Peccary The peccaries are medium-sized mammals of the family Tayassuidae. Peccaries are members of the Artiodactyls as are swine Suidae and hippopotami Hippopotamidae. They are found in the southwestern area of North America and throughout Central America and South America.
	Peckerwood Peckerwood is a pejorative slang term coined in the 19th century by southern blacks to describe poor whites. Blacks saw blackbirds as a symbol of themselves, and the redheaded woodpecker as a representation of working class whites. They considered them loud and troublesome like the bird, and often with red hair like the woodpecker's head plumes.
	Pecos River The Pecos River or Rio Pecos, as it is known in New Mexico, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, and flows for 926 miles through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas. The river drains approximately 38,300 mi² of territory.
	Pécs Pcs is the fourth largest city of Hungary, located in the south-west of the country. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya. Pcs has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture in 2010 sharing the title together with Essen and Istanbul.
	Pectoral Sandpiper The Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, is a small wader. It breeds in the boggy tundra of northeast Asia and North America. It is a very long-distance bird migration. The American and most of the Asian birds winter in South America, but some Asian breeders winter in southern and Australia and New Zealand.
	Pedaliaceae Pedaliaceae is a flowering plant family classified in the order Scrophulariales in the Cronquist system and Lamiales in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system. Cronquist included the family Martyniaceae in Pedaliaceae, but phylogenetic studies have shown that the two families are not closely related and they are maintained as separate by the APG.
	Pederasty The term pederasty or paederasty embraces a wide range of erotic practices between adult males and adolescence boys. Pederastic relations can have widely dissimilar manifestations they can be spiritual or Economic materialism, lawful or transgressive, loving or Male prostitute, compassionate or child sexual abuse and have been documented from prehistory to modern times.
	Pedestal Pedestal is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase. Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan's Column and Antoninus Pius, or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.
	Pedestrian A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case historically.
	Pedestrian crossing A pedestrian crossing or crosswalk is a designated point on a road at which some means are employed to assist pedestrians wishing to cross. They are designed to keep pedestrians together where they can be seen by motorists, and where they can cross most safely with the flow of vehicle traffic.
	Pediatrics Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, child, and adolescents . The word pediatrics is derived from two Greek language words paidi which means "boy" and iatros which means "Physician". Most pediatricians are members of a national body, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health, Norsk barnelegeforening
	Pediculosis Pediculosis is an infestation of lice -- which are parasite insects -- on the bodies of humans. The condition is more commonly known as head lice, body lice or pubic lice. Head lice infestation is most frequent on children aged 3-10 and their families. Females get head lice more often than males, and in the United States, African-American have head lice less often.
	Pedicure A pedicure is a way to improve the appearance of the foot, and their nails. It basically is a manicure for the feet. The word pedicure comes form the Latin words pes, which means foot, and cura, which means care. It also means the care of the feet and toenails. A pedicure can be helpful because it can prevent nail diseases and nail disorders.
	Pediment A pediment, also called a fronton, is a classical architecture element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure which lies immediately upon the columns. It is found throughout Classical and Neo-Classical Architecture, most notably in the Greek temple form, where it served as a palette for beautiful, intricate sculptural detail.
	Pediocactus Pediocactus is a genus of cactus. The genus comprises between 6 and 11 species, depending upon the authority. Species of this genus are referred to as hedgehog cactus, though the term also applies for the genus Echinocereus.
	Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pedro Caldern de la Barca, was an important dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. Caldern was born in Madrid, Spain. His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in 1610; his father, who was secretary to the treasury, died in 1615. Caldern was educated at the Society of Jesus College in Madrid, the Colegio Imperial de Madrid, with a view to taking orders and accepting a family living; abandoning this project, he studied law at university of Salamanca.
	Pedunculate Oak The Pedunculate Oak or English Oak is native to most of Europe, and to Asia Minor to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa. It is the type species of the genus, and a member of the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus Quercus section Quercus.
