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Pale lager
Pale lager: family of pale, bottom-fermented, lagered beers from Czech pilsner and Bavarian Helles to International Pale Lager (4.5-6% ABV, 18-25 IBU), first brewed at Plzeň in 1842; the dominant global commercial lager style.
Pale Moon
Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki) is a 2014 Japanese crime drama directed by Daihachi Yoshida, starring Rie Miyazawa as a bank employee who embezzles to fund an affair.
Pale of Calais
The Pale of Calais (English Pale) was the English-held territory around Calais, France, from 1347 to 1558: about 120 square miles from Wissant to Gravelines, a wool staple, garrison town, and England's last continental possession.
Pale of Settlement (Черта оседлости)
Pale of Settlement (Черта оседлости, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv): western region of the Russian Empire, 1791–1917, where Jewish residency was permitted; held 4,899,300 Jews by the 1897 census and was abolished by the Provisional Government in 1917.
Pale Rider
Pale Rider is Clint Eastwood's 1985 Western, written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, in which a mysterious Preacher defends California gold miners from Coy LaHood; a Shane-inspired Cannes competitor that earned $41.4 million on a $6.9 million budget.
Pale Waves
Pale Waves: Manchester indie pop band formed 2014 (Baron-Gracie, Doran, Silvani, Wood), signed to Dirty Hit, known for goth aesthetics, four albums including My Mind Makes Noises and Smitten.
Palea
Palea is a monotypic genus of softshell turtles (Trionychidae, Trionychinae) erected by Meylan in 1987; its single species, the wattle-necked softshell turtle Palea steindachneri (山瑞鳖), is native to southern China, Laos, and Vietnam, introduced to Hawaii and Mauritius, and Critically Endangered.
Palearctic realm
Palearctic realm: largest terrestrial biogeographic realm, covering Europe, North Africa, and most of Asia; proposed by Sclater in 1857, contested Holarctic unity with the Nearctic, moderate bird endemism.
Paleface Swiss
Paleface Swiss is a Swiss deathcore and beatdown band formed in Zurich in 2017, fronted by Marc "Zelli" Zellweger. Formerly just Paleface, renamed in 2023; albums include Fear & Dagger and the self-released Cursed (2025), followed by The Wilted EP (2026).
Palekh miniature
Palekh miniature is a Russian folk craft of miniature painting in egg tempera on lacquered papier-mâché boxes, developed by former icon painters in the settlement of Palekh from the early 1920s.
Palembang
Palembang, capital of South Sumatra, Indonesia, on the Musi River 85 km inland; historic center of the Srivijaya kingdom, nicknamed Venice of the East, population 1.75 million (2018), known for the Ampera Bridge, pempek, songket, and recurrent urban flooding.
Palembang Sultanate
The Palembang Sultanate was a sultanate centered on Palembang in Sumatra, founded by Ki Mas Hindi around 1659, prospering on pepper and tin until the Dutch abolished it in 1823.
Palembang War
The Palembang War (Perang Palembang) refers to the armed conflicts of 1819 and 1821 between the Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam in southern Sumatra and the Dutch colonial government.
Palencia, Castille and León
Palencia is a city in northern Spain, capital of the province of the same name in Castile and León, on the Carrión River, known for its Gothic cathedral.
Palenque
Palenque (Lakamha') is a Classic Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, a 1987 UNESCO World Heritage property famed for its Palace, Temple of the Inscriptions, and the 1952 discovery of Pakal's tomb by Alberto Ruz Lhuillier.
Palenque dynasty
The Palenque dynasty (dinastía de Palenque) was the Maya ruling house of B'aakal at Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, founded in 431 CE and famed for Pakal the Great.
Palenque king lists
The Palenque king lists are three versions of the Maya city-state's dynastic record, first compiled under K'inich Janaab Pakal I, who ruled from 615 to 683.
Palenque sarcophagus lid
The Palenque sarcophagus lid is a carved limestone slab, about six tonnes, sealing the tomb of Maya ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal at Palenque, Mexico, around 683 CE.
Paleo (game)
Paleo (2020) is a cooperative Stone Age survival board game by Peter Rustemeyer, published by Hans im Glück and Z-MAN Games, for 2–4 players; it won the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2021 and uses 10 modular card sets.
Paleo (protected area)
Paleo (FEOW ecoregion 804) is an Australian freshwater ecoregion of xeric freshwaters and endorheic basins covering 2,363,000 km2, 30% of Australia, spanning the Great Sandy, Gibson, Tanami, and Great Victoria deserts with six isolated paleodrainage catchments.
Paléo Festival
Paléo Festival (Paléo Festival Nyon), Switzerland's largest open-air music festival, held in July at Nyon's Plaine de l'Asse. Founded 1976 as a folk festival by Daniel Rossellat; capacity 250,000, eight million visitors since founding, 50th edition 2027.
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, also called Proto-Hebrew or Ktav Ivri, is the consonantal script used to write Hebrew in ancient Israel and Judah from about 1000 BC to 136 AD.
Paleo-Indians
Paleo-Indians, the first peoples of the Americas in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, known from Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin, and Cody cultures, fluted projectile points, megafauna hunting, and pre-Clovis sites such as White Sands and Monte Verde.
Paleoarchean
The Paleoarchean is the second era of the Archean Eon, spanning 3,600 to 3,200 million years ago, defined by fixed ages and hosting many of the oldest claimed records of life.
Paleobiology
Paleobiology is the study of ancient life as a biological subject, using the fossil record to ask how organisms lived, functioned, diversified, and went extinct.
Paleobiology and paleoecology of rugose and tabulate corals
The paleobiology and paleoecology of rugose and tabulate corals covers extinct Paleozoic corals whose calcite skeletons differ from modern corals' aragonite, with isotope evidence of photosymbiosis by about 430 Ma.
Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation
Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation: Late Triassic fossil assemblage of the Colorado Plateau, southwestern USA, featuring phytosaurs, aetosaurs, metoposaurs, the Placerias quarry dicynodonts, petrified conifer forests, and rare early dinosaurs and frogs.
Paleoceanography
Paleoceanography studies the history of the oceans using proxies in deep-sea sediments: foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotopes, Mg/Ca, alkenones, and species assemblages, supported by scientific ocean drilling and NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology archives.
Paleocene
The Paleocene is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period, lasting from 66 to 56 million years ago, when mammals diversified after the extinction that ended the dinosaurs.
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a geologically rapid global warming and carbon release event about 56 million years ago, at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary.