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Penzance
Penzance (Cornish Pennsans, "holy headland") is west Cornwall's largest town and historic port on Mount's Bay. Borough chartered 1614, market rights 1332, Spanish burning 1595, Golowan Festival, Jubilee Pool, 2020 Great Town Award.
Peon
A peon is a low-ranking laborer, or in its legal and historical sense a worker held in servitude by a creditor until a debt is worked off.
Peony
Peony (Paeonia L.), sole genus of Paeoniaceae in Saxifragales, about 33-37 species of herbaceous and tree peonies native from Europe and temperate Asia to western North America; grown for ornament, traditional medicine (paeoniflorin, paeonol), and oil.
Peony Garden
A peony garden (牡丹園) is a specialized garden, within a botanical garden, park, or standalone site, devoted to displaying and conserving peonies, a plant known in China as the King of Flowers.
People
People, or peoplehood, is the social-science concept for groups bound by shared descent, history, language, culture, or territory; also called ethnie, nation, or nationality. Distinguished from states and from mere populations by collective identity and claims such as self-determination.
People (magazine)
People (PEOPLE) is an American weekly celebrity and human-interest magazine launched March 4, 1974 by Time Inc. with Mia Farrow on the first cover; founded by editor Richard Stolley and publisher Richard Durrell, now owned by People Inc.
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
PAGAD (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs), also known via MAGO and MAIL, was a Cape Flats, Cape Town vigilante movement founded 1995-1996, known for killing gang leader Rashaad Staggie in 1996 and for G-Force-linked urban terror bombings in 1998-2000.
People Before Profit–Solidarity
People Before Profit–Solidarity (Dlúthpháirtíocht–Pobal Seachas Brabús) is an Irish eco-socialist electoral alliance of People Before Profit and Solidarity, registered as one party in 2016, holding 3 Dáil seats on 2.8% in 2024 and Assembly seats in Northern Ireland.
People Can Fly
People Can Fly (PCF Group S.A.), Polish AAA game studio founded 2002 in Warsaw, creator of Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders; former Epic Games subsidiary, Warsaw Stock Exchange listed, now refocused on work-for-hire.
People Center, Inc.
People Center, Inc., doing business as Rippling, is a private San Francisco software company founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad that offers human resources, payroll, and IT management, valued at $16.8 billion in 2025.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known as PETA, is an international animal rights organization founded in 1980, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk.
People Inc.
People Inc., formerly Dotdash Meredith, is one of the largest American digital and print publishers, whose more than 40 brands, including PEOPLE and Allrecipes, reach 175 million people monthly.
People Just Do Nothing
People Just Do Nothing: BBC Three mockumentary sitcom (2014–2018, five series) about Kurupt FM, a deluded UK garage pirate radio crew in Brentford, West London; created by and starring Mustafa, Chegwin, Stamp, and Chaudhry; won the 2017 BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy and spawned the 2021 film Big In Japan.
People Love Dead Jews
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present is Dara Horn's 2021 Norton essay collection arguing that public veneration of murdered Jews, from Anne Frank to Holocaust memorials, flatters the living while ignoring antisemitism.
People mover
A people mover, or automated people mover, is a driverless transit system of small vehicles on a fixed guideway, used mainly at airports and amusement parks.
People Nation
People Nation: Chicago-based street gang alliance, rival of Folk Nation, founded in Illinois prisons in the late 1970s and formalized in 1981 by Black P Stones, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, and Mickey Cobras; five-point star, number 5, left-side representation; now largely defunct on the streets.
People of Earth
People of Earth: TBS comedy series (2016–2017), created by David Jenkins, about skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham (Wyatt Cenac) investigating the StarCrossed alien-abductee support group; two seasons, 20 episodes, canceled in 2018.
People of Praise
The People of Praise is a charismatic covenant community founded in 1971 in South Bend, Indiana, known for its link to Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
People of the 20th Century
People of the 20th Century (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts) is an unfinished photographic project by German photographer August Sander, comprising 619 portraits of German society classified by social type.
People of the Book
People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab, أهل الكتاب) is the Quranic term for Jews and Christians, holders of the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel, appearing 31 times in the Quran.
People of the City
People of the City is the 1954 debut novel of Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, following crime reporter and dance-band leader Amusa Sango in a West African city identified as Lagos.
People of the State of California v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
People of the State of California v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 4:23-cv-05448-YGR, is the 2023 Northern District of California lawsuit by 33 state attorneys general alleging Facebook and Instagram addict minors, violating COPPA and California consumer laws; tried in Oakland in 2026, resolved by a proposed $17 billion settlement.
People on Sunday
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) is a 1930 German silent film by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, scripted by Billy Wilder, following five nonprofessional Berliners on a Sunday outing to the Wannsee; a precursor of neorealism and the French New Wave.
People Power Party (국민의힘) (South Korea)
People Power Party (국민의힘), South Korea's main conservative party since September 2020, successor to the United Future and Liberty Korea parties; held the Yoon Suk Yeol presidency, lost the 2024, 2025, and 2026 elections, and is rebuilding under Jang Dong-hyeok.
People Power Revolution
People Power Revolution, also called the EDSA Revolution, was the peaceful February 25, 1986 Philippine uprising that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., exiled him to Hawaii, and restored democracy via the 1987 Constitution.
People to People Student Ambassador Program
People to People Student Ambassador Program: Eisenhower-founded (1956) educational student travel program run by for-profit Ambassadors Group, Spokane; ended 2015 after marketing controversies.
PEOPLE trial
PEOPLE (NCT03447678), a monocentric phase II trial of first-line pembrolizumab monotherapy in EGFR/ALK wild-type advanced NSCLC with PD-L1 0-49%; 65 patients, median PFS 2.9 months, OS 12.1 months, with circulating T/NK and myeloid cell counts as biomarkers.
People v. Lazarus
People v. Lazarus names several US cases, chiefly the 2015 California decision affirming LAPD officer Stephanie Lazarus's first degree murder conviction for the 1986 DNA-solved killing of Sheri Rasmussen; also Michigan 2010, New York 2013, and California 1929 cases.
People v. Turner
People v. Turner (Santa Clara County, 2016) is the Brock Allen Turner sexual assault prosecution: jury conviction on three felony counts, Judge Persky's six-month sentence, recalled judge, changed California law, appeal affirmed 2018.
People Watching (album)
People Watching is Sam Fender's third studio album, released 21 February 2025 on Polydor (listed as Capitol by Metacritic). Produced with Markus Dravs and Adam Granduciel, its 11 tracks about ordinary people earned a Metacritic Metascore of 85.