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36 unusual facts about naevus flammeus aka "port-wine stain" variety


Aliyah Bet

When the deportation ships docked in Port-de-Bouc, the passengers refused to disembark after the French government announced that it would only allow the immigrants off the ships if they consented.

Barbeau Abbey

The church of Fontaine-le-Port has preserved some 16th-century wooden sculptures from the abbey church, and a chapel in the same village is also said once to have been the abbey's.

Battle of Garris

Facing south, three divisions held the line of the Adour River from Bayonne to Port-de-Lanne.

Battle of Orthez

On the north side of the allied-occupied area, the French marshal kept a strong garrison in the fortress of Bayonne and held the line of the Adour River to Port-de-Lanne with three divisions.

Canaan, Haiti

Canaan, Haiti, is a suburb of Croix-des-Bouquets in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a large number of victims are settling after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake that hit the country in January.

Charles Terres Weymann

He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 2 August 1889 of an American father and Haitian mother.

Édouard Woolley

Born in Port-au-Prince, Woolley began his studies in his native city with Carmen Brouard (piano and harmony), Élisabeth de Pesquidoux-Mahy (singing), Werner Jaegerhuber (German opera/lieder), Raoul Nargys (acting), and Henriette Perret-Duplessis (singing).

Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon

There she studied possession trance as it was practiced among Haitians in Barche, Furcy and Port-au-Prince;.

Jean Sony

Jean Sony Alcénat (born 23 January 1986 in Port-au-Prince), commonly known as Sony, is a Haitian footballer who plays as a right defender for Liga I club Petrolul Ploiești.

Juan Huarte de San Juan

He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Lower Navarre) toward the end of 1529 or beginning of 1530, and was educated, first, at the university of Huesca.

Lawrence Susskind

Susskind was born with a prominent vascular birthmark (of the naevus flammeus aka "port-wine stain" variety) on his right cheek.

Marcel Blaguet Ledjou

Since November 2006 Ledjou is the Director of Communication and External Relations at the Town Hall of Port-Bouët, Abidjan, and holds a Master's degree in Communication, Administration and Management from the Université de Cocody in Abidjan.

Marseille tramway

It will then run along new track west to Quatre Septembre on the south side of the Vieux-Port.

Maxime Le Marchand

Le Marchand was born in the port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany and began his football career with his hometown club, US Saint-Malo.

Musée national de la Marine

It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort (Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort), Toulon and Saint-Tropez.

Paul Mba Abessole

The election was followed by serious violence in Port-Gentil.

Phillip Brutus

Phillip J. Brutus (born November 26, 1957, in Port-au-Prince) is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives.

Port-au-Prince

The city is the birthplace of internationally known naïve artist Gesner Abelard, who was associated with the Centre d'Art.

The metropolitan area is subdivided into various districts (communes).

The National Museum is located in the grounds of the palace, established in 1938.

Port-au-Prince school collapse

Grace Divine School collapse - A partial school collapse on November 12, 2008.

Port-Cartier

In 1915, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, visited the Rochers River area to evaluate its forest potential.

Port-Cros

The photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is working on the restoration of the fort at Port-Man.

Between the two World Wars, the island was visited by numerous figures of the artistic and literary world: Jean Paulhan, André Malraux, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Paul Valéry and Jules Supervielle.

Port-Daniel railway station

The Port-Daniel railway station is a staffed Via Rail station on Route 132 in Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec, Canada.

Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst

Charlottetown was named the capital of St. John's Island by King George III in 1768, it being named after his Consort, Queen Charlotte.

A mutiny took place among the garrison at Fort Amherst in 1762, resulting in courts-martial at Louisbourg for the main people involved; demotions and hundreds of lashes by cat o'nine tails and one execution.

Port-Louis, Morbihan

They later built additional warehouses across the bay in 1628, at the location which became known as "L'Orient" (the Orient in French).

Port-Noir

Marina like harbor situated at the end of Quai Gustave-Ador and the begin of the Quai de Cologny in Geneva.

Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII

Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII are a French Rugby League club based in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées Orientales in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Port-wine stain

Port-wine stains were shown to be caused by a somatic activating c.548G→A mutation in the GNAQ gene.

Portreeve

The term derives from the word port (which historically meant a market town or walled town, and not specifically a seaport); and the word reeve, meaning a high-ranking supervisory official.

Rosieria

The type species R. delsatei was named in 1997 on the basis of a few isolated postcanine teeth found in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in northeastern France.

Saint-Pierre-en-Port

The growth of fishing in Newfoundland also took sailors away from the village to spend 9 months at sea.

Seymour Etienne Bottex

He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.

Thomas Viloteau

Thomas Viloteau (born 1985) is a French classical guitarist who began his studies at the age of 12 in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône in southern France.