Savoy Alps: The highest peak is Pointe de la Grande Casse (12,631 feet [3,850 m]), a part of the Massif de la Vanoise and located in Vanoise National Park. Other subranges include Beaufortin, Bauges, Bornes, and Chablais. The Mont Blanc group sometimes is considered part of the Savoy Alps. Tourism and…

Omaha Beach: Pointe du Hoc: An ominous piece of land jutting into the English Channel, Pointe du Hoc provided an elevated vantage point from which huge German guns with a range of 25 km (15 miles) could deliver fire upon both Omaha Beach (7 km, or 4…

Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable was a pioneer trader who founded the settlement that later became the city of Chicago. He is considered the “Father of Chicago.” Little is known of Du Sable’s early life. Historians believe that he was freeborn, the son of a Frenchman who moved to Haiti and the Black

dance criticism: The Enlightenment to Romanticism: …was developed in the 1820s—pointe work, or dancing on the tips of the toes. The exact origins are unknown, but early champions were the pioneering Romantic choreographer Felippo Taglioni and his daughter, the ballerina Marie Taglioni. The advent of pointe work was perfectly matched to the portrayal of the…

Pointe-à-Pitre, principal town and arrondissement of the French overseas département of Guadeloupe in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The town lies on the southwestern coast of Grande-Terre island, on the eastern shore of the Salée River, a channel that separates Grande-Terre from Basse-Terre, the

Pointe-Noire, town (commune), principal port of Congo (Brazzaville). It lies at the Atlantic coastal terminus of the Congo-Ocean Railway, 95 miles (150 km) north of the Congo River and 245 miles (394 km) west of Brazzaville, the national capital. Between 1950 and 1958 Pointe-Noire was the capital

bridge: Stone arch bridges: ogival arch by concealing the angle at the crown and by starting the curves of the arches vertically in their springings from the piers. This elliptical shape of arch, in which the rise-to-span ratio was as low as 1:7, became known as basket-handled and has…

Insular script: …distinctive Insular script was the pointed minuscule that, by the 8th century, was beginning to attain the status of a book hand, as witness the Venerable Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”), written in about 731. Both Insular scripts were carried to the…

pointer, highly regarded breed of sporting dog of hound, spaniel, and setter ancestry. The pointer derives its name from its assumption of a rigid posture in the direction of the quarry it has located. First recorded about 1650, in England, the pointer was originally used to point out hares for

computer science: Algorithms and complexity: …may be linked together by pointers (essentially, memory addresses stored with an item to indicate where the next item or items in the structure are found) so that the data can be organized in ways similar to those in which they will be accessed. The simplest such structure is called…

the Pointer Sisters, American vocal group that scored a string of pop, dance, and urban contemporary hits in the 1970s and ’80s. The sisters were Ruth Pointer (b. March 19, 1946, Oakland, California, U.S.), Anita Pointer (b. January 23, 1948, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. December 31, 2022, Beverly

the Pointer Sisters: ), Anita Pointer (b. January 23, 1948, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. December 31, 2022, Beverly Hills, California), Bonnie Pointer (b. July 11, 1950, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. June 8, 2020, Los Angeles, California), and June Pointer (b. November 30, 1953, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. April 11, 2006, Santa Monica,…

the Pointer Sisters: …31, 2022, Beverly Hills, California), Bonnie Pointer (b. July 11, 1950, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. June 8, 2020, Los Angeles, California), and June Pointer (b. November 30, 1953, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. April 11, 2006, Santa Monica, California).

pointer: The German shorthaired pointer is another sporting breed. Developed in Germany, it is an all-purpose dog that can track game as well as point and retrieve game in water. It is about the size of a pointer and has a short coat of solid liver colour…

German wirehaired pointer, breed of sporting dog developed in mid-19th-century Germany as an all-purpose, all-weather hunting dog. It generally has a keen “nose” and a rugged constitution. It stands 22 to 26 inches (56 to 66 cm), weighs 50 to 70 pounds (23 to 32 kg), and has a deep chest and a

the Pointer Sisters: …2020, Los Angeles, California), and June Pointer (b. November 30, 1953, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. April 11, 2006, Santa Monica, California).

