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Porticus Octaviae The Porticus Octaviae (Portico of Octavia) was built ostensibly by Octavia Minor, the sister of Augustus, but really by Augustus and dedicated in her name, at some time after 27 BC, in place of the Porticus Metelli (Metellus), around the temples of Jupiter Stator and Juno, next to the Theater of Marcellus. The statement of Cassius Dio that it was built after 33 BC from the spoils of the war in Dalmatia, is due to confusion with the porticus Octavia.
Portikus Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main, originally founded in 1987 through the initiation of Kaspar König, one of the most influential living curators of contemporary art. Its name derives from the surviving portico of the Stadtbibliothek (public library) from 1825 that was destroyed during World War II.
Porting In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g.
Porting (engine) In motor racing, porting is the modification of the shape and size of the engine's ports (that portion of the intake and exhaust systems which is within the engine castings) for enhanced aerodynamic flow. This allows for greater volumes of air/fuel mixture to be smoothly entered into the compression chamber.
Porting Authorisation Code Porting Authorisation Code (PAC) is a unique identifier which mobile and fixed-line telephone network providers (in the UK and various other countries) issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network.
PortinglĂŞs PortinglĂŞs may also be referred to as Portu-inglĂŞs or as PortunglĂŞs is a portmanteau of the words PortuguĂŞs (Portuguese) and InglĂŞs (English). It refers to various types of language contact between English and Portuguese which have occurred in regions where the two languages coexist.
Portknockie Portknockie (Scottish Gaelic: Port Chnocaidh, the hilly port) is a coastal village on the Moray Firth in northeast Scotland, in Moray. (Family historians will note that this Banffshire village's name is written as Portknockies in the Old Parish Registers.
Portland and Ogdensburg Railway The Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad was a railroad planned to connect Portland, Maine to Ogdensburg, New York. The plan failed, and in 1880 the Vermont section was reorganized and leased by the Boston and Lowell Railroad.
Portland Aerial Tram The Portland Aerial Tram is an aerial tramway in Portland, Oregon. It connects the city's South Waterfront district with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the Marquam Hill neighborhood surrounding the university, and introduces another mode of transportation in Portland.
Portland Arch Nature Preserve Portland Arch Nature Preserve is a 293-acre nature preserve near the Wabash River in Fountain County, Indiana, and is a National Natural Landmark. The preserve encompasses the wooded valleys, ravines and rocky cliffs around the lowest section of Bear Creek, which flows northwest toward the Wabash.
Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in the last days of 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, PAM became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in the USA, at a total of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m²).
Portland Beavers The Portland Beavers are a minor league baseball team which, along with the Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, San Francisco Seals, and Seattle Rainiers, was a charter member of the Pacific Coast League which was founded in 1903. Other than Sacramento, Portland is the only city among the original franchises that still has a team in the PCL.
Portland Building (Nottingham) The Portland Building is a building on the University Park Campus of the University of Nottingham. It is faced with Portland stone, but is actually named after William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland who was the University's second Chancellor.
Portland cement Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general usage, as it is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar and most non-specialty grout. It is a finely-ground powder produced by grinding Portland cement clinker (more than 90%), a maximum of about 5% gypsum which controls the set time, and up to 5% minor constituents (as allowed by various standards).
Portland Canal The Portland Canal is an arm of the Portland Inlet, one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. The Portland Canal forms part of the border between southeastern Alaska and British Columbia, at about 55°-56° North 130°' West.
Portland Castle Portland Castle is one of the Device Forts built in 1539 by Henry VIII on the Isle of Portland to guard the natural Portland anchorage known as the Portland Roads. The castle lies in the far north of the island, in the village now called Castletown, near Fortuneswell.
Portland Classical Chinese Garden Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Garden of Awakening Orchids, is a walled garden enclosing a full city block, roughly 40 000 square feet (4,000 m²) in the Chinatown area of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, USA. The garden is influenced by many of the famous classical gardens in Suzhou.
Portland Community College Portland Community College (or PCC) is Oregon's largest community college, located in Portland. It serves over one million residents in the five county area of Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas, and Columbia.
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival The Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, or PDX Fest, is a five day event that showcases non-narrative film and video from Portland, Oregon and around the world. The film festival was started in 2001 by filmmaker Matt McCormick and has since been credited with helping turn Portland into a hot bed of experimental film and new media production.
Portland Farmers Market Portland Farmers Market is an outdoor market where up to than two hundred vendors converge to sell produce, fish, meat, dairy, bakery items, and farming items under open aired tents. While crafts are not allowed at the Portland Farmers Market, there is a craft market called the Saturday Market which is also in downtown.
