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Pío Leyva
Pío Leyva (May 5, 1917 – March 23, 2006) was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El mentiroso. Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club. Bio Leyva was born Wilfredo Pascual in Morón, Cuba in 1917, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards. He won a bongo co..
Pol
Pol is a fictional character in Melanie Rawn's fantasy novels in the Dragon Prince series and is the hero of the second trilogy in this series, the Dragon Star trilogy. Pol was born to Prince Rohan of the Desert and Ianthe, daughter of High Prince Roelstra; however, he did not know the circumstan..
POL
POL can stand for: Petroleum Oil Lubricants, military acronym generally refering to all flammable liquids and solids.Poland, as a three letter national code.Port of load in shipping.Point of Load converter, an electronics term also known as a VRM or Voltage Regulator Module ..
POL-34
POL-34 is a Polish academic computer network created to provide high-speed Internet access and to conduct network-based research. Most of the government founded higher education organisations and all of metropolitan area networks in Poland are connected to POL-34. POL-34 has been created as a resul..
Pol-e-Dokhtar
Pol-e-Dokhtar (Bridge of the Daughter) is a city in the Lorestan province in western Iran. It is approximately 100 kilometres from Khorramabad, the provincial capital. External links [Livius Picture Archive: Pol-e-Dokhtar] ..
Pol-e-Kohneh
Pol-e-Kohneh Bridge is a bridge in the eastern suburb of Kermanshah city in Iran. It is near the village Morad Abad, across the river Qaresoo. Description When the city was walled, people would cross the bridge to the city gate called Isfahan-Gate. The bridge extends 186 m and its width is 9 met..
Pol-e Khomri
Pol-e Khomri (Persian: پل خمری) is a city in Afghanistan. It is the capital of Baghlan Province and has a population of 60,000 (2002 official estimate}. ..
Pol-Mot
Pol-Mot was a small Poland based manufacturer of Agricultural Equipment, including tractors. Some Pol-Mot tractors resembled John Deere tractors, although there doesn't seem to have been any licensing agreements. Pol-Mot entered into a joint venture with Escorts Agri of India in 1999 and began bui..
Pol. Albalonga
Polisportiva Albalonga is an Italian football club located in Albano Laziale, Latium. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are all-light blue. ..
Pol. Alghero
Polisportiva Alghero is an Italian football club located in Alghero, Sardinia. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are red and yellow. External links () [Official homepage] ..
Pol. Arzachena
Polisportiva Arzachena is an Italian football club located in Arzachena, Sardinia. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are white and green. ..
Pol. Cagliese Calcio
Polisportiva Cagliese Calcio is an Italian football club located in Cagli, Marche. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are yellow and red. External links () [Unofficial homepage] ..
Pol. Castellarano
Polisportiva Castellarano is an Italian football club located in Castellarano, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are red and blue. ..
Pol. Monterotondo Calcio
Polisportiva Monterotondo Calcio is an Italian football club located in Monterotondo, Latium. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are yellow and blue. External links () [Unofficial homepage] ..
Pol. Nuovo Campobasso Calcio
Polisportiva Nuovo Campobasso Calcio is an Italian football club located in Campobasso, Molise. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are blue and red. External links () [Official homepage] ..
Pol. Sassari Torres
Polisportiva Sassari Torres (better known as Torres) is an Italian football club, based in Sassari, Sardinia. The club was founded in 1903. Torres currently plays in Serie C1/B. The team's colors are red and blue. External links [Official site] Serie C1/B Acireale°° | Chieti°° ..
Pol. Val di Sangro
Pol. Val di Sangro is an Italian football club from Atessa, Abruzzo. The club was founded in 2003, and has played and won Serie D/F in 2005/2006; therefore, Val di Sangro will play 2006/2007 in Serie C2. Notably, Val di Sangro was the first Serie D team to gain promotion in 2005/2006, winning mat..
Pol. Virtus Castelfranco Calcio
Polisportiva Virtus Castelfranco Calcio is an Italian football club located in Castelfranco Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. It currently plays in Serie D. Its colors are white and yellow. ..
Pola
Pola may refer to one of the following: Pola—a city in Croatia, more commonly referred to as Pula.Pola, Oriental Mindoro—a municipality in the Philippines.Pola River—a river in Russia.polA—the bacterial gene encoding DNA polymerase I.POLA—Principle of least authority (in computer security..
POLA
POLA may refer to one of the following: Principle of least authority (in computer security)Principle of least astonishment This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link t..
Pola, Oriental Mindoro
Pola is a 4th class municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 31,938 people in 6,400 households. Pola is the birthplace of Vice President Noli de Castro. Barangays Pola is politically subdivided into 23 barangays. Bacaw..
Polabian
Polabian may refer to: Polabian language, an extinct Slavic language spoken by PolabiansPolabians, an extinct Slavic tribe living in the eastern part of today Germany This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to ..
Polabian language
The Polabian language, which became extinct in the 18th century, was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. It was one of the Lechitic languages. The name derives from the n..
Polabian Slavs
Polabian Slavs is a collective term applied to a number of Slavic tribes living along the Elbe, between the Baltic Sea to the north, Solau to the west and Sudetes to the south. The tribes settled the area late in the first millennium. The Polabian Slavs were grouped in three basic tribal groups: R..
Polacanthus
Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly-/πολυ- "many" and acantha/ακανθα "thorn" or "prickle", was an armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period. It lived 132 to 112 million years ago. Polacanthus was a primitive ankylosaur. These creat..
Polacca
A polacca is a type of seventeenth-century sailing vessel, similar to the xebec. The polacca was frequently seen in the Mediterranean. It sports three single-pole masts, often with a lateen hoisted on the foremast (which is slanted forward to accommodate the large lateen yard) and a gaff or lateen ..
Polack
Polack may refer to any of the following: an ethnic slur for a PolePolatsk, a city in Belarus This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the inten..
Polacolor
Polacolor was a post-World War II motion picture color process developed by the Polaroid Corporation. It utilized a three-color dye coupler on a single photographic emulsion. While Polacolor did not see much use past short subjects and advertisements, Paramount Pictures utilized it in the followin..
Poladpur
Poladpur is a census town in Raigarh district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Poladpur had a population of 5297. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Poladpur has an average literacy rate of ..
Polad Sabir Sirajov
Polad Sabir Sirajov is a citizen of Azerbijan who is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[Azerbaijani Guantanamo detainee is Baku resident Polad Sabir Sirajov], Today Azerbijan, April 23 2006 According to a complete list of the names of ..
Polaire
Mlle. Polaire Mlle. Polaire and Pauline Polaire were the stage names used by French singer and actress Emilie Marie Bouchard (born May 14, 1874; died 1939). Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, she began her show-business career as a café singer, at age 15. At 17, she joined her older brother in ..
Polanco
View of Polanco neighborhood with part of Chapultepec Park in the forefront. Comercial center in Polanco neighborhood. ''This article is about a neighborhood of Mexico City, for other uses read Polanco (disambiguation) Polanco is the name that usually refers to a group of 7 official a n..
Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte
Polanco is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 34,557 people in 7,092 households. Barangays Polanco is politically subdivided into 30 barangays. AnastacioBanderaBethlehemDangiDansullanDe Venta PerlaG..
Polanco (disambiguation)
Polanco is the name shared by places in Mexico, Spain and the Philippines Polanco is a neighborhood of Mexico CityPolanco, Zamboanga del Norte is a municipality in the PhilippinesPolanco, Cantabria is a municipality in SpainPolanco, Carlos Enrique is a impresionist peruvian painter This is a [..
Poland
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Poland (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: [ More information on politics and government of Poland can be found at the Politics and government of Poland series. Poland is a democratic republic. Its current constitution dates fr..
Poland's Betrothal with the Sea
Poland's wedding to the sea, as performed in 1920 by General Haller. Painting by Wojciech Kossak. Poland's Betrothal with the Sea was a ceremony symbolizing restored Polish access to the Baltic Sea that was lost in 1793 by the Partitions of Poland. It was first performed on February 10, 192..
Poland, Chautauqua County, New York
There is a Village with this name in Herkimer County, New York. Poland is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, USA. The population was 2,467 at the 2000 census. The Town of Poland is on the county's eastern border. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Communi..
Poland, Herkimer County, New York
There is a Town with this name in Chautauqua County, New York. Poland is a village in Herkimer County, New York, USA. The population was 451 at the 2000 census. The Village of Poland is at the town line shared by the Town of Newport and the Town of Russia. The village is 16 miles north of the cou..
Poland, Maine
Poland is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,866 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 122.1 km² (47.2 mi²). 109.6 km² (42.3 mi²) of it is land and 12.6 km² (4.8 mi²) of it (10.28%) is w..
Poland, New York
Poland is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York: Poland, Chautauqua County, New YorkPoland, Herkimer County, New York This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If a..
Poland, Ohio
Poland is a village in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,866 at the 2000 census. The town is part of the Youngstown, Ohio metro area. The town was founded by Johnathan Fowler, who fell in love with Yellow Creek which flows through Poland. Fowler owned an inn near the river...
Poland-Lithuania
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Polish-Lithuanian can refer to: Polish-Lithuanian Union from 1385 until 1569P..
Poland (disambiguation)
Poland is a country in Central Europe. Poland is also the name of some places in the United States of America: Poland, MainePoland, Chautauqua County, New YorkPoland, Herkimer County, New YorkPoland, Ohio as well as: Poland (novel), by James A. MichenerPoland, Kiribati, a village on KiritimatiSir A..
Poland (novel)
Poland is a 1981 novel by James A. Michener detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish families across eight centuries. Like Michener's other works, this novel is written in the episodic format. Chapter-by-chapter Buk versus Bukowski: present day (1981)From the East: invasion by TartarsF..
Poland Act
The Poland Act (18 Stat. 253) sought to eliminate the nearly total control the Mormon Church had over Utah's justice system. Sponsored by Luke P. Poland of Vermont, the Act redefined the jurisdiction of Utah courts, restricting the formerly powerful probate courts, which had taken no action concern..
Poland and weapons of mass destruction
Weapons of mass destruction By type Biological weapons Chemical weapons Nuclear weapons Radiological weapons By country Algeria Argentina Brazil Australia Canada P.R. China France Germany India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Netherlands North Korea Pakistan P..
Poland at 1938 FIFA World Cup
1938 FIFA World Cup in France is still remembered by Polish fans of this sport as the one in which Poland national football team debuted. To qualify to the tournament Poland had to beat only one team - Yugoslavia. In the first leg, on October 10, 1937 at Warsaw's Wojska Polskiego Stadium, Poland w..
Poland at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It was the eighth time the nation competed. Poland competed under the IOC country code POL. Poland 7 6 10 23 ..
Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. It was the eleventh time that the nation had competed. Poland competed under the IOC country code POL. Contents 1  Poland 7 5 9 21 Gold Wladyslaw Komar - Athletics, shot put menJan Szczepański - Boxing, flyweightWitold Woyd..
Poland at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Flag of Poland Poland competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. It was the twelfth time that the nation had competed. Poland competed under the IOC country code POL. Contents 1  Poland 7 6 13 26 Gold Irena Szewińska - Athletics, 400 m womenJacek Wszola - Athletics,..
Poland at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Flag of Poland Poland competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow under the IOC country code POL. It was the thirteenth appearance of the Eastern European nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1924. Contents 1  Poland 3 14 15 32 Poland finished in tenth position in the f..
Poland at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul under the IOC country code POL. It was the fourteenth appearance of the Eastern European nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1924. Contents 1  Poland 2 5 9 16 Gold Waldemar Legien — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 ..
Poland at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona under the IOC country code POL. It was the fifteenth appearance of the European nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1924. Contents 1  Poland 3 6 10 19 Poland finished in 19th position in the final medal rankings Gold ..
Poland at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia under the IOC country code POL. It was the sixteenth time that the European nation participated. Contents 1  Poland 7 5 5 17 Poland finished in eleventh position in the final medal rankings Gold Robert Korzeniowsk..
Poland at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney under the IOC country code POL. It was the seventeenth appearance of the European nation, which made its debut in 1924. Contents 1  Poland 6 5 3 14 Poland finished in fourteenth position in the final medal rankings Gold Robe..
Poland at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Poland competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens under the IOC country code POL, and was represented by the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl). It was the eighteenth appearance of the European nation, which made its debut in 1924. A total number of 202 athletes from Poland competed in 21 spor..
Poland at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Poland participated at the Winter Olympics in 2006, in Turin, Italy. Poland sent 48 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, and snowboarder Paulina Ligocka was the flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies, while biathlete Tomasz Sikora was the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremonies. Contents 1..
Poland at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
Poland participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Poland had entered eleven athletes in the following sports: Alpine skiing: 4 maleNordic skiing: 4 male, 3 female Medals                   Total ..
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
Poland Member station TVP, Telewizja Polska Appearances 11 First appearance 1994 Best result 2nd, 1994 Worst result 20th, 2001 [ edit] Although Poland did not become member of the European Broadcasting Union until 1993, the contest was often broadcasted on Polish Television - ..
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
In the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Poland was represented by Ich Troje, singing Follow my heart. As Poland's 2005 entry did not make it to the final, the song had to compete in the semi-final where it placed 11th, thus not advancing to the final either. It was the second time the gro..
Poland national basketball team
The Poland national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Poland in international competitions. Contents 1 Eurobasket 19372 Eurobasket 19393 Eurobasket 19464 Eurobasket 19475 Eurobasket 19556 Eurobasket 1957 Eurobasket 1937 The Poles took fourth pl..
Poland national football team
Wikinews has news related to: [[Wikinews:|}}}]] The Poland national football team (Polish: Polska reprezentacja narodowa) is the national football team of Poland, under the auspices of the Polish Football Association. It played its first international match on 18 December 1921 in Budapest ag..
Poland national rugby union team
The Poland national rugby union team represent Poland at international level of rugby union. They are governed by Polski Zwiazek Rugby and have been participating in international rugby since 1958. Poland have yet to play in a Rugby World Cup. They play in red and white. History Poland made their..
Poland Regional High School
Poland Regional High School is a Class B High school in Poland, Maine. Its Athletic teams compete in the Western Confrence. There are 516 students that attend this school. The mascot is the Knight and the school's colors are Navy and Silver. The school serves School Union #29, which is Minot, Polan..
Poland Spring
Poland Spring is a brand of bottled water manufactured by a subsidiary of Nestlé, but originally founded in 1845. Contrary to popular belief, Poland Spring water does not all come from the town of Poland, Maine. Poland Spring water is derived from multiple sources in the state of Maine, including..
Poland Spring Arena
Poland Spring Arena is a 3,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Toms River, New Jersey. It opened in 2003. It hosts various local concerts and sporting events for the area. ..
Poland syndrome
Named after Sir Alfred Poland, Poland's Syndrome is a congenital disorder described as an underdevelopment or absence of the chest muscle (pectoralis) on one side of the body and webbing of the fingers (cutaneous syndactyly) of the hand on the same side (ipsilateral hand). Also referred to as Polan..
Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
Poland is a village in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,866 at the 2000 census. The town is part of the Youngstown-Warren, Ohio metro area. The town was founded by Johnathan Fowler, who fell in love with Yellow Creek which flows through Poland. Fowler owned an inn near the..
Polangui, Albay
Polangui is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 70,451 people in 13,773 households. History “OYANGI” a name of a tree in abundance when Father Baltazar de la Magdalena found the Municipality, was the origin of the..
Polanica Zdrój
Polanica Zdrój (German: Bad Altheide) is a city in Dolny Śląsk Voivodship in Poland Polanica Zdrój was first documented in 1347 under the name Heyde; at the time it belonged to the House of Glaubitz. In 1645 the town was destroyed by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War. It grew quickly..
Polannaruwa
Polannaruwa is located in the North Central province of Sri Lanka and is the capital of the same and a district by its name . It is an old city established in the seventh century C.E. by a Naga king who ruled the North. Polan-ar-uwa in Tamil means a burning golden place (of intrusion) or simply a go..
Polanów
Polanów (German: ) is a town in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodship, in Koszalin County. It has 3,001 inhabitants (2004). History The city law was Lübeck law. People Julius Pagel, doctor, medical historian External links [Official town webpage][Map from mapa.szukacz.pl] ..
Polans
In the Early Middle Ages there were two separate Slavic tribes bearing the name of Polans: Polans, an Eastern Slavic tribe living in the area of Dnieper riverPolans, an Western Slavic tribe living in the area of Warta. The tribe unified most of the lands of present-day Poland under the Piast dynast..
Polans (eastern)
For other uses see Polans (disambiguation) The Polans (#redirect [[Template:Lang-uk]], Russian: ) were a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 9th century, which inhabited both sides of the Dnieper river from Liubech to Rodnia and also down the lower streams of the rivers Ros', Sula, Stu..
Polans (western)
Polans (also Polanes, Polanians, or Polians; Polish: Polanie) were a Slavic tribe inhabitating the shores of the Warta river in the 8th century. In the late 9th century the Polanie managed to subdue most of the Slavic tribes between the Odra and Western Bug rivers and between the Carpathians and the..
Polanyi
There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family: John Polanyi, Nobel Prize winner in ChemistryKarl Polanyi, political economist and author of the The Great TransformationMichael Polanyi, chemist ..
Polaqia
Polaqia (frequently misspelled Polaquia) is a group of comic-book creators born in Galicia (a state in the northwest of Spain) who selfpublish their own projects and work for external publishers. Founded in February 2001 by writer Kike Benlloch and artists Bernal, Jano, David Rubín and Alberto V�..
Polar, Wisconsin
Polar is a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 995 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 93.1 km² (35.9 mi²). 92.2 km² (35.6 mi²) of it is land and 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it (0.95%) is water. ..
Polar-ring galaxy
A polar-ring galaxy is a relatively rare type of galaxy, with only around 100 examples known. The best know example is NGC 4650A. It is theorized that the structure of these galaxies result from the collision of two galaxies. The collision results in a structure composed of two rings of material rot..
Polara Productions
Polara Productions produces the children's television series Nanna's Cottage. The company was initially formed to produce a documentary film titled The Boles Murders, which told the story of a 40-year-old unsolved murder of a Southern California family at their weekend mountain cabin. The Boles ..
Polarbröd
Polarbröd is a Swedish bread company. Their head office is in Älvsbyn. Polarbröd is Sweden's 3rd-biggest bread company. Factories Älvsbyn, 223 employeesBredbyn, 80 employeesNordingrå, 60 employees External link [Official site] ..
Polarential telegraph system
A polarential telegraph system is a direct-current telegraph system employing polar transmission in one direction and a form of differential duplex transmission in the other. Two types of polarential systems, known as types A and B, are in use. In half-duplex operation of a type A polarential sys..
Polarhome
Polarhome.com is non commercial, educational effort for popularization of shell enabled operating systems and Internet services, offering shell accounts, e-mail and other online services on all available systems (Linux, OpenVMS, Solaris, AIX, QNX, IRIX, HP-UX, Tru64, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD). P..
Polari
Polari (or alternatively Palare, from Italian parlare, "to talk") was a form of cant slang used in the gay subculture in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, although its origins can be traced back to at least the nineteenth century. There is some debate about how it originated. Contents 1 Desc..
Polaria
Polaria is the world's most northerly aquarium. It's located in Tromsø, in northern Norway. Rather than a mainly scientific aquarium such as the one in Bergen in the Norwegian midlands, Polaria, which opened in May 1998, is designed to be an educational experience, with particular emphasis on disp..
Polarimetry
Polarimetry is the measurement of the polarisation of light; a polarimeter is the scientific instrument used to make these measurements. Polarimetry of thin films and surfaces is commonly known as ellipsometry. Polarimetry can be used to measure various optical properties of a material, including l..
Polaris
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Polarisation division multiple access
Polarization division multiple access (PDMA) is used in some cellular networks. Separate antennas are used in this type, each with different polarization and follwed by separate receivers, allowing simultaneous access of satellite from the same region of the earth. Each corresponding earth statio..
Polaris (arcade game)
Polaris is a 1980 fixed shooter arcade game by Taito. In Polaris, players control a submarine which can only shoot missiles upward. The goal of the player is to destroy all of the airplanes in each level while avoiding bombs dropped from the airplanes as well as mines launched by enemy submarines..
Polaris (band)
Polaris was a one-off musical project in the mid-1990s involving members of the Connecticut indie rock band Miracle Legion. Mark Mulcahy, Spot "Scott" Boutier, and Dave McCaffrey performed music for the Nickelodeon television show The Adventures of Pete & Pete under the name Polaris because a fourt..
Polaris (comics)
Polaris (Lorna Dane) is a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Jim Steranko, she first appeared in X-Men #49 (October 1968). A mutant, Polaris can control magnetism much like the X-Men’s adversary Magneto. She had a long-held suspicion that M..
Polaris (computer security)
Polaris is a system for Microsoft Windows for running existing Windows applications with limited authority. Configuring an application to run under Polaris is known as "polarizing" it. This creates a "pet", an instance of the application which is isolated from other pets. A pet starts off without..
Polaris (disambiguation)
In astronomy, Polaris is a star more commonly known as the North Star. Polaris may also mean: Polaris (arcade game)Polaris (band)Polaris (comics), a Marvel Comics superheroPolaris (operating system), a PowerPC port of the Solaris Operating EnvironmentPolaris (ship), ship of Charles Francis Hall's..
Polaris (role-playing game)
At least three role-playing games are called Polaris. Polaris (1997), a French-language post-apocalyptic undersea role-playing game written by Philippe Tessier and published by Halloween Concepts.[#endnote_RPGenc]Polaris (2004), a science fiction indie role-playing game developed by Sean D..
Polaris (ship)
Formerly known as the USS Periwinkle and the USS America, this wood-hulled, 387 ton, schooner screw tug first saw duty on Chesapeake Bay and the Rappahannock River with the U.S. Navy. She was laid up at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 1867 to 1870, when the Navy renamed her Polaris (for the Polaris) and ..
Polaris (short story)
"Polaris" (1918) is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomesJoshi & Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, pp. 187.. Synopsis References Definitive version. Footnotes ..
Polaris A1 Missile
The Polaris A1 Missile is the first missile in the Polaris family. ..
Polaris expedition
The Polaris expedition (1871) was led by Charles Francis Hall to explore the North Pole. Hall received a grant of $50,000 from the US Congress to command an expedition to the North Pole in the ship Polaris. The party of 25 also included Sidney Budington as sailing master, George Tyson as navigator..
Polaris Fashion Place
Polaris Fashion Place, opened on October 25, 2001, is a two level shopping mall on the Northern edge of Columbus, Ohio. The mall is located just off Interstate 71, on Polaris Parkway. The mall's seven anchor stores are: Saks Fifth Avenue, Von Maur, Kaufmann's (closing 2006), Macy's, JCPenney, Sear..
Polaris Industries
Polaris Industries manufactures a full line of all-terrain vehicles (ATV), snowmobiles, Ranger 4wd or 6wd ATV, Victory Motorcycles and EU rated quadcycles. Polaris no longer manufactures personal water craft and sportboats. It is based in Roseau, Minnesota and since summer 2005 it has a partnership..
Polaris Institute
The Polaris Institute is a Canadian organization that seeks to help empower citizen movements towards democratic social change. It was formed in 1997 in response to its view that citizens were becoming politically disenfranchised in an age of corporate driven globalization. The catalyst for the fo..
Polaris Music Prize
The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was first established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize. The Polaris Music Prize is modelled after the Mercury Mu..
Polaris Sales Agreement
The Polaris Sales Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom which formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent. The arrangement had been set up in principle as a result of the Nassau Agreemen..
Polaris Software
Polaris Software, is a software company founded in 1991 that has grown out of its servcing relationships with Citibank to grow to a 150 M USD size in 2005. A significant event for the company was when it acquired Citibanks technology arm in India, Orbitech for a 46% share of the new entity. Arun J..
