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pork-barrel government spending
...of so-called greenhouse gas emissions (a primary cause of global warming), reduction of pork-barrel government spending, regressive tax cuts, and the political power of......
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porkfish (fish)
...the pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera), a western Atlantic food fish, striped silvery and blue and about 38 cm (15 inches) long; the porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus), a western Atlantic reef fish that, when young, is marked with black and serves as a......
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Porkopolis (Ohio, United States)
city, seat of Hamilton county, southwestern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River opposite the suburbs of Covington and Newport, Kentucky, 15 miles (24 km) east of the Indiana border and about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Dayton. Cincinnati is Ohio’s third largest city, after Columbus...
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porkpie (clothing)
round hat with a turned-up brim and a flat crown. The porkpie, so called because of its shape, became popular with both men and women in the mid-19th century, though a similarly shaped hat had been worn in the European Middle Ages....
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Porky Pig (cartoon character)
...studios, but he is associated most with the work he did for Warner Bros. He created voices for an estimated 90 percent of Warner characters, including such cartoon stars as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Road Runner. Blanc’s vocal dexterity also made him a success in radio, where he was a regular cast member for years on the ......
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pornography (sociology)
representation of sexual behaviour in books, pictures, statues, motion pictures, and other media that is intended to cause sexual excitement. The distinction between pornography (illicit and condemned material) and erotica (which is broadly tolerated) is largely subjective and reflects changing community s...
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Poro (African secret society)
The Senufo of northern Côte d’Ivoire produce a rich variety of sculptures, mainly associated with the Lo society (known more widely as the Poro), to which all adult men belong and which maintains the continuity of religious and historical traditions, especially through the cult of the ancestors. During initiations, headpieces are worn that have a flat, vertical, round or rectangular ...
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Porocephalus (parasite)
...Although they are mostly tropical or subtropical, those with homoiothermic (warm-blooded) hosts may also be found in cold regions. Reptiles are the most common victims of pentastomid infestation. Porocephalus is parasitic in snakes and rodents. Lingulata species parasitize various mammals, including dogs. A few species are of medical interest because they infest humans....
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porocyte (sponge)
...capable of contracting, pinacocytes may cause a reduction in the volume of the sponge if it is disturbed. In the Calcarea, the outer surface of the body also contains flattened granular cells called porocytes because they contain the pores needed to allow water into the sponge. The porocytes can contract, thus closing the pores during unfavourable environmental conditions....
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Poromya (bivalve genus)
...water, carrying prey into a funnellike inhalant siphon (Cuspidaria). Food is then pushed into the mouth by the palps and foot. Others evert the inhalant siphon, like a hood, over the prey (Poromya and Lyonsiella). Prey items include small bottom-dwelling crustaceans, polychaete worms, and larvae of other benthic animals....
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Porongos (Uruguay)
city, south-central Uruguay. It lies in the Porongos Hills, a northern outlier of the Grande Inferior Range. The city is the area’s principal trade and manufacturing centre. Wheat, corn (maize), linseed, oats, and fruit grown in the hinterland are processed in Trinidad. Dairying, viticulture, and cattle and sheep ranching are the main economic activities in the surroundin...
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Poronotus triacanthus (fish)
Certain butterfishes, such as the dollarfish (Poronotus triacanthus), are noted for taking shelter when young among the tentacles of jellyfishes. The dollarfish and several other species of butterfishes are commonly used as food. Among these are the harvest fish (Peprilus......
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pororoca (tidal bore)
...is felt as far upstream as Óbidos, Braz., 600 miles (970 km) from the river’s mouth. A tidal bore called the pororoca occurs at times in the estuary, prior to spring tides. With an increasing roar, it advances upstream at speeds of 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) per hour, forming a breaking w...
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Póros (island, Greece)
island of the Saronic group, lying close to the Argolís peninsula of the Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), part of the nomós (department) of Attica (Attikí), Greece. It actually comprises two islands totaling 9 square miles (23 square km), the larger of which is the wooded, limestone island of Kalávria, separated from the village of Galatás ...
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Poroshiri, Mount (mountain, Japan)
The Hidaka Range contains Mount Poroshiri, the highest nonvolcanic mountain in Hokkaido. It rises near the centre of the range to 6,732 feet (2,052 m), near remains of former glaciation....
