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4 unusual facts about Portal


Elachista loriella

The species is named for Mrs. Lori Ortiz to honour her contribution in the kitchen of the Southwestern Research Station in Portal, Arizona.

Leila Denmark

Born in Portal, Georgia, Denmark was the third of 12 children born to Elerbee and Alice Cornelia Hendricks Daughtry.

Portal Ranger Station

The Portal Ranger Station, also known as Portal Work Station, in Coronado National Forest near Portal, Arizona was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Portal, Georgia

Dr. Leila Denmark (1898–2012), oldest practicing pediatrician in the world


AirRoad

This allowed consignment tracking and proof of delivery imagery to be made available to clients on demand via an internet portal.

Ashly Rae

More recently she appeared as Kelly in the 2010 movie The Portal, starring Michael Madsen and Stacy Keach.

Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable

The structures now located at El Portal were originally built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.

Bucky O'Hare

Willy DuWitt – engineer, a pre-teen human from San Francisco who enters the Aniverse via a portal between the ship's photon accelerator and his own accelerator at home.

CaGrid

The caGrid Portal was a Web-based application built on Liferay that enables users to discover and interact with the services that are available on the caGrid infrastructure.

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language, an XML-based markup language used with the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative portal application

Chris Halliwell

His mistrust leads Leo to spy on Chris and find out that he has the ability to create a time portal (though not able to control it) where he and Chris are stuck (risking to be eaten by dinosaurs and captured by Confederate Americans who take them for Yankees) because of him.

Cisnădie

The layout of the church, composed of a small basilica with three naves, as well as the decoration of the carved western entrance portal, dating from 1260, attest to the strong influence of Rhineland architecture.

Collectabillia

com is the first-of-its-kind online portal in India that sells and auctions memorabilia of sporting legends Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Saina Nehwal, Yuvraj Singh, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Christiano Ronaldo, among others.

Danny the Street

In the pages of Teen Titans, during the One Year Later time-shift event in the DC Universe, a portal to Danny was seen in Dayton Manor; Crazy Jane was also seen through the portal.

Defence of the Reich

Air Chief Marshal Portal demanded that the British share the losses the 8AF had been taking by assuming responsibility for two of the largest and most distant targets, Pölitz and Merseburg-Leuna.

Doe Boy Fresh

Actor Tom Bower, from Die Hard 2 and The Hills Have Eyes, makes an appearance as the first portal viewer.

Eugeniusz Dębski

He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, Fenix and Portal.

Health-EU portal

Health-EU Portal is an official web portal of the Health and Consumers Directorate-General that facilities the access of public-related health information to European Union citizens.

Hřensko

In addition, the town is a portal to many attractions nearby in the České Švýcarsko National Park, including a gorge through which the Kamenice River flows and the Pravčická brána, a natural stone bridge which was featured in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Javier Carballo

In 1999 creates Loyalt-eCommerce, Internet portal that will become later the professional services website of the company of telecommunications Vodafone.

Karl Gomes

Karl has won numerous awards at Cannes, Webby, One Show, New York Festivals, Asia Pacific Adfest, Abby and AAAI, including the 1st Indian Cyber Shortlist at Cannes 2006 for Timesjobs, the 1st Indian Webby award for a simple and intuitive multilingual portal for Life Insurance Corporation of India, the 1st Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes 2008 and India’s first Silver Pencil at the One Show Interactive 2009 for an Online campaign “highlighting what's important” for Luxor Highlighters.

Kingsferry Bridge

It was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol & Co. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers.

Louis Boekhout

Boekhout's art work can be found in public collections like at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as well as in private collections worldwide such as Collection Le Portal Art Tour, and even at the White House.

Luminis

Luminis Platform, an online portal and web services environment specialized for universities, offered by SunGard Higher Education as a PaaS solution

Lycos Europe

Sold assets included the sale of the Danish portal Jubii, the Lycos Chat - worldsbiggestchat (which at the time was both the Lycos & Yahoo Chat in Europe) was transferred to the new operator Noesis Systems Ltd, on March 9, 2009 and later rebranded as the Noesis Chat, Love@Lycos was sold to a Swedish company.

