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Polydeism Polydeism (from Greek πολύς ( 'poly' ), meaning 'many', and Latin deus meaning God) is a polytheistic form of Deism encompassing the belief that the universe was the collective creation of multiple Gods, each of whom created a piece of the universe and then ceased to interact with the universe. This concept addresses an apparent contradiction in Deism - that a monotheistic God created the universe, but now expresses no apparent interest in it - by supposing that if the universe is the construct of many gods, none of them would have an interest in the universe as a whole.
Polydimethylsiloxane Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the most widely used silicon-based organic polymer, and is particularly known for its unusual rheological (or flow) properties. It is optically clear, and is generally considered to be inert, non-toxic and non-flammable.
Polydioxanone Polydioxanone (PDS) or poly-p-dioxanone is a colorless, crystalline, biodegradable polymer that is used for biomedical applications, particularly in the preparation of sutures. The polymer is obtained by ring-opening polymerization of the monomer p-dioxanone, in a process requiring heat and an organometallic catalyst like zirconium acetylacetone or zinc L-lactate.
Polydispersity index In organic chemistry, the polydispersity index (PDI), is a measure of the distribution of molecular weights in a given polymer sample. The PDI calculated is the weight average molecular weight divided by the number average molecular weight.
Polydnavirus A polydnavirus is generally a virus whose genome is encoded in multiple superhelical deoxyribonucleic acid molecules. Notably, the polydnavirus Campoletis sonorensis has been found in the oviducts of all or most adult female C.
Polydore Plasden St Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after.
Polyeidos (poet) Polyeidos (ca 400 BCE) was a dithyrambic poet who was also skilful as a painter; he seems to have been esteemed almost as highly as Timo­theus, whom one of his pupils, Philotas, once conquered in competition. It seems from a passage of Plutarch (De Mm.
Polyene Polyenes are poly-unsaturated organic compounds that contain one or more sequences of alternating double and single carbon-carbon bonds. These double carbon-carbon bonds interact in a process known as conjugation, which results in an overall lower energy state of the molecule.
Polyester (film) Polyester is a 1981 John Waters film starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters' native Baltimore, Maryland, and features a gimmick called "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through "scratch and sniff" cards.
Polyester resin Polyester Resin - Unsaturated Polyester Resin. The term generally used for unsaturated (means containing chemical double bonds) resins formed by the reaction of dibasic organic acids and polyhydric alcohols, basic
Polyetherimide (PEI) Polyetherimide ( PEI ) is an amorphous, amber transparent, high-performance thermoplastic with the characteristics similar to PEEK. Relative to PEEK, it is less temperature-resistant, less expensive, and lower in impact strength.
Polyethylene Polyethylene, (IUPAC name polyethene), is a thermoplastic commodity heavily used in consumer products (over 60 million tons are produced worldwide every year). It is a polymer consisting of long chains of the monomer ethylene (IUPAC name ethene).
Polyethylene glycol Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyethylene oxide (PEO) are polymers composed of repeating subunits of identical structure, called monomers, and are the most commercially important polyethers. Poly (ethylene glycol) or poly (ethylene oxide) refers to an oligomer or polymer of ethylene oxide.
Polyextremophile A polyextremophile (to like several extremes in more-or-less Greek) is an organism which combines several extremophilic features. For example, a polyextremophile living at the summit of a mountain in the Atacama Desert might be a radioresistant xerophile, a psychrophile, and an oligotroph.
Polyface Farm Polyface Farm, located in rural Swoope, Virginia, United States, and run by Joel Salatin and his family. The farm is driven using unconventional methods with the goal of "Emotionally-, Economically and Environmentally-Enhancing Agriculture".
Polyfidelity Polyfidelity, is a form of polyamorous group marriage wherein all members consider each other to be primary partners and agree to be sexual only with other members of this group. This term originated within the Kerista Village commune in San Francisco which practiced polyfidelity from 1971–1991.
Polyform In recreational mathematics, a polyform is a plane figure constructed by joining together identical basic polygons. The basic polygon is often (but not necessarily) a convex plane-filling polygon, such as a square or a triangle.
Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros The Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros is a multi-functional cultural facility, located in Mexico City's World Trade Center Mexico building complex. It is a well-known location, both as part of the landmark WTC Mexico complex as well as for its unique shape and extensive mural work by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, for whom the building is named.
Polygala Polygala is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae, commonly known as milkwort or snakeroot. The genus includes herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs and small trees, and has a subcosmopolitan distribution.
Polygamy The term polygamy (many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology and sociology. Polygamy can be most succinctly defined as a "form of marriage in which a person [has] more than one spouse.