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porosity (in solids)
A major problem in castings, porosity is principally caused by the shrinkage that accompanies solidification. Molds are designed to feed metal to the casting in order to keep it full as solidification proceeds, but, if this feeding is incomplete, the shrinkage will show up as internal pores or cracks. If these cracks are large, the casting will be useless. If they are small, they will have......
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Poroxylaceae (fossil plant family)
...to the conifers (order Coniferales). Many were trees up to 30 metres (100 feet) tall, branched, and crowned with large, leathery, strap-shaped leaves. Three families are included—Pityaceae, Poroxylaceae, and Cordaitaceae—of which the Cordaitaceae is the best known. Its genera Cordaites and Cordaianthus are represented by fossil leaves, branches, and loosely formed......
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porphobilinogen deaminase (enzyme)
Eight different porphyrias have been identified. One common form is acute intermittent porphyria, which is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Symptoms usually arise during adolescence, and hormonal changes (e.g., menstruation), alcohol ingestion, certain foods, and some drugs may exacerbate the condition. Diagnosis is made by detecting porphyrins in the urine.......
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Porphyra (algae)
any member of the genus Porphyra, a group of marine red algae. The thallus, a sheet of cells embedded in a thin gelatinous stratum, varies in colour from deep brown or red to pink; sexual reproductive structures are borne at the margin. Laver grows near the high-water mark of the ...
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porphyria (pathology)
any of a group of diseases characterized by the marked overproduction and excretion of porphyrins or of one or another of their precursors. The porphyrins are reddish constituents of heme, the deep red iron-containing pigment of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein of the red blood cells. The depositio...
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porphyria cutanea tarda symptomatica (pathology)
...may also be present. The condition is inherited as a dominant trait, being especially common in the white population of South Africa. (3) Porphyria cutanea tarda symptomatica, or cutaneous porphyria, is more common in males and usually begins insidiously later in life, in the......
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porphyria hepatica (pathology)
Eight different porphyrias have been identified. One common form is acute intermittent porphyria, which is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Symptoms usually arise during adolescence, and hormonal changes (e.g., menstruation), alcohol ingestion, certain foods, and some drugs may exacerbate the condition. Diagnosis is made by detecting porphyrins in the urine.......
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Porphyria melanotus (bird)
...kiwi, another flightless species, is extant, though only in secluded bush areas. The weka and the notornis, or takahe (barely rescued from extinction), probably became flightless after arrival. The pukeko, a swamp hen relative of the weka, is even now in the process of losing the use of its wings. Some birds, such as saddlebacks and native thrushes (thought to be extinct), are peculiar to New.....
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porphyrin (biological pigment)
any of a class of water-soluble, nitrogenous biological pigments (biochromes), derivatives of which include the hemoproteins (porphyrins combined with metals and protein). Examples of hemoproteins are the green, photosynthetic chlorophylls of higher plants; the hemoglobins in the blood of many animals; the cytochromes, enzymes that occur in minute quantities in most cells and a...
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Porphyrio melanotus (bird)
...kiwi, another flightless species, is extant, though only in secluded bush areas. The weka and the notornis, or takahe (barely rescued from extinction), probably became flightless after arrival. The pukeko, a swamp hen relative of the weka, is even now in the process of losing the use of its wings. Some birds, such as saddlebacks and native thrushes (thought to be extinct), are peculiar to New.....
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Porphyrio porphyrio (Porphyrio porphyrio)
The purple gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio), sometimes called purple swamphen, is about 45 cm long. It occurs around the Mediterranean region and is widely distributed in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia....
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porphyritic texture (geological feature)
...The length of a dike usually depends upon how far it can be traced across the surface; dikes can be up to hundreds of miles long. Dikes have a wide range of rock compositions. They commonly have a porphyritic texture, i.e., larger crystals within a finer grained groundmass, indicating two periods of crystallization....
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porphyroblast (crystal)
...crystals showing planar surfaces—namely, magnetite, garnet, epidote, mica, calcite, quartz, and feldspar. Minerals that have a tendency to form large single crystals (e.g.,garnet) are termed porphyroblasts....
