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2 unusual facts about Pori


Imperfect Harmonies

A world tour in support of the album began August 7th in Pori.

Sachtleben Chemie

In September 2008, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Kemira Oyj, of Finland, combining Rockwood's titanium dioxide and functional additives activities (with production based in Duisburg, Germany) and Kemira's titanium dioxide business (with production at Pori, Finland).


Carl Gustaf Wolff

In 1867 the private person Carl Gustaf Wolff had more tonnage than the cities Kokkola, Jakobstad, Nykarleby, Kristinestad, Rauma and Pori put together.

Finnish Resistance Movement

The Finnish Resistance Movement is active in at least the cities of Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Oulu, Jyväskylä and Pori.

Judith Aller

After three years with Heifetz, and an impressive debut tour, Aller married a Finnish musician, Ilkka Talvi, and relocated to Finland, residing first in Helsinki and subsequently in Pori.

Kottiyoor Temple

The Puffed rice(Pori or Malaru) is prepared at “Pullancheri Illam”, and handed over to the temple from Narasimhaswamy temple, Pala, Kottayam district.

Otto Maja

Throughout the years, he has held several successful exhibitions all around Finland, for example in Seinäjoki, Helsinki, Pori and Kouvola .

Palmgren

Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (1878, Pori – 1951, Helsinki), Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor

Pattern Oriented Rule Implementation

The Pattern Oriented Rule Implementation (PORI) table is a data structure invented by Amdocs for representation of algorithms for determining a price or set of prices in a financial transaction.

Pëllumb Jusufi

The connection between Jusufi and Pori based team was made by the father of Nooralotta Neziri who is a Finnish hurdler of Macedonian Albanian descent.

Pori Brewery

In 1970's and 1980's Pori Brewery was also manufacturing soft drinks like Pepsi and Teem under the license from PepsiCo.

Pori Theatre

Pori is considered as the home of Finnish-language theatre as the Finnish National Theatre gave its first audition in Pori at the Hotel Otava in 1872.


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