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Polywell Polywell is a gridless inertial electrostatic confinement fusion process utilizing magnetic mirrors designed by Robert Bussard under a Navy research contract, designed to overcome the losses in the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor and create a breakeven fusion reactor.
Polyxenios Polyxenios was an Indo-Greek king who reigned around 100 BCE. His coins are associated with the dynasty of Menander I Soter and his son Strato I Soter Epiphanes in several ways: The titles are similar, the portraits show facial likeness, and they all use the characteristic obverse of the dynasty: a standing Athena.
Polzunov (crater) Polzunov is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the south-southeast of the larger Seyfert crater, on the far side of the Moon. About a crater diameter to the west-southwest lies Deutsch crater, and somewhat further to the south-southeast is Olcott crater.
PoĹľega (former county) PoĹľega (in Croatian) or Pozsega (in Hungarian) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the autonomous region Croatia-Slavonia within the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in eastern Croatia.
Pom Pom (Homestar Runner) Pom Pom is a character in the Homestar Runner animated cartoon series. Described as Homestar Runner's best friend, he is often characterized as a "ladies' man," and is well-known for his use of suave, sophisticated technology, such as Palm Pilots.
Pom Squad A pom squad also known as "Dance" or "Poms" are a type of dance team that use the pompon in their dance routine. Most pom squads perform during the pre-game and half-time of sports events (football and/or basketball)and other school events.
Pom-pon A pom-pon is, at its most basic level, a decorative ball of fluff. Pom-pons may come in many colors, sizes and varieties and are made from a wide array of materials, including fabric, paper, plastic, or occasionally feathers.
Pom-pon (disambiguation) Often, terms that are similar-sounding or visually similar to "Pom-pon" are used, such as "Pompon", "Pom-pom", and "Pompom". This disambiguation page lists pages for all four spellings (some niche or specific references are correctly termed with one of these other spellings).
Poma Poma or Pomagalski SA is an international corporation which builds passenger conveyances using cable systems, including fixed and detachable aerial chairlifts, gondolas, funiculars, aerial tramways and surface lifts. Poma has installed more than six thousand systems in fifty-four countries which transport eight million passengers each hour.
Pomacanthus Pomacanthus is a genus of marine angelfish that is usually found around reefs and coral. Some of the notable places one can see these vari-coloured fish includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Sipidan off the southern coast of Sabah, Malaysia.
Pomace Pomace is the solid remains of olives, grapes, or other fruit after pressing for juice or oil. It is essentially the pulp, peel, seeds and stalks of the fruit after the oil, water, or other liquid has been pressed out.
Pomace brandy Pomace brandy is a liquor distilled from pomace wine. Examples include the Croatian/Montenegrin loza, Cypriot zivania, French marc (wine), Georgian chacha, German Tresterbrand , Italian grappa, Portuguese aguardente, and Spanish orujo.
Pomacentridae Pomacentridae (New Latin, from Greek "poma" operculum + "kentron" sting) is a family of perciform fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes. They are exclusively marine (rarely brackish), and noted for their hardy constitutions and territoriality.
Pomacochas lagoon In the same route towards Huallaga Central, after passing the plain of Bagua and the Corridor of Utcubamba, the highway separates itself from the course of the Utcubamba River to go towards the Cordillera Oriental. The beautiful Pomacochas lagoon is found at the beginning of this stretch.
Pomada Pomada (also known as: Grupo Pomada), beat band from Argentina that began in 1971 with original members: Norberto (Beto) Dorfman on keyboards, Juan Jose Gimello (aka: Juan Jose Barbieri) on vocals, Juan Linera on guitar, Oscar Carranza on drums and Daniel Paredes on bass. The lineup changed around in 1974 when Juan Jose left the band and Pedro Carreras joined in as vocalist and on bass guitar.
Pomahaka River The Pomahaka River is located in South Otago in New Zealand's South Island. It is a tributary of the Clutha River, flowing south for 80 kilometres from the Old Man Range of mountains to join the Clutha just north of Balclutha.
