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Pappy Boyington
Pappy Boyington, born Gregory Boyington, was a US Marine Corps fighter pilot and the highest-scoring Marine ace of World War II, with 28 Japanese aircraft credited.
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve
Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve is a 15, 20, and 23-year wheated bourbon line from Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, produced at Buffalo Trace since the 2002 joint venture and released each fall in tiny allocations that drive extreme secondary-market prices.
Paprika
Paprika: ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum fruits; also called pimentón in Spain. Etymology from Slavic papar via Hungarian; key origins Szeged, Kalocsa, La Vera; quality set by carotenoid color and capsaicin heat.
Paprika (パプリカ) (2006 film)
Paprika (パプリカ) is Satoshi Kon's 2006 Madhouse anime adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel, about a stolen dream-entering device, screened in competition at Venice and Kon's final completed feature.
Paprika extract
Paprika extract (paprika oleoresin, INS 160c, CAS 68917-78-2) is a solvent-extracted colorant and flavoring from dried Capsicum annuum pods, colored by capsanthin and capsorubin, regulated as E 160c in the EU and 21 CFR 73.345 in the US.
Papsukkal Planitia
Papsukkal Planitia is an 810-km-wide plain (planitia) on Mercury, centered at 16.25°S, 271.63°W, IAU-approved March 14, 2017, and named after the Akkadian messenger god Papsukkal.
Papu Gómez
Papu Gómez (Alejandro Darío Gómez, b. 15 Feb 1988), Argentine right-footed attacking midfielder; Atalanta captain and Serie A record 16 assists (2019-20); won 2022 World Cup, 2021 Copa América, 2023 Europa League; two-year terbutaline ban; now at Padova.
PAPU'S HOUSE
Papu's House is a 36 m² beachfront holiday apartment at Vicolo Fondaco Porta di Mare 8 in Salerno's old town, Italy, hosted by Caterina Firmani; licensed short-term rental rated 8-8.5/10 for its central location.
Papua (province)
Papua is an Indonesian province on western New Guinea, capital Jayapura; after the 2022 division it retained the north coast and borders Papua New Guinea.
Papua conflict
Papua conflict: the OPM/TPNPB insurgency against Indonesian rule in western New Guinea since the 1960s, rooted in the contested 1969 Act of Free Choice; escalated after 2018, with tens of thousands displaced and special autonomy disputes unresolved.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG), Independent State of Papua New Guinea, a Melanesian country on the eastern half of New Guinea; independent from Australia 16 September 1975; capital Port Moresby; population about 10.2 million (2024 census); resource-rich economy led by LNG and gold.
Papua New Guinea Chiefs
PNG Chiefs: Port Moresby-based rugby league club entering the NRL as its 18th team in 2028; licence granted 12 December 2024, named by public vote, coached by Willie Peters, backed by A$600 million Australian funding.
Papua New Guinea Defence Force
Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF): PNG's military, descended from the Pacific Islands Regiment under Australian colonial rule. Light infantry force of two PIR battalions, Guardian-class patrol boats, PAC-750 aircraft; about 3,057 filled positions of a 5,000-plus establishment; allied with Australia under the 2025 Pukpuk Treaty.
Papua New Guinea oral literature
Papua New Guinea oral literature is the body of traditional verbal art, including myths, chanted tales, songs, and ritual speeches, transmitted across the country's over 800 language communities.
Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty
Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty, formally the 1989 Treaty Concerning Sovereignty, Maritime and Seabed Boundaries, signed 25 January 1989; delimits the two countries' EEZ boundary under UNCLOS, with related Special Areas and border surveillance agreements.
Papua New Guinean kina
The Papua New Guinean kina (PGK) is the national currency of Papua New Guinea, issued by the Bank of Papua New Guinea since 1975 and subdivided into 100 toea.
Papuan languages
Papuan languages are indigenous to the New Guinea region, covering about 750 non-Austronesian languages. This term is a regional cover for languages that share no common ancestry.
Papuan Malay
Papuan Malay (Melayu Papua), also called Irian Malay, is a Malayic language of coastal West Papua, Indonesia, spoken by roughly 1,200,000 people as a first or second language.
Papuan Peninsula
Papuan Peninsula (Bird's Tail): southeastern tail of New Guinea in Papua New Guinea, separating the Solomon and Coral seas; Owen Stanley Range backbone, Mt. Victoria over 4000 m, and nearly 20 endemic freshwater fishes.
Papugaynya
Папугайня (Попугайня) is a Russian chain of indoor contact parrot houses in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg, plus Belarus venues, where 300–400 tame parrots fly freely and visitors feed them by hand for an hourly ticket.
Papular elastorrhexis
Papular elastorrhexis, also called disseminated nevus anelasticus, is a rare acquired dermal elastic tissue disorder with multiple small firm hypopigmented papules on the trunk and proximal limbs, fragmented elastic fibers on histology, no systemic involvement, and no established treatment.
Papular mucinosis of infancy
Papular mucinosis of infancy, or cutaneous mucinosis of infancy, is a rare benign pediatric form of localized lichen myxedematosus with firm opalescent mucinous papules on the upper arms and trunk, first described by Lum in 1980.
Papular urticaria
Papular urticaria (insect bite-induced hypersensitivity, lichen urticatus) is a chronic hypersensitivity reaction to insect and arachnid bites causing recurrent itchy papules, mainly in children aged 1–6, common in the tropics; tolerance usually develops by age 7.
Papular xanthoma
Papular xanthoma (PX) is a rare normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis with solitary or disseminated yellow-orange papules of xanthomatized macrophages and Touton giant cells, first described by Winkelmann in 1980, self-healing in children.
Papule
Papule: a solid, elevated, palpable skin lesion ≤1 cm in diameter, a primary lesion in dermatology; examples include warts, nevi, lichen planus, acne, and insect bites; distinguished from plaque and nodule by size.
Papulonecrotic tuberculid
Papulonecrotic tuberculid (tuberculosis papulonecrotica) is a rare cutaneous tuberculid: symmetric recurrent necrotizing papules on the limbs from hypersensitivity to M. tuberculosis, Mantoux-positive, healed by antituberculous therapy.
Papulopustular acne
Papulopustular acne (ICD-11 ED80.2), also called pustular or superficial inflammatory acne, is acne dominated by small inflammatory papules and pustules under 5 mm, treated with topical benzoyl peroxide, retinoids, and fixed-dose combinations.
Papulopustular rosacea
Papulopustular rosacea (subtype 2 rosacea) is chronic central facial inflammation with persistent erythema plus transient papules and pustules, without comedones; treated first-line with topical metronidazole, azelaic acid, or ivermectin.
Papunya Tula
Papunya Tula is an artist company and painting movement founded at Papunya, Northern Territory, where Western Desert men began translating ceremonial designs into acrylic paintings in 1971.
Papy Djilobodji
Papy Djilobodji (El Hadji Papy Mison Djilobodji), Senegalese centre-back born 1988 in Kaolack; Nantes, Chelsea (59 seconds), Sunderland £8m signing sacked 2018, later Gaziantep FK; 17 Senegal caps.