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Pilar Schiavo
Pilar Schiavo is an American Democratic politician elected to the California State Assembly in 2022, representing the 40th district in the Northwest San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley.
Pilate's court
Pilate's court is the trial scene in the four Gospels where Jesus of Nazareth is brought before Pontius Pilate, Roman prefect of Judaea, ending in crucifixion.
Pilates
Pilates, originally Contrology, is an exercise system created by Joseph Pilates (1883–1967) using mat and apparatus work built on six principles; evidence supports benefits for chronic low back pain, flexibility, and balance.
Pilatus Aircraft
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, also known as Pilatus Flugzeugwerke, is a Swiss aircraft manufacturer founded in Stans in 1939, best known for the PC-12 turboprop and PC-24 business jet.
Pilatus PC-12
The Pilatus PC-12 is a single-engine, pressurized cabin-class turboprop built by Pilatus Aircraft of Stans, Switzerland, first certified in 1994, with over 2,200 delivered worldwide.
Pilatus PC-21
The Pilatus PC-21 is a single-engine turboprop military trainer built by Pilatus Aircraft in Switzerland, designed to take student pilots from basic flying through jet preparation.
Pilatus PC-24
The Pilatus PC-24 is a twin-engine light business jet built by Pilatus Aircraft in Stans, Switzerland, the first business jet designed and certified in Switzerland, entering service in 2018.
Pilatus PC-6 Porter
The Pilatus PC-6 Porter, known as the Pilatus Porter, is a Swiss single-engine STOL utility aircraft built by Pilatus from 1959 to 2022 for short, unprepared, and high-altitude airstrips.
Pilatus PC-7
The Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer is a two-seat turboprop military trainer built by Pilatus Aircraft in Stans, Switzerland, first flown in 1975 and used for basic through tactical flight training.
Pilatus PC-9
The Pilatus PC-9 is a Swiss single-engine, tandem-seat turboprop military trainer developed by Pilatus Aircraft, first flown in 1984, serving worldwide as an advanced trainer and target tug.
Pilatus U-28 Draco
The Pilatus U-28 Draco (U-28A) is a modified Pilatus PC-12 operated by US Air Force Special Operations Command as an ISR platform for special operations forces, fielded in 2006.
Pilbara
The Pilbara (IBRA code PIL) is a 17.8-million-hectare bioregion in north-west Western Australia with four subregions, a national biodiversity hotspot famed for subterranean fauna, and a mining powerhouse producing most of the state's iron ore.
Pilbara Minerals
Pilbara Minerals, since renamed PLS Group Limited, is an Australian lithium mining company whose Pilgangoora Operation in Western Australia supplies about 8 per cent of world lithium.
Pilcrow
Pilcrow (¶, U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN), also paragraph mark, paraph, blind P, or alinea: a typographic symbol marking paragraphs, from Greek paragraphos via Old French and Middle English pilcraft, revived as the word-processor formatting-marks icon.
Pile (music)
Pile (パイル), real name Hori Eriko, is a Japanese singer and voice actress born in 1988, known for voicing Nishikino Maki in Love Live! and for a parallel solo singing career.
Pile driver
A pile driver is a machine that installs piles, the slender elements of deep foundations, by hammering them into the ground for buildings, bridges, and other structures.
Pile driving
Pile driving is the process of installing foundation piles into the ground by impact, vibration, or pressing, most often for bridges, buildings, and offshore wind turbines.
Pile driving analyzer
A pile driving analyzer (PDA) measures force and acceleration at a pile head during hammer impact, estimating pile bearing capacity, driving stresses, and hammer performance.
Pile foundation
A pile foundation is a deep foundation that uses long, slender piles to carry structural loads through weak surface soils down to stronger soil or rock.
Pilea
Pilea (Urticaceae) is the largest genus in the nettle family, about 614–715 species of succulent herbs across tropical America and the Old World, with explosive flowers, catapulted seeds, and the houseplant Chinese money plant.
Pilea peperomioides
Pilea peperomioides (镜面草), the Chinese money plant, is a Urticaceae perennial native to SW Sichuan and W Yunnan, China, brought to Norway in 1946 by missionary Agnar Espergen, propagated by offsets and cuttings, and known for round peltate leaves.
Pileated woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus, Grand Pic), a crow-sized North American woodpecker with a red crest and rectangular excavations. Largest extant North American woodpecker; feeds mainly on carpenter ants; often confused with the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Piledriver (professional wrestling)
The piledriver is a professional wrestling maneuver in which the wrestler inverts an opponent and falls to a seated position, driving the opponent's head into the mat.
Pileus (hat)
The pileus (Greek pilos) was an ancient brimless felt cap worn by Greek workers and Roman priests, given to freed slaves as a liberty symbol, and later conflated with the Phrygian cap of the French Revolution.
Pilgerodendron
Pilgerodendron, sole species Pilgerodendron uviferum (ciprés de las Guaitecas, ten), a monotypic Vulnerable Cupressaceae conifer of southern Chile and Argentina, CITES Appendix I, dioecious, slow-growing bog-forest tree with low genetic diversity.
Pilgi
Pilgi (필기, 筆記) was a Korean classical literary genre of miscellanies in which literati recorded anecdotes and observations, flourishing from the late 15th to the early 17th century.
Pilgram Marbeck
Pilgram Marbeck, also spelled Marpeck, was a Tyrolean mining and water engineer who became a leading Anabaptist lay leader and author, later serving as Augsburg's city engineer.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 book by Annie Dillard describing a year of observation along a creek in Virginia; it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize.
Pilgrim nuclear power plant
The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, was the state's only nuclear plant, operating a boiling water reactor from 1972 until its permanent shutdown in May 2019.
Pilgrim's Pride
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC) is a Greeley, Colorado-based poultry producer, the second-largest in the U.S. behind Tyson, 82.28% owned by JBS, with FY2025 net sales of $18.5 billion across U.S., Europe, and Mexico segments.