Pomare I PĹŤmare I, King of Tahiti (1742 - 1803), fully in old orthography: Tu-nui-ea-i-te-atua-i-Tarahoi Vairaatoa Taina Pomare I (also known as Tu or Tinah or Outu or simply as Pomare I), was the unifier and first king of Tahiti between 1788? and 1791.
Pomare II PĹŤmare II, King of Tahiti (1782 - 1821), fully Tu Tunuieaiteatua Pomare II or in modern orthography TĹ« TĹ«-nui-Ä“a-i-te-atua PĹŤmare II, somewhere in history misspelled as Tu Tunuiea'aite-a-tua and insipidly copied from there, was the second king of Tahiti between 1782 and 1821. He was installed by his father PĹŤmare I at Tarahoi, 13 February 1791.
Pomare IV PĹŤmare IV, Queen of Tahiti (28 February 1813 - 17 September 1877), more properly Aimata PĹŤmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraitua (otherwise known as Aimata {meaning: eye-eater, after an old custom of the ruler to eat the eye of the defeated foe} or simply as PĹŤmare IV), was the queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877. She was the daughter of PĹŤmare II.
Pomarine Skua The Pomarine Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus, known as Pomarine Jaeger in North America, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. Its relationships are not fully resolved; its mitochondrial DNA is most similar to the Great Skua [Blechschmidt et al.
Pomarj In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Pomarj can refer either to a large peninsula located in the central Flanaess, or to the Orcish Empire of the Pomarj, located in the same region.
Pombaline Reforms The Pombaline Reforms were a series of reforms between 1750 and 1808 by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal with the goal of making Portugal an economically self-sufficient nation, by means of expanding Brazilian territory, streamlining the administration of colonial Brazil, and through fiscal and economic reforms both in the Colony and in Portugal.
Pombaline style The Pombaline style was a Portuguese architectural style of the 18th century, named after Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquês de Pombal who was instrumental in reconstructing Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755. Pombal supervised the plans drawn up by the military engineers Manuel da Maia, Eugénio dos Santos and Elias Sebastian Pope (later succeeded by Carlos Mardel).
Pombero The Pombéro is an elf-like being from Guaraní mythology. The legend, along with other mythological figures from the Guaraní, is an important part of the culture in the region spanning from northeast Argentina northward through the whole of Paraguay and southern Brazil.
Pomegranate The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall. The pomegranate is native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and was cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region including Armenia since ancient times.
Pomegranate Flower Pomegranate Flower (Gulnâr / Golnâr in Modern Persian, also a female name.) is one of the Persian symbols in ancient Persian architecture, mostly used as a decoration for walls, it also been used as necklace for two-headed horses capitals.
Pomeranian (dog) The Pomeranian is a breed of dog in the spitz family, named for the Pomerania region of Historical Eastern Germany, which is today part of northern Poland and part of eastern Germany, and classed as a toy dog breed because of its small size.
Pomeranian language Pomeranian is a group of Lechitic dialects which were spoken in the Middle Ages on the territory of Pomerania, between the Oder and Vistula Rivers. They are most closely related to Polabian dialects, which they bordered in the west, and to Polish dialects, which they bordered in the south.
Pomeranians The Pomeranians (; ; ) were a group of West Slavic tribes who lived along the shore of the Baltic Sea between Oder and Vistula Rivers, a region known as Pomerania proper. They formerly spoke the Pomeranian language belonging to the Lechitic branch of the West Slavic language family.
Pomerelle Pomerelle Mountain is a ski area in south central Idaho in a southern division of the Sawtooth National Forest. It is south of Albion in Cassia County, 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the Utah-Nevada border with Idaho.
Pomerium The pomerium (or pomoerium), from post + moerium>murum [wall]), was the sacred boundary of the city of Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within the pomerium; everything beyond it was simply land belonging to Rome.
Pomerode Pomerode is a small city and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. More precisely, it is located in the valley of the Itajaí-Açu river, not very far from the city of Blumenau, one of the largest cities in the state and one of the most prosperous too.
Pomeron In physics, the Pomeron is a force-carrying pseudo-particle postulated in 1961 to explain energy behavior of soft hadronic collisions at high energies. It appeared first in the framework of the phenomenological Regge theory of strong interactions at high energies, but later a similar object was derived from the first principle QCD calculations.
