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Padangsidempuan
Padangsidempuan (Padangsidimpuan, PSP) is a landlocked city in North Sumatra, Indonesia, surrounded by South Tapanuli Regency; largest Tapanuli city, Kota Salak nickname, autonomous since 2001, population about 240,000.
Padatik (পদাতিক) (2024 film)
Padatik (পদাতিক) is a 2024 Bengali biographical drama directed by Srijit Mukherji about filmmaker Mrinal Sen, starring Chanchal Chowdhury; released 15 August 2024, it won festival honors and topped 2024 Bengali drama critic rankings.
Padavali of Narottam Das
The Padavali of Narottam Das (নরোত্তম দাস) is Bengali Vaishnava devotional verse by sixteenth-century poet Narottam Das Thakur, who shaped the padavali kirtan tradition of Bengal.
Padayappa
Padayappa (படையப்பா), 1999 Tamil action drama directed by K.S. Ravikumar, starring Rajinikanth, Sivaji Ganesan, Ramya Krishnan, Soundarya; A.R. Rahman music; highest-grossing Tamil film of its time, re-released 2025.
Padding (cryptography)
Padding (cryptography), or cryptographic padding, is extra data appended to a plaintext before encryption so its length is a whole number of cipher blocks; poor padding handling enables padding oracle attacks.
Padding oracle attack
A padding oracle attack is a side-channel attack in which a decryption system reveals whether padding is valid, letting attackers decrypt ciphertext, and often encrypt data, without the key.
Paddington
Paddington is a central London district in the City of Westminster built around Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 1854 railway station and the St Mary's Hospital site.
Paddington (film)
Paddington is a 2014 family comedy film directed by Paul King, adapting Michael Bond's books about a Peruvian bear taken in by the Brown family in London.
Paddington 2
Paddington 2 (2017) is Paul King's live-action/CGI family comedy sequel, written with Simon Farnaby, starring Ben Whishaw's voiced bear wrongly imprisoned over a stolen pop-up book; it held a record 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $131 million.
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear, also Paddington Brown, is Michael Bond's fictional spectacled bear from Darkest Peru, first published 13 October 1958 in A Bear Called Paddington; known for his duffle coat, marmalade sandwiches, refugee backstory, three films, and West End musical.
Paddington in Peru
Paddington in Peru (2024) is the third Paddington film, directed by Dougal Wilson, following Paddington and the Browns to Peru to find the missing Aunt Lucy. Released UK Nov 8, 2024, US Feb 14, 2025; 93% Rotten Tomatoes, $211M worldwide.
Paddington: The Musical
Paddington: The Musical is a West End stage musical based on Michael Bond's Paddington books and the 2014 film, with music by Tom Fletcher, book by Jessica Swale, direction by Luke Sheppard, opening at the Savoy Theatre in November 2025 and winning seven Olivier Awards in 2026.
Paddle steamer
A paddle steamer, also called a paddlewheeler, is a steam-powered watercraft driven by side paddle wheels or a single stern wheel; it dominated river and coastal steam navigation until the screw propeller displaced it at sea.
Paddle-wheel mechanism
The paddle-wheel mechanism is a proposed ion-transport process in solid electrolytes, coined in the 1980s for superionic sulfates like Li₂SO₄, where rotating anion groups assist cation motion.
Paddlefish
The paddlefish, also called the American paddlefish or spoonbill, is a large freshwater fish of the Mississippi River basin with a paddle-shaped snout it uses to detect zooplankton.
PaddlePaddle
PaddlePaddle (飞桨, "flying oar") is an open-source deep learning framework developed by Baidu, first released in 2016 and described as China's first self-developed industrial platform.
Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (1941–2018), British Royal Marines veteran, MP for Yeovil, first leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988–99, and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002–06.
Paddy Bedford
Paddy Bedford, known to his Gija kin as Nyunkuny, was an Australian Aboriginal painter of the East Kimberley who began painting at about age 76.
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (Sidney Chayefsky, 1923–1981), American playwright and screenwriter of television's Golden Age; wrote Marty, The Hospital, and Network, winning three solo Best Screenplay Oscars.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a 1993 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, narrated by ten-year-old Patrick Clarke as his parents' marriage falls apart in 1968 Dublin.
Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine (born 1973 or 1974, Burton-on-Trent) is an English actor, director, and musician; BAFTA winner for Tyrannosaur and Dog Altogether, known for Dead Man's Shoes, Hot Fuzz, and King Viserys in House of the Dragon.
Paddy Cosgrave
Paddy Cosgrave is an Irish entrepreneur and chief executive of Web Summit, the technology conference he co-founded in Dublin in 2010 and later moved to Lisbon.
Paddy field
Paddy field (稻田, paddy fields): flooded level basin for growing rice (Oryza sativa). Flooding boosts yield and suppresses weeds; major methane source, ~25% of global freshwater use; AWD cuts water 20–40%.
Paddy Mayne
Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne (1915–1955) was a Northern Irish rugby international and solicitor who became a founding SAS officer, destroyed over 100 aircraft in North Africa, commanded 1 SAS from 1943, won the DSO with three bars, and was controversially denied the Victoria Cross.
Paddy Mccue
Paddy McCue (Patrick Aloysius McCue, 1883-1962), Australian dual-code rugby international; 1908 Olympic rugby union gold medallist for Australasia, then Newtown rugby league forward and four-time Australian league representative.
Paddy McGuinness
Paddy McGuinness (Patrick Joseph McGuinness, born 1973, Bolton) is an English comedian and TV presenter known for Phoenix Nights with Peter Kay, hosting Take Me Out 2010–2019, Top Gear, and Question of Sport.
Paddy McNair
Paddy McNair (Patrick James Coleman McNair), Northern Ireland centre-back and captain born 1995 in Ballyclare; ex-Manchester United, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, San Diego FC, now Hull City; 84 caps, Euro 2016 squad member.
Paddy O'Brian
Paddy O'Brian, born Liam Patrick Hanlon in 1986, is an English gay adult film performer from Hackney, London, who has identified as straight throughout his career.
Paddy Pimblett
Paddy 'The Baddy' Pimblett (born 1995, Liverpool) is an English UFC lightweight, 24-4, ex-Cage Warriors featherweight champion, who beat Chandler at UFC 314, lost the interim title to Gaethje at UFC 324, and feuds with Ilia Topuria.
Paddy Power
Paddy Power, Irish bookmaker founded 1988 by merger of three Irish bookmakers (Corcoran, Power, O'Reilly/Kenny accounts differ); online since 2000, mobile app 2010, Betfair merger 2016, now a Flutter Entertainment brand with 506 UK and Ireland shops.