Portland Fire The Portland Fire joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000 as the counterpart to the National Basketball Association team the Portland Trail Blazers. They played their games at Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.
Portland Fish Pier The Portland Fish Pier is a fishing pier located in Portland, Maine on the edge of the Fore River. It is a major hub for the commercial fishing industry, and is home to the Portland Fish Exchange, where over 20 million pounds of seafood a year are bought and sold.
Portland Gale The Portland Gale was a storm that struck the coast of New England on November 26 and 27, 1898. The storm formed when two low pressure areas merged off the coast of Virginia and travelled up the coast; at its peak, it produced a storm surge of about ten feet in Cohasset harbor and hurricane-force winds in Nantucket.
Portland General Electric Portland General Electric (PGE) is an electrical utility, formerly owned by the Houston-based Enron Corporation (but now independent), that distributes electricity to customers in parts of Portland, Oregon, as well as parts of
Portland Handicap The Portland Handicap is a flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 5 furlongs 140 yards (1,134 metres) at Doncaster Racecourse during the St. Leger meeting in September.
Portland Hills, Nova Scotia Portland Hills is a neighbourhood in Dartmouth Nova Scotia that is part of the Halifax Regional Municipality that is located east of Lake Morris and Portland Estates. It is an extension of the community of Portland Estates along Portland Street (Nova Scotia Route 207).
Portland Hospital The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, usually referred to simply as the Portland Hospital, is a hospital in Great Portland Street in central London, England. It is perhaps the best known private-only hospital in London (London's major teaching hospitals do a mixture of NHS and private work).
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon was founded in 1996 by Kristy Edmunds, formerly the Director of the Portland Art Museum's "Art on the Edge" program. Edmunds left PICA in 2005 to become art director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Portland Linux/Unix Group The Portland Linux/Unix Group, also called the Portland Linux Users Group, (PLUG) is a group of Linux enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon. The group was started in early 1994 as a venue to discuss and promote Linux, and is one of the oldest Linux User Groups in existence.
Portland LumberJax The Portland LumberJax (sometimes referred to as the Jax) are a professional lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) which started playing in the 2006 season. Announced by the NLL on May 11, 2005, the LumberJax play their home games at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon.
Portland metropolitan area The Portland metropolitan area is the urban area centered around Portland, Oregon and the Willamette River. It includes Multnomah County and most of Washington County, and western parts of Clackamas County, plus southern Clark County in Washington.
Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center The Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, usually referred to as the Expo Center, is a convention center located in Portland, Oregon. It was originally built in the early 1920s as the Pacific International Exposition Center.
Portland Museum of Art The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine was originally founded as the "Portland Society of Art" in 1882. Located in the downtown area known as The Arts District, it is the state's largest and oldest public art institution.
Portland public art Portland Public Art is an independent chronicle of the scope and service of public artwork in Portland, Oregon. Active since 2005, the anonymous author shows both mainstream and offbeat artworks, many far from the beaten path, forgotten, or not recognized as art.
Portland Place Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London. It was laid out by the brothers Robert and James Adam for the Duke of Portland in the late 18th century and originally ran north from the gardens of a detached mansion called Foley House.
Portland Project The Portland Project is an initiative taken to establish a greater Linux foothold in the desktop market. It aims at resolving a number of key factors that are believed to reduce the adoption rate of Linux distributions as desktop operating systems.
Portland Rose Festival The Portland Rose Festival is an annual civic festival held during the month of June in Portland, Oregon. It is organized by the volunteer non-profit Portland Rose Festival Association with the purpose of promoting the Portland region.
Portland Rum Riot The Portland Rum Riot, also called the Maine Law Riot, was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in Portland, Maine on 2 June 1855. The underlying stimulus of the riot was anger over the Maine law of 1851 which outlawed the sale of alcohol in the state.
Portland Saturday Market The Portland Saturday Market is the largest outdoor arts and crafts market in continuous operation in the United States. It is held every Saturday and Sunday from March to December under the west end of the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
Portland Shriners Hospital The Portland Shriners Hospital for Children is located in a seven-story building in Portland, Oregon and is one of the Shriners Hospitals for Children. The hospital is located on the Oregon Health and Science University campus, and is active in the research and development of new technology.
Portland Spy Ring The Portland Spy Ring operated in Britain from the late 1950s till 1961 when the hard core of the network was arrested by British security. It is one of the most famous examples of the use of illegal residents, spies who operate in a foreign country but without the cover of their embassy.