Pomeroon-Supenaam Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region 2) is a region in Guyana, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the east, the region of Cuyuni-Mazaruni to the south and the region of Barima-Waini to the west. Pomeroon-Supenaam contains the towns of Anna Regina, Charity, Pickersgill, Spring Garden and Suddie.
Pomes Penyeach Pomes Penyeach is a collection of thirteen short poems, written over a twenty-year period from 1904 to 1924 by the novelist James Joyce and originally published on 7th July 1927 by Shakespeare and Co. for the price of one shilling or twelve francs.
Pomfret, South Africa Pomfret is a desert town, the site of an old asbestos mine, on the edge of the Kalahari desert in northwest South Africa. It's inhabitants are former members, and their decendants, of a special tactics force of the 32 Battalion, also known as Buffalo Battalion, the black Angolans who were used by apartheid South African governments to fight South Africa’s wars in Mozambique and Namibia and police the black townships.
Pomchonghakryon The National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification, or the Pomchonghakryon, is a North Korea-based organization that promotes Korean reunification. It was founded on 15 August 1992, the 47th anniversary of the end of Japanese occupation on the Korean peninsula.
Pomme d'Or The Pomme d'Or (French for golden apple) is a prize for excellence in the tourism industry awarded by FIJET, the European association of professional travel writers and journalists. It's awarded yearly to an organization, location or person for recognising superior efforts in promoting and raising the level of tourism.
Pomme de Terre River (Missouri) The Pomme de Terre River (pronounced puhm duh TAHR) is a tributary of the Osage River, 113 mi (182 km) long, in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Pommer Pommer or Bombard (French hautbois; Italian bombardo, bombar-done), the alto, tenor, bass, and contrabass members of the shawm or Schalmey family, and similar in function to the modern cor anglais, bass oboe, bassoon, and contrabassoon, although the bassoon family's direct ancestor was the dulcian/curtal family.
Pomona College Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. The College was founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists and moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel; its name remained the same.
Pomona Fox Theater The Pomona Fox Theater is a former movie palace which is now owned by the city of Pomona, California and located in that city's downtown. Opened on April 23, 1931 by the Fox-West Coast theatre chain, it was designed in the popular art deco style by architect Clifford A.
Pomona Freeway The Pomona Freeway is the assigned name of the majority of California State Route 60 (CA/SR-60) between its western terminus at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and its junction with the Riverside Freeway, California State Route 91 (CA/SR-91) and Interstate 215 (I-215) in Riverside. The freeway itself continues east beyond this interchange but does so as the Moreno Valley Freeway.
Pomona Unified School District Pomona Unified School District or PUSD is a school district that serves most of the Pomona Valley, California; from most of the city of Pomona to the northern portion of Diamond Bar (north of Grand Avenue). It has programs that range from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade.
Pomona Valley The Pomona Valley, adjacent to the Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley in California, straddles the border between Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County. Some residents consider the Pomona Valley to be a unique geographical area, independent of both.
Pomona, California Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California, at the western edge of the Pomona Valley branch of the Inland Empire region since nearly the entire city is physically located east of the San Jose/Puente Hills. It may also be considered part of the San Gabriel Valley since it is at the easten edge of Los Angeles County, whenever the Los Angeles/San Bernardino County border is used as the dividing line between the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire.
Pomona, Missouri Pomona is an unincorporated community in Howell County, Missouri midway between Willow Springs and West Plains. The community was founded in 1895 and it was named for Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees; this area was a major producer of apples (fr.
Pomona, Queensland Pomona is a town located at the base of Mt Cooroora at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The town was originally called Pinbarren siding and was renamed Pomona in 1906, after the Roman goddess of fruit and orchards.
Pomona, Río Negro Pomona is a small village on the island of Choele Choel in Río Negro Province, in Argentina. It's was used as a cross point for the Negro River into the Choele Choel Island already in 1890, when it was known as Paso Peñalva.
Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church The Pomorian Old Orthodox Church (Древлеправославная Поморская Церковь) is a branch of the priestless Old Believers, born of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century.
