Pollard may refer to:
Places in the United States
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Pollard, Alabama
Pollard is a town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. It was the first established county seat of Escambia County, from its creation in 1868 until 1883, when it lost that distinction to Brewton. At the 2020 census, the population was 128 ...
, a town
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Pollard, Arkansas
Pollard is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census.
History
Pollard is named for a family of early settlers who operated a general store that became home to the town's post office in 1876. The po ...
, a city
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Pollard, Kansas
Pollard is an unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States. It lies a fraction of a mile (about 1 km) west of K-14, southwest of Geneseo and north of Lyons.
History
For millennia, the land now kno ...
, an unincorporated community
People
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Pollard (surname) Pollard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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* A. J. Pollard (born 1941), English medieval historian
* Al Pollard (1928–2002), American football player
* Albert Pollard, (1869–1948), British historian of Tudor era
* Albe ...
, a list of people with the surname
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Pollard Hopewell (between 1786 and 1789 – 1813), midshipman in the United States Navy
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Charles Pollard Olivier
Charles Pollard Olivier (April 10, 1884 – August 14, 1975) was an American astronomer, notable for his contributions to the study of meteors, double stars and variable stars.
Biography
Charles grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he li ...
(1884–1975), American astronomer
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James Pollard Espy
James Pollard Espy (or the Storm King) (May 9, 1785 – January 24, 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Acadé ...
(1785–1860), American meteorologist
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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (c. 1948–2022), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist
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Thomas Pollard Sampson
Thomas Pollard Sampson (24 June 1875 – 25 June 1961) was a Tasmanian-born Australian architect active in New South Wales during the first forty years of the 20th century. His work encompassed the styles of the Federation Arts and Crafts and ...
(1875–1961), Australian architect
Flora and fauna
*Pollard, a tree affected by
pollarding
Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. The practice oc ...
(cropping of the upper branches)
*Pollard, a deer which has cast its
antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on male ...
s
*Pollard or
polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally-horned species
*Pollard, the
European chub (''Squalius cephalus''), a freshwater fish
Mathematics
*Several algorithms created by British mathematician
John Pollard:
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Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
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Pollard's ''p'' − 1 algorithm
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Pollard's rho algorithm
Other uses
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Pollard (coin)
Pollard may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Pollard, Alabama, a town
* Pollard, Arkansas, a city
* Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated community People
* Pollard (surname), a list of people with the surname
* Pollard Hopewell (between ...
, a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I
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''Pollard'' (novel), a novel by Laura Beatty
* Pollard, a mixture of fine
bran and a small amount of flour
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Pollard railway station
Pollard was a railway station on the Shelbourne line between the townships of Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern fo ...
, former station in Victoria, Australia
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Pollard script, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language
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