Polarite
Polarite (Pd,(Bi,Pb)), is an opaque, yellow-white mineral. Its crystals are orthorhombic to pyramidal, but can only be seen through a microscope. It has a metallic luster and leaves a white streak. It is named after the Polar Ural Mountains in Russia, where it is found. Polarite is rated 3.5 to 4 on..
Polariton
In physics, polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from strong coupling of electromagnetic waves with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation. They are an expression of the common quantum phenomenon known as level repulsion, also known as the anti-crossing principle. Polaritons describe ..
Polaritonics
Figure 1: Polaritonics may resolve the incongruence between electronics, which suffers technological and physical barriers to increased speed, and photonics, which requires lossy integration of light source and guiding structures. Other quasiparticles/collective excitations such as magnon-polarit..
Polarity
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The polarity of an object is, in general, its physical alignment of atoms. The term is often used to describe the positive and negative ends of batteries and magnets. See also In phasePhase cancellationPhase difference Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wik..
Polarity (artist)
Polarity aka Robert Agthe is a drum and bass producer from Aglasterhausen. Since 1998 he has produced a number of tracks using a variety of elements. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography3 Booking Contact and Further Information4 External links Biography Born in Eisleben on March..
Polarity (disambiguation)
Polarity may refer to: Polarity in physics*Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry dealing with the sharing of electrons between atomsin cell biology, cells not being point-symmetrical in their spatial organization. This is particularly evident for cells organized in single cell layers that separ..
Polarity (game)
Polarity is a board game that requires strategic thinking and dexterity to control hovering magnetic discs. Although the game has a futuristic theme, it was first published in 1986. The game has had a tumultous past, with its rights changing hands several times over the past 2 decades. The game h..
Polarity chron
A Polarity Chron, or chron, is a term used in stratigraphy (a branch of geology) to name the time interval represented by a magenetostratigraphic polarity unit. It represents a certain time period in geologic history where the Earth's magnetic field was in a "normal" and "reversed" position. Chrons ..
Polarity in international relations
Polarity in international relations is a description of the distribution of power within the international system. Contents 1 Unipolarity2 Bipolarity2.1 Examples2.2 Regional Examples2.3 Biblical reference to \"Gog\" and \"Magog\"2.4 Multi-state examples of Bipolari..
Polarity item
In linguistics a polarity item is an expression which is sensitive to the presence, in the same sentence, of certain other expressions that are "somehow negative." Polarity items divide into those that must co-occur with a "somehow negative" expression ("negative polarity item", NPI) and those that..
Polarity therapy
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Polarium
Polarium ( in Japan) is a puzzle game developed by Mitchell Corporation for the Nintendo DS. In the game, players use a stylus to draw lines on the DS's touch screen, flipping black and white tiles to clear puzzles. Contents 1 Game modes2 Demo version3 How to play4 Tsuukin Hi..
Polarizability
Polarizability is the relative tendency of the electron cloud of an atom to be distorted from its normal shape by the presence of a nearby ion or dipole--that is, by an external electric field. The electronic polarizability [\alpha] is defined as the ratio of the induced dipole moment &#..
Polarizable vacuum
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Polarization
This article is about electromagnetic waves; for other senses of this term, see polarization (disambiguation). In electrodynamics, polarization (also spelled polarisation) is the property of electromagnetic waves such as light, which describes the direction of their transverse electric field. More ..
Polarization-maintaining optical fiber
In fiber optics, a polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PM) is an optical fiber in which the polarization planes of light waves launched into the fiber are maintained during propagation with little or no cross-coupling of optical power between the polarization modes. The maintaining of polarizati..
Polarization (disambiguation)
Polarization or polarisation can mean: Polarization, a property of light and other electromagnetic wavesPolarization (electrostatics), the vector field that results from permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a dielectric materialPolarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics of co..
Polarization (politics)
In politics, polarization is the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes. It can also refer to when the extreme factions of a political party gain dominance in a party. In either case moderate voices often find that they have lost power. It may be one of the first ste..
Polarization (psychology)
In communications and psychology, polarization is the process whereby a social or political group is divided into two opposing sub-groups with fewer and fewer members of the group remaining neutral or holding an intermediate position. When polarization occurs, there is a tendency for the opposi..
Polarization density
In classical electromagnetism, the polarization density (or electric polarization, or simply polarization) is the vector field that expresses the density of permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a dielectric material. The polarization vector P is defined as the dipole moment per unit volu..
Polarization effect
The phenomenon of Polarization takes place when enthusiasts of a certain idea are so clouded by their personal biases that they accept confirming beliefs without scrutiny while critically evaluating beliefs contrary to their formulated opinion. Polarization occurs when mixed or neutral evidence is u..
Polarization identity
In mathematics, and more specifically in the theory of normed spaces and pre-Hilbert spaces in functional analysis, a vector space over the real numbers (the formula is different when the base field is the complex numbers) whose norm is defined in terms of its inner product satisfies as a necessary ..
Polarization in astronomy
Polarization is an important phenomenon in astronomy. The polarization of starlight was first observed by the astronomers William Hiltner and John S. Hall in 1949. Subsequently, Jesse Greenstein and Leverett Davis, Jr. developed theories allowing the use of polarization data to trace interstellar ma..
Polarization mode dispersion
Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is a form of modal dispersion where two different polarizations of light in a waveguide, which normally travel at the same speed, travel at different speeds due to random imperfections and asymmetries, causing random spreading of optical pulses. Unless it is compen..
Polarization of an algebraic form
In mathematics, in particular in algebra, polarization is a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables. Specifically, given a homogeneous polynomial, polarization produces a multilinear form from which the original polynomial can be recovered ..
Polarized glasses
Polarized glasses create the illusion of three-dimensional images by restricting the light that reaches each eye, an example of stereoscopy. To present a stereoscopic motion picture, two images are projected superimposed onto the same screen through orthogonal polarizing filters. The viewer wears lo..
Polarized pluralism
Polarized pluralism is a symptom of a sick two-party or multi-party political system. It was originally described by political philosopher Sartori, and defines a system where moderate views are replaced by polarized views. In a typical two-plus, two-party, or multi-party system, the distribution ..
Polarizer
A polarizer is a device that converts an unpolarized or mixed-polarization beam of electromagnetic waves (e.g., light) into a beam with a single polarization state (usually, a single linear polarization). Polarizers are used in many optical techniques and instruments, and polarizing filters find app..
PolarLake
PolarLake is a Enterprise service bus vendor. See http://www.polarlake.com/ ..
Polaroid
For the Polaroid instant camera, see instant camera. For the company, see Polaroid Corporation. Polaroid (a trademark of the Polaroid Corporation) is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. The original material, patented in 1929 ([U.S. Patent 1918848&#..
Polaroids from the Dead
Polaroids from the Dead is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland. The theme is that each story is written from a collection of old polaroids Coupland found in a drawer. It is an attempt to describe the 1990s, a decade that "seemed to be living in a 1980s hangover". Topics of the stories..
Polaroid Corporation
The Polaroid Corporation was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continue to be the company's flagship product line. The company's original dominant market was in polarized sunglasses, an outgrowth of Land's self-g..
Polaroid Swinger
The Polaroid Model 20 "Swinger" was a popular Land Camera produced by the Polaroid Corporation between 1965 and 1970. At $19.95 USD it was the first truly inexpensive instant camera, a fact that helped fuel its enormous popularity and made it one of the top-selling cameras of all time. The Swinger w..
Polaroid transfer
Polaroid transfer is the process of image transfer using Polaroid film. Brief How-To Using a camera, enlarger, slide printer or Day Lab expose Polaroid film. Develop by pulling the film from the holder. Wait about 10-15 seconds and quickly pull the film apart, not letting the two sides (the pict..
Polaroid type 55
Polaroid Type 55 film is a black and white peel-apart film that yeilds both a positive and a negative (which can be used in an enlarger). Though box-rated at 50 ISO, the positive and negative parts of the film are effectively rated at 50 and 35, respectively. When processed and peeled apart, the pos..
Polaron
In solid-state physics, a polaron is formed when a moving charge (typically an electron or a hole) in a crystal with some ionic character polarizes (by its electric field) the lattice around it. The resulting lattice polarization acts as a potential well that hinders the movements of the charge, th..
Polar (artist)
Polar, or K, is Kjetil Dale Sagstad, a Norwegian electronic music artist. He is originally from Meland in Norway, and grew up with his former musical partner Teebee. Together they started Subtitles Recordings, which Teebee now runs by himself. He currently lives in San Francisco. Labels: Certific..
Polar (cataclysmic variable)
A Polar (also AM Herculis Star) is a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system with a very strong magnetic field. In most cataclysmic variables, matter from a main-sequence companion star is gravitationally stripped by a white dwarf star in the form of an accretion disk. In polar systems, ..
Polar (Crash Bandicoot)
Polar is a character in the Crash Bandicoot series. Overview Polar is a polar bear cub who made his debut in [[Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back]]. He appears in some of the Arctic levels, where Crash would ride him in the same manner he did the boar in Crash Bandicoot. He was also used in a c..
Polar (spacecraft)
Polar is a NASA satellite designed to study the Aurora. It is distinguished by its ability to image the Aurora in several wavelengths: Visible light, Ultaviolet (UV) light and X-rays. It was launched on 24 February 1996 into a highly eliptical orbit with apogee at 9 earth radii and perigee at 1.8 e..
Polar Air Cargo
Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747 at Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (UK) in February 2004. This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Polar Air Cargo, Inc. (Pol..
Polar Bear
This article is about the animal. For alternative meanings of polar bear, see Polar Bear (disambiguation). The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear, northern bear, or sea bear, is a large bear native to the Arctic. It is the largest land carnivore species and the apex predato..
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Polar Bear (disambiguation)
Polar Bear can refer to: Polar Bear, the animalThree music groups known as Polar Bear:*Polar Bear (rock), the side-project of Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery*Polar Bear (jazz), a British jazz band*Snow Patrol, who were known as Polarbear until they were contacted by Eric Avery's Polar Bear, who ..
Polar Bear (jazz)
For other uses of the term 'Polar Bear', see Polar Bear (disambiguation) Polar Bear is a British post-jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford. Signed to the Babel Label, their first album Dim Lit was a small scale success. Their second record, Held on the Tips of Fingers merged elements of cool jaz..
Polar Bear (rock)
For other uses of the term 'Polar Bear', see Polar Bear (disambiguation) Polar Bear were a Los Angeles-based band led by former Jane's Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, who formed the band with Biff Sanders, as a side project. They recorded most of their music in downtown Los Angeles, at Motiv studi..
Polar bear dip
Polar bear dip is a slang term for an outdoor swim in the middle of winter, often through ice. ..
Polar Bear Expedition
The Polar Bear Expedition (also known as the Northern Russian Expedition, the American North Russia Expeditionary Force - ANREF or the American Expeditionary Force North Russia - AEFNR) was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S. troops who landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia and fought the Bolshevik forces in t..
Polar bear hunting
In 1973, Polar Bear hunting was regulated by The International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears (also known as the Oslo Agreement),http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/bear-facts/ which was signed by the five nations whose Arctic territory is inhabited by polar bears: USA, Canada, Norw..
Polar Bear Provincial Park
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Polar Bear Trophy
The Polar Bear Trophy was presented to Celtic F.C by Valur of Iceland to mark the meeting of the two clubs in the opening round of the 1975/76 Cup Winners Cup. The trophy carved from stone is a model of a polar bear eating a seal. The teams met in Reykjavík on the sixteenth of September 1975. Goals..
Polar Beverages
Polar Beverages is an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. The company is currently run by Ralph Crowley, Jr., the great-grandson of founder Denis Crowley. Polar is also the parent company of Adirondack Beverages, which makes a lot of Seltzer products. External..
Polar body
Polar body is a cell structure found inside an ovum. Both animal and plant ova possess it. Asymetrical cell division (cytokinesis) leads to the production of polar bodies during oogenesis. To conserve nutrients, the majority of cytoplasm is segretated into either the secondary oocyte or ovum, durin..
Polar Boy
Polar Boy is Brek Bannin, a superhero from the 30th century of the DC Universe. Bannin grew up on the planet Tharr which is considered one of the hottest inhabited planets in the galaxy. Brek's family live in the hottest valley of the planet where the inhabitants developed the power to create supe..
Polar capsule
Alataspora solomoni, a myxosporean parasite of Atlantic Horse Mackerel, showing the arrangement of the polar capsules on either side of the sutural line. Polar capsules are structures found in the valves of Myxosporean parasites, which contain the polar filament. The polar capsule is constructe..
Polar circle
Seasons Temperate Spring Summer Autumn Winter Tropical Dry season Wet season A polar circle is either the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle. On earth, the Arctic Circle is located at a latitude of 66˚ 33' N, and the Antarctic circle is located at a latitude of 66˚ 33' S. Areas betwee..
Polar Claw
Polar Claw is a fictional character from the Transformers series. He's one of the Maximals from Beast Wars, and his beast form is a polar bear. After Optimus Primal, he's the the second in command within his team. He appeared in the 2006 IDW Beast Wars comic series. ..
Polar climate
Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers (specifically, no month having an average temperature of 10 °C or higher). Contents 1 Types of polar climate2 Effects3 Examples4 See also Types of polar climate There are two distinct types of polar cl..
Polar cod
The Polar cod or Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) is a fish of the family Gadidae, related to the true cod (genus Gadus). Note that there is another fish with the common name Arctic cod, Arctogadus glacialis. The Polar cod has a slender body, deeply forked tail, projecting mouth and a small whisker ..
Polar coordinate system
The polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, called the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system. The two polar coordinates r (the radial coordinate) and θ (the angular coordinate, polar angle, or azimuth..
Polar cyclone
Polar cyclones (also known as Arctic Cyclones) are vast areas of low pressure. They should not be confused with what are commonly referred to as polar lows that behave similarly to hurricanes. A polar cyclone is a low pressure weather system usually spanning 1000–2000 kilometers in which the..
Polar decomposition
In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra and functional analysis, the polar decomposition of a matrix or linear operator is a factorization analogous to polar decomposition of a nonzero complex number z [z = r e^\,] where r is the absolute value of z (a positive real number), and �..
Polar desert
Polar deserts are areas with annual precipitation less than 250 millimetres and a mean temperature during the warmest month of less than 10° C. Polar deserts on Earth cover nearly 5 million square kilometres and are mostly bedrock or gravel plains. Sand dunes are not prominent features in these des..
Polar dinosaurs in Australia
During the Early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica as a remnant of Gondwana that had rifted from Africa and drifted southward. Much of this southern continent lay beneath the Antarctic Circle, and the climatic conditions that occurred there were unlike any that ex..
Polar distance
Polar distance is used in several sciences: In astronomy, polar distance (PD) is an astronomical term associated with the celestial equatorial coordinate system Σ(α, δ)ellipse and lower, a hyperbola. In geometry, a polar distance, typically denoted r is a coordinate in polar coordinate systems (..
Polar distance (astronomy)
Polar distance (PD) is an astronomical term associated with the celestial equatorial coordinate system Σ(α, δ) and it is an angular distance of a celestial object on its meridian measured from the celestial pole, similar as declination (dec, δ) is measured from the celestial equator: PD = 90° ..
Polar distance (geometry)
In geometry a polar distance, typically denoted r is a coordinate in polar coordinate systems (r, θ) and (r, θ, h). The distance d between two points P1 and P2 with their polar coordinates (r1, θ1) and (r2, θ2) in two dimensional circular polar coordinate system is given by the ..
Polar distribution
In probability theory, the polar distribution is the probability distribution of angles occurring in a set of two-dimensional vectors, denoted by [p(\phi).\,] It is usually graphically represented as a closed curve [(x,y) = (r\cos\phi, \, r\sin\phi) ], where the radius ..
Polar drift
Polar drift is a geological phenomenon caused by variations in the flow of molten iron (magma) in Earth's outer core, resulting in changes in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field, and hence the position of the magnetic north pole. The magnetic north pole is approximately 965 kilometers from th..
Polar easterlies
The polar easterlies are the prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards the low-pressure areas of the polar fronts at around 60 degrees latitude (north and south). Cold air subsides at the pole creating the high pressure, forcing a..
Polar ecology
Polar ecology is the study of the interactions between organisms living in the Polar regions of the Earth, both in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. ..
Polar effect
The Polar effect or electronic effect in chemistry is the effect exerted by a substituent on modifying electrostatic forces operating on a nearby reaction center. The main contributors to the polar effect are the inductive effect, mesomeric effect and the through-space electronic field effect. An e..
Polar Electro Oy
Polar Electro Oy is a leading manufacturer of personal Heart rate monitor registering and evaluation equipment. The company is based in Kempele, Finland. In 1977 Polar introduced the world's first accurate wireless heart rate monitor and since then its products represent the state of the art in hear..
Polar Express (soundtrack)
Polar Express is the soundtrack to the animated film, Polar Express released in 2004. Track listing The Polar Express - Tom HanksWhen Christmas Comes To Town - Matthew Hall and Megan MooreRockin' On Top of the World - Steven TylerBelieve - Josh GrobanHot Chocolate - Tom HanksSpirit of the Season ..
Polar filament
A polar filament is a structure found in the polar capsule of myxosporean organisms, and is analogous to the "penetrant" structure found in cnidocytes. The polar filament is coiled along the inner wall of the polar capsule, and is capable of rapid extrusion, during which it everts "inside-out". Whe..
Polar fleece
Polar fleece is a soft insulating synthetic fabric made from PET. Since its introduction, it has been used to make items such as shirts, hats, cushions, rugs, curtains and a variety of other clothing and household items. Made entirely from recycled plastic bottles, it is very light, soft and easy..
Polar front
In meteorology, a Polar Front is the boundary between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell in each hemisphere. At this boundary a sharp gradient in temperature occurs between these two air masses, each at very different temperatures. The polar front arises as a result of cold polar air meeting warm t..
Polar high
The polar highs are areas of high atmospheric pressure around the north and south poles. The cold temperatures in the polar regions cause air to descend to create the high pressure (a process called subsidence), just as the warm temperatures around the equator case air to rise to create the low pre..
Polar ice cap
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. A polar ice cap or polar ice sheet is a high-latitude region of a planet or moon that is covered in ice. This ..
POLAR II
POLAR II is a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda. The dummy is used to study how pedestrians are injured or killed when struck by automobiles. POLAR II has instruments to measure the level of injury throughout the body. About 5,000 pedestrians are killed in traffic accidents each year in the Uni..
Polar jet
Redirect [[Template:Merge]] A polar jet is a phenomenon often seen in astronomy. It is usually caused by the dynamic interactions within an accretion disc. The largest polar jets are those seen in active galaxies such as quasars. Other systems which often contain polar jets include cataclysmic va..
Polar low
Polar low over the Barents Sea on February 27, 1987 A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The systems usually have a horizontal l..
Polar Medal
The Polar Medal is a medal awarded by the Government of the United Kingdom, which was originally instituted in 1857 as the Arctic Medal to reward earlier explorers attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. The first awards were made to the men engaged in a search expedition to discover the ..
Polar Mesospheric Summer Echos
Polar Mesospheric Summer Echos (PMSE) are anomalous radar echoes found in the polar latitudes from May through early August between 80-90 km in altitude. The usual instrument for observing PMSE is the a VHF Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radar, although lidars and sounding rockets have al..
Polar modulation
Polar modulation is analogous to quadrature modulation in the same way that Polar coordinates are analogous to Cartesian coordinates. Quadrature modulation makes use of Cartesian coordinates, x and y. When considering quadrature modulation, the x axis is called the I (in-phase) axis, and the y axi..
Polar moment of inertia
Polar Moment of inertia is a measure of a beam's ability to resist torsion. The larger the polar moment of inertia, the less the beam will twist. It is also the moment of inertia of a cross-section about the z axis, and can be computed by using the parallel axes rule. ..
Polar motion
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Polar motion is the movement ..
Polar mount
A polar mount is a piece of equipment installed into geostationary satellites to be accessed by swinging the satellite dish around one axis (the main axis). This allows one positioner only to be used to remotely point the antenna at any satellite. See also Diseqc ..
Polar Music
Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag. The first act that it signed was the Hootenanny Singers featuring Björn Ulvaeus. Polar eventually gained prosperity producing international superstars, ABBA. Polar Music is currently owned by Univ..
Polar Music Prize
The Polar Music Prize (aka the Stikkan Andersson Polar Music Prize) is an "international music prize and awarded to individuals, groups or institutions in recognition of exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music". The prize was founded in 1989 following a donation from Stig A..
Polar night
The polar night is the night lasting more than 24 hours, usually inside the polar circles. The opposite phenomenon, when the sun stays above the horizon for a long time is called the polar day, or midnight sun. A common misunderstanding is that at each point inside the polar circle, or that at each..
Polar orbit
A satellite in a polar orbit passes above or nearly above both poles of the planet (or other celestial body) on each revolution. It therefore has an inclination of (or very close to) 90 degrees to the equator. Since the satellite has a fixed orbital plane perpendicular to the planet's rotation, it..
Polar region
Location of the polar regions Earth's polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles, north of the Arctic circle, or south of the Antarctic Circle. They are characterised by the polar climate, extremely cold temperatures, heavy glaciation, and extreme variations in daylight ho..
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
PSLV PSLV at Shri Harikota Version: C2 Space Agency Height 44 m Diameter 2.8 to 1.0 m Mass kg Stages 4 Core PS1 + Strap On Engine : 7 Thrust N ISP 253 m/s Burn Time ~ 107.4 s Fuel(s) HTPB (solid) PS2 Engine : Vikas 1 Thrust 725,000 N ISP 269 m/s Bu..
Polar set
In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a polar set of a subset of a vector space is a set in the dual space. Given a dual pair [(X,Y)] the polar of a subset [A] of [X] is a set [A^0] in [Y] defined as [A^0 := \ \le 1\}] T..
Polar set (potential theory)
This article is about polar sets in classical potential theory, a topic in mathematics. In classical potential theory, polar sets are the "negligible sets", similar to the way in which sets of measure zero are the negligible sets in measure theory. Definition A set [Z] in [\R^n�..
Polar space
In mathematics, in the field of combinatorics, a polar space of rank n [(n\geq 3) ], or projective index [(n-1) ], consists of a set P, conventionally the set of points, together with certain subsets of P, called subspaces, that satisfy these axioms : Every subspace, together wi..
Polar Star (novel)
Polar Star is a 1989 crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's. It is a sequel to Gorky Park and features former militsiya investigator Arkady Renko. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. After uncovering corruption ..
Polar Star Expeditions
Polar star Expeditions is a specialty adventure cruise company owned by the Norwegian company Karlsen Shipping out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since 2001, Polar Sea has operated a single expedition cruise ship called the 'Polar Sea', a converted Norwegian icebreaker. It conducts cruises in the northern..
Polar stratospheric cloud
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Polar Studios
Polar Studios was once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Polar Studios was founded by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA in 1978. Led Zeppelin recorded their last "real" album, "In Through The Out Door", in Polar Studios a few months af..
Polar sun synchronous orbit
A polar sun synchronous orbit is a nearly polar orbit. Every time it crosses the Equator, it does it at the same local time (e.g. dawn or dusk). Sun synchronous polar orbits are often used for geographically specific monitoring, since they can observe specific locations at the same time of the day..
Polar surface area
The Polar Surface Area (PSA) is defined as the surface sum over of polar atoms, e.g. oxygen, nitrogen, etc. See also CheminformaticsChemistry Development KitJOELibBiopharmaceutics Classification System References Ertl, P., Rohde, B., Selzer, P. Fast calculation of molecular polar surface area as a ..
Polar Times Glacier
Polar Times Glacier ([69°46′S 74°35′E]) is a glacier on Ingrid Christensen Coast, flowing northward between Svarthausen Nunatak and Boyd Nunatak into the western part of Publications Ice Shelf. It was delineated by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjum..
Polar topology
In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a polar topology, topology of [\mathcal]-convergence or topology of uniform convergence on the sets of [\mathcal] is a method to define locally convex topologies on the vector spaces of a dual pair. Definition Given a dual..
