All articles starting with P

Pangbourne

Pangbourne is a village in West Berkshire, England, on the Thames at the River Pang confluence. First recorded AD 844 (Pegingaburnan, Paega's people's stream), Domesday manor, Reading Abbey holding, Victorian riverside resort after the 1840 railway.

Pangdonglai (胖东来)

Pangdonglai (胖东来) is a Chinese retail company headquartered in Xuchang, Henan, founded by Yu Donglai in 1995 and known for profit sharing, generous labor policies, and customer service.

Pangea Chasma

Pangea Chasma is a 150-km-wide chasma on Saturn's moon Mimas, IAU-approved in 1982, named for a giant in the Titan war; identified from Voyager imagery as a degraded tectonic feature.

Pangenesis

Pangenesis: Darwin's 1868 heredity hypothesis from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, proposing gemmules shed by all cells; criticized after Galton's rabbit experiments, replaced by Weismann's germ-plasm theory, and partly echoed by modern exosome and RNA research.

Pangeran Antasari

Pangeran Antasari was a Banjar noble who led the war against Dutch rule in southern Borneo from 1859 until his death in 1862, and is an Indonesian National Hero.

Pangeran Hidayatullah

Pangeran Hidayatullah (Sultan Hidayatullah II, born Gusti Andarun) was a prince of the Banjar Sultanate who commanded resistance against Dutch rule in the Banjarmasin War of 1859 to 1863.

Pangeran Walangsungsang

Pangeran Walangsungsang, also known as Pangeran Cakrabuana, was a 15th-century Sundanese prince, son of King Sri Baduga Maharaja, who founded Cirebon and spread Islam there.

Sep 24, 2026

Pangkor Treaty

The Pangkor Treaty (Perjanjian Pangkor), signed in 1874 between Britain and the Malay chiefs of Perak, recognized Raja Muda Abdullah as Sultan and introduced the first British Resident.

Sep 24, 2026

Panglima Polim

Panglima Polim, or Teuku Panglima Polem Perkasa Alam, was an Acehnese noble and war commander who led resistance against the Dutch in the Aceh War.

Panglong Conference

Panglong Conference: February 1947 meeting at Panglong, Shan State, where Aung San and Shan, Kachin, and Chin leaders signed the 12 February 1947 Panglong Agreement, founding basis of the Union of Burma and later 21st Century Panglong peace process.

Pangloss Collection

The Pangloss Collection (collection Pangloss) is a free open-access archive of audio, video, and interlinear transcriptions of endangered and under-documented languages, run by CNRS's LACITO laboratory since the 1990s, hosted on Cocoon/Huma-Num, and distinct from the unrelated Pangloss MT and entity-linking projects.

Pangolin

Pangolin (scaly anteater, Pholidota): eight keratin-scaled, ant- and termite-eating mammals of Africa and Asia, sister to Carnivora, the world's most trafficked mammal, all CITES Appendix I and threatened with extinction.

Pangolin trade

Pangolin trade: illegal international commerce in pangolin scales and meat, the world's most trafficked mammals. All eight species CITES Appendix I since 2016; over 500,000 seized 2016–2024; Nigeria and China key hubs.

Pangong Tso (སྤང་གོང་མཚོ)

Pangong Tso (སྤང་གོང་མཚོ), also called Pangong Lake, is a ~134 km brackish, endorheic high-altitude lake at about 4,350 m spanning Ladakh (India) and Tibet (China), bisected by the Line of Actual Control and a focal point of the India-China border dispute and 2020 standoff disengagement.

Oct 15, 2026

Pangpangta Coal Mine

Pangpangta Coal Mine (庞庞塔煤矿) is a large underground bituminous coal mine in Linxian County, Lüliang, Shanxi, China, operated by Huozhou Coal Power and designed for 10 million tonnes annually.

Pangram

Pangram: a sentence containing every letter of an alphabet, also called a holoalphabetic sentence; classic example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; used for font testing, typing practice, and constrained writing.

Pangram (AI detector)

Pangram, also known as Pangram.com, is an AI-generated text detector developed by Pangram Labs, a New York start-up co-founded in 2023 by Max Spero, that classifies writing as human, AI, or mixed.

Pangu (盘古)

Pangu (盘古) is the creator giant of Chinese myth who separated heaven and earth from chaos; first recorded in Xu Zheng's third-century Sanwu Liji; debated Indian-origin versus native origins; national intangible heritage since 2008.

Pangu (盘古) (model family)

Pangu (盘古) is a family of large language models developed by Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, first released in April 2021 and focused on Chinese-language enterprise applications.

Pangu Pati

Pangu Pati, the Papua New Guinea Union Party, is a political party founded in 1967 as the country's first indigenous party, led by Michael Somare.

Panguna mine

The Panguna mine was a large open-cut copper and gold mine in central Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, operated by Bougainville Copper Limited from 1972 until 1989.

Pangur Bán

Pangur Bán (Messe ocus Pangur Bán) is a ninth-century anonymous Old Irish poem in which an Irish monk compares his scholarship to his white cat's mouse-hunting; it survives in one manuscript, the Reichenau Primer at St Paul's Abbey, Austria.

Panhala Fort (पन्हाळा किल्ला)

Panhala Fort (पन्हाळा किल्ला), a hill-plateau fort near Kolhapur built under Shilahara king Bhoja II (1178–1209), is among the largest Deccan forts, site of Shivaji's 1660 escape and Pavan Khind, a 1954 ASI monument and UNESCO Maratha Military Landscapes component.

Panhandle (TV series)

Panhandle is a 2022 American eight-episode comedy-drama, also known by the working title Florida Man, created by Nicholas Stoller and Carla Kettner for Spectrum Originals, starring Luke Kirby and Tiana Okoye, filmed in Savannah, canceled after one season, now on Tubi.

Oct 15, 2026

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line is an American interstate natural gas pipeline company founded in 1929, moving gas from the Anadarko Basin to the Midwest and owned by Energy Transfer.

Oct 15, 2026

Panhard

Panhard, formally Panhard et Levassor, was a French vehicle manufacturer founded in Paris in 1867 that built the world's first series-produced gasoline cars from 1891.

Panhard AML

The Panhard AML is a French four-wheeled 4x4 light armored car produced from 1960, armed with a 60 mm mortar or 90 mm gun, and exported to dozens of countries.

Panhypophysitis

Panhypophysitis (infundibulo-panhypophysitis, ORPHA:95513) is inflammation of the entire pituitary gland, both lobes, causing diabetes insipidus plus panhypopituitarism; about 25% of primary hypophysitis, treated with glucocorticoids or observation.

Pani (പാനി) (film)

Pani (പണി) is a 2024 Malayalam action thriller marking Joju George's directorial debut; he stars as don Giri opposite Abhinaya, with Sagar Surya and Junaiz V. P. Released 24 October 2024, dubbed into four languages, streaming on SonyLIV from 16 January 2025, and a Filmfare and SIIMA debut-director award winner.