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Pop'n Music (ポップンミュージック)
Pop'n Music (ポップンミュージック), Konami's 1998 rhythm game series and second Bemani title after beatmania, played on nine candy-colored buttons with 5/9-button charts, 31 arcade versions, and latest title High☆Cheers!!.
Pop'n'Gum
Pop'n'Gum is the second album by the French pop-rock band Superbus, released in 2004 on Mercury, certified gold in France, and featuring the hit "Radio Song".
PopART trial
HPTN 071 (PopART), Population Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce HIV Transmission, was a 2013–2018 three-arm community-randomized trial in 21 Zambian and South African communities testing universal HIV testing and treatment; arm B cut incidence 30%, arm A showed no significant effect.
PopArt: The Hits
PopArt: The Hits is a 2003 Parlophone two-CD Pet Shop Boys greatest-hits set of top-20 UK singles plus "Miracles" and "Flamboyant", split into Pop and Art discs; it reached UK No. 18 in 2009 and reached the US only in October 2006.
Popayán
Popayán, the "white city," is the capital of Colombia's Cauca department, founded 13 January 1537 by Sebastián de Belalcázar. Known for its whitewashed colonial center, UNESCO-recognized Holy Week processions, and Creative City of Gastronomy status.
POPC
POPC (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, PC(16:0/18:1)) is a phosphatidylcholine lipid with a palmitoyl and an oleoyl chain that forms fluid bilayers, making it a standard model membrane lipid and simulation benchmark.
Popcaan
Popcaan (Andrae Hugh Sutherland, born 1988) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay from St. Thomas, protégé of Vybz Kartel, known for "Clarks", Where We Come From (2014), his OVO Sound signing, and Unruly Fest.
PopCap Games
PopCap Games, founded 2000 in Seattle by John Vechey, Brian Fiete, and Jason Kapalka (originally Sexy Action Cool), is the casual game studio behind Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle, and Plants vs. Zombies, acquired by Electronic Arts in 2011 for $650 million plus stock and earn-out.
Popcorn
Popcorn (Zea mays everta) is a flint-type maize whose thick pericarp lets steam pressure reach about 135 psi before rupture at ~180 °C, popping kernels 30–40-fold; distinct from dent, sweet, and flint corn.
Popcorn (1991 film)
Popcorn (1991) is an American-Canadian horror comedy directed by Mark Herrier, also known as Phantom of the Cinema, about film students stalked by a masked killer during a horror-movie marathon, filmed in Jamaica with Jill Schoelen and Dee Wallace.
Popcorn (instrumental)
"Popcorn" (originally "Pop Corn") is a 1969 Moog synthesizer instrumental by Gershon Kingsley from Music to Moog By, made famous by Hot Butter's 1972 cover, which sold over two million records and topped charts in six countries.
Popcorn (Romanian music style)
Romanian Popcorn, also called Romanian House or Romanian Dance, is a late-2000s Romanian dance-pop style with staccato off-beat synth leads, 120-130 BPM, known for Inna's Hot, Stereo Love, and Mr. Saxobeat.
Popcorn Sutton
Popcorn Sutton (Marvin Sutton, 1946–2009) was an Appalachian moonshiner of Maggie Valley, NC and Cocke County, TN, author of Me and My Likker, subject of The Last One, and namesake of a legal whiskey brand.
Popcorn Time
Popcorn Time was a free, open-source desktop application released in 2014 that streamed films and TV shows through BitTorrent behind a Netflix-style interface, closing in 2022.
Popcornflix
Popcornflix is a free ad-supported streaming service for movies and TV, founded 2011 by Screen Media Ventures, owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment 2017-2024, shut down in its bankruptcy, and relaunched March 2025 with 10,000+ titles, no account required.
Pope
The pope, also the Bishop of Rome or Roman Pontiff, is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, an office now held by Leo XIV.
Popé (Tewa leader of the Pueblo Revolt)
Popé, also Po'pay, was a Tewa religious leader from Ohkay Owingeh in New Mexico who organized the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, expelling the Spanish for twelve years.
Pope Adrian I
Pope Adrian I, also known as Hadrian I, was pope from 772 to 795, seeing the fall of the Lombard kingdom and the Donation of Charlemagne.
Pope Adrian IV
Pope Adrian IV, also known as Nicholas Breakspear, was the only Englishman to hold the papacy from 1154 to 1159. His pontificate included conflict with Frederick Barbarossa and the grant of Ireland.
Pope Adrian V
Pope Adrian V (Ottobuono de' Fieschi), Genoese cardinal, nephew of Innocent IV, and former legate to England, reigned only 39 days (11 July to 18 August 1276), suspended Gregory X's conclave rules, and died unconsecrated at Viterbo.
Pope Adrian VI
Pope Adrian VI, also known as Adrian of Utrecht, was the last non-Italian pope until 1978, serving from 1522 to 1523 while attempting to unite Christian rulers against the Ottoman Turks.
Pope Agapetus I
Pope Agapetus I (Agapitus), 57th pope, reigned 13 May 535 to 22 April 536. Son of the priest Gordianus; sent by Theodahad to Justinian, deposed Patriarch Anthimus, consecrated Mennas, died in Constantinople.
Pope Agatho
Pope Agatho, also known as Saint Agatho, was a Sicilian-born pope from 678 to 681 whose dogmatic letter guided the Sixth Ecumenical Council against Monothelitism.
Pope Alexander II
Pope Alexander II (Anselm of Baggio, r. 1061-1073), 156th pope, reform-papacy leader, bishop of Lucca, survived the antipope Honorius II schism, backed the Norman conquest of England, and was succeeded by Gregory VII.
Pope Alexander III
Pope Alexander III (reigned 1159–1181) was pope best known for an eighteen-year struggle with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, ending with the Peace of Venice in 1177.
Pope Alexander IV
Pope Alexander IV, born Rinaldo Conti of the house of Segni, was pope from 1254 to 1261; he canonized Clare of Assisi and founded the Augustinian Hermits.
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI, born Rodrigo Borgia, was pope from 1492 to 1503, known for nepotism and the 1493 bull dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
Pope Alexander VII
Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667, a former diplomat who condemned Jansenism and rebuilt Rome with Bernini.
Pope Alexander VIII
Pope Alexander VIII, born Pietro Ottoboni (1610–1691), was the 241st pope, reigning 1689–1691. A Venetian canon lawyer and former Holy Office secretary, he condemned the Gallican Articles, revived papal nepotism, and bought Queen Christina's library.
Pope Anacletus
Pope Anacletus, also called Cletus or Anencletus, is traditionally the third bishop of Rome, successor of Linus and predecessor of Clement I, with a pontificate given as 80 to 92.