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Pershing locomotive
The Pershing locomotive, or Pershing class, was a 2-8-0 steam locomotive built by Baldwin from 1917 to 1919 for American forces in France during World War I.
Pershing Square Capital Management
Pershing Square Capital Management is a New York activist investment firm founded by Bill Ackman in 2004, holding large, concentrated stakes in public companies and pushing for changes in how they are run.
Pershing's Punitive Expedition
Pershing's Punitive Expedition (Expedición Punitiva) was a U.S. Army operation in northern Mexico from 1916 to 1917, sent under John J. Pershing to capture Pancho Villa after his raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis is a Stanford mathematician and statistician who spent ten years as a professional magician and proved that seven riffle shuffles randomize a deck of cards.
Persia White
Persia White is an American actress, musician, and animal-rights activist, best known as Lynn Searcy on Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Abby Bennett Wilson on The Vampire Diaries; co-producer of Earthlings, PETA ad subject, married to Joseph Morgan.
Persian alphabet (الفبای فارسی)
Persian alphabet (الفبای فارسی, alefbā-ye fârsi), also called Perso-Arabic script: a 32-letter right-to-left abjad adapted from Arabic for Persian in Iran and Afghanistan, adding پ چ ژ گ and replacing Pahlavi after the 7th–8th-century conquest.
Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building (PHAB), Tel Kedesh
The Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building is a monumental public building at Tel Kedesh in Israel's Upper Galilee, used as a regional administrative center from about 500 to 144 BCE.
Persian architecture
Persian architecture is the building tradition of the Iranian plateau, spanning roughly three millennia from the Achaemenid Empire through the Parthian, Sasanian, and Islamic periods to today.
Persian art
Persian art: the visual and material art of Iran and Persian-speaking lands from the Neolithic (7th millennium B.C.) through Achaemenian, Sasanian, Islamic, Safavid, Qajar, and modern eras, spanning architecture, manuscript painting, calligraphy, ceramics, metalwork, and carpets.
Persian Campaign
The Persian Campaign (اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was the fighting and occupation on Iranian soil during World War I, 1914 to 1918, despite Iran's declared neutrality.
Persian carpet
Persian carpet: hand-knotted pile carpet from Iran, tied with the asymmetric Senneh knot rather than the Turkish Ghiordes knot. Peak under the Safavids (1501-1739) with royal workshops under Shah Abbas I; exports fell from $2 billion to under $50 million.
Persian cat
Persian cat: longhaired domestic cat breed with cobby body, round brachycephalic head, and full coat; documented in Europe from 1626, a CFA foundation breed since 1906, prone to polycystic kidney disease.
Persian children's literature
Persian children's literature (ادبیات کودک و نوجوان فارسی) is stories, poems, and picture books written in Persian for children, emerging as a distinct genre in the 19th century.
Persian chronicle
A Persian chronicle is a Persian-language historical work recording the events, rulers, and institutions of its time, a genre in which history and literature have always been closely linked.
Persian conquest of Egypt by Cambyses
The Persian conquest of Egypt by Cambyses II, completed in 525 BC with victory at Pelusium over Psamtik III, made Egypt a province of the Achaemenid empire.
Persian Constitution of 1906
The Persian Constitution of 1906, signed by Mozaffar al-Din Shah in December 1906, created Iran's National Consultative Assembly and placed royal loans, concessions, and the budget under parliamentary approval.
Persian Constitutional Revolution
The Persian Constitutional Revolution (Enqelāb-e mašrūṭa), also called the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, was the 1905–11 movement that gave Iran its first constitution and elected parliament.
Persian Cossack Division
The Persian Cossack Division (بریگاد قزاق) was an Iranian cavalry force founded in 1879 on the model of Russian Cossack units and commanded by Russian officers.
Persian diaspora literature
Persian diaspora literature is writing by Iranians outside Iran, mostly in Persian, on migration and exile, with major centers in North America and Western Europe after 1979.
Persian Divan of Ghalib
The Persian Divan of Ghalib (دیوانِ فارسی غالب) is the Persian-language poetry of Delhi poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, whose 1845 divan holds about 6,000 verses.
Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi
The Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi is the Persian-language songbook of the poet Nasimi of Shirvan, a leading Hurufi figure, holding about 5,000 lines of verse.
Persian drama
Persian drama is the dramatic tradition of Iran, centered on the taʿziyeh (تعزیه) passion play, comic folk forms, and Western-style theater adopted in the 19th century.
Persian embassy to Europe (1609–1615)
Persian embassy to Europe (1609-1615): Safavid mission sent by Shah Abbas I, led by Robert Shirley after the failed 1599 embassy, seeking an anti-Ottoman alliance and trade; honored at Prague, Florence, Rome, and England but secured no commitments.
Persian epic poetry
Persian epic poetry is a tradition of long, mostly metrical narratives in heroic language about the valor of warriors and kings, with Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed around 1010, as its standard example.
Persian fable
The Persian fable tradition centers on Kalila wa Demna, a collection of animal fables from India's Pañcatantra that became a mirror of princes manual in Persian.
Persian folk literature
Persian folk literature (ادبیات عامیانه فارسی) is the oral tales, legends, songs, and proverbs of Persian speakers, passed down by word of mouth across generations.
Persian Gulf (الخليج الفارسي)
The Persian Gulf (الخليج الفارسي), also called Arabian Gulf in some Arab countries, is a shallow sea between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, about 1,000 km long, draining via the Strait of Hormuz and carrying major world oil exports.
Persian Gulf Pro League (لیگ برتر خلیج فارس)
The Persian Gulf Pro League (لیگ برتر خلیج فارس), formerly the Iran Premier League, is Iran's top men's professional football division, founded in 2001 and contested by 16 teams.
Persian Gulf seals
Persian Gulf seals, also called Dilmun or Gulf Type seals, are small circular stamp seals from Bahrain's ancient Dilmun, c. 2100–1750 BC, often inscribed with Indus script.
Persian Gulf Strait Authority
Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA, Nahad-e Modiriate Abrah-e Khalij-e Fars), Iranian body founded 5 May 2026, launched 18 May, requiring permits, designated routes, and tolls for Strait of Hormuz transit; administered by IRGC Navy, rejected under UNCLOS.