Pomorie Pomorie (; formerly known as Anchialos in Greek, Anchialus in Latin, Tuthom in Bulgar and Анхиало, Anhialo, a Bulgarianized Greek form) is a town in southeastern Bulgaria, located on a narrow rocky peninsula in Burgas Bay on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is located in Burgas Province 20 km from Burgas and 18 km from Sunny Beach.
Pomorze Army The Pomeranian Army () was one of the Polish armies to take part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939. It was officially created on March 23, 1939 to defend Toruń and Bydgoszcz from a possible German attack and to carry out delaying actions in the so-called "Polish Corridor".
Pomosexual Pomosexual is a neologism used to describe sexual orientation, or more accurately, an attempt to reassess the boundaries of sexual orientation. A portmanteau word, coupling the prefix pomo- (shorthand for postmodern) and -sexual (suggesting a sexual preference or orientation), the term itself is oxymoronic since it is descriptive of persons who do not identify with any essentially-defined sexual label, and is used in reference to oneself as a protest against such labels.
Pompadour Green Pigeon The Pompadour Green Pigeon or Grey-fronted Green Pigeon (Treron pompadora) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to the Philippines. In India they are found as disjunct populations in the Western Ghats, some parts of the Eastern Ghats, North-eastern India and in the Andaman Island chain.
Pompano Beach High School Pompano Beach High School (formerly Pompano High School and Pompano Beach High School Institute of International Studies) is a magnet high school located in Pompano Beach, Florida, encompassing grades 9 through 12. Founded in the 1920s, it is the second oldest high school in the Broward School District.
Pompano Beach Municipal Park Pompano Beach Municipal Park is a stadium in Pompano Beach, Florida. It is primarily used for baseball and was home to the Pompano Beach Cubs and served as the spring training home of the Texas Rangers from 1961 to 1986.
Pompano Citi Centre Pompano Citi Centre, is an open-air shopping mall located in Pompano Beach, Florida. It was originally an enclosed shopping center called Pompano Fashion Square Mall (though simply called Pompano Square Mall or Pompano Square), but was slowly decaying due to many new malls opening and large shifts in demographics.
Pompano dolphinfish The Pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis) is a species of surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in tropical and subtropical waters. They are one of only two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the Mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish.
Pompano en Papillote Pompano en Papillote is a dish created by Jules Alciatore at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans for a banquet honoring the Brazilian balloonist Alberto Santos-Dumont. The dish was based in turn on a dish that Jules's father Antoine Alciatore had created--Pompano Montgolfier--honoring the brothers who had created the first balloons.
Pompano Park Pompano Park and Poker, more commonly known simply as Pompano Park, is a standardbred harness racing track located in Pompano Beach, Florida. It is billed as "The Winter Home of Harness Racing," as its Florida location makes it one of the few harness racing tracks capable of holding races in winter.
Pompeia Paulina Pompeia Paulina was the wife of the statesman, philosopher, and orator Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and she was part of a circle of educated Romans who sought to lead a principled life under the emperor Nero. Her husband was the emperor's tutor and later became his political adviser and minister.
Pompeian Styles Roman mural painting is generally distinguished by four periods, as originally described by the German archaeologist August Mau in excavating wall-paintings at Pompeii. These wall-painting styles have allowed researchers to differentiate between eras of building and decoration in buildings there, and between shifts in Roman art.
Pompeii (novel) Pompeii is a novel by author and journalist Robert Harris published by Random House in 2003. It is a blend of fictional characters with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 that overwhelmed Pompeii and its surrounding towns.
Pompeii 99 (band) Pompeii 99 were a rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. They released one single and one album before the core members of the band (Valor Kand, Gitane Demone, and David Glass) joined Rozz Williams for a new version of Christian Death and eventually continued with the Christian Death name after all the original members had left the group.
Pompeii worm The Pompeii worm (Alvinella pompejana) is a deep-sea polychaete worm found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean. Discovered in the early 1980s by French researchers, Pompeii worms are most famous for the current belief that they are the "hottest" animals on Earth.
Pompeii: The Last Day Pompeii: The Last Day is a dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of the Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and lava, killing all those trapped between the volcano and the sea.
