P The letter P is the sixteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is pee . Semitic P as well as Greek ? or p and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet all symbolized , a voiceless bilabial plosive. Those who speak Arabic usually have difficulty pronouncing this sound; they pronounce it like instead.
	P-n junction A p-n junction is formed by combining N-type semiconductor and P-type semiconductor semiconductors together in very close contact. The term junction refers to the region where the two types of semiconductor meet. It can be thought of as the border region between the P-type and N-type blocks as shown in the following diagram:
	P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Order of British Empire was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English language prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett.
	P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum, United States showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He was born in Bethel, Connecticut, Connecticut, the son of an inn and store-keeper.
	Pablo Casals Pau Carles Salvador Casals i Defill , commonly known as Pablo Casals, was a virtuoso Catalonia Spain cello player . He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is best remembered for the recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939.
	Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was the pen name of the Chilean writer and Communism activist Ricardo Eliecer Neftal Reyes Basoalto. Translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Critic and biographer Alistar Reid has stated that Neruda is the most widely read poet since William Shakespeare.
	Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruz y Picasso was a Spain painter and Sculpture. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. One of the most prolific artists of all time, he produced around 13,500 paintings, even more drawings than that, 2 original prints, 2 different ceramics, and 1 sculpture in other media.
	Paca For the village in Slovakia see Paca The Paca, also known as the Spotted Paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical The Americas, from East-Central Mexico to Paraguay. It is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle in Mexico and Guatemala, and majs in Peru.
	Paca Paca is a village and municipality in the Ronava District in the Košice Region of middle-eastern Slovakia.
	Pachinko is a Machine used for amusement and prizes and is related to pinball machines. Although originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine. Pachinko is said to have been invented sometime after World War II in Nagoya, though the date is sometimes questioned.
	Pachisi Pachisi is a board game thought to originate in India; it is described as the national game of India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie. The name of the game comes from the Hindi word pachis, meaning twenty-five, the largest score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells.
	Pachuco Pachucos were Mexican American youth who developed their own subculture during the 1930s and 1940s in the Southwestern United States. They wore distinctive clothes and spoke their own dialect. Due to their double-marginalization stemming from their youth and ethnicity, there has always been a close association and cultural cross-pollination between the Pachuco subculture and the street gang subculture.
	Pachycephalosaurus * Pachycephalosaurus was a dinosaur of the family Pachycephalosaurid, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. It was a Herbivore creature, which is only known from a single skull and a few extremely thick skull roofs.
	Pachyrhizus Pachyrhizus is a small genus of five or six species of tropical and subtropical plants growing from large, often edible taproots.
	Pachysandra Pachysandra is a genus of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the Boxwood Family, Buxaceae. The species are native to eastern Asia and southeast North America, some reaching a height of 20-45 cm, with only weakly woody stems. The leaf are alternate, leathery, with an entire to coarsely toothed margin, and range from 5-10 cm long.
	Pachysandra procumbens Pachysandra procumbens is a flowering plant in the family Buxaceae, native to southeast United States from West Virginia and Kentucky south to Florida, and west to Louisiana. The name Allegheny is sometimes spelled Alleghany. It is an evergreen subshrub, growing to at most 30 cm high, usually less.
	Pacific giant salamander The Pacific giant salamanders are a family of large salamanders. The family includes only a single genus, Dicamptodon. Specimens are up to 30 cm long, and are found in the Western USA. Except for their size, they are similar with the mole salamander family in which they were originally included.
	Pacific halibut The Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis, is a flatfish found in the northern Pacific Ocean. Its range is from Hokkaido, Japan to Baja California, Mexico. The largest reported specimen was 267 cm and they can reach an age of 42 years. They can be found on a range of bottoms.
	Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest in its broadest definition is an area that includes part of the west coast of United States and Canada, including southeast Alaska, all of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana and northern California and Nevada.
	Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest body of water.
	Pacific Silver Fir Pacific Silver Fir is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range from the extreme southeast of Alaska, through western British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, to the extreme northwest of California.
	Pacifier A pacifier, dummy or soother, is a rubber or plastic nipple given to an infant or other young child to suck upon.
	Pacifism Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, to absolute opposition to the use of violence, or even force, under any circumstances.
	Pack rat A pack rat, also called a trade rat or wood rat, can be any of several species in the genus Neotoma, but most commonly the Bushy-tailed Woodrat . Pack rats are prevalent in the deserts and highlands of western United States and northern Mexico. They also occur in parts of the eastern United States.
	Packet A packet is a formatted block of information carried by a computer network. Computer communications links that do not support packets, such as traditional point-to-point telecommunications links, simply transmit data as a series of bytes, Character , or bits alone.
	Padda Padda is a genus of estrildid finches restricted to islands in southern Indonesia. These are small, plump, gregarious passerine birds. They frequent open grassland and cultivation and feed mainly on grain and other seeds, including rice. Both species have white-cheeked black heads and thick bills.
