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Panerai
Panerai, also known as Officine Panerai, is a luxury watch manufacturer founded in Florence in 1860, known for large cushion-cased dive watches developed for the Royal Italian Navy.
Panetelle
Panetelle, sanctuary site near Mondragone, Caserta, at the Savone river mouth; Italic Auruncian sanctuary with votive deposits from the 7th century BC, 2nd-century BC podium temple, excavated 1969-1977, abandoned 1st century BC.
Paneth cell
Paneth cell: secretory epithelial cell at the base of small intestinal crypts of Lieberkühn; secretes α-defensins (HD5/HD6), lysozyme, and Reg3 lectins, supports intestinal stem cells, and is linked to ileal Crohn's disease via NOD2 and ATG16L1.
Panettone
Panettone, from Milan (pan de ton), is Italy's domed sourdough Christmas bread with raisins and candied fruit; modernized by Angelo Motta around 1923 and defined by Italy's 2005 decree (butter ≥16%, fruit ≥20%).
Paneuropean Union
Paneuropean Union (Paneuropa-Union, Pan-European Union): oldest European unification movement, founded by Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi after his 1922 article and 1923 book Pan-Europa; first congress Vienna 1926; precursor of the EU, led later by Otto von Habsburg.
Panevėžys (district)
Panevėžys District Municipality (Panevėžio rajono savivaldybė), a rural municipality in Panevėžys County, northern Lithuania, surrounding Panevėžys city; 35,382 residents in 2024, 96.8% rural, with Krekenava Regional Park and wood, furniture and food industries.
Pánfilo de Narváez
Pánfilo de Narváez (c. 1478–1528), Spanish conquistador of Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, and Florida. Defeated and lost an eye to Cortés at Cempoala in 1520; drowned off Texas in 1528 leading the failed Florida expedition, of which only four men survived.
Panfilo Lacson
Panfilo "Ping" Morena Lacson (born 1948, Imus, Cavite) is a Filipino senator, former PNP Chief (1999–2001), 2022 presidential candidate, and Senate President Pro Tempore known for anti-pork-barrel budget watchdog work.
Panfilov Park
Panfilov Park (Парк имени Панфилова) is Bishkek's central amusement and memorial park, founded in 1879 as the Kazenny Garden, renamed Red Star Park in 1926, and named for General Ivan Panfilov in 1941; it holds a 50-meter Ferris wheel and a 1942 monument.
Panfish
Panfish: collective angling term, attested by 1814, for small freshwater fish that fit in a pan, such as bluegill, crappie, yellow perch, and pumpkinseed; heavily harvested table fare with widely varying bag limits.
Pang De
Pang De (庞德) was a general of the late Eastern Han dynasty who served Ma Teng, Ma Chao, and Cao Cao, and died refusing to surrender to Guan Yu.
Pang Ji
Pang Ji (庞籍, 988–1063) was a Song dynasty statesman who rose to grand chancellor under Emperor Renzong and rebuilt the defenses of Yanzhou against the Tanguts.
Pang Jiaying
Pang Jiaying (庞佳颖), Chinese freestyle swimmer born 1985 in Shanghai; four Olympic medals (2004, 2008), 2008 200m free bronze in Asian-record 1:55.05, and 2009 world-record 4x200 free relay gold.
Pang Juan
Pang Juan (庞涓) was a general of the State of Wei during the Warring States period, defeated and driven to suicide at the ambush of Maling.
Pang Kang
Pang Kang (庞康), born 1956, is a Chinese businessman who joined the Haitian soy sauce factory in 1982 and led its maker, Foshan Haitian Flavouring & Food, as chairman until 2024.
Pang Tong
Pang Tong, courtesy name Pang Shiyuan, was a Chinese strategist of the late Han dynasty who served Liu Bei and died in 214 during the conquest of Yi Province.
Pang Tu-sop
Pang Tu-sop is a North Korean politician and Workers' Party member serving as Minister of Public Security, appointed in July 2024 after flooding in border areas.
Pang Wei
Pang Wei (庞伟), Chinese pistol shooter born 1986 in Baoding; four-time Olympian with 2 gold and 2 bronze, winning 10 m air pistol at Beijing 2008 and mixed team gold with Jiang Ranxin at Tokyo 2020; husband of Du Li.
Pang Xun
Pang Xun (庞勋) led the mutiny of Tang dynasty Guilin garrison soldiers who seized the Xuzhou region around 868 and held it for about a year.
Pang Yunjing
Pang Yunjing (庞云鏳, 1833–1889) was a Chinese silk merchant of Nanxun who built the Pang Yitai silk export business and founded the Pang Zide medicine house.
Panga (film)
Panga (पंगा) is a 2020 Hindi sports drama directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, starring Kangana Ranaut as former national kabaddi captain Jaya Nigam making a comeback at 32; released 24 January 2020 by Fox STAR Studios.
Pangaea
Pangaea, also spelled Pangea, was the supercontinent that assembled most of Earth's land about 300 million years ago and broke apart beginning about 201 million years ago.
Pangaea Proxima
Pangaea Proxima, originally named Pangea Ultima, is a hypothesized future supercontinent in which the Atlantic closes and the continents reassemble, projected to form 200 to 250 million years from now.
Pangaion
Mount Pangaion (Όρος Παγγαίο, ancient Pangaeum) is a 1,956 m massif in eastern Macedonia, Greece, between the Strymon and Nestos rivers, famed since antiquity for its gold and silver mines exploited by Thracian tribes, Athens, and Philip II of Macedon.
Pangak Toseowon
Pangak Toseowon, known as Daejangdogam (대장도감), was the Goryeo government office established in 1236 on Ganghwa during the Mongol invasions to oversee carving of the Tripitaka Koreana.
Pangako Sa 'Yo
Pangako Sa 'Yo (The Promise) is ABS-CBN's 2000–2002 Filipino teleserye starring Jericho Rosales and Kristine Hermosa; first series to use the term teleserye, 476 episodes, 64.9% finale rating, remade in 2015 with KathNiel.
Panganamala Ramana Kumar
Panganamala Ramana Kumar is a control and communication-networks engineer, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, whose scheduling policy has run an IBM wafer fab since 2005.
Pangani
Pangani: river, basin, and freshwater ecoregion (FEOW 568) in northeastern Tanzania and Kenya, rising on Kilimanjaro and Meru, flowing 500 km to the Indian Ocean; noted for endemic fish, hydropower, and severe water stress.
Pangasinan
Pangasinan, a province of the Philippines on west central Luzon (capital Lingayen), name means "where salt is made." 4 cities, 44 municipalities; 3,188,540 people (2024); ₱408.45-billion economy in 2025, 53.1% of Ilocos Region output.
Pangasius
Pangasius, a genus of Asian shark catfishes (Pangasiidae); farmed species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. Viet Nam dominates a trade exceeding 4 million tonnes in 2026, sold as affordable frozen whitefish fillets.