Look up Pekin, Pekín, Pékin, or pékin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pekin may refer to: A historic spelling of a name of Beijing, China Pekin (hotel)...
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The Pekin or White Pekin is an American breed of domestic duck, raised primarily for meat. It derives from birds brought to the United States from China...
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Pekin (/ˈpiːkɪn/) is a city in and the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is the largest...
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Pekin duck may refer to: American Pekin, an American breed of duck (the Pekin of the American Poultry Association) German Pekin, a European breed of duck...
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The Pekin Bantam is a British breed of bantam chicken. It derives from birds brought to Europe from China in the nineteenth century, and is named for...
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The German Pekin, German: Deutsche Pekingente, is a European breed of domestic duck. It is commonly called simply Pekin or White Pekin. It is a different...
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Pekin Noodle Parlor (built 1909) is the second oldest continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, located in Butte, Montana. The restaurant...
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Pekin Community High School District 303 is a public school district in Pekin, Illinois, that operates one high school, Pekin Community High School (PCHS)...
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Elif Büşra Pekin (born 30 June 1982 in Saudi Arabia) is a Turkish actress and screenwriter. Her family is of Turkish descent. After Ottoman Empire collapsed...
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South Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 996 at the 2020 census and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan...
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North Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. North Pekin is a suburb of Peoria and...
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Chicago’s Pekin Theatre was the first black owned musical and vaudeville stock theatre in the United States. Between 1904 and around 1915, the Pekin Club and...
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New Pekin is a town in Pierce and Polk townships, Washington County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,401 at the 2010 census. The land for...
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The Pekin Stars were an American semi-professional ice hockey team located in Pekin, Illinois. The team played in the Continental Hockey League and was...
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Red-billed leiothrix (redirect from Pekin Robin)
common cagebird and amongst aviculturists it goes by various names: Pekin robin, Pekin nightingale, Japanese nightingale, and Japanese (hill) robin, the...
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Pekin High School may refer to: Pekin Community High School (Illinois), a public school and district in Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois Eastern High...
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Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis (redirect from Pekin Lilac)
subsp. pekinensis (formerly known as Syringa pekinensis), also known as the Pekin lilac or the Chinese tree lilac, grows in an open, multi-stemmed form to...
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Salix babylonica (redirect from Pekin Willow)
Salix babylonica (Babylon willow or weeping willow; Chinese: 垂柳; pinyin: chuí liǔ) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated...
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The Pekin Formation is a Late Triassic (Carnian) geological formation in North Carolina. The Pekin Formation is specific to the Sanford Sub-Basin of the...
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Peking opera (redirect from Pekin opera)
Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...
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are several places in the U.S. state of Ohio named Pekin, including: Pekin, Carroll County, Ohio Pekin, Warren County, Ohio This disambiguation page lists...
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The Pekin Tapes is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock/AOR band Pavlov's Dog, released in 2014. The album was recorded in October 1973...
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Battle of Palikao (redirect from Pekin 1860)
The Battle of Palikao (French: La bataille de Palikao; simplified Chinese: 八里桥之战; traditional Chinese: 八里橋之戰; pinyin: Bālǐqiáo zhī zhàn; lit. 'Battle of...
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The Lycée Français International Charles de Gaulle de Pékin (LFIPékin; Chinese: 北京法国国际学校) is a French international school in Chaoyang District, Beijing...
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census, it had a population of 131,343. Its county seat and largest city is Pekin. It is pronounced with a short "a", to rhyme with "razz" rather than "raze...
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Peking Gazette (redirect from Pekin Gazette)
The Peking Gazette was an official bulletin published with changing frequency in Beijing until 1912, when the Qing dynasty fell and Republican China was...
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Old Pekin (also referred to as Pekin and Pekin Station) is an unincorporated community in Polk Township, Washington County, in the U.S. state of Indiana...
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Peking Plan (redirect from Operation Pekin)
English. In modern Polish the name is written as "Pekin". Some modern Polish works refer to the "Pekin Plan". The original orders used the spelling "Peking"...
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presidential election. Estrada was the celebrity guest of the Pekin Marigold Festival in Pekin, Illinois, in September 2017. "Erik Estrada Biography (1949-)"...
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Coleen Pekin is an Australian former sprinter. She won 3 bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games: the 200 metres in 1978, the 4 x 100 metres relay in...
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