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Pelli Chesi Choodu (கல்யாணம் பண்ணிப்பார்)
Pelli Chesi Choodu (Kalyanam Panni Paar), a 1952 Telugu-Tamil satirical comedy by L. V. Prasad for Vijaya Productions, starring NTR and Savitri, satirizing the dowry system; first film to run 100 days in 11 centers.
Pelli Choopulu
Pelli Choopulu (2016) is a Telugu romantic comedy, Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam's debut, starring Vijay Deverakonda and Ritu Varma; an arranged-marriage meeting leads to a food-truck venture. It won the 64th National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu and Best Dialogues, grossed over $1 million in the USA, and launched Deverakonda's career.
Pelli Pustakam (పెళ్ళి పుస్తకం)
Pelli Pustakam (పెళ్ళి పుస్తకం) is a 1991 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Bapu, written by Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, starring Rajendra Prasad and Divyavani as a married couple posing as single to get jobs; it inverts Missamma and won a Nandi Award.
Pelli SandaD
Pelli SandaD (పెళ్లి సందD), 2021 Telugu musical romantic comedy, sequel to 1996's Pelli Sandadi; directed by Gowri Ronanki, starring Roshan Meka and Sreeleela, music by M.M. Keeravani, released 15 October 2021, a box office hit despite negative reviews.
Pellia
Pellia (Raddi 1818) is a genus of simple thalloid liverworts in Pelliaceae, Pelliales, Jungermanniopsida, with five species in Pellia and three in Apopellia, basal among simple thalloids, Northern Hemisphere temperate.
Pellia epiphylla
Pellia epiphylla (common or overleaf pellia), a common thalloid liverwort (Pelliaceae) of streams and wet acidic soils in Europe and North America; monoicous, with cryptic N and S lineages parent to allopolyploid P. borealis.
Pellín Rodríguez (music)
Pellín Rodríguez, born Pedro Juan Rodríguez de Gracia, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer and founding vocalist of El Gran Combo from 1962 to 1973.
Pellucid marginal degeneration
Pellucid marginal degeneration, also called pellucid marginal corneal degeneration (PMCD), is a rare, usually bilateral disorder in which a crescent-shaped band of the peripheral cornea thins progressively.
Pellucidar
Pellucidar is Edgar Rice Burroughs's fictional hollow-Earth world on the inner surface of a 500-mile-thick crust, lit by a central sun, in a seven-book series (1914–1963) beginning with At the Earth's Core, featuring the reptilian Mahars, David Innes, and Tarzan crossover.
Pelm
Pelm is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Kyll river near Gerolstein, known for the Gallo-Roman Juddekirchhof temple sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Caiva in AD 124, plus the Kasselburg castle and a Roman villa rustica.
Pelmanism
Pelmanism is a memory card game where players flip two face-down cards at a time, keeping matching pairs. It is also known as Concentration or Memory.
Pelmeni (пельмени)
Pelmeni (пельмени) are Russian boiled dumplings of thin dough around raw minced meat, named from Ugric pel-nyan, "ear-bread". Invented among Komi and Udmurt peoples, industrialized in Perm in 1938; about 400,000 tons eaten yearly in Russia.
Pelo Madueño
Jorge "Pelo" Madueño is a Peruvian rock musician who drummed in Narcosis, the founding band of Lima's 1980s punk underground, and later fronted La Liga del Sueño.
Pelobates
Pelobates, the European spadefoot toads, is a genus of six burrowing frog species in the family Pelobatidae across Europe, western Asia, and northwestern Africa; revised in 2019 into eight taxa, with the Moroccan P. varaldii listed Endangered.
Pelodes Limen
Pelodes Limen (Πηλώδης λιμήν), "muddy harbour", the ancient Greek name for the harbour and lagoon of Butrint (Buthrotum), Albania, attested by Hecataeus, Strabo, and Ptolemy, and the Palodes of Plutarch's Great Pan story.
Pelodiscus
Pelodiscus is a genus of softshell turtles native to East and Southeast Asia. Its type species, the Chinese softshell turtle, is the world's most farmed turtle for food.
Pelodiscus sinensis
Pelodiscus sinensis, Chinese softshell turtle (中华鳖), Trionyx sinensis, an East Asian freshwater softshell turtle, IUCN Vulnerable, farmed at 370,000 tons in China (2022), a species complex with introduced populations in at least 16 countries.
Pelodytes
Pelodytes (parsley frogs) is the sole living genus of the frog family Pelodytidae, with four species in southwestern Europe and the Caucasus, small 30–55 mm frogs breeding in temporary ponds and laying egg strings.
Pelophylax
Pelophylax (侧褶蛙属), the Palearctic green or water frogs, is a Ranidae genus of 15 species from North Africa to East Asia, famous for hybridogenetic kleptons like P. kl. esculentus and P. kl. grafi.
Pelophylax lessonae
Pelophylax lessonae, the pool frog (Kleiner Wasserfrosch), a 4–7 cm European water frog with genome LL, parental species of the hybridogenetic edible frog, white vocal sacs, sun-lit vegetated ponds, Least Concern but declining.
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος)
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος), also Morea: large peninsula of southern Greece, an island since the 1893 Corinth Canal cut its 6-km isthmus. Home of Sparta, Corinth, Mycenae, Olympia; population 539,535 (2021 region).
Peloponnesian League
The Peloponnesian League, also known as the Peloponnesos League, was Sparta's alliance of Greek cities, the earliest and longest-lived Greek symmachia, dissolved in 366 BC.
Peloponnesian War (Πελοποννησιακός Πόλεμος)
The Peloponnesian War (Πελοποννησιακός Πόλεμος) was a destructive conflict fought between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC. It was the longest war in classical Greek history.
Pelops (Πέλοψ)
Pelops (Πέλοψ), Greek mythological king of Pisa in Elis, eponym of the Peloponnese; son of Tantalus, restored with an ivory shoulder; won Hippodameia in a chariot race against Oenomaus, founding legend of the Olympic Games, and received a hero cult at Olympia's Pelopion.
Pelorus Linea
Pelorus Linea is a roughly 1,535-km-long linea, or linear tectonic feature, on Jupiter's moon Europa, named in 1979 after a Greek mythological founder of Thebes; it lies in a proposed rift zone with up to 80 km of extension and speculative cryosubduction.
Pelota
Pelota (PELO, Dom34 in yeast) is a conserved eukaryotic and archaeal ribosome rescue factor homologous to eRF1. With the GTPase Hbs1 and ABCE1 it dissociates stalled ribosomes in no-go and non-stop decay, and it affects fertility, development, aging, and antiviral defense.
Pelota, N-terminal domain
Pelota N-terminal domain (domain A/N of Pelota/Dom34/PELO): the Sm-fold-like amino-terminal domain of the ribosome-rescue factor, unlike eRF1's NTD, lacking NIKS and GGQ motifs, anchoring Dom34 on the 40S head with contested nuclease activity.
Pelotas
Pelotas is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded around 1780 charqueadas and made a city in 1835; fourth-largest in the state with 325,685 people (2022), an agroindustrial and service economy, UFPel, and recurring flood risk.
Peloton
Peloton: the main group of riders in a road cycling race (French, "little ball"), riding close together to draft; drafting cuts drag up to 96%, and breakaways win only about 2% of Tour stages.
Peloton Interactive
Peloton Interactive is an American fitness company founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, selling exercise equipment with subscription workout classes to millions of members.