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Pontiac G6
The Pontiac G6 is a midsize front-wheel-drive car built by General Motors from 2005 to 2010 as a sedan, coupe, and retractable-hardtop convertible, replacing the Grand Am.
Pontiac G8
The Pontiac G8 is a rear-wheel-drive, four-door performance sedan sold by Pontiac for 2008 and 2009, built in Australia by GM Holden as a rebadged Holden VE Commodore.
Pontiac Grand Am
The Pontiac Grand Am is an automobile produced by Pontiac between 1973 and 2005, ending as a best-selling compact coupe and sedan replaced by the G6.
Pontiac Grand Prix
The Pontiac Grand Prix is a line of automobiles produced by Pontiac from 1962 through 2008, beginning as a personal luxury coupe and ending as a front-drive midsize sedan.
Pontiac GTO
The Pontiac GTO is an American muscle car built by Pontiac from 1964 to 1974 and again from 2004 to 2006, widely credited with starting the muscle car era.
Pontiac LeMans
The Pontiac LeMans was a General Motors nameplate used by Pontiac in three forms from 1961 to 1993, best known as the launch vehicle for the GTO.
Pontiac Silverdome
The Pontiac Silverdome, originally Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium, was a domed stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, that housed the NFL's Detroit Lions from 1975 to 2001 and was demolished in 2018.
Pontiac Solstice
The Pontiac Solstice was a two-seat rear-wheel-drive roadster built by General Motors from 2005 to 2009 and marketed as an affordable Pontiac rival to the Mazda MX-5 Miata.
Pontiac Sunbird
The Pontiac Sunbird is a compact car Pontiac manufactured over three generations from 1976 to 1994, first rear-wheel drive, then front-wheel drive, before the Sunfire replaced it.
Pontiac Sunfire
The Pontiac Sunfire is a compact car built by Pontiac from the 1995 through the 2005 model year, replacing the Sunbird and sharing its platform with the Chevrolet Cavalier.
Pontiac Tempest
The Pontiac Tempest was a Pontiac model sold from 1961 to 1970, beginning as a compact with a distinctive rope-drive drivetrain and ending as the entry model of the A-body line that produced the GTO.
Pontiac Trans Sport
The Pontiac Trans Sport was a front-wheel-drive minivan built by General Motors from 1990 to 1998, known for its 'Dustbuster' styling and renamed Pontiac Montana in 1999.
Pontiac V8 engine
The Pontiac V8 engine was a family of V8 engines built by General Motors' Pontiac division from 1955 to 1981, in displacements from 265 to 455 cubic inches.
Pontiac Vibe
The Pontiac Vibe was a compact five-door hatchback wagon produced from 2002 to 2009 by GM and Toyota, and the mechanical twin of the Toyota Matrix.
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac, Michigan: Oakland County seat founded 1818 by the Pontiac Company; major GM auto-making city, population 61,606 (2020), hit by plant closures by 2009 and now redeveloping downtown.
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War (1763–1766), also called Pontiac's Rebellion, was a pan-tribal Native American uprising against British forts and settlements after the 1763 Treaty of Paris, triggered by Amherst's end of gift-giving and led at Detroit by the Odawa chief Pontiac (Obwandiyag).
Pontianak
Pontianak is the capital city of West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, lying on the equator on Borneo at the confluence of the Kapuas, Kapuas Kecil, and Landak rivers, founded in 1771.
Pontianak Sultanate
The Pontianak Sultanate (Kesultanan Kadriyah Pontianak) was a Malay-Arab Islamic sultanate founded by Syarif Abdurrahman Alkadrie in 1771 at the three-river junction that became the city of Pontianak, lasting until 1950.
Pontianus
Pontianus, who died in October 235, was the eighteenth bishop of Rome and the first pope known to have resigned, abdicating in 235 so Rome could elect a successor.
Pontic Greek (Ποντιακά)
Pontic Greek (Ποντιακά, Romeika, ISO pnt) is the Modern Greek dialect of the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, preserving Ionic η as /e/, divided into Oinountian, Chaldiot, and Trapezountian varieties, displaced to Greece by the 1923 exchange.
Pontic Greeks
Pontic Greeks (Πόντιοι, Pontioi) are Greeks from the Black Sea coast of Anatolia (Pontus), with roots from the Kingdom of Pontus and Empire of Trabzon to the 1923 expulsion, a distinct dialect and culture, and a Soviet diaspora whose members re-embraced Pontic identity after migrating to Greece.
Pontic Mountains
The Pontic Mountains, known in Turkish as the Karadeniz Dağları, form a broken east–west chain along Türkiye's Black Sea coast, dividing the humid coast from Central Anatolia and culminating in Kaçkar Dağı at 3,932 m.
Pontic rock-cut tombs
Pontic rock-cut tombs: Hellenistic chamber tombs of the Mithridatid kings of Pontus, chiefly the five monumental royal tombs, 8 to 15 m high, cut into Mount Harşena above Amasya, Turkey, ending when Pharnaces I moved to Sinope in 183 BCE.
Pontic–Caspian steppe
Pontic–Caspian steppe (Western Steppe): grassland belt from the northern Black Sea shores to the Caspian Sea, spanning Ukraine, southern Russia, and Kazakhstan; chernozem soils, Yamnaya pastoralist homeland, Pontocaspian endemic biota.
Pontifax Global Food & Agriculture Technology
Pontifax Global Food & Agriculture Technology, known as Pontifax AgTech, is a Santa Monica, California venture firm investing growth capital in food and agriculture technology companies at Series B and later.
Pontifex maximus
Pontifex maximus (Latin "greatest pontiff"), head of the Roman College of Pontiffs and highest priest of Roman state religion, guarding the pax deorum; held by Caesar and the emperors, declined by Gratian in 381, and later assumed by the popes.
Pontiff
A pontiff is a bishop, and especially the pope, a word descending from the Latin pontifex, the title of the priests of ancient Rome's highest priestly college.
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Pontificia Academia Scientiarum) is the Holy See's supranational science academy in the Casina Pio IV, Vatican; founded as the Accademia dei Lincei in 1603, reconstituted by Pius XI in 1936, with 80 life-appointed academicians.
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PUC, UC): private traditional Catholic university in Santiago founded 1888, linked to the Holy See since 1930; No. 1 in Chile in QS 2026 (world No. 116) with 39 accredited doctoral programs.
Pontifical university and athenaeum
A pontifical university is a Catholic higher-education institution established by the Holy See, authorized to grant academic degrees such as the baccalaureate, licentiate, and doctorate.