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Pantheon (TV series)

Pantheon is a 2022 American adult animated sci-fi drama on AMC+, created by Craig Silverstein from Ken Liu short stories, about Uploaded Intelligences (digitized human minds). Canceled after season 1, it reached global audiences only via Netflix in 2024-2025.

Pantheon Asia

Pantheon Asia is the Asian fund-of-funds program of global private markets manager Pantheon, whose sixth Asia fund raised over $700 million for commitments to 25 to 30 funds.

Pantheon Fossae

Pantheon Fossae is a set of about 230 radial graben, long narrow troughs, near the center of Mercury's Caloris impact basin, first imaged by MESSENGER in 2008.

Pantheon Multi-Strategy Program

The Pantheon Multi-Strategy Program is a private equity co-investment program run by Pantheon Ventures as a family of Delaware limited partnerships, first selling interests in 2014.

Pantheon supernova sample

The Pantheon supernova sample is a 2018 compilation of 1048 Type Ia supernovae, assembled by Dan Scolnic and colleagues to measure cosmic distances and constrain dark energy.

Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon in Rome is a former Roman temple rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian, now the church Santa Maria ad Martyres, with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.

Panther

Panther (1995 film), directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Melvin Van Peebles from his novel, dramatizes the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland; released May 1995 by Gramercy Pictures, grossing $6.8 million and sparking accuracy disputes.

Panther Cave pictographs

Panther Cave pictographs are prehistoric rock paintings in Seminole Canyon on the Rio Grande in Val Verde County, Texas, named for a large leaping panther figure.

Panther Island Pavilion

Panther Island Pavilion is an outdoor events venue on the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas, known for EDM festivals including Ubbi Dubbi and Shaq's Bass All-Stars.

Panther KF51

The Panther KF51, also known as the KF-51 Panther, is a main battle tank developed by the German company Rheinmetall and first shown publicly at Eurosatory 2022 in Paris.

Panther Lake (microprocessor)

Panther Lake is the code name for Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 mobile processors, launched in January 2026 and the first Intel client SoC manufactured on the 18A process.

Panther tank

The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V, was a German medium tank of the Second World War, developed in response to the Soviet T-34 and first used at Kursk in 1943.

Panthera

Panthera is the big cat genus of Felidae holding lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, sister genus Neofelis; tiger and snow leopard form one clade, lion, leopard, jaguar the other.

Panthera hybrid

A Panthera hybrid is the crossbred offspring of two different big cat species, chiefly the liger and tigon, which occur only in captivity because humans house the species together.

Panthera spelaea

Panthera spelaea, the cave lion, an extinct Holarctic felid of the Eurasian and North American Pleistocene, distinct from the modern lion with over 1.7 million years of independent evolution, reindeer-focused diet, and extinction 13,000–14,000 years ago.

Pantherinae

Pantherinae is a subfamily of the cat family Felidae containing the big cats: the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, plus two clouded leopards.

Pantherophis obsoletus

Pantherophis obsoletus, the western ratsnake (formerly black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta), is a colubrid snake west of the Mississippi River, one of four species in the P. obsoletus complex, IUCN least concern.

Panthessaliko Stadium

Panthessaliko Stadium (Πανθεσσαλικό Στάδιο), Volos, Greece: multi-purpose stadium in Nea Ionia built for 2004 Olympic football, capacity about 22,000, home of Volos NFC and Niki Volos, twice Greek Cup final venue. Not the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens.

Pantholops

Pantholops is a monotypic bovid genus containing the chiru, or Tibetan antelope. This large, even-toed ungulate is endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, living at 4,000–5,000 m.

Panties

Panties are close-fitting women's underpants, also called knickers or briefs. Established only in the 19th century via drawers and pantalettes; styles range from G-string to control brief; cotton is medically recommended.

Pantikapaion/Bosp(h)orus

Pantikapaion (Panticapaeum, also Bosporos), ancient Greek Milesian colony at Kerch, Crimea, founded around 600 BC; capital of the Bosporan Kingdom under the Spartokids (438–107 BC), later under Mithridates VI and Roman client kings, destroyed by the Huns ca 370.

Pantjeny

Pantjeny was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, c. 1650 BC, known almost entirely from a single stela found at Abydos and tentatively assigned to the Abydos Dynasty.

Pantoate-beta-alanine ligase

Pantoate-beta-alanine ligase (EC 6.3.2.1), or pantothenate synthetase, PanC, is an Mg2+-dependent, ATP-dependent ligase joining pantoate and beta-alanine via a pantoyl-adenylate intermediate to make pantothenate, the CoA precursor, in bacteria, plants, fungi, and archaea.

Pantoea

Pantoea, a genus of Gram-negative Enterobacterales bacteria (family Erwiniaceae, type species P. agglomerans), found in plants, soil, water, animals, and humans; includes plant pathogens, opportunistic human pathogens, and biocontrol agents like BlightBan C9-1.

Pantograph

A pantograph, also called lazy tongs, is a four-bar parallelogram linkage that copies drawings or motion at a fixed scale, and the arm collecting power on electric trains.

Pantograph (mechanism)

A pantograph is a mechanical linkage of bars in a parallelogram that copies a traced path at a fixed scale, devised by Christoph Scheiner in 1603.

Pantograph (transport)

A pantograph is a roof-mounted apparatus on an electric railway vehicle that collects traction current from the overhead contact wire, whether the train is moving or standing still.

Pantokrator Monastery

Pantokrator Monastery (Μονή Παντοκράτορος) was an imperial monastery in Constantinople founded by Emperor John II Komnenos, with a famous hospital, operating until the Ottoman conquest of 1453.

Pantomime

British pantomime (panto): a Christmas-season musical-comedy theatre genre from commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, with dames, principal boys, fairy tales, slapstick and audience participation, distinct from silent mime.

Pantone

Pantone (Pantone LLC, Pantone Inc.) is the proprietary color standardization company behind the Pantone Matching System of numbered spot-color inks, 10,000+ color standards, Color of the Year, and the 2022 Adobe subscription dispute.