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Pinellas County, Florida
Pinellas County, Florida: a densely populated 280-square-mile peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; county seat Clearwater, largest city St. Petersburg; became Florida's 48th county in 1912.
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, known as Penny Goldberg, is a Greek-American Yale economist working on international trade and development who served as World Bank Chief Economist from 2018 to 2020.
Pineoblastoma
Pineoblastoma is a fast-growing, CNS WHO grade 4 malignant embryonal brain tumor of the pineal gland, mainly in young children. Four molecular subtypes (miRNA-altered, MYC/FOXR2, RB1) determine prognosis; treatment combines surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Pineocytoma
Pineocytoma, also called pinealocytoma, is a WHO grade 1, slow-growing, well-differentiated tumor of pineal gland parenchymal cells in adults, with 86-91% five-year survival, rare CSF spread, and excellent prognosis after complete resection.
Pinetree Line
The Pinetree Line was a chain of Cold War radar stations across southern Canada, built from the early 1950s to give early warning of Soviet bomber attack.
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios: British film and TV studio at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, opened 30 September 1936 by Charles Boot and J Arthur Rank. Home of the James Bond and Carry On franchises; 30 stages including the 007 Stage and Underwater Stage; part of Pinewood Group with Shepperton and Toronto studios.
Piney Woods
The Piney Woods, also called the South Central Plains, is a temperate pine forest ecoregion covering East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma, and Texas's wettest natural region.
Ping
Ping River (Mae Ping, แม่น้ำปิง), 740-km Thai river rising in Chiang Mai and joining the Nan at Nakhon Sawan to form the Chao Phraya; 33,898 km² basin, Bhumibol Dam (1964), ~300-year floodplain-stripping cycle.
Ping (golf)
Ping is an American golf equipment manufacturer founded by engineer Karsten Solheim, who began in his California garage in 1959; the company pioneered perimeter weighting and the Anser putter.
Ping (networking utility)
Ping is a network utility that tests whether a host is reachable and measures round-trip time via ICMP Echo Requests, written by Mike Muuss in 1983.
Ping An Insurance
Ping An Insurance (中国平安) is a Shenzhen-headquartered Chinese financial group founded in 1988 as China's first joint-stock insurer, spanning insurance, banking, asset management, and health technology.
Ping An International Finance Centre
Ping An International Finance Centre, also known as Ping An Finance Center (平安金融中心), is a 599-meter, 115-story skyscraper in Shenzhen, headquarters of Ping An Insurance.
Ping An Smart Healthcare (平安智慧医疗)
Ping An Smart Healthcare (平安智慧医疗) was the medical big-data and AI arm of Ping An Smart City, serving governments and hospitals until Ping An Health acquired it in 2022.
Ping Chang
Ping Chang is a climate and ocean scientist at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Louis & Elizabeth Scherck Chair in Oceanography and studies tropical climate variability and high-resolution Earth system prediction.
Ping He
Ping He (何平) is a plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis, now a professor at the University of Michigan after nearly a decade at Texas A&M.
Ping Identity
Ping Identity Corporation is an American identity and access management software company founded in 2002 in Denver, Colorado, serving more than half of the Fortune 100.
Ping King Tien
Ping King Tien (田炳耕), known as P. K. Tien, was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, a central figure in integrated optics and inventor of the prism-film coupler.
Ping Koy Lam
Ping Koy Lam (Lam Ping Koy) is an experimental physicist in quantum information and metrology, known for teleporting light fields, quantum key distribution, and co-founding QuintessenceLabs in 2006.
Ping Li
Ping Li is an American venture capitalist who has been a partner at Accel since 2004, investing in cybersecurity, cloud-native platforms, and business software companies.
Ping Liu
Ping Liu is a battery and energy storage researcher at UC San Diego, known for lithium–sulfur and lithium-metal battery work published in Nature and Nature Energy.
Ping Pong (荣耀之路)
Ping Pong (荣耀乒乓, formerly 荣耀之路) is a 2021 Chinese 44-episode sports web drama on iQIYI, directed by Cheng Hao and Li Jia, starring Bai Jingting and Timmy Xu as table tennis players Xu Tan and Yu Kenan.
Ping pong show
A ping pong show (Thai: โชว์ปิงปอง) is a Thai sex show in which women eject objects, especially ping pong balls, from the vagina, performed mostly for tourists.
Ping Shu
Ping Shu (平恕) was a Qing dynasty official and poet who died in 1804, serving as a Hanlin compiler, Cabinet Scholar, and vice minister of War and Revenue.
Ping Yao Zhuan
Ping Yao Zhuan, also titled Sansui Pingyao Zhuan, is an early Chinese gods-and-demons novel built around the suppression of Wang Ze's 1047 rebellion in the Northern Song.
Ping Ye Zhang
Ping Ye Zhang (张叶萍) is a Chinese medical-device executive who co-founded Peijia Medical in 2012 with her spouse Dr. Zhang Yi and her sister Hong Ye.
Ping-Chih Ho
Ping-Chih Ho is a Taiwanese cancer immunologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, known for showing that tumor cells evade immunity through metabolic competition.
Ping-Liu-Li Uprising
The Ping-Liu-Li Uprising (萍瀏醴起義) was an anti-Qing armed rising led by secret-society members with peasants and miners, fought under Tongmenghui influence on the Hunan-Jiangxi border in December 1906.
Ping-pong diplomacy (乒乓外交)
Ping-pong diplomacy (乒乓外交): the 1971-1972 US-China table tennis team exchanges, begun after Glenn Cowan and Zhuang Zedong met on a bus at the Nagoya championships, that opened the door to Nixon's 1972 visit and eventual normalization.
Ping'an Tsumura (平安津村有限公司) (平安津村)
Ping'an Tsumura (平安津村有限公司) is a Sino-Japanese joint venture, established in June 2018 and majority owned by Tsumura (China), that grows and sells traditional Chinese medicine crude drugs.
Pinga Chasma
Pinga Chasma is a 500-km-diameter chasma (rift valley) on Venus at 20 S, 287 E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Eskimo goddess of the hunt, whose subordinate is the moon god Igaluk.