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Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken for religious or spiritual reasons to a place regarded as more sacred than everyday surroundings, usually combined with ritual acts performed there.
Pilgrimage (2017 film)
Pilgrimage (2017 film) by Brendan Muldowney, written by Jamie Hannigan; medieval Irish monks escort a sacred relic to Rome; stars Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Richard Armitage; distinct from João Botelho's Peregrinação.
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora (Poutní kostel sv. Jana Nepomuckého na Zelené hoře), a 1719–1722 five-pointed star-shaped Baroque Gothic church by Jan Blažej Santini Aichel near Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994, criterion (iv).
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche), a 1745–1754 Bavarian Rococo pilgrimage church by Dominikus Zimmermann near Steingaden, built after a 1738 weeping-Christ miracle; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
Pilgrimage of Grace
The Pilgrimage of Grace was the largest rebellion of the Tudor period, a series of northern English uprisings in October–December 1536 against Henry VIII's break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries, led by lawyer Robert Aske and ended by broken promises and executions.
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
English Separatist colonists who, after exile in Leiden, sailed the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; signed the Mayflower Compact, allied with the Wampanoag under Massasoit, held the 1621 First Thanksgiving, and were absorbed by Massachusetts in 1691.
Pili bifurcati
Pili bifurcati (ORPHA:720, ICD-10 L67.8) is a rare hair shaft dysplasia with segmental shaft duplication: two cuticle-covered branches fuse back into one shaft, caused by transient papilla-tip duplication during anagen.
Pili gemini
Pili gemini (pili multigemini), ORPHA:79492, is a rare hair follicle abnormality where the follicular papilla splits in anagen so multiple hair shafts emerge from one follicular opening, mostly in men's beards; ICD-10 L67.8.
Pili Pena
Pili Peña (María del Pilar Peña Carrasco), Spanish water polo captain born 1986 in Madrid; Olympic gold Paris 2024, silvers 2012 and 2020, world champion 2013; retired May 2026 with CN Terrassa.
Pili torti
Pili torti (twisted hair) is a rare hair shaft disorder with flattened shafts twisted 180 degrees, causing brittle, spangled, easily broken hair; isolated, syndromic (Menkes, Bjornstad), or acquired.
Pilibanga Mound
Pilibanga Mound (Ancient Mound, Pilibanga) is a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound in Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, listed since the 1951 Act, near the Indus Valley site of Kalibangan on the dry Ghaggar.
Piligrim
Piligrim, also spelled Pilgrim or Pilegrinus, was Bishop of Passau in Bavaria from 971 to 991, remembered for rebuilding churches along the Danube and for forging the Lorch charters.
Pilindavaccha
Pilindavaccha was a brahmin-born elder of the early Buddhist sangha, ranked foremost among monks dear to the devas and remembered for calling fellow monks outcaste.
Piliocolobus
Piliocolobus, the red colobus monkeys, is an African primate genus from Senegal to Zanzibar; the most threatened group of African monkeys, with all 18 taxa threatened and 14 Critically Endangered or Endangered.
Pilipili
Pilipili, born Peter Gatonye Ngugi, is a Kenyan genge singer from Nairobi who rose on Calif Records in the mid-2000s with the hits 'Kamata Dame' with Jua Cali and 'Morale'.
Pilita Corrales
Pilita Corrales (Maria del Pilar Corrales y Garrido), "Asia's Queen of Songs," Filipino singer born 1939 in Cebu City, died April 12, 2025; Australian No. 1 hit "Come Closer to Me" (1959), Tokyo Music Festival winner 1972, over 100 albums.
Pilk
Pilk (Pepsi + milk) is a cola-and-milk drink, a dirty soda variant. Known from Laverne & Shirley, a 2020 viral tweet, and Pepsi's December 2022 Lindsay Lohan #PilkandCookies campaign.
Pilkhana Mound
Pilkhana Mound: excavated archaeological mound at Kankandighi, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on the river Mani; University of Calcutta dig 2013-14 found a Buddhist brick complex of the 9th-13th centuries CE.
Pilkington (glass manufacturer)
Pilkington is a British flat glass manufacturer founded in St Helens in 1826, now part of Japan's NSG Group and known for inventing the float glass process.
Pill (TV series)
Pill is a 2024 Hindi-language Indian crime drama web series, eight episodes, created by Raj Kumar Gupta for JioCinema Premium, starring Riteish Deshmukh as Dr. Prakash Chauhan and Pawan Malhotra as pharma CEO Brahma Gill, about whistleblowers exposing pharmaceutical corruption.
Pill millipede
Pill millipedes (Glomerida and Sphaerotheriida, Oniscomorpha) are short, stout millipedes that roll into perfect balls; Holarctic Glomerida of about 320 species secrete quinazolinone alkaloid defenses and have male telopods mating appendages.
Pillai (பிள்ளை) (surname)
Pillai (பிள்ளை) is a South Indian surname from the Tamil word for 'child', used historically as a Vellala honorific and borne by many communities in India and the diaspora.
Pillai Lokacharya
Pillai Lokacharya (பிள்ளை லோகாசாரியர்) was a Sri Vaishnava acharya of Srirangam in Tamil Nadu, remembered as a Visishtadvaita philosopher and author of the Ashtadasa Rahasya.
Pillaitamil
Pillaitamil (பிள்ளைத்தமிழ்) is a major Tamil devotional genre in which the poet, as a mother, praises a deity, king, or saint imagined as a child.
Pillan Fluctus
Pillan Fluctus is a 95-km lava flow field (fluctus) on Jupiter's moon Io, near Pillan Patera, IAU-named in 2023 for an Araucanian thunder, fire, and volcano god, formed by the fierce 1997 eruption.
Pillan Mons
Pillan Mons is a mountain on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, near Pillan Patera, named for the Mapuche spirit of sun and light; site of the 1997 Pillanian eruption and renewed eruptions in 2007, 2010, and 2015.
Pillan Patera
Pillan Patera is an active volcanic depression on Io, Jupiter's volcanically most active moon, best known for a 1997 eruption that blanketed an Arizona-sized area with dark material.
Pillar (car)
A pillar in a car is a vertical body member lettered A to D from front to back that supports the roof and helps resist crush in rollovers.
Pillar cell
Pillar cells (rods of Corti) are inner and outer supporting cells of the mammalian organ of Corti that form the tunnel of Corti; FGF8-FGFR3 and β-Catenin specify them, and inner pillars survive hearing loss best in human cochleas.
Pillar coral
Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), sole species of its genus, is a rare Caribbean hard coral forming finger-like columns up to 3 m tall. It spawns annually after the late-summer full moon, grows about 0.8 cm per year, and is ESA-endangered and functionally extinct in Florida due to stony coral tissue loss disease.