the Pointer Sisters: The sisters were Ruth Pointer (b. March 19, 1946, Oakland, California, U.S.), Anita Pointer (b. January 23, 1948, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. December 31, 2022, Beverly Hills, California), Bonnie Pointer (b. July 11, 1950, Oakland, California, U.S.—d. June 8, 2020, Los Angeles, California), and June Pointer (b. November 30,…

pointillism, in painting, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they visually blend together. The technique is associated with its inventor, Georges Seurat, in such works as A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884/86) and Bathers at Asnières

pointing, in building maintenance, the technique of repairing mortar joints between bricks or other masonry elements. When aging mortar joints crack and disintegrate, the defective mortar is removed by hand or power tool and replaced with fresh mortar, preferably of the same composition as the

punctuation: …was known in English as pointing; and the term punctuation, first recorded in the middle of the 16th century, was reserved for the insertion of vowel points (marks placed near consonants to indicate preceding or following vowels) in Hebrew texts. The two words exchanged meanings between 1650 and 1750.

sculpture: Pointing: A sculpture can be reproduced by transposing measurements taken all over its surface to a copy. The process is made accurate and thorough by the use of a pointing machine, which is an arrangement of adjustable metal arms and pointers that are set to…

computer: Input devices: Pointing sticks, which were popular on many laptop systems prior to the invention of the trackpad, employ a technique that uses a pressure-sensitive resistor. As a user applies pressure to the stick, the resistor increases the flow of electricity, thereby signaling that movement has taken…

Jamie Cullum: His second album, Pointless Nostalgic, was recorded two years later by a jazz label, and it became such a favourite on British radio that the major labels Sony and Universal fought a bidding war to sign him.

Virginia Woolf: Late work: …novel, Pointz Hall (later retitled Between the Acts), would include the play as a pageant performed by villagers and would convey the gentry’s varied reactions to it. As another holiday from Fry’s biography, Woolf returned to her own childhood with “A Sketch of the Past,” a memoir about her mixed…

Caran d’Ache was a caricaturist and illustrator whose line drawing was notable for its crisp, forceful simplicity. The name Caran d’Ache transliterates the Russian word for pencil. He was educated in Moscow but settled in Paris, where he gained great popularity as a contributor to several

Jean Poiret was a French actor and playwright who wrote and starred in the original 1973 Paris production of La Cage aux folles, a farcical play about a gay couple that ran for more than 2,000 performances, inspired several films, and was adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. In the

Charles Philipon: La Poire became the common symbol of the king, and all Philipon’s artists used it in their caricatures. They were a notable group: he was able to attract and inspire the best talents in France. Honoré Daumier and Gustave Doré were the most famous, but…

Jean Poiret was a French actor and playwright who wrote and starred in the original 1973 Paris production of La Cage aux folles, a farcical play about a gay couple that ran for more than 2,000 performances, inspired several films, and was adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. In the

Paul Poiret was a French couturier, the most fashionable dress designer of pre-World War I Paris. Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere, and for the introduction of the hobble skirt, a vertical

Antoinette Bourignon: …collected (1679) by her disciple Pierre Poiret, who in the same year also wrote her biography.

American literature: Theory: … and Stanley Cavell and critic Richard Poirier found a native parallel to European theory in the philosophy of Emerson and the writings of pragmatists such as William James and John Dewey. Emulating Dewey and Irving Howe, Rorty emerged as a social critic in Achieving Our Country (1998) and Philosophy and…

Hercule Poirot, fictional Belgian detective featured in a series of novels by Agatha Christie. Short, somewhat vain, with brilliantined hair and a waxed moustache, the aging bachelor Poirot enjoys his creature comforts. Relying on his “little grey cells” to solve crimes, Poirot is notably

chemical analysis: Viscosity measurements: …is measured in units of poises (dyne-seconds per square centimetre) or a subdivision of poises. For liquids viscosity is measured with an instrument called a viscometer, of which there are various types. One type of viscometer is a calibrated glass vessel. After inversion, the upper glass bulb is filled to…

fluid mechanics: Stresses in laminar motion: …which it refers is called Poiseuille flow.

