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Pope Victor II
Pope Victor II (Gebhard of Dollnstein-Hirschberg, c. 1015–1020 – 1057), bishop of Eichstätt and 153rd pope from 13 April 1055, last imperial appointee of Henry III, regent for Henry IV, died at Arezzo, buried in Ravenna.
Pope Victor III
Pope Victor III, born Dauferius and known in religion as Desiderius, was abbot of Monte Cassino from 1058 and pope from 1086 until his death in 1087.
Pope Zachary
Pope Zachary (Zacharias), 91st pope, reigned 3 December 741 to 15 March 752. Greek-born son of Polychronius of Calabria; diplomat with Liutprand and Constantine V, ally of Boniface, and supporter of Pepin the Short's 751 coronation.
Pope Zosimus
Pope Zosimus, also known as Zosimus of Rome, was the 41st pope, bishop of Rome from March 417 until his death in December 418, remembered for the Pelagian controversy.
Popemobile
The Popemobile (Papamobile) is a specially adapted vehicle used by the Pope for appearances and journeys, from the 1929 Bianchi to Mercedes-Benz's first fully electric model in 2024.
Popeşti
Popești (Popeşti), Giurgiu County, Romania: multi-period archaeological site on the Argeș River, known for a fortified La Tène dava (c. 150 BC–AD 6) identified with Argedava, with Bronze and Iron Age levels beneath.
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Man, created by E.C. Segar, debuted in the Thimble Theatre comic strip on January 17, 1929; a spinach-powered sailor who starred in Fleischer cartoons from 1933 and entered US public domain in 2025.
Popeye (film)
Popeye, also known as Popeye The Movie, is a 1980 American live-action musical comedy directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
Popeye (video game)
Popeye (ポパイ) is Nintendo's 1982 single-screen arcade platformer based on the Popeye comic strip, designed by Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto, with Parker Brothers home ports and a 1983 Famicom launch version.
Popeye Jones
Popeye Jones (Ronald Jerome Jones, born 1970) is a former NBA forward from Dresden, Tennessee and Murray State, an 11-year NBA rebounder (1993-2004), and an NBA champion assistant coach (2023 Nuggets), now with the Orlando Magic.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) is the second of Fleischer Studios' three Technicolor two-reel Popeye Color Specials, directed by Dave Fleischer, pitting Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy against Bluto as the bandit Abu Hassan.
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) is a two-reel Technicolor Fleischer Studios short, first of three Popeye Color Specials, starring Bluto as Sindbad; Oscar-nominated and in the 2004 National Film Registry.
Popeye the Slayer Man
Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) is an American slasher horror film directed by Robert Michael Ryan, made after Popeye's 1929 comic version entered the US public domain; released March 21, 2025 by Vantage Media, one of three 2025 Popeye horror films.
POPEYE trial
The POPEYE trial is a randomized controlled trial at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in Italy comparing epidural analgesia with rectus sheath block after open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Popeye Village
Popeye Village (Sweethaven Village), Anchor Bay, Mellieħa, Malta: the 19 wooden buildings built in 1979 as the set of the 1980 Robert Altman musical Popeye, preserved and now an open-air museum and family attraction.
Popeye's Revenge
Popeye's Revenge is a 2025 British slasher horror film directed by William Stead for ITN Studios, one of three 2025 Popeye horror films made after the character entered the US public domain, released digitally February 2025.
Popeyes
Popeyes, also known as Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, is an American fast-food chain known for spicy Louisiana-style fried chicken, founded by Al Copeland near New Orleans in the early 1970s.
Popilnia Raion
Popilnia Raion (Попільнянський район), a former district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Popilnia; created 1923, abolished 19 July 2020, its hromadas merged into Zhytomyr Raion.
Poplar River power station
The Poplar River power station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by SaskPower near Coronach, Saskatchewan, whose two units produce 582 MW of baseload power.
Poplar, London
Poplar is a district in Tower Hamlets, East London, first recorded in 1327 as a hamlet of Stepney. It grew around the West India Docks (1802) and East India Docks (1806), was the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar from 1900 to 1965, and is now a major regeneration area beside Canary Wharf.
Poplin
Poplin, also called popeline or tabinet, is a tightly woven plain-weave fabric with a coarser weft than warp, giving fine crosswise ribs. Originally silk-and-wool from papal Avignon, it is now mostly crisp mercerized cotton for shirts and coats.
Popliteal artery
Popliteal artery: continuation of the superficial femoral artery behind the knee, supplying the distal leg; branches into genicular and sural arteries, divides into tibial arteries, with ~10% branching variation and common aneurysm site.
Popliteal artery aneurysm
Popliteal artery aneurysm (PAA), popliteal aneurysm: dilation of the artery behind the knee; the most common peripheral aneurysm, mainly in men over 65, treated by open vein bypass or stent graft when over 2 cm or symptomatic.
Popliteal entrapment syndrome
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES), also called popliteal entrapment syndrome, is rare compression of the popliteal artery by calf muscles or fibrous bands, causing exertional calf claudication in young athletes; six anatomic-to-functional types, diagnosed by dynamic duplex ultrasound and MRA, treated by surgical decompression.
Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl, also known as El Popo or Don Goyo, is an active stratovolcano southeast of Mexico City, the second highest in North America and in eruption since 1994.
Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh (Popol Wuj), the K'iche' Maya "Book of the Community," is the creation epic and dynastic history written in K'iche' with Latin script around 1554, preserved via Francisco Ximénez's 1701–1703 manuscript now at the Newberry Library, recounting the Hero Twins, Xibalba, and maize-made humans.
PopoloCrois (ポポロクロイス)
PopoloCrois (ポポロクロイス) is Yohsuke Tamori's fantasy franchise about Prince Pietro of the Kingdom of Popolocrois, spanning a 1978 manga, PlayStation RPGs from 1996, two TV anime series (1998, 2003), and PSP and 3DS releases.
Poporanism
Poporanism was a Romanian social and literary movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, founded by Constantin Stere, that centered peasant life and rural civilization.
Popov (lunar crater)
Popov is a 65-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 17.2N, 99.7E, IAU-approved in 1961 and named for Russian physicist Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov (1859-1905), with satellite craters Popov D and Popov W.
Poppa Golden Deer Park
Poppa Golden Deer Park (ပုပ္ပါးရွှေသမင်ခြံ) is a zoo near Mount Popa, Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, where Eld's deer (golden deer) and barking deer roam a 17-acre sandalwood forest and can be fed and photographed by visitors.