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Pan'nan power station
Pan'nan power station is a coal-fired power station in Panzhou, Guizhou, China, with two 660 MW ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed units totaling 1,320 MW, built by PowerChina to burn low-heat-value coal.
Pan's Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) is Guillermo del Toro's 2006 Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy about young Ofelia in 1944 Francoist Spain set three tasks by a faun; it premiered at Cannes 2006 and won three Oscars.
Pan's People
Pan's People were a British all-female dance troupe, formed in London in 1966 and resident dancers on the BBC music show Top of the Pops.
PAN2-PAN3 deadenylation complex catalytic subunit PAN2
PAN2 (USP52, DEDCRF) is the catalytic DEDD-family 3'-to-5' exoribonuclease subunit of the PAN2-PAN3 deadenylation complex, which with Ccr4-Not performs biphasic cytoplasmic poly(A) tail shortening, trimming distal tails in the initial slow phase.
Pana
The pana (पण), also called the karshapana, was an ancient Indian silver coin, the standard unit in which Mauryan prices, tolls, and fines were reckoned.
Pana Hema Taylor
Pana Hema Taylor, also Pana Hema-Taylor, is a New Zealand actor of Ngāti Kahungunu descent born 1989, known as Nasir in Spartacus, Bert Thompson in Westside, and Jared Morehu in The Brokenwood Mysteries.
Panabaj mudslide
The Panabaj mudslide was a volcanic debris flow, triggered by Tropical Storm Stan, that buried Panabaj, a Tz'utujil Maya village near Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, in early October 2005, killing hundreds.
Panabo
Panabo, officially the City of Panabo, is a component city in Davao del Norte, Philippines, on the northern edge of Davao City, with about 211,000 residents.
Panaca
A panaca was an Inca royal kin group formed around each dead Sapa Inca, caring for his mummy, holding his property, and preserving his memory.
Panacea (medicine)
Panacea (Greek Panakeia, πανάκεια), a universal remedy or cure-all; named for Asclepius's daughter, embodied historically in theriac and Mithridatium, later in patent medicines, now used figuratively.
Panacea (Πανάκεια)
Panacea (Πανάκεια, Panakeia) is the Greek goddess of cures, medicines, and salves, daughter of Asclepius and Epione, sister of Hygeia and Iaso, invoked in the Hippocratic Oath and source of the word panacea.
Panachai Sriariyarungruang
Panachai Sriariyarungruang (ปณชัย ศรีอาริยะรุ่งเรือง), aka Junior, born 1996, is a Thai actor and emcee under GMMTV, formerly Nadao Bangkok, known for Cherry Magic, Perfect 10 Liners, and My Romance Scammer.
Panache
Panache: a plume or cluster of feathers worn on a helmet or hat, from French pennache via Italian pennaccio and Late Latin pinnaculum; figuratively, flamboyant flair, popularized by Henry IV's white plume.
Panaeolus cinctulus
Panaeolus cinctulus, the banded mottlegill, formerly Panaeolus subbalteatus, is a psilocybin-containing small brown mushroom of the genus Panaeolus, family Galeropsidaceae, growing on dung and manured grassland worldwide, with jet black spores.
Panaeolus cyanescens
Panaeolus cyanescens (Copelandia cyanescens), a blue-bruising dung mushroom of the tropics and subtropics, one of the most potent psilocybin-producing Panaeolus species, with jet black spore print, mottled gills, and hygrophanous cracking cap.
Panaetius (Παναίτιος)
Panaetius (Παναίτιος), Rhodian Stoic philosopher (c. 185–109 BC), head of the Athenian school and founder of Middle Stoicism; friend of Scipio Aemilianus, and author of the lost On Duty preserved through Cicero's De Officiis.
Panagbenga Festival
Panagbenga, the Baguio Flower Festival, is an annual February festival in Baguio City, Philippines; Kankanaey for "season of blooming". Started 1996 after the 1990 earthquake, run by BFFFI, famous for grand street dance and floral float parades.
Panagia Angeloktistos
Panagia Angeloktistos (Παναγία Αγγελόκτιστη), an 11th-century domed church in Kiti, Cyprus, built over a 5th-century basilica and preserving a rare 6th- to 7th-century apse mosaic of the Virgin with Child between archangels.
Panagia Arkoudiotissa
Panagia Arkoudiotissa (Παναγία Αρκουδιώτισσα), also called Arkoudospilios, is a cave chapel of the Virgin on the Akrotiri peninsula, Chania, Crete, named for a bear-shaped stalagmite, linked to an ancient cult of Artemis, and celebrating the Presentation on 2 February.
Panagia tis Kyras
Panagia tis Kyras (Παναγία της Κυράς), church at Sazlıköy/Livadia, Cyprus, over a 5th/6th-century basilica; pre-iconoclastic praying-Virgin apse mosaic, medieval cruciform rebuilding, 2021/2022 EU-funded conservation.
Panagiotis Danglis
Panagiotis Danglis (Παναγιώτης Δαγκλής, 1853–1924) was a Greek Army general and politician who designed the Schneider-Danglis mountain gun and served as chief of staff in the Balkan Wars.
Panagiotis Karkanas
Panagiotis (Takis) Karkanas is a Greek geoarchaeologist known for sediment micromorphology; since 2014 he has directed the Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science at Athens, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Panagiotis Kavvadias
Panagiotis Kavvadias (Παναγιώτης Καββαδίας, 1850–1928) was a Greek archaeologist who organized the Archaeological Service of Greece, excavated the Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus and the Acropolis, and taught at the University of Athens.
Panagiotis Roussos
Panagiotis (Panos) Roussos is a physician-scientist in psychiatric genomics who studies the neurobiology of schizophrenia at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai, winning a 2013 PECASE award.
Panagis Tsaldaris
Panagis Tsaldaris (Παναγής Τσαλδάρης, 1867–1936) was a Greek royalist statesman who led the People's Party and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1933 to 1935.
Panah Ali Khan
Panah Ali Khan (پناه علی خان), born around 1693, was the founder and first khan of the Karabakh Khanate, ruling from 1747 and making Shusha its capital.
Panah Panahi (پناه پناهی)
Panah Panahi (پناه پناهی), born 1984 in Tehran, is an Iranian director and son of Jafar Panahi. His debut feature Hit the Road (2021) premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won the London Film Festival's Best Film award, and follows a family smuggling their elder son out of Iran.
Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati (born Gherasim Istrate, 1884–1935) was a Romanian writer of Greek paternal origin who wrote chiefly in French; Romain Rolland called him a "Gorki of the Balkans".
Panaji (पणजी)
Panaji (पणजी), also called Panjim, is the capital of Goa, India, on the Mandovi River. Made Nova Goa and capital by 1843 decree; home of Fontainhas heritage quarter and Smart City projects.
Panaka
Panaka is an Ayurvedic summer drink made by infusing water with jaggery and sour fruits, documented in classical texts like Charaka and Sushruta Samhita for thirst, intoxication, and heat disorders; modern clinical evidence remains minimal.