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Pulau Tebing Tinggi
Pulau Tebing Tinggi (Tebing Tinggi Island, Pulau Rantau) is an island in the Strait of Malacca, Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, east of Padang Island; a sago and peatland island with subdistricts Tebing Tinggi, Barat, and Timur.
Pulau Ubin
Pulau Ubin (Pulau Batu Jubin) is a 1,036-hectare, boomerang-shaped island located off northeastern Singapore. It is known for its granite quarrying history and surviving traditional kampong life.
Pulau Waigeo
Pulau Waigeo is the largest of the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua, Indonesia, settled over 50,000 years ago and home to the regency capital Waisai.
Pulau Waraten
Pulau Waraten (Poelau Waraten) is a small island in Maluku, Indonesia, near the Aru Islands locality Dosi, at 5°56′46″S 134°35′55″E, elevation 21 m, GeoNames ID 12066475.
Pulau Wawonii
Pulau Wawonii (Wawonii Island), an island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, coterminous with Konawe Islands Regency; homeland of the Wawonii people, known for coconut-derived name, copra economy, and nickel-mining resistance won in court.
Pulau Yamdena
Pulau Yamdena (Jamdena) is the largest island of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in Maluku, between the Banda and Arafura Seas: a flat coral island 64 miles long, with Saumlaki as its main port.
Pulborough
Pulborough is a village and civil parish on the River Arun in Horsham district, West Sussex, England, where the Roman road Stane Street crossed the river.
Pulchellia
Pulchellia is an extinct genus of Barremian ammonite cephalopods in the family Pulchelliidae, abundant in the Cretaceous of Colombia; 16 species and subspecies in 6 subgenera, with P. caicedi the last species.
Pulcheria
Pulcheria (Πουλχερία), born 399, was a Byzantine empress, regent for Theodosius II from 414, and ruling empress as Marcian's wife from 450 until her death in 453.
Pulcinella
Pulcinella (Polichinelle, Punch) is the Neapolitan comic mask of the Commedia dell'arte, created around 1600 and credited to actor Silvio Fiorillo: white costume, hooked-nose black mask, squeaky voice, gluttonous trickster and symbol of Naples.
Pulcinella (ballet)
Pulcinella is a 1920 one-act ballet with singing by Igor Stravinsky after Pergolesi-era Italian music, choreographed by Léonide Massine with Pablo Picasso designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; premiered Paris, 15 May 1920, and a foundational Stravinsky neoclassical work.
Pulgasari
Pulgasari (불가사리) is a 1985 North Korean kaiju film directed by kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok under Kim Jong Il's patronage, with Toho's Godzilla effects team; banned after his 1986 escape, released in Japan 1998 and South Korea 2000.
Puli (2010 film)
Puli (Telugu: కొమరం పులి, originally Komaram Puli) is a 2010 Telugu action film by S. J. Surya starring Pawan Kalyan as a cop fighting don Al Saleem, with A. R. Rahman's music; its title was changed under Telangana protest pressure.
Puli (புலி) (2015 film)
Puli (புலி) is Chimbu Deven's 2015 Tamil fantasy action-adventure film starring Vijay in a dual role with Sridevi, Sudeep, Shruti Haasan, and Hansika Motwani; music by Devi Sri Prasad, released 1 October 2015 to negative reviews and weak box office.
Puli dog
Puli (plural Pulik): medium-sized Hungarian herding dog of Asiatic origin brought by the Magyars, covered in naturally forming cords; revived by Emil Raitsits (first standard 1915), AKC-recognized 1936; males 39–45 cm, 13–15 kg.
Puli Meka
Puli Meka (పులి మేక) is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller web series on ZEE5, starring Lavanya Tripathi and Aadi Saikumar as officers hunting a serial killer of police in Hyderabad.
Pulicaria
Pulicaria (fleabane), genus of aromatic Asteraceae herbs in tribe Inuleae, published by Gaertner in 1791; about 75-100 species native from Africa and Europe to the Indian Subcontinent, used as herbal tea and traditional medicine.
Pulicat
Pulicat (பழவேற்காடு) was the principal Dutch East India Company settlement on India's Coromandel Coast, seat of the coast's Dutch government from the 1610s until it fell to the English in 1795.
Pulicat Lake
Pulicat Lake (Pulicat Lagoon) is India's second largest brackish water lagoon after Chilika, on the Coromandel Coast across Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, about 450–460 sq km, fed by the Swarnamukhi, Kalangi, and Arani rivers, hypersaline, and a major migratory bird and fishery habitat.
Pulicidae
Pulicidae, the common fleas (Billberg, 1820), is a cosmopolitan flea family (Siphonaptera) containing the human, cat, dog, hen, and Oriental rat fleas, key vectors of plague and murine typhus.
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan is a materials scientist and professor at Rice University who worked in the NEC group where carbon nanotubes were discovered and leads battery recycling research.
Pulikkuthi Pandi
Pulikkuthi Pandi (புலிக்குத்தி பாண்டி) is a 2021 Tamil action drama film directed by M. Muthaiah, starring Vikram Prabhu and Lakshmi Menon, which premiered on Sun TV during Pongal 2021.
Pulimurugan (പുലിമുരുകൻ)
Pulimurugan (പുലിമുരുകൻ) is a 2016 Malayalam action drama directed by Vysakh, starring Mohanlal as a tiger hunter; the first Malayalam film to gross over ₹100 crore, ending its run near ₹150 crore.
Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize: annual American awards for journalism, books, drama, and music, established by Joseph Pulitzer's will and first awarded in 1917, administered by Columbia University with 23 awards across 15 journalism and 8 arts categories.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Annual Columbia University award of $15,000 for a distinguished play by an American author dealing with American life; first given in 1918, withheld 15 times, known for the 1963 Albee controversy and musical winners like Hamilton.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, formerly the Novel award (1917–1947), is a $15,000 Columbia University prize for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably about American life; juries nominate three finalists and the Pulitzer Prize Board may withhold the award.
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Pulitzer Prize for Music: annual $15,000 Columbia University award since 1943 for a distinguished musical composition by an American premiered or recorded in the U.S.; winners include Marsalis, Coleman, and Kendrick Lamar.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: annual Columbia University award since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, $15,000; preceded by the Columbia University Poetry Prize; no award in 1946.
Puliyan (普丽妍)
Puliyan (普丽妍) is a Chinese medical-aesthetics company based in Nanjing, founded in May 2018, which makes injectable regenerative products including China's fifth approved polylactic acid facial filler, approved in 2024.
Pulkit Samrat (पुलकित सम्राट)
Pulkit Samrat (पुलकित सम्राट), born 1983 in Delhi, is an Indian actor who debuted as Lakshya Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (2006), debuted in film with Bittoo Boss (2012), and is known for playing Hunny in Fukrey (2013), Fukrey Returns (2017), and the Netflix boxing series Glory (2026).