The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

The wife of convicted bank robber Lawrence G. Huntley was arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., last week and will be returned to Portland to face charges of assault and robbery, Portland detectives said Friday.

She was arrested by Phoenix Police after they received the indictment papers from Portland detectives.

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

In 1978, Love was arrested in Portland for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, Oregon, spending the following two years in and out of juvenile hall and numerous foster homes.

When Love was 17, she began an on-and-off relationship with Rozz Rezabek of the band Theatre of Sheep after the two met at The Metropolis in Portland, Oregon, where Love occasionally worked as a DJ.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

This was what we call today " modern " Portland cement.

But in the early 1930s it was soon discovered that, while Portland cement had a faster setting time it was not as durable, especially for highways, to the point that some states stopped building highways and roads with cement.

For example, in 2005, the Archdiocese of Portland was sued as part of the Catholic priest sex-abuse scandal.

Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart.

They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father.

One of the first was an Oregon man with a minor police record named D. B. Cooper, contacted by Portland police on the off-chance that the hijacker had used his real name, or the same alias in a previous crime.

Once the Siege was over, the fortifications were rebuilt and, in the following century, the walls were lined with Portland limestone.

More important than Hurst's numbers was his sense of timing: not only did he score the first ( in the home opener against Portland ) and the last ( in the playoffs against Vancouver ) goals of the season, 5 of his 8 goals were game-winners.

Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.

* Jack McCloskey ( 1925 -), Basketball coach ( Penn, Wake Forest, Portland Trail Blazers ), GM of two-time NBA Champion Detroit Pistons, Member Michigan Sports Hall of Fame

Buxton Road, part of the main route between Weymouth and the Isle of Portland is named after Sir Thomas Buxton, where he was Member of Parliament for 19 years.

Bentinck was a younger son of the 4th Duke of Portland, and elected a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for King's Lynn in 1828, which constituency he represented, in succession to his uncle, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, until his death.

He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, and was elected to sit in the Parliament for Weobley in 1761 before entering the Lords when he succeeded his father as Duke of Portland the next year.

In his first years in Parliament Robinson declined offers of junior ministerial posts, out of deference to his patron Hardwicke, who was an opponent of the Prime Minister, the Duke of Portland.

Most of the important civic and administrative buildings which survive from 18th century Dublin, known then as " the second city of the Empire ", are of Portland stone, including City Hall, Dublin ( 1779 ), the Irish Houses of Parliament ( 1767 ), the Custom House ( 1791 ) and the General Post Office ( Dublin ) ( 1818 ).

Seats in her honour have been established in Parliament House Gardens, Melbourne and in Portland, Victoria.

He sat in Parliament 1780-84, became a lord of the treasury in the Portland cabinet in 1783, and was dismissed in 1798 from the lord lieutenancy of the West Riding for toasting the “ sovereign English people ” in terms displeasing to the Crown.

Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, KG ( 1 March 157713 March 1634 / 1635 ), was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James I and Charles I, being one of the most influential figures in the early years of Charles I's Personal Rule and the architect of many of the policies that enabled him to rule without raising taxes through Parliament.

On Friday he will go to Portland for the swearing in of Dean Bryson as Multnomah County Circuit Judge.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.

Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.

The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.

Over 400 Portland firms contributed funds for the maintenance of Junior Achievement headquarters here.

* Beyaz Arif Akbas, " Khakassia: The Lost Land ", Portland State Center for Turkish Studies, 2007

For example, when Whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.

The cement, commonly Portland cement, and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, serve as a binder for the aggregate.

Carbonates are widely used in industry, e. g. in iron smelting, as a raw material for Portland cement and lime manufacture, in the composition of ceramic glazes, and more.

The most common use for Portland cement is in the production of concrete.

In some cases, such as the Portland International Film Festival, there is an entry fee, but it is waived for filmmakers within a certain region, such as the Northwestern United States.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

* John Nash ( basketball ), executive for several teams in the NBA, most recently General Manager of the Portland Trail Blazers

The city of Portland, Maine, known for its numerous nationally renowned restaurants, was ranked as Bon Appétit magazine's " America's Foodiest Small Town " in 2009.

Notable examples include Samuel Adams of the Boston Beer Company in Boston ( even though the recipe for the beer does not come from New England ); Sea Dog Brewing Company of Bangor ; Shipyard Brewing Company of Portland ; and Smuttynose Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

* Portland ( HM Prison ), a prison for male young offenders on the Isle of Portland

* Portland, Indiana, a former name for Fountain, Indiana, in Fountain County near the western border of the state