Jean-Louis-Marie Poiseuille: …is also known as the Hagen-Poiseuille equation.

Jean-Louis-Marie Poiseuille was a French physician and physiologist who formulated a mathematical expression for the flow rate for the laminar (nonturbulent) flow of fluids in circular tubes. Discovered independently by Gotthilf Hagen, a German hydraulic engineer, this relation is also known as the

poison, in biochemistry, a substance, natural or synthetic, that causes damage to living tissues and has an injurious or fatal effect on the body, whether it is ingested, inhaled, or absorbed or injected through the skin. Although poisons have been the subject of practical lore since ancient times,

Todd Haynes: Poison, Safe, and Velvet Goldmine: For his first full-length film, Poison (1991), Haynes intertwined three narratives inspired by the writings of Jean Genet. The film proved controversial, not simply because it explored sexual themes, including a storyline about a gay man in prison, but because it received National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding at…

alternative rock: …million-selling bands as Warrant and Poison—seemed as hopelessly passé as the spandex pants worn by such bands. No matter how loudly some alternative rockers professed to despise the classic rock that preceded them, bands such as Soundgarden and Screaming Trees did in fact echo their childhood memories of the Beatles…

poison, in nuclear physics, any material that can easily capture neutrons without subsequently undergoing nuclear fission. Examples of poisons are the naturally occurring elements boron and cadmium and the fission products xenon-135 and samarium-149. In nuclear reactors, poisons act as parasitic

poison frog, (family Dendrobatidae), any of approximately 180 species of New World frogs characterized by the ability to produce extremely poisonous skin secretions. Poison frogs inhabit the forests of the New World tropics from Nicaragua to Peru and Brazil, and a few species are used by South

poison frog, (family Dendrobatidae), any of approximately 180 species of New World frogs characterized by the ability to produce extremely poisonous skin secretions. Poison frogs inhabit the forests of the New World tropics from Nicaragua to Peru and Brazil, and a few species are used by South

poison sumac, (Toxicodendron vernix), poisonous shrub or small tree of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), native to swampy acidic soils of eastern North America. The clear sap, which blackens on exposure to air, contains urushiol and is extremely irritating to the skin for many people. The plant is

poison frog, (family Dendrobatidae), any of approximately 180 species of New World frogs characterized by the ability to produce extremely poisonous skin secretions. Poison frogs inhabit the forests of the New World tropics from Nicaragua to Peru and Brazil, and a few species are used by South

chemical weapon: Properties of chemical weapons: Some poison gases, such as chlorine and hydrogen cyanide, enter the victim’s lungs during inhalation. On the other hand, nerve agent droplets might enter through the skin into the bloodstream and nervous system. Still other chemicals can be mixed with food in order to poison enemy…

integument: Fishes: Poison glands, which occur in the skin of many cartilaginous fishes and some bony fishes, are frequently associated with spines on the fins, tail, and gill covers. Photophores, light-emitting organs found especially in deep-sea forms, may be modified mucous glands. They may be used as…

manchineel, (Hippomane mancinella), tree of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) famous for its poisonous properties. The manchineel is native mostly to sandy beaches of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, including Florida. The manchineel is a handsome round-crowned tree that grows up to 12 metres (40

poison hemlock, (Conium maculatum), poisonous herbaceous plant of the parsley family (Apiaceae). Poison hemlock is native to Europe and North Africa and has been introduced to Asia, North America, and Australia. All parts of the plant contain the poisonous alkaloid coniine and are toxic to

Drew Barrymore: …as the seductive teen in Poison Ivy (1992); the abused and violent Anita Minteer in Guncrazy (1992), for which she earned another Golden Globe nomination; and the lead in The Amy Fisher Story (1993), a television movie that was based on the true story of a teenage girl who shot…

the Coasters: …and “Charlie Brown” and “Poison Ivy” (both 1959). The Coasters alternated lead singers and featured clever arrangements, including amusing bass replies and tenor saxophone solos by King Curtis, who played a crucial role in creating Atlantic’s rhythm-and-blues sound. With further personnel changes they continued performing in “oldies” shows into…

poison ivy, (Toxicodendron radicans), poisonous vine or shrub of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), native to eastern North America. Nearly all parts of the plant contain urushiol. When the plant is touched, the substance produces in many persons a severe, itchy, and painful inflammation of the

