player piano, a piano that mechanically plays music recorded by means, usually, of perforations on a paper roll or digital memory on a computer disc. In its original form as the Pianola, patented in 1897 by an American engineer, E.S. Votey, the player piano was a cabinet called a “piano player”

Pianosa Island, island of the Toscany Archipelago, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, part of Tuscany regione (region), Italy. Situated 8 miles (13 km) southwest of the island of Elba, Pianosa has an area of 4 square miles (10 square km). It is, as its name (Italian piano, “flat”) indicates, low-lying, with

Han Yu: …elaborate verselike regularity of the pianwen (“parallel prose”) style that was prevalent in Han’s time. His own essays (e.g., “On the Way,” “On Man,” and “On Spirits”) are among the most beautiful ever written in Chinese, and they became the most famous models of the prose style he espoused. In…

history of Latin America: Mobility and hierarchy: Men such as the mulattoes Manuel Piar in Venezuela and José Padilla in New Granada rose to the rank of general and admiral, respectively, in Bolívar’s forces. In practice, however, the old hierarchies did not fall so easily and continued on informally. Those nonwhites who managed to achieve the status…

South America: The Amazonian and Guianan forests: …invertebrates and fishes, such as pacu (Metynnis), a big brownish flat fish, the meat of which is highly valued; coumarou (Curimato), which is a toothless vegetarian fish resembling the marine mullet; electric eel (Electrophorus electricus); pirarucu (Arapaima gigas), which can attain a length of 15 feet (4.5 metres) and a…

Saint Joseph Calasanz: …the Pious Schools), popularly called Piarists. The Piarists are a religious teaching order that, in addition to the usual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, practice a fourth vow—the special care of youth.

Piasa bird, mythical monster depicted in a painting on a cliff overlooking the Mississippi River north of Alton, Illinois, U.S. The French explorer Jacques Marquette provided the earliest extant account of figures painted on the bluffs near what is today Alton, which he and Louis Jolliet saw on

brush: …most important of which are piassava obtained from a Brazilian palm and palmyra bassine derived from the palmyra palm of Africa and Sri Lanka. Such plant fibres are converted into brush material by soaking, beating, and drying. Cotton fibres also can be used for brush bristles. They are treated with…

Piast Dynasty, first ruling family of Poland. According to a 12th-century legend, when Prince Popiel of Gnesen (now Gniezno) died, in the second half of the 9th century, he was succeeded by Siemowit, the son of the prince’s plowman, Piast, thus founding a dynasty that ruled the Polish lands until

Wielkopolskie: Geography: The Piast Route, a tourist track associated with the beginnings of Polish history, runs through Lednica, Gniezno, and Trzemeszno, which is one of the earliest settlements in the region and the site of Poland’s first monastery.

coin: North Africa: …based its currency on the piastre, with Arabic inscriptions; some gold and silver multiples were produced. Under Fuʾād I (1922–36) and Farouk I (1936–52), the royal portrait was used. The subsequent republic, with its piastres of aluminum-bronze alloy accompanied by rare silver and even rarer gold, has often chosen types…

Oscar Piastri is an Australian race-car driver in the single-seat, open-wheel Formula One (F1) with the McLaren Mercedes (now McLaren) automobile racing team. He made his F1 debut with McLaren Mercedes in 2023. In 2024 Piastri helped the F1 team win its first constructors’ championship (annual F1

Oscar Piastri is an Australian race-car driver in the single-seat, open-wheel Formula One (F1) with the McLaren Mercedes (now McLaren) automobile racing team. He made his F1 debut with McLaren Mercedes in 2023. In 2024 Piastri helped the F1 team win its first constructors’ championship (annual F1

Pyatigorsk, city, Stavropol kray (territory), southwestern Russia. It lies along the Podkumok River in the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It has long been a spa famous for its gentle climate and mineral springs. In 2010 it was named the capital of the newly created North Caucasus

