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Penn Treebank
The Penn Treebank is an annotated corpus of over 4.5 million words of American English, tagged for part of speech and syntactic structure, built at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero is a Disney XD animated action-comedy (2014–2017, two seasons) created by Jared Bush and Sam Levine, starring Thomas Middleditch as a boy who zaps to other dimensions as a part-time hero with friends Boone and Sashi against the villain Rippen.
Pennahia argentata
Pennahia argentata, the silver croaker (shirougui), a sciaenid fish of the Northwest Pacific from Hong Kong to Japan, living over sandy-muddy coastal bottoms at 20-140 m, reaching 40 cm, a commercial croaker rated Least Concern.
Pennatula
Pennatula (sea pens) is a genus of colonial octocoral cnidarians in family Pennatulidae, named by Linnaeus in 1758; species such as P. phosphorea and P. aculeata anchor in soft sea bottoms and are distinguished by polyp leaves.
Penne Locos
Penne Locos, also recorded as Pennolucos, was a Roman road station at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, identified with the modern town of Villeneuve in canton Vaud, Switzerland.
Penner
Penner (Penna, Pennar; Pinākini) is a 597 km river of southern India rising at Nandi Hills, Karnataka, flowing through Andhra Pradesh to the Bay of Bengal; basin 55,213 sq km, rain-shadow, water-scarce, heavily dammed.
Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-1987), Spring City, Pennsylvania, a state institution for people with developmental disabilities; exposed by the 1968 report Suffer the Little Children and closed after Halderman v. Pennhurst, a landmark disability rights case.
Pennie Lane Trumbull
Pennie Lane Trumbull (Pennie Anne Trumbull), Oregon farmer and former 1970s rock-scene figure whose Flying Garter Girls and friendship with Cameron Crowe inspired Penny Lane in Almost Famous.
Pennie Lindeque
Pennie Lindeque is a British marine ecologist who leads Marine Ecology and Biodiversity at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, known for showing that zooplankton ingest microplastics and carry them up marine food webs.
Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)
Pennies from Heaven (1981) is Herbert Ross's MGM musical drama, written by Dennis Potter from his 1978 BBC serial, starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken lip-syncing 1930s songs; a $15-22 million production that grossed about $6 million.
Pennies from Heaven (TV series)
Pennies from Heaven is Dennis Potter's six-part 1978 BBC One serial starring Bob Hoskins as sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker, whose characters lip-sync to 1930s songs; it won a BAFTA and ranked 21st in the BFI 100.
Pennines
The Pennines, the upland backbone of northern England, are a dissected plateau of Carboniferous rocks rising to about 600 m, with Millstone Grit moors, blanket peat, and a Miocene Brassington Formation record.
Penning ionization
Penning ionization is a collisional ionization process in which a metastable excited atom transfers energy to a partner, ionizing it, first suggested by F. M. Penning in 1927.
Penning trap
A Penning trap is a device that confines charged particles with static electric and magnetic fields, underpinning precision measurements of particle masses, magnetic moments, and antiproton research.
Pennington Oil and Gas Field
Pennington Oil and Gas Field is an oil and gas field in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, discovered by well Pennington-1 in 1964 and currently operated by NNPC Ltd.
Penniut
Penniut, also written Pennut, was a Twentieth Dynasty official, Deputy of Wawat in Lower Nubia under Ramesses VI, known from his decorated rock-cut tomb, moved to New Amada in 1964.
Pennocrucium
Pennocrucium: Roman small town on Watling Street at Water Eaton, Staffordshire, an Antonine Itinerary station occupied from the late first to fourth century AD, with three-ditch defences, timber buildings, and roads to Chester, Wroxeter, and Greensforge.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (PA), a northeastern U.S. commonwealth chartered to William Penn in 1681 and the second state to ratify the Constitution in 1787; capital Harrisburg, 67 counties, about 13.06 million residents, land area 44,742 square miles.
Pennsylvania Canal
The Pennsylvania Canal was a state-built system of canals and railroads whose Main Line linked Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, opening in 1834 as Pennsylvania's answer to New York's Erie Canal.
Pennsylvania county-numbered historic bridges
Pennsylvania county-numbered historic bridges are rural road bridges listed on the National Register under names like County Bridge No. 41, following a 1996 statewide inventory.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party, also called the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, is the state affiliate founded in 1792 and headquartered in Harrisburg, chaired by Eugene DePasquale.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is Pennsylvania's state public health agency, headquartered in Harrisburg. Created in 1905, it issues vital records, and is led by Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, known as PennDOT, is the state agency responsible for highways, transit, airports, and driver licensing in Pennsylvania, created in 1970.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch: German-speaking settlers in colonial Pennsylvania and their descendants, and their language, Pennsylvania German (pdc). Not Dutch; split into Plain sectarians (Amish, Mennonites) and church people, with 61,000 speakers in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania General Assembly
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the bicameral state legislature of Pennsylvania: a 50-member Senate with four-year staggered terms and a 203-member House with two-year terms, tracing to the 1682 colonial Assembly and unicameral 1776 constitution.
Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital, at 800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, is the nation's first chartered hospital, founded 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond; its National Historic Landmark Pine Building holds America's first surgical amphitheater and medical library.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, lower chamber of the Pennsylvania General Assembly: 203 members, two-year terms, Democratic one-seat majority since 2022, Speaker Joanna McClinton, history from the 1682 Assembly.
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is the Pennsylvania state agency that regulates rates and service for nearly 7,000 public utilities, from electricity to water.
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad, known as the PRR, was an American railroad chartered in 1846 that grew into the country's largest and merged into Penn Central in 1968.
Pennsylvania Railroad class S1
The Pennsylvania Railroad class S1, nicknamed the Big Engine, was a single experimental 6-4-4-6 duplex steam locomotive built in 1939, the longest and heaviest rigid-frame passenger locomotive ever built.