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Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits (usually called just Popeyes, otherwise known as Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken) is a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants owned since 1993 by the Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises (originally the America's Favorite Chicken Company). As of 2006, according to Popeyes is the second-largest "quick-service chicken restaurant group, measured by number of units", with more than 1,800 restaurants in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 20 countries worldwide including South Korea, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico and Honduras.
Popham Colony The Popham Colony was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River. It was founded in the same year as its more successful rival, the Jamestown Settlement, and was the first English colony in the region that would eventually become known as New England.
Popigai crater The Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia is tied with Manicouagan Reservoir as the 4th largest impact crater on Earth. A large bolide impact created the 100-kilometer diameter crater about 35 million years ago during the late Eocene epoch.
Popinjay (Wild Cards) Jay "Popinjay" Ackroyd is a character from the Wild Cards series of books. Jay can teleport people and things anywhere he can clearly visualize (often this means places like the local baseball stadium or police holding tank).
Popintsi Popintsi () is a village in southern Bulgaria, part of Panagyurishte municipality, Pazardzhik Province. It is located 17 km south of Panagyurishte and 26 km north of Pazardzhik, on both banks of the Luda Yana River.
Popiwek Popiwek (an acronym of PPWW, short for Podatek of ponadnormatywnych wypłat wynagrodzeń, ) was an extraordinary tax introduced in Poland in 1984. Although created by the communist authorities and initially hidden under the name of fee for the National Work Activization Fund, it is primarily associated with the Balcerowicz's Plan of 1989.
Popjournalism Popjournalism is a Canadian entertainment magazine, based out of Toronto, Canada, which was first published online in 2000 and branched out into print in 2004. The first print edition was published on November 25, 2004 and featured interviews with comedian Rick Mercer and singer Jann Arden.
Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music is a compilation album released on October 23, 2006. The album is a non-stop mix mixed by XFM DJ Grant McSleazy, and is one of the first released on the newly formed Fascination Records.
Popkum, British Columbia Popkum is a rural farming and tourism based community east of Chilliwack, British Columbia. The community is a part of the Fraser Valley Regional District and is named after a small First Nations reserve located on the Fraser River.
Poplaca Poplaca (Hungarian: Popláka) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothils of the Cindrel Mountains, 12 km south-west of the county capital Sibiu, in the MÄrginimea Sibiului ethnographical area.
Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station was a former railway station in Poplar, London. It opened in 1850 and was the southern terminus of the North London Railway after 1865, although goods trains carried on to connect to the London and Blackwall Railway or Millwall Extension Railway to reach the East India Docks or West India Docks respectively.
Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency) Poplar and Limehouse will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Poplar Creek Public Library District Poplar Creek Public Library District is a public library in Illinois, United States which serves residents of Streamwood, Hanover Park, Elgin, Schaumburg, and Bartlett. Created by a 1966 referendum in Streamwood, it currently has one main Streamwood facility and one Hanover Park branch.
Poplar Forest Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg, in Bedford County, Virginia, is a house designed by Thomas Jefferson as a private retreat from a very public life. While well known as the architect of such buildings as Monticello, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia State Capitol, Jefferson built the more remote and lesser-known Poplar Forest as a place to escape the hordes of visitors at Monticello and seek the "solitude of a hermit.
Poplar Hawk-moth The Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East and is among the commonest members of the family in the region (Pittaway, 1993).
Poplar railway station Poplar railway station was a railway station in Poplar, London that was on the London and Blackwall Railway between Millwall Junction and Blackwall. It opened on 6 July1840, resited five years later, and remained open until its closure on 3 May 1926, when all passenger services on the line east of Stepney ceased.
Poplar Rates Rebellion The Poplar Rates Rebellion, or Poplar Rates Revolt was a tax protest that took place in Poplar, London in 1921. It was led by George Lansbury, the Labour Mayor of Poplar, with the support of the Poplar Borough Council, most of whom were industrial workers.
Poplar River First Nation The Poplar River First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation in Manitoba, Canada. The First Nation's homeland is Poplar River First Nation Reserve #16, located approximately on the east side of Lake Winnipeg at the mouth of the Poplar River between 50 and 55 degrees latitude.
Poplar South (UK Parliament constituency) Poplar South (strictly South Poplar, although this is an unusual form of official name for a borough constituency) was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Poplin Poplin, also called tabinet, is a heavy, durable fabric consisting of a silk warp with a weft of worsted yarn. As the weft is in the form of a stout cord the fabric has a ridged structure, like rep, which gives depth and softness to the lustre of the silky surface.
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is a rather uncommon pathology, which results into claudication and chronic leg ischemia. The popliteal artery may be compressed behind the knee, due to congenital deformity of the muscles or tendon insertions of the popliteal space.
Poplog Poplog is a powerful multi-language, multiparadigm, reflective, incrementally compiled software development environment, originally created in the UK for teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex.
Popmart Tour The Popmart Tour (often referred to as just Popmart) was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, which took place from 1997 to 1998, in support of the group's 1997 album, Pop. Popmart was in part a parody of consumerism; the band kicked off the tour by holding a press conference at a Kmart store.
Popmart: Live from Mexico City Popmart: Live from Mexico City is a video release by rock band U2 from their Popmart Tour. Recorded on December 3, 1997 at Foro Sol Autodromo on the band's featured stop in Mexico City, Mexico, it was released on VHS in 1998.