Polygene A polygene, multiple factor, or quantitative gene is a group of nonallelic genes that together influence a phenotypic trait. The loci or identities of the nonallelic genes are frequently unknown to biologists, even though they are known to exist.
Polygenesis (linguistics) Polygenesis is a linguistic theory concerned with the origin of individual natural languages, holding that they come into being not by means of a linear progression from an ancestor language, but by input from one or more. Proponents of polygenesis hold that the concept of genetic relatedness between languages is inaccurate.
Polygenism Polygenism is a theory of human origins positing that the human races are of different lineages, either from a scientific or a religious basis. This is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity (e.
Polyglot (book) A polyglot (also spelled polyglott) is a book that contains side-by-side versions of the same text in several different languages. The most important polyglots are editions of the Bible, or its parts, in which the Hebrew and Greek originals are exhibited along with historical translations.
Polyglot (computing) In the context of computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independently of which of the chosen programming language in which it is compiled or interpreted. Intuition suggests that polyglot programs should be impossible or very difficult to write.
Polyglotta Africana Polyglotta Africana is a study written by the German missionary Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle in 1854 in which he compared 156 African languages (or about 120 according to today's classification; several varieties considered distinct by Koelle were later shown to belong to the same language). As a comparative study it was a major breakthrough at the time.
Polyglutamylation A form of reversible posttranslational modification of glutamate residues seen for example in alpha and beta tubulins, nucleosome assembly proteins NAP1 and NAP2. The Gamma carboxy group of glutamate may form peptide like bond with the Amino group of a free glutamate whose alpha carboxy group can now be extended into a polyglutamate chainglutamylation is done by the enzyme glutamylase] and removed by [[deglutamylase
Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (PGPR), E476, is an emulsifier made from castor beans which reduces the viscosity of chocolate and similar coatings and compounds. It works by decreasing the friction between the particles of cacao, sugar, milk, etc.
Polyglycolide Polyglycolide or Polyglycolic acid (PGA) is a biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer and the simplest linear, aliphatic polyester. It can be prepepared starting from glycolic acid by means of polycondensation or ring-opening polymerization.
Polyglycylation This is a form of post translational modification of glutamate residues of the carboxyl-terminal region tubulin in certain microtubules (eg axonemal) originally discovered in parameciumRedeker, V., Levilliers, N.
Polygon A polygon (, from Greek, literally "many-angle") is a plane figure that is bounded by closed planar paths composed of a finite number of sequential line segments. The straight line segments that make up the boundary of the polygon are called its edges or sides and the points where the edges meet are the polygon's vertices.
Polygon (computer graphics) Polygons are used in computer graphics to compose images that are three-dimensional in appearance. Usually (but not always) triangular, polygons arise when an object's surface is modeled, vertices are selected, and the object is rendered in a wire frame model.
Polygon moray The polygon moray, Gymnothorax polygonius, is a moray eel of the family Muraenidae, found in the eastern Atlantic from Madeira and Cape Verde, and the western central Atlantic from Cuba, at depths down to 50 m, in coastal waters. Its length is up to 70 cm.
Polygonaceae The family Polygonaceae, also known as the knotweed family or smartweed family, are a group of dicots, comprising about 50 genera and 1120 species of monoecious and dioecious herbs, shrubs and small trees. Some well known members include buckwheat, sorrel (but not wood sorrel), rhubarb, and knotgrass.
Polygonal masonry Polygonal masonry is a technique of stone construction of the ancient Mediterranean world. True polygonal masonry may be defined as a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight sides or joints, giving the block the appearance of a polygon.
Polygonal modeling In 3D computer graphics, polygonal modeling is an approach for modeling objects by representing or approximating their surfaces using polygons. Polygonal modeling is well suited to scanline rendering and is therefore the method of choice for real-time computer graphics.
Polygonal number In mathematics, a polygonal number is a number that can be arranged as a regular polygon. Ancient mathematicians discovered that numbers could be arranged in certain ways when they were represented by pebbles or seeds; such numbers, which can be made from figures, are generally called figurate numbers.
Polygonales Polygonales was an order of flowering plants, recognized by several older systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, the Engler system, in its update of 1964, and the Cronquist system, 1981. Its circumscription was typically:
Polygonum multiflorum Polygonum multiflorum, better known as Chinese knotweed or Flowery knotweed, is a widely used Chinese herb. It is said to rejuvenate the body, and is also commonly known as fo-ti, fo-ti-teng, ho shou wu, or he shou wu ([He Shouwu, a Chinese man who is reputed to have lived until the age of 132, is the first consumer of this herb to be reported.
