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  • P ... P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
  • P.V. Sindhu ... pacemaker enzyme
  • Pacensis Colonia ... Pacific Mail Steamship Company
  • Pacific mountain system ... packet-switched network
  • packing ... Padua
  • Padua, University of ... pageant
  • Pageant of the Pacific ... pailü
  • Paimio ... Pais, Sidónio
  • Paisà ... Pakxé
  • PAL ... Palais de la gloire, Le
  • Palais des Festivals ... palea
  • Paleacrita vernata ... Palestinian National Authority
  • Palestinian religions ... pallial retractor muscle
  • palliative care ... Palmer, Arnold Daniel
  • Palmer, Barbara ... palsy
  • Palta ... Pan American World Airways, Inc.
  • Pan Asia ... Panamanian golden toad
  • Panamax ... Pandanus
  • pandanus ... Pangaea
  • Pangaeos, Mount ... Panna
  • Panna National Park ... Panthera leo melanochaita
  • Panthera leo persica ... Papá Montero
  • Papa’s Delicate Condition ... paper pulp
  • paper recovery system ... papyrology
  • papyrus ... Paradine Case, The
  • Paradip ... Paraíba
  • Paraíba ... paramesonephric duct
  • Paramesvara ... Paraschivescu, Miron
  • Paraschwagerina ... Pardalotus
  • Pardalotus punctatus ... Paria Plateau
  • Paria River ... Paris Summit
  • Paris Symphonies ... Park, Orlando
  • Park, Randall ... Parks, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan
  • Parks, Gordon, Jr. ... Parnicki, Teodor
  • Párnis Óros ... pars compacta
  • pars distalis ... Partenopeus de Blois
  • parterre ... particle beam therapy
  • particle density ... Partij voor de Vrijheid
  • partimen ... Parvīn Eʿteṣāmī
  • parvocellular layer ... Pashmakli
  • pashmina ... passepied
  • passer ... passive transport
  • passive voice ... Pastoureaux
  • pastourelle ... patellar luxation
  • patellar reflex ... pathological curve
  • pathological fracture ... patriciate
  • patricii ... pattern knit
  • pattern mining ... Paul the Hermit
  • Paul the Silentiary ... Pausanias
  • Pausias ... Pawtucket River
  • Pawtuxet River ... Paz, Manuel de Godoy, Prince de la
  • Paz, Octavio ... PDSR
  • PDT ... Peach, Charles William
  • peach-faced lovebird ... Pearl River
  • Pearl River Convention ... Pech language
  • Pech Morena ... Pedersen, Charles John
  • Pedersen, Christiern ... Pedunculata
  • pedunculate barnacle ... Pehlevi alphabet
  • Pehlevi language ... Pelagophyceae
  • Pelagophycus ... Pelleas und Melisande
  • Pellegrin, Abbé ... Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
  • Pembroke, Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd Earl of ... pendeloque
  • Pendennis ... Peninsular Malaysia
  • peninsular pronghorn ... Pennsylvania Study of the Relation of Secondary and Higher Education, The
  • Pennsylvania Study, The ... pentane
  • Pentangle ... People of Juvik, The
  • People of Seldwyla, The ... People’s Supreme Court
  • People’s Theatre ... Pepple dynasty
  • Peprilus alepidotus ... perched rock
  • Percheron ... peregrine falcon
  • Peregrine Pickle ... perfect gas
  • perfect gas equation of state ... pericarp
  • pericentre ... Periodos gēs
  • Perionyx excavatus ... Perlman, Rhea Jo
  • Perlman, Ron ... Perot, Henry Ross
  • Perot, Ross ... Perry, Lee “Scratch”
  • Perry, Lilla Cabot ... Persica
  • Persica ... Persons, Robert
  • Persons, Truman Streckfus ... Pescadores
  • Pescara ... Pete, Megan Jovon Ruth
  • petechia ... Peter the Just
  • Peter the Tramp ... Petit, Jacob
  • Petit, Philippe ... Petrodromus tetradactylus
  • Petrodvorets ... Petrovsk Port
  • Petrovsky Palace ... Pew, John Howard
  • Pew, Joseph N., Jr. ... Phabsomphou, Sunisa
  • Phacelia ... Pham Hung
  • phamsana ... Pharsalus, Battle of
  • pharyngeal fricative ... Phelps, Samuel
  • Phelps, William Lyon ... Philadelphia
  • Philadelphia ... Philidor, François-André
  • Philidor, Michel ... Philippi Races
  • Philippi, Battle of ... Phillips, Tom
  • Phillips, W. T. ... Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesener menschlichen Freiheit
  • Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung ... phlyakes
  • phlyakes stage ... Phoenix Mercury
  • Phoenix Mountains Preserve ... phosphatide
  • phosphatidic acid ... photocomposition
  • photoconductive cell ... photoreception
  • photoreceptor ... Phrynops hilarii
  • Phrynosoma ... phylogenetic grading
  • Phylogenetic Systematics ... Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe
  • Physiognomische Reisen ... Piaggia, Carlo
  • Piagnoni ... Picasso, Pablo Ruiz
  • Picathartes ... Pickfair
  • Pickford, Mary ... Picturesque and Historical Voyage to Brazil
  • piculet ... pier buttress
  • Pier Damiani, San ... Pietà
  • Pietarsaari ... Pigot, George
  • Pigot, George Pigot, Baron ... pilgrim bottle
  • Pilgrim Fathers ... Pilot Rock
  • pilot whale ... pinball game