Popo Agie Wilderness Popo Agie Wilderness (pronounced "po-po-zsha") is located within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The wilderness consists of 101,870 acres (412 km²) on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range.
Popobawa Popobawa, also Popo Bawa, is the name of an evil spirit which is believed by residents to have first appeared on the Tanzanian island of Pemba. In 1995 it was the focus of a major outbreak of collective hysteria or panic which spread from Pemba to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar archipelago, and across to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the the East African coast.
PopocatĂ©petl and IztaccĂhuatl "PopocatĂ©petl and IztaccĂhuatl" refers to a number of mythical and folkloric explanations of the origins of the volcanoes PopocatĂ©petl ("the Smoking Mountain") and IztaccĂhuatl ("the White Woman")which overlook the Valley of Mexico]. The most common variety relates the [[Nahua romance of the princess IztaccĂhuatl and the warrior PopocatĂ©petl.
Popol out West Popol out west is the English tile of the comic book for young children written by the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, Hergé. In French it is called Popol et Virginie et les lapinos and was released in the 1930s, when his publishers asked Herge to write a comic for very young children, for whom Tintin was too mature.
Popol Vuh The Popol Vuh (Quiché for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; Popol Wuj in modern spelling) is the book of scripture of the Quiché, a kingdom of the post classic Maya civilization in highland Guatemala.
Popol Vuh (German band) Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Daniel Fichelscher and Bob Eliscu.
Popol Vuh (Norwegian band) Popol Vuh was a 1970s Norwegian progressive rock band, that became popular in the 1970s Norwegian rock scene with such songs as "All we have is the past," "Queen of all Queens" and "Music Box".
Popoloca language Popoloca is the name of an indigenous Mexican language of the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean linguistic family (Which should not be confused with the Mexican languages called Popoluca). The closest relatives of Popoloca are the Chochotec, Mazatec and Ixcatec languages.
Popoluca Popoluca or Popoloca is a name applied to some indigenous languages of Mexico, the term is however confusing because it used for several different unrelated languages. This page is a disambuation page that serves to distinguish between the different extensions of the term Popoloca/Popoluca.
Popomundo Popomundo (frequently shortened in-game to Popo) is a browser-based MMORPG in which players compete for fame in a virtual music industry, allegedly created by the same authors of the more popular Hattrick. The core game (ie.
Popora people The Papora () are a Taiwanese aboriginal people, living primarily in the area around Taichung and the Taiwanese western coastal littoral. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Dutch East India Company traded with the Papora and provide records of life among them.
Popov (crater) Popov is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located along the very edge of the area of surface that is sometimes brought into view of the Earth during periods of favorable libration and illumination.
Popover A popover is a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter similar to that used in making Yorkshire pudding. The name "popover" comes from the fact that the batter swells or "pops" over the top of the muffin tin while baking.
Popovtsy The Popovtsy, or Popovschina (Поповцы, Поповщина in Russian; this name could be translated as "priestist people"), one of the two principal movements (along with the Bespopovtsy) of the Old Believers, which was formed by the end of the 17th century in Russia.
Popped Culture Popped Culture is a half hour program on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax examining all things pop and culture - movies and television, music and videogames, books and magazines and everything else that has an impact on popular - and unpopular - culture.
Popper (alien) The Popper is a small, blue biped lifeform in the computer game X-COM: Apocalypse. It is basically a self-delivering biological warhead with the sole purpose of charging at an enemy at a high speed and exploding.
Popperian cosmology Popperian cosmology is Karl Popper's philosophical theory of reality that includes three interacting worlds, called World 1, World 2 and World 3. Popperian cosmology also includes Karl Popper's theory of objective epistemology, also known as his theory of falsifiability.
Poppers Poppers is the street term used since the 1950s to describe the use of inhaled alkyl nitrites in a recreational context, principally as a sexual enhancer, and are particularly popular in the gay and avant-garde heterosexual communities. These compounds include amyl nitrite, a drug that has been prescribed for certain cardiac conditions since the 1850s.
Poppet valve A poppet valve is a valve consisting of a hole, usually round or oval, and a tapered plug, usually a disk shape on the end of a shaft also called a valve stem. The shaft guides the plug portion by sliding through a valve guide.
PopplagiĂ° Untitled 8 (also known under its unofficial title PopplagiĂ°, or The Pop Song) is a song by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur RĂłs, found as the eighth and final song on the 2002 album ( ). Many fans consider it to be the band's best work.
Poppleton manuscript The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex compiled, probably, by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. The manuscript contains numerous works, such as a map of the world (with index), and works by Orosius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales.
Poppleton railway station Poppleton railway station serves the village of Upper Poppleton in the City of York unitary authority area and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Harrogate Line and operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Poppo of Deinze Saint Poppo (Deinze, 977–Marchiennes, 25 january 1048), of noble descent, was the first recorded Flemish pilgrim to the Holy Land. Afterwards he turned to a monastic life, and eventually became abbot of Stavelot.
Poppy milk Poppy milk (aguonų pienas) is a traditional Lithuanian drink or soup, one of the 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper Kūčios. Usually it is eaten together with šližikai, another traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve dish.
Poppy Pomfrey Madam Poppy Pomfrey is a magical healer in the Harry Potter series of books. She is the matron in charge of the hospital wing at Hogwarts School and is depicted as a stern and competent woman, who takes her profession seriously.