Polar Trappers
Polar Trappers is a Donald Duck cartoon featuring Donald and Goofy in the South Pole trapping polar animals. The toon begins with Goofy setting up an animal trap while Donald is in an igloo preparing a meal. Donald explains how sick he is of eating beans all the time, and, while noticing a penguin ..
Polar vortex
The polar vortex is a persistent, large-scale cyclone located near the Earth's poles, in the middle and upper troposphere and the stratosphere. The vortex is most powerful in the hemisphere's winter, when the temperature gradient is steepest, and diminishes or can disappear in the summer. The Antarc..
Polar Willow
The Polar Willow (Salix polaris) is a species of willow with a circumpolar distribution in the high arctic tundra, extending north to the limits of land, and south of the arctic in the mountains of Norway and British Columbia, Canada. One of the smallest willows in the world, it is a prostrate, c..
Polar Wrocław
Polar Wrocław is a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland. See also Football in PolandList of football teamsChampions' Cup/LeagueUEFA Cup External link [Official website] (in Polish) [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] Polish Football Third league Group ISeason..
Polasara
Polasara is a town and a notified area committee in Ganjam district in the Indian state of Orissa. Geography Polasara is located at [19.7° N 84.82° E][Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Polasara]. It has an average elevation of 66 metres (216 feet). Demographic..
Polaskia
Polaskia (named after American amateur Charles Polaski) is a genus of tree-like cacti reaching 4-5 m high, comprising 2 species. Both present primitive characteristics, but Polaskia chichipe is nearer to Myrtillocactus while Polaskia chende is nearer to Stenocereus. The genus is found in the Mexic..
Polastron
Polastron may refer to: Lucien PolastronPolastron, a commune in the Gers département, in FrancePolastron, a commune in the Haute-Garonne département, in France This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this ..
Polataivao Fosi
Polataivao Fosi (Born 1933) is the former Minister of Labor for Samoa. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party. ..
Polateli
Polateli is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Kilis | Elbeyli | Musabeyli | Polateli ..
Polatlı
Polatlı is a district of Ankara Province of Turkey. It is situated at the heart of the high Anatolian plateau nearly 80 km in the south-west of the Turkish capital Ankara. Far from the coastal Turkey, it is under the influence of a typical steppes' climate. The winters are generally cold and dry...
Polatsk
Polatsk (Belarusian: ; Russian: ; Polish: ) is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina river. It is the center of Polatsk district in Viciebsk voblast. The population is approximately 79,000 residents. Contents 1 History2 Cultural heritage3 Princes of Polotsk4 ..
Polaveno
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Polay Kalan
Polay Kalan is a town and a nagar panchayat in Shajapur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Polay Kalan had a population of 10,849. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Polay Kalan ha..
Pola Ivanova
Pola Ivanova is a fictional character from the James Bond film, A View to a Kill. She is played by the British actress, Fiona Fullerton. A Russian agent from Bond's past, Pola Ivanova, is spying on Max Zorin's testing facility, when her partner is caught and executed. Bond and Ivanova fight on dry ..
Pola Negri
Pola Negri Pola Negri [link] (December 31, 1894 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910's and 1930's. Contents 1 Personal life2 Early career3 After Valentino4 Later career5 Later li..
Pola River
Pola River (Russian: река́ По́ла) is a river in Novgorod Oblast of Russia. It begins in the north-west of Valdai Hills, and flows into the Lake Ilmen, joining the Lovat River downstream. ..
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin
Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 17 July 1959) is a Labour politician, the first Muslim woman in the House of Lords. Uddin was born in Bangladesh and grew up in London. She was educated at the University of North London, where she earned a Diploma in social work. She has worked as a Youth a..
Pola X
Pola X is a French movie starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film also features a cameo appearance by indie rock star Bill "Smog" Callahan as a musician. It was released in 1999. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel [[Pierre: or, The Ambig..
Pola X (soundtrack)
Pola X is the soundtrack album of the 1999 Léos Carax film of the same name. Scott Walker produced this album and it has some contributions from Smog and Sonic Youth. Track listing All tracks by Scott Walker except where otherwise noted. "The Time Is Out Of Joint" - 1:08"Light" - 3:20"Meadow" -..
Polch
Polch is a town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Maifeld. It is situated east of Mayen. ..
Polcon
Polcon is the oldest Polish science fiction convention, organized each year in a different place by the local science fiction club. The Janusz A. Zajdel Award is awarded during the convention. The first Polcon was held in 1985 in Błażejewko near Poznań. List of Polcons 2005 - Błażejewko near P..
Poldasht
Poldasht (پلدشت) is a city in the Maku township in the West Azarbaijan province in north-western Iran. Poldasht is a Persian word meaning the Bridge's Prairie. Adjacent to the Poldasht city is the Aras River Dam and an Iranian border terminal. In the village of Dare Sh..
Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg was one of the Holocaust Survivors who had known Oskar Schindler, and had been protected by the man. His retelling of his experiences as part of Schindler's "group" was the base for the book Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally. It was later renamed "Schindler's List", and was ad..
Polden Hills
The Polden Hills are a long, low ridge, extending for 20 miles, and separated from the Mendip Hills, to which they are nearly parallel, by a marshy tract, known as the Somerset Levels. They are now cut at their western end by the M5 motorway and a railway, the Exeter & Bristol Railway, part of the G..
Polder
A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. Some need drainage by pumps to prevent the water table within it from rising too high. Some can be drained by opening sluices at low tide. The best-known examples are those ..
Poldertoren
The Poldertoren is a water tower in the center of Emmeloord, the Netherlands. The Dutch name Poldertoren could be translated as Polder Tower. The 65 meter high tower was build in 1959 and has a large carillon. The tower is not in use as water tower anymore. Owner of the tower was water company Vit..
Poldervokaal
Poldervokaal is a vocal ensemble that takes its name after the (Beemster) polder in North Holland, Netherlands. Poldervokaal was created in 1986, and has been led by Maria Rondèl, an internationally renowned vocal teacher, who brought together a group of her pupils. All 14 members of the ensemble ..
Polder Model
The polder model is the Dutch version of corporatism. The term is also use to describe similar cases of consensus decision-making. Contents 0.1 Socio-economic polder model0.2 Other uses0.3 Historical Background0.4 The debate about corporatism0.4.1 Praises of corporatism0...
Poldhu
Poldhu is a small area in south Cornwall, UK, situated on the Lizard Peninsula it comprises Poldhu Point and Poldhu Cove. It lies on the coast west of Goonhilly Downs, with Mullion 2 km to the south and Porthleven 7 km to the north. Poldhu means "black pool" in Cornish. Poldhu Wireless Station Th..
Poldice
Poldice was a mining area in south-west Cornwall, between Twelveheads and St Day. Mining for tin had taken place since at least the 1500s, before the Poldice Valley became an important part of the Cornish mining boom of the 1800s, when copper replaced tin in terms of importance at the mine. By the..
Poldo tackle
Poldo tackle How to make a poldo tackle. The poldo tackle is an instant tension-applying and tension-releasing mechanism in rope. External links [Poldo Tackle] ..
Pole
Pole may refer to: A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:*Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;*Telephone poles*Telegraph poles*Totem poles*Lampposts*Poles used in sporting and other activities:**Spinnaker pole, used in sailing;**The pole used for pole vaulting*..
Pole-sitting
Pole-sitting is the practice of sitting on a pole for extended lengths of time, generally used as a test of endurance. A small platform may be placed at the top of the pole. The world record for pole-sitting was set during the World Championship by Daniel Baraniuk, from Gdansk, Poland, who sat on a..
Pole-zero plot
In mathematics and signal processing, a pole-zero plot is a graphical representation of a rational transfer function in the complex plane which helps to convey certain properties of the system such as: stabilitycausal / anticausalregion of convergence (ROC)minimum phase / non minimum phase In genera..
Polebridge, Montana
Headline text Polebridge is a town in NW Montana, 35 miles north of Columbia Falls in Flathead County. There is currently a population of ninety. This article about a U.S town is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. ..
Polebrook
Polebrook is a village in the east of the English county of Northamptonshire. History There has been proof that the town of Polebrook dates back to 4000 BC http://www.polebrook.org.uk/overview.html, and was a small Grecian farming town. The farms were mainly centered around the modern day town of ..
Polecat (band)
Polecat was an early band of singer-guitarist Ted Stevens of Omaha, Nebraska. He later went on to form Lullaby For The Working Class who recorded for Bar/None Records and Saddle Creek Records. He is currently a guitarist in Saddle Creek's Cursive and Mayday. Polecat's first Ghostmeat release was the..
Polecat (disambiguation)
Polecat is a name used to describe many things: Polecat is a term used in the common name of some species of weasel (e.g. European polecat, marbled polecat, steppe polecat).Polecat is a colloquial term used to refer to some members of the Mustelidae family, (e.g.skunk), that can spray a foul smellin..
Polecat Pictures
Polecat Pictures is a deaf-owned producer of pornography for the Deaf community. Its performers are speakers of American Sign Language. External links http://www.polecatpictures.com (warning: contains nudity)http://www.deafweekly.com/backissues/111704.htm ..
Poledra
Poledra is a fictional character in the David Eddings book series The Belgariad, the wife of Belgarath, the mother of Polgara and Beldaran, and the many times removed grandmother of Belgarion. She is a sorceress who is very fond of taking the form of a she-wolf. She is also a disciple of the god Ald..
Polegate
Polegate is a town and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located on the A27 five miles (8km) north of the seaside resort of Eastbourne. Much building occurred after the opening of the railway. Polegate originally lay on the edge of the Pevensey Marshes, and on a ..
Polegate railway station
Polegate railway station serves Polegate in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern. The typical off-peak service is: 3tph (trains per hour) to Hastings via Eastbourne2tph to Brighton2tph to London Victoria4tph to Eastbourne External links..
Poleglass
Poleglass is an estate that neighbours Twinbrook estate. Poleglass means "green hollow" in Irish and it has a population of 10,000. The inventor of the portable cardiac defibrillator, Dr Frank Pantridge of Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital used to have residence in Poleglass and there is a road, Pan..
Polelathe
A pole lathe uses a long pole as a return spring for a treadle. Pressing the treadle with your foot pulls on a cord that is wrapped around the piece of wood or billet being turned. The other end of the cord reaches up to the end of a long springy pole. As the action is reciprocal, the work rotates i..
Polemarch
A polemarch was one of the magistrates of ancient Athens. Originally, the polemarch was a commander of the army, but after 487 BC/486 BC, when the Athenian magistrates were appointed by lot, the military duties were handled by the strategoi. This office also had religious and legal functions. Ficti..
Polemic
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polemic is the art or practice of inciting disputation or causing controversy, for example in religious, philosophical, or political matters. As such, a polemic text on a topic is written specifically to dispute or refute a topic th..
Polemic (band)
Polemic is a band from Greece. They attempt to dissolve barriers to human understanding by stretching audiences appreciation of both extreme sound and unusual imaginative lyrics. The band was founded by expatriot American guitarist McKenna Mackie in 1996. Their first recording, released in 2001 wa..
Polemon
Polemon is the name of several eminent ancient Greeks: Polemon of Athens, a 2nd century BC Platonic]philosopher, also referred to as Polemon of IliumPolemon (general), a Macedonian officer of Alexander the GreatPolemon (Cilicia), the name of a king of Cilicia in Anatolia This is a [disambiguat..
Polemoniaceae
The Polemoniaceae (jacob's ladder family or phlox family) comprises 18-25 genera with between 270-400 species of mostly annual plants, native to the Northern Hemisphere and also South America, with the center of diversity in western North America, especially in California. Only one genus (Polemoni..
Polemonium
This article is about the plant species, for the ancient city named Polemonium, see Side (Pontus). Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladder, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and ..
Polemonium acutifolium
Polemonium acutifolium (Tall Jacob's-ladder) is a plant of the genus Polemonium. ..
Polemonium boreale
Polemonium boreale (Boreal Jacobs-ladder) is a plant native to the most of the high arctic. In Greenland it is found only in a small area on the east coast. It is not very common. The whole plant is pubescent, with long woolly hairs, glandular, and grows to 5–10 cm tall. The basal leaves ar..
Polemonium caeruleum
Polemonium caeruleum (Jacob's-ladder) is a plant of the genus Polemonium. The plant grows to 35–80 cm tall. It is the county flower of Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. Image:Polemonium coeruleum1.jpg|Boreal Jacobs-ladder Image:Polemonium.jpg|Boreal Jacobs-ladder Wikimedia Commons..
Polemonium reptans
Polemonium reptans is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium, native to eastern North America. Common names include Abscess Root, Creeping or Spreading Jacob's Ladder, American Greek Valerian, Blue bells, and Sweatroot. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 50 cm tall, with pinnate lea..
Polemonium viscosum
Polemonium viscosum (common names Sky Pilot, Skunkweed, Sticky Jacobs-ladder) is a flowering plant in the genus Polemonium native to western North America from southern British Columbia east to Montana and south to Arizona and New Mexico, where it grows at high altitudes on dry, rocky sites. It ..
Polemon (Cilicia)
Polemon of Cilicia was king, first of the Pontus and the Bosporan kingdom, then of the Pontus and Cilicia, and lastly of Cilicia alone; he died in 74 C.E. Together with other neighboring kings and princes, Polemon once visited Herod Agrippa I in Tiberias (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xix. 8, § 1). ..
Polemon (general)
Polemon (in Greek Πoλεμων; lived 4th century BC), son of Andromenes the Stymphaean, was a Macedonian officer in the service of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC). The great intimacy which subsisted between him and Philotas caused him to be suspected in 330 BC, together with his brothers Am..
Polemon I of Pontus
Polemon I (in Greek Πολέμων) was a King of Pontus. He was captured by the Parthians during Marc Antony's ill-fated eastern campaign. ..
Polemon of Athens
Polemon was a 2nd century BCE Greek Stoic philosopher and geographer. Of Athenian citizenship, he is known as Polemon of Athens, he was born either in Ilium, Samos, or Sicyon, and is also known as Polemon of Ilium. The son of Euegetes, he was a contemporary of Aristophanes of Byzantium and Ptolemy ..
Polemus
Polemus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Polemus chrysochirus Simon, 1902 (Sierra Leone)Polemus galeatus Simon, 1902 (Sierra Leone)Polemus squamulatus Simon, 1902 (Sierra Leone) ..
Polen(lynda Album)
This Was the fourth studio album of Lynda,this show a new professional compositor and a greater singer with the strengh to say what she thinks didn't care all they say,and in the album she wrote a message that's say this: "Mi generación dejó de ser la florecita que busca ser polinizada, hoy nosot..
Polenta
Fried polenta (left), with chicken and potatoes Polenta is a cornmeal mush popular in Italian, Savoy, Swiss, Austrian, Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Corsican, Argentinean, Brazilian, and Mexican cuisine, and it is a traditional staple food throughout much of northern Italy..
Poles
You may also be looking for the plural of the word pole. #endnote_pop] (est.) |popplace=Poland:    38,500,000 (2006 est.) USA:    9,385,233 [link] Brazil:    950,000 [link] Canada:    850,000[link] Belarus:    400..
Polesden Lacey
Polesden Lacey is an Edwardian house (expanded from an earlier building) at Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, England and a National Trust property. In an exceptional setting on the North Downs this Regency house was extensively remodelled in 1906 by the Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville, a well-known Ed..
Polesia
Polesia (also spelt Polesie or Polesye) is one of the largest European swampy areas, located in the South-Western part of the Eastern-European Lowland, mainly within the territories of Belarus, Ukraine but also partly within Poland and Russia. The swamp areas of Polesia are known as the Pripyat Mars..
Polesie National Park
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Polesine
Contents 1 Geographic and demographic infos2 Agriculture highlights3 The 1951 flood4 Delta and nature delta park5 Mythological origins of Polesine6 Geological formation of the area Geographic and demographic infos Polesine is a geographic area corresponding perfecl..
Polessk
Polessk (Russian: ; German: ; Polish: ; Lithuanian: ) is a town in and the administrative center of Polessky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: 7,600 (2004 est.); 7,681 (2002 Census); 4,744 (1885). Polessk lies between Kaliningrad and Sovetsk at the junction of a main road and a r..
Polessky District, Kaliningrad Oblast
Polessky District (Russian: ) is a district (raion) of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The district's administrative center is Polessk. District's population: 19,018 (2002 Census). The district is situated in the center of the oblast, with the Curonian Lagoon to the north. The river Deyma, branch of t..
Polestar (disambiguation)
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation. Pole star may also refer to: Philip Segal, an Executive Producer with his own company, PolestarZbigniew CybulskiPoleStar [link], a scenario analysis tool This is a [disambiguationdisambigu..
Polesworth
Polesworth is a large village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 8,439. Polesworth is located at the northern tip of Warwickshire, close to the border with Staffordshire, it is only three miles from Tamworth. T..
Polesworth Abbey
Polesworth Abbey is a Benedictine nunnery near Birmingham, England. It was founded in the 9th century by St. Modwena and King Egbert. The first abbess was Edgytha (daughter of King Egbert, now St. Editha). [Abbey Church and Gateway:[link],[link]] [Statue of St. E..
Polesworth railway station
Polesworth railway station serves the town of Polesworth in Warwickshire, England. History Polesworth station was opened with the line in 1847 by the London and North-Western Railway. In recent years the station has been gradually been run down. In the 1980’s the station had 6 north bound and 6..
Poleszuk
Poleszuk (Polish spelling; Belarusian: , Paliašuk; #redirect [[Template:Lang-uk]], Polishchuk; Russian: , Poleshchuk) is the name given to the people who populated the swamps of Polesia. The Poleszuk dialect is close to both Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish languages. Although recently most schol..
Poles Apart
"Poles Apart" is a song written by Pink Floyd from the band's 1994 album The Division Bell. The lyrics can be interpreted as guitarist Gilmour speaking to ex-bandmate Syd Barrett in the first verse and Roger Waters in the second. The song was performed in DADGAD tuning. Credits Music by David Gi..
Poles of cerebral hemispheres
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Poletown, Detroit
Poletown was a section of Detroit, Michigan bordering the enclave city of Hamtramck, Michigan. The area was named after the Polish immigrants who originally lived in the area. In 1981 the neighbourhood was cleared to make way for the construction of the General Motors Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly pla..
Polet Airlines
Polet Airlines (Air Company Polet) is an airline based in Voronezh, Russia. It operates a worldwide cargo and domestic passenger charter service from Voronezh and regional passenger and cargo services from Sokol. Its main base is Voronezh Airport (VOZ). Contents 1 Code Data2 History3&nb..
Poleumita
Poleumita is an extinct genus of gastropod. ..
Polevik
Polevik The spirit of the field, as 'Pole' means field. The appearance of the Polevik was described differently in every region. Some saw him as a human man 'dressed in white'. Others saw him as having a black body and two eyes of different colors. Just like Leshy (Spirit of the forest), Polevik en..
Polevskoy
Polevskoy (Russian: ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located some 50 km southwest of Yekaterinburg. Population: 66,761 (2002 Census); 60,000 (1974); 25,000 (1939). History The town is best known for its Dumnaya Mountain, where a monument to those who died fighting Kolchak's army..
Polewiki
Polewiki in Polish mythology are field spirits that appear as a deformed dwarfs with different coloured eyes and grass instead of hair. They appear either at noon or sunset and wear either all black or all white suits. According to local beliefs they lead wandering people in a field astray, give th..
Poley
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Poley may refer to: Poley, a town in Andalucia, Spain during the Moorish suz..
Poleyn
The poleyn was a component of Medieval and Renaissance armor that protected the knee. During the transition from mail armor to plate armor, this was among the earliest plate components to develop. They first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century and remained in use until the early seventeenth ..
Poley McClintock
Poley McClintock (1900-1980) was a member of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, a popular jazz band of the 1920s. His characteristic vocal inflections are heard frequently in many of the Pennsylvanians' novelty tunes, singing his parts in a low-range frog-like croak. It is widely believed that the part..
Polezhaevskaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Volokolamskaya Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoe Pole Polezhaevskaya Begovaya Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya..
Pole (complex analysis)
In complex analysis, a pole of a holomorphic function is a certain type of simple singularity that behaves like the singularity 1/zn at z = 0. A pole of the function f(z) is a point z = a such that f(z) approaches infinity as z approaches a. The absolute value of the Gamma function. This shows t..
Pole (musician)
Pole is Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre. Pole takes his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996. Though the filter was perhaps no longer appropriate for DJ work in its damaged state, Betke found the st..
Pole (Venezuela)
Pole (Polo) is a political party in Venezuela. At the last legislative elections, 30 July 2000, the party won 1 out of 165 seats in the National Assembly of Venezuela. ..
Pole bending
Western riding Timed events Barrel race *Camas Prairie Stump Race Pole bending *Nez Perce Stake Race Stake race (Figure 8) Keyhole race Flag race Pole Bending is an amateur/youth rodeo event that features a horse and one mounted rider, running a weaving or serpentine path around..
Pole dance
A woman demonstrates a pole dance. A home version stage pole Pole dancing is a form of dancing/gymnastics that takes muscular endurance and coordination as well as sensuality. It involves dancing sensually with a vertical pole and is often used in strip clubs and gentlemen's clubs, altho..
Pole figure
A pole figure is a graphical representation of the orientation of plane in space. It is mainly used in materials science (crystallography). Contents 1 Definition2 Stereographic projection3 Geometry in the pole figure4 Application4.1 Planes of a crystal4.2 Texture4.3&..
Pole fitness
Pole fitness The workout that introduced the dancepole in the fitness and healthclubs. Pole fitness is based on the trainingschedule that international pole champion Denise Mulder used to prepare for poledance competitions in the U.S. In het homecountry the Netherlnads, pole fitness classes are giv..
Pole Folder
Pole Folder is the artist name of Benoit Franquet, a Belgian producer of electronic music active in the genre of progressive house. Pole Folder rose to prominence when his track "Apollo Vibes" was featured on John Digweed's Los Angeles retrospective in the Global Underground series on Boxed Record..
Pole jockey
The term Pole jockey is generally used as a derogatory reference toward the trade of power engineering - the technical trade of dealing with generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. The term refers to how power engineers tend to spend excessive amounts of time on transmission lines..
Pole Mokotowskie
Pole Mokotowskie (often the plural form Pola Mokotowskie is used, but the proper form is singular one) is a big park in Warsaw. Part of it is named Józef Piłsudski's Park Monument to Polish airmen who fell in WWII Located in between the areas of Mokotów and the city centre, the park is cu..
Pole Mokotowskie (Warsaw Metro)
Pole Mokotowskie is one of the Warsaw Metro stations. It is named after the Pole Mokotowskie park, which is above the station. Located in the vicinity of Warsaw School of Economics. Preceding station:Politechnika ''' Warsaw Metro (Line I)''' Following station:Racławicka ..
Pole of Cold
The Poles of Cold are the places in the Northern and Southern hemispheres where the lowest air temperature was recorded. The Northern Hemisphere In the Northern hemisphere, there are several places in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia, Russia which vie for the honour to be considered the Pol..
Pole of Communist Rebirth in France
The communist Pole of rebirth in France (PRCF) is an old internal tendency to French Communist Party (PCF), founded in January 2004. The president-delegate of the PRCF is Leon Landini, the president of the National Political Committee (CPN) is Jean-Pierre Hemmen, the national, directing spoke..
Pole of inaccessibility
The pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access. The term is a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon, and is of interest mostly to explorers and conspiracy theorists. N..
Pole of inaccessibility (Antarctic research station)
Pole of inaccessibility is a now defunct Soviet research station in Antarctica, located at the southern pole of inaccessibility ([82°06′S 54°58′E]) — the point in Antarctica furthest from any ocean. It performed meteorological observations from 14.12.1958 to 26.12.1958. It is ..
Pole Position
Pole Position is a racing video game released in 1982 by Namco, the creators of Pac-Man. In Pole Position, the player has to complete a lap in a certain amount of time in order to qualify for an F1 race at the Fuji Racetrack. After qualifying, the player has to face other cars in a championship ra..
