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Pomerania
Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze, German: Pommern) is a historical region on the southern Baltic coast, from Stralsund to the Vistula River, today mostly in northwest Poland.
Pomeranian Crude Oil Pipeline
The Pomeranian Crude Oil Pipeline (Rurociąg Pomorski) is a bidirectional Polish crude oil pipeline operated by PERN, linking the Gdańsk oil terminal with the Płock refinery since 1975.
Pomeranian dog
Pomeranian (Zwergspitz), smallest Spitz toy dog breed from Pomerania, descended from German Spitz; 3-7 lb, 6-7 inches, 12-16 year lifespan, double coat, favored by Queen Victoria, prone to alopecia X and tracheal collapse.
Pomeranian language
Pomeranian (Slavic) is an extinct coastal Lechitic West Slavic language of the Baltic shore; Kashubian is its only survivor, recognized as Poland's sole regional language in 2005, distinct from the Germanic Pomeranian dialect of Brazil.
Pomeron
The Pomeron is the Regge-theory exchange, carrying vacuum quantum numbers, that accounts for diffractive scattering of hadrons at high energies and the slow rise of total cross sections.
Pomestie system
The pomestie system (Поместная система) was the Muscovite practice of granting nobles land in exchange for military service, begun under Ivan III in the 1480s.
Pomestnoe voisko
The Pomestnoe voisko (Поместное войско) was the mounted gentry levy that formed the basis of the Russian army from the 15th to 17th centuries, originating in the late 15th century.
Pomestny Prikaz
The Pomestny Prikaz (Поместный приказ) was the central Russian government office in charge of feudal land tenure, granting service estates to servitors, from the mid-16th to the early 18th century.
Pometia pinnata
Pometia pinnata (tava, matoa, kasai, oceanic lychee) is a Sapindaceae tree native from Sri Lanka and Yunnan to the Pacific, to 50 m tall, grown for timber and sweet lychee-like edible fruit.
Pomfret
Pomfret: market name for deep-bodied food fishes of Stromateidae (Pampus argenteus, Pampus chinensis) and Bramidae (Brama); golden pomfret is the pompano Trachinotus ovatus. Major Asian fisheries, Chinese pomfret most prized.
POMGNT1-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R15
POMGNT1-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R15 (LGMD R15, formerly LGMD2O) is a rare autosomal recessive dystroglycanopathy caused by biallelic POMGNT1 variants, with childhood or adolescent onset, proximal weakness, calf hypertrophy, and no observed cardiomyopathy.
Pommel horse
Pommel horse: men's artistic gymnastics apparatus, 160 cm long, 135 cm wide, with two hand pommels; routines of circles, flairs, scissors, travels, and handstand dismounts judged under FIG element groups.
Pommelien Thijs
Pommelien Thijs, born in 2001 in Kessel, Belgium, is a Flemish singer, songwriter, and actress who performs Dutch-language pop rock and stars in Knokke Off.
Pomo
Pomo (泼墨, "splashed ink") is a freehand Chinese painting technique in which ink is splashed onto paper or silk and worked into the accidental shapes it forms.
Pomodiana/Cumodina
Pomodiana/Cumodina (Procopius' Putedis) is a Roman road station and late antique fortress at Mal Tepe near Stanevo, Lom Municipality, northwest Bulgaria, on the Danube road between Almus and Cebrus, occupied from the 1st to 6th century AD and excavated since 2020.
Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique, or Pomodoro Method, is a time management method created by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, using 25-minute work intervals followed by 5-minute breaks.
Pomona
Pomona (Pomoná, ancient Pakbul) is a Classic Maya archaeological site in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, near the Usumacinta River; an independent Late Classic polity (c. 600–800 CE) that warred with Palenque and Piedras Negras, excavated 1986–1988 by Roberto García Moll.
Pomona (mythology)
Pomona, Roman Italic goddess of orchard fruit and gardens, with a flamen Pomonalis and the Pomonal grove near Ostia; famous from Ovid's Metamorphoses tale of Vertumnus wooing her in disguises.
Pomona Capital
Pomona Capital is a New York private equity firm specializing in secondaries, founded in 1994 by Michael Granoff and Fran Janis and managing about $21 billion.
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, founded in 1887, with about 1,600 undergraduates and status as the founding member of The Claremont Colleges.
Pomona Corona
Pomona Corona, a 315-km-diameter corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 79.3N, 299.4E in the north polar region, northeast of Anahit Corona; named for the Roman goddess of fruits, approved 1985.
Pomona, California
Pomona, California: charter city in Los Angeles County named for the Roman goddess of fruit, incorporated 1888, population about 148,000, home of Cal Poly Pomona and the Metro A Line's San Gabriel Valley terminus.
Pomorie (Поморие)
Pomorie (Поморие), formerly Anhialo/Anchialus, is a Black Sea town in Burgas Province, Bulgaria, on a 3.5 km peninsula. Founded as an Apollonia colony, an Ottoman salt center, burned 1906, renamed 1934, known for salt, mud therapy, and wine.
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39: five orchestral marches by Edward Elgar (1901–1930), titled from Othello. March No. 1's trio, "Land of Hope and Glory", is the US graduation tune and a Last Night of the Proms fixture.
Pompadour (hairstyle)
Pompadour hairstyle: hair brushed up and back from the forehead for height, named for Madame de Pompadour (1750s), an 18th-century women's fashion revived as the 1950s rock-and-roll men's cut popularized by Elvis.
Pompano
Pompano, genus Trachinotus (Carangidae jacks), includes the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a prized western Atlantic food and sport fish from Massachusetts to Brazil, distinguished from permit by fin position, and a leading U.S. marine aquaculture species.
Pompano Beach Airpark
Pompano Beach Airpark, also known as Pompano Beach Airport, is a city-owned general aviation airport in Pompano Beach, Florida. Built during World War II, it has three runways and no airline service.
Pompano Beach, Florida
Pompano Beach, Florida: coastal Broward County city between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, population 112,046 (2020), incorporated 1908, named for the pompano fish, known for beaches, pier, and industrial base.
Pompatus
Pompatus is a nonce word popularized by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s. It stems from a mishearing of "puppetutes" in the 1954 doo-wop song "The Letter."
Pompegiaco
Pompegiaco, also Pompiac, an ancient late antique place in Gaul attested only in the Vita Sancti Desiderii of Didier, bishop of Cahors (630–655), identified by the Barrington Atlas with Pompiac, Castillonnès, Lot-et-Garonne, France.