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- (from the article "Afghanistan") ...One such group was the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), the major leftist organization in the country. Founded in 1965, the party soon split into two factions, known as the People's (Khalq) and Banner (Parcham) parties. Another was a conservative religious organization known as the Islamic Society (Jam'iyyat-e ...
- People's Party
- (from the article "Latvia") ...down in July because the law did not permit her to serve a third term. Parliamentary support for the government's policies was ensured by strict discipline within the ruling coalition, led by the People's Party, whose nominee, Valdis Zatlers (a surgeon with no political experience) was elected by the parliament ...
- People's Party
- (from the article "Austria") In January 2007 a majority "grand coalition" government comprising the Social Democratic Party (SPO) and the centre-right Austrian People's Party (OVP) entered office. This brought an end to more than three months of negotiations between the parties after the inconclusive result of the general election in October 2006, when an ...
- People's Party
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...powerful enough-for the present-to dominate the new republic. Their rivals on the right were the old conservatives (now called the National People's Party), with 42 seats, and the new People's Party, with 21. On the left, the Independent Socialists had 22 seats.
- people's pension
- (from the article "Norway") A "people's pension" was established in Norway in 1967 to ensure all citizens a standard of living reasonably close to the level that an individual had achieved during his or her working life. The pension covers old age and cases of disability or loss of support. The premiums are paid ...
- People's Progressive Party
- (from the article "Gambia, The") ...majority of peasant farmers, however, there was virtually no change in their harsh economic plight, with bad harvests and falling peanut prices continuing throughout the 1980s. Yet Jawara and the PPP easily won reelection in 1987 and 1992, although opposition parties gained some support in each election.
- People's Progressive Party
- (from the article "Guyana") Pres. Bharrat Jagdeo won another five-year term in the general election in August, securing 54.6% of the vote. His People's Progressive Party/Civic alliance also increased its strength in the 65-member Parliament to 36 seats from 34. Unlike most previous elections in Guyana, the voting passed off peacefully, and the main ...
- People's Redemption Council
- (from the article "Doe, Samuel K") After the coup Doe assumed the rank of general and established a People's Redemption Council (PRC) composed of himself and 14 other low-ranking officers to rule the country. Doe suspended the nation's constitution until 1984, when a new constitution was approved by referendum. In 1985 he won a presidential election ...
- People's Representatives, Council of
- (from the article "Ebert, Friedrich") ...chancellor for one day. On November 10 he yielded to the fait accompli of the revolution and set up an entirely socialist government, with representatives from the SPD and USPD. Calling itself the Council of People's Representatives, the government derived its authority from the Workers and Soldiers Council, which claimed ...
- People's Retribution
- (from the article "Nechayev, Sergey Gennadiyevich") In September 1869 Nechayev returned to Moscow, where he founded a small secret revolutionary group, the People's Retribution (Russian: Narodnaya Rasprava), also called the Society of the Axe, based on the principles of the Catechism and requiring its members to submit unquestioningly to the will of the leader. When I.I. ...
- People's Revolutionary Army
- (from the article "Argentina") ...administration was unable to agree on an alternative economic policy, and the Cordobazo decisively affected the political climate. Underground activities were organized by a Trotskyite group, the People's Revolutionary Army (Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo; ERP), and by Peronist groups. In 1970 one of these Peronist organizations, the Montoneros, destroyed the ...
- People's Revolutionary Government
- (from the article "Grenada") ...reducing GULP's majority in Parliament in the 1976 election. On March 13, 1979, while Gairy was out of the country, the NJM staged a bloodless coup, proclaimed a People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), and named their leader, Maurice Bishop, as prime minister. The new government faced opposition from Western nations because ...
- People's Supreme Court
- (from the article "Cuba") The justice system is subordinate to the legislative and executive branches of government. It is headed by the People's Supreme Court, which includes a president, vice president, and other judges elected to terms of two and one-half years by the National Assembly. Its jurisdiction includes theft, violent crime, and offenses ...
- People's Theatre
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...emperor Aurangzeb and the shrewd Hindu philosopher-politician Canakya. Sisir's style has been refined by actor-director Sombhu Mitra and his actress wife Tripti, who worked in the Left-wing People's Theatre movement in the 1940s. With other actors they founded the Bahurupee group in 1949 and produced many Tagore plays including Rakta ...
- People's Theatre, The
- (from the article "theatre, African") In Zimbabwe the most effective theatre was in the hands of small semiprofessional companies such as The People's Theatre, directed by Ben Sibenke in Harare. In Zambia Stephen Chifunyise toured villages with his company, setting up a dramatic dialogue with his audiences.
- People's UCR
- (from the article "Radical Civic Union") ...president in 1958, forming the Intransigent UCR (UCR Intransigente) and collaborating with the Peronists. In response, opponents of an alliance with the Peronists established the UCR del Pueblo (People's UCR), which won the 1963 elections following Frondizi's removal from office in a coup the previous year. However, the party's tenure ...
