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Pelicot rape case
Pelicot rape case (Mazan case): 2024 Avignon trial in which Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-defendants were convicted of drugging and raping Gisèle Pelicot; it prompted France's 2025 consent-based rape law.
Pelindaba
Pelindaba is South Africa's main nuclear research site west of Pretoria, where Necsa operates the SAFARI-1 reactor and once ran the country's secret nuclear weapons program.
Pelion (Πήλιο)
Pelion (Πήλιο), Mount Pelion, is a forested mountain peninsula in southeastern Thessaly, Greece, east of Volos between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean. Highest peak Stavros, 1,624 m; home of centaur Chiron in myth; stone villages, kalderimi trails, and the Argo's pine-woods.
Pelion Chasma
Pelion Chasma is a 100 km long trough (chasma) on Saturn's moon Mimas, centered at 25.31°S, 250.08°W, IAU-approved in 1982 and named for the Greek myth of Mt. Pelion piled on Mt. Ossa against the gods.
Pelion Ventures
Pelion Ventures, also known as Pelion Venture Partners, is a Salt Lake City venture capital firm founded in 1986 that invests in early-stage US software companies.
Peliosis hepatis
Peliosis hepatis (hepatic peliosis, ICD-11 DB98.1) is a rare benign liver vascular disease with blood-filled cystic sinusoidal cavities, linked to steroids, transplant immunosuppression, and malignancy, diagnosed by biopsy.
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), an X-linked hypomyelinating leukodystrophy caused by PLP1 mutations (duplications, missense, null), causing nystagmus, spasticity, and ataxia; distinct from GJC2-related PMLD1.
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease (PMLD, ORPHA:280270) is an autosomal recessive hypomyelinating leukodystrophy mimicking X-linked PMD; main gene GJC2 (connexin 47), also HSPD1, AIMP1, SLC16A2, MAL; onset neonatal or infancy.
Pelješac Bridge
The Pelješac Bridge (Pelješki most) is a 2,404 m cable-stayed road bridge in southern Croatia, opened in July 2022 to bypass Bosnia's Neum corridor with 85 percent EU funding.
Pell City, Alabama
Pell City, Alabama: a St. Clair County city on Interstate 20 and Logan Martin Lake, founded 1890, incorporated 1891, named for George H. Pell; population about 14,320 (2025 estimate), one of two county seats with Ashville.
Pell Cooper
Pell Carlton Cooper (born 1959) is a North Carolina District Court judge, brother of Governor Roy Cooper, on the bench since 1999 in Nash, Wilson, and Edgecombe counties, and manager of the Will Clark Properties solar-farm LLC.
Pell Grant
Federal Pell Grant: the largest US need-based federal grant for low- and moderate-income undergraduate students, awarded via FAFSA; 2025-26 maximum $7,395, minimum $740, 12-semester lifetime limit, Workforce Pell for short-term programs from July 2026.
Pell numbers
Pell numbers are the integer sequence 0, 1, 2, 5, 12, 29, ... that solves the Pell equation and approximates the square root of 2.
Pell's equation
Pell's equation, also called the Pellian equation, is the Diophantine equation x² − Dy² = 1, solved via continued fractions and studied since Brahmagupta in 628.
Pella
Pella is a major archaeological site in the northern Jordan Valley of Jordan, inhabited for some 12,000 years and known in antiquity as one of the cities of the Decapolis.
Pella, Jordan
Pella, also known as Fahl, is an archaeological site in the foothills of the north Jordan Valley in Jordan, first settled around 6500 BC and later a Decapolis city.
Pella/Apamea
Pella/Apamea: one ancient city on the Orontes in Syria, modern Qalaat al-Madiq; founded as Pella by Macedonians, renamed Apamea by Seleucus I c. 300 BCE after his wife Apama; distinct from Pella in Macedonia and Jordan.
Pellagra
Pellagra, from Italian pelle agra, is niacin (vitamin B3) or tryptophan deficiency causing dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death; proven dietary by Goldberger, treatable with nicotinamide.
Pellana (Mycenaean cemetery)
Pellana (Πελλάνα) is a Mycenaean rock-cut tholos cemetery at Spilies near the village of Pellana, Laconia, 25–30 km north of Sparta; in use c. 1500–1200 BC, with a royal Great Tomb over 10 m across, tied by its excavator Spyropoulos to Homeric Lakedaimon.
Pelle Larsson
Pelle Larsson (Pelle Gustav Gösta Larsson), Swedish NBA guard born 2001 in Nacka; drafted 44th overall in 2024 by Atlanta, traded to Miami Heat; Arizona college standout, Sweden EuroBasket 2025 scorer.
Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren), Bille August's 1987 Danish-Swedish drama adapted from Martin Andersen Nexø's novel, stars Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard as emigrants on Bornholm; it won the 1988 Palme d'Or and the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Pellegrino Ernetti
Pellegrino Maria Ernetti (1925-1994), Italian Benedictine monk, Gregorian chant musicologist, and exorcist of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; claimed in 1972 to have built the Chronovisor, a past-viewing machine whose photograph was debunked.
Pellene (Greece)
Pellene, ancient Achaean city on the north Peloponnesian coast, one of Herodotus's twelve Achaean cities; only Achaean city with a tyranny, sided with Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, captured by Agis and retaken by Aratus.
Peller (streamer)
Peller, real name Habeeb Hamzat (born 2005), is a Nigerian TikTok livestreamer from Ikorodu, Lagos, record holder for Africa's most-watched TikTok livestream (Davido, 2024), earning about ₦20 million weekly, later streaming on Twitch and Kick.
Pellet (air gun)
A pellet, also called an airgun pellet, is the non-spherical projectile fired from an air gun, typically a waisted lead diabolo stabilized by aerodynamic drag rather than spin.
Pellet injection
Pellet injection launches small cryogenic pellets of hydrogen, deuterium, or tritium ice into a magnetically confined plasma at high speed, to refuel the core, control density, and mitigate disruptions.
Pellet pacing for ELM control
Pellet pacing is an ELM control technique for tokamaks in which small frozen fuel pellets trigger frequent, smaller edge localized modes, first demonstrated on ASDEX Upgrade.
Pellet-cladding interaction
Pellet-cladding interaction (PCI) is a nuclear fuel failure mechanism in which expanding fuel pellets and iodine crack reactor cladding, a major reliability issue of the 1970s.
Pelletizing
Pelletizing is an agglomeration process that converts fine powders, most importantly iron ore concentrate, into near-spherical pellets by rolling moist material in discs or drums and firing them.
Pelletron
A Pelletron is an electrostatic particle accelerator charged by a chain of metal pellets linked by nylon, developed by Raymond Herb in the mid 1960s.