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PUBG: Battlegrounds
PUBG: Battlegrounds (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) is Krafton's 100-player battle royale shooter, created by Brendan Greene from a DayZ mod. Known for its Blue Zone, annual roadmaps, Meta Rotation gunplay, and PUBG Esports.
Pubic hair
Pubic hair is terminal hair on the genital skin that appears at puberty under androgen influence (pubarche/adrenarche). It protects and ventilates the genital region; removal is widespread but carries infection and injury risks.
Pubic symphysis
Pubic symphysis (symphysis pubica): the midline secondary cartilaginous joint uniting the left and right pubic bones, with a fibrocartilage disc, four ligaments, 3-6 mm adult width, small physiological motion, and pregnancy-related widening.
Pubic Wars
The Pubic Wars was a circulation and content rivalry among men's magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. The conflict escalated through the depiction of explicit nudity and female pubic hair.
Pubis (bone)
Pubis (os pubis, pubic bone): smallest of the three hip-bone bones, forming the anteroinferior pelvis with body, superior and inferior rami, pubic symphysis, and one fifth of the acetabulum.
Pubis angelical
Pubis angelical is a 1979 novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, his fifth, telling one story across parallel planes of a sick Argentine woman's mind in a Mexican hospital.
Public
Public: the public sphere (Öffentlichkeit), the domain where private individuals assemble as a public to debate common concerns; defined by Jürgen Habermas's 1962 Structural Transformation, with its rise, refeudalization, counterpublic critiques, and digital transformation.
Public Access (2026 film)
Public Access (2026) is David Shadrack Smith's documentary debut about New York City's Manhattan Cable public access TV, premiering at Sundance 2026, executive produced by Steve Buscemi and Benny Safdie.
Public access to the Supreme Court of the United States
Public access to the Supreme Court of the United States covers free visits to the building, seats at oral arguments, opinion announcements, and Courtroom Lectures.
Public Accounts Committee (India)
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of India, oldest parliamentary committee, est. 1921 under the Government of India Act 1919; 22 members (15 Lok Sabha, 7 Rajya Sabha); examines CAG audit reports and government accounts; opposition-held chair since 1967.
Public address system
A public address system, or PA system, is an electronic system of microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers that makes a voice or music audible to large audiences.
Public administration
Public administration, also known as public policy and management, is the practice of implementing public policy in government bureaucracies and the academic discipline that trains future civil servants.
Public administration theory
Public administration theory: the plural body of ideas on government organization, accountability, and publicness, from Wilson 1887 and Fayol through Simon, Minnowbrook, NPM, and governance; 150 theories, 15 core, no unifying theory.
Public Aquarium and Tropicarium
Public Aquarium and Tropicarium (Јавни акваријум и тропикаријум), Belgrade, Serbia: a public aquarium and reptile house on Milenka Vesnića in Savski Venac, opened 2016 by Branislav Jakovljević's Aquaria Life association, holding over 3,000 animals and distinct from the planned state aquarium at Ušće park.
Public Assistance
Public assistance: means-tested government financial aid to impoverished people for essentials of living, via federal, state, or local programs (MeSH D011632). Distinct from earned social insurance; includes TANF, SSI, SNAP, Medicaid; rooted in the 1935 Social Security Act.
Public awareness of science
Public awareness of science, also called public understanding of science, is how well the public knows, understands, trusts, and engages with science, tracked through large opinion surveys.
Public Bank
Public Bank Berhad is a Malaysian banking group founded in 1966 by Teh Hong Piow and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's third-largest bank by assets.
Public Bath of Pella
Public Bath of Pella (Το δημόσιο λουτρό της Πέλλας): Hellenistic public bathhouse at Pella, Macedonia, discovered 1997; oldest organized bathing establishment in Northern Greece, in use from the late 4th to late 2nd century BC with early underfloor heating.
Public bathing
Public bathing: communal washing in shared facilities, from Roman thermae and Islamic hammams to Japanese sento and municipal bathhouses; its social role, regulation, and decline with home plumbing.
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting: noncommercial radio, TV, and online media funded by public money (licence fees, grants, taxes) with legally protected editorial independence, exemplified by the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, PBS, and NPR; distinct from state media, with the US CPB defunded in 2025.
Public call office
A public call office (PCO) is a booth, kiosk, or office open to the public for making paid telephone calls, originating in Britain and widely used in India.
Public choice
Public choice, or public choice theory, is a school of economics that models politicians and voters as self-interested, summarized by James Buchanan as "politics without romance."
Public Citizen Litigation Group
Public Citizen Litigation Group is the litigating arm of the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, founded in 1972, which has argued 68 cases before the US Supreme Court.
Public company
A public company, also known as a publicly traded or publicly held company, is a company whose securities are registered with a securities regulator, often through an exchange listing.
Public defender
Public defender: government- or nonprofit-employed lawyer representing indigent criminal defendants, also called indigent defense counsel. Rooted in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963); distinct from private assigned counsel; defined by caseload standards, oversight commissions, and chronic underfunding.
Public display of affection
Public display of affection (PDA) is a romantic or sexual gesture, such as handholding, hugging, or kissing, in public settings. Acceptability varies by culture, religion, and law, and relates to relationship satisfaction.
Public domain
The public domain is creative material not restricted by copyright, either because protection never applied or expired, so anyone may use it without permission or payment.
Public domain in the United States
Public domain in the United States: material free of copyright, including expired-term works (pre-1931 publications; 95-year maximum terms), US government works under 17 USC 105, and dedicated works; shaped by the 1998 CTEA and Eldred v. Ashcroft.
Public Enemies (2009 film)
Public Enemies is a 2009 American crime drama directed by Michael Mann, starring Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger and Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Public enemy
Public enemy: a person seen as a menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal; older sense, a nation at war with one's own. Known from the 1930s Chicago Crime Commission list and FBI labels on Capone and Dillinger.