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Pēteris Stučka
Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka (Russian: Пётр Иванович Стучка (b. July 26 1865 in Koknese civil parish, Vidzeme -- d. January 25 1932 in Moscow) was the head of the Bolshevik government in Latvia during the Latvian War of Liberation, one of the leaders of..
Pēteris Vasks
Pēteris Vasks (born April 16, 1946) is a Latvian composer. Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia. He trained as a double-bass player, and played in several Latvian orchestras before entering the Latvian State Conservatory to study composition. He started to become known outside Latvia in the 1990s. I..
Péter Abay
Péter Abay (born 13 May, 1962) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team sabre competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona together with György Nébald, Bence Szabó, Imre Bujdosó and Csaba Köves. ..
Péter Boross
Péter Boross (born August 27 1928) was Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He came into power with the death of the previous PM, József Antall and held office until his coalition was defeated in elections. He had previously served as interior minister under Antall from May..
Péter Cardinal Erdő
Péter Cardinal Erdő's Coat of Arms Péter Erdő (born June 25, 1952 in Budapest) is the archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Primate of Hungary and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Péter Erdő studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Esztergom, Budapest and Rome and attai..
Péter Doszpot
-->Péter Doszpot (born on 4 December 1962, in Debrecen) is a Hungarian Member of Parliament and a member of Hungarian Socialist Party. After the elections in 2002, he was working as the vice president of Parliament’s policing committee. Formerly, he was one of the most famous policemen working o..
Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy (occasionally written Eszterházy) is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature. He was born April 14, 1950 in Budapest, Hungary. He studied mathematics at ELTE university in Budapes..
Péter Frankl
Péter Frankl (b. 26 March 1953, in Kaposvár, Somogy county, Hungary) is a Hungarian mathematician and street performer, and is Jewish. Frankl has lived in Japan since 1988, where he sometimes appears on NHK. Though not as popular as he once was, he still performs juggling in public spaces around T..
Péter Fröhlich
Péter Fröhlich of Hungary in a noted Sabre Coach and was GB Olympic coach 1992, 1996, 2000 and coached many members of the Hungarian Team at U20 and senior level. 1999-2001 Currently President of the Honvéd Fencing Club, Budapest. Noted Students Chris BuxtonMarc ChapmanDerek DomingueRobin Knight..
Péter Horváth
Péter Horváth (born August 30, 1974 in Budapest) is a former butterfly swimmer from Hungary, who competed in four consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. ..
Péter Kiss
Péter Kiss (born 1959) is a Hungarian politician. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minister in 2004 but lost to Ferenc Gyurcsány. ..
Péter Kuczka
Péter Kuczka (March 1, 1923 - December 8, 1999) was a Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor. After finishing high school, Kuczka studied at the University of Economy in Hungary while working several jobs. He started writing after the end of the World War II and from 1940 was influentia..
Péter Medgyessy
[Péter Medgyessy] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (born October 19, 1942, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and was the Prime Minister of Hungary from May 27, 2002 until September 29, 2004, not completing his term. On August 25, 2004 he resigned over disputes with coa..
Péter Molnár
Péter Molnár is a Hungarian academic and intellectual, working on questions related to communication law and freedom of speech. Molnár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1987. From 1990 to 1998, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament, where he sat on the ..
Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas is a Hungarian writer, playwright, essayist. Contents 1 His life2 His oeuvre3 Awards4 Works in English5 External links His life He was born 14 October, 1942 in Budapest as the son of László Nádas and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hungarian N..
Péter Olajos
Péter Olajos (born on 18 April 1968 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Democratic Forum, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Olajos is a..
Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány (October 4 1570 - March 19 1637) was a Hungarian philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in the Kingdom of Hungary, especially in present-day Slovakia. Biography Péter Pázmány was born in Nagyvárad (O..
Péter Szondi
Péter Szondi [ˈpeːtɛr ˈsondi] (born 27 May 1929 in Budapest, died 9 November 1971 in Berlin) was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, of Hungarian extraction. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after ..
PTE
PTE may mean: Private (rank) ("Pte.") in Commonwealth countriesPortuguese escudo, official currency of Portugal in the pastPassenger Transport Executive in the United KingdomPartido de los Trabajadores de EcuadorPartido del Trabajo de España ..
Ptech
Ptech Inc. was a Quincy, Massachusetts-based provider of enterprise architecture, business modeling, analysis and integration software solutions. This privately-held corporation was founded in 1994, and known for its technology, which was based on a unique implementation of neural net and semantic ..
PTEN
PTEN may mean: PTEN - one of the human tumor suppressor genes, located on chromosome 10Prime Time Entertainment Network ..
Ptenopus
Classification of genus Ptenopus: Ptenopus carpiPtenopus garrulusPtenopus kochi ..