- People's Union
- (from the article "Estonia") ...In late March the cabinet of Prime Minister Juhan Parts, Res Publica's leader, resigned following a vote of no confidence. It was replaced by a three-party coalition (Reform Party, Centre Party, and People's Union), headed by the Reformist Andrus Ansip. The new government pledged to increase child support and pensions ...
- People's United Front
- (from the article "Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D.") ...1952 as the founder of the nationalist Sri Lanka (Blessed Ceylon) Freedom Party, becoming leader of the opposition in the legislature. Four years later he formed the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP; People's United Front), a political alliance of four nationalist-socialist parties, which swept the election; he became prime minister on ...
- People's United Party
- (from the article "Belize, flag of") Believing that in the past the coat of arms had appeared on a white disk in the centre of a blue flag, nationalists established that flag for the People's United Party, which led the nation to independence. The arms were framed by a wreath bearing 50 leaves, a reminder of ...
- people's university
- (from the article "adult education") ...by such organizations as "workers' academies" in Finland, "people's high schools" in Germany and Austria, "adult education centres" in Great Britain, and "people's universities" in The Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland. The distinguishing characteristics of these institutions are that they are independent of the general education...
- People's University of China
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...Three are located in Beijing: Peking University (Beijing Daxue), the leading nontechnical institution; Tsinghua (Qinghua) University, which is oriented primarily toward science and engineering; and People's University of China, the only one of the six founded after 1949. The three outside Beijing are Nankai University in Tianjin, which is especially ...
- People's Victory Canal
- (from the article "Honan") ...The river was restored to its former northern course in 1947. Under the People's Republic, work along the river has included continued strengthening of the dikes and construction of the 30-mile-long People's Victory Canal, which diverts Huang Ho water to the Wei River. A dam near the city of San-men-hsia ...
- People's Volunteer Organization
- (from the article "Aung San") After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the British sought to incorporate his forces into the regular army, but he held key members back, forming the People's Volunteer Organization. This was ostensibly a veterans' association interested in social service, but it was in fact a private political army designed to ...
- People, House of the
- (from the article "Afghanistan") Zahir Shah and his advisers instituted an experiment in constitutional monarchy. In 1964 a Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) approved a new constitution, under which the House of the People was to have 216 elected members and the House of the Elders was to have 84 members, one-third elected by the ...
- Peoples Temple
- religious community led by James Warren ("Jim") Jones (1931-78) that came to international attention after some 900 of its members died at their compound, Jonestown, in Guyana, in a massive act of murder-suicide on November 18, 1978. [3 Related Articles]
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
- (from the article "Moscow") Out of the dozens of universities in the city, Moscow State University (1755) and Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (1960; formerly the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University) are the largest and best-known. Moscow State University's student services were originally housed in the old buildings facing Manezhnaya Square, near the Kremlin; ...
- PeopleSoft
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Acquisition activity was dominated by the long-running effort of Oracle to mount an unfriendly takeover of PeopleSoft and by PeopleSoft's determination to fight it. The battle ended in December, when the two companies reached an agreement under which Oracle would acquire PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion. Oracle appeared to have the ...
- Peoria
- city, seat (1825) of Peoria county, central Illinois, U.S. Peoria lies along the Illinois River where it widens to form Peoria Lake, about 160 miles (260 km) southwest of Chicago. With Peoria Heights, West Peoria, Bartonville, Bellevue, East Peoria, Creve Coeur, Marquette Heights, North Pekin, and Pekin, Peoria forms an ...
- Pep, Willie
- American professional boxer, world featherweight (126 pounds) champion during the 1940s. Pep specialized in finesse rather than slugging prowess and competed successfully in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. His rivalry with American Sandy Saddler is considered one of the greatest of 20th-century American pugilism. [2 Related Articles]
- Pepe, Guglielmo
- Neapolitan soldier prominent in the Italian Risorgimento and author of valuable eyewitness accounts.
- Pepel
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") Mandyako and Pepel in the northern coastal region were among the first peoples to establish trading relations with the Portuguese. Some intermarried with them; others worked for them, adopting European customs and dress and helping to create and spread the trading language Crioulo. The Pepel, however, fiercely defended their landlord ...
- Pepel
- town, Atlantic seaport, western Sierra Leone, on Pepel Island, near the mouth of the Sierra Leone River (an estuary formed by the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek). Beginning in 1933 it exported iron ore brought by rail from the Sierra Leone Development Company's mines at Marampa, 41 miles (66 ...
- Peperi Guacu River
- (from the article "Plata, Rio de la") ...do Mar. From the south it is joined by the Pelotas River, which divides the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. After flowing west, the Uruguay turns southwest at its juncture with the Peperi Guacu River, the first sizable tributary to join it from the north. For ...
