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Pi-calculus
In theoretical computer science, the [\pi]-calculus is a process calculus originally developed by Robin Milner, Joachim Parrow and David Walker as a continuation of the body of work on the process calculus CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems). The aim of the [\pi]-calculus is ..
Pi-con
Pi-Con is the only non-media non-college science fiction and gaming convention in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. The first Pi-Con will be held August 11-13, 2006. Pi-Con is designed to be more than just a science fiction convention. In addition to the more tradition panel discussions ..
PIC
PIC or Pic can refer to the following: LGBT Political Investment CaucusPIC microcontrollerPicturePacific Islanders in CommunicationsPacific Islands ClubParallel interference cancellationParent Indicator Code (US military)Particle-in-cellParticulate inorganic carbonPartners in Crime (band)Patrol in C..
PIC16x84
The PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 are microcontrollers in the PIC family of controllers, produced by Microchip Technology. Contents 1 Description2 History3 Popularity4 External links Description The PIC16F84 is an improved version of the PIC16C84, and almost completely compatible, ..
Pica
Pica can refer to: Pica (unit of measure), in typesetting and document layoutPica (disorder), abnormal appetite for earth and other non-foodsPica (genus), a genus of magpiePica Press, a publishing imprintPica, Chile, city in the Tarapacá Region of Chile See also, PICA, for abbreviations This is a..
PICA
PICA may refer to: Portland Institute for Contemporary ArtPosterior inferior cerebellar artery: a major blood supply to the CerebellumPerth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia. See also: Pica ..
Picabo, Idaho
Picabo (Pronunced PEEK-uh-boo) is in Blaine County, Idaho. Latitude 43.305N, longitude 114.066W. Zip Code 83348. The 2000 US census for this zip code shows a population of 128 in 56 housing units in 40 square miles. Picabo is on Silver Creek. The name supposedly derives from an Indian term variousl..
Picabo Street
Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971 in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Portland, Oregon. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph. She first joined the United States Ski Team in 1989, at the age of 17. She has written an autobiography entitled Nothing to Hide (ISBN 0..
Picacho Peak State Park
The namesake peak Picacho Peak State Park is a park in the Arizona state park system, located almost half-way between Casa Grande and Tucson just off Interstate 10. Its centerpiece is the distinctive spire of Picacho Peak, visible for many miles rising above the desert floor. The park is kn..
Picadillo
Picadillo is a dish mainly consisting of ground beef typically found in Cuba, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. It is normally used as a filling, such as for tacos, and can be mixed with vegetables. The name comes from the Spanish word, "picar" which means "to prick". Picadillo is a tradi..
Picadils
The scalloped or tabbed edge at the neck and armhole, fashionable in late 16th and early 17th-century dress. The name Piccadilly was given to a London thoroughfare because of a tailor named Robert Baker who specialized in making picadils. ..
Picadito
El Picadito de los Sabados is a radio show created in 2004 by the "La Redonda 100.3" radio station in "La ciudad de La Plata", Argentina. It's broadcast every Saturday from 9 AM until 1 PM. The show is hosted by a journalist named Adrián Belinche, who has a 4 person production team consisting of a ..
Picador
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. A picador (pl. picadores) is one of the pair of horsemen in a Spanish bullfight who jabs the bull with a lance to weaken its neck and shoulder muscles. They perform in the tercio de varas which is the first of the three stages in a Spanish bullfight. ..
Picador (disambiguation)
A picador most commonly refers to one of the six members of the cuadrilla in a Spanish bullfight. Picador is also a publishing imprint used in the United Kingdom. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to thi..
Picador (imprint)
Picador is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, a publisher owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ..
Picados
Picados -- the flamenco scales of a guitar or guitar playing technique by which the musician plays scale passages by alternating the index and middle fingers. Picados is normally executed apoyando (with rest strokes). ..
Picana
Originally a type of cattle prod used by South American gauchos during the thirties, a variation of the picana became a notorious instrument of torture in Brazil, Chile and Argentina during the seventies. A small electric probe the size of a pencil, it was applied to the naked bodies of prisoners w..
Picander
Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici (January 14, 1700 - May 10, 1764), a German poet and librettist for many of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantatas. Henrici studied law at Wittenberg and Leipzig and most likely practiced or taught law while writing poetry on the side. Th..
Picanoc
Picanoc is small river/stream with headwaters originating north of Lac Dumont in Pontiac County in Quebec Province, Canada. Part of Saint Lawrence River/ Gulf of Saint Lawrence watershed. Approximately 120 kilometers long. Classified as a Level 2 river. Picanoc river then widens forming Lac à la L..
Picard
Picard may refer to: A number of people with the surname:* '''Picard, a Montreal radio host on CKGM* Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), Swiss inventor.* Jacques Piccard (born 1922), deep sea explorer.* Charles Émile Picard (1856– 1941), French mathematician.* Jean-Felix Picard (1620–168..
Picard-Fuchs equation
In mathematics, the Picard-Fuchs equation is a linear ordinary differential equation whose solutions describe the periods of elliptic curves. Contents 1 Definition2 Solutions3 Identities4 Generalization Definition Let [j=\frac] be the j-invariant with [g_2..
Picardie
This article is about the modern French région of Picardie. For the historical French province and cultural area of Picardy, see Picardy. Région Picardie (Région flag) (logo) Alsace | Aquitaine | Auvergne | Bourgogne | Bretagne | Centre | Champagne-Ardenne | Corsica | Franche..
Picards
The Picards were a sect of Neo-Adamites in the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia. The origin of their name is not clearly known. They are said to have been named after their founder, "one Picard of Flanders"; but "Picards" is also explained as a corruption o..
Picardy
This article is about the historical French province and cultural area of Picardy. For the modern French région of Picardie, see Picardie. For use in music, see Picardy third. Coat of arms of Picardy Picardy (French: Picardie) is an historical province of France, in the north of France. The ..
Picardy third
A Picardy third (also known as Tierce de Picardie) is a harmonic device used in European classical music. It refers to the use of a major chord at the end of a musical section in a minor key. This is achieved by raising the third of the expected minor triad to create a major triad. The aural effect..
Picard (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..
Picard group
In mathematics, the Picard group of a ringed space [X] is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves on [X], with the group operation being tensor product. This construction is a global version of the construction of the divisor class group, or ideal class group, and ..
Picard horn
A Picard horn is a theoretical model for the universe closely resembling a funnel or a Gabriel's Horn. The model was created in an attempt to describe the microwave background radiation apparent in the universe. In this model one end of the figure curves [[wiktionary:finite|finitely]] into the be..
Picard Island
Picard Island (also known as West Island) is an island in the Seychelles. It is the third largest island of the Aldabra Atoll in the Aldabra Group of islands, 1000 kilometres southwest of the country's capital, Victoria. The island covers an area of 9.4 km². This island forms the northwestern e..
Picard language
Picard is a language closely related to French, and as such is one of the larger group of Romance languages. It is spoken in two regions in the far north of France – Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie – and in parts of the Belgian region Wallonia (but is clearly distinct from the Walloon l..
Picard theorem
In complex analysis, the name Picard theorem (referring to mathematician Charles Émile Picard) is used for two distinct yet related theorems, which both pertain to the range of an analytic function. Contents 1 Statement of the theorems2 Notes3 References4 See also Statement ..
Picard–Lindelöf theorem
In mathematics, the Picard–Lindelöf theorem or Picard's existence theorem on existence and uniqueness of solutions of differential equations (Picard 1890, Lindelöf 1894) states that an initial value problem [y'(t)=f(t,y(t)),\quad y(t_0)=y_0] has exactly one solution if f is Lipschitz..
Picaresqueities
Picaresqueities is a five-track EP released by the band The Decemberists as a companion disc to the double-vinyl edition of their LP Picaresque. It contains previously unreleased material from the Picaresque recording sessions. ..
Picaresque (album)
Picaresque is an album by The Decemberists released in 2005 on the Kill Rock Stars record label. The word 'picaresque' is taken from a form of satirical prose originating in Spain, depicting realistically and often humourously the adventures of a low-born, roguish hero living by his/her wits in a..
Picaresque novel
For the album by the Decemberists, see Picaresque (album). The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresco", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of l..
Picarin lens
A Picarin lens is an important part of Gaussian beam optics for terahertz radiation (THz radiation). Unique properties of Picarin (a plastic) make this possible (source: External links): Picarin is highly transparent in THz and visible spectral ranges.Refractive index of Picarin is almost the same..
Picasa
Picasa, Inc is a Pasadena, California based digital photography company that produces an automated digital photo organizer application of the same name. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Idealab and began offering Picasa for free download. Contents 1 Picasa software2 Picasa We..
Picasa Web Albums
Picasa Web Albums is a service from Google that lets one upload one's own photos and share them with friends online. The service allows users with Google accounts to store and share 250 MB of photos for free. Initially, users were allowed to upgrade to 6 GB of storage for a $25.00/year fee;..
Picasso (band)
Picasso (ピカソ Pikaso) is a Japanese rock band which made its debut in 1984 with Honki! Tricky Lady. In 1986, their experimental sound gained them wide popularity among anime fans with their hits Ci · ne · ma and Fantasy, both theme songs for the anime TV series Maison Ikkoku. After not rel..
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
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Picasso museums
The following museums are dedicated to the leading 20th century artist Pablo Picasso: Musée Picasso, Paris, FranceMuseu Picasso, Barcelona, SpainMuseo Picasso, Málaga, Spain ..
Picasso triggerfish
The Picasso Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus), Blackbar triggerfish is a triggerfish, up to 30 centimeter in length, found on reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. It was named after the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso due to the remarkable colour pattern with yellow and blue stripes across the head...
Picathartes
The picathartes, rockfowl or bald crows are a small family of two passerine bird species found in the rain-forests of tropical west and central Africa. They have unfeathered heads, and feed on insects and molluscs picked from damp rocky areas. Both species are totally non-migratory, being dependen..
Picatinny Arsenal
The Picatinny Arsenal is a military research and manufacturing facility located on a 6,400 acre lot in northern New Jersey. The Arsenal is best known for inventing the ubiquitous Picatinny rail, among other things. The facility was founded in 1880 as the Picatinny Powder Depot. It manufactured gunp..
Picatinny rail
M4A Modular Weapons System carbine with M1913 rails on upper receiver and foregrip Picatinny Rail Dimensions, Cross Section The Picatinny rail is a bracket used on some firearms in order to provide a standardized mounting platform for scopes and other accessories such as tactical lights..
Picatrix
The Picatrix or Ghâyat al-Hakîm fi'l-sihr is also known as The Aim of the Sage. It has been attributed to al-Majriti an Andalusian Mathematician. But since this attribution is doubtful, the author is sometimes listed as "PseudoMajriti". Originally written in Arabic, a Latin translation appeared in..
PICAXE
PICAXE is the name of a UK-sourced microcontroller system based on the PIC chip. It was initially intended for education and electronics hobbyists, but has gained use in serious technical fields, especially for rapid prototype development. It uses pre-loaded bootstrap code to allow programs to be do..
Picayune
This article is about the coin. There is also a town called Picayune, Mississippi. A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, meaning "small coin". Besides being used in Spanish territories, it was also..
Picayune, Mississippi
Picayune is a city in Pearl River County in Mississippi, a state of the United States of America. The population was 10,535 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 ..
Picayune Strand State Forest
Picayune Strand State Forest in Florida is primarily comprised of two major tracts of land, the South Golden Gate Estates Tract and the Belle Meade Tract. The South Golden Gate Estates Tract comprises the majority of the forest. The land which is now Picayune Strand State Forest was originally logge..
Pica (disorder)
Pica is an appetite for non-foods (e.g., coal, soil, chalk, etc.) or an abnormal appetite for some things that may be considered foods, such as food ingredients (e.g., flour, raw potato, starch). In order for these actions to be considered pica, they must persist for more than one month, at an age..
Pica (genus)
Pica is the genus of three species of magpies in the family Corvidae in both the New World and the old. They have long tails and have predominantly black and white markings. One widely ranging species from Europe through into Asia, and the other two from North America. The three species are below..
Pica (unit of measure)
The pica, pronounced {{IPA, is a unit of measure in typography. It corresponds always to 1/72 of its respective foot and so to 1/6 inch. There are 12 points in the pica. In the history of printing till now, mainly three different picas were used: The French pica of 12 Didot's points, also called ci..
Pica d'Estats
The Pica d'Estats summit (Catalan: Pica d'Estats, French: Pique d'Estats) is found between the Catalan district of Pallars Sobirà and the French district of Ariège. It comprises three peaks, very close to each other. The central peak is 3143 meters high, the western peak, or "Pic de Verdaguer", is..
PICA syndrome
PICA Syndrome happens if there is blockage of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery. It has characteristic signs and symptoms of cerebellar and brainstem dysfunction. It is also called Wallenberg Syndrome. Clinical Features PICA syndrome (also known as lateral medullary syndrome) presents with ..
PICC
This article is about PICC, a Chinese corporation. PICC may also refer to a peripherally inserted central catheter. People's Insurance Company of China Holdings Company (中国人保控股公司) is a state-owned company in the People's Republic of China. The holding company promotes it's subsidiar..
Piccadill
The piccadill or pickadill is the name of a large broad collar of cut-work lace that became fashionable in the 17th century. The term originates from the Spanish "picadillo" and "picado" meaning "punctured" or "pierced". The lace collars of the seventeenth century contained much elaborate cut work..
Piccadilly
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Picadilly street sign Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. The street is part of the A4 road, London's main western artery. St. James's lies to the south of the eastern secti..
Piccadilly, Newfoundland and Labrador
Piccadilly is a quiet town. It has its own Liquior and confectionary store, which is called Parkview. Its park is located a mile from Parkview. It is a beautiful place for camping, the beach is sandy and a lot of people swim and go clamming on the sholes. It has a great view of the bay and nature t..
Piccadilly, South Australia
Home of Piccadilly Springwater ..
Piccadilly (disambiguation)
Piccadilly may refer to: Piccadilly - The name of a major street in London.Piccadilly - A suburb of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia which includes a street of the same name.Piccadilly - A town in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia which includes a road of the same name.Piccadilly Train Station - A M..
Piccadilly (film)
thumb Piccadilly (1929) is a silent British film directed by Ewald André Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Jameson Thomas. It has been re-released by Milestone Films after an extensive restoration, with music scored by Neil Brand. It appeared in the..
Piccadilly (supermarket chain)
Piccadilly (Пикадили) is a Bulgarian supermarket chain based in Varna. Founded as a 51% foreign-owned company in 1994, it opened its first supermarket in Varna in 1994 and became 100% Bulgarian-owned in 2003. Piccadilly is known for completely dominating the market in Varna to an extent to..
Piccadilly Circus
[Featured articles   ] Piccadilly Circus is a famous traffic intersection and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. Built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly (the "circus" refers to "circular open space a..
Piccadilly Circus (band)
Cover of Summer of Love album by Piccadilly Circus (band) For the West End plaza of the same name, see Piccadilly Circus. Piccadilly Circus is the name of a Japanese band on the Sony Music label. Members of the band include Masamichi Sugi (Japanese: 杉 真理) (guitar), Kiyono..