	Paddle A paddle is a tool, originally a marine propulsion implement for mixing or pushing against liquids, typically in order to propel a boat. Paddles for use in canoes consist of a wooden, fibreglass or metal rod with a handle on one end and a rigid sheet on the other end.
	Paddle steamer A paddle steamer, paddleboat, or paddlewheeler is a ship or boat propelled by one or more paddle wheels driven by a steam engine. Boats with paddle wheels on the sides are also called sidewheelers, while those with a single wheel on the stern are known as sternwheelers.
	Paddlefish Paddlefish are primitive Chondrostian ray-finned fishes. The paddlefish can be distinguished by its large mouth and its elongated snout called a rostrum. These spatula-like snouts comprise half the length of their entire body. There are only two extant species of these fish: the Chinese and the American paddlefish.
	Paddy field A paddy field is a floodland of arable land used for growing rice and other Aquatic plant. Paddy fields are a typical feature of rice-growing countries of East Asia and southeast Asia including Malaysia, China, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines.
	Pademelon A pademelon is any of seven species of small, kangaroo-like creatures that are usually found in forests. Pademelons are the smallest of the macropods. Pademelons, wallaby, and kangaroos are all very alike in body structure, and the names just refer to the three different size groups.
	Padlock A padlock is a simple type of detachable Lock, with a hinged or sliding shackle designed to pass through a ring or staple on a door, chest, etc. While some modern padlocks do not require a key to be closed, others do require it, most often as a security measure against leaving the key inside the location being locked.
	Padua The city of Padua, Italy, is the economic and communications hub of the Veneto region in northern Italy. The capital of Padova province, it stands on the Bacchiglione, 40km west of Venice and 29km southeast of Vicenza, with a population of 211,985 .
	Paella Paella is a rice dish, originally from Valencia , where it is eaten especially on Sundays and during the Falles. There are many variations of it with different ingredients. The name paella is the word for "frying pan" in Valencian . However, the dish has become so popular in Spain that the word paellera is now usually used for the pan and paella almost exclusively for the dish.
	Paganism Paganism is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of western spiritualism or religion beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to 'one who worships something other than The God of Abraham'.
	Pager A pager is an electronic device used to contact people via a Paging network. It pre-dates mobile phone technology, being most popular during the 1980s and 1990s, but similarly uses radio transmissions to communicate between a control/call center and the recipient. Many of today's pagers use the FLEX on-air protocol.
	Pages Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple Computer and a part of the iWork productivity suite sold by Apple for US dollar79 in North America. Pages 1.0 was announced at the beginning of 2005 and started selling in February 2005. As with most of Apple's other recent software, Pages runs on Mac OS X only.
	Pagoda A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly Buddhism, and were often located in or near temples.
	Paint Paint is the general term for a family of products used to protect and add color to an object or surface by covering it with a pigmented coating. As a verb, painting is the application of paint. Someone who paints artistically is usually called a painter, while someone who paints commercially is often referred to as a painter and decorator.
	Paintball Paintball, also commonly called Paintballing, is a sport in which participants use compressed air guns called Paintball marker to shoot paintballs at other players. It is in essence a complex form of Tag, as players struck with paintballs during the game are eliminated.
	Painted greenling The painted greenling is a marine fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its range is from Kodiak Island, Alaska to central Baja California. It can reach a total size of 25 cm and has seven vertical dark bands. It inhabits rocky areas usually shallower than 50 m. It feeds on crustaceans, polychaetes, small molluscs and bryozoans.
	Painted Sandgrouse The Painted Sandgrouse is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family found in South Asia.
	Painted Turtle The Painted Turtle is a reptile that is common in North America, and is a water turtle related to other water turtles such as sliders and cooters. The turtle lives in ponds, lakes, marshes, and in slow-moving rivers that have soft, muddy bottoms. In the wild, this turtle may live for over thirty years; in captivity it can live over twenty years.
	Painter A painter is a person who applies paint to a surface. In the art, painters create paintings—two-dimensional artworks—by applying paint to a flat surface. As a Trade , painters apply paint to woodwork, walls, etc. See: Painter and decorator and Interior decoration.
	Painting Painting taken literally is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a liquid vehicle to a surface such as paper, canvas, wood or a wall. However, when used in an artistic sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, Composition and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.
	Paisley The Royal Burgh of Paisley is a large town and former burgh in the western Scottish Lowlands of Scotland. It is the administrative capital of the Renfrewshire council area. The town is situated on the northern edge of the Gleniffer Braes on the banks of the River Cart, approximately 8 miles west-southwest of Glasgow.