Poppykettle Festival The Poppykettle Festival, which is now known as the Alcoa Poppykettle Festival, due to corporate sponsorship from Alcoa begun in 2001, is an arts festival in the Australian city of Geelong, Victoria, for kindergarten and primary school students first held in 1981. Thousands of students and parents perform, march in the parade and attend the festival.
Pops Fernández MarĂa Cielito "Pops" Lukban Fernández (born December 12, 1966) also known as the Concert Queen is a Filipino singer, actress and song writer. She started her career at age 16, and is now one of the most popular concert artists in the Philippines.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu Nana Papa Yaw Mensah-Bonsu, generally known as Pops Mensah-Bonsu (born September 7, 1983 in London), is a British basketball player and former star at the George Washington University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He graduated St.
Pops orchestra A Pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular show tunes and well-known classical works. Pops Orchestras are generally organized in large cities and are distinct from more highbrow, technically proficient orchestras that also may exist in the same city.
Pops Staples Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was a Mississippi-born gospel and R&B musician. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis Staples, Yvonne, and Cleotha.
Popsicle (album) Popsicle is an alternative rock album by indie band Diamond Nights, released in 2005. The song "The Girl's Attractive" was featured in a 2006 Jaguar advertisement, as well as several episodes of the TV drama Smallville.
Popstar (film) Popstar is an American film that features teen singer Aaron Carter in his first lead role in a feature film. The direct-to-video film was directed by Richard Gabai and written by Timothy Barton; the film was released on November 8, 2005.
Popstar (Kirby series) Popstar is the name of a fictional planet from the Nintendo Kirby series and the location for most of the game's events. Its location is unknown and the status of its own solar system is never really touched upon in the series, aside from there being many other planets nearby.
Popstars (Lollipop album) Popstars is the debut album by Italian girl group Lollipop, released on June 1, 2001 via WEA Records / Warner Music Italy. It peaked at #14 on the Italian album chart and spawned three singles, including the Italian #1 single "Down Down Down" (the Italian #1 single), "Don't Leave Me Now" and "When The Rain".
Popstars Live Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It also spawned a spinoff single and album that made the ARIA charts in April that year.
Popstars Remixed (Lollipop album) Popstars Remixed is a remixed album by Italian girl group Lollipop, released on March 8, 2002 via WEA Records / Warner Music Italy. It didn't reach not even #75 on the Italian album chart and spawned the hit single Batte Forte.
Popton Fort A Palmerton fort completed in 1864 as part of the inner line of defence of Milford Haven together with Hibberston Fort on the opposite bank. It is comrised of two batteries, Moncrieff battery on the west side and Open Battery on the north.
Poptones Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation.
Populace A populace is a group of people forming the total population of a certain place. It is taken from the Latin word populus, which means "people", but also in the sense of a race, nationality, or locality.
Popular culture Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: "the culture of the people") consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. Such elements are perpetuated through that society's vernacular language or an established lingua franca.
Popular Computing Weekly Popular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from the early 1980s until the early 1990s. It was sometimes referred to as PCW (although that abbreviation is more commonly associated with Personal Computer World magazine).
Popular Conservative Alliance The Popular Conservative Alliance (Alianza Popular Conservadora - APC) is a right-wing conservative Nicaraguan political party. The APC split from the Democratic Conservative Party (PCD) in 1984 and received legal status in 1989.
Popular Democratic Party (Canada) The Popular Democratic Party or PDP was a minor Canadian social democratic and populist political party. It was formed in 2003 but did not register as a political party with Elections Canada, the government agency that oversees elections.
Popular Democratic Party (Dominican Republic) The Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido DemĂłcrata Popular ) is a minor political party of the Dominican Republic. In the 16 May 2006 election, the party was a member of the defeated Grand National Alliance.
Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico —or Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico (PPD) in Spanish— is a political party that supports the continuation of Puerto Rico's current status as a "free associated state" of the United States, which is also known as a commonwealth status. The governor of Puerto Rico, AnĂbal Acevedo Vilá, is from the PPD, but the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico holds both the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and Senate.
Popular Democratic Unity Popular Democratic Unity (in Spanish: Unidad Democrático Popular), was a political front in Peru founded in 1977 by Revolutionary Vanguard, Revolutionary Communist Party and Revolutionary Left Movement. UDP contested the 1978 and 1980 elections.
Popular Democrats (Sweden) Popular Democrats (in Swedish: Folkdemokraterna) Folkdemokraterna is a small political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1991 by a group dissatisfied with the rightwing turn of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
Popular education Popular education is an educational technique designed to raise the consciousness of its participants and allow them to become more aware of how an individual's personal experiences are connected to larger societal problems. Participants are empowered to act to effect change on the problems that affect them.
Popular Electronics Popular Electronics was started by Ziff-Davis in October 1954 as a magazine for students and experimenters in electronics. It became the "World's Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine" and proudly listed the circulation figure on the Contents page, (240,151 in April 1957.
Popular forum strategy games There are many popular forum strategy games around at any one time, but only a very select few ever make it last for longer than a couple of months, with outside interests or simple time consumption preventing them from contiuing with their so called "projects". Battle for Rome (BFR) ==
Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists who are united by opposition to another group (most often fascist or far-right groups). Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal (or "bourgeois") forces as well as socialist and communist ("working-class") groups.
