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Palace Rebellion
The Palace Rebellion of 1912 (Thai: กบฏ ร.ศ. 130) was a failed conspiracy by junior military officers to overthrow Siam's absolute monarchy, ended by mass arrests.
Palace Theatre (New York City)
Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway, New York: 1913 vaudeville flagship built by Martin Beck, designed by Kirchhoff & Rose, home of "playing the Palace"; movie palace from 1932, Broadway house since 1966, lifted 30 feet in the TSX Broadway renovation and reopened in 2024 with 1,648 seats.
Palace Tomb
The Palace Tomb is the most monumental of the four Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan, a five-storey Nabataean rock-cut tomb named for its resemblance to a Roman palace.
Palace Verses
Palace verses (宫词, gongci) are a classical Chinese poetry genre depicting palace life and court customs, founded by Wang Jian's cycle of one hundred quatrains in the Middle Tang.
Palace-attached tribes and households
Palace-attached tribes and households (宫分户) were Khitan, Han, and other households registered under the ordo palace establishments that each Liao emperor and several empresses founded on accession, totaling 203,000 households by the dynasty's end.
Palace-style poetry
Palace-style poetry (宮體詩, gongti shi) is a sensuous style of Chinese verse from the Liang dynasty court, centered on women's feelings and appearance and associated with the future Emperor Jianwen.
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (Schlösser und Parks von Potsdam und Berlin), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990, criteria (i)(ii)(iv), 2,064 ha: Sanssouci, New Garden, Babelsberg, Glienicke, Peacock Island.
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Palacio de Bellas Artes: Mexico City's main opera house, begun 1904 by Adamo Boari and completed 1934 by Federico Mariscal, mixing Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Tiffany curtain, 1,590-seat Sala Principal, home of INBAL and national companies.
Paladin
Paladin: originally one of Charlemagne's twelve legendary knights (Twelve Peers) in the Song of Roland; from Latin palatinus, palace official; now a holy-warrior fantasy class in D&D and World of Warcraft.
Paladin (Dungeons & Dragons)
Paladin (D&D): warrior-priest character class, first a fighter subclass in Greyhawk (1975), oath-bound in 5e; Divine Smite, Lay on Hands, 7% of D&D Beyond characters, revised in 2024 PHB.
Paladin Energy
Paladin Energy is an independent uranium mining company based in Perth, Australia, best known for owning 75% of the Langer Heinrich Mine in Namibia, restarted in 2024.
Paladin Legend (又见逍遥)
Paladin Legend (又见逍遥, Sword and Fairy, You Jian Xiaoyao) is a 2024 Chinese xianxia drama, 40 episodes, adapted faithfully from the 1995 game The Legend of Sword and Fairy, starring He Yu and Yang Yutong; Douban 6.4, Hupu 8.2.
Paladins (video game)
Paladins: Champions of the Realm, free-to-play fantasy 5v5 hero shooter by Evil Mojo Games/Hi-Rez Studios; open beta September 16, 2016, full release May 8, 2018; card-based champion customization; esports ended 2021, maintenance mode since February 2025.
Palaemon elegans
Palaemon elegans, the rockpool prawn, is a caridean shrimp of the Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea that has invaded the Baltic, Caspian, and Aral Seas.
Palaemon serratus
Palaemon serratus, the common prawn (Astacus serratus, Leander serratus), is a caridean shrimp from Denmark to Mauritania and the Mediterranean, living to 40 m depth and supporting trap fisheries in Wales and Ireland.
Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project
The Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) coordinates standardized simulations of past climates in many climate models, testing them against palaeoclimate reconstructions since the early 1990s.
Palaeococcus
Palaeococcus is a genus of barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaea in Thermococcaceae (Thermococcales), established in 2000 with type species P. ferrophilus from a Japanese deep-sea vent; three species, deep-branching before Thermococcus and Pyrococcus.
Palaeoecology
Palaeoecology: study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods and fossil proxies such as pollen, diatoms, and phytoliths. Distinguished from ecology by proxy-based reconstruction over timescales beyond direct observation, with taphonomy, time-averaging, and conservation applications.
Palaeography
Palaeography, also spelled paleography, is the study of pre-modern handwriting and scripts, founded with Mabillon's De re diplomatica (1681) and Montfaucon's Palaeographia Graeca (1708), used to transcribe, date, and locate manuscripts.
Palaeoheterodonta
Palaeoheterodonta (Unionida, Trigoniida) is a bivalve subterclass uniting freshwater mussels with the marine living-fossil Neotrigonia; equivalve prismato-nacreous shells, few diverging hinge teeth, parasitic glochidium larvae, roughly 840–1026 Recent species.
Palaeolithic site
Palaeolithic site: a place with Old Stone Age human evidence, about 1 million to 11,700 years ago in England. Types include caves, rock shelters and river-terrace flint scatters; the scheduled Cuxton site, Kent, yielded over 600 Acheulian flints.
Palaeologan Renaissance
The Palaeologan Renaissance was the final flowering of Byzantine art and learning from 1261, when Michael VIII Palaiologos reclaimed Constantinople after Latin rule, to the Ottoman conquest of 1453.
Palaeoloxodon
Palaeoloxodon, the extinct straight-tusked elephants, was a Pleistocene elephant genus from Africa that spread across Eurasia about 780,000 years ago. Known for its parieto-occipital skull crest, giant P. namadicus, European P. antiquus, Japanese P. naumanni, and dwarf island species; genetically closest to African elephants.
Palaeomeryx
Palaeomeryx (von Meyer, 1834) is an extinct three-horned Miocene Eurasian ruminant genus, type species P. kaupi from Georgensgmünd, placed with giraffoids in Giraffomorpha, not with dromomerycids.
Palaeotherium
Palaeotherium, an extinct European equoid perissodactyl genus named by Cuvier in 1804 from Montmartre gypsum-quarry fossils; tapir-like, three-toed, pig-to-rhino-sized, dominant in the late Eocene and extinct at the Grande Coupure.
Palaeozoic non-ammonoid cephalopods
Palaeozoic non-ammonoid cephalopods, traditionally called nautiloids plus early stem lineages, are Cambrian-Permian shelled cephalopods distinct from ammonoids; Ellesmerocerida were first siphuncle bearers, only Nautilida outlived the Triassic, and Bayesian phylogeny shows early forms are not true Nautiloidea.
Palaestina (region)
Palaestina (Greek Παλαιστίνη) is the classical name for the southern Levant, used by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE and made a Roman province in the 2nd century CE.
Palaestra
Palaestra (παλαίστρα), ancient Greek and Roman wrestling school and exercise courtyard, often part of a gymnasium; standardized peristyle court with rooms for changing, oiling, and bathing; Vitruvius described the type.
Palagua Oil and Gas Field
The Palagua Oil and Gas Field is an oil field in the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin of Colombia near Puerto Boyacá, discovered in 1954 and operated by Ecopetrol.
Palaia Pleuron
Palaia Pleuron (Old Pleuron, ἡ παλαιὰ Πλευρών) was the original Aetolian city of Pleuron on the Gyftokastro and Petrovouni hills near Messolonghi, a Homeric Catalogue of Ships city traditionally said to have been destroyed by Demetrios II c. 234-230 BC before the move to New Pleuron.