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Piraeus Athena
Piraeus Athena: over-life-size Greek bronze statue of Athena, 2.35 m, ca. 360–340 BC, found 1959 at Piraeus with the Piraeus Apollo and two Artemis bronzes; original of the Louvre's Mattei Athena copy.
Piraeus Bank (Τράπεζα Πειραιώς)
Piraeus Bank (Τράπεζα Πειραιώς) is a Greek commercial bank founded in Piraeus in 1916, now one of Greece's four systemic banks with a 28% deposit market share.
Pirahã language
Pirahã (Apaitsiiso, Múra-Pirahã, ISO myp) is a Mura-family isolate or single-isolate language of the Maici River, Amazonas, Brazil, with ~360–700 speakers, 11 phonemes, phonemic tone, and contested claims about lacking numbers and recursion.
Pirahã people
Pirahã people (Hiaitsiihi), a Mura-family indigenous people of the Maici and Marmelos rivers, Amazonas, Brazil, several hundred strong; famous for Daniel Everett's contested claims of a language without numbers, color terms, or recursion.
Pirak
Pirak is an excavated settlement on the Kachi Plain in Balochistan, Pakistan, occupied from the mid-2nd millennium BC and known for its terracotta horse and camel figurines.
Piramal Group
Piramal Group, formerly Nicholas Piramal, is an Indian conglomerate operating through Piramal Pharma and Piramal Finance, reshaped by selling its formulations business to Abbott for about $3.7 billion in 2010.
Piranesi (novel)
Piranesi is Susanna Clarke's 2020 Bloomsbury fantasy novel, her second after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, told as the journal of a man alone in an infinite tide-filled House, winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Piranga
Piranga (Northern Tanagers), genus Vieillot 1808 of cardinalid songbirds including Summer, Scarlet, Western, and Hepatic tanagers; moved from Thraupidae to Cardinalidae in 2009 after genetic studies.
Piranha
Piranha: South American freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae, with serrated interlocking teeth and a powerful bite (320 N in a 1.1 kg black piranha). Attacks on humans are rare single bites near guarded nests; the man-eater myth stems from Theodore Roosevelt's 1913 account.
Piranha (1978 film)
Piranha (1978) is Joe Dante's horror comedy for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, written by John Sayles, about military-engineered piranhas released into a Texas river. A Jaws ripoff that Universal tried to block, it became New World's biggest hit and spawned sequels including James Cameron's debut.
Piranha 3D
Piranha 3D is a 2010 American horror-comedy film directed by Alexandre Aja, in which an underwater earthquake releases prehistoric piranha into Lake Victoria, Arizona, during Spring Break.
Piranha 3DD
Piranha 3DD is a 2012 American horror-comedy sequel to Piranha 3D, directed by John Gulager, written by Melton, Dunstan, and Soisson, set at the Big Wet water park; it earned a Metascore of 24 and about $8.5 million worldwide.
Piranha Bytes
Piranha Bytes was a German video game developer in Essen, best known for the open-world RPG series Gothic, Risen, and Elex; it closed in 2024.
Piranha II: The Spawning
Piranha II: The Spawning, aka Piranha Part Two: The Spawning or Flying Killers, is a 1981 horror film, James Cameron's directorial debut, a sequel in name only to Piranha (1978), about winged mutant piranha attacking a Caribbean resort.
Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー)
Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー, Packun Flower) is the pipe-dwelling venus-flytrap enemy of Nintendo's Super Mario series, debuting in Super Mario Bros. (1985), and the 70th playable fighter and first DLC character of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2019).
Piranha solution
Piranha solution, also known as piranha etch or SPM clean, is a reactive mix of concentrated sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide used to strip organic residues from silicon wafers.
Pirani gauge
A Pirani gauge is a vacuum gauge that infers gas pressure from the thermal conductivity of the gas, using a heated filament in a Wheatstone bridge, invented in 1906 by Marcello Pirani.
Pirarubicin
Pirarubicin (THP, 4'-O-tetrahydropyranyl doxorubicin, Pinorubicin) is a second-generation anthracycline chemotherapy drug developed in 1979, less cardiotoxic than doxorubicin, used in Japan for lymphoma, breast, gastric, and urothelial cancers.
Piratas de Quebradillas
Piratas de Quebradillas, Puerto Rican BSN basketball team founded 1926; six championships (1970, 1977, 1978, 1979, 2013, 2017), 11 runner-up finishes; home Coliseo Raymond Dalmau Pérez.
Pirate attack on Veracruz
The pirate attack on Veracruz, also called the sack of Veracruz, was the May 1683 seizure of New Spain's principal Atlantic port by buccaneers led by Laurens de Graaf.
Pirate code
The pirate code (pirate articles, chasse-partie) was a set of written articles pirate crews swore or signed, governing the ship, dividing plunder, and punishing offenses, from the 1678 buccaneer contracts onward.
Pirate Lady
"Pirate Lady" is episode 2 of Pluribus season 1, the Apple TV sci-fi drama by Vince Gilligan. It aired November 7, 2025, runs about 62 minutes, introduces Zosia as the hive's envoy to Carol, and was critically acclaimed.
Pirate Party
Pirate Party: international party family begun with Sweden's Piratpartiet (founded 1 January 2006 by Rickard Falkvinge), copied in over 50 countries; campaigns for copyright reform, privacy, transparency, and direct democracy; strongest results in Iceland and Czechia.
Pirate Party (Iceland)
Pirate Party (Iceland), Píratar: Icelandic political party founded 2012 after the 2008 crash; leaderless, direct-democracy, transparency and privacy platform; sat in Alþingi 2013–2024, peaking at 14.5% in 2016, wiped out in 2024.
Pirate radio
Pirate radio is unlicensed radio broadcasting, from 1960s offshore stations like Radio Caroline to London land-based pirates; suppressed by the UK 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, it shaped BBC Radio 1, Irish independent radio, and grime music.
Pirate radio in Ireland
Pirate radio in Ireland, also known as Irish pirate radio, is the tradition of unlicensed broadcasting that peaked between 1978 and 1988 before the 1988 licensing laws closed it down.
Pirate spider
Pirate spiders (family Mimetidae, Simon 1881) are worldwide, araneophagic spiders that invade other spiders' webs and lure residents by plucking silk in aggressive mimicry; about 170 species in 8 genera, with Eocene amber fossils.
Pirate television
Pirate television is unlicensed TV broadcasting, spanning offshore ship stations, unlicensed terrestrial transmitters like Lanesville TV and Network 21, cable descrambler piracy, and modern illegal IPTV streaming services.
Pirated movie release types
Pirated movie release types (CAM, TS, TC, SCR, R5, WEBRip, WEB-DL, DVDRip, BDRip) are piracy labels naming the source of an unauthorized film copy, from theater camcorder recordings to streaming and disc rips, each indicating quality.
Pirates (2005 film)
Pirates (2005) is an American adult film directed by Joone for Digital Playground and Adam & Eve, starring Jesse Jane and Carmen Luvana, with a reported $1 million budget, an R-rated MPAA crossover edit, and record AVN Award wins.