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Pu Gao
Pu Gao (高璞) is a Chinese structural immunologist and professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for structural studies of immune responses to aberrant nucleic acids.
Pu pu platter
Pu pu platter (pupu, pu-pu): an American Chinese and Hawaiian appetizer sampler, from Hawaiian pū-pū; earliest documented menu Trader Vic's Honolulu 1950s, first press mention Luau 400, 1957.
Pu Ru
Pu Ru (溥儒, 1896–1963), courtesy name Xinyu, was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Qing imperial family, best known for Northern School landscapes and called one of the last literati painters.
Pu Sa Man: Written on the Wall at Zaokou
A famous ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, inscribed on a wall at Zaokou on the Gan River in Jiangxi around 1176, mourning the 1129 Jin invasion and the lost northern territories.
Pu Songling
Pu Songling (蒲松龄, 1640–1715) was a Qing dynasty writer from Zichuan, Shandong, best known for Liaozhai zhiyi, a collection of nearly 500 tales of fox spirits and ghosts.
Pu Xiaoyan (浦晓燕)
Pu Xiaoyan (浦晓燕), also known as Enita Pu, is a Chinese venture capitalist and Partner at HongShan, the former Sequoia Capital China, which she joined in 2012.
Pu-Ba'lu
Pu-Ba'lu was the ruler of Yursa, a south Canaanite polity possibly located at Tel Haror, who corresponded with pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
PU-Sarruma
PU-Sarruma, also read Pu-sharruma, is a conjectured ruler placed at the head of the dynasty preceding the Hittite Old Kingdom in the 17th century BC.
Pu'an
Pu'an (普岸) was a ninth-century Chinese Chan Buddhist monk, a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai who founded the Pingtian monastery at Mount Tiantai and died in 843 at age 74.
Pu'an power station
Pu'an power station (中电国际普安发电厂) is an operating coal-fired power station in Pu'an County, Guizhou, China, owned by China Power International Development, with two 660 MW units commissioned in 2018 and 2019.
Pu'er City
Pu'er (普洱市), formerly Simao City, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Yunnan, China, renamed in 2007 for its tea. Largest Yunnan prefecture, 45,385 km², borders Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar; home of Pu'er tea and China's top coffee region.
Pu'er tea
Pu'er tea (普洱茶) is a fermented tea from Yunnan's large-leaf tea plant, made as raw (sheng) or pile-fermented ripe (shou) tea, historically traded to Tibet on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road and defined by standard GB/T 22111-2008.
Pua Kele Kealoha
Pua Kele Kealoha (1902–1989), Hawaiian swimmer of the Hui Makani Swim Club, won silver in the 100 m freestyle and gold in the world-record 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; not related to Warren Kealoha.
Pua Magasiva
Pua Magasiva (1980–2019) was a Samoan-born New Zealand actor and radio host best known for playing nurse Vinnie Kruse on Shortland Street and the Red Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
Puabi
Puabi, also read Shub-ad, was a queen of Early Dynastic Ur in southern Mesopotamia, buried around 2500 BCE in tomb PG 800 with lavish gold jewelry.
Puan Maharani
Puan Maharani is an Indonesian politician of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) who serves as Speaker of the House of Representatives, the first woman to hold the post.
Puannum
Puannum (Puanum) is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 840 years.
Pub
Pub (public house): licensed British and Irish premises for drinking on site, from Roman tabernae and alehouses through tied houses, pubcos, and gastropubs; about 47,200 UK pubs in 2019, down 22% since 2000.
Pub names
Pub names: traditional names of British public houses, derived from medieval pictorial signs (Red Lion, Crown, Royal Oak, White Hart). Signs preceded names because most customers were illiterate; a 1393 law required signs for ale inspection.
PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency
PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, formally the Public Utilities Board, is the statutory board managing Singapore's whole water cycle, supplying water through the Four National Taps, including NEWater, and handling flood and coastal protection.
Pubarche
Pubarche is the first appearance of pubic hair, an androgen-driven milestone of puberty driven by adrenal DHEA/DHEAS. Early onset (before 8 in girls, 9 in boys) is usually benign premature adrenarche; virilizing disorders cause 5–10%.
PubChem
PubChem is a free open chemistry database at the US National Institutes of Health covering chemical structures, properties, biological activities, patents, and toxicity information, launched in 2004.
Pubei
Pubei (哱拜) was the leader of a rebellion against the Ming dynasty at Ningxia in 1592, allied with the Ordos Mongols; the revolt was crushed within months and his clan was exterminated.
Puberphonia
Puberphonia, also called mutational falsetto or mutational dysphonia, is a functional voice disorder in which adolescent and adult males continue speaking at a high, prepubescent pitch after puberty.
Pubertat
Pubertat (Catalan title; Pubertat – Secrets, Lies, and Human Castles) is a 2025 six-episode Catalan-language Spanish miniseries created, written, directed and starring Leticia Dolera for HBO Max and 3Cat, about an alleged sexual aggression among thirteen-year-olds in a colla castellera; Ondas-winning, ex aequo with Querer.
Puberty
Puberty is the transition from childhood to adulthood, marked by a growth spurt, secondary sexual characteristics, and fertility, typically beginning between ages 8 and 14.
Puberty blocker
Puberty blockers (GnRH agonists) suppress pituitary gonadotropin release to halt puberty; used for precocious puberty since the 1980s and for gender dysphoria since 2000, now restricted in the UK after the Cass Review.
Puberty suppression
Puberty suppression is a medical treatment that delays the physical changes of puberty with GnRH agonists, given to adolescents with gender dysphoria or precocious puberty.
PUBG (franchise)
PUBG (franchise): battle royale IP originating from Brendan Greene's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, now owned by Krafton; spans PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, PUBG MOBILE, BGMI, spinoffs, and global esports (PGS, PGC, PMGC).
PUBG Mobile
PUBG Mobile (絕地求生M), the mobile battle royale version of PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS by Lightspeed Studios, Tencent, and KRAFTON, launched globally March 19, 2018; over 1 billion downloads, 50 million daily users, BGMI replaces it in India.