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Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station is a 2001 fantasy novel by China Miéville, set in the industrial city of New Crobuzon and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Perdiendo el juicio (2025 TV series)
Perdiendo el juicio, Spanish legal drama series premiered 23 March 2025 on atresplayer (Atresmedia/Boomerang TV), 10 episodes starring Elena Rivera as lawyer Amanda Torres with OCD; distinct from the 2024 Dominican film of the same name.
Perdita (moon)
Perdita is a small inner moon of Uranus, about 30 km across, discovered in 1999 in archived Voyager 2 images and confirmed by Hubble in 2003.
Perdita Durango (1997 film)
Perdita Durango (Dance with the Devil) is Álex de la Iglesia's 1997 Spain-Mexico-US crime film starring Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem, adapted from Barry Gifford's novel, a Goya-winning Spanish box-office hit.
Perdita Durango (character)
Perdita Durango is Barry Gifford's outlaw heroine from the Sailor and Lula novels, played by Isabella Rossellini in Wild at Heart (1990) and by Rosie Pérez in Álex de la Iglesia's 1997 film opposite Javier Bardem's Romeo Dolorosa.
Perdita Weeks
Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks (born 1985) is a British actress, sister of Honeysuckle and Rollo Weeks, known as Juliet Higgins in Magnum P.I. (2018–2024, 96 episodes), Mary Boleyn in The Tudors, and As Above, So Below.
Perdue Farms
Perdue Farms: fourth-generation, family-owned U.S. food and agricultural company founded 1920 in Salisbury, Maryland; PERDUE fresh chicken brand, Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness divisions, $9.83 billion annual sales, no-antibiotics-ever poultry since 2016.
Père David's deer (麋鹿)
Père David's deer, or milu (麋鹿, Elaphurus davidianus), a Chinese wetland deer listed Extinct in the Wild; saved from 18 Woburn Abbey founders, reintroduced to China from 1985, now thousands including wild herds.
Pere Gimferrer
Pere Gimferrer is a Spanish poet, essayist, and critic born in Barcelona in 1945 who writes in Spanish and Catalan; his breakthrough collection was Arde el mar (1966).
Pere Ginès
Pere Ginès is a Spanish hepatologist and Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, known for work on cirrhosis complications, the 1991 paracentesis trial, and EASL guidelines.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is Paris's largest intra-muros cemetery, opened 1804 on the former Mont-Louis Jesuit estate named for Louis XIV's confessor. 43 hectares, over 3 million visitors yearly, Mur des Fédérés, graves of Morrison, Wilde, Piaf, Proust.
Père Lachaise of Africa (St. George's Cemetery, Cape Town)
St. George's Cemetery is a burial ground in Cape Town, South Africa, known by the nickname "Père Lachaise of Africa", after the famous Parisian cemetery.
Pere Marquette 1225
Pere Marquette 1225 is a preserved 1941 Berkshire steam locomotive in Owosso, Michigan, known as the prototype for the train in the 2004 film The Polar Express.
Pere Puigserver
Pere Puigserver (born 1965) is a cell biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for discovering PGC-1α in 1998 and diabetes drug research.
Pere Roca-Cusachs
Pere Roca-Cusachs is a Spanish cell biophysicist and professor of physiology at the University of Barcelona who studies how cells detect and respond to mechanical forces from their environment.
Pere Romeu
Pere Romeu (born 1993, Barcelona) is a Catalan football coach, head coach of FC Barcelona Femení since 2024 after assisting Jonatan Giráldez; won eight of nine titles including the 2026 Women's Champions League, renewed to 2028.
Pere Santamaría
Pere Santamaría is a Spanish-born Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary who studies type 1 diabetes and invented Navacims, nanomedicines that reprogram disease-causing immune cells.
Pere Toshev
Pere Toshev (Пере Тошев), born in Prilep in 1865, was a teacher and revolutionary who led the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, survived the Thessaloniki affair of 1901, and was killed in an ambush in May 1912.
Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu, the American avant garage rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1975 by David Thomas from Rocket From the Tombs; debut album The Modern Dance (1978) shaped British post-punk; Thomas died April 23, 2025.
Père-Lachaise of the East: notable cemeteries of Southeast Asia
Notable cemeteries of Southeast Asia include Singapore's Bukit Brown with about 100,000 graves, Kuala Lumpur's Kwong Tong, Manila's Paco Park, and the Vietnam-Laos Martyrs' Cemetery.
Perechyn Raion
Perechyn Raion was a district in northwestern Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, from 1946 to 2020, centered at Perechyn; it was abolished in 2020 and merged into Uzhhorod Raion.
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki (Передвижники, Itinerants or Wanderers): Russian realist painters of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870–1923), founded after the 1863 Academy revolt, who toured exhibitions across the empire led by Kramskoy, Repin, and Surikov.
Peregrinação
Peregrinação is a Portuguese travel narrative by Fernão Mendes Pinto, recounting his twenty-one years as merchant, ambassador, and pirate in Asia, published posthumously in 1614.
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), 'Stoker', hereditary peer who succeeded on 3 May 2004, oversaw Chatsworth and its £32.7m Masterplan, and handed over to Lord Burlington.
Peregrine falcon
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the world's fastest animal, a cosmopolitan bird of prey hunting birds in a 320 km/h stoop. Nearly wiped out by DDT, listed endangered 1970, delisted 1999; IUCN Least Concern, 248,000-478,000 mature individuals.
Peregrine Laziosi
Peregrine Laziosi, also known as Pellegrino Laziosi, was an Italian Servite lay brother from Forlì, canonized in 1726 and invoked as patron of cancer patients.
Peregrine Maitland
Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British general and colonial governor. Commander of the 1st Brigade of Guards at Waterloo; lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada 1818–1828 and Nova Scotia 1828–1834; Cape governor 1844–1847.
Peregrine Mission One
Peregrine Mission One was the first Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight, an Astrobotic lunar lander that launched on Vulcan in January 2024 but leaked propellant and never landed.
Peregrine Ventures
Peregrine Ventures is an Israeli venture capital firm founded in 2001 by brothers Eyal and Boaz Lifschitz, specializing in life sciences and medical technology with about $600 million under management.
Peregrine White
Peregrine White (1620-1704), first child born to the Pilgrims in the New World, born aboard the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor; son of William and Susanna White, later Marshfield militia captain and land grantee.