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Pelantaro
Pelantaro, also known as Pelantaru, was a Mapuche military leader from Purén, Chile, who led the great 1598 uprising, killing the Spanish governor at Curalaba.
Pelargikon wall
Pelargikon (Πελαργικόν, Pelasgikon), the prehistoric fortification of the Acropolis of Athens: a Cyclopean wall about 6 m thick built in the late 13th century B.C., with a slope wall and cursed enclosure known to Thucydides.
Pelargonic acid
Pelargonic acid, also called nonanoic acid, is a naturally occurring nine-carbon saturated fatty acid found in geranium oil and many foods, used as a contact herbicide, blossom thinner for fruit trees, and food additive.
Pelargonium
Pelargonium (geraniums, stork's-bill genus), a Geraniaceae genus of ca. 280 species mostly from southern Africa, with zygomorphic nectar-spurred flowers, four subgenera, and horticulturally important scented species like P. graveolens.
Pelargonium graveolens
Pelargonium graveolens (rose geranium, rose-scented pelargonium) is a strongly aromatic southern African subshrub, Geraniaceae, source of rose geranium essential oil rich in citronellol and geraniol, used in perfumery, food, and traditional medicine.
Pelasgians (Πελασγοί)
Pelasgians (Πελασγοί, Pelasgi): the pre-Greek people of Greek legend, invoked by Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides as Greece's oldest inhabitants; Herodotus says they spoke a non-Greek language, and Hellanicus identified them with the Etruscans.
Pelcitoclax
Pelcitoclax (APG-1252), an investigational Ascentage Pharma BH3 mimetic, dual Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor designed as a prodrug to reduce platelet toxicity, in trials for SCLC, NSCLC, and other cancers.
Pelé
Pelé, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento (1940–2022), was a Brazilian footballer, the only player to win three FIFA World Cups, in 1958, 1962, and 1970.
Pele (deity)
Pele (Pelehonuamea) is the Hawaiian volcano deity, an elemental force embodied in lava who dwells at Halemaʻumaʻu crater, Kīlauea. Key facts: born in Kahiki, arrived 850-1250 AD, sister Hiʻiaka, central pre-contact cult, chants record Kīlauea eruptions.
Pele (volcano)
Pele, named for the Hawaiian volcano goddess, is an active eruptive center on Jupiter's moon Io with a persistent silicate lava lake and a plume reaching 390 km high.
Pele and Hiʻiaka cycle
The Pele and Hiʻiaka cycle is the body of Hawaiian moʻolelo centered on the volcano deity Pele and her youngest sister Hiʻiaka, best known for Hiʻiaka's voyage to Kauaʻi.
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016) is an American biographical drama by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist about Pelé's rise from childhood to Brazil's 1958 World Cup win at age 17, starring Kevin de Paula, with a 33% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Pelea
Pelea, the grey rhebok (Pelea capreolus), a monotypic South African antelope genus; a 20-30 kg woolly upland browser, sister to reduncines, IUCN Near Threatened, found in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini.
Pelecanoides
Pelecanoides, the diving petrels (family Pelecanoididae), is a genus of four to five small Southern Ocean procellariiform seabirds convergent with auks, diving to about 30 m on average and flying through wave crests.
Pelecus cultratus
Pelecus cultratus, the sichel or sabrefish (ziege), a pelagic anadromous cyprinid of Black, Caspian, Aral, and Baltic basins; up to 60 cm, 2 kg, 11 years; IUCN Least Concern, minor commercial fishery.
Pelee, Ontario
Pelee Island, Ontario: largest of the nine-island Township of Pelee in western Lake Erie, Canada's southernmost inhabited land at 41 degrees north. Reached by ferry from Leamington, Kingsville, or Sandusky, Ohio, with winter air service to Windsor; noted for alvars, rare species, and viticulture.
Pelendava
Pelendava: Dacian settlement and Roman fort on the Jiu river at modern Craiova, Romania, named on the Tabula Peutingeriana; garrisoned by Numerus Mauritanorum, site identified 2014 at Coșuna Monastery, Mofleni.
Pelentong
Pelentong (Plentong) is a mukim in Johor Bahru district, Johor, Malaysia, between Johor Bahru and Pasir Gudang. Known for kangchu river settlements, 1916 rubber estates, Pasir Gudang industrial growth, and Johor's highest-volume, lower-priced property market.
Peleș Castle
Peleș Castle, Romanian: Castelul Peleș, is a German Neo-Renaissance royal castle in Sinaia, Romania, built from 1873 to 1914 as the summer residence of King Carol I.
Peleus (Πηλεύς)
Peleus (Πηλεύς), Greek hero, son of Aeacus, king of the Myrmidons of Phthia in Thessaly, husband of Thetis, father of Achilles; Argonaut and Calydonian hunter; won his bride through her transformations.
Pelham Bay (neighborhood), Bronx
Pelham Bay is a residential neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, New York, near Pelham Bay Park, the city's largest park. Known for its Italian-American community, two-family housing, and the 6 train's Pelham Bay Park terminus, it was never part of the historical Town of Pelham.
Pelham Bay Park
Pelham Bay Park is a public park in the northeastern Bronx on Long Island Sound, at 2,772 acres the largest municipal park in New York City.
Peli (king of Awan)
Peli is the first of the twelve kings of Awan in Elam listed on an Old Babylonian king list found at Susa, known only from that list itself.
Pelican
Pelican (genus Pelecanus, family Pelecanidae): large fish-eating waterbird with a distensible throat pouch; seven species worldwide. Brown pelican plunge-dives; American White Pelican scoops cooperatively; DDT-era endangered listing recovered by 2009.
Pelican Bay State Prison
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is California's supermax prison in Crescent City, opened 1989. Known for its 1,056-cell Security Housing Unit, Madrid v. Gomez (1995), and the 2011 hunger strike; its former SHU is now rehabilitative.
Pelican crossing
A pelican crossing is a British push-button signal-controlled pedestrian crossing, introduced in 1969, named from PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled crossing and marked by a flashing amber phase for drivers.
Pelican eel
Pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides), also called gulper eel, a deep-sea eel and the only species of Eurypharyngidae, with a mouth half its preanal length, a luminous tail organ, and a unique mitochondrial gene order, living at 500–3,000 m worldwide.
Pelican Lake (Alberta oil project)
Pelican Lake is a heavy crude oil field in north-central Alberta, Canada, discovered in 1978 and known as the first successful polymer flood in heavy oil.
Pelican optimization algorithm
The pelican optimization algorithm (POA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic introduced by Pavel Trojovský and Mohammad Dehghani in Sensors in 2022, simulating how pelicans hunt for prey.
Pelican South
Pelican South is a natural gas field in the Neptun Deep block, about 160 km offshore in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea, discovered in 2014.