	Pee Dee River "Pee Dee River" redirects here. For the blues band, see Pee Dee River Blues. The Pee Dee River, also known as the Great Pee Dee River, is a river in South Carolina. It originates in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, where its upper course above the mouth of the Uwharrie River is known as the Yadkin River, and it is extensively dammed for flood control and hydroelectric power.
	PEEK ---- Polyetheretherketones, also referred to as polyketones, are obtained from aromatic dihalides and bisphenolate salts by nucleophilic substitution. The bisphenolate salt is formed in situ from bisphenol and either added sodium or added alkali metal carbonate or hydroxide.
	Peeler A potato peeler is a metal blade attached to a metal, plastic or wooden handle that is used for peeling vegetables, usually potatoes. There are three main varieties, the 'Yorkshire' design involving the blade as an extension of a handle, in much the same was as the blade is attached to a knife.
	Peeps Peeps are small marshmallow candies, sold in the United States, which are shaped into baby chickens, rabbits, and other animals. Peeps are primarily used to fill Easter baskets. They are made from marshmallow, sugar, gelatin, and carnauba. Peeps are usually eaten in one of five ways:
	Peer review Peer review is a process of subjecting an author's Scholarly method work or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the field. It is used primarily by publishers, to select and to screen submitted manuscripts, and by funding agencies, to decide the awarding of monies for research.
	Peerage The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility that exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. The term can be used to refer to the entire body of titles in a collective sense, or to a specific title held by an individual peer. All British honours, including peerage dignities, spring from the monarch, who is considered the fount of honour.
	Peerless Peerless was an American automobile produced by the Peerless Motor Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The company was known for building high-quality, precision luxury automobiles. Peerless' factory was located at 9400 Quincy Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio Established in Cleveland in 1900, Peerless Motors began producing De Dion-Bouton "machines" under license from the French Company.
	Peeves Peeves is a poltergeist living in Hogwarts, a fictional setting in the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. He's a spirit rather than a physical being, but highly different from the Hogwarts ghostss he's occasionally mistaken for. Peeves is essentially an embodiment of disorder, and is constantly causing it, with varying amounts of mischievousness and malice.
	Pegasus In Greek mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse that was the son of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and the Gorgon Medusa. Depending on the historical source, the plural for pegasus is pegasi or pegasuses. Descriptions vary as to the winged stallion's birth and his brother the giant, Chrysaor; some say that they sprang from Medusa's neck as Perseus beheaded her, a "higher" birth, like the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus.
	Pegleg A "pegleg" is a type of artificial limb. Peglegs are typified as a hand carved wooden peg fitted to a stump, as often seen in pirate movies. Peglegs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prosthesis do tend to have the same form. Famous peg leg wearers:
	Pegmatite Pegmatite is a very coarse-grained igneous rock that has a grain size of 20 mm or more; such rocks are referred to as pegmatitic. Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar and mica; in essence a "granite". Rarer "intermediate" and "mafic" pegmatite containing amphibole, Ca-plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene and other minerals are known, found in recrystallised zones and apophyses associated with large ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions.
	Peking Man Peking Man, also called Sinanthropus pekinensis, is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-1927 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing, China. The finds have been dated from roughly 250,000-400,000 years ago in the Pleistocene.
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	Pelargonium Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants that includes about 200 species of perennial, succulent, and shrub plants, commonly known as geraniums. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of the separate genus that contains the related Cranesbills.
	Pelargonium graveolens Pelargonium graveolens is a species of Pelargonium with great importance in the perfume industry and is cultivated on a large scale. It's foliage is distillation for its scent. P. graveolens cultivars have a wide variety of smells, from rose, citrus, Mentha, coconut, to nutmeg, as well as various fruits.
	Pelecaniformes The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide. They are distinguished from other birds by the possession of feet with all four toes webbed. Most have a bare throat patch. There are some 50-60 living species, depending on which families are placed in this group.
