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Pan Yue (poet)
Pan Yue, also known as Pan An, was a Western Jin poet and official known for his mourning poems for his wife and his legendary good looks.
Pan Zhang
Pan Zhang (潘璋, 1435 to 1489) was a Ming dynasty civil official who served in revenue administration and ended his career as Left Vice Minister of War.
Pan Zhang (Eastern Wu general)
Pan Zhang (潘璋), courtesy name Wengui, was an Eastern Wu general under Sun Quan who helped capture Guan Yu in 220 and fought at Yiling in 222.
Pan Zhanle
Pan Zhanle (潘展乐), born 2004 in Wenzhou, China, is a Chinese swimmer who set the men's 100-meter freestyle world record of 46.40 while winning Olympic gold at Paris 2024.
Pan Zheng
Pan Zheng is a physician-scientist and biotech entrepreneur who co-discovered the CD24–Siglec-10 immune checkpoint and co-founded OncoImmune, sold to Merck for $425 million in 2020.
Pan Zuyin
Pan Zuyin (潘祖荫, courtesy name Boyin, 1830–1890) was a Qing dynasty official and art collector from Wu County, Jiangsu, who served as Minister of Works and on the Grand Council.
Pan-African colours
Pan-African colours: red, gold and green from Ethiopia's tricolour, spread by Ghana's 1957 flag, and the UNIA's 1920 red, black and green; meanings, spread, and exceptions.
Pan-African flag
Pan-African flag (UNIA flag, African Liberation Flag): red-black-green horizontal tricolor unveiled by Marcus Garvey's UNIA on August 13, 1920, symbolizing blood, the people, and the African Motherland; distinct from the red-gold-green Ethiopian palette.
Pan-African orogeny
The Pan-African orogeny was a protracted series of tectonic, metamorphic, and magmatic events between about 725 and 500 million years ago, forming mobile belts during the assembly of Gondwana.
Pan-African Parliament
The Pan-African Parliament is the consultative and advisory parliamentary organ of the African Union, inaugurated in Addis Ababa in 2004 with its permanent seat at Midrand, South Africa.
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a movement for the unity and liberation of Africa and people of African descent worldwide, dating from the 1900 London conference, the 1919–1945 congresses, and the OAU and African Union.
Pan-Africanism in Caribbean literature
Pan-Africanism in Caribbean literature is the literary engagement of Caribbean writers with Africa and the African diaspora as a shared community, expressed through movements like Négritude.
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (Carretera Panamericana) is a network of national highways from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, considered the world's longest and broken only by the Darién Gap.
Pan-American Sports Organization
The Pan-American Sports Organization (ODEPA), today branded Panam Sports, is the body grouping the Americas' National Olympic Committees, founded in 1948 to govern the Pan American Games.
Pan-American Team Handball Federation
PATHF (Pan-American Team Handball Federation) was the IHF continental handball confederation for the Americas, founded by Peter Buehning; suspended by the IHF in 2018 and replaced by NACHC and SCAHC.
Pan-Arab colors
Pan-Arab colors: black, white, green, and red, the flag palette of Arab nationalism, first combined in the 1916 Arab Revolt flag of Sharif Hussein of Mecca and later split into the Hejaz-triangle lineage (Jordan, Palestine) and the 1952 Arab Liberation tricolor lineage (Egypt, Iraq).
Pan-Arabism
Pan-Arabism is a nationalist movement that developed in the second half of the 19th century, but its influence declined sharply after the Arab defeat by Israel in June 1967.
Pan-European Picnic
The Pan-European Picnic, held on the Hungarian-Austrian border near Sopron on 19 August 1989, saw hundreds of East Germans escape to Austria through a symbolically opened gate.
Pan-Germanism
Pan-Germanism is a German nationalist doctrine seeking union of all German-speaking peoples under German rule, developed during the Wilhelmine Empire and appropriated by National Socialism.
Pan-Grave culture
The Pan-Grave culture is a Nubian archaeological culture named for its shallow, frying-pan-shaped graves, found from Middle Egypt to the 3rd cataract around 1800–1550 BCE.
Pan-Indian film
Pan-Indian film: a film, usually a South Indian production, released and dubbed in several Indian languages to reach audiences nationwide; the label began with Baahubali (2015) and was boosted by streaming.
Pan-Islamism
Pan-Islamism (Ittihad-i Islam, al-Wahda al-Islamiyya) is the ideology of uniting all Muslims politically, coined as "Pan-Islam" by Vambéry in 1878, an imperial ideology under Abdülhamid II, revived after 1979, and institutionalized in the OIC.
Pan-pan
Pan-pan is the international radiotelephony urgency signal, spoken as three repetitions of "PAN PAN", announcing urgent safety messages about ships, aircraft, vehicles, or people, ranking below mayday.
Pan-Slavic language
Pan-Slavic (zonal) languages are constructed languages for communication among Slavic speakers, understood without study. Main modern form: Interslavic (Medžuslovjansky), unified 2017 from Slovianski, Slovioski, Novosloviensky; lineage from Križanić's 17th-century Ruski jezik.
Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism, a 19th-century cultural and political movement for unity of the Slavic peoples, coined by Ján Herkel in 1826, shaped by Kollár and Šafářík, later dominated by Russian imperial aims, revived by Soviet propaganda, and resurgent in contemporary Russian politics.
Pan-STARRS
Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is a pair of University of Hawaii survey telescopes on Haleakalā, Maui, known for asteroid searches and discovering ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object, in 2017.
Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey
The Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey repeatedly imaged ten small sky fields with the 1.8-meter Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii, between 2009 and 2014, discovering over 5,000 supernova-like transients.
Pan-tilt unit
A pan-tilt unit is a two-axis electromechanical positioner that points a mounted payload, such as a camera, sensor, or antenna, in horizontal (pan) and vertical (tilt) directions.
Pan-Turkism
Pan-Turkism (Pan-Türkizm), an intellectual and political movement advocating union of all Turkic peoples; formulated by Yusuf Akçura in 1904, advanced under the Young Turks, suppressed after 1923, and institutionalized after 1991 through the Organization of Turkic States.
Pan'gye Surok
Pan'gye Surok (반계수록) is a 1670 treatise on state institutional reform by the Korean scholar Yu Hyeong-won, later regarded as a foundational text of the Silhak movement.