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Puttanna Kanagal
Puttanna Kanagal (ಪುಟ್ಟಣ್ಣ ಕಣಗಾಲ್; 1933–1985), Kannada film director of women-centric, novel-based bridge cinema; directed Belli Moda, Gejje Pooje, Sharapanjara, Naagarahaavu; won three National Film Awards.
Puttaparthi (పుట్టపర్తి)
Puttaparthi (పుట్టపర్తి), formerly Gollapalli, is a town in Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh, birthplace of Sathya Sai Baba and site of the Prasanthi Nilayam ashram; population 31,610, a 2nd Grade Municipality since 2023.
Putthipong Assaratanakul
Putthipong Assaratanakul (พุฒิพงศ์ อัสสรัตนกุล), known as Billkin, is a Thai actor and singer who rose to fame in the 2020 series I Told Sunset About You.
Puttin' On the Ritz
"Puttin' On the Ritz" (Put on the Ritz) is an Irving Berlin song written in 1927, introduced by Harry Richman and made famous by the 1930 film of the same name.
Putting-out system
The putting-out system, also called the domestic system, was a manufacturing arrangement in which merchants supplied raw materials to rural households who processed them at home for piece-rate pay.
Putto
Putto (plural putti): nude, chubby, often winged toddler figure in Western art, from Italian 'boy' (Latin putus); derived from Eros/Cupid and cherubim, revived in Quattrocento Florence by Donatello and Verrocchio, widespread in Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Victorian art.
Putty
Putty is a dough-like cement of powdered chalk (whiting) and linseed oil, used to bed and seal glass panes in window frames and to fill holes in woodwork.
PuTTY
PuTTY is a free, open-source SSH client for Windows and Unix, written mainly by Simon Tatham, that runs remote terminal sessions and also supports Telnet and serial connections.
Putty-clay model
The putty-clay model is an investment model in which capital is flexible before installation but fixed in its capital-labor ratio afterward, proposed by Leif Johansen in 1959.
Putul Nacher Itikatha
Putul Nacher Itikatha ("The Puppet's Tale") is a Bengali novel by Manik Bandyopadhyay, published in 1936 and set in the village of Gaodiya in colonial Bengal.
Putumayo
The Putumayo River, called the Içá in Brazil, is a roughly 1,600 km Amazon tributary rising in the Colombian Andes and draining parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.
Putumayo genocide
The Putumayo genocide was the enslavement and mass killing of Indigenous peoples of the Putumayo River region by Julio César Arana's rubber company during the Amazon rubber boom.
Putumayo World Music
Putumayo World Music, a world music compilation label founded by Dan Storper in 1993 out of his New York handicraft shop, known for Nicola Heindl covers, 35 million albums sold, Putumayo Kids, and its 2025 shift to digital-only releases.
Putuo
Putuo (普陀区) is a district of northwest Shanghai, 55.53 km², population 1.2487 million (2024); a former textile industrial district on Suzhou Creek, now a transport hub and innovation belt gateway with GDP of 159 billion yuan in 2024.
Putyla Raion
Putyla Raion (Путильський район) was a mountain raion of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, on the Romanian border in Bukovina, centered on Putyla; created 1940, abolished 2020, merged into Vyzhnytsia Raion.
Putzmeister
Putzmeister, German for "plaster master", is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps based in Aichtal, founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958 and part of China's SANY Group since 2012.
Puuc
Puuc, Yucatec Maya for "hills," names a region of northwestern Yucatán and its Maya architectural style, best known for veneer mosaic façades with Chaac masks.
Puuc style
The Puuc style is a style of ancient Maya architecture from the Puuc hills of Yucatán, Mexico, known for stone-mosaic facades decorated with masks of the rain god Chaac.
Puukko
A puukko is a Finnish belt-carried sheath knife with a short blade and a wooden handle without a guard, used for carving, hunting, and everyday tasks since the Middle Ages.
PUVA therapy
PUVA therapy (psoralen plus ultraviolet A) is photochemotherapy for psoriasis, vitiligo, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; oral or topical 8-methoxypsoralen is activated by 320-400 nm UVA, with cumulative skin cancer risk limiting its use.
Puxi Jing (朴烯晶)
Puxi Jing (朴烯晶), formally 朴烯晶新能源材料（上海）有限公司, is a Chinese startup founded in Shanghai in 2021 that makes ultra-high-purity polyethylene for lithium-battery separators, with a 140,000-tonne plant in production since 2025.
Puxian Wannu
Puxian Wannu (蒲鮮萬奴) was a Jurchen general and Liaodong commissioner of the Jin dynasty who broke with it in 1215 and founded his own state in eastern Manchuria.
Puxin Education
Puxin Education (朴新教育) was a Chinese private education group offering K-12 and study-abroad tutoring; founded in 2014, it listed on the NYSE in 2018 and was wound up in 2022.
Puy d'Issolud
Puy d'Issolud, also Puy d'Issolu, is a limestone plateau in Vayrac and Martel (Lot, France) identified with Uxellodunum, the last Gallic stronghold besieged by Caesar in 51 BCE, officially recognized in 2001.
Puy-Lautard
Puy-Lautard (Sanctuaire gallo-romain du Puy-Lautard) is a Gallo-Roman double-cella fanum at 755 m in Saint-Pierre-Bellevue, Creuse, France; occupied 1st-4th century AD, excavated from 1980, monument historique 1988/1990, Mérimée PA00100186.
Puya
Puya is the stage name of Dragoș Gărdescu, a Romanian rapper born in Bucharest in 1979 who co-founded La Familia in 1996 and has released solo material since 2004.
Puya raimondii
Puya raimondii, commonly called the Queen of the Andes, is a giant bromeliad endemic to the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia and the largest species in the Bromeliaceae.
Puyang Longfeng power station
Puyang Longfeng power station (濮阳市热电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power and heat station on Huagong Road in Puyang, Henan, China, owned by Henan Investment Group.
Puyang Northeast Village Wildlife Park
Puyang Northeast Village Wildlife Park (濮阳东北庄野生动物园), a 1,200-mu drive-through zoo in Hualong District, Puyang, Henan, opened 2017-2018 with 15 free-range areas including Northeast tigers, African lions, and black bears.
Puyang Wey Old City
濮阳卫国故城 (Gaocheng site), Eastern Zhou capital of the State of Wey at Diqiu in Puyang county, Henan; 9.16 million m² walled city, excavated 2005–2006 and 2018–2020, buried by a late Western Han Yellow River flood, national key protection unit since 2013.