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POA
POA may refer to: Power of attorney, legal authorization to act on someone else's behalfPortable Object Adapter, part of the CORBA specificationSalgado Filho International Airport, IATA airport code* Porto Alegre, the city this airport is locatedPacific Ocean Areas, area of the Pacific theater of o..

Poa
Poa is a genus of about 500 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. One species, Smooth Meadow-grass Poa pratensis, i..

Poaceae
The true grasses are monocotyledonous plants (Class Liliopsida) in the Family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae. There are about 600 genera and perhaps 10,000 species of grasses. It is estimated that grasslands comprise 20% of the vegetation cover of the earth. This family is the most important of ..

POACh
The Professional Organization of Agents, Chartered, usually called "POACh," is a non-profit organization, founded by K. Kay Shearin, a suspended Delaware lawyer, that advises people on how to represent themselves (that is, act pro se) or other people (usually as an "attorney in fact" under a power o..

Poached egg
Poached egg is a method of cooking an egg wherein the egg is cracked and the contents immersed in very hot but not boiling water. A small amount of white vinegar is added to the water in order to keep the egg white from spreading out. This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or..

Poached egg plant
Poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii), also known as Douglas' meadowfoam. It is a plant that is native to the Northwest USA. It has beautiful white flowers with a yellow centre, hence the name, and lime green foliage. It attracts hoverflies to the garden to beat the aphids and is well loved..

Poacher
Poacher may refer to: Poaching, the theft or illegal killing of animals or plants, or sometimes artifacts. A poacher is someone who engages in poaching.Poacher (fish), a family (Agonidae) of fish. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same t..

Poacher (fish)
The poachers are a family (Agonidae) of small bottom-dwelling cold-water marine fish. They are notable for having elongated bodies covered by scales modified into bony plates, and for using their large pectoral fins to move in short bursts. The family includes about 47 species in some 20 genera, ..

Poaching
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. A seashell vendor sells seashells which have been taken alive from the water, killing the animal inside. Tourists who buy the shells encourage this form of poaching. Poaching is illegal hunting or fishing. It may be illegal because: The game or fish i..

Poaching (cooking)
Poaching is the process of gently simmering food in liquid, generally water, stock or wine. Poaching is particularly suitable for fragile food, such as eggs, poultry, fish and fruit, which might easily fall apart or dry out. For this reason, it is important to keep the heat low and to keep the p..

Poaching (disambiguation)
For the term meaning illegal hunting or fishing, see PoachingFor the culinary term, see Poaching (cooking)Poaching is also a form of damage to soil. Poached ground has been trampled, by cattle especially. It occurs particularly in wet conditions moo.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation]..

Poales
Poales is a botanical name at the rank of order. The APG II system, of 2003, recognizes such an order and places it in clade commelinids, in the monocots. It uses this circumscription: order Poales: family Anarthriaceae: family Bromeliaceae: family Centrolepidaceae: family Cyperaceae: family Ecde..

Poale Zion
Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various Russian cities about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901. Contents 1 Formation2 Split3 Legacy4..

POAM
POAM is an acronym standing for Polar Ozone and Aerosol MeasurementProduction d'Oeuvres Artistiques MultimédiasPolice Officers Association of MichiganPolice Officers Alliance of MinnesotaPlan of Action and Milestones Poam is a mountain in Korea. ..

Poam Mountain
Poam Mountain is one of the Sobaek Mountains of central South Korea. It rises to about 962 meters above sea level, and stands on the border of Mungyeong City, North Gyeongsang province and Chungju City, North Chungcheong province. It also covers a portion of Goesan County in North Chungcheong. ..

Poanes (genus)
Poanes is a genus of skippers (family Hesperiidae) distributed throughout North and Central America. The larvae feed on grasses and sedges. Species include: P. aaroni - Aaron's SkipperP. benito - Benito's SkipperP. hobomok - Hobomok SkipperRecorded food plants include Panicum and Poa P. inimica - ..

Poasttown, Ohio
Poasttown is an unincorporated community of Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio, on State Route Four about one mile north of Middletown in Section 12 of T2R4 of the Congress Lands. It was laid out in 1818 by Peter Post as the town of West Liberty. A post office was established in 1848 but has si..

POA CALFOS
POA CALFOS is the improved Post Operational Archive version of the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) calibration pipeline, an earlier instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The current version corrects for image motion problems that have led to significant wavelength scale uncertainties i..

Poa flabellata
Poa flabellata (syn.Parodiochloa flabellata, Festuca flabellata, Dactylis caespitosa, D. coespitosa), called Tussac Grass, is a species of tussock grass native to southern South America and the Falkland Islands. It has been introduced into Scotland as a source of fodder because of its ability to g..

Poa Island
Poa Island (54°07'38"N 165°29'58") is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is 0.7 miles long and is located 1 mile southeast of Akun Island. The island was named in 1888 by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries for a genus of grasses. Captain Tebenkov (1852) cal..

Požarevac
ПожаревацPožarevac City coat of arms Location in Serbia General Information Mayor or municipality president Dusan Vujcić(Socialist Party of Serbia) area = ? Land area Population || ? |- | Coordinates|| [link] |- | Area code|| +381 12 |- | Subdivisions||..

Po (Asturias)
Po (named Poo until 2005, when it changed it name to the actual Asturian language one) is a parish of the municipality of Llanes, Asturias, in the coast of northern Spain. The small fishing town of Po is situated about 2 miles from the capital of the municipality. The town is often teased for shar..

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