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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..

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..

Polar bears in Central park
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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�..