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Presence
Presence is a studio album by England Rock music band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on March 31, 1976. This album was conceived after Robert Plant sustained serious injuries from a car accident on Rhodes, Greece, August 5, 1975 which postponed a planned 1975/76 world tour by Led Zeppelin.
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Present Tense
Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records. Though the record was basically a Gary Usher solo project, he enlisted many top Los Angeles session musicians, and heavily utilized Curt Boettcher as a songwriter, musician, vocalist, and producer.
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Presentation
Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience. Presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote or OpenOffice.org#Components is often used to illustrate the presentation content.
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President
President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership . Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting ; but today it most commonly refers to an official with executive powers.
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President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state of the United States. In the United States Constitution, the President is also the head of government of the Federal government of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Military of the United States.
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Press box
The Press Box is a special section of a sports stadium or arena that is set up for the mass media to report about a given event. It is typically located in the section of the stadium holding the luxury box.
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Press Gang
Press Gang was a United Kingdom children's television comedy-drama, which ran for forty-three episodes in five series from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television for Central Independent Television, and screened on the ITV network in its regular weekday afternoon children's strand, CiTV.
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Pressure
Pressure is the force per unit area applied on a surface in a direction surface normal to that surface. Mathematically:
where:
is the pressure
is the normal force
is the area.
Pressure is transmitted to solid boundaries or across arbitrary sections of fluid normal to these boundaries or sections at every point.
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Pressure suit
A pressure suit is a pressurized suit worn by high-altitude reconnaissance pilots who may fly so high that even breathing pure oxygen at surrounding pressure would not provide enough oxygen for them to function: see hypoxia.
One type of pressure suit is a spacesuit, which is designed to operate in complete vacuum.
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Pressurized water reactor
Pressurised water reactors are nuclear reactors that use water under high pressure as coolant and neutron moderator. The primary coolant loop is kept under high pressure to prevent the water from boiling, hence the name. PWRs are one of the most common types of reactors and are widely used all over the world.
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Pretentious
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Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital, serving as the Executive capital; the other two being Cape Town and Bloemfontein, respectively the legislature and judiciary capitals.
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Pretzel
A pretzel is a baked snack that is ordinarily twisted into a unique knot-like shape. The pretzel is usually made from wheat flour with yeast; the dough is briefly dipped in lye water before baking, and usually salted.
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Preventive medicine
Generally speaking, preventive medicine is that part of medicine engaged with preventing disease rather than curing it. It can be contrasted not only with curative medicine, but also with public health methods.
Professionals involved in the public health aspect of this practice may be involved in entomology, pest control, and public health inspections.
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PREview
PREview is a requirements methodology which focuses on the early stage of Requirements analysis: discovering and documenting requirements. PREview uses a Viewpoint-Oriented Approach to enable the conversion of top-level goals into requirements and constraints [1].
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Priacanthidae
Priacanthidae is a scientific classification of fish, common name bigeye, comprising 18 species of marine fishes. "Catalufa" is an alternate common name for some members of the priacanthidae family. The etymology of the scientific name refers to the family's very rough, spined scales.
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Priapus
In Greek mythology mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god of purely phallic character, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. He was a son of Aphrodite, with Dionysus, Hermes, or Adonis. At Helicon in Boeotia, the travel-writer Pausanias pointed out a statue of Priapus that was "worth seeing":
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Price floor
A Price floor is a government-imposed limit on how low a price can be charged for a product. For a price floor to be effective, it must be greater than the equilibrium price. In the graph at right, the supply and demand curves intersect to determine the free-market quantity and price.
A price floor can be set above or below the free-market equilibrium price.
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PRIDE
PRIDE or PRIDE Fighting Championships is a major mixed martial arts organization based in Japan. It is currently promoted by Dream Stage Entertainment. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997, promoted by Kakutougi Revolution Spirits.
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Pride of Barbados
Pride of Barbados is a thorny Shrub, Fabaceae, with yellow, orange or red flowers having delicate, curly, slitted petals and long protruding stamens. On the Royal Standard, the hanging filaments clearly represent these stamens suspended from the body proper of the flower.
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Priest
A priest or priestess is a person having the authority, or power , to perform and administer religious rites. Their office or position is the priesthood, a term which may also apply to such persons collectively.
Priests have been known since the earliest times and in the simplest societies .
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Primary care
In medicine, primary care is a term used for a health care provider who acts as a first point of consultation for all patients. Generally, primary care physicians are based in the community, as opposed to the hospital. Alternative names for the field are general practice and family medicine, although the terms are not synonymous.
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Primary care physician
A primary care physician, or PCP, is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. A PCP generally does not specialize in the treatment of specific organ systems, such as neurology, cardiology, or pulmonology, nor perform surgery.
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Primate
A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans. The English singular primate is a back-formation from the Latin name Primates, which itself was the plural of the Latin primas .