Piatra-Neamƫ, city, capital of Neamƫ judeƫ (county), northeastern Romania. It lies in the valley of the Bistriƫa River and is surrounded by mountains. It is first documented in the 14th century as Piatra lui Crăciun, or Camena, a market town where fairs were held. Stephen the Great of Moldavia

Piatra-Neamƫ, city, capital of Neamƫ judeƫ (county), northeastern Romania. It lies in the valley of the Bistriƫa River and is surrounded by mountains. It is first documented in the 14th century as Piatra lui Crăciun, or Camena, a market town where fairs were held. Stephen the Great of Moldavia

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: Life and works: … along with the poems of John James Piatt, whom Sarah Morgan Bryan would marry in 1861.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt was an American poet whose particular blend of convention and innovation won her praise and censure during her lifetime and whose writing was rediscovered by scholars beginning in the 1980s. Sarah Morgan Bryan was born to a slave-holding family in 1836 and lived a somewhat

Piauí, estado (state) of northeastern Brazil, bordered on the east by the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, and Bahia, by a very small part of Tocantins on the south, by Maranhão on the west, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the north. The state capital is Teresina, located at the confluence of the Parnaíba

Piave River, river in northeastern Italy. It rises on the slopes of Mount Peralba in the Carnic Alps near the Austrian frontier and flows southward to the Belluno basin and its gorge at Feltre, where it turns southeast to meander across the Venetian plain, reaching the Adriatic Sea at Cortellazzo,

La traviata: …Verdi (libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave) that premiered in Venice at La Fenice opera house on March 6, 1853. Based upon the 1852 play by Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame aux camélias), the opera marked a large step forward for Verdi in his quest to express dramatic ideas…

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was a painter, illustrator, and designer who was one of the outstanding Venetian artists of the 18th century. His art evolved from Italian Baroque traditions of the 17th century to a Rococo manner in his mature style. Piazzetta began his career in the studio of his

piazza, square or marketplace in an Italian town or city. The word is cognate with the French and English “place” and Spanish “plaza,” all ultimately derived from the Greek plateia, “broad street.” The most celebrated Italian piazza is that designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in front of St. Peter’s

Piazza Armerina, town and episcopal see, central Sicily, Italy, west-southwest of Catania. Among the many historic monuments in the town are the 17th-century cathedral, with a 14th-century campanile, the Baroque palace of Trigona della Floresta, the Church of San Rocco (1613), the Civic Museum, the

short story: Analysis of the genre: …Grotesque and Arabesque, Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales). These two terms establish the polarities of the milieu out of which the modern short story grew.

Los Angeles Dodgers: …of such popular stars as Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo in subsequent years, the Dodgers did not win another NL pennant until 2017, the longest streak for the franchise in more than 60 years. In 2008 the Dodgers finished the major league season as one of the hottest teams in…

The Piazza, first sketch in the collection The Piazza Tales published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville’s farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno,” were narrated on

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was a painter, illustrator, and designer who was one of the outstanding Venetian artists of the 18th century. His art evolved from Italian Baroque traditions of the 17th century to a Rococo manner in his mature style. Piazzetta began his career in the studio of his

Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian astronomer who discovered (January 1, 1801) and named the first asteroid, or “minor planet,” Ceres. Piazzi became a Theatine priest about 1764 and a professor of theology in Rome in 1779, and in 1780 he was appointed professor of higher mathematics at the Academy of

Astor Piazzolla was an Argentine musician, a virtuoso on the bandoneón (a square-built button accordion), who left traditional Latin American tango bands in 1955 to create a new tango that blended elements of jazz and classical music. He was a major Latin American composer of the 20th century. In

Nile River: Climate and hydrology: …headstreams, the Baro and the Pibor) that enters the main stream below Al-Sudd. The annual flood of the Sobat, a consequence of the Ethiopian summer rains, is to a great extent responsible for the variations in the level of the White Nile. The rains that swell its upper valley begin…

