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Polo in Italy
Polo in Italy is a small but growing equestrian sport with about fifteen clubs under FISE and a national team holding three men's European titles.
Polo Instructors and Players Association
Polo Instructors and Players Association (PIPA), founded 2011 in Vienna, is an international association representing polo players and trainers, licensing instructors, and organizing snow and beach polo world cup tours with A Quechua World of Polo.
Polo neck
A polo neck, called a turtleneck in American English and a roll neck in much of Europe, is a garment with a tall, folded collar.
Polo shirt
Polo shirt, also called tennis shirt or golf shirt: a collared, short-sleeved knit top with a buttoned placket, usually piqué cotton. Invented by René Lacoste (1927 design, L.12.12, launched 1933 with André Gillier); Fred Perry and Ralph Lauren Polo followed.
Polo Strategico Nazionale
Polo Strategico Nazionale (PSN) is an Italian high-reliability cloud infrastructure, owned by TIM, Leonardo, CDP Equity, and Sogei, hosting critical data and services of the Italian Public Administration since 2022.
Polo y servicio
Polo y servicio was a Spanish colonial labor tax on Filipino men, requiring unpaid work for public projects, which was reduced to 15 days by the 1884 reform.
Polocrosse
Polocrosse is a mounted team ball sport combining polo and lacrosse, where riders catch, carry, and throw a rubber ball with a netted stick instead of a mallet.
Polokwane
Polokwane (formerly Pietersburg), meaning "Place of Safety" in Sotho, is the capital of South Africa's Limpopo province and its largest urban centre north of Gauteng, with about 629,000 municipal residents and a Sepedi-speaking majority.
Pololu
Pololu (Pololu Robotics & Electronics) is an American electronics manufacturer and online retailer founded in 2000 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, serving education, maker, and professional engineering markets.
Polonia Warsaw
Polonia Warszawa (Polonia Warsaw), founded 19 November 1911, is Warsaw's oldest existing sports club. Two-time Polish champion (1946, 2000) and cup winner (1952, 2001), it plays in the I liga and rivals Legia Warszawa in the Warsaw derby.
Polonium
Polonium, atomic number 84, is a radioactive silvery-gray element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898 and named after Poland; all its isotopes are unstable.
Polonium-210
Polonium-210, historically known as Radium F, is a radioactive isotope with a 138.4-day half-life, used in static eliminators and notorious as the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
Polonius
Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark in Shakespeare's Hamlet, father of Ophelia and Laertes and Claudius's chief advisor; a verbose, spying courtier killed by Hamlet behind the arras.
Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa (Pulatthi, Polonnaruva), Sri Lanka's medieval second capital after Anuradhapura's 993 destruction, flourished 11th-13th centuries under Vijayabahu I, Parakramabahu I, and Nissanka Malla; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.
Polostan
Polostan is a 2024 historical novel by Neal Stephenson, first of the Bomb Light series, following Dawn Rae Bjornberg/Aurora between the US and the USSR and ending as the OGPU makes her a spy.
Polotsk Jesuit Academy
The Polotsk Jesuit Academy (Akademia Połocka) was a Jesuit university-rank institution in Polotsk, Belarus, the first of higher education on Belarusian territory, existing from 1812 to 1820.
Polotsk Uniate Archeparchy
The Polotsk Uniate Archeparchy was a Greek-Catholic diocese centered on Polotsk, in present-day Belarus, created after the Union of Brest in 1596 and abolished after the Council of Polotsk in 1839.
Polotsk Voivodeship
Polotsk Voivodeship (województwo połockie) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with its capital at Polotsk in what is now northern Belarus.
Polovtsian Dances (Половецкие пляски)
Polovtsian Dances (Половецкие пляски): Borodin's 1875 choral-orchestral dance scene from Act II of Prince Igor, famous as a 1909 Fokine/Roerich Ballets Russes ballet, and source of "Stranger in Paradise."
Polovtsian wars of the 1070s–1090s
The Polovtsian wars of the 1070s–1090s (Половецкие войны) were raids by the Turkic Polovtsy, or Cumans, against Kievan Rus', ending in the 1093 defeat on the Stugna River.
Polow da Don
Polow da Don, also known as Polow the Don, is the stage name of Jamal Jones, an Atlanta record producer behind hits like Fergie's "London Bridge."
Poloxamer
Poloxamer, sold under names including Pluronic, is a family of synthetic triblock copolymer surfactants whose concentrated solutions gel near body temperature, making them the leading platform for in situ drug delivery gels.
Pölöznitsa Corona
Pölöznitsa Corona, a 675-km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic ring structure) on Venus at 0.5N, 302.0E, IAU-named in 1994 for a Finno-Ugric grain goddess.
POLR2A
POLR2A (RPB1), human chromosome 17 gene encoding the largest 220-kDa subunit of RNA polymerase II with a 52-repeat YSPTSPS C-terminal domain; de novo variants cause a neurodevelopmental disorder, somatic mutations cause meningioma.
Polska Grupa Górnicza
Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG, Polish Mining Group) is a Polish hard-coal mining company, the largest producer in Poland and the European Union with about 35,000 employees.
Polski komitet olimpijski
Polski Komitet Olimpijski (PKOl, Polish Olympic Committee), founded 12 October 1919 in Kraków, is Poland's national Olympic committee in Warsaw; it fields Polish Olympic teams, promotes Olympism, and has been led since September 2026 by acting president Marian Kmita.
Polski Rejestr Statków
Polski Rejestr Statków (PRS, Polish Register of Shipping) is Poland's classification society, a State Treasury-owned joint-stock company seated in Gdańsk that surveys ships, publishes technical rules, and issues certificates.
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) was a Polish state-controlled oil and gas company that dominated Poland's gas sector from 1982 until its 2022 merger into PKN ORLEN.
Polskie Radio
Polskie Radio is Poland's public radio broadcaster, a joint-stock company wholly owned by the State Treasury and seated in Warsaw, placed in liquidation in 2023 while continuing to broadcast.
Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne
Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) is the sole transmission system operator of Poland, wholly owned by the State Treasury, operating about 16,500 km of extra-high-voltage lines and cross-border interconnections.