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Pan Am Flight 806

Pan Am Flight 806, the Clipper Radiant, was a Boeing 707 that crashed on approach to Pago Pago, American Samoa, on January 30, 1974, killing 97 of 101 aboard.

Pan Am Flight 914

Pan Am Flight 914 is an urban legend about a 1955 airliner that supposedly vanished and landed in Caracas decades later, invented in the Weekly World News tabloid in 1985.

Pan American Energy

Pan American Energy (PAE) is an Argentine oil and gas company headquartered in Buenos Aires, founded in 1997 and owned equally by BP and BC Energy.

Pan American Games

Pan American Games, quadrennial multi-sport event for the Americas run by Panam Sports (PASO, founded 1948); first held Buenos Aires 1951; Santiago 2023 latest; Lima 2027 next.

Oct 15, 2026

Pan American Silver

Pan American Silver is a Canadian precious metals mining company headquartered in Vancouver, founded by Ross Beaty in 1994, producing silver and gold from mines across the Americas.

Pan American Unity

Pan American Unity is a 1940 fresco mural by Diego Rivera, his largest portable mural and last US work, housed at City College of San Francisco.

Pan and scan is a film-to-video transfer method that crops the sides of widescreen images, also called full-screen versions, to fit 4:3 televisions, removing up to 44 percent of the frame; distinct from letterboxing and open matte.

Pan Bingheng

Pan Bingheng (潘秉衡, 1912–1970) was a Chinese jade carver, first of the Four Wonders of Northern Jade, known for thin-walled vessels and reviving gold inlaid in jade.

Pan Cogito

Pan Cogito is the title character of a cycle of poems by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert and the name of his fifth poetry volume, published in 1974.

Pan Continental Curling Championships

The Pan Continental Curling Championships was the World Curling Federation championship for teams from the Americas and Pacific-Asia zones, held annually from 2022 to 2025.

Pan de muerto

Pan de muerto (bread of the dead) is the Mexican sweet bun of Día de Muertos, round with bone-shaped dough strips and a skull knob, orange- and anise-scented, a Mesoamerican-Spanish fusion worth up to 20% of bakery income.

Pan flute

Pan flute (panpipes, syrinx): an end-blown wind instrument of graduated tubes bound as a raft or bundle, known from Neolithic Ukraine, ancient Greece, China's paixiao, Andean antara, and the Romanian nai popularized by Gheorghe Zamfir.

Pan Gang

Pan Gang (潘刚, born 1970) is a Chinese dairy executive who joined Yili in 1992, led it to Asia's first dairy company with revenue over RMB 100 billion.

Pan Geng

Pan Geng (盘庚), personal name Xun, was a king of the Shang dynasty who, despite popular resistance, moved the capital across the Yellow River, reviving the dynasty.

Pan Geng's move to Yin

Pan Geng's move to Yin (盘庚迁殷) was the Shang dynasty king Pan Geng's transfer of the capital from Yan to Yin, identified with Yinxu at Anyang, Henan.

Pan He

Pan He, born Pan Siwei, was a Chinese sculptor from Guangzhou whose work Hard Times entered the national school curriculum, alongside urban sculptures such as the Pioneering Ox.

Pan Jianwei (潘建伟)

Pan Jianwei (潘建伟, born 1970) is a Chinese physicist at USTC, CAS academician, and leader of the Micius quantum satellite, the Beijing-Shanghai QKD backbone, and the Jiuzhang and Zuchongzhi quantum computers.

Pan Jibiao

Pan Jibiao (盘继彪), born 1973, is the founder of Changsha's Shengda Jinxi, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2025 for a RMB 91.1 billion fund-raising fraud.

Pan Jixun

Pan Jixun (潘季驯, 1521–1595) was a Ming official and hydraulic engineer who served four terms as chief administrator of the Yellow River and Grand Canal.

Pan Laican

Pan Laican (潘来灿) is a Chinese businessman and top-ten shareholder of Foshan Haitian, China's largest condiment maker, who trained as a traditional soy-sauce brewer under Xu Fangqiu.

Pan Mei

Pan Mei (潘美) was a Song-dynasty general and administrator who conquered the Southern Han and Northern Han, fought the Liao at Yanmen, and died in 991.

Oct 21, 2026

Pan Mensa

Pan Mensa is a 287.48 km flat-topped mountain (mensa) on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU named in 1985 for Pan, father of Iynx, with paterae at either end and a 5 km height.

Pan Ning

Pan Ning (潘宁) was a Chinese industrialist who founded the Pearl River Refrigerator Factory in 1984 and built it into Kelon, maker of China's best-selling Ronshen refrigerator.

Oct 10, 2026

Pan Pacific International Holdings

Pan Pacific International Holdings is the Japanese retail holding company that owns the Don Quijote discount chain and DON DON DONKI stores across Asia, renamed from Don Quijote Holdings in 2019.

Pan Quanzhi

Pan Quanzhi (潘权枝) is a Chinese entrepreneur, one of the seven co-founders of the kitchen appliance maker Vatti, founded in Zhongshan, Guangdong, in April 1992, and father of Vatti's chairman Pan Yejiang.

Pan Shien

Pan Shien (潘世恩, 1769–1854) was a Qing dynasty official from Wuxian, Jiangsu, who placed first in the 1793 palace examination and rose to Grand Secretary and Grand Councilor.

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, first published in Paris in 1834 and regarded as the Polish national epic, set in Lithuania around 1811 and 1812.

Pan Tianshou

Pan Tianshou (潘天寿, 1897–1971) was a Chinese painter and art educator known for freehand flower-and-bird painting and finger painting, and one of the Four Masters of twentieth-century Chinese painting.

Pan Wen-yuan

Pan Wen-yuan (潘文淵) was a Chinese-American RCA scientist who planned Taiwan's 1976 IC technology transfer, seeding UMC and TSMC, and is called the father of Taiwan's semiconductors.