Pioneer

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Pioneer or The Pioneer may refer to:

Contents 1 Arts and publications 2 Business 3 Geography 4 Military 5 Oceanography 6 Politics and religion 7 Ships 8 Sport 9 Other uses 10 See also

[edit] Arts and publications

• The Pioneer (Visalia, California), a sculpture by Solon H. Borglum listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
• The Pioneers (Elmwood, Illinois), a sculpture by Lorado Taft
• The Pioneers (novel), a book by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pioneers (band), a Jamaican vocal trio
• The Pioneer (Indian newspaper), an English-language newspaper published in India
• The Pioneer, a nineteenth-century literary journal edited by James Russell Lowell
• The pioneer (painting), a painting by Frederick McCubbin
• Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corps located in greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• "Pioneers" (song), a single by Bloc Party
• "Pioneers! O Pioneers!", a poem by Walt Whitman

[edit] Business

• Pioneer Corporation, a Japan based manufacturer of electronics
• The Pioneer (Indian newspaper), an English-language newspaper published in India
• Pioneer Hi-Bred, a seed producer in the United States
• Pioneer Petroleum, an independent gas station chain in Ontario
• Pioneer Surgical Technology, a Michigan based medical device company
• Pioneer Investments, an investment management company
• Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League
• Geneon or Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese anime company

[edit] Geography

• Pioneer, California, USA
• Pioneer, Iowa, USA
• Pioneer, Louisiana, USA
• Pioneer, Singapore, Singapore
• Pioneer Pass, a pass on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago
• Pioneer Township (disambiguation)
• Pioneer Mine, aka Pioneer Mines, a ghost town and former gold mine in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia, Canada

[edit] Military

• Pioneer (military), a type of soldier employed to perform engineering construction tasks
• Assault Pioneer, a trained infantry soldier skilled in combat engineering tasks
• Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle
• RQ-2 Pioneer, an Israeli UAV
• Scottish Aviation Pioneer, British military reconnaissance aircraft

[edit] Oceanography

• Pioneer Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California

[edit] Politics and religion

• Pioneers (missions agency), a Christian missionary organization
• Pioneering (Bahá'í), unpaid lay missionary work for the Bahá'í religion
• Rochdale Pioneers, founders of the Cooperative movement
• Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
• Mormon pioneers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley
• Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholics
• Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
• Bush Pioneers, people who gathered $100,000 for George W. Bush's 2000 or 2004 presidential campaign.
• Pioneer (not typically capitalized), an appointed, male or female, full-time preacher of Jehovah's Witnesses

• Auxiliary pioneer, a Jehovah's Witness pioneer committed to perform 50 hours per month
• Regular pioneer, a Jehovah's Witness pioneer committed to perform 70 hours per month
• Special pioneer, a Jehovah's Witness pioneer committed to perform 130 hours per month

[edit] Ships

• Pioneer (schooner), a ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City
• Pioneer (submarine), an 1862 submarine
• HMS Pioneer, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• USCGC Pioneer (AB-9), a patrol boat in commission in the United States Coast Guard from 1919 to 1934, renamed AB-9 in 1923
• USC&GS Pioneer, the name of three ships of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
• USS Pioneer, the name of more than one vessel in the U.S. Navy
• ST Pionere, an Italian tugboat, originally a British ship named Empire Titan

[edit] Sport

• Pioneer (racehorse), Winner of the 1846 Grand National
• A category for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame

[edit] Other uses

• Pioneer program, a series of NASA probes launched between 1958 and 1978
• Pioneer (Amtrak), a now-discontinued passenger train operated by Amtrak
• Pioneer Hotel Building (Tucson, Arizona), one of the first high-rise buildings in downtown Tucson.
• Pioneer species, a plant adapted to an otherwise barren environment
• Pioneer butterfly or Belenois aurota
• Ann Arbor Pioneer High School, a public high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Pioneer High School (San Jose), a public high school in San Jose, California
• Pioneer High School (Whittier, California), a public high school in in Whittier, California
• St. George Pioneerzz, a former minor league baseball team
• Pionýr, a voluntary organization in the Czech Republic

[edit] See also

• American pioneer
• American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory
• Innovator
• The Pioneer (disambiguation)
• Pioneer Club
• Pioneer Township (disambiguation)
• Pioner
• Settler
• All pages beginning with "Pioneer"
• All pages with titles containing "Pioneer"

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