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Palestinian short story
The Palestinian short story (القصة الفلسطينية القصيرة) is the body of short fiction written by Palestinian authors in Arabic, a genre that emerged in Palestine in the early twentieth century.
Palestinian suicide attacks
Palestinian suicide attacks: suicide bombings by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others against Israel from 1993 onward, peaking with 138 attacks in the Second Intifada (2000-2005), then declining sharply under Israeli countermeasures.
Palestinian war crimes
Palestinian war crimes: alleged laws-of-war violations by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, notably the 7 October 2023 attack, hostage-taking, and killings, as documented by UN inquiries and charged by the ICC, alongside parallel findings against Israeli forces.
Palestinian Writers' Union
The Palestinian Writers' Union, formally the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, represents Palestinian writers in Palestine and the diaspora. Founded in 1966, it is a PLO popular organization.
Palestinians (الفلسطينيون)
Palestinians (الفلسطينيون) are an Arab people identifying with historic Palestine; national identity formed under late Ottoman and British Mandate rule, was marked by the 1948 Nakba and displacement of about 700,000, and today numbers about 15.2-15.5 million worldwide, per PCBS.
Palestra
The Palestra, opened January 1, 1927 at the University of Pennsylvania, is the 8,722-seat "Cathedral of College Basketball," home of Penn basketball and the Philadelphia Big 5, and the arena that has hosted the most NCAA tournament games.
Palette
Palette (팔레트) is the fourth studio album by South Korean singer-songwriter IU, released in April 2017; it topped Korean charts and won the 2017 Melon Music Awards Daesang.
Palfinger
Palfinger is an Austrian manufacturer of hydraulic lifting, loading, and handling systems, best known for truck-mounted loader cranes. Founded in 1932, it is headquartered in Bergheim near Salzburg.
Palghar
Palghar (पालघर), a district in Konkan, Maharashtra, created 1 August 2014 as the state's 36th district from Thane district; headquarters at Palghar town, 87 km north of Mumbai. Eight talukas, 2,990,116 people (2011), 37.39% Scheduled Tribe, with Vadhavan Port under development.
Palghat Mani Iyer
Palghat Mani Iyer, also known as Palakkad Mani Iyer, was an Indian Carnatic mridangam player, one of the 'Holy Trinity of Mridangam', and the first mridangist to receive the Sangita Kalanidhi.
Palgwanhoe
Palgwanhoe (팔관회) was a state religious festival of Silla and Goryeo Korea, blending Buddhist and folk beliefs, held annually from 918 until its abolition in 1392.
Palhoça
Palhoça is a municipality in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in the Grande Florianópolis region, founded 1793, emancipated from São José in 1894; population 222,598 (2022 census), known for its mangrove, Pedra Branca, and Guarda do Embaú.
Pali
Pali (Pāḷi, पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan literary language, the canonical language of Theravada Buddhism's Tipitaka; ISO 639-3 pli, Glottolog extinct as L1, western Middle Indic base rather than Magadhi, written down in Sri Lanka 1st century BCE, designated a classical language of India on 3 October 2024.
PaLI / PaLI-X
PaLI and PaLI-X are Google's multilingual vision-language models for image captioning and question answering in over 100 languages, with PaLI-X reaching 55 billion parameters in 2023.
Pali Canon
The Pali Canon, or Tipitaka (Pali for "three baskets"), is the foundational scripture of Theravada Buddhism, comprising monastic rules, five discourse collections, and philosophical treatises, first written down in Sri Lanka around 29–17 BCE.
Pali Hill
Pali Hill, Bandra West, Mumbai (pin 400050): an affluent elevated residential precinct near Carter Road, known for celebrity residents, builder floors, and premium real estate around ₹51,000-78,000 per sq ft.
Palia
Palia is a free-to-play community simulation MMO set in a high fantasy world, developed by Los Angeles studio Singularity 6 and blending farming, crafting, fishing, and home decorating with a shared online world.
Palianytsia (Паляниця) (missile)
Palianytsia (Паляниця), also called the Palyanitsia missile, is a Ukrainian jet-powered rocket-drone and one-way strike weapon unveiled by Zelenskyy on Ukraine's Independence Day 2024, with a range of 650 km.
Palifermin
Palifermin (Kepivance) is recombinant truncated human keratinocyte growth factor-1 (FGF7) that prevents severe oral mucositis; FDA approved 2004 for hematologic malignancy patients after myeloablative therapy with stem cell transplant, EU authorization withdrawn 2016.
Palifosfamide
Palifosfamide (ZIO-201, Zymafos, IPM-lysine) is the stabilized active metabolite of ifosfamide, a bifunctional DNA cross-linking alkylator lacking acrolein and chloroacetaldehyde metabolites; its phase III PICASSO III sarcoma trial failed and development was terminated.
PaliGemma
PaliGemma is an open vision-language model family from Google, first released in May 2024, combining the SigLIP image encoder with a Gemma decoder for fine-tuning on vision-language tasks.
Palikhera Mound
Palikhera Mound (Pali Khera), an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Mahavan in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, a Kushan-period settlement and sculpture-carving center, now almost fully destroyed.
Palilalia
Palilalia is the involuntary repetition of one's own words or phrases, first described by Souques in 1908, with accelerating, fading repetitions; a complex phonic tic in Tourette syndrome and a sign of stroke, parkinsonism, and dementia.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest: a writing surface reused after erasure, and a metaphor for layered texts. Covers the concept, Vidal's 1995 memoir Palimpsest, Valente's novel, Sjöblom's graphic memoir, and Battles' history.
Palindrome
Palindrome: a word, phrase, or number reading the same backward and forward (madam, racecar); from Greek palindromos 'running back again'; distinct from anagrams and emordnilaps; used in wordplay, computing, and DNA biology.
Palindrome (Fargo)
"Palindrome" is the tenth and final episode of Fargo season 2, aired December 14, 2015, written by Noah Hawley, directed by Adam Arkin; it closes the 1979 Gerhardt story and reveals Hanzee Dent as Moses Tripoli, earning an Emmy writing nomination.
Palindromic number
A palindromic number, also called a numeral palindrome, reads the same forwards and backwards in some base, such as 121 or 94200249 in decimal.
Palindromic rheumatism
Palindromic rheumatism is a rare rheumatic condition of sudden, recurring joint attacks lasting hours to days, with no residual damage; about half of patients develop rheumatoid arthritis.
Palindromic sequence
Palindromic sequence: a DNA or RNA motif identical to its reverse complement, read 5'-to-3' on both strands; basis of restriction enzyme sites (EcoRI GAATTC), hairpin/cruciform structures, genome instability, and the CRISPR name.
Palindromic verse
Palindromic verse, in Russian called pereverten' (перевертень), is poetry built from palindromes, a form of combinatory poetry whose Russian landmark is Velimir Khlebnikov's 1913 «Перевертень».