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Picenum (region)
Picenum (Regio V Picenum), an ancient region of central Adriatic Italy from the Esino to the Matrinus river, home of the Picentes/Piceni, a Sabine-origin Italic people named for the woodpecker sacred to Mars; Augustan Fifth Region with 23 communities.
Pich Chanmony
Pich Chanmony (ពេជ ចន្ទមុន្នី, born 1980), Cambodian pharmacist and public health specialist, First Lady of Cambodia as wife of Prime Minister Hun Manet since 2023; vice president of the Cambodian Red Cross, honorary president of the Kantha Bopha Foundation, and businesswoman chairing G Gear.
Pichai Nirand
Pichai Nirand (พิชัย นิรันต์), born 1936, is a Thai painter who moved from expressionist and surrealist work to Buddhist themes and became a National Artist in 2003.
Pichaikkaran (பிச்சைக்காரன்)
Pichaikkaran (பிச்சைக்காரன்), aka Bichagadu in Telugu, is a 2016 Tamil action thriller directed by Sasi, starring Vijay Antony as a tycoon living 48 days as a beggar to save his comatose mother; a Rs 5 crore Tamil Nadu hit and 100-day Telugu blockbuster.
Pichaikkaran 2
Pichaikkaran 2 (பிச்சைக்காரன் 2), aka Anti-Bikili, is a 2023 Tamil action thriller and standalone follow-up to Pichaikkaran (2016), directed by and starring Vijay Antony as a beggar who receives an illegal brain transplant making him a tycoon; released 19 May 2023.
Pichaya Soontornyanakij (พิชญา สู่นทรญากิจ)
Pichaya Soontornyanakij (พิชญา สู่นทรญากิจ), aka Chef Pam, also formerly Pichaya Utharntharm, Thai chef-owner of Michelin-starred Potong in Bangkok Chinatown; World's Best Female Chef 2025, Asia's Best Female Chef 2024, progressive Thai-Chinese cuisine.
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher, Oklahoma: Tri-State lead-zinc mining boomtown, peak population 14,252 in 1926, later the heart of the Tar Creek Superfund Site; evacuated, bought out, and disincorporated September 1, 2009 after contamination and mine-subsidence risks, then demolished.
Pichhwai
Pichhwai painting is a devotional Hindu art of large painted cloth hangings placed behind the idol of Krishna as Shrinathji in Nathdwara, Rajasthan, arising in the 17th century.
Pichia
Pichia is a yeast genus established by Hansen in 1904, now limited to the Pichia membranifaciens clade after reclassification of former species into Komagataella, Ogataea, and other genera.
Pichia kluyveri
Pichia kluyveri (syn. Pichia belgica, Hansenula kluyveri) is a glucose-only, low-ethanol non-Saccharomyces yeast used as a flavor starter culture in low-alcohol beer, wine, cocoa, and coffee fermentation; GRAS strain DSM 33235.
Pichilingue LNG Terminal
The Pichilingue LNG Terminal, also called the La Paz Terminal, is a small LNG import terminal near La Paz, Mexico, opened by New Fortress Energy in July 2021.
Piciformes
Piciformes: order of zygodactyl, cavity-nesting birds (woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, honeyguides, jacamars, puffbirds), named 1810 by Meyer and Wolf; about 445–449 species in 9 families, Galbuliformes merged in 2025.
Pick and place
Pick and place is a robotic operation in which a machine grasps an object at one location, moves it, and releases it at another, repeating the cycle at speed.
Pick and roll
Pick and roll (ball screen, screen and roll): two-player basketball action where a screener blocks the ball handler's defender then rolls to the basket; the most used offensive play in NBA and Euroleague, with effectiveness predicting team success.
Pick face
A pick face is a warehouse storage location from which pickers directly draw items to fill orders, sitting in the forward area and periodically refilled from bulk reserve storage.
Pick Poor Robin Clean
Pick Poor Robin Clean is an American song first recorded by Luke Jordan on 18 August 1927 (Vi 20957) and covered by Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas in 1931; a ragtime show song about plucking a robin bare, read variously as a gambling song, a dozens verse, or a disrobing metaphor.
Pick Withers
Pick Withers (David Withers, born 1948, Leicester) is an English drummer, founding member and original drummer of Dire Straits 1977-1982, playing on their first four albums and Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming; left in 1982, later played with Plant, Baez, Rafferty.
Pick You Up (album)
Pick You Up, Sheryl Crow's 2026 studio album on Old Green Barn/Thirty Tigers, released digitally October 9, 2026; seven tracks, 25 minutes, written and produced with Jeff Trott, distinct from Iri's 2024 album and Yup'in's 2021 single.
Pick-by-vision
Pick-by-vision is an order picking method in which warehouse pickers wear data glasses showing article, quantity, and storage location, a term coined by researchers at the Technical University of Munich.
Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program
The Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, merged the Army's Pick Plan and the Bureau of Reclamation's Sloan Plan for the Missouri River basin.
Pickaninny
Pickaninny, also spelled piccaninny or picaninny, is an offensive English word for a Black child, first recorded in the 1650s and derived probably from Portuguese pequenino, meaning small.
Pickaxe
A pickaxe is a T-shaped hand tool with a heavy steel head mounted crosswise on a long handle, used to break rock, hard soil, and compacted gravel.
Pickaxe Mountain
Pickaxe Mountain (Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, کوه کلنگ گز لا) is a 1,608 m mountain in Isfahan, Iran, about 2 km south of Natanz, beneath which Iran has built a deep granite tunnel facility since 2020, stated as a centrifuge assembly plant, never IAEA-inspected.
Pickelhaube
Pickelhaube: spiked Prussian military helmet introduced 1842 under Frederick William IV, made of pressed leather, adopted across Germany and Russia, replaced by the Stahlhelm in 1916.
Pickens County, South Carolina, United States
Pickens County is a county in northwest South Carolina with the city of Pickens as its seat, home to Clemson University and Sassafras Mountain, the state's highest peak.
Pickering (Martian crater)
Pickering is a large impact crater on Mars, about 115 km wide, in Noachian terrain at the southern termination of Daedalia Planum, southwest of Arsia Mons.
Pickering emulsion
A Pickering emulsion is an emulsion of two immiscible liquids, such as oil and water, stabilized by solid particles that attach nearly irreversibly to the interface, resisting coalescence longer than surfactants.
Pickering emulsion polymerization
Pickering emulsion polymerization is a surfactant-free polymerization technique in which solid colloidal particles stabilize the emulsion droplets, yielding hybrid core–shell latexes, nanocomposite particles, and porous polyHIPE solids.
Pickering nuclear power plant
The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is an eight-reactor CANDU plant in Pickering, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, Ontario's first commercial nuclear plant; its B units began refurbishment in September 2026.
Pickering, North Yorkshire
Pickering, North Yorkshire: market town and civil parish of about 7,000 on the A170 at the southern edge of the North York Moors, gateway to the park, home to Pickering Castle, medieval church wall paintings, and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway terminus.