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Passage du Desir
Passage du Désir, debut album by Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson's pseudonym), released July 12, 2024 on High Top Mountain; eight country-soul songs written in Paris after a vocal cord hemorrhage.
Passage vortex
The passage vortex is the dominant secondary flow vortex in a turbomachinery blade passage, formed from endwall boundary layer vorticity and a major source of aerodynamic loss.
Passaic County
Passaic County, New Jersey: county created 1837 from Essex and Bergen parts, county seat Paterson, 16 municipalities, 524,118 residents (2020), 186 square miles, FIPS 34031.
Passaic County Technical Institute
Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) is a public vocational magnet high school in Wayne, New Jersey, serving grades 9-12 countywide; the state's largest high school with about 3,500 students, 14 CTE programs, and a reported 100% graduation rate.
Passaic UFO photographs
Passaic UFO photographs, or George Stock photographs, July 31, 1952 Passaic, New Jersey pictures of a domed disc, investigated by ATIC and FBI; ATIC judged them not authentic but never proven hoax.
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic, New Jersey: city in Passaic County on the Passaic River, founded as the Dutch settlement of Acquackanonk in 1678, incorporated 1873; about 70,500 residents, 73% Hispanic, a former textile-mill city about 10 miles from New York City.
Passalidae
Passalidae (bess beetles, bessbugs, patent leather beetles), family Leach 1815 in Scarabaeoidea; about 1,000 species of subsocial, wood-boring beetles of tropical and subtropical forests that excavate log galleries, practice cooperative brood care, and stridulate.
Passamaquoddy oral literature
Passamaquoddy oral literature is the stories, songs, legends, and ceremonial speech of the Passamaquoddy people of Maine and New Brunswick, including Glooscap tales recorded on wax cylinders in 1890.
Passau
Passau (Dreiflüssestadt, "Venice of Bavaria") is an independent city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, at the Danube–Inn–Ilz confluence; 53,373 residents (2026), University of Passau, baroque old town, St. Stephen's Cathedral with the world's largest cathedral organ.
Passbook
A passbook, also known as a bank book, is a small booklet held by the customer that records deposits, withdrawals, and the running balance in an account.
Passé composé
Passé composé: the French compound past tense formed with avoir or être in the present plus a past participle, used for completed actions, taking être with motion and pronominal verbs, and functioning as the everyday perfective past of spoken French.
Passenger
Passenger is a 2024 British supernatural crime thriller series created by Andrew Buchan, starring Wunmi Mosaku as DI Riya Ajunwa in the village of Chadder Vale, airing on ITV1, ITVX and BritBox; distinct from the 2026 Paramount horror film and 2023 MGM+ thriller of the same name.
Passenger (2026 film)
Passenger (2026) is a supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal, starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, and Melissa Leo, released by Paramount Pictures on May 22, 2026 and streaming on Paramount+ from August 20, 2026; distinct from Vadim Perelman's The Passenger (2026).
Passenger (Alex Warren song)
PASSENGER is a 2026 pop single by Alex Warren from his album WILDCHILD, released June 5, 2026 on Atlantic Records; written with Cal Shapiro, Mags Duval, and Adam Yaron; UK peak number 22, Billboard Hot 100 peak 100.
Passenger (singer)
Passenger is the stage name of English folk-rock singer-songwriter Michael David Rosenberg (born 1984, Brighton), formerly frontman of the band Passenger; known for the 2012 hit "Let Her Go", not to be confused with Lisa Hannigan's album Passenger or Deftones' song.
Passenger 57
Passenger 57 is a 1992 American action thriller directed by Kevin Hooks, starring Wesley Snipes as an airline security expert who battles hijackers aboard a plane.
Passenger name record
A passenger name record (PNR) is the reservation data airlines collect to process bookings, containing itinerary, ticket, contact, and payment information, later transferred to governments for border control.
Passenger pigeon
The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was a North American bird that once numbered 3 to 5 billion before hunting and habitat loss drove it extinct in 1914.
Passengers (2008 film)
Passengers is a 2008 American supernatural mystery thriller directed by Rodrigo García, starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson as a grief counselor and a crash survivor.
Passengers (2016 film)
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as passengers awakened early on a colony ship.
Passengers of the Titanic
The roughly 1,300 fare-paying passengers of the Titanic, sailing in three classes in April 1912, saw survival rates vary sharply by sex, age, and ticket class.
PASSER
PASSER, short for Progression Analysis and Signal System Evaluation Routine, is a family of traffic signal timing programs from the Texas Transportation Institute that optimizes coordinated timings by maximizing progression bandwidth.
Passer rating
Passer rating (passer efficiency rating) is the NFL's official passing-efficiency metric since 1973, combining completion percentage, yards per attempt, and TD and interception rates into a 0-158.3 scale; distinct from ESPN's QBR and ANY/A.
Passerculus
Passerculus (Bonaparte, 1838) is a valid monotypic passerellid sparrow genus, the Savannah Sparrows, containing Passerculus sandwichensis with subspecies princeps (Ipswich Sparrow) and beldingi; formerly broader, related taxa now sit in Centronyx.
Passerella
Passerella (fox sparrows) is a genus of New World sparrows in the family Passerellidae, erected by Swainson in 1837 with Fox Sparrow as type. Formerly one variable species, it now holds four species split on mitochondrial and plumage evidence.
Passerina
Passerina is a genus of seven colorful North American buntings in the cardinal family, including the indigo, lazuli, and painted buntings, named by Vieillot in 1816.
Passerine
Passerine (Passeriformes), the perching birds, largest avian order with nearly 6,500 species, about two thirds of all birds; suborders Tyranni and Passeri (songbirds); anisodactyl foot, syrinx voice, early Cenozoic diversification from Australasia.
Passerini reaction
The Passerini reaction is a three-component organic reaction in which a carbonyl compound, carboxylic acid, and isocyanide form an α-acyloxy carboxamide; it was discovered in 1921.
Passes Inc.
Passes Inc. is an American creator-economy company founded in 2022 by Lucy Guo, operating a subscription platform where creators sell exclusive content directly to fans.
Passi
Passi (Passi Balende) is a French rapper of Congolese origin, born in 1972 in Brazzaville, a founding member of Ministère A.M.E.R. and a solo artist since 1997.