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Pogonatum urnigerum
Pogonatum urnigerum (Urn Haircap, Urn Hair Moss), a glaucous blue-green acrocarpous moss of the Polytrichaceae on acidic gravelly ground across the Holarctic, with urn-like autumn capsules and 30-50 leaf lamellae.
Pogonias cromis
Pogonias cromis, the black drum (corvina negra), is a large western Atlantic sciaenid fish from the Bay of Fundy to Argentina, the largest drum at up to 66 kg, a long-lived mollusk-crushing aggregate spawner and major Gulf of Mexico commercial fishery species.
Pogost (погост)
A pogost (погост) was originally a fiscal and administrative district of the medieval Novgorod lands, later the enclosed church-and-cemetery precinct at the center of scattered villages in northern Russia.
Pogostemon
Pogostemon, also called pogostemon or patchouli genus, is a Lamiaceae genus of about 80-95 herb and shrub species with disjunct African-Asian distribution; P. cablin yields patchouli essential oil, about 1,300 tonnes yearly.
Pogrom
A pogrom (Russian: погром, meaning "to wreak havoc") is a violent mob attack marked by murder and looting, historically directed against Jews in the Russian Empire.
Pogromni Volcano
Pogromni Volcano (Sopka Pogromnaya) is a 2,002 m tholeiitic-basalt stratovolcano on southwest Unimak Island, Alaska. Eruptions once attributed to it (1795, 1827, 1830) are now assigned to Westdahl; it shows no historical activity and is not seismically monitored.
Pogroms in the Russian Empire
Pogroms in the Russian Empire were waves of mass anti-Jewish violence that began in 1881. These events led to the death of thousands of Jews and prompted roughly two million to emigrate.
Pogroms in Ukraine
Pogroms in Ukraine (Еврейские погромы Гражданской войны) were anti-Jewish massacres committed during the Russian Civil War, 1917 to 1921, peaking in 1919, the bloodiest before the Holocaust.
Pogroms of 1905–1906
The Pogroms of 1905–1906 (Погромы 1905–1906 годов) were a wave of anti-Jewish violence across the Russian Empire, set off by Tsar Nicholas II's October Manifesto of 1905.
Pogumidam Vegu Thooramillai (போகுமிடம் வேகு தூரமில்லை)
Pogumidam Vegu Thooramillai (போகுமிடம் வேகு தூரமில்லை) is a 2024 Tamil road drama directed by debutant Michael K Raja, starring Vimal as mortuary driver Kumar and Karunas as koothu artist Nalinamoorthy, released 23 August 2024, streaming on Prime Video.
Poh Ling Yeow
Poh Ling Yeow, Malaysian-born Australian cook, painter and TV presenter; MasterChef Australia season 1 runner-up (2009), host of Poh's Kitchen and Poh & Co, and MasterChef judge from season 16 (2024).
Poh Si Teng
Poh Si Teng, Malaysian-born (Penang) documentary filmmaker and journalist in New York; founder of Tiny Boxer Films. Producer of Oscar-nominated St. Louis Superman, Emmy-winning Patrice: The Movie, and director of the 2026 Sundance debut feature American Doctor about US doctors in Gaza.
Poh Yuan Nie
Poh Yuan Nie, also known as Pony Poh or Owen Fu, is the former Singapore tuition centre principal convicted of masterminding the 2016 O-Level exam cheating scheme, sentenced to four years' jail, now subject to an Interpol red notice.
Pohang Light Source
The Pohang Light Source (PLS, 포항방사광가속기) is a synchrotron radiation facility in Pohang, South Korea, operated by PAL and POSTECH and upgraded to 3.0 GeV in 2012.
Pohang Steelers (포항 스틸러스)
Pohang Steelers, formerly known as the Pohang Atoms, are a South Korean football club founded by the steelmaker POSCO in 1973, with five K League titles and three Asian championships.
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang University of Science and Technology, also known as POSTECH (포항공과대학교), is a small, STEM-focused private research university in Pohang, South Korea, founded by the steelmaker POSCO in 1986.
Pohang-class corvette
Pohang-class corvette (포항급 초계함): 24 South Korean patrol combat corvettes (PCC-756 to PCC-785) built 1984-1993 for the Republic of Korea Navy for coastal and NLL patrol; Cheonan sunk 2010; survivors exported to Peru, Vietnam, the Philippines, Egypt and Colombia.
Pohela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ)
Pohela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ), also called Poila Baisakh, is the Bengali New Year, celebrated each 14 April in Bangladesh, where it is the largest secular festival.
Pohl (Martian crater)
Pohl is a 111-km-diameter impact crater on Mars in Chryse Planitia, IAU-named in 2022 for science fiction writer Frederik Pohl; a 2022 study proposes it formed in a marine impact generating a megatsunami toward the Viking 1 site.
Pohnpei
Pohnpei is one of four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, a mountainous volcanic island with outlying atolls, capital Kolonia, home to the UNESCO World Heritage megalithic site Nan Madol, formerly ruled by Spain, Germany, Japan, and the US.
Pohokura Oil and Gas Field
The Pohokura Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas-condensate field in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin, producing since 2006 and operated by OMV New Zealand (74%), with Todd Energy holding 26%.
Poi (food)
Poi is a traditional Hawaiian staple food of boiled, pounded taro (kalo) mixed with water and eaten fresh or fermented (Lactococcus lactis, lactobacilli); distinct from poi ʻulu (breadfruit) and poi ʻuala (sweet potato) variants.
Poi (performance art)
Poi (performance art) is a Māori art from Aotearoa New Zealand: weighted balls on cords swung in circular patterns, traditionally a male wrist-training tool for combat, now a women-led kapa haka discipline and a global flow art in fire, LED, and practice forms.
POIAMA study
POIAMA (Pregnancies Outcomes in Advanced Maternal Age Women), ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06528340, is an observational patient registry sponsored by Centro di Ricerca Clinica Salentino enrolling 1000 advanced maternal age pregnant women to document delivery, placental, hemorrhage, and neonatal outcomes.
Poicephalus senegalus
Poicephalus senegalus, the Senegal parrot (Perroquet youyou), is a small West African savanna parrot, CITES Appendix II, IUCN Least Concern, and one of the most heavily traded parrots, with over 800,000 exported 1985-2014.
Poigai Alvar
Poigai Alvar (பொய்கையாழ்வார்) was a 7th-century Tamil Vaishnava saint, counted as the first of the twelve Alvars of South India, credited with the Mudhal Tiruvandadi, a Tamil poem of 100 verses.
Poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans
Poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans (PVA), also called parakeratosis variegata or retiform parapsoriasis, is a rare skin reaction pattern of mottled pigmentation, telangiectasia, and atrophy, contested as benign or early mycosis fungoides.
Poikiloderma with neutropenia
Poikiloderma with neutropenia (PN), Clericuzio type, is a rare autosomal recessive USB1 (C16orf57) disorder with early-onset poikiloderma, chronic noncyclic neutropenia, recurrent sinopulmonary infections, and MDS/AML and skin cancer risk.
Poikilohydry
Poikilohydry: the inability of plants such as bryophytes, lichens, and resurrection plants to regulate internal water content, contrasting with homoiohydry; distinct from desiccation tolerance, with which it is often but not always combined.
Poikilotherm
Poikilotherm: an animal whose body temperature fluctuates with its environment (Greek poikilo, varied), opposite of homeotherm; distinct from ectothermy, common in fish, amphibians, reptiles, with behavioral thermoregulation and exceptions among endotherms.