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Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim: informal term for countries and economies bordering the Pacific Ocean, spanning East Asia, the Americas, and Oceania; also called Asia-Pacific region; anchored economically by APEC's 21 economies, about two-thirds of global GDP, and pacts such as RCEP and CPTPP.
Pacific Rim (film)
Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro, in which humanity fights giant sea monsters called Kaiju with massive piloted robots called Jaegers.
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a Parks Canada reserve on Vancouver Island's west coast in Nuu-chah-nulth territories, with three units: Long Beach, the West Coast Trail, and the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound.
Pacific Rim Uprising
Pacific Rim Uprising, also known as Pacific Rim 2, is a 2018 American monster film directed by Steven S. DeKnight and starring John Boyega as Jaeger pilot Jake Pentecost.
Pacific Rim: The Black
Pacific Rim: The Black (パシフィック・リム: 暗黒の大陸) is a 2021-2022 Netflix anime by Legendary Television and Polygon Pictures; siblings Taylor and Hayley pilot the abandoned Jaeger Atlas Destroyer across Kaiju-overrun Australia in two seasons.
Pacific sleeper shark
Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus), a large deep-water North Pacific sleeper shark reaching 7 m, sister species of the Greenland shark; slow-swimming, Near Threatened, bycatch-caught, olfactory-driven predator of fish, squid, and marine mammals.
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a Los Angeles to San Francisco flight that crashed near Cayucos, California, in 1987 after a fired airline employee shot the crew, killing all 43 aboard.
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight that collided with a Cessna 172 near San Diego's Lindbergh Field on September 25, 1978, killing 144 people.
Pacific storm track
The Pacific storm track is the band over the North Pacific where migrating cyclones and anticyclones are most active, supplying much of western North America's winter weather.
Pacific Surfliner
The Pacific Surfliner is a state-supported intercity passenger train service operated by Amtrak along the Southern California coast from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.
Pacific Telecommunications Council
The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) is a Honolulu-based nonprofit membership organization for the telecommunications and ICT industries, best known for its annual January conference in Hawai'i.
Pacific Telesis
Pacific Telesis Group was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies created in the 1984 AT&T breakup, serving as the holding company for Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell.
Pacific Time Zone
Pacific Time Zone (PT): North American zone using PST (UTC−8) in winter and PDT (UTC−7) in summer, covering the US West Coast, British Columbia, Yukon, and Baja California; created by railroads in 1883.
PACIFIC trial (NCT02125461)
PACIFIC (NCT02125461) is AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of consolidation durvalumab (MEDI4736) after chemoradiotherapy in unresectable stage III NSCLC; it doubled median PFS (16.8 vs 5.6 months) and established the PACIFIC regimen as standard of care.
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is a National Weather Service facility at ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, established in 1949 to warn of tsunamis across the Pacific and Caribbean.
Pacific War
The Pacific War was the part of World War II fought between Japan and the Allies, opening with the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and ending in 1945.
Pacific Wave
Pacific Wave is a distributed Internet exchange point for research and education networks, run by CENIC and PNWGP since 2004 at sites from Seattle to Tokyo.
Pacific Western Airlines
Pacific Western Airlines was a Canadian airline operating from 1946 to 1987, which grew from bush flying in British Columbia and merged with CP Air to form Canadian Airlines International.
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 was a Boeing 737 that crashed at Cranbrook, British Columbia, on February 11, 1978, after a failed go-around killed 43 of 49 aboard.
Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Pacific-Antarctic Ridge: South Pacific mid-ocean ridge spreading center between the Pacific and Antarctic plates, with en echelon segments, a mantle boundary near the Easter microplate, and interaction with the Foundation hotspot.
Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
Pacific-Asia Curling Championships (PACC), also Pacific Curling Championships, annual WCF zonal curling event 1991-2021 for Pacific-Asia teams, qualifying them for the World Championships; replaced in 2022 by the Pan Continental Curling Championships.
Pacific–North American pattern
The Pacific–North American pattern (PNA) is a prominent teleconnection pattern of atmospheric circulation variability over the North Pacific and North America, tracked by a NOAA index since 1950.
Pacifica Foundation
The Pacifica Foundation is a US nonprofit founded by Lewis Hill that pioneered listener-sponsored radio, operating KPFA, KPFK, WBAI, KPFT, and WPFW plus over 200 affiliates, the Pacifica Radio Archives, and Democracy Now!.
Pacification and Commission Commissioner's Office (Jinglüe Anfusi)
The Pacification and Commission Commissioner's Office (經略安撫司) was a Song dynasty circuit-level office whose commissioner, an official of 直秘閣 rank or above, directed a circuit's military and civil affairs.
Pacification of Eastern Galicia
The Pacification of Eastern Galicia was a punitive police and military operation carried out by the Second Polish Republic against Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia in autumn 1930.
Pacification of Libya
The Pacification of Libya was the campaign by which Fascist Italy reoccupied Tripolitania and Cyrenaica between 1922 and 1932, crushing Senussi resistance and hanging its leader, Umar al-Mukhtar.
Pacification of Peru
The Pacification of Peru (Pacificación del Perú) was the 1546–1548 campaign in which Pedro de la Gasca defeated the rebel encomendero Gonzalo Pizarro and restored royal government in Peru.
Pacification of Samar
Pacification of Samar: the 1901-1902 US counterinsurgency campaign on Samar island during the Philippine-American War, provoked by the Balangiga attack; General Jacob Smith's 'howling wilderness' orders, Waller's march, courts-martial, and 15,000 estimated deaths distinguish it.
Pacification of the Dutch East Indies
The Pacification of the Dutch East Indies (Pacifikasi) was the series of Dutch military expeditions, fought mainly by the KNIL, that forced the archipelago's remaining rulers to submit to colonial rule.
Pacificus
Pacificus, known in Italian as Fra Pacifico, was a Friar Minor and disciple of St. Francis of Assisi, formerly a court poet who died around 1234.