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Pawn Stars
Pawn Stars: American reality series on History since 2009, set at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, starring the Harrison family (Richard, Rick, Corey) and Chumlee Russell.
Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is a lender who makes small, secured, non-recourse loans against personal property it holds; if the borrower does not repay, the item is forfeited and sold.
Pawnee (Parks and Recreation)
Pawnee, Indiana is the fictional town setting of the NBC mockumentary sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, with rival town Eagleton, motto "First in friendship, fourth in obesity," and an official web presence.
Pawnee people
Pawnee people: Caddoan-speaking Plains nation of four bands (Chaui, Kitkahahki, Pitahawirata, Skidi), historically of Nebraska earth-lodge villages, removed to Oklahoma in 1874-75; today the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma has over 3,500 enrolled members.
PAWR
PAWR (Par-4, prostate apoptosis response-4) is a human chromosome 12q21 gene encoding a tumor suppressor that selectively induces apoptosis in cancer cells via PKA-phosphorylated, nuclear Fas/NF-κB signaling and secreted GRP78-binding mechanisms.
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, formerly Blazing Samurai, is a 2022 animated comedy about a dog trained as a samurai to protect a village of cats.
PAWSA
PAWSA, stage name of British DJ David Esekhile (born 1992), is a London-based tech-house producer who co-founded Solid Grooves Records with Michael Bibi and runs the label PAWZ.
Pawtuckaway State Park
Pawtuckaway State Park is a 5,000-acre New Hampshire state park in Nottingham, featuring Pawtuckaway Lake, a 700-foot beach, a 192-site campground, five cabins, a volcanic ring dike, and glacial-erratic boulder fields.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket, Rhode Island: city of about 75,600 founded 1671 at the Blackstone River falls, home of Slater Mill (1793), the 1824 first US workers' strike, and the Tidewater Landing riverfront redevelopment.
Pawukon
Pawukon is a cyclical calendar used in Bali and Java since the 9th century, made of ten concurrent subcycles repeating every 210 days with no years, governing most Balinese rituals including temple anniversaries, Galungan, and Kuningan.
Pawura
Pawura, also known as Pauru, was an Egyptian archer-commander serving in Canaan in the mid-fourteenth century BC, known through the Amarna letters, the cuneiform diplomatic archive found at Tell el-ʿAmarna.
PAX (event)
PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming conventions founded in 2004 by Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, now held in Seattle, Boston, Melbourne, and Philadelphia, featuring expo halls, panels, concerts, tabletop gaming, and the Omegathon.
Pax Americana
Pax Americana: the US-led post-1945 international order of alliances (NATO), Bretton Woods monetary arrangements, and American security guarantees, also called the liberal international order; distinct from Pax Britannica and contested as myth by some scholars.
Pax Assadi
Pax Assadi, New Zealand comedian, actor, and writer of Pakistani-Iranian refugee family background; Frickin Dangerous Bro trio member, creator-star of sitcom Raised by Refugees, Endangered Species Aotearoa co-host, and memoirist of Mortified.
Pax Assyriaca
Pax Assyriaca is a modern term for the period of Neo-Assyrian hegemony, especially under Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal, when the empire prospered and fought no major internal wars.
Pax Britannica
Pax Britannica, the British Peace, 1815-1914: the era of British naval, commercial, and imperial primacy from Napoleon's defeat to World War I, popularized by Joseph Chamberlain in 1893 and marked by free trade, deterrence, and relative great-power peace.
Pax Iulia/Pax Augusta/Col. Pacensis
Pax Iulia (Pax Augusta, Colonia Pacensis), Roman colony at Beja, Portugal, capital of Lusitania's Conventus Pacensis, made a colony by Octavian between 31 and 27 BC, with Iron Age pre-Roman origins.
Pax Mongolica
Pax Mongolica (Mongol Peace) is a historiographical term for the stability across 13th–14th century Eurasia under Mongol rule, when the yam postal system, safe-conduct paiza medallions, and suppressed banditry opened the Silk Road to long-distance trade, though historians such as Franke and Jackson question its scope.
Pax Romana
Pax Romana (Latin, Roman Peace): the roughly two-century period of relative peace and stability in the Roman Empire, 27 BCE to 180 CE, from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, maintained by legions, roads, and imperial ideology; also the name of a Catholic student federation founded in 1921.
Pax Silica
Pax Silica is a US State Department-led economic security initiative launched December 2025 to secure AI supply chains, from critical minerals and energy to chips, data centers, and models, among allied partner countries; distinct from the unrelated private Pax Silica Network directory.
Pax Sumerica
Pax Sumerica refers to the stability and centralized order of the Third Dynasty of Ur, which ruled southern Mesopotamia from about 2112 to 2004 BC and left one of antiquity's best-documented records.
PAX2
PAX2 (paired box 2), also called PAX-2, is a human chromosome 10q24.31 transcription factor gene of the PAX2/5/8 subfamily; heterozygous loss-of-function variants cause renal coloboma (papillorenal) syndrome and FSGS7.
PAX3
PAX3 (paired box 3, HGNC:8617, 2q36.1) is a PAX-family transcription factor gene with paired domain and homeodomain, active in neural crest and myogenic progenitors; mutations cause Waardenburg syndrome types I and III, craniofacial-deafness-hand syndrome, and PAX3-FOXO1 fusion in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
PAX5
PAX5 (paired box 5, BSAP) is a paired-domain transcription factor essential for B cell lineage commitment and identity; it activates B-lineage genes, represses others, and is frequently altered in B-ALL and lymphoma.
PAX6
PAX6 (paired box 6) is a transcription factor gene at 11p13, cloned in 1991, essential for eye, brain, and pancreas development; mutations cause aniridia and WAGR syndrome, and its homologs control eye formation across animal phyla.
PAX7
PAX7 (paired box 7, HGNC:8621) is a human transcription factor gene on 1p36.13, expressed in satellite cells and neural crest; fused to FOXO1 in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma and linked to congenital myopathy 19.
PAX8
PAX8 (paired box 8, PAX-8) is a human chromosome 2q14.1 gene encoding a paired-box transcription factor essential for thyroid and kidney development; mutations cause congenital hypothyroidism, and PAX8 immunostaining marks thyroid, renal, and Müllerian tumors.
Pax8, Inc.
Pax8, Inc. is an American cloud commerce marketplace company founded in 2012 and based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, connecting managed service providers with vendors of cloud software and infrastructure.
PAX9
PAX9 (paired box gene 9) is a human transcription factor gene on chromosome 14q13.3 that regulates tooth development; mutations cause autosomal dominant non-syndromic tooth agenesis.
Paxillin
Paxillin is a cytoplasmic adaptor and scaffold protein at focal adhesions that coordinates cell adhesion and motility signaling, and also regulates steroid hormone receptor transcription in the nucleus.