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Pact of Steel
The Pact of Steel (Stahlpakt, Patto d'Acciaio), formally the Pact of Friendship and Alliance, was the German-Italian military alliance signed in Berlin on May 22, 1939, distinct from the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact and the 1940 Tripartite Pact.
Pact of the Three Kings
The Pact of the Three Kings was a 1287 alliance binding Mangrai of Lan Na, Ngam Mueang of Phayao, and Ram Khamhaeng of Sukhothai in friendship.
Pact of Zanjón
The Pact of Zanjón (Pacto del Zanjón) was a treaty signed on 10 February 1878 ending Cuba's Ten Years' War without independence or abolition of slavery.
Pacta conventa (1102)
Pacta conventa is a note recording the terms under which twelve clans of the Croatian nobility accepted the Hungarian king Coloman in 1102, preserved in a 14th-century Trogir manuscript.
Pacta subiectionis
Pacta subiectionis ("pacts of submission") is the agreement of 28 November 1561 at Vilnius by which the last Master of the Livonian Order, Gotthard Kettler, submitted Livonia to King Sigismund II Augustus.
Pacta sunt servanda
Pacta sunt servanda, Latin for "agreements must be kept," is the principle that every treaty in force binds its parties and must be performed in good faith.
Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt
Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt is the treaty-law rule that treaties bind only consenting States, codified in Article 34 of the 1969 Vienna Convention.
Pactolus
The Pactolus (modern Sart Çayı) is a small river in ancient Lydia, Turkey, flowing past Sardis and famed as the source of King Croesus's gold.
Pactolus Bank
Pactolus Bank, also called Burnham Bank, is a reported submerged bank in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn, sounded in 1885 and never confirmed.
Pactolus Catena
Pactolus Catena is a 180 km crater chain on Dione, Saturn's moon, at 8.79N 327.15W, IAU-approved March 17, 2008, and named for the gold-bearing Lydian river of the Midas legend.
Pactolus gold refinery
The Pactolus gold refinery is an excavated installation at Sardis in western Turkey, where workers separated gold from silver in electrum during the first half of the 6th century BC.
Pacts of May
The Pacts of Mayo, four agreements signed by Argentina and Chile in 1902, ended their naval arms race and committed them to arbitrate their boundary disputes.
Pacu
Pacu is a common name for herbivorous South American serrasalmid fish related to piranhas, including Colossoma, Mylossoma, and Piaractus. Two rows of molar-like teeth, fruit-and-seed diet, major aquaculture species, and reported in at least 17 US states.
PaCUDAHL-Gé trial
PaCUDAHL-Gé (NCT02749110), a French randomized trial by University Hospital, Lille (2016–2019), tested GP-provided HPV vaginal self-sampling versus GP-suggested smear in unscreened women aged 25–65 in French Flanders, with a nested Hawthorne-effect study.
Pacuvius
Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220–130 BC) was a Roman tragic dramatist and painter from Brundisium, the nephew of Ennius and, by Cicero's judgment, Rome's greatest tragedian.
PacWave
PacWave is a wave energy testing facility operated by Oregon State University off Newport, Oregon, with two sites; its grid-connected South site is the first of its kind on the continental US grid.
Pączki
Pączki (singular pączek; aliases Packzis, Paczky, Ponchki) are Polish filled fried yeast doughnuts with rose-petal or plum jam, eaten in huge quantities on Tłusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday) and as Paczki Day in Polish-American Chicago and Detroit.
Pad Man (film)
Pad Man (पॅडमॅन) is a 2018 Hindi biographical comedy-drama directed by R. Balki, starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, and Sonam Kapoor, adapted from Twinkle Khanna's short story about sanitary pad inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham.
Pad thai
Pad thai (ผัดไทย), also kway teow pad thai, is Thailand's stir-fried rice noodle dish with tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar sauce, promoted as a national dish under Phibunsongkhram in the 1930s-40s, with regional variants like southern coconut-milk Pak Phanang Mee Pad.
PAD_RIV_CLI study
PAD_RIV_CLI (NCT04305028) is a registered Poznan University of Medical Sciences study of rivaroxaban 2.5 mg twice daily plus aspirin versus aspirin alone on claudication distance and exercise tolerance in Fontaine II PAD; never recruited, no results posted.
Padai Thalaivan
Padai Thalaivan (படைத் தலைவன்) is a 2025 Tamil action drama directed by U. Anbu, starring Shanmuga Pandian as a mahout rescuing his elephant Maniyan, with Ilaiyaraaja's music and an AI-generated Vijayakant appearance; released June 13, 2025.
Padaiyaanda Maaveeraa
Padaiyaanda Maaveeraa (படையாண்ட மாவீரா), formerly titled Maaveeraa, is a 2025 Tamil political action drama written, directed by, and starring V. Gowthaman as Kaduvetti Guru; released 19 September 2025, 153 minutes, music by G. V. Prakash Kumar and Sam C. S., produced by V. K. Productions.
Padakavita
Padakavita is a genre of Telugu lyrical song literature whose short padas unite music, poetry, and dance in praise of a deity, pioneered by Annamacharya and perfected by Kshetrayya.
Padakkalam (പടക്കളം)
Padakkalam (പടക്കളം) is a 2025 Malayalam supernatural fantasy comedy directed by Manu Swaraj, starring Suraj Venjaramoodu, Sharafudheen, and Sandeep Pradeep; released 8 May 2025, streaming on JioHotstar and Hulu.
Padalarang
Padalarang is a district (kecamatan) in West Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, west of Bandung. A 51.40 km², 10-village rail junction with a colonial-era station (1884), the first Dutch East Indies paper mill (1923), and a Whoosh high-speed rail stop.
Padam
A padam is a short, slow-tempo poem-song of Karnatik music, usually in Telugu, expressing devotion through love lyrics and serving as expressive dance music in Bharatanatyam.
Padam Padam (song)
Padam Padam: 2023 dance-pop single by Kylie Minogue, written by Lostboy (Peter Rycroft) and Ina Wroldsen, lead single from Tension; UK peak No. 8, US Dance No. 7, 2024 Grammy winner for Best Pop Dance Recording.
Padamal Pattana Mound
Padamal Pattana (ପାଦମଲ ପଟ୍ଟଣା), Odisha: archaeological mound in Narsinghpur, Cuttack district, protected by the ASI as the Ancient Sites at Baneswaranasi, dated 8th-13th century CE.
Padamanjari
Padamañjarī (पदमञ्जरी) is a Sanskrit commentary on the Kāśikāvṛtti, composed by the grammarian Haradatta Miśra probably between the 11th and 13th centuries, and valued for its extensive discussion of Patañjali's Mahābhāṣya.
Padang, West Sumatra
Padang, West Sumatra: capital and largest city of Indonesia's West Sumatra province on the Indian Ocean coast; about 950,512 people (2025), HDI 84.93, major port, Minangkabau cultural center, and high tsunami-hazard zone.