Pitta

Pitta Western hooded pitta in southern Thailand Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passer…

Pixies (band)

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1986. The original lineup consisted of Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar…

Planar transmission line

Transmission lines with flat ribbon-like conducting or dielectric lines Printed circuit planar transmission lines used to create filters in a 20 GHz spectrum an…

Planescape: Torment

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Planet

The eight planets of the Solar System with size to scale (up to down, left to right): Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune (outer planets), Earth, Venus, Mars, and …
Science

Planet Nine

Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits fo…

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in…

Planet Stories

The March 1951 issue of Planet Stories; art by Allen Anderson Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1…

Planets beyond Neptune

Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in …

Plants vs. Zombies (video game)

2009 video game.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-col…

Plateosaurus

PlateosaurusTemporal range: Late Triassic (Norian), 227–204 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Mounted skeleton of P. trossingensis (GPIT "Skel…

Platypus

PlatypusTemporal range: Pliocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Platypus swimming in waters near Scottsdale, Tasmania Conservation status N…
Nature

PlayStation (console)

The PlayStation (codenamed PSX, abbreviated as PS, and retronymically PS1 or PS one) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entert…

Plesiorycteropus

PlesiorycteropusTemporal range: Holocene (1) Right innominate (pelvic bone) of Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis (British Museum number M 7085, holotype of…

Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3

Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was a rubble masonry stone arch bridge over Plunketts Creek in Plunketts Creek Township in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was b…

Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and t…

Plutonium

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Plymouth Colony

Plymouth Colony (sometimes spelled Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England, founded in 1620, and the third permanent English colony in A…

Pod (The Breeders album)

Pod is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band the Breeders, released by 4AD records on May 29, 1990. Engineered by Steve Albini, the album fea…

Podokesaurus

PodokesaurusTemporal range: Early Jurassic, 190 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Cast of the holotype specimen at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natura…

Poecilia vandepolli

Van de Poll's molly A freshwater male Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:…

Poetry of Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, reciting her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton Maya Angelou, an African-American writer who is b…

Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell

Location of Fountains Abbey Around June 1447, John Greenwell, the abbot of Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire, Northern England, was poisoned by a monk, William Down…