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Puppet Master (film)
Puppet Master (1989), also called Puppetmaster, is a David Schmoeller horror film and the first Full Moon Entertainment release, starring Paul Le Mat and William Hickey as Andre Toulon, whose killer puppets launched the most successful direct-to-video horror franchise.
Puppet Master: Doktor Death
Puppet Master: Doktor Death (2022) is a Full Moon Features horror film, the second solo Puppet Master spin-off after Blade: The Iron Cross, directed by Dave Parker, written by James Quinn, about the demon-possessed Doktor Death puppet killing in a nursing home.
Puppet state
Puppet state (état fantoche): an entity claiming independence while controlled by a foreign sponsor, from Manchukuo to Russia's occupied Ukrainian regions; legal invalidity, control mechanisms, recognition, and outcomes.
Puppeteer (software)
Puppeteer is a JavaScript library maintained by Google's Chrome team that controls Chrome or Firefox headlessly, used for screenshots, PDFs, crawling, and automated UI testing since 2017.
Puppetry
Puppetry (인형극) is theater performed with person-manipulated figures instead of actors; forms include hand, rod, string (marionette), and shadow puppets. It arose before the common era, with hypotheses of Indian or Indian-and-Chinese origin.
Puppetry of the Penis
Puppetry of the Penis, also called the ancient art of genital origami, is an Australian nude comedy show created by Simon Morley and David Friend, debuting at the 1998 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and famous for the Hamburger trick.
Puppey
Puppey is the professional alias of Clement Ivanov (born 1990), an Estonian Dota 2 captain who won The International 2011 with Natus Vincere and founded Team Secret in 2014.
Puppis
Puppis, abbreviation Pup, is a southern constellation representing the stern of the mythical ship Argo Navis, lying in the Milky Way between Vela and Canis Major.
Puppis A
Puppis A, cataloged G260.4−3.4, is an oxygen-rich shell supernova remnant in the southern constellation Puppis, roughly 4,000 years old and among the brightest in radio and X-ray light.
Pupput
Pupput (Pudput), Roman colony at Souk el-Abiod near Hammamet, Tunisia, promoted by Commodus 185–192; known for its large Roman necropolis of over 1,300 excavated tombs in use from the 1st to 6th century AD.
Puppy
A puppy is a juvenile dog, with maturity reached at 10 to 12 months in small breeds and up to 18 to 24 months in large ones.
Puppy Dog Pals
Puppy Dog Pals is a Disney Junior animated preschool series created by Harland Williams, debuting April 14, 2017, following pug brothers Bingo and Rolly on missions for owner Bob; it ran five seasons and 125 episodes through 2023.
Puppy love
Puppy love, also called adolescent romance or calf-love, is an intense but often short-lived romantic attachment of young people. Distinguished by dismissive adult framing, early-19th-century English origin, and research showing real developmental significance.
Puppy mill
Puppy mill: large-scale commercial dog breeding operation prioritizing profit over dog welfare; also called puppy farm. Key facts: ~10,000 US mills, 2.4 million puppies yearly, Animal Welfare Act licensing gaps, behavioral harm, online sales shift.
Pupu Supermarket (朴朴超市)
Pupu Supermarket (朴朴超市), legally Fuzhou Pupu E-Commerce Co., Ltd, is a Chinese fresh-grocery e-commerce platform founded in 2016 that delivers in about 30 minutes from front warehouses.
Pupul Jayakar
Pupul Jayakar (1915–1997), Indian cultural activist and writer, led the revival of handlooms and handicrafts, founded HHEC and INTACH, chaired the Festivals of India, and advised and biographed Indira Gandhi.
Pupusa
Pupusa: El Salvador's national dish, a thick nixtamalized corn or rice masa disc stuffed before cooking with cheese, beans, chicharrón, or revueltas, griddled dry on a comal and served with curtido and tomato salsa; decree 655 of 2005 made it the national dish.
Puputan Klungkung
Puputan Klungkung was the final armed stand of the Klungkung kingdom against Dutch colonial forces at Semarapura, Bali, on 28 April 1908, completing the Dutch conquest of Bali.
Pupy y Los Que Son Son
Pupy y Los Que Son Son is a Cuban timba orchestra founded in 2001 by pianist and composer César "Pupy" Pedroso after three decades with Los Van Van.
Puqi Xianning power station
Puqi Xianning power station is a 4,660 MW coal-fired power station in Chibi, Hubei, China, owned by China Resources Power and built between 2004 and 2025.
Puqudu
Puqudu (Puqūdu) was an Aramean tribe of the Babylonian borderlands, attested from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (745–727 BC) and identified with the biblical Pekod.
Puquios
Puquios, from Quechua pukyu meaning spring, are subterranean filtration galleries in the Nasca valleys of southern Peru that tap the water table and still irrigate fields today.
Pur
Pur (Пур), river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia; formed by the Pyakupur and Aivasedapur, flows 389 km (1,024 km with Pyakupur) north into Tazovskaya Guba, Kara Sea; basin 112,000 km², discharge 884 m³/s, navigable, gas-producing region.
Pur Bahadur Gurung
Pur Bahadur Gurung, known as Yukta, was a Nepali IFMGA mountain guide from Laprak, Gorkha, first Gurung climber with ten Everest summits and 12 of 14 eight-thousanders; he died in the 30 July 2026 Broad Peak avalanche.
Pura Mound
Pura Mound: name for ASI-protected mound sites in Uttar Pradesh, India, chiefly Jai Singh Pura Mound, Mathura, and the Chandella-period Siva temple ruins at Pura, Chitrakut district.
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves (born 1962) is a Spanish cell biologist who studies how skeletal muscle regenerates and why it fails in aging and muscular dystrophies, now at Altos Labs.
Pura Vida Miami
Pura Vida Miami is an American fast-casual café chain founded in 2012 in Miami Beach by Omer and Jennifer Horev, known for acai bowls, smoothies, and seed-oil-free menus.
Purab Aur Paschim (पूरब और पश्चिम)
Purab Aur Paschim (पूरब और पश्चिम, East and West) is a 1970 Hindi patriotic drama directed by and starring Manoj Kumar, with Saira Banu, about a freedom fighter's son confronting Westernized NRIs in London; fourth highest-grossing Hindi film of 1970.
Purab Kohli
Purab Kohli, born 1979, is an Indian actor and former Channel V video jockey who began with Hip Hip Hurray, played KD in Rock On!, and works in Hindi films, streaming series such as Sense8, Out of Love, and The Matrix Resurrections.
Purabi
Purabi (পূরবী) is a 1925 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, drawn from poems written on his 1924 voyage to Europe and South America, dedicated to Victoria Ocampo.