Portland State Aerospace Society The Portland State Aerospace Society (or PSAS), founded in 1998, is a student group at Portland State University building high powered rockets with the vision of putting nanosatellites into Earth orbit. Pursuing this vision has led to building advanced avionics, adaptable airframes, and high energy rocket engines.
Portland State University Portland State University (or PSU) is a public state urban university located in downtown Portland, Oregon. It has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon including the largest business and graduate schools.
Portland Storm The Portland Storm were an American football team based out of Portland, Oregon, playing in the World Football League. When the World Football League was created in October 1973, the Storm was the original New York franchise.
Portland Streetcar The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon that serves areas surrounding downtown. It is one of the first streetcar lines in the United States since World War II and the first to use modern vehicles.
Portland Symphony Orchestra The Portland Symphony Orchestra, established in 1923 in Portland, Maine, is a fully professional symphony that is recognized as being one of the top orchestras of its size in the country. The orchestra performs a wide variety of concerts, frequently featuring guest artists, at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland.
Portland Vase The Portland Vase is a first-century Roman cameo glass vase, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards. Since 1945 the vase has belonged to the British Museum (reference - GR 1945.
Portland Youth Philharmonic The Portland Youth Philharmonic Association is an organization of several youth orchestras based in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1924 as the Portland Junior Symphony, it is the oldest youth orchestra in the United States.
Portland-Columbia Pedestrian Bridge The Portland-Columbia Pedestrian Bridge (or as it's formally known, The Portland-Columbia Toll Supported Pedestrian Bridge) is a footbridge that crosses the Delaware River, at Portland, in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, connecting to Columbia, in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. The bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge The Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge is a toll bridge that carries New Jersey Route 94 over the Delaware River, between Pennsylvania Route 611 at Portland, Pennsylvania and Columbia in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. It is owned and operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Portland, Louisville Portland is a neighborhood and former independent town two miles northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. In its early days it was the largest of the six major settlements at the Falls of the Ohio River, the others being Shippingport and Louisville in Kentucky and New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville on the Indiana side.
Portland, Oregon neighborhoods There are 95 officially recognized Portland, Oregon neighborhoods. Each is represented by a volunteer-based neighborhood association which serves as a liaison between residents of the neighborhood and the city government, as coordinated by the city's Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI).
Portland, Rutland, Oswego and Chicago Railroad The Portland, Rutland, Oswego and Chicago Railroad was a plan for a railroad between Portland, Maine and Chicago, Illinois, proposed as the first step of a transcontinental railroad. The plans were made by John Alfred Poor of Portland in the 1860s, but he died in 1871 before they could be finalized.
Portlandia [is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey] located above the entrance of [[Michael Graves' Portland Building in downtown Portland, Oregon at 1120 SW 5th Avenue. It is notable for being the second largest copper repoussé statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty.
Portlands Energy Centre The Portlands Energy Centre is a proposed 550-megawatt natural gas electrical generating station that is planned for the Toronto waterfront at 440 Unwin Avenue – the site of the decommissioned Hearn Generating Station .
Portlaoise railway station Portlaoise railway station is a railway station situated above the town of Portlaoise, in County Laois. It is the end of the widening commuter belt for Dublin, and the western limit in the "Giant Hop" zone.
Portlethen Moss The Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog nature reserve in the coastal Grampian region in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Like other mosses, this wetland area supports a variety of plant and animal species, even though it has been subject to certain development and agricultural degradation pressures.
Portly spider crab The portly spider crab (Libinia emarginata) is a species of crab found in estuarine habitats on the east coast of North America from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. This crab grows to about 10 cm (4 inches) across its back, which is spiny and often covered with a "garden" of sponge and seaweed.
Portmahomack Portmahomack (Scottish Gaelic: Port Mo-Chalmáig) is a small fishing village in Easter Ross, Scotland. Situated 9 miles east of Tain on the northern coast of the Tarbat Peninsula, Portmahomack has long been known to be on the site of early settlements.
Portmahomack sculpture fragments The Portmahomack sculpture fragments are the slabs and stone fragments which have been discovered in or around the Easter Ross settlement of Portmahomack (Tarbat). There are around 150 of these (some of them very small), making Portmahomack one of the major centres of recovered Pictish art.
Portman Building Society The Portman Building Society is a UK mutual building society and provides mortgages and savings in the UK, as well as commercial lending. Its head office is located in Bournemouth and its administration centre in Wolverhampton.