Anacardiaceae, the sumac family of flowering plants (order Sapindales), with about 80 genera and about 870 species of evergreen or deciduous trees, shrubs, and woody vines. Most members of Anacardiaceae are native to tropical and subtropical areas of the world. A few species occur in temperate

poison oak, either of two species of poisonous plants of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), native to North America. Pacific, or western, poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) is found in western North America, ranging from Baja California, Mexico, to British Columbia, Canada. Atlantic poison oak

water hemlock, (genus Cicuta), genus of four species of poisonous plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae), common throughout the north temperate zone. Water hemlocks typically grow in wet, marshy places and are often confused with nonpoisonous members of the family, such as wild carrots or

ring: …to have magical powers; and poison rings, whose hollow bezels contained a poison for purposes of suicide or homicide. Rings with bezels that opened may also have held sentimental keepsakes in miniature.

darnel, noxious weed of the ryegrass (q.v.) genus

poison sumac, (Toxicodendron vernix), poisonous shrub or small tree of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), native to swampy acidic soils of eastern North America. The clear sap, which blackens on exposure to air, contains urushiol and is extremely irritating to the skin for many people. The plant is

simoom, extremely hot and dry local wind in Arabia and the Sahara. Its temperature often reaches 55 °C (about 130 °F), and the humidity of the air sometimes falls below 10 percent. It is caused by intensive ground heating under a cloudless sky. Simoom is an Arabic word that means “poison wind.” It

catalyst poison, substance that reduces the effectiveness of a catalyst in a chemical reaction. In theory, because catalysts are not consumed in chemical reactions, they can be used repeatedly over an indefinite period of time. In practice, however, poisons, which come from the reacting substances

poison: Poisoning involves four elements: the poison, the poisoned organism, the injury to the cells, and the symptoms and signs or death. These four elements represent the cause, subject, effect, and consequence of poisoning. To initiate the poisoning, the organism is exposed to the toxic chemical.…

mongoose: Natural history: …Herpestes, will attack and kill venomous snakes. They depend on speed and agility, darting at the head of the snake and cracking the skull with a powerful bite. Mongooses are bitten occasionally; however, they possess a glycoprotein that binds to proteins in snake venom, deactivating them and making them harmless.

Affair of the Poisons, one of the most sensational criminal cases of 17th-century France. In 1679 an inquiry revealed that nobles, prosperous bourgeois, and the common people alike had been resorting secretly to female fortune-tellers—at that time numerous in Paris—for drugs and poisons, for black

Barbara Kingsolver: With The Poisonwood Bible (1999), Kingsolver expanded her psychic and geographic territory, setting her story about the redemption of a missionary family in the Belgian Congo during the colony’s struggle for independence. In Prodigal Summer (2001) the intertwined lives of several characters living in Appalachia illuminate…

probability theory: The Poisson approximation: The weak law of large numbers and the central limit theorem give information about the distribution of the proportion of successes in a large number of independent trials when the probability of success on each trial is p. In the mathematical formulation of…

Poisson distribution, in statistics, a distribution function useful for characterizing events with very low probabilities of occurrence within some definite time or space. The French mathematician Siméon-Denis Poisson developed his function in 1830 to describe the number of times a gambler would

Poisson distribution, in statistics, a distribution function useful for characterizing events with very low probabilities of occurrence within some definite time or space. The French mathematician Siméon-Denis Poisson developed his function in 1830 to describe the number of times a gambler would

probability theory: The Poisson process: An important stochastic process described implicitly in the discussion of the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution is the Poisson process. Modeling the emission of radioactive particles by an infinitely large number of tosses of a coin having infinitesimally small probability for heads…

electricity: Deriving electric field from potential: …is a special case of Poisson’s equation div grad V = ρ, which is applicable to electrostatic problems in regions where the volume charge density is ρ. Laplace’s equation states that the divergence of the gradient of the potential is zero in regions of space with no charge. In the…

electricity: Deriving electric field from potential: …is a special case of Poisson’s equation div grad V = ρ, which is applicable to electrostatic problems in regions where the volume charge density is ρ. Laplace’s equation states that the divergence of the gradient of the potential is zero in regions of space with no charge. In the…

