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unusual facts about PEI


ViolaWWW

Viola was the invention of Pei-Yuan Wei, who at the time was a student at the Experimental Computing Facility at the University of California, Berkeley.


Bal des débutantes

Some notable past participants include Ksénia Gorbachev, Barbara Berlusconi, Tamara and Petra Ecclestone, Vanessa and Victoria Traina, Anna Wallenberg, Princess Fawzia Latifa of Egypt, Karan Singh's granddaughter Adishree Singh, Wan Li's granddaughter Wan BaoBao and I.M. Pei's granddaughter Olivia Pei.

Beauty World MRT Station

Two tunnel boring machines — which were named Athena and Artemis, after the Greek Goddesses by students of the nearby Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, will tunnel the 1 km stretch from Beauty World to King Albert Park.

Bone-mouth

Dali is the original place of the traditional bone-mouth Shar-Pei.

Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story

The soap opera-style romance takes over the film in its second half, and at one point there is a love triangle between Lee, Betty Ting-Pei, and one of Lee's co-stars (almost certainly based on Nora Miao).

Cai Pei

Cai Pei went to study to Japan, and graduated from the Department of Law, Waseda University.

Chen Ming-tang

In mid April 2013, Deputy Minister Chen confirmed that former ROC President Chen Shui-bian was transferred from Taipei Veterans General Hospital to Pei-de Hospital in Taichung Prison where he will serve his remaining 20 years of sentence there.

Cheng Yuanzhen

When the senior official Pei Mian had disagreements with Cheng, Cheng had Pei demoted to the remote Shi Prefecture (施州, roughly modern Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei).

Church of Christ, Scientist

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners (now Pei Cobb Freed).

Churchill Arms FC

In its inaugural season, the PEI and NB Canada Games teams also entered the league to gain experience for the 2009 Canada Games.

Come Drink with Me

On May 27, 2008, Dragon Dynasty released their own edition with an improved transfer, the original Mandarin mono soundtrack and exclusive supplements, including a newly recorded audio commentary with Bey Logan and Cheng Pei-pei, trailers, a retrospective with Bey Logan and interviews with the cast (Cheng Pei-pei, Yueh Hua) and director King Hu.

In 2003, IVL (through Celestial Pictures) released a digitally restored version of this classic film with a new trailer and interviews, including Cheng Pei-pei.

Emperor Yuan of Jin

In 307, Sima Yue, who had emerged victorious in the aftermaths of the War of the Eight Princes as the regent for Emperor Huai, under the advice of his wife Princess Pei, commissioned Sima Rui as the military commander of parts of Yang Province (揚州, modern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu and Anhui) south of the Yangtze River, with his post at Jianye.

Fung Wah Bus Transportation

Fung Wah was founded in New York City in 1996, as Fung Wah Transport Vans, Inc., by Pei Lin Liang, who had immigrated from Zhuhai, China in 1988.

Gada Meiren

The authorities of Liao-ning Province, then controlled by Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, were about to launch cultivation projects, dividing the banner's last land into two areas, Hsi-chia-huang and Liao-pei-huang.

Great Hsi-Ku Arsenal

On the banks of the Pei-ho River, it was located approximately eight miles northwest of Tientsin, China.

Krista McCarville

After beating Team BC, Team Ontario moved into the semi-finals against Team PEI, skipped by Kathy O'Rourke which they lost 10-6.

Maritime Electric

On November 13, 2009, it was announced that the PEI government is in discussion with the province of Quebec in regards to providing electric power between the two provinces, which could lead to a long-term supply contract with Hydro-Québec, the construction of a submarine transmission line linking PEI and the Magdalen Islands, and, pending Fortis' involvement, the sale of Maritime Electric to Hydro-Québec.

Marquess of Beixiang

The Marquess of Beixiang, (trad. ch. 北鄉侯, sim. ch. 北乡侯, py bĕi xīang hóu, wg. Han Pei-hsiang-hou), sometimes referred to as Emperor Shao (少帝, literally "young emperor"), was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty.

Miniature Shar Pei

Until Shar Pei became AKC recognized, and the larger standard was adopted, those breeding what are now known as Miniature Shar Pei were actually breeding the more original size.

Minxin Pei

Pei earned his Bachelor's degree in English from the Shanghai International Studies University, and a Master's degree and PhD in Political Science from Harvard University.

National Pei Men Senior High School

Hung Chin-chang and Chen Jiunn-ming, both Pei Men alumni and notable Taiwanese football players, were engaged to join the coaching staff.

