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Portable toilet A portable toilet is a modern, portable, self-contained outhouse manufactured of molded plastic in a variety of colors and are often used as a temporary toilet for construction sites and large social gatherings. Portable toilets are referred to colloquially or sold under such brands as port-a-john, port-o-let, sani-privy, port-a-san, porta-potty, toi-toi, porta-kybo or portaloo.
Portable water purification There is often a need to be able to treat water in remote or rural locations, or in emergency settings, to make it safe for drinking purposes. Although it is sometimes believed that water found in backcountry or wilderness areas is clean and potable, such water is often unsafe to drink.
Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc, pronounced PET-see, the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for all message-passing communication.
Portadown College Portadown College is a state funded grammer school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It has approximately 850 male and female students and its premises is currently on the Killicomaine Road in Portadown.
Portaferry Portaferry () is a large village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census.
Portaferry Marina Portaferry Marina is situated on the east shore of The Narrows, the gateway to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. A marine nature reserve of unparalleled beauty, it is a good starting point on which to explore the Lough, and participate in on-shore activities.
Portagaff A shandy made with equal parts stout and lemonade† in South Australian Pubs. It is also customary in South Australian pubs to accompany consumption of a portagaff with the phrase, "(s)he's going the portagaff!
Portage Portage refers to the practice of carrying a canoe or other boat over land to avoid an obstacle on the water route (such as rapids or a waterfall in a river), or between two bodies of water. Places where this carrying occurs are also called portage, while the people doing the carrying are called porters.
Portage (software) Portage is a package management system used by Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a "meta-distribution" due to the flexibility of Portage which allows it to manage other operating systems as well. In addition to Gentoo Linux there exist Portage implementations for FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
Portage Bay Portage Bay is an arm of Seattle, Washington's Lake Union and is part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Its western limit can be said to be the Ship Canal Bridge, which carries Interstate 5 over the water; North Passage Point Park and South Passage Point Park sit on opposite shores between the freeway's pillars.
Portage Bridge The Portage Bridge (Pont du Portage) crosses the Ottawa River just down-river from the Chaudière Bridge, joining the communities of Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario, linking Laurier Street and Alexandre-Taché Boulevard in the Hull sector of Gatineau and Wellington Street in Ottawa, crossing Victoria Island on the way.
Portage County UFO chase The so-called Portage County UFO Chase was an unidentified flying object encounter that began in Portage County, Ohio on the morning of April 17, 1966, when police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff observed a metallic, disc shaped object flying in the skies.
Portage Diversion The Portage Diversion () (also known as the Assiniboine River Floodway) is a water control structure on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, Canada. The project was done as part of a larger attempt to prevent flooding in the Red River Valley.
Portage Lake District Library Portage Lake District Library is located in Houghton, Michigan, USA and serves Houghton and Chassell and Portage Townships. It was built in 1909, at the site originally occupied by the Armory Building for Company G of the Houghton Light Infantry, using a $15,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie.
Portage Lake Lift Bridge The Portage Lake Lift Bridge connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, Michigan by crossing over the Portage Waterway, an arm of Portage Lake which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest. US 41 and M-26 are both routed across the bridge.
Portage Lakes (Ohio) The Portage Lakes are named after an old Indian portage path which connected the Cuyahoga River flowing north to Lake Erie and the Tuscarawas River, a tributary of the Muskingum River, which flows south to the Ohio River. This proved advantageous for the Indians and early settlers as navigation from Lake Erie to the Ohio was possible with only one eight mile (13 km) portage overland.
Portage Park, Chicago Portage Park is a neighborhood located on the northwest side of Jefferson Township, Chicago, Illinois. Portage Park has a large Polish community like many neighborhoods on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Portage railway A portage railway is a short and possibly isolated section of railway used to bypass a section of unnavigable river or between two water bodies which are not directly connected. A portage railway is the opposite of a train ferry.
Portage River (Ohio) Approximately 60 miles (100 km) in length, the Portage River and its tributaries, the Middle Branch and North Branch, meanders across Ottawa, Sandusky, and Wood counties in northwest Ohio before it empties into Lake Erie near Port Clinton. It most likely derives its name from early explorers who were forced to portage or carry their canoes and boats around the river's intermittent shallows and rapids.
Portage Road Portage Road is an otherwise unremarkable road in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Otahuhu. What makes this road special is described in a plaque that is embedded in a concrete plinth at the intersection of Portage Road and Great South Road.
