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Pusha T
Pusha T (Terrence LeVarr Thornton, born 1977) is a Virginia Beach rapper, half of Clipse with brother Malice, later a G.O.O.D. Music signee and president known for Daytona and It's Almost Dry.
Pushbroom scanner
A pushbroom scanner is an imaging instrument, typically carried by a satellite, that records an image one line at a time using a linear array of detectors.
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an annual American literary award and anthology series, published since 1976, collecting poetry, short fiction, essays, and memoirs first published by small presses.
Pushdown automaton
A pushdown automaton (PDA) is a finite-state machine with a stack as its only auxiliary memory, recognizing exactly the context-free languages, including nested structures like palindromes.
Pusheen
Pusheen (プシーン) is a chubby gray tabby cat character created in 2010 by Claire Belton and Andrew Duff in the webcomic Everyday Cute; famous for Facebook stickers (14 million daily sends) and licensed merchandise in over 60 countries.
Pusher
Pusher is a 1993 dexterity board game by Werner Falkhof (Theta Promotion, later ASS), also called Knock 'n' Roll, for 2–3 players who push balls into triangles on a 91-indentation hexagonal board; distinct from the 2002 JoWooD video game and arcade coin pushers.
Pusher (1996 film)
Pusher (1996) is Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish crime debut, starring Kim Bodnia as Copenhagen dealer Frank, indebted to Zlatko Buric's Milo; Mads Mikkelsen's film debut, first of the Pusher trilogy.
Pusher (film series)
Pusher film series: Danish crime trilogy by Nicolas Winding Refn, Pusher (1996), Pusher II (2004), Pusher III (2005), set in Copenhagen's underworld with Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, and Zlatko Burić.
Pusher configuration
The pusher configuration is an aircraft layout with the engine forward of a rearward-facing propeller that pushes from behind, used on the 1903 Wright Flyer and the MQ-9 Reaper.
Pusher II
Pusher II (With Blood on My Hands) is Nicolas Winding Refn's 2004 Danish crime drama, the second Pusher film, starring Mads Mikkelsen as Tonny, an ex-convict seeking his gangster father Smeden's respect on Amager; it won Bodil and Robert awards in 2005.
Pushihe hydroelectric plant
The Pushihe hydroelectric plant (蒲石河抽水蓄能电站) is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage station in Kuandian County, Liaoning, China, the first large pumped-storage plant in Northeast China, fully operational by September 2012.
Pushing Daisies
Pushing Daisies, ABC series (2007–2009) created by Bryan Fuller, follows pie-maker Ned (Lee Pace), who revives the dead with a touch; a second touch kills forever, and one minute is the limit. Canceled after two truncated seasons; a third season was reported in development in 2025.
Pushing Hands (推手) (film)
Pushing Hands (推手, Tui shou) is Ang Lee's 1991 debut feature, a Taiwan-US comedy-drama starring Sihung Lung as a Beijing tai chi master in New York, first of the Father Knows Best trilogy, a 1992 Berlinale selection and Golden Horse winner.
Pushkar (पुष्कर)
Pushkar (पुष्कर), Rajasthan pilgrimage town 15 km from Ajmer, site of sacred Pushkar Lake with 52 ghats, the world-famous Brahma temple, and the annual five-day Pushkar Camel Fair, one of the world's largest cattle fairs.
Pushkar Singh Dhami (पुष्कर सिंह धामी)
Pushkar Singh Dhami (पुष्कर सिंह धामी), BJP politician born 1975, is Chief Minister of Uttarakhand since July 2021, the first BJP CM there to complete a full term, and implemented India's first state Uniform Civil Code in January 2025.
Pushkarna Brahmin community
The Pushkarna Brahmin community (पुष्कर्ण ब्राह्मण) is a Brahmin caste of Marwar and Mewar in Rajasthan, known historically for priesthood and record-keeping, with origins traced to Sindh.
Pushkin (Mercurian crater)
Pushkin is a 232-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 65.79°S, 20.73°, named for Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and approved in 1976; volcanic plains near it date to roughly 3.7-4.0 Ga.
Pushkin House (Пушкинский Дом)
Pushkin House (Пушкинский Дом), formally the Institute of Russian Literature (IRLI RAN), is a St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1905 as a Pushkin memorial, holding his manuscripts, a ~650,000-item library, and producing academic editions of Russian classics.
Pushkin studies
Pushkin studies (пушкинистика) is the branch of literary scholarship devoted to the work and biography of Alexander Pushkin, spanning textology, biography, and the study of his works.
Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet Kohli is a computer scientist who is Chief Scientist of Google Cloud and VP of Research at Google DeepMind, leading its AI for Science unit.
Pushover analysis
Pushover analysis is a nonlinear static procedure in earthquake engineering that pushes a structural model with increasing lateral loads to estimate seismic capacity and failure sequence.
Pushpa (పుష్ప) (film series)
Pushpa (పుష్ప) is Sukumar's Telugu two-part action drama series starring Allu Arjun as smuggler Pushpa Raj: The Rise (2021) and The Rule (2024), with a third installment discussed.
Pushpa 2: The Rule (soundtrack)
Soundtrack of the 2024 Telugu film Pushpa 2: The Rule, composed by Devi Sri Prasad with lyrics by Chandrabose and Siju Thuravoor. T-Series released a five-track Telugu EP on December 5, 2024, plus a seven-theme OST in January 2025; Kissik drew backlash versus Oo Antava.
Pushpa 2: The Rule (పుష్ప 2: ది రూల్)
Pushpa 2: The Rule (పుష్ప 2: ది రూల్), also called Pushpa: The Rule - Part 2, is Sukumar's 2024 Telugu action drama sequel starring Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, and Fahadh Faasil; released 5 December 2024 at 200 minutes, it set Indian opening-day records and crossed Rs 1,000 crore fastest.
Pushpa Bharati (पुष्प भारती)
Pushpa Bharati (पुष्पा भारती), born 11 June 1935 in Moradabad, is a Hindi memoir writer, wife of Dharamvir Bharati, and winner of the 33rd Vyas Samman (2023) for Yaadein, Yaadein! Aur Yaadein.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal (पुष्प कमल दाहाल)
Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' (पुष्प कमल दाहाल), born 1954, Nepali communist leader who waged the 1996–2006 Maoist insurgency, signed the 2006 peace accord, and served three terms as Nepal's prime minister (2008–09, 2016–17, 2022–24).
Pushpa: The Rise (పుష్ప)
Pushpa: The Rise (పుష్ప), 2021 Telugu action drama by Sukumar starring Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil; red sandalwood smuggling in Seshachalam Hills; highest-grossing Indian film of 2021; National Award Best Actor; sequel Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024).
Pushpadanta
Pushpadanta (पुष्पदन्त) was a 10th-century Jain poet who wrote in Apabhramsha, best known for the Mahapurana, a verse narrative of the lives of the 63 great men of Jainism, composed between 959 and 965 CE.
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Pushpak Bhattacharyya was an Indian computer scientist and professor at IIT Bombay known for natural language processing and IndoWordNet, who directed IIT Patna from 2015 to 2020.
Pushpaka Vimana (ಪುಷ್ಪಕ ವಿಮಾನ) (1987 film)
Pushpaka Vimana (ಪುಷ್ಪಕ ವಿಮಾನ), also released as Pushpak and Pesum Padam, is Singeetham Srinivasa Rao's 1987 dialogue-free Indian black comedy starring Kamal Haasan as an unemployed man who assumes a millionaire's identity at a hotel; it won the 1987 National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.