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Pavle V. Radovanovic
Pavle V. Radovanovic, also published as P. V. Radovanovic, is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Waterloo who studies multifunctional doped semiconductor nanocrystals.
Pavlikeni
Pavlikeni (Павликени), a town in central northern Bulgaria, is known for the Roman ceramic production centre at Varbovski Livadi: a villa rustica with about fifty kilns, excavated by Bogdan Sultov from 1971, now an open-air museum.
Pavlikeni Zoo
Pavlikeni Zoo (Зоокът Павликени), founded 1967 in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria, is the only zoo in Veliko Tarnovo district: 15 ha, municipal, free entry, 200+ animals; repeatedly licensed with unfulfilled welfare conditions.
Pavlini
Павлини (peacocks) is an ambiguous name covering the birds in parks and zoos, the Pauline Order (Pavlini), hamlets named Pavlini in Croatia and Slovenia, and the Ukrainian farm ФГ "ПАВЛІН".
Pavlo Polubotok
Pavlo Polubotok (Павло Полуботок) was a Ukrainian Cossack statesman and colonel of the Chernihiv regiment who served as acting hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine from 1722 to 1724.
Pavlo Skoropadsky
Pavlo Skoropadsky (Павло Скоропадський) was a Ukrainian general and statesman who ruled Ukraine as Hetman from April to December 1918, taking power in a German-backed coup and dying in exile in Germany in 1945.
Pavlo Teteria
Pavlo Teteria (Ukrainian: Павло Тетеря, family name Morzhkovsky) was a Ukrainian Cossack statesman and diplomat who served as hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine from 1663 to 1665.
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Tychyna (Павло Тичина, 1891–1967) was a Ukrainian modernist poet, translator, and scholar whose 1918 collection Clarinets of the Sun created clarinetism, though he later produced Soviet conformist verse.
Pavlodar
Pavlodar (Павлодар), city in northeastern Kazakhstan on the Irtysh, oblast center; founded 1720 as Koryakovsky outpost, city status 1861, named for Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich; about 370,600 residents in 2026.
Pavlodar Region
Pavlodar Region (Kazakh: Pavlodar oblysy; Russian: Павлодарская область) is a region of northeastern Kazakhstan on the Irtysh River, formed in 1938, with the city of Pavlodar as its administrative center.
Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline
The Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline (Russian: Нефтепровод Павлодар – Шымкент) is an operating crude oil trunk pipeline in Kazakhstan, running from Pavlodar in the north to Shymkent in the south.
Pavlof
Pavlof Volcano (GVP 312030), a 2,518 m stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, is the most frequently active Aleutian arc volcano, with 40+ eruptions since the early 1800s, six between 2007 and 2022, and the latest ending 7 December 2022.
Pavlof Sister
Pavlof Sister is a 2,142-m symmetrical stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, twin of Pavlof 5 km away, with one disputed historical eruption (1762-1786, VEI 4) and no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Pavlos Kountouriotis
Pavlos Kountouriotis (Παύλος Κουντουριώτης) was a Greek admiral who defeated the Ottoman navy at Elli and Lemnos in 1912–13 and later served as the first President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Pavlos Melas
Pavlos Melas (Παύλος Μελάς) was a Greek artillery officer who led guerrilla bands in Ottoman Macedonia and became the symbol of the Macedonian Struggle after his 1904 death.
Pavlos Pantelidis
Pavlos Pantelidis (Παύλος Παντελίδης), born 2002 in Athens, Greek footballer; Panathinaikos forward/midfielder signed from Kifisia in January 2026 on a contract to June 2029, formerly Ilioupoli and Thyella Rafinas.
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
Pavlos (Παύλος), Crown Prince of Greece, eldest son of the last king Constantine II; heir apparent born 1967, raised in exile, financier co-founding Ortelius Capital Partners, and since 2024 Greek citizen under the surname De Grèce.
Pavlov (lunar crater)
Pavlov is a 143.05-km IAU-approved impact crater on the Moon at 28.28°S, 142.40°E, named in 1970 for Soviet physiologist and Nobel laureate Ivan Pavlov, with satellite craters Pavlov M, P, and V.
Pavlov's House (Дом Павлова)
Pavlov's House (Дом Павлова): fortified apartment building on 9 January Square, Stalingrad, seized by Sergeant Yakov Pavlov in September 1942 and defended for 58 days by a 24–31-man multinational garrison; first building rebuilt in the city.
Pavlova Corona
Pavlova Corona is a corona on Venus in eastern Eistla Regio (14.5N, 40E), IAU-named 1994 for ballet dancer Anna Pavlova; hosts a young nova, low-emissivity rim, and plume-related gravity anomaly.
Pavlovian conditioning task
A Pavlovian conditioning task is a behavioral paradigm in which a neutral stimulus repeatedly paired with a biologically significant stimulus comes to elicit a learned anticipatory response.
Pavol Blazek
Pavol Blažek (born 1958, Trnava) is a Slovak race walker, 1990 European 20 km champion and former 20 km world record holder (1:18:13, Hildesheim), who competed at four Olympics for Czechoslovakia and Slovakia.
Pavol Demitra
Pavol Demitra (1974-2011), Slovak NHL forward for Ottawa, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Minnesota, and Vancouver; 768 points in 847 games, Lady Byng 2000, 2010 Olympic scoring leader; died in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash; Blues Hall of Fame 2024.
Pavol Hochschorner
Pavol Hochschorner (born 1979, Bratislava), Slovak slalom canoeist; with twin brother Peter won C2 gold at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and bronze at London 2012.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, born Pavol Országh, was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and lawyer (1849–1921) whose Realist work laid the foundations of modern Slovak poetry.
Pavoloch massacre
Pavoloch massacre: Nazi shooting of the Jews of Pavoloch (Паволочь), Zhytomyr district, Ukraine, on September 5, 1941 near the Polish cemetery, with a second action May 1, 1942; victim estimates range from about 200 to 1,500.
Pavonis Fossae
Pavonis Fossae, a system of large graben on the northern flank of Pavonis Mons in Tharsis, Mars; IAU-named 1991, about 156 km across, draped by the Pavonis fan-shaped glacial deposit.
Pavonis Mons
Pavonis Mons, Latin for peacock mountain, is the central and smallest of the three Tharsis Montes shield volcanoes on Mars, about 14 km high, 375 km wide, straddling the equator, with nested summit calderas and lava tubes.
Pavonis Sulci
Pavonis Sulci is an IAU-named sulcus (1991, albedo name) on Mars: arcuate 50–100 m ridges forming the fan-shaped northern glacial deposit on the northwest flank of Pavonis Mons in Tharsis.
PAW Patrol
PAW Patrol is a Canadian CGI preschool series created by toy company Spin Master and Keith Chapman, premiering on Nickelodeon August 12, 2013, following Ryder and rescue pups in Adventure Bay, with over $15 billion in retail sales and three theatrical films.