Popular Flying Association The Popular Flying Association is the representative body in the United Kingdom for amateur aircraft construction, recreational and sport flying. It oversees the construction and maintenance of homebuilt aircraft, under an approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Popular Force Party The Popular Force Party or People's Force Party (Spanish: Partido Fuerza Popular) was created in 1945 as the electoral arm of the National Synarchist Union to participe in the 1946 presidential election, in which it supported the candidate of the National Action Party, EfraĂn González Luna.
Popular Front (France) The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing political parties (the French Communist Party (PCF), the Socialist SFIO and the Radical and Socialist Party), which was in government in Third Republic France from 1936 to 1938.
Popular Front (Senegal) Ahead of the 1936 elections to the French National Assembly, a Popular Front committee was formed in Senegal. It comprised of the local branch of SFIO, the Senegalese Socialist Party, the local communist cell, Human Rights League and the local branch of the Radical and Radical Socialist Party led by François Carpot.
Popular Front (Spain) The Popular Front (Spanish: Frente Popular) in Spain's Second Republic was an electoral coalition and pact signed in January 1936 by various left-wing political organisations, instigated by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of contesting that years' election.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain The Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain () was an underground political party in Bahrain associated with the Arab Nationalist Movement. Its members were inclined towards the leftist Marxist trend within the ANM.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad The Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad (Front Populaire pour la Libération du Tchad or FPLT) was a small insurgent group active during the Chadian Civil War. Founded in 1968 by Awad Mukhtar Nasser, it was based in Sudan and operated along the Chad-Sudan border.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman The Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (in Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير عُمان - al-Jabha al-Sha'abiya li-TahrÄ«r 'Uman, PFLO) a Marxist and Arab nationalist revolutionary organisation in the Sultanate of Oman. It fought against the Sultan (ruler) in the Dhofar revolution from the PFLO's foundation until the suppression of the revolution in 1976.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير Ůلسطين - al-jabhah al-sha`biyyah li-tahrÄ«r filastÄ«n) is a Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestinian Liberation Organization (the largest being Fatah), but now has only limited popular support in the Palestinian Territories.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO) or Special Operations (PFLP-SO) or Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG) were organizational names used by Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, that were regarded as terrorism, and were not sanctioned by the PFLP.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير Ůلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria. The U.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Command The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Command (PFLP-SC) was a minor breakout faction from Wadie Haddad's ultraradical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (neither group should be confused with more established Palestinian factions, such as the PFLP or the PFLP-GC).
Popular Front of Latvia The Popular Front of Latvia (Latvijas Tautas Fronte in Latvian) was a political organization in Latvia in late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence from the Soviet Union. It was similar to the Popular Front of Estonia and the Sąjūdis movement in Lithuania.
Popular Holdings Popular Holdings () is a Singapore-based company that publishes, distributes, and retails books for the local education market. It has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" The Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" (in Spanish, Consejo IndĂgena Popular de Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon"), also known by its acronym CIPO-RFM, is an organization drawn from rural indigenous peoples and communities in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The organization states that its goals (among others) are to "promote, diffuse and defend our human, territorial, economic, social, political and cultural rights, as communities and as individuals", which are to be accomplished through non-violent community-based action.
Popular Liberalism Popular Liberalism is a faction within the Forza Italia party which wants to coniugate liberal and popular values. The group is basically composed by those Liberals (former members of the Italian Liberal Party, PLI), who decided to join Forza Italia after PLI's death in 1994.
Popular Liberation Army The Popular Liberation Army, EPL (Ejército Popular de Liberación), is a Colombian guerrilla group created in 1967. Most of its former members demobilized in 1991, forming the Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty) party, but a dissident faction continues operating.
Popular monarchy Popular Monarchy is a system of monarchical governance in which the monarch's title is linked with the people rather than a unitary state. It was the norm in some places (such as Scotland) from the Middle Ages, and was occasionally used in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, often reflecting the results of a popular revolution.
Popular music Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of elites or the upper strata of society, and traditional folk music which was disseminated orally.
Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge (in Swedish: Folkrörelsen för Borlänges Bästa) commonly referred to as FBB was a local municipal party in Borlänge. The party formed because new ideas among members not having support from the top in Borlänge's Social Democratic Party was and are intolerated by the Social Democratic Party and members in the party was either unsatisfied of the governing of Borlänge by the Socia democratic party which had held a majority of seats or was unhappy with the Social democratic party's policies.
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The Popular or People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola - Partido do Trabalho) is an Angolan political party that has ruled the country since independence in 1975.
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (in French: Mouvement Populaire de Libération de l'Azawad), a Tuareg militant rebel group in northern Mali. Initially based amongst exiles in Algeria and Libya, MPLA launched an armed campaign in June 1990.
Popular Movement of the Revolution The Popular Movement of the Revolution (French: Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution or MPR) is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa), formerly Zaire. Since the actual electoral strength of the political parties in Congo is not known, the size of the party cannot be determined.
Popular prints Popular Prints is a term for printed images of generally low artistic quality which were sold cheaply in Europe and later the New World from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, often with text as well as images. They were the first mass-media.
Popular revolt in late medieval Europe Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries, part of a larger "Crisis of the Late Middle Ages". Although sometimes known as Peasant Revolts, the phenomenon of popular uprisings was of broad scope and not just restricted to peasants.
