User:Spudzonatron/Pioneer
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Pioneer may refer to:
- A pioneer, 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.
- Pioneer (military), a military specialist in using engineering techniques in combat.
- The Pioneer program, a series of unmanned NASA planetary exploration probes launched between 1958 and 1978
- The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin
- Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
- A pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location
- 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
- A Jehovah's Witness who is in full-time volunteer ministry work (see Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses#Baptized_Publishers)
- Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronics
- A Jew who was active in the development of the land of Israel in the period from 1881 to 1947
[edit] Members of Organizations
In addition, pioneer may refer to a member of one of the following organizations:
- The Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
- The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic Teetotallers
- Pionyr, 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
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