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Pascale Trinquet Hachin
Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, French foil fencer born 1958 in Marseille, double Olympic champion at Moscow 1980 in individual and team foil, team bronze at Los Angeles 1984, sister of fencer Véronique Trinquet.
Pascaline
The Pascaline, also called the machine arithmétique, is a mechanical calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642 to help his father, a Normandy tax commissioner, with arithmetic.
Pascha (brothel)
Pascha, at Hornstraße 2, Cologne, Germany, is a 12-storey Laufhaus brothel opened in 1972 as the Eros-Center; with over 120 rooms it is Europe's largest brothel, renamed Pascha in 1995, insolvent in 2020 and later tied to an immigration investigation.
Paschal I
Paschal I was the 98th pope, reigning from 817 until his death in 824. He secured the Pactum Ludovicianum, rebuilt Santa Prassede, and moved thousands of martyrs' relics into Rome.
Paschal II
Paschal II, born Raniero around 1050, was the 160th pope from 1099 to 1118, whose reign was dominated by the Investiture Controversy with Henry V.
Paschal Triduum
The Paschal Triduum, or Easter Triduum, is the three-day Christian liturgical period from Holy Thursday evening to Easter Sunday evening commemorating Christ's death and resurrection.
Paschalis Terzis
Paschalis Terzis (Πασχάλης Τερζής) is a Greek laiko singer born in Thessaloniki in 1949, whose 1986 album Εθνική Θεσσαλονίκης led to broad hits and packed Athens venues in the 1990s.
Paschasius
Paschasius was a deacon of the Roman Church around 500, a lifelong partisan of the antipope Laurentius against Pope Symmachus, later honored in Catholic tradition as a saintly penitent.
Paschen (lunar crater)
Paschen, lunar far-side impact crater, 127.36 km diameter at 14.06S 140.53W; IAU-named 1970 for German physicist Friedrich Paschen (1865-1940).
Paschen's law
Paschen's law, or the Paschen curve, states that the breakdown voltage of a gas depends on the product of pressure and gap length, published by Friedrich Paschen in 1889.
Paschim Medinipur
Paschim Medinipur (পশ্চিম মেদিনীপুর), or West Midnapore, a West Bengal district formed 1 January 2002 from the partition of Midnapore; area 9,295.28 km², 2011 population 59,13,457, headquarters Midnapore, Jhargram split off in 2017.
Pasching
Pasching: Upper Austrian football club founded 1946 as ATSV Pasching, Bundesliga 2002, first third-tier winner of the Austrian Cup 2013, now FC Juniors OÖ linked with LASK.
Pasco County, Florida
Pasco County, Florida: Gulf-coast county created June 2, 1887 from Hernando County, named for Senator Samuel Pasco; seat Dade City; 561,891 residents in 2020, fast-growing Tampa Bay suburb.
Pasco M. Bowman II
Pasco M. Bowman II, born 1933, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Pascoal Moreira Cabral
Pascoal Moreira Cabral was a Brazilian bandeirante from Sorocaba who discovered gold on the Coxipó River in 1719 and signed the founding act of the Arraial de Cuiabá.
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli
Pascoal (Paschoal) Ranieri Mazzilli, Brazilian lawyer and PSD deputy from São Paulo, president of the Chamber of Deputies 1958-1965, interim president of Brazil in 1961 after Quadros's resignation and again in 1964 after the coup.
Pascopyrum smithii
Pascopyrum smithii, western wheatgrass (syn. Agropyron smithii), a native rhizomatous cool-season sod-forming North American prairie grass, allo-octoploid 2n=56, valued for forage, salinity tolerance, and erosion-control revegetation.
Pascua-Lama
Pascua-Lama is a binational gold-silver-copper mining project straddling the Chile-Argentina border in the Andes above 4,500 meters, developed by Barrick Gold and definitively closed in 2020.
Pascual Jordan
Pascual Jordan (1902–1980) was a German theoretical physicist who co-founded matrix mechanics with Born and Heisenberg, pioneered quantum field theory, introduced Jordan algebras, and later served in the Bundestag.
Pascual Orozco
Pascual Orozco (Pascual Orozco Vázquez, 1882–1915) was a Mexican revolutionary general from Chihuahua, a former muleteer who fought Díaz in 1910 and revolted against Madero in 1912.
Pascual Perez
Pascual Perez (Pascual Nicolás Pérez Alonso, El León Mendocino), Argentine flyweight boxer; 1948 Olympic gold medalist and first Argentine world boxing champion, holding the flyweight title 1954–1960.
Pascual Restrepo
Pascual Restrepo is a Colombian-American economist and associate professor at Yale University, known for his work with Daron Acemoglu on how automation and robots affect jobs, wages, and inequality.
PASEF
PASEF (parallel accumulation–serial fragmentation) is a mass spectrometry acquisition method introduced in 2015 that synchronizes ion mobility with rapid precursor selection, enabling hundreds of fragment spectra per second.
Pasek and Paul
Pasek and Paul, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, American songwriting team behind Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman; EGOT winners in 2024 with two Tonys, two Grammys, two Emmys, and an Oscar each.
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences (Paisaje de la Luz), a Madrid cultural landscape inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 under criteria (ii), (iv), (vi): 237-ha property with 2,255-ha buffer zone, 16th-century alameda, Buen Retiro gardens, Royal Botanic Garden.
Paser (mayor of East Thebes)
Paser was mayor of Thebes, an official of Ramesses III's court in the early 20th Dynasty, known from relief blocks of his mortuary chapel found at Medinet Habu.
Paser (vizier)
Paser, also known as Paser I, was Vizier of the South under the pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II, active from about 1285 to 1255 BC.
Paser II
Paser II was a Viceroy of Kush towards the end of Ramesses II's reign, son of Minmose, High Priest of Min and Isis at Akhmim.
Pash (poet)
Pash (Punjabi: ਪਾਸ਼), pen name of Avtar Singh Sandhu (1950–1988), was an Indian poet who wrote in Punjabi and is regarded as a major revolutionary poet of twentieth-century Punjabi literature.
PASH syndrome
PASH syndrome (pyoderma gangrenosum, acne, suppurative hidradenitis) is a rare autoinflammatory skin disease first described in 2012, genetically linked to PSTPIP1 promoter CCTG repeats, treated with TNF and IL-1 blockers; distinct from breast PASH and from PAPA, PAPASH, PsAPASH, and PASS syndromes.