Popham Colony The Popham Colony was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River. It was founded in the same year as its more successful rival, the Jamestown Settlement, and was the first English colony in the region that would eventually become known as New England.
Popigai crater The Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia is tied with Manicouagan Reservoir as the 4th largest impact crater on Earth. A large bolide impact created the 100-kilometer diameter crater about 35 million years ago during the late Eocene epoch.
Popinjay (Wild Cards) Jay "Popinjay" Ackroyd is a character from the Wild Cards series of books. Jay can teleport people and things anywhere he can clearly visualize (often this means places like the local baseball stadium or police holding tank).
Popintsi Popintsi () is a village in southern Bulgaria, part of Panagyurishte municipality, Pazardzhik Province. It is located 17 km south of Panagyurishte and 26 km north of Pazardzhik, on both banks of the Luda Yana River.
Popiwek Popiwek (an acronym of PPWW, short for Podatek of ponadnormatywnych wypłat wynagrodzeń, ) was an extraordinary tax introduced in Poland in 1984. Although created by the communist authorities and initially hidden under the name of fee for the National Work Activization Fund, it is primarily associated with the Balcerowicz's Plan of 1989.
Popjournalism Popjournalism is a Canadian entertainment magazine, based out of Toronto, Canada, which was first published online in 2000 and branched out into print in 2004. The first print edition was published on November 25, 2004 and featured interviews with comedian Rick Mercer and singer Jann Arden.
Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music is a compilation album released on October 23, 2006. The album is a non-stop mix mixed by XFM DJ Grant McSleazy, and is one of the first released on the newly formed Fascination Records.
Popkum, British Columbia Popkum is a rural farming and tourism based community east of Chilliwack, British Columbia. The community is a part of the Fraser Valley Regional District and is named after a small First Nations reserve located on the Fraser River.
Poplaca Poplaca (Hungarian: Popláka) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothils of the Cindrel Mountains, 12 km south-west of the county capital Sibiu, in the MÄrginimea Sibiului ethnographical area.
Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station was a former railway station in Poplar, London. It opened in 1850 and was the southern terminus of the North London Railway after 1865, although goods trains carried on to connect to the London and Blackwall Railway or Millwall Extension Railway to reach the East India Docks or West India Docks respectively.
Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency) Poplar and Limehouse will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Poplar Creek Public Library District Poplar Creek Public Library District is a public library in Illinois, United States which serves residents of Streamwood, Hanover Park, Elgin, Schaumburg, and Bartlett. Created by a 1966 referendum in Streamwood, it currently has one main Streamwood facility and one Hanover Park branch.
Poplar Forest Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg, in Bedford County, Virginia, is a house designed by Thomas Jefferson as a private retreat from a very public life. While well known as the architect of such buildings as Monticello, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia State Capitol, Jefferson built the more remote and lesser-known Poplar Forest as a place to escape the hordes of visitors at Monticello and seek the "solitude of a hermit.
Poplar Hawk-moth The Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi) is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East and is among the commonest members of the family in the region (Pittaway, 1993).
Poplar railway station Poplar railway station was a railway station in Poplar, London that was on the London and Blackwall Railway between Millwall Junction and Blackwall. It opened on 6 July1840, resited five years later, and remained open until its closure on 3 May 1926, when all passenger services on the line east of Stepney ceased.
Poplar Rates Rebellion The Poplar Rates Rebellion, or Poplar Rates Revolt was a tax protest that took place in Poplar, London in 1921. It was led by George Lansbury, the Labour Mayor of Poplar, with the support of the Poplar Borough Council, most of whom were industrial workers.
Poplar River First Nation The Poplar River First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation in Manitoba, Canada. The First Nation's homeland is Poplar River First Nation Reserve #16, located approximately on the east side of Lake Winnipeg at the mouth of the Poplar River between 50 and 55 degrees latitude.
Poplar South (UK Parliament constituency) Poplar South (strictly South Poplar, although this is an unusual form of official name for a borough constituency) was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Poplin Poplin, also called tabinet, is a heavy, durable fabric consisting of a silk warp with a weft of worsted yarn. As the weft is in the form of a stout cord the fabric has a ridged structure, like rep, which gives depth and softness to the lustre of the silky surface.
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is a rather uncommon pathology, which results into claudication and chronic leg ischemia. The popliteal artery may be compressed behind the knee, due to congenital deformity of the muscles or tendon insertions of the popliteal space.
Poplog Poplog is a powerful multi-language, multiparadigm, reflective, incrementally compiled software development environment, originally created in the UK for teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex.
Popmart Tour The Popmart Tour (often referred to as just Popmart) was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, which took place from 1997 to 1998, in support of the group's 1997 album, Pop. Popmart was in part a parody of consumerism; the band kicked off the tour by holding a press conference at a Kmart store.
Popmart: Live from Mexico City Popmart: Live from Mexico City is a video release by rock band U2 from their Popmart Tour. Recorded on December 3, 1997 at Foro Sol Autodromo on the band's featured stop in Mexico City, Mexico, it was released on VHS in 1998.
Popo Agie Wilderness Popo Agie Wilderness (pronounced "po-po-zsha") is located within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The wilderness consists of 101,870 acres (412 km²) on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range.
Popobawa Popobawa, also Popo Bawa, is the name of an evil spirit which is believed by residents to have first appeared on the Tanzanian island of Pemba. In 1995 it was the focus of a major outbreak of collective hysteria or panic which spread from Pemba to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar archipelago, and across to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the the East African coast.
