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Pebatjma
Pebatjma, also printed Pabatma, was a Kushite royal wife of King Kashta around 750 BC, probably also his sister, and the mother of Amenirdis I, God's Wife of Amun.
Pebble
A pebble is a small rock fragment, 4 to 64 mm in diameter, rounded by stream or wave transport; its size and shape record how far it traveled.
Pebble (watch)
Pebble is a line of smartwatches developed by Pebble Technology Corporation; its 2012 Kickstarter e-paper watch set crowdfunding records before Fitbit bought the company in 2016.
Pebble accretion
Pebble accretion is a planet-formation mechanism in which planetary cores grow by capturing millimeter- to centimeter-sized pebbles, with gas drag boosting accretion rates far above planetesimal accretion.
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, California; public seaside course opened February 22, 1919, designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant for Samuel F.B. Morse; six U.S. Opens, first U.S. Women's Open 2023, Golf Digest No. 1 public course since 2003.
Pebble Beach, California
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated coastal resort community on the Monterey Peninsula in California, best known for Pebble Beach Golf Links and the 17-Mile Drive.
Pebble Mill Studios
Pebble Mill Studios, also known as BBC Pebble Mill, was the BBC's television, radio, and news complex in Edgbaston, Birmingham, opened in 1971 and demolished in 2005.
Pebble-bed modular reactor
The Pebble-bed modular reactor was a South African high-temperature gas-cooled reactor design developed by Eskom's PBMR company, funded from the mid-1990s until 2010, and revived in 2025.
Pebble-bed reactor
A pebble-bed reactor is a high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor in which fuel pebbles circulate through the core while helium carries heat away, allowing refueling without shutdown.
Pebbles (கூழாங்கல்)
Pebbles (கூழாங்கல், Koozhangal) is a 2021 Tamil drama, P.S. Vinothraj's debut, about an abusive alcoholic father and son walking 13 km home. It won the Rotterdam Tiger Award and was India's 94th Oscars entry.
Pebbles Flintstone
Pebbles Flintstone (Pebbles Wilma Flintstone-Rubble) is the fictional red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone in Hanna-Barbera's Flintstones franchise. Debuted February 22, 1963; voiced by Jean Vander Pyl; namesake of 1971 PEBBLES cereal; later wife of Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
Pebbling
Pebbling (penguin pebbling) is a social-media relationship trend: sending small memes, gifts, or gestures to show someone you're thinking of them, named after gentoo penguins' courtship pebble-gifting.
Pebe Sebert
Pebe Sebert, a singer and songwriter, is known for co-writing hits for Kesha and writing the country number one "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You."
Pebekkamen
Pebekkamen was Chief of the Chamber in the court of Ramesses III, first-named in the Judicial Papyrus of Turin among the harem conspirators of about 1155 BCE.
Pèbre
Pèbre (villa antique de Pèbre) is a Roman and late antique villa at Vinon-sur-Verdon, Var, France, occupied 1st–5th centuries, famed for mosaics including a Martial-verse pavement now in Manosque town hall, rediscovered in 2020 and listed MH in 2022.
Pébrine
Pébrine, caused by the microsporidian Nosema bombycis, is the most destructive silkworm disease, transmitted transovarially and horizontally; it devastated 19th-century French sericulture until Pasteur's microscopic egg screening, and is now controlled by detection and prevention.
Pebulate
Pebulate, sold under the trade name Tillam, is a selective thiocarbamate herbicide used for preemergence control of grassy and broadleaf weeds in sugar beets, tobacco, and tomatoes.
PEC Zwolle
PEC Zwolle, Dutch Eredivisie football club founded 12 June 1910 as PEC (Prins Hendrik Ende Desespereert Nimmer Combinatie) in Zwolle; also known as PEC Zwolle '82 and FC Zwolle. Won the 2014 KNVB Beker and Johan Cruijff Schaal, plays in the 14,000-seat MAC³PARK stadion.
PECAM1
PECAM1 (PECAM-1, CD31) is a 130-kDa six-Ig-domain transmembrane adhesion and ITIM signaling glycoprotein concentrated at endothelial junctions, expressed on platelets and leukocytes, mediating barrier integrity, leukocyte transmigration, angiogenesis, and platelet inhibition.
Pecan
Pecan (Carya illinoinensis), also called sweet pecan or Illinois nut, a North American hickory tree grown for its edible nut; US produces ~80% of world crop, 284 million lb in 2025, with LDL-lowering trial evidence.
Pecan pie
Pecan pie, technically a sugar pie, is an American Southern dessert of pecans in a corn syrup, egg, sugar, and butter filling; popularized by Karo syrup in the 1930s and Texas's state pie since 2013.
PECAN resin
PECAN resin, short for PolyEster Covalently Adaptable Network, is a bio-derivable, recyclable thermoset resin developed at NREL as a drop-in replacement for epoxy in wind turbine blades.
Pecan shell fiber
Pecan shell fiber, also called pecan shell flour, is ground pecan shell (Carya illinoensis) rich in insoluble fiber and polyphenols, notified to FDA as GRAS in GRN 646 (2016) for use at 2–10% in baked goods and similar foods.
Pecari
Pecari is a genus of peccaries (Tayassuidae, New World pigs), also called Dicotyles by some authors, whose sole widely recognized species is the collared peccary Pecari tajacu, the javelina, ranging from the southern United States to northern Argentina.
Peccary
Peccary, family Tayassuidae: pig-like hoofed mammals of the Americas, three species (collared or javelina, white-lipped, Chacoan). Downward canines, 38 teeth, three hind toes, complex stomach, dorsal scent gland; Chacoan peccary endangered with about 3,000 left.
Peccei–Quinn symmetry
Peccei–Quinn symmetry is a hypothetical chiral symmetry proposed by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn in 1977 to solve the strong CP problem, implying a light particle called the axion.
Pecciolo Avventura
Pecciolo Avventura was an urban adventure park in Peccioli, Tuscany, opened 30 June 2016 in the Caffè Haus garden, with Mini, Junior, and Urban Wild rope courses and an 8-meter climbing wall; now permanently closed.
Pecém FSRU
The Pecém FSRU was Brazil's first LNG import terminal, a floating regasification unit at the Port of Pecém, Ceará, operated by Petrobras from 2009 to 2023.
Peceneaga
Peceneaga, Tulcea County, Romania: a multi-period settlement site (RAN 161160.16) with Eneolithic to medieval finds, plus a Roman quadriburgium fort (300–600 CE, 10 ha), Barrington Atlas 22 F3.
PechaKucha (ぺちゃくちゃ)
PechaKucha (ぺちゃくちゃ), Japanese for chit-chat, is a 20-slide, 20-seconds-per-slide presentation format (6 min 40 s) invented in Tokyo in 2003 by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, now a global event series and teaching method.