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Plage de Gros Sable
Plage de Gros Sable (Anse Gros Sable, Le Helleux) is a 130-meter pebbly beach in Sainte-Anne, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, a protected Atlantic surf spot with two reef breaks and nearby surf schools.
Plage de la Chapelle
Plage de la Chapelle (Chapel Beach), Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe: a 150 m white-sand beach on north Grande-Terre, reef-protected, a major surf spot with October French Surf Championship, and an archaeological site with Guadeloupe's oldest tombs.
Plage de Longchamp
Plage de Longchamp, the longest beach of Saint-Lunaire (also touching Saint-Briac-sur-Mer) on Brittany's Côte d'Émeraude: a 600 m northwest-facing fine-sand surf spot with a 1926 stepped seawall from Pierre Patout's unfinished 1928–1931 resort project.
Plage de Rochebonne
Plage de Rochebonne, sandy beach in the Paramé quarter of Saint-Malo, Brittany, between Hoguette and Pont beaches; resort site since the 1860s, lifeguard-supervised, water quality insufficient 2024-2025. Distinct from Rochebonne beaches in Vendée and Charente-Maritime.
Plage Des Nations
Plage des Nations (Beach of Nations, شاطئ الأمم) is an Atlantic beach about 15 km north of Salé/Rabat, Morocco, near Sidi Bouknadel, known for surfing, Blue Flag status, and the Addoha/Prestigia Golf City resort and land dispute.
Plage du Minou
Plage du Minou (Plage du Petit Minou), sandy surf cove in Plouzané, Finistère, Brittany, at the western entrance of the Goulet de Brest below the Petit Minou lighthouse and fort du Minou; unguarded, tide-dependent beach with monitored bathing water.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person's intellectual property, such as scholarly texts, graphics, or research methods, as one's own, which is classed as research misconduct.
Plagiarism detection
Plagiarism detection is the computational comparison of a suspicious document against candidate sources to locate copied or paraphrased text, using fingerprinting methods such as winnowing and evaluated in the PAN series.
Plagiocephaly
Plagiocephaly, or flat head syndrome, is asymmetric infant skull flattening. Deformational (positional) plagiocephaly affects 5-48% of newborns; synostotic plagiocephaly from premature suture fusion is rare. Treatment ranges from repositioning to helmet therapy.
Plagioclase
Plagioclase, or plagioclase feldspar, is a group of rock-forming feldspar minerals forming a continuous solid solution between the sodium end-member albite and calcium end-member anorthite.
Plagiorchiida
Plagiorchiida (La Rue, 1957) is an order of digenean trematode flukes, one of two main Digenea branches alongside Diplostomida, with 13 suborders including basal Bivesiculata, Transversotremata, Hemiurata and the stylet-bearing crown clade Xiphidiata.
Plagioscion squamosissimus
Plagioscion squamosissimus, South American silver croaker (pescada, curvina), a freshwater sciaenid fish native to Amazon-Orinoco drainages, up to 80 cm; invasive piscivore in Paraná and Doce River basins and a key artisanal fishery resource.
Plague (disease)
Plague (Yersinia pestis infection): zoonotic bacterial disease spread by fleas, causing bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms; three historical pandemics, still endemic in Madagascar, DRC, and the western US, curable with early antibiotics.
Plague doctor
Plague doctor (medico della peste): a municipally contracted plague physician, iconically depicted in a beaked mask costume attributed to Charles de Lorme and the 1656 Rome/Naples engravings; used briefly in 17th-century Italy and southern France against miasma.
Plague doctor costume
The plague doctor costume, also known as the beak doctor costume, is the beaked-mask outfit popularly associated with physicians treating plague in early modern Europe from the mid-seventeenth century.
Plague in the Carthaginian army (396 BC)
The plague in the Carthaginian army of 396 BC was an epidemic that destroyed Himilco's army besieging Syracuse, with Diodorus reporting 150,000 dead and a Libyan revolt following.
Plague in the Carthaginian army (406 BC)
The plague in the Carthaginian army of 406 BC, also called the Pestilence of 406 BC, broke out during the siege of Akragas in Sicily, killing general Hannibal Mago.
Plague Inc.
Plague Inc. (Ndemic Creations, 2012) is a strategy simulation where players evolve a pathogen to wipe out humanity before a cure; over 180 million players, iOS Metascore 80, CDC attention.
Plague meningitis
Plague meningitis (ICD-11 1B93.3) is rare meningitis from Yersinia pestis, usually secondary to bubonic plague after delayed treatment; about 6% of US cases 1970-79, 96% fatal untreated, treated with chloramphenicol plus a fluoroquinolone.
Plague of 1521–1522 in Morocco
The Plague of 1521–1522 in Morocco (طاعون 1521) was an epidemic that struck Morocco in the early 1520s, weakened both Moroccan and Portuguese sides, and eased the Saadian takeover of Marrakesh in 1524.
Plague of 1770–1772
The Plague of 1770–1772, known as the Russian or Moscow plague, was a bubonic plague outbreak that arose in Moldavia during the Russo-Turkish War and devastated Moscow in 1771.
Plague of Amwas
The Plague of Amwas (طاعون عمواس) was a bubonic plague outbreak that struck the Muslim army garrisoned at Amwas, Palestine, in 638–640, killing about 25,000 soldiers.
Plague of Athens (Λοιμός των Αθηνών)
Plague of Athens (Λοιμός των Αθηνών), epidemic of 430–427/426 BC in besieged Athens during the Peloponnesian War, recorded by Thucydides; killed up to a third of 250,000–300,000 people, including Pericles; cause debated, now linked to invasive Salmonella enterica.
Plague of Cyprian
The Plague of Cyprian, also called the Cyprianic Plague, was a pandemic that struck the Roman Empire from about 249 to 270 CE, described by the bishop Cyprian of Carthage.
Plague of Justinian
Plague of Justinian (Justinianic Plague), first wave of the First Pandemic of Yersinia pestis bubonic plague, 541–750 CE; struck the Byzantine Empire in 541, reached Constantinople in 542, confirmed by ancient DNA, mortality scale disputed.
Plague of Sheroe
The Plague of Sheroe (طاعون شیرویه) was a bubonic plague epidemic that struck the Sasanian Empire's western provinces, especially Mesopotamia and Ctesiphon, in 627–628, killing King Kavad II (Sheroe) after a few months of rule.
Plague of Suppiluliuma I
The Plague of Suppiluliuma I, or Hittite plague, was a twenty-year epidemic in Hatti from about 1330 BCE that killed Suppiluliuma I and his son Arnuwanda II.
Plague of the Notables
The Plague of the Notables (طاعون الأشراف) was a plague outbreak of the Umayyad caliphate that began in Basra in AH 86 (705 CE), followed by the Plague of the Maidens.
Plague Prayers of Mursili II
The Plague Prayers of Mursili II are Hittite cuneiform prayers in which King Mursili II asks the gods to end a plague that killed his subjects for twenty years.
Plague Riot of Moscow
The Plague Riot of Moscow (Чумной бунт) was an uprising of 15 to 17 September 1771, during Moscow's plague epidemic, when crowds destroyed quarantines and killed Archbishop Ambrosius.