PopocatĂ©petl and IztaccĂhuatl "PopocatĂ©petl and IztaccĂhuatl" refers to a number of mythical and folkloric explanations of the origins of the volcanoes PopocatĂ©petl ("the Smoking Mountain") and IztaccĂhuatl ("the White Woman")which overlook the Valley of Mexico]. The most common variety relates the [[Nahua romance of the princess IztaccĂhuatl and the warrior PopocatĂ©petl.
Popol out West Popol out west is the English tile of the comic book for young children written by the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, Hergé. In French it is called Popol et Virginie et les lapinos and was released in the 1930s, when his publishers asked Herge to write a comic for very young children, for whom Tintin was too mature.
Popol Vuh The Popol Vuh (Quiché for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; Popol Wuj in modern spelling) is the book of scripture of the Quiché, a kingdom of the post classic Maya civilization in highland Guatemala.
Popol Vuh (German band) Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Daniel Fichelscher and Bob Eliscu.
Popol Vuh (Norwegian band) Popol Vuh was a 1970s Norwegian progressive rock band, that became popular in the 1970s Norwegian rock scene with such songs as "All we have is the past," "Queen of all Queens" and "Music Box".
Popoloca language Popoloca is the name of an indigenous Mexican language of the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean linguistic family (Which should not be confused with the Mexican languages called Popoluca). The closest relatives of Popoloca are the Chochotec, Mazatec and Ixcatec languages.
Popoluca Popoluca or Popoloca is a name applied to some indigenous languages of Mexico, the term is however confusing because it used for several different unrelated languages. This page is a disambuation page that serves to distinguish between the different extensions of the term Popoloca/Popoluca.
Popomundo Popomundo (frequently shortened in-game to Popo) is a browser-based MMORPG in which players compete for fame in a virtual music industry, allegedly created by the same authors of the more popular Hattrick. The core game (ie.
Popora people The Papora () are a Taiwanese aboriginal people, living primarily in the area around Taichung and the Taiwanese western coastal littoral. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Dutch East India Company traded with the Papora and provide records of life among them.
Popov (crater) Popov is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located along the very edge of the area of surface that is sometimes brought into view of the Earth during periods of favorable libration and illumination.
Popover A popover is a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter similar to that used in making Yorkshire pudding. The name "popover" comes from the fact that the batter swells or "pops" over the top of the muffin tin while baking.
Popovtsy The Popovtsy, or Popovschina (Поповцы, Поповщина in Russian; this name could be translated as "priestist people"), one of the two principal movements (along with the Bespopovtsy) of the Old Believers, which was formed by the end of the 17th century in Russia.
Popped Culture Popped Culture is a half hour program on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax examining all things pop and culture - movies and television, music and videogames, books and magazines and everything else that has an impact on popular - and unpopular - culture.
Popper (alien) The Popper is a small, blue biped lifeform in the computer game X-COM: Apocalypse. It is basically a self-delivering biological warhead with the sole purpose of charging at an enemy at a high speed and exploding.
Popperian cosmology Popperian cosmology is Karl Popper's philosophical theory of reality that includes three interacting worlds, called World 1, World 2 and World 3. Popperian cosmology also includes Karl Popper's theory of objective epistemology, also known as his theory of falsifiability.
Poppers Poppers is the street term used since the 1950s to describe the use of inhaled alkyl nitrites in a recreational context, principally as a sexual enhancer, and are particularly popular in the gay and avant-garde heterosexual communities. These compounds include amyl nitrite, a drug that has been prescribed for certain cardiac conditions since the 1850s.
Poppet valve A poppet valve is a valve consisting of a hole, usually round or oval, and a tapered plug, usually a disk shape on the end of a shaft also called a valve stem. The shaft guides the plug portion by sliding through a valve guide.
PopplagiĂ° Untitled 8 (also known under its unofficial title PopplagiĂ°, or The Pop Song) is a song by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur RĂłs, found as the eighth and final song on the 2002 album ( ). Many fans consider it to be the band's best work.
Poppleton manuscript The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex compiled, probably, by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. The manuscript contains numerous works, such as a map of the world (with index), and works by Orosius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales.
Poppleton railway station Poppleton railway station serves the village of Upper Poppleton in the City of York unitary authority area and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Harrogate Line and operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Poppo of Deinze Saint Poppo (Deinze, 977–Marchiennes, 25 january 1048), of noble descent, was the first recorded Flemish pilgrim to the Holy Land. Afterwards he turned to a monastic life, and eventually became abbot of Stavelot.
Poppy milk Poppy milk (aguonų pienas) is a traditional Lithuanian drink or soup, one of the 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper Kūčios. Usually it is eaten together with šližikai, another traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve dish.
Poppy Pomfrey Madam Poppy Pomfrey is a magical healer in the Harry Potter series of books. She is the matron in charge of the hospital wing at Hogwarts School and is depicted as a stern and competent woman, who takes her profession seriously.
Poppykettle Festival The Poppykettle Festival, which is now known as the Alcoa Poppykettle Festival, due to corporate sponsorship from Alcoa begun in 2001, is an arts festival in the Australian city of Geelong, Victoria, for kindergarten and primary school students first held in 1981. Thousands of students and parents perform, march in the parade and attend the festival.
