Piers Power, 2nd Baron Power
Piers may refer to: * Pier, a raised structure over a body of water * Pier (architecture), an architectural support * Piers (name), a given name and surname (including lists of people with the name) * Piers baronets, two titles, in the baronetages of Ireland and Nova Scotia * Piers Island, British Columbia, Canada * PIERS: The Port Import/Export Reporting Service, an American trade intelligence company See also * Pier (other) * Pierres (other) * Pierse * Pierce (other) * Peirse (other) Peirse may refer to: People with the surname *Henry Peirse (1750s-1824), English politician * Richard Peirse (Royal Navy officer) (1860-1940), English Royal Navy officer *Richard Peirse (1892-1970), English RAF commander * Richard Peirse (RAF offic ...

Pier
image:Brighton Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England-2Oct2011 (1).jpg, Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piling, piles or column, pillars, and provides above-water access to offshore areas. Frequent pier uses include fishing, boat docking and access for both passengers and cargo, and oceanside recreation. Bridges, buildings, and walkways may all be supported by Pier (architecture), architectural piers. Their open structure allows tides and currents to flow relatively unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely spaced piles of a wharf can act as a Breakwater (structure), breakwater, and are consequently more liable to silting. Piers can range in size and complexity from a simple lightweight wooden structure to major structures extended over . In Amer ...
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Pier (architecture)
A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge. Sections of structural walls between openings (bays) can function as piers. External or free-standing walls may have piers at the ends or on corners. Description The simplest cross section of the pier is square, or rectangular, but other shapes are also common. In medieval architecture, massive circular supports called drum piers, cruciform (cross-shaped) piers, and compound piers are common architectural elements. Columns are a similar upright support, but stand on a round base. In buildings with a sequence of bays between piers, each opening (window or door) between two piers is considered a single bay. Bridge piers Single-span bridges have abutments at each end that support the weight of the bridge and serve as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach. Multi-span bridges require piers to support the ends of spans betwe ...
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Piers (name)
Piers is an old English given name and surname, and has the same origins as Peter. Its meaning is 'rock, stone'. People with the given name * Piers Adam (born 1964), British businessman * Piers Adams (born 1963), British recorder player * Piers Akerman (born 1950), Australian journalist, conservative commentator and columnist * Piers Anthony (born 1934), Anglo-American fantasy/science fiction author known for his Xanth series of novels * Piers Baker (born 1962), British cartoonist * Piers Baron (born 1983), English musician * Piers Bengough (1929-2005), British Army officer * Piers Benn (born 1962), British philosopher * Piers Bishop (born 1956), British artist * Piers Bizony (born 1959), Science journalist * Piers Blaikie (born 1942), British geographer * Piers Bohl (1865-1921), Latvian mathematician * Piers Brendon (born 1940), British writer * Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond (c. 1467–1539) * Piers Claughton (1814–1884), British Anglican bishop, Archdeacon of London an ...
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Piers Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Piers, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. One creation is extant as of 2008 while the other is dormant. The Piers Baronetcy, of Stonepit in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 24 March 1638 for Thomas Piers. The title became dormant on the death of the third Baronet in 1720. The Piers Baronetcy, of Tristernagh Abbey in the County of Westmeath, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 18 February 1661 for Sir Henry Piers, 1st Baronet. He was a descendant of William Piers, originally of Piers Hall, Yorkshire, who received a grant of Tristernagh Abbey, County Westmeath, by Elizabeth I in the late 1560s, and served as Governor of Carrickfergus and Seneschal of County Antrim. The sixth baronet, Sir John Bennett Piers, was involved in a notorious lawsuit in 1807 when he was found to have seduced Lady Cloncurry, the wife of a close friend. Pier ...
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Piers Island
Piers Island is a small island in Satellite Channel, British Columbia, Canada. The channel joins Saanich Inlet on the west with Colburne Passage to Haro Strait on the east, which is the section of the Canada–US border separating the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, of which Piers is a part, from the San Juan Islands of Washington state. Haro Strait is part of the Inside Passage from Washington to Alaska through which ships can find waters relatively sheltered from Pacific Ocean waves and storms for most of its length. Piers Island is separated from the somewhat larger Portland Island by Shute Passage to the northeast. Name The island is named for Henry Piers (d. 1902), a Royal Navy surgeon who served on and and at the Pacific Station (Esquimalt), later Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets. History In the early 1930s a portion of the island was a penal colony used to house Sons of Freedom (a group of Doukhobor The Doukhobours or Dukhobors (russian: Ð´ÑƒÑ…Ð¾Ð±Ð¾Ñ ...
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The Port Import/Export Reporting Service
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ...
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