Portman Estate The Portman Estate is a property estate in Marylebone, Central London. It lies between Oxford Street and Edgware Road, and includes Portman Square, Manchester Square, and some parts of Baker Street and Gloucester Place.
Portman Group The Portman Group is an association of alcoholic beverage producers and brewers in the UK. It was set up in 1989 as part of a campaign to raise awareness of alcohol-related issues, and its members account for the majority of alcohol products sold in the UK.
Portmanteau A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaus or portmanteaux) (IPA pronunciation: ) or blend is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or parts of words to give a combined meaning. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.
Portmanteau (suitcase) A portmanteau (from 16th century French, plural portmanteaux) is a large travelling case made of leather. Originally designed with two sides with the hinge in between, one side to carry (porte) your coats (manteaux) and the other side for other items.
Portmap Portmap is server software running under Unix-like systems that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. Its design objective was to minimize the number of ports in use, but this never happened as it never had wide adoption.
Portmarnock Portmarnock (Port MearnĂłg in Irish) is a town north of the city of Dublin in North County Dublin, Ireland. It lies on the coast and, owing to its proximity to Dublin city, is a dormitory town 15 km north-northeast of the city centre.
PortMusic PortMusic is a set of computer libraries for dealing with sound and MIDI. Currently the project has two main libraries: PortAudio, for digital audio input and output, and PortMidi, a library for MIDI input and output.
Portneuf River (Idaho) The Portneuf River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately 96 mi (156 km) long, in southeastern Idaho in the United States. It drains a ranching and farmer valley in the mountains southwest of the Snake River Plain near the Utah border.
Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier (formerly known as Portneuf) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1867. Its population in 2001 was 87,141.
Portnoy (Bloom County character) Portnoy is a character in Berke Breathed's comic strip Bloom County. Portnoy was one of the critters that could talk, and was often surly mouthed and bigoted, usually leading Hodge-Podge, his best friend, to have to cover his mouth.
Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roth's most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks.
Porto Porto (in English also Oporto; Portuguese pron. IPA []), population 326,654 in 15 parishes, with about 1,600,000 in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto (continuous urban aglomeration), is Portugal]'s [[second city.
Porto (Italy) Porto is the name (from Latin Portum) of an ancient port at the mouth of the river Tiber, on the right bank, south of Rome. The division between the ancient settlement and the medieval Porto began in the 4th century CE, when emperor Constantine the Great had a line of walls built.
Porto (Naples) Porto (Italian: "port") is the neighborhood of Naples, southern Italy, that includes the area adjacent to the main passenger terminals of the port of Naples, but does not extend much farther than that to the eastern freight facilities of the port. It is an extremely historic part of the city and was subject to drastic episodes of demolition during the years on either side of 1900 as part of the plan for the urban renewal of the city.
Porto Alegre Porto Alegre, one of the largest cities in Brazil, is the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre is one of the most important cities of Southern Brazil, being a cultural, political and economical center.
Porto do Son Porto do Son is a municipality of Spain in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Porto do Son is in fact a collection of coastal towns and villages in the “ria de Muros y Noia” and as such is not just a town itself, but a municipality encompassing other towns including Portosín.
Porto Digital Porto Digital is a business environment for IT companies in the downtown old port area (Recife Antigo) of the Brazilian city of Recife. More than 70 IT firms with 1,500 workers have rejuvenated the harbor with a new digital economy, occupying the old warehouses used in the past by sugar-and-cotton export companies.
Porto Germeno (Aigosthena) Porto Germeno (Aegosthena or Aigosthena) is a beautiful and distinct resort area located on the west side of Attica prefecture on the north east coast of the Corinthian Gulf on the site of the ancient Aegosthena near Psatha & Agios Vassilios (Livathostra)
Porto Grande, Cape Verde Porto Grande is Mindelo's and SĂŁo Vicente's main port located in the west of the city and northwest of the island overlooking the Mindelo Bay. The port is authorized by ENACOR and is located about 1 km from the city centre.
Porto Cheli Port Cheli, also Portocheli, Portoheli, Porto Heli, and rarely Porto Kheli or Portokheli (Greek, Modern: Πορτο Χέλι or Πορτοχέλι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on on both forms), older forms Porto Chelion, Portochelio, Portochelion, Portohelio, Porothelion, Portokhelion, is a village in the municipality of Kranidi in the southernmost part and is located especially ancient Halieis in the southernmost community of the Argolis prefecture and the Argolic Peninsula. It is located E of Tripoli and eastern Arcadia, SE of Argos and Nafplio, S of Corinth, Ancient Epidaurus and 7 km S of Kranidi and SW of Trizina.
