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Partai Nasional Indonesia
Partai Nasional Indonesia (PNI), the Indonesian National Party, was founded by Sukarno in Bandung in 1927 to campaign for full independence from the Netherlands through noncooperation.
Partap Singh Bajwa
Partap Singh Bajwa, born 1957, is an Indian National Congress politician who serves as Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly.
Partech
Partech, formerly Paribas Technologies, is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 1982 as the corporate venture arm of French bank Paribas, managing €2.5 billion across 220 companies.
Partech Venture Fpci
Partech Venture FPCI is a French venture capital fund vehicle created in March 2023, managed by Partech Partners SAS in Paris within the Partech group.
Parth Jindal (पार्थ जिंदल)
Parth Jindal (पार्थ जिंदल) is an Indian business executive, son of JSW Group chairman Sajjan Jindal, who leads JSW Cement, JSW Paints, and JSW Sports.
Parth Pawar (पार्थ अजित पवार)
Parth Ajit Pawar (पार्थ अजित पवार), born 1992, is an NCP Rajya Sabha MP, son of late Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, known for the contested Mundhwa Pune land deal inquiry.
Parth Samthaan (पार्थ समथान)
Parth Samthaan (पार्थ समथान), Indian television actor and model from Pune, known as Manik Malhotra in Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan and Anurag Basu in Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2; Bollywood debut Ghudchadi; now leads COLORS' Seher Hone Ko Hai as Mahid.
Partha Dasgupta
Sir Partha Dasgupta, born in Dhaka in 1942, is a Cambridge economist known for work on welfare, poverty, and natural resources, and for the 2021 Dasgupta Review on biodiversity.
Partha P. Mukherjee
Partha P. Mukherjee is a mechanical engineer and electrochemical energy researcher, professor at Purdue University since 2017, known for modeling batteries and fuel cells and named an ASME Fellow in 2025.
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, born 1973, is an Indian supramolecular coordination chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, known for Pd(II) and Pt(II) molecular cages and barrels used in catalysis.
Parthadyarista (afi afi-partadyarsta)
Parthadyarista (Pārthādyāriṣṭa), also called Arjunarishta, is an Ayurvedic fermented liquid cardiac tonic from Arjuna bark, grapes, Madhuca flowers, Dhataki, and jaggery, listed in AFI Part 1 for heart disease, dose 15-30 ml twice daily.
Parthasarathy Temple, Chennai
The Parthasarathy Temple, also known as Sri Parthasarathy Temple, is a Vaishnava temple in Triplicane, Chennai, dedicated to Krishna as Arjuna's charioteer, with inscriptions from the 8th century.
Partheneion
Partheneion is a type of ancient Greek choral song sung by choruses of unmarried girls at religious festivals; the best-known example is Alcman's seventh-century BC First Partheneion.
Parthenion (Turkey)
Parthenion (Greek Παρθένιον) was a small ancient settlement of Mysia near Pergamon in western Turkey, attested in Xenophon's Anabasis 7.8; its site, long placed on Hisarlık Tepe, is debated, and it is distinct from the Arcadian mountain, Euboean deme, and Bosporan city of the same name.
Parthenios IV
Parthenios IV (Παρθένιος Δ΄), nicknamed Mogilalos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople four or five times between 1657 and 1685, paying 20,000 florins for his 1671 term.
Parthenium
Parthenium is a New World genus of 19 Asteraceae species, best known for P. hysterophorus (Santa Maria feverfew, Congress grass), an allelopathic annual invasive weed in over 30 countries.
Parthenium argentatum
Parthenium argentatum, guayule, a Chihuahuan Desert aster shrub storing 8–12% natural rubber in bark parenchyma; hypoallergenic latex source, once 10% of world rubber in 1910, now a US domestic rubber crop.
Parthenium hysterophorus
Parthenium hysterophorus (congress grass, famine weed), an Asteraceae annual herb native to tropical America, is a noxious invasive weed in 46 countries, causing dermatitis, asthma, allelopathic crop damage, and managed mainly by biocontrol beetles and rust fungi.
Parthenius I
Parthenius I, called the Old, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1639 to 1644, remembered for the synods condemning Cyril Lucaris's Calvinist Confession and approving Peter Mohyla's Orthodox Confession.
Parthenius II
Parthenius II (Παρθένιος Β΄), also called Goliath or Kekeskines, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in two terms, 1644 to 1646 and 1648 to 1651, strangled by janissaries in 1651.
Parthenius III
Parthenius III (Παρθένιος Γʹ) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 1656 until his execution in April 1657, and is venerated as a New Hieromartyr.
Parthenius IV
Parthenius IV, nicknamed Mogilalos and Choumchoumis, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople five times between 1657 and 1685; born in Adrianople, he probably died there late in the 17th century.
Parthenocissus
Parthenocissus, a genus of 16 climbing vine species in Vitaceae published in 1887, native from Asia to North America; includes Virginia creeper (P. quinquefolia) and Boston ivy (P. tricuspidata), which climb via adhesive tendril pads.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper or five-leaved ivy, is a deciduous woody vine of the grape family, native to eastern and central North America.
Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis, from the Greek for virgin birth, is asexual reproduction in which an embryo develops from an unfertilized egg, occurring in plants, insects, sharks, and lizards.
Parthenogenesis in squamates
Parthenogenesis in squamates: lizards and snakes are the only vertebrates with true parthenogenesis, with at least 40 origins in nine families, mostly hybrid-origin all-female lineages like whiptails, plus facultative virgin birth in snakes.
Parthenon (Nashville)
The Parthenon in Nashville is a full-scale replica of the Athenian original in Centennial Park, built for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition and serving as an art museum.
Parthenon (Παρθενών)
The Parthenon (Παρθενών) is a former temple of Athena Parthenos on the Athenian Acropolis, built between 447 and 432 BC and designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates.
Parthenon Investors
Parthenon Investors, also known as Parthenon Capital, is a growth-focused middle-market private equity firm founded in 1998, investing in financial services, healthcare services, and business and technology services companies.
Parthenope (film)
Parthenope is a 2024 Italian-French drama written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, and Luisa Ranieri. It premiered in competition at Cannes 2024, won the CST technical award, and follows a Neapolitan woman's life from 1950 to today.