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Pippa Haywood
Pippa Haywood (Philippa Jane Haywood, born 1961) is an English actress, Bristol Old Vic-trained, known for Helen Brittas in The Brittas Empire, Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2005 Rose d'Or winner), and drama roles in Bodyguard, Scott & Bailey, and Best Interests.
Pippa Middleton
Pippa Middleton (Philippa Charlotte Middleton, born 1983) is a British writer and sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales; maid of honor at the 2011 royal wedding, author of Celebrate, wife of James Matthews since 2017.
Pippa Scott
Pippa Scott (Philippa Scott), American actress born November 10, 1934 in Los Angeles, died May 22, 2025 in Santa Monica; played Lucy in The Searchers and Pegeen in Auntie Mame, guest-starred widely on TV, and co-directed King Leopold's Ghost (2006). Distinct from conservationist Philippa Scott and other namesakes.
Pippalyadi ghrta
Pippalyadi ghrta (Pippalyadi Ghrita, पिप्पल्यादि घृतम्) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee built on Pippali (Piper longum); distinct Charaka and Ashtanga Hridaya recipes target cough, fever, hemorrhoids, and gulma.
Pippalyadi Lauha
Pippalyadi Lauha (पिप्पल्यादि लौह), an Ayurvedic Lauha Kalpa herbo-mineral formula from Bhaishajya Ratnavali verse 61: 8 parts Lauha Bhasma with Pippali, Amalaki, Draksha, Kolasthi, Vidanga, Pushkara, honey, sugar; 250 mg dose for hiccup, asthma, emesis, indigestion.
Pippalyadyasava
Pippalyadyasava (Pippalyādyāsava), also called Pippalyasava, is an Ayurvedic fermented liquid (asava) of 25 plant ingredients including Piper longum, fermented 15-30 days to 5-7.5% alcohol, indicated for Grahana, Gulma, Arsa, Udara, and Pandu, dose 12-24 ml.
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump), Astrid Lindgren's 1945 Swedish children's-book character: a superstrong, independent nine-year-old at Villa Villekulla, published in 80 languages with over 80 million copies sold.
Pippin (musical)
Pippin is a 1972 Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson musical, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, about Charlemagne's son searching for meaning under the Leading Player's control. It ran 1,944 Broadway performances, won five Tonys, and its 2013 circus-styled revival won Best Revival.
Pippin Parker
Pippin Parker is an American playwright, director, and educator, founding member and former Artistic Director of Naked Angels and director of The New School for Drama since 2011; he directed George Packer's Lortel Award-winning Betrayed and wrote Anesthesia and Assisted Living.
Pipra
Pipra (Linnaeus, 1764) is a genus of Neotropical manakins (Pipridae) now holding the crimson-hooded, band-tailed, and wire-tailed manakins, after Lepidothrix, Dixiphia, and Ceratopipra were split from the formerly polyphyletic genus.
Pipri Mound
Pipri Mound, Kapilbastu District, Nepalese Tarai: a 3-hectare settlement mound near Gotihawa and Tilaurakot, excavated by the Italian Archaeological Mission; distinct from Pipri sites in Barwani and Ghazipur.
Pipridae
Pipridae, the manakins, a Neotropical suboscine passerine family of about 55 species in 16 genera; small frugivorous forest birds defined by lekking polygyny, elaborate male displays, and strong sexual dimorphism.
Pipunculidae
Pipunculidae, the big-headed flies (アタマバエ), a family of small dipteran flies with hemispheric heads of huge compound eyes; larvae are internal parasitoids of leafhoppers and planthoppers, sister group to Schizophora.
Piquet
Piquet, also called Rubicon Piquet, Sant, or Saunt, is a classic French two-player card game using a 32-card pack, with exchanges from a talon, declarations, no-trump tricks, and pique and repique bonuses over a six-deal partie.
Pir Budhu Shah
Pir Budhu Shah (پیر بدھو شاہ), born Sayyid Badr-ud-din, was a Muslim Sufi saint of Sadhaura who aided Guru Gobind Singh at the battle of Bhangani in 1688.
Pir Husamuddin Rashdi
Pir Husamuddin Rashdi (پير حسام الدين راشدي), 1911 to 1982, was a Pakistani historian, biographer, and journalist who edited Persian manuscripts on Sindh's history into Sindhi and Urdu.
Pir Hüseyin
Pir Hüseyin (Pir Hüseyin Höyüğü) is a large archaeological mound 25 km east of Diyarbakır, Turkey, findspot of the Naram-Sin stele (1892), surveyed in 2004, with possible 19-ha late Early Bronze Age occupation.
Pir Muhammad ibn Jahangir
Pir Muhammad ibn Jahangir (died 1407) was a Timurid prince, a grandson of Timur who governed Kabul and Kandahar and led the vanguard of Timur's 1398 invasion of India.
Pir Panjal Range (پیر پنجال)
Pir Panjal Range (پیر پنجال), Lesser Himalaya range of the NW Himalaya forming the Kashmir Valley's southwestern wall; peaks near 4,500 m, source of the Panjal Traps name, monsoon-blocking climatic barrier.
Pir Shah Jurio
Pir Shah Jurio (PSH-1) is a small Indus Civilisation settlement on the Hab River in Sindh, Pakistan, identified as a Harappan site by A. R. Khan in 1979.
Pir-e-Kamil (پیر کامل)
Pir-e-Kamil (پیر کامل), "The Perfect Mentor," is Umera Ahmed's best-selling 2004 Urdu novel, serialized in Shuaa Digest, about Imama Hashim and Salar Sikander; its sequel is Aab-e-Hayat.
Piracetam
Piracetam (2-oxo-1-pyrrolidine acetamide, C6H10N2O2) is the first nootropic, a GABA-derivative racetam developed in 1964 by Corneliu Giurgea, marketed by UCB in 1971, approved in over 120 countries for myoclonus but not FDA-approved, with inconclusive dementia evidence.
Piracy
Piracy: illegal acts of violence or depredation for private ends on the high seas under UNCLOS article 101, distinct from armed robbery against ships in territorial waters; tracked by IMO and ICC IMB, with 137 incidents in 2025 and Somali resurgence.
Piracy in Heian Japan
Piracy in Heian Japan (794–1185) was the raiding of shipping and estates in the Seto Inland Sea, first recorded in an 838 suppression order, peaking with Fujiwara no Sumitomo's 939–941 rebellion.
Piracy in the Caribbean
Piracy in the Caribbean: seaborne raiding from the 1490s through the 1820s, spanning French corsairs, buccaneers of Tortuga and Port Royal, the Golden Age at Nassau, and suppression by 1730 and again by the 1830s.
Piracy in the Seto Inland Sea
Piracy in the Seto Inland Sea, known in Japanese as kaizoku (海賊), was maritime power over Japan's Inland Sea from the tenth to the late sixteenth century.
Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
Piracy in the Strait of Malacca is armed robbery against ships in the 930 km waterway between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, peaking with 28 attacks in 2003.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia
Piracy off the coast of Somalia, or Somali piracy, is ransom-driven hijacking in the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean that emerged after Somalia's 1991 state collapse, peaked in 2011, was suppressed by 2012, and resurged from 2024.
Piracy suppression in the Bahamas
Piracy suppression in the Bahamas was the 1718 British campaign, led by governor Woodes Rogers, that ended Nassau's role as the Atlantic's main pirate base.
Piraeus (Πειραιάς)
Piraeus (Πειραιάς) is the port city of Athens and Greece's largest port, ancient naval base with three harbors, now Europe's fifth-largest container port, 67% owned by COSCO since 2016.