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Palingenesis
Palingenesis, from Greek palin (again) and genesis (birth), means rebirth; in biology it is Haeckel's term for recapitulative embryonic development reproducing ancestral features, opposed to cenogenesis, and it also denotes spiritual rebirth or metempsychosis.
Palingenetic ultranationalism
Palingenetic ultranationalism, also called palingenetic populist ultra-nationalism, is Roger Griffin's 1991 definition of fascism: a mythic core of national rebirth from decadence, serving as the fascist minimum in comparative fascist studies.
Pálinka
Pálinka, also written palenka, is Hungary's EU-protected fruit brandy: 100% fruit, distilled and bottled in Hungary, minimum 37.5% ABV, with Romanian Pălincă as the parallel name and eight Hungarian PDO fruit regions.
Palinopsia
Palinopsia, or visual perseveration, is the abnormal persistence or recurrence of an image after its stimulus is gone. Distinct from normal afterimages, it divides into hallucinatory (lesions, seizures) and illusory (migraine, drugs) types.
Palinurus elephas
Palinurus elephas, the European spiny lobster or crawfish, is a vulnerable, long-lived spiny lobster of the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean, overfished since the mid-20th century with landings falling from 820 to 385 t.
Palio di Siena
Palio di Siena (Il Palio), bareback horse race run twice yearly, 2 July and 16 August, in Siena's Piazza del Campo by 10 of 17 contrade over three laps; 2026 winners Aquila and Nicchio, both ridden by Tittia.
Paliouros
Paliouros (Παλίουρος, also Paliuris) was an ancient village of the Marmaridae in Cyrenaica, Libya, near a temple of Heracles; attested by Strabo, Ptolemy, and the Tabula Peutingeriana, identified near Wadi et-Tmimi.
Paliperidone
Paliperidone (9-hydroxyrisperidone, INVEGA) is an atypical antipsychotic and the active metabolite of risperidone, given as extended-release oral tablets (3–12 mg/day) or monthly paliperidone palmitate injection for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
Palisade
A palisade is a defensive fence of large sharpened wooden stakes set firmly and closely together in the ground, used to enclose and protect settlements and forts.
Palisade Research
Palisade Research is a nonprofit in Berkeley, California, founded by Jeffrey Ladish in 2023, known for demonstrations of AI models hacking chess games and disabling shutdown scripts.
Palisades Charter High School
Palisades Charter High School, known as Pali High, is an independent charter high school in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, opened in 1961 and converted to charter status in 2003.
Palisades Fire
The Palisades Fire, a wind-driven wildfire, ignited on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, burning 23,448 acres, destroying 6,845 structures, and killing 12 civilians.
Palisades Interstate Parkway
The Palisades Interstate Parkway is a 42-mile scenic limited-access parkway running from the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey north along the Palisades cliffs to Bear Mountain, New York.
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant is a pressurized water reactor in Covert Township, Michigan, on Lake Michigan, which operated commercially from 1971 until May 2022.
Palistar Digital Infrastructure
Palistar Digital Infrastructure is a family of private equity funds managed by Palistar Capital, a New York firm investing in digital infrastructure such as wireless towers.
Palistin
Palistin, also read Walistin, was an early Iron Age Syro-Hittite kingdom in the 'Amuq plain of north Syria, probably ruled from Tell Tayinat under King Taita.
Palitana temples
The Palitana temples are a complex of roughly 863 marble Jain temples on Shatrunjaya Hill at Palitana in Gujarat, India, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in Jainism, reached by about 3,500 steps.
Paliurus
Paliurus (Jerusalem thorn) is a genus of five spiny shrub and tree species in Rhamnaceae, tribe Paliureae, native from southern Europe and southwest Asia to East Asia, recognized by dry orbicular-winged wind-dispersed fruits and a rich Northern Hemisphere fossil record.
Palivizumab
Palivizumab (Synagis, MEDI-493) is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody against the RSV F protein, given monthly at 15 mg/kg to high-risk infants; FDA-approved 1998, discontinued December 31, 2025 after nirsevimab and clesrovimab replaced it.
Palk Strait
Palk Strait (Paakku Niirinai, Pok Samudra Sandhiya) is the shallow 75-km-wide strait between Tamil Nadu, India, and northern Sri Lanka, named after Governor Sir Robert Palk, bounded by Adam's Bridge and central to the India–Sri Lanka trawling dispute.
Palkuriki Somanatha
Palkuriki Somanatha (పాల్కురికి సోమనాథుడు) was a Telugu and Kannada Vira Shaiva poet of the Kakatiya kingdom, known for the Basava Purana and revered as a saint.
Pall Mall (cigarette)
Pall Mall, an 1899 cigarette brand named for the London street, now owned by British American Tobacco; US value-segment brand under Reynolds, 3.7% US share in 2023, 14% share in Mexico by 2016.
Pall Mall, London
Pall Mall is a street in the St James's district of central London, best known as the heart of "Clubland," home to historic gentlemen's clubs like the Reform and Athenaeum.
Pall-mall
Pall-mall, also spelled paille-maille and from the Italian pallamaglio, was an obsolete English ball game of French origin, giving its name to London's Pall Mall and the word mall.
Palla Srinivasa Rao
Palla Srinivasa Rao (పల్లా శ్రీనివాస రావు) is an Andhra Pradesh politician, TDP state president since June 2024 and Gajuwaka MLA, elected in 2014 and 2024 with 67.3% of the vote.
Pallab K. Bhattacharya
Pallab K. Bhattacharya, born in India in 1949, is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for discovering self-organized quantum dots and commercializing quantum dot lasers.
Pallab K. Chatterjee
Pallab K. Chatterjee is an electronics engineer known for MOS VLSI scaling at Texas Instruments, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and later a software executive.
Pallacopas Vallis
Pallacopas Vallis is an IAU-named valley system on Mars at 54.98° S, 339.00° E, approved 1991, named for a Lowell canal and classical river; classified as a subglacial-type valley network in a 2020 study.
Palladas
Palladas (Παλλαδᾶς) was a Greek epigrammatist and schoolmaster in 4th-century Alexandria, whose roughly 150 surviving epigrams in the Greek Anthology make him a principal late-antique epigrammatist.
Palladian architecture
Palladian architecture, also known as the Palladian style, is a European classical style derived from the Venetian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and codified in his 1570 treatise.