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Prime Meridian
The Prime Meridian, also known as the International Meridian or Greenwich Meridian, is the meridian passing through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England it is the meridian at which longitude is defined to be 0 degrees. The prime meridian, and the opposite 180th meridian , which the International Date Line generally follows, separates the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemispheres.
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Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. They are usually, but need not always be, a politician. In many systems the Prime Minister selects and can dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the Government.
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Prime Movers
The Prime Movers were a blues band based in the Detroit area, formed in 1965. Robert Vinopal left soon after the band's formation and was replaced by Jack Dawson. James Osterberg, who would later be known as Iggy Pop, took over the drums not long after. The band was renowned for being very dedicated to the blues and often went down to Chicago to watch blues musicians play.
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Prime Time
Prime Time is the major news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast on Radio Telifís Éireann in Ireland. It is broadcast regularly on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. Occasionally, special editions are shown on Mondays at 21:30.
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Primidone
Primidone, is an anticonvulsant of the pyrimidinedione class whose active metabolites, phenobarbital and phenylethylmalonamide, are also anticonvulsants. Like many anticonvulsants, it is a GABA receptor agonist. Primidone, especially when combined with phenytoin, was once considered the treatment of choice for temporal lobe epilepsy with tonic-clonic seizures. In 1990, it, along with phenobarbital, was a second-line agent in partial epilepsy with or without secondarily generalized
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Primula
Primula is a genus of 400-500 species of low-growing herbs in the family Primulaceae. They include Primula vulgaris, Primula auricula, Primula veris and Primula elatior. Many species are grown for their ornamental flowers.
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Primula elatior
Primula elatior, the oxlip, is a flowering plant in the genus Primula, found in damp woods and meadows throughout Europe as far north as southern Sweden. In the British Isles, it is found only in the east, and mainly in East Anglia.
It is a low growing herbaceous perennial plant with a rosette of leaf 5-15 cm long and 2-6 centimetre broad.
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Primula veris
Primula veris is a flowering plant in the genus Primula, native throughout most of temperate Europe and Asia although absent from more northerly areas including northern Scotland.
It is a low growing herbaceous perennial plant with a rosette of leaf 5-15 cm long and 2-6 cm broad.
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Primula vulgaris
Primula vulgaris is a species of Primula native to western and southern Europe, including the British Isles. The common name is Primrose, Common Primrose or English Primrose. It is one of the earliest spring flowers, and in appropriate conditions, it can cover the ground in open woods.
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Primulaceae
Primulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genus, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family.
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Primum Mobile
In medieval and Renaissance astronomy, the Primum Mobile is a heavenly sphere in the geocentric model of the universe. Astronomers believed that the naked eye planets were carried around the spherical Earth on invisible orbs. Beyond them was the sphere of fixed stars, then the Primum Mobile, and last the Empyrean.
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Prince
The term prince , from the Latin root princeps, when used for a member of the highest aristocracy, has several fundamentally different meanings one generic, and several types of titles.
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Prince Charming
Prince Charming is a stock character who originates in a number of fairy tales. He is the prince who comes to the rescue of the damsel in distress, and typically must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil magic. The name has been given to the heroes of a number of traditional folk tales, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is a Canada Provinces of Canada coextensive with the island of the same name. It is part of the Maritimes and is one of the Atlantic Canada. It is the nation's smallest province in terms of land area, and has a population 138,307.
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Prince Edward Islands
The Prince Edward Islands are two small islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are politically part of South Africa. As a group of two islands, the Prince Edwards Islands are located at . The two islands are named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island.
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Prince Eugene of Savoy
Franois-Eugne, Prince of Savoy-Carignan , known as Prinz Eugen von Savoyen in German, was arguably the greatest general to serve the Habsburgs.
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Prince of Wales
The Heir Apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom is traditionally invested with the title of Prince of Wales. The current Prince of Wales is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
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Princess of Wales
Princess of Wales is a courtesy title held by the wife of the Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1282. The title is held through matrimony alone; it arrives with marriage and is forfeited with divorce. Due to the mortality rate and the fact that some Princes of Wales did not marry before ascending to the throne, there have in fact been only ten Princesses of Wales.
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Princess Royal
Princess Royal is a Style - Manner of Address customarily awarded by a United Kingdom monarch to his or her eldest daughter. The style is held for life, so a princess cannot be given the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. There have been seven Princesses Royal in total.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey.
According to the university, it is the Colonial colleges institution of higher education in the U.S. and is one of the eight Ivy League universities. Originally founded at Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, it relocated to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
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Principality
A principality is a Monarchy feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a Monarch with the title of prince or princess or a Monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince.
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Prinia
The prinias are small insectivorous birds belonging to the passerine bird family Cisticolidae. They are often also alternatively classed in the Old World warbler family, Sylviidae.
The prinias are sometimes referred to as wren-warblers. They are a little known group of the tropical and subtropical Old World, the roughly thirty species being divided fairly equally between Africa and Asia.
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Printer's devil
A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type. A number of famous men served as printer's devils in their youth, including Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Warren Harding, and Lyndon Johnson.
