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Po-Shen Loh
Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University working in extremal combinatorics who coached the US IMO team to four first-place finishes and founded Expii.
Po‐Yen Chen
Po-Yen Chen is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Maryland who uses machine learning and robotics to discover sustainable materials.
Po' boy
Po' boy, a New Orleans sandwich on local French bread filled with fried seafood or roast beef debris, dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo; created by the Martin brothers for 1929 streetcar strikers.
Poa alpina
Poa alpina (alpine meadow grass, alpine bluegrass) is a perennial Northern Hemisphere grass with seed-producing and pseudoviviparous bulbil forms; bulbil plants dominate at high elevation and it is a key Alpine fodder grass.
Poa annua
Poa annua (annual bluegrass, annual meadow-grass) is a widespread temperate grass, an allotetraploid hybrid of P. infirma and P. supina of Mediterranean origin, a major turf weed and forage grass that is often actually perennial.
Poa bulbosa
Poa bulbosa, bulbous bluegrass, is a tufted Poaceae grass native from Europe to Xinjiang and the Himalaya, introduced in North America, Australia, and Japan, reproducing by bulbils (pseudovivipary) and apomixis, dormant in summer, and used as early spring sheep forage.
Poa pratensis
Poa pratensis, known as Kentucky bluegrass or smooth meadow grass, is a perennial sod-forming grass and a major lawn and pasture grass in North America.
Poa trivialis
Poa trivialis (rough-stalked meadow-grass, roughstalk bluegrass) is a stoloniferous perennial Poaceae grass native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and Macaronesia, used for forage and turf, a lawn weed, and a Pacific Northwest seed contaminant.
Poaceae
Poaceae (Gramineae), the grass family of Poales, has c. 11,800 species in 791 genera and 12 subfamilies, noded culms, spikelets, and caryopsis fruits; crown age 98.54 Ma on West Gondwana, with wheat, rice, and maize among its crops.
Poached egg
Poached egg: a shelled egg cooked gently in simmering, often vinegar-acidulated water until whites set and yolk stays soft; also called oeufs poches or ein verlorenes Ei; base of eggs Benedict.
Poacher (TV series)
Poacher is an eight-episode Indian crime drama created by Richie Mehta for Amazon Prime Video (2024), dramatizing Operation Shikar, the largest elephant ivory poaching ring in Indian history, starring Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya, with Alia Bhatt as executive producer.
Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting, capturing, or killing of wildlife or taking of animal parts, governed by laws from CITES to national statutes. Covers definitions, colonial legal history, trafficking supply chains, deterrence, community-based anti-poaching, and the legal trade debate.
Poaching (cooking)
Poaching (cooking) is gentle moist-heat cooking submerged in liquid at 160–180°F (71–82°C), below simmering (185–205°F) and boiling (212°F); used for eggs, fish, chicken, and fruit, with court bouillon, milk, wine, or syrup as liquids.
Poales
Poales is a large monocot order of flowering plants in the Commelinid clade, with over 20,000 species in 16 families including Poaceae (grasses), Cyperaceae (sedges), and Bromeliaceae; it dominates savannas and wetlands and includes rice, wheat, maize, and pineapple.
Poas
Poas (Poas Volcano) is an active stratovolcano in Costa Rica's Cordillera Volcanica Central, 2,697-2,708 m high, with the near-pH-zero Laguna Caliente crater lake, frequent phreatic eruptions since 1828, and an ongoing VEI 2 episode begun January 2025.
Pobeda
FK Pobeda (ФК Победа), Prilep, North Macedonia football club founded 1941; Macedonian champions 2003/04 and 2006/07; banned by UEFA for eight years and defunct in 2010 over the fixed 2004 Champions League tie against FC Pyunik (CAS 2009/A/1920).
Poblano
Poblano (chile poblano), a mild Capsicum annuum chili from Puebla, Mexico; 1,000-2,000 SHU; dried form is the ancho; used in chiles rellenos and chiles en nogada; Mexico produced 365,790 tonnes in 2024.
Poblet Monastery
Poblet Monastery (Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet), a Cistercian abbey in Vimbodí, Catalonia, founded in 1150; royal pantheon of Catalonia and Aragon, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.
Pobrecito poeta que era yo...
Pobrecito poeta que era yo... is the only published novel of Salvadoran poet and guerrilla Roque Dalton, a seven-part "novela-collage" issued posthumously by EDUCA in 1976, a year after his assassination.
Pocahontas
Pocahontas, also Matoaka or Rebecca (c. 1596–1617), daughter of the Powhatan paramount chief, married John Rolfe in 1614; the famous John Smith rescue story is doubted by most historians.
Pocahontas (1995 film)
Pocahontas is a 1995 Disney animated musical film directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, depicting a fictional romance between Pocahontas and Captain John Smith at Jamestown.
Pocahontas (character)
Pocahontas (character), also Matoaka in history, is Disney's 1995 animated heroine, daughter of Chief Powhatan, voiced by Irene Bedard and Judy Kuhn, famous for "Colors of the Wind" and criticized for romanticizing the historical figure.
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated sequel in which Pocahontas sails to England with John Rolfe to prevent war, voiced by Irene Bedard, Billy Zane, and Donal Gibson.
Pocahontas Patera
Pocahontas Patera is a 78-km-wide patera (volcanic depression) on Venus at 64.9°N, 49.4°E, named by the IAU in 1991 for the Powhatan peacemaker Pocahontas (1595-1617).
Pocari Sweat (ポカリスエット)
Pocari Sweat (ポカリスエット) is a Japanese rehydration beverage made by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and launched in 1980, formulated with water, sugar, and electrolytes to replace fluids lost through sweating.
Pocatello High School
Pocatello High School, also known as Pocatello Senior High School, is a public high school in Pocatello, Idaho. Its original section was built in 1892 and rebuilt in 1939.
Pocatello, Idaho
Pocatello, Idaho, is the county seat of Bannock County in southeastern Idaho, named for Shoshone Chief Pocatello. It grew from a railroad junction and is home to Idaho State University.
Počerady CCGT power plant
The Počerady CCGT power plant (Czech: Paroplynový cyklus Počerady, PPC), also called Počerady II, is a gas-fired combined-cycle power station in northwest Czechia operated by ČEZ.
Pochaiv Lavra
Pochaiv Lavra is a working Orthodox men's monastery in Pochaiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1597 and known for the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God.
Pocheon Art Valley
Pocheon Art Valley (포천아트밸리) is a former granite quarry in Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, reopened in 2009 as an eco-friendly art and culture park with Cheonjuho Lake, sculpture park, monorail, and astronomical science center within the Hantangang UNESCO Global Geopark.