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Pump and dump "Pump and dump" (also known as "Stock Dump" and "Hype and Dump Manipulation") is a term used to describe a form of financial fraud that typically involves artificially inflating the price of a stock or other security through untrue or exaggerated promotion (creating artificial demand), in order to sell stock, previously purchased cheaply, at the inflated price. When the promotion stops or flaws in the promotion are exposed, the artificial demand is removed, causing a collapse in the price of the investment, leaving many investors out of pocket.
Pump Branch The Pump Branch is a tributary of Albertson Brook in southern New Jersey in the United States. It arises at Virginia Lake, in the hamlet of Florence and flows under and along the former Atlantic City Railroad main line to the hamlet of Cedar Brook.
Pump House Brewery The Pump House Brewery is a group of beer brewing and bar/catering business, it was opened as a brewpub in downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1999 by the co-owners Shaun Fraser, a local fire department chief, and his wife Lilia Fraser, currently the general manager. They debuted in style on New Year's Eve with the first new beer of the millennium.
Pump Source Pump Source is an Indian directory of pump manufacturers, pump parts and pump-related products in that country. It has been published By the "Indian Trade Development" Ahmedabad Gujarat India, since 1986.
Pump up the Volume (song) "Pump up the Volume" (1987) was the only single released by British recording act M/A/R/R/S. It was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and is generally regarded as a significant milestone in the development of British house music and sampling culture.
Pump-action A pump-action rifle or shotgun is one in which the handgrip can be pumped back and forth in order to eject and chamber a round of ammunition. It is much faster than a bolt-action and somewhat faster than a lever-action, as it does not require the trigger hand to be removed from the trigger whilst reloading.
Pumpgirl Pumpgirl is a play set in County Armagh about three people - the eponymous Pumpgirl, the guy she fancies, and his wife. It was written by Abbie Spallen, and performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from 3 to 27 August 2006, and at the Bush Theatre, London from 12 September to 14 October 2006.
Pumpherston Pumpherston is a small dormitory village in West Lothian, Scotland. Originally a small industrial village to the nearby shale mine and works, it now adjoins the new town of Livingston, which was constructed alongside Pumpherston in the late 1960s and quickly grew much larger than its neighbours.
Pumpin' house Pumpin' house also known as Hard Funk is a subgenre of House music. Developed in the late 90's and related to French house, it also often samples disco, rock, jazz, and/or funk loops (sometimes creating dense layered textures) and usually makes extensive use of filters, but gains its appellation from its heavy use of audio level compression, which makes tracks surge and pulse -- important to create physicality in dance music.
Pumping (computer systems) Pumping, when referring to computer systems, is simply how many times per clock cycle data is being transmitted. Early types of system memory (RAM), such as SDRAM, transmitted data on only the peaks of the cycles.
Pumping lemma In the theory of formal languages in computability theory, a pumping lemma states that any language of a given class can be "pumped" and still belong to that class. A language can be pumped if any sufficiently long string in the language can be broken into pieces, some of which can be repeated arbitrarily to produce a longer string in the language.
Pumping station Pumping stations are facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems that many people take for granted, such as the supply of water to canals, the drainage of low-lying land, and the removal of sewage to processing sites.
Pumpkin bomb "Pumpkin bombs" were conventional high explosive aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. The name "pumpkin bomb" resulted from the large ellipsoidal shape of the munition and was the actual reference term used in official documents.
Pumpkin chunking Pumpkin chunking (or Punkin' Chunkin' or pumpkin chucking) is hurling pumpkins by mechanical means over great heights and distances in an attempt to hurl the pumpkin the farthest. In order of increasing effectiveness, the devices include compound slingshots, catapults, trebuchets, and pneumatic air cannons.
Pumpkin seed oil Pumpkin seed oil (also known as pumpkinseed oil, pumpkinseedoil, kernöl, or kürbiskernöl) is a culinary specialty of Styria, Austria and is made by pressing the roasted seeds of pumpkins. It is also widely used and produced in eastern parts of Slovenia, namely Prekmurje and Slovenian Styria (Štajerska) region.
