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Look up: Portland

  1. Portland
    [sheep] The Portland is a sheep breed that takes its name from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. This breed is raised primarily for meat. ==History== Once common all over Dorset, the breed was once one of the rarest in Britain and is still at risk. It nearly became extinct in the 1970...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(s

  2. Portland
    The USS Portland was an American Portland Class heavy cruiser of 9800 tons displacement launched in 1932. The USS Portland was powered by eight Yarrow boilers providing a top speed of 32.7 knots. She carried a complement of 581; four aircraft and was armed with nine 8 inch guns; eight 5 inch anti-ai...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. Portland
    [disambiguation] People who have represented South Dakota in the United States Senate. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(d

  4. Portland
    [n] - freshwater port and largest city in Oregon 2. [n] - largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Portland
    the product obtained by finely pulverising clinker produced by calcining to incipient fusion, an intimate and properly proportioned mixture of argillaceous and calcareous materials, with no additions subsequent to calcination excepting water and calcined or uncalcined gypsum; obtained by crushing of...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Portland
    noun largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Portland
    town and port, southern Victoria, Australia. It lies on Portland Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. The bay was first visited by Europeans in 1800 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/97

  8. Portland
    city, seat (1760) of Cumberland county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The state`s largest city, it is the hub of a metropolitan statistical area that ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/97

  9. Portland
    city, seat (1854) of Multnomah county, northwestern Oregon, U.S. The state`s largest city, it lies just south of Vancouver, Washington, on the ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/97

  10. Portland
    Portland commonly refers to: Portland may also refer to: ==Places and establishments== ===Australia=== ===Canada=== ===Hong Kong=== ===Ireland=== ===Jamaica=== ===New Zealand=== ===United Kingdom=== ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland

  11. Portland
    Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. There is a naval base in Portland harbor.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A083

  12. Portland
    [Dorset] Portland was a railway station on the Portland Branch Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened with the Weymouth and Portland railway, one of the constituent parts of a complex line, on 1 September 1902, the station was moved to a new site on the opening of the ex...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(D

  13. Portland
    [shipwreck] The Portland is a historic shipwreck in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The S.S. Portland was built by New England Shipbuilding Co. in 1889 and sank in the Portland Gale of 1898 off of Cape Ann, killing 192 people.. The shipwreck site was located in 2002 and was added to the National ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(s

  14. Portland
    [HM Prison] HM Prison Portland is a male Young Offenders Institution, located in the village of The Grove (on the Isle of Portland), in Dorset, England. Portland YOI prison is operated by Her Majesty`s Prison Service. ==History== The original Portland Prison opened in 1848 and held convict a...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(H

  15. Portland
    [Or.] {nutshell|title=Reliable biomedical sources| |General or systematic reviews in reputable medical journals |Widely recognised standard textbooks written by experts in a field} ...
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  16. Portland
    [steam tug 1875] The Portland was a steam tug built in Portland Oregon. This vessel was also known as Clayoquat and Phoenix. == Career== Portland was launched on April 9, 1875 in Portland, Oregon. The vessel was operated for 15 years on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, and then was transf...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(s

  17. Portland
    [minor league baseball team] Portland was the name of a professional baseball team that a member of the fleeting Oregon State League in 1893. Portland represented Portland, Oregon and played against teams from Albany, Independence, and Oregon City. In the early stages of the team, H. Hammond...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(m

  18. Portland
    [film] Portland is a 1996 Danish drama film written and directed by Niels Arden Oplev. It was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(f



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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