PTEN (gene)
PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog (mutated in multiple advanced cancers 1)) is a human gene that acts as a tumor suppressor gene, which means that it helps regulate the cycle of cell division by keeping cells from growing and dividing too rapidly or in an uncontrolled way. The protein made by the..
Pteramon
Pteramon is a Dinosaur Digimon and the Armor Digivolved form of Armadillomon through the Digi-Egg of Love. He is known as Pteranomon in Japan. He resembles a Pteranodon with jet wings. Contents 1 Evolution2 Abilities2.1 Attacks3 Appearances3.1 Michi E No Armor Shinka3.2&..
Pteranodon
Pteranodon (Greek for "wing without teeth"), from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was the second largest pterosaur genus, with a wingspan of up to 7.5 m (25 feet), exceeded in size only by Quetzalcoatlus. Unlike earlier pterosaurs such as Rha..
Pteras
The Pteras (originally named the Pterasu) is a type of Zoid, a race of mechanical lifeforms from the fictional Zoids universe. Pteras Contents 1 Overview2 Battle Story appearances3 Media appearances3.1 Anime3.1.1 Chaotic Century and Guardian Force3.1.2 New Cent..
Pteraspidomorphi
Pteraspidomorphi is an extinct subclass of early jawless fish. The fossils show extensive shielding of the head. Maybe some species even lived in fresh water. They are considered as vertebrates. The taxon contains the subgroups Heterostraci, Astraspida, Arandaspida and Eriptychiida. See also Fish..
Pteraspis
Pteraspis is an extinct genus of primitive jawless fish that lived in the Devonian period. Like most primitive fish at the time, Pteraspis had a protective armored plating covering the front of its body. Though lacking fins besides its lobed tail, it is thought to have been a good swimmer thank..
Pterbomb
A Pterbomb is a professional wrestling move in which an opponent is lifted up (usually so that they are sitting on the attacker's shoulders) and then slammed back first down to the mat. The standard pterbomb sees an opponent placed in a standing headscissors position (bent forward with their he..
Pterelaos
In Greek mythology, Pterelaos was king of the Thapians, who was the son of Poseidon. Poseidon had bestowed upon him a magic golden hair on his head which made him immortal and unconquerable so long as the hair grew on his head. Pterelaos daughter Comaetho fell in love with Amphitryon, and pulled ou..
Pterelaus
There are two persons by the name of Pterelaus in Greek mythology. The first was a son of Lelex, a pre-Hellenic king whose descendants (the Lelegians) spread across Greece and beyond. Pterelaus ruled the land by the River Achelous, in the region later called Acarnania. Pterelaus had numerous sons..
Pteria
Pteria can be: the town of Pteria in ancient Cappadocia (in modern Turkey)the genus Pteria of bivalve molluscs, the winged oysters 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 th..
Pteria (Turkey)
Pteria was the capital of the White Syrians in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BC. It also was the place of an undecided battle between Cyrus the Great and Croesus. Although some have identified Pteria with Hattusa -Boğazköy-, and w..
Pterichthyodes
Pterichthyodes is a genus of placoderm fishes from the Devonian period, now all extinct. They were one of the first species recognized for what they were, as their fossils are common in the Old Red Sandstone formation studied by geologists in the early 1800s. Due to their extreme divergence from mod..
Pteridaceae
Pteridaceae is a large family of ferns in the order Pteridales. Members of the family have creeping or erect rhizomes and are mostly terrestrial or epipetric (growing on rock). The leaves are almost always compound and have linear sori that are typically on the margins of the leaves and lack a t..
Pteridales
The Pteridales are ferns that have their sori in linear strips under the edge of the leaf tissue, usually with the edge of the lamina reflexed over. Most members of this order are small, but some members of the tropical genus Acrostichum, in the Acrostichaceae, are immense, with fronds 3.5 meters..
Pteridine
Pteridine CAS number [91-18-9] Empirical formula C6H4N4 Molecular weight 132.12 Pteridine is a chemical compound composed of fused pyrimidine and pyrazine rings. A pteridine is also a group of heterocyclic compounds containing a wide variety of substitutions on this structure. Pt..
Pteridinium
Pteridinium is a fossil found in a number of Precambrian deposits worldwide. It is a member of the Ediacaran biota. The animal (if it is an animal) is common in late Precambrian deposits in South Australia, Namibia, and the White Sea region of Russia. It has also been found in North Carolina and is..
Pteridium aquilinum
Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken or Common Bracken) is a species of fern with a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring in temperate and subtropical regions throughout much of the world, including most of Europe, Asia, and North America in the Northern Hemisphere, and Australia, New Zealand and northern ..
