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Ponte preta
Ponte Preta (Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, Macaca) is a Campinas, São Paulo football club founded 11 August 1900, second-oldest in Brazil; Série C champion 2025, six-time Paulista runner-up, in deep financial crisis in 2026.
Ponte romano – Ceggia
Ponte romano – Ceggia: remains of a three-arched Roman bridge, 44 m long, on the via Annia over the Canalat Piavon at Ceggia, Veneto, Italy; sandstone pillars with iron cramps, found 1948–1949.
Ponte Romito
Ponte Romito, also called Ponte del Romito or ponte di Valle, is an ancient Etruscan-Roman bridge over the Arno at Laterina, Tuscany; in 2023 it was proposed as the bridge in the Mona Lisa.
Ponte Rotto
Ponte Rotto, the Broken Bridge, is the surviving single arch of the Pons Aemilius (Ponte Emilio), Rome's oldest masonry bridge, begun 179 BC and reduced to one span by the 1598 Tiber flood.
Ponte Salario
Ponte Salario, the ancient pons Anienis, is a Roman bridge on the Via Salaria over the Aniene near Rome; damaged by Totila in 544, restored by Narses in 565, destroyed in 1867 by Papal troops, rebuilt 1874, widened 1930.
Ponte Sant'Angelo
Ponte Sant'Angelo, formerly the Aelian Bridge, is a Roman bridge over the Tiber in Rome built by Emperor Hadrian about 134 AD to reach his mausoleum, the Castel Sant'Angelo.
Ponte Sant'Antonio
Ponte Sant'Antonio, Roman aqueduct bridge of the Anio Novus over the Fosso dell'Acqua Raminga at San Gregorio da Sassola near Rome; 120 m long, central arch about 30 m high, restored in the 4th-5th centuries AD.
Ponte Sodo
Ponte Sodo, Etruscan rock-cut tunnel at Veii (Veio Park, near Isola Farnese, Rome), about 70-80 m long, 8 m wide, 7 m high; the Valchetta (Cremera) still flows through it, regulating floods and reclaiming swampy land.
Ponte Spiano
Ponte Spiano (Ponte Romano Spiano) is a Roman bridge just outside Sigillo, Umbria, carrying the ancient Via Flaminia over the Fonturci stream; 32 m long, 3.25 m wide, built of cornelian stone, dated to the 2nd century BC or Augustan age.
Ponte sul Fosso Tre Ponti
Ponte sul Fosso Tre Ponti (Ponte Romano sul Fosso dei Tre Ponti), Roman tuff bridge on the via Amerina between Nepi and Falerii Novi, Lazio; late 2nd century BC, single arch, best preserved Amerina bridge, reopened 2017.
Ponte Tufaro
Ponte Tufaro, also Ponte Tufaro di Montesarchio, a Roman 2nd-century BC opus quadratum bridge on the Via Appia near Benevento with three round arches, destroyed in World War II; distinct from the Ponte Romano di Tufara in Molise.
Ponte Valentino
Ponte Valentino, bridge over the Calore Irpino on the Via Appia Traiana about 4 km northeast of Benevento, Italy; Roman limestone abutments with medieval brick arches, named for a nearby church of San Valentino.
Ponte Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio, the Old Bridge of Florence over the Arno, rebuilt 1345 with three segmental arches, lined with jewellers' shops since 1593, carrying the Vasari Corridor, and the only Florentine bridge spared in the 1944 German demolitions.
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida: unincorporated St. Johns County coastal community between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, home of TPC Sawgrass, THE PLAYERS Championship, and PGA Tour headquarters.
Ponte Zitha
Ponte Zitha, also spelled Ponte Zita, was a Roman road station on the Zarzis peninsula in southern Tunisia, later a municipium per the Antonine Itinerary.
Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix
The Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix, or PMNS matrix, is the unitary matrix connecting neutrino flavor states to their mass eigenstates, making neutrino oscillation possible. It plays the role for leptons that the CKM matrix plays for quarks.
Pontécoulant (lunar crater)
Pontécoulant is a 91.40 km diameter lunar impact crater at 58.78°S, 66.07°E near the Moon's southeastern limb, named for French mathematician Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant, with IAU approval in 1935.
Pontederia
Pontederia is a genus of roughly two dozen aquatic flowering plants in the family Pontederiaceae, known for the pickerelweeds and the water hyacinth, one of the world's worst invasive aquatic plants.
Pontederiaceae
Pontederiaceae (water-hyacinth family), aquatic monocot herbs in Commelinales; about 25 species, now often 2 genera (Heteranthera, Pontederia); includes invasive water hyacinth and tristylous pickerelweeds.
Pontes
Pontes, Roman auxiliary fort at Kostol, Serbia, guarding the Serbian end of Trajan's Bridge (Apollodorus, AD 105) over the Danube; garrisoned by Legio VII Claudia detachments; part of the Danube Limes World Heritage proposal.
Pontevedra
Pontevedra is the capital of its province in Galicia, northwestern Spain, at the mouth of the Lérez river, internationally known for pedestrianizing its historic center since 1999.
Pontiac (automobile)
Pontiac was an American automobile brand of General Motors, introduced in January 1926 as a companion to Oakland and discontinued in 2010 after GM's restructuring, best known for the GTO and Trans Am.
Pontiac Astre
The Pontiac Astre was a subcompact car sold by Pontiac from 1973 to 1977, a rebadged Chevrolet Vega sold in Canada from 1973 and in the United States from 1975.
Pontiac Aztek
The Pontiac Aztek was a five-passenger crossover sold by General Motors' Pontiac brand for the 2001 through 2005 model years, now known as a commercial failure.
Pontiac Bonneville
The Pontiac Bonneville was a full-size car built by General Motors' Pontiac division from 1957 to 2005, serving for most of that period as the division's flagship.
Pontiac Catalina
The Pontiac Catalina was a full-size car built by Pontiac from 1950 to 1981, beginning as a hardtop body style and becoming Pontiac's best-selling model during the 1960s.
Pontiac fever
Pontiac fever is a mild, self-limiting flu-like illness without pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria, first identified in a 1968 Pontiac, Michigan outbreak; high attack rate, no treatment needed.
Pontiac Fiero
The Pontiac Fiero, also known as the Pontiac 2M4, was a two-seat, mid-engine sports car built by GM's Pontiac division from 1984 through 1988, GM's first mid-engine production car.
Pontiac Firebird
The Pontiac Firebird is an American pony car built by General Motors' Pontiac division from 1967 through 2002, best known for its Trans Am performance package.
Pontiac Firebird (third generation)
The third-generation Pontiac Firebird is an American pony car built from 1982 through 1992, known for its aerodynamic design, the Trans Am flagship, and KITT from Knight Rider.