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Pachamama
Pachamama, also Pacha Mama, is the Andean Mother Earth deity of Quechua and Aymara religion, documented in 16th-17th century colonial chronicles, syncretized with the Virgin Mary, honored with August offerings in Bolivia, and invoked in Bolivia's rights-of-nature laws.
Pachamama Corona
Pachamama Corona is a 130-km-diameter corona on Venus at 36°S, 21.8°E, IAU-named in 1997 for the Incan earth goddess, a plume-related volcano-tectonic feature.
Pachelbel's Canon
Pachelbel's Canon, formally the Canon and Gigue in D major, is a chamber work by Johann Pachelbel for three violins and basso continuo, composed around 1680 to 1700.
Pachhwara (North) Coal Mine
Pachhwara (North) Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in the Rajmahal coalfield in Pakur district, Jharkhand, India, owned by WBPDCL and reopened in 2019 after reallocation.
Pachhwara Central Coal Mine
Pachhwara Central Coal Mine is a captive open-cast coal mine in Pakur district, Jharkhand, India, owned by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited in the Rajmahal coalfield.
Pachinko (novel)
Pachinko (파친코) is Min Jin Lee's 2017 National Book Award-finalist historical novel tracing four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989, centered on Sunja and the Zainichi experience; adapted by Apple TV+ in 2022.
Pachinko (TV series)
Pachinko is an Apple TV+ drama created by Soo Hugh from Min Jin Lee's 2017 novel, following four generations of a Korean immigrant family in Korean, Japanese, and English, with two seasons (2022, 2024) and a Peabody Award.
Pachinko (パチンコ)
Pachinko (パチンコ) is Japan's vertical pinball-style amusement game, legally distinct from gambling via the three-shop prize-exchange system. Largest Japanese gaming segment at ¥14.6 trillion in 2022; sales peaked at ¥30.9 trillion in 1995 and have declined since.
Pachinko Tiger
Pachinko Tiger (パチンコTIGER), a pachinko hall chain based in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, succeeded by the PACHINKO DAIEI group in September 2016; distinct from Tiger Resort and other Tiger-named halls.
Pachira aquatica
Pachira aquatica, the Guiana-chestnut or money tree, is a wetland Bombacoideae tree from Mexico to South America; type of its genus, edible seeds, braided houseplant form, Least Concern.
Pachirisu (パチリス)
Pachirisu (パチリス), the EleSquirrel Pokémon, is an Electric-type, non-evolving Pokémon No. 417 from Diamond/Pearl, known for Sejun Park's 2014 World Championship win using Follow Me, Nuzzle, Super Fang, and Volt Absorb.
Pachisi (पचीसी)
Pachisi (पचीसी), also caupaṛ/chaupar, is an Indian cross-and-circle race game played with cowrie shells on a cruciform cloth board; ancestor of Ludo, Parcheesi, and Parchís, securely evidenced from Mughal Akbar's court.
Pachmarhi (पचमढ़ी)
Pachmarhi (पचमढ़ी), "Satpura ki Rani," is Madhya Pradesh's only hill station, at 1,067 m in the Satpura Range. Discovered by Forsyth in 1857, it lies within the UNESCO Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve and Satpura Tiger Reserve, known for Pandav Caves, waterfalls, rock art, and Dhoopgarh (1,352 m).
Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve
Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve (पचमढ़ी), Madhya Pradesh, Central India: UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2009 (national 1999), 4,926 km² in the Satpura range, containing Satpura Tiger Reserve, teak-sal deciduous forests, and threatened tree regeneration.
Pachomi Or Wahidpur Mound
Pachomi Or Wahidpur Mound, also recorded as Pachaumi or Pachauri, is a centrally protected archaeological site at Pachomi village in Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, where Indo-Scythian coins are found.
Pachomios I
Pachomios I (Greek Παχώμιος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople who held the office twice, from 1503 to 1504 and again until his death in early 1513.
Pachomius II
Pachomius II (Pachomios II Patestos, Παχώμιος Β΄ Πατέστος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1584 to 1585, reaching the throne as Metropolitan of Caesarea after helping depose Jeremias II.
Pachomius the Great (ϧⲱⲙ)
Pachomius the Great (ϧⲱⲙ), also known as Saint Pachomius, was an Egyptian monk of the Thebaid who founded Christian cenobitic monasticism and wrote the earliest surviving monastic rule.
Pachomius the Serb
Pachomius the Serb (Пахомий Серб) was a Serbian-born hieromonk from Mount Athos who wrote lives and services of Russian saints in Novgorod and Moscow from the 1430s to 1484.
Pachran Mound
Pachran Mound, an ASI centrally protected brick mound at Pachran village, Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh, near Sravasti; site of the Prithvinath lingam and a copper plate grant, now the Prithvinath temple.
Pachuca de Soto
Pachuca de Soto, capital municipality of Hidalgo, Mexico; seat city Pachuca. Historic silver-mining center in the Comarca Minera, 314,331 inhabitants (2020), 154.01 km², Reloj Monumental landmark.
Pachuco
Pachuco: Mexican American youth subculture of the 1930s-1950s, also called zoot suiters, defined by zoot suits, caló slang, and gang affiliation; marked by the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots and later Chicano cultural reclamation.
Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum (പച്ചുവും അത്ഭുത വിളക്കും)
Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum (പച്ചുവും അത്ഭുത വിളക്കും), aka Paachuvum Albhuthavilakkum, is a 2023 Malayalam comedy-drama, Akhil Sathyan's directorial debut starring Fahadh Faasil; released 28 April 2023, it flopped at the box office but won SIIMA and Kerala State awards.
Pachycephala
Pachycephala (whistlers) is the largest genus of Pachycephalidae, Australo-Papuan in origin, spanning the Indo-Pacific; includes the Golden Whistler complex, the world's most geographically variable bird species with over 70 subspecies.
Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus, the thick-headed lizard, a Late Cretaceous North American dome-skulled herbivorous dinosaur (69–66 Ma, ~3 m, 450 kg); known for head-butting debate and Dracorex/Stygimoloch growth-stage synonymy.
Pachycereus
Pachycereus, Mexican columnar cactus genus (Britton & Rose 1909) with five accepted species including the giant cardón Pachycereus pringlei, up to 20 m tall, bat-pollinated, native only to Mexico.
Pachyderm (software)
Pachyderm was an open-source data versioning and pipeline platform built on Kubernetes, with the PFS versioned file system, pachd daemon, and language-agnostic containerized pipelines; launched 2015, discontinued after its later acquisition.
Pachydermoperiostosis
Pachydermoperiostosis, or primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome), is a rare hereditary disorder with digital clubbing, pachydermia, and periostosis, caused by HPGD or SLCO2A1 mutations elevating prostaglandin E2.
Pachydiscus
Pachydiscus, an extinct Late Cretaceous ammonite genus (Zittel, 1884; type species Ammonites neubergicus von Hauer, 1858) of the family Pachydiscidae, ranging Santonian to latest Maastrichtian worldwide; P. neubergicus marks the base of the Maastrichtian Stage.
Pachymeningitis
Pachymeningitis, also called hypertrophic pachymeningitis in its fibrotic form, is inflammation and thickening of the dura mater (ICD-11 8E41) caused by infection, autoimmune disease including ANCA and IgG4-related disease, or cancer, diagnosed by MRI and dural biopsy.