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Pinkerton (detective agency)
Pinkerton, founded as Pinkerton's National Detective Agency by Allan Pinkerton in Chicago in 1850, was America's first private detective agency, famed for the "we never sleep" eye logo, the 1861 Lincoln plot, Homestead strikebreaking, and its modern Securitas ownership.
Pinkfong (핑크퐁)
Pinkfong (핑크퐁) is a South Korean preschool entertainment brand and pink fox character owned by The Pinkfong Company (founded 2010 as SmartStudy), known for Baby Shark, the most-viewed YouTube video, 85 billion cumulative views, and a 2025 KOSDAQ listing.
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie Pie (Pinkamena Diane Pie) is the party-loving Earth pony of the Mane Six in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, bearer of the Element of Laughter, balloon cutie mark, voiced by Andrea Libman, created by Lauren Faust from the G1 pony Surprise.
Pinklao
Pinklao (พระปิ่นเกล้า) was the Front Palace prince, or viceroy, of Siam under King Mongkut, and the only holder of that office to be crowned as a second king.
Pinko
Pinko is derogatory chiefly American slang for a person with left-wing or socialist sympathies who is not a full communist; pink as diluted red. First recorded 1936 (some sources say 1925), prominent in McCarthy- and Nixon-era red-baiting.
PinkPantheress
PinkPantheress (Victoria Beverley Walker, born 2001, Bath) is an English singer-producer known for short TikTok-era songs blending UK garage, jungle, and drum 'n' bass with hyperpop; albums To Hell with It (2021), Heaven Knows (2023), Fancy That (2025).
Pinkpop Festival
Pinkpop Festival, the world's longest-running annual pop and rock festival (Guinness, 1970–2012), founded by Jan Smeets in Geleen and held since 1988 at Megaland, Landgraaf, Netherlands, over the Pentecost weekend; 70,000 daily visitors, 55th edition in 2026.
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain is a 1995-1998 Warner Bros./Amblin animated series by Tom Ruegger about two Acme Labs lab mice plotting world domination; spun off from Animaniacs, voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen, Emmy-winning.
Pinky Clarke
Pinky Clarke (Louis Alfred Clarke, 1901–1977), American sprinter and Johns Hopkins graduate; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold in the men's 4x100 m relay running the second leg, with world records of 41.2 and 41.0.
Pinky Malinky
Pinky Malinky is a Nickelodeon-produced, Netflix-exclusive mockumentary animated series about an optimistic 12-year-old hot dog in Sackenhack with friends Babs and JJ. Created by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern, it was the first Nicktoon exclusive to Netflix, released in three Parts in 2019 and removed in July 2026.
Pinky ring
Pinky ring: any ring worn on the little finger (Dutch "pinkje"), most iconically the engraved signet. Victorian unmarried wear, 20th-century gangster associations, queer signaling, and a modern revival led by women and genderless designs.
Pinky Up
PINKY UP (also "Pinky Up") is a 2026 techno-pop single by KATSEYE, released April 9, 2026 by HYBE/Geffen before their Coachella debut; first release without Manon Bannerman, peaking at UK #14 and Billboard Hot 100 #28.
Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701
Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 was a repositioning regional jet flight, flown as Northwest Airlink, that crashed near Jefferson City, Missouri, on October 14, 2004, killing both pilots.
Pinnacles National Park
Pinnacles National Park, central California, redesignated from Pinnacles National Monument in 2013; volcanic spires 500–1,200 ft, Bear Gulch and Balconies talus caves, San Andreas Fault transport, and a California condor release program.
Pinnapuram hydroelectric plant
The Pinnapuram hydroelectric plant is a 1,680 MW closed-loop pumped storage station near Pinnapuram village in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India, developed by Greenko as the storage core of the IREP.
Pinnata Castra
Pinnata Castra, also Castra Pinnata or Pinnatis, a conjectural Roman place name of northern Britain, most often identified with the Inchtuthil legionary fortress in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, though Rivet and Smith place it on the Moray coast.
Pinnation
Pinnation, also called pinnate division, is the feather-like arrangement of leaflets (pinnae, pinnules) along a central rachis; degrees run from once-pinnate to bipinnate, tripinnate, and pinnatifid, and are primary fern identification characters.
PinnBet
PinnBet (pinnBET), Serbian Belgrade-based betting brand run by PINBET d.o.o. with 100+ shops and pinnbet.rs; absorbed into AdmiralBet/NOVOMATIC in May 2026; unrelated to PinBet Malta (Pinnacle).
Pinner
Pinner is a suburban town in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, named for the river Pinn and recorded as Pinnora by 1231; it became a London suburb after the railways arrived.
Pinnington solar farm
The Pinnington solar farm is an 825 MW photovoltaic power plant in Jack County, Texas, developed by Repsol and placed in commercial operation in May 2026.
Pinniped
Pinnipeds (Pinnipedia, fin-footed) are 34 species of seals, sea lions, and walruses in three families, amphibious marine carnivores; most abundant but about one-fifth of taxa Endangered, with Arctic seals declining.
Pino (robot)
Pino is a small biped humanoid robot developed in Japan between 1999 and 2001 by the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, built from low-cost parts and later released as an open platform.
Pino Donaggio
Pino Donaggio is an Italian singer-songwriter and film composer, born in Venice in 1941, known for "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and De Palma scores.
Pino Dordoni
Pino Dordoni (Giuseppe Dordoni), Italian race walker (1926-1998), Olympic 50 km walk champion at Helsinki 1952 in 4:28:07.8 and European champion 1950; later coached Pamich and Damilano.
Pino Palladino
Pino Palladino (Giuseppe Henry Palladino, born 1957, Cardiff) is a Welsh session bassist known for 1980s fretless StingRay work with Paul Young and Gary Numan, D'Angelo's Voodoo, The Who, John Mayer, Adele, and his Blake Mills instrumental albums.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) is Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel about a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy; serialized 1881–1883, first book edition by Paggi with Mazzanti illustrations, over 260 translations, Disney 1940.
Pinocchio (1940 film)
Pinocchio (1940) is Walt Disney's second animated feature, adapted from Carlo Collodi's novel, directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, premiered February 7, 1940, winner of two Academy Awards for score and song, and a National Film Registry selection (1994).
Pinocchio (2002 film)
Pinocchio is Roberto Benigni's 2002 Italian live-action film adaptation of Collodi, directed by and starring Benigni, the most expensive Italian film of its era, a hit in Italy but a US flop with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pinocchio (2019 film)
Pinocchio is Matteo Garrone's 2019 Italian-language live-action adaptation of Collodi's 1883 novel, starring Federico Ielapi and Roberto Benigni as Geppetto. A 125-minute Italy-France-UK co-production, it earned two 2021 Oscar nominations and was Italy's top Christmas 2019 box-office film.
Pinocchio (2022 live-action film)
Pinocchio (2022) is Robert Zemeckis's live-action and CGI Disney+ remake of the 1940 animated film, starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto, released September 8, 2022, and distinguished from del Toro's same-year Oscar-winning version by its poor reviews.