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porphyropsin (biochemistry)
...The chromophore may be either retinal (vitamin A1), in which case the molecule is called rhodopsin; or 3-dehydroretinal (vitamin A2), in which case the molecule is called porphyropsin. When light enters the eye and strikes the visual biochrome, the molecule undergoes a chemical change that stimulates the receptor......
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Porphyrula alleni (bird)
...red and yellow bill, and yellow legs and feet. It is found from South Carolina and Texas to northern Argentina. A related species is the lesser purple gallinule (P. alleni), of Africa....
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Porphyrula martinica (Porphyrula martinica)
The purple gallinule of America (Porphyrula martinica), sometimes called water hen or sultana, is about 30 cm long and is bright olive green and purplish blue with a light blue shield, red and yellow bill, and yellow legs and feet. It is found from South Carolina and Texas to......
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Porphyrusa (island, Greece)
island, southernmost and easternmost of the Ionian Islands, off the southern Peloponnesus (Pelopónnisos). It is an eparkhía (eparchy) of Attiki nomós (department), Greece. A continuation of the Taiyetos Range, the island has a mountainous interior, rising to 1,663 feet (507 metres). The capital, K...
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porphyry (geological feature)
...The length of a dike usually depends upon how far it can be traced across the surface; dikes can be up to hundreds of miles long. Dikes have a wide range of rock compositions. They commonly have a porphyritic texture, i.e., larger crystals within a finer grained groundmass, indicating two periods of crystallization....
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Porphyry (Syrian philosopher)
Neoplatonist Greek philosopher, important both as an editor and as a biographer of the philosopher Plotinus and for his commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, which set the stage for medieval developments of logic and the problem of universals. Boethius’ Latin translation of the introduction (Isagoge) became a standard medieval textbook....
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porphyry copper deposit (mineralogy)
large body of rock, typically a porphyry of granitic to dioritic composition, that has been fractured on a fine scale and through which chalcopyrite and other copper minerals are disseminated. Porphyry copper deposits commonly contain hundreds of millions of metric tons of ore that averages a fraction of 1 percent copper by weight; although th...
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porphyry molybdenum deposit (mineralogy)
...they are invariably associated with igneous intrusives that are porphyritic (meaning the rock is a mixture of coarse and fine mineral grains). Porphyry copper deposits (and their close relatives, porphyry molybdenum deposits) contain disseminated mineralization, meaning that a large volume of shattered rock contains a ramifying network of tiny quartz veins, spaced only a few centimetres......
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Porpita porpita (plankton)
...Large numbers of the Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia), with its conspicuous gas bladder, the by-the-wind-sailor (Velella velella), and the small blue disk-shaped Porpita porpita are propelled along the surface by the wind, and after strong onshore winds they may be found strewn on the beach. Beneath the surface, comb jellies often abound, as do......
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porpoise (mammal)
specifically, any of six species of toothed whales distinguishable from dolphins by their more compact build, generally smaller size (maximum length about 2 metres, or 6.6 feet), and curved, blunt snouts with spatulate rather than conical teeth. In North America the name is sometimes app...
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Porpora, Nicola (Italian vocal teacher)
leading Italian teacher of singing of the 18th century and noted composer between 1708 and 1747 of more than 60 operas in the elegant, lyrical Neapolitan style. He taught singing in Venice and Naples; among his pupils were the poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, the composer ...
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Porpora, Nicola Antonio Giacinto (Italian vocal teacher)
leading Italian teacher of singing of the 18th century and noted composer between 1708 and 1747 of more than 60 operas in the elegant, lyrical Neapolitan style. He taught singing in Venice and Naples; among his pupils were the poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, the composer ...
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Porrée, Gilbert de La (French bishop)
In his remaining years he participated in the condemnation of Gilbert de La Porrée—a scholarly dialectician and bishop of Poitiers who held that Christ’s divine nature was only a human concept. He exhorted Pope Eugenius to stress his role as spiritual leader of the church over his role as leader of a great temporal power, ...
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Porres, Saint Martín de (Christian saint)
Peruvian national patron of social justice....
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porridge (foodstuff)
Some breakfast cereals require cooking; others are packaged ready-to-eat. Roasted and rolled oatmeal, eaten as porridge, requires brief boiling. Cooking time of these processed cereals has been greatly reduced, and various “instant” forms are available....