- peperite
- (from the article "peperite") subsurface rock containing fragments ejected by an underground volcanic explosion (see tuff).BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007geology and geochemistryPeperomia
- genus of the pepper family (Piperaceae), comprising some 1,600 species of tropical and subtropical fleshy herbs, annuals as well as perennials. Some are epiphytic (growing on the branches of trees). The leaves, sometimes attractively coloured with veins or spots, are oval, thick, fleshy, and smooth-edged. The thick stalk of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Peperomia argyreia
- (from the article "Peperomia") A few species, particularly P. argyreia (sometimes called P. sandersii), are popular houseplants because of their attractive foliage. P. argyreia, native to Brazil, grows about 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 inches) tall. Dark red leafstalks support alternate leaves, which are up to 10 cm (4 inches) long and ...
- Peperomia obtusifolia
- (from the article "Peperomia") P. obtusifolia (sometimes P. magnoliifolia), another popular cultivated species, is also native to the tropics. It lies close to the soil and has wrinkled, reddish stems. The minute flowers are red. The leaves, about 7.5 to 12.5 cm (3 to 5 inches) long, have small notches near the tip and ...
- Pepi I
- third king of the 6th dynasty (c. 2325-c. 2150 BCE) of ancient Egypt, whose reign saw the spread of trade and conquest and a growth in the influence of powerful provincials from Upper Egypt. [4 Related Articles]
- Pepi II
- fifth king of the 6th dynasty (c. 2325-c. 2150 BCE) of ancient Egypt, during whose lengthy reign the government became weakened because of internal and external troubles. Late Egyptian tradition indicates that Pepi II acceded at the age of six and, in accord with king lists of the New Kingdom ... [2 Related Articles]
- Pepin, Jacques
- (from the article "Child, Julia") ...The Way to Cook (1989) and Cooking with Master Chefs (1993). Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (1999) was cowritten with chef Jacques Pepin, with whom she also collaborated on television shows. Child was the recipient of numerous honours during her career, including a ...
- Pepin, Jean-Luc
- Canadian statesman who held important Cabinet posts--energy, mines, and resources; industry, trade, and commerce; transport--in the Liberal administration of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and was cochairman of the Task Force on Canadian Unity, 1977-79 (b. Nov. 1, 1924--d. Sept. 6?, 1995).
- pepino hill
- (from Spanish pepino, "cucumber"), also called Hum (Serbo-Croatian: "hill"), or Haystack Hill, conical hill of residual limestone in a deeply eroded karst region. Pepino hills generally form on relatively flat-lying limestones that are jointed in large rectangles. In an alternating wet and dry climate, high areas become ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pepito, Benn
- (from the article "Guinea") ...on January 13. Dozens of people were arrested in Conakry after gunmen fired on a convoy carrying Pres. Lansana Conte on January 19. Among the many detained in the apparent coup attempt were Benn Pepito, editor of an opposition newspaper, and Yomba Korouma, the lawyer for Soromou. Though all of ...
- Peploe, Mark
- (from the article "1987: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: John Patrick Shanley for MoonstruckAdapted Screenplay: Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last EmperorCinematography: Vittorio Storaro for The Last EmperorArt Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti for The Last EmperorOriginal Score: David Byrne, Cong Su,...
- peplos
- garment worn by Greek women during the early Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods (i.e., up to about AD 300). It consisted of a large, rectangular piece of material folded vertically and hung from the shoulders, with a broad overfold. During the early periods, it was belted around the waist, usually ... [1 Related Articles]
- pepo
- (from the article "Classification of fruits") ...nutritive tissue. The leathery-rinded berry of citrus fruits is called a hesperidium, and the elongated, tough-skinned berrylike fruits of the watermelon, cucumber, and gourds are referred to as pepos.
- Pepoli Family
- family that played an important role in the political and economic life of 13th- and 14th-century Bologna.
- Peppard, George
- U.S. actor (b. Oct. 1, 1928, Detroit, Mich.--d. May 8, 1994, Los Angeles, Calif.), rocketed to fame after starring opposite Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film classic Breakfast at Tiffany's and enhanced his reputation in such films as How the West Was Won (1962), The Carpetbaggers (1964), and The Blue ...
- pepper
- (Capsicum), any of a great number of plants of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, notably Capsicum annuum, C. frutescens, and C. boccatum, extensively cultivated throughout tropical Asia and equatorial America for their edible, pungent fruits. Peppers, which have been found in prehistoric remains in Peru, were widely grown in Central and ... [5 Related Articles]
- pepper tree
- (Schinus molle), small ornamental tree, of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), native to tropical America and cultivated in warm subtropical regions. The long leaves have storage cells that contain a volatile oil. The small white flowers are borne in clusters at the ends of the branches. Each small, pealike fruit has ... [1 Related Articles]
- Pepper, Art
- American jazz musician noted for the beauty of his sound and his improvisations on alto saxophone, and a major figure in the 1950s in West Coast jazz (see cool jazz).
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