Pole position
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. In circuit motorsport, a driver has pole position when he starts a race at the front of the grid. The term comes from the horse racing term where the number one starter starts on the inside next to the inside pole. The term made its way, along with several ..
Pole position (disambiguation)
Pole position is the position at the front of the grid before a race in motorsport. Pole position may also be: Pole Position, a 1982 motor-racing video gamePole Position (animated series), an animated cartoon series based on the video game This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a..
Pole Position (TV series)
Pole Position is an animated cartoon series produced by Namco and based on the popular Atari videogame racing series, although the show itself had very little in common with the game. It ran for 13 episodes on CBS television between 1984 and 1986 as part of the Saturday morning children's show lin..
Pole Position II
Pole Position II is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983. As the name suggests, it is the sequel to Pole Position, which was released in the previous year. There is a new opening theme, and as well as the original Fuji racetrack, there are three others to choose from: Test, Seaside an..
Pole shift theory
A pole shift theory is a hypothesis based on geologic evidence that the physical north and south poles of Earth have not always been at their present-day locations; in other words, the axis of rotation had been "shifted". Pole shift theory is almost always discussed in the context of Earth, but othe..
Pole star
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation; that is, a star that lies in the direction pointed to by one of Earth's poles. There are potentially both north and south pole stars, but whether there is either depends on the current stellar confi..
Pole to Pole
Pole to Pole is both a book and a documentary, released in 1992, narrated by Michael Palin. It records a year long trip from the North Pole to the South Pole distaining from aircraft travel when he can. Palin's journey was also filmed and broadcast on television on the BBC. Michael travels through w..
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is an athletics event where competitors use a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar, similar to the high jump, but at much greater heights. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts, but with these exceptions there is no re..
Pole vault technology
Competitive pole vaulting began with iron bars. Bamboo was then used. Today's pole vaulters benefit from poles produced by wrapping sheets of fiberglass around a pole template, to produce a pre-bent pole that bends more easily under the compression caused by an athlete's take-off. As in the high ju..
Pole weapon
A pole weapon or polearm is a close combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood. The use of pole weapons is very old, and the first spears date to the stone age. The purpose of using pole weapons is to either increase angular momentum,..
Polferries
Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator. The Polish Baltic Shipping Company was established on 31st January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia. In 1996, Polferries..
Polgahawela level crossing collision
On April 27 2005, at Polgahawela in Sri Lanka a serious bus accident occurred on a level crossing. Contents 1 Overview2 Aftermath3 See also4 External links Overview The bus was a local one to Alawwa, reportedly carrying over 90 people through the town of Polgahawela, which i..
Polgár
Polgár ("citizen" in Hungarian) is the name of: The Polgár sisters, three famous chess players who are siblings:* Susan Polgar* Zsófia Polgár* Judit PolgarLászló Polgár, a Hungarian chess teacher, father of the Polgár sistersAlfred Polgar, an Austrian writerFrançois Polgár, a choir leader..
Polgara
Polgara the Sorceress is a fictional character in the David Eddings book series The Belgariad and The Malloreon.Polgara is a kind of demon in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe. It got its name from a member of the Buffy posting board [link] (who may, in turn, have gotten the name from ..
Polgara Demon
The Polgara Demons were a race of fictional demons in the US television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They appeared only once, in the Season 4 episode "The I in Team". By this time, Buffy Anne Summers had joined The Initiative, but had already become suspicious of Maggie Walsh, the program dire..
Polgara the Sorceress
Polgara the Sorceress is a fictional character in the David Eddings book series The Belgariad and The Malloreon. She is the (many generations removed) aunt of Belgarion and the daughter of Belgarath. The book Polgara the Sorceress, by David and Leigh Eddings, is the twelfth and last novel in the se..
Polgárdi
Polgárdi Country: Hungary County: Fejér Area: 72.16 km² Density: 6,689 92.70/km² Postal code: 8154 Area code: 22 Coordinates: ..
Polgooth
Polgooth (Cornish: Pollgoedh) is a former tin mining community in Cornwall, United Kingdom. ..
Polheim
Polheim, "Home of the Pole", was Roald Amundsen's name for his camp (the first ever) at the South Pole. He arrived there on December 14 1911, along with four other members of his expedition; Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel. At the first estimated position of the Sout..
Polhode
The details of a spinning body may impose restrictions on the motion of its angular velocity vector, ω. The curve produced by the angular velocity vector on the Inertia Ellipsoid, is known as the Polhode. The surface created by the angular velocity vector is termed the Body Cone. ..
Poliahu
In Hawaiian mythology, Poliahu is one of the four goddesses of snow, enemies of Pele. She was thought to reside on Mauna Kea, the world's tallest mountain. The Legend of Aiwohikupua Two main legends about Poliahu have survived. In the first one, Poliahu is said to have met the ali'i Aiwohikupua ..
Polianthes
Polianthes is a genus of plants in the Agavaceae family. ..
Policarp
Policarp was a local broadcast television show for children that aired in the 1970s on KATC, channel 3 in Lafayette, Louisiana. The show featured a host character, "Policarp" portrayed by a local television personality. Policarp featured original skits and dialougue between characters as well as car..
Policarpo Bonilla
Policarpo Bonilla was president of Honduras between February 22 1894 until February 1 1899. He was born March 17 1858 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was a lawyer who held posts in the government of Marco Aurelio Soto. He became a Deputy in the National Congress, and was also Governor of Tegucigalpa. H..
Policarpo Paz García
Policarpo Paz García. He was born on December 7 1932 in La Arada, Goascoran, Valle, Honduras. And died on April 16 2000. He was President of Honduras from August 7 1978 until January 27 1982. The military had ruled Honduras almost continuously since 1963, and Paz García was the last of the General..
Police
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Police!
Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. Charlie playing an ex-convict finds life on the outside not to his liking and leads him to breaking into a home with another thief (Wesley Ruggles). Edna Purviance plays the girl livin..
Police, Poland
Police (pron. "poh-LEE-tze"); Kashubian/Pomeranian: Pòlice; German: Pölitz, is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with 35,000 inhabitants (2000). The name comes from Polish pole, which means "field". Police is the capital of Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previou..
PoliceFireEMS
PoliceFireEMS is an Emergency Based Website. This website consists of a photo gallery, desktop wallpapers, contributions, a fully functional feedback form, links and graphics that you can download. This website is updating the pictures monthly, switching between Law Enforcement, Fire Department, and..
Policenauts
is a Japanese adventure game written and directed by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. It was initially released for the NEC PC-9821 computer platform in 1994; followed by updated versions for the 3DO, PlayStation and Sega Saturn game consoles released between 1995 and 1996. Polic..
Policeware
Policeware is software designed to police citizens by monitoring discussion and interaction of its citizens. Within the US, Carnivore was a first incarnation of secretly-installed e-mail monitoring software installed in Internet service providers' networks to log computer communication, including tr..
Police (disambiguation)
Police are forces established to maintain law and order. Police may also mean: Code Enforcement, the act of enforcing a set of rules (i.e. to police).The Police, a band.Police, Poland, a town.Police Sunglasses, a designer eyewear brandThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list..
Police (Scotland) Act 1857
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Police 911
Police 911 (a.k.a. The Keisatsukan Shinjuku 24ji in Japan, Police 24/7 in Europe.) is a light gun arcade game that casts the player as either a "one man SWAT team" working for the Tokyo police, or an American police officer of the LAPD, working to take down members of the Gokudo-kai, an internation..
Police Academy
Police Academy was a series of comedy films made in the 1980s. The series opened with Police Academy (1984) which started with the premise that a new mayor had announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. The movie followed a group of misfit recruits in their..
Police academy
For the series of movies, see Police Academy A police academy is a training school for new police recruits. It is also known as a law enforcement academy. Australia Larger police departments usually run their own. States often run a centralized academy for training of personnel of law enforcemen..
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is the first sequel of six in the Police Academy series of comedic police movies about misfit cops who try to keep law and (dis)order in town. This sequel was directed by Jerry Paris. Steve Guttenberg reprises his role as Mahoney, the class clown of police ..
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 3: Back in Training is the third film in Warner Bros.' Police Academy series, released on March 21, 1986. The film marks the final appearance of Art Metrano's character, Mauser, in the film series. However, he would return for the 1997 live-action television series in a guest role...
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol is the fourth comedy film in the Police Academy series. It was released in 1987. A group of Police Academy graduates are sent to train a group of newly recruited civilian officers. The original Police Academy cast reprise their roles in the film. Capt. Harris..
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach is the 1988 installment in the Police Academy series, launched in 1984. Contents 1 Plot2 Trivia3 Quote4 External links Plot [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Captain Thaddeus Harris, play..
Police action
A police action in military/security studies and international relations, is a military action undertaken without a formal declaration of war, often localized in scope. Since the Second World War, numerous police actions have taken place under the auspices of the major-power nations; indeed, a d..
Police ambulance
A police ambulance is an ambulance that is used by police forces as a medical or rescue support vehicle specifically for police ground units. Alternately the term can also be used for an ambulance provided and staffed by a police agency as part of a district's regular emergency medical service. Thi..
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
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Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters is the third of the three pillars of the European Union, focusing on co-operation in law enforcement and combating racism. It was created as the Justice and Home Affairs pillar in the Treaty of Maastricht; subsequently the Treaty of Amsterdam t..
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union
POPCRU The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) is a trade union in South Africa. POPCRU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). ..
Police and Thieves
Police and Thieves is a song most identified with both the man who co-wrote and originally produced the song, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and with English punk rock band The Clash. Junior Murvin's original version can be found on several Lee Perry compilations released or licensed by Island Records, includ..
Police Athletic League
The Police Athletic League (PAL) is an organization in many American police departments in which members of the police force coach young people, both boys and girls, in sports, and help with homework and other school-related activities. The purpose is to build character, help strengthen police-commu..
Police at the Funeral
Police at the Funeral is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1931, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in 1932 in the United States by Doubleday, New York. It is the fourth novel with the mysterious Albert Campion, aided as usual by his butler/valet/bodyguard M..
Police authority
In the United Kingdom, a police authority is a body charged with securing efficient and effective policing for its local area. Separate arrangements exist for England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Contents 1 England and Wales2 Northern Ireland3 Scotland3.1 Overv..
Police beat
Police Beat , a movie whose tagline is "seven days of crime and delusion", is a highly unconventional crime film that follows the life of an African-born Seattle bicycle officer simply known as "Z" for a week. While Z goes about on his policing duties, he finds himself mentally preoccupied with h..
Police bicycle
A Police bicycle is a land vehicle used by various police departments. They are custom designed to meet the requirements unique to each department. They are usually mountain bicycles. Bicycle patrols are more common in temperate urban areas where limited coverage areas are available. The maneuve..
Police blimp
A police blimp is a blimp that is used by police forces. Police blimps serve the same purpose as police helicopters and police Planes, although they are not commonly used. Police Blimps were used to patrol the skies during the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. ..
Police board
A police board is an unelected form of local government in British Columbia, Canada. All municipalities with a population over 5,000 are required by the British Columbia Police Act to provide for a police service. Municipalities in this category have two options: contract with the provincial gover..
Police box
--> Modern police box located outside Earl's Court tube station in London, which is "bristling with new technology". A police box is a telephone kiosk or callbox for use by members of the police. Police boxes pre-date the era of modern telecommunications; today, every police officer (in techn..
Police brutality
Articles related to Abuse By means Abstract concepts Violence / Coercion Abuse of power / Persecution Physical abuse Torture Child abuse Domestic violence Psychological abuse Humiliation / Intimidation Mobbing / Bullying Hate speech / Manipulation Stalking / Cyberstalking Relational a..
Police burgh
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Police Cadet '84
Police Cadet '84 was a TV series which included such stars in TVB as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and notably, Carina Lau. The story centered on a couple of young "cadets" in the Police Academy. Tragedy, romance, conflicts, and intrigues were featured. It was immediately followed by a sequel titled "..
Police Call
Police Call is a weekend RTHK programme in Hong Kong, similar to Crimewatch in the UK. It is broadcasted in English and Cantonese versions (subtitled), and each episode differ only in broadcast language and cast. It reports on unresolved crimes (often involving crime scene reconstruction), traffic a..
Police Camera Action!
Police Camera Action! is a police video programme presented by Alastair Stewart and made by Optomen Television between 1994 and 2002 for Carlton Television which is broadcast on ITV1. Each episode had a subtitle relating to the type of police video footage such as "Safety Last" or "Driven to Distr..
Police Cantonment Complex
The Police Cantonment Complex (PCC) is a high-rise government complex located at New Bridge Road, Singapore. It houses several police departments such as Central Police Division, the Criminal Investigation Department, the Commercial Affairs Department, and Bukit Merah East Neighbourhood Police Cen..
Police car
Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor of the United States Federal Protective Service. Most North American police forces use the Crown Victoria. A police car, police cruiser, squad car, radio car or patrol car is a vehicle used by police forces around the world to patrol, temporarily detain..
Police caution
A police caution is an alternative to prosecution available to be administered by the police in the United Kingdom. The glossary published by the [Criminal Justice System in England and Wales] defines a caution as " A formal recording of guilt, given by a Police Officer, instead of a cha..
Police code
A police code is a number abbreviation for a crime, incident or instructions for police officers. Examples 925 - Suspicious person5150 - Mental case, not responsible (provides for 72 hour confinement for observation)148 - Resisting or interfering with a police officer187 - Homicide203 - Mayhem207..
Police Combat Cross
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Police commissioner
Police Commissioner (or Commissioner of Police) is the title of the chief officer of many law enforcement agencies. In some organisations, the commissioner is a political appointee, and may or may not actually be a professional police officer. In these circumstances, there is often a professional ch..
Police Commissioner of Kolkata
The Police Commissioner of Kolkata is the chief of the Kolkata Police. He is appointed by the West Bengal state government. The headquarters are at Lalbazar, near B.B.D. Bagh in Central Kolkata. The Commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer. ..
Police Commissioner of Los Angeles
Police Commissioner of Los Angeles are appointed officials to the body which oversees the LAPD. The board functions like a corporate board of directors and responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing its operations. Reference [Board of Police Commissioners] ..
Police Commissioner of Mumbai
The Police Commissioner of Mumbai is the chief of the Mumbai Police. He is appointed by the Maharashtra state government. The headquarters are opposite Crawford Market in South Mumbai. The Commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer. ..
Police Community Support Officer
PCSOs working in Bexley A Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) is a uniformed civilian working with the police in the United Kingdom. The "Police" prefix is optional, with Community Support Officer (CSO) also being common. Police Community Support Officers were introduced by the Police Refo..
Police Complaints Authority
The Police Complaints Authority no longer exists as it was replaced in April 2004 by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). This is an independent body that has the power to investigate public complaints against the Police in England and Wales as well as matters that are of public conc..
Police Complaints Board
The Police Complaints Board (PCB) was the British government organisation tasked with overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales from 1 June 1977 until it was replaced by the Police Complaints Authority on 29 April 1985. Until its creation, complai..
Police corruption
Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct sometimes involving political corruption, and generally designed to gain a financial or political benefit for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest. An example is polic..
Police Dependants Trust
The Police Dependants Trust is a body which looks after the interest and welfare of the families of British police officers who have died or been killed while on duty. It was set up in 1966 from financial donations which flooded in after three officers in London were shot dead in cold blood by thre..
Police des Vins
The police des vins were a set of codes and business practices set up in the 13th and 14th century that govern the wine trade within the region of Bordeaux and the use of its port by neighboring areas. The codes were aimed at giving Bordeaux wine a position of dominance over the region and in the En..
Police detachment
Police detachment is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force. Police forces using this format include: Ontario Provincial PoliceRoyal Canadian Mounted Police See also Police divisionPolice precinct or precinctpolice office ..
Police district
Police district is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force. Police forces using this format include: York Regional PoliceHalton Regional Police ServiceBaltimore Police Department See also Police divisionPolice precinct or precinctPolice detachmentpolice office ..
Police diving
Police diving is a branch of professional diving carried out by police services. Police divers are usually sworn police officers, and may either be employed full-time as divers or as general water police officers, or be volunteers who usually serve in other units but are called in if their diving se..
Police division
A division was until recently the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces, similar to a precinct in American city police departments, and is still used in some forces. It was and is also used in many other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. C..
Police dog
Belgian Malinois as K-9 unit Police dogs have been part of security during major events in the post-9/11 world A police dog is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and similar law-enforcement personnel with their work. They are also known in the United States as police K..
Police Emergency Wagon
Police Emergency Wagon is a North American term for a station wagon put into police use with police car variants. They are usually used as K-9 units, Bomb Squad units, patrol units, emergency units, or assistance units. By the 1980s, Police Emergency Wagons had begun to be phased out by most police ..
Police encounter
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Police F.C.
Police Football Club are a football (soccer) club from Douglas on the Isle of Man. They compete in the Isle of Man Football League and the Isle of Man Football Combination. Formed in 1989, they wear red and navy strips (uniforms). They play their home games at Groves Road in Douglas. Roll Of Hon..
Police Federation
Police Federation may refer to: Police Federation of England and WalesPolice Federation for Northern IrelandScottish Police Federation This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to chang..
Police Federation of Australia
PFA The Police Federation of Australia is a union that represents the interests of Australian police officers. It was formerly registered under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 on 1 January 1998 . The Canberra office was opened by the Prime Minister of Australia the Hon John Howard, MP on Tuesda..
Police Federation of England and Wales
The Police Federation of England and Wales is the representative body to which all police officers in England and Wales up to and including the rank of Chief Inspector belong. There are 140,000 members as of February 2006. All officers up to the rank of Chief Inspector are members, they can elect ..
Police forces of the 3rd Reich
There were three constituents of the police forces of the Third Reich: Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) "regular police"Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) "criminal police"Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo) "security police" In 1942 the Sipo and Kripo were amalgamated to form the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). ..
Police Foundation
The Police Foundation, of Washington, DC, is a non-profit foundation dedicated to helping the police be more effective in doing their job. It was founded on July 22, 1970 by the Ford Foundation, and has continued to receive its primary support from that foundation, although it now has a large endow..
Police Gazette
The Police Gazette has been the title of several publications. The Police Gazette in the United Kingdom was first published in 1772. By far the most famous publication in the United States by this name was officially The National Police Gazette, although commonly referred to as simply the Police G..
Police Ground
Police Ground is a multi-use stadium in St. Georges, Antigua and Barbuda. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 2,000 people. ..
Police Headquarters
Police Headquarters was a rare 1932 crime radio drama, lasted for about 12 minutes, was syndicated to radio stations. There is not much information on who did the acting. But interesting is that the unknown music filled up in the first part of the show, after an announcer would do a commercial or ..
Police helicopter
MBB/Kawasaki BK117 - callsign Polair 61 (Western Australia Police). A police helicopter is a helicopter used in police operations. Police helicopters are commonly used for traffic control, ground support, search and rescue, high-speed car pursuits, observation, air patrol, and riot control. In..
Police Intelligence
Police Intelligence refers to an element of each of the various British police forces. Staffed by Police Officers and civilians (known as Police Staff), its purpose is to track and predict crime with a view to curbing and ceasing it. It is an emerging field that gained momentum after the National Cr..
Police Intelligence Department
The Police Intelligence Department (Abbreviation: PID) is a staff department of the Singapore Police Force. Its primary purpose is to collate and analyse information obtained from the various departments of the SPF, as well as other sources, to support law enforcement activities in Singapore. Histo..
Police K-9 Unit
Police K-9 Unit dog handlers with their charges during the 117th IOC Session held at Raffles City The Police K-9 Unit, also known as the Police Dog Unit (PDU) is a specialist force of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) under the direct command of the Special Operations Command. It specialises i..
Police language
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Police malayalam film
Police is a Malayalam film directed by V.K.Prakash.Prithwiraj is the hero of the film. Bhavana is the heroine. The film also stars Indrajith,Chaya Singh, Ashokan etc. Plot Two of Kerala's rival cops, worlds apart from each other, work for the narcotics department. Shekhar (Prithviraj), a rugged m..
Police Memorial Trust
The Police Memorial Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom. The trust's objective is to erect memorials to British police officers killed in the line of duty, on the spot where they met their death, thereby acting as a permanent reminder – to the public they served – ..
Police Minstrels
The Police Minstrels was a concert party consisting of members of the London Metropolitan Police. Founded in 1872 by ten officers from "A" Division (Whitehall), the Minstrels consisted of police officers who could sing or play a musical instrument. They performed at police stations to entertain the..
Police misconduct
Police misconduct refers to brutality, corruption or other objectionable actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. See also: Copwatch External links [COPSHOTS.org: Documenting Police Brutality; Documenting the Police] ..
Police motorcycle
A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by various police departments. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular department. A police motorcycle is called a motor by police officers in the United States. Similarly, motorcycle units are known as motor units, and mot..
Police MRT Unit
Singapore in 2005 [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] Events 117th IOC SessionAvian influenza preparenessDengue outbreakHuang Na murder caseHurricane Katrina relief effortKashmir earthquake relief effortNKF controversyNational Day ParadePolice MRT Unit establishedPresidential elec..
Police Museum
The Police Museum is housed in former Wan Chai Gap Police Station, which is located at 27 Coombe Road, The Peak, Hong Kong. It has a total floor area of 570 m². Over 600 exhibits are displayed in the Museum. Contents 1 History2 The Tai Po Field Gun3 Galleries3.1 Orientation ..
Police National Computer
The Police National Computer (PNC) is a computer system used by police forces in the UK. Created in 1974 and now consisting of several databases accessible 24 hours a day, giving access to information of national as well as local significance. It is run by the Police Information Technology Organisat..
Police National Service Full-time Light Strike Force
The Police National Service Full-time Light Strike Force (PNSF LSF) is part of Special Operations Command (SOC), a division of Singapore Police Force, located at Queensway in Singapore. History and Nature The Police Full-time LSF was established in June 1998. In its early years, there were 4 squads..
Police Oath
All Police officers take an oath to uphold the law. The following is a selection from different countries UK Police Oaths England and Wales - English language version (Post 2002) I, .. .. of .. .. do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen in the off..
Police office
Police office is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force. Police forces using this format include: Durham Regional Police See also Police divisionPolice precinct or precinctPolice detachment ..
Police officer
A police officer is a person who works for a police force. It usually only refers to those who have been sworn in as law enforcement officers, and does not include civilian support personnel (some of whom may be uniformed and have certain limited enforcement powers). A Chicago police officer patr..
Police Ombudsman
The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman provides an independent, impartial police complaints system for the people and police under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 and 2000. See also Police Service of Northern Ireland External links [Police Ombudsman] ..
Police Outpost Provincial Park
Police Outpost Provincial Park is a provincial park located near Cardston, Alberta, Canada. ..
Police plane
A police plane is an aircraft used by police forces for the same purposes as a police helicopter. A typical police plane is a single-engined light aircraft. The first police aviation department was established in 1919 in New York City with two aeroplanes. Fixed wing aircraft have generally been rep..
Police power
Police power is the power of a state to make laws and to use physical violence in order to coerce its subjects into obeying those laws. Thus, it is the most expansive power exercised by a government. States are widely regarded by lawyers and jurists as having an "inherent" right to police power, mea..
Police precinct
Police precinct is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force. Police forces using this format include: New York Police DepartmentBoston Police DepartmentSeattle Police Department See also Police divisionPolice detachmentpolice office ..
Police procedural
The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to accurately depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Contents 1 Characteristics2 History3 Written stories3.1 Ed McBain3.2 John Creasey/J.J. Marric3.3 Dell Shannon3.4..
Police prosecutor
In the judicial system of New Zealand, a Police Prosecutor is a lawyer employed by the Police to present cases in district court, as the counsel for the prosecution. This may be a sworn member of the police (normally a sergeant) or, in larger courts, a civilian lawyer employed as a non-sworn member ..
Police Purple Heart
A Police Purple Heart is a generic term to describe a United States law enforcement medal which may be issued to any police officer who is wounded or killed in the line of duty. The term is based on the Purple Heart Medal issued by the United States armed forces. To be awarded the Police Purple ..
