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Ponceau S

Ponceau S is a red anionic azo dye used as a rapid, reversible stain for total protein on western blot membranes, and as a histological tissue stain.

Poncho: rectangular cloth garment with a central head opening, native to the Americas; evolved from Andean pre-Columbian tunics, popularized by the Mapuche, spread through colonial South America, with the Paraguayan Poncho Para'í on UNESCO's urgent safeguarding list.

Poncho Sanchez

Poncho Sanchez (Ildefonso Sanchez, born 1951, Laredo, Texas) is a Grammy-winning American conguero and Latin jazz bandleader who played with Cal Tjader from 1975 to 1982 and won Best Latin Jazz Performance for Latin Soul in 2000.

Sep 19, 2026

Poncho Zuleta

Poncho Zuleta, also known as Alfonso Zuleta, is a Colombian vallenato singer born in 1949 in Villanueva, La Guajira, frontman of the duo Los Hermanos Zuleta with his brother Emiliano.

Pond

Pond: a small, shallow standing waterbody (<5 ha, <5 m, <30% emergent vegetation per a 2022 definition), distinct from lakes and wetlands; globally abundant, biodiverse, and often human-made for farming, stormwater, or swimming.

Pond (Australian band)

Pond is an Australian psychedelic rock band from Perth, formed by Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson of Tame Impala's touring band, with eleven albums including Beard, Wives, Denim, Stung! (2024), and Terrestrials (2026).

Pond's

Pond's, also sold as Ponds Cream, is an American-founded skincare brand dating to 1846, when pharmacist Theron T. Pond sold a witch hazel extract; Unilever acquired it in 1987.

Pondel

Pondel (Pont d'Aquel), a single-arch masonry aqueduct bridge in the Cogne Valley of Italy, was built in 3 BC and financed by Paduan entrepreneur Caius Avillius Caimus.

Ponderomotive force

The ponderomotive force is the time-averaged, nonlinear force that an inhomogeneous oscillating electromagnetic field exerts on charged particles, pushing them from high toward low intensity.

Oct 22, 2026

Ponderomotive squeezing

Ponderomotive squeezing, also called optomechanical squeezing, produces squeezed light when radiation pressure drives a mirror or membrane whose motion imprints phase shifts, first proposed by Braginsky and Manukin in 1967 and demonstrated in 2013.

Ponderosa Ranch

Ponderosa Ranch, the Bonanza theme park in Incline Village, Nevada, founded by Bill and Joyce Anderson, open 1967 to 2004, replica ranch house, sold to David Duffield, closed September 26, 2004.

Ponderosa Twins Plus One

Ponderosa Twins Plus One, Cleveland soul vocal group formed 1970: Pelham and Gardner twins plus Ricky Spicer. One album, 2+2+1= (1971); "Bound" hit No. 47 Soul Singles and was later sampled in Kanye West's "Bound 2" and Tyler, The Creator's "A BOY IS A GUN".

Pondicherry

Pondicherry (Puducherry), capital of India's Union Territory of Puducherry on the Coromandel Coast, former headquarters of French India until the 1954 transfer; known for Franco-Tamil heritage architecture, the Grand Canal, and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Oct 22, 2026

Pondoland revolt

The Pondoland revolt, also known as the Mpondo Revolt, was a rural uprising by Mpondo peasants in Pondoland, South Africa, against the Bantu Authorities Act from 1960 into 1961.

Ponera

Ponera is a homonymous generic name: Ponera Lindl. 1831, a small Mexican-to-Central American orchid genus (2 accepted species per Kew), and Ponera Latreille 1804, a litter-dwelling ant genus in Ponerinae with 59 extant and 5 fossil species.

Oct 20, 2026

Ponesimod

Ponesimod (Ponvory) is an oral selective S1P1 receptor modulator by Janssen, approved 2021 in the US and EU for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis; 20 mg daily after 14-day titration, superior to teriflunomide in OPTIMUM.

Ponferradina

SD Ponferradina, Spanish football club founded 7 June 1922 in Ponferrada, plays at El Toralín (8,400 seats) in Primera Federación; four promotions to Segunda División (2006, 2010, 2012, 2019), lost the 2026 playoff final to Celta Fortuna.

Pong

Pong, Atari's 1972 table tennis arcade game by Allan Alcorn, was the first commercially successful video game; CPU-less TTL hardware, Sears Home Pong, Magnavox lawsuit, Hall of Fame.

Pong Dam

Pong Dam, also called Beas Dam, is an embankment dam on the Beas River in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India, completed in 1974 with a 396 MW powerhouse.

Pong Dam Lake

Pong Dam Lake (Maharana Pratap Sagar) is a 1975 Beas River reservoir in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh; a Ramsar wetland and sanctuary hosting 45% of the world's wintering bar-headed geese.

Pongal (பொங்கல்) (festival)

Pongal (பொங்கல்), the Tamil harvest festival, runs four days from the first of the month Thai (about January 14): Bhogi, Surya, Mattu, and Kaanum Pongal, with rice boiled over a pot and jallikattu.

Pongal Catena

Pongal Catena, a roughly 96-km-long groove or trough near Urvara Crater on dwarf planet Ceres, imaged by NASA's Dawn; likely formed from stresses of the Urvara and Yalode impacts, named for the Tamil harvest festival.

Pongamia

Pongamia (pongam, Indian beech, Millettia pinnata) is a genus of nitrogen-fixing legume trees in Fabaceae native from tropical Asia to the western Pacific; its oil-rich seeds (about 40% oil) are a biofuel feedstock, and it is used for medicine, shade, and land restoration.