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Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration: federal executive orders (EO 14168, 14187, 14183, 14201) from January 2025 restricting gender-affirming care, military service, passports, and recognition, plus litigation including Skrmetti, PFLAG v. Trump, and Orr v. Trump.
Persecutory delusion
Persecutory delusion: false fixed belief that others intend to harm one; the most common delusional theme (64.5% of clinical patients, >70% of first-episode psychosis), explained by worry, negative self-beliefs, insomnia, anomalous experience, and reasoning biases.
Perseids
The Perseids, also called the Perseid meteor shower, are an annual meteor shower peaking around August 13, caused by debris from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle and known for bright fireballs.
Persenet
Persenet was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the Fourth Dynasty, titled king's daughter of his body and recorded at Giza as the wife of King Khafre.
Persephone (The Matrix)
Persephone is a fictional exiled program in The Matrix films, wife of the Merovingian, portrayed by Monica Bellucci in Reloaded (2003) and Revolutions; she betrays her husband to help Neo reach the Keymaker in exchange for a kiss.
Persephone (wrestler)
Persephone (Priscilla Miranda, born 2001, El Paso) is a Mexican-American wrestler signed to AEW and CMLL, reigning AEW TBS Champion and CMLL World Women's Champion after beating Mercedes Moné in March 2026.
Persephone (Περσεφόνη)
Persephone (Περσεφόνη, Kore, Latin Proserpina), Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, wife of Hades and queen of the underworld; her abduction and pomegranate seed underpin the Eleusinian Mysteries and the seasonal cycle.
Persephone Corona
Persephone Corona is a 120-km-diameter corona on Venus at 36°S, 304.6°E, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for the Greek underworld goddess, daughter of Demeter, in the Parga Chasma region.
Persephone Oil and Gas Field
The Persephone field is a gas-condensate field on Australia's North West Shelf off Western Australia, discovered in 2006 and operated by Woodside Energy through the North Rankin platforms.
Persephone Punic stele
The Persephone Punic stele is a Carthaginian votive stele from the tophet sanctuary of Salammbô at Carthage, tied to the cult of Demeter and Persephone.
Persepolis (film)
Persepolis is a 2007 French animated coming-of-age drama directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, adapting her graphic memoir about growing up in Iran through revolution and exile.
Persepolis (تخت جمشید)
Persepolis, known in Persian as Takht-e Jamshid, is the ruined Achaemenid palace complex near Shiraz, Iran, begun by Darius I about 518 BCE and burned in 330 BCE.
Persepolis F.C.
Persepolis F.C. (پرسپولیس), also Pirouzi or the Red Army, is a Tehran football club founded in 1963 by Ali Abdo; 16 Iranian league titles, 1990-91 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, AFC Champions League runner-up 2018 and 2020, Esteghlal's derby rival.
Persepolis Fortification Archive
The Persepolis Fortification Archive is a cache of about 30,000 clay tablets, mostly in Elamite, found in 1933, recording food, livestock, and labor administration under Darius I.
Persepolis Fortification Tablets
The Persepolis Fortification Tablets, also called the Persepolis Fortification Archive, are about 30,000 clay tablets recording food, livestock, and labor administration under Darius I, mainly 509 to 494 BC.
Persepolis Rising
Persepolis Rising is the 2017 seventh Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), opening the final trilogy: thirty years after Babylon's Ashes, the Laconian empire seizes Medina Station with protomolecule warships.
Perserajoq
Perserajoq, also spelled Perserajôq, is a 2,259 m mountain in the Qioqe peninsula of western Greenland, the highest on the coast and sixth among Greenland's ultra-prominent peaks.
Perseus
Perseus (Περσεύς), Greek mythological hero, son of Zeus and Danae; beheaded Medusa with Hermes' and Athena's help, rescued Andromeda, founded Mycenae, and gave his name to a constellation and the Tufts Perseus Digital Library.
Perseus (spy)
Perseus (Персей, Persey): supposed Soviet atomic spy allegedly at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, claimed by KGB officers Vladimir Chikov and Anatoly Yatskov in 1991-92. Venona decrypts (1995) and Chikov's 1996 admission show it was a KGB disinformation composite of the real spies Mlad (Theodore Hall) and PERS.
Perseus (Περσεύς) (constellation)
Perseus (Περσεύς), one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, is a northern constellation named after the Greek hero who beheaded Medusa, best known for Algol and the Perseids.
Perseus and Andromeda (Puget)
Perseus and Andromeda is a monumental Carrara marble sculptural group by the French Baroque sculptor Pierre Puget, signed and dated 1684, made for Versailles and held by the Louvre since 1850.
Perseus Arm
The Perseus Arm is one of the major spiral arms of the Milky Way, lying outside the Sun between the Sagittarius Arm and the Outer Arm.
Perseus molecular cloud
The Perseus molecular cloud is a giant star-forming cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Perseus, about 1,000 light-years from the Sun and over 500 light-years wide.
Perseus Oil and Gas Field
The Perseus field is a giant gas and condensate field on Australia's North West Shelf, about 135 km offshore from Karratha, Western Australia, producing into the NWS Project since 1991.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Perseus with the Head of Medusa (Perseo con la testa di Medusa) is Benvenuto Cellini's bronze of 1545–1554, commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, cast in a single pour as a political manifesto of Medici rule.
Perseverance (rover)
Perseverance, a car-sized NASA rover nicknamed Percy, landed in Mars' Jezero Crater in February 2021 to seek signs of ancient microbial life and cache rock samples for return to Earth.
Perseverance Asset Management
Perseverance Asset Management (高毅资产, also known as Gao Yi Asset Management) is a Chinese private securities fund manager founded by Qiu Guolu in 2013 and based in Shenzhen.
Perseverance Mine (Western Australia)
The Perseverance Mine is an underground nickel sulfide mine at Leinster in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia, the largest orebody of BHP's Leinster Nickel Operation, suspended from October 2024.
Perseveration
Perseveration (neuropsychology): the inappropriate repetition or continuation of a response after its trigger has changed. Distinguished into stuck-in-set, recurrent, and continuous forms; linked to frontal, posterior left hemisphere, and basal ganglia damage.
Pershing II
The Pershing II (MGM-31B) was a two-stage, road-mobile American medium-range ballistic missile deployed in West Germany from 1983 until its elimination under the 1987 INF Treaty.