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Punta Mita

Punta Mita (Punta de Mita) is a peninsula and luxury resort community in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, home to the Four Seasons and St. Regis resorts, two Jack Nicklaus golf courses, and the contested Playa Las Cocinas concession revoked by Semarnat in 2026.

Punta Roca

Punta Roca (La Punta) is El Salvador's premier right-hand point break over lava reef at La Libertad, advanced-only, 200-400 m rides, best March-October on south swell, and host of WSL Championship Tour events since 2022.

Punta Roquitas

Punta Roquitas (Playa Punta Roquitas) is a cobble surf beach on the Costa Verde in Miraflores, Lima, Peru, called the 'heart of Lima's surfing'; shorebreak lefts and rights, 80 m long, host of the Copa Gordo Barreda.

Punter's Politics

Punter's Politics is an Australian political commentary podcast and movement started around mid-2024 by former high school teacher Konrad Benjamin, known for satirical explainers on corporate influence and gas taxation.

Puntiagudo-Cordon Cenizos

Puntiagudo-Cordón Cenizos, a Chilean volcanic chain between Lago Rupanco and Lago Todos Los Santos: a 2,493 m glacially dissected andesitic stratovolcano with an 18-km NE fissure system, last erupting in 1850 (VEI 1).

Puntland

Puntland, officially the Puntland State of Somalia, is an autonomous federal member state in northeastern Somalia. It was proclaimed on 1 August 1998 and does not seek independence.

Punto de Partida

Punto de partida is a bimonthly literary and visual arts magazine published by UNAM through its Dirección de Literatura y Fomento a la Lectura, founded in 1966 for young writers.

Punto de Vista

Punto de Vista was an Argentine cultural magazine published in Buenos Aires from 1978 to 2008, directed by Beatriz Sarlo and founded as resistance to the dictatorship.

Oct 15, 2026

Punto di Scambio Virtuale

Punto di Scambio Virtuale (PSV) is the virtual trading hub of the Italian natural gas market, established in 2003 and managed by Snam Rete Gas.

Punto guajiro

Punto guajiro, also called punto cubano, is the traditional sung poetry of the Cuban countryside, performed as improvised ten-line décimas with strings and percussion; UNESCO inscribed it in 2017.

Puntone Vecchio

Puntone Vecchio (Villa Romana del Puntone Vecchio) is an archaeological site at Puntone di Scarlino, Tuscany: ruins of a Roman villa of the 1st century BC, in use into the 3rd century AD, with opus sectile, mosaics, and baths, over earlier salt-working briquetage.

Punu masks

Punu masks, known as mukudj or okuyi, are carved wooden face masks of the Punu people of southern Gabon, whitened with kaolin and danced on stilts by male performers.

Punxsutawney Phil

Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, has issued the annual February 2 shadow forecast at Gobbler's Knob since 1887. Measured accuracy runs 30–52%, no better than chance.

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Punxsutawney is a borough in Jefferson County, western Pennsylvania, home of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and the annual Groundhog Day ceremony at Gobbler's Knob; population 5,769 (2020), incorporated 1850.

Punya Prasun Bajpai

Punya Prasun Bajpai (पुण्य प्रसून बाजपेयी) is an Indian Hindi-language journalist and news anchor who began at Lokmat Samachar in 1988, worked at Aaj Tak, NDTV, Zee News and ABP News, resigned over the 2018 Masterstroke blackout, and runs a large independent YouTube channel.

Oct 10, 2026

Punyamitra (不如密多)

Punyamitra (不如密多), a Sanskrit name meaning "Friend of Merit," is the twenty-sixth Indian patriarch in the Chan/Zen lineage, disciple of Vasiṣṭha and teacher of Prajñātāra, Bodhidharma's master.

Punyaprabhav

Punyaprabhav (पुण्यप्रभाव) is a Marathi musical play by Ram Ganesh Gadkari, first staged by Kirloskar Natak Mandali in Mumbai in 1916 and known for the song Nachat Na Gaganat.

Oct 10, 2026

Punyayashas (富那夜奢)

Punyayashas (富那夜奢) is the eleventh Indian patriarch in the Chan (Zen) list of twenty-eight, disciple of Pārśva and teacher of Aśvaghoṣa, though some lists omit him entirely.

Punycode

Punycode (RFC 3492, 2003) is the Bootstring encoding that reversibly converts Unicode domain names to ASCII "xn--" A-labels for DNS use under IDNA; it also enables homograph phishing attacks that browsers counter by displaying Punycode.

Pup play

Pup play (puppy play) is an adult role-play kink in which a person adopts a dog persona, often with a hood, collar, and other gear, guided by a handler; it grew from postwar leather culture into a large organized community with headspace, events, and survey-documented mental-health benefits.

Pupa

Pupa: the non-feeding stage between larva and adult in holometabolous insects (egg, larva, pupa, adult). Forms include exarate, obtect (chrysalis), and coarctate (puparium); site of histolysis and imaginal-disc-driven adult reconstruction.

Pupienus

Pupienus (Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus, c. 164-238) was a Roman senator and twice consul who co-ruled with Balbinus for 99 days in 238, broke Maximinus Thrax's siege of Aquileia, and was murdered by the Praetorian Guard on July 29, 238.

Pupil

Pupil (pupilla): the central aperture of the iris through which light enters the eye. Size is set by parasympathetic sphincter pupillae constriction and sympathetic dilator pupillae dilation; measured by pupillometry.

Pupil function

The pupil function, also called the generalized or complex pupil function, is a complex-valued aperture function describing light transmission and phase shift at each point of an optical system's pupil.

Pupillary light reflex

Pupillary light reflex (PLR): involuntary pupil constriction to light via retina, optic nerve (CN II), pretectal area, Edinger-Westphal nucleus, CN III, ciliary ganglion; tested by swinging flashlight test for RAPD.

Sep 29, 2026

Pupillometry

Pupillometry, also called quantitative pupillometry, is a diagnostic method that measures pupil size and light reflex dynamics with handheld infrared devices, used to assess neurological status and intracranial pressure in critically ill patients.

Puppet

Puppet: a figure moved by a human operator, animated in forms such as marionette, glove, rod, shadow, and body puppet. Its double vision effect, 6,000-year history, stage revival (War Horse), and uses in therapy distinguish it.

Puppet (software)

Puppet is an open-source IT automation and configuration management tool written in Ruby and first released in 2005, in which managed nodes pull a desired-state catalog from a central server.

Oct 3, 2026

Puppet History

Puppet History is an American comedy game show web series by Watcher Entertainment, created by Shane Madej, hosted by the puppet Professor with Ryan Bergara; seven seasons since January 10, 2020, crowning a History Master each episode.