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Pathankot
Pathankot (ਪਠਾਨਕੋਟ) is a city in northern Punjab, India, at the meeting point of three states and a gateway for travelers to Jammu, Kashmir, and the Himalayas.
Pathé
Pathé, French film company founded in Paris in 1896 by Charles and Émile Pathé; pioneer of phonographs, silent film production, and film rental; today France's leading film studio and cinema operator.
Pathé Records
Pathé Records, also known as Pathé Frères Phonograph Company, is the recorded-sound business founded by the French Pathé brothers in 1896, a leader in the French phonograph industry.
Pathé-Marconi (record label)
Pathé-Marconi was the French record company of the EMI group, created in 1936, whose Chatou factory produced records for Pathé, Columbia, and Parlophone, including Édith Piaf and the Beatles.
Pathein
Pathein (Burmese ပုသိမ်မြို့), formerly Bassein, is a river port and the capital of Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar, on the Pathein River in the Irrawaddy Delta. 2014 census: 169,773 city residents; known for rice trade and painted parasols.
Pather Dabi
Pather Dabi (পথের দাবী) is a Bengali political novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, published in 1926 and set in British India. It was banned by the colonial government within months.
Pather Panchali (পথের পাঁচালি)
Pather Panchali (পথের পাঁচালি, Song of the Little Road): 1955 Bengali film, Satyajit Ray's debut, adapted from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 novel; first of the Apu Trilogy, Cannes 1956 Best Human Document.
Pathet Lao
Pathet Lao: Lao communist political and military movement founded in 1949 by Prince Souphanouvong with Viet Minh and DRV backing; regrouped in Phong Saly and Sam Neua after Geneva 1954; took power in December 1975, founding the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy: literary term for attributing human emotions to nature, objects, or animals, coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters III (1856) as a criticism, now used neutrally for weather or landscape mirroring mood.
Pathfinder (2007 film)
Pathfinder (2007 film) is an American action-adventure film directed by Marcus Nispel. It stars Karl Urban as Ghost, a Viking boy who fights Norse raiders in the film.
Pathfinder (military)
Pathfinder (military): trained soldiers or airmen who go ahead of larger forces to select, mark, and control drop zones and landing zones. WWII origins (Torch 1942, Sicily 1943, RAF Pathfinder Force 1942), FM 3-21.38 doctrine, Fort Benning 15-day course.
Pathfinder (RAF)
Pathfinder Force (PFF), No. 8 Group RAF, the target-marking bomber force of Bomber Command formed 15 August 1942 under Don Bennett, using Oboe, H2S and target indicators; 50,490 sorties, 3,440 targets, 3,618 aircrew lost.
Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant
The Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant was a prototype boiling water reactor near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, operated by Northern States Power from 1966 to 1967.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (PFRPG, Pathfinder 2e) is Paizo's fantasy tabletop RPG, launched 2009 on D&D 3.5's OGL rules, redesigned in second edition 2019 with a three-action system, set on Golarion, remastered 2023-2024 under the ORC license.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is Owlcat Games' 2018 isometric CRPG, the first set in Paizo's Pathfinder universe, set in the Stolen Lands of Golarion with real-time-with-pause combat, later turn-based mode, and kingdom management.
Pathfinders (Seventh-day Adventist)
Pathfinders is the Seventh-day Adventist Church's youth club program for ages 10-15, official since 1950, with six classes, about 350 honors, two million members in 160+ countries, and international camporees.
Pathfinding
Pathfinding is the computational problem of finding a route through a graph or map from a start to a goal, minimizing costs such as distance or travel time.
Paṭhika
Paṭhika was a naked ascetic of Vesālī known through the Pāṭika Sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya, where he vowed to perform twice the Buddha's miracles and fled rather than face him.
Pathikrit Basu (পথিকৃৎ বসু)
Pathikrit Basu (পথিকৃৎ বসু), also spelled Pathikrrit Basu, is a Bengali film director known for Haripada Bandwala (2016), Dabaru (2024), and Shreeman v/s Shreemati (2025), who moved from SVF remakes to original and period films.
Pathinettam Padi (പതിനെട്ടാം പടി)
Pathinettam Padi (പതിനെട്ടാം പടി, 18am Padi) is a 2019 Malayalam coming-of-age drama, Shanker Ramakrishnan's directorial debut, about school rivalry in 1990s Thiruvananthapuram, with Mammootty and Prithviraj in cameos.
Pathisa Nyathi
Pathisa Nyathi (1951–2024) was a Zimbabwean historian and writer who documented Ndebele history and oral traditions in more than 50 books, mostly written in isiNdebele, and founded the Amagugu International Heritage Centre.
Pathmark
Pathmark was a supermarket chain in the northeastern United States from 1968 to 2015, first under Supermarkets General and later A&P, an early pioneer of checkout scanning; the brand was revived in 2019.
Patho Care
Patho Care, LLC, operating through PathoCare Holdings, Inc., is an American medical diagnostics startup founded in 2020 developing the PathoWand, a Raman-spectroscopy, AI-based point-of-care device for respiratory infections.
Pathogen
Pathogen: any disease-causing agent, also called infectious or etiological agent; includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, helminths, and prions; characterized by transmission, replication, pathogenesis, and host response.
Pathogen challenge
Pathogen challenge is an experimental method that deliberately exposes organisms, cells, or human volunteers to a defined dose of a pathogen to study infection, immune responses, and disease outcomes.
Pathogen reduction (blood transfusion)
Pathogen reduction, also called pathogen inactivation, is a transfusion medicine treatment that damages pathogens' nucleic acids in donated platelets and plasma so they cannot transmit infection.
Pathogen transmission
Pathogen transmission, also called disease transmission, is the process by which an infectious agent spreads from a reservoir or infected host to a new susceptible person.
Pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis in amphibians
The pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis in amphibians is how the fungi Bd and Bsal invade keratinized skin cells; the superficial infection disrupts electrolyte transport, killing frogs by cardiac arrest.
Pathogenesis of endometriosis
The pathogenesis of endometriosis is the set of contested mechanisms by which endometrium-like tissue grows outside the uterus, including retrograde menstruation, coelomic metaplasia, stem cell theories, and immune dysfunction.
Pathogenic (video game)
Pathogenic (Aberrant Labs, published by Slug Disco, July 16, 2026) is a 2D roguelike twin-stick shooter on Steam where you play a parasite fighting the immune system; 100,000 first-week sales, Overwhelmingly Positive rating.