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Pokey Minch is Ness' portly, cowardly next-door neighbor in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound. His family seems to hold a grudge against Ness' family, because Pokey's father, Aloysius Minch, apparently loaned a few hundred thousand Dollars to Ness' dad, and never got them back (he then comments that the loan "probably could've been less").
Pokey the Penguin Pokey the Penguin is a surrealistic online comic strip, which began in 1998 and continues to be updated (albeit sporadically). The individual strips have little or no apparent logic on first glance, are filled with corrections (crossed-out words, occasionally images scribbled over), and lack of evident punch lines.
Pokhara University Pokhara University was established in 1996 as a fifth University in the country under the government's policy of adopting a multi-university system in the country with aims to expand the access to higher education. The Prime Minister is the Chancellor of the University and the Pro-Chancellor is the Minister for Education.
Pokhariya Pokhariya or Pokharia is the group of people live in the newly formed state of Uttarakhand, India. It is an old Rajput clan living in the Garkha region of Pithoragarh district in the Kanalichhina developmental block of Didihat Tehsil.
Pokhran Pokhran (also spelt Pokaran) is a city and a municipality in Jaisalmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is a remote location in Thar Desert region, the test site for India's first underground nuclear weapon detonation.
Pokhran-II Pokharan-II refers to test explosions of five nuclear devices, three on 11 May and two on 13 May 1998, by India at Pokhran. It was conducted when the NDA government was in power with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister.
Pokia Pokia is a name given to cell phone attachments that are based on old style two piece telephone handsets. Typically Pokia handsets involve the pairing of outdated telephone technology with modern cellphones resulting in a Pokia handset that is generally bulkier than the cellphone it is connected to.
Pokiri (Telugu film) Pokiri (Telugu: పొకీరి) is a 2006 Telugu movie directed, written, and produced by Puri Jagannadh. Mahesh Babu plays the lead role while Ileana, Prakash Raj, Sayaji Shinde, and Ashish Vidyarthi play other roles.
Pokkiri Pokkiri (2007) is an Action Tamil film directed by Prabhu Deva, released on January 14, 2007 on Thai Pongal day. The film starred Vijay and Asin Thottumkal in the lead roles with Prakash Raj, Nassar, Vadivelu and Napolean in other roles.
Pokljuka Pokljuka is a foresty plateau at the altitude of around 1300 metres, situated partly in the municipality of Bled and partly in municipality of Bohinj in northwestern Slovenia. It is part of Triglav national park.
Pokot The Pokot people (commonly spelled Pökoot, and called Suk in older literature) live in the West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya and in eastern Karamoja in Uganda. They speak Pökoot, a Kalenjin language of the Southern Nilotic language family.
Pokuttya Pokuttya or Pokuttia (, , ) is a historical area of Central Europe, between upper Prut and Cheremosh rivers, in modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally-distinct area inhabitated by Romanians and Ruthenians on the previously-unpopulated borderlands between the lands of Lviv and Halych.
Pol (housing) A pol (pronounced as pole) is a housing cluster which comprises many families of a particular group, linked by caste, profession, or religion. Pols are typical of urban centres in Gujarat especially of Ahmedabad.
Pol Medina, Jr. Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is a Filipino cartoonist best known for creating Pugad Baboy, a black-and-white comic strip first published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988.
Pol Plançon Pol Plançon (June 12, 1854–August 11, 1914) was a French operatic bass (see basse chantante) and one of the most acclaimed and popular singers around the turn of the 20th century. In addition to being one of the earliest subjects in the history of recorded sound, he was a versatile singer, with roles ranging from classical opera, such as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, to those in the premieres of several late 19th century operas.
Pol Pot Saloth Sar (May 19, 1925–April 16, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, was the ruler of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot instigated an aggressive policy of relocating people to the countryside in an attempt to purify the Cambodian people as a step toward a communist future.
Pol-Mot Pol-Mot was a small Poland based manufacturer of Agricultural Equipment, including tractors. Some Pol-Mot tractors resembled John Deere tractors, although there doesn't seem to have been any licensing agreements.
Pol, Lugo Pol is a Galician municipality in the Province of Lugo.Its capital is Mosteiro and historically have been linked to the arrival in Galicia of Briton inmigrants in the Dark Ages Period (see Bishop Maeloc and Britonia)
Pola X Pola X is a French movie starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve, released in 1999. The soundtrack was produced by Scott Walker and features some instrumental tracks by him, as well as contributions by Sonic Youth and Bill "Smog" Callahan, who also has a cameo appearance in the film.