Police Quest
Police Quest is a series of computer games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1993. The original series was composed of three adventure games designed by former policeman Jim Walls, and a fourth title designed by Daryl F. Gates. In addition, Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT ..
Police rank
Lists of the ranks of various police forces: Australia*QueenslandCanada*Mounted PoliceHong KongUnited KingdomUnited States*States**Maryland**Pensylvania*Cities:**New YorkSingapore ..
Police Rescue
Police Rescue is an Australian television series which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1991 and 1996. The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes. This sho..
Police riot
Police riot is a pejorative term that became increasingly more common through the late 20th century, implying the wrongful, disproportionate, unlawful and illegitimate use of force by a group of police against a group of civilians. It often describes a situation where police, clad in riot gear su..
Police sergeant Lonnie Zamora UFO encounter
The Zamora Encounter The US police sergeant Lonnie Zamora had an encounter with a strange craft Friday 5.45-5.50 pm, April 24 1964. The location was just south of the town Socorro in New Mexico, USA. His report is maybe the best documented encounter ever. Friday24 April 1964 at the town of Socor..
Police Services Act of Ontario
The Ontario Police Services Act is a provincial act governing the conduct of police officers in the Canadian province of Ontario. The Act is usually invoked in investigation or charges against police officers for direputable conduct. The Act was revised in 1990 with the creation of the Special In..
Police services of the Empire of Japan
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. In the Empire of Japan, there came to be numerous police services, with jurisdictions that in some cases could ..
Police Service of Northern Ireland
Police Service of Northern Ireland Coverage Area Northern Ireland Size 13,843 km² Population Approx 1.7 million Operations Formed 2001 HQ Belfast Officers 9,200 Regions 3 Stations 28 Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde Website [PSNI website] The Pol..
Police Squad!
Title Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982. It is a spoof of police dramas, packed with visual gags and non sequiturs. It was created by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who had previously worked together on The Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane! Des..
Police Stadium
Police Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Leotar Trebinje. The stadium holds 8,550 people. ..
Police Staff College, Bramshill
The Police Staff College, Bramshill, Bramshill House, Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, is the principal police staff training establishment in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1948 as the National Police College, and was renamed in 1979. From 1948 to 1960 it was located a..
Police state
A police state is a state with authority which uses the police, especially secret police, to maintain and enforce political power, even through violent or arbitrary means if necessary. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism or other harsh means of social control. In a police..
Police station
A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). A police station is a building which serves as the headquarters of a police force or unit which serves a specific district. These buildings typically contain offices, various accommodations for the..
Police stations in Kolkata
The police stations in Kolkata , in the area area under Kolkata Police are: AliporeAmherst StreetBallygungeBeleghataBeniapukurBhowanipurBowbazarBurrabazarBurtolaCharu MarketChetlaChitpurCossiporeEkbalporeEntallyGarden ReachGariahatGirish ParkHare StreetHastingsJorabaganJorasankoKalighatKarayaLakeMai..
Police Stations in New South Wales
Current Police Stations Wagga Wagga Police Station was built in 1927 on the old lock-up and gaols site in Sturt Street Former Police Stations Former Goulburn Police Station opened in 1885 ..
Police Stop!
Police Stop! were a series of police video programmes made originally for video from 1993 onwards and were later broadcast on Sky One. It was presented and narrated by Graham Cole who is best known as PC Tony Stamp in the Thames Television police drama, The Bill. It had focused mainly on road based ..
Police stop, search, detention and arrest powers in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom law provides for the police to stop and search members of the public without making an arrest. Scotland has a separate legal identity to England and Wales and stop and search powers are therefore provided for by different legislation. Contents 1 The United Kingdom as a whole1...
Police Story
This article is about the American TV series 'Police Story', for the Jackie Chan film see Police Story (film) Police Story was an anthology television drama on the NBC broadcast network from the years 1973 through 1977. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and..
Police Story (film)
UK DVD cover Police Story is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. It is the first of a series of Hong Kong films featuring Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong police detective named "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui. The Police Story series includes: Police Story (1985)Police S..
Police Story 2
Police Story 2 is a 1988 film starring Jackie Chan as "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui, Kwok Hung Lam as Superintendent Raymond and Maggie Cheung as Ka Kui's girlfriend May. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The plot continues off from Police Story 1 as Ka Kui's wo..
Police Story 3
Police Story 3 DVD cover USA DVD cover Police Story 3 or Super Cop (警察故事３超級警察) is a 1992 Hong Kong movie starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung. It follows the story of a Hong Kong cop named "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui..
Police Story 4: First Strike
Police Story 4: First Strike, released in the United States as Jackie Chan's First Strike, is an action-adventure made in the typical humourous style of Jackie Chan. Jackie reprises his role as "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui yet again as a Hong Kong cop who works with Interpol to track down and arrest an ill..
Police strike 1918 & 1919
The Police Strikes of 1918 and 1919 resulted in the British Government putting before Parliament its proposals for the Police Bill, which established the Police Federation as the representative body for the police. The Bill also barred policemen from belonging to a union or affiliating with any..
Police Surgeon
Police Surgeon is a television series made by the Associated British Corporation and starring Ian Hendry as Dr Geoffrey Brent. Its twelve half-hour episodes were broadcast on ITV at 7pm on Saturday nights from 10 September to 3 December, 1960. The series was created for ABC by Sydney Newman. When ..
Police system of Japan
Japan's police are an apolitical body under the general supervision of an independent agency, the National Police Agency, and free of direct central government executive control. They are checked by an independent judiciary and monitored by a free and active press. The police are generally well re..
Police Tactical Unit
Police Tactical Unit is the name of specialist units of various police forces: Police Tactical Unit of Hong Kong Police ForcePolice Tactical Unit of Singapore Police Force redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Police Tactical Unit (Hong Kong)
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Police Tactical Unit (Singapore)
The anti-riot vehicle is one of the most locally recognised icon of the PTU, commonly referred to as the Ang Chia (literally "red vehicle" in Hokkien) The then-named Police Task Force in a parade in the 90's The Police Tactical Unit (PTU) is a specialist unit of the Singapore Police Fo..
Police Truck
"Police Truck" is a song by the Dead Kennedys. The song was originally released in May, 1980, as the B-side of the "Holiday In Cambodia" single and later released in June 1987 on the DKs' compilation album, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. The song is a satirical attack on the actions of oppre..
Police vehicles in the United States
Police vehicles in the United States are made by several manufacturers and are available in three broad vehicle types: Police Package Vehicles (PPV) are the most common police cars and are equipped to handle the vast majority of tasks;Special Service Vehicles (SSV) and Special Service Package (SSP..
Police village
A police village is a form of municipal government used in Ontario, beginning in the early 19th century. It was used in cases where the finances or population of the area did not permit the creation of a village. A police village was created by a bylaw of the governing district or county which defi..
Police v City of Newark
Police v City of Newark Quotes From page 1 of 16: Filed March 3, 1999 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 97-5542 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE NEWARK LODGE NO. 12; FARUQ ABDUL-AZIZ; SHAKOOR MUSTAFA v. CITY OF NEWARK; NEWARK POLICE DEPARTMENT; JOSEPH J. SANTIAGO, NEWARK POLIC..
Police Woman
A police woman is a female police officer. Police Woman was an American television drama (1974–1978) starring Angie Dickinson. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change t..
Police Woman (film)
Police Woman is a detective film staring Jackie Chan, produced in Hong Kong in 1974. Chan plays the lackey of a crime boss who has taken a woman hostage. The woman was running away from the boss's lackeys and escaped into a cab while a police woman suppresses them. The film has been released unde..
Police Woman (TV series)
Police Woman was an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from 1974 to 1978 on NBC. It is considered the first "successful" primetime drama to feature a female lead, and a female as a police officer. In this show, Dickinson portrayed the role of Sgt. Suzanne "Peppe..
Polichalur
Polichalur is a census town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Polichalur had a population of 15,329. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Polichalur has an average liter..
Policharki Prison
Policharki (Pul-e-Charkhi) prison is located on the outskirts of Kabul the capital of Afghanistan. This is one of the most notorious prisons in Afghanistan. Contents 1 History2 Living Conditions3 Current Events4 External links History The prison was built during the Sovie..
Polichni
Polichni (Greek: Πολίχνη) is a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. The population is 36,146 (2001 census). Municipalities and communities of the Thessaloniki Prefecture Agios Athanasios | Agios Georgios | Agios Pavlos | Ampelokipoi | Apollonia | Arethousa | Assiros | Axios | Chalastra..
Policía de la Provincia de Córdoba
The Policía de la Provincia de Córdoba (Córdoba Province Police; PPC) is an Argentine police agency, responsible for policing the Córdoba province. See also Argentine Federal PoliceBuenos Aires (province) PoliceSanta Fe Province PoliceBuenos Aires (city) Urban GuardInterior Security System Ex..
Policía de la Provincia de Santa Fe
The Policía de la Provincia de Santa Fe (Santa Fe Province Police, PPSF) is an Argentine police agency, responsible for policing the Santa Fe province. See also Argentine Federal PoliceBuenos Aires PoliceBuenos Aires Urban GuardSpecial Operations Troops CompanyInterior Security System External li..
Policía de la Provincia de Tucumán
The Policía de la Provincia de Tucumán (Tucumán Province Police; PPT) is an Argentine police agency, responsible for policing the Tucumán province. See also Argentine Federal PoliceBuenos Aires PoliceBuenos Aires Urban GuardSanta Fe Province PoliceInterior Security System External links () �..
Polícia de Segurança Pública
The Policia de Segurança Publica (PSP) is the police force that works in large urban areas. Rural towns are under the protection of the Portuguese Republican National Guard. The PSP includes a Grupo de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Group), which is currently being deployed in East Timor..
Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria
The Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria (Airport Security Police; PSA) is an Argentine paramilitary service created to protect and guard national public airports. Its director is Marcelo Saín. See also Argentine Federal PoliceArgentine National GendarmerieArgentine Naval PrefectureBuenos Aires Po..
Policía Federal Argentina
The Policía Federal Argentina (Argentine Federal Police; PFA) is the federal police agency of Argentina. It is a nationwide police force, with detachments in each of the country's provinces, with a jurisdiction and organization similar to the United States' FBI. Because of this, most routine pol..
Polícia Militar
Polícia Militar, or PM, is the name of the state police forces in Brazil. Each of the States of Brazil has their own corps of Polícia Militar, which is in charge of state wide law enforcement. Even if the name literally means military police they are rather a gendarmerie force, which means th..
Polícia Militar do Estado de Goiás
The Polícia Militar do Estado de Goiás was created on July 28 1858 by the President of the province, Januário da Gama Cerqueira, with Resolution 13. External link [Official site] ..
Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo
The logo of the Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo. A group of Polícia Militar troops from the state of São Paulo The Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Military Police) is a law enforcement agency (Polícia Militar) in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. ..
Polícia Militar do Estado do Espírito Santo
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Policía Nacional
Policía Nacional (actually Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, National Police Corps) is the countrywide police agency of Spain. These forces are under the sole authority of Spain's central government. They handle criminal, judicial, terrorism and immigration matters mostly. However, these forces have lim..
Policies and Procedures
Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliancy or other governmental regulations, such as the A..
Policies of the Thaksin government
As Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra initiated many distinctive policies affecting the economy, public health, education, energy, drugs, and international relations. His policies have made him very popular with the majority of the Thai people, resulting in two landslide r..
Policing
PolicePolicing of Ethernet traffic: Method of marking/dropping the packet in excess of the committed traffic rate and burst size. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the ..
Policing in Brazil
In Brazil there are three levels of policing: the Brazilian Federal Police, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police,the Brazilian Federal Railway Police and state police operate everywhere, and 147 cities also have City Guards . Each State is responsible for maintaining its own police forces, which ar..
Policing in Canada
In Canada, there are three levels of police forces: municipal, provincial, and federal. Constitutionally, law enforcement is a provincial responsibility, although most urban areas have been given the authority to maintain their own police forces. Small municipalities contract out their law enforce..
Policing in Germany
Germany is a federal republic of sixteen states. Each of those states has its own police force (Landespolizei). Each is supervised by the Minister (or, in Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin, the Senator) of Internal Affairs of the state. Although uniforms and vehicle colour schemes are similar all o..
Policing in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a unitary (as opposed to federal) state, and police forces, generally speaking, are organised at the level of administrative districts. Certain departments of the Metropolitan Police operate throughout the country, including the Anti-Terrorist Branch, Royalty and Diplomatic P..
Policing in the United States
In the United States, policing and law enforcement are one leg of a triad known as the Criminal Justice System, the others being the Courts and Corrections. In theory each arm is independent in function and objectives from the others, although the courts have legal oversight of both. Apart from orde..
Policja
An emblem of Policja Policja is the generic name for the police in Poland. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939), and in modern post-communist Republic of Poland since 1989. Its current size is approximately 100,000 people. --> --> Se..
Policoro
Policoro is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the communes of Rotondella, Scanzano Jonico and Tursi. Policoro is a relatively small town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants. Situated on the coast its population swells in the..
Policosanol
Policosanol (or polycosanol) is the generic term for a natural extract of plant waxes. It is used as a nutritional supplement to lower (bad) LDL cholesterol and increase (good) HDL cholesterol and to help prevent atherosclerosis. Contents 1 Physical properties2 Studies3 Other claim..
Policraticus
Policraticus is a book of ethical and political philosophy written by John of Salisbury around 1159. Although addressing a wide variety of ethical questions, it is most famous for attempting to define the responsibilities of kings and their relationship to their subjects. It was the first book of ..
Policy
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A policy is a plan of action to guide decisions and actions. The term may apply to government, private sector organizations and groups, and individuals. The policy process includes the identification of different alternatives, such..
Policy-based design
Policy-based design is a computer programming technique summarized as a compile-time equivalent of the strategy pattern. Andrei Alexandrescu popularized this technique with his book Modern C++ Design (2001) and his column Generic in the C/C++ Users Journal. Overview The technique is used to create ..
Policy-based routing
In computer networking, policy-based routing (PBR) is a technique used to make routing decisions based on policies set by the network administrator. When a router receives a packet it normally decides where to forward it based on the destination address in the packet, which is then used to look up ..
Policyd-weight
policyd-weight is a policy daemon for Postfix. It uses DNSBL, RHSBL, MX and A Queries of the envelope sender and HELO SMTP arguments to evaluate the possibility of either Forgery or Spam. Rejection happens based on an overall score. The score is determined by various checks and not linear. The admin..
Policy address
Policy address is the annual address by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (Governor prior to the handover). It used to be addressed in October, on the opening of the Legislative Council. In 2002 former Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa changed it unilaterally to January, and was reverted to October under..
Policy analysis
Policy analysis is the systematic evaluation of alternative means of achieving social goals. It is frequently deployed in the public sector but is equally applicable to other kinds of organizations. Most policy analysts have graduated from public policy school. Policy analysis refers to the analys..
Policy Analysis Market
The Policy Analysis Market (PAM) was a proposed futures exchange developed by the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and based on an idea first proposed by Net Exchange[link], a San Diego research firm specializing in the development of online markets. PAM was to be ..
Policy appliances
Policy appliances are technical control and logging mechanisms to enforce or reconcile policy rules (informaton use rules) and to ensure accountability in information systems. [ 1 ] Policy appliances can be used to enforce policy or other systems constraints within and among trusted system..
Policy debate
Part of the seriesPolicy Debate Samuel AlitoStephen BreyerLawrence TribeKarl RoveMichael MooreJohnny CochranMaxwell TaylorBrad PittOprah WinfreyJohn F. Kennedy References Cheshier, David. (2002). [Drills to Improve your Debate Speaking]. Rostrum. Retrieved December 30, 2005.Glass, Davi..
Policy debate competitions
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Policy Exchange
Policy Exchange is a centre-right think tank based in London. It was set up in 2002 by Director, Nicholas Boles and then-Chairman Michael Gove. Michael Gove has gone on to become Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath. Charles Moore, former editor of the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph has taken ov..
Policy Governance
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Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition
The Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition (PIP) is a new classical theory proposed in 1976 by Thomas J. Sargent and Neil Wallace based upon the theory of rational expectations. It demonstrated that governments are powerless in the management of output and employment in an economy. Theory Macroeconomi..
Policy institute
An organization (typically a non-profit think tank) that conducts original research on issues, makes governmental policy recommendations based on its findings, and disseminates its work to the appropriate audiences. See also List of policy institutesList of economics consultancies and think tank..
Policy of deliberate ambiguity
Many nations may find it to their advantage to maintain a policy of deliberate ambiguity (also known as a policy of strategic ambiguity). It may be useful if they have contrary foreign and domestic policy goals, or if they want to take advantage of risk aversion to abet a deterrence strategy. Such ..
Policy of Truth
"Policy of Truth" is Depeche Mode's twenty-fifth UK single, released on May 7, 1990, and the third single for the album Violator. The cover art for "Policy of Truth" has the blurred image of a nude woman. The camera angles and her poses depends on whether you have the 7" Vinyl, the 12" Vinyl, the..
Policy Planning Staff
The Policy Planning Staff (sometimes referred to as the Policy Planning Council) is the chief strategic arm of the U.S. Department of State. It was created in 1947 by renowned Foreign Service officer George F. Kennan at the request of Secretary of State George C. Marshall to serve "as a source of in..
Policy Review
Cover of the Oct/Nov 2005 issue of Policy Review magazine. Policy Review is one of America's leading conservative journals. It was founded by the Heritage Foundation and was for many years the foundation's flagship publication. In 2001, the publication was acquired by the Stanford, California..
Policy wonk
Policy wonk is a term of art of politics, meaning an expert with a detailed knowledge of current or potential government policies, administrative matters, and the effects of policy and programs. It entered general usage in the 1990s during the administration of U.S. president Bill Clinton. Admirer..
Polideportivo
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Polideportivo Cachamay
Polideportivo in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atlético Club Mineros de Guayana. The stadium holds 15,000 people. ..
Polideportivo Ejido
Club Polideportivo Ejido are a Spanish football team from El Ejido in Almería. Founded in 1969, they currently play in the Segunda División. They play in pale blue shirts and white shorts. Home stadium is the Municipal Santo Domingo that seats 5,000 spectators. Contents 1 History2 H..
Polideportivo Fernando Martin
Polideportivo Fernando Martin is an arena in Madrid, Spain. It is primarily used for basketball and the home arena of Baloncesto Fuenlabrada. The arena holds 5,000 people. ..
Polidesportivo do Pedrocão
Polidesportivo do Pedrocão is an indoor sporting arena located in Franca, Brazil. The capacity of the arena is 10,000. ..
Polidocanol
CAS registry number: 3055-99-0 EC no: 221-284-4 Structure: C12H25O(CH2CH2O)~9 H Formula: C30H62O10 Names: Polidocanol; (also polydocanol); Laureth 9; Macrogol lauryl ether; Lauromacrogols; (mixed macrogols); PEG-9 lauryl alcohol; POE-9 lauryl alcohol; Ethoxylated alcohols; Dodecylnonaoxyethylen..
Polidor
The Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor is a historic restaurant in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris. Its predecessor was founded in 1845, and it has had its present name since the beginning of the 20th century. The interior of the restaurant is basically unchanged for over 100 years, and the style of coo..
Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio
Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio (1495 or 1492 – 1543), a celebrated painter of frieze and other decorations in the Vatican. His merits were such that, while a mere mortar-carrier to the artists engaged in that work, he attracted the admiration of Raphael, then employed on his great pictures in..
Polidoro Van Vlierberghe
Cirilo Polidoro Van Vlierberghe (born March 6, 1909, died May 9, 2006) was a Franciscan priest and former Bishop of Illapel. Van Vlierberghe was born 1909 in Waesmunster, Belgium. He became a Franciscan priest on August 19, 1934, ordained by Archbishop Alfredo Cifuentes Gómez, then Bishop of the..
Poliespo
Poliespo (Polisinteza Esperanto) is an extension of Esperanto using Cherokee words created by Nvwtohiyada Idehesdi Sequoyah, also known as Billy Joe Waldon, condemned to death in the United States for murder. Contents 1 Principle of Creation2 Pronunciation3 Structure4 Goal5&nb..
Poliez-le-Grand
Poliez-le-Grand is a municipality in the district of Echallens of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ..
Poliez-Pittet
Poliez-Pittet is a municipality in the district of Echallens of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ..
Poligar
A poligar or polygar is the title of a class of officials or chiefs who governed portions of southern India from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The word is an English corruption of the Tamil term Palayakarrar, the administrator of a Palayam (district). As the Vijayanagara Empire of southern India ..
Polignac
Polignac is the name of several communes in France: Polignac, in the Charente-Maritime départementPolignac, in the Haute-Loire département, dominated by the fortress Château de Polignac with its square donjon tower, 32 m tall. Polignac is the name of the famous noble French family that take thei..
Polignac (card game)
Polignac (a.k.a. Jeux des Valets) is a trick-taking card game for 3-6 players that uses a 32-card deck. Polignac was first played in France in the 19th century. References [Thanos Card Games page][Complete rules (at Thanos)][Information at Pagat.com][Jeux de Car..
Poligny
Poligny is the name of several communes in France: Poligny, in the Hautes-Alpes départementPoligny, in the Aube départementPoligny, in the Jura départementPoligny, in the Seine-et-Marne département This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the s..
Poligono Industrial
Poligono Industrial is the latest album by Kult, released on December 5 2005. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 CD1.2 DVD2 Singles Track listing CD all tracks by Kult (music) and Kazik Staszewski (lyrics)."Kasta Pianistów""Pot i kreff""Park 23""Kocham Cię, a miłością swoją"..
Polihale State Park
Polihale State Park is a remote beach on the western side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. It is the western most point in the United States, with the exception of the forbidden island of Niihau. The beach is miles away from anything, and it can only be reached via dirt sugarcane roads, making a fo..
Polikarpov
I-5 Polikarpov was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. After his death in 1944, it was absorbed into Lavochkin, but with some of its engineers going to Mikoyan-Gurevich and its production facilities going to Sukhoi. Polikarpov designs: R-1 biplane..
Polikarpov I-15
I-15bis flying replica, Monino, 2004. Note the straight upper wing typical of the I-15bis. The Polikarpov I-15 "Seagull" (Russian: ) was a Soviet fighter aircraft that first flew in October 1933 with V.P. Chkalov at the controls. The design for the 14th fighter for the VVS, the I-14, starte..
Polikarpov I-153
The Polikarpov I-153 "Chaika" ("Seagull"; Russian "Чайка") was a late 1930s Soviet biplane fighter. Contents 1 Development2 Operational history3 Variants4 Specifications (I-153 (M-62))4.1 Operators5 References6 Related content Development The Polikarpov..
Polikarpov I-16
The Polikarpov I-16 was an advanced Soviet fighter aircraft when it was introduced in the mid-1930s, and it formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II. The diminutive fighter prominently featured in the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. Polikarp..
Polikarpov I-180
The Polikarpov I-180 (Russian: И-180) was a 1938 Soviet fighter aircraft prototype. It was the last attempt to extract performance from the basic Polikarpov I-16 design. The development cycle was plagued with problems and death of the Soviet hero pilot Valery Chkalov in one of the prototypes eff..
Polikarpov I-185
The Polikarpov I-185 was a Soviet fighter aircraft designed in 1941. It could have been the best Soviet fighter of 1942-44, but never entered production. Contents 1 Development1.1 Technical description2 Specifications (I-185 (M-71))3 References4 Related content Devel..
Polikarpov ITP
The Polikarpov ITP (Istrebitel Tyazholiy Pushechniy; Russian: Истребитель Тяжелый Пушечный; Heavy Cannon Fighter) was a Soviet fighter aircraft prototype designed in 1941. Contents 1 Development2 Specifications (ITP M-2)3 References4 External links5&..
Polikarpov Po-2
Airworthy Po-2 in Soviet markings at the Moscow MAKS air show The Polikarpov U-2 or Po-2 served as a general-purpose Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (Russian: , from Russian "kukuruza" (кукуруза) for maize).Soviet people later used kukuruznik as a nickname for Soviet leader Nikit..