Piccadilly Circus tube station
Piccadilly Circus tube station is the London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. Located in Travelcard Zone 1, the station is on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Leicester Square and on the Bakerloo Line between Charing C..
Piccadilly Cowboys
Group of British authors of paperback westerns including, Terry Harknett, Angus Wells, Laurence James, Mike Linaker, John Harvey, Frederick Nolan and (included on the basis of one book) Kenneth Bulmer. ..
Piccadilly Egyptian Hall
The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London was originally commissioned by William Bullock as a museum to house his collection (which included curiosities brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook). It was one of the first buildings in England to be influenced by the Egyptian style, inspired by ..
Piccadilly Gardens
Piccadilly Gardens is a green space in Manchester City Centre situated at one end of Market Street (a busy shopping area) and on the edge of the Northern Quarter. Contents 1 History2 Buildings3 Statues4 External links5 Sources History Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens ..
Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on February 24 1917 by Dodd, Mean and Co., New York, and in the U.K. in May 1918 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story had previously appeared in the U.S. in the Saturday Evening Post between June and November 1916. The novel..
Piccadilly Line
Piccadilly Line Colour on map Dark Blue Year opened 1906 Line type Deep Tube Rolling stock 1973 Tube Stock Stations served 52 Length (km) 71 Length (miles) 44.3 Depots CockfostersNorthfields Journeys made 176,177,000 (per annum) Rail lines of Transport for London London Unde..
Piccadilly Line Cockfosters extension
The Piccadilly Line Cockfosters extension added eight new stations to the northern end of London Underground's Piccadilly Line. The extension through north London from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters was opened in three stages between 19 September 1932 and 31 July 1933. Contents 1 Need2 ..
Piccadilly Magic 1152
Piccadilly Magic 1152 (also known as Magic 1152) ‘Greatest Hits Non-Stop,’ began life as Piccadilly Radio, which was Manchester's first commercial radio station. Contents 1 Early Years2 FM/MW Split3 Magic 11524 Present day5 External links Early Years It began broa..
Piccadilly Records
This page refers to the record label. Piccadilly Records is also the name of a shop in Manchester. Pye Records formed Piccadilly Records in the early 1960s as an outlet for new acts, including Joe Brown & the Bruvvers, Clinton Ford, The Rockin' Berries, Sounds Orchestral and, later on, the Ivy Leagu..
Piccadilly Theatre
The Piccadilly Theatre is situated on Denman Street in London's West End, hidden behind Piccadilly Circus. It is currently owned and operated by the Ambassador Theatre Group, and plays host to the Donmar Warehouse production of Guys & Dolls starring Adam Cooper, Sally Ann Triplett, Neil Morrissey..
Piccalilli
Piccalilli Piccalilli is a pickle of chopped vegetables and hot spices, generally mustard. Ingredients may include green tomatoes, cabbage, gherkins, cauliflower and onions, but virtually any type of vegetable can be used. The vegetables are cut to small pieces, blanched and covered with a mix..
Piccaninny crater
Piccaninny is a meteor crater in Western Australia. It is 7 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 360 million years (Carboniferous or earlier). The crater is exposed to the surface. External links [Earth Impact Database] ..
Piccanins
Piccanins, a South African noun for a native South African. Has gained negative connotations from the use of such term by White South Africans to the Natives in a negative way. Used in the story "The Train From Rhodesia" by Nadine Gordimer ..
Piccard
Piccard usually refers to a member of the Swiss-American Piccard Family: Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), physicist, balloonist, hydronautBertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist, balloonistJacques Piccard (born 1922), hydronautJean Piccard (1884-1963), organic chemist and balloonistDon Piccard, ballo..
Piccardo
Piccardo, ancient italian family, from Liguria, of Northern French origin. In the 19th century a family branch relocated from Voltri, in the Kingdom of Sardinia, to Monte San Giovanni Campano, in the Papal States, called by the count Lucernari, to rule a paper factory. ..
Picciano
Picciano is a comune and town in the Province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of Italy Abruzzo · Communes of the province of Pescara Abbateggio | Alanno | Bolognano | Brittoli | Bussi sul Tirino | Cappelle sul Tavo | Caramanico Terme | Carpineto della Nora | Castiglione a Casauria | ..
Piccio
Piccio may refer to: Giovanni Carnovali, Italian painter better known as Il Piccio;Giuseppe Piccio, Italian linguist of the Venetian language;Juan Carlo Piccio, Philippine swimmer;Pier Piccio, World War I Italian fighter pilot;Vicente Piccio, Jr., retired Philippine major general.This is a [dis..
Piccirilli Brothers
The Piccirilli Brothers were a family of renowned marble carvers who carved a large number of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Contents 1 History2 Original Sculptu..
Piccolo
This article is about the instrument in the flute family. For other meanings, see Piccolo (disambiguation). A Yamaha piccolo. The body is made of ABS resin, and the head is plated with silver. The piccolo is a small flute. Its name in Italian, "flauto piccolo" means "small flute". Like the f..
PICCOLO
PICCOLO is a robust radioteletype transmission system for use on shortwave, or other frequency bands. Contents 0.1 The Forign and Commonwealth Office orgions of PICCOLO0.2 Who created Piccolo0.3 Signal Modernization0.4 No Error Correction Required0.5 Technical papers0.6&n..
Piccolomini
Piccolomini is the name of an Italian noble family, which was prominent in Siena from the beginning of the 13th century onwards. In 1220, Engelberto d'Ugo Piccolomin received the fief of Montertari in Val d'Orcia from the emperor Frederick II as a reward for services rendered. The family acquired ho..
Piccolomini (crater)
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Piccolo (disambiguation)
A piccolo is a small flute. Piccolo may also refer to: Piccolo (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the manga Dragon BallBrian Piccolo (1943–1970), a professional American football playerA rare coloratura soprano that can execute vocals in the seventh octaveA smaller form of another musical..
Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
Piccolo Japanese Original Manga First Appearance Issue #161 Appears in Race Family ConnectionsPiccolo Daimaō father/older selfKatattsu (father of Kami/Demon King)Kami (split from Demon King, absorbed into Piccolo)Nail (absorbed into Piccolo) DB Character Listing - Piccolo is a fiction..
Piccolo bass
Piccolo bass can refer to two string instruments, one acoustic and one electric. Acoustic piccolo bass The acoustic piccolo bass is an instrument similar to the double bass, but with a range exactly one octave higher. It is featured on Henry Threadgill's 1979 album X-75 Volume 1, played by Brian S..
Piccolo clarinet
The piccolo clarinets are members of the clarinet family, much smaller and higher pitched than the more familiar soprano clarinets. None is common, but the most often used piccolo clarinet is the A♭ clarinet, playing nearly an octave higher than the familiar B♭ clarinet. Shackleton als..
Piccolo Coro dell' Antoniano
thumb The Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano (English: Little Choir of Antoniano) is an Italian children's choir of Bologna created by Mariele Ventre in 1963 in Antoniano Institute to sing together with little kids at the Zecchino d'Oro festival, opened only five years earlier. In 1995, after Ventre'..
Piccolo Daimaō
Japanese Original Manga First Appearance Issue #135 Appears in Race Family ConnectionsKatattsu (father)Kami (good half)Tambourine (spawned minion)Cymbol (spawned minion)Piano (spawned minion)Drum (spawned minion)Piccolo (spawn/clone of self) DB Character Listing - The Great Demon King..
Piccolo heckelphone
The piccolo heckelphone is a very rare woodwind instrument invented in 1904 by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel GmbH in Wiesbaden-Biebrich (Germany). A variant of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone was intended to redress a point of weakness in the romantic orchestra: namely, an insufficient number ..
Piccolo Junior Saga
Dragon Ball Sagas Episodes (uncut) 122-153 The Piccolo Junior Saga is the last saga of the Dragon Ball original series. It is the largest saga of the series, and covers basically two things: Goku's training with Kami the Guardian of Earth, and Goku's subsequent participation in the 23rd Tenk..
Piccolo oboe
The piccolo oboe is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E-flat or F above the regular oboe (which is a C instrument), the piccolo oboe is a sopranino version of the oboe, comparable to the E-flat clarinet. Makers Piccolo oboes are produced by the French maker..
Piccolo Ragazzo (album)
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Piccolo Town
Piccolo Town is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by King Records. It is home to artists such as Maki Goto, Berryz Koubou, and v-u-den. Former Piccolo Town artists include ZYX, , Sayaka Ichii, and Gomattō. Artists Ros..
Picene
Picene is a hydrocarbon found in the pitchy residue obtained in the distillation of peat tar and of petroleum. This is distilled to dryness and the distillate repeatedly recrystallized from cymene. It may be synthetically prepared by the action of anhydrous aluminium chloride on a mixture of naphtha..
Picenum
Regio V - Picenum Picenum was a region of ancient Roman Italy. Picenum was the birthplace of such notables as Pompey the Great and his father Pompeius Strabo. It was situated in what is now the region of Marche in modern Italy. ..
Picerno
Picerno is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Balvano, Baragiano, Potenza, Ruoti, Savoia di Lucania, Tito, Vietri di Potenza. Basilicata · Communes of the province of Potenza Abriola | Acerenz..
Picfair Village, Los Angeles, California
Picfair Village (also known as Faircrest Heights or Picfair Heights) is a residential district in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, California. Geography Picfair Village's boundaries are roughly Pico Boulevard on the north, Hauser Boulevard on the east, Venice Boulevard on the south, and La Cie..
Picha
Jean-Paul "Picha" Walravens, born July 2, 1942 in Brussels, Belgium is a cartoonist and film director. Filmography As writer/director: "Zoo Cup" (1994) TV Series"Zoo Olympics" (1992) TV Series(also creator) Le Big-Bang (1984)... aka The Big Bang (USA) Le Chaînon manquant (1980)... aka B.C. Rock ..
Pichakaree
Music of Trinidad: Subjects Canboulay Calypso Chutney Steelpan Calypsonian Calypso tent Picong Parang Soca Rapso Pichakaree Timeline and samples Anglophone Caribbean Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Barbados - Bermuda - Caymans - Dominica - Grenada - Jamaica - Montserrat - St. K..
Pichal Peri
Pichal Peri is a mystical creature, customarily recognized as a fairy. And identified by its appearance, primarily its feets that are twisted backward. And according to the legend a Pichal Peri is a supernatural being that resembles human female specie and has an eye-pleasing appearance. It bears se..
Pichenettes (Lapinot)
Pichenettes is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 1996 as volume 2 in the series. An English translation, titled The Hoodoodad..
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher is a city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,640 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Environment4 External links Geography Picher is located at [36°58′58″N, 94°49′58″W] (36.982824, -94.832777)[Ge..
Pichhore
Pichhore is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gwalior district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Pichhore had a population of 11,725. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Pichhore has an avera..
Pichhwai
Pichhwai are intricate paintings which portray Lord Krishna. They exist in the holy town of Nathdwara in the Rajasthan state of India. Krishna is shown in different moods, body postures, and attire more commonly found on a cloth or paper. It is a very ancient form of art passed on from generation ..
Pichia pastoris
Pichia pastoris is a species of yeast that is useful for recombinant genetic research. It is a methylotroph. In standard cell culture and in transgenics, the bacteria Escherichia coli is used by far the most, due to fast growth rate, good protein production rate and undemanding growth conditio..
Pichichi
Pichichi may refer to Pichichi, an Athletic Bilbao footballer.The Pichichi Trophy, a trophy name in honour of the above. 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 ..
Pichichi (footballer)
Pichichi (born Bilbao,Vizcaya, August 8th 1892; died March 1, 1922) was a Spanish/Basque footballer who played for Athletic Bilbao and Spain during the 1910s and 1920s. His given name was Rafael Moreno Aranzadi . He was easily identifiable on the pitch by his ever present white headgear and was note..
Pichincha
Pichincha can refer to following places in Ecuador Pichincha (volcano)Pichincha ProvincePichincha Canton, Manabí ProvincePichincha, Ecuador (Manabí Province) See also: Battle of PichinchaPichincha, a Colombian shipBarrio Pichincha, a neighbourhood in Rosario, Argentina redirect [[Template:Disambi..
Pichincha (volcano)
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Pichincha Province
Pichincha is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is the city of Quito, which is also the nation's capital. The province contains the Pichincha Volcano. Pichincha borders the provinces of Imbabura, Cotopaxi, Esmeraldas, Manabí, Los Ríos, Napo and Sucumbíos. Pichincha has the [[ISO 3166-2:EC]] cod..
Pichi Richi Railway
The Pichi Richi Railway is a tourist railway using parts of the former Central Australia Railway. It is headquartered in Quorn and runs through the Pichi Richi Pass to Port Augusta. In about 2002 the line was extended through to Port Augusta with a dive tunnel under the standard gauge line that rep..
Pichl-Kainisch
Pichl-Kainisch is a village with 782 inhabitants in the Salzkammergut, Austria. ..
Pichler
Pichler can refer to: Karoline Pichler (1769-1843), Austrian novelistJoe Pichler, American actorA family (see entry in the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12074b.htm Catholic encyclopedia):* Antonio a.k.a. Johann Anton Pichler* Giovanni Pichler, son of Antonio* Guiseppe a.k.a. Johann Joseph Pichler..
Pichot
Pichot is a family name: PICHOT, GUILLERMO LAZARO - pseudonym GUILLERMO PELAYPICHOT, HORACIO CESAR - ps. HORACIO PELAYPICHOT GUILLERMO JUAN ROBUSTIANO ps. Ivo Pelay Agustín PichotRamon PichotStéphane Pichot redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Pichu
, who is Pokémon #172 (#155 in the Hoenn Pokédex) is the pre-evolved version of Pikachu in the Pokémon franchise. Pichu is an electric Pokémon, and will evolve to Pikachu when it gains a level after reaching a certain level of happiness with its trainer. This was discovered by Professor Elm. ..
Pichu Brothers
The Pichu Brothers are twin pichu that made their first appearance in Pokémon Channel. they also made an appearance in a pokémon mini-movie where they help Ash Ketchum's Pikachu find it' way around town and then home. ..
PICIC Commercial Bank
PICIC Commercial Bank Limited is based in Pakistan. Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (PICIC) acquired Gulf Commercial Bank Limited in early 2001. The bank has been renamed as PICIC Commercial Bank Limited. External links [PICIC Commercial Bank] ..
Picidae
The avian family Picidae includes the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known to live in desert areas. F..
Piciformes
Six families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes, the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives. There are about 67 genera in the six families and a little over 400 species. In general, the Piciformes are insectivorous, although t..
Picigin
Picigin (pronounced "pitsighin") is a popular game played on beaches in Croatia. It involves several players passing around a small ball and keeping it in the air and out of the water for as long as possible. As such, the game somewhat resembles volleyball but it is played with a much smaller ball,..
PICISOC
The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) serves the Society’s purposes by serving the interests of the global Internet community through its presence in the Pacific Islands. It focuses on local issues and developments, and as an impartial advisor to governments and the publi..
PiciWiki
PiciWiki is when any Wiki utilizes image or graphic files within their Wiki to communicate a message or share ideas. ..
Pick'n'Mix: An Assortment To Suit All Tastes
Pick'n'Mix is the second mix album by Hexstatic. Track list Intro - Feat Billy Connolly 0:35Tony Hatch - Sound Of The Seventies 0:56Hot Butter - Spacewalk ..
