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Praieira revolt
The Praieira revolt (Revolução Praieira, also called Insurreição Praieira) was an armed liberal and republican uprising in Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1848 to 1850, the last great liberal provincial revolt of the Brazilian imperial period.
Prairial (tanker)
Prairial was a French ultra large crude carrier completed in December 1979 at Saint-Nazaire, the last of the four Batillus-class tankers and among the largest ships ever built.
Prairie
A prairie is a North American grassland ecosystem of grasses and flowering forbs, formerly spanning from the Rocky Mountains east through Illinois and now largely converted to cropland.
Prairie Chapel Ranch
Prairie Chapel Ranch, also called the Bush Ranch, is George W. Bush's roughly 1,600-acre Crawford, Texas property bought in 1999 for $1.3 million; it served as the 'Western White House' hosting 17 foreign leaders.
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, a California state park established in 1923 near Orick, protects old-growth coast redwoods, Roosevelt elk prairies, Gold Bluffs Beach, and Fern Canyon within the cooperatively managed Redwood National and State Parks.
Prairie dog
Prairie dog (Cynomys): burrowing North American grassland rodent of the squirrel family, five species including the black-tailed prairie dog; lives in towns and coteries, gives referential alarm calls, keystone species reduced to under 2% of historic range by plague, poisoning, and cropland conversion.
Prairie Island nuclear power plant
The Prairie Island nuclear power plant is a two-unit nuclear station in Welch, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River, owned by Xcel Energy and operating since 1973.
Prairie oyster
Prairie oyster: a nonalcoholic hangover-remedy drink of raw egg with intact yolk, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper, first printed by Leo Engel in 1878; also means cooked bull calf testicles.
Prairie School
The Prairie School was an architectural movement centered in Chicago and the Midwest from about 1900, known for horizontal, open-plan houses, most famously Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.
Prairie Schooner
Prairie Schooner is an international literary quarterly founded by Lowry C. Wimberly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1927, publishing poetry, short fiction, and essays.
Prairie State Energy Campus
Prairie State Energy Campus is a 1,600-megawatt coal-fired power plant and adjacent underground coal mine in Washington County, Illinois, completed in 2012 at a cost of roughly $5 billion.
Prairie Trails (auto trail)
The Prairie Trails was an auto trail of the 1910s and 1920s promoting a marked route from Chicago, Illinois to Kansas City, Missouri before numbered highways replaced them.
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Prairie View, Texas, founded in 1876 and part of the Texas A&M University System.
Prairie View Interscholastic League
Prairie View Interscholastic League (PVIL), originally the Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools, governed academic, athletic, and music competitions for Texas's segregated Black high schools from 1920 to 1970, peaking at 500 schools before merging with the UIL.
Praise Jah in the Moonlight
Praise Jah in the Moonlight is YG Marley's 2023 debut reggae single, co-written with Lauryn Hill and sampling Bob Marley's Crisis; it hit No. 5 in the UK and No. 34 on the Hot 100.
Praise You
Praise You is a 1998 big beat single by Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook), built on Camille Yarbrough's 'Take Yo' Praise' vocal and a JBL demonstration-record piano riff; it reached UK No. 1 in January 1999 and won three MTV VMAs for its Spike Jonze video.
Praise-singing tradition of Senegambian griottes
The praise-singing tradition of Senegambian griottes is the female practice of the West African griot caste, performing praise singing at weddings, naming ceremonies, and markets across Senegambia.
Praisos
Praisos (Praesus, Πραισός), ancient city of eastern Crete on three hills near Siteia, capital of the Eteocretans; known for non-Greek Eteocretan inscriptions, destroyed by Hierapytna around 146–140 BC.
Praja Rajyam Party (ప్రజా రాజ్యం పార్టీ)
Praja Rajyam Party (ప్రజా రాజ్యం పార్టీ, PRP), a defunct Andhra Pradesh regional party founded by film star Chiranjeevi in 2008 on a social justice plank; it won 18 Assembly seats with 16.32% of votes in 2009, became a recognized state party, and merged with the Indian National Congress in 2011.
Prajadhipok (ประชาธิปก)
Prajadhipok (ประชาธิปก, Rama VII, 1893–1941) was the last absolute king of Siam, reigning 1925–1935; he accepted the 1932 Khana Ratsadon revolution, granted Siam's first permanent constitution, then abdicated and died in England.
Prajakta Koli (प्राजक्ता कोली)
Prajakta Koli (प्राजक्ता कोली), also called MostlySane, is an Indian YouTuber, actor, and author from Mumbai/Thane. Known for observational comedy on her MostlySane channel (started February 2015), she starred in Netflix's Mismatched as Dimple, debuted in Bollywood with Jugjugg Jeeyo, wrote the bestselling novel Too Good To Be True, and became UNDP India's first Youth Climate Champion.
Prajakta Mali
Prajakta Mali (प्राजक्ता माळी), Marathi actress born 1989, trained Bharatanatyam dancer, known for Julun Yeti Reshimgathi, host of Maharashtrachi Hasyajatra, RaanBaazaar lead, and producer of Phullwanti (2024).
Prajapati
Prajapati (Sanskrit प्रजापति, "lord of creatures") is the great creator deity of the Vedic period in ancient India, later identified with the Hindu god Brahma.
Prajmalium
Prajmalium (prajmaline, N-propylajmaline) is a class IA antiarrhythmic, ATC C01BA08, derived from the ajmaline rauwolfia alkaloid; used as bitartrate in German-speaking countries for ventricular arrhythmias, half-life 7.3 h, may cause liver damage.
Prajñākaragupta
Prajñākaragupta (प्रज्ञाकरगुप्त) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the epistemological pramāṇa tradition, c. 750–810, a follower of Dharmakīrti and author of the huge Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkārabhāṣya commentary on the Pramāṇavārttika.
Prajñākaramati
Prajñākaramati (प्रज्ञाकरमति) was an Indian Mahayana scholar-monk, c. 950–1030, a Madhyamaka master in Candrakīrti's lineage whose Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā is the only substantial Sanskrit commentary on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra still extant.
Prajnaparamita
Prajnaparamita, the Perfection of Wisdom, is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra corpus teaching emptiness, also personified as a female deity; its texts date from around the first century CE.
Prajnaparamita cult of Jayavarman VII
The Prajnaparamita cult of Jayavarman VII was the state Buddhist cult of the Khmer Empire under King Jayavarman VII, centered on Lokesvara and the goddess Prajnaparamita.
Prajñāpāramitā Devī
Prajñāpāramitā Devī is the goddess form of the Perfection of Wisdom in Mahāyāna Buddhism, eulogized as the mother of all Buddhas and worshipped in Nepal, Tibet, and Java.
Prajnatara (般若多罗)
Prajnatara, also known as Prajñātāra, is the twenty-seventh Indian patriarch of Chan and Zen tradition, remembered as the master who transmitted the dharma to Bodhidharma.