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Peet (other)
Peet or PEET may refer to: Surname A surname of English or Dutch origin *Alfred Peet (1920–2007), a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea **Peet's Coffee & Tea, a specialty coffee roaster and retailer founded in 1966 *Amanda Peet (born 1972), an American actress *Azalia Emma Peet (1887–1973), American missionary teacher in Japan * Bill Peet (1915–2002), an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios * John Peet (other), various individuals *Mal Peet (1947–2015), an English author of novels mainly for young adults * Margot Peet (1903–1995), an American painter * Stephen Peet (1920–2005), a British filmmaker *Thomas Eric Peet (1882–1934), an English Egyptologist * Wayne Peet (born 1954), an American jazz pianist and organist Given name *Peet Aren (1889–1970), Estonian artist *Peet Coombes (1952–1997), English musician * Peet Johanson (1881–1939), Estonian politician * Peet Kask (born 1948), Esto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Peet
Alfred H. Peet (March 10, 1920 – August 29, 2007) was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. Peet is widely credited with starting the specialty coffee revolution in the US. Among coffee historians, Peet has been called "the Dutchman who taught America how to drink coffee." Peet taught his style of roasting beans to Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who, with his blessing, took the technique to Seattle and founded Starbucks in 1971. Peet later distanced himself, however, from the Starbucks trio as they experimented with ultra-dark roasts. "Baldwin never learned anything from me," Peet was later quoted as saying. Life and career Peet was born in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, where his father ran a small coffee roasting establishment, prior to World War II. Following the war; Peet left London, where he had apprenticed with Twinings coffee and tea company, to work as a tea taster in the Dutch East Indies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peet Kask
Peet Kask (born 21 February 1948) is an Estonian physicist, political scientist and former politician, most notable for voting for the Estonian restoration of Independence. Kask graduated from the University of Tartu in 1971 with a degree in physics. He defended his dissertation in 1975. He studied politics at Columbia University from 1993 to 1994. He worked at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics from its creation until 1990. His field of research is fluorescence-based detection techniques for molecules. He is one of the largest owners of patents in Estonia. Kask helped with many of the findings of the application of the German company Evotech-Technologies products. At the end of 2006, the US company PerkinElmer bought Evotech-Technologies. Political activity Kask was a co-author of the letter of 40 intellectuals. He was a member of the Estonian Congress and the Supreme Soviet of Estonia from 1990 to 1992, and a member of the Constitutional Assembly fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete (other)
Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character (played by several dogs) in Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' comedies Places * Pete, Zanzibar, a village in Tanzania * Pete, the Hungarian name for Petea village, Dorolț Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania * Petes, Gotland, Visby, Gotland, Sweden * Petes Hill, a summit in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA * Petes Creek, a tributary of the Sacandaga River, located in New York State, USA Sports and athletics * The Pete, Petersen Events Center, athletics complex and basketball arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh * Pete the Penguin, one of the two mascots of Youngstown State University * Purdue Pete, bookstore logo turned unofficial mascot of Purdue University * A member of the Peterborough Petes junior ice hockey team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peat (other)
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Peat is an accumulation of decayed vegetation matter. Peat may also refer to: * Peat (surname), people with the surname Peat *Peat Island, New South Wales, Australia *Peat Marwick, accounting firm, predecessor of KPMG See also *Peet (other) *Pete (other) Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peat
Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of , which is the average depth of the boreal orthernpeatlands", which store around 415 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon (about 46 times 2019 global CO2 emissions). Globally, peat stores up to 550 Gt of carbon, 42% of all soil carbon, which exceeds the carbon stored in all other vegetation types, including the world's forests, although it covers just 3% of the land's surface. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peets
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Peets is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Brian Peets (born 1956), American football player *Elbert Peets (1886–1968), American architect, city planner, and author *Ülo Peets (born 1944), Estonian politician *William Peets (born 1952), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer See also *Peet (other) Peet or PEET may refer to: Surname A surname of English or Dutch origin *Alfred Peet (1920–2007), a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea **Peet's Coffee & Tea, a specialty coffee roaster and retailer founded in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peet Limited