	Paiute * Burns Paiute Tribe - Burns, Oregon * Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe - Fallon, Nevada - * Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe - Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation * Lovelock Paiute Tribe - Lovelock, Nevada * Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation * Reno-Sparks Indian Colony - Reno, Nevada
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	Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , is a country located in South Asia that overlaps with the Greater Middle East. It has a thousand-kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea in the south and borders Afghanistan and Iran to the west, India to the east and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast.
	Pakistani rupee The Pakistani rupee is the official currency of Pakistan. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the State Bank of Pakistan. The most commonly used symbol for the rupee is Rs, it is used in receipts when purchasing goods and services. Under the ISO 4217 code for the Pakistani rupee the code is PKR.
	PAL PAL, short for phase-alternating line, phase alternation by line or phase alternation line, is a color encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. Other common analogue television systems are SECAM and NTSC. PAL was developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in Germany.
	Palace In English language a palace is the home of a head of state or other high-ranking public figure. In some countries, such as Italy, the term is also applied to some private mansions. Many palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments or museums. The word is also sometimes used to describe a lavish public building which does not house a public figure; this use is intended to convey that the building is a "people's palace", where a sort of civic consciousness resides.
	Palace of Versailles The Chteau de Versailles or simply Versailles is a royal chteau, in Versailles, France. In English it is often referred to as the Palace of Versailles. When the chteau was built Versailles was a country village, but it is now a suburb of Paris with city status in its own right.
	Paladin A paladin is any of the twelve legendary chivalry retainers of Charlemagne in medieval chanson de geste and stories of romance. They are thus loosely based on historical Franks retainers of the 8th century and events such as the Battle of Roncevaux Pass and the confrontation of the Frankish Empire with Umayyad Andalusia in the Marca Hispanica.
	Palatinate A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of the monarch, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown's overlordship. This article discusses the historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire known as the Palatinate of the Rhine or Electoral Palatinate .
	Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an borderless country in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines. Having emerged from United Nations United Nations Trusteeship Council in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest nations.
	Pale ale Pale ale is a term used to describe a variety of beers which use ale yeast and predominantly pale malts. It is widely considered to be one of the major beer style groups. All of the major ale producing countries have a version of Pale Ale: Britain has Bitter, America has American Pale Ale, France has Bire de Garde, Germany has Altbier, etc.
	Paleobotany Paleobotany is the branch of paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geology contexts, and their use in the reconstruction of past environments and the history of life. A closely related field is palynology, the study of fossil and extant spores and pollen.
	Paleoclimatology Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the Earth.
	Paleontology Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of the developing history of life on Earth, including ancient plants and animals, based on their Fossil . This includes the study of body fossils, tracks , burrows, cast-off parts, fossilized feces , palynomorphs and chemical residues.
	Palermo Palermo is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy as well as the capital of the Province of Palermo. Inhabitants of Palermo in Italian are referred to as Palermitani or poetically Panormiti.
	Palestine Palestine is one of several names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River with various adjoining lands. Many different Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian have been used in the past three millennia.
	Palestine Liberation Front The Palestine Liberation Front is a militant Palestinian group which is designated by the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations#Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations and European Union as a terrorist organization. It is presently led by Abu Nidal al-Ashqar.
	Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by Arab states as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." Founded by the Arab League in 1964, its goal was originally the destruction of the Israel through armed struggle, and replacing it with an "independent Palestinian state" between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
	Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian National Authority is an provisional government administrative organization that nominally government parts of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, which are part of the Palestinian Territories. The Palestinian National Authority was established in 1994, pursuant to the Oslo accords between the PLO and the government of Israel, as a 5-year transitional body during which final status negotiations between the two parties were to take
	Palestrina Palestrina was and is a very ancient city of Latium 23 miles east of Rome, and was reached by the Via Praenestina. Palestrina is sited on a strategic spur of the Apennines.
	Palette A palette is: * a surface on which a painter mixes colour pigments. A palette may be made of wood, glass, plastic, ceramic tile or other inert material and can vary greatly in size and shape. The most commonly known type of painter's palette is made of thin wood board designed to be held in the artist's hand and rest on the artist's arm.
	Palette knife A palette knife is a blunt knife with a very flexible steel blade and no sharpened cutting edge. It is primarily used for mixing paint colors, paste, etc., or for Paper marbling, decorative endpapers, etc. The "palette" in the name is a reference to an artist's palette which is used for mixing oil paints.
	Palimpsest A palimpsest is a manuscript page, scroll , or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. The word palimpsest comes through Latin from two Greek language roots meaning "scraped again." Ancient Rome wrote on wax-coated tablets that could be reused, and a passing use of the rather bookish term "palimpsest" by Cicero seems to refer to this practice.
	Palisade A palisade is a steel or wooden fence or wall of variable height, used as a defensive structure. Typical construction was of small or midsized trunks of trees aligned vertically, with no spacing in between. The trunks would be driven into the ground, and would sometimes be reinforced with additional construction.