Pick's disease
Pick's disease is a dementing illness associated with deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Contents 1 Characteristics2 History3 References4 External links Characteristics Symptoms may include a decline in social behavior (including disinhibition, ta..
Pick's theorem
Given a simple polygon constructed on a grid of equal-distanced points (i.e., points with integer coordinates) such that all the polygon's vertices are grid points, Pick's theorem provides a simple formula for calculating the area A of this polygon in terms of the number i of interior points locat..
Pick-a-Number
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Pick-a-Pair
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. Pick-a-Pair is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. It is played for a priz..
Pick-Sloan Legislation
The Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act of 1944 was a piece of U.S. legislation which transferred ownership of large parcels of land from around the Missouri River, more than 20% of which was owned by Native Americans, to the Army Corps of Engineers. A large function of this legislation was to destroy more..
Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program
The Fort Randall Dam on the Missouri River in South Dakota The Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, formerly called the Missouri River Basin Project, was initially authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, which approved the general comprehensive plan for the conservation, control, and use of ..
Pick-up (film)
A pick-up is a term used in filmmaking to refer to small, relatively minor shots filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When entire scenes are redone, it is referred to as a re-shoot. ..
Pick-up (gaming)
Pick-up is a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context. Pick-up can generally be used to describe anything that you collect whilst engaged in the gaming experience, ranging from extra lives, to more menial collectibles such as coins (Mario) and bananas (Donkey Kong). They are generally u..
Pick-up line
A pick-up line is intended to be short and easy method of "picking up" (i.e., engaging) another person for sex or romance. The line is usually brief, and is intended to display wit and arousal to its targeted listener. However, the very nature of pick-up lines, short and often crude, means that the..
Pick-up sticks
Pick-up sticks (or pick-a-stick) is a game of physical skill (and mental as well) in which sticks have to be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones. One root of the name "pick-up sticks" may be the line of a children's nursery rhyme "...five, six, pick-up sticks!" A few of the m..
Pick-up sticks (Haida)
Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts. There were non-decorated thin playing sticks (not collected) and the other decorated containing three sets of sticks. These were named after animals or birds only known by the owner or his family according to Charles F. Newcombe . The decoration consists of ..
Pickaninny
For the chess term, see Chess problem terminology. Pickaninny (also pickaninnie) is a pidgin word form which may be derived from the Portuguese pequenino ("little") via Lingua franca. According to one hypothesis, pidgin has the same etymology. In the Southern United States, it was long used to re..
Pickapart
Pickapart is the 4 song EP from Australian jam band John Butler Trio. Pickapart, Don't Understand and Earthbound Child would then make it onto the US version of their LP Three. Track Listing "Pickapart" - 2.59"Don't Understand" - 4.30"Earthbound Child" - 3.50"Trees" - 4.14 ..
Pickardt syndrome
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. Pickardt-syndrome (or Pickardt-Fahlbusch-Syndrome) denotes a rare form of tertiary hypothyroidism that is caused..
Pickard China
Pickard China is a china and porcelain, decorating and manufacturing company in Illinois. Contents 1 Early years2 Manufacturing3 Henry A. Pickard4 Official sets5 External links Early years Pickard China was incorporated in Edgerton, Wisconsin in 1893. The company was sta..
Pickathon
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Pickaway Correctional Institution
The Pickaway Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Orient, Ohio. The warden is Jim Erwin. The most notorious inmate there is John Hupperich. ..
Pickaway County, Ohio
Pickaway County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 52,727. Its county seat is Circleville6 and is List of Ohio county name etymologies for an Indian word of disputed meaning. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent counties2 Demograp..
Pickaway Plains
Pickaway Plains is a wide area of rolling hills beginning about 3 miles south of Circleville, Ohio, and extending several miles to the north and south. This geological area was formed sand and gravel deposited by melting water from the last glacier to retreat from the region during the Ice Age. Du..
Pickawillany
Pickawillany was a Miami Indian village located on the current site of the city of Piqua, Ohio in the United States. It was created to foster English trade by a Miami chief called La Demoiselle, and was destroyed by the French and their Indian allies under Charles de Langlade in June 1752. (Lang..
Pickaxe
Pickaxe on the ground Pickhandle redirects here. If you were looking for a fish, see Pickhandle barracuda. A pick or pickaxe is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle. Some people make the distinction that a pickaxe has a head with a pointed end and a flat end, and..
Pickaxe Pete
Cover of manual Pickaxe Pete is cartridge number 43 in the official Magnavox/Philips line of video games for the Philips Videopac. Pickaxe Pete is similar in many ways to Donkey Kong. You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. There are..
Pickelhaube
Otto von Bismarck wearing a metal pickelhaube Prussian police pickelhaube The pickelhaube (German Pickel = "point" or "pickaxe"; Haube = literally "bonnet", a general word for headgear) or Prussian Helmet is a spiked helmet worn in the 19th century by the German military, firefighters a..
Pickens
Pickens is the name of several places in the United States of America: Pickens, MississippiPickens, OklahomaPickens, South CarolinaPickens County, AlabamaPickens County, GeorgiaPickens County, South Carolina Pickens is also the last name of several people: Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), American ..
Pickens, Mississippi
Pickens is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,325 at the 2000 census. Geography Pickens is located at [32°53′12″N, 89°58′12″W] (32.886672, -89.970092)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the..
Pickens, Oklahoma
Pickens is a small community in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, USA. It was named for John T. Pickens, first postmaster. The post office was established October 26, 1912. External links ..
Pickens, South Carolina
Pickens is a town in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,012 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pickens County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Notable people from Pickens4 External links Geog..
Pickensville, Alabama
Pickensville is a town in Pickens County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 662. Geography Pickensville is located at [33°13′50″N, 88°16′21″W] (33.230693, -88.272554)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the to..
Pickens County
Pickens County is the name of several counties in the United States of America: Pickens County, AlabamaPickens County, GeorgiaPickens County, South Carolina This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might shar..
Pickens County, Alabama
Pickens County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of 2000 the population was 20,949. Its county seat is Carrollton and it's a prohibition or dry county. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Adjacent Counties3 Demographics4 Cities and towns5 See also6 Ref..
Pickens County, Georgia
Pickens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The county seat is Jasper, Georgia6. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Adjacent Counties3 Demographics4 Cities and towns5 References History The Georgia Ge..
Pickens County, South Carolina
Pickens County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 110,757. Its county seat is Pickens6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent counties2 Demographics3 Cities and towns Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county ..
Pickens County Courthouse
The Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama ([photo], right) is a courthouse in west Alabama famous for a ghostly image that can be seen in one of its windows. The image is said to be the face of Henry Wells, who, as legend has it, was falsely accused of burning down the town's..
Pickerel (disambiguation)
Pickerel can refer to: Esox the "pike" fish.Rana palustris the pickerel frog.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. ..
Pickerel Frog
This article is about the pickerel frog. For the pickerel fish, see Esox. The Pickerel Frog (Rana palustris) is a small North American frog, characterized by the appearance of seemingly "hand-drawn" squares on their dorsal surface. All other leopard frogs have circular spots. Contents 1 D..
Pickerel Lake
Pickerel Lake can refer to Pickerel Lake in Freeborn County, MinnesotaPickerel Lake Township in Freeborn County, Minnesota 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..
Pickerel Lake Township, Minnesota
Pickerel Lake Township is a township in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 746 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 92.3 km² (35.6 mi²). 90.0 km² (34.8 mi²) of it is land and 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²) ..
Pickering
Pickering may mean: Places: Pickering, North Yorkshire, EnglandPickering, Ontario, Canada People: Calvin Pickering (1976-present), American baseball playerTimothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United StatesCharles Pickering (naturalist) (1805-1878), physician and naturali..
Pickering, Missouri
Pickering is a village in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 154 at the 2000 census. Geography Pickering is located at [40°27′2″N, 94°50′31″W] (40.450541, -94.841966)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau,..
Pickering, North Yorkshire
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]]Pickering is a small town in North Yorkshire, England, on the borders of the North York Moors National Park. It is one of the oldest market towns in England, having been reputedly founded by the legendary king Peredurus around 270BC. The town serves as a t..
Pickering, Ontario
Pickering, Ontario Land Area¹231.58 km² ¹ Population (2001) % change since 199687,139¹ 10.3%¹ Latitude and longitude 44°N, 79°W1. Altitude:??? Time zone'Eastern': UTC -5(-4 DT) Dwellings:26,946¹ Postal code:L0H, L1V, L1W, L1X, L1Y Area code:905, 289 MayorDave Ryan MPsDan McTeague (Lib..
Pickeringia montana
The legume Pickeringia montana is known by the common name chaparral pea. It is one of very few legumes native to the chaparral habitat. Its nitrogen-fixing ability helps it thrive in rocky, sandy soil. The plant is also well-suited to a landscape of hills, slopes, and recently-burned areas; its r..
Pickerington, Ohio
Pickerington is a city in Fairfield and Franklin counties in Ohio. The population was 9,792 at the 2000 census. However, as urban sprawl from nearby Columbus persists, Pickerington is becoming increasingly developed. The 2004 population estimate for Pickerington was 14,968. Geography Pickerington..
Pickering (crater)
More than one crater has been named Pickering: Pickering (lunar crater)Pickering (crater on Mars) 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 in..
Pickering (GO Station)
GO Transit Lakeshore East Line Oshawa Whitby Ajax Pickering Rouge Hill Guildwood Eglinton Scarborough Danforth Union Station |- !align="center" style="background-color:#99cc99" colspan="2"| Facility Services |- |align="left" colspan="2" | 1322 Bayly StreetPickering, ..
Pickering (lunar crater)
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Pickering Airport
Pickering Airport is a proposed international airport for Pickering, Ontario, Canada, east of Toronto. The original plans for the airport were developed during the 1970s; the current draft plan from the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) calls for construction in a different location on the ..
Pickering Beach, Ontario
Pickering Beach is a community in the City of Pickering located on Lake Ontario approximately 30 minutes from Toronto. It was once an important cottage destination for the upper class that was established by the prominent Toronto lawyer James Tuckett, LL.D. in the 1920s. Today it is now a part of th..
Pickering Brook, Western Australia
Pickering Brook is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. Its postcode is 6076. Named after nearby Pickering Brook. The brook is named after an early settler, Captain Edward Picking whose name was sometimes recorded as Pickering. The suburb of Pickering Brook w..
Pickering Castle
Pickering Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification in Pickering, North Yorkshire. The original structure was built by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1069-1070. This early building included the large, central mound (the motte), the outer palisades (enclosing the bailey) and internal b..
Pickering High School
Pickering High School is located in Ajax, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. Specifically, the school is found in what was once referred to as Pickering Village. The school has students in grades 9-12, and offers both gifted and French immersion classes. The school is traditionally k..
Pickering House
The Pickering House (circa 1651) is a remarkable Colonial house, owned and occupied by ten successive generations of the Pickering family including Colonel Timothy Pickering. This house is believed to be the oldest house in the United States continuously occupied by one family. It is located at 1..
Pickering Nook
Pickering Nook is a small village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a few miles north of Annfield Plain and Stanley, on the A692 between Consett and Gateshead. ..
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located in Pickering, Ontario. The facility derives its name from the city of Pickering (a suburb of Toronto) in which it is located. Also co-located at the Pickering station is a single 1.5MWe wind turbine test site. The fac..
Pickering Panthers
Pickering Panthers City Pickering, Ontario League Ontario Provincial Jr A Founded 1972 Home Arena Pickering Rec Complex Colours Black, Red, and White Coach John Winder GM Frank Robinson The Pickering Panthers are a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from P..
Pickering Public Library
Pickering Public Library is the library system of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Contents 1 Fast Facts2 History3 Services4 See also5 External links Fast Facts Statistics taken from the Library's 2004 Community Report: Number of branches 5 Total circulation 1,007,1..
Pickering railway station
Pickering railway station is the southern termnius of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" |   Heritage railways ! Following s..
Pickering Town F.C.
Pickering Town F.C. are a football club based in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. History The club were established in 1888 and joined the Yorkshire Football League Division Three in 1972. The club became founder members of the Northern Counties East Football League in 1982 and was in the Pr..
Pickering Transit
Pickering Transit was the former public transit operator in the City of Pickering, Ontario. Routes The following routes were operated: IndustrialLiverpoolTown CentreAmberleaGlendaleWest ShoreBay RidgesRosebankAjaxFinch/Hwy 2Brock RdMaple Ridge History Pickering Transit and Ajax Transit were merge..
Pickering v. Board of Education
Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968),[#endnote_citation] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importan..
Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge
Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2003. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1996, from parts of Durham and Ontario ridings. It consisted of the Township of Uxbridge, the Town of ..
Pickering—Scarborough East
Pickering—Scarborough East in relation to the other Toronto area ridings Pickering—Scarborough East is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly o..
Pickert
A Pickert is a flat, fried or baked potato dumpling from Germany. It comes as a round Pfannenpickert the size of a pan, a rectangular Kastenpickert or palm-sized regular Pickerts. The principal ingredients are grated potatoes, flour, milk, eggs, and (usually) raisins, with a little yeast, salt and ..
Picket
A picket may refer to: a metal tool used in climbing to anchor a climber into the snowthe act of picketinga vertical plank of a picket fence 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..
Picketing
Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. Picketing is a form of non-violent resistance in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place and attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"). It can h..
Picketing (punishment)
Picketing was a military physical punishment for which the culprit was strung up to a hook by one wrist with the opposite bare heel supporting the whole body weight, only 'resting' upon a stake or picket, rounded at the point somewhat in order not to pierce the skin. The agonizing overstretching of ..
Pickett
Pickett is a surname, and may refer to Albert J. PickettBill PickettBlake PickettBobby "Boris" PickettByron PickettCindy PickettCody PickettGeorge Pickett, of Pickett's ChargeJames Edward PickettLucy Weston PickettPhilip PickettRyan PickettTim PickettWilson Pickett See also Pickett County, Tennesse..
Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge was a disastrous infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee on July 3 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The charge was against Major General George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge. After Confederate attacks on both Union flanks had fai..
Pickett County, Tennessee
Pickett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population is 4,945. It has the smallest population of any county in Tennessee according to the 2000 census. Its county seat is Byrdstown6. The city of Byrdstown is positioned between two man made lakes; Dale Hol..
Picket fence
A picket fence is a variety of fence that has been used mostly for domestic boundaries. The style has been used since the First Period and remains popular in current times. Often the fence is painted white and made of wood, although modern versions may use plastic that resembles wood. The sty..
Picket Fences
Picket Fences was a 60-minute drama which ran from 1992 to 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. Created by David E. Kelley, the show starred Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker. The series followed the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things ha..
Picket fencing
Picket Fencing is slang for the chopping effect sometimes heard by cell phone users at the edge of a cell's coverage area, or (more likely) by the landline user the to which cellphone is connected. "Picket fencing" refers to the way portions of speech are stripped from the conversation, as if the li..
Picket Lake, Minnesota
Picket Lake is an unorganized territory located in St. Louis County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, its population was zero. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the unorganized territory has a total area of 95.8 km² (37.0 mi²). 91.1 km² (35.2 mi²) of it is land and 4.7 km..