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porridge pot (geological feature)
...volcanoes are created by hot-spring activity where large amounts of gas and small amounts of water react chemically with the surrounding rocks and form a boiling mud. Variations are the porridge pot (a basin of boiling mud that erodes chunks of the surrounding rock) and the paint pot (a basin of boiling mud that is tinted yellow, green, or blue by minerals from the surround...
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porringer (bowl)
a shallow, round bowl with one or two flat, horizontal handles set on opposite sides of the rim and, usually, a shallow lid. In recent usage, the word has also been used to refer to late 16th- and early 17th-century English silver vessels of cylindrical form with two vertical scroll handles. The precise purpose of porringers, or écuelles, as they are known in France, is in dispute; ...
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Porris, Georg Joachim De (Austrian astronomer)
Austrian-born astronomer and mathematician who was among the first to adopt and spread the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus....
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Porritt, Arthur Espie Porritt, Baron (New Zealand physician and statesman)
BARON, New Zealand-born physician and statesman (b. Aug. 10, 1900, Wanganui, N.Z.--d. Jan. 1, 1994, London, England), after a long career with the British monarchy as surgeon to King George VI (1946-52) and sergeant surgeon to Queen Elizabeth II (1952-67), served as the first native-born governor-general of New Zealand (1967-72). Porritt studied at Otago University, and in 1923 he was awarded a R...
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Porro prism (optics)
Prisms are made in many different forms and shapes, depending on the application. The Porro prism, for example, consists of two prisms arranged both to invert and to reverse an image and are used in many optical viewing instruments, such as periscopes, binoculars, and monoculars. The Nicol prism consists of two specially cut calcite prisms bonded together with an adhesive known as ......
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Porsangen (fjord, Norway)
fjord, indenting the coast of extreme northern Norway on the Arctic Ocean. An inlet of the Barents Sea, the fjord is approximately 80 miles (130 km) long and lies well north of the Ar...
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Porsche, Ferdinand (Austrian engineer)
Austrian automotive engineer who designed the popular Volkswagen car....
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Porsche, Ferdinand Anton Ernst (Austrian car designer)
Austrian car designer and businessman who worked with his father on the design of the Volkswagen Beetle and later, after having taken over the vehicle-design firm that his father had founded and given the family’s name, transformed the company into a renowned sports car manufacturer (b. Sept. 19, 1909, Wiener Neustadt, Austria--d. March 27, 1998, Zell am See, Austria)....
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Porsche, Ferry (Austrian car designer)
Austrian car designer and businessman who worked with his father on the design of the Volkswagen Beetle and later, after having taken over the vehicle-design firm that his father had founded and given the family’s name, transformed the company into a renowned sports car manufacturer (b. Sept. 19, 1909, Wiener Neustadt, Austria--d. March 27, 1998, Zell am See, Austria)....
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Porsenna (Etruscan ruler)
...is that the monarchy at Rome was incidentally terminated through military defeat and foreign intervention. This theory sees Rome as a site highly prized by the Etruscans in the 6th century bc. Porsenna, the Etruscan king of Clusium, defeated the Romans and expelled Tarquinius Superbus. Yet before Porsenna could establish himself as monarch, he was forced to withdraw, leaving Rome ...
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Porsgrunn (Norway)
town, southern Norway, at the mouth of the Skienselva (river) on Frierfjorden. Established as a customs post in 1652 with the name Porsgrund, it received its town charter in 1842. An export and industrial centre, it contains the huge Norsk Hydro chemical factories. It is known for producing fertilizers, as well as for its shipyards, oi...
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Porshnev, Boris (Soviet scientist)
...giving off a foul smell, and either moving silently or emitting a high-pitched cry. Footprints have measured up to 24 inches (60 cm) in length and 8 inches (20 cm) in width. A Soviet scientist, Boris Porshnev, suggested that Sasquatch and his Siberian counterpart, the Almas, could be a remnant of Neanderthal man, but most scientists do not recognize the creature’s existence....
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Porson, Richard (English scholar)
British master of classical scholarship during the 18th century, the most brilliant of the English school that devoted itself to the task of freeing Greek texts from corruption introduced through the centuries. His special critical talent lay in his in...
