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Pio Gama Pinto
Pio Gama Pinto was a Kenyan journalist and politician of Goan descent who was assassinated in Nairobi in 1965, widely described as independent Kenya's first political assassination.
Pio Pio (toy)
Pio Pio, also written Pío Pío or Pollito Pío, is the name Spanish onomatopoeia for a chick's chirp gives to several unrelated chick- and bird-themed toys in Spanish-speaking markets.
Pioch-Farrus
Pioch-Farrus (Pioch Farrus), ancient copper mine at Cabrières, Hérault, France, in the Cabrières-Péret district, the oldest known copper mines in France; Chalcolithic radiocarbon date 4310 ± 75 BP, firesetting confirmed, Gallo-Roman and later reuse.
Pioche, Nevada
Pioche, Nevada: unincorporated Lincoln County seat, former 1870s silver boomtown named for financier F.L.A. Pioche, famed for the Million Dollar Courthouse, Boot Hill, and its aerial tramway.
Pioglitazone
Pioglitazone (Actos) is a thiazolidinedione PPAR-gamma agonist approved in 1999 for type 2 diabetes, also used for NASH and stroke prevention after IRIS; boxed warning for heart failure, weight gain, fracture and bladder cancer signals.
Piolo Pascual
Piolo Pascual (Piolo Jose Nonato Pascual), born 1977 in Manila, is a Filipino actor, singer, and producer nicknamed Papa P and the Ultimate Heartthrob, known for Dekada '70, Mallari, The Kingdom, Manila's Finest, and Spring Films productions.
Piombino FSRU
The Piombino FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit at the port of Piombino, Tuscany, feeding LNG into Italy's gas grid since July 2023.
Pion
A pion, or pi meson, is the lightest meson, a subatomic particle made of a quark and antiquark that mediates the strong force binding atomic nuclei.
Pion-decay gamma-ray emission
Pion-decay gamma-ray emission is gamma radiation produced when cosmic-ray protons collide with ambient gas and form neutral pions, and it is the standard signature of hadronic cosmic-ray interactions.
Pione Sisto
Pione Sisto Ifolo Emirmija, Ugandan-born Danish left winger (born 1995, Kampala); starred for FC Midtjylland and Celta Vigo, played at the 2018 World Cup, 26 Denmark caps, 1 goal.
Pioneer 1
Pioneer 1, also known as Able 2, was a US lunar probe launched in 1958, the first spacecraft launched under NASA, reaching a record altitude before reentering.
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10, also known as Pioneer F, was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1972 that became the first spacecraft to fly past Jupiter and to leave the solar system.
Pioneer 11
Pioneer 11 was a NASA uncrewed space probe, sister to Pioneer 10, that flew by Jupiter in 1974 and became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn in 1979.
PIONEER 6 trial
PIONEER 6 (Peptide Innovation for Early Diabetes Treatment 6, NCT02692716) was Novo Nordisk's phase 3a event-driven cardiovascular outcomes trial of once-daily oral semaglutide 14 mg versus placebo in 3,183 patients with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular risk; it met noninferiority (HR 0.79) but not superiority.
Pioneer Column
The Pioneer Column was a force of settlers and armed police raised by Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company in 1890 to occupy Mashonaland, founding Fort Salisbury, now Harare.
Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社)
Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社), formerly Pioneer Electronic Corporation, is a Japanese electronics maker founded in 1938, known for car navigation, audio, and world-first stereo and LaserDisc products.
Pioneer Football League
Pioneer Football League (PFL), NCAA FCS college football conference founded 1991, began play 1993; the only non-scholarship, football-only FCS conference, with 11 teams and an automatic FCS playoff bid since 2013.
Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund is a US seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Jason Gray, funded by 540+ Y Combinator alumni and investing mainly in YC startups; distinct from the 1928 Carret mutual fund, the 1937 eugenics foundation, and the Pioneer.app accelerator.
Pioneer Pipeline (HF Sinclair)
The Pioneer Pipeline is a refined products pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from the Sinclair refinery, Wyoming, to North Salt Lake City, Utah, built in 1952.
Pioneer plaque
The Pioneer plaques are two engraved gold-anodized aluminum plates attached to Pioneer 10 and 11 in 1972 and 1973, the first physical messages sent out of the solar system.
Pioneer program
The Pioneer program was a series of United States uncrewed space missions, running from 1958 to 2003, that made the first visits to Jupiter and Saturn.
Pioneer Terra
Pioneer Terra is a 598-km-wide IAU-approved terra (landmass) in Pluto's northern midlatitudes, named for the Pioneer missions (1958–1997); it shows dendritic valleys, deep pits, and possible fluid seepage.
Pioneer Venus
Pioneer Venus was a NASA program of two spacecraft launched in 1978: an Orbiter, the first US spacecraft to orbit Venus, and a Multiprobe carrying four atmospheric probes.
Pioneer Venus Multiprobe
Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer 13 or Pioneer Venus 2, was a NASA spacecraft that dropped four probes into Venus's atmosphere on 9 December 1978.
Pioneer Venus Orbiter
The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also called Pioneer 12, was a NASA spacecraft that orbited Venus from 1978 to 1992, mapping the surface by radar and studying its upper atmosphere.
Pioneer Zephyr
The Pioneer Zephyr, also known as the Burlington Zephyr, was the first diesel-powered, stainless-steel streamlined train in the United States, built for the Burlington Railroad in 1934.
Pioneer-era flight instruction (pre-1914)
Pioneer-era flight instruction was the improvised and often dangerous process by which the first aviators learned to fly, with Wright students soloing after roughly four hours of practice.
Pioneering firsts by athletes from non-traditional winter sport nations
Pioneering firsts by athletes from non-traditional winter sport nations include South Africa's 1960 Winter Olympics debut, Jamaica's 1988 bobsleigh team, and Nigeria's first African Olympic bobsleigh qualification in 2018.
Pioneering Spirit
Pioneering Spirit is the world's largest ship by gross tonnage, an Allseas catamaran built in South Korea in 2014 to install, remove, and lift entire offshore platforms.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" is a poem by Walt Whitman, first published in Drum-Taps in 1865, that calls the American people as pioneers to continue their westward march in 26 quatrains.