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Pole position
Pole position is grid slot 1 in motor racing, awarded to the fastest qualifier; the term comes from horse racing's inside-rail pole, and F1 has awarded it since 1950.
Pole star
A pole star is a star that lies near a celestial pole and stays nearly fixed as the sky revolves; Polaris is the current northern one.
Pole vault
Pole vault, a track and field event over a 4.50 m bar using a flexible fibreglass or carbon fibre pole; men's world record 6.31 m (Duplantis, 2026), women's 5.06 m (Isinbayeva, 2009).
Pole vault at the Olympics
Olympic pole vault: men's event since Athens 1896 (first champion William Welles Hoyt, 3.30m), women's since Sydney 2000 (Stacy Dragila). Paris 2024 winners: Armand Duplantis 6.25m WR and Nina Kennedy 4.90m.
Polearm
A polearm, also called a pole weapon, is a close-combat weapon with its fighting head fitted to the end of a long shaft, covering spears, pikes, and halberds.
Polelya Macula
Polelya Macula is a 175 km dark macula, a patch of dark irregular plains, in Titan's northern mid-latitudes at 50°N, 56°W, west of Winia Fluctus; IAU named it in 2007 after an East Slavic god of matrimonial happiness.
Polemic
Polemic: a forceful speech or written attack on or defense of an opinion, from Greek polemikos (war). Also the practice of strong argument; distinct from satire and balanced argumentation.
Polemon
Polemon (African snake-eaters) is a genus of fossorial, ophiophagous venomous snakes in the subfamily Aparallactinae, family Lamprophiidae, from Central and West Africa, with 14 to 16 species including P. barthii and P. ater.
Polemoniaceae
Polemoniaceae, the phlox family, is an Ericales family of about 27 genera and 400 species of herbs and shrubs with 5-merous fused-petal flowers, centered in western North America; ornamentals include Phlox, Cobaea, Gilia, and Polemonium.
Polemonium caeruleum
Polemonium caeruleum, Jacob's-ladder or Greek valerian, is a perennial Polemoniaceae herb native from Europe to Japan and the Himalaya, with blue flowers, insect pollination, and five accepted subspecies.
Polen
Polen is a Mexican psychological thriller series created by Luis Carlos Ávila, starring Ana Brenda Contreras, Tiago Correa, and Claudia Ramírez. It premiered on ViX on 6 March 2026 with 10 episodes about the poisoning of matriarch Beatriz Zamudio.
Polenergia
Polenergia S.A. is a Polish, Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed renewable energy group and Poland's largest privately owned, operating wind and solar farms and building Baltic offshore wind farms with Equinor.
Polenta
Polenta is cornmeal, typically medium or coarse ground maize, cooked slowly in salted water or stock into a creamy porridge; set and sliced, it is grilled or fried. A northern Italian staple descended from Roman puls, made with flint corn, about 4:1 liquid to cornmeal, naturally gluten-free.
Poles in the United Kingdom
Poles in the United Kingdom, also known as Polish Britons, form one of the UK's largest foreign-born communities, numbering 743,000 Poland-born residents at the 2021 census.
Polesie Voivodeship
Polesie Voivodeship (województwo poleskie) was an administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 to 1939, the largest province by area, with capitals at Pińsk and Brześć nad Bugiem.
Polestar
Polestar, also known as Volvo Polestar, is a Swedish electric performance car brand in Gothenburg that grew out of a Volvo racing team founded in 1996.
Polestar 2
The Polestar 2 is a five-door electric fastback from Polestar, a Swedish brand owned by Volvo and Geely, revealed in 2019 to compete with the Tesla Model 3.
Polestar 6
The Polestar 6 is a planned two-door electric roadster from Swedish carmaker Polestar, announced in 2022 as a production version of the O₂ concept, with launch delayed from 2026 to beyond 2029.
Polestar 7
The Polestar 7 is a premium compact electric SUV from Polestar, planned for 2028 as the company's first vehicle built in Europe, at Volvo Cars' new Kosice, Slovakia plant.
Poleta Formation
The Poleta Formation is an Early Cambrian sedimentary unit of limestone and siltstone exposed in the White and Inyo Mountains of California and western Nevada, named by C. A. Nelson in 1962.
POLG
POLG (DNA polymerase gamma, catalytic subunit; POLG1) is a chromosome 15 gene encoding the catalytic alpha subunit of pol γ, the only enzyme that replicates mitochondrial DNA; mutations cause the most common inherited mitochondrial disorders.
POLG-related mitochondrial disease
POLG-related mitochondrial disease is a group of inherited disorders caused by pathogenic variants in the POLG gene, which encodes DNA polymerase gamma; they range from fatal infantile epilepsy and liver failure to late-onset progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
POLH
POLH (XPV, RAD30A) is the human gene on chromosome 6p21.1 encoding DNA polymerase eta, a Y-family translesion synthesis polymerase that accurately bypasses UV-induced thymine dimers; loss causes xeroderma pigmentosum variant.
Polianthes tuberosa
Polianthes tuberosa, commonly known as the tuberose, is a night-fragrant flowering plant native to Mexico, grown worldwide as a cut flower and a source of expensive perfume oil.
Policarpa Salavarrieta
Policarpa Salavarrieta, known as La Pola, was a spy and courier for the patriot cause during Colombia's independence war, executed by firing squad in Santafé de Bogotá in 1817.
Police
Police: public, specialized, professional forces for order and law enforcement, distinct from the military; pioneered in France and consolidated by London's Metropolitan Police (1829), then diffused worldwide, with oversight, community policing, and AI-era technology as modern themes.
Police academy
Police academy: institution training law-enforcement recruits in law, tactics, and scenarios before field training. First founded by August Vollmer, Berkeley, 1908; US standards vary by state, no federal minimums.
Police Academy (film)
Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall, about misfit recruits admitted under a mayor's open hiring policy.
Police Academy (franchise)
Police Academy is an American comedy franchise of seven films released between 1984 and 1994, built around a group of misfit police cadets and the officers they become.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a 1985 American comedy film, the first sequel to Police Academy, directed by Jerry Paris and starring Steve Guttenberg.