All articles starting with P

Pieces of Her (TV series)

Pieces of Her is a 2022 American thriller series on Netflix, adapted from Karin Slaughter's 2018 novel and starring Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote in eight episodes.

Pieces of You

Pieces of You is the 1995 debut album by American singer-songwriter Jewel, released by Atlantic Records. Drawn from her teenage journals, it became one of the best-selling debut albums of all time.

Piecewise constant curvature model

The piecewise constant curvature (PCC) model is a kinematic model for continuum robots that represents their shape as circular arcs, giving closed-form kinematics for real-time control.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Der Rattenfänger von Hameln) is a German legend: on 26 June 1284 a piper led 130 children out of Hamelin. Rats and the broken-payment plot were added by 1565; canonized by the Grimms and Browning.

Pied-à-terre

A pied-à-terre, French for "foot on the ground", is a small apartment kept for short stays in a city far from one's main home, a term used in English since the 1820s.

Piedad Bonnett

Piedad Bonnett (Piedad Bonnet Vélez) is a Colombian poet, novelist, playwright, and critic born in 1951 in Amalfi, Antioquia, who won the 2024 Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.

Sep 19, 2026

Piedigrotta

Piedigrotta is Naples' historic September festival, a fusion of devotion to the Madonna di Piedigrotta and a song festival that launched the classics of Neapolitan song.

Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte) is a region of northwestern Italy with capital Turin, 4.34 million people, about EUR 140 billion GDP, Alpine-Apennine terrain, and strong agriculture and food industries.

Piedmont (United States)

Piedmont (United States): Appalachian physiographic province of rolling hills between the Blue Ridge and the Coastal Plain's Fall Line, from New York to Alabama, on Precambrian-Paleozoic crystalline rocks under thick saprolite.

Piedmont Airlines

Piedmont Airlines is the name of two related American airlines: the original carrier acquired by USAir in 1989, and a current regional airline flying as American Eagle.

Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based gas utility serving more than 1.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Tennessee, acquired by Duke Energy in 2016.

Piedmontese cuisine

Piedmontese cuisine (cucina piemontese) is the regional cooking of Italy's Piedmont: Savoy-court refinement plus Langhe peasant food, bagna càuda, tajarin, agnolotti del plin, Barolo wine, white Alba truffles, and the 1989 birthplace of Slow Food.

Piedmontese literature

Piedmontese literature is the poetry, theater, and prose written in Piedmontese, a Gallo-Italic language of northwestern Italy, from the twelfth century to today; its best-known work is Bersezio's comedy Le miserie 'd monsù Travèt (1863).

Piedra de sacrificio

A piedra de sacrificio is a stone altar, above all the Aztec techcatl, on which victims were stretched while priests extracted the heart as an offering to a deity.

Piedra de sol

Piedra de sol ("Sunstone") is a 1957 poem by Octavio Paz, named for the Aztec calendar stone and built of 584 lines matching the synodic cycle of Venus.

Piedra Del Aguila hydroelectric plant

The Piedra del Aguila hydroelectric plant is a 1,400 MW dam and power station on the Limay River in Neuquén and Río Negro, Argentina, operating since 1993.

Piedra y cielo

Piedra y cielo, meaning Stone and Sky, is a 1919 book of poems by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, later the name of a Colombian poetic group.

Piedras Negras, Coahuila

Piedras Negras, also called Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, is a city in Coahuila, Mexico, on the Rio Grande across from Eagle Pass, Texas, founded in 1850.

Pieing

Pieing is throwing a pie in a public figure's face as political protest, also called entartage. Started by Yippie Tom Forcade in 1970; Aron Kay and Noël Godin made it famous; peaked with the 1998 Bill Gates pieing and faded around 2011.

Oct 21, 2026

Pielinen

Pielinen, a large unregulated lake in North Karelia, eastern Finland, about 867 km2, draining via the Pielisjoki into Saimaa; mesotrophic, humic, dimictic, frozen November to May, shaped by post-glacial isostatic tilting.

Oct 21, 2026

Pielinen Lacus

Pielinen Lacus is an 88-km-wide lake of liquid methane and ethane in Titan's northern lake district near 71.34°N, 180.34°W, IAU-named in 2022 after Lake Pielinen, Finland.

Pien Meulensteen

Pien Meulensteen is a Dutch-born British sports broadcaster and daughter of coach René Meulensteen; in 2023 she became the first woman to commentate a live Premier League match on Sky Sports and hosted Fox Sports' 2026 World Cup studio coverage.

Oct 20, 2026

Pien Sanders

Pien Sanders (born 1998, Udenhout) is a Dutch field hockey defender-midfielder and captain of HC Den Bosch and Oranje; two Olympic golds (2020, 2024), 2022 world champion, four European titles, 162 caps.

Pieper's solution

Pieper's solution is a closed-form method for the inverse kinematics of six-degree-of-freedom robot manipulators with three consecutive intersecting or parallel joint axes, from Donald Pieper's 1968 Stanford thesis.

Pier

A pier is a structure extending approximately perpendicular from the shore into water, providing berthing for ships; the word also names pleasure piers at seaside resorts.

Pier 1 Imports

Pier 1 Imports was an American specialty retailer of imported furniture and home furnishings, founded in 1962, that peaked at 1,003 stores before filing for bankruptcy in 2020.

Pier Angeli

Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli, 1932–1971), Italian actress, twin sister of Marisa Pavan; MGM star of Teresa (1951) and Somebody Up There Likes Me, Nastro d'argento winner, died in Beverly Hills in 1971.