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Paulette caveat
The Paulette caveat was a 1973 application by sixteen Dene chiefs under Chief Francois Paulette to register a Land Titles Act caveat over about 400,000 square miles of Northwest Territories land covered by Treaties 8 and 11; Justice Morrow allowed it, but the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the case in 1976 on a technicality.
Paulette Goddard
Paulette Goddard, American actress (1911–1990), starred in Chaplin's Modern Times and The Great Dictator and was his third wife; Oscar-nominated for So Proudly We Hail!, later married Remarque.
Paulette Guajardo
Paulette Guajardo is an American politician serving as Mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2022; in 2026 the City Council suspended her for 30 days.
Paulette Jordan
Paulette Jordan is an American politician and Coeur d'Alene Tribe citizen who represented Idaho in the House and later ran for governor and the U.S. Senate.
Pauley Pavilion
Pauley Pavilion, Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, is UCLA's on-campus arena, opened June 11, 1965, home of Bruins basketball, volleyball and gymnastics; 40 NCAA titles, $136M 2010-12 renovation, capacity about 13,800.
Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette (born 1969) is an American retired actress best known for playing forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on CBS's NCIS from 2003 through 15 seasons.
Pauli (lunar crater)
Pauli is a 95-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon's southern far side, centered at 44.76°S, 137.35°E. Named for physicist Wolfgang Pauli, IAU-approved in 1970, with satellite crater Pauli E and mare-bearing floor.
Pauli effect
Pauli effect: physics-folklore joke claiming technical equipment failed whenever Wolfgang Pauli entered a lab; Otto Stern banned him, a Göttingen train anecdote and rigged chandelier fed the legend, unlike the real Pauli exclusion principle.
Pauli exclusion principle
The Pauli exclusion principle, or Pauli principle, is the quantum mechanics rule that no two identical fermions, such as electrons, can share a quantum state.
Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription
The Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription is a Greek, Latin, and Punic votive dedication to the healing god Asclepius Merre, found in Sardinia and dated to the 1st century BC.
Pauli matrices
The Pauli matrices, also known as Pauli operators, are three 2 × 2 complex Hermitian matrices that describe the spin of spin-1/2 particles and generate the Lie algebra of SU(2).
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline Murray, 1910-1985) was an American civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, poet, and first African American woman ordained an Episcopal priest. Coined 'Jane Crow,' wrote States' Laws on Race and Color, co-founded NOW, shaped Reed v. Reed.
Pauli Nevala
Pauli Lauri Nevala (1940–2025), Finnish javelin thrower, Teuvan Rivakka; Olympic gold Tokyo 1964 at 82.66 m, European silver 1969, personal best 92.64 m in 1970, world ranked #1 that year.
Pauli paramagnetism
Pauli paramagnetism is the weak, temperature-independent paramagnetism of conduction electrons in a metal, arising from electron spin alignment with an applied field and limited by the Pauli exclusion principle.
Pauli Stincus
Pauli Stincus, a Punic farmstead near Terralba on the Gulf of Oristano, west central Sardinia, occupied mid-4th to late 2nd century BC; excavated 2010 with a buried plow soil showing Punic farming practices.
Paulicéia Desvairada
Paulicéia Desvairada is a 1922 collection of poems by Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, widely taken to mark the beginning of Modernism in Brazilian poetry.
Paulie
Paulie is a 1998 American family comedy-drama about a talking conure parrot who searches across the United States for the girl who raised him, directed by John Roberts for DreamWorks.
Paulie Gualtieri
Paulie Gualtieri, "Paulie Walnuts" (Peter Paul Gualtieri), is a fictional caporegime in HBO's The Sopranos, played by Tony Sirico; nicknamed after a hijacked truck of nuts, with nine on-screen kills, surviving all six seasons.
Paulie Malignaggi
Paulie Malignaggi, "Magic Man", American boxer from Brooklyn; IBF junior welterweight champion 2007-2008 and WBA welterweight champion 2012-2013; later bare-knuckle fighter and boxing commentator.
Paulin Riva
Paulin Riva (born 1994, Auch, France) is a French rugby sevens player, captain of France's men's sevens team, who won gold at Paris 2024, beating Fiji 28-7 in the final.
Paulina
Paulina (La patota) is Santiago Mitre's 2015 Argentine drama, a remake of Daniel Tinayre's 1960 film, starring Dolores Fonzi as a lawyer turned rural teacher who stays after being raped; Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize winner.
Paulina Chiziane
Paulina Chiziane, born 1955 in Manjacaze, Mozambique, is a Mozambican novelist, the first woman in her country to publish a novel, best known for Niketche (2002).
Paulina Hennig-Kloska
Paulina Hennig-Kloska (born 1977) is a Polish politician serving as Minister of Climate and Environment, who left Polska 2050 in 2026 to co-found the Centrum club.
Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova (Pavlina Porizkova), born 1965 in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, is a model, actor, and writer who was the face of Estée Lauder and wrote No Filter.
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio (Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes), Mexican Latin pop singer born 1971, ex-member of Timbiriche, famous as La Chica Dorada; hit albums Paulina (2000) and Pau-Latina (2004).
Paulina Vega
Paulina Vega Dieppa, Colombian model and presenter born in Barranquilla in 1993, won Señorita Colombia 2013 and Miss Universe 2014 in Miami; later host of Caracol's "A Otro Nivel".
Paulina Villarreal
Paulina Villarreal (born 2002, Monterrey) is the drummer, vocalist, and songwriter of Mexican hard rock trio The Warning; Drumeo 2023 Rock Drummer of the Year and Modern Drummer 2025 Best Rock Drummer.
Pauline Astier
Pauline Astier (born 2002) is a French point guard for the New York Liberty and France; Bourges product, USK Prague player, 2026 FIBA Europe SuperCup MVP, 2026 World Cup finalist.
Pauline Chalamet
Pauline Chalamet (born 1992, New York City) is a French-American actress, producer, and director, older sister of Timothée Chalamet. Known for Kimberly Finkle in The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021–2025), The King of Staten Island, Split, and The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Pauline Christianity
Pauline Christianity, also called Pauline theology or Gentile Christianity, is a scholarly category for the earliest Christianity associated with the apostle Paul, known through his letters.