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Perry Sook
Perry Sook is an American broadcast executive who founded Nexstar Media Group in 1996. He built it into the largest local broadcast television company in the U.S.
Perry syndrome
Perry syndrome (parkinsonism with alveolar hypoventilation and mental depression) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by DCTN1 mutations, causing parkinsonism, depression, weight loss, and nocturnal hypoventilation, with death typically within about five years.
Perry the Platypus
Perry the Platypus, codenamed Agent P, is the mute pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb who secretly works for the O.W.C.A. foiling Dr. Doofenshmirtz; voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, created by Povenmire and Marsh.
Perry White
Perry White (Perry Jerome White) is DC Comics' Daily Planet editor-in-chief in Metropolis, boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Created for the 1940 Superman radio serial, debuting in comics in Superman #7, portrayed on screen by John Hamilton, Jackie Cooper, Lane Smith, Frank Langella, Laurence Fishburne, and Wendell Pierce.
Perry William Wilson
Perry William Wilson (1902–1981) was an American microbiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin who turned biological nitrogen fixation into a quantitative science.
Perse
Perse (B.L. Clark, 1918) is an extinct genus of fasciolariid marine gastropods from Eocene to Miocene rocks of California, Oregon, and Washington; type species P. corrugatum, with Whitneyella as a synonym.
Persea
Persea (laurel family, Lauraceae), genus of evergreen trees including the avocado Persea americana; about 112-150 species native to the Americas and Macaronesia, with Asian species often split off as Machilus; also yields medang timber.
Persebaya Surabaya
Persebaya Surabaya (Bajol Ijo), Indonesian football club founded 18 June 1927 as SIVB; PSSI founding member, six Perserikatan titles, Liga Indonesia champion 1996 and 2004, Bonek supporters, Gelora Bung Tomo home.
Persecution
Persecution, under Rome Statute Article 7, is a crime against humanity: intentional, severe deprivation of fundamental rights by reason of group identity, requiring discriminatory intent, distinguished from genocide by the absence of intent to destroy, first convicted at the ICC in the 2024 Al Hassan case.
Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany
Persecution of Black people in Nazi Germany (1933–1945): several thousand Black residents faced racial laws, the Nuremberg marriage ban, forced sterilization of at least 385 Rhineland children, imprisonment in camps, and murder, with no centralized murder program.
Persecution of Buddhism under Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou
The persecution of Buddhism under Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (建德毁佛) was a state suppression from 574 that banned Buddhism and Daoism, destroyed monasteries, and laicized about 3 million clergy.
Persecution of Buddhists under Pushyamitra Shunga
The persecution of Buddhists under Pushyamitra Shunga (पुष्यमित्र का बौद्ध विरोध) is a reported episode in which the Shunga king allegedly destroyed monasteries and put a price on monks' heads.
Persecution of Catholics under Minh Mang
The persecution of Catholics under Minh Mang was a series of edicts by the Nguyen emperor banning Catholicism from 1825, leading to executions of missionaries and converts.
Persecution of Catholics under Minh Mang, Thieu Tri, and Tu Duc
The persecution of Catholics under Minh Mang, Thieu Tri, and Tu Duc (Cấm đạo Gia Tô) was a series of Nguyen dynasty edicts banning Catholicism in Vietnam from 1825 to 1862.
Persecution of Christians
Persecution of Christians is hostility toward people for being Christian, from Roman-era repression to modern harassment in 166 countries (Pew, 2022); Open Doors estimates 388 million Christians face high persecution, with Nigeria the deadliest country.
Persecution of Christians by Mwanga II
The persecution of Christians by Mwanga II was a series of executions of Christian converts in Buganda ordered by King Mwanga II from 1885 to 1887.
Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire: state repression from Nero's 64 CE purge through Decius (249), Valerian (257-259), and Diocletian's Great Persecution (303) to Galerius's toleration edict of 311 and Constantine's Edict of Milan of 313.
Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
The persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union (1917–1991) was a state campaign to eliminate organized religion, reducing the Russian Orthodox Church to about 100 open churches by 1939.
Persecution of Hindus
Persecution of Hindus: violence, blasphemy-accusation mobs, forced conversions, and land expropriation against Hindu minorities, chiefly in Bangladesh (post-2024 surge) and Pakistan (blasphemy laws, forced conversion), with related Kashmir attacks and retaliatory violence in India.
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
The persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany was the regime's 1935 to 1945 campaign against men under Paragraph 175; about 100,000 were arrested and 5,000 to 15,000 sent to concentration camps.
Persecution of Jews
Persecution of Jewish people has spanned discrimination, expulsions, and violence from ancient and medieval times to the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany killed six million Jews.
Persecution of Malagasy Christians
The persecution of Malagasy Christians (Malagasy: fanenjikana) was Queen Ranavalona I's suppression of Christianity in the Merina kingdom of Madagascar from 1835 until 1861, when Radama II restored religious freedom.
Persecution of Muslims
Persecution of Muslims, also known as anti-Muslim violence, is deliberate severe mistreatment of Muslims for their religion, documented historically and by United Nations bodies today.
Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman decline
Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman decline: displacement, violence, and dispossession of Balkan, Crimean, and Caucasian Muslims as Ottoman rule retreated (1875–1923); the muhacir refugee migrations, Ottoman resettlement policies, and post-1878 'abandoned land' confiscations.
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar targets the Rohingya and other Muslim minorities, about 4 percent of the population, through the 1982 Citizenship Law, 2017 genocide-designated clearance operations, and post-2021 coup abuses by the military and Arakan Army.
Persecution of Najran
The Persecution of Najran (أصحاب الأخدود, the People of the Ditch) was the massacre of Najran's Christian community by the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas in 523.
Persecution of Old Believers and the Avvakum affair
The persecution of Old Believers and the Avvakum affair (Дело протопопа Аввакума) was the Russian state and church campaign against opponents of Patriarch Nikon's liturgical reforms, led by Archpriest Avvakum.
Persecution of people with albinism
The persecution of people with albinism is the pattern of killings and mutilations driven by beliefs that their body parts bring wealth, documented mostly in East Africa.
Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State
The persecution of Shias by the Islamic State was the systematic killing of Shia Muslims in Iraq and Syria. In 2024, the UN concluded it was a genocidal policy.
Persecution of the dhimmis in the Mamluk realms (edicts of 1301)
The persecution of the dhimmis in the Mamluk realms (المراسيم سنة 701هـ) was a 1301 campaign of edicts and mob violence against Egypt and Syria's Christians and Jews.