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Palm Tree Music Festival Montecito

Palm Tree Music Festival Montecito is a music festival at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club in Carpinteria, California, founded by Kygo's Palm Tree Crew, debuting in 2025.

Palm Trees in the Snow

Palm Trees in the Snow (Palmeras en la nieve), 2015 Spanish epic romance drama by Fernando González Molina, adapted from Luz Gabás's novel; Kilian's forbidden love on colonial Fernando Poo, 2 Goya Awards, €17 million Spanish box office.

Palm vinegar

Palm vinegar is vinegar made by fermenting the sweet sap of palms such as nipa, coconut, kaong, and buri, a tradition across Southeast Asia and the Philippines.

Palm wine

Palm wine, also called toddy, tuba, or tuak, is an alcoholic beverage made by spontaneous fermentation of sap tapped from coconut, oil palm, date palm, and raffia palms, reaching up to about 5% alcohol within a day and consumed across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Palm-leaf manuscript

Palm-leaf manuscript: writing on prepared palmyra (Borassus) or talipot (Corypha) palm leaves, used across South and Southeast Asia from the 5th century BCE until the 19th-20th century, incised with a stylus and bound with cords.

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., also known as PalmOne, Inc., was an American handheld-computer maker founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins that created the PalmPilot and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010.

Palma Aquarium

Palma Aquarium is a public aquarium and marine park at Playa de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, opened in June 2007 and owned by Coral World International.

Palma Cathedral

Palma Cathedral, known in Catalan as La Seu, is the Gothic cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, built from the 13th century on the site of the city's former great mosque.

Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca, capital of the Balearic Islands with over 400,000 residents, is defined by mass tourism: 33.8 million airport passengers in 2025, tourist-rental bans, water stress, and severe traffic congestion.

Palma de Mallorca Airport

Palma de Mallorca Airport, also known as Son Sant Joan Airport, is Spain's third-busiest airport, located about 8 km east of Palma on the island of Mallorca.

Palma Investments

Palma Investments is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund manager whose two Delaware limited-partnership funds reported raising $131,180,002 in exempt offerings in 2014 and 2015.

Palma Sola

Palma Sola is an archaeological zone on Cerro El Veladero in Acapulco, Guerrero, with 18 granite boulders carved with petroglyphs (about 800 BC to 750 AD), tied to a water cult and astronomical readings.

Palmach generation

The Palmach generation, also known as Dor Tashach, is the group of Hebrew writers, mostly Palmach veterans, who led Hebrew literature in the 1940s and 1950s.

Palmar arches

The palmar arches are two arterial loops in the palm that join the ulnar and radial arteries into one circuit, so either forearm artery can supply the whole hand.

Palmar de las Islas y las Salinas de San José

Palmar de las Islas y las Salinas de San José, Ramsar site no. 1088 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designated 2001; 856,754 ha of Copernicia alba palm wetlands in the Gran Chaco, within Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and ANMI.

Palmares quilombo wars

The Palmares quilombo wars (Guerras do Quilombo dos Palmares) were Portuguese campaigns against Palmares, a fugitive slave settlement in Pernambuco, Brazil, destroyed in 1694; its last leader, Zumbi, died in 1695.

Palmaria palmata

Palmaria palmata, dulse (duileasc), is an edible North Atlantic red alga (Palmariaceae) used as food since the fifth century; protein-rich (up to ~22% winter), omega-3 containing, moderately iodine-rich, and a leading cereal alternative in food and feed.

Palmarian Catholic Church

The Palmarian Catholic Church, also known as the Iglesia Católica Apostólica Palmariana, is a small independent Catholic church in El Palmar de Troya, Spain, claiming the papacy since 1978.

Palmaris longus muscle

Palmaris longus, a slender superficial forearm flexor muscle (musculus palmaris longus) running from the medial humeral epicondyle to the palmar aponeurosis; absent in about 20% of people and widely used as a tendon graft donor.

Palmas, Tocantins

Palmas is the capital of Tocantins state, Brazil, founded 20 May 1989 and installed 1 January 1990; the last planned capital of twentieth-century Brazil, with 302,692 residents (2022 census) and a planned grid between the Tocantins River and surrounding serras.

Palmatis

Palmatis (Kochular?), a Roman road station in Moesia Inferior on the Durostorum–Marcianopolis road, later a Justinianic fortified city with an episcopal basilica near Tervel, Bulgaria; unrelated to Pliny's lapides palmati.

Palmatolepis

Palmatolepis is an extinct Late Devonian conodont genus (Frasnian–Famennian, 378.9–359.3 Ma), the most abundant of its time, basis of the Late Devonian Standard Conodont Zonation, extinct at the Devonian–Carboniferous crisis.

Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II is the solo electronic project of Dutch producer Kai Hugo, launched in 2015 with a self-titled album on Beats In Space, centered on the fictional character Cindy Savalas.

Palmdale Regional Airport

Palmdale Regional Airport (PMD) is a public-use airport in Palmdale, California, sharing its runways with the Air Force's Plant 42, with no scheduled passenger service today.

Palmdale, California

Palmdale, California: high-desert Antelope Valley city in northern LA County, ~60 miles from downtown LA; grew from a railroad water stop (Palmenthal, 1886) into an aerospace hub around Air Force Plant 42; 169,450 residents in 2020, affordable housing, long commutes.

Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or, Golden Palm, top prize of the Cannes Film Festival for the best film in Official Competition; first awarded 1955 to Marty, made by Chopard, 2026 winner Fjord by Cristian Mungiu.

Palme d'Or du Court Métrage

Palme d'Or du Court Métrage (Short Film Palme d'Or): Cannes Film Festival's top jury prize for short films under 15 minutes in the Official Selection; 2026 winner Federico Luis's Para Los Contrincantes, chosen from 3,184 entries.

Palmengarten

Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main botanical garden founded by Heinrich Siesmayer, opened 16 March 1871 around the purchased Biebricher exotic plant collection; municipal since 1931, with Palm House, Tropicarium, and the Botanical Garden joined in 2012.

Palmer (film)

Palmer (2021) is an Apple TV+ drama directed by Fisher Stevens, written by Cheryl Guerriero, starring Justin Timberlake as an ex-convict caring for a gender-nonconforming boy; Metascore 53, released January 29, 2021.

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago: island group off the west Antarctic Peninsula, from Tower Island to Anvers Island, named for sealer Nathaniel Palmer (sighted 1820); hosts NSF Palmer Station and Port Lockroy.