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Pompei
Pompei is a town of about 23,400 people in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy, on the southern slope of Mount Vesuvius, best known for the nearby ruins of ancient Pompeii.
Pompei Tropaea
Pompei Tropaea: victory trophies Pompey the Great erected in 71 BC at the Col de Panissars in the Pyrenees, commemorating 876 conquered cities; earliest large Roman tower trophy, debated reconstruction.
Pompeiacum/Vernemetis
Pompeiacum/Vernemetis are the pair of ancient names recorded for places on the Garonne in Lot-et-Garonne, France; Vernemetis means "the great sanctuary" and Pompeiacum was the early medieval name of Le Mas-d'Agenais.
Pompeii
Pompeii: Roman city 9 km southeast of Vesuvius, buried by ash and lapilli in the 79 CE eruption, rediscovered in 1748; 66 ha city, 44 ha excavated, over 1,000 victims, 104 plaster casts, UNESCO World Heritage site.
Pompeii (film)
Pompeii is a 2014 disaster film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Kit Harington as a gladiator during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Pompeii (novel)
Pompeii is a 2003 historical fiction novel by Robert Harris. It is set in 79 AD, following a Roman engineer's quest to fix a failing aqueduct.
Pompeii (song)
"Pompeii" is Bastille's 2013 breakthrough single, written by Dan Smith, the fourth single from Bad Blood. It peaked at No. 2 in the UK and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, became the UK's most-streamed song by June 2014, and passed one million UK sales in 2023 as the 180th song to do so.
Pompeii // Utility
POMPEII // UTILITY is a 33-track double album by Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, produced by Surf Gang, released April 3, 2026 on 10k/Tan Cressida/Surf Gang Records; MIKE raps the Pompeii half, Earl the Utility half, Metascore 77.
Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston
Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston, a 2026 three-part National Geographic docuseries blending documentary and drama to follow three real Romans, including Avianius and Julia Felix, through the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption.
Pompeo
Pompeo: the Villa di Pompeo Magno (Albanum Pompei), a large Roman villa at Albano Laziale attributed to Pompey the Great, built 61–58 BC, plus the nearby tower-shaped Sepolcro di Pompeo on the Via Appia.
Pompeo Colonna
Pompeo Colonna (1479–1532) was a Roman nobleman and soldier who became a cardinal in 1517, led the 1526 assault on the Vatican, and served as viceroy of Naples.
Pompey
Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey the Great), 106–48 BCE, Roman general and statesman of the late Republic. Cleared the Mediterranean pirates in 67 BCE, conquered Mithridates, annexed Syria, formed the First Triumvirate with Caesar and Crassus, and was defeated at Pharsalus and murdered in Egypt in 48 BCE.
Pompilidae taxonomy and systematics
Pompilidae taxonomy and systematics covers how spider wasps, a cosmopolitan family of over 5,000 species, are placed within Pompiloidea and divided into three to five subfamilies.
Pomplamoose
Pomplamoose (pamplemousse, French for grapefruit) is an American indie pop duo of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, formed 2008 at Stanford, known for videosong YouTube covers like Single Ladies and Patreon-funded releases.
Pompoir
Pompoir (Brazilian Portuguese: pompoarismo), also called kabazza or the Singapore kiss, is a sexual practice of training voluntary vaginal and pelvic floor muscle control for pleasure and orgasm, distinct from medical Kegel exercises and contraindicated in vaginismus.
Pomptinus Ager
Pomptinus Ager (Ager Pomptinus), the ancient Roman name for the Pontine district of southern Latium, south-east of Rome; a grain-producing plain later largely covered by the Pontine Marshes, drained successfully only in the 1930s.
Poms (film)
Poms is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Zara Hayes, in which Diane Keaton forms a retirement-community cheerleading squad alongside Jacki Weaver and Pam Grier.
POMT1-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R11
POMT1-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R11 (LGMD2K, MDDGC1) is an autosomal recessive LGMD from biallelic POMT1 variants at 9q34.13 impairing α-dystroglycan O-mannosylation, causing proximal weakness, high creatine kinase, microcephaly, and cognitive impairment.
POMT2-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R14
LGMDR14 (formerly LGMD2N, OMIM 613158) is a rare autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy caused by POMT2 variants impairing alpha-dystroglycan O-mannosylation, with proximal weakness, calf hypertrophy, and variable cognitive involvement.
Pon de Replay
"Pon de Replay" is the 2005 debut single by Barbadian singer Rihanna, a dancehall-pop song from Music of the Sun that peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Pon Ondru Kanden
Pon Ondru Kanden (பொன் ஒன்று கண்டேன்) is a 2024 Tamil romantic comedy-drama directed by V. Priya, starring Ashok Selvan, Vasanth Ravi, and Aishwarya Lekshmi. Produced by Yuvan Shankar Raja, it skipped theatres and premiered 14 April 2024 on JioCinema and Colors Tamil.
Pon Radhakrishnan
Pon Radhakrishnan (பொன்.ராதாகிருஷ்ணன்), born 1952, is a BJP leader from Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu; two-term Lok Sabha MP (Nagercoil 1999, Kanyakumari 2014) and former Union Minister of State, distinct from Sri Lankan MP P. Radhakrishnan and Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan.
Pon Vilangu
Pon Vilangu (பொன் விலங்கு, "Golden Fetter") is a Tamil social novel by Na. Parthasarathy that follows Sathyamoorthy, an idealistic young teacher, first serialized in Kalki.
PON1
PON1 (paraoxonase 1, serum paraoxonase/arylesterase 1) is a calcium-dependent HDL-associated enzyme on chromosome 7q21.3 that hydrolyzes lactones, aryl esters, and organophosphates, and is studied for organophosphate detoxification and atherosclerosis protection.
PON2
PON2 (paraoxonase 2), also called arylesterase 2, is a human chromosome 7q21.3 gene encoding an intracellular, mitochondrial antioxidant lactonase; unlike PON1 and PON3 it does not hydrolyze paraoxon and is studied in vascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Ponary massacre
The Ponary massacre was the mass shooting of roughly 70,000 to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, at Ponary near Vilnius by German and Lithuanian forces from 1941 to 1944.
Ponatinib
Ponatinib (Iclusig, Takeda) is a third-generation BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor for Ph+ CML and ALL, active against the T315I mutation, FDA-approved 2012, with boxed vascular toxicity warnings and 2024 frontline Ph+ ALL approval.
Ponce massacre
Ponce massacre (La Masacre de Ponce): Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, police shooting of an unarmed Nationalist Party march in Ponce, Puerto Rico; 19 civilians and 2 police killed, over 150 wounded; ACLU Hays Commission found police responsible.
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce, Puerto Rico: La Perla del Sur, the island's second-largest city on the south coast. Founded 1692, deepwater port (50-ft channel), 137,491 residents (2020), hit by 2020 earthquakes and extreme heat.
Ponceau 4R
Ponceau 4R, also known as Cochineal Red A, is a synthetic azo dye used as a red food colorant, authorized in the EU but not in the United States.