Luang Phibunsongkhram was a field marshal and premier of Thailand in 1938–44 and 1948–57, who was associated with the rise of authoritarian military governments in Thailand. He was educated at the royal military academy, and in 1914 he entered the Siamese artillery corps. In 1924–27 he took

formal logic: Partial systems of PC: …most fully studied is the pure implicational calculus (PIC), in which the only operator is ⊃, and the wffs are precisely those wffs of PC that can be built up from variables, ⊃, and brackets alone. Formation rules 2 and 3 (see above Formation rules for PC) are therefore replaced…

pica, mental health condition, a type of eating disorder, characterized by the compulsive eating of substances that are not food and that have little or no nutritional value. For many people with the condition, pica is short-term and benign, but for some people it is a lifelong condition, and it

magpie: The best-known species are the black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), a 45-cm (18-inch) black-and-white (i.e., pied) bird, with an iridescent blue-green tail, and the Eurasian magpie (P. pica), which is has similar coloration, but is slightly larger in size with a shorter tail. The geographic range of the black-billed magpie extends…

Eurasian Magpie: A True Bird Brain: …amount of superstition surrounding the Eurasian magpie (also called the common magpie), a bird known for its jet black and white feathers and purple-, green-, and blue-streaked wings. An old British rhyme predicts a person’s fate on the basis of the number of magpies they’ve seen: “One for sorrow, two…

Francis Picabia was a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor, who was successively involved with the art movements Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Picabia was the son of a Cuban diplomat father and a French mother. After studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs (1895–97), he

bullfighting: Performers: …mounted bullfighters), consist of the picadors, the mounted assistants with pike poles who lance the bull in the bullfight’s first act; the banderilleros, the assistants on foot who execute the initial capework and place the barbed darts (banderillas) into the bull in the second act; and of course the matadors,…

Alzheimer disease: Genetic variants: …protein of the same name; PICALM, which encodes a protein involved in endocytosis (the cellular uptake of substances); and CD2AP, which encodes a protein that interacts with the cell membrane and may have a role in endocytosis.

Émile Borel: …discovered the elementary proof of Picard’s theorem (see Charles-Émile Picard). This sensational accomplishment set the stage for his formulation of a theory of entire functions and the distribution of their values, a topic that dominated the theory of complex functions for the next 30 years.

children’s literature: Historical fiction: …representatives were Cynthia Harnett, Serraillier, Barbara Leonie Picard, Ronald Welch (pseudonym of Ronald O. Felton), C. Walter Hodges, Hester Burton, Mary Ray, Naomi Mitchison, and K.M. Peyton, whose “Flambards” series is a kind of Edwardian historical family chronicle. Leon Garfield, though not working with historical characters, created strange picaresque tales…

Charles-Émile Picard was a French mathematician whose theories did much to advance research in analysis, algebraic geometry, and mechanics. Picard became a lecturer at the University of Paris in 1878 and a professor at the University of Toulouse the following year. From 1881 to 1898 he held various

Charles-Émile Picard was a French mathematician whose theories did much to advance research in analysis, algebraic geometry, and mechanics. Picard became a lecturer at the University of Paris in 1878 and a professor at the University of Toulouse the following year. From 1881 to 1898 he held various

Henry Livingstone Sulman: Picard as metallurgical consultants in London. Sulman was the inventor or co-inventor of several processes for the extraction of gold, including treatment with cyanogen bromide, before introducing, in conjunction with Picard, the froth flotation process.

Jean Picard was a French astronomer who first accurately measured the length of a degree of a meridian (longitude line) and from that computed the size of the Earth. Picard became professor of astronomy at the Collège de France, Paris, in 1655. His measurement of the Earth was used by Sir Isaac

Picardy, historical region and former région of France. As a région, it encompassed the northern départements of Oise, Somme, and Aisne. In 2016 Picardy was joined with the région of Nord–Pas-de-Calais to form the new administrative entity of Hauts-de-France. The region belongs to the Paris Basin

Picardy, historical region and former région of France. As a région, it encompassed the northern départements of Oise, Somme, and Aisne. In 2016 Picardy was joined with the région of Nord–Pas-de-Calais to form the new administrative entity of Hauts-de-France. The region belongs to the Paris Basin

sweating sickness: …have been those of the Picardy sweat, which occurred frequently in France between 1718 and 1861. In that illness, however, there was invariably a rash lasting for about a week, and the mortality rate was lower.

