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Pioneer
A pioneer (from Old French peon "foot soldier") is one who has travelled from his or her homeland by choice to live in a "new" land or colony, in particular referring to the American Old West. See Settler. more...
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Modern usage of the term is to do something 'new', to pioneer something as in, to invent something, or take something in a fresh direction.
Pioneer may also refer to:
Military
Assault Pioneer, especially in the British Army, a trained infantry soldier capable of simple combat engineering tasks that would facilitate the passage of the main body of troops, even when under fire;
Pioneer (submarine), built in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862;
The Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle;
Business
Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronics;
Pioneer Petroleum, an independent gas station chain in Ontario;
Places
Pioneer, California, USA;
Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia;
Members of organizations
A Mormon pioneer, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah, between 1847 and 1869;
Pioneer, a Jehovah's Witness who is in full-time volunteer ministry work (see Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses#Baptized Publishers);
Pioneers (Christian group), a Christian missionary organization;
The Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement;
The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic teetotallers;
PionĂ½r, a voluntary organization in the Czech Republic;
Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union;
Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League;
Pioneer Football Club, an Australian Football League club participating in the Central Australian Football League (CAFL) in the Northern Territory;
Space probes
The Pioneer program, a series of unmanned NASA planetary exploration probes launched between 1958 and 1978;
Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, flying past Jupiter in 1973; contact lost in 2000; now encroute to Aldeberan in Taurus;
Pioneer 11, launched in 1973, flying past Jupiter in 1974 and Saturn in 1979; contact lost in 1994;
Other uses
Pioneer, a Jew who was active in the development of the land of Israel in the period from 1881 to 1947;
The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin;
The Pioneer (daily) a newspaper published from several North Indian cities; one of India's oldest newspapers;
Geneon, Japanese anime and home entertainment production and distribution company, formerly known as Pioneer Entertainment, or Pioneer LDC;
Pioneer Network, a group of charismatic Christian churches, mainly in Great Britain;
Pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location;
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