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Pond (other)
A pond is a small body of standing water. Pond may also refer to: Places * Pond, California, a community in Kern County, California * Pond River, a tributary of the Green River, located in the western part of Kentucky * Pond Creek (other) * Ponds Creek, a creek in New South Wales, Australia * The Pond, an informal term used primarily for the Atlantic Ocean * Honda Center, an indoor arena in Anaheim, California, nicknamed "The Pond" when it was formerly known as Arrowhead Pond * Pond, Missouri A former unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Missouri, St. Louis County Other uses * Pond (surname), a surname * Pond (American band), rock band from Portland, Oregon * Pond (Australian band), psychedelic band from Perth * Pond (book), ''Pond'' (book), 2015 collection of short stories * Pond (currency), used in the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, and New Griqualand * Pond's, health and beauty care brand * Waste stabilization pond, a wastewater treatment sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression (geology), depression, either naturally or artificiality, artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than in area, less than in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by aquatic plant, emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.Clegg, J. (1986). Observer's Book of Pond Life. Frederick Warne, London Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. on floodplains as cutoff river channels, by glacial processes, by peatland formation, in coastal dune systems, by beavers). They can simply be isolated depressions (such as a Kettle (landform), kettle hole, vernal pool, Prairie Pothole Region, prairie pothole, or simply natural undulations in undrained land) filled by runoff, groundwater, or precipitation, or all three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond (book)
''Pond'' is a collection of 20 short stories written by Claire-Louise Bennett, originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 10 May 2015 (). The stories are written from the perspective of an unnamed woman who lives a solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. It focuses on the details of her daily experience, from the best way to eat porridge to an encounter with a cow to the ending of an affair. The shortest story in ''Pond'' runs to only a couple of sentences. Reception ''Pond'' was well received in both the UK and the US, and was featured in both ''The New Yorker'' and ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...'' in 2016. Stories References 2015 short story collections British short story collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowy Staw
Nowy Staw (; ) is a small town in northern Poland on the Święta river in the Żuławy region, with 3,766 inhabitants (2022), situated in Malbork County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The name of the town means ''New Pond''. History The oldest part of Nowy Staw is the formerly independent village of Stawiec, north of the town. It was founded in 1316 by the Teutonic Order. Town rights were applied in 1343. In 1409, the Teutonic Knights started producing black gunpowder in the town, and a few decades later in the middle of the fifteenth century merchants from nearby Danzig (Gdańsk) erected an oil mill. In 1454, King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated it to the Kingdom of Poland, which was confirmed in the peace treaty of 1466. From 1466 on it was part of the Polish Malbork Voivodeship. During the various Polish–Swedish wars the town was occupied and plundered several times. During the eighteenth century a new district, the "New town" grew up between the existing settlement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pony (Spratleys Japs Album)
''Pony'' is the debut studio album by the English psychedelic rock band Spratleys Japs. Released in 1999 on All My Eye and Betty Martin Music, the album was a side-project of Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith and his then-partner Joanne Spratley. Although other musicians are credited as playing on the album, it is believed that this was part of an elaborate fictional conceit, and that in fact Smith and Spratley were the only musicians to have been involved with the recording. Recording According to the history of the album presented on the All My Eye and Betty Martin website, Pony was conceived as the result of an encounter between Spratley and a displaced American bar band called The Rev-Ups (Heidi Murphy, Mark Donovan and Viv Sherrif), in a dilapidated recording studio in The New Forest. Spratley subsequently introduced Smith to the band, and work began on recording an album in the Autumn of 1998. However, as there is no apparent evidence that the band nor the studio have ever e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilopond
The kilogram-force (kgf or kgF), or kilopond (kp, from ), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force. It is not accepted for use with the International System of Units (SI) and is deprecated for most uses. The kilogram-force is equal to the magnitude of the force exerted on one kilogram of mass in a gravitational field (standard gravity, a conventional value approximating the average magnitude of gravity on Earth). That is, it is the weight of a kilogram under standard gravity. One kilogram-force is defined as .NISTbr>''Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)''Special Publication 811, (1995) page 51 Similarly, a gram-force is , and a milligram-force is . History The gram-force and kilogram-force were never well-defined units until the CGPM adopted a ''standard acceleration of gravity'' of 9.80665 m/s2 for this purpose in 1901, though they had been used in low-precision measurements of force before that time. Even then, the proposal to define ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Rink