Young’s modulus: …the longitudinal strain is called Poisson’s ratio. The average value of Poisson’s ratio for steels is 0.28, and for aluminum alloys, 0.33. The volume of materials that have Poisson’s ratios less than 0.50 increase under longitudinal tension and decrease under longitudinal compression.

Poisson’s spot, diffraction pattern produced by a small spherical object in the path of parallel light rays. French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel presented much of his work on diffraction as an entry to a competition on the subject sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences in 1818. The

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour was an influential mistress (from 1745) of the French king Louis XV and a notable patron of literature and the arts. Her parents were on the fringes of a class gaining in importance, speculators in the world of finance. Some of these people made

Siméon-Denis Poisson was a French mathematician known for his work on definite integrals, electromagnetic theory, and probability. Poisson’s family had intended him for a medical career, but he showed little interest or aptitude and in 1798 began studying mathematics at the École Polytechnique in

Poissy, town, Yvelines département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, on the Seine River. It contains the 12th-century collegiate church of Notre Dame, restored by the architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, and the Savoye House (1929–31), a major work of the architect Le Corbusier. The

Poissy: …was the scene of the Colloquy of Poissy (September 1561), at which French Catholics and Huguenots (Protestants) tried unsuccessfully to reconcile their differences. An automobile assembly plant is located in Poissy, and the manufacture of automobile components is important. Pop. (1999) 35,841; (2014 est.) 36,994.

Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson was an American poet and journalist, the first woman publisher of a daily newspaper in the Deep South. Eliza Jane Poitevent completed her schooling with three years at the Female Seminary of Amite, Mississippi. From her graduation in 1867 she began

Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian American actor, director, and producer who broke the colour barrier in the U.S. motion-picture industry by becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor (for Lilies of the Field [1963]) and the first Black movie star. He also redefined

Poitiers, city, capital of Vienne département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, west-central France, southwest of Paris. Situated on high ground at the confluence of the Clain and Boivre rivers, the city commands the so-called Gate of Poitou, a gap 44 miles (71 km) wide between the mountains south of the

Battle of Poitiers, (Sept. 19, 1356), the catastrophic defeat sustained by the French king John II at the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. Many of the French nobility were killed, and King Jean was left a prisoner of the English. An eight-year truce in

Battle of Tours, (October 732), victory won by Charles Martel, the de facto ruler of the Frankish kingdoms, over Muslim invaders from Spain. The battlefield cannot be exactly located, but it was fought somewhere between Tours and Poitiers, in what is now west-central France. The death of the

Aquitaine: History: …Auvergne, of Toulouse, and of Poitiers each claimed this ducal title, but it was eventually secured by another William I, count of Poitiers (William III of Aquitaine). The powerful house of the counts of Poitiers retained Aquitaine during the 10th and 11th centuries, endeavouring from time to time to restore…

Poland: Emigration and revolt: …program was embodied in the Poitiers Manifesto of 1836, became the first democratically run, centralized, and disciplined political party of east-central Europe. Karl Marx regarded its concept of agrarian revolution as a major Polish contribution to European revolutionary thought.

University of Poitiers, coeducational, autonomous state institution of higher learning in Poitiers, Fr. Founded in 1970 under a law of 1968 reforming higher education, it replaced a university founded in 1431 by a Papal Bull of Eugene IV and confirmed by Charles VII in 1432. The university was

Poitou, historical and cultural region of west-central France, encompassing the départements of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres, and Vienne and coextensive with the former province of Poitou. Poitou derives its name from the Gallic tribe of Pictones, or Pictavi, whose civitas, or community, formed part of

Poitiers: …the city commands the so-called Gate of Poitou, a gap 44 miles (71 km) wide between the mountains south of the Loire River and the Massif Central that serves as the connecting link between northern and southern France.

