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Pagpag

Pagpag (also tirtir, from tira-tira) is leftover fast-food and restaurant food scavenged from Philippine garbage, washed and recooked or resold in poor Metro Manila communities such as Tondo and Baseco, at PHP 10–40/kg, with documented salmonella and malnutrition risks.

Pagrus pagrus

Pagrus pagrus, the red porgy or common seabream, is a Sparidae sea bream of both Atlantic coasts and the Mediterranean; a protogynous hermaphrodite reaching 91 cm and 26 years, commercially fished and farmed, with a collapsed southern Brazil fishery.

Pague Menos

Pague Menos is a Brazilian retail pharmacy chain founded by Francisco Deusmar de Queirós in Fortaleza in 1981, listed on the B3 exchange under ticker PGMN3.

Paguma

Paguma is a monotypic civet genus (Viverridae, Paradoxurinae) whose sole species, the masked palm civet Paguma larvata, ranges from the Himalayas to Borneo, was linked to SARS coronavirus in Chinese markets, and is introduced in Japan.

Pagus Assalitanus

Pagus Assalitanus, also Assallitanus, was a Roman pagus in Africa Proconsularis, modern Tunisia, near Thubursicu Bure and Dougga, known from a single 1920 votive altar inscription and probably a district of Carthage's pertica.

Pagus Meflanus

Pagus Meflanus (or Mefanus), an Oscan-named rural district (pagus) in the territory of Beneventum among the Hirpini, attested in the Trajanic alimentary tables (ILS 6350).

Pagus Vescinus

Pagus Vescinus, a Roman rural district (pagus) in southern Latium named after the vanished Auruncan city of Vescia, attached to Minturnae after 314 BC; attested by inscriptions funding the Minturnae theater and tied to the Acquae Vescinae springs.

Sep 29, 2026

PAH clearance

PAH clearance is a renal function test measuring how quickly the kidneys remove para-aminohippurate (PAH) from plasma, the reference standard for estimating effective renal plasma flow.

Pahalgam

Pahalgam, also called the Village of Shepherds, is a hill resort in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, on the Lidder River at about 2,130 m, base of the Amarnath Yatra Chandanwari route and site of the April 22, 2025 Baisaran attack that killed 26 people.

Pahang (ڤهڠ)

Pahang (ڤهڠ), Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia's largest Peninsular state (35,965 km², 11 districts), capital Kuantan; population 1.68 million (2025); former Federated Malay State with RM3.184 billion flood mitigation program.

Oct 22, 2026

Pahang Sultanate

The Pahang Kingdom (Kesultanan Pahang) was a Malay sultanate on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, founded in 1470 by a son of the Sultan of Melaka.

Oct 22, 2026

Pahang Uprising

The Pahang Uprising was an 1891 to 1895 Malay rebellion in Pahang against British rule, led by the chiefs Dato' Bahaman, Tok Gajah, and Mat Kilau.

Oct 22, 2026

Pahari painting

Pahari painting is a form of Indian miniature painting from the Himalayan hill kingdoms, produced from Jammu to Garhwal between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Oct 20, 2026

Paharidih Mound

Paharidih Mound (Panch Pahari) is a group of five ancient mounds, probably Ashokan stupas, at Paharidih, Patna district, Bihar, India; the largest, Badi Pahari, is about 16 m high, and the site is an ASI centrally protected, non-ticketed monument.

Oct 20, 2026

Paharnagartakuria Mound

Paharnagartakuria Mound, also listed as mounds at Paharnagar and Takuria, is an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, under the Lucknow Circle.

Oct 3, 2026

Paheli (पहेली)

Paheli (पहेली), 2005 Hindi fantasy romance by Amol Palekar, produced by Gauri Khan's Red Chillies, based on Vijaydan Detha's Duvidha; Shah Rukh Khan plays Kishanlal and a ghost; India's 2006 Oscar entry.

Pahemnetjer

Pahemnetjer, also spelled Pahemneter, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis during the reign of Seti I, known from ushabti fragments found at Giza and as the father of Vizier Rahotep.

Pahhanate

Pahhanate, written Paḫamnata in cuneiform, was an Egyptian rābiṣu, or resident commissioner, at Ṣumur in Amurru, known only from the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.

Pahir-ishshan

Pahir-iššan, also written Paḫir-iššan, was a king of Elam in the 14th century BC, son of the dynasty founder Igi-halki and father of the later kings Unpahaš-Napiriša and Kidin-Hutran I.

Pahlaj Nihalani (पहलाज निहलानी)

Pahlaj Nihalani (पहलाज निहलानी) was an Indian Hindi film producer who launched Govinda and Chunky Panday and chaired the Central Board of Film Certification from 2015 to 2017.

Pahlavi dynasty (دودمان پهلوی)

Pahlavi dynasty (دودمان پهلوی, also سلسله پهلوی), Iran's last imperial house, 1925–1979, under Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah; ended by the 1979 revolution after railway-led modernization, the 1953 coup, and authoritarian rule.

Pahlavi Iran

Pahlavi Iran: the Iranian state under the Pahlavi dynasty, from Reza Shah's 1921 rise through Mohammad Reza Shah's fall in the 1979 Islamic Revolution; marked by authoritarian modernization, the 1963 White Revolution, SAVAK, oil-driven growth, and deep inequality.

Pahlavism

Pahlavism (Pahlavīsm): official ideology of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979), codified in a 1967 four-volume set before the Shah's coronation; combined a pre-Islamic golden age with a promised future one, against socialism, democracy, and nationalism.