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(Encyclopedia) Canisius, Peter: see Peter Canisius, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Peter Nightingale: see Philomena of Dacia, Peter. ...

(Encyclopedia) Carington, Peter: see Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Weir, Peter wēr [key], 1944–, Australian film director, b. Sydney. His early work helped to bring Australian film to world attention; his later films, made in Hollywood, mingle American movie techn...

(Encyclopedia) Peter Martyr: see Peter of Verona, Saint; Vermigli, Pietro Martire. ...

(Encyclopedia) Cornelius, Peter pāˈtər kôrnāˈlēo͝os [key], 1824–74, German composer and poet; follower of Liszt and Wagner. He wrote music criticism, songs, and poetry but is best known for his operas Der ...

(Encyclopedia) Peter the Great: see Peter I.

(Encyclopedia) Pázmány, Peter päzˈmänyə [key], 1570–1637, Hungarian churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Of a Calvinist family, he was converted to Catholicism in 1583, entered the Society of Je...

(Encyclopedia) Peter the Cruel, 1334–69, Spanish king of Castile and León (1350–69), son and successor of Alfonso XI. His desertion of his wife, Blanche of Bourbon, for María Padilla and his favors to the Padi...

(Encyclopedia) Peter of Dreux: see Peter I, duke or count of Brittany. ...