Meettheboss

Covering eight channels, including Leadership, Sales, Innovation, Technology, Marketing, Strategy, Human Capital and Governance, the channel features a mixture of one-on-one interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs, business leaders and entrepreneurs, talking-heads programmes and a Meet The Ninja leadership training portal.

Microsoft Live Labs

Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

Münchsmünster Abbey

In 1819 the city magistrate of Landshut bought archivolts and walls, which were integrated into construction of the cemetery portal, complete in 1820.

Murugavel Janakiraman

Murugavel’s other initiatives include Elite Matrimony, PrivilegeMatrimony, more than 150 retail outlets across India, over 350 community-based matrimony portals, Indiaproperty, a leading property portal in India and MatrimonyGifts, a gifting portal specializing in wedding gifts.

Novell exteNd

With the release of Novell Identity Manager 3, the components of the portal services in exteNd were rebranded into the IDM User Application.

Planet Half-Life

In addition to the news, Planet Half-Life hosts extensive, in-depth collections of information regarding Half-Life, Half-Life 2 (along with Portal), Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat.

Quantum Conundrum

Kim Swift was one of the developers of Valve Corporation's 2007 Portal video game, an extension of her student team project Narbacular Drop from the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Roger Bean

In 2007, The Marvelous Wonderettes received the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Musical Intimate Theatre, and played a record-setting 18 months at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.

Rotaries in Massachusetts

Dawes Island Park Massachusetts Avenue (Massachusetts Route 2A) Peabody, and Garden Streets in Harvard Square, in an elongated configuration due to portal into Harvard Square Bus Tunnel

Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey

The main portal has an architrave with bas-reliefs commissioned by abbot Guillaume and realized in 1019-1020 in white marble from Céret.

St. Mark's Church, Zagreb

The Gothic composition of the portal consists of fifteen effigies placed in eleven shallow niches.

Steven Woods

In 1998 Woods co-founded Pittsburgh-based voice-portal infrastructure company Quackware with Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici.

Super-Adaptoid

Mar-Vell tricks the Adaptoid into copying his nega-bands, which act as a portal to the alternate dimension the Negative Zone.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

The Martyred Presidents

At the center of the altar, a viewing portal displays the portraits of three U.S. PresidentsAbraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley—each victims of assassination.

TheCommunity.com

Founded in 1999 as a portal for non-profit organizations, TheCommunity.com provides news, projects and interaction with global leaders including the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Universal Licensing System

The Universal Licensing System (ULS) is the Federal Communications Commission's online search portal for wireless licensing and research.

Vincent J. McCauley

McCauley, in assuming the new responsibility, moved from Fort Portal to Nairobi.

Web portal

The early hosted portal companies such as Hyperoffice.com or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling in addition to the distribution of corporate data.

West

In Ancient Egypt, the West was considered to be the portal to the netherworld, and is the cardinal direction regarded in connection with death, though not always with a negative connotation.

Worknet

This is further complicated by the fact that many stakeholders operate in a number of closed networks (often called portals) at the same time which requires participants to have several profiles for every portal they participate in.

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal is a fantasy novel written by Aaron S. Rosenberg and Christie Golden, and published by Simon & Schuster Pocket Star Books, a division of Viacom.

Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal

Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO (9 April 1885 – 6 May 1949) was a British politician.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1942, created Viscount Portal in 1945 and awarded the GCMG in 1949.

Xavier's Security Enforcers

Years later, he opened a portal through time before traveling to Earth-616, the present setting of the X-Men universe, with a group of mutant criminals.

Zyurangers

As well as the Volkswagen they used for travel, Clockle also made special glasses that allowed anyone who wore them to see a portal into Dora Cockatrice's dimension.


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