Picket Range
The Picket Range is a small, extremely rugged subrange of the North Cascades in the northwestern part of the American state of Washington. It is entirely contained within North Cascades National Park. It lies to the north of the Skagit River, west of Ross Lake, and east of Mounts Baker and Shuksan. ..
Pickfair
Pickfair was a Hollywood mansion named appropriately by its original residents, silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Located at 1143 Summit Drive, in the San Ysidro Canyon near Los Angeles, California, the property was a hunting lodge when purchased by Fairbanks and Pickford in..
Pickford
Pickford is a surname, and may refer to Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor, brother of Mary PickfordJoseph Pickford, British architectMary Pickford, Canadian-American actressOlive Thomas Pickford, American actress See also PickfordsPickfair ..
Pickford's House Museum
Pickford expo Pickford's House Museum, No 41 Friar Gate Derby, is an elegant Georgian town house, built by the prominent architect Joseph Pickford in 1770. External links [Pickford's House information] ..
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood is a 1997 biography of actress Mary Pickford (1892-1979) written by Eileen Whitfield. The acclaimed biography took ten years to complete and was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada and by the University Press of Kentucky in the United States. O..
Pickfords
Pickfords is a moving company based in England, part of the international firm Sirva. It was founded in the 17th century as a road construction hauler, moving rocks for the repair of turnpikes and other roads. It then carried goods on the return haul. It entered the passenger transportation market ..
Pickford Township, Michigan
Pickford Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,584. Contents 1 Communities2 Geography3 Demographics4 Media Communities Keldon is an unincorporated community in the township.Pickford..
Pickguard
A pickguard (also known as scratchplate and uncommonly, a finger rest) is a piece of plastic or other laminated material that is placed under the strings on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument. The main purpose of the pickguard is to protect the guitar's finish from b..
Pickhandle barracuda
The pickhandle barracuda (Sphyraena jello) is so called because the dark marks along its side look like the thick ends of pickaxe handles. References [Sphyraena jello (TSN 170433)]. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 18 April 2006."[Sphyraena jello]." FishBase..
Pickhill
Pickhill is a large village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. Located a mile east of the A1 it neighbours Sinderby, Holme and Ainderby Quernhow. ..
Pickie Pool
Pickie Pool is an outdoor swimming arena in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Many generations of Bangor and indeed Belfast children learned to swim here. It is located in Bangor Bay and the water used for the pool came from Belfast Lough. It fell into disrepair, and was demolished as part of a..
Pickin' on the grateful dead
Pickin' on the Grateful Dead is a tribute album for the Grateful Dead consisting of 13 songs replayed by Mike Mullins, Phil Salazar, David West, John Rosenburg, Tom Ball, Jody Eulitz, Bill Flores, Barney Tower, Pat Milliken, Bo Fox, Kenny Sultan, and Paul Lee. Track Listing "Althea" (Mike Mullins/P..
Picking
Picking can mean: Various styles of guitar playing: fingerpicking, pattern picking, alternate-picking, sweep-picking, tremolo picking.Continental knitting, a style of knitting.OpenGL technique to pick/select objects in 3D. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles a..
Picking Up The Pieces
This article is about the Difford & Tilbrook single; for other items with this name, see Picking Up the Pieces (disambiguation). "Picking Up The Pieces" was a single released from Difford & Tilbrook's self-titled debut album in the United States. Track listing "Picking Up The Pieces" (3:18)"Within..
Picking Up the Pieces
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Picking Up the Pieces is a 2000 film directed by Alfonso Arau and starring Woody Allen, who plays Tex, a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife, Candy played by Sharon Stone. After cutting up the body, Tex conceals the parts in the desert in New Mexico. Cand..
Picking Up the Pieces (disambiguation)
Picking Up the Pieces might refer to: Picking Up the Pieces, a 2000 film directed by Alfonso Arau and starring Woody AllenPicking Up the Pieces, a 1985 TV movie directed by Paul Wendkoss and starring Margot Kidder and David AckroydPicking Up the Pieces, a 2003 album by Seventh Day Slumber.Picking U..
Pickleball
Contents 1 Overview2 History3 The Court4 Rules5 Present6 External links Overview Pickleball is described as "a combination of Ping-Pong, tennis, and badminton." Invented in 1965 by U.S. Congressman who wanted to create a "sport for the entire family." Apparently, the..
Picklecombe Fort
Fort Picklecombe stands on the extreme south eastern coast of the county of Cornwall, a couple of miles west of the city of Plymouth in south west England. The fort has been a residential complex since the early 1970s but has a history dating back 150 years. Fort Picklecombe was commissioned in the..
Pickled beet eggs
Pickled beet eggs are hardboiled eggs that are peeled and put in a container with whole beets, all soaking in a mixture of vinegar and sugar. Typically, they are left to sit in a cool place or a fridge for two days to a week for desired pickling flavor, and served cold. The eggs, which take on a hu..
Pickled cucumber
A jar of pickled cucumbers A pickled cucumber is a popular pickled fruit in the USA and Canada, where the word "pickle" by itself usually refers to a pickled cucumber. Cucumbers are cooked in spiced sugar syrup to make sweet pickles; or pickled in brine or placed in a vinegar solution with di..
Pickled dragon
In December 2003, David Hart claimed to have found a pickled dragon or, more precisely, what appeared to be the foetus of a winged reptile-type creature preserved in a large jar of formaldehyde in his garage in Oxfordshire, England. It was later revealed that he and his friend Allistair Mitchell had..
Pickled onion
The pickled onion is a popular pickled food consisting of small onions pickled in a solution of vinegar and salt, often with other preservatives and flavourings. In Britain it is often eaten alongside Fish and Chips or as part of a Ploughman's lunch. ..
Pickled pepper
A pickled pepper is a pepper that has been preserved by the process of pickling. For peppers, the pickling process usually involves submersion in a brine of vinegar and salt water with herbs and spices, including peppercorns, coriander, dill, and bay leaf. Trivia According to a well-known nursery r..
Pickled pigs feet
Pickled pigs feet is a food preparation associated with soul food and Southern country, cuisine, as well as Irish cuisine. In this preparation, the feet of hogs are salted and smoked in the same manner as other pork cuts, such as hams and bacon, can be prepared. They are then placed in jars and co..
Pickled punks
Pickled punks is the carny term for human fetuses preserved in jars of formaldehyde and used as sideshow attractions. Most pickled punks display some sort of anatomical abnormality, such as conjoined twins or polycephaly. Faked pickled punks, made from rubber or wax, are known as "bouncers" for thei..
Pickled snakes
Snake liquor on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam Pickled snakes are commonly found preserved animals in Asia, and put inside alcoholic drinks. The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are usually not preserved for their meat. They are preserved to have the snake poison dissolved in the liquor. However, be..
Pickled tofu
Pickled tofu (豆腐乳 in Chinese, Pinyin: dòufu rǔ, lit. "tofu dairy"; also called tofu cheese, preserved tofu, or fermented tofu) is a form of processed tofu used in Chinese cuisine. Production In order to produce pickled tofu, cubes of dried tofu are allowed to fully air-dry under hay and s..
Pickleman's Gourmet Cafe
Pickleman's Gourmet Cafe (sometimes shortened to Pickleman's) is a franchised sandwich and coffee shop founded in Mid-Missouri by Doug Stritzel, a former COO of Jimmy John's. External Links [Official Website][October 2005 Review] from the Columbia Daily Tribune ..
Pickler
A pickler is a tradeperson who preserves food, such as produce, in vinegar and salt, often accompanied with spices. People named Pickler Kellie PicklerJoe Pichler ..
Pickles
Pickles may refer to the Pickled vegetables or: Surname Eric Pickles (born 1952), British conservative politicianJames Pickles (born 1925), controversial British judgeWilfred Pickles (1904-1978), English actor and radio presenterOther Pickles (comic strip), created by Brian CranePickles (dog), The ..
Pickles (comic strip)
Pickles is a daily and Sunday comic strip by Brian Crane focusing on a retired couple in their seventies, Earl and Opal Pickles[#endnote_CraneBio]. Inspired by Crane's in-laws, the Pickles find retirement less than idyllic. The cast includes their dog Roscoe, their cat Muffin, their grands..
Pickles (dog)
Pickles was a dog renowned for his role in finding the stolen FIFA World Cup in 1966. The trophy was stolen during a public exhibition at Westminster Central Hall, four months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, but was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a subu..
Pickles (SpongeBob SquarePants episode)
"Pickles" is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants from season one.'' [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Brief summary: SpongeBob loses his confidence in his ability to make Krabby Pattys and later his ability to perform tasks in order after he was tricked ..
Pickle (disambiguation)
Pickle or pickling may be: Contents 1 Food1.1 Colloquialism1.2 Vegetables and Fruits1.3 Preservation2 Sports3 Other4 See also Food Colloquialism In the US and Canada pickle usually refers to a pickled cucumberIn the UK, pickle usually refers to a relish or san..
Pickle (Python)
Pickle is a standard Python module. It can take almost any Python object and convert it to a byte representation. This process of conversion is called pickling. Reconstructing the object from the byte representation is called unpickling. Pickling (and unpickling) is alternatively called serializatio..
Pickle Family Circus
The Pickle Family Circus was a small circus founded in 1975 in San Francisco, California, USA. The circus formed an important part of the renewal of the American circus. They also influenced the creation of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. After working with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Pickle F..
Pickle Lake, Ontario
Pickle Lake, Ontario, Canada is the most northerly Ontario community that has year-round access by road, located 530 kilometers north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. This access is provided by Highway 599, the only access road to the town from the south. More northerly communities rely on winter roads for ..
Pickle Lake Airport
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Pickle Lake Water Aerodrome
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Pickle liquor
Pickle liquor is an acid solution used to descale or clean steel in various steelmaking processes. Typically, the acids employed in the pickling of steel are hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric and hydrofluoric acids or combinations thereof. When the solution becomes spent, pickle liquor is considered ..
Pickling
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Cucumbers gathered for pickling. Pickling, or corning, is the process of preparing a food by soaking and storing it in a brine containing salt, acid (usually vinegar), or both, a process which can preserve otherwise perishable foods for months. The res..
Pickling (metal)
For other meanings of pickling see pickling (disambiguation). Pickling is a treatment of metallic surfaces in order to remove impurities, stains, or scales with a solution called pickle liquor before subsequent processing, such as extrusion, rolling, and galvanizing. Final treatment of iron and ..
Pickman's Model
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1926. It was first published in the October, 1927 issue of Weird Tales. It was adapted for television in 1972 as an episode of the Night Gallery anthology series. Contents 1 Summary2 Media Adaption3 Connections to oth..
Pickoff
Pickoff attempt on runner (in red) at first base A pickoff is an act by a pitcher, throwing a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder would tag out a baserunner who is either leading off or about to begin stealing the next base. A pickoff attempt occurs when this throw is made in an attem..
Pickover stalk
Example of Pickover stalks in a detail of the Mandelbrot set Pickover stalks are certain kinds of details to be found empirically in the Mandelbrot set, in the study of fractal geometry. They are so named after the researcher Clifford Pickover, whose epsilon cross method was instrumental in t..
Pickpocketing
This article is about the crime. For the Robert Bresson film, see Pickpocket (film)''. Picking pockets is a crime, a form of larceny which involves the stealing of money and valuables from the person of a victim without their noticing the theft at the time. It requires considerable dexterity and a ..
Pickpocket (album)
Pickpocket was a six-track cassette tape released by New Hormones in 1981. It came packaged with a limited-edition book and badge. Currently, Pickpocket is available on CD as a double-issue with the Ludus' 1982 album Danger Came Smiling. The compliation is available from the label Les Temps Moder..
Pickpocket (film)
Pickpocket is a 1959 film by the French director Robert Bresson. It starred nonprofessional actor Martin Lasalle in the title role, with Marika Green. The plot is essentially a modern-day, stripped-down (less than eighty minutes) version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, with theft substitute..
Pickrell, Nebraska
Pickrell is a village in Gage County, Nebraska, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 182. Geography Pickrell is located at [40°22′40″N, 96°43′44″W] (40.377846, -96.728806)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States C..
Pickrelltown, Ohio
Pickrelltown is an unincorporated intersection of two roads (Co. Rd 28 & 29) in Logan County, Ohio consisting of eight homes and a small church. A historic monument sits in this intersection in the remembrance of fallen soldiers from the community. Pickrelltown is located a short distance east from ..
PicksPal
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. PicksPal is a free website,..
Pickstown, South Dakota
Pickstown is a town in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 168 at the 2000 census. Geography Pickstown is located at [43°3′59″N, 98°31′55″W] (43.066418, -98.531991)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bur..
Pickup
Pickup or pick-up may refer to: Pickup (music), a device which detects vibrations from music instrumentsa phonograph pickup, or magnetic cartridge, used for the playback of gramophone recordsPickup truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area."Pickup", a scene which is filmed after the ma..
Pickupcat
--> PickUpCat is a ship concept developed and invented in Norway during the 1990's by the Norwegian marine engineer Dag Aavitsland. The main idea is that the engine module and the cargo modules of a ship can be separated and thus save a significant amount of time while loading and unloading. An e..
Pickup (music)
Three magnetic pickups on an electric guitar. From left to right they are a humbucker and two single coils. For phonograph pickup, see Magnetic cartridge. For other uses, see Pickup disambiguation article. A pickup device acts as a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations (usually from ..
Pickup Artist
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Pickup Man
"Pickup Man" is a song by country singer Joe Diffie. The song is about a man who reasons he can meet the woman of his dreams by driving a pickup truck. At one point, he is able to secure a ride for a high school homecoming queen. The term, "pickup man" has a double meaning, in not only that the so..
Pickup on South Street
Shot in just 20 days, Pickup on South Street is writer-director Samuel Fuller's 1953 film noir released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. Contents 1 Plot2 Memorable Quote3 Trivia4 Featured cast5 External link..
Pickup truck
Mazda compact Pickup truck with extended cabin and homebuilt lumber rack. 1972 GMC Sierra Custom Camper A pickup truck or pick-up is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area. They were invented by Ford Australia in 1934. In North America, the word pickup generally refers ..
Pickwell
Pickwell is a small village 5 miles south-east of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.The parish church is All Saints and its tower was built in the 15th century with earlier features dating from the 13th century. ..
Pickwick
Pickwick may refer to: the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, or its main character, Mr Pickwick,Pickwick, a theatre musical based on the Dickens novel,Pickwick, a fictional dodo in Jasper Fforde's novels about Thursday Next, likely named after the Dickens character, orPickwickian syndrom..
Pickwickian syndrome
The Pickwickian syndrome, also known as obesity hypoventilation syndrome, is the combination of severe obesity, suffering from obstructive sleep apnea causing hypoxia and hypercapnia resulting in marked daytime somnolence. Although it is an eponym, it is not named after the doctor who first describe..
Pickwick Lake
Pickwick Lake is the reservoir created by Pickwick Landing Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Pickwick Landing Dam to Wilson Dam. Pickwick Lake has excellent sportfishing areas, including the Wilson Dam tailwater at the upper end of the reservoir, noted for reco..