Polygonum tinctorum Polygonum tinctorum is Chinese indigo, a plant of the Buckwheat family that is found from Eastern Europe to East Asia, and whose leaves were the source of blue dye called Indigo dye, which is made from the leaves. This plant will grow in sandy, loamy and heavy clay soils, and is pH tolerant, growing well in acid and alkaline soils.
PolygonZ are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of PolygonZ in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures that characters encounter while embarking on various adventures— and tamed Pokémon creatures owned by Pokémon trainers.
Polygraph A polygraph (commonly yet incorrectly referred to as a lie detector) is a device that measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while the subject is asked a series of questions. The measurements are posited to be indicators of anxiety that accompanies the telling of lies.
Polygraph examiner A polygraph examiner is a proficient user of the polygraph or lie detector. As a rule, polygraph examiner is specialist who have graduated from a Polygraph School, accredited by American Polygraph Association and completed not less than two hundred actual polygraph examinations using a standardized polygraph technique.
Polygraphic substitution A polygraphic substitution is a cipher in which a uniform substitution is performed on blocks of letters. When the length of the block is specifically known, more precise terms are used: for instance, a cipher in which pairs of letters are substituted is bigraphic.
Polygroovers PolyGroovers (formerly PolyVinyl) is an electronic music duo, consisting of Konstantin Gredeskoul and Telene Johnston, a couple living and working in San Francisco, USA. Both DJs with over five years of performing experience locally and internationally, Konstantin and Telene have been collaborating since 2001.
Polygynandry Polygynandry occurs when two or more males have an exclusive relationship with two or more females. The numbers of males and females need not be equal, and in vertebrate species studied so far, the number of males is usually lower.
PolyGram PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1998, it was sold to Seagram and made part of Universal Music Group.
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE) was a London-based film studio, founded in 1979 as a European competitor to Hollywood, but eventually sold and merged with Universal Pictures in 1999. Among its most successful films were Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Fargo (1996).
Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory In chemistry, the polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory or Wade's rules or Wade / Mingos rules are electron counting rules that apply to electron-poor cages such as boron hydrides which consist of many boron atoms linked together.
Polyhedron (magazine) Polyhedron was a magazine which started out as the official publication of the RPGA (Role Playing Gamers Association). Publication began in the year 1981, and the target audience was players of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Polyhistidine-tag A polyhistidine-tag is an amino acid motif in proteins that consists of at least six histidine (His) residues, often at the N- or C-terminus of the protein. It is also known as hexa histidine-tag, 6xHis-tag, and by the trademarked name His-tag® (registered by EMD Biosciences).
Polyhydroxyalkanoates Polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHAs are linear polyesters produced in nature by bacterial fermentation of sugar or lipids. More than 100 different monomers can be combined within this family to give materials with extremely different properties.
Polyhydroxybutyrate Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a polymer belonging to the polyesters class that was first isolated and characterized in 1925 by French microbiologist Maurice Lemoigne. PHB is produced by micro-organisms (like Alcaligenes eutrophus or Bacillus megaterium) apparently in response to conditions of physiological stress.
PolyHeme PolyHeme is a temporary oxygen-carrying substitute for red blood cells based off human hemoglobin that is currently in development for emergency treatment of trauma situations where large volumes of blood are lost, with emphasis on situations where fresh blood for transfusion is not readily available. It originally began as a military project following the Vietnam war and has since shown great potential for the use of civilians and the armed forces.
Polychaete The Polychaeta or polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine. Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are made of chitin.
Polychelidae The family Polychelidae contains thirty-four species of blind, benthic lobster-like crustaceans. They are found throughout the world's tropical, sub-tropical and temperate oceans, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Irish Sea.
Polychlorinated biphenyl Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of organic compounds with 1 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl and a general chemical formula of C12H10-xClx. Most of the 209 congeners of PCB are colorless, odorless crystals.
Polychlorinated naphthalene Polychlorinated naphthalene (PCN) products are made by chemically binding chlorine with naphthalene, a soft, pungent solid made from coal or petroleum and often used for mothproofing. Commercial PCNs are mixtures of 75 chlorinated naphthalene compounds plus byproducts and are often described by the total fraction of chlorine .
Polychronization In neuroscience, the term polychronization describes the process of generating reproducible time-locked but not synchronous spiking patterns with millisecond precision. The term is derived from Greek poly meaning many and chronos meaning time or clock.
Polychrono Polychorono, also Polyhrono, Polichrono and Polihrono (Greek, Modern: Πολύχρονο, Katharevousa: -on meaning "pine town), older forms: Polyhronon and Polihronon is a touristic town located in the east of the peninsula of Cassandreia and Chalkidiki (also a prefecture) in Greece. The population in 2001 was 1,063, the elevation is 10 m.