The Decemberists: Their third full-length record, Picaresque (2005), featured a wide-ranging set of songs that tell the stories of a diverse cast of characters, including a widowed peddler, spies who tragically fall in love, a pair of homeless runaways, and two men trapped inside the belly of a whale. The last…

picaresque novel, early form of novel, usually a first-person narrative, relating the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer (Spanish pícaro) as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to survive. In its episodic structure the picaresque novel

Wilhelm Uhde: …et la tradition franƈaise (1926; Picasso and the French Tradition), in which he described the works of Picasso’s Cubist period in terms of their “Gothic” attributes of “piling up magnificent arrangements of vertical lines,” thereby casting them as a “complementary antithesis” to the predominantly “Latinate” tradition of French painting, which…

Steve Martin: …writing endeavours included the plays Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 1993 before moving to other cities, and Meteor Shower, a comedy that ran on Broadway in 2017–18 and starred Amy Schumer. He also wrote a series of well-received satiric articles for The New…

Wilhelm Uhde: …et la tradition franƈaise (1926; Picasso and the French Tradition), in which he described the works of Picasso’s Cubist period in terms of their “Gothic” attributes of “piling up magnificent arrangements of vertical lines,” thereby casting them as a “complementary antithesis” to the predominantly “Latinate” tradition of French painting, which…

Picasso Museum, museum in Paris dedicated to showcasing the paintings, drawings, engravings, and sculptures of the Spanish-born artist Pablo Picasso. The Picasso Museum opened in Paris in 1985 with a total of 228 paintings, 149 sculptures, and nearly 3,100 drawings and engravings. The artwork was

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. He was one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. (For more information on Picasso’s name see Researcher’s Note: Picasso’s

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. He was one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. (For more information on Picasso’s name see Researcher’s Note: Picasso’s

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. He was one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. (For more information on Picasso’s name see Researcher’s Note: Picasso’s

rockfowl, either of the two species of western African birds, genus Picathartes, constituting the subfamily Picathartinae, of uncertain family relationships in the order Passeriformes. Both species, with virtually no feathering on the head, have drab, grayish plumage and are thin-necked,

Piccadilly Circus, busy London intersection and popular meeting place. Lying between the neighbourhoods of St. James (south) and Soho (north) in the borough of Westminster, it serves as the nexus of Coventry Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Regent Street, and Piccadilly. The crossroads was formed in

dress: The 19th century: …clean-shaven, were called burnsides or sideburns, after the U.S. Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. Other popular beard styles included the imperial, a small goatee named for Napoleon III, and the side-whiskers and drooping mustache known as the Franz Joseph in honour of the head of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After 1880…

Auguste Piccard was a Swiss-born Belgian physicist notable for his exploration of both the upper stratosphere and the depths of the sea in ships of his own design. In 1930 he built a balloon to study cosmic rays. In 1932 he developed a new cabin design for balloon flights, and in the same year he

Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss aviator who on March 20, 1999, with copilot Brian Jones, completed the first nonstop circumnavigation of the globe by balloon. The trip, begun by Piccard and Jones on March 1 aboard the Breitling Orbiter 3, took 19 days 21 hours 55 minutes to complete. Starting in the

balloon flight: Superpressure balloons: After repeated failures, Donald Piccard (son of Jean and Jeannette Piccard) was assigned the project. He theorized that the failures were caused by the self-destructive tendencies of the stiff film. By laminating two layers of very thin Mylar, he produced a more flexible film that resulted in the…

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanic engineer, economist, and physicist, who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, build the bathyscaphe for deep-sea exploration and who also invented the mesoscaphe, an undersea vessel for exploring middle depths. He was born in Brussels while his Swiss-born father