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Printing
Printing is a process for production of texts and , typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.
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Printing press
The printing press is a mechanical printing device for making copies of identical text on multiple sheets of paper. Movable type, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, was invented in China by Bi Sheng between 1041 to 1048. The use of movable type to mass produce printed works was popularized by a Germany goldsmith and eventual printer , Johannes Gutenberg, in the 1440s.
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Printmaking
Printmaking is a process for producing editions of artwork; painting, on the other hand, is a process for producing a single original piece of artwork. Prints are created from a single original surface, most commonly linoleum, metal or wood. Each print is considered an original work of art, not a copy.
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Prion
A prion — short for proteinaceous infectious particle — ; is a type of infectious disease, as it is made only of protein. Prions are abnormally-protein structure forms of a host protein, which are able to convert normal molecules of the protein into the abnormally structured form.
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Priory
A priory is a monastery or monastic dependency whose superior is a prior.
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Prismatoid
A prismatoid is a polyhedron where all vertices lie in two parallel planes. Under some circumstances it is called a prismoid
Families of prismatoids include:
* Pyramid , where one plane contains only a single point;
* Wedge , where one plane contains only two points;
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Prison
prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or internment and usually deprived of a range of personal Freedom . Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
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Prison cell
A prison cell or detention cell refers to the accommodation of a prisoner in a prison or jail.
In present times a prisoner may possess personal things in appropriate quantities in their prison areas, such as a televison set, books, clothing, food and luxury items.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. By international law and several mutually agreed conventions, prisoners of war are required to be treated humanely and diplomatically.
Specifically, Chapter II of the Annex to the Hague Conventions covered the treatment of prisoners of war in detail.
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Private Eye
Private Eye is a fortnightly United Kingdom satire magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop.
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Private Line
Private Line are a Hard rock/Sleaze glam band from Helsinki, Finland, formed during the mid-1990s and continuing today.
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Private Parts
Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film of Howard Stern's rise to shock jock success. The film is based on Stern's autobiography Private Parts which was released in 1993.
Stern's love for his then-wife Alison is a central theme in the movie, and she even has a bit role as one of the receptionists at WFAN during the "Lance Eluction" segment.
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Privet
Privet was originally the name for the European semi-evergreen shrub Ligustrum vulgare, and later also for the more reliably evergreen Ligustrum ovalifolium, used extensively for privacy hedging. The term is now used for all members of the genus Ligustrum, which includes about 40-50 species of evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous shrubs and small trees, native to Europe, north Africa, Asia and Australasia, with the centre of diversity in China, the Himalaya, Japan and Taiwan
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Privy Purse
In the past, the United Kingdom's Civil Government day-to-day costs were paid for by the Sovereign under normal circumstances, the monies in this Public Purse being raised by from the income of the Crown Estate lands and holdings. Under "extraordinary" circumstances, namely in time of war or during budget shortfalls, Parliament of the United Kingdom raised additional monies through taxation.
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Pro
The Latin conjunction and prefix pro means for and frequently designates an advantage.
Pro can mean several things:
* Performance rights organization
* Professional
* Proline
* Prostitute
* Pro gamer
* Extended producer responsibility
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Pro-choice
Pro-choice is a term used to describe the politics and ethics view which maintains that a woman should have total control over her fertility and pregnancy. This entails the guarantee of what supporters term reproductive rights, which include access to abortion, contraception, sexual education and Infertility#Treatments.
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Pro-life
Pro-life is a term representing a variety of perspectives and activist movements in bioethics. Its stance is in polar opposition to pro-choice perspective in bioethics. It can be used to indicate opposition to practices such as euthanasia, human cloning, reasearch involving embryonic stem cell, and the death penalty, but most commonly to abortion.
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Probenecid
Probenecid is a uricosuric drug, primarily used in treating gout or hyperuricemia, that increases uric acid removal in the urine.
Probenecid also decreases the renal excretion of some drugs.
In one study, probenecid was shown to more than double a patient's exposure to oseltamivir, an antiviral drug used to combat influenza.
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Proboscis Monkey
The Proboscis Monkey is a reddish-brown arboreal mainly Sonneratia leaf-eating Old World monkey, found only in the coastal areas of East-Borneo and the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra, in coastal mangrove swamps and riverine forests.
The most distinctive trait of this monkeys is the male's large protruding nose.
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Procarbazine
Procarbazine is an antineoplastic chemotherapy drug for the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma and certain brain cancers. It is a member of a group of medicines called alkylating agents. It gained FDA Approved in July 1969. The drug is metabolized and activated in the liver. It also inhibits MAO thus increasing the effects of sympathomimetics, TCAs and tyrammine.
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Procellaria
Procellaria is a genus of southern ocean long-winged seabirds
All five species are named as 'petrel', although they were thought to be more closely related to the shearwaters and current research places them closer to the prions.
They are large shearwaters, found in the temperate and cold waters of the southern oceans.
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Procellariidae
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds which comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes, which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.
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Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of birds formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English.
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