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Peregrino Oil and Gas Field
The Peregrino Oil and Gas Field is a heavy-oil field in Brazil's Campos Basin, 85 kilometers offshore Rio de Janeiro, producing around 110,000 barrels daily since 2011.
Pereiaslav (Переяслав)
Pereiaslav (Переяслав, 1943–2019 Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi) is a Kyiv-oblast city on the Trubizh, a Kievan Rus' principality capital, site of the 1654 Cossack Council, and a museum town with Ukraine's first skansen.
Pereiaslav Agreement
Pereiaslav Agreement (Pereiaslav Council, Переяславська рада): the 1654 Ukrainian-Muscovite settlement in which Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack Hetmanate placed itself under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's protection, completed by the March Articles; contested as alliance, protectorate, or 'reunification.'
Pereiaslav Articles of 1654
The Pereiaslav Articles of 1654 (Переяславські статті), also called the March Articles or Articles of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, are the documents by which the 1654 Ukrainian–Muscovite treaty was given legal form, preserving Cossack autonomy under the tsar.
Pereiaslav Council of 1654
The Pereiaslav Council of 1654 (Переяславская рада 1654 года) was an assembly at Pereiaslav in January 1654, where the Cossacks swore allegiance to the Muscovite tsar.
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion (Переяслав-Хмельницький район), formerly Pereiaslav Raion, was a district of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Pereiaslav, existing March 1923 to July 2020, when it was abolished and merged into Boryspil Raion.
Pereira
Pereira is a Colombian city founded in 1863 and named for Francisco Pereira Martínez. It is the capital of Risaralda, a commercial hub of the coffee-growing Eje Cafetero.
Peremptory norm
Peremptory norm (jus cogens) in international law: a norm from which no derogation is permitted, hierarchically superior, voiding conflicting treaties, codified in VCLT Article 53 and codified in ILC 2022 draft conclusions.
Perenco
Perenco is a family-owned, independent oil and gas company founded in 1992 by Hubert Perrodo, operating mature and marginal fields in 14 countries rather than pursuing greenfield exploration.
Perennial
Perennial: a plant living multiple years, regrowing from crown, rhizomes, or roots, unlike annuals. Covers herbaceous vs woody perennials, winter dormancy, garden care, and perennial grain crops such as Kernza.
Perennial candidate
Perennial candidate: a politician who runs repeatedly for office without winning; e.g., Harold Stassen's nine presidential bids and Norman Thomas's six Socialist campaigns.
Perennial philosophy
The perennial philosophy, or philosophia perennis, holds that beneath their differences all religions convey one shared truth, a view popularized by Aldous Huxley in the 1940s.
Perennials
Perennials (stauder) are herbaceous plants that die down yearly and regrow from underground parts. The Copenhagen Botanical Garden's perennial quarter holds over 1,000 species, alphabetically ordered, showing wild ancestors of garden plants.
Perentie
Perentie (Varanus giganteus, Gray 1845), Australia's largest lizard and the world's fourth-largest, a monitor (goanna) of the arid interior from Western Australia to western Queensland; IUCN Least Concern, up to 2.5 m and 20 kg.
Perepelkin (lunar crater)
Perepelkin is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, about 89 km across near the equator, mapped by Apollo orbiters and named for Perepelkin.
Perepelkin (Martian crater)
Perepelkin crater, Mars: IAU-approved 1973 impact crater, 77.46 km wide, centered 52.44°N 295.17°E, named for Russian astronomer Evgenii Perepyolkin (1906-1938); distinct from the lunar crater of the same name.
Peres Jepchirchir
Peres Jepchirchir (Peres Jepchirchir Ngeno), Kenyan road runner born 1993; Olympic marathon champion Tokyo 2020, 2025 world marathon champion, three-time world half marathon champion, and holder of half marathon and women's-only marathon world records.
Peres–Horodecki criterion
The Peres–Horodecki criterion, also called the positive partial transpose (PPT) criterion, is an entanglement test for bipartite quantum states, proposed by Asher Peres in 1996 and proven by the Horodeckis.
Perestroika (Перестройка)
Perestroika (Перестройка, "restructuring") was Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet reform program launched in 1985, paired with glasnost; it introduced limited market mechanisms and elections, was blocked by vested interests, and led inadvertently to the USSR's 1991 collapse.
Peresvet (laser weapon)
Peresvet (Пересвет) is a Russian ground-based mobile laser system designed to dazzle or blind the optics of reconnaissance satellites, protecting road-mobile ICBMs; it was declared operational at five Strategic Rocket Forces divisions in December 2019.
Peresvet and Oslyabya
Peresvet and Oslyabya (Пересвет и Ослябя) were two Russian warrior-monks of Sergius of Radonezh's Trinity monastery who fought at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380; both are venerated as saints.
Peresvetov's petitions
Peresvetov's petitions (Челобитные Ивана Пересветова) are two programmatic petitions submitted to Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible in 1549 by Ivan Peresvetov, proposing a paid service army, salaried judges, and centralized finances.
Peretinoin
Peretinoin (NIK-333) is an oral synthetic acyclic retinoid, RAR/RXR agonist, developed as chemoprevention against hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after curative therapy; EMA orphan drug with mixed phase III results.
Pereyaslav Articles of 1654
The Pereyaslav Articles of 1654 (Переяславские статьи 1654 года), also called the March Articles, are the 1654 terms placing Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Hetman state under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's protection.
Pérez
Pérez is a Spanish patronymic surname meaning "son of Pero/Pedro", from Latin Petrus. Eighth most common surname in Spain (777,912, INE 2024) and 21st in the United States; etymologically unrelated to the Hebrew biblical name Peretz.
Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton, real name Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., is the American celebrity gossip blogger who founded PerezHilton.com in 2004, peaked around 2007, and entered residential mental health treatment after an August 2026 self-harm livestream.
Pérez Prado
Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader and composer (Matanzas; died 1989, Mexico City), created the mambo's brass-driven form in Mexico; hits include Mambo No. 5 and Patricia; known as the King of the Mambo.
Pereza
Pereza is a Spanish rock duo from Madrid formed by Rubén Pozo and Leiva, active from 2001 to 2011, selling over 170,000 albums and reuniting on stage since 2021.
Perfect (1985 film)
Perfect (1985) is a James Bridges drama starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, based on Aaron Latham's 1983 Rolling Stone story 'Looking for Mr. Goodbody' about health clubs as singles bars; critically panned, it grossed about $13 million.
Perfect (2026 film)
Perfect (2026 film): Millicent Hailes's SXSW debut drama-romance starring Julia Fox and Ashley Moore, a sapphic romance in a water-scarce town; distinct from the cancelled Netflix Kerri Strug biopic of the same title.