Lu Kun-chi and Chung Kuang-tien, current goalkeepers in the national team squad, are past and current Pei Men players respectively.

In the first season of Highschool Football League in 2006, Pei Men won the champion and embraced all individual league awards (best coach, best player, and golden shoe).

Olive Crane

On October 4, 2013 Olive Crane was kicked out of the PEI PC Caucus by interim leader, Steven Myers.

Peggy Lam

Peggy Lam Pei Yu-dja (林貝聿嘉) is the youngest niece of Pei Ieoh-ming (aka I. M. Pei), the world-renowned architect.

Peter Bevan-Baker

Bevan-Baker joined the Green Party of Canada in 1992, and has run as a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000 in the riding of Leeds/Grenville in Ontario, and 2008 and 2011 in Malpeque, PEI.

Positron Lifetime Spectroscopy

Recently a program named SimPL has been produced at the University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada, which attempts to simulate the positron interaction and model the output spectra.

Prince Edward Island Route 156

The highway runs through the community of Palmer Road, which is part of PEI's electoral district #27, Tignish-Palmer Road.

Regan Oey

He has had starring roles in two feature films, the US comedy hit Kickin It Old Skool (2007), in which he played a kid in toy store with Jamie Kennedy, and a leading role in the horror-thriller They Wait (2007), starring Pei-pei Cheng, Terry Chen and Jaime King, in which he played the part of Sammy.

Ricky Lo

He finished high school at the bilingual Tabaco Pei Ching School in Tabaco, Albay, and took up AB English at the University of the East.

Shar Pei

In the Shar-pei they discovered four small differences located in the gene HAS2 which is responsible for making hyaluronic acid synthase 2.

Shi Pei Pu

The incident became the basis of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly, in which B. D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu in the original Broadway production of the play.

Siraya people

A number of families in the Tso-chen, Kou-pei and Chiou-chen-lin of Sinhua Township in particular still identify themselves as Siraya.

Suzhou Museum

The multi-year process of designing, building and inaugurating the new museum was chronicled in PBS's American Masters television documentary series in an 2010 episode entitled "I.M. Pei: Building China Modern".

The Outlets at Bergen Town Center

Due to highly restrictive blue laws in effect in Bergen County and more restrictive limitations in place in Paramus, The Outlets at Bergen Town Center is completely closed on Sundays, except for Bobby's Burger Palace, CVS Pharmacy, Cups Frozen Yogurt, FrozenPeaks, Miller's Ale House, Pei Wei, Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Qdoba, Ulta Spa, Blink Fitness, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Bahama Breeze, Olive Garden, Red Robin, and Whole Foods Market.

The Snake King's Wife Part 2

The Snake King's Wife Part 2 (Khmer:ពស់កេងកង ភាគពីរ,Thai:งูเกงกอง ภาค 2 puos keng kang van Pei, also Giant Snake 2 and Snake Girl 2: Revenge) is a 1973 Cambodian-Thai horror film, a sequel to early 1970s film The Snake King's Wife.

Vacationland

MV Vacationland, a ferry that crossed the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick and PEI, Canada

Wei Daijia

At that time, Tufan posed a serious threat to Tang's western prefectures, and Emperor Gaozong made his son Li Xian the Prince of Pei nominally the commandant at Liang Prefecture (涼州, roughly modern Wuwei, Gansu) and made Wei his military advisor.

Wei Feng

The Shiyu (世語) claimed that Wei Feng was a native of Pei (沛; around present-day Pei County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), but the Jia Jie (家誡) by Wang Chang stated that he was from Jiyin (濟陰; around present-day Heze, Shandong).

William L. Slayton House

In 1948, he wanted to become the patron of "the greatest unknown architect in the country", so he consulted with Nelson Rockefeller and embarked on a search which ended in his hiring I.M. Pei, who was then an assistant professor at Harvard University.

Yang Kunpeng

When Pei Encai left to take over the Chinese women's team tensions grew between the management and certain Shandong born players like Li Zhuangfei, Ren Yongshun, Guo Mingyue and Deng Xiaofei who believed that the management were mistreating them and purging them during the end of the 2007 league season.

Yang Sok-il

Yang's semi-autobiographical novel, Chi to Hone (Blood and Bones), was adapted as a theatrical film, directed by Yoichi Sai, starring Takeshi Kitano as Kim Shun-Pei, Kyoka Suzuki as Kim's wife, Joe Odagiri as son-in-law and Hirofumi Arai as eldest son and narrator.


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