Porto Katsiki Porto Katsiki (Greek: Πόρτο Κατσίκι) is a remote beach located on the south-western coast of the Ionian island of Lefkada. Since the creation of a sealed road during the mid 1990's, this remote beach has become one of the premier tourist destinations on the island.
Porto Metro The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a light-rail network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs. The Porto Metro was founded in 2002, and it was for years one of the major construction sites in the European Union.
Porto Novo, Cape Verde Porto Novo (Portuguese for "new port") is officially the westernmost municipality in Cape Verde and all of Africa but not the mainland. It is a town and a municipality in the island of Santo AntĂŁo of Barlavento.
Porto Polytechnic Institute The Porto Polytechnic Institute or Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP) is a higher learning Portuguese institution composed of diverse polytechnic schools based in Porto. Unlike the University of Porto, the Porto Polytechnic developed as a metropolitan institution with schools in Porto, Matosinhos, Póvoa de Varzim/ Vila do Conde, and Felgueiras.
Porto Rafti Porto Rafti (Greek: Πόρτο Ράφτη), official name: Limin Mesogeias (Greek: Λιμήν Μεσογείας) or Limani Mesogeias (means port of the Mesogeia region), population: 7,131 (2001). It is a seaside town, engulfing the picturesque Porto Rafti Bay in the east coast of Attica, 38 km from the center of Athens, Greece and is located very close to the new Athens International Airport (www.
Porto Roma Porto Roma (Greek: Πόρτο Ρώμα), is a Greek village on Zakynthos and is also famous for its hotels including one named Porto Roma, resorts and beaches . The settlement or the beach area is named after the Zantean/Zakynthian figure named Alexandros Romas (Αλέξανδρος Ρώμας).
Porto Vivo "Porto Vivo", literally translating to "Porto Alive", in English, is the name used by the Porto (Portugal) City Council, ("Camara municipal"), to identify the project of urban rejuvenation that has been underway in Porto, since the City old Town was designated a World Heritage Protection Zone by UNESCO during 1998.
Porto-Novo Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé (population 223,552 as of a 2002 census) is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin. It is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country.
Portobello Marine Laboratory The Portobello Marine Laboratory is located on the end of a short peninsula close to the township of Portobello, within the limits of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island. It is run as part of the University of Otago, the main campus of which is 23 kilometres to the southwest in Dunedin's main urban area.
Portobello Road Portobello Road is a road in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. Portobello Road Market is one of the world's most famous markets, internationally renowned for its second-hand and antique sections.
Portobello Road (song) "Portobello Road" by Robert & Richard Sherman is a song about the actual Portobello Road in London, England. It was written for the 1971, Walt Disney musical film production Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Portobello, Dublin In Dublin, Portobello is an area near the South Circular Road near South Richmond Street and including Clanbrassil Street. The area was also known as Little Jerusalem because in the first half of the Twentieth century, it was the heart of the Jewish community in Ireland.
Portobello, Edinburgh Portobello is a beach resort 3 miles (5 km) to the east of Edinburgh city centre along the coast of the Firth of Forth from Leith, in Scotland. It is now a suburb of Edinburgh with a promenade fronting on to the wide sand beach.
Portofino Portofino is a small Italian fishing village and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town crowded round its small harbour is considered to be among the most beautiful Mediterranean ports.
Portola expedition The Portola expedition was led from 1769 to 1770 by Gaspar de PortolĂ  and was the first known attempt by Spain to explore Upper California by land. The purpose of the expedition was to secure territories in Upper California before the Russians.
Portola Valley Elementary School District The Portola Valley Elementary School District is a public elementary school district in the San Francisco Bay Area serving the community of Portola Valley. Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District.
Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, or often known more simply as Porton Down, is a United Kingdom government facility for military research, including CBRN defence. The complex is located near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, and is operated by the Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), an Executive Agency of the MOD.
Portora Royal School Portora Royal School for boys, located in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is one of a number of 'free schools' founded by Royal Charter in 1608, by James I. Originally called Enniskillen Royal School and located outside Enniskillen, the school moved to its present location on Portora Hill, Enniskillen in 1778 when the nucleus of the present school was built.
PortoroĹľ PortoroĹľ (Portorose in Italian, literally "Port of Roses") is a coastal town in Slovenia and one of the country's largest tourist areas. Belonging to the Municipality of Piran and inhabited by 3,000 people, PortoroĹľ is home to a marina, casino, and numerous sporting facilities.

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