Polabian language The Polabian language, which became extinct in the 18th century, was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. It was one of the Lechitic languages.
Polabian Slavs Polabian Slavs is a collective term applied to a number of Slavic tribes living along the Elbe, between the Baltic Sea to the north, Solau to the west and Sudetes to the south. The tribes settled the area late in the first millennium.
Polacanthus Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly-/πολυ- "many" and acantha/ακανθα "thorn" or "prickle", was an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period. It lived 132 to 112 million years ago in what is now western Europe.
Polad Sabir Sirajov Polad Sabir Sirajov is a citizen of Azerbaijan who is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.Azerbaijani Guantanamo detainee is Baku resident Polad Sabir Sirajov, Today Azerbijan, April 23 2006
Polanco Polanco is the name that usually refers to a group of 7 official a neighborhoods ("colonias") in Mexico City, it is located north of Chapultepec Park. The official names of the neighborhoods are: Los Morales (which is divided in three sections), Del Bosque, Polanco Reforma, Polanco Chapultepec, Chapultepec Morales, Bosque de Chapultepec and Residencial del Bosque.
Poland and weapons of mass destruction During the Cold War, Poland had active programs for the development of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, but since then it has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Poland also is working with Russia to help eliminate the large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons developed by the Warsaw Pact countries.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Poland was represented by Blue Café and the song "Love Song". TVP organized the Polish National Final "Krajowe Eliminacje do Konkursu Piosenki Eurowizji 2004", which was held on January 24th, 2004 at the Torwar Hall in Warsaw.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Poland’s entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens was Follow my Heart, sung by Ich Troje. As Poland's 2005 entry did not make it to the final, the song had to compete in the semi-final where it placed 11th, thus not advancing to the final either.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Poland will choose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 using the national final format Piosenka dla Europy 2007, which will take place on 3 February 2007. TVP, the Polish broadcaster has already announced the detailed and the participants for this competition.
Poland national volleyball team The Poland national volleyball team is the national volleyball team from Poland, controlled by the Polski Związek Piłki Siatkowej (PZPS), and represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches.
Poland Spring Poland Spring is a brand of bottled water manufactured by a subsidiary of Nestlé, but originally founded in 1845. Contrary to popular belief, Poland Spring water does not all come from the town of Poland, Maine.
Poland v Brazil (1938) Poland v Brazil was a football match held during the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France and still remembered by Polish fans of this sport as the one in which Poland national football team debuted. To qualify to the tournament Poland had to beat only one team - Yugoslavia.
Polans (eastern) The Polans (, ) were a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 9th century, which inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stuhna, Teteriv, Irpin', Desna and Pripyat. The name derives from the Old East Slavic language word поле or поляна (polyana), which means “field”) due to the fact that the Polans used to settle in the open fields.
Polans (western) Polans (also Polanes, Polanians, or Polians; Polish: Polanie) were a West Slavic tribe inhabitating the Warta river basin in the 8th century. In the late 9th century the Polanie managed to subdue most of the Slavic tribes between the Odra and Western Bug rivers and between the Carpathians and the Baltic Sea.
Polar Bear Expedition The Polar Bear Expedition (also known as the Northern Russian Expedition, the American North Russia Expeditionary Force - ANREF or the American Expeditionary Force North Russia - AEFNR) was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S.
Polar capsule Polar capsules are structures found in the valves of Myxosporean parasites, which contain the polar filament. The polar capsule is constructed of a proteinaceous and a polysaccharide layer, both layers of which continue into the polar filament.
Polar circle A polar circle is either the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle. On earth, the Arctic Circle is located at a latitude of 66Ëš 33' 38" N, and the Antarctic circle is located at a latitude of 66Ëš 33' 38" S.
Polar coordinate system In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by an angle and a distance from a central point known as the pole (equivalent to the origin in the more familiar Cartesian or rectangular coordinate system). The polar coordinate system is especially useful in situations where the relationship between two points is most easily expressed in terms of angles and distance; in the Cartesian coordinate system, such a relationship can only be found through trigonometric formulae.
Polar desert Polar deserts are areas with annual precipitation less than 250 millimetres and a mean temperature during the warmest month of less than 10° C. Polar deserts on Earth cover nearly 5 million square kilometres and are mostly bedrock or gravel plains.
Polar dinosaurs in Australia During the Early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica as a remnant of Gondwana that had rifted from Africa and drifted southward. Much of this southern continent lay inside the Antarctic Circle, and the climate there was unlike any that exists today.