	Peleus In Greek mythology, Peles was the son of Endeis and Aeacus, King of Aegina, and father of Achilles. Peleus and Telamon, his brother, killed their half-brother, Phocus and fled Aegina to escape punishment. In Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion and married Antigone, Eurytion's daughter.
	Pelican A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird Family Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobys, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, it makes up the order Pelecaniformes.
	Pélican P?lican was a France warship from the late 17th century. Built in Bayonne, France, the original P?lican was launched in 1693. A 500 ton ship equipped with 44 guns and commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, she ran aground on the shores of Hudson Bay a few days after an heroic battle, badly damaged by the encounter and a fierce storm.
	Pelican crossing A pelican crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing featuring a standard set of traffic lights with a push button and two coloured lamps for pedestrians using the crossing. The official name is Pelicon crossing but pelican is consistent with other crossing types named after animals and, in particular, birds.
	Pellaea Members of the genus Pellaea, sometimes called cliff brakes, are ferns primarily of rocky habitats, including moist rocky canyons, slopes, and bluffs. They are most abundant and diverse in the southwestern United States south into Andes South America, central Africa, and eastern Australia to New Zealand.
	Pellagra Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by dietary lack of niacin and protein, especially proteins containing the essential amino acid tryptophan. Because tryptophan can be Niacin#Biosynthesis, foods with tryptophan but without niacin, such as milk, prevent pellagra.
	Pellet A pellet is usually a small, compressed, Symmetry and hard chunk of matter. Ex: Wood pellets, Ore pellet, etc. A pellet is also the term for a non-spherical projectile designed to be fired from an air gun. Pellets differ from bullets used in firearms because of the pressures encountered; firearms operate at pressures of thousands of Atmospheric pressure, while airguns operate at pressures as low as 50 atmospheres.
	Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. It is also a peripheries of Greece of Greece, consisting of 5 Prefectures of Greece. Note that the periphery Peloponnese covers only part of the peninsula Peloponnese.
	Peloponnesian War The Peloponnesian War was an Ancient Greece military conflict fought by Athens and its Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese while attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire.
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	Peltandra Peltandra is a genus of plants in the Araceae family.
	Pelvic cavity The Pelvic cavity is a body cavity that is bounded by the bones of the pelvis and which primarily contains reproductive organs.
	Pelvis The pelvis is the bone structure located at the base of the spine. The pelvis incorporates the socket portion of the hip joint for each leg or hind leg. It forms the lower limb girdle of the skeleton.
	Pelycosaur The pelycosaurs were smallish to large primitive Late Paleozoic synapsid amniotes. They appeared during the Pennsylvanian Carboniferous and reached their acme in the Cisuralian Permian Period, remaining the dominant land animals for many millions of years.
	Pembroke Welsh Corgi ) is one of two dog breeds known as Welsh Corgis that originated in Pembrokeshire, Wales. These herding dogs are believed to be descended from Swedish Vallhund dogs that came to Wales with the Vikings. The phrase "cor gi" translates to "dwarf dog" in Welsh language.
	Pen A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. Pens may be categorized by the kind of tip on them. The main modern types are: * ballpoint pens, * fountain pens, * rollerball pens, * marker pens, * Technical pens, * Space Pens, and * Mechanical pens.
	Penalty box The penalty box is the area in ice hockey, rugby football and some other sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty, for an offence not severe enough to merit outright expulsion from the contest. Teams are generally not allowed to replace players who have been sent to the penalty box.
	Penance Penance is, strictly, repentance of sins as well as the actual name of the Catholic Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation/Confession. Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have however come to be symbolical of conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising out of the controversy as to the respective merits of "faith" and "good works."
	Pencil A pencil is a small hand-held instrument containing an interior strip of solid material that produces marks used to writing and drawing, usually on paper. The most common type of pencil is called a lead pencil, even though the grey marking material is not lead but graphite mixed with clay.
	Pencil sharpener A pencil sharpener is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving one end. Pencil sharpeners are available in both electric and hand-powered forms.