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port (wine)
specifically, a sweet, fortified, usually red wine of considerable renown from the Douro region of northern Portugal, named for the town of Oporto where it is aged and bottled; also, any of several similar fortified wines produced elsewhere. The region of true port production is strictly delimited by Portuguese law. The soil...
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port (harbour town)
Among the more interesting harbours of the ancient world are Alexandria, which had on the island of Pharos the first lighthouse in the world; Piraeus, the port of Athens; Ostia, the port of Rome; Syracuse; Carthage, destroyed and rebuilt by the Romans; Rhodes; and Tyre and Sidon, ports of the earliest important navigators, the Phoenicians....
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port (computer science)
In 1987 IBM, under intense pressure in the fast-growing personal computer market, introduced a new computer, the PS/2, with a bus that was incompatible with the AT-bus design of earlier IBM PCs. (A computer bus is a set of conductors that enable information to be transmitted between computer components, such as printers, modems, and......
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Port Adelaide Enfield (South Australia, Australia)
chief port of South Australia, on an estuarine-tidal inlet of Gulf St. Vincent, just northwest of central Adelaide. The harbour, sheltered by a long sand spit to the west, was visited in 1831 by Captain Collet Barker and was made the port for Adelaide in 1840. Port Adelaide was incorporated as a town in 1855 and became a city in 1901; it merged with the neighbouring city of Enfi...
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Port, Adrien-Jean-François Du (French magistrate)
French magistrate who was a leading constitutional monarchist during the early stages of the French Revolution of 1789....
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Port Angeles (Washington, United States)
city, seat (1890) of Clallam county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on Juan de Fuca Strait, linked by ferry to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 18 miles (29 km) north across the strait. Located at the base of Ediz Hook (a 3.5-mile- [5.6-km-] long, curving ...
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Port Antonio (Jamaica)
town, northeastern coast of Jamaica, 60 mi (97 km) northeast of Kingston. One of the island’s largest ports, it is a shipping point for bananas, coconuts, and cacao and is one of Jamaica’s oldest and least-commercialized tourist resorts. It lies on a bay divided by a promontory into East and West Harbours; the latter is sheltered by the small Navy Island. There are...
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Port Apra (Guam)
port on the west coast of Guam, one of the Mariana Islands, northern Pacific Ocean. It is the best anchorage on the island and is located just west of Hagåtña (Agana). It is the port of entry and site of a U.S. ...
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Port Arthur (Ontario, Canada)
city, seat of Thunder Bay district, west-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior’s Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River. Probably first occupied by French fur traders as early as 1678, its site was permanentl...
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Port Arthur (Texas, United States)
city, Jefferson county, southeastern Texas, U.S., 90 miles (145 km) east of Houston. It is a major deepwater port on Sabine Lake and the Sabine-Neches and Gulf Intracoastal waterways, 9 miles (14 km) from the Gulf of Mexico. With Beaumont and ...
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Port Arthur (inlet, Tasmania, Australia)
inlet of the Tasman Sea on the south coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia. It is known for the settlement established there in 1830 by George Arthur as the major site for punishing ...
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Port Arthur (former city, Dalian, China)
former city and naval port, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. In 1950 it was amalgamated with nearby Dalian to form the city of Lüda. In 1981, when Lüda was renamed Dalian, it became a district (under the name Lüshunkou) of the newly named city....
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Port Askaig Tillite (geology)
...[Kinshasa], and South Africa), and much of Russia, China, and Australia. In addition to the Flinders Range deposits described above (see Worldwide glaciations), other notable deposits include the Port Askaig tillite on the island of Islay off northwestern Scotland, which is only 750 metres (2,460 feet) thick but records 17 ice advances and retreats and 27 periglacial periods (which are.....
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Port Augusta (South Australia, Australia)
city and former port, South Australia, at the head of Spencer Gulf. Founded in 1852 and named for the wife of Sir Henry Fox Young, an early colonial governor of South Australia, Port Augusta was incorporated as a town in 1875 and in 1878 was linked by rail to Adelaide, 191 miles (307 km) southeast; it beca...