Polar distance (astronomy) Polar distance (PD) is an astronomical term associated with the celestial equatorial coordinate system Σ(α, δ) and it is an angular distance of a celestial object on its meridian measured from the celestial pole, similar as declination (dec, δ) is measured from the celestial equator:
Polar drift Polar drift is a geological phenomenon caused by variations in the flow of molten iron (magma) in Earth's outer core, resulting in changes in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field, and hence the position of the magnetic north pole.
Polar easterlies The polar easterlies are the prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards the low-pressure areas of the polar fronts at around 60 degrees latitude (north and south). Cold air subsides at the pole creating the high pressure, forcing a southerly (northward in the southern hemisphere) outflow of air towards the equator; that outflow is then deflected eastward by the Coriolis effect.
Polar effect The Polar effect or electronic effect in chemistry is the effect exerted by a substituent on modifying electrostatic forces operating on a nearby reaction center. The main contributors to the polar effect are the inductive effect, mesomeric effect and the through-space electronic field effect.
Polar exploration Polar exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth. It is also denotes the historical period during which mankind most intensely explored the regions north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle.
Polar fleece Polar fleece is a soft [nap#Etymology_2|napped] insulating synthetic wool fabric made from PET. It was created in 1979 by Malden Mills; it was a new, light and powerful pile fabric meant to mimic and in some ways surpass wool.
Polar front In meteorology, a Polar Front is the boundary between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell in each hemisphere. At this boundary a sharp gradient in temperature occurs between these two air masses, each at very different temperatures.
Polar high The polar highs are areas of high atmospheric pressure around the north and south poles. The cold temperatures in the polar regions cause air to descend to create the high pressure (a process called subsidence), just as the warm temperatures around the equator case air to rise to create the low pressure doldrums.
Polar Challenge The Polar Challenge is a competitive, 350 nautical mile team Polar Race in the Arctic, to the 1996 location of the Magnetic North Pole and beyond. The race runs between mid-April and mid-May each year, taking teams approximately 4 weeks to complete, including the training time.
Polar ice cap A polar ice cap or polar ice sheet is a high-latitude region of a planet or moon that is covered in ice. There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land; only that it must be a body of solid phase matter in the polar region.
Polar low A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The systems usually have a horizontal length scale of less than 1,000 km and exist for less than a couple of days.
Polar Libraries Colloquy The Polar Libraries Colloquy is an international organization of librarians and others concerned with the collection, preservation, and dissemination of information dealing with the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This organization grew out of the Northern Libraries Colloquy, which first met in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in June, 1971.
Polar mount A polar mount is a piece of equipment installed into geostationary satellites to be accessed by swinging the satellite dish around one axis (the main axis). This allows one positioner only to be used to remotely point the antenna at any satellite.
Polar Mesospheric Summer Echos Polar Mesospheric Summer Echos (PMSE) are anomalous radar echoes found in the polar latitudes from May through early August between 80-90 km in altitude. The usual instrument for observing PMSE is the a VHF Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radar, although lidars and sounding rockets have also been used.
Polar Music Prize The Polar Music Prize (aka the Stikkan Andersson Polar Music Prize) is an "international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music". The prize was founded in 1989 following a donation from Stig Anderson and is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Polar night The polar night is the night lasting more than 24 hours, usually inside the polar circles. The opposite phenomenon, when the sun stays above the horizon for a long time is called the polar day, or midnight sun.
Polar orbit A satellite in a polar orbit passes above or nearly above both poles of the planet (or other celestial body) on each revolution. It therefore has an inclination of (or very close to) 90 degrees to the equator.
Polar space In mathematics, in the field of combinatorics, a polar space of rank n (n ≥ 3), or projective index n−1, consists of a set P, conventionally the set of points, together with certain subsets of P, called subspaces, that satisfy these axioms :
Polar stratospheric cloud Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds, are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 metres (50,000–80,000 ft). They are implicated in the formation of ozone holes;
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle The PSLV or Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into sun synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV, commercially viable only from Russia.
Polar Star Expeditions Polar Star Expeditions is a specialty adventure cruise company owned by the Norwegian company Karlsen Shipping out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since 2001, Polar Star has operated a single expedition cruise ship called the 'Polar Star', a converted Norwegian icebreaker.
Polar topology In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a polar topology, topology of mathcal{A}-convergence or topology of uniform convergence on the sets of mathcal{A} is a method to define locally convex topologies on the vector spaces of a dual pair.
