Pioneer
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Pioneer (from Old French peon "foot soldier") may refer to:people who traveled west from all around the world
- a Combat Engineer or sapper
- a Settler, 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
- Pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location
- The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin
- Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
specific organisations:
- A member of the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
- Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
- Pionyr, a democratic, voluntary and independent organisation of children, youth and adult people in Czech Republic
- Mormon Pioneer, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who crossed the Great Plains
- Halutz, a number of idealist movements for Jews to settle in Palestine (between 1881 and 1947), or an individual active in the physical development of the Land in that period. Bilu is a notable example.
- Pioneer, a term used by Jehovah's Witnesses to describe someone who is in the full-time volunteer ministry work
- A member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic Teetotallers
- A donor who raised more than $100,000 for one of George W. Bush's Presidential campaigns.
vehicles:
- Pioneer program, a series of space probes, partly from the US Armed Forces, partly from NASA's Ames Research Center
- Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes
- Pioneer (locomotive), the first locomotive to operate in Chicago
- Pioneer (Amtrak), a Chicago-Seattle passenger train run by Amtrak until 1997
- Pioneer (robot), a robot developed in China
- RQ-2 Pioneer, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by USA and Israel
- RT-21M Pioneer, a medium-range ballistic missiles
popular culture and brand names:
- Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese company that produces consumer electronics
- Geneon, formerly Pioneer Entertainment, the multimedia arm of Pioneer Corporation
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., an agricultrual company, which is part of DuPont
- The Pioneer (daily), an English language newspaper published from Delhi, India
- "Pioneers", a song by Bloc Party from their album Silent Alarm (album)
- Pioneer Records, a small indie label based in the UK
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