Pops Fernández MarĂa Cielito "Pops" Lukban Fernández (born December 12, 1966) also known as the Concert Queen is a Filipino singer, actress and song writer. She started her career at age 16, and is now one of the most popular concert artists in the Philippines.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu Nana Papa Yaw Mensah-Bonsu, generally known as Pops Mensah-Bonsu (born September 7, 1983 in London), is a British basketball player and former star at the George Washington University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He graduated St.
Pops orchestra A Pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular show tunes and well-known classical works. Pops Orchestras are generally organized in large cities and are distinct from more highbrow, technically proficient orchestras that also may exist in the same city.
Pops Staples Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was a Mississippi-born gospel and R&B musician. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis Staples, Yvonne, and Cleotha.
Popsicle (album) Popsicle is an alternative rock album by indie band Diamond Nights, released in 2005. The song "The Girl's Attractive" was featured in a 2006 Jaguar advertisement, as well as several episodes of the TV drama Smallville.
Popstar (film) Popstar is an American film that features teen singer Aaron Carter in his first lead role in a feature film. The direct-to-video film was directed by Richard Gabai and written by Timothy Barton; the film was released on November 8, 2005.
Popstar (Kirby series) Popstar is the name of a fictional planet from the Nintendo Kirby series and the location for most of the game's events. Its location is unknown and the status of its own solar system is never really touched upon in the series, aside from there being many other planets nearby.
Popstars (Lollipop album) Popstars is the debut album by Italian girl group Lollipop, released on June 1, 2001 via WEA Records / Warner Music Italy. It peaked at #14 on the Italian album chart and spawned three singles, including the Italian #1 single "Down Down Down" (the Italian #1 single), "Don't Leave Me Now" and "When The Rain".
Popstars Live Popstars Live was an Australian talent quest program similar to Australian Idol that aired on the Seven Network in early 2004. It also spawned a spinoff single and album that made the ARIA charts in April that year.
Popstars Remixed (Lollipop album) Popstars Remixed is a remixed album by Italian girl group Lollipop, released on March 8, 2002 via WEA Records / Warner Music Italy. It didn't reach not even #75 on the Italian album chart and spawned the hit single Batte Forte.
Popton Fort A Palmerton fort completed in 1864 as part of the inner line of defence of Milford Haven together with Hibberston Fort on the opposite bank. It is comrised of two batteries, Moncrieff battery on the west side and Open Battery on the north.
Poptones Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation.
Populace A populace is a group of people forming the total population of a certain place. It is taken from the Latin word populus, which means "people", but also in the sense of a race, nationality, or locality.
Popular culture Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: "the culture of the people") consists of widespread cultural elements in any given society. Such elements are perpetuated through that society's vernacular language or an established lingua franca.
Popular Computing Weekly Popular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from the early 1980s until the early 1990s. It was sometimes referred to as PCW (although that abbreviation is more commonly associated with Personal Computer World magazine).
Popular Conservative Alliance The Popular Conservative Alliance (Alianza Popular Conservadora - APC) is a right-wing conservative Nicaraguan political party. The APC split from the Democratic Conservative Party (PCD) in 1984 and received legal status in 1989.
Popular Democratic Party (Canada) The Popular Democratic Party or PDP was a minor Canadian social democratic and populist political party. It was formed in 2003 but did not register as a political party with Elections Canada, the government agency that oversees elections.
Popular Democratic Party (Dominican Republic) The Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido DemĂłcrata Popular ) is a minor political party of the Dominican Republic. In the 16 May 2006 election, the party was a member of the defeated Grand National Alliance.
Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico —or Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico (PPD) in Spanish— is a political party that supports the continuation of Puerto Rico's current status as a "free associated state" of the United States, which is also known as a commonwealth status. The governor of Puerto Rico, AnĂbal Acevedo Vilá, is from the PPD, but the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico holds both the Puerto Rican House of Representatives and Senate.
Popular Democratic Unity Popular Democratic Unity (in Spanish: Unidad Democrático Popular), was a political front in Peru founded in 1977 by Revolutionary Vanguard, Revolutionary Communist Party and Revolutionary Left Movement. UDP contested the 1978 and 1980 elections.
Popular Democrats (Sweden) Popular Democrats (in Swedish: Folkdemokraterna) Folkdemokraterna is a small political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1991 by a group dissatisfied with the rightwing turn of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
Popular education Popular education is an educational technique designed to raise the consciousness of its participants and allow them to become more aware of how an individual's personal experiences are connected to larger societal problems. Participants are empowered to act to effect change on the problems that affect them.
Popular Electronics Popular Electronics was started by Ziff-Davis in October 1954 as a magazine for students and experimenters in electronics. It became the "World's Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine" and proudly listed the circulation figure on the Contents page, (240,151 in April 1957.
Popular forum strategy games There are many popular forum strategy games around at any one time, but only a very select few ever make it last for longer than a couple of months, with outside interests or simple time consumption preventing them from contiuing with their so called "projects". Battle for Rome (BFR) ==
Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists who are united by opposition to another group (most often fascist or far-right groups). Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal (or "bourgeois") forces as well as socialist and communist ("working-class") groups.