Pumpkin-headed deer Deer enjoy eating pumpkin innards, and sometimes one will get its head stuck inside a pumpkin, generally one set out for Halloween. Even more common is a deer's head becoming stuck inside a plastic trick-or-treat bucket shaped like a pumpkin.
Pumpkinhead (rapper) Robert Diaz, better known as Pumpkinhead, is a rap artist who hails from Brooklyn, New York. He has released several albums to critical acclaim, is considered in the underground scene a rhyme writer and freestyler equal to peers like Aesop Rock and Pharoahe Monch, yet has thus far been unable to achieve mainstream success.
Pumpsie Green Elijah Jerry (Pumpsie) Green (born October 27, 1933 in Oakland, California) is a former Major League Baseball backup infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox (1959-62) and New York Mets (1963). He was a switch-hitter who threw right-handed.
Pun A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor.
Puna, Hawaii Puna (which literally means “spring”) is one of the 9 districts of the Island of Hawaii (Big Island). It is located on the windward side (eastside) of the island and shares borders with South Hilo district in the north and Kaū district in the west.
Punaauia Punaauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaauia is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands.
Punalu'u, Hawai'i Punaluu (IPA: ) is a census-designated place and rural community in the Koolauloa District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu. In Hawaiian, punaluu means "coral dived for", or in the case of the fishpond once located here, possibly "spring dived for".
Punaluu Black Sand Beach Punalu'u Black Sand Beach is a beach near Naalehu, Hawaii on the Big Island of Hawaii that has black sand created by volcanic activity. This occurs when the lava flows into the ocean and explodes when it cools as it hits the ocean.
Punan Punan, or Punan Bah is an ethnic group distinct, unrelated to the Penan, as well as the other so called Punan in both Sarawak and Kalimantan part of Borneo such as Punan Busang, Punan Aehong, Punan Penihing, Punan Batu, Punan Sajau etc. The word "Punan" carry a meaning of "human being" in Punan language.
Punarnirmaan Punarnirmaan is one of the response programmes of Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union and Peoples Action for Rural Awakening to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake-affected people of the districts of Nellore, Prakasam, Krishna, and East Godavari in the state of Andhra Pradesh, South India.
Puná Island Puná Island is an Island off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude. It is located at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, south of the mouth of the Guayas River and the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and chief port.
Punctualism Punctualism (commonly also called "pointillism") is a style of musical composition prevalent in Europe between 1949 and 1955 "whose structures are predominantly effected from tone to tone, without superordinate formal conceptions coming to bear" (Essl 1989, 93). In simpler terms: "music that consists of separately formed particles—however complexly these may be composed—[is called] punctual music, as opposed to linear, or group-formed, or mass-formed music" (Stockhausen 1998, 452).
Punctuated equilibrium Punctuated equilibrium (or punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology which states that most sexually reproducing species will show little to no evolutionary change throughout their history. When evolution does occur, it happens sporadically (by splitting) and occurs relatively quickly compared to the species' full duration on earth.
Punctuated gradualism Punctuated gradualism is a macroevolutionary hypothesis that refers to a species that has "relative stasis over a considerable part of its total duration [and] underwent periodic, relatively rapid, morphologic change that did not lead to lineage branching". GeoScienceWorld article Evidence for punctuated gradualism in the late Neogene Globorotalia tumida lineage of planktonic foraminifera
Puncturing In coding theory, puncturing is the process of removing some of the parity bits after encoding with an error-correction code. This has the same effect as encoding with an error-correction code with a higher rate, or less redundancy.
Punding Punding is human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects. For example, punding may consist of activities such as:
Pundit (expert) Pundit in strict contemporary English refers to an individual considered highly knowledgeable in a particular subject area, most typically political analysis, the social sciences or sport. As the term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities lacking special expertise, however, it can be used in a derogative manner.
Pundit (India) A pandit or pundit (Devanagari: पण्डित, pronunciation: / /) is a scholar, a teacher, particularly one skilled in Sanskrit and Hindu law, religion and philosophy. In the original usage of the word, a pundit is a Hindu, almost always a Brahmin, who has memorized a substantial portion of the Vedas, along with the corresponding rhythms and melodies for chanting or singing them.
