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Playtomic
Playtomic is a Spanish sports-technology company founded in Madrid in 2017 that operates a court-booking marketplace and club-management software for racket sports, chiefly padel and tennis.
PlayVS
PlayVS, legally Play Versus Inc., is a Los Angeles company running esports leagues for middle schools, high schools, and colleges, founded in 2018 by Delane Parnell.
Playwright
Playwright: a maker of plays for theatre, television, or radio (synonym dramatist), whose script serves as both literature and production blueprint. Distinguishable from Playwright, the unrelated open-source browser testing framework with context-per-test isolation.
Playwrighting in Asia and Africa: a comparative history
Playwrighting in Asia and Africa is a comparative history of dramatic authorship across both continents, from Sanskrit drama and Kalidasa through the colonial encounter, postcolonial theater, and modern Asia–Africa exchange.
Plaza Accord
Plaza Accord: 22 September 1985 G5 agreement (US, Japan, West Germany, France, UK) at New York's Plaza Hotel to weaken the overvalued dollar via coordinated intervention, followed by the 1987 Louvre Accord; linked to yen appreciation and Japan's bubble-economy debate.
Plaza de España, Seville
Plaza de España, Seville: monumental semicircular complex in María Luisa Park, built 1914–1929 by Aníbal González for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition; provincial ceramic benches, 515 m canal, four bridges, BIC since 2023.
Plaza Hotel
The Plaza Hotel is a landmarked luxury hotel at 768 Fifth Avenue beside Central Park in Manhattan, opened in 1907 and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in the French Renaissance style.
Plaza Mayor, Madrid
Plaza Mayor, Madrid: the 122 x 91 m arcaded Habsburg square built 1617-1619 by Juan Gómez de Mora on the old Plaza del Arrabal, rebuilt by Juan de Villanueva after the 1790 fire, a declared BIC.
Plazas de soberanía
Plazas de soberanía are Spanish-held territories on and off the coast of northern Morocco, comprising Ceuta, Melilla, and several small peñones and islands claimed by Morocco.
Plazuelas
Plazuelas (Las Plazuelas) is a pre-Hispanic archaeological zone near Pénjamo, Guanajuato, Mexico, occupied roughly 450-900 AD, with seven buildings on three hillsides, two ballcourts, over 1,200 petroglyphs, and the circular El Cajete tied to the Teuchitlán tradition; opened to the public in 2006.
PLB-985
PLB-985 (CVCL_2162) is a human myeloid leukemia cell line established in 1987, later shown to be a subclone of HL-60; differentiated into neutrophil-like cells, it is used for NADPH oxidase, chemotaxis, degranulation, and NET studies.
PLCB1
PLCB1 (phospholipase C beta 1, DEE12/EIEE12) is a human gene at 20p12.3 encoding a Gq-activated PLC enzyme that hydrolyzes PIP2 into IP3 and DAG; biallelic loss-of-function variants cause developmental and epileptic encephalopathy 12.
PLCG1
PLCG1 (phospholipase C gamma 1, PLCγ1) is a human chromosome 20 gene encoding an enzyme that cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG; gain-of-function variants cause immune dysregulation disease.
PLCG2
PLCG2 (phospholipase C gamma 2) is a human gene on chromosome 16 encoding an enzyme that relays immune receptor signals; mutations cause PLAID, APLAID, and familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 3.
PLCG2-associated antibody deficiency and immune dysregulation
PLAID (PLCG2-associated antibody deficiency and immune dysregulation), also called FACU or FCAS3, is a rare autosomal dominant PLCG2 deletion disorder causing infant-onset cold urticaria from evaporative cooling, antibody deficiency, infections, and autoimmunity; distinct from APLAID, which lacks cold urticaria.
PLD1
PLD1 (phospholipase D1, HGNC:9067) is a human 3q26.31 gene encoding a phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase D that generates phosphatidic acid; PKC- and GTPase-regulated, structurally distinct from PLD2, linked to cardiac valve defects and cancer.
PLDT
PLDT Inc., formerly the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, is the Philippines' largest integrated telecommunications company, offering fixed line, wireless, and broadband services through Smart Communications and other subsidiaries.
Plea
A plea is the formal answer a defendant gives in court to criminal charges at arraignment: guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere, in which the defendant accepts the penalty without admitting guilt.
Plea bargain
Plea bargain: negotiated guilty plea in exchange for reduced charges or sentence; resolves about 98% of US federal criminal cases, raising trial penalty and wrongful-plea concerns.
Pleasant Goat Village
Pleasant Goat Village (欢乐羊村, Joyful Sheep Village) is a Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf-themed rural resort in Xiwu village, Ganyao town, Jiashan, Zhejiang, opened December 2022; 875-mu phase one, 50-yuan tickets, 4 million yuan 2023 revenue.
Pleasant Prairie Power Plant
The Pleasant Prairie Power Plant was a 1,233 MW coal-fired power station in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, We Energies' largest generating plant, which ran from 1980 until its retirement in 2018.
Pleasant Valley State Prison
Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) is a California men's prison opened in 1994 in Coalinga, Fresno County, with design capacity 2,308 at custody levels I-III; known for Valley fever outbreaks and federal medical oversight.
Pleasanton, California
Pleasanton, California: Alameda County Tri-Valley city, incorporated 1894 and named for General Alfred Pleasonton. Formerly Alisal, a Gold Rush stop; now about 75,000 residents and a Hacienda business park economy.
Pleasants power station
Pleasants power station is a coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River at Willow Island, Pleasants County, West Virginia, with two units in service in 1979 and 1980.
Pleasantville (film)
Pleasantville is a 1998 New Line Cinema comedy-drama fantasy, Gary Ross's directorial debut, in which Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon enter a black-and-white 1950s sitcom and bring color and social change; it earned $40.6 million and an 85% Tomatometer.
Please (Pet Shop Boys album)
Please is the 1986 debut album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on Parlophone and produced by Stephen Hague. It reached UK number 3, went platinum in the US, and sold over three million copies.
Please Call Me
Please Call Me is a free Vodacom call-back service, launched in March 2001, letting South African users without airtime send a message asking someone to call them back.
Please clap
"Please clap" is Jeb Bush's February 2, 2016 plea to a silent Hanover, New Hampshire town hall audience during his 2016 Republican presidential campaign; it became the emblem of his failed candidacy and a lasting ironic meme.
Please Don't Cry
Please Don't Cry is Rapsody's fourth studio album, released May 17, 2024 on We Each Other/Jamla/Roc Nation. A 22-track therapy-framed record with Phylicia Rashad interludes, production from Hit-Boy, S1, BLK ODYSSY, and Eric G, and features from Erykah Badu and Lil Wayne; distinct from other works of the same name.
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain is a 2023 Peacock comedy film, the first feature by the SNL trio Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall, directed by Paul Briganti, produced by Judd Apatow, with John Goodman narrating a treasure hunt.