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Port Townsend, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington: county seat of Jefferson County on the Quimper Peninsula, founded 1851, incorporated 1860, a Victorian seaport boom town whose railroad hopes ended in 1893; population about 10,000, home to Fort Worden State Park.
Port Vale F.C.
Port Vale F.C., English football club founded 1876 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent; plays at Vale Park (since 1950) in EFL League Two. Founding Football League member 1892, continuous member since 1919, never in the top flight, owned by Carol and Kevin Shanahan.
Port Vila
Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu on Efate island, holding about 40 percent of the national population; it was badly damaged by the 17 December 2024 magnitude 7.3 earthquake.
Port Washington power station
The Port Washington power station is a natural gas-fired plant in Port Washington, Wisconsin; its coal-fired predecessor opened in 1935 and held a world efficiency record until 1948.
Port wine
Port wine (vinho do Porto) is a Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Demarcated Region, made by adding aguardente to stop fermentation, 18-22% alcohol; world's oldest demarcated wine region, styles include Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, LBV, Colheita.
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital and chief port on the Gulf of Gonâve (French: Port-au-Prince). Founded 1749, colonial capital 1770; metro ~3 million; devastated by the 2010 earthquake and since 2024 largely controlled by gangs.
Port-aux-Français
Port-aux-Français is the main French research station of the Kerguelen Islands (49°21'S/70°13'E), TAAF, founded 1951, with 9,000 m² of buildings, 60-120 residents, a shallow-water port, and Marion Dufresne supply link.
Port-de-Paix
Port-de-Paix (Pòdepè), capital of Haiti's Nord-Ouest department on the Atlantic coast facing Tortuga; founded by French buccaneers in 1665, first capital of Saint-Domingue, devastated by fire in 1902.
Port-le-Grand
Port-le-Grand, a commune on the right bank of the lower Somme (Somme, Hauts-de-France), an ancient Gallo-Roman port and Roman villa site, birthplace of Saint Honoré, chartered 28 July 1218 by Guillaume, count of Ponthieu.
Port-Sainte-Foy
Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt, a Dordogne commune on the right bank of the Dordogne opposite Sainte-Foy-la-Grande; former deep-water river port of the 1255 bastide, with Gallo-Roman Canet mosaics, batellerie museum, Bergerac and Montravel wines.
Port-wine stain
Port-wine stain (nevus flammeus, capillary malformation) is a congenital pink-to-purple vascular birthmark present in 0.3–0.5% of infants, caused by somatic GNAQ R183Q mutations, often facial, sometimes linked to Sturge-Weber syndrome, treated with pulsed dye laser.
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena (Puerto, fortalezas y conjunto monumental de Cartagena), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1984: the walled city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, its 16th-18th century fortifications, and Castillo San Felipe de Barajas.
Porta Maggiore
Porta Maggiore, also called Porta Prenestina, is a monumental double arch in Rome where the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus aqueducts crossed two roads, built by Claudius in 52 CE.
Porta Tiburtina
Porta Tiburtina, also known as Porta San Lorenzo, is a gate in Rome's Aurelian Wall where the Via Tiburtina left the city, built around an Augustan arch of 5 BC that carried three aqueducts.
Portable air conditioner
A portable air conditioner is a wheeled, self-contained refrigeration unit that cools a single room, venting heat outdoors through an exhaust hose, usually at a window.
Portable application
A portable application is a software program that runs directly from removable media such as a USB flash drive without installation, keeping its settings with the program.
Portable Executable
The Portable Executable (PE) format, also called PE/COFF, is the Microsoft Windows file format for executables such as EXE and DLL files, introduced with Windows NT 3.1 in 1993.
Portable mass spectrometer
A portable mass spectrometer is a compact version of a mass spectrometer built for use outside the laboratory, trading some resolution and sensitivity for field use.
Portable media player
A portable media player, or MP3 player, is a battery-powered handheld device that stores and plays digital audio, video, and photos, succeeding the cassette Walkman in the late 1990s.
Portable toilet
A portable toilet, often called a porta-potty or port-a-john, is a movable, self-contained toilet with a chemical holding tank, common on construction sites and at events.
Portable water purification
Portable water purification, also known as point-of-use water treatment, is the treatment of drinking water away from a fixed supply, serving hikers, travelers, militaries, and emergency responders.
Portable X-Ray
Portable X-ray machines are movable radiography units that image patients at the bedside, in nursing homes, prisons, homes, and the field. Developed for World War I armies, they now use battery-powered digital detectors for ICU monitoring and tuberculosis screening.
Portable X-ray fluorescence
Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), also called hand-held XRF, is a non-destructive method in which a compact instrument directs X-rays at a sample to measure elemental concentrations on the spot, used in soil screening, mining, and archaeology.
Portadown F.C.
Portadown F.C., "The Ports" or "The Reds", a Northern Irish football club founded 1887, based at Shamrock Park, Portadown. Joined the Irish League 1924; four league titles including the 1989-90 breakthrough and 1990-91 double under Ronnie McFall; Glenavon is its main rivalry.
Portage County, Ohio, United States
Portage County, Ohio: northeastern Ohio county named for the Portage Path trail, county seat Ravenna, created 1807-1808 from Trumbull County; 161,791 people (2020), 487.41 sq mi, split by the Lake Erie-Ohio River divide.
Portage Lake Lift Bridge
The Portage Lake Lift Bridge, officially the Houghton-Hancock Bridge, is a double-deck vertical-lift bridge completed in 1959 that carries US-41 and M-26 between Houghton and Hancock, Michigan.
Portage Ventures
Portage Ventures is a fintech-focused venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Adam Felesky and Paul Desmarais III, operating as the fintech arm of Sagard with about US$7.0 billion under management.
Portal
Portal (2007) is Valve's first-person puzzle-platform game built from the DigiPen student game Narbacular Drop, featuring the portal gun, GLaDOS, and Chell; released in The Orange Box, it won 2008 GDC Game of the Year and sold nearly 4 million copies excluding Steam.
Portal (series)
Portal (series): Valve's first-person puzzle franchise (Portal 2007, Portal 2 2011) built on the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device and momentum-conserving portals; 22m+ sales, GLaDOS, Half-Life universe ties.
Portal (video game)
Portal is Valve's 2007 first-person puzzle game built on the portal gun, created by the DigiPen team behind Narbacular Drop, shipped in The Orange Box, and narrated by GLaDOS.