Pundjel In Australian aboriginal mythology, Pundjel is a creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites. He was very much involved in the initiation of boys into manhood.
Pune Division Pune Division is one of the six divisions of India's Maharashtra state. Pune Division is bound by Konkan Division to the west, Nashik Division to the north, Marathwada (Aurangabad Division) to the east, and the state of Karnataka to the south.
Punga (mythology) In Māori mythology, Punga is a supernatural being, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things. Hence the saying Te aitanga a Punga (the offspring of Punga) used to describe an ugly person.
Punga People The Punga People are a set of sculptures in New Zealand in the Marlborough Sounds. They are carved out of the stems of punga, a type of tree fern, and are hidden in a maze of pathways through the New Zealand bush.
Pungent Stench Pungent Stench are a darkly humorous death metal band from Vienna, Austria who formed in 1988. Their current lineup consists of Martin Schirenc (vocals/guitars), Marius Mausna (bass), and Alex Wank (sic) (drums).
Punggol Punggol, or Ponggol, is a neighbourhood in northeastern Singapore. Presently, much of Punggol is undeveloped, although plans to turn the area into a residential new town under the "Punggol 21" initiative have begun to take place in the south-eastern parts of the area bordering neighbouring Sengkang.
Punggol Bus Interchange Punggol Bus Interchange (Chinese: 榜鵝临时巴士转换站) is a temporary bus interchange in Punggol Place, and immediately adjacent to the Punggol MRT Station. It is built to allow for easy dismantling when the site is redeveloped as part of a major commercial development when Punggol New Town is more developed.
Punggol New Town Punggol New Town (also spelled Ponggol), located in the vicinity of the Punggol Jetty, was believed to have existed 200 years ago before Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore. It was one of the oldest settlements in Singapore.
Pungmul {{koreanname noimage|hangul=풍물|hanja=[or nong-ak, is a Korean] folk music tradition that includes [[drum|drumming, dancing, and singing. Most performances are outside, with tens of players, all in constant motion.
Pungo, Virginia Pungo is a rural community located in the southern Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Because the community is located in an independent city, there has been no census for the town, however, as of 2004 the estimated population is approximately 100 inhabitants.
Pungoteague River Light The Pungoteague River Light was a small screwpile lighthouse constructed in the Chesapeake Bay in 1854. Destroyed in 1856, it had the shortest recorded existence of any lighthouse on the Bay, and possibly the United States, at just 459 days.
Punch (drink) Punch (derived from Hindi word Panch meaning five) is a general term for any of a wide assortment of mixed drinks, either soft or alcoholic, often containing fruit or fruit juice. Punch is typically served at parties in large, wide bowls known as punchbowls.
Punch (engineering) A punch is a hard metal rod with a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other that is usually struck by a hammer. A variety of punches are used in engineering, but often the purpose is to form an impression of the tip on a workpiece.
Punch a Bunch Punch a Bunch (also occasionally, if incorrectly, known as Punchboard) is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on September 27, 1978, it is played for a cash prize of up to $10,000, and uses small prizes.
Punch and Judy Punch and Judy is a popular puppet show featuring Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Punch and one other character.
Punch block A punch block (also punchblock, punchdown block, quick-connect block and other variations) is a type of electrical connection often used in telephony. It is named because the solid copper wires are punched down into short open-ended slots known as Insulation-displacement connectors.
Punch buggy Punch buggy (also called punch bug, slug bug or punch beetle) is a car game generally played by young children in which participants hit each other upon sight of a Volkswagen Beetle. A friendlier version of the game is Hug Bug, this is more suitable when you are trying to teach young children not to hit each other.
Punch Bowl Farm Punch Bowl Farm is a farm in the south-west of the English county of Surrey, near the Devil's Punch Bowl. It became famous in the 1950s and 1960s when the English children's writer Monica Edwards, who at that point lived at the farm with her husband (its then farmer Bill Edwards) wrote a series of books set there, with the farm's name restyled as "Punchbowl Farm".