Portage Township, Hancock County, Ohio Portage Township is a township located in northern Hancock County, Ohio. It is bordered by Henry Township, Wood County (north), Allen Township (east) Liberty Township (south), Blanchard Township (southwest), Pleasant Township (west), and Jackson Township, Wood County (northwest).
Portage Trail Conference The Portage Trail Conference or PTC is an association of sixteen high schools located in the United States; within the Northeastern Ohio counties of Portage, Summit, and Stark. Ten member schools are from Portage County, five from Summit County, and one from Stark County (note- Mogadore Schools serve residents of both Portage and Summit Counties, but the school buildings are physically located in Summit County).
Portagee Portagee is a term often ascribed to persons of Portuguese ancestry. The term found usage during the major waves of Portuguese immigration to the United States, from the late 1870s until the recent wave, which began in the 1960s.
Portal (band) Portal is an independent progressive metal band from Edmonton, Canada that originally took form in the Summer of 2000 as a studio project of lead singer and frontman Kenton Thomas. The group records under the Resonance Industries label, an independent record company and studio owned an operated by Thomas and members of the group.
Portal (interactive novel) Portal was a mix between a computer game and an interactive novel. It was published for the Amiga computer in 1986 by Activision, written by Rob Swigart, produced by Brad Fregger and programmed by Nexa Corporation.
Portal Baronets The Portal Baronetcy, of Malshanger, Church Oakley, in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 March 1901 for the businessman Wyndham Spencer Portal, Chairman of the London and South-West Railway Company.
Portal da TransparĂŞncia Portal da TransparĂŞncia is a Brazilian government portal dedicated to turn public expenditures made by the federal government. It has a list of all expenses and money transfers the federal government made, including the list of all people receiving Bolsa FamĂ­lia benefits and how much they have received.
Portal frame Portal frame construction is a method of building and designing simple structures, primarily using steel or steel-reinforced precast concrete although they can also be constructed using laminated timber such as Glulam. The connections between the columns and the rafters are designed to be moment resistant, i.
Portal gear Portal gears is a technology where the axle tube is above the centre of the wheel hub. This enable the vehicle to gain a higher ground clearance, as both the axle tube and differential casing is tucked up higher under the vehicle.
Portal of Evil (Fighting Fantasy) Portal of Evil (ISBN 0-14-032839-4) is a single player roleplaying book, written by Peter Darvill-Evans and illustrated by Allan Langford and originally published in 1989. The book is part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 37 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the recent Wizard reissuing.
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation The Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is in North Hollywood, California. The shrine is a 75-foot tall structure of marble, mosaic and sculpted figures, and is the burial site for 13 pioneers of aviation.
Portal pylon In electricity distribution, a portal pylon is a type of pylon with which the cross beams on the conductor cables rest on at least two towers. Portal pylons can be made of wood, concrete, steel tubing or steel lattice.
Portal Politics Portal Politics: a phrase that refers to the ever-increasing struggle for balance between the fast-shrinking geographic borders of trade in the global market and the constant struggle for influence within the market. The term Portal Politics was first used within a scholarly article written in 1983 by Brian Roy of the Tiperary Fellowship; an organizational "think tank" focused on examining the relational basis of global markets.
Portal rendering In computer-generated imagery and real-time 3D computer graphics, portal rendering is an algorithm for visibility determination. A game level might contain many graphical polygons; only a few of which may be visible on screen at a given time.
Portaledge A portaledge is a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers who spend multiple days and nights on a big wall climb. An assembled portaledge is a fabric-covered platform surrounded by a metal frame that hangs from a single point and has adjustable suspension straps.
Portales, New Mexico Portales is a municipality in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, with a total population of 11,131 (as of the 2000 census). It is the county seat of Roosevelt County and is also the home of Eastern New Mexico University.
PortalPlayer PortalPlayer () is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handles semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries.
Portals in science fiction A common theme in science fiction is some form of portal allowing rapid travel from one location to another, often originating from some combination of natural phenomenon and technological device. The most recent and prominent example is that of the Stargate, found in the Stargate franchise.
Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency) Portarlington was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801.
Portarlington, Laois Portarlington (CĂşil an tSĂşdaire in Irish, meaning "Tanner's Corner") is a town in County Laois (formerly Queen's County), straddling the border with County Offaly (formerly King's County) in the midlands of Ireland. Portarlington is a focal point of the Irish railway network, being situated near a junction for services to the west (Galway, Mayo), the south (Cork, Limerick, Tralee) and the east (Dublin, Kildare).
