POW (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
POW or pow may stand for:
  • Prisoner of war
    Prisoner of war
    A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...

    , a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or continuing after an armed conflict

Entertainment

  • Pow!
    Pow!
    Pow! was a weekly British comic published by Odhams Press in 1967 and 1968 from their headquarters at 64 Long Acre, London. Part of their Power Comics imprint, it was printed on newsprint stock, in black-and-white except for its colour front and back covers, and initially comprised 28 pages.Pow!...

    , a 1960s British comic
  • P.O.W (TV series)
    P.O.W (TV series)
    P.O.W. was a television series consisting of 6 episodes, broadcast on ITV in 2003. The series starred James D'Arcy and Joe Absolom. The drama series is based on true stories, set in Germany in the year 1940 and follows the character of Jim Caddon as he is captured after his plane crashes during a...

    , a 2003 mini-series airing on ITV
  • Pow Entertainment
    POW Entertainment
    POW! Entertainment is an American media production company formed by Gill Champion, Arthur Lieberman and former Marvel Comics editor and publisher Stan Lee in 2001. POW! is made up of primarily two companies, POW! Entertainment, Inc...

     (Purveyors of Wonder Entertainment), a media production company

Music

  • "P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)", a song from Beowülf's 1993 album Un-Sentimental
    Un-Sentimental
    Un-Sentimental is the third album by Beowülf, released in 1993. It is the only official Beowülf album to be released under the band name BWF. This album marked a change for the band, drifting more to bluesy rock and abandoning from their classic hardcore thrash style...

  • "Pow" (Forward)
    Pow (Forward)
    "Pow! " is a song by UK grime artist Lethal Bizzle in 2004. It released on 25 October 2004 for digital download from iTunes and then released on 20 December 2004 as a single...

    , a 2004 song by Lethal Bizzle and banned on radio
  • "POW" (song), a 2009 song by rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

Video games

  • P.O.W.: Prisoners of War
    P.O.W.: Prisoners of War
    is a side-scrolling beat 'em up produced by SNK originally released as an arcade game in 1988. A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System on June 30, 1989 in Japan and on September 1989 in North America...

    , an arcade game that was ported to the NES console
  • Prisoner of War (video game)
    Prisoner of War (video game)
    Prisoner of War is a 2002 third-person stealth game developed by Wide Games and published by Codemasters. It follows the story of Captain Lewis Stone, a downed American pilot who must escape numerous prisoner of war camps and return home.-Gameplay:...

    , a video game for PC, PS2 and Xbox

Other

  • pow(x, y), an exponentiation
    Exponentiation
    Exponentiation is a mathematical operation, written as an, involving two numbers, the base a and the exponent n...

     function in computer programming
  • PoW or POW: HMS Prince of Wales, a Royal Navy battleship of WWII
  • Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, or Polish Military Organisation
    Polish Military Organisation
    Polish Military Organisation, PMO was a secret military organization created by Józef Piłsudski in August 1914, and officially named in November 1914, during World War I. Its tasks were to gather intelligence and sabotage the enemies of the Polish people...

    , active before and during World War I
  • POW: the IATA code for Portorož Airport
    Portorož Airport
    -Airport Services:Although relatively small, a wide-variety of services are offered at Portorož Airport:modern airport facilities including technical and fuel service, services under contract , panoramic flights, business charter flights, a flight school, parachute jumping, minibus transfer, a...

     in Portorož, Slovenia
  • PoW or POW: Proof of work in Cryptography
    Cryptography
    Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

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