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Petrashevsky Circle
Petrashevsky Circle (петрашевцы): St Petersburg discussion group of Mikhail Butashevich-Petrashevsky, 1844–1849, debating Fourierist socialism and serfdom; 123 investigated, 21 death sentences commuted after the 1849 mock execution; Dostoevsky among the condemned.
Petrashevsky Circle case
The Petrashevsky Circle case (Дело петрашевцев) was the 1849 trial of a St Petersburg discussion group studying French socialism, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was sentenced to katorga after a staged execution.
Petre Antonescu
Petre Antonescu (1873–1965) was a Romanian architect and professor, the most prolific practitioner of the Neo-Romanian style, known for Bucharest City Hall and the Arcul de Triumf.
Petre Becheru
Petre Becheru, Romanian weightlifter born 1960 in Drăgănești-Vlașca; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold and world title in the 82.5 kg light-heavyweight class (355.0 kg), 1987 European bronze.
Petre Dumitrescu
Petre Dumitrescu (1882-1950) was a Romanian army general who led the Third Army on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944, briefly commanded the German 6th Army, and was cleared of war crimes charges; distinct from an Iron Guardist namesake and a colonel imprisoned in 1959.
Petre Inspirescu
Petre Inspirescu, also known as Pedro, is the stage name of Romanian DJ and producer Radu Dumitru Bodiu, a defining figure of the Romanian minimal techno scene since 1999.
Petre Ispirescu
Petre Ispirescu (1830–1887) was a Romanian folklorist, storyteller, and printer who reworked folk tales in the style of popular speech; his Legende sau basmele românilor (1882) is a classic of Romanian literature.
Petre Mshvenieradze (პეტრე მშვენიერაძე)
Petre Mshvenieradze (პეტრე მშვენიერაძე), Soviet water polo centre forward (1929–2003), captain of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR; Olympic bronze 1956 and silver 1960, 212 caps, 300+ goals, "Blood in the Water" participant.
Petre P. Carp
Petre P. Carp was a Romanian statesman and literary critic who co-founded the society Junimea, led the Conservative Party, and served twice as Prime Minister, in 1900–1901 and 1910–1912.
Petre S. Aurelian
Petre S. Aurelian was a Romanian economist, agronomist, and Liberal politician who founded higher agricultural education in Romania and served as prime minister from 1896 to 1897.
Petre Stoica
Petre Stoica is a signal processing researcher and emeritus professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, known for system identification, spectral analysis, wireless communications, and the SPICE sparse estimation method.
Petre Țuțea
Petre Țuțea (1902–1991) was a Romanian economist, interwar publicist, and political prisoner who became an aphoristic Orthodox Christian dissident thinker, with most of his work published posthumously.
Petrea
Petrea is a genus of woody climbers and shrubs in the verbena family, native from Florida through tropical America, known for the wisteria-like queen's wreath vine.
Petrea volubilis
Petrea volubilis (queen's wreath, purple wreath, sandpaper vine) is a twining woody vine in Verbenaceae native to tropical America, grown ornamentally for wisteria-like racemes whose persistent pale calyx lobes outlast the darker corollas.
Petrel (reservoir software)
Petrel is a subsurface software platform, developed by Technoguide in Norway and owned by SLB, that geoscientists use for seismic interpretation, 3D geological modeling, and reservoir simulation.
Petrel-II
Petrel-II (海燕-II) is a hybrid underwater glider from Tianjin University, China, combining buoyancy gliding with a propeller; used for ocean observation and typhoon sampling since 2014.
Petrese B. Tucker
Petrese B. Tucker, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Petri dish
A Petri dish, also called a Petri plate or culture dish, is a shallow lidded laboratory container for growing microorganisms and cells, named after Julius Richard Petri.
Petri net
A Petri net, or PT net, is a mathematical model of concurrent computation in which places and transitions exchange tokens, introduced by Carl Adam Petri in 1962.
Petria Thomas
Petria Thomas is an Australian former butterfly swimmer who won eight Olympic medals and nine Commonwealth Games gold medals, later serving as Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022.
Petrichor
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil, especially after a dry spell, named by two Australian CSIRO scientists in 1964.
Petrichor Scion Therapeutics
Petrichor Scion Therapeutics LLC is a New York venture capital fund focused on life sciences, affiliated with Petrichor Healthcare Capital Management, which reported $172 million raised from 2022.
Petrichor The Series (หยดฝนกลิ่นสนิม)
Petrichor The Series (หยดฝนกลิ่นสนิม), 2024 Thai GL crime-mystery romance, iQIYI Original by Miss Grand International and TV Thunder, starring Engfa Waraha and Charlotte Austin; 10 episodes on One 31 and iQIYI from Nov 23, 2024.
Petrified Forest
Petrified forests are sites where buried ancient trees turned to stone through mineral replacement. Major examples include Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the Shenzhen fossil forest, Calistoga, Lesvos, Namibia, and Mississippi.
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park, northeastern Arizona national park (monument 1906, park 1962), protects Late Triassic Chinle Formation petrified wood, over 700 fossil sites, Painted Desert badlands, and 13,000 years of human history.
Petrified wood
Petrified wood, also known as fossilwood or opalised wood, is fossilized vegetation in which minerals, usually silica, replace the organic material while preserving the wood's three-dimensional cellular structure.
Petrit Malaj
Petrit Malaj, born in Tirana in 1978, is an Albanian Socialist Party politician who has served as Minister of Finance since 2024 after two decades in banking and financial consulting.
Petro Doroshenko
Petro Doroshenko (Петро Дорошенко), 1627 to 1698, was a Cossack statesman and Hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine from 1665 to 1676 who sought to unite all Ukraine under Ottoman protection.
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний) was a Ruthenian nobleman and hetman of the Zaporozhian Host who led Cossack raids against the Ottomans and restored the Orthodox hierarchy in 1620.
Petro Maksymovych
Petro Maksymovych, who publishes as Peter Maksymovych, is a Ukrainian-born materials scientist known for ferroelectric nanoscience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Clemson University professor since 2024.