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Pampas
The Pampas are the fertile temperate grasslands of eastern Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, about 50 million hectares, now largely converted to soybean, wheat, maize and cattle production.
Pampers
Pampers is an American brand of baby diapers, training pants, and wipes owned by Procter & Gamble. Launched in 1961, it was the first mass-produced disposable diaper.
Pamphagidae
Pamphagidae, toad grasshoppers, is a family of about 600 Orthoptera: Caelifera grasshoppers in Acridoidea, living in deserts of Africa, Europe, and Asia, with contested taxonomy and polyphyletic Pamphaginae.
Pamphilus
Pamphilus (Πάμφιλος), presbyter of Caesarea, was a Christian scholar and martyr from Berytus who directed the Caesarea library, revised the Septuagint with Eusebius, and was beheaded around 310.
Pamphlet
Pamphlet: a short unbound printed work of 4 to 96 pages, also called Flugschrift or foglio volante, used for cheap vernacular polemic from the 16th-century Reformation to Paine's Common Sense and modern protest campaigns.
Pamphylia (region)
Pamphylia (Παμφυλία), ancient coastal region of southern Asia Minor between Lycia and Cilicia under Mt Taurus; about 75 by 30 miles, with cities Side, Aspendus, Perga, Attaleia; ruled successively by Lydia, Persia, Alexander, Seleucids, Pergamum, Rome.
Pamphylians
The Pamphylians were the inhabitants of Pamphylia, the southern coastal plain of Anatolia between Attaleia and Side, speaking a distinctive Greek dialect with Anatolian influence.
Pamplona
Pamplona (Iruña), capital of Navarre, Spain; founded by Pompey in 75 BC as Pompelo. 213,526 inhabitants (2026), San Fermín festival, Renaissance walls, ranked first of 84 European cities for quality of life in 2025.
Pampo Oil Field
The Pampo Oil Field is an offshore field in the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1977 and owned by Trident Energy since 2020.
Pampu Facula
Pampu Facula is a 120.44-km-wide pyroclastic deposit (facula) on Mercury at 57.76S, 31.79E, IAU-named in 2019 from a Tamil word for snake, clustered with Ular, Sarpa, Havu, and Bitin faculae near Hesiod crater.
Pampulha Modern Ensemble
Pampulha Modern Ensemble (Conjunto Moderno da Pampulha): four 1940s Oscar Niemeyer buildings around an artificial lake in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with Burle Marx gardens; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016.
Pampur Mound
Pampur Mound, at Pampore in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir: remains of the 9th-century Padmasvami temple of ancient Padmapura on the right bank of the Jhelum, ASI-protected since 1958, with Neolithic and megalithic remains nearby.
Pampus argenteus
Pampus argenteus, the silver pomfret (zobaidy), is a deep-bodied stromateid fish of the Indo-West Pacific from the Persian Gulf to Japan, a highly commercial schooling zooplankton feeder supporting major fisheries and emerging aquaculture.
Pamukkale
Pamukkale ("cotton castle"), Denizli Province, Turkey: white travertine terraces formed by 35°C calcite-rich thermal springs on a ~200 m cliff, adjoining the Greco-Roman spa city Hierapolis; UNESCO mixed World Heritage site since 1988.
Pamyat (Память)
Pamyat (Память, "Memory") was a Russian nationalist organization founded in 1978 to defend Russian cultural heritage; under Dmitry Vasilyev it became a prominent anti-Semitic, xenophobic far-right group before splintering.
Pamyatno-Sasovskoye Oil Field
Pamyatno-Sasovskoye oil field (Памятно-Сасовское месторождение) is an oil field in Volgograd Region, Russia, discovered in 1992 and operated by LUKOIL subsidiary RITEK, described as the largest in Volgograd Oblast.
Pan (2015 film)
Pan (2015) is Joe Wright's Peter Pan origin-story prequel, written by Jason Fuchs for Warner Bros., starring Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, and Rooney Mara. It cost $150 million, earned $151.5 million worldwide, scored 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, and drew whitewashing criticism for Mara's Tiger Lily.
Pan (crater on Amalthea)
Pan is the largest impact crater on Amalthea, Jupiter's small inner moon, about 90 km wide (Gazetteer diameter 100 km), IAU-approved in 1979, named for the Greek goat-god, son of Amalthea.
Pan (genus)
Pan (genus): African great ape genus with two species, chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo (Pan paniscus), humans' closest living relatives at 98.7% shared DNA, split by the Congo River.
Pan (moon)
Pan (Saturn XVIII, S/1981 S13) is a small moon of Saturn that keeps the A ring's Encke Gap open, discovered by Mark Showalter in 1990.
Pan (Πάν) (god)
Pan (Πάν), Arcadian Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and the wild, a goat-legged horned hybrid whose unseen presence caused panic; introduced to Athens after Marathon; father Hermes; Roman Faunus; only god whose death Plutarch reports.
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania is a South African pan-Africanist political party founded in 1959 by Robert Sobukwe after breaking from the African National Congress.
Pan Am
Pan Am, formally Pan American World Airways, was an American airline founded in 1927 to fly mail to Havana; it pioneered transoceanic flight and the jet age before going bankrupt in 1991.
Pan Am (2026)
Pan Am (2026) is the revival of Pan American World Airways, which flew from 1927 to 1991 and since 2025 has operated private-jet journeys while pursuing FAA certification.
Pan Am (TV series)
Pan Am is an American period drama television series on ABC, airing 2011 to 2012, about Pan Am stewardesses and pilots at the start of the Jet Age in 1963.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103, also known as the Lockerbie bombing, was a London to New York flight destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270.
Pan Am Flight 121
Pan Am Flight 121, a 1947 Lockheed L-049 Constellation round-the-world service, crashed in the Syrian desert near Al Mayadin after an engine fire, killing 14 of 36 aboard; survivors included Gene Roddenberry, later creator of Star Trek.
Pan Am Flight 214
Pan Am Flight 214 was a Boeing 707 that crashed near Elkton, Maryland, on December 8, 1963, after a lightning-triggered fuel tank explosion, killing all 81 aboard.
Pan Am Flight 73
Pan Am Flight 73 was a Bombay to New York passenger flight hijacked at Karachi in 1986 by four armed men; about 20 people were killed.
Pan Am Flight 759
Pan Am Flight 759 (Clipper 759), Boeing 727-235 N4737, crashed after takeoff from New Orleans on July 9, 1982, in a Kenner, Louisiana microburst, killing 153; NTSB report AAR-83/02 drove wind shear detection reform.