Portarlington, Victoria Portarlington ( ), a historic coastal township located on the Bellarine Peninsula, 27km from the city of Geelong, in the state of Victoria, Australia. The gently rising hills behind the town feature vineyards and olive groves, overlooking Port Phillip Bay.
Portaro The Portaro was an all-terrain vehicle manufactured in Portugal by FMAT (Fabrica de Máquinas Agrícolas do Tramagal). The Portaro was derived from an early version of the ARO, and was available in two main versions, the Jipe and the Pick-up (Campina).
Portas do Cerco Portas do Cerco (Chinese: 關閘, literally border gate) is an area on Macao Peninsula, Macao near the border checkpoint with mainland China at Gongbei, Zhuhai. The new Posto Fronteiriço das Portas do Cerco (border gate border building) was opened on January 15 2004.
Portastatic Mac McCaughan genre bending Portastatic project originally began in the early 1990's as an aside from his work as the creative dynamo of the boisterous US indie rockers Superchunk. Legend has it that Tom Scharpling of 18 Wheeler fanzine was so impressed by the material McCaughan was creating as an escape route from Superchunk that he cajoled him into releasing it under the fanzines own imprint.
Portative organ A portative organ (or portatif organ) was a small medieval organ carried by the performer, who manipulated the bellows with one hand and fingered the keys with the other. The portative organ lacks a reservoir to retain air pressure and will therefore only produce sound whilst the bellows are creating pressure.
Portavant Mound The Portavant Mound (also known as the Portavant Mound Site or Snead Island Temple Mound or Portavant Indian Mound) is an archaeological site near Palmetto, Florida, United States. It is located on Snead Island, west of Palmetto.
PortAudio PortAudio is a computer library for audio playback and recording. Its primary goal is to be a cross platform, open source library, so that programs that use it can run on many different computer operating systems.
Portballintrae Portballintrae (in Irish: Port Bhaile an Trá, ie harbour of the settlement of the shore) is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, seven miles east of Portrush and two miles west of the Giant's Causeway. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 734 people, a decline of 10% compared to 1991.
Portcullis Pursuivant Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. The office is named after the Portcullis chained Or badge of the Beauforts, which was a favourite device of King Henry VII.
PortConMaine PortConMaine is an annual three-day anime convention held in the summer in South Portland, Maine. It hosts many anime and gaming events such as anime screenings, an anime music video contest, a masquerade, guest panels, workshops, game tournaments, a dealers' room, an auction, and PortConMaine's signature "Extreme Geek" event.
Porte Ottoman Porte, (Sublime Porte, High Porte, Ottoman Turkish Bab-ı Ali) used to refer to the Divan (court) of the Ottoman Empire where government policies were established, however the term particular used in the context of diplomacy by the western states, as their diplomats were received at "porte" (in meaning gate). During the constitution period (see Young Turk Revolution) functions of Divan replaced by imperial government, and "porte" came to refer to the Foreign Ministry.
Porte des Bombes The Porte des Bombes is an ornamental gate in the Floriana Lines, which formed the outer defensive walls of Valletta, Malta. It is situated between PietĂ  Creek and Marsa to the west and southeast, and the suburb of Floriana to the east.
Porte des Morts Porte des Morts, also known as Porte des Mortes, the Door of Death, and Death's Door is a strait separating Washington Island and Door Peninsula, two landmasses that make up parts of Door County, Wisconsin. The strait connects Lake Michigan to Green Bay.
Porte-cochere A porte-cochere (French porte-cochère, literally "coach door", also called a carriage porch) is the architectural term for a porch or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building, through which it is possible for a horse and carriage or motor vehicle to pass, in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather.
Ported barrel In firearms, the term ported relates to holes that are precision-drilled into the forward part of the barrel (and slide on pistols). These holes are designed to divert a portion of the gases expelled during firing in the direction that reduces the tendency of the firearm to flip upwards.
Portela das Cabras Portela das Cabras, also known as "Portela de Penela", was the seat of an extinct Portuguese municipality, established by King Afonso III. In 1855 it was transformed into a parish of the Vila Verde municipality.
Portendo Portendo is the codename for a project that utilized the NES-on-a-chip apparatus. The whole concept behind this project was that video game hacker Kevin Horton heard about some portable Famiclone named Top Guy that had zenith-low availability.
