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Places

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Perk, Belgium Steenokkerzeel () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Melsbroek, Perk and Steenokkerzeel proper. On December 31, 2010 Steenokkerzeel had a total population of 11,580. The to ...
, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel ** Perk Castle, a castle near there * Perk Summit, Victoria Land, Antarctica


People

* August Perk (1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter * Brian Perk (born 1989), American soccer player *
Ralph Perk Ralph Joseph Perk (January 19, 1914 – April 21, 1999) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 52nd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Early life Born to an ethnic Czech American family in Cleveland, Perk dropped out of ...
(1914–1999), American politician *nickname of Percy Galbraith (1898–1961), Canadian National Hockey League forward *nickname of Kendrick Perkins (born 1984), American National Basketball Association player


Other uses

* Employee benefit, also known as a perk, from perquisite: various non-wage compensations provided in addition to cash wages * Tetrachloroethylene, a chemical used for dry-cleaning, referred to in British English as Perk * Thermodynamic beta, a fundamental quantity in statistical mechanics *
EIF2AK3 Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 3, also known as protein kinase R (PKR)-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''EIF2AK3'' gene. Function The protein encoded by this gene ...
, a human enzyme, often abbreviated as PERK * Perk, a bonus which gives a video game character a special ability


See also

* PERC (disambiguation) * Perks (disambiguation) * PERQ, a workstation computer {{disambig, geo, surname