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Palua Indah power station

Palua Indah power station, commonly the Pulau Indah Power Plant (PIPP), is a 1,200 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant on Pulau Indah in Selangor, Malaysia, in operation since 2025.

Paludarium

A paludarium (パルダリウム) is an enclosure that combines a permanent aquatic section with a land section in one tank, supporting semi-aquatic animals such as crabs, small fish, and frogs.

Paludiculture is productive farming or forestry on wet or rewetted peatlands that keeps water tables high to preserve peat. Also called wet agriculture; crops include reed, cattail, Sphagnum, sago; cuts GHG emissions versus drained peatland farming.

Paludification

Paludification is the conversion of dry land to peatland, with peat forming directly over formerly drier mineral soil; it is the most common peatland-forming process in boreal regions.

Paludomidae

Paludomidae (Stoliczka, 1868) is a family of freshwater cerithioidean snails of tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Seychelles, and South and Southeast Asia, famous for the thalassoid Lake Tanganyika radiation of 17 genera and the widespread Asian genus Paludomus.

Paluel nuclear power plant

The Paluel nuclear power plant is a French nuclear station operated by EDF at Paluel in Seine-Maritime, Normandy, with four 1,300 MWe reactors commissioned between 1984 and 1986.

Palus Epidemiarum

Palus Epidemiarum, "Marsh of Epidemics", is a small lunar mare (lava plain) at 32.0S 28.2W on the Moon, about 290 km across, crossed by rilles, with craters Capuanus, Campanus, and Mercator; IAU-named 1935.

Oct 20, 2026

Palus Putredinis

Palus Putredinis (Marsh of Decay) is a small lunar mare on the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium, diameter 180.45 km, site of the Apollo 15 landing near Hadley Rille and the Apennine front in 1971.

Palus Somni

Palus Somni (Marsh of Sleep) is a small lunar palus, or marsh, between Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Crisium near Proclus crater; IAU-named 1935, about 143-163 km across, intermediate between highland and mare.

Palworld (パルワールド)

Palworld (パルワールド) is Pocketpair's open-world survival crafting and creature-collection game, launched in early access January 19, 2024, at $29.99. It sold 25 million players in a month, peaked over 2 million Steam concurrent players, and faces an unresolved Nintendo/Pokémon Company patent suit.

Palygorskite

Palygorskite, also known as attapulgite, is a fibrous magnesium aluminum phyllosilicate clay mineral valued as a salt-tolerant thickener, absorbent, and suspending agent in drilling fluids and cat litter.

Palynology

Palynology, also called pollen analysis, studies pollen, spores, dinoflagellates, and other organic-walled palynomorphs. Launched by von Post in 1916, it spans paleopalynology, actuopalynology, forensics, honey analysis, and oil exploration.

Palynostratigraphy

Palynostratigraphy is the branch of biostratigraphy that dates and correlates sedimentary rocks using fossil pollen, spores, and other organic-walled microfossils, especially where marine index fossils are absent.

Palystes superciliosus

Palystes superciliosus, the common rain spider, is a large southern African huntsman spider (Sparassidae) from Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, and Eswatini; formerly P. natalius, with a leg span over 100 mm.

Palytoxin

Palytoxin is a highly poisonous marine toxin isolated in 1971 from the Hawaiian coral Palythoa toxica, which kills cells by converting the sodium-potassium pump into a channel.

Pam & Tommy

Pam & Tommy is a 2022 Hulu eight-part limited series by Robert Siegel, starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, dramatizing the 1995 theft and viral leak of their honeymoon tape; made without Anderson's consent, it earned ten Emmy nominations and one win.

Pam Ayres

Pam Ayres (born 1947) is a British poet, comedian, and broadcaster of humorous rhymed verse, famous since winning Opportunity Knocks in 1975; the UK's fifth best-selling poet in 1998-99.

Pam Baricuatro

Pam Baricuatro (Pamela Silagan Baricuatro), Filipino politician and former Cathay Pacific Senior Flight Purser, Governor of Cebu Province since June 2025; PDP-Laban upset winner over Gwendolyn Garcia in 2025 with 1,107,924 votes; founder of the Simply Share Foundation food bank.

Pam Beesly

Pam Beesly (Pamela Morgan Halpert, née Beesly), fictional receptionist-turned-office-administrator on NBC's The Office (2005–2013), played by Jenna Fischer; US counterpart of Dawn Tinsley, wife of Jim Halpert.

Sep 27, 2026

Pam Beidle

Pam Beidle is an American Democratic politician who has represented Maryland's 32nd district in the State Senate since 2019, chairs the Senate Finance Committee, and is retiring in 2026.

Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi, born Pamela Jo Bondi in 1965, is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Florida's first woman Attorney General from 2011 to 2019.

Pam Dawber

Pam Dawber (Pamela Gene Dawber), born 1951, Detroit, is an American actress who played Mindy McConnell on Mork & Mindy (1978–82) opposite Robin Williams and starred in My Sister Sam; later married to Mark Harmon and seen on NCIS.

Sep 27, 2026

Pam Delancy

Pam Delancy, full name Pamela DeLancy, is a retired US Army colonel and registered nurse who is the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House in Georgia's 10th Congressional District.

Pam Ferris

Pam Ferris (Pamela E. Ferris, born 1948) is a Welsh actress known for Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, Aunt Marge in Harry Potter, and Sister Evangelina in Call the Midwife.

Pam Grier

Pam Grier (Pamela Suzette Grier, born 1949, Winston-Salem, NC), American actress and first Black female action star, famous for blaxploitation films Coffy and Foxy Brown and for Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997).

Sep 27, 2026

Pam Helming

Pam Helming is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Senate, representing the 54th district since 2017 after serving as Canandaigua Town Supervisor.

Pam Hupp

Pam Hupp (Pamela Hupp), Missouri woman convicted of the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger and charged in the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, which led to Russ Faria's wrongful conviction and exoneration.

Pam Kilborn Ryan

Pam Kilborn Ryan (Pamela Kilborn-Ryan, born 12 August 1939, Melbourne), Australian hurdler; Olympic 80m hurdles bronze 1964 and silver 1968, fourth 1972; six Commonwealth golds; world record holder.

Pam Kruse

Pam Kruse (Pamela Jean Kruse), American swimmer born 1950 in Miami, Florida; 1968 Olympic silver medalist in the 800 m freestyle and 1967 world record holder in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle, swimming for the Fort Lauderdale Swim Association.