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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 display of affection
Public display of affection (PDA) is a romantic or sexual gesture, such as handholding, hugging, or kissing, in public settings. Acceptability varies by culture, religion, and law, and relates to relationship satisfaction.
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (North Carolina House Bill 2, SL 2016-3), 2016 statute requiring multiple-occupancy restrooms by birth-certificate sex and preempting local LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances; challenged federally, replaced by House Bill 142 in 2017.
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.
Public holidays in Russia
Public holidays in Russia, also called Russian holidays, are the 14 non-working dates established by Article 112 of the Labor Code, including Orthodox Christmas, Victory Day, and Russia Day.
Public holidays in South Africa
Public holidays in South Africa: the 12 paid holidays fixed by the Public Holidays Act 36 of 1994, effective 1 January 1995, including Human Rights Day, Freedom Day, Youth Day, and Day of Reconciliation, with a Monday-after-Sunday rule.
Public housing
Public housing: the US federal low-rent housing program created by the 1937 Housing Act, locally run by public housing authorities under HUD, with about 1.2 million units, 30%-of-income rents, and no new development since 1998.
Public image of Elon Musk
Public image of Elon Musk: perception of the Tesla and SpaceX chief, X owner, and former DOGE head. Covers favorability polling (33% favorable by mid-2025), his Republican political turn, X's shifted reputation, and damage to Tesla's brand.
Public image of Melania Trump
Public image of Melania Trump (Melanija Knavs), Slovenian-born first lady 2017-2021 and from 2025: plagiarism-charge debut, fashion-driven image, Be Best, low visibility, weak polling, memoir and documentary.
Public opinion
Public opinion: the aggregation of individual views on an issue at a given time, also called expressed citizen views. Measured by surveys since the 1935 Gallup Poll; shaped by wording, sampling, spiral of silence, and deliberative methods.
Public sex
Public sex is sexual activity carried out in public settings like parks, beaches, rest stops, and public toilets, practices known as cruising, cottaging, and dogging.
Puer aeternus
Puer aeternus, Latin for eternal boy, is a Jungian archetype of the man who resists adult commitment, treated fully in Marie-Louise von Franz's 1970 The Problem of the Puer Aeternus; its opposite is the senex, its feminine counterpart the puella aeterna, and its pop descendant Peter Pan syndrome.
Puerto Rican migration to the United States
The movement of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland, which began after 1898 and, because Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, is internal migration rather than immigration.
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (puertorriqueños, boricuas) are the people of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, and their diaspora; U.S. citizens since 1917, over 6 million now live in the states, chiefly New York, after the post-1945 Great Migration.
Punjabi wedding traditions
Punjabi wedding traditions (viah, ਵਿਆਹ) are the week-long sequence of Punjabi marriage customs: roka, maiyan, mehndi, jaggo, chooda, baraat, milni, doli, capped by the Sikh Anand Karaj, Hindu pheras, or Muslim nikah.
Punjabis (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
Punjabis (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) are the ethnolinguistic people of the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, speaking Punjabi in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts, following Islam, Sikhism, and Hinduism, and reshaped by the 1947 partition and a global diaspora.
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.
Purdue Pegboard Test
The Purdue Pegboard Test is a timed psychometric test measuring finger and hand dexterity, developed at Purdue University in 1948 and now used in occupational therapy and neuropsychology.
Purity ring
Purity ring, also called chastity or promise ring: a ring worn to signal an abstinence-until-marriage pledge, originating in 1990s US evangelical True Love Waits and Silver Ring Thing movements, with peer-reviewed research questioning pledge effectiveness.
Push present
Push present (push gift, birthing present): a gift given to a new mother or birthing parent, typically jewelry from her partner, around the time of birth; distinct from baby shower gifts, term first recorded on Fox News in 2003.
Pygmalion effect
Pygmalion effect: one person's expectations for another become self-fulfilling prophecy, from Rosenthal and Jacobson's 1968 Oak School study; also called interpersonal expectancy effect, distinct from the Golem and Galatea effects.
Pygmy peoples
Pygmy peoples: generic term for short-statured Central African forest hunter-gatherer groups (Aka, Baka, Mbuti, Efe, Twa) across nine countries, trading with Bantu farmers; 250,000–920,000 people.