Polillo
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Polillo, Quezon
Polillo is a 4th class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. It is located on Polillo Island in the Philippine Sea and separated by Polillo Strait from the main island of Luzon. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 24,105 people in 5,102 households. Contents 1 ..
Polillo Island
Polillo is an island of the Philippines, separated from Luzon by the Polillo Strait. Municipalities: Polillo, QuezonBurdeos, QuezonPanukulan, Quezon ..
Polin
Polin is the name for Poland in Yiddish and a place which meant in Hebrew "Here shalt thou lodge" or "Place of safe refuge" in the exile from the Land of Israel. In 1492, Jews were expelled from Spain, Portugal and Germany. According to one legend, as they journeyed eastward in search of a new home..
Polina Astakhova
Polina Grigoryevna Astakhova (Russian:Полина Григорьевна Астахова) (October 30, 1936, in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR - August 5, 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine) was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast who won ten medals (five gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals) at the ..
Polina Smolova
Polina Smolova (Belarusian: Паліна Смолава, Palina Smołava) (born September 3, 1980 in Minsk) is the Belarusian entry for the 2006 Eurovision contest with the song Mum. She won the Grand Prix at the Slavonic Bazaar 2005 and an award at the Contest for Young Performers. She was given..
Polina Zhemchuzhina
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (Russian: Полина Семеновна Жемчужина; 1897 - 1970), was wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. Born Pearl Karpovskaya (the word pearl in Russian is жемчужина) to a family of a Jewish tailor in the village of Pologi, in the Yekaterinoslav region ..
POLINCO
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Poling
Poling is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, located on a road to the south of the A27 road three miles (4.8km) east of Arundel. The village is small, although there are two Grade I Listed buildings: the parish church of St Nicholas, in the graveyard of which,..
Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story (ISBN 0195152948) is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure. It was published in 2005 by the Oxford University Pre..
Poliochne
Aegean Sea. Aegean Sea island from Cape Sounion. Ancient Greek town (Bronze Age) on Lemnos island. Unearthed by excavations of the Italian Archaeological School of Greece and believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe. It is believed that Troy was its main rival commercially;..
Polioencephalomalacia
Not to be confused with poliomyelitis, a disease that affects humans. Polioencephalomalacia (PEM), also called thiamine deficiency, is a ruminant disease caused by insufficient quantities of thiamine (vitamin B1). It mainly affects cattle, sheep and goats on a high-grain diet. It can also occur if..
Poliomyelitis
|} Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. The causative agent, a virus called poliovirus (PV), enters the body orally, infecting the intestinal wall. It may proceed to the blood stream and into the central nervous system causing muscle weakness a..
Poliorcetica
A Poliorceticon (Greek πολιορκητικά, also transliterated poliorketikon, based on the Greek singular) is any member of the genre of Byzantine literature dealing with manuals on siege warfare. As with much Byzantine literature, the poliorcetica tend to be compendia of earlier guides illust..
Poliorcetics
Poliorcetics is the art of siege warfare and fortification, arts practiced by a military engineer ..
Poliosis
Poliosis "is the name given when someone has a small patch of white hair. While this patch occurs most often along the forehead (so-called white forelock), it can involve hair anywhere on the body and can happen anytime in life." [Ask the Expert - Henry H. Bernstein] Also defined as "An ab..
Polio vaccine
Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. The first was invented by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952 and announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. It consists of an injected dose of killed polio virus. Thereafter, Albert Sabin produced an oral polio vaccine usi..
Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area
The Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area, or Polipoli state park, is part of the 21,000-acre Kahikinui Forest Reserve on the slope of Haleakala. The park occupies the slope of Haleakala which does not have a paved road reaching to the top and thus the crater. However, there is a trail blaz..
Poliqarp
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Polis
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Polis, Cyprus
Polis (or Polis Chrysochous, in Greek Πόλις Χρυσοχούς) is a small town at the north-west end of the island of Cyprus, at the centre of Chrysochous Bay, and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula nature reserve. It is a quiet tourist resort, the inhabitants' income being supplemented by ag..
Polisario Front
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Polisetty
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Polish
Polish may refer to: Poland, a country in EuropeThe Polish language, a West Slavic language spoken mainly in and around PolandThe Polish peopleThe Kiełbasa, often called the polish sausage or simply polish, the main ingredient of the Maxwell Street PolishPolish notation in mathematics, logic or co..
Polish-British Common Defence Pact
The Polish-British Common Defence Pact was an annex to the Franco-Polish Military Alliance signed on August 25, 1939 between representatives of the United Kingdom and Poland. The pact contained promises of mutual military assistance between the nations in the event either was attacked by Nazi Germ..
Polish-Lithuanian
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Polish-Lithuanian can refer to: Polish-Lithuanian Union from 1385 until 1569P..
Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth
The "Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth" was a proposed (but never actually formed) state to have been based on a personal union between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovite Russia. A number of serious attempts, by various means, to create such a union took place between 1574 and 1..
Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Trojga Narodów, Commonwealth of Three Nations). The creation of a Duchy of Ruthenia was considered at various times, particularly during the 1648 Cossack insurrection against Polish rule in Ukraine. Such a Ruthenian duchy, as..
Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
The Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War occurred between 1409 and 1411, pitting Poland and Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights. Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War Bydgoszcz • Dąbrówno • Kurzętnik • Grunwald • Marienburg • Radzyń • Koronowo • Działdowo • Tuchola • Golub Cont..
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów Coat of Arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, combining Coat of Arms of Poland (white eagle) and Coat of Arms of Lithuania (charging knight) The Commonwealth around 1619 National mottos: Si Deus Nobiscum quis contra nos (Latin: If God is with us, then wh..
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy was the navy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Contents 1 Early history2 Battle of Oliva3 1630s: Wladyslaw IV plans for Navy expansion4 Commonwealth Fleet after 1630s5 Note6 See also Early history Battle of Oliva During t..
Polish-Lithuanian Union
The term "Polish-Lithuanian union" refers to a series of acts and alliances between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time and led to the creation of a Polish-Lithuanian federation — the "Republic of the Two Nations" — in 1569 and eventua..
Polish-Lithuanian War
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Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618)
Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618) Bely • Dobrynichi • Trinity Monastery • Smolensk • Tsaryovo Zaimishche • Klushino • Mozhaysk • 1st Moscow • 2nd Moscow The Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618) is the name of the series of wars (1605–1618) between the Polish-Lithuanian Commo..
Polish-Ottoman War (1633–1634)
Polish-Ottoman War of 1633-1634 refers to one of the many conflicts between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman Empire and its vassals. Background Mechmed Abazy was an ambitious governor of the Ottoman province Sylistria (Silistra, today in Bulgaria). This high post testified to the hig..
Polish-Romanian Alliance
Polish-Romanian Alliance refers to the series of treaties signed in the interwar period by the Second Polish Republic and Kingdom of Romania. First of them was signed in 1921 and together they formed a basis for good foreign relations between those two countries that lasted until the Second World Wa..
Polish-Russian War
Wars fought between Poland and Russia include: Livonian War (1558-1583)Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618)Smolensk War (1631-1634)Polish-Russian War (1654-1656)Polish-Russian War (1658-1667)Bar Confederation (1768–1776), Polish factional rebellion against RussiaPolish-Russian War of 1792Kościuszk..
Polish-Russian War of 1792
Polish-Russian War of 1792 Mir • Zelwa • Zieleńce • Dubienka • Markuszów Polish-Russian War of 1792 by Aleksander Orłowski. War in Defense of the Constitution or Polish-Russian War of 1792 took place in 1792 between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on one side, and the Russian ..
Polish-Soviet War
Polish-Soviet War Target Vistula • Bereza Kartuska • Wilno • Operation Minsk • Daugavpils • Koziatyn • Kiev • Volodarka • Mironówka • Olszanica • Żywotów • Miedwiedówka • Dziunków • Wasylkowce • Bystrzyk • Nowochwastów • Berezno • Spiczyniec • Boryspol..
Polish-Soviet War in 1919
Contents 0.0.1 Chaos in Eastern Europe0.0.2 Avalanche starts: First Polish-Soviet conflicts0.0.3 Diplomatic Front, Part 1: Alliances0.0.4 References Chaos in Eastern Europe In 1918, the German Army in the east was the most powerful force in the region. Even more importantly,..
Polish-Soviet War in 1920
Contents 0.0.1 Soviet Forces in early 19200.0.2 Polish Forces in early 19200.0.3 The tide turns: Operation Kiev0.0.4 String of Bolshevik victories0.0.5 Diplomatic Front, Part 2: Polish and Soviet internal politics0.0.6 Diplomatic Front, Part 3: International reactio..
Polish-Swedish Wars
The Polish-Swedish Wars refer to a series of wars between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, in the wider meaning to the series of wars in which both Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth participated between 1563 and 1721, in the narrower meaning denoting the two wars between 1600 and 1..
Polish-Ukrainian War
Polish-Ukrainian War Przemyśl • Lwów • Lubaczów • Gniła Lipa The Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918 and 1919 was a conflict between the forces of Poland and Western-Ukrainian People's Republic for the control over Eastern Galicia after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Contents 1&nb..
Polished
Polished is an award winning short film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, featuring William B. Davis as a lonely aging business man who yearns for human contact from shoe shiner Karyn Dwyer. ..
Polished plate
Polished plate is a type of hand-blown glass. It is produced by casting glass onto a table and then subsequently grinding and polishing the glass. This was originally done by hand, and then later by machine. It was an expensive process requiring a large capital investment. Other methods of producin..
Polishing
Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by using rubbing or a chemical action. In metallography polishing is used to create a flat, defect free surface for examination of a metal's microstructure under a microscope. Silicon based polishing pads or diamond solution can be us..
Polish 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade
This article is partof the series:Polish Black Brigade History of Poland 10th Motorized Bde 10th Armoured Bde 1st Armoured Div Polish 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade (Polish 10 Brygada Kawalerii Pancernej, French 10e Brigade blindée polonaise) was an armoured unit of the Polish Army. Organi..
Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade
This article is partof the series:Polish Black Brigade History of Poland 10th Motorized Bde 10th Armoured Bde 1st Armoured Div The 10th Cavalry Brigade (Polish: ) was a Polish military unit, the only fully operational Polish motorized infantry unit during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, ..
Polish 111th Fighter Escadrille
The 111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force (Polish: ) was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army. Created in 1921, immediately after the end of the Polish-Soviet War, the unit inherited the traditions of the famous war-time Polish 7th Air Escadrille (known as the Kościuszko Squadron..
Polish 16th Infantry Division
The 16th Pomeranian Infantry Division (Polish: ) was a Polish military unit of the Polish Army. It was created August 16, 1919 during the Greater Poland Uprising under the name of Pomeranian Rifle Division (Polish: ). After the uprising it was officially accepted into the Polish Army and took part i..
Polish 1968 political crisis
Banners from March 1968. They read: Anti-semitism: no, Anti-zionism: yes, Zionists go to Moshe Dayan, and Students, don't let yourselves be provoked. The Polish 1968 political crisis involved a state-organized anti-Semitic campaign in the People's Republic of Poland, under pretense of anti-Zio..
Polish 1970 protests
Monument to fallen Shipyard Workers in Gdańsk. The Polish 1970 protests (Polish: ) were anti-communist protests that occurred in northern Poland in December 1970. Contents 1 The lead-up2 The events3 The resolution4 See also The lead-up Władysław Gomułka's tempora..
Polish 19th Infantry Division
Polish 19th Infantry Division was formed from parts of the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division in 1923. At that time it was commanded for several years by gen. Walerian Czuma and stationed in Wilno. During the Polish September Campaign in 1939 it was commanded by gen. Józef Kwaciszewski an..
Polish 1st Armoured Division
This article is partof the series:Polish Black BrigadeHistory of Poland 10th Motorized Bde 10th Armoured Bde 1st Armoured Div Polish 1st Armoured Division at Haddington 1943 The Polish 1st Armoured Division (Polish 1 Dywizja Pancerna) was an Allied military unit during World War II, c..
Polish 1st Grenadiers Division
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Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade
Official force name 1. Samodzielna Brygada Spadochronowa Other names 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade 1. SBS Branch Polish Army Chain of Command Directly subordinate to Polish Government in Exile On 6 June 1944 transferred under British command Description Airborne force, rapidly ..
Polish 1st Infantry Division
The term Polish 1st Infantry Division might refer to two distinct infantry units of the Polish Army, both fighting during various stages of the World War II Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division, formed out of the Polish Legions in World War I and fighting in the Polish-Bolshevik War and Polish Sept..
Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division
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Polish 22nd Mountain Infantry Division
Sanok 5th Podhale Rifles RegimentŻółkiewski Przemyśl 6th Podhale Rifles RegimentDobrzański --> Sambor 22nd Light Artillery RegimentSurman 22nd Battalion of Heavy ArtilleryKrzyżyński 22nd Battalion of EngineersMorek 22nd Motorized AA Artillery Battery..
Polish 27th Home Army Infantry Division
Soldiers of the 27th Division crossing a forest in early 1944 27 Volhynian Infantry Division (Polish 27 Wołyńska Dywizja Piechoty) was the World War II Polish Armia Krajowa unit fighting in 1944 in Volhynia region. It was recreated on January 15, 1944 from smaller partisan units of self-defe..
Polish 28th Infantry Division
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Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade
2 Warszawska Dywizja Pancerna CO: Brig.General Bronislaw Rakowski 1931 - 1936 Commanding Officer 12th Ulan Regiment1936 - 1939 Head of Army Historical Bureau1939 - 1941 Prisoner of War, Soviet Union1941 - 1942 General Officer Commanding 8th Division1942 - General Officer Commanding 5th Division194..
Polish 2nd Armoured Regiment
2nd Polish Armoured Regiment Patch Poland raised the 2nd Polish Armoured Regiment in France on 29 January 1940 as the 2nd Tank Battalion and fought under this title in the French campaign of 1940. Members of the regiment reformed in Scotland on 13 November 1942 after the fall of France adoptin..
Polish 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment (Polish: , 2ppLeg) was a Polish military unit active between 1914 and 1944. Initially a part of the Polish Legions in World War I, after the war it was incorporated into the Polish Army. Disbanded after the Polish Defensive War of 1939, it was recreated during th..
Polish 36th Infantry Regiment
The 36th Infantry Regiment of the Academic Legion (Polish 36 pułk piechoty Legii Akademickiej, 36pp) was a Polish military unit. Initially made up of students from the universities of Warsaw, it fought with distinction in the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Polish Defensive War and in the Warsaw Uprising..
Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division
Commanders Stanisław Kopański (1943)Bronisław Duch (1944-1945) Order of battle The division's order of battle between 1943 and 1946 was as follows: 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division Brigade Sub-units Notes 1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade''1 Brygada Strzelców KarpackichPeszek 1st Rifle Batt..
Polish 5th Rifle Division
Polish 5th Siberian Rifle Division (Polish 5. Dywizja Strzelców Polskich; also known as the Siberian Division and Siberian Brigade) was a Polish military unit formed in Russia during World War I. The division was probably the longest-fighting unit of the Polish Army; it fought in both the Russian ..
Polish 74th Infantry Regiment
The 74 Infantry Regiment (Polish 74 pułk piechoty) was a Polish military unit. Created during the Greater Poland Uprising, it entered the Polish Army and fought in the Polish-Bolshevik War and Polish September Campaign. During Operation Tempest of 1944 it was re-created by the Home Army. The unit..
Polish 7th Air Escadrille
Albatros D.III (Oeffag) series 253 fighters of the escadrille at Lewandówka airfield in the winter of 1919-1920; the plane marked with a large I sign was flown by the escadrille's commanding officer, Cedric Faunt-le-Roy American volunteers, Merian C. Cooper and Cedric Fauntleroy, fighting..
Polish 7th Infantry Division
The 7th Infantry Division (Polish: , 7 DP) was the name of several units of the Polish Army. The original division was formed in 1918 and took part in shielding the Polish borders during the Polish-Ukrainian War. During the Polish-Bolshevik War it was commanded by Col. Szubert and reinforced to th..
Polish 8th Infantry Division
The 8th Infantry Division was a tactical unit of the Polish Army. It was active in the Polish-Bolshevik War, as well as during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. During World War II the division was reformed twice as part of two distinct armed forces: once as part of the Home Army during the Warsaw U..
Polish Academy of Learning
The Polish Academy of Learning (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU), to 1919 called the "Academy of Learning" (Akademia Umiejętności, AU), founded in 1872 in Kraków as a continuation of the Kraków Society of Learning (Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie, established 1816), was the most impor..
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw Scientific Society, Polish Academy of Sciences. The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN), is a Polish state scientific institution established in 1952 by the merger of earlier scientific societies, including the Polish Academy of Skills (Polska Akad..
Polish Agreement
Porozumienie Polskie (Polish Agreement ??) is a small political group in Polish parliament, MPs elected from the Liga Polskich Rodzin electoral committee. Leaders Jan Łopuszański Members of Polish Parliament (..
Polish Air Force
Flag of the Polish Air Force Polish Air Force (Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Siły Powietrzne RP). Until July 1, 2004 it was officially known as: Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej (literally: Air and Air Defence Forces, the name existing from 1990). It consists of appro..
Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain
The Polish Air Forces (Polskie Siły Powietrzne) was a name of Polish Air Forces formed in France and the United Kingdom during World War II. The core of the Polish air units fighting alongside the allies were experienced veterans of Polish September Campaign of 1939 and they largely contributed to..
Polish Air Force order of battle in 1939
The following is the order of battle of the Polish Air Force prior to the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939. During the mobilization waves of March and August of that year, all peace-time units were deployed to airfields throughout the country and attached to respective commands of Air ..
Polish Alliance
The Polish Alliance (Porozumienie Polskie) is a political party in Poland, founded after the elections. It is led by Jan Łopuszański. ..
Polish alphabet
The Polish alphabet is the script of the Polish language. It is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as kreska, which is graphically similar to acute accent (for example: ź, ś), as well as superior dot (ż) and ogonek (ą, ę). The standard character encoding for the Polish alphabe..
Polish American
Kazimierz Pułaski monument in Washington. A Polish American is an American citizen of Polish descent. More than one million Poles migrated to the United States, primarily during the early 20th century. Exact immigration numbers are unknown because, due to the partitions of Poland, the Polish..
Polish American Arts Association
The Polish American Arts Association was organized on january 11, 1966. It is an affiliate of the American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC), a national umbrella organization founded in 1948 for the preservation of Polish cultural, literary and folk traditions in the United States. External links..
Polish American Congress
The Polish American Congress is a National umbrella organisation, representing at least 10 million Americans of Polish descent and origin. Its membership is comprised of fraternal, educational, veteran, religious, cultural, social, business, political organizations and individual membership. See ..
Polish American Congress of Eastern Massachusetts
The Polish American Congress of Eastern Massachusetts was established on may 29, 1944, as an umbrella organization composed of over 3000 fraternal, veteran, cultural, educational, professional, parish, and social organizations. External links http://www.paceasternmass.org ..
Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
Reichsgau and General Governement in 1941 After invading Poland in 1939, Germany decided to annex not only all the lands it was forced to return to Poland in 1919–1922, under the Treaty of Versailles (including the "Polish Corridor", West Prussia, the Province of Posen), but also other t..
Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union
Under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, adjusted by agreement on 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union annexed all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Western Bug, and San, except for Wilno Voivodship with its capital Wilno (Vilnius), which was given to Lithuania, and ..
Polish armaments 1939-1945
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Polish Armed Forces
Polish Armed Forces --> Military manpower Military age18 years of age Availabilitymales age 15–49: 10,354,978 (2003 est.) Reaching military age annuallymales: 343,500 (2003 est.) Military expenditures Dollar figure$5.56 billion (FY2005 est.) Percent of GDP1.95% (FY2005 est.) Wojsko Polski..
Polish Armed Forces rank insignia
Land Forces Air Force History Wars Timeline Personnel Senior officers Rank insignia Awards Oaths Equipment Land Forces Navy Contents 1 Origins2 Land Forces2.1 Officers2.2 Warrant officers3 Air Forces3.1 Officers3.2 Non-commissioned officers and p..
Polish Army in France
The term Polish Army in France might refer to the following units of the Polish Army: Polish Legions of late 18th century/early 19th century fighting for Napoleon IPolish Army formed in France under the command of General Józef Haller de Hallenburg during the final stages of World War I, known as ..
Polish Army in the United Kingdom
The term Polish Army in the United Kingdom refers either to the Polish units stationed in England and Scotland during World War II, or - more generally - to all the units of the Polish 2nd Corps fighting alongside the Allies in that conflict. See also Polish contribution to World War IIHistory of P..
Polish Army oaths
Land Forces Air Force History Wars Timeline Personnel Senior officers Rank insignia Awards Oaths Equipment Land Forces Navy The following is a list of the Polish military oaths, both historical and contemporary. Contents 1 Contemporary1.1 Polish text1.2 English tran..
Polish army order of battle in 1939
Polish OOB during the September Campaign. In the late thirties Polish headquarters prepared "Plan Zachód" (Plan "West), a plan of mobilization of Polish Army in case of war with Germany. The plan assumed creation of 30 infantry divisions, 9 reserve divisions, 11 cavalry brigades, two motorized brig..
Polish Army Stadium
Polish Army Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Warsaw, Poland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Legia Warszawa. The stadium holds 15,278 people and was built in 1930. ..
Polish artificial heart
Polish Artificial Heart - A device created to replace faulty hearts in patients whose hearts have failed them. About the size of a grapefruit, it is made from a combination of plastic and surgical steel and weighs about 2 pounds. External links [Article on the Polish Artificial Heart] ..
Polish Assault
Polish Assault is a split album of four Polish death metal bands: Decapitated, Yattering, Lost Soul and Damnable. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 Decapitated1.2 Yattering1.3 Lost Soul1.4 Damnable Track listing Decapitated "The Eye of Horus" – 05:46"Blessed" – 04:58"The..
Polish Australian
Polish Australian is the twelfth largest ethnic group in Australia, numbering 150,901 or 0.6 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census. However, the number is potentially greater, with other estimates ranging between 160,000 - 200,000. [link] The first Pole known to have arrived in Austr..
Polish Autonomous District
Polish Autonomous Districts were created in the Soviet Union republics of Belarus and Ukraine in an attempt to live up to the postulate of the Leninism about the rights of nations for self-determination. Contents 1 Dzierzynszczyzna2 Marchlewszczyzna3 Disbanding4 External link..
Polish Aviation Museum
Polish Aviation Museum (Muzeum Polskiego Lotnictwa w Krakowie) is a large museum of old aircraft and aircraft engines in Kraków, Poland. It is located at the site of the no-longer functional Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport. The collection as of 2005 includes over 100 aircraft, including sailplan..
Polish beer
Traditional Polish beer (Polish: Piwo) is usually pilsener, lager or porter. The most popular Polish brands are Żywiec, Okocim, EB, Lech, Leżajsk, Tyskie, Królewskie, and Warka. According to a 2006 Ernst & Young report, the Polish beer industry is among Europe's leaders, being the continent's fi..
Polish Beer-Lovers' Party
The Polish Beer-Lovers' Party (PPPP; Polish: Polska Partia Przyjaciół Piwa) was founded in 1990, one of its leaders being the satirist Janusz Rewiński. Originally, the party's goal was to promote cultural beer-drinking in English-style pubs instead of vodka and thus fight alcoholism. The humorou..
Polish Biographical Dictionary
This article is about a 42-volume Polish-language biographical dictionary. For a one-volume English-language dictionary of a similar name, see The Polish Biographical Dictionary. Polski słownik biograficzny (PSB; English: Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionar..
Polish blue laser
The first Polish blue laser ( third in the world ) was constructed at Unipress by a 30-man team headed by Prof. Sylwester Porowski, on December 12 2001, The Polish scientists obtained crystals of gallium nitride under very high pressure using a completely unique technology, characterized by fewer ..
