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Peanut oil
Peanut oil (groundnut oil, arachis oil), from Arachis hypogaea seeds, is a frying oil with a 229.4°C smoke point, oleic- and linoleic-rich composition, and FDA-exempt highly refined form safe for most peanut allergies.
Peanuts
Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz's American comic strip (debut October 2, 1950, as a renamed Li'l Folks), follows Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends; over 18,000 strips, 2,600-plus newspapers, 75 countries, Sony holds 80%.
Peanuts filmography
Peanuts filmography: animated specials, series, and films adapted from Schulz's comic strip, from A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and The Peanuts Movie (2015) to Apple TV+ originals and Snoopy Unleashed (2027).
PEAQ
PEAQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Quality), standardized as ITU-R BS.1387 in 1998, objectively measures perceived audio quality by comparing a processed signal against the original.
Pear
Pear, Pyrus communis and Asian Pyrus species, a temperate pome fruit from the rose family; world production about 26 million tons, propagated by grafting, self-unfruitful, and menaced chiefly by fire blight (Erwinia amylovora).
Pear Garden
The Pear Garden (梨园) was a Tang music academy at Chang'an where Emperor Xuanzong personally trained 300 court musicians in faqu; its name became a term for Chinese theater performers.
Pear of anguish
The pear of anguish (poire d'angoisse, choke pear) is a pear-shaped metal object widely presented as a medieval torture device, but historians find no medieval evidence; surviving specimens are later fabrications or reinterpretations of gags and tools.
Pear Therapeutics
Pear Therapeutics was a company that developed prescription digital therapeutics, FDA-authorized apps prescribed to treat disease. Founded in 2013, it went public in 2021 and filed for bankruptcy in 2023.
Pear Ventures
Pear Ventures, known as Pear VC, is a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson.
Pear Video (梨视频)
Pear Video (梨视频) was a Chinese short-video news platform founded in Beijing in 2016 by Qiu Bing, producing captioned news videos of 30 seconds to three minutes.
Pear-shaped nuclei
Pear-shaped nuclei are atomic nuclei with more of their mass at one end than the other, an octupole deformation observed mainly in unstable heavy nuclei such as radium-224 and radium-226.
Pearay L. Ogra
Pearay L. Ogra, born in 1939, is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and mucosal immunology researcher whose 1968 study showed live oral poliovaccine induces secretory IgA.
Pearl
Pearl: a gem formed inside a living mollusk from nacre (calcium carbonate) around an irritant. Natural pearls form wild; cultured pearls (akoya, South Sea, Tahitian, freshwater) dominate the market and are identified by X-ray testing.
Pearl (2022 film)
Pearl (2022) is Ti West's A24 horror prequel to X, co-written by and starring Mia Goth as the young villain Pearl on a 1918 Texas farm during WWI and the influenza pandemic, shot back-to-back with X in New Zealand and released September 16, 2022.
Pearl (drag queen)
Pearl, or Pearl Liaison, is the stage name of Matthew James Lent (born 1990, St. Petersburg, Florida), an American drag performer and record producer, runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race season 7, album Pleasure and Flazéda fragrance, 2015.
Pearl (Janis Joplin album)
Pearl is Janis Joplin's second and final solo studio album, released posthumously on January 11, 1971 by Columbia. Recorded in 1970 with the Full Tilt Boogie Band and producer Paul Rothchild, it hit No. 1 for nine weeks and includes "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Mercedes Benz".
Pearl (landform)
Pearl (landform): chiefly the Pearl River of Mississippi and Louisiana, a 400+ mile Gulf-draining river named for 1698 pearl finds, and China's Pearl River (Zhu Jiang), formed by the West, North, and East Rivers.
Pearl (poem)
Pearl: late 14th-century Middle English alliterative dream vision (c. 1380) by the anonymous Pearl-Poet, an elegy and allegory of a father meeting his dead daughter in paradise; survives only in Cotton Nero A.x, 101 linked stanzas rhyming ababababcbc.
Pearl (X)
Pearl (2022) is Ti West's prequel to X, written with Mia Goth, who plays the 1918-era young Pearl on a Texas farm as her stardom dreams turn murderous; A24 released it six months after X.
Pearl Aday
Pearl Aday, American rock singer, adopted daughter of Meat Loaf, wife of Anthrax's Scott Ian; solo album Little Immaculate White Fox (2010) and Motor Sister member.
Pearl and Hermes Atoll
Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Holoikauaua), a mostly submerged Northwestern Hawaiian Islands atoll 400 km SE of Midway, named for the British whalers Pearl and Hermes wrecked there in 1822; noted for high fish biomass, seabirds, and documented shipwreck sites.
Pearl and the Oysters
Pearl & The Oysters, French-American indie pop duo of Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack, formed 2015 in Paris, later Gainesville and Los Angeles; three Stones Throw albums including Monkey Mind (2026).
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey, 1918–1990), American singer and actress of vaudeville, nightclub, Broadway, and film fame; starred in the all-Black Hello, Dolly! (Tony Special Award 1968), sang "Takes Two to Tango," and served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson
Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson were a British husband-and-wife vocal duo, UK runners-up at Eurovision 1959 in Cannes with 'Sing Little Birdie' (16 points, 2nd of 11), later Follies stars.
Pearl Energy Investments
Pearl Energy Investments is a Dallas, Texas-based investment firm founded in 2015. It focuses on North American upstream and midstream energy businesses, managing approximately $3.0 billion.
Pearl formation in pearl oysters
Pearl formation in pearl oysters is the process by which mantle cells form a pearl sac and deposit nacre around a nucleus, producing natural and cultured pearls.
Pearl GTL
Pearl GTL is the world's largest gas-to-liquids plant, at Ras Laffan Industrial City in Qatar, developed by Shell and QatarEnergy and producing 140,000 barrels per day.
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor (Pu'uloa, Wai Momi) is a sheltered estuary on O'ahu, Hawai'i, home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam; developed as a US naval base from 1902 and attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor (film)
Pearl Harbor (2001), also marketed as a Michael Bay WWII epic, is a Touchstone Pictures drama about the December 7, 1941 attack framed as a love triangle between Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, and Kate Beckinsale; it cost $135 million, grossed $198.5 million domestically, won the Best Sound Editing Oscar, and holds 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory: claim that FDR knew of Japan's December 7, 1941 attack and let it happen to enter World War II; rejected by official investigations and historians.