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Priscilla Shirer
Priscilla Shirer is an American Bible teacher, author, and actress who leads Going Beyond Ministries, wrote the bestsellers Fervent and The Resolution for Women, and starred in War Room.
Priscu Taberna
Priscu Taberna, also Priscum, an ancient road or coastal station in Cyrenaica on the Tabula Peutingeriana, between Ad Puteum and Corniclanu, tentatively identified with modern Tombia, Libya.
Prisdang
Prisdang, also known as Prince Prisdang Chumsai, was a Siamese prince and diplomat who led the first petition calling for a constitution in Siam in 1885.
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Prisencolinensinainciusol: 1972 gibberish-language song by Adriano Celentano with Claudia Mori, imitating American English; number one in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium; theme is the inability to communicate.
Prishtina
FC Prishtina (Klubi Futbollistik Prishtina) is a football club founded in 1922 in Pristina, Kosovo, record 11-time Kosovan champion, first Kosovar club in the Yugoslav First League (1983-84), playing at Fadil Vokrri Stadium.
Prisiadki
Prisiadki (присядка) are deep-squat dance movements of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian male folk dance, divided into half-squats and full squats, also used in Ukrainian national martial arts and plyometric training.
PRISM
PRISM, also known as the PRISM program, is an NSA signals-intelligence program under Section 702 of FISA, disclosed in 2013 through documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Prism (geometry)
In geometry, a prism is a three-dimensional solid with two identical parallel polygonal bases joined by parallelogram faces; its volume is the base area times its height.
Prism (Katy Perry album)
Prism is Katy Perry's third studio album, released October 21, 2013 on Capitol Records; 13 tracks including Roar, Dark Horse, and Unconditionally, largely about her divorce from Russell Brand.
Prism (optics)
A prism, in optics, is a transparent material, usually glass, with nonparallel end faces that refract light, often dispersing white light into a spectrum of wavelengths.
Prism adaptation
Prism adaptation is a behavioral paradigm in which wedge-prism goggles shift the visual field, recalibrating vision and action; since 1998 it has treated visuospatial neglect after stroke.
Prisma
Prisma is an Italian Prime Video teen drama (2022-2024) by Ludovico Bessegato and Alice Urciuolo about identical twins Andrea and Marco, both played by Mattia Carrano, exploring identity in Latina; two seasons, later aired on Rai 2.
PRISMA statement
The PRISMA statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) is a reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, introduced in 2009 and updated in 2021 as PRISMA 2020.
Prismane
Prismane, also called Ladenburg benzene, is a highly strained nonaromatic valence isomer of benzene with six carbons forming a triangular prism, first synthesized by Thomas Katz and Nancy Acton in 1973.
Prismatic cell
A prismatic cell is a lithium-ion battery cell in a flat, rectangular rigid housing, a format whose efficient stacking makes it the most widely used in electric vehicle and stationary storage batteries.
Prisms of Sargon II
The Prisms of Sargon II, also known as Sargon II's Prisms, are clay prisms inscribed with the annals of Sargon II, king of Assyria (721–705 BCE), found at Nimrud and Nineveh.
Prison
Prison: a state facility confining people after arrest or by court sentence. Covers penitentiary history, the Auburn and Pennsylvania systems, ~11.5 million people imprisoned worldwide, overcrowding, classification, rehabilitation evidence, and the Nelson Mandela Rules.
Prison abolition
Prison abolition is a movement and theory seeking to eliminate prisons and the prison-industrial complex, traced to Attica 1971 and figures like Angela Davis, Kropotkin, and Mathiesen, advocating gradual decarceration through alternatives.
Prison Architect
Prison Architect (Introversion Software, 2015; Paradox Interactive since 2019) is a top-down 2D prison construction and management simulation with campaign, sandbox, escape, and multiplayer modes; over 2 million copies sold, BAFTA winner, with a delayed 3D sequel.
Prison architecture
Prison architecture is the design of buildings and grounds for holding people deprived of liberty, historically shaped by Bentham's Panopticon and now by dignity, light, and human rights standards.
Prison Break
Prison Break is an American Fox drama series (2005-2017) created by Paul Scheuring about engineer Michael Scofield, who gets imprisoned to break out his wrongly convicted brother Lincoln Burrows using a tattooed prison blueprint; a Hulu reboot, Prison Break: Black Creek, is in production.
Prison Break: Proof of Innocence
Prison Break: Proof of Innocence, a 2006 mobisode spin-off of Fox's Prison Break, was the first ad-supported scripted mobile series, exclusive to Sprint, Toyota-sponsored, following Amber McCall's bid to exonerate L.J. Burrows.
Prison Break: The Final Break
Prison Break: The Final Break is a 2009 American television film, also known as the Prison Break epilogue movie, in which Michael Scofield breaks Sara out of Miami-Dade prison and dies; released on DVD July 21, 2009, later retconned by season 5.
Prison cell
Prison cell: the locked room that is the basic unit of confinement. Covers CPT minimums (6 m² single, 4 m² shared), the ECtHR 3 m² threshold, Mandela Rules fixtures, certified versus crowded occupancy, and documented overcrowding.
Prison escape
Prison escape: unlawful departure from lawful custody, a separate criminal offense in most jurisdictions. Rare today (about 0.1% of US prisoners); famous cases include the unsolved 1962 Alcatraz breakout and the 1983 Maze escape.
Prison food
Prison food: meals provided in prisons and jails, governed by dietary scales, nutrition standards, and religious accommodation, from Pentonville's 1840s diet experiments to modern Ramadan caloric litigation.
Prison gangs in the United States
Prison gangs in the United States: organized criminal groups formed inside prisons, structured along racial or ethnic lines, including the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood, and Black Guerrilla Family, trafficking narcotics and controlling contraband markets.
Prison Life of Fools (호구들의 감빵생활)
Prison Life of Fools (호구들의 감빵생활), also known as Mafia Game in Prison, was a South Korean tvN variety show about playing Mafia in a prison, aired in 2019.
Prison Mathematics Project
Prison Mathematics Project (PMP), prison math project, nonprofit founded 2020 by incarcerated mathematician Christopher Havens with Walker Blackwell, connecting US prisoners with volunteer math mentors by correspondence; began 2015 as in-prison math circles in Washington State.
Prison officer
Prison officer, also called correctional officer, jail officer, or prison guard, is the uniformed staff role responsible for custody, safety, and daily supervision of incarcerated people in prisons and jails, with duties spanning security, welfare, and rehabilitation.