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Pine Flat Dam
Pine Flat Dam is a 429-foot-high concrete gravity dam on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, built by the Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1954.
Pine Gap
Pine Gap (Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap) is a joint US-Australian satellite surveillance ground station near Alice Springs, agreed in 1966, NSA codename RAINFALL, gathering signals intelligence and supporting US military operations.
Pine Gap (TV series)
Pine Gap is a 2018 six-part Australian political thriller series, the first ABC TV/Netflix co-production, created by Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard, set at the joint US-Australia intelligence facility near Alice Springs, starring Parker Sawyers and Tess Haubrich.
Pine grove
Pine grove: a small stand or planting of pine trees, formalized as GeoNames code GRVPN; also a common North American and Australian place name for settlements such as Pinegrove, Ontario and Pine Grove, California.
Pine Mountain Jump
Pine Mountain Jump is a K120 ski jumping hill in Iron Mountain, Michigan, the largest in the United States outside ski flying hills, hosting an annual February tournament since 1939.
Pine nut
Pine nuts, also called pinyon nuts or pignolia, are edible gymnosperm seeds of pines such as Pinus pinea, P. koraiensis, P. sibirica, and P. edulis; not true nuts, wild-harvested, high in oil, and linked to pine mouth from P. armandii.
Pine processionary
Pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa), Mediterranean moth whose caterpillars defoliate pines and cedars, carry urticating thaumetopoein hairs, and are expanding northward with winter warming; controlled by insecticides, birds, bats, and newly documented fox and marten predation.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (Oglala Lakota), established 1889 in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska; about 2.1 million acres, nine districts, Wounded Knee site, largest IHS service unit in the Great Plains Area.
Pine tar
Pine tar, a wood tar from destructive distillation of Scots pine heartwood, used since antiquity as wood preservative, ship caulking, stave church coating, and topical antiseptic skin treatment.
Pine Tar Incident
The Pine Tar Incident, or Pine Tar Game, was the July 24, 1983 Yankees-Royals dispute in which George Brett's ninth-inning home run was overturned for excessive pine tar, then restored by AL President Lee MacPhail and completed August 18, 1983.
Pine Tree Flag
Pine Tree Flag, also called the Appeal to Heaven flag or Washington's Cruisers Flag: a Revolutionary War New England naval banner, white field with green pine tree, motto from Locke's 1690 phrase, flown by Washington's 1775 schooners and as Massachusetts' maritime flag until 1971.
Pine Trees
Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu, 松林図屏風) is a pair of six-fold ink screens showing pines in mist, painted in the 16th century by Hasegawa Tōhaku and designated a National Treasure of Japan.
Pine Valley Golf Club
Pine Valley Golf Club, a private club in Pine Valley, New Jersey, designed by George Crump with Harry Colt and opened in 1918; ranked No. 1 in America by Golf Digest and No. 1 in the world by GOLF, famed for penal architecture and Hell's Half Acre.
Pineal gland
Pineal gland (epiphysis, conarium): a 100-150 mg midline neuroendocrine organ in the brain that secretes melatonin at night under sympathetic control from the SCN, timing circadian and seasonal physiology.
Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation
Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation (PPTID) is a rare WHO grade 2 or 3 brain tumor arising from the pineal gland, intermediate between pineocytoma and pineoblastoma.
Pinealectomy
Pinealectomy is the surgical removal of the entire pineal gland, which secretes melatonin. It is an uncommon clinical operation for pineal tumors and a standard research technique for studying circadian rhythms.
Pineapple
Pineapple (Ananas comosus), piña, ananas: a seedless bromeliad cultigen from South America, domesticated over 6,000 years ago, third most important tropical fruit, propagated clonally from crowns, with Costa Rica supplying two-thirds of global trade.
Pineapple Express
The Pineapple Express is an atmospheric river carrying tropical moisture from near Hawaii to the west coast of North America, bringing heavy rain and snow.
Pineapple Express (film)
Pineapple Express is a 2008 American stoner action-comedy directed by David Gordon Green, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco as a process server and his dealer on the run.
Pineapple mania
Pineapple mania: the 17th-19th century European craze for growing and displaying pineapples (Ananas comosus) as status symbols, driving hothouse cultivation, aristocratic rivalry, the Dunmore Pineapple, and fruit motifs in architecture and decorative arts.
Pinebridge Private Credit
PineBridge Private Credit is the direct lending platform of PineBridge Investments, a New York asset manager founded in 1996, making senior secured loans to US lower-middle-market companies since 2018.
Pinecone
Pinecone is a vector database company founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, formerly of AWS and Yahoo, offering a fully managed cloud service for searching vector embeddings.
Pinecone & Pony
Pinecone & Pony is a DreamWorks Animation children's series on Apple TV+, adapted from Kate Beaton's The Princess and the Pony; two seasons ran 2022-2023, showrun by Stephanie Kaliner.
Pinedjem I
Pinedjem I, also written Pinudjem I, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes and later king of Upper Egypt, ruling from about 1070 to 1032 BC.
Pinedjem II
Pinedjem II, also written Pinudjem II, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes and effective ruler of Upper Egypt from about 990 to 969 BC, in the 21st Dynasty.
Pinega
The Pinega (Пинега) is a 779 km river in Arkhangelsk Oblast, northern Russia, and a right tributary of the Northern Dvina with a 42,600 km² basin.
Pinegrove (band)
Pinegrove is an American indie rock band from Montclair, New Jersey, formed in 2010 by Evan Stephens Hall and Zack Levine, blending emo, Americana, and country; known for Cardinal (2016), a 2017 hiatus, and Rough Trade albums.
Pinehurst Resort
Pinehurst Resort, founded 1895 by James Walker Tufts in North Carolina's Sandhills, is a historic golf resort home to Donald Ross's Pinehurst No. 2, the USGA's first anchor site, and eleven courses including Tom Doak's No. 10.
Pinehurst station
Pinehurst station is an elevated Link light rail station in North Seattle at NE 130th Street, opened in 2026 as Sound Transit's first infill station.
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Pinehurst, North Carolina: Sandhills village founded 1895 by James Walker Tufts with an Olmsted plan; home of Pinehurst No. 2, a National Historic Landmark district, and a four-time U.S. Open anchor site.