Pickwick Landing Dam
Pickwick Landing Dam is a dam in Hardin County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It impounds Pickwick Lake. It is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. Pickwick Landing Dam is located at [35°03′50″N, 88°14′50″W] near Counce, Tennessee. Pickw..
Pickwick Landing State Park
Pickwick State Park is a state park in west Tennessee. Pickwick Landing was a riverboat stop dating from the 1840s. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the site was chosen for one of the Tennessee Valley Authority's dams on the Tennessee River, Pickwick Landing Dam. What today comprises the ..
Pickwick Records
Pickwick Records is an American record company, most notable for its releases of sound-alike recordings, bargain bin reissues and repackages, and children's records. It was at its most active during the 1970s when it obtained the rights to reissue recordings by Elvis Presley. It also distributed rec..
Pickwick Video
Pickwick Video was made in UK and this has established itself as the release of British videos. It also has a cartoon theatre featuring animated classics like Peter Pan and The Jungle Book and has associated many children's videos like Edward and Friends and Famous Five. In Australia it now associat..
Pickworth
Pickworth may refer to: Pickworth, LincolnshirePickworth, Rutland 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. ..
Pickworth, Rutland
The village of Pickworth in the county of Rutland is a small hamlet in a region characterised by Rutland County Council as the Clay Woodlands of the Rutland Plateau (a Jurassic Limestone Plateau). In the 13th century Pickworth was quite a substantial village, but by the end of the 14th century was..
Pick 'n Pay
Pick 'n Pay is a large supermarket chain store in South Africa. The founder and current CEO of the chain is Raymond Ackerman. External links [Pick 'n Pay] ..
Pick (disambiguation)
Pick may refer to: Pickaxe, a tool used for manual labourLock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without its intended keyWarded pick, a device for opening warded locksPick operating system, often called "the Pick system" or simply "Pick"Toothpick, a piece of wood or other substance to remove fo..
Pick 6
A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races. Because of the great difficulty in picking six straight winners, plus the number of betting interests involved, payoffs for successful wagers are quite high, sometimes in t..
Pick and Pack
Pick and Pack is a part of a complete supply chain management, entails processing small to large quantities of product, often truck or train loads and disassembling them, picking the relevant product for each destination and re-packaging with shipping label affixed, invoice included. Usual service i..
Pick and pop
In basketball, the pick and pop is an offensive play that is a derivative of the classic pick and roll. Instead of "rolling" toward the basket, however, the player setting the pick rolls to an open area of the court to receive a pass from the ballhandler and "pops" a jump shot. The premise betwe..
Pick and roll
--> The "pick and roll" (also called "screen and roll" or shortened to "screen-roll") in basketball, is an offensive play in which a player sets a screen (pick) for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender (rolls) to accept a pass. The play begins with a defender between the..
Pick a Bigger Weapon
Pick A Bigger Weapon is the sixth studio album of The Coup, a hip hop group that originated from Oakland, California. The album was released in the United States by Epitaph Records on April 25 2006 (April 24 in the United Kingdom). There have been rumors that the album was supposed to be released ..
Pick bodies
Pick bodies are silver-staining, spherical aggregations of tau protein in neurons associated with Pick's disease. Pick bodies were first described by Czechoslovakian neurologist Arnold Pick in 1892. References Pick A. (1892) Über die Beziehungen der senilen Hirnatrophie zur Aphasie. Prager medi..
Pick City, North Dakota
Pick City is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 166 at the 2000 census. Pick City was founded in 1946. Geography Pick City is located at [47°30′43″N, 101°27′24″W] (47.511901, -101.456533)[Geographic references#1GR1]. Accord..
Pick gliss
A pick gliss is a guitar technique that is performed by holding the edge of the pick against the strings (usually the B, G, and D strings, simultaneously) and sliding the pick down the strings, while rapidly moving the pick up and down. Pick glisses are used quite often by Angus Young (AC/DC). They ..
Pick It Up
Pick It Up is the 2006 live album by Planetshakers, a popular youth movement in Australia. Recorded live at Planetshakers Conference at Vodafone Arena, Melbourne, January 2006. The album was released at Planetshakers City Church on May 28 2006, and has since been made available through Christian b..
Pick matrix
In mathematics, a Pick matrix is a matrix (mathematics) which occurs in the study of interpolation problems, for analytic functions. It is defined as [P=\left[fracright]^_] where [(u_i)] and [(v_i)] are column vectors of dimension [p] and [q&#..
Pick Me Up
"Pick Me Up" is the eleventh episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on January 20, 2006. Plot Two serial killers clash; one who kills hitchhikers, another who is a hitchhiker that slays whoever gives him a ride. External links Review for [Pic..
Pick of the Pops
Pick of the Pops was a BBC radio programme based on the Top 20 UK singles chart and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955, transferring to BBC Radio 1 when the latter launched in 1967. Its last edition in its original form was broadcast on 24 September 1972. The presenters were Franklin..
Pick operating system
The Pick operating system (often called just "the Pick system" or simply "Pick") is a demand-paged, multiuser, virtual memory, time-sharing operating system based around a unique "multivalued" database. It is used primarily for business data processing. Although it started on a variety of minicompu..
Pick slide
A pick slide or pick scrape is a guitar tecnique most often performed in the rock or metal music genres. A pick slide is performed by holding the edge of the pick against the strings (usually the wound strings) and moving along the neck, most often towards the headstock. The result is a very grindin..
Pick tapping
Pick tapping is a guitar playing technique wherein the side of the guitar pick is used to fret notes on the guitar neck. It is very similar to finger tapping except the pick is used, rather than the finger. Pick tapping may produce a cleaner sound than finger tapping, but it is harder to add vibrato..
Pick Temple
As cowboy folksinger Pick Temple, Lafayette Parker Temple starred in The Pick Temple Giant Ranch television show from 1948 through 1961. The Pick Temple Giant Ranch TV show His children’s show featured his guitar playing and singing, puppet shows, cartoons, his pony Piccolo, and Lady, his faith..
Pick up stitches (knitting)
In knitting, picking up stitches means adding stiches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off or belong to the selvage. Picking up stitches is commonly done in knitting garments, e.g., in knitting the collar or cleeves. Picking up stitches is also essential for entrelac knitting. ..
Pick Up the Mic
Pick Up the Mic is a documentary film, released in 2005, which profiles the underground LGBT hip hop scene. The film was directed by Alex Hinton. Though homophobia is a phenomenon commonly laid at the feet of mainstream hip hop (and by extension, African American and poor youth cultures), pop cultu..
Pick Up the Phone
"Pick Up the Phone" was the debut single from Brakes. It is a political rant bemoaning the failure of the world's leaders to sort out major issues. It implores the leaders of Israel, Palestine, America and the United Kingdom to simply "pick up the phone" and talk to each other. This version is dis..
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die (1996) is a minimalist piece of interactive fiction by Rob Noyes. As the title suggests, you die when you pick up the phone booth. However, the game can be won, and in just one move. The puzzle was a finalist for the 1997 XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle. The g..
Pick Withers
Pick Withers (born April 4, 1948) was the original drummer for the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Skateaway." Before that, in the mid-1970s he was a house drummer at Rockfield Studios. Bill..
Picloram
Picloram (C6H3Cl3N2O2) is colorless compound used as a herbicide. External links For a full list of external links to MSDSs, spectroscopic data, commercial chemicals suppliers etc. for this compound, see [Chemical sources]. ..
PicMaster
PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor. One can not only find the standard image editing functions (draw with pen, remove red eye, add text, etc...
PICMG
The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is a consortium of over 450 companies that collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing and using lea..
Picnic
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Friends and family gather for a picnic in a public park in Columbus, Ohio, c. 1950 In contemporary usage, picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors, ideally, taking place in a beautiful landscape. Formerly,..
PICNIC
PICNIC is an acronym which stands for "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer". It is most commonly used by experts to describe to one another that the problem was not in the computer but was instead caused by the user operating it. ..
Picnic (album)
Picnic is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States in 1997 (see 1997 in music). Track listing All tracks written by Robert Earl Keen, except where noted "Undone" – 3:47"Over The Waterfall" – 4:30"Levelland" (James McMurtry) – 5:11"I Wo..
Picnic (chocolate bar)
Picnic is a chocolate bar similar in composition to a Snickers. It consists of milk chocolate, covering chewy nougat, caramel, biscuit and puffed rice. Unlike a Snickers, Picnic bars are lumpy in shape. A popular slogan for the Picnic, released in the early 2000s, was "Deliciously ugly". Picnic is m..
Picnic (disambiguation)
A picnic is a meal eaten outside. picnic may also mean: Picnic (chocolate bar), sold by Cadbury in Australia and the UK.Picnic (film), a 1955 Oscar-winning movie.Picnic (Japanese film), a 1994 film directed by Shunji IwaiPicnic (play), a 1953 play by William IngePicnic (song), a song from the abov..
Picnic (film)
''This article is about the 1955 movie. For other uses, see Picnic (disambiguation). Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope color film which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for. The plo..
Picnic (play)
Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. It won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was adapted for film in 1955. The play was Paul Newman's 1953 Broadway debut in a supporting role. An unknown at the time, Newman campaigned heavily for the leading role of Hal but director Joshua Logan didn't th..
Picnic (song)
"Picnic" is a popular song, originally introduced in 1956 in the movie of the same name. In 1956, a version of the song sung by The McGuire Sisters made the charts. Additionally, an instrumental medley of this song and "Moonglow" was done by Morris Stoloff and the Columbia Pictures Orchestra, as we..
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock is the title of a 1967 novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay, and the 1975 film adaptation directed by Peter Weir. Both the novel and the film imply that they are based on a true story; the film even book ends the story with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue. How..
Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian film. It premiered at the Hindley Cinema Complex in Adelaide on 8 August, 1975. It became one of the first Australian films to reach an international audience, and thus has an important place in film history. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Production..
Picnic basket
A picnic basket is a basket or other container intended to hold food and tableware for a picnic meal. The term usually refers to the contents of the container as well as the container itself. While the basic concept of a picnic basket is quite simple, some picnic baskets sold by gourmet stores are..
Picnic Bay, Queensland
''Picnic Bay is also an alternative name of Sok Kwu Wan. Picnic Bay ([19°10′S 146°50′E]) refers to both a bay in the south of Magnetic Island (offshore from Townsville in Queensland, Australia) and the island's main town. Until recently, the bay was the landing site for ferry service..
Picnic Day
Picnic Day is an annual Open House event held in April at the University of California, Davis. It is the largest student-run event in the United States. Most departments put on exhibitions, competitions, or presentations to introduce themelves to the public. Due in large part to UC Davis' reputat..
Picnic hat
A picnic hat is a hat, usually composed of straw (sometimes referred to as wicker), that is worn while partaking in a picnic. This hat is especially common in warm areas where it is needed to shade the picnic-goer from the sunlight beating down from above. The picnic, a common North American tradi..
Picnic of Love
Picnic of Love is an album released by Anal Cunt on July 21, 1998. The album was released as a joke and a parody of love songs as well as the band itself. The album is basically characterized by the exact opposite of everything that the band represents. While the normal Anal Cunt album consists ..
Picnic Point, New South Wales
Picnic Point is a suburb, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 23km south west of the Sydney central business district in the City of Bankstown. Picnic Point is a residential suburb located on the northern bank of the Georges River. It features a number..
Picnic Point-North Lynnwood, Washington
Picnic Point-North Lynnwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 22,953 at the 2000 census. Geography Picnic Point-North Lynnwood is located at [47°51′37″N, 122°17′40″W] (47.860227, -122.294545)[Geographic ref..
Picnic table
A picnic table (or sometimes a picnic bench) is a modified table with benches expressly for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors (picnicking). In the past, picnic tables were typically made of wood, but modern tables can be made out of anything from recycled plastic to brushed metal. Because of..
Pico
For other meanings of Pico see Pico (disambiguation) pico- (symbol p) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting a factor of 10−12. Confirmed in 1952, it comes from the Spanish pico, meaning beak, or small quantity. SI prefixes 10n Prefix Symbol Short scale Long scale SI writing style ..
Pico, Cape Verde
Pico --> Statistics Island: Santiago Municipality: Santa Catarina Parish: N/A Population: 3.778 (2005) Ranked 13th (community) in Cape Verde Elevation:Lowest:Centre:Highest: southern partPicoPico d'Antônia (1,394 m) Postal code: CV-150?--> Area/distance code: 26x-xxxx..
Pico, Italy
Pico is a town and commune in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is bounded by other communes of San Giovanni Incarico, Campodimele, Pontecorvo, Pastena and Lenola. It is part of the Comunità Montana Monti Ausoni. External links [Mapquest - Pico] ..
Pico-Union, Los Angeles, California
The intersection of Pico and Union Pico-Union is a district in central Los Angeles, California. Its name derives from the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Union Avenue. Contents 1 Geography and Transportation2 The Neighborhood3 Demographics4 Attractions5 Externa..
PicoBackup
PicoBackup is a backup utility for Microsoft Windows users, developed by Acubix. It is a commercial product with a free 30 day evaluation version. It uses PKWARE's PKZIP (ZIP) format for the backup file. External links http://www.picobackup.com/ ..
Picoblaze
The PicoBlaze is a free soft processor core from Xilinx for use in FPGAs. It is based on an RISC architecture of 8 bits and can reach speed of up to 100 MIPS on the Virtex_4 FPGA's family. This processor has an 8-bit address and data port for access to a wide range of peripherals. The core is freewa..
PicoBSD
PicoBSD is a single-floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. In its different variations, PicoBSD allows one to have secure dialup access, a small diskless router, or even a dial-in server, all on only one standard 1.44MB floppy. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU wit..
Picocell
Picocell is a cellular base station (tower) designed to serve a very small area, such as part of a building, a street corner, or an airplane cabin. A picocell is generally smaller than a microcell, although the distinction is not always clear. Picocells are usually used to extend coverage to indoo..
PicoFIREWALL
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. picoFIREWALL is a small, but very efficient firewall for Linux systems; it was extensively tested on Debian GNU/Linux and SUSE Linux. The main ..
Picoides
Picoides is a genus of woodpeckers (family Picidae) found primarily in North America. The plumage in most species is predominately black and white, brown and white in some southern species, with the male often having a red (or yellow) badge. Their bills are straight and chisel-shaped. Although, in..
Picoite
Picoite means the industry standard colour reference target used to calibrate input and output devices. ..
PicoJava
picoJava is a RISC microprocessor specification dedicated to native execution of Java-based bytecode without the need for an interpreter or JIT compiler, thus speeding bytecode execution up to 20 times, compared to standard CPU. picoJava-based microprocessors can also execute legacy C/C++ code as ef..
Picola & District Football League
The Picola & District Football League is an Australian Rules Football league in Victoria, Australia with some clubs from New South Wales. | width="" align="" valign="" style="padding-left:;"| Current Clubs Berrigan Football ClubBlighty Football ClubDeniliquin Rovers Football ClubDookie United Foot..
Picolines
Picolines are pyridines which have an additional single methyl group (one carbon). The most well known picoline is vitamin B6 and its derivatives. External links MeSH [Picolines][Overview and diagram at chemicalland21.com] ..