Porter & Dolly Porter & Dolly was a 1980 album featuring Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, comprised mostly of previously unreleased material from their duet years (1967 - 74). The album was part of a settlement from legal action Wagoner took following Parton's departure from his band in 1974.
Porter (college) The majority of colleges at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and other collegiate universities such as York have members of staff called porters. Their precise job roles vary from college to college.
Porter (lunar crater) Porter is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon, and lies across the northwestern rim of the huge Clavius walled-plain. Although generally circular, the form of this crater has been modified by the geometry of the surface on which it was formed.
Porter (railroad) A porter is a railroad employee assigned to assist passengers aboard a passenger train or to handle their baggage; it may be used particularly to refer to employees assigned to assisting passengers in the sleeping cars.
Porter 5 forces analysis The Porter 5 forces analysis is a framework for business management developed by Michael Porter in 1979. It uses concepts developed in Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive 5 forces that determine the attractiveness of a market.
Porter Creek North Porter Creek North is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. The electoral district was known as Whitehorse Porter Creek East before 1992.
Porter Creek South Porter Creek South is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was the only seat won by the Yukon Liberal Party in the 2002 territorial election.
Porter generic strategies Michael Porter has described a category scheme consisting of three general types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses. These three generic strategies are defined along two dimensions: strategic scope and strategic strength.
Porter hypothesis According to the Porter Hypothesis strict environmental regulations can induce efficiency and encourage innovations that help improve commercial competitiveness. The hypothesis was formulated by the economist Michael Porter.
Porter Hall Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 - October 6, 1953) was a film actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s many times, due to a weak chin and shifty eyes, playing movie villains. Porter, who appeared in Miracle on 34th Street and Ace in the Hole didn't start appearing in films until he was 43 years old.
Porter Hardware Porter Hardware, the oldest continually operating hardware store in the state of Alabama, was opened in 1889 by Edwin Russell Porter and Joel Murphree in the city of Dothan and is still operated today by Mr. Porter's descendants.
Porter J. Goss Porter Johnston Goss (born November 26 1938) is an American politician, who was the last Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the IRPTA 2004 Act, which abolished the DCI position. A CIA operative in Latin America during the Cold War, he served as a Republican member of the U.
Porter Rockwell Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813, or June 25, 1815 – June 9 1878) was a colorful figure of the Wild West period of American History and a law man in the Utah Territory. Nicknamed Old Port and labeled "the Destroying Angel of Mormondom", during his lifetime he was as famous and controversial as Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, or Pat Garrett.
Porter Square Porter Square is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station is one of the stops on the Red Line, and of the Commuter Rail, both part of the MBTA.
Porter Subdivision The Porter SubdivisionCSX News - Curfew Update for the Week of July 24: "Porter Subdivision, From near Crisman to near Ivanhoe, Ind." is a railroad line owned by New York Central Lines LLC and operated by CSX Transportation in the Chicago, Illinois area.
Porter Wagoner Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in Howell County, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suits and blonde pompadour, Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show.
Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca was a 1970 duet album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. It contained the singles "Just Someone I Used to Know' and "Tomorrow is Forever", both of which reached the top ten on the U.
Porterbrook Porterbrook is one of the three major ROSCOs (Rolling Stock Company) in the United Kingdom. Created in 1994 as part of the privatisation of British Rail, it owns around a third of passenger railway locomotives, multiple units and coaching stock running on Network Rail's system which it leases to various train operators.
Portero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap The Portero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park each year. The race is open to horses age three and up, willing to race six and one half furlongs on the dirt.
Porters' lodge A porter's lodge is a place near the entrance of a building where one or more porters can be found to respond to enquiries from the public and direct them around the building. It is particularly associated with university accommodation in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada (such as the majority of colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Durham).
Portes du Soleil Les Portes du Soleil is a large region of the Alps encompassing thirteen resorts between Mont Blanc in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland, popular for skiing, snowboarding and other winter sports. The region offers 650 km of marked runs and about 230 lifts in total, spread over 14 valleys and about 400 square miles.
Porteur bicycle A porteur bicycle is a kind of cargo bicycle designed for carrying cargo loads on a platform rack attached to the fork. The first porteurs were used by newspaper couriers of Paris, who would typically carry up to 50 kilograms of newspapers on the front rack.
