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PAL
PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is an analog color television encoding system developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in West Germany in 1962 to reduce visible phase errors.
Pál (Martian crater)
Pál is an IAU-named 71.21-km impact crater on Mars at 31.31°S, 108.70°E in the southern highlands; its wind-modified ejecta and superposed craters indicate a Noachian-Hesperian surface age.
Pal B. Nagy
Pal B. Nagy (B. Nagy Pál, born 2 May 1935, Szolnok), Hungarian épée fencer nicknamed Macu; 1968 Mexico City Olympic team épée gold medalist, 1965 and 1970 Hungarian champion, lifelong Szolnoki MÁV SE fencer.
Pal Benko
Pal Benko (Pál Benkő), Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (1928-2019), two-time world championship Candidate, record eight-time U.S. Open winner, endgame writer and composer; the Benko Gambit opening is named for him.
Pal Dukagjini
Pal Dukagjini was a 15th-century Albanian feudal lord of the Dukagjini family who ruled Upper Zadrima, helped found the League of Lezhë, and fought the Ottomans alongside Skanderbeg.
Pal Engjëlli
Pal Engjëlli (Paulus Angelus) was an Albanian prelate, Archbishop of Durrës from 1460 and a diplomat for Skanderbeg, author of the first known written Albanian text.
Pál Esterházy
Pál Esterházy (Esterházy Pál) was a Hungarian aristocrat, poet, and composer who served as Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1681 until his death in 1713.
Pál Gyulai
Pál Gyulai (Gyulai Pál, 1826–1909) was a Hungarian literary historian, poet, novelist, and critic who shaped Hungarian literary and theatrical taste in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Pal Joey
Pal Joey (1957 film): Columbia Pictures musical comedy directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak; based on the 1940 Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical by John O'Hara.
Pál Kinizsi
Pál Kinizsi (Kinizsi Pál, c. 1431–1494) was a Hungarian general under King Matthias Corvinus, celebrated as a hero of the 1479 Battle of Breadfield against the Ottomans.
Pal Kovacs
Pál Kovács (Kovács Pál Ádám, 1912–1995), Hungarian sabre fencer nicknamed Fuxi: six Olympic golds (team 1936–1960, individual 1952) plus 1948 bronze, nine world titles, later Hungarian Fencing Association president and FIE vice-president.
Pál Maliga
Pal Maliga, born 1946 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born plant geneticist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers whose group developed stable chloroplast genome transformation in flowering plants.
Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas (पल पल दिल के पास)
Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas (पल पल दिल के पास) is a 2019 Hindi romantic drama directed by Sunny Deol, launching son Karan Deol opposite Sahher Bambba; it earned ₹7.95 crore net in India and flopped.
PAL Robotics
PAL Robotics is a Spanish service-robotics company founded in Barcelona in 2004 to build Europe's first humanoid robot, now making TALOS, TIAGo, and ARI platforms.
Pal Schmitt
Pál Schmitt (Schmitt Pál), Hungarian fencer and politician born 1942 in Budapest; two Olympic team épée golds (1968, 1972), IOC member 1983-2022, and President of Hungary 2010-2012 until a plagiarism-related resignation.
Pál Teleki
Pál Teleki (1879–1941), Hungarian geographer and two-time prime minister (1920–21, 1939–41), creator of the Carte rouge ethnic map, enacted the 1939 Jewish Law, aided Poland, and died by suicide in 1941.
Pál Tomori
Pál Tomori (Tomori Pál), born around 1475, was a Hungarian Franciscan and archbishop of Kalocsa who organized defense against the Ottomans and fell at Mohács in 1526.
Pål Trulsen
Pål Trulsen (born 1962, Drøbak), Norwegian curler; skip of Norway's 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic gold-medal men's team; later coach of the 2010 gold team, general secretary of the Norwegian Curling Association, and 2026 World Curling Hall of Fame inductee.
Pál Turán
Pál Turán (1910–1976) was a Hungarian mathematician who founded extremal graph theory with his 1940 theorem, created the power sum method, and collaborated with Erdős.
Pal Tyldum
Pål Tyldum (Pal Tyldum), Norwegian cross-country skier born 1942 in Høylandet; five Olympic medals including 50 km gold at Sapporo 1972 and 1968 relay gold; seven Norwegian titles.
Pal1 cell morphology
Pal1 (Pal1p, YDR348c) is a fungal membrane-associated cell-polarity and early endocytic coat protein; its deletion makes fission yeast pear-shaped or spherical and Candida albicans pseudohyphal, distinct from PalI/Rim9 pH sensing and Pals1.
Palà
Palà is a hamlet of 82 inhabitants in the commune of Ceregnano, Province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy, at 45.04 N, 11.88 E near sea level; distinct from Pala, Chad and Pāla, Afghanistan.
Pala Alpitour
The Pala Alpitour, also known as the Inalpi Arena or Palasport Olimpico, is Turin's largest indoor arena, built in 2005 for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Pala bronze sculpture
Pala bronze sculpture is the tradition of small bronze and brass images of Buddhist and Hindu deities cast in Bihar and Bengal under the Pala dynasty, 8th to 12th centuries.
Pala d'Oro
The Pala d'Oro is the golden altarpiece behind the high altar of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, adorned with cloisonné enamels, gems, and pearls, and reworked from 976 to 1345.
Pala Empire
The Pala Empire (পাল সাম্রাজ্য), or Pala Dynasty, was a Buddhist imperial dynasty that ruled Bengal and Bihar from about 750 CE until the Senas ousted it in the mid-12th century.
Pala gan
Pala gan (পালাগান) is a narrative folk song-theater of rural Bengal, originating in Mymensingh, in which a lead singer presents stories through song, dialogue, and dance at fairs and festivals.
Pala school of manuscript painting
The Pala school of manuscript painting was a Buddhist palm-leaf illumination tradition of the Pala empire in eastern India, from the 8th to 12th centuries.
Pala school of sculpture
The Pala school of sculpture is the 8th- to 12th-century style of stone and bronze image-making that developed in Bihar and Bengal under the Pala dynasty.
Pala style in Tibetan art
The Pala style in Tibetan art, known as the Pala-Tibetan or Kadampa style, is a painting and sculpture tradition adopted from eastern India in the 11th to 14th century.