Popular Flying Association The Popular Flying Association is the representative body in the United Kingdom for amateur aircraft construction, recreational and sport flying. It oversees the construction and maintenance of homebuilt aircraft, under an approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Popular Force Party The Popular Force Party or People's Force Party (Spanish: Partido Fuerza Popular) was created in 1945 as the electoral arm of the National Synarchist Union to participe in the 1946 presidential election, in which it supported the candidate of the National Action Party, EfraĂn González Luna.
Popular Front (France) The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing political parties (the French Communist Party (PCF), the Socialist SFIO and the Radical and Socialist Party), which was in government in Third Republic France from 1936 to 1938.
Popular Front (Senegal) Ahead of the 1936 elections to the French National Assembly, a Popular Front committee was formed in Senegal. It comprised of the local branch of SFIO, the Senegalese Socialist Party, the local communist cell, Human Rights League and the local branch of the Radical and Radical Socialist Party led by François Carpot.
Popular Front (Spain) The Popular Front (Spanish: Frente Popular) in Spain's Second Republic was an electoral coalition and pact signed in January 1936 by various left-wing political organisations, instigated by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of contesting that years' election.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain The Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain () was an underground political party in Bahrain associated with the Arab Nationalist Movement. Its members were inclined towards the leftist Marxist trend within the ANM.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad The Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad (Front Populaire pour la Libération du Tchad or FPLT) was a small insurgent group active during the Chadian Civil War. Founded in 1968 by Awad Mukhtar Nasser, it was based in Sudan and operated along the Chad-Sudan border.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman The Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (in Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير عُمان - al-Jabha al-Sha'abiya li-TahrÄ«r 'Uman, PFLO) a Marxist and Arab nationalist revolutionary organisation in the Sultanate of Oman. It fought against the Sultan (ruler) in the Dhofar revolution from the PFLO's foundation until the suppression of the revolution in 1976.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير Ůلسطين - al-jabhah al-sha`biyyah li-tahrÄ«r filastÄ«n) is a Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestinian Liberation Organization (the largest being Fatah), but now has only limited popular support in the Palestinian Territories.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO) or Special Operations (PFLP-SO) or Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG) were organizational names used by Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, that were regarded as terrorism, and were not sanctioned by the PFLP.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (الجبهة الشعبية Ů„ŘŞŘرير Ůلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria. The U.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Command The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Command (PFLP-SC) was a minor breakout faction from Wadie Haddad's ultraradical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (neither group should be confused with more established Palestinian factions, such as the PFLP or the PFLP-GC).
Popular Front of Latvia The Popular Front of Latvia (Latvijas Tautas Fronte in Latvian) was a political organization in Latvia in late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence from the Soviet Union. It was similar to the Popular Front of Estonia and the Sąjūdis movement in Lithuania.
Popular Holdings Popular Holdings () is a Singapore-based company that publishes, distributes, and retails books for the local education market. It has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" The Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon" (in Spanish, Consejo IndĂgena Popular de Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magon"), also known by its acronym CIPO-RFM, is an organization drawn from rural indigenous peoples and communities in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The organization states that its goals (among others) are to "promote, diffuse and defend our human, territorial, economic, social, political and cultural rights, as communities and as individuals", which are to be accomplished through non-violent community-based action.
Popular Liberalism Popular Liberalism is a faction within the Forza Italia party which wants to coniugate liberal and popular values. The group is basically composed by those Liberals (former members of the Italian Liberal Party, PLI), who decided to join Forza Italia after PLI's death in 1994.
Popular Liberation Army The Popular Liberation Army, EPL (Ejército Popular de Liberación), is a Colombian guerrilla group created in 1967. Most of its former members demobilized in 1991, forming the Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty) party, but a dissident faction continues operating.
Popular monarchy Popular Monarchy is a system of monarchical governance in which the monarch's title is linked with the people rather than a unitary state. It was the norm in some places (such as Scotland) from the Middle Ages, and was occasionally used in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, often reflecting the results of a popular revolution.
Popular music Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of elites or the upper strata of society, and traditional folk music which was disseminated orally.
Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge (in Swedish: Folkrörelsen för Borlänges Bästa) commonly referred to as FBB was a local municipal party in Borlänge. The party formed because new ideas among members not having support from the top in Borlänge's Social Democratic Party was and are intolerated by the Social Democratic Party and members in the party was either unsatisfied of the governing of Borlänge by the Socia democratic party which had held a majority of seats or was unhappy with the Social democratic party's policies.
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The Popular or People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola - Partido do Trabalho) is an Angolan political party that has ruled the country since independence in 1975.
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (in French: Mouvement Populaire de Libération de l'Azawad), a Tuareg militant rebel group in northern Mali. Initially based amongst exiles in Algeria and Libya, MPLA launched an armed campaign in June 1990.
Popular Movement of the Revolution The Popular Movement of the Revolution (French: Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution or MPR) is a political party in Democratic Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Kinshasa), formerly Zaire. Since the actual electoral strength of the political parties in Congo is not known, the size of the party cannot be determined.
Popular prints Popular Prints is a term for printed images of generally low artistic quality which were sold cheaply in Europe and later the New World from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, often with text as well as images. They were the first mass-media.
Popular revolt in late medieval Europe Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by (typically) peasants in the countryside, or the bourgeois in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals of the 14th through early 16th centuries, part of a larger "Crisis of the Late Middle Ages". Although sometimes known as Peasant Revolts, the phenomenon of popular uprisings was of broad scope and not just restricted to peasants.
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