Penrose may refer to:
Places
United States
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Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
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Penrose, Colorado, a town
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Penrose, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood
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Penrose, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Route 291 (PA 291) is an east–west route in Pennsylvania that runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) and US 13 Business (US 13 Bus.) in Trainer, Delaware County, east to Interstate 76 (I-76) in South Philadelphia near the Walt Whit ...
, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood
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Penrose, North Carolina
Penrose is an unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. Penrose is located on U.S. Route 64 east-northeast of Brevard. Penrose has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that p ...
, an unincorporated community
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Penrose, Utah
Penrose is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated farming community in eastern Box Elder County, Utah, Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
Description
Penrose is located along the last of Utah State Route 102, approximately south of Thatc ...
, an unincorporated community
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Penrose, Virginia, an historic district in Arlington County
Elsewhere
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wingecarribee), Australia
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wollongong)
The City of Wollongong is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is situated adjacent to the Tasman Sea, the Princes Motorway and the Illawarra railway line.
Located south of Sydney central busi ...
, New South Wales, Australia
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Penrose, Cornwall
Penrose ( Cornish: Penros) is a house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate amounting to 1536 acres, east of Porthleven and in the civil parish of Sithney, Cornwall, England. The estate includes Loe Pool and Loe Bar which was given i ...
, a country house and National Trust estate in England
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Penrose, New Zealand
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Penrose Peak (disambiguation)
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Penrose railway station (disambiguation)
People
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Penrose Stout (1887–1934), American architect
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Penrose Hallowell
Penrose Hallowell ( – July 24, 2021) was a Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture, leading the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture between 1979 and 1985.
Personal life
Penrose Hallowell was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Joseph W. H ...
(c. 1928–2021), Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture
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Penrose (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other uses
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Penrose (brand), a
brand name owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc.
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The Penrose Annual'', a London-based review of graphic arts (1895–1982)
* Penrose Building, a building of
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...
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Penrose drain, a rubber tube used in post-surgical wound care
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Penrose Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of America
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Penrose tiling, an aperiodic tiling discovered by Roger Penrose
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Penrose triangle and
Penrose stairs
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A variation o ...
, optical illusions
See also
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Penrhos (disambiguation)
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