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanic engineer, economist, and physicist, who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, build the bathyscaphe for deep-sea exploration and who also invented the mesoscaphe, an undersea vessel for exploring middle depths. He was born in Brussels while his Swiss-born father

Jean-Felix Piccard was a Swiss-born American chemical engineer and balloonist who conducted stratospheric flights for the purpose of cosmic-ray research. The twin brother of Auguste Piccard, he graduated (1907) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering and

Niccolò Piccinino was an Italian soldier of fortune who played an important role in the 15th-century wars of the Visconti of Milan against Venice, Florence, and the pope. A butcher’s son, Piccinino became a soldier and eventually joined the forces of the condottiere Braccio da Montone, whose

Niccolò Piccinni was one of the outstanding opera composers of the Neapolitan school, who wrote in both the comic and the serious styles but who, in the century following his death, was chiefly remembered as the rival of Gluck. He studied in Naples, where he produced several operas. The masterpiece

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Early years: …of the Italian singing instructor Luigi Piccioli, the first person to appreciate his musical talents, and thereafter Tchaikovsky developed a lifelong passion for Italian music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni proved another revelation that deeply affected his musical taste. In the summer of 1861 he traveled outside Russia for the…

Fugazi: ), and vocalist-guitarist Guy Picciotto (b. September 17, 1965, Washington, D.C.).

Libya: Relief: The country’s highest elevations are Bīkkū Bīttī peak (Picco Bette), which rises to 7,436 feet (2,267 metres) on the Libya-Chad border, and Mount Al-ʿUwaynāt, with an elevation of 6,345 feet (1,934 metres) on the Libya-Sudan-Egypt border.

piccolo, highest-pitched woodwind instrument of orchestras and military bands. It is a small transverse (horizontally played) flute of conical or cylindrical bore, fitted with Boehm-system keywork and pitched an octave higher than the ordinary concert flute. The piccolo’s compass extends three

Roberto Benigni: …again performed triple duties in Il piccolo diavolo (1988; “The Little Devil”) and Il mostro (1994; The Monster). His fourth film as director, writer, and actor, Johnny Stecchino (1991), a Mafia farce, set box-office records in Italy.

Antonio Fogazzaro: …work, Piccolo mondo antico (1896; The Little World of the Past), was highly acclaimed, even by critics unsympathetic to his religious and philosophical ideas.

Little Saint Bernard Pass, pass (7,178 ft [2,188 m]) situated just southwest of the Italian border in Savoie département of southeastern France; it lies between the Mont Blanc Massif (north) and the Graian Alps (south-southeast). The road across the pass connects Bourg-Saint-Maurice (7 mi [11 km]

trumpet: …D, also known as the Bach trumpet, was invented in about 1890 by the Belgian instrument-maker Victor Mahillon for use in the high trumpet parts of music by J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel. Other forms include the older E♭ trumpet, the trumpet in C, piccolo trumpets in F and…

Gale Sayers: …friendship with fellow Bears halfback Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970, was depicted in the 1971 television movie Brian’s Song. Sayers cowrote two autobiographies, I Am Third (with Al Silverman; 1970) and Sayers: My Life and Times (with Fred Mitchell; 2007).

Italian literature: Poetry after World War II: …school are the Sicilian aristocrat Lucio Piccolo, cousin of novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who in 1954 forwarded Piccolo’s then unpublished poems to an appreciative Eugenio Montale; the Calabrian Symbolist Lorenzo Calogero, who has been compared to Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Marie Rilke, Dino Campana, and Friedrich Hölderlin; experimentalist

Piccolomini Family, noble family prominent in Sienese politics from the 12th century as leaders of the Guelf (papal) party and as operators of a banking firm with branches in France and England as well as in Italy. Tracing their origins, according to family legend, to Lars Porsena, king of Clusium,

astronomical map: Relationship of the bright stars and their constellations: …fisse (1540) of the Italian Alessandro Piccolomini, introduced a lettering system for the stars; although frequently reprinted, application of its nomenclature did not spread.