Polish Bowling
This article or section may contain [No original researchoriginal research] or [Verifiabilityunverified] claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the [talk page] for details . Polish Bowling is an outdoor sport played between either two people, or tw..
Polish boy
The Polish Boy is a sausage sandwich native to Cleveland, Ohio. It consists of a piece of kielbasa sausage placed in a bun, and covered with a layer of French fries, a layer of barbecue sauce, and a layer of coleslaw. ..
Polish Brazilian
A Polish Brazilian is a Brazilian-born person of Polish descent, or a Polish-born person with Brazilian citizenship. The number of Polish descendants in Brazil is estimated at 1.5 million. Immigration The Polish immigration to Brazil has not been as large as the immigration of Portuguese or Itali..
Polish brethren
Polish Brethren (also called Antitrinitarians, Arians, or Socinians, Polish: Arianie, Bracia Polscy) was the name of a Protestant Polish church from the 16th century. Contents 1 History2 Influence3 See also4 External links5 Further reading History The movement started ..
Polish Canadians
Polish Canadians are Canadians of Polish ancestry. According to the 2001 Canadian census, 817,000 Canadians claim full or partial Polish ancestry. Contents 1 Notable Polish Canadians1.1 Science1.2 Politicians1.3 Soldiers1.4 Musicians1.5 Entertainer1.6 Sports peop..
Polish capture of Kiev
Throughout the Central European history, the Polish forces entered the city of Kiev twice: Polish capture of Kiev (1018), during the Boleslaus' campaign in favour of Sviatopolk I of KievPolish capture of Kiev (1920), during the Kiev Offensive, a part of the Polish-Bolshevik War This is a [disa..
Polish car number plates
Contents 1 '''Introduction to this topic - includes background information for people living outside Poland'''2 '''Polish car number plates''' since May 1, 20003 District indicators4 '''1976 - 2000''' series5 See also6 External links Introduction to this topic - incl..
Polish Catholic Church
This article is a rough translation of an article in an unknown language, probably polish. It may have been generated by a computer or by a translator with limited proficiency in English or the original language. Feel free to enhance the translation. For reference, the original article may appear ..
Polish cavalry
Volunteer Representative Squadron of City of Poznan in uniforms of 15th Poznan Uhlans Regiment Polish Cavalry (Polish kawaleria) can trace its origins back to the days of Mediæval mounted knights. Poland had always been a country of flatlands and fields and mounted forces operate well in thi..
Polish cavalry brigade order of battle in 1939
The following is a standard order of battle of the Polish cavalry brigade in 1939. Contents 1 Chain of command2 Composition and armament3 Polish cavalry brigades in 19393.1 Cavalry3.2 Armoured-Motorised Brigades4 See also Chain of command Polish Cavalry Briga..
Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino
The Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino contains graves of more than one thousand Poles who died while storming the abbey in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino. The religious affiliation of the dead men is marked by each grave having one of three different types of headstone: the Cathol..
Polish Championship in Football
Polish Championship in Football year, 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place 1920: abandoned (due to war)1921: Cracovia Kraków, Polonia Warszawa, Warta Poznań1922: Pogoń Lwów, Warta Poznań, Cracovia Kraków1923: Pogoń Lwów, Wisła Kraków, Polonia Warszawa1925: Pogoń Lwów, Warta Poznań, Wisła ..
Polish Chess Championship
The list of winners: Year Men Women 1926 Dawid Przepiórka 1927 Akiba Rubinstein 1935 Ksawery Tartakower Regina Gerlecka 1937 Ksawery Tartakower Regina Gerlecka 1946 Bogdan Śliwa 1948 Kazimierz Makarczyk 1949 Kazimierz Plater Róża Herman 1950 Wiktor Balcarek Róża Herman ..
Polish Christmas Eve traditions
Christmas Eve is called Wigilia in Polish meaning "a vigil", from the Latin "wakefulness". Many Christian feast days include a vigil the day before. Dinner begins on Christmas Eve when the first star is seen in the sky. All members at the dinner table share a thin wafer called Oplatek. Each m..
Polish classicism
Classicism came to Poland in the 18th century. The center of Polish classicism is Warsaw under the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski. The best known architects and artists, who worked in Poland were Dominik Merlini, Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer, Szymon Bogumił Zug, Jakub Kubicki, Antonio Corazzi, E..
Polish club
Polish Club is a bridge bidding system which was developed in Poland, where it is the most popular bidding system, and also used by players of other countries. It is a type of small club system. In Polish club, 1♣ opening bid is forcing for one round but it does not necessarily show a strong ..
Polish codepages
Polish requires 18 additional characters above plain ASCII. Unfortunately there are too many ways to encode those characters; today the most popular ones are ISO 8859-2, Windows-1250, Mazovia and Unicode. Some of the code sets are listed below (numbers in the table are hexadecimal). characterset &..
Polish coins and banknotes
Current Polish coins and banknotes issued by the National Bank of Poland, see also Polish złoty. Contents 1 Coins2 Banknotes3 Commemorative banknote4 See also Coins Although some of the coins were minted as early as 1990, they were not released until 1 January 1995, when zł..
Polish comics
Polish comics are comics written in Poland. Very few of those comics have been published in languages other than Polish language. Contents 1 History2 List of Polish comics3 List of Polish comic artists4 References History In People's Republic of Poland the term comic ('komik..
Polish Committee of National Liberation
A propaganda photo of a citizen reading the PKWN Manifesto, issued on July 22, 1944 The Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polish Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN) also known as Lublin Committee was a provisional Polish communist government created by the Soviet Union. It was o..
Polish communism
Polish communists can trace their origins to early 1900s and the works of the first Polish Marxist, Stanisław Brzozowki (1878-1911). During the interwar period in the Second Polish Republic, Polish communists formed a political party (Communist Party of Poland - Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP..
Polish community in Ireland
There is a thriving Polish community in Ireland. As of April 2006, there are 140,000 Poles registered in the Republic of Ireland with PPS numbers (Personal Public Service Numbers), although some of these workers have since left the country. There are no definite figures on the overall Polish popula..
Polish Constitution of 1935
The April Constitution of Poland (Polish Ustawa konstytucyjna 23 IV 1935) was the general law passed by the act of the Polish Sejm on April 23, 1935. It introduced in Poland a presidential system with certain elements of authoritarianism. It was accepted in violation of the earlier March Constitutio..
Polish contribution to World War II
"Poland: First to Fight" (poster, 1939). "Thank You, Poles": liberation of Breda, 1944. The European theater of World War II opened with the invasion of Poland by German armed forces in the 1939 Polish September Campaign. After Poland had been overrun, she managed to establish a governme..
Polish Corridor
A Polish map showing the territory known as the Polish Corridor The Polish Corridor was the name given to land transferred from Germany to a reformed Poland through the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The Corridor, in some places 40 km wide, was made a part of the Pomeranian Voivodship. It effe..
Polish Council of State
A meeting of the Council of State during the 1960s The Council of State of the Republic of Poland was introduced by the 1947's Small Constitution. It consisted of the President of the Republic of Poland, the Marshal and Vicemarshals of Constituent Sejm, President of the Supreme Chamber of Con..
Polish Crown Jewels
August II's crown jewels Hilt of Szczerbiec The only surviving original piece of the Polish Crown Jewels from the time of the Piast dynasty is the ceremonial sword - Szczerbiec. It is currently on display along with other royal items in the Wawel Royal Castle Museum, Kraków. Several ro..
Polish cuisine
Polish cuisine (Polish: kuchnia polska) is a mixture of Slavic and foreign culinary traditions. Born as a mixture of various culinary traditions, both of various regions of Poland and surrounding cultures, it uses a large variety of ingredients. It is rich in meat of all kinds and with spices, as we..
Polish Cup
Polish Cup The Polish Cup in football (official Polish title: "Puchar Polski") is an annually held elimination tournament for Polish football clubs and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the 1st league (or "Ekstraklasa") title. Each football club which partic..
Polish death camps
The term Polish death camps (sometimes also Polish concentration camps) is used to describe Nazi concentration camps located in occupied Poland during the World War II. It is sometimes used by international media when describing the Holocaust. The usage of the term, often attributed to ignorance or..
Polish Defense
tright The Polish Defense is the name commonly given to one of several sequences of chess opening moves characterized by an early ...b5 by Black (see algebraic notation). These include 1.[[wikib..
Polish Ekstraklasa Men's Handball League
Contents 1 Season 2004/2005 teams2 Season 2003/2004 final results2.1 1st-6th place group2.2 7th-12th place group3 See also: Season 2004/2005 teams Season 2003/2004 final results 1st-6th place group 1. Wisła Płock 32 29 0 3 998-800 582. Vive Kielce 32 27 1 4 1055-761..
Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League
Contents 1 Season 2004/2005 teams2 Season 2003/2004 final results2.1 1st-6th place group2.2 7th-12th place group3 See also: Season 2004/2005 teams Season 2003/2004 final results 1st-6th place group 1. Nata AZS AWFiS Gdańsk 32 26 2 4 1007-792 542. Bystrzyca Lublin 32 ..
Polish euro coins
Types of euro coins Eurozone(and microstates whichmint their own coins) Austria | Belgium Finland | France Germany | Greece Ireland | Italy Luxembourg | Monaco Netherlands | Portugal San Marino | Spain Vatican New Member States Cyprus | Czech Republic Estonia | Hungary ..
Polish exonyms
Below is list of Polish language exonyms for places in non-Polish-speaking areas of Europe : Contents 1 Links to more extensive lists1.1 Belarus1.2 ..
Polish exonyms in the Teschen area
Below is a list of Polish language exonyms for places in the Czech part of the Teschen area. Polish names for towns in the Teschen area Albrechtice AlbrechciceBludovice BłędowiceBohumín BoguminBystřice BystrzyceČeský Těšín Czeski CieszynChotěbuz KocobędzDarkov DarkówDětmarovice Dz..
Polish Extraleague
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. Polish Extraleague is the r..
Polish Fest
Polish Fest is an ethnic festival held annually at the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It features Polish music, food and entertainment and is billed as America's largest Polish festival. The event, along with Summerfest and the many ethnic and cultural festivals held through ..
Polish Fighting Team
Polish Fighting Team --> Information Role colspan="2" Aircraft Operated Supermarine Spitfire's Home Station varied Unit's code ZX + individual number (0-10) Squadron holiday - Usually - History Date Founded February 13, 1943 at West Kirby Date Disbanded July 22, 1943 Badge Not..
Polish Film School
Polish Film School (Polish Polska Szkoła Filmowa) refers to an informal group of Polish film directors and screenplay writers active between 1955 and approximately 1963. The group was under heavy influence of Italian neorealists. It took advantage of the liberal changes in Poland after the 1956 t..
Polish First Army
The Polish First Army (Polish Pierwsza Armia Wojska Polskiego, 1 AWP for short) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944, from previously existing Polish I Corps. Gen. Zygmunt Berling, commander of the 1st Polish Army It operated under the auspices of the Red Army. It first ..
Polish folk beliefs
Contents 0.1 Circles0.2 Crossroads0.3 Divination0.4 Fire Flowers0.5 Ladanki0.6 Magic Belt of Poland0.7 \"Spoiling\"1 References Circles Circles play a large part in Polish mythology. Most Slavic people worshipped in natural circles and groves; and it plays ..
Polish Football Association
Founded December 20 1919 FIFA affiliation April 20 1923 UEFA affiliation March 2 1955 PresidentMichał Listkiewicz since June 28 1999 CoachLeo Beenhakker (Men's) since July 11 2006 Jan Stępczak (Women's) The Polish Football Association (PZPN) (Polish: Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej) is t..
Polish Germans
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Polish Glacier
The Polish Glacier (Spanish Ventisquero de los Polacos) is one of the glacial fields of mount Aconcagua in the Andes. It was named after the Polish expedition of 1934. Led by Konstanty Narkiewicz-Jodko, the team paved an alternative route to the peak, named the Polish Route, through the glacier. ..
Polish Golden Age
Polish Golden Age refers to the times from 15th century Jagiellon Poland to mid-17th century, when in 1648 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ravaged by the Chmielnicki Uprising and The Deluge and the Golden Age ended. Beginning of the Golden Age The Golden Age End of the Golden Age ..
Polish Gothic
Gothic style came to Poland in the 13th century. The most gothic buildings in Poland are made of brick stone, especially in northern Poland. The center of Polish Gothic are Kraków, Gdańsk, Toruń and Wrocław. Some gothic buildings Image:Piazza_del_Mercato_di_Cracovia.JPG|Kraków Image:Krakow-W..
Polish government in exile
Polish Secret State History of Poland The authorities Government Administration Parliament Courts Political organizations 1PPS (socialists) 2SL (agrarian party) 3SN (right-wing party) SP (Christian democrats) 4PPR (communists) 5Bund and Hatzoar (Jewish left) 6Betar (Zionist) ONR (righ..
Polish hammer
The polish hammer is a dramatic fighting or professional wrestling move in which a combatant clasps his hands together, raises them high above his head, and brings them down on an opponent's back or neck. The move was extremely popular in American television and movies during the late 1960s and earl..
Polish heraldry
This article is partof the Polish Heraldryseries History of Poland The history of Polish heraldry is an integral part of the history of the Szlachta, the Polish nobility. Contents 1 History2 Peculiarities2.1 Shield2.2 ..
Polish Hill
Polish Hill is a neighborhood on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's east city area. It has a zip code of 15219, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 7 (North Central East Neighborhoods). Primarily a residential area, it is home to one of Pittsburgh's oldest a..
Polish hip hop
The Polish hip hop scene began in 1990, when American pop-rappers like MC Hammer ("Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em") and Vanilla Ice ("To the Extreme") were popular. The first album by a Polish performer was "East on the Mic" by PM Cool Lee, which featured two songs in the Polish language. Lee was fr..
Polish Historical Society
The Polish Historical Society (PHS) is a US based private organisation founded in 1980 that conducts research into Polish History with an emphasis on World War II era history and the etymology of Slavic languages. It has been responsible for a number of notable achievements including the provision ..
Polish Horseshoes
Contents 1 Overview2 Gameplay3 Scoring4 Rules Overview Polish Horseshoes (PHC, Polish Horseshoes Club) is a drinking game involving two teams of two people each attempting to knock an empty beer bottle off of the opposing team's skii pole using a frisbee. Gameplay Each team..
Polish Hound
The Polish Hound is a hunting dog that is indigenous to Poland. They are 50 to 70 pounds & 22 to 26 inches tall at the shoulders. They are black and tan with a short dense coat. External links [Polish Hound Information] ..
Polish II Corps
This article is about a Second World War Formation. For First World War formation, see II Polish Corps (Blue Army). The Insignia of the Polish II Corps. Polish II Corps (Polish Drugi Korpus Wojska Polskiego, 1943-1947), was a major tactical and operational unit of the Polish Armed Forces in t..
Polish Immortal
tright The Polish Immortal is the name given to a famous chess game between Glucksberg and Miguel Najdorf. It was once believed that this game was played in Warsaw 1935, but its exact date and t..
Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade
The Carpathian Brigade started on offensive activity towards Derna (December 12, 1941) Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade (Polish Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich, SBSK) was a Polish military unit formed in 1940 in French Syria of the Polish soldiers exiled after the Polish Defensi..
Polish Independent Highland Brigade
Polish Independent Highland Brigade (Polish: ) was Polish military unit created in France in 1939, after the fall of Poland. It had approximately 5,000 soldiers trained in mountain warfare and was commanded by General Zygmunt Szyszko-Bohusz. It was named after the region of Podhale in southern Polan..
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America is a Polish-American scholarly institution headquartered in Manhattan (New York City), at 208 East 30th Street. The Institute was founded during the height of World War II, in 1942, by world-famous Polish scholars, including anthropologist Bron..
Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry
Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry (Polish Instytut Chemii Fizycznej) is one of numerous institutes belonging to the Polish Academy of Sciences. As its name suggests, the institute's primary research interests are in the field of physical chemistry. The institute is subdivided into departments, ..
Polish invasion of Russia
Polish invasion of Russia may refer to one of the following events. Polish capture of Kiev (1018)Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)Polish-Soviet War (1919-1920) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this pag..
Polish involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
A Polish Army soldier patrol leader debriefs his team after completing an afternoon patrol around the perimeter of Camp Babylon, Iraq. On March 17, 2003, then Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski announced that Poland would send about 200 troops to the Persian Gulf to take part in the 2003..
Polish IV Cavalry Brigade
The IV Cavalry Brigade (Polish IV Brygada Kawalerii) was a unit of the Polish Army during the Polish-Bolshevik War and later in the inter-war period. It was commanded by major Feliks Jaworski and then by colonel Adam Nieniewski. During the Battle of Warsaw it fought in the ranks of the 4th Polish A..
Polish I Corps
Polish 1st Corps was the name of several tactical units of the Polish Army, in particular the following. Polish I Corps in Russia (I Polish Corps of the Blue Army) during the World War IPolish I Corps in the Soviet Union during the World War II, on March 16, 1944 expanded into the Polish First Arm..
Polish I Corps in the West
The Polish 1st Corps was a tactical unit of the Polish Army during World War II. Contrary to its name, in reality it never reached corps strength and was not used as a tactical unit until after the war, when it took part in occupation of Germany as part of the Allied forces stationed around the port..
Polish Jacobins
Polish Jacobins (or Hugenots) was the name given to a group of late 18th century radical Polish politicians by their opponents. Polish Jacobins formed during the Great Sejm as an offshot of the "Kołłątaj's Forge" (Kuźnia Kołłątajska) of Hugo Kołłątaj (hence their alternate name - Hugenot..
Polish Labour Party
The Polish Labour Party (Polska Partia Pracy, PPP) is a minor political party in Poland which describes itself as social democratic. It was created on November 11 2001 as the 'Alternative - Labour Party' (Alternatywa – Partia Pracy) and acquired its current name in 2004. The party is affiliated..
Polish Land Forces
Land Forces Air Force History Wars Timeline Personnel Senior officers Rank insignia Awards Oaths Equipment Land Forces Navy Polish Land Forces (Wojska Lądowe RP) is a branch of Poland's armed forces. Contents 1 Structure2 The force3 See also4 External links S..
Polish Land Forces (Equipment)
Land Forces Air Force History Wars Timeline Personnel Senior officers Rank insignia Awards Oaths Equipment Land Forces Navy Designation Number NATO Remarks   Main Battle Tanks T-72M1 597 PT-91 Twardy 233 Leopard 2 128   Armoured Fighti..
Polish language
Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. Polish is the main representative of the Lechitic branch of the West Slavic languages. It originated in the areas of present-day Poland from several local Western Slavic dialects, most notably those spoken in Greater Poland an..
Polish language/Swadesh list
This is a Swadesh list of 207 words in English and Polish. The Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, is used as a tool to study the evolution of languages. It contains a set of basic words which can be found in every language. Various versions have been created, in particular..
Polish Language Council
The Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego in Polish) is the official language regulating organ of the Polish language. It was formed on September 9, 1996 as an advisory body to the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is composed of 30 scientists, linguists and other specialists. The main task..
Polish law
The Polish law, or legal system in Poland. has been developing since the first centuries of Polish history, over a 1000 years ago. The public and private laws of Poland are codified. The supreme law in Poland is the Constitution of Poland. Poland is a civil law legal jurisdiction and has a civil ..
Polish Legions
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Polish Legions (Polish Legiony Polskie) was the name of several Polish milita..
Polish Legions in Italy
Polish Legions in Italy is the name applied to the several different Polish units serving in the French army from the 1790s to 1810s. After the third partition of Poland in 1795 many Poles believed that the revolutionary France and its allies would come to aid of Poland, as France enemies included..
Polish Legions in World War I
:For other units named the Polish Legions see this article Polish Legions (Polish Legiony Polskie) was the name of Polish armed forces created in August of 1914 in Galicia. Thanks to the efforts of KSSN and the Polish members of the Austrian parliament, the unit became an independent formation of t..
Polish legislative election, 1930
Polish legislative election, 1930, also known as the Brest elections (Polish: ), were the elections to the Sejm (Polish parliament) on 16 November 1930. The pro-Sanacja Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem party took 56% of the votes (247 out of 444 seats in Sejm, and 76 out of 111 seats in Sen..
Polish legislative election, 1947
The Polish legislative election, 1947 was held on January 19, 1947 in the People's Republic of Poland. The anti-communist opposition candidates and activists were brutally persecuted and the eventual results were falsified [Wrona, 1999]. According to the official results, the communist-co..
Polish Liquidation Committee
Polish Liquidation Committee (full name in Polish: ) was a temporary Polish government body in Galicia after the end of World War I. Created on October 28 1918 with seat in Kraków, the Committee was headed by Wincenty Witos and Ignacy Daszyński. The primary purpose of the Committee was to maintain..
Polish literature
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Polish Lowland Sheepdog
The Polish Lowland Sheepdog (Polish: Polski Owczarek Nizinny), also just PON, is a medium sized, shaggy-coated, sheep dog breed native to Poland. Contents 1 Appearance2 Temperament3 History4 Health5 References6 External links Appearance The PON is a stocky, mu..
Polish marka
10 mark banknote of 1917 A rare example of a 1-mark note printed in 1919, when the name of the newly-recreated Poland was still not certain and was hence called the Polish state 100 marks of 1919 10 and 20 Marks from 1919 The marka (Marka polska, abbreviated mp, plural marek)..
Polish Mathematical Society
The Polish Mathematical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne) began in Krakow, Poland in 1917. It was originally simply called the Mathematical Society. It was officially constituted on April 2, 1919. References External links [Polish Mathematical Society website] (in Poli..
Polish military awards and decorations
Land Forces Air Force History Wars Timeline Personnel Senior officers Rank insignia Awards Oaths Equipment Land Forces Navy The following is a list of medals, awards and decorations in use by the Polish Army. Note that some of them are civilian decorations, that may be worn by the m..
Polish Military Organisation
Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (POW, Polish for Polish Military Organisation) was a secret military union created by Józef Piłsudski in November of 1914, during the Great War. Contents 1 History1.1 Intelligence and training1.2 Sabotage and open fight1.3 Later struggles2 S..
Polish mine detector
The Mine detector (Polish) Mark I was a metal detector for landmines developed during World War II in the winter of 1941/1942 by Polish lieutenant Józef Stanisław Kozacki. His design was accepted and 500 mine detectors were immediately sent to El Alamein where they doubled the speed of the Brit..
Polish minority in Romania
Map of Romania with Suceava county highlighted Over 10,000 Poles live in Romania today, mainly in the villages of the Suceava region (Polish: ). There are even three exclusively Polish villages: Nowy Sołoniec (Soloneţu Nou), Plesza (Pleşa) and Pojana Mikuli (Poiana Micului). Poles in Romania..
Polish minority in the Soviet Union
The Polish minority in the Soviet Union refers to people of Polish descent who resided in the Soviet Union. Contents 1 History of Poles in the Soviet Union1.1 1917-19201.2 1921-19381.3 1939-19471.4 1947-19912 List of prominent Soviet Poles3 See also4 Refere..
Polish name
A Polish personal name, like names in most European cultures, consists of two main elements: imię, or the given name, followed by nazwisko, or the family name. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed (in addition to personal taste or family custom) by three major factors: civil ..
Polish nationality law
Polish nationality law is based upon the principles of Jus sanguinis. Children born to Polish parents usually acquire citizenship irrespective of place of birth. Persons born in Poland to foreign parents do not normally become Polish citizens. Dual citizenship is normally permitted in Poland, ..
Polish National Catholic Church
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. The Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC) is a Christian church founded and based in the United States by Pol..
Polish National Government
Polish National Government 1863-1864- underground polish supreme authority, conducting January Uprising against Russian occupation of Poland. It had collegial form, resided in Warsaw and was headed by Karol Majewski. This was normal administrative institution with many ministries and departments. Du..
Polish national ice hockey team
The Polish national men's ice hockey team is a national ice hockey team. The Polish team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, Sweden, Slovakia, the USA, the Czech Republic, Finland or Russia, but they are ranked 21st in the world by the IIHF, and is a strong team in Europe. ..