Punch Dialogue A punch dialogue is an expression or a sentence used most frequently in the Indian film industry, especially the Tamil and Telugu film industries and is generally a dialogue uttered by the protagonist to describe his character and his off-screen ambitions in a flamboyant and grandiose manner. These dialogues have been used by dialogue writers to bolster the screen image of the protagonist and also make sure that another meaning is implicit in it which would convey the contemporary ambitions of the hero/heroine during the release of the film.
Punch Dickins Clennell Haggerston "Punch" Dickins OBE, DFC (12 January 1899 - 2 August 1995) was a pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot. Northern Indians called him "Snow Eagle;" northern whites called him "White Eagle;" newsmen called him the "Flying Knight of the Northland.
Punch list Punch list is generally any list of tasks, or a "to-do" list of items. Specifically, this is the name of a contract document used in architecture and the building trades in the United States to organize the final stages of a construction project.
Punch perm A punch perm is a type of tightly permed male hairstyle in Japan that is popular amongst Yakuza, Chimpira, Yakuza hanger-ons, bosozoku (motorcyle gang members), truck drivers, construction workers, and Enka singers. This hair style probably got its name from "needle punch carpeting", which is a type floor covering with a short and tightly curled nap.
Punch Taverns Punch Taverns plc is the largest pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 9,500 tenanted and managed pubs. It is headquartered in the traditional brewing centre of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire.
Punch-Out A Punch-Out is a slang term in professional boxing referring to a boxer who boasts and taunts his opponent but can not hold his own in the ring in actual boxing competition. Informally defined, it could be best described as being able to "talk the talk" but not back it up in the ring.
Punchbowl Bus Company The Punchbowl Bus and Coach Company operates public buses in the south and inner south western suburbs of Sydney. It currently operates routes 940, 941, 942, 943, 944, 945, 450, 451, 953, 954 and various school specials.
Punchbowl, New South Wales Punchbowl is a suburb, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Punchbowl is located 17km south west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of the City of Bankstown and the City of Canterbury.
Punchcutting In traditional typography, punchcutting is the craft of cutting letter punches from which matrices were made in hard type metal for type founding in the letterpress era. Cutting punches and casting type was the first step of traditional typesetting.
Punched card A punch card or punched card (or punchcard or Hollerith card or IBM card), is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Almost an obsolescent recording medium, punched cards were widely used throughout the nineteenth century for controlling textile looms and through the twentieth century in unit record machines for input, processing, and data storage.
Punched tape Punched tape or paper tape is a largely obsolete form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data. It was widely used during much of the twentieth century for teleprinter communication, and later as a storage medium for minicomputers and CNC machine tools.
Puncheon The puncheon, in the United States also called pon for brevity, is an old English unit of wine casks, holding about 318 litres. It is also known as tertian (from the Latin word for third), because three of it make a tun, and as the (wine) firkin.
Punching bag A punching bag is a sturdy bag designed to be repeatedly punched, for use in exercise or physical training. Someone who trains using a punching bag is usually trying to improve one of three areas: physical strength, cardiac fitness, or punching technique.
Punching in A recording technique used on early multitrack recordings whereby a portion of the performance was overdubbed onto the (already recorded) tape, usually overwriting any sound that had previously been on the track used. The erasing and/or recording heads must be very carefully aligned and applied to the tape surface with delicate timing and precision to avoid ruining the recording, and the practise was feared by most producers and engineers.
Punching power Punching power is a term that describes the amount of momentum in a person's punches. Knockout power is a more specific term for the probability of any strike to the head to cause unconsciousness in an opponent (usually referred to as a knockout).
Puni Puni Poemy The anime OVA Puni Puni Poemy (ぷにぷに☆ぽえみぃ Puni Puni ☆ Poemii) is a frenetic spin-off from the popular Excel Saga animated series, featuring some of its secondary characters and many of its staff, primarily director Shinichi Watanabe.
Punic The Punics, (from Latin pūnicus meaning Phoenician) were a group of Western Semitic speaking peoples originating from Carthage in North Africa who traced their origins to a group of Phoenician and Cypriot settlers. Contrary to other Phoenicians they had a landowning aristocracy who established a rule of the hinterland in Northern Africa and trans-Sahara traderoutes.
