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Pending Laurier—Sainte-Marie federal by-election
The pending Laurier—Sainte-Marie federal by-election is an upcoming single-district election in Montreal called after Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault resigned his House of Commons seat in August 2026.
Pending Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie federal by-election
Pending federal by-election in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (No. 24065), Quebec, vacated August 26, 2026 by Alexandre Boulerice's resignation; date to be announced by February 22, 2027, earliest polling day October 12, 2026.
Pending Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton federal by-election
Pending federal by-election in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton, Quebec, triggered by Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay's June 2026 resignation to run for the Parti Québécois; vote must be announced by December 19, 2026.
Pending Scarborough North federal by-election
Pending Scarborough North federal by-election: a future Canadian by-election for Ontario riding 35095, vacant August 17, 2026 after Liberal MP Shaun Chen's health-related resignation; earliest vote date October 5, 2026, with Chen's 2025 Liberal margin at 13,931 votes.
Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill is an isolated 557-meter hill in Lancashire, England, known for the 1612 witch trials in which ten people were hanged and for George Fox's 1652 Quaker vision.
Pendle witches
The Pendle witches were people, mostly from two families in the Forest of Pendle in Lancashire, tried for witchcraft at Lancaster Castle in August 1612, when ten were hanged.
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act, 22 Stat. 403), U.S. law signed January 16, 1883 by Chester Arthur after Garfield's assassination; created the Civil Service Commission, merit hiring by competitive exams, and protection from political firing.
Pendleton Ward
Pendleton Ward (Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston), born 1982 in San Antonio, Texas, is the American animator who created Adventure Time (2010–2018) and co-created The Midnight Gospel; also Bravest Warriors, two Emmys, and Adult Swim's The Elephant.
Pendolino
Pendolino is a family of tilting high-speed electric trains developed by Fiat Ferroviaria and now built by Alstom, running in over 400 trainsets across 14 countries.
Pendopo Oil and Gas Field
The Pendopo Oil and Gas Field is a conventional oil and gas field in South Sumatra, Indonesia, operated by PT Pertamina EP and producing since the 1920s.
Pendragon (role-playing game)
Pendragon (King Arthur Pendragon) is Greg Stafford's 1985 Chaosium tabletop RPG of knightly Arthurian Britain, known for Traits and Passions, Glory, generational play, and the Great Pendragon Campaign; 6th edition appeared in 2024. Not the 2020 Inkle strategy video game.
Pendred syndrome
Pendred syndrome (goiter-deafness syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disorder from SLC26A4 mutations causing pendrin dysfunction, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, enlarged vestibular aqueduct, and often euthyroid goiter.
Pendulum
A pendulum is a weight, called a bob, suspended from a pivot so it swings under gravity; its regular period made it the regulator of mechanical clocks from 1657 until electronic timekeeping.
Pendulum (2027 film)
Pendulum (2027) is an American horror-thriller, Mark Heyman's directorial debut, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor, Norman Reedus, and Jacki Weaver; produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa and C2, released theatrically by Vertical January 1, 2027.
Pendulum (Creedence Clearwater Revival album)
Pendulum is the sixth and penultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival album, released by Fantasy Records in December 1970, the only all-original CCR LP and the last with the original lineup, featuring "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and "Hey Tonight".
Pendulum (drum and bass band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass/rock band formed in Perth in 2002 by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul 'El Hornet' Harding; known for Hold Your Colour, In Silico, Immersion and Inertia, and a live band fusing DnB with rock.
Pendulum clock
A pendulum clock, also called a regulator clock, is a mechanical clock timed by a swinging pendulum, invented by Christiaan Huygens in 1656 and keeping time far better than earlier clocks.
Pendulum DJ SET B2B Friction (musician)
Pendulum DJ Set B2B Friction is a back-to-back DJ pairing of the Australian drum and bass group Pendulum with British DJ Friction, billed at Untold festival in 2019.
Penectomy
Penectomy is the surgical removal of the penis, partial or total, performed mainly to treat penile cancer; total penectomy routes the urethra to the perineum.
Peneda-Gerês National Park
Peneda-Gerês National Park (Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês), created 8 May 1971, is Portugal's only national park, a ~60,000 ha granite mountain area in the far northwest bordering Spain, part of the Gerês-Xurés UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1997.
Penei Sewell
Penei Sewell, Detroit Lions offensive tackle (No. 58), seventh overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft from Oregon; three straight First-Team AP All-Pro nods (2023-25), four Pro Bowls, 2019 Outland Trophy winner from American Samoa.
Penelope
Penelope (Πηνελόπη), wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, mother of Telemachus; famed for the shroud-unraveling trick, the marriage-bed test, and twenty years of fidelity amid 100-plus suitors.
Penelope (2006 film)
Penelope is a 2006 fantasy romantic comedy directed by Mark Palansky, starring Christina Ricci as a wealthy young woman born with a pig's snout from a family curse.
Penelope (TV series)
Penelope is an American coming-of-age drama series created by Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn, about a 16-year-old who leaves her family on a camping trip to live alone in the wilderness.
Penelope (Ulysses episode)
"Penelope" is the eighteenth and final episode of James Joyce's Ulysses: Molly Bloom's eight-sentence, nearly unpunctuated interior monologue on the night of June 16, 1904, ending the novel with the word Yes.
Penelope Ann Miller
Penelope Ann Miller (Penelope Andrea Miller), American actress born 1964 in Los Angeles; Broadway debut in Biloxi Blues, Tony-nominated Our Town revival; films The Freshman, Carlito's Way (Golden Globe nomination), The Artist, Dahmer, and Reagan.
Penelope Boston
Penelope (Penny) Boston is an American speleologist and astrobiologist who pioneered the study of cave microorganisms as analogs for life on other planets, and directed NASA's Astrobiology Institute from 2016.
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz (born 1974, Alcobendas, Madrid) is a Spanish actress, Oscar winner for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and the first Spanish actress nominated for and winning an Academy Award; longtime Pedro Almodóvar collaborator (eight films) with a dense 2026 slate.
Penelope Delta
Penelope Delta (Πηνελόπη Δέλτα, 1874–1941) was a Greek writer of historical novels for children who wrote in living demotic Greek and helped shape modern Greek children's literature.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald, born Penelope Knox (1916–2000), was an English novelist and biographer who won the 1979 Booker Prize for Offshore and the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower.