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The Pond—Moonlight

The Pond—Moonlight is a 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen showing moonlight on a pond with reflected trees at Mamaroneck, New York; a print sold for $2,928,000 in 2006, then an auction record for a photograph.

The Poolrooms

The Poolrooms, also known as Poolcore, are a liminal-space aesthetic of endless white-tiled rooms flooded with shallow water, adopted by the Backrooms fandom as Level 37.

The Poor Christ of Bomba

The Poor Christ of Bomba (Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba) is a satirical anticolonial novel by the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, published in Paris in 1956.

The Poor Man's Guardian

The Poor Man's Guardian was a penny London radical weekly published unstamped by Henry Hetherington from 1831 to 1835, selling 12,000 to 15,000 copies weekly until declared legal in 1835.

The Poor Man's Son

The Poor Man's Son (Le Fils du pauvre) is an autobiographical novel by Mouloud Feraoun, which recounts Fouroulou Menrad's journey through the colonial system to become a teacher.

The Poor Musician

The Poor Musician (Der arme Spielmann) is a novella by Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer about Jakob, a poor street fiddler in Vienna pursuing the Romantic ideal of absolute music.

The Poor Wife

The Poor Wife (빈처, Bincheo) is a short story by Korean writer Hyun Jin-geon, published in the magazine Gaebyeok in January 1921, credited with starting the serious 1920s Korean short story.

The Pop Group

The Pop Group is an English post-punk band that formed in Bristol in 1977. It is characterized by an aggressive fusion of funk, dub, and politically charged, agit-prop lyrics.

The Pop Out: Ken & Friends

The Pop Out: Ken & Friends, Kendrick Lamar's one-night Juneteenth concert of June 19, 2024 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, presented by pgLang and Free Lunch. It featured DJ Hed and Mustard opening sets, Dr. Dre, Black Hippy, and 'Not Like Us' performed five times plus an instrumental walkout.

The Pope of Greenwich Village

The Pope of Greenwich Village: 1984 American crime drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg, from Vincent Patrick's 1979 novel, starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, and Daryl Hannah as Little Italy cousins who rob the mob; Geraldine Page earned an Oscar nomination.

The Pope's Exorcist

The Pope's Exorcist is a 2023 Screen Gems horror thriller directed by Julius Avery, starring Russell Crowe as Vatican exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, loosely based on Amorth's memoirs; it grossed $77 million worldwide and has a sequel in development.

The Pope's Toilet

The Pope's Toilet (El baño del Papa) is a 2007 Uruguayan comedy-drama by Enrique Fernández and César Charlone, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard, about smuggler Beto building a pay toilet for Pope John Paul II's 1988 Melo visit.

The Popinjay Cavalier

The Popinjay Cavalier, Quentin Tarantino's first stage play, is a swashbuckling comedy of deception and disguise set in 1830s Europe, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as actor Rupert Sebastian Thomas Jr. It previews 23 February and opens 18 March 2027 at London's Phoenix Theatre, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The Poppy Family

The Poppy Family, Vancouver psychedelic-pop duo of Terry and Susan Jacks with Craig McCaw and Satwant Singh, formed 1968; "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" hit No. 1 Canada, No. 2 US, sold 2.5 million; disbanded 1973.

The Poppy Field near Argenteuil

The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (Les Coquelicots) is Claude Monet's 1873 oil-on-canvas Impressionist landscape of a red poppy meadow with Camille and Jean Monet, shown at the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition and held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

The Poppy War

The Poppy War is a 2018 epic fantasy novel by R. F. Kuang, following war orphan Fang Runin through an elite military academy and into a devastating war.

The Population Bomb

The Population Bomb is Paul Ehrlich's 1968 Sierra Club book predicting mass 1970s famine from overpopulation; it sold about 2 million copies, founded the ZPG movement, and its failed forecasts made it a landmark of discredited Malthusian demography.

The Pornographers (エロ事師たち)

The Pornographers (「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門) is Shōhei Imamura's 1966 black comedy, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's debut novel, about an Osaka 8mm pornographer supporting a makeshift family; Nikkatsu release, 128 minutes, Kinema Junpo Best Ten second place.

The Porticoes of Bologna

The Porticoes of Bologna (I portici di Bologna), a UNESCO World Heritage serial site since 28 July 2021: twelve selected portico ensembles chosen from the city's 62 km of arcades, inscribed under criterion (iv), property 52.18 ha.

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James novel, The Portrait of a Lady (1881), about American heiress Isabel Archer in Europe. Serialized in Macmillan's and the Atlantic, revised for the 1908 New York Edition, adapted by Jane Campion in 1996.

The Portrait of a Lady (film)

The Portrait of a Lady (1996) is Jane Campion's film adaptation of Henry James's novel, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer with John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey, released December 1996 to largely negative reviews.

The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)

The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Ronald Neame and Irwin Allen's disaster film based on Paul Gallico's novel, follows survivors escaping a capsized ocean liner; it was 1972's top-grossing film and won an Oscar for "The Morning After."

The Possession

The Possession is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal, in which a girl is possessed by a dybbuk, a spirit of Jewish folklore, from an antique box.

The Possession of Hannah Grace

The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) is a Screen Gems supernatural horror film directed by Diederik Van Rooijen, starring Shay Mitchell as a morgue worker who suspects a delivered cadaver is possessed; grossed $14.8M, 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Possibility of an Island

The Possibility of an Island (La Possibilité d'une île) is a 2005 novel by Michel Houellebecq, his fourth, following a cynical comedian and his clones two thousand years later.

The Post (film)

The Post is a 2017 American historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg. It stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks as they expose a government cover-up spanning four U.S. presidents.

The Post Horse Curse

The Post Horse Curse (Yeokma) is a 1948 short story by Korean writer Kim Tong-ni, set at Hwagae Market and tracing three generations fated to a wandering life.

The Post-American World

The Post-American World (2008) is Fareed Zakaria's Norton-published book arguing for the rise of everyone else rather than American decline; also known as Le monde post-américain, it framed the 'rise of the Rest' debate.

The Postal Service

The Postal Service is an American indie electronic duo of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel), formed in 2001 by mailing recordings; their only album Give Up (2003) went platinum on Sub Pop.

The Postcard Killings

The Postcard Killings (2020) is a crime thriller directed by Danis Tanović, based on James Patterson and Liza Marklund's novel The Postcard Killers, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan as an NYPD detective hunting serial killers across Europe; released March 13, 2020, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.