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Peebles, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 1739
Housing Units (2000): 788
Land area (2000): 1.213145 sq. miles (3.142031 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.213145 sq. miles (3.142031 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61420
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.947650 N, 83.407764 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45660
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Peebles

Peebles is a royal burgh in Tweeddale (of which it is the county town), within the Scottish Borders region. According to the 2001 Census, the population was 8,159.

Peebles (disambiguation)

Peebles is a town in Scotland.

Peebles may also refer to:

  • Peebles (surname)
  • Peebles (store), a department store chain in the eastern United States
  • Peebles, Ohio
  • Peebles' Corner Historic District, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Peebles, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • SS Peebles or SS Gracechurch, a cargo steamship built in 1930 and torpedoed in 1940
  • SS Peebles (1911), a shipwreck in October 1917
  • Peebles, New Zealand, a place in North Otago
  • Peebles Hospital, the main public hospital in the British Virgin Islands
  • Peebles House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Peebles (store)

Peebles is a United States chain of department stores owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, TX.

Peebles operates stores mostly in small to medium-sized areas of the eastern and upper-midwestern United States areas of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

The store specializes in retailing desirable brand name men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear and housewares.Brands exclusively found at Peebles include Valerie Stevens, Signature Studio, Sun River, Rustic Blue, Rebecca Malone and Wishful Park.

Peebles (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Peebles was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Peebles, Lanark, Linlithgow and Selkirk formed the Lanark district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Peebles (surname)

Peebles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alison Peebles, Scottish actress
  • Andy Peebles, British disc jockey
  • Ann Peebles, American singer
  • Antony Peebles, British pianist
  • Curtis Peebles, aerospace historian
  • David Peebles, Scottish Renaissance composer
  • Ian Peebles, English cricketer
  • James Martin Peebles, American author, organizer
  • Jim Peebles, Canadian-American theoretical cosmologist
  • John Peebles, Canadian politician
  • R. Donahue Peebles, African-American hotel developer
  • Robert Hibbs Peebles, American botanist
  • Sarah Peebles, American composer
  • Mario Van Peebles, American actor, son of Melvin Van Peebles
  • Melvin Van Peebles, American actor, writer and director

Usage examples of "peebles".

In fact, physicists as far back as George Gamow and his students Ralph Alpher and Robert Hermann in the 1950s, and Robert Dicke and Jim Peebles in the mid-1960s, realized that the present-day universe should be permeated by an almost uniform bath of these primordial photons, which, through the last 15 billion years of cosmic expansion, have cooled to a mere handful of degrees above absolute zero.

Their exploits, chronicled by the historian Curtis Peebles, ought to have made UFO enthusiasts cautious forever about crashed saucer stories from the American Southwest around 1950.

They went to Mull, Sky, Cape Wrath, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dunfermline - where they stayed with Stewart and Shona - then by-passed the Bridges and the city to head via Culross and Stirling, Blyth Bridge and Peebles to the borders.

Surely our esteemed manager will not abandon us until sometime further down the road, at one of the smaller venues — Peebles, or Fincastle or Seamus.

For this, Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978 (which seems a bit hard on Dicke and Peebles, not to mention Gamow!

A man should stump up and I will pay my pretty decent trade price for my glueglue gluecose, peebles, were it even, as this is, the legal eric for infelicitous conduict (here incloths placefined my pocketanchoredcheck) and, as a matter of fact, I undertake to discontinue entyrely all practices and I deny wholeswiping in toto at my own request in all stoytness to have confermentated and confoederated and agreed in times prebellic, when here were waders for the trainsfolk, as it is now nuggently laid to me, with a friend from mine, Mr Billups, pulleter, my quarterbrother .