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Party Rock Anthem
Party Rock Anthem: 2011 LMFAO single (feat. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock) from Sorry for Party Rocking; six weeks at Hot 100 #1 from July 16, 2011, multi-country chart-topper, RIAA Diamond, shuffle-dance hit.
Party switching in the United States
Party switching in the United States: officeholders or voters changing party affiliation. Covers Thurmond's 1964 and Lindsay's 1971 switches, 500 state-legislative switches (1993-2024), and links to party realignment.
Party system
Party system: the pattern of competitive interaction among a country's political parties, classified by Duverger and Sartori into dominant-party, two-party, and multiparty (moderate or polarized pluralism) types, measured by effective number of parties and volatility.
Party video game
A party video game is a video game played by a group in one place or online, with simple rules and short rounds anyone can learn in minutes.
Party wall
A party wall is a dividing wall shared by two properties with separate owners, standing astride the boundary or wholly on one owner's land separating the buildings.
Party Wave (band)
Party Wave (PartyWave, PARTY WAVE) names several unrelated acts: a Hawaii/San Diego bass music producer, an Asbury Park NJ punk trio, and Forrest Frank and Noah Hayden's Christian duo, formerly Dawn Patrol, whose debut album Dawn Patrol arrived in 2026.
Party-list proportional representation
Party-list proportional representation (party-list PR, or List PR) is an electoral system in which voters vote for a party and each party wins seats matching its share of the vote, using closed, open, or free lists.
Party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Party-list representation fills 20% of Philippine House of Representatives seats via RA 7941 (1995), a proportional system for national, regional, and sectoral parties with a 2% threshold, three-seat cap, and BANAT-formula allocation.
Party-Schlager
Party-Schlager, also called Ballermann-Musik or Après-Ski-Musik, is a German-language uptempo Schlager subgenre built for crowd singalongs, which grew out of the 1990s Mallorca tourist boom.
PartyNextDoor
PartyNextDoor (Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, born 1993, Mississauga) is a Canadian R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, first artist signed to Drake's OVO Sound, writer of Rihanna's "Work", with albums P1 through P4 and the 2025 Drake joint album $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U.
PartyNextDoor 4
PartyNextDoor 4 (P4) is the fourth studio album by Canadian artist PartyNextDoor, released April 26, 2024 through OVO Sound and Santa Anna with 14 feature-free tracks.
Parugu (పరుగు)
Parugu (పరుగు, "Run/Chase") is a 2008 Telugu romantic action drama directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar, produced by Dil Raju, starring Allu Arjun, Sheela Kaur, and Prakash Raj; a village head's daughter elopes, he kidnaps her lover's friends, and one falls for the younger daughter. Nandi Award-winning super hit.
Parul Gulati (परुल गुलाती)
Parul Gulati (परुल गुलाती) is an Indian actress and entrepreneur from Rohtak, Haryana, known for Haq Se, Girls Hostel, Your Honor, and Made in Heaven, and founder of the hair-extension brand Nish Hair, backed by a Shark Tank India deal from Amit Jain.
Parul Yadav
Parul Yadav (Kannada: ಪಾರುಲ್ ಯಾದವ್), Indian actress, producer, and screenwriter in Kannada cinema; broke out with Govindaya Namaha (2012) and co-produced the four-language Queen remakes including Butterfly. Not the WION producer, designer, or academic of the same name.
Parulidae
Parulidae, the New World warblers or wood-warblers, is a family of small (9-15 cm) American insectivorous songbirds, unrelated to Old World warblers, with about 110-116 species, many long-distance migrants whose ancestral state was migratory.
Parun Fossa
Parun Fossa is a 120-km-wide fossa (trough) on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, centered at -46.5°, 152.0°. IAU-approved in 2010, it is named after a Nuristan, Afghanistan river from creation myth.
Parupalli Kashyap
Parupalli Kashyap, Indian men's singles badminton player born 1986 in Hyderabad; 2014 Commonwealth Games gold and 2012 Olympic quarterfinalist; former world no. 6; retired 2024, now a coach.
Paruresis
Paruresis, also known as shy bladder syndrome or pee shyness, is the inability to urinate when others are present, usually manageable only when alone at home.
Parus
Parus is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Paridae, the tits and chickadees, erected by Linnaeus in 1758 and now restricted to the great tit group.
Paruthiveeran (பருத்திவீரன்)
Paruthiveeran (பருத்திவீரன்) is a 2007 Tamil romantic drama directed by Ameer Sultan, starring debutant Karthi and Priyamani; it ran 300 days, won two National Awards and six Filmfare Awards, and sparked a long funding dispute.
Paruvu (పరువు)
Paruvu (పరువు) is a 2024 Telugu ZEE5 crime thriller web series, 8 episodes, directed by Siddharth Naidu and Vadlapati Rajasekhar, starring Nivetha Pethuraj and Naresh Agastya as an inter-caste couple entangled in honor killing and caste politics in Guntur.
Parva
Parva (ಪರ್ವ) is a 1979 Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that retells the Mahabharata realistically, stripped of divine elements, through monologues on the eve of the Kurukshetra War.
Parva Planum
Parva Planum is an IAU-approved plateau (planum) on Mars near the south polar region, named in 2003 from a classical albedo feature, about 1,027 km across, centered at −73.67°, 264.93°.
Parvalbumin
Parvalbumin (PV), also called PA, is a small acidic ~12 kDa EF-hand calcium-binding protein of fast-twitch muscle and GABAergic interneurons; first Ca2+-binding protein structurally resolved (1973), source of the EF-hand motif, and a major fish allergen.
Parvarchaeota
Parvarchaeota is a candidate archaeal lineage of very small microorganisms, one of the two ARMAN groups, discovered in acid mine drainage biofilms at Iron Mountain Mine in California.
Parvarish (परवरिश)
Parvarish (परवरिश, Upbringing) is a 1977 Hindi action crime drama directed by Manmohan Desai, starring Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, and Vinod Khanna, about a policeman who adopts a gangster's son; music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
Parvarrish – Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi (परवरिश – कुछ खट्टी कुछ मीठी)
Parvarrish – Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi (परवरिश – कुछ खट्टी कुछ मीठी), also called Parvarish, is a Sony TV Hindi family drama (2011–2013) about sisters Sweety and Pinky raising children with strict versus friendly parenting styles; a second season ran 2015–2016.
Parvataka
Parvataka (पर्वतक) was a king or chief of a Himalayan district of northwestern India who helped Chandragupta Maurya and Chanakya overthrow the Nanda dynasty around the late fourth century BC.
Parvathamma Rajkumar (ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್)
Parvathamma Rajkumar (ಪಾರ್ವತಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ ಕುಮಾರ್), 1939–2017, Kannada film producer and distributor, wife of Dr Rajkumar, founder of Vajreshwari Combines and Poornima Enterprises, produced over 80 films and launched her sons' careers.
Parvathy Jayaram (അശ്വതി കുറുപ്പ്)
Parvathy Jayaram (അശ്വതി കുറുപ്പ്, Ashwathy Kurup), born 1970, is a former Malayalam film actress active 1986–1993, known for Thoovanathumbikal, Vadakkunokkiyanthram, and Kamaladalam, and the wife of actor Jayaram since 1992. Not the actress Parvathy Thiruvothu.