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Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas, a spa city in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded 6 November 1872 around sulfurous thermal springs on an extinct volcanic caldera; known for its hydrothermal heritage complex, Palace Casino era, and high development indices.
Pocoyo
Pocoyo (Pocoyó), Spanish preschool 3D CGI animated series created in 2002 by García Carsí, Cantolla, and Gallego, produced by Zinkia; minimalist white world, narrator Stephen Fry, BAFTA winner, sold to 150+ countries.
Poczobutt (lunar crater)
Poczobutt is a 212.36-km-wide IAU-named impact crater at 57.27N, -99.23E on the Moon's northern farside, approved 1979 for Polish astronomer Martin Odlanicky Poczobutt (1728-1810), with satellite craters Poczobutt J and R near Coulomb and Sarton.
Pod Save America
Pod Save America is a liberal American politics podcast launched in January 2017 by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor.
Podaa Podi (போடா போடி)
Podaa Podi (போடா போடி), 2012 Tamil musical romantic comedy, Vignesh Shivan's directorial debut starring Silambarasan and debutant Varalaxmi Sarathkumar; released 13 November 2012 for Diwali opposite Thuppakki, set in London, music by Dharan Kumar, mixed reviews.
Podarcis
Podarcis (wall lizards), genus of Lacertidae lizards Wagler 1830, 24-25 species across Europe, Turkey, and North Africa; cryptic species complexes, five Miocene clades, type species P. muralis.
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała
TS Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała, nicknamed Górale, is a Polish football club from Bielsko-Biała playing in the Betclic 1. Liga at the 15,316-capacity Stadion Miejski; promoted to the Ekstraklasa in 2011 and back to the second tier in 2026.
Podcast
Podcast: episodic internet audio or video distributed via RSS feeds for subscription and automatic download. Term coined by Ben Hammersley (2004); first show Christopher Lydon's Radio Open Source (2003); U.S. audience at record highs and shifting to video, led by YouTube.
Podemos (Spanish political party)
Podemos, "We can," Spanish progressive party founded January 2014 by Pablo Iglesias after the 15-M anti-austerity movement; centralized structure, circles and digital assemblies, coalition government with PSOE from 2020, later decline and Sumar schism.
Podeni
Podeni: name of several Romanian places, chiefly a Cluj County village in Moldoveneşti commune attested in 1291 with 647 residents (2002); also a Mehedinți commune, a Vaslui village, a Roman road station, and a Miocene formation.
Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico - GR)
Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico, Grosseto) is an Etruscan-Roman archaeological site in the middle Ombrone valley: a late Etruscan and Republican village with a fertility sanctuary, necropolis, and blacksmith workshop, destroyed in the early 1st century BC and excavated since 2017 by the IMPERO Project.
Podestà
Podestà: the single, salaried chief magistrate of medieval Italian communes, usually a foreigner elected for a fixed term, replacing the consuls from about 1190-1210; later reduced to a judicial office under the signorie.
Podesta emails
The Podesta emails were messages hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail in March 2016 by Russia's GRU units 26165 and 74455 via spear-phishing, and published by WikiLeaks starting October 7, 2016, an hour after the Access Hollywood tape; the Mueller investigation found no Trump campaign coordination.
Podgorica
Podgorica (Подгорица), formerly Titograd (1948-1992), is the capital and largest city of Montenegro on the Morača and Ribnica rivers; 179,505 residents (2023 census), 44.5 m altitude, modified Mediterranean climate.
Podiata
Podiata (podiates) is Thomas Cavalier-Smith's proposed eukaryote clade uniting Sulcozoa, opisthokonts (animals, fungi), and Amoebozoa by shared pseudopodia; one of three supergroups in his system, alongside corticates and Eozoa, but not part of the consensus Amorphea-based classification.
Podiatrist
Podiatrist: licensed health care professional treating foot, ankle, and lower extremity pathology, historically called chiropodist. Key facts: APMA lineage from 1912, 15,181 US podiatrists (2026), central role in diabetic foot care and foot/ankkle surgery.
Podiatry
Podiatry: medical specialty of the foot, ankle, and lower leg; practitioners hold the DPM degree in the US (about 18,000 practicing), regulated as podiatrists or chiropodists in the UK, and central to diabetic foot care.
Podilsk Raion
Podilsk Raion (Подільський район), until 2015 Kotovsk Raion, is a district of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, centered on the city of Podilsk; established in its current form in 2020, population about 220,786, agro-industrial economy.
Podimo
Podimo is a Copenhagen-based subscription podcast and audiobook platform founded in 2019 by Morten Strunge, operating in seven markets and surpassing one million paying subscribers in early 2025.
Podium
A podium is an architectural base: in classical usage the masonry platform under a temple, in modern usage the lower storeys of a tower set apart by form or use.
Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Podkarpackie Voivodeship (województwo podkarpackie), Subcarpathian province of southeast Poland created in 1999, capital Rzeszów; borders Ukraine and Slovakia; 17,845 km², about 2.05 million people, and Poland's main aerospace region (Aviation Valley).
Podkomorzy
Podkomorzy was a court and land official in the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania who presided over the chamberlain's court for noble boundary disputes from the 14th century.
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship (Województwo podlaskie), a province of north-eastern Poland created in 1999 with capital Białystok, bordering Lithuania and Belarus; 20,187 km², about 1.14 million people, agricultural economy, Białowieża and Biebrza national parks.
Podman
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux-native tool for running OCI containers, offering a Docker-compatible command line and a rootless mode that runs containers as a non-privileged user.
Podocalyxin
Podocalyxin (PODXL, PCLP1), a CD34-family sialomucin, is the major negatively charged sialoprotein of kidney podocytes, keeping glomerular filtration slits open; it also marks endothelium and hematopoietic progenitors and is overexpressed in poor-prognosis epithelial cancers.
Podocarp-broadleaf forests of New Zealand
Podocarp-broadleaf forests of New Zealand are the country's characteristic lowland rainforest, where podocarps such as rimu, kahikatea, mataī, and tōtara emerge 30–50 m above a broadleaf canopy.
Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae, the podocarps, is the second largest conifer family and the dominant Southern Hemisphere conifer family, with 20 genera and about 201 species. Its fleshy, bird-dispersed seed cones bear an epimatium, and Parasitaxus is the only parasitic gymnosperm.
Podocarps in cultivation and use
The cultivation and use of podocarps centers on Podocarpus macrophyllus, a staple hedge and topiary conifer, and on yellowwood, rimu, and mataī timber in South Africa and New Zealand.
Podocarpus
Podocarpus, known as plum pine, is a genus of roughly 100 to 120 evergreen conifer species native to tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas.
Podocarpus latifolius
Podocarpus latifolius, the real yellowwood or broad-leaved yellowwood, is South Africa's national tree, a slow-growing evergreen conifer of Podocarpaceae reaching 20-30 m in forests, with pale yellow timber once heavily logged and now protected.