Pius II was an outstanding Italian humanist and astute politician who as pope (reigned 1458–64) tried to unite Europe in a crusade against the Turks at a time when they threatened to overrun all of Europe. He wrote voluminously about the events of his day. Enea Silvio Piccolomini was born in the

Pius III was an Italian pope during 1503. He was made archbishop of Siena and cardinal deacon in 1460 by his uncle, Pope Pius II (formerly Cardinal Aneas Silvius Piccolomini), who permitted him to assume the name and arms of the Piccolomini. He was employed by subsequent popes in several important

Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi was a general and diplomat in the service of the house of Habsburg during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) and one of the imperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein’s most-trusted lieutenants. His skills both on the battlefield (Thionville, 1639) and at

Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi was a general and diplomat in the service of the house of Habsburg during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) and one of the imperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein’s most-trusted lieutenants. His skills both on the battlefield (Thionville, 1639) and at

spruce, (genus Picea), genus of about 40 species of evergreen ornamental and timber trees in the conifer family Pinaceae, native to the temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Spruce pulp is important in the paper industry, and timber from the trees is used in a variety of

spruce: Major species: The Norway spruce (P. abies), an important timber and ornamental tree native to northern Europe, is used in reforestation both there and in North America.

spruce: Major species: white spruce (P. glauca) are found throughout most of northern North America, from the Great Lakes to the Arctic tree line. Both are used for pulp. White spruce produces good lumber, and black spruce is the source of spruce gum. White spruce usually is 18…

tree: Adaptations: For example, the black spruce (Picea mariana) is found in bogs and mountaintops in the northeastern United States but cannot compete well with other trees, such as red spruce (P. rubens), on better sites. Consequently, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the northeastern United States, red…

spruce: Major species: The blue spruce, or Colorado spruce (P. pungens), has a similar range and is used as an ornamental because of its bluish leaves and symmetrical growth habit. The Norway spruce (P. abies), an important timber and ornamental tree native to northern Europe, is used in reforestation…

Piceni, Early Iron Age inhabitants of the Adriatic coast of Italy from Rimini to the Sangro River. Men and women dressed in wool; men wore armour, weapons, and ornaments of bronze or iron; women had numerous fibulae, torques, bracelets, girdles, and ornamental pendants. They had two main centres,

Piceni, Early Iron Age inhabitants of the Adriatic coast of Italy from Rimini to the Sangro River. Men and women dressed in wool; men wore armour, weapons, and ornaments of bronze or iron; women had numerous fibulae, torques, bracelets, girdles, and ornamental pendants. They had two main centres,

Sundar Pichai is an Indian-born American executive who was CEO of both Google, Inc. (2015– ), and its holding company, Alphabet, Inc. (2019– ). As a boy growing up in Madras (now Chennai), Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an electrical

Sundar Pichai is an Indian-born American executive who was CEO of both Google, Inc. (2015– ), and its holding company, Alphabet, Inc. (2019– ). As a boy growing up in Madras (now Chennai), Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an electrical

Charles Pichegru was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars who played a leading role in the conquest of the Austrian Netherlands and Holland (1794–95); he subsequently ruined his reputation by conspiring with counterrevolutionaries (1795) and against Napoleon Bonaparte (1804). Born into a

Charles Pichegru was a general of the French Revolutionary Wars who played a leading role in the conquest of the Austrian Netherlands and Holland (1794–95); he subsequently ruined his reputation by conspiring with counterrevolutionaries (1795) and against Napoleon Bonaparte (1804). Born into a

Irving Pichel was an American film actor and director who found success on both sides of the camera, appearing in numerous character roles and helming a diverse range of movies. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) After graduating from Harvard University in 1914, Pichel

pichhwai, cloth hanging used as a backdrop for images worshipped in temples of the Hindu Vallabhacharya sect, who are devotees of the god Krishna. Pichhwais, which form a part of the temple decor, are changed frequently according to the day, the season, and the occasion. Some are fairly large and

pichi, South American species of armadillo

pichiciago, species of armadillo

pichiciago, species of armadillo