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Plagues of Egypt (מכות מצרים)
The Plagues of Egypt (מכות מצרים), also called the Ten Plagues, are the ten calamities God brought on Egypt through Moses and Aaron to free the Israelites from slavery.
Plagwitz
Plagwitz is a western district of Leipzig, Germany, once Germany's first planned large-scale industrial area shaped by Karl Heine and the 3.3 km Karl-Heine-Kanal, now a gentrified quarter of about 17,000 residents with the Spinnerei arts complex.
Plaice
Plaice: right-eyed flatfishes, chiefly European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), a spotted North Sea food fish; also American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) and Alaska plaice (Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus), each with distinct fisheries.
Plaid (fintech company)
Plaid is a San Francisco financial technology company, founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey, whose API network links consumers' bank accounts to apps like Venmo and Robinhood.
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), Welsh nationalist social-democratic party founded 1925; campaigns for Welsh independence; won the 2026 Senedd election with 43 of 96 seats under Rhun ap Iorwerth, forming government and ending 27 years of Welsh Labour rule.
Plailly
Plailly (Oise, France): commune near Senlis with Saint-Martin church (12th century); excavations at 13-21 rue de Paris show continuous occupation from Merovingian times; TGN 1034872, Pleiades 109250.
Plain
A plain is a broad, flat or gently rolling landform of low relief, one of the principal landform classes alongside mountains and plateaus, covering about 33.2 million km2.
Plain bearing
A plain bearing, also known as a journal bearing or bushing, carries a rotating or sliding shaft on a sliding surface, with friction controlled by lubricant film.
Plain of Jars (ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ)
The Plain of Jars (ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ, Plaine des Jarres) is an Iron Age archaeological landscape in central Laos, named for more than 2,100 large stone jars used in burials.
Plain old telephone service
Plain old telephone service (POTS) is the traditional analog voice telephone service delivered over twisted-pair copper wires to a local exchange, still used by many homes and businesses.
Plain radiography
Plain radiography is an imaging method in which an X-ray beam passed through a patient produces a two-dimensional image, first-line for suspected fractures, pneumonia, and intestinal obstruction.
Plain text
Plain text (raw text) is computer text consisting only of characters from a given encoding, with no formatting or markup; examples include source code and email.
Plain White T's
Plain White T's: American pop-punk band formed 1997 in Lombard, Illinois, fronted by Tom Higgenson; known for the quadruple-platinum Hot 100 number-one "Hey There Delilah" and nine studio albums through 2023.
Plainclothes (film)
Plainclothes (2025) is Carmen Emmi's debut drama thriller starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey, about a closeted 1990s Syracuse undercover cop who entraps gay men and falls for a target; Sundance Special Jury Award winner.
Plaine de Massenya
Plaine de Massenya is a 2,526,000-hectare Ramsar wetland (site no. 1839) in southwestern Chad's Baguirmi region, a Chari River floodplain depression designated in 2008 with 386 bird species.
Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat
The Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat is a vast Ramsar wetland in southeastern Chad, designated in 2006 and then the world's third-largest Ramsar site.
Plaines d'inondation du Logone et les dépressions Toupouri
Plaines d'inondation du Logone et les dépressions Toupouri, Ramsar site 1560 in Chad, designated 14 November 2005; 2,978,900 ha of Logone River floodplains, lakes, and Toupouri depressions, one of Africa's largest wetlands.
Plains All American Pipeline
Plains All American Pipeline is a Houston-based master limited partnership operating crude oil and NGL pipelines, terminals, and storage across the United States and Canada since its 1998 IPO.
Plains beadwork
Plains beadwork is the Indigenous art of the Great Plains of sewing glass trade beads onto hides and cloth, which replaced porcupine quillwork in the late 1800s.
Plains GP Holdings
Plains GP Holdings, L.P. is a publicly traded Delaware partnership whose sole cash flow comes from an interest in pipeline operator Plains All American Pipeline.
Plains hide painting
Plains hide painting is the pictorial tradition of Native peoples of the Great Plains and Great Basin, painting war deeds, ceremonies, and tribal history on buffalo hides before giving way to ledger art in the 1860s.
Plains Indian Sign Language
Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), or Hand Talk, is an indigenous Great Plains sign language historically used as a lingua franca across central North America, with three dialects, distinct from ASL, and now endangered.
Plains Indians
Plains Indians: over 30 Indigenous nations of the North American Great Plains, also called Plains tribes, spanning the Mississippi River to the Great Basin; horse-mounted bison hunters and settled farmers, later reservation communities restoring bison herds.
Plains of Abraham
Plains of Abraham (Plaines d'Abraham), a 98-hectare historic urban park in Quebec City named for settler Abraham Martin, site of the 1759 Wolfe-Montcalm battle and Canada's first national historic park, run since 1908 by the National Battlefields Commission.
Plains West Coast Pipeline
The Plains West Coast Pipeline is a California crude oil pipeline system operated by Plains Pipeline, moving oil from Santa Barbara and the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles refineries.
Plains zebra
Plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly E. burchellii), the most abundant zebra species of African savannahs; six described subspecies, southern African origin ~370,000 years ago, extinct quagga confirmed as its subspecies.
Plains, Georgia
Plains, Georgia, a small Sumter County town established in the 1880s, is the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of President Jimmy Carter and centers on the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park and peanut-farming heritage.
PlainTalk
PlainTalk was the collective name for Apple Computer's classic Mac OS speech technologies, featuring speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and a speech interface codenamed Casper, introduced in 1993.
Plaintiff
Plaintiff: the party who starts a civil lawsuit by filing a complaint against a defendant, seeking damages or other relief and bearing the burden of proof; from Old French plaintif, complaining.
Plaisir d'amour
Plaisir d'amour, originally La Romance du chevrier, is a 1784 French romance by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini on a poem by Florian from Célestine; basis of Can't Help Falling in Love, orchestrated by Berlioz.