Poitou-Charentes, former région of France. As a région, it encompassed the western départements of Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Deux-Sèvres. In 2016 the Poitou-Charentes région was joined with the régions of Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative entity of Nouvelle

Glenn Greenwald: …article he wrote on filmmaker Laura Poitras’s alleged persecution by the U.S. government brought him to the attention of Edward Snowden, who was looking for journalists he could trust to publish the classified documents he had collected as a subcontractor for the NSA. Snowden contacted Greenwald in December 2012, shortly…

Gustave Flaubert: Early life and works: …friendship with the young philosopher Alfred Le Poittevin, whose pessimistic outlook had a strong influence on him. No less strong was the impression made by the company of great surgeons and the environment of hospitals, operating theatres, and anatomy classes, with which his father’s profession brought him into contact.

Pierre Poivre was a French missionary-turned-entrepreneur whose enthusiasm for trade with Indochina stimulated French colonial expansion and whose many commercial schemes, had they been realized, might have established France securely in Indochina in the 18th instead of the 19th century. The son of

bivalve: Evolution and paleontology: …510 million years old), and Pojetaia runnegari from the Cambrian rocks of Australia. Fordilla is perhaps ancestral to the pteriomorph order Mytiloida, Pojetaia to the Palaeotazodonta order Nuculoida.

Masurian Lakeland, lake district, northeastern Poland. It is a 20,000-square-mile (52,000-square-km) area immediately to the south of the Baltic coastal plains and extends 180 miles (290 km) eastward from the lower Vistula River to the borders with Lithuania and Belarus. It lies within the

Pomeranian Lakeland, lake district, northwestern Poland. Located immediately south of the Baltic coastal plain, the 20,000-square-mile (52,000-square-km) lakeland is bounded by the lower Oder River on the west, the ancient river valley occupied by the modern Warta and Noteć rivers on the south, and

Great Poland Lakeland, lake district in west-central Poland that covers more than 20,000 square miles (55,000 square km). It crosses the provinces of Lubuskie, Wielkopolski, and, in part, Kujawsko-Pomorskie. The district is a north- to south-trending valley that lies between the middle Oder and

tlachtli: …the ritual ball game (ollama) played throughout pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Possibly originating among the Olmecs (La Venta culture, c. 800–c. 400 bce) or even earlier, the game spread to subsequent cultures, among them those of Monte Albán and El Tajín; the Maya (as pok-ta-pok); and the Toltec, Mixtec, and Aztec.…

pokeweed, (Phytolacca americana), strong-smelling plant with a poisonous root resembling that of a horseradish. Pokeweed is native to wet or sandy areas of eastern North America. The berries contain a red dye used to colour wine, candies, cloth, and paper. Mature stalks, which are red or purplish

poke, dish of Hawaiian origin composed of small pieces of raw fish that are marinated and then served with vegetables, rice, and other ingredients. In the Polynesian language spoken in Hawaii, poke, which rhymes with okay, means “chunk” or “something cut away,” usually by crosscutting. In

poke bonnet, hood-shaped hat tied under the chin, with a small crown at the back and a wide projecting front brim that shaded the face. It became fashionable at the beginning of the 19th century and was worn by women and children of all ages. The size of the poke bonnet increased until, in 1830, a

pokeweed, (Phytolacca americana), strong-smelling plant with a poisonous root resembling that of a horseradish. Pokeweed is native to wet or sandy areas of eastern North America. The berries contain a red dye used to colour wine, candies, cloth, and paper. Mature stalks, which are red or purplish

Pokémon, electronic game series from Nintendo that debuted in Japan in February 1996 as Pokémon Green and Pokémon Red. The franchise later became wildly popular in the United States and around the world. The series, originally produced for the company’s Game Boy line of handheld consoles, was

Pokémon, 20th- and 21st-century Japanese fantasy-based cartoon creatures that spawned a video- and card-game franchise. In the Pokémon—or “Pocket Monsters”—video-game series, players were able to explore the game’s fictional world by looking for wild Pokémon creatures to capture and tame. As