Polish National Railroads Summer 1939
In the summer of 1939 the map of both Europe and Poland looked very different from today. Poland was a much larger country, occupying, after the annexation of Zaolzie (October 1938), 389 720 square kilometers (today Poland’s size is 312 685 sq km). Obviously, railroad network of interwar Poland ..
Polish Navy
Flag of the Polish Navy The Polish Navy (Marynarka Wojenna RP, MW RP) is the branch of Poland's armed forces responsible for naval operations. It has 149 ships (out of them 5 submarines, 1 destroyer (museum), 2 frigates, 3 corvettes, 5 missile boats) and about 14,300 commissioned and enlist..
Polish Navy order of battle in 1939
This article details the Order of Battle of the Polish Navy prior to the outbreak of World War II and the Polish Defensive War of 1939 Following World War I, Poland's shoreline was relatively short and included no major seaports. In the 1920s and 1930s, such ports were built in Gdynia and Hel, and ..
Polish notation
Polish notation, also known as prefix notation, is a form of notation for logic, arithmetic, and algebra. Its distinguishing feature is that it places operators, whose arity is assumed known, to the left of their operands. The result is a syntax lacking parentheses or other brackets, that can still ..
Polish Ombudsman
Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich is the name of Ombudsman in Poland. The office was established on January 1 1988. The Ombudsman performs four functions: preventivediagnosticmonitoringcreative List of the Polish Ombudsmen: Ewa Łętowska - November 19 1987 - February 12 1992Tadeusz Zieliński - Febru..
Polish operation of the NKVD
Polish operation of the NKVD refers to the coordinated actions of NKVD in 1937-1938 according to the NKVD Order no. 00485 "О мерах, ограждающих СССР от проникновения шпионских, террористических и диверсионных элементо�..
Polish order of precedence
Order of precedence in ... Canada Germany India New Zealand Poland United Kingdom England and Wales Northern Ireland United States The following is the order of precedence in Poland. Contents 1 Constitutional offices2 Within Voivodeships3 Within ..
Polish Orthodox Church
Orthodox church in Hajnówka The Autocephalous Church of Poland, commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, is one of the independent Orthodox churches. The church was established in 1924 to accommodate Orthodox Christians, predominantly Ukrainians and Belarusians in the eastern part of th..
Polish orthography
Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for a pronunciation key. The Polish alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as kreska (graphically similar to acute accent), superior dot and ogonek. Uppercase HTMLcode Lowercase HTMLcode..
Polish outstanding Scout Instructors
ZHP SHK Zawisza Stanisław Broniewski ps."Stefan Orsza" Tadeusz Zawadzki ps."Zośka" (1921-1943) Jan Bytnar ps."Rudy" (1921-1943) Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski ps. "Alek" (1920-1943) Aleksander Kamiński ps. "Kamyk" (1903-1978) F hm HR Jadwiga Falkowska ps."Jaga"..
Polish parliamentary election, 1991
Polish parliamentary election in 1991 to Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on October 27th. In Sejm elections, 27,517,280 citizens were eglible to vote, 11,887,949 (43,2%) of them cast their votes, 11,218,602 (94,4%) of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 43,2% of citizens cast thei..
Polish parliamentary election, 1993
Polish parliamentary election in 1993 to Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on the 19th September. In Sejm elections, 52.13% of citizens cast their votes, and 95.7% of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 52.1% of citizens cast their votes, and 97.07% were valid. The elections were wo..
Polish parliamentary election, 1997
The Polish parliamentary election in 1997 to the Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on the 21st September. In the Sejm elections, 47.93% of citizens cast their votes, 96.12% of which were counted as valid. In the Senate elections, 46.92% of citizens cast their votes, 97.82% of which were valid. Th..
Polish parliamentary election, 2001
Polish parliamentary election in 2001 to Sejm and Senate of Poland were held on the 23rd September. In Sejm elections, 46.29% of citizens cast their votes, 96.01% of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 46.28% of citizens cast their votes, 96.46% were valid. The elections were won by ..
Polish parliamentary election, 2005
Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005. Thirty million voters were eligible to vote for all 460 members of the lower house, the Assembly of the Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), and all 100 members of the upper house, ..
Polish Peasant Bloc
The Polski Blok Ludowy (Polish Peasant Bloc) is a political party in Poland, founded after the elections by former members of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and Self-Defense of the Polish Republic (Samoobrona). Its leader is Wojciech Mojzesowicz. Members of the PBL have joined the populist right..
Polish Peasant Party
The Polish People's Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, also known in English as Polish Peasant Party) is a political party in Poland. The party's name traces its tradition to an agrarian political party in Austro-Hungarian controlled Galicia, which sent MPs to the parliament in Vienna. ..
Polish People's Army
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Polish People's Army can refer to: Armia Ludowa, a Second World War Polish pro..
Polish people's referendum, 1946
People's referendum (referendum ludowe) of 1946, also know as "3 times YES" (3 razy TAK) was a referendum held in Poland on 30 June 1946 on the authority of State National Council (Krajowa Rada Narodowa) (order of 27 April 1946). It was a test of popularity of forces vying for political control of P..
Polish phonology
Contents 1 Vowels2 Consonants3 Stress4 See also Vowels Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for a pronunciation key. The Polish vowel system is relatively simple with only six oral and two nasal vowels. All Polish vowels are mo..
Polish pisanka
--> Polish pisanka is a common name for an egg (usually chicken's egg) ornamented using various techniques. Originating as a pagan tradition, pisanki were absorbed by Christianity to become the traditional Easter egg. Pisanki now symbolise the waking up of nature and hope that Chri..
Polish plait
Polish plait (Plica polonica in Latin) is a formation of hair. It can be viewed as a hairstyle similar to dreadlocks or a hair disease. As a disease The Polish plait usually results from deficient hair care. Uncombed, greasy hair becomes irreversibly entangled, forming a matted, malodorous and encr..
Polish Plumber
Polish Plumber (French: Plombier polonais, Polish: polski hydraulik) was a phrase first used by Philippe de Villiers and opponents of the European Constitution as a symbol of cheap labour coming in from Central Europe as a result of the Directive on services in the internal market during the EU Co..
Polish Polar Station, Hornsund
Polish Polar Station, Hornsund (Polska Stacja Polarna, Hornsund) at Polar Bear Bay in Hornsund fjord, on West Spitsbergen island, Spitsbergen archipelago operated since 1957. Contents 1 The Station2 Location3 Research4 External link The Station The station was erected in Ju..
Polish presidential election, 1990
Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 25 (first round), and Sunday December 9, 1990 (second round). 60.6% of citizens cast their votes during the first round, 98.5% of those were valid. 53.4% of citizens cast their vote during the second round, 97.7% of those were valid. T..
Polish presidential election, 1995
Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday November 5 (first round), and Sunday November 19, 1995 (second round). 64.7% of citizens cast their votes during the first round, 98.2% of those were valid. 68.2% of citizens cast their vote during the second round, 98.0% of those were valid. Al..
Polish presidential election, 2000
CandidatePartyVotes Aleksander Kwaśniewskiindependent(supported bySLD and UP)9 485 22453,90% Andrzej Olechowskiindependent3 044 14117,30% Marian KrzaklewskiAWS2 739 62115,57% Jarosław KalinowskiPSL1 047 9495,95% Andrzej LepperSamoobrona537 5703,05% Janusz Korwin-MikkeUPR252 4991,43% Lech Wałęs..
Polish presidential election, 2005
Presidential elections were held in Poland on October 9 and October 23, 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term. Two center-right candidates, Donald Tusk, chairman of the Civic Platform party (PO), an..
Polish Press Agency
Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) is a Polish news agency, distributing press releases in a similar way to Reuters, AFP and AP. External link http://www.pap.pl ..
Polish rabbit
The Polish Rabbit is a breed of rabbit. It is a compact breed with the reputation for being high-strung. The breed was developed in Belgium as food; however as time progressed, it became more popular as a pet. Contents 1 History and Origin2 Appearance3 Housing and Care3.0.1 F..
Polish Radio and Television
Polish Radio and Television (Polish: Polskie Radio i Telewizja) was a public-service broadcaster in Poland. It has been replaced by two separate entities - Polish Radio and Polish Television. Polish Radio is one of the few international broadcasters to include the constructed language Esperanto. Ex..
Polish referenda
There have been several referenda in history of Poland. 1989-present There have been four referenda in the modern Poland. A referendum planned in 2005 on a proposed EU constitution has been put on hold after the rejection of constitution by French voters. 7-8 June 2003 Polish accession referenda..
Polish referendum on the European Constitution
National referenda on theEuropean Constitution Czech Republic Cancelled Denmark Postponed France  No (55% of 69%) Ireland Date not set Luxembourg  Yes (57% of 88%) Netherlands  No (62% of 63%) Poland Postponed Portugal Postponed Spain  Yes (77% of 42%) ..
Polish Reformed Church
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Polish resistance
Polish resistance can refer to various resistance movements of the Polish people against foreign invaders, occupiers or puppet governents: in the period of History of Poland (1569-1795), see Repnin Sejm, Great Sejm and Kościuszko Uprising, Wielkopolska Uprising (1794) in the period of History of P..
Polish resistance movement in World War II
Polish Secret State History of Poland The authorities Government Administration Parliament Courts Political organizations 1PPS (socialists) 2SL (agrarian party) 3SN (right-wing party) SP (Christian democrats) 4PPR (communists) 5Bund and Hatzoar (Jewish left) 6Betar (Zionist) ONR (righ..
Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
The Polish Roman Catholic Union of America was established in 1873 as a self-help group for Poles living in the United States. Organized into a network of Lodges, the Union originally had a social element. In the modern era the group has transformed itself into a friendly society that provides low..
Polish Round Table Agreement
Round-table negotiations. The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Poland from February 6 to April 4, 1989. The government initiated the discussion with the banned trade union Solidarność and other opposition groups in an attempt to defuse growing social unrest. Following the fact..
Polish Scenthound
The Polish Scenthound (Polish Gonczy Polski) is a breed of scent hound from Poland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] ..
Polish School of Mathematics
"Polish School of Mathematics" is the appellation given to the remarkably productive and creative mathematics community that has flourished in modern Poland, particularly in the two decades between World Wars I and II. The Polish School of Mathematics subsumes: the Kraków School of Mathematics;the..
Polish science
''Main article: Polish science and technology Polish science ( external links ): [Science and Education][Scientific domains] Astronomy: [Atlas of the Universe][Poznan Astronomical Observatory] Computer Science: [Computer] History: [Biskupin ..
Polish science and technology (1501-1550)
Main article:: Polish science and technology De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - ("On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres") Nicolaus Copernicus began to write De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1506 and finished it in 1530. See also: Polish science and technology (1951-PRESENT)Polish sc..
Polish science and technology (1551-1600)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Bartholomens Keckermann - "A Short Commentary on Navigation" (the first one written in Poland) See also: Polish science and technology (1951-PRESENT)Polish science and technology (1901-1950)Polish science and technology (1901-1950)Polish science and tech..
Polish science and technology (1601-1650)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Jan Heweliusz - an outstanding astronomer who published the earliest exact maps of the moon and the most complete catalog of his time containing: 1,564 stars. The first to conceive the possibility of a multiple-stage rocket and of rocket batteries. Jan B..
Polish science and technology (1801-1850)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Ignacy Domeyko - a Polish geologist and mineralogist, a geological map of Chile, describing the Jurassic rock formations, and discovered deposits of a rare mineral (1846) Paweł Edmund Strzelecki - a Polish nobleman, explorer and geologist, wrote "Physic..
Polish science and technology (1851-1900)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Maria Skłodowska-Curie - on December 26th, 1898 Maria Skłodowska announced the existence of this new substance Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski - were the first to liquefy oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a sta..
Polish science and technology (1901-1950)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Mine detector - a metal detector for landmines developed during World War II by Polish lieutenant Jozef Stanislaw Kozacki (1941/1942) Bomba (cryptography) - a special-purpose machine designed by Polish cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma ..
Polish science and technology (1951-PRESENT)
Main article:: Polish science and technology Polish blue laser - third blue laser in the world Polish artificial heart - an implant Odra (computer) - a line of computers manufactured in Wrocław (1959/1960) K-202- first Polish microcomputer invented by Jacek Karpiński (1971) Polish Polar Station,..
Polish Scouts rank insignia
ZHP SHK Zawisza Boys/Girls HarcerzRzeczypospolitejHarcerka Rzeczypospolitej Harcerz OrliHarcerka Orla ĆwikSamarytanka OdkrywcaPionierka WywiadowcaTropicielka MłodzikOchotniczka Sea Scouts Abbreviation HR HO cw.sam. odkr.pion. wyw.trop. ml.och. ZHP ..
Polish Sculpture Center
The Polish Sculpture Center (Polish: ) in Orońsko, near Radom, Poland, is a museum housed at Józef Brandt’s 19th-century manor house. The Center’s collections comprise 621 sculptures, installations and other art forms owned by the Center, as well as 173 deposit items. The collections additi..
Polish Secret State
This article covers the Secret State of Poland during World War II. For the earlier secret state in Poland see: January Uprising History of Poland The authorities Government Administration Parliament Courts Political organizations 1PPS (socialists) 2SL (agrarian party) 3SN (right-wing par..
Polish Securities and Exchange Commission
The Polish Securities and Exchange Commission, Polish: Komisja Papierów Wartościowych i Giełd, (KPWiG) is responsible for supervising compliance with regulations governing honest trade and competition in the public turnover of listed securities and other exchange commodities. The KPWiG is also r..
Polish September Campaign
Polish September Campaign Westerplatte • Danzig • Krojanty • Lasy Królewskie • Mokra • Gdańsk Bay • Pszczyna • Mława • Tuchola Forest • Jordanów • Borowa Góra • Mikołów • Węgierska Górka • Tomaszów Mazowiecki • Wizna • Łódź • Piotrków • Różan �..
Polish Seria A Volleyball League
Polish Seria A Volleyball League means Polish Volleyball League (men's league)Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to po..
Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League
Polish Seria A Volleyball League is the highest level of women volleyball games played in Poland. Season 2003/2004 Final standings in 2003/2004 season: 1. BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała2. Winiary Kalisz3. Telenet Polska Autopart Mielec4. PTPS Nafta Gaz Piła5. GCB Adriana Gazeta Pomorska Bydgoszcz6. ZEC..
Polish Sign Language
Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland. Its lexicon and grammar are distinct from the Polish language, although there is a manually coded version of Polish known as System Językowo-Migowy (SJM, or Signed Polish), which is often used by i..
Polish soccer (football) in interwar period
Contents 1 Introduction2 Humble Beginnings2.1 Summer 1920 - Unfinished Championships3 Crucial Year - 19213.1 Cracovia Krakow - First Champions3.2 First International Friendly4 Early 1920s4.1 National Championships 1922-1926 - Dominance of Pogon Lwow4.2 ..
Polish Socialist Party
The Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) was one of the most important Polish political parties from its inception in 1892 until 1948, when it merged with the communist Polish Workers' Party (PPR) to form the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), the ruling party in the People..
Polish Socialist Youth Union
The Polish Socialist Youth Union (Polish: Związek Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Polskiej, ZSMP) is a youth group located inside Poland. The ZSMP is a former member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. Along with the Socialist Youth Union, they formed the youth faction of the Polish United Wo..
Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music
Polish section of the International Society for Electroacoustic Music [ISEM/CIME] in Bourges. The main goal of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (PSeME) is a promotion of Polish electroacoustic art (electronic music, video art, sound installation, audiovisual and interactive ar..
Polish Sociological Association
The Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne (PTS) (Polish Sociological Association) is the main professional organization of sociologists in Poland. The PTS defines its mission as "supporting the development of sociology and popularizing sociological knowledge within society". Currently the organization..
Polish Solidarity Campaign
Britain's Polish Solidarity Campaign (PSC) was a campaign in solidarity with Solidarity (the Solidarność trade union) and other democratic forces in Poland. It was founded in August 1980 by Robin Blick, Karen Blick, and Adam Westoby, and continued its activities into the first half of the 1990s. ..
Polish Sound Art in China
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Polish Southern Front
The Southern Front (Polish Front południowy) was one of two fronts of the Polish Army created during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 against the allied forces of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. It was established on September 12 out of the Polish Armies Karpaty and Kraków, as well as several milit..
Polish space
In mathematics, a Polish space is a separable completely metrisable topological space; that is, a space homeomorphic to a complete metric space that has a countable dense subset. Polish spaces are so named because they were first extensively studied by Polish topologists and logicians, like Sierpin..
Polish style pickled cucumber
Polish style pickled cucumber (Polish: ) is a traditional Polish pickle. As opposed to other other varieties of pickled cucumbers, it is prepared using the traditional process of natural fermentation in a salty brine. Typically, small cucumbers are placed in a ceramic vessel or a wooden barrel, t..
Polish SuperCup
The Polish Super Cup in football (official Polish title: "Superpuchar Polski") is an annually held match between the Polish Champion (Polish 1st league winner) and Polish Cup winner. 1983 Gdańsk Lechia Gdańsk - Lech Poznań 1:01987 Białystok Śląsk Wrocław - Górnik Zabrze 2:01988 Piotrków Tr..
Polish theater
--> Alongside the many types and variants of dramatic theatre whose basis is literature, there are in Poland forms for which the most important means of expression are not words, e.g., visual theatre, musical theatre, theatre of movement). An ever greater popularity is being gained by theatres emp..
Polish United Workers' Party
The Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was a Polish communist party. It was the governing political party in communist-ruled People's Republic of Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers' Party and the left ..
Polish University Abroad
The Polish University Abroad (Polish: ) was initially established in Paris in 1939 with the aim of maintaining Polish education while Poland was occupied. With the fall of France it was re-established by the Polish government in exile in London The Polish University Abroad in London is based in ..
Polish Victory Lap
A Polish Victory Lap is a cooldown lap by the winner of the race where the driver turns the car around (U turn) and drives forward in the opposite direction. The driver's side window faces the fans. The first Polish Victory lap was first done by NASCAR great Alan Kulwicki after his first career Win..
Polish Volleyball League
The Polish Volleyball League (Polska Liga Siatkowki, PLS) is the highest level of men's volleyball in Poland. Contents 1 Season 2003/20042 Season 2004/20053 See also4 External links Season 2003/2004 Final standings in 2003/2004 season: 1. KS Ivett Jastrzębie Borynia2. PZU AZ..
Polish volunteer wings in Allied Air forces,1940-45
A list of Polish volunteer wings in Allied Air forces in the 1940 to 1945 period. Part of the Polish contribution to World War II. France Armee De L´Air, May 10, 1940 Zone D´Operations Aeriennes Des Alpes Groupe de Chasse (Fighters) Groupe d Chasse GC 1/145 (attached) (Pol) Lion-Bron (Morane-Sau..
Polish Wedding
Polish Wedding is a 1998 comedy/drama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 1998 and at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12. It was released in the US on July 17th of that year. Contents 1 Plot2 Ca..
Polish Wikipedia
Polish Wikipedia is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The ninth edition of Wikipedia, it was started in September 26th, 2001. The founders of the Polish Wikipedia were Paweł Jochym, a physicist, and Wikipedia editor Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz (Kpjas), a doctor. It has more than 230,000 articles (as ..
Polish Workers' Party
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Polish złoty
Złoty /ˈzwɔtɨ/ [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (literally meaning "golden", plural: złote or złotych, depending on the number) is the Polish currency unit. ISO 4217 currency code: PLN As a result of hyperinflation in the early 1990s, the decimal point on th..
POLISIM
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Polistes
Wasps of the cosmopolitan genus Polistes are the most familiar of the polistine wasps, and are the most common type of paper wasp. It is also the single largest genus within the family Vespidae, with over 300 recognized species and subspecies. Their innate preferences for nest-building sites leads..
Polistinae
The Polistinae are eusocial wasps closely related to the more familiar yellowjackets, but placed in their own subfamily; it is the second most diverse subfamily within Vespidae, and while most species are tropical or subtropical, they include some of the most frequently-encountered large wasps in ..
Polist River
Polist River (Russian: река́ По́листь) is a river in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Lovat River. It starts from Polisto Lake, flows north-east, and joins the Lovat at its delta. A historic town of Staraya Russa is situated upon Polist. The river is navigable downstre..
Polis (disambiguation)
Polis can refer to: Polis, or -polis, meaning a city or city-state.Polis, a traditional name for the star Mu Sagittarii.Polis, a town in Paphos District, Cyprus"Polis" is also Scots for the policePolis, a town in CreteThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associ..
Polis Massan
Polis Massans are an alien race in the fictional Star Wars universe. They are humanoid aliens native to the asteroid colony of Polis Massa. These thin, mute beings lead mining expeditions and medical research on the remote settlement. The aliens known as Polis Massans are not true natives of Polis ..
Politantric Circle
Badge used widely during the 1980s-90s Stonehenge free festival campaign by the Politantric Circle The Politantric Circle was an organization that helped organize the yearly summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge. These celebrations, called the Stonehenge Free Festival, ran from 1972 to 198..
Politburo
Politburo is short for Political Bureau. The term originates either from the Russian Politicheskoye Buro, which contracts to Politburo, or from the German Politbüro. A Politburo is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most notably for Communist Parties. Marxist-Leninist s..
Politburo (band)
Politburo is an alternative Punk band from Los Lunas New Mexico named after the Soviet Politburo. Their musical style and lyrics are inspired by the politics of the left wing. Now defunct, Drummer Paul Glover plays in local Albuquerque Ska band, Travistry and The Screw-ups. Guitarist Trevor Lewis c..
Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Politburo (in Russian: Политбюро, full:Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, abbriviated Политбюро ЦК КПСС), known as the Presidium from 1952 to 1966, functioned as the central policymaking and governing body of the Communis..
Politburo of the Communist Party of China
The Politburo of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党中央政治局 pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Zhèngzhìjú) is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party of China. Unlike politburos (political bureaus) of other Communist parties, power withi..
Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
redirect [[Template:Politics of Afghanistan]] At the time of its foundation, the Central Committee consisted of: Permanent members * Nur Mohammed Taraki* Babrak Karmal* Sultan Ali Keshtmand* Saleh Mohamed Zéri* Gholam Destaguir Panjsheri* Mohamed Taher Badakhshi* Charoullah Chapour Non-permanent m..
Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ) is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China. The inner workings of the PSC are not well known, although it is believed tha..
Politechnika (Warsaw Metro)
Warsaw Metro Station located near the main campus of Warsaw University of Technology. Preceding station:Centrum ''' Warsaw Metro (Line I)''' Following station:Pole Mokotowskie ..
Politechniki Warszawskiej PW-5
PW-5 Smyk A PW-5 at Covilhã, Portugal. Type designation PW-5 Competition class World Class Number built ca. 200 Crew 1 Length 6.22 m (20.4 ft) Height 1.86 m (6.1 ft) Cockpit width 0.63 m (2.1 ft) Cockpit height 0.91 m (3 ft) Wingspan 13.44 m (44.1 ft) Wing area 10..
Politechniki Warszawskiej PW-6
PW-6 Bath time for "Charlie Eight". Covilhã, Portugal. Type designation PW-6U Competition class Two-seater Number built - Crew 2 Length 7.85 m (25.8 ft) Height 2.44 m (8 ft) Cockpit width 0.7 m (2.3 ft) Cockpit height 1.0 m (3.3 ft) Wingspan 16.00 m (52.5 ft) Wing ..
Politehnica
Politehnica may refer to: Polytechnic University of BucharestThe "Politehnica" University of TimişoaraFCU Politehnica Timişoara, a football club This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may w..
Politehnica metro station
Politehnica is a metro station in Bucharest. It is one of the two stations located near the campus of the Universitatea Politehnica Bucureşti (the other one being Grozăveşti). The station also services the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest and its campus, the Apaca textiles..
Politeia
This article is about the Greek word. For the British think-tank, see Politeia (think tank). Politeia (πολιτεία) is an Ancient Greek word with no single English translation. Derived from the word polis, it is an important term in Ancient Greek political thought, especially that of Plato and..
Politeia (think tank)
Politeia is a British