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Portuguese people
Portuguese people: nation/ethnic group of Portugal; ~11.4 million residents (14% foreign); 1143 kingdom; genetically diverse Iberian population with African ancestry signals; large diaspora.
Positive deviance
Positive deviance is a method that studies people who achieve unusually good outcomes under the same constraints as their peers, then spreads their uncommon practices.
Potawatomi
Potawatomi (Bodéwadmi, Keepers of the Fire): Great Lakes Anishinaabe people with the Ojibwe and Odawa; removed in the 1838 Trail of Death; today 12 nations in the US and Canada, including the 38,000-member Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Powhatan
Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh, d. 1618) was the mamanatowick, or paramount chief, of Tsenacomoco, an alliance of 28 to 32 Virginia Algonquian tribes, and the central Native counterpart to the Jamestown colonists from 1607 until his death.
Powhatan (Native American leader)
Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh, c. 1550–1618) was the mamanatowick, paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, who united 28–32 Virginia tribes before Jamestown's 1607 founding; father of Pocahontas, not the Virginia county named for him.
Prabodhankar Thackeray (केशव सीताराम ठाकरे)
Prabodhankar Thackeray (Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, 1885-1973), Marathi social reformer, journalist, and Samyukta Maharashtra leader; father of Bal Thackeray, founded Prabodhan magazine, coined Shiv Sena's name.
Prince Hall Freemasonry
Prince Hall Freemasonry, also known as Prince Hall Masonry, is the predominantly African American branch of Freemasonry, begun in Boston in 1775 by Prince Hall and fourteen other free Black men.
Prince Nicholas of Romania
Prince Nicholas (Nicolae) of Romania (1903-1978): second son of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie, brother of Carol II, regent 1927-1930 for child King Michael; exiled 1937 after marrying Ioana Doletti.
Princess Ameerah Wardatul Bolkiah
Princess Ameerah Wardatul Bolkiah, or Princess Ameerah of Brunei, is a princess of Brunei born in 2008, the twelfth child of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim.
Princess Caroline of Monaco
Princess Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover, eldest sister of Prince Albert II, presides over Monaco's cultural institutions (Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Fondation Prince Pierre, Printemps des Arts) and humanitarian bodies AMADE and the Princess Grace Foundation.
Princess Fahdah Hashim (فهدة محمد أبو نيان)
Princess Fahdah Hashim, born Fahdah Mohammed Abunayyan, is a Saudi-born member of the Jordanian royal family, the wife of Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein since 2006.
Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco
Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco (Lalla Meryem), born 1962 in Rome, eldest sister of King Mohammed VI, chairs the ONDE child-rights observatory, leads women's and anti-child-labor initiatives, and holds UNICEF-support and UNESCO goodwill roles.
Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 2003)
Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Maria Carolina di Borbone-Due Sicilie, born Rome 2003) is eldest daughter of Duke Carlo of Castro, heiress of the Castro branch after the 2016 abolition of Salic law, a Monaco-based influencer, and partner of Jordan Bardella.
Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Maria Chiara di Borbone-Due Sicilie), younger daughter of Charles and Camilla, Duke and Duchess of Castro; Duchess of Noto and Capri; second in line after the 2016 succession change; WWF Ambassador since 2023.
Princess Muta-Wakkilah Hayatul Bolkiah
Princess Muta-Wakkilah Hayatul Bolkiah (متوكلة حياة البلقية), born 1971, is a daughter of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, a Gray's Inn barrister called to the Bar in 2007, and former Legal Counsel in the Attorney General's Chambers.
Princess Nor'ain of Brunei
Princess Nor'ain of Brunei, Pengiran Anak Puteri Nor'ain, Brunei royal princess born 1950 at Istana Darussalam; married Pengiran Anak Mohammad Yusof in the 19 September 1965 royal wedding; daughter of the era of Sultan Omar 'Ali Saifuddien III.
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff (Ольга Андреевна Романова)
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff (Ольга Андреевна Романова), born 1950, London-based Romanov descendant, daughter of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich, and president since 2017 of the Romanov Family Association, distinct from Maria Vladimirovna's Imperial House claim.
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen (Ragnhild Alexandra, 1930–2012), eldest child of King Olav V of Norway, sister of Harald V; married Erling Lorentzen 1953, lost Royal Highness style, lived in Rio de Janeiro from 1953.
Priory of Sion
Priory of Sion (Prieuré de Sion): association founded 7 May 1956 in Annemasse, France, by Pierre Plantard and three others; later given a fictitious medieval history through forged Dossiers Secrets, inspiring Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.
Profession
Profession: an occupation distinguished from ordinary work by specialized knowledge, controlled training, and self-regulation. Central concept of the sociology of professions, studied through functionalist, interactionist, and conflict approaches since Durkheim and Weber.
Pub
Pub (public house): licensed British and Irish premises for drinking on site, from Roman tabernae and alehouses through tied houses, pubcos, and gastropubs; about 47,200 UK pubs in 2019, down 22% since 2000.
Public
Public: the public sphere (Öffentlichkeit), the domain where private individuals assemble as a public to debate common concerns; defined by Jürgen Habermas's 1962 Structural Transformation, with its rise, refeudalization, counterpublic critiques, and digital transformation.
Public bathing
Public bathing: communal washing in shared facilities, from Roman thermae and Islamic hammams to Japanese sento and municipal bathhouses; its social role, regulation, and decline with home plumbing.
Public holidays in Argentina
Public holidays in Argentina: national holidays and non-working days under Law 27.399, with movable Mondays, tourism bridge days, Jewish, Islamic, and Armenian observances, and 19 holidays, the most in Latin America.
Public holidays in Brazil
Public holidays in Brazil: national holidays under Lei 662/1949 (as amended), annual MGI calendars with pontos facultativos, state and municipal holidays, Corpus Christi's special status, and rules for holiday work.
Public holidays in Canada
Public holidays in Canada, or statutory holidays, are paid days off defined by each province and territory, ranging from 6 in Nova Scotia to 11 in British Columbia.
Public holidays in China
Public holidays in China (中国法定节假日): seven nationwide holidays, 13 statutory days under the 2024-revised Regulation on National Annual Festivals and Memorial Days, with tiaoxiu weekend swaps creating week-long Golden Week breaks.
Public holidays in Italy
Public holidays in Italy: 11 national civil and Catholic dates fixed by Law 260/1949 and the 1985 Concordat, plus each municipality's patron-saint day; no substitute day when a holiday falls on a weekend.
Public holidays in Malaysia
Public holidays in Malaysia are gazetted under the Holidays Act 1951, with state holidays layered on federal ones, weekend substitution, and a multi-religious calendar; 2026 counts range from 14 to 19 by method.
Public holidays in Mexico
Public holidays in Mexico, also known as días de descanso obligatorio, are mandatory paid days off under Article 74 of the LFT. Those who work receive triple compensation.