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Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge
Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge (2008) is Joone's $8 million Digital Playground pornographic pirate-adventure sequel to Pirates (2005), starring Jesse Jane, Evan Stone, Tommy Gunn, and Belladonna, also released in an R-rated cut.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Pirates of Silicon Valley (微軟英雄) is a 1999 TNT television movie directed by Martyn Burke, dramatizing the Apple-Microsoft rivalry of Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall), based partly on Fire in the Valley.
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean is a Disney media franchise that began as a Disneyland boat ride in 1967 and became a five-film series starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction)
Pirates of the Caribbean is Disney's water-based dark ride, opened March 18, 1967 at Disneyland's New Orleans Square, featuring Audio-Animatronics pirates and the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)"; versions run at Magic Kingdom, Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai.
Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)
Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of five American fantasy swashbuckler films from Disney, released 2003 to 2017 and starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, also called POTC 3, is Disney's 2007 Gore Verbinski film ending the original trilogy; Jack Sparrow is rescued from Davy Jones' Locker, and it grossed about $960 million worldwide.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) is Gore Verbinski's Disney sequel in which Jack Sparrow owes his soul to Davy Jones. It crossed $1 billion worldwide, third film ever to do so, and won the Best Visual Effects Oscar.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (aka Salazar's Revenge) is the 2017 fifth Pirates film, directed by Rønning and Sandberg, starring Depp, Bardem, Scodelario; Jack Sparrow hunted by ghost captain Salazar, seeking the Trident of Poseidon.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
This 2011 film, based on Tim Powers' 1987 novel, stars Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. It is the fourth installment of the series, directed by Rob Marshall.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Secrets of the Lamp
Pirates of the Caribbean: Secrets of the Lamp, an upcoming Hungarian fan film by Ádám Slemmer set after Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring Slemmer as Jack Sparrow, crowdfunded on Indiegogo, planned for a free 2027 release.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American fantasy adventure film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Original Soundtrack), 2003 Walt Disney Records score album credited to Klaus Badelt with Hans Zimmer producing; includes "He's a Pirate"; completed in about three weeks after Alan Silvestri's departure.
Pirbright Institute
The Pirbright Institute, a UK livestock virology research charity in Surrey founded in 1914, operates FAO/WOAH reference laboratories and Category 4 containment for foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, bluetongue, and zoonotic viruses.
Pirbuterol
Pirbuterol (Maxair, CP-24314-1) is a short-acting beta2-agonist bronchodilator with a pyridine ring replacing salbutamol's benzene ring; FDA-approved 1986 as a 200-microgram metered-dose inhaler, later discontinued.
Pirdop
Pirdop (Пирдоп) is a town in Sofia Province, western Bulgaria, administrative center of Pirdop municipality (6,789 residents, 2025), at 680 m elevation 80 km east of Sofia, known as Bulgaria's copper center with an Aurubis smelter founded in 1958 and the medieval Elenska Basilica nearby.
Pirej
Pirej (Пиреј) is a 1980 historical novel by the Macedonian writer Petre M. Andreevski, portraying a married couple torn apart by the Balkan Wars and World War I.
Pirelli
Pirelli (Pirelli & C. S.p.A.) is an Italian tire manufacturer founded in 1872 and headquartered in Milan, the sole supplier of Formula One tires since 2011.
Pirelli Calendar
The Pirelli Calendar, also called The Cal, is an annual art photography publication produced since 1964 by the Italian tire maker Pirelli and never sold.
Pirenzepine
Pirenzepine is an M1-selective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist developed by Dr. Karl Thomae in Germany, marketed as Gastrozepin for peptic ulcers and later trialed as a gel for slowing childhood myopia.
PIREP
A PIREP, or pilot report, is a real-time report by an aircraft pilot of in-flight weather conditions such as turbulence and icing, radioed to a ground station in a coded format.
Piretanide
Piretanide (Arelix, Eurelix, Tauliz; HOE 118) is a sulfamoylbenzoic acid loop diuretic synthesized at Hoechst in 1973, inhibiting NKCC2; about 5-7 times more potent than furosemide, one-tenth as potent as bumetanide, used for hypertension and edema.
Pirfenidone
Pirfenidone (Esbriet, Pirespa) is an oral antifibrotic drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, first approved in Japan in 2008, dosed 801 mg three times daily, slowing FVC decline with nausea, rash, and photosensitivity as common adverse effects.
Pirgos (Kakavoula)
Pirgos (Kakavoula), also called the tower of Kakavoula, is a small rectangular Hellenistic-to-Roman fortified building near Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, first recorded by Heuzey in 1860; a press block suggests rural use.
Piri Reis
Piri Reis, born Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, was an Ottoman admiral and cartographer of the 1500s, best known for his 1513 world map and his sailing guide, the Kitab-ı Bahriye.
Piri Reis map
Piri Reis map (Pîrî Reis Haritası), a 1513 portolan-style world map fragment by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in Gelibolu, presented to Selim I in 1517, rediscovered at Topkapı Palace in 1929, and compiled from about twenty sources including a Columbus map.
Piri Rupes
Piri Rupes is a jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, on Pluto, 549 km long, separating the methane-rich uplands of Vega Terra from the water-ice plains of Piri Planitia.
Piribedil
Piribedil, sold as Trivastal and Pronoran, is a dopamine agonist drug used to treat Parkinson's disease in Europe and Asia, but not approved in the United States.
Piributicarb
Piributicarb (pyributicarb) is a monothiocarbamate herbicide developed by Tosoh, used mainly against annual grasses and other weeds in paddy rice and turf; not approved in the EU.
Piriformis muscle
Piriformis muscle: pear-shaped hip external rotator from the sacrum (S2–S4) to the greater trochanter, innervated by S1–S2; landmark for the sciatic nerve and namesake of piriformis syndrome.
Piriformis syndrome
Piriformis syndrome, also called deep gluteal syndrome, is sciatic nerve compression by the piriformis muscle causing buttock pain radiating down the leg; treated first with stretching, NSAIDs, injections, and rarely surgery.