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Pandora (Avatar)
Pandora (Eywa'eveng) is the fictional lush, bioluminescent moon of the gas giant Polyphemus in Alpha Centauri in James Cameron's Avatar films, home of the Na'vi and distinct from Saturn's real moon Pandora and NASA's Pandora SmallSat mission.
Pandora (jewelry)
Pandora, also known as Pandora A/S, is a Danish jewelry company founded in Copenhagen in 1982 and best known for its charm bracelets, the core of its business.
Pandora (singer)
Pandora, stage name of Swedish singer Anneli Magnusson (born 1970, Västerås), a eurodance/techno artist whose 1993 debut "Trust Me" topped Swedish year-end sales; 12 albums, 6 million records, best-selling international artist for Universal Japan; distinct from the US streaming service Pandora.
Pandora (TV series)
Pandora is an American CW science fiction series (2019-2020, 23 episodes, 2 seasons) set in 2199, starring Priscilla Quintana as Jax Zhou at Earth's Space Training Academy; filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria, canceled in 2021.
Pandora (Πανδώρα)
Pandora (Πανδώρα), Greek mythology's first woman, clay-made by Hephaestus at Zeus's command and sent to Epimetheus; opening her pithos released evils while Hope stayed inside. Hesiodic sources, the Erasmus 'box' mistranslation, vase paintings, and the Gaea earth-goddess debate distinguish this figure.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is Albert Lewin's 1951 Technicolor romantic fantasy starring James Mason and Ava Gardner, fusing the Flying Dutchman legend with the Pandora myth in 1930s Spain, restored in 2008 and 4K in 2019.
Pandora Boxx
Pandora Boxx, drag persona of Michael Steck, is an American drag comedian from Rochester, New York, who placed fifth and won Miss Congeniality on RuPaul's Drag Race season 2, famed for her Carol Channing Snatch Game, and later competed on All Stars 1 and 6.
Pandora Gate
Pandora Gate is the 2023 Polish influencer scandal revealed by Sylwester Wardęga over alleged abuse of minors, leading to the 2026 UK extradition of YouTuber Stuu; also a fictional wormhole device in Eclipse Phase.
Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ)
Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ) is Jun Mochizuki's dark-fantasy mystery manga, serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy 2006–2015 in 24 volumes; Oz Vessalius is cast into the Abyss, meets Alice, and joins Pandora; its 2009 anime covers only a third.
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (紅殻のパンドラ)
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (紅殻のパンドラ, Kōkaku no Pandora) is a cyberpunk comedy manga by Koshi Rikudou with concept by Masamune Shirow, set ten years before Ghost in the Shell; serialized 2012–2024 in 26 volumes, with a 12-episode 2016 anime by Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ.
Pandora Papers
Pandora Papers (Pandora Papers investigation): 2021 ICIJ offshore leak of 11.9 million records, 2.94 TB, from 14 offshore service providers, distinct from the one-firm Panama Papers; exposed 330+ politicians and 35 country leaders.
Pandora's box
Pandora's box: the vessel from the Greek myth of Pandora, actually a pithos (storage jar) mistranslated by Erasmus in 1508. From Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days; releasing evils, leaving Elpis (hope) inside.
Pandora's Box (1929 film)
Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) is G.W. Pabst's 1929 German silent film starring Louise Brooks as Lulu, adapted from Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora; a censorship-mangled failure on release, later a Weimar classic.
Pandorogate
Pandorogate, also written Pandoro-Gate, is the Italian media's name for the December 2023 scandal in which influencer Chiara Ferragni and confectioner Balocco were fined for misleadingly presenting a charity-themed Christmas pandoro as a donation drive.
Pandorum
Pandorum (2009) is a German-British-American science fiction horror film directed by Christian Alvart, starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as amnesiac crew of the colony ship Elysium; a box-office flop with 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pandrosos Dorsa
Pandrosos Dorsa is a large ridge belt (dorsa) on Venus in the V-5 quadrangle, IAU-approved 1985, named for a Greek dew goddess; about 1600 km long, with both contractional and extensional structures predating surrounding plains.
Pandrupol Mound
Pandrupol Mound, listed by ASI as Ancient Remains (N-RJ-144), is a centrally protected archaeological site at Pandupol in Alwar district, Rajasthan, inside Sariska Tiger Reserve, near the Pandupol Hanuman temple of Mahabharata legend.
Pandu
Pandu (Pāṇḍu, "pale") is the Hastinapura king in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, son of Vyasa and Ambalika, cursed by the sage Kindama to die on embracing a wife, and earthly father of the five Pandavas, born to gods via Kunti and Madri.
Panduit
Panduit is a privately held American manufacturer of electrical and network infrastructure products, headquartered in Tinley Park, Illinois, and founded by Jack E. Caveney Sr. in 1955.
Panduk Mound
Panduk Mound, or Pandu Rajar Dhibi (পাণ্ডু রাজার ঢিপি), is a Chalcolithic and Iron Age archaeological mound at Panduk, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, the first Chalcolithic site discovered in the state, excavated 1962–65 and 1985.
Pandula
Pandula (पण्डुल) is the brahmin teacher of King Pandukabhaya in the Sri Lankan Pali chronicles, a wealthy Vedic scholar of the 5th or 4th century BCE.
Pandulph
Pandulph, also Pandulph Verraccio, was a Roman-born papal chamberlain, legate to England, and Bishop of Norwich who secured King John's 1213 submission and stood surety for Magna Carta.
Pandurang
Atmaram Pandurang (आत्माराम पांडुरंग, 1823–1898) was a Bombay physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj in 1867 and served as Sheriff of Bombay in 1879.
Panduranga Mahatyamu
Panduranga Mahatyamu (పాండురంగ మాహాత్మ్యము) is a 16th-century Telugu kavya by Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the five great Telugu mahakavyas, praising the Pandharpur shrine of Panduranga.
Pandurangan Vijayanand
Pandurangan Vijayanand is a physician-scientist in immunology who leads the William K. Bowes Distinguished Professorship at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, studying T-cell genomics in asthma, lung cancer, and COVID-19.
Pandya copper-plate charters (e.g., Larger Sinnamanur plates)
The Pandya copper-plate charters (சின்னமனூர் செப்பேடுகள்) are Sanskrit and Tamil inscriptions on copper plates; the Larger Sinnamanur plates record a land grant in a king's sixteenth year and carry a Pandya genealogy.
Pandya dynasty
Pandya dynasty: Tamil ruling house of the extreme south of India, one of the three crowned Tamil kingdoms. From Korkai and Madurai, it appears in Ashokan edicts, revived under Kadungon (c. 560–590), peaked under the Later Pandyas from 1216, and fell to Delhi Sultanate invasions from 1311, surviving at Tenkasi into the 16th century.
Pandya Store
Pandya Store (पंड्या स्टोर) was a Star Plus Hindi soap opera (25 January 2021 to 26 May 2024), an official remake of the Tamil serial Pandian Stores, produced by Sphere Origins, starring Kinshuk Mahajan and Shiny Doshi as Gautam and Dhara, and later Priyanshi Yadav and Rohit Chandel.
Pandya village assemblies
Pandya village assemblies (uravai, ஊரவைகள்) were the self-governing village councils of the medieval Pandya country in Tamil Nadu, electing members by the kudavolai pot-ticket system and collecting taxes for the state.
Pandyan civil war (1308-1323)
The Pandyan civil war (1308-1323) was a succession war between the brothers Sundara Pandya and Vira Pandya, sons of Maravarman Kulasekhara Pandya, fought around Madurai; it and coinciding Muslim invasions destroyed the Pandya dynasty's strength.