Polar vortex The polar vortex is a persistent, large-scale cyclone located near the Earth's poles, in the middle and upper troposphere and the stratosphere. It surrouds the polar highs and is part of the polar front The vortex is most powerful in the hemisphere's winter, when the temperature gradient is steepest, and diminishes or can disappear in the summer.
Polar Willow The Polar Willow (Salix polaris) is a species of willow with a circumpolar distribution in the high arctic tundra, extending north to the limits of land, and south of the arctic in the mountains of Norway and British Columbia, Canada.
Polara family Polara is a noble family from Modica, a town in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy. It gave some scientist and physician as Pietro (1768-1837), Protomedico of the County of Modica and director of the "Real Casa dei Matti" (Psichiatric Hospital) of Palermo; Socrate (1800-1860).
Polarhome Polarhome.com is non commercial, educational effort for popularization of shell enabled operating systems and Internet services, offering shell accounts, e-mail and other online services on all available systems (Linux, OpenVMS, Solaris, AIX, QNX, IRIX, HP-UX, Tru64, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD).
Polari Polari (or alternatively Palare, from Italian parlare, "to talk") was a form of cant slang used in the gay subculture in Britain. It was revived in the 1950s and 1960s from its use by camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne, but its origins can be traced back to at least the 19th century.
Polarimetry Polarimetry is the measurement of the polarisation of light; a polarimeter is the scientific instrument used to make these measurements. Polarimetry of thin films and surfaces is commonly known as ellipsometry.
Polaris Polaris (α UMi / α Ursae Minoris / Alpha Ursae Minoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole (42′ away as of 2006), making it the current northern pole star.
Polaris Career Center Polaris Career Center is a vocational school located in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. They work in conjunction with the 11th and 12th grade students from the Berea, Brooklyn, Fairview, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, and Strongsville school districts.
Polaris Industries Polaris Industries manufactures a full line of all-terrain vehicles (ATV), snowmobiles, Ranger utility vehicles in 2wd, 4wd or 6wd, Victory Motorcycles and EU rated quadcycles. Polaris no longer manufactures personal water craft and sportboats.
Polaris Music Prize The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize.
Polaris Sales Agreement The Polaris Sales Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom which formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent. The arrangement had been set up in principle as a result of the Nassau Agreement.
Polarisation division multiple access Polarization division multiple access (PDMA) is used in some cellular networks. Separate antennas are used in this type, each with different polarization and followed by separate receivers, allowing simultaneous regional access of satellites..
Polariton In physics, polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from strong coupling of electromagnetic waves with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation. They are an expression of the common quantum phenomenon known as level repulsion, also known as the anti-crossing principle.
Polarity chron A Polarity Chron, or chron, is a term used in stratigraphy (a branch of geology) to name the time interval represented by a magnetostratigraphic polarity unit. It represents a certain time period in geologic history where the Earth's magnetic field was in a "normal" and "reversed" position.
Polarity item In linguistics a polarity item is an expression which is sensitive to the presence, in the same sentence, of certain other expressions that are "somehow negative." Polarity items divide into those that must co-occur with a "somehow negative" expression ("negative polarity item", NPI) and those that cannot ("positive polarity item", PPI).
Polarity therapy Polarity Therapy is an alternative health care system developed by American doctor Randolph Stone DO, DC, ND (1890-1981). It is a synthesis of ancient Eastern and modern Western health care ideas centered on the concept of a Human Energy Field.
Polarium Polarium ( in Japan) is a puzzle game developed by Mitchell Corporation for the Nintendo DS. In the game, players use a stylus to draw lines on the DS's touch screen, flipping black and white tiles to clear puzzles.
Polarizability Polarizability is the relative tendency of a charge distribution, like the electron cloud of an atom or molecule, to be distorted from its normal shape by an external electric field, which may be caused by the presence of a nearby ion or dipole.
Polarizable vacuum In theoretical physics, particularly fringe physics, polarizable vacuum (PV) most often refers to a proposal by Harold Puthoff to develop an analogue of general relativity to describe gravity in optics-like terms. Puthoff himself has apparently offered various characterizations of his proposal, which has been variously characterized as
Polarization In electrodynamics, polarization (also spelled polarisation) is the property of electromagnetic waves, such as light, that describes the direction of their transverse electric field. More generally, the polarization of a transverse wave describes the direction of oscillation in the plane perpendicular to the direction of travel.
Polarization (psychology) In communications and psychology, polarization is the process whereby a social or political group is divided into two opposing sub-groups with fewer and fewer members of the group remaining neutral or holding an intermediate position.