Pompeiopolis Pompeiopolis is a Roman city-state and a titular see in ancient Paphlagonia, situated today in the Taşköprü district, Kastamonu, Turkey. The exact location is 45 km north of Kastamonu, to the north of Taşköprü, in the valley today known as Gökırmak (Roman name Amnias, or Amneus).
Pompeiu's theorem Pompeiu's Theorem is a theorem of plane geometry, first discovered by the Romanian mathematician Dimitrie Pompeiu. Although the theorem is quite simple, it was discovered neither by Euler in the eighteenth century nor by Steinitz in the nineteenth.
Pompeius Pompeius (fem. Pompeia), known in English as Pompey, is the nomen of the gens Pompeia, an important family during the late republic period of ancient Rome from the Italian region of Picenum, which lies between the Apennines and the Adriatic.
Pompeo Coppini Pompeo Luigi Coppini (May 19, 1870–September 26, 1957) was a sculptor, born in Moglia, Mantua, Italy, the son of Giovanni and Leandra (Raffa) Coppini. He grew up in Florence where he was a student at the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno and there studied under Augusto Rivalta.
Pompey Factor Pompey Factor (1849 – 1928) was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
Pompeyo Davalillo Pompeyo Davalillo [da-va-LEEL-lyo], nicknamed "Yo-Yo", is a former Major League Baseball player. A slick shortstop with a fast swinging bat and quick feet, and listed generously at 5' 3", 140 lb (64 kg), Davalillo played in the American League in 1955 for the Washington Senators.
Pompilia Comparini Pompilia Comparini was the adopted daughter of a middle-aged bourgeois Roman couple, Pietro and Violante Comparini. They married her off at the age of only 13 to an impoverished nobleman from Arezzo, Count Guido Franceschini.
Pompoir Pompoir (also known as "playing the flute") is the practice of stimulating the man's penis solely through use of the woman's vaginal muscles.Both partners remain still, and the woman strokes the man's erection by rythmic, rippling pulses of the PC] muscles, so this practice is best performed in a [[Woman on top sex position|woman on top position.
Pomponianus Pomponianus was at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he was stuck to the shore because he was not favoured by the wind, so was greeted by Pliny The Elder in order to help him escape the increasing danger. He had then dicided wether he and his friends had the choice of staying inside and having the roof fall on their heads because of the build up of pumice, or to go outside and risk being hit by falling pumice and ash.
Pompton Lakes High School Pompton Lakes High School (often referred to as PLHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the borough of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Pompton Lakes School District. The school has an average of about 625 students enrolled.
Pompton Township, Passaic County, New Jersey (Historical) Pompton Township is a defunct Township in Passaic County, New Jersey. It was originally formed on April 10, 1797, from portions of Saddle River Township and Franklin Township in Bergen County, and incorporated on February 21, 1798.
Pon de Replay "Pon de Replay" is an R&B–reggae song written by Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, Alisha Brooks for Rihanna's debut album Music of the Sun (2005). Produced by Nobles, Struken, and Rogers, it was released as the album's first single in summer 2005.
Ponaganset High School Ponaganset High School is a school of the Foster-Glocester School District, located in North Scituate, Rhode Island (in Providence County). The majority of high school students in the rural towns of Foster, Rhode Island and Glocester, Rhode Island attend this school.
Ponca The Northern Ponca are a Native American tribe which currently has about 1300 members and which has its tribal headquarters in Niobrara, Nebraska. The Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma has its tribal headquarters in White Eagle, Oklahoma, a few miles south of Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Ponca State Park Ponca State Park, located two miles north of Ponca in northeastern Nebraska, is situated on 892 acres among the high bluffs and forested steep hills along the banks of the Missouri River. The park is adjacent to the Missouri National Recreational River.
Ponce Cathedral The Nuestra Señora de la Guadalupe Cathedral (or simply the Ponce Cathedral) is the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce located in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The cathedral lies in the middle of Ponce town square, known as Plaza Las Delicias, right behind the Parque de Bombas.
Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce (PON-sai) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Southern Coastal Plain region, south of Adjuntas, Utuado and Jayuya; east of Peñuelas; and west of Juana Díaz. Ponce is spread over 18 wards and Ponce Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Poncelet's porism Poncelet's porism in geometry states the following: Let C and D be two plane conics. If it is possible to find, for a given n > 2, one n-sided polygon which is simultaneously inscribed in C and circumscribed around D, then it is possible to find infinitely many of them.