Porteus Maze Test The Porteus Maze Test (PMT) is a nonverbal test of intelligence developed by University of Hawaii psychology Professor Stanley Porteus (April 24, 1883 - October 21, 1972). The Porteus maze test and intelligence, Stanley Porteus, Pacific Books, Palo Alto, Calif.
Portezuelo Formation The Portezuelo Formation is a geologic formation outcropping in the Río Negro and Neuquén provinces of Argentina. It is the fourth-oldest formation in the Neuquén Group and the older of the two formations in the Río Neuquén Subgroup.
Portfolio (finance) In finance, a portfolio is a collection of investments held by an institution or a private individual. In building up an investment portfolio a financial institution will typically conduct its own investment analysis, whilst a private individual may make use of the services of a financial advisor or a financial institution which offers portfolio management services.
Portfolio investment Portfolio investment represents passive holdings of securities such as foreign stocks, bonds, or other financial assets, none of which entails active management or control of the securities' issuer by the investor; where such control exists, it is known as foreign direct investment.
Portfolio Management for New Products Portfolio Management for New Products is used to select a portfolio of new product development projects to achieve the following goals: Maximize the profitability or value of the portfolio, provide balance and support the strategy of the enterprise.
Portfoolio Portfoolio is an annual book released by Canadian editorial cartoonist Guy Badeux. It features a collection of the best Canadian editorial cartoons of the year, originally chosen by the Canadian Association of Editorial Cartoonists, but now hand-picked by Badeux himself.
Portglenone Abbey Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was founded in 1948 by Mount MellerayAbbey in County Waterford. The monks bought Portglenone House, a country mansion built about the year 1810 by the Church of Ireland Bishop, Dr.
Porth Porth () is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, lying in the Rhondda Valley and is regarded as the gateway to the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach valleys because both valleys meet at Porth. The Welsh word "porth" means "gate" when translated into English, however, Porth is a predominantly English-speaking community.
Porthcothan Porthcothan is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated between Newquay and Padstow, and lying within the parish of St Eval. The beach is popular with tourists and surfers and is protected by lifeguards during the day in the summer.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum is a museum located in the small coastal village of Porthcurno Cornwall, UK. Porthcurno was the point at which many submarine telegraph cables — transatlantic and to other locations — came ashore.
Porthkerry Park Porthkerry Park is a large country public park on the coast of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It has a mini-golf course, fields, extensive woodland and nature trails, cliff-top pathways and a pebble-stone beach.
Porthmadog (WHR) railway station Porthmadog (WHR) railway station is the southern terminus of the WHR (Porthmadog). It is situated opposite the Porthmadog Network Rail station The station opened on the 2nd August 1980 and was originally a simple wooden shed situated in the car park.
Porthmadog railway station Porthmadog railway station serves the town of Porthmadog on the Lleyn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. This railway station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Pwllheli, Harlech, Barmouth, Machynlleth and Shrewsbury.
Porthos Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan (see D'Artagnan Romances).
Portia (Merchant of Venice) Portia is a fictional character, the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. A rich heiress, she is obliged by the terms of her father's will to set a puzzle to all prospective suitors, forcing them to choose between three caskets: of gold, silver and lead.
Portia Perez Jennifer Grattan (born on October 26, 1987 in Brockville, Ontario) is a Canadian professional wrestler best known under the stage name Portia Perez. She debuted in 2004 after training with the Universal Wrestling Alliance in Ottawa, Ontario.
Portia tree The Portia tree (Thespesia populnea; Family Malvaceae) is a small tree or arborescent shrub 5-10 (-20) m high that is pantropical in littoral environments, although probably native only to the Old World. In Hawai‘i and elsewhere in the Pacific it is possibly indigenous, although may have been spread by early Polynesians for its useful wood and fiber.
Portia White Portia May White (June 24, 1911-February 13, 1968), was a singer who achieved international fame because of her voice and stage presence. As an African-Canadian, her popularity helped to open previously closed doors for talented blacks who followed.
Portia White Prize The Portia White Prize is the largest prize of its type awarded by the Province of Nova Scotia and is named for Portia White, a Nova Scotian artist who rose through adversity to achieve international acclaim as a classical singer on the stages of Europe and North America.
Portici Portici is a city in Campania, Italy, in the Province of Naples, situated 8 km (5 miles) southeast of Naples, on the shores of the bay and at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. The palace, erected in 1738, is traversed by the high road.
Portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea first appeared in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures.

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