Picolit
Picolit is a sweet white wine produced in Friuli, Italy. The wine is also called 'Piccolino' or 'Piccolitto Friulano' as well. Picolit used to be, during the 1700's, unknown however some of the members of the Perusini family revived the grape used for the wine. External links [Information Abo..
Picon
Picon can refer to: Molly Picon, the Yiddish actress.Picon, one of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol in the television show Battlestar GalacticaPicture icons used in the Apple Computer instant messaging program iChat.Sirop de Picon, an aperitif which is one component of Picon bière, a refreshing altern..
Piconet
A piconet is an ad-hoc computer network of devices using Bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven active slave devices (because a three-bit MAC address is used). Up to 255 further slave devices can be inactive, or parked, which the master device can ..
Picong
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]For the municipality in the Philippines, see Picong, Lanao del Sur. Picong or Piquant is light comical banter, usually at someone else's expense. It is a way Trinidadians and Tobagonians heckle and mock each other in a friendly manner. However, the line between h..
Picong, Lanao del Sur
Picong is a municipality in the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 12,230 people in 1,720 households. The town was formerly known as Sultan Gumander. It was renamed in 2006 pursuant to Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 175 dated December 16,..
Piconjo
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Picon (Apple)
Picon is a Picture Icon made out of a picture. Most often used with instant messaging clients such as Apple Computer's iChat. ..
PicoPlayer
PicoPlayer is a program made by Sony. PicoPlayer allows you to watch tv without a tv reception function and to use video capsules. As of 2002, the version of PicoPlayer is 5.1. ..
Picopop
Picopop is a type of electronic music, that can often be seen as the Japanese equivalent of electropop. The name derives from "pikopiko" (a Japanese word to describe the bleepy, dreamy style of 8-bit techno) and pop. YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) was often known for creating pico music during their..
Picornaviridae
Introduction Picornaviruses are viruses that belong to the family Picornaviridae. The name picornavirus means small RNA virus. Picornaviruses are non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid. The genome RNA is unusual because it has a protein on the 5' end that is used as..
Picornaviruses
Picornaviruses are viruses that belong to the family Picornaviridae. Picornaviruses are classed under Baltimores viral classification system as group IV viruses as they contain a single stranded, positive sense RNA genome of between 7.2 and 8.5kb in length. Like most positive sense RNA genomes, the..
Picos
Picos is a city in Piauí, Brazil. It is located at around [7°4′37″S, 41°28′1″W]. Picos was founded in 1890. ..
Picos de Europa
The peaks west of Potes. The Picos de Europa is a range of mountains some 20 km inland from the northern coast of Spain, forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains. It consists of three major massifs - Central, Eastern and Western (also known as the Picos de Cornión). The Central and Western m..
Picotechnology
The term picotechnology has two related meanings, both involving the manipulation of matter on a length scale less than one nanometer. In nanotechnology, the term picotechnology refers to the fabrication of nanostructures where components are positioned with sub-nanometre accuracy, and in future stu..
Picotee
Picotee is a variety of carnation where the edge is a different colour than the flower's base colour.[Daily Dictionary entry for picotee (URL accessed June 16, 2006)] The word originates from the French picoté, meaning 'marked with points'.The Oxford Dictionary of English, page 1331. Ox..
Picotux
Picotux is the smallest computer running Linux in the world. There are several different kinds of Picotux available, but the main one is the Picotux 100. It is 35 mm×19 mm×19 mm and just barely larger than a RJ45 connector. External links [Picotux.com] ..
PicoZip
PicoZip is a compression utility for Microsoft Windows users, developed by Acubix. It uses PKWARE's PKZIP (ZIP) format, and can also handle 19 other archive formats (CAB, LHA, GZIP, ARJ, LZH, JAR, ZOO, Z, BH, etc.). It is a commercial product with a free 30 day evaluation version. Features Creat..
Picozzi and The Horn
Picozzi and The Horn was a very successful and popular morning drive radio program in Hartford, CT. It aired from May 1986 until May 1997 on WHCN. 105.9 FM. It featured co-hosts Michael Picozzi and Gary Lee Horn. It included rock music, news, contests, listener calls and featured running comedy bits..
Pico (disambiguation)
Pico is an SI prefix, denoting a factor of 10-12. Pico may also be: Pico (text editor), a text editor originally designed for composing e-mail for PinePico programming language, developed at Vrije Universiteit BrusselPico (character), a character member of the Jerky Boys and created in 1989 by John..
Pico (F-Zero series)
Pico is a alien character in the F-Zero series, Nintendo's fast paced futuristic racing video game. He is one of four characters from the original F-Zero SNES game and the only one out of the four that has not been seen outside of the F-Zero series. Despite Pico's self proclaimed age of 124, he ..
Pico (LACMTA Station)
Pico Station, with Staples Center in the background. Pico-Chick Hearn is a station on the Blue line. After emerging from the tunnel, trains have street running along Flower Street. It is located close to the Staples Center and the Los Angeles Convention Center. It is named in honor of sports..
Pico (Newgrounds.com)
Pico is a fictional character depicted in a series of Flash based games created by Tom Fulp, founder of Newgrounds. Pico is one of three children created by Fulp, and still features in the Newgrounds GUI and elswhere throughout the site. He is considered Newgrounds' unofficial mascot. Starting from..
Pico (text editor)
A screenshot of Pico. Pico is a text editor for Unix computer systems, and is integrated with the Pine email client, designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington. From the Pine FAQ: "Pine's message composition editor is also available as a separate s..
Pico Blanco Toad
The Pico Blanco Toad (Bufo fastidiosus) is a species of toad from Panama and Costa Rica. It is listed as a critical endangered species due to a drastic population decline caused by habitat loss. References Bolaños et al (2004). [Bufo fastidiosus]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Speci..
Pico Bolívar
|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor="#e7dcc3" width=85 | Coordinates: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | [8°35′N, 71°2′W]Coordinates: |- |} The Pico Bolívar is the highest mountain in Venezuela, at 4,981 m..
Pico Bonito
Pico Bonito is a mountain that lies behind the coastal town of La Ceiba in Honduras. It has a height of 2435 metres. It is now a protected natural park, though it still suffers from illegal logging. ..
Pico Boulevard
Pico Boulevard is a major Los Angeles street that runs from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica to South Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. It is named after Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California. Description While a major four lane boulevard, it encounters an abundance of traffic lig..
Pico BTX
Pico BTX is a computer motherboard/system form factor. Pico BTX motherboards are very small (hence, 'pico') and are based on the full-size BTX (Balanced Technology, Extended) form factor. Intel has demonstrated a 6.9 litre Pico-BTX reference design, the 'Ultra-small Form-factor Desktop System'. Pi..
Pico Cristóbal Colón
Pico Cristóbal Colón is the highest mountain in Colombia and the fifth greatest in the world, measured by relative height (see list of peaks by prominence). The nearest peak that is higher is Cayambe, some 1288 km (800 miles) away. There is a permanent snowcap on this peak and on the nearby moun..
Pico d'Antónia
Pico d'Antónia --> Elevation: 1,394 m Location: central Santiago, west of Assomada Length: approx. 5 to 6 km, north to southapprox. 4 to 5 km from east to west Easiest route: climb Pico d'Antónia is Santiago's tallest mountain located in the central part of the island in Cape Verde. It is..
Pico das Agulhas Negras
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Pico da Bandeira
Pico da Bandeira is the third highest mountain in Brazil. Nearing 3,000 meters, it is situated between the verge of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo states and close to it is Caparaó town, in Minas Gerais. ..
Pico da Neblina
Pico da Neblina (Pico la Neblina) is the highest mountain in Brazil. It shares its northern slopes with Venezuela. Neblina is Portuguese and Spanish for fog. The mountain was first ascended in 1965 by members of the Brazilian army. The northern slopes of the mountain, are protected and form part o..
Pico da Neblina National Park
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Pico da Pedra
Pico da Pedra (Portuguese for peak of the rock) is a parish in the district of Ribeira Grande in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 2,426, its density is 369,8/km² and the area is 6.56 km². Location:*Latitude: 37.8 (37°42') N*Longitude: 25.61667 (25°37') WAltitude: 1 m (3 ft) Pico da Pedra ..
Pico del Águila
Pico del Águila is a peak of the mountain range called Ajusco, located at the outskirts of Mexico City, specifically at the coordinates N19 12 46.8 W99 15 25.2 - 12776 ft (3894 m). ..
Pico de gallo
Pico de gallo Pico de gallo (from Spanish, literally rooster's beak), is generally known as a fresh condiment made from chopped tomato, onion, and chiles (typically serranos or jalapeños). Other ingredients may also be added to the salsa, such as lime juice (lemon in Mexico), cilantro (cori..
Pico de Orizaba
| style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Prominence: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | 4,922 m Ranked 7th |- |- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor="#e7dcc3" width=85 | Coordinate..
Pico de São Tomé
Pico de São Tomé is the highest mountain in São Tomé and Príncipe at 2,024 metres. It lies just west of the centre of São Tomé Island in the Obo National Park. The second highest point, Pico Ana Chaves, lies to its south east. The mountain is forested and accessible only on foot. ..
Pico dos Dias Observatory
Pico dos Dias Observatory OrganizationLNA (Brazilian) LocationMinas Gerais, Brazil Coordinates[22°32′4″S, 45°34′57″W] Altitude 1,864 meters (6,115 feet) Webpage[link] Telescopes Perkin-Elmer 1.6 meter Cassegrain reflector Boller and Chivens0.6 meter Ritchey-C..
Pico do Alberto
Pico do Alberto --> Elevation: 598 m Location: eastern São Nicolau Island, Cape Verde Length (mountain range): approx. 5 km, north to southapprox. 8 km from east to west Easiest route: climb Pico do Alberto is a mountain located in the eastcentral part of the island of São Nicolau in Cape ..
Pico Duarte
|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Coordinates: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | [19°01′23″N, 70°59′53″W]Coordinates: |- |} Pico Duarte, is the highest peak in all the C..
Pico Humboldt
|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor="#e7dcc3" width=85 | Coordinates: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | [8°33′N, 70°59′W]Coordinates: |- |} Pico Humboldt is Venezuela's second highest peak, at 4,940 meter..
Pico Island
Ponta do Pico (Pico Alto) Ponta do Pico as viewed from Faial Island. Elevation: 2351 m (7,713 feet) Coordinates: [38.47° N 28.40° W] Location: Azores Type: Stratovolcano Last eruption: 1720 First ascent: Easiest route: Pico Island (Portuguese: Ilha do Pico, pron..
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born Indian journalist and author. Iyer was born in England to Indian parents. His father, Raghavan Iyer, a Rhodes Scholar and expert on Mahatma Gandhi, taught at University of California, Santa Barbara for twenty years. Iyer lived in California i..
Pico programming language
See also Pico (disambiguation). Pico is a programming language developed at the PROG lab at the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB). The language was created to introduce the essentials of programming to non computer science students. Pico can be seen as an..
Pico Rivera, California
Pico Rivera is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 63,428. Contents 1 History and culture2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links History and culture Pico Rivera was formed..
Pico Rivera Sports Arena
The Pico Rivera Memorial Sports Arena is a 5,000-seat multipurpose arena located in Pico Rivera, California. It was built in 1978. It is used for rodeos, professional wrestling and boxing. As a concert venue, the Pico Rivera Sports Arena can seat up to 6,250. With a 132-foot diameter arena floor..
Pico Ruivo
It's a peak located on the Madeira Islands, it can be reached from Pico do Arieiro (2nd highest) or from Santana. Pico Ruivo is 1861 meters (6104 feet) high[link] and provides some of the most incredible views of the island, but unpredictable weather conditions makes it quite dangerous...
Pico Turquino
Pico Turquino (Spanish for "Turquino Peak") is the highest point in Cuba. It is located in the southeast part of the island, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in Santiago de Cuba province. During the late 1950s, Fidel Castro and members of his 26th of July Movement used the area as a base du..
Picpus
The term Picpus may refer to the following: The Cimetière de Picpus, a cemetery in Paris.The Picpus Fathers, an order of the Catholic Church, whose official name is the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles ..
Picpus (Paris Metro)
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Picquart's Investigations of the Dreyfus Affair
While Alfred Dreyfus was serving his sentence on Devil's Island back in France a number of people began to question his guilt. The most notable of these was Major Georges Picquart. Contents 0.1 Colonel Picquart0.2 The \"Petit Bleu\"0.3 Major Esterhazy0.4 Picquart's Investig..
Picquet
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Picric acid
Picric acid General Systematic name 2,4,6-trinitrophenol Other names Carbazotic Acidphenol trinitratepicronitric acidtrinitrophenol2-hydroxy-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene Molecular formula (NO2)3C6H2OH SMILES Oc1c(N(=O)=O)cc(N(=O)=O)cc1N(=O)=O Molar mass 229.1056 g/mol Appearance ..
Picris
Oxtongue redirects here. For the weapon, see Ox tongue. Picris (oxtongue or langdebeef) is a genus in the daisy family (Asteraceae). References [ITIS 38246] ..
Picrite basalt
Picrite basalt is a variety of high magnesium olivine tholeiite basalt that is very rich in the mineral olivine. The rock type is also referred to as oceanite. It is dark with bright green olivine phenocrysts (20 to 50%) and black to dark brown pyroxene. Picrite consists largely of olivine and t..
Picrocrocin
'''''' Chemical name 4-(β-D-glucopyranosyloxy)-2,6,6-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxaldehyde Chemical formula ..
Picrodendraceae
Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 85 species in 27 genera. These are subtropical to tropical and found in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, continental Africa as well as tropical America. This family was previously known as the subfamily Oldfieldioidea..
Picrodendreae
The Picrodendreae is a tribe of plants under the family Picrodendraceae. It comprises 3 subtribes and 8 genera. See also Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae ..
Picrodendron
Picrodendron is a genus of plant belonging to the family Picrodendraceae. It comprises 3 species. See also Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae ..
Picrophilus
The genus Picrophilus is an extremely acidophilic genus within the Euryarchaeota consisting of two species: P. oshimae and P. torridus. These microbes are the most acidiphilic organisms currently known, with the ability to survive at a pH of -0.06. They are obligate acidophiles and are unable to m..
Picrotoxin
Picrotoxin, also known as cocculin, is a poisonous crystaline plant alkaloid, first isolated by Boullay in 1812. Found primarily in Cocculus indicus and Anamirta cocculus, it has a strong physiological action. It acts as a non-competitive antagonist of GABA A receptors. As GABA itself is an inhibit..
PICS
PICS can stand for: Planetary Image Cartography System of the USGSPlatform for Internet Content SelectionPunjab Institute of Computer Science (PICS)Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS)Pictures, as in "Hey, I took some new pics of the city today."Private Investment Capital Subscripti..
Picsearch
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Picsel
Picsel Technologies are a software company that design and develop products for handheld devices such as mobile phones. Picsel began by producing browsers and file viewers, such as the viewer on the Samsung SGH-D600 mobile phone, and have continued on to sophisticated content publishing and delivery..
Picsou Magazine
Picsou Magazine is a French magazine featuring characters from The Scrooge McDuck universe. It is run by a Walt Disney Company subsidiary in France. ..
PICT
For the ancient tribe that inhabited what is now Scotland, see the Picts PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac ..
