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Peninsular Japonic
Peninsular Japonic is the term for extinct Japonic or Para-Japonic varieties formerly spoken on the Korean peninsula, attested mainly through Koguryŏ placenames in the Samguk sagi and linked to Mumun-era rice agriculture before Koreanic expansion around 300 BCE.
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia (Semenanjung Malaysia), also West Malaysia or Malaya, is Malaysia's mainland portion: 131,690 km², 11 states plus Kuala Lumpur FT, independent as the Federation of Malaya in 1957, forming Malaysia in 1963.
Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests are waterlogged, peat-forming coastal forests of the Malay Peninsula, part of Southeast Asia's tropical peat swamp ecoregion, now reduced by drainage, fire, and oil palm conversion to fragmented reserves such as North Selangor and Southeast Pahang.
Peninsular War
Peninsular War (1808–1814), Spanish Guerra de la Independencia: Napoleon's armies versus Britain, Spain, and Portugal in Iberia. Marked by Bailén, Torres Vedras, Salamanca, Vitoria, and guerrilla warfare, ending with Wellington invading France.
Peniophoraceae
Peniophoraceae, also called the Peniophora family, is a family of corticioid crust fungi in Russulales (Basidiomycota), typified by Peniophora Cooke 1879; wood-decaying white-rot resupinate fungi with gloeocystidia, lamprocystidia, and inamyloid spores, including bark beetle mutualist Entomocorticium.
Penis
Penis: the male external copulatory and urinary organ, made of two corpora cavernosa and a corpus spongiosum around the urethra. Erection is nitric-oxide-mediated blood engorgement; key conditions include ED, Peyronie's disease, and priapism.
Penis as food
Penis as food: eating animal penises (bull, goat, dog, yak, seal; 牛鞭) as offal or virility dishes, e.g. Malaysian sup torpedo, Bolivian caldo de Cardan, Beijing's Guo Lizhuang restaurants.
Penis captivus
Penis captivus (captive penis, coitus ligatus) is a rare, disputed phenomenon of temporary penile entrapment in the vagina from involuntary pelvic floor spasm, documented mainly through historical BMJ accounts from 1884 to 1980.
Penis enlargement
Penis enlargement (penile augmentation): surgical, injectable, and device methods for penile length or girth. Traction gains 1–3 cm; fillers ~2 cm girth; societies deem cosmetic procedures investigational.
Penis envy
Penis envy (Penisneid) is Freud's psychoanalytic concept in which girls, on realizing they lack a penis, develop envy shaping femininity; criticized by Karen Horney (womb envy), empirically unsupported, and replaced by primary femininity.
Penis fencing
Penis fencing: a hermaphroditic flatworm mating duel (Pseudoceros bifurcus, P. indicus) over who gets inseminated, and a separate male-male genital-rubbing behavior in bonobos; unrelated behaviors sharing one name.
Penis removal
Penectomy (penis removal) is partial or total surgical removal of the penis, mainly to treat penile cancer; total penectomy requires a perineal urethrostomy for seated urination, with phalloplasty sometimes possible.
Penis transplantation
Penis transplantation, a vascularized composite allotransplant restoring urinary and sexual function; first attempted China 2006, first successful South Africa 2014, first total penis and scrotum transplant Johns Hopkins 2018; five cases worldwide, lifelong immunosuppression required.
Penitent thief
The penitent thief, traditionally called Dismas, is the criminal in Luke 23:42-43 who asks Jesus to remember him and is promised paradise that day; named in the Gospel of Nicodemus.
Penlee lifeboat disaster
Penlee lifeboat disaster: loss of RNLI lifeboat Solomon Browne and all eight crew, 19 December 1981, rescuing the coaster Union Star off Cornwall; 16 died, hurricane force 12, coxswain Trevelyan Richards received the Gold Medal.
Penlight
A penlight (ペンライト) is a battery-powered, multi-color LED stick fans wave to cheer at concerts, the Japanese counterpart of the Korean artist-specific lightstick, or bong.
Penly nuclear power plant
The Penly nuclear power plant is a French nuclear station on the Channel coast in Normandy, operated by EDF, with two 1,300 MWe reactors commissioned between 1990 and 1992.
Penman–Monteith equation
The Penman–Monteith equation estimates evapotranspiration from standard weather variables, combining surface energy balance with aerodynamic vapor transfer; FAO-56 adopted it as its sole standard in 1998.
Penn (பெண்)
Penn (பெண், "Girl") is a 1953 Tamil film directed by M. V. Raman and produced by AVM, starring Vyjayanthimala, Anjali Devi, and Gemini Ganesan; it was also made in Hindi and Telugu.
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller: American comedy-magic duo of Penn Jillette and Teller, formed 1975 as the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society. Longest-running Las Vegas headliners (Rio since 2001), creators of Bullshit! and Fool Us, known for exposing their own methods.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Showtime debunking series 2003–2010, eight seasons, 89 episodes; Penn Jillette and Teller used hidden cameras and staged demos against psychics, feng shui, and pseudoscience; 13 Emmy nominations, 2004 WGA win; now on Paramount+.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a magic competition TV series, debuting on UK ITV1 in 2011 and running on The CW since 2014, where magicians perform one trick to stump Penn & Teller for a trophy and a Las Vegas show slot.
Penn Badgley
Penn Dayton Badgley (born 1986, Baltimore) is an American actor known as Dan Humphrey in Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in Netflix's You (2018–2025), also Mothxr vocalist and Podcrushed cohost.
Penn Central Transportation Company
The Penn Central Transportation Company was an American railroad formed in 1968 by merging the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads; it went bankrupt in 1970.
Penn continuous performance task
The Penn continuous performance task (PCPT) is a computerized test of sustained visual attention, part of the Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery developed at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Foster
Penn Foster is a Scranton, Pennsylvania-based for-profit online education group founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools, now owned by Two Sigma Impact and BayPine, offering accredited high school, career school, and college programs.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (Penn Fraser Jillette, born 1955, Greenfield, Massachusetts) is an American magician, author, and TV personality, the talkative half of Penn & Teller, holder of the longest-running Las Vegas headliner residency, and author of God, No! and Presto!.
Penn Nouth
Penn Nouth (1906–1985) was a Cambodian statesman who served repeatedly as prime minister between 1948 and 1976, negotiated independence from France in 1953, and was King Norodom Sihanouk's principal adviser.
Penn State child sex abuse scandal
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal centers on Jerry Sandusky, convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of abusing boys via The Second Mile charity, triggering the Freeh Report, NCAA sanctions, $109M settlements, and ongoing appeals.
Penn State Nittany Lions football
Penn State Nittany Lions football: Penn State University's Big Ten football program, two-time national champion (1982, 1986), playing at Beaver Stadium; Matt Campbell became 17th head coach in December 2025 after James Franklin.