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Pola Kinski
Pola Kinski (Pola Nakszynski), German actress born 1952 in Berlin, daughter of Klaus Kinski; starred in Zwischengleis (1978) and published the 2013 autobiography Kindermund accusing her father of sexual abuse.
Pola Negri
Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec, 1897–1987), Polish silent-film star and Hollywood's first invited European actress, famous for Lubitsch films, Paramount vamp roles, and Valentino romance.
Pola-R-CHP regimen
Pola-R-CHP is a combination chemotherapy regimen for previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in which the vincristine of R-CHOP is replaced by polatuzumab vedotin, approved in the US in 2023.
Polack
Polack is an English word for a Polish person, now an ethnic slur chiefly in North American English, borrowed from Polish Polak in the 1570s.
Poláky
Poláky, Czech village in Chomutov District; first mentioned 1318. Archaeological site of a large Bylany culture cemetery (74 graves) and the submerged early medieval Poláky-Dolany cemetery under the Nechranice Reservoir.
Poland
Poland (Polska) is a country in Central Europe, governed as a parliamentary republic with its capital at Warsaw. It joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest: TVP-entered participant since 1994; Edyta Górniak's debut "To nie ja!" took 2nd place with 166 points, still Poland's best result; 28 appearances, no win.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026: ALICJA (Alicja Szemplińska) performed "Pray" for TVP after winning the 100% televote national final, placed 2nd in semi-final one and 12th in the Vienna grand final with 150 points.
Poland Is Not Yet Lost
Poland Is Not Yet Lost (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła), or Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, is Poland's national anthem: lyrics by Józef Wybicki, Reggio, Italy, July 1797, for Dąbrowski's Polish Legions; official anthem since 26 February 1927; melody of unknown authorship.
Poland men's national volleyball team
Poland men's national volleyball team (Reprezentacja Polski w siatkówce mężczyzn), coached by Nikola Grbić: three-time world champions (1974, 2014, 2018), 1976 Olympic champions, three-time European champions and three-time VNL winners, ranked FIVB number one.
Poland national football team
Poland national football team (Biało-czerwoni), men's team of the Polish FA (PZPN, founded 1919). Olympic gold 1972, World Cup third place 1974 and 1982, EURO 2016 quarter-finals, nine World Cup appearances.
Poland syndrome
Poland syndrome, also called Poland anomaly or Poland sequence, is a rare congenital condition with unilateral absence or underdevelopment of the pectoralis major muscle, often with ipsilateral rib, breast, and hand anomalies; cause unknown, most cases sporadic.
Poland-Slovakia Gas Pipeline
The Poland-Slovakia Gas Pipeline, formally the Gas Interconnector Poland-Slovakia (GIPS), is a bidirectional gas pipeline linking Strachocina in Poland with Veľké Kapušany in Slovakia, opened in 2022.
Połaniec
Połaniec, town in Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, at the Czarna-Vistula confluence. Chartered 1264; site of Kościuszko's 1794 Połaniec Proclamation; lost town rights 1869, regained 1980; home of Elektrownia Połaniec.
Polaniec power station
Polaniec power station (Elektrownia Połaniec) is a hard-coal-fired power plant with a large biomass unit at Zawada near Połaniec, Poland, on the Vistula, commissioned in 1979 and owned by the Enea Group since 2017.
Polans (western)
Polans (western), Polish Polanie, were a West Slavic Lechitic tribe of Greater Poland around Gniezno and Poznań whose Piast-led consolidation created the Polish state; distinct from the East Slavic Dnieper Polans, with contested etymology and existence.
Polar (film)
Polar (2019) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Mads Mikkelsen as retiring assassin Duncan Vizla, the Black Kaiser, adapted from Victor Santos' wordless webcomic Polar: Came from the Cold; released January 25, 2019, 118 minutes, with a sequel in development.
Polar (star)
A polar, or AM Herculis star, is a magnetic cataclysmic variable binary whose strongly magnetized white dwarf accretes gas directly from its companion without an accretion disk.
Polar amplification
Polar amplification is the phenomenon in which the polar regions warm faster than the global average; Arctic amplification has warmed nearly four times the global rate.
Polar bear
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), largest extant bear and a marine mammal of the circumpolar Arctic; about 26,000 bears in 20 subpopulations, seal-eating, IUCN Vulnerable due to sea ice loss.
Polar Bear Express
The Polar Bear Express is an Ontario Northland passenger train running 299 kilometers between Cochrane and Moosonee, Ontario, carrying passengers and supplies to the James Bay coast since 1964.
Polar Bear Provincial Park
Polar Bear Provincial Park: Ontario's largest and most northerly provincial park, a 2,355,200 ha wilderness on Hudson Bay established 1970, Ramsar site, accessible only by air or boat, home to polar bears, caribou, and snow geese.
Polar body
Polar body: minute haploid cell discarded during oocyte meiosis (first and second polar bodies). Used in polar body biopsy for preimplantation genetic testing, which reads only the maternal genome and misses up to a third of embryonic aneuploidies.
Polar Capital Partners (asset management company)
Polar Capital Partners is a London-based specialist active fund manager founded in 2001 by former Henderson technology managers, listed on AIM, with £45.0bn in assets at June 2026.
Polar cell
The polar cell is the smallest and weakest of the three atmospheric circulation cells in each hemisphere, where air rises near 60–70° latitude and sinks over the pole.
Polar climate
A polar climate, Köppen group E, is a climate where no month's mean exceeds 10 °C, roughly the limit of tree growth, subdivided into tundra and ice-cap climates.
Polar code
A polar code is an error-correcting code that provably achieves channel capacity by polarizing bit-channels into reliable and unreliable ones, used in 5G control channels.
Polar codes
Polar codes are error-correcting codes invented by Erdal Arıkan in 2009, the first proved to achieve channel capacity; 3GPP selected them in 2016 for 5G control channels.
Polar coordinate system
The polar coordinate system, also known as polar coordinates, is a two-dimensional coordinate system describing each point by its distance and angle from a fixed pole.
Polar cusp
The polar cusp is a funnel-shaped region of the dayside, high-latitude magnetosphere where solar wind plasma has direct access to the ionosphere, first measured in situ in 1971.