	Pendant * protection * self-affirmation * ostentation. These purposes can be combined.
	Pendulum A simple gravity pendulum or bob pendulum , is a weight on the end of a rigid rod , which, when given an initial push, will swing back and forth under the influence of gravity over its central point. The pendulum was discovered by Ibn Yunus during the 10th century, who was the first to study and document its oscillatory motion.
	Pendulum clock A pendulum clock uses a pendulum as its time base. From their invention until about 1930, the most accurate clocks were pendulum clocks. Pendulum clocks cannot operate on vehicles, because the accelerations of the vehicle drive the pendulum, causing inaccuracies. See chronometer for a discussion of the problems of navigational clocks.
	Penelope Penlop is a character in the Odyssey, one of the two great epic poetry of ancient Greek literature. Her name is close to the Greek word for duck but is usually understood to be a combination of the Greek word for web or woof and the word for eye or face , very appropriate for a weaver of cunning whose motivation is hard to decipher.
	Peneplain A peneplain is the final stage in fluvial or stream erosion. After the streams in an area have reached base level, lateral erosion is dominant as the streams erode the highland areas between them. Finally, virtually all of the upland is gone and the stream floodplains merge in an area of very low to no topography.
	Penetrator Penetrator is a studio album released by Ted Nugent in 1984 on the Atlantic Records label.
	Penguin Penguins are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living in the Southern Hemisphere.
	Penicillamine Penicillamine is a pharmaceutical of the Chelation_therapy class. It is sold under the trade names of Cuprimine and Depen. The pharmaceutical form is D-penicillamine, as L-penicillamine is toxic. It is a metabolite of penicillin, although it has no antibiotic properties.
	Penicillin Penicillin refers to a group of beta-lactam antibiotics used in the treatment of Bacteria infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. The name penicillin can also be used in reference to a specific member of the penicillin group.
	Penicillium Penicillium, commonly known as "bread mold", is a genus of fungus that includes: *Penicillium bilaiae, which is an agricultural inoculant. *Penicillium camemberti, which is used in the production of Camembert cheese and Brie cheese cheeses.
	Peninsula A peninsula is a geographical landform consisting of an extension of Landscape from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides. A peninsula can also be a Headlands and bays, Headlands and bays, promontory, bill, point , or spit .
	Penis The penis is an external male sex organ. The penis is the male reproductive organ and for mammals additionally serves as the external male organ of urination.
	Penmanship Penmanship or handwriting is the art of writing with the hand and a writing instrument. Different styles of writing have been popular at different times and in different countries. Styles of handwriting are also called hands or scripts. A publication of Platt Rogers Spencer's style in The Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship by his son in 1866 introduced business writing to North America.
	Penne Penne are a type of pasta originating in Italy. They have a cylinder shape. The ends are almost always cut diagonally. Penne is designed to be eaten with a meat sauce. The name is derived from penna, which is Latin for "feather" or Quill. Penne should not be confused with pene, the Italian word for "penis" - when ordering penne in Italian, care should be taken to lengthen and emphasize the 'n' sound in order to avoid embarrassment.
	Pennines The Pennines are a mountain range in England. Often said to be the "backbone of England", they form an unbroken range stretching from the Peak District in the Midlands, through the Yorkshire Dales and West Pennine Moors of Lancashire and Cumbria Fells to the Cheviot Hills on the Scotland border.
	Pennisetum Pennisetum is a genus of grasses in the grass family, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. They are large annual or perennial grasses, reaching 1-4 m tall. The genus includes a number of species grown for oramental purposes, as well as a type of millet, and a pasture form originating from the highlands of Kenya.
	Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state in the northeastern United States part of the United States. Pennsylvania has been known as the Religious Society of Friends State since 1776; prior to that, it was known as the Province of Pennsylvania, in recognition of Quaker William Penn's Frame of Government of Pennsylvania constitution for Pennsylvania that guaranteed Freedom of conscience.