Poncelet-Steiner theorem In geometry, the Poncelet-Steiner theorem on compass and straightedge construction states that whatever can be constructed by straightedge and compass together can be constructed by straightedge alone, if given a single circle and its centre. This result is the best possible: a straightedge alone, without a circle given, cannot construct square roots.
Poncke Princen Johan Cornelis Princen (November 21, 1925 – February 22, 2002), better known as Poncke Princen, was a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter and colonial soldier. In 1948, he deserted, joined the pro-independence guerrillas in the then Dutch Indies, lived out the rest of his life in Indonesia, became a prominent human rights activist and political dissident under various dictatorial regimes in his adopted country and consequently spent considerable time in detention.
Pond Inlet, Nunavut Pond Inlet (Inuktitut: Mittimatalik, in English the place where Mitima is buried) is a small, predominantly Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada and is located at the top of Baffin Island. With a population of 1,220 people as of the 2001 census, Pond Inlet, Nunavut at Statistics Canada it is the largest of the four hamlet]s above the 72nd parallel and is part of the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut|Qikiqtaaluk Region.
Pond liner An impermeable geotextile used for water retention, including the lining of lakes, garden ponds and artificial streams in parks and gardens. Pond liners need to be protected from sharp objects (eg stones) below the liner and from being punctured by any objects in the water body.
Pond Pine The Pond Pine (Pinus serotina) is a tree found along the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States, from southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to southern Alabama. This pine often has a crooked growth pattern and an irregular top and attains the height of 15-20 m, occasionally up to 30 m.
Pond-apple The Pond-apple (Annona glabra) is a tropical fruit tree in the family Annonaceae, in the same genus as the Soursop and Cherimoya. It is known by the alternate names Alligator-apple, Corkwood, Bobwood, and Monkey-apple.
Ponder Stibbons In the fictional universe of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books, Ponder Stibbons is a wizard in Unseen University. He is the Head of Inadvisably Applied Magic, Praelector and Reader in Invisible Writings and works in the High Energy Magic building.
Pondermotive force It is well known that ions can be trapped in an oscillating quadrupole field. As the ions move back and forth in response to the changing electrical force, it can be shown that they experience a net inward force, called the pondermotive force.
Ponderosa (TV series) Ponderosa was a television series created for PAX-TV (now known as i network) that ran for the 2001-2002 television season. Envisioned as a prequel to the long-running series Bonanza, Ponderosa was cancelled after one season.
Ponders End Ponders End is a place in the London Borough of Enfield in the north of London. It is roughly located in the area either side of Hertford Road (High Street, Ponders End) between The Ride and the Boundary Public House (North to South) and Wharf Road and the Great Cambridge Road (East to West)
Ponders End railway station Ponders End railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines, 16 km (10 miles) north of London Liverpool Street. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by 'one'.
Pondo The Pondo are a South African ethnic group who have given their name to Pondoland, the country comprising much of the seaboard of the SE part of Cape Province. The Pondo are divided into several tribal groups and speak the Xhosa language.
Pondok Indah Mall Pondok Indah Mall (also known as PIM) is a large shopping complex located in Pondok Pinang, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, Indonesia. Popular with expatriates and affluent locals, the complex was designed to have the appearance of an American shopping mall.
Ponds Forge Ponds Forge International Sports Centre is a leisure complex in the City of Sheffield, England that contains an Olympic-sized swimming pool with seating for 2,600 spectators, family and kids pools, water slides and other sports facilities.
Poneratoxin Poneratoxin is a paralyzing neurotoxic peptide from the bullet ant Paraponera clavata that affects voltage-dependent sodium ion channels and blocks the synaptic transmission in the insect central nervous system. It is being investigated for possible medical applications.
Ponevezh yeshiva Ponevezh yeshiva ('ישיבת פוניבז) (or Ponevitch) is one of the most famous Haredi Talmudical yeshivas with roots among the Lithuanian Jews. It is historically from the town of Panevėžys (in Yiddish Ponevezh), Lithuania.

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