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Passo Fundo
Passo Fundo is a municipality in northern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; regional hub for agribusiness, health, and education; 206,215 residents (2022 census), 784.4 km², IBGE code 4314100, mayor Pedro Cézar de Almeida Neto.
Passo Lombardo
Passo Lombardo (Villa Romana di Passo Lombardo), a Roman villa rustica in Rome's Tor Vergata suburbium, Municipio VI, with peperino tuff production vats; excavated 1999 and 2006-2009, occupied 5th c. BC to 6th c. AD; Lombard-derived toponym.
Passover (פֶּסַח)
Passover (Hebrew: פֶּסַח, Pesach), also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, is the Jewish spring festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt, centered on the Seder meal.
Passover Seder (סדר פסח)
The Passover Seder (סדר פסח), also called the Pesach seder, is the ritual home meal opening Passover, retelling the Exodus over four cups of wine and matzah.
Passover Seder plate
The Passover Seder plate, known in Hebrew as ke'ara, is the dish holding the six symbolic foods, such as shank bone and bitter herbs, at the Seder.
Passport
Passport: the standardized international travel document issued by a person's State of nationality, required for departure and re-entry. Covers ICAO 9303 standardization, US application records since 1795, biometric e-passport chips, the ICAO PKD, and 2025 Henley rankings (Singapore 193 visa-free destinations, US 12th).
Passport bros
Passport bros, also called PPB, are Western men who travel abroad, mainly to Colombia, Brazil, Thailand, and the Philippines, seeking "traditional" wives; a manosphere-linked movement coined in a 2011 documentary and spread on TikTok since 2019.
Passport stamp
Passport stamp: ink impression recording a traveler's entry or exit date and place, used to calculate permitted stay. Replaced in the EU Schengen area by the biometric Entry/Exit System from 10 April 2026.
Passport to Pimlico
Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 Ealing Studios British comedy directed by Henry Cornelius, written by T.E.B. Clarke, starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford, in which Pimlico declares independence as Burgundy to escape rationing.
Passport to Your National Parks
Passport to Your National Parks, also called the NPS passport or 'Old Bluey', is Eastern National's 1986 guidebook program: free ink cancellation stamps at 433 National Park Service units, annual collectible stamp sets, and proceeds funding park education and preservation.
Passports of the European Union
Passports of the European Union are national passports issued by the 27 EU member states in a common burgundy format, harmonized by a 1981 resolution and a 2004 biometrics regulation.
Passt nicht!
Passt nicht! ("P4sst n1cht!") is a 2023 Schmidt Spiele card game by Thomas Weber, a Mau-Mau/Uno reversal where non-matching cards score points in a personal display; 2-6 players, age 8+, Spiel des Jahres recommended 2024.
Password
A password is a secret value a system checks to authenticate a user, dating to MIT's CTSS in 1963 and now governed by NIST guidance.
Password (American game show)
Password is the American word-association game show created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman, debuting on CBS October 2, 1961 with host Allen Ludden; celebrity-contestant teams exchange one-word clues, and the franchise spans Password Plus, Super Password, Million Dollar Password, and the 2022 NBC revival.
Password cracking
Password cracking, also known as password recovery, is the recovery of passwords from stored credential data by computing candidates and comparing them against hashes taken from a breached database.
Password manager
A password manager, also called a password vault, is software that stores account credentials in an encrypted vault unlocked by a master password and generates strong passwords.
Password policy
A password policy is the set of rules an organization or service imposes on passwords: minimum length, allowed characters, rotation, reuse, storage, and screening against known-compromised values.
Password strength
Password strength, also known as password complexity or password security, measures how resistant a password is to guessing or cracking; length is the primary factor.
Passwords (Apple)
Passwords, also known as Apple Passwords, is Apple's free password manager app introduced in 2024, storing passwords, passkeys, and verification codes and syncing them via iCloud Keychain.
Passy
Passy: name of French communes, notably Passy (Yonne), eponymous site of monumental ~4700 BC Neolithic Passy-type necropolis, and Passy (Haute-Savoie) with a Roman temple of Mars and the 74 AD Forclaz boundary stone.
Past
The past is the portion of time that has already gone by, measured by calendars and clocks, and named in grammar by the tense for earlier action.
Past and Present
Past and Present is an 1843 book of social criticism by Thomas Carlyle that contrasts a twelfth-century abbey with the industrial poverty of England.
Past Continuous
Past Continuous (Hebrew: Zikhron Devarim) is a 1977 novel by the Israeli author Yaakov Shabtai, his first and only completed one, following three friends in 1970s Tel Aviv.
Past hypothesis
The Past Hypothesis is the posit that the universe began in a very low-entropy macrostate, grounding the thermodynamic arrow of time; David Albert named it in 2000.
Past life regression
Past life regression, also called past-life therapy, is a controversial hypnotic technique for reexperiencing supposed previous lives; researchers attribute its narratives to suggestion, cryptomnesia, and false memory.
Past Lives (film)
Past Lives is Celine Song's 2023 A24 romantic drama debut starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, reuniting childhood friends in New York around the Korean concept of inyeon; Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Original Screenplay.
Past Masters
Past Masters is a 1988 two-volume Beatles compilation (33 tracks, 1h33m) of every commercially released song not on the band's 12 UK albums or the US Magical Mystery Tour LP, reissued remastered in 2009.
Past tense
The past tense is a grammatical category that locates a situation before a reference point. In English, it is marked by inflection, and it is distinguished from aspect.
Past Times
Past Times is a 1997 acrylic and collage painting by Kerry James Marshall, the final work of his Garden Project series, showing African American figures at leisure in an idealized Chicago park scene.
Pasta
Pasta, shaped dough of durum wheat semolina and water (fresh or dried, optionally with eggs), made by mixing, extrusion, and drying; over 300 shapes, medieval Sicilian dried-pasta origins, €14.6bn dry market.