Punic military forces The military forces of the Punic people are all military forces from the State of Carthage in North Africa. Its influence covered a large strip of coastline as well as most of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and parts of the Iberian peninsula.
Punic Wars The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and the city-state of Carthage. They are known as the Punic Wars because the Latin term for Carthaginian was Punici (older Poenici, from their Phoenician ancestry).
Punicalagins Punicalagins are tannins, large polyphenol compound which are isomers of 2,3-(S)-hexahydroxydiphenoyl-4,6-(S,S)-gallagyl-D-glucose, hydrolysable tannins with a molecular weight of 1084. Punicalagins are the largest molecule found intact in rat plasma after oral ingestionCerda et al.
Punilla Valley The Punilla Valley (in Spanish, Valle de Punilla) is a broad fluvial valley in the province of CĂłrdoba, Argentina. It is located in the center-northwest of the province, bordered by the Sierras Chicas in the east and the Sierras Grandes and the Achala Pampas in the west, oriented from north to south.
Puniša Račić Puniša Račić (Пуниша Рачић) was a Montenegrin Serb politician, a member of the Yugoslav Parliament from the National Radical Party, who assassinated Pavle Radić and Djuro Basariček, Croatian Peasant Party representatives, deadly wounding Stjepan Radić, leader of Croatian Peasant Party at the time and wounding a further two.
Punishment Park Punishment Park is a 1971 film written and directed by Peter Watkins. It is a pseudo documentary of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they round up a group of members of the counterculture across the desert.
Punit Sablok Punit Sablok is the owner of the Cross Café restaurant - formerly known as Hitlers' Cross, located in Navi Mumbai, a northern suburb of Bombay, India. He attracted controversy by naming the restaurent after the dictator because it seemed to glorify Hitler, although Sablok claimed that was not his intent.
Punitive damages Generally, punitive damages, which are termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom, are damages not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff. Punitive damages are awarded only in special cases where conduct was egregiously invidious, and are over and above the amount of compensatory damages.
Punitive Expedition of 1897 The Punitive Expedition of 1897 was a military excursion by a British force of 1,200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson that captured, burned, and looted the city of Benin, bringing to an end the highly sophisticated West African Kingdom of Benin. During the conquering and burning of the city, most of the country’s treasured art, including the Benin Bronzes, was either destroyed, looted or dispersed.
Punjab & Sind Bank Punjab & Sind Bank is a major bank in Northern India. Of its almost 900 branches and offices spread throughout India, almost 400 are in Punjab state, though the bank's corporate headquarters is in New Delhi.
Punjab (India) Punjab (, , , ) (Also spelled Panjab) is a state in northwest India. Punjab (India) borders Punjab (Pakistan) to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Chandigarh to the southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest.
Punjab (Pakistan) The Punjab or Panjab (Punjabi/Urdu: پنجاب) province of Pakistan is the country's most populous region and is home to the Punjabis and various other groups. Neighbouring areas are Sindh to the south, Balochistan and the North West Frontier Province to the west, Pakistani administered Azad Kashmir, Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad to the north, and Indian Punjab and Rajasthan to the east.
Punjab Agricultural University The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), was established in 1962 in Ludhiana, Punjab on the pattern of land grant colleges of USA with a mandate to conduct excellence in research and teaching, its has an integrated teaching research and extension programme. It has a international reputation for excellence in agriculture due the level of awards it has won and achievements made throughout its history, particularly during India's historic Green revolution.
Punjab cricket team The Punjab cricket team is the official first-class cricket team that represents the Indian state of Punjab. They have qualified for three Ranji Trophy semi-finals in the last five seasons, and made it to the final in 2004–05 tournament, where they lost to Railways on first innings.
Punjab Disturbances Court Of Inquiry In the beginning of March 1953, widespread disturbances broke out in the Punjab, Pakistan, which in some places continued till the middle of April 1953. These took so alarming a turn and assumed such a menacing form that in several places the military had to be called in, and in Lahore Martial Law had to be proclaimed, which remained in force till the middle of May 1953.