Pteridophora
Genus Pteridophora Meyer, 1894 was created with reference to the male's head plumes of its only member, the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise. Species King of Saxony Bird of Paradise, Pteridophora alberti ..
Pteridophyllaceae
Pteridophyllaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The name was published only in 1991 and such a family has been recognized by few taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does not recognize this family, not as such. However, it do..
Pteridophyllum racemosum
Pteridophyllum racemosum is a species of flowering plant and the only species of its family, the Pteridophyllaceae. The plant is endemic to Japan. ..
Pteridopsida
The Pteridopsida is a class of plants in the Division Pteridophyta that includes the "modern" ferns. The Pteridopsida is sub-divided into four subclasses to reflect likely clades. These subclasses (and their included orders) are: Subclass Cyatheatae*Order Cyatheales (the tree ferns)*Order Plagiog..
Pteridospermatophyta
Pteridospermatophyta, also called seed ferns, is an extinct gymnosperm division of the Plantae kingdom. Members of this division were predominant at the late Devonian. For now, the Pteridospermatophyta have not acquired a clear position in the botanical systematic yet. ..
Pteriidae
Pteriidae is a family of bivalves. It includes the pearl oysters, genus Pinctada, and the winged oysters, genus Pteria. ..
Pterin
center Pterin CAS number [2236-60-4] Empirical formula C6H5N5O Molecular weight 163.14 Pterin is a chemical compound composed of a pyrazine ring and a pyrimidine ring; the pyrimidine ring has a carbonyl oxygen and an amino group. Several tautomers of pterin exist and are sho..
Pterinochilus
Pterinochilus is a genus of baboon spiders, first described in 1897 by Pocock. The typical species described is P. vorax. This genus contains the following species: P. alluaudi, Berland, 1914P. chordatus, (Gerstäcker, 1873)P. leetzi, Schmidt, 2002P. lugardi, Pocock, 1900P. murinus Pocock, 1897..
Pterinochilus murinus
The baboon spider Pterinochilus murinus, an old-world tarantula, was first described in 1897 by Reginald Innes Pocock. This species is found on the African continent, in Angola, as well as central, eastern, and southern Africa. Description Female P. murinis can grow to 4-6 cm in body length, ..
Pterioida
Pterioida is an order of bivalves. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters) ..
Pterion
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Pternohyla
Pternohyla was a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, but the genus is now considered invalid and the two species have been removed to the genus Smilisca [link]. ..
Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia is a clade of small, worm-shaped animals. They belong to the hemichordata, and live in secreted tubes on the ocean floor. Pterobranchia feed by filtering plankton out of the water with the help of cilia attached to tentacles. There are about 30 known living species in the group. Pte..
Pterocactus
Pterocactus (from Greek pteron, "wing", referring to the saucer-shaped seed of these plants) is a genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae), comprising 9 species. All Pterocactus have tuberous roots and are endemic to South and Western Argentina. The genus has been given its own tribe, the Pterocacte..
Pterocarpus
Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of some twenty species. A surprising proportion of these yield attractive and valuable timber. The timber of most species is traded as padauk (with an adjective). Other, non-padauk, woods include: The famous red sandalwood (sometimes "red sanders wood") is yield..
Pterocephalus
Pterocephalus is a genus in the Dipsacaceae family of herbs and shrubs. Species P. arabicusP. brevisP. papposusP. perennisP. plumosusP. pulverulentusP. spathulatusP. dumetorum - Mountain scabious ..
Pterodactyl
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. Pterodactyl (derived from the Greek words πτερυζ (wing) and δακτυλος (finger) meaning "winged fin..
Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus (TER-o-DACK-ti-lus) was a pterosaur, with a wingspan of about 50–75 cm (20–30 inches) (the smallest species Pterodactylus elegans - about 25 cm), that lived on lake shores during the Late Jurassic Period. It was a carnivore and probably preyed upon fish and other small a..
Pterodactyl (film)
Pterodactyl is a 2005 film that premiered on the Sci Fi Channel. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester. Plot summary Professor Lovecraft (Cameron Daddo) is a paleontologist whose career is in a slump. He hopes to revive it with a mission into the Turkish forest, where a recent earthquake has o..
Pterodaustro
Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous pterosaur from South America. Pterodaustro had a wingspan of 132 cm (52 inches) and possessed over 500 tall, narrow teeth, which presumably were used in filter-feeding, much like modern flamingos. It had many bristle-like structures on its jaw that might have been ..
Pterodon polygalaeflorus
Pterodon polygalaeflorus Benth. (Fabaceae) is a Brazilian legume of Cerrado. Widely distributed in the west of Minas Gerais and in Goias, Brazil, the fruit oil of this plant is used to deter skin penetration by Schistosome cercariae. Alcoholic infusions of the fruits are used in folk medicine as a..