An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Ice rinks are also used for exhibitions, contests and ice shows. The growth and increasing popularity of ice skating during the 1800s marked a rise in the deliberate construction of ice rinks in numerous areas of the world. The word "rink" is a word of Scottish origin meaning "course", used to describe the ice surface used in the sport of curling, but was kept in use once the winter team sport of ice hockey became established. There are two types of ice rinks in prevalent use today: natural ice rinks, where freezing occurs from cold ambient temperatures, and artificial ice rinks (or mechanically frozen), where a coolant produces cold temperatures underneath the water body (on which the game is played), causing the water body to freeze and then stay frozen. There are also synthetic ice rinks where skating surfaces are made out of plast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waste Stabilization Pond
Waste stabilization ponds (WSPs or stabilization ponds or waste stabilization lagoons) are ponds designed and built for wastewater treatment to reduce the organic content and remove pathogens from wastewater. They are man-made depressions confined by earthen structures. Wastewater or "influent" enters on one side of the waste stabilization pond and exits on the other side as "effluent", after spending several days in the pond, during which treatment processes take place. Waste stabilization ponds are used worldwide for wastewater treatment and are especially suitable for developing countries that have warm climates. They are frequently used to treat sewage and industrial effluents, but may also be used for treatment of municipal run-off or stormwater. The system may consist of a single pond or several ponds in a series, each pond playing a different role in the removal of pollutants. After treatment, the effluent may be returned to surface water or reused as irrigation water (or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond's
Pond's is an English brand of beauty and health care products, currently owned by Unilever. History Pond's Cream was invented in the United States as a patent medicine by pharmacist Theron T. Pond (1800–1852) of Utica, New York, in 1846. Mr. Pond created an extract from witch hazel 'Hamamelis'' spp.which he discovered could heal small cuts and other ailments. The product was named Golden Treasure. After Pond died, it would soon be known as Pond's Extract. In 1849, the T. T. Pond Company was formed with Pond and other investors. Soon after, he sold his portion of the company because of failing health. He died in 1852. In 1914, the company was incorporated under the name Pond's Extract Company. The company then moved to Connecticut, establishing its manufacturing center there. Later it moved its sales office to New York City. In 1886, Pond's began to advertise nationally. It advertised under the name of Pond's Healing until 1910. By the twentieth century, the company's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond (currency)
The pond was a currency unit issued in the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. It was prepared for, but not issued, in New Griqualand. The word ''pond'' is Afrikaans for the word "pound". In fact, the South African pound banknotes of the South African Reserve Bank The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is the central bank of South Africa. It was established in 1921 after Parliament passed an act, the "Currency and Bank Act of 10 August 1920", as a direct result of the abnormal monetary and financial condi ... have the word "Pond" inscribed, as do the banknotes of South West Africa that were issued between the 1930s and 1959. See also * Orange Free State pond * South African Republic pond Numismatics Currencies of South Africa Boer Republics {{Money-unit-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond (Australian Band)
Pond is an Australian psychedelic rock band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 2008. Initially featuring a revolving line-up, since 2016 the band has consisted of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Shiny Joe Ryan, Jamie Terry, and James Ireland. Pond is often heavily associated with fellow Perth-based psychedelic rock/pop band Tame Impala, as members of both groups are longtime close friends and collaborators. Watson is currently a full-time member of both acts and also releases solo albums under the name GUM. Lead singer Allbrook contributed to both bands from 2009 to 2013 before leaving Tame Impala to focus on Pond and his own solo career. Multi-instrumentalists Ryan and Ireland serve as crew members for Tame Impala's live act, and much like Allbrook and Watson, both also have solo careers. In addition, current Tame Impala members Kevin Parker, Cam Avery, and Julien Barbagallo are all former members of Pond. Parker continued to work with the band as its record producer until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond, California
Pond is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States. It is located north of Wasco, at an elevation of . Pond was established around 1889. A post office opened at Pond in 1912. Merle Haggard's song "The Train Never Stops At Our Town," was written by nearby Bakersfield Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the ... resident, Dallas Frazier, about the struggle of life in Pond, and how difficult it was to leave the "Poor Man's Valley" (San Joaquin Valley) compounded by the fact the train did not stop in Pond. References Unincorporated communities in Kern County, California Populated places established in 1889 Unincorporated communities in California {{KernCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
