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Petteri Lindbohm
Petteri Lindbohm (born 1993, Helsinki) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman, 2012 St. Louis Blues draft pick, 2019 World Championship and 2022 Olympic gold medalist, currently playing for TPS Turku in the Liiga.
Petteri Orpo
Petteri Orpo (born 1969, Köyliö) is Finland's prime minister since 20 June 2023, leading the National Coalition Party since 2016; previously agriculture, interior, and finance minister; heads the 77th government.
Petticoat
Petticoat: a woman's underskirt worn for volume, shape, or warmth; from Middle English petycote, originally an upper-body undergarment. Key forms include hooped, quilted, corded, and horsehair (crinoline) petticoats.
Petticoat affair
Petticoat affair, also called the Eaton affair or Petticoat War: 1829–1831 Washington scandal in which cabinet wives led by Floride Calhoun ostracized Peggy Eaton, wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, causing the cabinet's collapse and Calhoun's fall.
Petticoat Junction
Petticoat Junction: CBS rural sitcom created by Paul Henning, 1963-1970, 222 episodes; widowed Kate Bradley and her three daughters run the Shady Rest Hotel in Hooterville, distinct from Green Acres.
Petting
Petting is stroking an animal as social touch; the word stems from "pet", originally a tame animal raised by hand. Dogs and cats accept it via grooming-like pathways, but reindeer and improper dog contact show it can stress animals.
Petting farm
משק חי (petting farm, animal corner) is the Hebrew term for settings holding animals for education, therapy, or entertainment, from school animal corners to commercial farms like Beit Hashita (15 dunams) and a zoo near Yagur, Haifa District.
Pettingill family
Pettingill family, Melbourne crime family led by matriarch Kath Pettingill (Granny Evil), active 1970s to 2000s; sons Dennis Allen (Mr Death), Victor Peirce and Trevor Pettingill, Walsh Street police killings 1988, inspiration for Animal Kingdom.
PettingZoo
PettingZoo is a Python library for multi-agent reinforcement learning, the multi-agent counterpart to Gymnasium, maintained by the Farama Foundation and first released in late 2020.
Pettit (Martian crater)
Pettit is a 92.49-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 12.25N, 186.13E, IAU-named in 1973 for American astronomer Edison Pettit (1890-1962); noted for its complex bright and dark wind streak imaged by HiRISE.
Petty officer
Petty officer: senior non-commissioned naval rating above leading rate and below chief petty officer. Royal Navy second promotion, NATO OR-6 (Sergeant equivalent); US Navy E-4 to E-6 NCO grades; term first official in 1808.
Petubastis (High Priest of Memphis)
Petubastis, also rendered Pedubast, was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 104/3 to 76 BC, whose funerary epitaph records a pontificate of twenty-eight years.
Petubastis III
Petubastis III, also known as Padibastet or Pedubast III, was an Egyptian rebel king who ruled part of Egypt against Persian rule from 521 BC until about 518 BC.
Petula Clark
Petula Clark (Sally Olwen Clark, born 15 November 1932, Ewell, Surrey) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress with the longest career of any British entertainer, over eight decades. Known for Downtown (US No. 1, 1965), two Grammys, French stardom, and an estimated 100 million records sold.
Petun
The Petun, self-named Tionontati, were an Iroquoian-speaking people farming near Georgian Bay in Ontario from about 1580 to 1650, named the Tobacco Nation by the French.
Petunia
Petunia, garden petunia (Petunia x hybrida), South American Solanaceae genus and bedding plant; hybrid of P. axillaris and P. integrifolia, sold as F1 seed in grandiflora, multiflora, milliflora, and spreading classes, and a plant model for pollination syndrome genetics.
Petunia × atkinsiana
Petunia × atkinsiana, also called Petunia × hybrida, is the artificial hybrid garden petunia (Solanaceae) derived mainly from P. axillaris and P. integrifolia; its cultivars are grouped as grandiflora, multiflora, milliflora, and spreading types.
Petyr Baelish
Petyr Baelish, called Littlefinger, is a fictional character in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Aidan Gillen; a minor lord's son who becomes master of coin and Lord Protector of the Vale through manipulation.
Petz
Petz is the PF. Magic virtual pet series begun with Dogz (1995) and Catz (1996), rendered from ballz and linez, later owned by Ubisoft, whose PC games ended with Petz 5 (2002); Petz 4 remains the community favorite.
Petzval (lunar crater)
Petzval is a 93.47-km-wide Nectarian-age impact crater at 62.73°S, 110.83°W on the far side of the Moon, named for Austrian optician Joseph von Petzval and IAU-approved in 1970.
Petzval field curvature
Petzval field curvature, also called field curvature, is an optical aberration in which a flat object is focused onto a curved image surface rather than a flat plane.
Peucetia viridans
Peucetia viridans, the green lynx spider, is the largest North American oxyopid, a bright green ambush hunter of pollinators on southern US shrubs, known for guarding egg sacs 6–8 weeks and producing copulatory plugs.
Peuet Sague
Peuet Sague (Peut Sagoe, Puet Sagu) is a remote 2,785 m volcanic complex with four summit peaks in Aceh, NW Sumatra, Indonesia. Its seven confirmed eruptions (1918-21 through December 2000) produced explosions, ashfall to 20 km, lava domes, and pyroclastic flows.
Peugeot
Peugeot is a French automobile brand founded as a steelworks in 1810, which built its first car in 1889 and has been part of Stellantis since 2021.
Peugeot 104
The Peugeot 104 is a small front-wheel-drive car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1972 to 1988, launched as the shortest four-door saloon in Europe and later expanded into hatchback versions, with 1,624,990 built.
Peugeot 106
The Peugeot 106 is a small French city car built by Peugeot from 1991 to 2003, with almost 2.8 million units produced and a sporty GTi version.
Peugeot 2008
The Peugeot 2008 is a subcompact crossover SUV built by French manufacturer Peugeot in two generations since 2013, with petrol, diesel, 48-volt hybrid, and fully electric e-2008 powertrains.
Peugeot 205
The Peugeot 205 is a supermini produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1998; nearly 5.3 million were built, including the 205 GTI.
Peugeot 206
The Peugeot 206 is a small hatchback built by French manufacturer Peugeot from 1998 to 2012, the company's best-selling model with 7,326,029 units; its rally version won three World Rally Championship titles from 2000 to 2002.
Peugeot 207
The Peugeot 207 is a supermini the French carmaker Peugeot built from 2006 to 2012, in hatchback, SW estate, and CC coupé-convertible versions, succeeding the 206.