Peet Limited ({{asx, PPC) is an Australian real estate development company focused on creating masterplanned residential communities and medium density and apartment developments for homebuyers across Australia. The group has operations in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, ACT and the Northern Territory. Headquarters are in Perth, Western Australia.1 The current Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer is Brendan Gore. He was appointed in 20072. ---- History The company was founded in 1895 as Peet and Bastow by James Thomas 'JT' Peet (1862-1935).4 James Peet was a surveyor and draughtsman who left England for Australia in 1888. After a short time in Queensland, he moved to Victoria where he established a real estate partnership with architect Austin Bastow in Melbourne. In the early 1890s Peet and Bastow turned their attention west, and in 1895 James Peet moved to Western Australia and established Peet and Company Ltd.3 In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health care, personal care, and veterinary products. History and founding William Colgate, an English immigrant to America and devout Baptist established a starch, soap, and candle factory on Dutch Street in New York City under the name William Colgate & Company in 1806. In 1833, he suffered a severe heart attack, stopping his business's sales; after a convalescence he continued with his business. In the 1840s, the company began selling individual cakes of soap in uniform weights. In 1857, Colgate died and the company was reorganized as Colgate & Company under the management of his devout Baptist son Samuel Colgate, who did not want to continue the business but thought it would be the right thing to do. In 1872, he introduced Cashmere Bouque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Peet Building
The Rogers Peet Building is an eight-story building in the Civic Center and Tribeca neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. Built between 1898 and 1899, it replaced a five-story structure that was home to the Rogers Peet clothing store between 1863 and 1898, when the original structure burned down. Original building The original building, located at Broadway and Warren Street, belonged to the Emanuel Hoffman estate. For 25 years the ground floor of the Rogers Peet Building was occupied by tailors Devlin & Company, who paid an annual rental of $45,000. The Rogers Peet Building had a double basement. The lower cellar housed the Beach Pneumatic Transit railroad, a pneumatic tube that ran across Broadway to Mall Street between 1870 and 1873. The tunnel was used as a shooting gallery after the abandonment of the railroad. Fire At the center of the business section of late 19th century New York City, the conflagration spread to the sixteen-story Home Life Building. At 2 A.M. on Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogers Peet
Rogers Peet was a men's clothing company founded on November 6, 1874. Rogers Peet introduced several innovations into the men's wear business: they attached tags to garments giving fabric composition, they marked garments with price tags (the established practice was to haggle), they offered customers their money back if not satisfied, and they used illustrations of specific merchandise in their advertising. By 1877, it was headed by William R. H. Martin. The company's reputation was strong enough that they were referenced in popular songs. In 1919, Cole Porter wrote about them in the song "I Introduced" from ''Hitchy-Koo of 1919'', from the point of view of a man who claims to have "presented Mister Peet to Mister Rogers," having also introduced several other famous partnerships such as Morgan/Hajes, Lord & Taylor and Moet & Chandon.The Complete Lyrics Of Cole Porter by Robert Kimball, New York 1983 The song "Marry the Man Today" from the 1950 musical ''Guys and Dolls'' mentioned R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peet Stol
Petrus Cornelis Stol (26 January 1880 – 27 November 1956), known as Peet Stol, was a Dutch footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played in the Netherlands' first ever international match on 30 April 1905, scoring an own goal. Stol, who spent his entire career playing with Haarlemsche FC, made a total of two appearances for the national team in 1905. References 1880 births 1956 deaths Dutch footballers Netherlands international footballers Footballers from Haarlem HFC Haarlem players Association football defenders {{Netherlands-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peet Pienaar
Peet Pienaar (born 29 August 1971 near Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000. The discarded foreskin, displayed in a small perspex case, was part of an installation with a three-monitor video showing the circumcision operation in excruciating close-up. He studied fine art at the University of Stellenbosch graduating in 1994 Pienaar was first noticed by a wider public in 1996 when he (once a provincial rugby union player), the son of Afrikaans speaking farmers, dressed as a Springbok rugby player, stood motionless for hours in venues ranging from the South African National Gallery to shopping malls. Rugby union is the national obsession among many white, mostly Afrikaans speaking South Africans, and Pienaar wanted on to explore the homoerotic aspect of the myths and hero-worship with which players are treated, and the constructs which define masculinity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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