  • pinball machine ... Pinelands National Reserve
  • Pinelli, Giuseppe ... pinkeye
  • pinkeye ... Pinus quadrifolia
  • Pinus radiata ... Piperales
  • piperazine ... Pirelli Family
  • Pirelli SpA ... pīshṭāq
  • Pisidia ... pitch clock
  • pitch control ... pitted shell turtle
  • Pitti Palace ... Piyamaradus
  • Piyashilish ... Placuna placenta
  • Plaek Khittasangkha ... Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • Plan Colombia ... planispheric astrolabe
  • Plank, The ... plantcutter
  • Planté cell ... plastic forming
  • Plastic Hearts ... Plateresco
  • Plateresque ... Platystemon californicus
  • Platystrophia ... Pleasant Memoirs of the Marquis de Bradomin: Four Sonatas, The
  • Pleasant Valley Siding ... Plenty
  • Plenty, Bay of ... Pli selon pli
  • plica adiposa ... Plow, The
  • Płowce, Battle of ... pluriform monotheism
  • plurimum interrogationum ... PNC Park
  • PNDC ... Pocahontas
  • Pocałunki ... Podolsk
  • Podolsky, Boris ... Poems From Prison
  • Poems in Prose ... Poezye
  • Poezye ... point of order
  • Point of Order ... Poisson, Jeanne-Antoinette
  • Poisson, Siméon-Denis ... polar climate
  • Polar continental ... pole-chair
  • polecat ... Polisario Front
  • Polish ... Political Register
  • political risk analysis ... Pollenza
  • pollex ... Polus
  • Poluy ... Polydoúre, Maria
  • Polyeidus ... polymorph
  • polymorphic variation ... Polyptych of the Misericordia
  • polyrhythm ... pomerium
  • Pomerium ... pond tadpole
  • pond turtle ... Pontiac fever
  • Pontiac GTO ... Poolman
  • pools ... poplar
  • Poplar Fields ... Population III
  • population inversion ... Porky Pig
  • Porlamar ... Port Gibson, Battle of
  • Port Gilbert ... Portable Kisses
  • Portable Palette ... Portinari, Cándido
  • Portinari, Tommaso ... Portrait of Mademoiselle Charlotte du Val d’Ognes
  • Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Lopukhina ... Poseidon missile
  • Poseidonia ... possum haw
  • possum oak ... posterior pituitary lobe
  • posterior probability ... pot-bellied stove
  • pot-roasting ... potentiality
  • potentially hazardous asteroid ... Pottsville Series
  • POTUS ... Povídky z jedné kapsy
  • POW ... Power of Sympathy, or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, The
  • power of the continuum ... Poznań Riots
  • Pozo Colorado ... Practice of the Presence of God, The
  • Practice, The ... Prairie Home Companion, A
  • Prairie la Crosse ... Pratihara dynasty
  • pratima ... Pre-Chimú
  • pre-Classic people ... precursor cell
  • Preda, Marin ... prehensile hand
  • prehensile tail ... prenatal diagnosis
  • prenatal testing ... prescription
  • prescription ... presidential election of 2004
  • Presidential Election of 2008 ... pressure remanent magnetization
  • pressure ridge ... Pretty Woman
  • Pretty Woman: The Musical ... Price, Carey
  • Price, David ... Priest and the Jester, The
  • Priest Lake ... primary interjection
  • primary literature ... primeval forest
  • Primevères ... Prince of Foxes
  • Prince of Gymnastics, the ... Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation, The
  • principal quantum number ... printmaking
  • Printz v. United States ... Pristella riddlei
  • Pristidae ... privilege
  • Privilege of Nieszawa ... probiotic
  • problem ... processionary caterpillar
  • Procházka, Jan ... producing
  • product ... profit
  • profit ... Progressive movement
  • progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ... Prokop
  • Prokop Holý the Shaven ... Promised Land, The
  • Promised Land, The ... propeller turbine
  • propelling charge ... proposition
  • Proposition 209 ... Prosopis ruscifolia
  • Prosopium ... protection, nominal rate of
  • protection, principle of ... Protium
  • protium ... proton microprobe
  • proton NMR ... Provence-Côte d’Azur
  • provendier ... proximity fuze
  • Proxmire, Edward William ... Pryazovska Vysochyna
  • Pryce, Simon ... Psammodrilus
  • Psammomys ... pseudoionone
  • Pseudois ... Psilotaceae
  • Psilotophyta ... psychocultural interpretation theory
  • Psychodiagnostics ... psyllium
  • Psyllophryne didactyla ... pterygium
  • pterygopalatine ganglion ... pubescent phase
  • pubic bone ... Public Speaking
  • public speaking ... Puebla, Anniversary of the Battle of
  • Puebla, Battle of ... Puffinus auricularis
  • Puffinus griseus ... Pulkovo, Battle of
  • pull ... pulse-height analyzer
  • pulse-height spectrometry ... Punic War, Third
  • Punic Wars ... Puratan
  • Purattu ... Purity, Brethren of
  • Purkinje cell ... Purtscheller, Ludwig
  • Puruhá ... Puteshestvie v Zemlyu Ofirskuyu
  • Putesky, Scott ... PVAc
  • PVB ... pygmy sunfish
  • pygmy swiftlet ... pyran
  • pyrantel pamoate ... pyroxenite
  • pyroxylin ... PZT
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