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   Petro
   Petro is a Esperanto boy name. The meaning of the name is `Rock` Where is it used? The name Petro is mainly used In Ukrainian and In Esperanto.How do they say it elsewhere? Pedr ( In Welsh) Pedro ( In Spanish and In Portuguese) Per ( In Scandinavian) Pyotr ( In Russian) Petru ( In Romanian) Piotr ( In Polish) Boutros ( In Muslim) Petras ( In Lithuanian) Piero (I
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   Petro Balabuyev
   `Petro Vasylovych Balabuyev` (March 23, 1931, Valuisk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union ` May 17, 2007) was a Ukrainian airplane designer. He was the lead designer of many Antonov airplanes, including the An-225 airplane, currently the world's largest aircraft and the An-124. He was also the head of the Kiev-based Antonov Aircraft for almost 20 years. On December 3, 1999, Balabuyev was awarded the title `Hero of Ukraine.` In 2001, he...
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   Petro Doroshenko
   `Petro Doroshenko` (1627–1698) was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and Muscovite voyevoda.
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   Petro Drevchenko
   `Petro Semenovych Drevchenko` also known by the surname of Drevkin and Drygavka) (1863 Poltava region - 1934, Kharkiv?)
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   Petro Dyachenko
   `Petro Dyachenko` —born January 30 1895 in Berezova Luka, Poltava area (presently Ukraine); died April 23 1965 in Philadelphia, USA—was an Ukrainian military commander who served in the UNR army, the Polish army (1938-1939), the Schutzmannschaft (Schuma), the U.V.V, the 104th Panzergrenadier brigade `Vilna Ukraina` and the UNA. In the First World War Dyachenko was the commander of the Russian 333. Infantry Regiment. He joined the U...
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   Petro Express
   `Petro Express` is a multi-store convenience chain in Charlotte, North Carolina. On January 9, 2007 The Pantry, Inc. of Sanford, North Carolina announced that it would be buying the 66 Petro Express stores.
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   Petro Franko
   `Petro Franko` (1890-1941) son of Ivan Franko, was a Ukrainian educator and author, a co-founder of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. Born in the town of Nahuyevychi near Drohobych, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, and from 1914 served in the legion of the partisan `Sichovi Striltsi` and commanded a battalion. In 1919 he organized an aviation unit in the Ukrainian Galician Army. Later worked as a teacher in Kolomyja. Fr...
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   Petro Kalnyshevsky
   `Kalnyshevsky Petro` (1690 - 1803-10-31) - the last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host in 1762 and in 1765-1775 years period. Kalnyshevsky took part in Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774 and was honored with a gold medal with brilliants for courage. Being a head of the Zaporozhian Host Petro Kalnyshevsky defended the rights of cossacks and their independence from increasing Imperial Russian Tsarist influence, encouraged agriculture development ...
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   Petro Kassui Kibe
   `Petro Kassui Kibe` (1587 - July 4 1639) was a Japanese Christian during 17th century and a Jesuit priest. Before reaching Rome, he became the first Japanese to visit Jerusalem. After he came back to Japan, he was martyred. He saw the largest part of the world in medieval Japanese. He is called `Japanese Marco Polo` or `A Christian walking thru the world`.
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    Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
    `Petro (Kononovych) Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi`, Kononovych by his father's name (; ; ; 1570 in Kulchyntsi-March 20, 1622 in Kiev), was a Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1614-1622, an organizer of the Ukrainian Cossack armies, and political and civic leader. His troops played a significant role in the battle of Khotyn against the Turks in 1621. While being a Cossack Hetman, he transformed the Cossack Host into a regular military formation and i...
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    Petro loa
    In Voodoo, the Petro loa are a group of easily annoyed spirits symbolised by the whip.
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    Petro Mirchuk
    `Petro Mirchuk` (1913-1999) is a Ukrainian writer living in United States. During and before World War II, he was an activitst for Ukrainian independence. Imprisoned in Auschwitz by Nazi Germany, after the war he emigrated to United States.
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    Petro Poroshenko
    `Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko` , (born September 26, 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician frequently cited as one of the most influential people in the Ukrainian politics.
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    Petro Prokopovych
    `Petro Prokopovych` (1775-1850, ) was the founder of commercial beekeeping. He introduced a number of novelties in traditional beekeeping that allowed significant progress in the practice. Among his most important inventions was a frame in separate honey chamber of his beehive. He also invented a crude queen excluder between brood and the honey chambers
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    Petro Shelest
    `Petro Yukhymovych Shelest` (14 February, 1908 - 22 January, 1996) was the First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian SSR, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. Petro Shelest was born in a peasant Ukrainian family in a village near Kharkiv in 1908. In 1928 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in 1935 graduated from Mariupol' Metallurgical Institute. ...
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    Petro Symonenko
    `Petro Mykolayovich Symonenko` (born August 1, 1952 in Donetsk) is the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was a candidate in the last two presidential elections, including the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine. He has been a member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1978, and party chairman since 1993. He is a Ukrainian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Coun...
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    Petro Tkachenko
    `Petro Fedorovych Tkachenko` (21/12/1878-3/1/1919) Prominent blind kobzar.
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    Petro Trochanowski
    `Piotr Trochanowski` (born 1947) was born in Silesia in the southwestern part of Poland to Lemko parents from Binczarowa. He is the editor of `Besida`, published in Krynica since 1989. He is a spokesperson for the Lemko ethnic group in Poland and internationally. He is also published under the pseudonym `Petro Murianka`. He was the first person who was not an ethnic Pole to win the Petak Prize.
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    Petro Vlahos
    `Petro Vlahos` is a Hollywood special effects pioneer who developed the color-difference bluescreen process for the Motion Picture Research Council and founded the Ultimatte Corporation in Chatsworth, California, in 1976. His goal was to invent a better traveling matte system for motion pictures and he won an Oscar in 1964 for Blue Screen Compositing Technology. The first Ultimatte units were analog `black boxes` which evolved into the advanced...
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    Petro Voinovsky
    `Petro Voinovsky`, , , (September 8, 1913, village Stanivtsi Dolyshni ` died after 2003) was a Ukrainian nationalist. He lived in Bukovyna (a region of modern Ukraine that belonged to Romania before 1940), served in the Romanian army in the rank of lieutenant, resigned in 1935 due to the policy of `Romanization` (he refused to change his name into Romanian one). He participated in Ukrainian paramilitary nationalist organization Plast, joined OUN ...
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    Petro Zakhvalynski
    Petro Zakhvalynski, , , was also known under pseudonym `Roman` (died 1943) was a Ukrainian nationalist, member of A. Melnyk's faction in OUN. During the Civil War he was an officer in Petlyura's army, after his defeat emigrated to France, joined OUN. After the split of OUN in 1941 he supported Andriy Melnyk's faction. In 1941 he came to Ukraine as a member of OUN groups that cooperated with Germans and were sent to occupied territories in order...
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    Petro-
    Pet'ro- A combining form from Greek ... a rock , ... a stone ; as, petro logy, petro glyphic.
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    petro-
    <prefix> A combining form from Gr. A rock, a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic. ... (29 Oct 1998) ...
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    Petro-
    `Petro-` is a Greek term for `rock` used as a prefix, for a number of English words, most notably petroleum. For example: * Petro-superpower - used to describe Russia * PetroKazakhstan - Canadian oil company * Petrovietnam - Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation * Petro-Canada Centre - two office towers of 32 floors and 53 floor * Petro-Canada - Canadian oil and gas firm * Petro-free - Alternative propulsion * Petro Chemical Complex INA - Indian town...
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    Petro-
    • A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
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