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Pastor Troy
Pastor Troy (Micah LeVar Troy, b. 1977) is an Atlanta rapper and producer of Dirty South crunk; debut "We Ready I Declare War" (1999) with "No Mo Play in G.A.", a Master P diss; peak album Universal Soldier (2002, No. 13 Billboard 200).
Pastoral
Pastoral: literary tradition idealizing rural life, from Theocritus' Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues (38 BC) through Spenser, Milton, and Romantic-era nature writing to modern post-pastoral and ecocritical forms.
Pastoral Care (Old English translation)
The Pastoral Care is a late ninth-century Old English translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis, made in the circle of King Alfred the Great.
Pastoral elegy
The pastoral elegy is a form of mourning poetry that uses classical pastoral conventions, from Theocritus in the 3rd century BCE through Milton's "Lycidas" and Shelley's "Adonais".
Pastoral ideal in veterinary culture
The pastoral ideal in veterinary culture is the romanticized image of the country vet popularized by James Herriot's books, which still shapes who applies to veterinary school.
Pastoral lease
A pastoral lease is a leasehold over Crown land granting exclusive grazing rights while the state keeps ownership; about 44 percent of the Australian mainland is leased this way.
Pastoral leases in Australian land law
Pastoral leases in Australian land law: statutory Crown-land tenures for grazing livestock, covering about 44 percent of Australia. Distinct from freehold through lease conditions, Crown reservations, and coexistence with native title under Wik (1996).
Pastoral novel
The pastoral novel (novela pastoril) is a Spanish Golden Age genre of prose fiction in which idealized shepherds lament their love affairs, beginning with Montemayor's Diana in 1559.
Pastoral runs and Crown pastoral leases in New Zealand
Crown pastoral leases in New Zealand are perpetually renewable 33-year grazing tenures giving lessees exclusive pasturage but no right to the soil, covering about 1.2 million hectares of South Island high country.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す, Den'en ni shisu) is Shūji Terayama's 1974 autobiographical avant-garde film, his second feature, adapted from his own tanka collection, produced by ATG, and entered at Cannes.
Pastoralism
Pastoralism, also called mobile herding or nomadic/transhumant livestock keeping, is an extensive livelihood system in which 200 million pastoralists move cattle, sheep, goats, and camels across rangelands, using mobility and common land to manage dryland variability.
Pastoria Solar Project
The Pastoria Solar Project is a 105 MW solar power plant in Kern County, California, built by Calpine and completed in 2026 to help decarbonize the State Water Project by 2035.
Pastourelle
The pastourelle (Occitan pastorela) is a medieval lyric genre where a knight or clerk meets a shepherdess and attempts seduction, common from the mid-twelfth century.
Pastrami
Pastrami, also known as pastirma or pastramă, is brined, spice-rubbed, smoked, and steamed cured beef, a Romanian-derived technique brought to New York by Romanian Jewish immigrants and made iconic in Jewish delicatessen sandwiches on rye.
Pastry
Pastry, or pastry dough, is a dough of flour, usually fat, and water used to cover, encase, or constitute dishes such as pies, tarts, and croissants.
Pastry War
Pastry War (Guerra de los Pasteles, Guerre des Pâtisseries), the 1838-1839 First French Intervention in Mexico: a French blockade of Veracruz, bombardment of San Juan de Ulúa, and a treaty making Mexico pay 600,000 pesos.
Pasture Commission (jianmu) system
The Pasture Commission (jianmu) system (监牧) was the Tang dynasty's state-run pasture administration, which bred and supplied horses for the army and court until Tubo seized Longyou.
Pasture House Turret 3A (United Kingdom)
Pasture House Turret 3A (Tower 3A) is a scheduled Roman tower site 386 m west of Pasture House, Bowness, Cumberland, part of the milefortlet-and-tower chain extending Hadrian's Wall's frontier down the Cumbrian coast; preserved as a slight earthwork, listed 9 November 1961.
Pasty
Pasty, especially the Cornish pasty, a D-shaped baked turnover of beef, potato, swede, and onion with a side crimp; PGI-protected, made only in Cornwall since 2011, carried worldwide by Cornish miners to Mexico and Michigan.
Pasu-Ava Corona
Pasu-Ava Corona is a roughly 250 km Type 2 corona on Venus at 29.0°N, 319.0°E in the Lachesis Tessera quadrangle, named for a Mari harvest goddess and mapped by Magellan.
Pasuhalta
Pasuhalta was a Bronze Age Anatolian land known only from Hittite cuneiform texts, appearing solely as a member of the Assuwa coalition defeated by the Hittite king Tudhaliya.
Pasupata sect
The Pasupata sect (पाशुपत सम्प्रदाय) was the oldest Shaiva ascetic order of early India, attributed to Lakulisha, spread in Gujarat and Rajasthan, and influential among ruling elites from the 7th to the 14th century.
Pasupathy
Pasupathy is an Indian character actor in Tamil cinema (also Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam), full name reported as Pasupathy Masilamani or Pasupathy Ramasaamy Solai. Known for Virumandi, E, Veyyil, Asuran, Sarpatta Parambarai, Thangalaan, Kalki 2898 AD, and Bison Kaalamaadan; two Filmfare Best Supporting Actor awards.
Pasūra
Pasūra (पसूर) was a wandering ascetic and celebrated debater who was defeated by Sāriputta, ordained under Lāḷudāyī, and struck mute by a guardian deity when challenging the Buddha.
Pasuruan
Pasuruan (Pasoeroean, Paravan) is a port city and regency on East Java's north coast; city of 213,469 in four kecamatan, founded as municipality 1918, regency anniversary 18 September 929.
Pasyon
The Pasyon (Pasyóng Mahál) is a Philippine epic verse narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, chanted continuously in the Lenten devotion called the pabasa.
Paszport Polityki
Paszport Polityki (Polityka Passport) is an annual Polish cultural award founded in 1993 by the weekly magazine Polityka, honoring young creators in seven artistic categories.
Pat (Saturday Night Live)
Pat is the androgynous Saturday Night Live character played by Julia Sweeney (sketches 1990-1994), whose gender other characters cannot determine; adapted into the poorly received 1994 film It's Pat and reassessed in the 2025 documentary We Are Pat.
Pat & Mat
Pat & Mat (Pat a Mat) is a Czechoslovak silent stop-motion slapstick series created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek, first shown in 1976 as Kuťáci, about two clumsy handymen whose repairs backfire, ending in their handshake.
Pat a Pangampong sa Ranao
Pat a Pangampong sa Ranao, meaning "the Four Principalities of Lake Lanao," is a confederation of four Maranao sultanates around Lake Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines.