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Penglai Insula
Penglai Insula, a 94-km-wide IAU-approved island (insula) on Titan at 72.2°N, 308.7°W, named in 2015 after the mythological Chinese island of the immortals, part of Titan's enchanted-places naming theme.
Pengo (video game)
Pengo (ペンゴ) is Sega's 1982 fixed-screen arcade maze game, developed by Coreland Technology, in which a penguin pushes ice blocks to crush Sno-Bees and aligns three diamond blocks for bonuses; ported widely and remade as Pepenga Pengo.
Pengshui hydroelectric plant
The Pengshui hydroelectric plant (彭水水电站) is a 1,750 MW hydropower station on the lower Wujiang River in Chongqing, China, with its first unit generating power in October 2007 and full completion in 2009.
Penguin
Penguins (Spheniscidae): 18 flightless, wing-propelled diving seabird species of the Southern Hemisphere, from the little penguin to the emperor; 67% declining, with the African Penguin Critically Endangered and Emperor Penguin Endangered.
Penguin (album)
Penguin (1973) is the seventh studio album by British rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on Reprise Records in March 1973. Recorded at Benifold, Hampshire, it was the first album after Danny Kirwan's firing and the only one featuring vocalist Dave Walker, reaching number 49 in the US.
Penguin (character)
The Penguin, Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot (Oz Cobb in Matt Reeves' canon), is a DC Comics Batman villain debuting in Detective Comics #58 (December 1941), created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane; known for trick umbrellas, gentleman-of-crime persona, and the Iceberg Lounge.
Penguin (missile)
The Penguin, also known as the Kongsberg Penguin, is a Norwegian anti-ship missile developed by FFI and produced by Kongsberg, entering NATO service in 1972.
Penguin (பென்குயின்) (film)
Penguin (பெண்குயின்), 2020 Tamil mystery thriller, Eashvar Karthic's directorial debut starring Keerthy Suresh, produced by Karthik Subbaraj's Stone Bench Films; released 19 June 2020 directly on Amazon Prime Video.
Penguin Almond Group (企鹅杏仁集团)
Penguin Almond Group (企鹅杏仁集团) was a Tencent-backed Chinese internet-healthcare and private-clinic company formed in Shanghai in 2018 by merging Penguin Doctor and Almond Doctor, renamed Future Doctor Group in 2021.
Penguin Bloom
Penguin Bloom is a 2020 Australian drama directed by Glendyn Ivin, starring Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom, paralyzed in a 2013 Thailand fall, whose family nurses an injured magpie named Penguin; Netflix release January 27, 2021.
Penguin Books
Penguin Books: British trade publisher founded by Allen Lane in 1935, pioneer of the cheap quality paperback; created Pelican, Puffin, and Penguin Classics; part of Penguin Random House since 2013.
Penguin Books India
Penguin Books India, known since 2013 as Penguin Random House India, is a trade publishing house founded by Penguin in 1985, publishing fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and Hindi titles.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, British avant-pop ensemble founded in 1972 by Simon Jeffes (1949–1997); debut album Music from the Penguin Cafe (1976) on Brian Eno's Obscure label; final album Union Cafe (1993); continued by Arthur Jeffes's Penguin Cafe.
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is a paperback and hardback imprint of Penguin Books publishing scholarly editions of classic literature, launched in 1946 with E. V. Rieu's million-copy translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Penguin Highway (ペンギン・ハイウェイ)
Penguin Highway (ペンギン・ハイウェイ) is a 2018 Studio Colorido anime film directed by Hiroyasu Ishida, adapting Tomihiko Morimi's Japan SF Award-winning novel about a fourth-grader investigating penguins appearing in his town; it won Fantasia's Satoshi Kon Award.
Penguin Musume (ペンギン娘)
Penguin Musume (ペンギン娘), aka Penguin Girl, is a Tetsuya Takahashi comedy manga about otaku heiress Sakura Nankyoku; its 2008 web anime Penguin Musume Heart ran 22 episodes as Niconico's first original anime.
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House, formed by the 2013 merger of Random House and Penguin Group, is the world's largest trade book publisher, wholly owned by Bertelsmann since 2020, with 300+ imprints and 600 million books sold annually.
Penguin Revolution
The Penguin Revolution, or Revolución Pingüina, was the 2006 wave of protests by Chilean secondary school students that put education reform at the center of Chilean politics.
Penguin Solutions
Penguin Solutions, formerly SMART Global Holdings, is an American technology company headquartered in Fremont, California that designs and manages AI and high-performance computing data center infrastructure.
Penguins of Madagascar
Penguins of Madagascar is a 2014 American computer-animated spy comedy from DreamWorks Animation, a spin-off of the Madagascar franchise promoting its four penguin commandos to starring roles.
Pengxi Semiconductor (上海朋熙半导体股份有限公司)
Pengxi Semiconductor (上海朋熙半导体), or Shanghai Pengxi Semiconductor Co., Ltd., is a Chinese company founded in Shanghai in 2019 that makes CIM software such as MES, EAP, and yield management for 12-inch wafer fabs.
Pengyu He
He Pengyu (何鹏宇) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, former Tongcheng Travel senior vice president, who founded Tongcheng Life, reaching a $1 billion valuation before its 2021 bankruptcy.
Pengze
Pengze County (彭泽县) is a county of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, on the south bank of the Yangtze at the Anhui border. Founded 201 BC and named for the Pengli marsh, it is a historic cotton county with chemicals, building materials, and cotton spinning industries.
Peni Parker
Peni Parker, Spider-Man variant of Earth-14512, co-created by Gerard Way and Jake Wyatt in Edge of Spider-Verse (2014) #5; pilots the SP//dr mech with a sentient radioactive spider, later featured in the Spider-Verse films, Marvel Rivals, and Marvel Tokon.
Penicillamine
Penicillamine (D-penicillamine) is a chelating drug derived from penicillin, first isolated at Oxford in 1943 and introduced by John Walshe in 1956 as the first oral treatment for Wilson's disease.
Penicillanic Acid
Penicillanic acid is the bicyclic nucleus of the penicillin antibiotics; its 6-amino derivative, 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA), isolated in 1959, is the raw material for semisynthetic penicillins like ampicillin.
Penicillin
Penicillin, the first antibiotic, is a beta-lactam from Penicillium molds discovered by Fleming in 1928, developed by Florey and Chain at Oxford, mass-produced by 1943, and honored with the 1945 Nobel Prize; it kills bacteria by blocking peptidoglycan cross-linking.
Penicillin allergy testing
Penicillin allergy testing is the diagnostic evaluation of patients carrying a penicillin allergy label, using structured history, skin testing, and observed oral challenge to confirm or remove the label.
Penicillin resistant Escherichia coli
Penicillin-resistant Escherichia coli: E. coli strains resisting penicillin via β-lactamases (AmpC, TEM-1, ESBLs) and porin loss. Resistance recognized 1940, before penicillin's clinical use; plasmid-borne spread since 1959.
Penicillin resistant Neisseria meningitidis
Penicillin resistant Neisseria meningitidis: meningococcal strains resistant to penicillin, mainly via mosaic penA/PBP2 or rare ROB-1 beta-lactamase; first documented in Spain 1985, now reported globally.