Polarization density In classical electromagnetism, the polarization density (or electric polarization, or simply polarization) is the vector field that expresses the density of permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a dielectric material. The polarization vector P is defined as the dipole moment per unit volume.
Polarization effect The phenomenon of Polarization takes place when enthusiasts of a certain idea are so clouded by their personal biases that they accept confirming beliefs without scrutiny while critically evaluating beliefs contrary to their formulated opinion. Polarization occurs when mixed or neutral evidence is used to bolster an already established and clearly biased point of view.
Polarization identity In mathematics, and more specifically in the theory of normed spaces and pre-Hilbert spaces in functional analysis, a vector space over the real numbers (the formula for the complex case is given in the article on Banach spaces) whose norm is defined in terms of its inner product satisfies as a necessary condition the polarization identity:
Polarization mode dispersion Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a form of modal dispersion where two different polarizations of light in a waveguide, which normally travel at the same speed, travel at different speeds due to random imperfections and asymmetries, causing random spreading of optical pulses. Unless it is compensated, which is difficult, this ultimately limits the rate at which data can be transmitted over a fiber.
Polarization of an algebraic form In mathematics, in particular in algebra, polarization is a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables. Specifically, given a homogeneous polynomial, polarization produces a multilinear form from which the original polynomial can be recovered by evaluating along a certain diagonal.
Polarization-maintaining optical fiber In fiber optics, a polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PM) is an optical fiber in which the polarization planes of light waves launched into the fiber are maintained during propagation with little or no cross-coupling of optical power between the polarization modes. The maintaining of polarization is increasingly important in modern telecommunication systems, as our society demands higher bandwidth and more complex optical networks.
Polarized glasses Polarized glasses create the illusion of three-dimensional images by restricting the light that reaches each eye, an example of stereoscopy. To present a stereoscopic motion picture, two images are projected superimposed onto the same screen through orthogonal polarizing filters.
Polarized pluralism Polarized pluralism is a symptom of a sick two-party or multi-party political system. It was originally described by political philosopher Sartori, and defines a system where moderate views are replaced by polarized views.
Polaroid type 55 Polaroid Type 55 film is a black and white peel-apart Polaroid film that yields both a positive and a negative (which can be used in an enlarger). Though box-rated at 50 ISO, the positive and negative parts of the film are effectively rated at 50 and 35, respectively.
Polaron Polaron is a quasiparticle composed of an electron plus its accompanying polarization field. A slow moving electron in a dielectric crystal, interacting with lattice ions through long-range forces will permanently be surrounded by a region of lattice polarization and deformation caused by the moving electron.
Polasa Polasa is a small village near Jagatyala in Karimnagar District of Andhra Pradesh, India. It appears that this was an important historic town during the dynasties of Rashtrakuta, Chalukya and Kakatiyas, with various inscriptions referring to this place as paulastyasrama pattana, polavaasadesa, paulasteswarapura etc.
Polaskia Polaskia (named after American amateur Charles Polaski) is a genus of tree-like cacti reaching 4-5 m high, comprising 2 species. Both present primitive characteristics, but Polaskia chichipe is nearer to Myrtillocactus while Polaskia chende is nearer to Stenocereus.
Polícia de Segurança Pública The Polícia de Segurança Pública - PSP (Public Security Police) is the Portuguese police force that works in large urban areas. Rural towns and areas are under the protection of the Portuguese Republican National Guard.
Polícia Judiciária Polícia Judiciária (PJ) is the main police branch of criminal investigation in Portugal, directed to fight criminality, organized crime, terrorism, drugs, corruption and financial crimes. It is integrated in the Ministério da Justiça, under supervision of Ministério Público.
Polbo á feira Polbo á feira (octopus feast style) is a traditional Galician dish made of boiled octopus served on wood plates and seasoned with olive oil and paprika. It is a very ancient and also popular dish due to the avaliability of dry octopus, along with cod, the only fish to be eaten in the interior of the country.
Polden Hills The Polden Hills are a long, low ridge, extending for 20 miles, and separated from the Mendip Hills, to which they are nearly parallel, by a marshy tract, known as the Somerset Levels. They are now cut at their western end by the M5 motorway and a railway, the Exeter & Bristol Railway, part of the Great Western Railway.
Polder A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. Some need drainage by pumps to prevent the water table within it from rising too high.
Poldervokaal Poldervokaal is a vocal ensemble that takes its name after the (Beemster) polder in North Holland, Netherlands. Poldervokaal was created in 1986, and has been led by Maria Rondèl, an internationally renowned vocal teacher, who brought together a group of her pupils.

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