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Paiute
Paiute: Northern, Southern, and Owens Valley Paiute peoples of the Great Basin, speaking Numic languages of Uto-Aztecan; native names Numu and Nuwuvi; history includes the 1889 Ghost Dance, 1954 termination, and 1980 restoration.
Päivi Törmä
Päivi Törmä is a Finnish physicist and professor of applied physics at Aalto University, where she leads the Quantum Dynamics group and studies nanoplasmonics and superconductivity.
Paixhans gun
The Paixhans gun, or canon-obusier, was a French naval gun developed by Henri-Joseph Paixhans to fire explosive shells horizontally, ending the era of wooden warships.
Paiyaa (பையா)
Paiyaa (பையா) is a 2010 Tamil road romance-action film directed by N. Lingusamy, starring Karthi and Tamannaah with Yuvan Shankar Raja's music; released 2 April 2010, it grossed 35 crores and was re-released in 2024.
Paiza (gerege) tablet system
The paiza, known in Mongolian as gerege, was an inscribed tablet of the Mongol Empire certifying envoys' authority and entitling bearers to relay horses, lodging, and official passage.
Pajamas
Pajamas (pyjamas), from Persian pāy-jāma 'leg garment' via Hindi/Urdu, are loose sleepwear sets; originally South Asian daywear trousers, adopted in Britain around 1870 as nightwear, fashionable for women from the 1920s.
Pajan Yan Tholus
Pajan Yan Tholus is an 80-km-diameter tholus (domical volcanic hill) on Venus at 8.30 N, 252.20 E in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle V-28, an intermediate shield with radiating lava flows, named in 2003 for a Cambodian healing goddess.
Pajang Sultanate
The Pajang Sultanate (Kesultanan Pajang) was the second Islamic kingdom of Java, founded by Joko Tingkir, who ruled as Sultan Hadiwijaya, with its capital near present-day Surakarta.
Pajeet
Pajeet (also "jeet") is a racial and religious slur for South Asians, especially Indians, Hindus, and Sikhs; an invented Indian-sounding name from a 2015 4chan meme mocking open defecation, now among the most common anti-Asian slurs online.
Paju power station
Paju power station refers to two separate gas-fired power plants in Paju, South Korea: a 515 MW combined heat and power plant and a 1,800 MW LNG combined-cycle plant.
Pak Hon-yong
Pak Hon-yong (박헌영, 1900–1956) was a Korean communist activist who led the Choson Communist Party, headed the South Korean Workers' Party, and served as North Korea's first foreign minister.
Pak Hyon Suk
Pak Hyon Suk (박현숙), born 1985, North Korean weightlifter; won the women's 63 kg gold at Beijing 2008 with 106-135-241, the first Olympic weightlifting gold for DPR Korea, after a final-lift comeback.
Pak Jong Ju
Pak Jong Ju (Pak Jong-Ju), North Korean weightlifter born 1997; 2014 Youth Olympic featherweight gold, and clean & jerk world record 188 kg in men's 67 kg set at the 2019 World Championships in Pattaya.
Pak Kret
Pak Kret (ปากเกร็ด) is a district and city municipality in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, north of Bangkok on the Chao Phraya River; 36.04 km², 189,458 residents (2020), moderate flood risk, home to Koh Kret island.
Pak Paeng-nyeon
Pak Paeng-nyeon (박팽년; 朴彭年, 1417–1456) was a Korean scholar-official of early Joseon who helped create the Korean alphabet and died in 1456 for plotting to restore the deposed King Danjong.
Pak Seo
Pak Seo (박서, 朴犀) was a Goryeo dynasty military official who commanded the defense of Guju fortress against the Mongol invasion from 1231 to 1232, repelling four assaults before surrendering on royal order.
Pak Thae-song
Pak Thae-song is a North Korean politician of the Workers' Party of Korea who became Premier of North Korea in December 2024, replacing Kim Tok-hun.
Pak Tu-jin
Pak Tu-jin (박두진, pen name Hyesan, 1916–1998) was a Korean poet who co-authored the 1946 anthology Cheongnokjip and was known for nature poetry built on sun and mountain imagery.
Pak Un-sik
Pak Un-sik (박은식, 1859–1925) was a Korean Confucian scholar, journalist, and independence activist who wrote Hanguk Tongsa and served as second president of the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai.
PAK1
PAK1 (p21 (RAC1) activated kinase 1, HGNC:8590, Gene ID 5058) is a human serine/threonine kinase on chromosome 11q13.5-q14.1, a group I p21-activated kinase effector of Cdc42/Rac1 implicated in cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, and cardiac Ca2+ homeostasis.
Paka Repowering
Paka Repowering is a project by Malaysia's utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad to build a 1,400 MW hydrogen-ready combined cycle gas turbine plant at Paka, Terengganu.
Pakaraima Mountains
Pakaraima Mountains: tepui chain in Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil on the Guiana Shield, main outcrop of the Paleoproterozoic Roraima Supergroup (73,000 km²), including Mount Roraima (2,810 m).
Pakatan Harapan
Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope), Malaysian multiethnic opposition coalition formed 2015 of PKR, DAP, Bersatu, and Amanah; won GE14 in 2018 ending BN rule, governed 2018–2020, fell in the Sheraton Move, and now anchors Anwar Ibrahim's unity government with BN.
Pakdam Pakdai
Pakdam Pakdai (पकड़म पकड़ाई), internationally Rat-a-Tat, is an Indian Flash-animated slapstick chase comedy by Toonz Animation for Nickelodeon India, premiered 27 May 2013, starring Doggy Don versus the mice Chhotu, Motu, and Lambu.
Pākdasht
Pākdasht (پاکدشت) is a city and the center of Pakdasht County in Tehran Province, Iran, about 20 km southeast of Tehran, known for greenhouse flowers and plants.
Pakeezah (پاکیزہ)
Pakeezah (پاکیزہ), also called Pure of Heart, is Kamal Amrohi's 1972 Urdu courtesan film starring Meena Kumari as Sahibjaan; made over roughly fifteen years, released 4 February 1972, it became a classic after Kumari's death and a 4K restoration premiered in 2026.
Pākehā
Pākehā (Māori-language term) denotes New Zealanders of European descent, first recorded 1815; appears once in the Treaty of Waitangi; 3,383,742 people, 67.8% of 2023 census.
Paket aranžman
Paket aranžman (Пакет аранжман) is a 1981 Jugoton compilation album by three Belgrade bands, Šarlo Akrobata, Idoli, and Električni Orgazam, proclaimed the manifesto of the Yugoslav new wave.
Pakhet Tholus
Pakhet Tholus is a 111-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 28.85°S, 221.45°E, in quadrangle V-51; named for an Egyptian lioness goddess, IAU-approved May 5, 2023.
Pakhnabihar Mound
Pakhnabihar Mound (Pakhna Bihar), Farrukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh: an ASI centrally protected extensive mound, site of an old Buddhist vihara, yielding Buddhist clay seals, a large Buddha statue, and Kushan-era inscription and coins.