Polyiamond A polyiamond (also polyamond or simply iamond) is a polyform in which the base form is an equilateral triangle. The word polyiamond is a back-formation from diamond, because this word is often used to describe the shape of a pair of equilateral triangles placed base to base, and the initial "di-" looked like a Greek prefix meaning "two-".
Polyinstantiation Polyinstantiation in the information technology world is database-related SQL (structured query language) terminology. It allows a relation to contain multiple rows with the same primary key; the multiple instances are distinguished by their security levels.
Polykarp Kusch Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics.
Polyken Polyken is one of the brands of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes manufactured by Covalence Adhesives, formerly known as Tyco Adhesives. Polyken tapes include duct tape, wire harness tape, gaffers tape, masking tape, foil tape, and specialty tapes for the aerospace industry.
Polyketide Polyketides are secondary metabolites from bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals. Secondary metabolites seem to be unnecessary for an organism’s ontogeny, but appear to have applications such as defence and intercellular communication.
Polykleitos Polykleitos (or Polyklitos, Polycleitus, Polyclitus; Greek Πολύκλειτος); called the Elder"The Elder" only in cases where it is necessary to distinguish him from his son, a minor sculptor and a major architect. was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC.
Polylogism Polylogism is a fallacy often associated with social philosophy according to which persons of different races, social classes or time periods use different kinds of logic. Marxism, Nazism, and some other political and social philosophies allegedly make this mistake.
Polylux Polylux, the self-appointed "last/worst on the first [channel]" ("Das Letzte im Ersten"), is a weekly half-hour German television program hosted by Tita von Hardenberg. It is produced by RBB for das Erste where its current timeslot is Thursdays at 11:15 CET.
Polymath A polymath (a term first recorded in written English in the early 17th century from the Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, meaning "knowing, understanding, or having learnt in quantity," compounded from πολυ- "much, many," and the root μαθ-, meaning "learning, understanding") is a person well educated in a wide variety of subjects or fields.Encarta dictionaryCambridge dictionaryPolymaths are also described as persons with encyclopaedic or broad or varied knowledge or learning [http://www.
Polymeal The Polymeal is a diet-based approach to combatting heart disease, proposed in December 2004 by Oscar Franco, a Colombian public health scientist at the University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Franco and his colleagues suggest the "Polymeal" as a natural alternative to the "Polypill", a multi-drug-based strategy for reducing heart disease.
Polymer Polymer is a term used to describe large molecules consisting of repeating structural units, or monomers, connected by covalent chemical bonds. The term is derived from the Greek words: polys meaning many, and meros meaning parts A key feature that distinguishes polymers from other molecules is the repetition of many identical, similar, or complementary molecular subunits in these chains.
Polymer banknote Polymer banknotes were developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and were first issued as currency in Australia in 1988. These banknotes are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) which greatly enhances durability of the banknotes.
Polymer brush Polymer brush is a layer of polymers attached with one end to a surface. The brushes may be either in a solvent state, when the dangling chains are submerged into a solvent, or in a melt state, when the dangling chains completely fill up the space available.
Polymer corporation Polymer Corporation, a Canadian federal crown corporation established in 1942 to produce artificial rubber to substitute for overseas supply cut off by WWII. A factory was established in Sarnia, Ontario where, using German patents from an American licensee, Polymer produced 5000 tons of artificial rubber from oil every month.
Polymer degradation Polymer degradation is a change in the properties - tensile strength, colour, shape, etc - of a polymer or polymer based product under the influence of one or more environmental factors such as heat, light or chemicals. These changes may be undesirable, such as changes during use, or desirable, as in biodegradation or deliberately lowering the molecular weight of a polymer.
Polymer fume fever Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever, also informally called teflon flu, is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when PTFE is heated to between 300 °C and 450 °C. When PTFE is heated above 450 °C the pyrolysis products are different and inhalation may cause acute lung injury.
Polymer chemistry Polymer chemistry or macromolecular chemistry is a multidisciplinary science that deals with the chemical synthesis and chemical properties of polymers or macromolecules. According to IUPAC recommendations, macromolecules refer to the individual molecular chains and are the domain of chemistry.
Polymer physics Polymer physics is the field of physics associated to the study of polymers, their fluctuations, mechanical properties, as well as the kinetics of reactions involving degradation and polymerisation of polymers and monomers respectively.
Polymer substrate Polymer and plastics known as polymer substrate is used for banknotes and other everyday uses and products. The banknote is more durable than paper, wont become saoked in liquds and is harder to counterfeit though not impossible.
