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Puyang, Henan

Puyang Shi (濮阳市), prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan, China, on the Yellow River plain. Ancient Diqu, Wei capital; 2025 GDP 210.6 billion yuan, up 5.6%; energy and manufacturing economy.

Puyemre

Puyemre, also transcribed Puimre, was a Second Priest of Amun at Thebes in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, serving Hatshepsut and Thutmose III; his rock-cut tomb is TT 39 at el-Khokha.

Puyi (溥仪, Aisin Gioro Puyi, 1906–1967), last Qing emperor of China as the Xuantong Emperor (1908–1912), later Kangde Emperor of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (1932–1945), then a re-educated PRC citizen.

Puyloubier

Puyloubier, commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, France (INSEE 13079), on the southern piedmont of Montagne Sainte-Victoire; wine village of AOC Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire, Roman villa sites, Saint-Ser ermitage, Domaine Capitaine Danjou.

Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ)

Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ), known in some releases as Puyo Pop, is a Japanese competitive falling-block puzzle series created by Compile in 1991 and owned by Sega since 1998.

Puyu Road Ancient City Site

蒲与路故城遗址 (Puyu Road ancient city site), Jin dynasty circuit seat at Kedong County, Qiqihar, Heilongjiang; oval rammed-earth city, 1956 bronze seal find, excavated 1975–1979, national protection unit since 1988.

Puzer-Mama

Puzer-Mama, also written Puzur-Mama, was a ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Lagash around 2150 BC, known chiefly from a single royal inscription in which he claims the title king of Lagash.

Puzhu (പുഴു)

Puzhu (പുഴു, "worm") is a 2022 Malayalam drama-thriller directed by Ratheena, starring Mammootty as casteist ex-policeman Kuttan and Parvathy Thiruvothu as his sister; released on SonyLIV, it won Parvathy a 2023 Filmfare Award.

Puzrish-Dagan

Puzrish-Dagan, modern Drehem, is an archaeological site 8 kilometers southeast of Nippur in southern Iraq, founded by Ur III king Šulgi as the central livestock-administration center of his state.

Puzur-Ashur I

Puzur-Ashur I (Puzur-Aššur I) was an early independent ruler of the city-state of Assur around 2025 BC, father of Šalim-aḫum and ancestor of the native kings Ilušuma and Erišum I.

Puzur-Ashur II

Puzur-Ashur II (Puzur-Aššur II) was an early Old Assyrian king of Ashur, reigning about eight years around 1865–1857 BC, son of Sargon I and father of Naram-Sin.

Puzur-Ashur III

Puzur-Ashur III, also written Puzur-Assur III, was a king of Assyria who reigned ca. 1521-1498 BC, known from the Assyrian King List and building inscriptions at Assur.

Puzur-Inshushinak

Puzur-Inshushinak, also known as Kutik-Inshushinak, was the twelfth and last king of Awan, who ruled from Susa in southwestern Iran in the late 22nd century BC.

Puzur-Ishtar

Puzur-Ishtar (Puzur-Ištar) was a shakkanakku, or military governor, of the Syrian city of Mari after the Akkadian Empire's fall, known from an inscribed statue whose head is in Berlin.

Puzur-Nirah

Puzur-Nirah of Akshak is a legendary Early Dynastic Sumerian king, the fourth ruler of Akshak in the Sumerian King List, credited with a reign of 20 years.

Puzur-Sin

Puzur-Sin was a ruler of Assur shortly after Shamshi-Adad I who deposed Asinum, ending that dynasty's control, and is known solely from a single inscribed stone tablet.

Puzur-Suen (Gutian king)

Puzur-Suen, sometimes rendered Puzur-Sin, was a Gutian king in the Sumerian King List, son of Hablum, credited with a seven-year reign after the fall of the Akkadian dynasty.

Puzur-Suen (king of Kish)

Puzur-Suen is a legendary king of the Sumerian city of Kish, named in the Sumerian King List as the son of Kug-Bau and father of Ur-Zababa.

Puzzle

Puzzle: a problem contrived to exercise ingenuity, solved by deduction or skill rather than chance or competition. Covers jigsaws, crosswords, Sudoku, Rubik's Cube, history from Spilsbury 1766, market size, competitions, and disputed cognitive benefits.

Puzzle (2018 film)

Puzzle is a 2018 American drama directed by Marc Turtletaub, starring Kelly Macdonald as Agnes, a suburban wife and mother who discovers a talent for assembling jigsaw puzzles.

Puzzle culture and community

Puzzle culture and community is the social world around solving and constructing puzzles, from the National Puzzlers' League to the MIT Mystery Hunt, which draws over 2,000 people yearly.

Puzzle video game

Puzzle video game genre: games where puzzle-solving is the main activity and pleasure, from Tetris (1984) and The Witness to match-3 and merge mobile titles; $4.9bn H1 2026 mobile spending.

Oct 15, 2026

PV Tech

PV Tech is a trade publication covering the global solar photovoltaic supply chain, launched in 2009 by London-based Solar Media Limited and known for its PV ModuleTech Bankability Ratings.

Pvalb chandelier GABAergic interneuron

Pvalb chandelier GABAergic interneuron, also called chandelier cell or axo-axonic cell, is a fast-spiking parvalbumin interneuron whose cartridge boutons exclusively target pyramidal axon initial segments, with links to epilepsy, schizophrenia, and autism.

Sep 29, 2026

PVC ablation

PVC ablation is a catheter-based cardiology procedure that maps and destroys the myocardial site generating premature ventricular contractions, with about 84% acute success and 3% complications.

PVcase

PVcase is a Lithuanian software company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Vilnius, that sells software-as-a-service tools for planning and designing solar energy projects, with over $123 million in funding.

PVR

PVR (CD155, poliovirus receptor) is a human chromosome 19 immunoglobulin-superfamily adhesion protein, the cellular receptor for poliovirus, and a ligand of the TIGIT/CD96/CD226 immune checkpoint axis overexpressed in many cancers.

Pvris

Pvris (pronounced Paris), American rock project formed 2012 in Lowell, Massachusetts, led by Lynn Gunnulfsen; albums White Noise, All We Know of Heaven, Use Me, Evergreen; formerly a band, now Gunn's solo project.

PVT1

PVT1 (plasmacytoma variant translocation 1), also LINC00079, is a long non-coding RNA oncogene at 8q24.21 downstream of MYC, co-amplified in cancers, encoding 26 linear and 26 circular isoforms plus six miRNAs, with biomarker and therapeutic potential.