All articles starting with P

Peshawar Zalmi (پېښور زلمي)

Peshawar Zalmi (پېښور زلمي), PSL cricket franchise from Peshawar owned by Javed Afridi, captained by Babar Azam; HBL PSL champions in 2017 and 2026, brand value about US$40.5 million (2018).

Peshgaldaramesh

Peshgaldaramesh, also written Pešgaldarameš, was a king of the First Sealand Dynasty in 16th-century BC southern Mesopotamia, son of Gulkišar, known from a 474-tablet archive.

Peshitta (ܡܦܩܬܐ ܦܫܝܛܬܐ)

The Peshitta is the standard Syriac version of the Bible, its Old Testament translated from Hebrew in the second century and its New Testament, a revision of the Old Syriac, standard by 400.

Oct 15, 2026

Peshkabir Oil Field

Peshkabir is an onshore oil field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 18 kilometers west of the Tawke field, ramped to more than 50,000 barrels per day by 2018.

Peshmerga

Peshmer is the military force of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Kurdish for "those who face death." Established in 1946, it unified in September 2026.

Peshtigo fire

The Peshtigo fire, also called the Great Peshtigo Fire, was an 1871 firestorm in northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan that killed over 1,150 people, the deadliest wildfire in United States history.

Peshwa, also mukhya pradhan, was the prime minister of the Maratha state and later its hereditary de facto ruler from Poona; the Bhat family held it from Balaji Vishwanath and Baji Rao I until Baji Rao II's dethronement in 1818.

Peshwa Bajirao (पेशवा बाजीराव) (TV series)

Peshwa Bajirao (पेशवा बाजीराव), also called Peshwa Bajirao TV series, is a Sony TV Hindi historical drama (23 January to 25 August 2017, 151 episodes) starring Karan Suchak, Rudra Soni, Manish Wadhwa, and Anuja Sathe as Bajirao I's parents.

Sep 23, 2026

Peshwa Daftar

The Peshwa Daftar (पेशवा दफ्तर) was the record office of the Peshwas at Pune, keeping Marathi documents in Modi script covering all branches of administration.

Sep 23, 2026

Peshwa judicial administration

Peshwa judicial administration (पेशव्यांची न्यायव्यवस्था) was the judicial system of the Maratha state under the Peshwas of Pune, where panchayats superseded older tribunals until 1818.

Pesma za Evroviziju

Pesma za Evroviziju (Песма за Евровизију, "Song for Eurovision") is Serbia's national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, organized by broadcaster RTS and first held in 2022.

Pesni (show)

Pesni (Песни, "Songs") was a Russian music competition show on TNT in 2018 and 2019, where contestants wrote and performed their own songs for the record labels Black Star and MALFA.

Pesnya Goda

Pesnya Goda (Песня года) is a Soviet and Russian televised song festival, held since 1971, where the year's most popular songs are performed in a New Year broadcast.

Peso

The peso is a family of currencies used today in eight countries, including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and the Philippines, descended from the Spanish American silver peso, or piece of eight.

Peso Pluma

Peso Pluma (Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, born 1999, Zapopan, Jalisco) is the Mexican corridos tumbados star behind 'Ella Baila Sola,' the first regional Mexican Hot 100 top-five hit, the Grammy-winning album Génesis, and YouTube's most-viewed artist of 2023.

Pesqueiro dos Viveiros

Pesqueiro dos Viveiros is a year-round beach break surf spot near Peniche on Portugal's central coast, forming A-frame waves inside the Peniche/Santa Cruz marine protected area.

Oct 15, 2026

Pesquería power station

Pesquería power station (Central Eléctrica Pesquería) is a 900-megawatt combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Pesquería, Nuevo León, Mexico, owned by Techgen and supplying Ternium and Tenaris facilities.

Oct 10, 2026

Pessa

Pessa (पेस्स) was a lay follower of the Buddha, an elephant rider's son in Campā, who appears in the Kandaraka Sutta comparing the training of humans and elephants.

Pessary

Pessary: a vaginal device supporting the uterus or vaginal walls, used for pelvic organ prolapse, stress incontinence, and cervical insufficiency; ring type most common, over 200 historical types, fitted in 73-83% of cases.

Pessimism

Pessimism, in philosophy, is the thesis that the bad prevails over the good and that human existence is worse than nonexistence, opposed to optimism; associated above all with Schopenhauer, distinct from psychological pessimism as a measurable temperament.

Oct 15, 2026

Pessimistic induction

The pessimistic induction, also called the pessimistic meta-induction, is an argument in the philosophy of science that uses the history of abandoned theories to argue current theories are probably false.

Pest (organism)

Pest (organism): any plant, animal, or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products, per IPPC ISPM 5. Pests destroy up to 40% of global crops, cost over $220 billion yearly, and are managed through IPM, biocontrol, and surveillance.

PEST analysis

PEST analysis, also called STEP analysis, STEEP analysis, or PESTEL, is a strategic management technique that identifies political, economic, social, and technological external factors to guide decision-making.

Pest control

Pest control manages pest organisms through cultural, physical, biological, and chemical methods, now centered on Integrated Pest Management (IPM), which cuts pesticide use while matching or exceeding conventional efficacy and cost-effectiveness.

Pest megye

Pest megye (Pest County, Pest vármegye) is Hungary's most populous county, surrounding Budapest with about 1.2 million residents, 187 settlements, 18 districts, and Danube-Ipoly National Park within its territory.

PEST proteolytic signal-containing nuclear protein

PCNP (PEST proteolytic signal-containing nuclear protein) is a short-lived 178-amino-acid human nuclear protein on chromosome 3q12.3, ubiquitinated by the E3 ligase NIRF/UHRF2, acting as tumor suppressor in neuroblastoma and tumor promoter in lung adenocarcinoma and ovarian cancer.

Pest snails in aquaria

Pest snails in aquaria are small snails, mainly bladder, pond, ramshorn, and Malaysian trumpet snails, that hitchhike in on plants and multiply, with populations limited by food.

Pestalotiopsis

Pestalotiopsis (Steyaert, 1949) is a genus of ascomycete fungi in Sporocadaceae, Xylariales, occurring as plant pathogens causing tip blight, endophytes, and saprobes, defined by 5-celled conidia with appendages and known for novel secondary metabolites including taxol.