Polymer-based battery The creation of a polymer-based battery was announced, on November 14 2006, by Brown University engineers. The new battery uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electric current and the hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery.
Polymer-bonded explosive A polymer-bonded explosive, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosive, is an explosive material in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small quantities (typically 5-10% by weight) of a synthetic polymer ("plastic").
Polymeric membranes Polymeric membranes are membranes that take the form of polymeric interphases, which can selectively transfer certain chemical species over others. There are several mechanisms that could be deployed in their functioning.
Polymerization Polymerization is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form three-dimensional networks of polymer chains [1]. There are many forms of polymerization and different systems exist to categorize them.
Polymersome Polymersomes are bilayered membranes of amphiphilic synthetic polymers which are similar to liposomes, which use naturally occurring lipids. While having most of the properties of natural liposomes, polymersomes exhibit increased stability and reduced permeability.
Polymetal Primarily used in chemistry or mining, polymetal or polymetallic refers to a substance comprised of a combination of different metals. When the substance contains only two metals the term bimetal (bimetallic) is sometimes preferred (not to be confused with bimetallism, which refers to a type of monetary system).
Polymicrogyria Polymicrogyria is a developmental malformation of the human brain characterized by an excessive number of small folds (gyri) on the surface of the brain. Either the whole surface or parts of the surface can be affected.
Polymnieli Island Polymnieli Island (or Polymnie Island) is an island in the Seychelles. It is the fourth largest island of the Aldabra Atoll in the Aldabra Group of islands, 1000 kilometres southwest of the country's capital, Victoria.
Polymodal chromaticism Polymodal chromaticism is a musical term coined by composer, ethnomusicologist and pianist BĂ©la BartĂłk. The technique became a means in BartĂłk's composition to avoid tonality in the sense used between approx.
Polymoog The Polymoog is a polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on divide-down oscillator technology not dissimilar to organs and string synthesizers of the time, and this led to a certain lack of flexibility compared to later polyphonic synthesizers such as the Yamaha CS-80 and the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.
Polymorphic code In computer terminology, polymorphic code is code that mutates while keeping the original algorithm intact. This technique is sometimes used by computer viruses, shellcodes and computer worms to hide their presence.
Polymorphic engine A polymorphic engine (sometimes called mutation engine or mutating engine) is a computer program that can be used to transform another program into a version that consists of different code with the same functionality. A typical polymorphic engine works by encrypting the target program in various ways and providing a decryption module that can vary widely.
Polymorphism (biology) In biology, polymorphism (from Greek: poly "many", morph "form") can be defined as "the occurrence in the same habitat of two or more forms of a trait in such frequencies that the rarer cannot be maintained by recurrent mutation alone." E.
Polymorphism (materials science) Polymorphism in materials science is the ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure. Polymorphism can potentially be found in any crystalline material including polymers and metals and is related to allotropy which refers to elemental solids.
Polymorphous perverse Polymorphous perverse is a psychoanalytic term for human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Sigmund Freud used this term, not pejoratively, to describe the normal sexual disposition of humans from infancy to about age five.
Polymyxin Polymyxins are cationic detergent antibiotics, with a general structure of a cyclic peptide with a long hydrophobic tail. They disrupt the structure of the bacterial cell membrane by interacting with its phospholipids.
Polynesia Cup The Polynesia Cup was a football (soccer) tournament for Polynesian nations within the Oceania Football Confederation. It acted along with the Melanesia Cup as a qualifying tournament for the Oceania Nations Cup.
Polynesian Airlines Polynesian Airlines is the national airline of Samoa and is based in Apia, the Samoan capital city. Previously Polynesian airlines flew all over the Pacific but with the establishment of Polynesian Blue by the government and Virgin Blue, Polynesian Airlines has restricted itself to smaller flights to neighbouring islands.
Polynesian Blue Polynesian Blue is a Virgin Group airline, which flies between Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. It is 49% owned by the Samoa Government, and replaces the down-sized Polynesian Airlines, which ceased operating international jet services in 2005 and became an inter-island airline flying between Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga.
Polynesian culture Polynesian culture refers to the aboriginal culture of the Polynesian-speaking peoples of Polynesia and the Polynesian outliers. Chronologically, the development of Polynesian culture can be divided into four different historical eras:
Polynesian Cultural Center The Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) is a living museum located in Lā'ie, on the northern part of Oahu, Hawaii. Dedicated in October 12 1963, the PCC is located on 42 acres (170,000 m²) of land owned by nearby Brigham Young University Hawaii, where most of the performers are enrolled as students.

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