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Peterborough
Peterborough, England: cathedral city and unitary authority in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene, 124 km north of London. Founded around a 655 monastery, designated a New Town in 1967; population 223,665 (mid-2024). Distinct from Peterborough, Ontario.
Peterborough ditch murders
Peterborough ditch murders: three March 2013 knife murders of Lukasz Slaboszewski, John Chapman, and Kevin Lee by Joanna Dennehy near Peterborough, followed by two attempted murders in Hereford; she received a whole life order in 2014.
Peterborough Petroglyphs
The Peterborough Petroglyphs are more than 900 Indigenous rock carvings on white marble in Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario, made by Algonquian-speaking peoples between 900 and 1400 CE.
Peterborough United F.C.
Peterborough United F.C., 'The Posh', founded 1934 after Peterborough & Fletton United collapsed; League One club holding the English Football League record of 134 goals in a 46-game Fourth Division season (1960-61), known for its yo-yo league history, MacAnthony ownership, transfer-selling model and London Road stadium.
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough is a city in south-central Ontario, Canada, on the Otonabee River along the Trent-Severn Waterway, 140 km northeast of Toronto, known for the Peterborough Lift Lock and Trent University.
Peterbot
Peterbot (Peter Kata, born 2007) is an American-Hungarian Fortnite pro for Team Falcons; with Pollo he won the 2024 FNCS Global Championship ($400,000) and has earned about $1 million.
Peterburgsky Sbornik
Peterburgsky Sbornik (Петербургский сборник, "Petersburg Collection") is an 1846 literary almanac edited by Nikolai Nekrasov in Saint Petersburg, known for Dostoevsky's debut novel Poor Folk.
Petergof (Петергоф)
Petergof (Петергоф), formerly Petrodvorets, is a town within Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland, founded by Peter the Great and famous for its 1723 palace ensemble and gravity-fed fountains.
Peterhead F.C.
Peterhead F.C., the Blue Toon, is a Scottish football club founded 1890/91 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, playing at Balmoor Stadium in Scottish League One; three-time League Two champions and five-time Highland League champions who have never played above the third tier.
Peterhead power station
Peterhead power station is a 1,180 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station at Boddam near Peterhead, Scotland, owned by SSE, opened in 1982 and repowered in 2000.
Peterhof (German trading court in Novgorod)
The Peterhof, or German Court (Немецкий двор в Новгороде), was an enclosed trading compound for German merchants in Novgorod, founded in 1192 and closed by Ivan III in 1494.
Peterhof Palace (Петергоф)
Peterhof Palace (Петергоф), known as the Russian Versailles, is an imperial residence on the Gulf of Finland near Saint Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great in the early 18th century.
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely, is the oldest and one of the smallest colleges of the University of Cambridge, on Trumpington Street, with about 514 students.
Peterloo
Peterloo: massacre of 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged about 60,000 pro-democracy protesters led by Henry Hunt at St Peter's Field, Manchester, killing 15-18 and inspiring the Manchester Guardian.
Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre: cavalry charge on a peaceful parliamentary reform meeting of about 60,000 at St Peter's Field, Manchester, 16 August 1819, addressed by Henry Hunt; 11–18 killed, hundreds injured; named ironically after Waterloo; led to the Six Acts.
Petermann (lunar crater)
Petermann is a 76.95-km-wide impact crater on the Moon at 74.35°N, 67.89°E, cataloged as USGS Gazetteer feature 4669, with a satellite crater Petermann C nearby.
Petermann Island
Petermann Island is an Antarctic island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered by Eduard Dallmann in 1874 and known for its gentoo penguin colony.
Peterpan (group)
Peterpan was an Indonesian pop-rock band formed in Bandung in 2000, whose debut album Taman Langit sold over 650,000 copies; the band renamed itself NOAH in 2012.
Peters and Lee
Peters and Lee were a British vocal duo of Lennie Peters and Dianne Lee whose 1973 hit "Welcome Home" and album We Can Make It were the first simultaneous UK number-one single and album after the Beatles.
Peters anomaly
Peters anomaly (irido-corneo-trabecular dysgenesis): rare congenital anterior segment dysgenesis causing central corneal opacity with posterior stromal and Descemet defect; types I and II, FOXC1/PAX6/PITX2/CYP1B1 genes, frequent glaucoma, keratoplasty outcomes.
Peters Max Stone
Peters Max Stone (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969 and dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Peters plus syndrome
Peters plus syndrome (Krause-Kivlin syndrome, PTRPLS, OMIM 261540) is a rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder of glycosylation caused by B3GLCT variants, featuring Peters anomaly with corneal opacity, rhizomelic short stature, cleft lip/palate, and intellectual disability.
Petersburg (novel)
Petersburg (Петербург, Петербургъ) is Andrei Bely's 1913 Russian symbolist novel, revised 1922, about a 1905 terrorist bomb plot against the senator Ableukhov by his own son; ranked by Nabokov with Ulysses, Metamorphosis, and Proust.
Petersburg Generating Station
The Petersburg Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant owned by AES Indiana in Pike County, Indiana, whose four units were built between 1967 and 1986.
Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies
The Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies (Петербургский совет рабочих депутатов) was a council of delegates elected by St. Petersburg workers during the 1905 revolution, founded in October 1905.
Petersburg tale
The Petersburg tale (петербургская повесть) is a genre of 19th-century Russian prose in which Saint Petersburg shapes plot and character, centered on five stories by Nikolai Gogol.
Petersburg Tales
Petersburg Tales (Петербургские повести) is the traditional title for Gogol's novellas set in Saint Petersburg, including The Nose, Diary of a Madman, and The Overcoat.
Petersburg Text
The Petersburg Text (петербургский текст) is a literary concept introduced by Vladimir Toporov describing a unified supertext of Russian works about Saint Petersburg, beginning with Pushkin and Gogol.
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg is an independent city in Virginia on the Appomattox River, 30 miles south of Richmond, best known for the 1864 to 1865 Siege of Petersburg.
Petersen Automotive Museum
The Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit automobile museum on Museum Row in Los Angeles, founded in 1994 by publisher Robert E. Petersen and his wife Margie.