekka Puupää and 1952–1960 in thirteen films (Pekka ja Pätkä) produced by Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Pekka Puupää ..
Pekka RautakallioPekka Rautakallio (born July 25, 1953 in Pori, Finland) is a retired Finnish professional hockey defenceman who played 3 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Flames and Calgary Flames. External links [Pekka Rautakallio] on nhlfinns.com ..
Pekka Rautakallio trophyThe Pekka Rautakallio trophy is an ice hockey award given by the Finnish SM-liiga to the best defenseman of the season. Trophy Winners: 1977-78: Pekka Rautakallio (Ässät) 1978-79: Pekka Rautakallio (Ässät) 1979-80: Reijo Ruotsalainen (Kärpät) 1980-81: Reijo Ruotsalainen (Kärpät) 1981..
Pekka RinnePekka Rinne (b. November 3, 1982 in Kempele, Finland) is a professional hockey goalie currently playing for the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL. Overview Rinne was developed in the Karpat playing predominately for their junior team between 2000-2003. From 2003-2005 he played for Karpat Oulu helping t..
Pekka SauriPekka Sauri (b. 1954) is a Finnish psychologist and a Green League politician. He is currently the deputy mayor of Finland's capital city, Helsinki. Sauri became well-known in Finland during the late 1990s for hosting a popular radio show Yölinja ("Nightline") in which he tried to help callers with..
Pekka SiitoinPekka Siitoin (May 20, 1944 - December 8, 2003) was a Neo-Nazi from Naantali Finland. In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's most well known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen. In the 1970s he became a Neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw him..
Pekka StrengPekka Streng (April 26 1948 - April 11 1975) was a Finnish musician who had a notable influence on progressive rock in Finland. Streng died of cancer at the age of 26. During his short career he made two albums, which were published by Love Records. He wrote the songs and lyrics (in Finnish), and ..
Pekka VasalaPekka Vasala (born April 17, 1948) was a middle-distance athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was born in Helsinki, Finland, where he quickly became interested in athletics. Having Paavo Nurmi as inspiration, Vasala was in the midst of a golden era of mi..
PekmezPekmez in Turkish and petimezi in Greek is the name for the syrup-like liquid obtained after condensing juices of (especially) grape, fig or mulberry by boiling with coagulant agents. It's used as a syrup or mixed with tahini for breakfasts. Most of the grape production of Turkey is in the form of ..
PekoPeko (Finnish spelling Pekko, Pellon Pekko) is an ancient Estonian and Finnish god of crops, especially barley and brewing. In the area of Setonia (Setumaa) between Estonia and Russia, the cult of Peko was alive until the 20th century. Setonians (an ethnic group of Estonians) also revere Peko as th..
Peko DapčevićPeko Dapčević (1913-1999) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin Serb communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, joined the Partisan uprising in Montenegro, and became commander of the First Army. In 1953 he was named chief of the [Yugoslav General Staff], but was demoted as a result of bein..
PekudeiPekudei, Pekude, Pekudey, P’kude, or P’qude (פקודי – Hebrew for "amounts of,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 23nd weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 11th and last in the book of Exodus. It constitut..
PekWMIn Unix computing, Pekwm is a small, fast, functional, and flexible window manager for the X Window System. It is intended to look nice while remaining small. Claes Nästen wrote it from the code of aewm++ and added auto properties, a keychain-aware keygrabber, window grouping (known as tabs in Ion..
Pek (disambiguation)Pek may mean: PEK, the IATA airport code for Beijing Capital International Airport[[List_of_acronyms_and_initialisms:_P#PE|PEK]], an acronym for PolyEtherKetonePekoe tea (Pek.), a grade of Ceylon tea leafPek, a processed meat product somewhat similar to spamPek, a river in eastern Serbia Pek is th..
Pek riverThe Pek (Serbian Cyrillic: Пек), is the river in eastern Serbia. It is a 129 km long right tributary of the Danube, flowing through the regions of Homolje, Zvižd and Braničevo. Contents 1 Homolje region2 Zvižd region3 Braničevo region4 Characteristics5 References ..
Pek squaredA Group of young minded, self righteous, fun loving, drama free Elk Grovers making people laugh one day at a time. Established in the Summer of 2002. Larry Khong, Fritz Encina, Jason Encina, Alvin Khoo, Gianne Javier, and Sonny Umayam, all brothers from another mother, were known for their outragous..
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