Punjab Engineering College Punjab Engineering College (Hindi:पंजाब इंजिनियरिंग कॉलेज), or PEC for short, is an engineering institute located in the city of Chandigarh.The institute is well known for its collegial learning environment and its beautiful campus.
Punjab gharānā Punjab Gharana (sometimes called Punjabi or Panjabi Gharana), is a style and technique of tabla playing used in the Punjab region of India. Punjabi gharana is the only gharana (style) that is independent of Delhi gharana.
Punjab Hill States The Punjab Hill States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in 1936, and was composed of a number of princely states in the present-day Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal.
Punjab Legislative Assembly (historical) The Punjab Legislative Assembly was the legislature of the province of Punjab in British India. Established by British authorities in 1910, the assembly had nominal powers and a membership of mainly pro-British politicians and government officials.
Punjab National Bank Punjab National Bank (PNB), established in 1895 in Lahore, then a part of undivided India, is the second largest public sector commercial bank in India with about 4500 branches and offices throughout the country. The Government of India nationalized the bank, along with 13 other major commercial banks of India, on July 19, 1969.
Punjab School Education Board Punjab School Education Board, Chandigarh was founded in 1969 under an Act of Legislation of Government of Punjab to administer curriculum taught in public schools in Punjab state and conduct standardised examinations beside conduct teacher training, administration of scholarships, publishing of text-books.
Punjab States Agency The Punjab States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and was composed of 34 princely states in northwest India formerly under the British Punjab Province.
Punjab Technical University Punjab Technical University (PTU), at Jalandhar was established by an act of State Legislature on 16 th Jan 1997, to promote Technical, Management & Pharmaceutical education in the Punjab State at the Degree level and above. The University has the mandate to set up centres of Excellence in Emerging Technologies and for promoting Training, Research & Development in these areas.
Punjabi culture Punjabi Culture, is the world-renowned culture of Punjab, it is one of the oldest and richest cultures in world history, dating from ancient antiquity to the modern era. The Punjabi Culture is the culture of the Punjabi people who are now distributed throughout the world.
Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago The Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago is a not-for-profit organization located in Palatine, Illinois which seeks to encourage Punjabi culture in the Chicagoland area and the Midwestern United States. The Punjabi Cultural Society (PCS) was incorporated in response to disagreements with the older Punjabi Heritage Organization.
Punjabi dance Punjabi Dances, due to the long history of the Punjabi culture and of the Punjabi people there is a large number of dances. These dances are normally performed at times of celebration the most prominent being at Punjabi weddings, where the elation is usually particularly intense.
Punjabi Dalits Punjab is the state in the Indian Union with the highest percentage of Dalits (27%). The main Dalit groups of Punjab include Balmikis, Chamars, Churas, Kabirpanthis, Nais, Mazhabis, Rangrehtas, Ramdasias and Ravidasis.
Punjabi mafia The Punjabi Mafia (known locally as baiymanns or tuugs) are loosely, somewhat organized crime families in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, which have controlled the underworld of the region for centuries. Although it has similarities with the much more deadlier "Thuggee", it has developed significantly over the years.
Punjabi Market (Vancouver) The Punjabi Market or Little India is a small commercial district in Vancouver, British Columbia officially recognized by the city as being primarily Indo-Canadian businesses. This is a 5 block section of Main Street around 49th Avenue in the Sunset neighbourhood.
Punjabi Muslim tribes from Hindu Lineage A numerically significant population of the Punjabi Muslims in Pakistan are descendents of Hindus. The prevalence of common Punjabi Hindu and Sikh family names among contemporary Punjabi Muslims of Pakistan is proof of their Hindu lineage.
Punjabi people The Punjabi people (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی, also Panjabi people) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from South Asia. Their region, the Punjab, has been host to some of the oldest civilizations in the world.
Punjena paprika Punjena paprika (Croatian for "stuffed peppers") is a Croatian dish consisting of paprika or peppers filled with minced meat and rice, most popular in the Zagorje region (influenced by Hungarian cuisine.) There are many variations of the dish across the Balkans.

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