PictBridge
PictBridge is an industry standard from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) for direct printing. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a printer, without having to connect the camera to a computer. Its formal name is "Standard of Camera & Imaging Products Asso..
Pictet
Pictet is the surname of several known people: Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755 - 1824), Swiss politician.François-Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809 - 1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist.Jean Pictet (1914 – 2002), Swiss jurist, contributor to the four Geneva Conventions.Marc-Auguste Pictet (..
Pictet-Spengler reaction
The Pictet-Spengler reaction is a chemical reaction in which a β-arylethylamine such as tryptamine is heated in the presence of an aldehyde and acid.[#endnote_Pictet1911][#endnote_Whaley1951] The Pictet-Spengler reaction can be considered a special case of the Mannich reactio..
Pictet (crater)
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Pictionary
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Pictionary (1989 game show)
This article is about the 1989 children's game show Pictionary. For the 1997 game show played by adults, see Pictionary (game show). For the board game on which these two shows were based, see Pictionary. This game show is not to be confused with Win, Lose or Draw, which had a similar concept. Pict..
Pictionary (game show)
Pictionary was an American television game show which aired in syndication during the 1997-1998 season. The game was based on the best-selling board game, where contestants guessed words and phrases based on drawings, and was hosted by Alan Thicke. In many ways, Pictionary — produced by Richard S..
Pictionary (video game)
Pictionary is an NES puzzle game where one player draws a picture and another player has to guess what the other player has drawn. Players can draw anything from dogs to cats to their uncle driving a race car. Like most Nintendo games, censorship is in full effect and names that have vulgar meanings..
Pictish Beast
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon) is an artistic representation of an animal, and is depicted on Pictish symbol stones. It is not easily identifiable with any real animal, but resembles a seahorse, especially when depicted upright. Suggestions have included a dolphin, a kelpie (or eac..
Pictish Chronicle
The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by (especially older) historians to a pseudo-historical account of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland. The original (albeit lost) manuscript ..
Pictish language
The Pictish language is the extinct language of the Picts. Evidence of the language is limited to place names and to the names of people found on monuments and the contemporary records. At its height, it may have been spoken from Shetland down to Fife. The classification of the Pictish language ..
Pictish stones
Pictish stones are to be found in Scotland, predominantly north of the Clyde-Forth line, and are the most visible remaining evidence of their makers, the Picts. Contents 1 Purpose and meaning2 Classification3 Sites4 External links Purpose and meaning The purpose and meaning o..
Pictive
Pictive is a participatory design method used to develop graphical user interfaces. It was developed at Bellcore around 1990. The method basically uses different paper (or, originally, plastic) cards to represent different views of a user interface, and you encourage end users to help shuffling ..
PictoChat
PictoChat screenshot PictoChat is a communication utility included with the Nintendo DS. It is used to chat with up to fifteen other people connected wirelessly through a system-to-system Wi-Fi connection. [link] Contents 1 Functions2 Using PictoChat3 Other uses4&..
Pictogram
A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing an object or concept by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is the basis of cuneiform and hieroglyphs. Early written symbols were based on pictograms, pictures which resemble what they..
Pictograph Cave National Historic Landmark
The Pictograph Cave National Historic Landmark are a 93 acre area of three caves (Pictograph, Middle, and Ghost caves) located 6 miles south of Billings, Montana. There are over 30,000 artifacts which have been identified. Paintings known as pictographs, are still visible in Pictograph Cave, which..
Pictometry
Pictometry International is a Rochester, New York-based company that provides detailed aerial photography. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle using a patented process. Its Electronic Field Study software allows a variety of measurements to be taken directly from the image including height, ..
Picton
Picton can refer to: Picton, New ZealandPicton, Ontario, CanadaPicton, New South Wales, in AustraliaPicton, Cheshire, EnglandPicton, North Yorkshire, EnglandPicton, Lennox and Nueva, Chile See also Picton Castle This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated w..
Picton, Cheshire
Picton is a hamlet situated near to Chester in Cheshire. The main roads through Picton include 'Picton Lane' and 'Green Lane.' ..
Picton, Lennox and Nueva
Map of Picton, Lennox and Nueva Picton, Lennox and Nueva is a group of three uninhabited islands (and their islets) located on the extreme south of South America, in the Chilean region Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, near Navarino island and the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del..
Picton, New South Wales
Picton ([34°10′S 150°36′E]) is a small town (3604 in 1996) in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly region in foothills of the Southern Highlands, 80 kilometres south west of Sydney. It is also the main town and administrative centre of Wollondilly Shire. It has a station ..
Picton, New Zealand
160px A view of the harbour in Picton. Picton is located near the head of Queen Charlotte Sound near the north-east corner of the South Island of New Zealand. The population (2001) is 3,063. It is named after Sir Thomas Picton, the military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was ..
Picton, North Yorkshire
for at grid reference NZ415075 Picton is a hamlet and civil parish located in the north of North Yorkshire. It is about 5 km south of Yarm and 12 km south of Middlesbrough. The parish is in the Hambleton district and had a population of 108 according to the 2001 census. It lies just south o..
Picton, Ontario
Picton, Ontario, Canada [Coat of Arms] Regional Municipality [Prince Edward County] Population 3983 (MPAC 2004) Area 4 km² Coordinates |- style="background-color: #efefef;" |style="padding: 0 5px 0 5px;" | Elevation |style="padding: 0 5px 0 0" | 79 m AMSL |-..
Pictones
The Pictones are a Gaulish Tribe on the south bank of the Liger, Limonium was the chief town. They were fiercely independent for a part, and collaborative with Caesar for an other part, but they were also one of the more civilized tribes. They were known for their timber resources and occasionally ..
Picton Airport
{| class="infobox bordered" style="width: 220px; font-size: 95%;" |- ! colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Picton Airport |- !colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Runways |- !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|D..
Picton Castle
Picton Castle is a medieval castle near Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, south Wales. It was built in the 13th century by Sir John Wogan and is still inhabited by his descendants, the Philipps family (see Baron Milford and Viscount St Davids). The castle is now owned and operated by the Picton Cas..
Picton Castle (ship)
Picton Castle is a barque employed in sail training. The ship is a completely refitted barque that observes the rigorous standards of Germanischer Lloyds for steel-hulled Cape Horners. She is 179 feet (55 m) overall, with riveted steel hull, clear oiled-pine decks, steel masts, and wooden and steel..
Picton Pirates
The Picton Pirates are a Junior "C" team based out of Picton, Ontario. They play out of the Empire B Junior C Hockey League. History The Pirates have been in the Junior "C" loop since 1989. ..
Picton railway station, New South Wales
Picton is a railway station on the Southern Highlands line of the CityRail network in New South Wales, Australia. It is the northern junction of the loop line bus to Bowral visiting Thirlmere, Couridjah, Buxton, Balmoral, Hill Top and Colo Vale. Picton has a relatively infrequent service with train..
Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library
Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library William Brown Street, Liverpool, England. Chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum, Sir James Picton laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was Designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Ro..
Picton Road
Picton Road is a New South Wales highway linking Picton and Wollongong. The road is of good standard with plenty of overtaking lanes and provide an important link between Hume and Southern freeways. It also links the coalmines in Picton to the steelworks in Wollongong. Consequently, the truck traf..
Pictophilia
Pictophilia is a paraphilia that consists of the unusually intense desire to see pictorial pornography, or the inability to get sexually aroused without the use of pictorial pornography. See also Pornography addiction ..
Pictor
Pictor click for larger image Abbreviation Pic Genitive Pictoris Symbology the Easel Right ascension 4h 32m - 6h 51m h Declination −43 - −64° Area Ranked 59th Number of stars(magnitude < 3) 0 Brightest star App. magnitude +3.27) Meteor showers ?????????..
Pictoral convention
Pictoral convention is a widely used of accepted device or technique for the portrayal of a subject in art. ..
Pictorialism
Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process. It reached its height in the early years of the 20th century, and declined rapidly after 1914 after the widespread emergence of Modernism. Pictorialism largely subscri..
Pictorial cancellation
Cancellations for flight anniversary, 2003 A pictorial cancellation, in philately, is a cancellation in which part of the cancellation or postmark or a combination of the two contains some sort of picture or image; the term is sometimes used, loosely and perhaps technically incorrectly, fo..
Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
The Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the English Lake District. They were written and illustrated in pen and ink by Alfred Wainwright between 1952 and 1965. The full title of each book is A Pictorial Gui..
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is A. E. Waite's influential guide to Tarot symbolism, published in England in 1910 in conjunction with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. While Waite was an occultist, he was very concerned with the accuracy of the symbols he used for his deck, and he did much research into..
Pictorial of Tea Ware
Tea Ware Pictorial(茶具图赞) by The Old Man Shen'an(审安老人) Pictorial of Tea Ware compiled ca 1269 is the earliest picture book on tea ware used in preparation of Song dynasty tea cake for drinking. This book described 12 tea wares: tea stove 韋鴻臚 'Weihonglu'tea hammer 木待制 '..
Pictorium
The Pictorium is an IMAX theatre at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, IL. It opened in 1979 and claimed to have the world's then-largest movie screen. The screen is 64.5 feet tall and 88.25 feet wide (19.6 x 26.9 meters) and is all one piece. Movies Shown 79-80 To Fly!81-83 American..
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Pictou redirects here, for the defunct federal riding, see Pictou (electoral district) Pictou is a small town on the northern coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in Pictou County. It is primarily a tourism-based town, and a large portion of its inhabitants trace their roots to Scotland. It is t..
Pictou (electoral district)
Pictou was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was created in the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the County of Pictou. It was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into the riding of Centr..
Pictou Academy
Pictou Academy (PA), founded in 1816 by Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a private school for boys, but is now a public school teaching grades 9-12. Pictou Academy's current principal is James Ryan. The Pictou Academy Educa..
Pictou Centre
Pictou Centre is a Nova Scotia provincial electoral district. The MLA since 2006 is Pat Dunn of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Past members Pat Dunn, PC (2006 - Present)John Hamm, PC (1993 - 2006)Jack MacIsaac, PC (1988 - 1999) External link [profile] ..
Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Part of a series about Communities in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Counties ''' '''Community Statistics Area 2845.27 km² Population 46,965 * Population_Density 16.5/km²* Average_Earnings $36,937 + '''Government Warden/Mayor Allister MacDonald Governing Body Pictou County Muni..
Pictou County Rugby Club
The Pictou County Rugby Club (PCRC) is a men's rugby team located in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The club was created in 1971 and joined the Nova Scotia Rugby Union. It was a premier rugby club in the Maritimes during the 1970s and 1980s. The PCRC home field is at the Parkdale - Scott Weeks..
Pictou East
Pictou East is a Nova Scotia provincial electoral district. The MLA elected in the 2006 election was Clarrie MacKinnon of the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia who replaced the retiring Jim DeWolfe of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Past members Clarrie MacKinnon, NDP (2006 - p..
Pictou Island, Nova Scotia
Pictou Island is an island located in the Northumberland Strait approximately 4 nautical miles (NM) north of Nova Scotia and 10 NM south of Prince Edward Island. Measuring 9.5 kilometres (km) in length and 2.5 km in width, the island is administratively part of Pictou County. The island is heavily..
Pictou West
Pictou West is a Nova Scotia provincial electoral district. The MLA since 2003 is Charlie Parker of the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia. Past members Charlie Parker, NDP (2003 - present)Muriel "Fluff" Baillie, PC (1999 - 2003)Charlie Parker, NDP (1998)Don McInnes, PC (1988 - 1998) External link..
Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough
Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. This riding was created in 1996 from Cape Breton Highlands—Canso and Central Nova ridings, and consisted of the cou..
Picts
Clach an Tiompain, a Class 1 Pictish symbol stone in Strathpeffer. The Picts were a confederation of tribes in central and northern Scotland from Roman times until the 10th century. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde. They were the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named..
Picture-in-picture
Picture in Picture (PiP) allows one to watch more than one TV program (channel) at the same time on television sets or other devices. With PiP feature of TV, one program will be displayed on the entire TV screen, and another program or programs will be displayed in individual smaller squares on t..
Picture-winged fly
The name picture-winged fly is sometimes used in a colloquial sense for various fly families in the superfamily Tephritoidea that have patterns of bands or spots on the wings, but is more correctly applied solely to the family Ulidiidae (which was formerly known as Otitidae). This is a large and d..
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
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Picturehouse
Picturehouse is a specialty film company formed in 2005 as a joint-venture of New Line Cinema and HBO Films, both divisions of Time Warner. The company was formed from New Line and HBO's acquisition of the distribution arm of Newmarket Films, and New Line's Fine Line Features specialty division. N..
Picturehouse Cinemas
Picturehouse Cinemas is a chain of art house cinemas in the United Kingdom. As of May 2006 it has 18 branches, all in England and Scotland. The Picturehouse chain started in 1989 but many of its cinemas operated independently before being bought by City Screen, the chain's owners. One of its branch..
Picturemaker Productions
Picturemaker Productions is an American television production company. It was founded by Glenn Gordon Caron. Picturemaker Productions productions Medium (2005)Now and Again (1999)Long Time Gone (1986) (TV)Moonlighting (1985) ..
Picturesque
Though the concept of the sublime had roots in the connoisseurship of Antiquity, the "picturesque" was a new category in the incipient Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. "Picturesque," meaning literally "in the manner of a picture; fit to be made into a picture" was a word used as early as 17..
Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo
Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo is a 1968 album by the British rock group Status Quo. In 1998, Castle Records re-released the album with additional tracks. The album covers a number of songs, including "Green Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers and others by Tommy Roe and the..
Pictures at an Exhibition
Musorgsky in 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition (or Pictures from an Exhibition; Russian: ) is a famous suite of 15 musical pieces, composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky in 1874. Mussorgsky wrote the work for piano, but it is probably better known in the form of various orchestrations and arrange..
Pictures at an Exhibition (album)
Pictures at an Exhibition is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971 as a live album and re-released in 2001 as a remastered edition including both live and studio versions of Mussorgsky's classical piece Pictures at an Exhibition. The original live album ..
Pictures at Eleven
Pictures at Eleven is the debut solo album from former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Genesis drummer Phil Collins played drums for six of the album's eight songs, and also participated in the subsequent tour. Contents 1 Track listing2 Personnel3 Charts4 Album notes5 ..
Pictures from an Institution
Pictures from an Institution is a novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is what one might call an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the personal relationships among the characters as well as the varieties of their inner life. The nameless narrator, a ..
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Pictures of Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (1525-1569) famous for pictures of peasant life. In this book Williams puts Brueghel’s pictures into poems. Williams got the Pulitzer P..
Pictures in the Mirror
"Pictures in the Mirror" is the first single off The Living End's second album Roll On. Track listing Pictures in the MirrorUncle HarryThere is no Radio (demo)The Man With No Name ..
Pictures in the Sky
Pictures In The Sky is the second solo album by songwriter Rich Mullins and was released in 1987 on Reunion Records. This album included the first appearance of the song "Screen Door," which went on to be a long-time concert favorite among Rich Mullins fans. When performed in concert, Mullins an..
Pictures of Lily
"Pictures of Lily" Single by The Who From the album My Generation Single Released 1967 Single Format 33 1/3 rpm Recorded Genre Mod Song Length Record label Producer Chart positions 4 (UK) " "" "Pictures of Lily" is a single by the British rock band The Who. It was released in 1..
