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Panskoye 1
Panskoye I (Панское I), ancient rural settlement and necropolis on the Tarkhankut Peninsula, north-western Crimea. Founded by Olbia ca. 400 BC, taken over by Chersonesos ca. 360 BC, destroyed ca. 270 BC; excavated 1969–1994.
Pansori
Pansori (판소리) is a Korean genre of musical storytelling in which one singer, with a drummer, performs long narratives through song, speech, and gesture, arising in seventeenth-century Korea.
Pansori novel
The pansori novel (판소리계 소설) is a Joseon-era classical Korean prose novel formed under the influence of pansori song texts, including Chunhyangjeon, Simcheongjeon, and Bae Bijangjeon.
Panspermia
Panspermia: hypothesis that life is distributed through space by dust, comets, asteroids, and meteorites, so Earth life may have arrived from Mars or beyond; variants include lithopanspermia and directed panspermia; rock transfer is proven but organism transfer remains unproven.
Pansy
Pansy (Viola × wittrockiana), a 19th-century Violaceae hybrid of Viola tricolor and other violas; cool-season bedding plant with 5–8 cm blotched flowers, over 300 varieties, named from French pensée.
Panta Rhei (hydrology)
Panta Rhei, Greek for "everything flows," was the second Scientific Decade of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, running from 2013 to 2022 to study change in hydrology and society.
Panta rhei (πάντα ῥεῖ) (doctrine)
Panta rhei (πάντα ῥεῖ, "everything flows") is the traditional slogan for Heraclitus' doctrine of universal flux, though the phrase never appears in his surviving fragments.
Pantagias Catenae
Pantagias Catenae is a 200-km crater chain (catena) on Saturn's moon Dione at 15.3S, 141.7W, IAU-approved March 17, 2008, named for a river of Sicily and interpreted as impact scars of a broken-up projectile.
Pantaleon
Pantaleon (Greek Πανταλέων) was a son of King Alyattes of Lydia by an Ionian mother and half-brother of Croesus, remembered for an unsuccessful claim to the Lydian throne.
Pantaleón power station
Pantaleón power station, also known as Ingenio Pantaleón, is a biomass-fired cogeneration plant of at least 121 MW at the Ingenio Pantaleón sugar mill in Siquinalá, Escuintla, Guatemala, burning sugarcane bagasse.
Pantalone
Pantalone (Pantalón, Pantalone de' Bisognosi) is a Venetian commedia dell'arte mask, one of the vecchi: a rich, miserly old merchant in red breeches and black cloak, later reformed by Goldoni; the source of 'pantaloons.'
Pantanal
The Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland, about 42 million acres across Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay, defined by an annual flood pulse, exceptional wildlife including jaguars and 10 million caimans, extensive cattle ranching, and growing fire and drought threats.
Pantanal Conservation Area
Pantanal Conservation Area: Brazilian World Heritage site (2000) of four protected areas, 187,818 ha, 1.3% of the Pantanal wetland; noted for jaguars, giant otters and flood-pulse ecology.
Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve
Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera Pantanos de Centla), Tabasco, Mexico: 302,706.62-ha Grijalva-Usumacinta wetland, decreed 6 August 1992, Ramsar site 733 since 1995, UNESCO MAB 2006.
Pantas Sutardja
Pantas Sutardja is an engineer who co-founded the chip company Marvell Technology with his brother Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai in 1995, serving as chief technology officer until 2014.
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Kulish (Пантелеймон Куліш) was a Ukrainian writer, historian, and ethnographer who wrote the first Ukrainian historical novel, Chorna rada, led the first complete Ukrainian Bible translation, and reformed Ukrainian orthography.
Pantelis Chatzidiakos (Παντελής Χατζιδιάκος)
Pantelis Chatzidiakos (Παντελής Χατζιδιάκος, also Hatzidiakos), Greek centre-back born 1997 in Rhodes; AZ Alkmaar record European appearance holder, later Cagliari, F.C. Copenhagen (2024/25 double winner), and PAOK since July 2026; 41 Greece caps.
Pantelis Karasevdas
Pantelis Karasevdas (Παντελής Καρασεβδάς), Greek shooter, officer, and MP; won 1896 Olympic military rifle gold at 200 m hitting all 40 targets, then served in Greece's wars and parliament.
Pantelleria
Pantelleria, a volcanic Italian island of about 83 km² in the Strait of Sicily between Sicily and Tunisia, known for dammusi dwellings, Zibibbo vineyards, thermal springs, and its 2016 national park.
Pantera
Pantera is an American groove metal band formed in Arlington, Texas, in 1981 by the Abbott brothers; glam-era albums preceded Cowboys from Hell (1990), four platinum 1990s records, a 2003 breakup, and a 2022 reunion with Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante.
Pantera Blockchain Fund
Pantera Blockchain Fund LP is a Delaware private equity fund formed in 2021 to invest across blockchain assets, managed by Pantera Capital of San Francisco.
Pantera discography
Pantera discography: nine studio albums (1983–2000) by the Dallas, Texas groove metal band パンテラ, spanning four disowned glam-era Metal Magic releases and five platinum-certified major-label albums including Far Beyond Driven, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
Pantex Plant
Pantex Plant, built in 1942 northeast of Amarillo, Texas, in Carson County, is the United States' primary nuclear weapons facility, assembling and dismantling warheads and storing plutonium pits.
Panthalassa
Panthalassa, meaning "all water," was a vast global ocean surrounding Pangaea from the late Paleozoic into the early Mesozoic, with the Pacific Ocean as its modern remnant.
Panthay Rebellion
The Panthay Rebellion, known in Chinese as the Du Wenxiu Rebellion (杜文秀起义), was an 1856–1873 uprising in Yunnan, Qing China, led by the Muslim Hui people.
Pantheism
Pantheism is the view that God is identical with the cosmos, so nothing exists outside God; the term, built from Greek words for all and God, first appeared around 1705.
Panthenol
Panthenol, also known as provitamin B5, is a vitamin B5 derivative converted to pantothenic acid in the body and used as a moisturizing ingredient in cosmetics.
Panthéon
The Panthéon in Paris, formerly the church of Sainte-Geneviève, is France's secular mausoleum for its great citizens, built by Soufflot from 1764, definitively secular in 1885, with five women among the panthéonisés.
Pantheon (Dance Gavin Dance album)
Pantheon (Dance Gavin Dance album) is the band's eleventh studio album, released September 12, 2025 on Rise Records; 13 tracks, 55 minutes, first album without Tim Feerick and Tilian Pearson, with Andrew Wells as lead clean vocalist and a George Clinton guest feature.
Pantheon (religion)
Pantheon (religion): the set of all gods of a belief system, from Greek pantheion; also a temple of all gods, as the Roman Pantheon, and secular national pantheons.