Pteromalidae
Pteromalidae is a very large family of parasitic wasps, with some 3450 described species in some 640 genera (the number used to be greater, but many species and genera have been reduced to synonymy in recent years). The subfamily-level divisions of the family are highly contentious and unstable, a..
Pteron
Pteron (Gr. πτερον, pteron, a wing), is an architectural term used by Pliny the Elder for the peristyle of the tomb of Mausolus, which was raised on a lofty podium, and so differed from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate, as in Greek temples, or on a low p..
Pteronophobia
Pteronophobia is the irrational fear of being tickled by feathers, or the fear of feathers. A feather ..
Pteropelyx
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. Pteropelyx is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur. Historically, several species were assig..
Pterophoroidea
Pterophoroidea is the superfamily of plume moths. Sources Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders, edited by Christopher O'Toole, ISBN 1-55297-612-2, 2002 ..
Pterophyllum
Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fishes from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish. All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon River basin in tropical South America. The three species of Pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally..
Pteropsid
Pteropsid refers to Pteropsida, a subdivision of vascular plants that is no longer in use. It includes all flowering plants and ferns and is divided into Filicinae, Gymnospermae, and Angiospermae. ..
Pteropus
Flying fox redirects here. For other uses of that term see Flying fox (disambiguation) Bats of the genus Pteropus, belonging to the Megachiroptera sub-order, are the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as the Fruit Bat, Flying Fox or Malayan Flying Fox among other numerous colloqui..
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (/ˈte.rəʊ.sɔː(r)/, winged lizards, often referred to as pterodactyls, /ˌte.rəʊˈdæk.tɪlz/) were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period (228 to 65 million years ago). Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates..
Pterospermum
Pterospermum is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs belonging to the family Sterculiaceae. Some species are grown ornamentally while others are valued for their timber. ..
Pterospondylus
Pterospondylus (meaning "winged vertebra") is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a coelophysoid theropod which lived in what is now Germany. The type species, Pterospondylus trielbae, was described by Jaekel in 1913. References http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4..
Pterostylis
Greenhood is the popular name for the genus of orchids Pterostylis. ..
Pterostyrax
Pterostyrax (Epaulette tree) is a small genus of three species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia. They grow to 4-12 m tall, and have alternate, simple ovate leaves 6-17 cm long and 4-10 cm broad. The flowers are white, produced in dense pani..
Pterri
Pterri was a character from Pee-wee's Playhouse. A green pterodactyl and one of Pee-wee's closest friends, Pterri usually acts like a young child most of the time. Pterri was afraid of thunderstorms and was very sensitive. The character was voiced by John Paragon and displayed as a foam puppet on w..
Pterygium
Pterygium usually refers to a benign growth of the conjunctiva. Alternately, it refers to any winglike triangular membrane occurring in the neck, eyelids, knees, elbows, ankles or digits (J Pediatr Orthop B 2004, 13:197-201). An example is popliteal pterygium syndrome, which affects the legs. The..
Pterygoid
Pterygoid (from the Greek for 'winglike') can refer to: a plate near the Vomer bonea muscle such as Lateral pterygoid muscle or Medial pterygoid musclea branch of the Mandibular nerve redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Pterygoid canal
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Pterygoid muscles
Pterygoid muscles can refer to: Lateral pterygoid muscleMedial pterygoid muscleThis 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. ..
Pterygoid plexus
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Pterygomaxillary fissure
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Pterygopalatine
Pterygopalatine is used to refer to structures of the pterygoid processes of the sphenoid and the palatine bone. Specifically, it can refer to: Pterygopalatine fossaPterygopalatine canalPterygopalatine ganglion (also known as the Sphenopalatine ganglion)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation&#..
Pterygopalatine canal
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Pterygopalatine fossa
In the skull, the pterygopalatine fossa is the space between the lateral pterygoid plate (which is part of the sphenoid bone), and the palate. See also Pterygopalatine canal Cranial bones - [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] occipital bone: Foramen magnum | Squama occipitalis (Inion..
Pterygopalatine ganglion
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Pterygoplichthys
Pterygoplichthys["Pterygoplichthys"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 03 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006. (from the Greek πτέρυγ- (pteryg-), meaning "wing", (hoplon) - weapon and ἰχθύς (ichthys) meaning "fish") is a genus of the armored catfish family Loricar..
Pterygota
For Pterygota as plant genus see Pterygota Pterygota is a subclass of insects that includes the winged insects. It also includes insect orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution). The l..
Pterygotus
Pterygotus was a huge sea scorpion, and chelicerate, "biting claws". It was the largest arthropod of all time, rivaled in size only by the giant millipede, Arthropleura. It could reach a length of 2.3 m (about 7 feet), had two large as well as two smaller eyes, and six pairs of walking legs..
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