Pictures Of Matchstick Men
To meet Wikipedia and [WikiProject Music/MUSTARDWikiProject Music guidelines], this article or section may require [Cleanupcleanup]. Please discuss this issue on the [[Talk:|talk page]]. [[Help:Editing|Editing help]] is available.This article has been tagged since April 2006 an..
Pictures of Pandas Painting
Pictures of Pandas Painting is a song by They Might Be Giants from the album Here Come the ABCs. ..
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records was the first full-length album by anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba. It was released as criticism to Live Aid. Track listing "How to Get Your Band on Television""British Colonialism and the BBC""Commercial Break""Unilever""More Whitewashing""An Interlude: ..
Pictures of You
"Pictures of You" is a song by The Cure included in the album Disintegration (1989, written by Robert Smith). The single version is much shorter than the album version, which is 7:24 minutes long rather than 4:48 minutes. There are also 2 different extended versions on the 2 UK 12" singles, one of ..
PictureViewer
PictureViewer is a software application from Apple Computer installed with the free part of the QuickTime media viewer system on versions of Mac OS prior to Mac OS X. It can be used to view picture files from most common still image formats. Since the release of Mac OS X, however, QuickTime has..
Picture (string theory)
In superstring theory, each state may be represented by many ways, depending on the way the ground state is defined. Each representation is called a picture, and is denoted by a number, such as 0 picture, -1 picture, etc. The difference between the ground states is according to the action of the sup..
Picture and Text
Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the visual arts, published in 1893. The book is most notable for extensive and perceptive essays on John Singer Sargent and Honoré Daumier. Included with the essays on the visual arts is an out-of-place but interesting discussion in dial..
Picture archiving and communication system
An image as stored on a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) The same image following contrast adjustment, sharpening and measurement tags added by the system In medical imaging, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are computers or networks dedicated to the s..
Picture book
Peter Rabbit and wife being asked for cabbages by Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies A picture book is a popular form of illustrated literature—more precisely, a book with pictures in it—popularized in the 20th century Western world. Picture books are norma..
Picture Book
Picture Book was a BBC Television series that appeared on Mondays as part of the Watch with Mother cycle. It was initially introduced by Patricia Driscoll. The programme encouraged children to make things. Patricia Driscoll had the catch phrase "Do you think you could do this? - I am sure you cou..
Picture Book (album)
Picture Book is the debut album by blue-eyed soul group Simply Red, released in 1985. Track listing "Come to My Aid""Sad Old Red""Look at You Now""Heaven""Jericho""Money's Too Tight to Mention""Holding Back the Years""Red Box""No Direction""Picture Book" ..
Picture bride
The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th Century of immigrant workers (chiefly Japanese and Korean) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family rec..
Picture Butte, Alberta
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Picture CD
Picture CD is a product by Kodak, following on from the earlier Photo CD product. It holds photos from a single roll of color film, stored at 1024 x 1536 resolution using JPEG compression. The product is aimed at consumers. Software to view and perform simple edits to images is included on the CD. ..
Picture communication symbols
Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) are black and white line drawings used in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. These AAC systems may be high-tech (Dynamyte) or low-tech such as a communication board. Several studies have found PCS to be more transparent than other graphic ..
Picture cover
Picture Cover is a common term among book collectors. Many early series books and later children's books have this binding, as do most modern textbooks. It is a method of bookbinding that preserves the contents as well as a normal hardbound book, but has the visual appeal of a paperback book. The..
Picture element
This is the original and proper name for the unit of resolution in visual display units (VDUs). They are now referred to as 'pixels', however this is merely a contraction of the phrase 'picture element'. A computer monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024 has 1280 picture elements (or pixels) horixont..
Picture frame
A picture frame is a surround added to a picture in order to contain it, make it easier to hang, enhance it and, in some cases, in order to protect it as well. Picture frames are usually made of a rectangle of wood, although other materials are also used, including metal. A picture frame may be o..
Picture Frame Seduction
Picture Frame Seduction is a "hardcore" punk rock band from Haverfordwest, Wales, UK. The band's influences included their peers of the day Charged GBH and Discharge. With many other bands of the time like The Varukers, they pioneered the hardcore punk rock scene in the United Kingdom in the early t..
Picture line-up generation equipment
In television, picture line-up generation equipment (PLUGE or pluge, pronounced "ploozh") is equipment used to generate greyscale test patterns in order to adjust the black level of a video signal. Various PLUGE patterns can be generated, the most common consisting of three vertical bars of super-..
Picture lock
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. Picture lock is the final step in editing a film. When a film has been edited to the point where the editor is ..
Picture maze
. A picture maze is a maze puzzle that forms a picture when solved the same as a traditional maze. Contents 1 Rules2 History3 Computer algorithm picture mazes4 See also5 External links Rules Picture mazes require no special rules or learning and rules are very simple: ..
Picture of Nectar
A Picture of Nectar is Phish's fifth studio album. It was released on February 12, 1992, and was Phish's major-label debut, appearing on Elektra Records. It is the only Phish studio album to feature a song by another artist - Manteca - by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. The album title "A Picture o..
Picture of Perfect Youth
Picture of Perfect Youth is a limited CD and vinyl collection of B-sides over Feeder's history, only available from the band's [official website]. The website now has no copies of the CD left and no more will be printed. However, the vinyl edition is still available to buy. This album is..
Picture of the Moon
'Picture of the Moon' is a Dutch rock band founded in 2001. The band itself and various reviewers seem to place its music in the progressive metal, progressive rock, or hard rock music genres. The band's official site describes its sound as featuring "...a combination of melodic synth sounds with ..
Picture Page
Picture Page was a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the service's hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. It was the first British television series to become a long-running and regular po..
Picture Pages
This article is about the US educational television segment. For information on the British television programme, see Picture Page. Picture Pages was an educational television segment aimed at preschoolers, teaching lessons on basic arithmetic, geometry, and drawing through a series of interactive..
Picture People
The Picture People is company based in Foster City, California, that specializes in the photography of children. The company was started in 1987 and as of January 2006 has over 300 stores in 34 U.S. states. The company calls its photographers "Funtographers." External link [Official website�..
Picture Perfect Morning
Picture Perfect Morning is the solo debut album by the American singer/songwriter Edie Brickell, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). The video for Good Times was included as part of the multimedia samples included on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM. Contents 1 Track listing2 Pers..
Picture plane
A picture plane is the imaginary flat surface which is usually located between the station point and the object being viewed and is ordinarily a vertical plane perpendicular to the horizontal projection of the line of sight to the object's order of interest. In photography the physical surface of a..
Picture Post
Picture Post, a magazine that pioneered photojournalism along with its competitor Lilliput, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The magazine was an immediate success and after six months was selling 1,600,000 copies a week. From its inception, Picture Post campaigned against the per..
Picture Processing Unit
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since June 2006. A Picture Processing Unit (..
Picture Prowler
"Picture Prowler" was an early piece of photo management software developed around and meant to show off Xing Technology's JPEG image decompression library during the early 90's. Little known today, it featured thumbnail based picture management, printing, etc. The primary developer was Ray Bunnag..
Picture puzzle
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. Puzzles consisting of a large, single image or pattern broken up in to smaller pieces and scrambled. The challe..
Picture Rocks
Picture Rocks can refer to: Picture Rocks, ArizonaPicture Rocks, PennsylvaniaThis 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. ..
Picture Rocks, Arizona
Picture Rocks is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The population was 8,139 at the 2000 census. Geography Picture Rocks is located at [32°19′51″N, 111°13′47″W] (32.330735, -111.229652)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to t..
Picture Rocks, Pennsylvania
Map of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania highlighting Picture Rocks Picture Rocks is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 693 at the 2000 census. Geography Picture Rocks is located at [41°16′48″N, 76°42′42″W] (41.280066, -76.711731)�..
Picture superiority effect
According to the picture superiority effect, concepts are much more likely to be remembered experimentally if they are presented as pictures rather than as words. According to dual-coding theory by Allan Paivio (1971, 1986), memory exists either (or both) verbally or "imaginally". Concrete concepts..
Picture This
Picture This can mean: Picture This (album), a 1982 album by Huey Lewis and the NewsA 1988 novel by Joseph Heller (ISBN 0684868199)A song by Blondie from the album Parallel Lines This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an refe..
Picture This (album)
Picture This Album by Huey Lewis & the News Released 1982 Recorded ??? Genre Rock Length 33 min 54 sec Record label Chrysalis Producers Huey Lewis,Huey Lewis & the News Professional reviews AMG 4/5 [link] Huey Lewis & the News Chronology Huey Lewis & the News(1980) Picture Th..
Picture This (novel)
Picture This is a 1988 novel from Joseph Heller, the satiric author of the acclaimed Catch-22. The novel is an eclectic historical journey across three periods of history, all connected by a single painting: Rembrandt van Rijn's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. With constant reflections ..
Picture Tour
In 1981, The Cure embarked on the Picture Tour to promote their 3rd album, Faith. The tour went through England, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, The United States, Canada, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand. The Carnage Visors film was shown on this tour as an opening act for some of th..
Picture Transfer Protocol
Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) is a widely-supported protocol developed by the International Imaging Industry Association to allow the transfer of images from digital cameras to computers and other peripheral devices without the need of additional device drivers. The protocol has been standardised..
Piculet
The piculets are a distinctive group of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America, with just three Asian and one African species elsewhere. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, wit..
Picullus
In Prussian mythology, Picullus, or Pikollos, was the god of Hell and richness. ..
Picumnus
In Roman mythology, Picumnus was a god of fertility, agriculture, matrimony, infants and children. He may have been the same god as Sterquilinus. His brother was Pilumnus. ..
Picunche
The Pincunche (a mapudungun word meaning "North People") were a Chilean people living to the north of the "mapuche" or Araucanians and south of the Diaguitas. Agriculture Their primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses. They were part of the Incan empire at the..
Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
Picurís Pueblo (IPA: [pΙ kə 'ris]) is a Pueblo in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, this census-designated place population was 86. Geography Picuris Pueblo is located at [36°12′9″N, 105°42′42″W] (36.202569, -105.711760)[Geographic ..
Picus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Picus was a man turned into a woodpecker by Circe for scorning her love. His wife was Canens, a nymph, who killed herself after he was transformed. They had one son, Faunus. He is featured in one of the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and is mentioned by Virgil in the Aeneid a..
Piczo
Piczo is an online photo website builder and community, where people can sign up for free to make their own advertising-supported websites. Piczo was launched in 2004 and allows users to integrate elements like photos, blogging, and online chat. Its key focus is user-user interaction. It is pa..
Pic 'N' Save
Pic 'N' Save was, at one time, the second-largest closeout retail chain in the United States. Financial troubles caused the chain to close many of the markets in the late-1990s and early-2000s. In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores Corporation) bought out the remaining Pic 'N' Save stores ..
Pic (novel)
Pic a 1971 novel by Jack Kerouac. Pic is the story of a small child, Pictorial ReviewJackson, from North Carolina. When his grandfather, with whom he lives, dies, his older brother appears and plucks him from the disfunctional home of his aunt. They journey north to New York City, Where Pic bears w..
Pic de l'Aurore
The Pic de l'Aurore (Peak o'Dawn) is a cliff culminating at about 800 feet at the west entrance of the village of Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. From Its top you get an extraordinary view on both the bay of Gaspé up to the Forillon National Park of Canada, and the bay of Percé inc..
Pic du Midi
Pic du Midi may refer to the following mountains: Pic du Midi de BigorrePic du Midi d'Ossau 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..
Pic du Midi d'Ossau
Another Pic du Midi is the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. A peak of the Pyrenees, at 9400 feet in height the Pic du Midi d'Ossau is not particularly high; neither does it boast a glacier or permanent snow fields. However, with its distinctive and unique shape it is instantly recognisable and its identi..
Pic du Midi de Bigorre
Another Pic du Midi is the Pic du Midi d'Ossau. The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply Pic du Midi (altitude 2,877 meters [9,439 feet]) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees famous for its astronomical observatory. Construction of the observatory began in 1878, and the dome was completed in ..
Pic Macaya National Park
Parc National Pic Macaya (Pic Macaya National Park) is one of two national parks of the Republic of Haiti. It is located in the southern part of the country, and features the country's last stand of virgin cloud forest. Elevations in the rugged park reach a maximum height of 2,347 meters (7,700 feet..
PIC microcontroller
PIC 1655A PIC is a family of RISC microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1650 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division. Microchip Technology does not use PIC as an acronym; in fact the brand name is PICmicro. It is generally regarded ..
Pic River
The Pic River is a river in Thunder Bay District, Ontario which flows from its headwaters east of Longlac and empties into Lake Superior south of the town of Marathon. Tributaries include the Black RiverKagiano River The Hudson's Bay Company operated a trading post at the mouth of the river during ..
Pic River 50, Ontario
Pic River 50 is an Ontario Indian reserve on the north shore of Lake Superior at the mouth of the Pic River. The site is known locally as Heron Bay. Local First Nations peoples traded furs with the French as early as the 1770s. A French fur trader set up a permanent post around 1792. The Hudson's Ba..
Pièce de résistance
Pièce de résistance is a French term (circa 1839), translated into English literally as "piece of resistance", referring to the best part or feature of something (as in a meal), a showpiece, or highlight. e.g. – Even with a diverse movie and television portfolio, Burnett's pièce de résistance..
Pièce montée
A pièce montée (from French, literally "assembled piece" or "mounted piece," plural pièces montées) is a kind of decorative confectionary centerpiece in an architectural or sculptural form used for formal banquets and made of materials such as confectioner's paste, nougat, marzipan, and spun sug..
Pińczów
Pińczów is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 11,943 (2004). External links [Official town website][Map, via mapa.szukacz.pl] ..
Pińczów County
Pińczów County (Polish: ) is a powiat (county) located about 40 km south of Kielce, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship. The county seat is the town of Pińczów. The population numbers 42,268 (2005). Its area is 611,03 km². External link [Official Pińczów County webpage]   ..
Più Che Puoi
"Più Che Puoi" is an official duet single release from Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti and American singer/actress Cher. Charts Chart (2001) Peakposition Swiss singles chart 17 Italy singles chart 20 France singles chart 42 Germany singles chart 61 world wide sales 300.000 ..
Pi Cancri
Pi Cancri (π Cnc / π Cancri) is a star in the constellation Cancer. π Cancri is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.36. It is approximately 701 light years from Earth. ..
Pi Canis Majoris
Pi Canis Majoris (π CMa / π Canis Majoris) is a star in the constellation Canis Major. π Canis Majoris A is a yellow-white F-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +4.66. It is approximately 95.3 light years from Earth. ..
Pi Capricorni
Pi Capricorni (π Cap / π Capricorni) is a triple star system in the constellation Capricornus. It also has the traditional star name Okul. It is approximately 670 light years from Earth. The primary component, π Capricorni A, is a blue-white B-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of +..
Pi Cassiopeiae
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Pi Centauri
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Pi culture
There is an entire field of humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of π, which is known as piphilology. For example, part of the school cheer of MIT is: "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine! 3 point 1 4 1 5 9!" See [Pi mnemonics] for mo..

 

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