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (United States government agency)
self-supporting corporate agency formed in 1921 by agreement between the states of New York and New Jersey for the purpose of developing and operating trade and transportation facilities in the northern New Jersey–New York City region. Twelve nonsalaried commissioners, six appointed by the governor of each state, plan...
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Port Autonome de Marseille (French government agency)
The port complex of Marseille–Fos is the largest in France and among the largest in Europe. It is administered by the Port Autonome de Marseille (“Autonomous Port of Marseille”), a financially autonomous state enterprise that is responsible for the construction, administration, and maintenance of the industrial zones at......
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Port aux Basques (Newfoundland, Canada)
town on the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is the terminal for car ferries across Cabot Strait from North Sydney, Nova Scotia...
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Port Blair (India)
town and capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, in the Bay of Bengal. It was occupied by the Japanese during World War II and was later returned to the British during the time of Lord Mountb...
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Port Books (Flanders shipping list)
...use of sails meant moving away from steering oars to a rudder, first attached to the side of the boat and then, after a straight stern post was adopted, firmly attached to that stern. By 1252 the Port Books of Damme in Flanders distinguished ships with rudders on the side from those with stern rudders....
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Port Borden (Prince Edward Island, Canada)
town, Prince county, southern Prince Edward Island, Canada, on Northumberland Strait. Named Carleton Point by the English surveyor Samuel Holland in 1765, it was renamed (1916) after Sir Robert Laird Borden, then the...
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Port Brabant (Northwest Territories, Canada)
hamlet, Inuvik region, northwestern Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Beaufort Sea. It is situated 20 miles (32 km) east of the Mackenzie River delta and 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Inuvik. Tuktoyaktuk (an Inuit word for “reindeer that looks like caribou”) was established in 1936 as a ...
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Port Byron Junction (Illinois, United States)
city, Rock Island county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, some 160 miles (260 km) west of Chicago. With Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, it forms a complex known as the Quad Cities. The area was long ...
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Port Clarence (Equatorial Guinea)
capital of Equatorial Guinea. It lies on the northern edge of the island of Bioko (or Fernando Po) on the rim of a sunken volcano. With an average temperature of 77 °F (25 °C) and an annual rainfall of 75 inches (1,900 mm), it has one of t...
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Port Clinton (Illinois, United States)
city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on Lake Michigan, it is a suburb of Chicago, located some 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown. Potawatomi Indians were recent inhabitants of the area when settlement of the site began in 1834. The community was called St. Johns and then ...
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Port Colborne (Ontario, Canada)
city, regional municipality of Niagara, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies a few miles south of Welland on the north shore of Lake Erie at the upper entrance of the Welland Ship Canal and opposite Humberstone Lo...
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Port Cooper (New Zealand)
town and port, eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is situated within the Christchurch urban area and on Lyttelton Harbour, an inlet of the southwest Pacific extending 8 miles (13 km) into the north shore of Banks Peninsula. The har...
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Port Dalhousie (Ontario, Canada)
...from a small settlement established in 1790 to become the centre of the Niagara fruit belt and the largest city on the canal. In 1961 St. Catharines annexed the neighbouring towns of Merritton and Port Dalhousie, more than doubling its population and stretching its boundaries from the Niagara Escarpment (south) to Lake Ontario (north) and.....
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Port Davey (Tasmania, Australia)
inlet of the Indian Ocean, indenting southwestern Tasmania, Australia. It is a glacial fjord, its entrance flanked by Point St. Vincent (north) and Hillyard Island. The inlet comprises two main arms, the shorter extending north to form Payne Bay and the other stretching 20 miles (32 km) east along Bathurst Channel to Bathur...
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Port Davey Foreshore Preserve (national park, Tasmania, Australia)
national park in southwestern Tasmania, Australia, covering more than 2,350 square miles (6,080 square km). Together with the adjacent Franklin–Lower Gordon Wild Rivers National Park (established in 1981), Southwest forms the core of the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage site...
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port de bras (ballet)
(French: “carriage of the arms”), in classical ballet, both the general arm movements of a dancer and a designated set of exercises designed to improve the quality of these movements. The port de bras of classical ballet is meant to be a graceful and harmonious accent to the movements of the legs....
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Port Dickson (Malaysia)
town, south-central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, on the Strait of Malacca. The port, now in decline, was used extensively during the late 19th century to export the tin mined in the foothills of the state. Now chiefly a seaside resort with a fishing village, it is connected by rail with the inland entrepôt of Seremban,...
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Port Edward (China)
port city, eastern Shandong sheng (province), eastern China. It lies on the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula....
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Port Elizabeth (South Africa)
port city, Eastern Cape province, southern South Africa. It lies on Algoa Bay of the Indian Ocean, its deepwater harbour enclosed by a breakwater. Port Elizabeth was established ...
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Port Elliot treaty (American Indian history)
In 1855 Seattle signed the Port Elliott treaty, ceding Indian land and establishing a reservation for his people. During the Indian uprising of 1855–58 against whites, he stayed loyal to the settlers. Grateful residents decided to name their growing town after the chief, but Seattle objected on the grounds that his eternal sleep would be interrupted each time a mortal mentioned his name.......
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Port Essington (inlet, Northern Territory, Australia)
inlet of the Arafura Sea, indenting the north shore of the Cobourg Peninsula, at the extreme north of the Northern Territory, Australia. About 19 miles (30 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, it was surveyed in 1818 by Captain Phillip Parker King of the Royal Navy, who named it for Admiral...
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Port Everglades (harbour, Florida, United States)
The Intracoastal Waterway is connected to Fort Lauderdale’s Bahia Mar Yacht Basin and the deepwater port, Port Everglades, which is the deepest harbour in Florida. Port Everglades is a port of entry and ranks with the ports at Jacksonville and Tampa in volume of cargo handled. Fort Lauderdale itself is interlaced with recreational waterways and has extensive boating facilities, which have g...
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Port Fairy (Victoria, Australia)
town, Victoria, Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Moyne River, on a headland east of Portland Bay (an inlet of the Indian Ocean). A settlement established there in 1835 was called Belfast for a time until it was renamed for a ship, the Fairy, that had sheltered in its harbour in 1810. Port Fair...
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Port Folio, The (American periodical)
...moved to Philadelphia, but his job ended when Pickering was dismissed by President John Adams in 1800. Undaunted, Dennie, with Asbury Dickins, began in 1801 a politico-literary periodical called The Port Folio, which became the most distinguished literary weekly of its time in America. He contributed his own “Lay Preacher” essays and commissioned original manuscripts from.....
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Port Foster (harbour, Deception Island)
...Peninsula. It is a sunken volcano, the crater of which, about 10 miles (16 km) in diameter, forms one of the best anchorages in the Antarctic. The harbour, known as Port Foster, has been the central port of entry for British claims in the Antarctic since 1910. The island has also served as a whaling and seal-hunting station from 1906 to 1931 and, during......
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Port Gibson (Mississippi, United States)
city, seat (1803) of Claiborne county, southwestern Mississippi, U.S., 28 miles (45 km) south of Vicksburg, near the Mississippi River on a curve of the Bayou Pierre. It was founded in 1788 by Samuel Gibson, whose cotton plantation became a meeting place for early river travelers. The city has many antebellum buildings, which can be viewed d...
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Port Gibson, Battle of (American history)
...Civil War lends credence to General Ulysses S. Grant’s remark that it was “too beautiful to burn,” said as he marched his Union troops through to Vicksburg after a victory (known as the Battle of Port Gibson) on May 1, 1863, over the Confederates at nearby Magnolia Church. The ruins of Windsor (23 Corinthian columns) are all that remain of what was considered to be the stat...
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Port Gilbert (Wisconsin, United States)
city, seat (1836) of Racine county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Milwaukee. Miami and Potawatomi Indians were early inhabitants of the region. Founded in 1834 as ...
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Port Harcourt (Nigeria)
port town and capital of Rivers state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River (an eastern distributary of the Niger River) 41 miles (66 km) upstream from the Gulf of Guinea. Founded in 1912 in an area traditionally inhabited by the Ijo people, it began to serve as a port (named for Lewis Harcour...
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Port Harcourt, University of (university, Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
port town and capital of Rivers state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River (an eastern distributary of the Niger River) 41 miles (66 km) upstream from the Gulf of Guinea. Founded in 1912 in an area traditionally inhabited by the Ijo people, it began to serve as a port (named for Lewis Harcour...
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