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.

Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing.

Portland cement blends are often available as inter-ground mixtures from cement manufacturers, but similar formulations are often also mixed from the ground components at the concrete mixing plant.

Portland pozzolan cement includes fly ash cement, since fly ash is a pozzolan, but also includes cements made from other natural or artificial pozzolans.

They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website

There is also a median on Reed College Place which is owned by Portland Department of Transportation and maintained by Portland Parks & Recreation.

After the season, lingering stadium issues forced the Marlins to ponder big moves with their roster and also ponder possible relocation to Las Vegas, San Antonio, or Portland.

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.

Portland may also refer to:

* Earl of Portland ( also Duke of Portland ), an English title

Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League ( NFL ), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D. C., Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.

Victor's story was also dramatized through puppetry in an ensemble theater performance also called The Wild Child by Hand2Mouth Theatre, a nonprofit theatre group in Portland, Oregon, in 2004.

* the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ( the website was also later known as " WardsWiki ");

The IWW also had a presence among waterfront workers in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eureka, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver as well as in ports in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and other nations.

From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system, and from 1932 to 1935, the BBC also produced the programmes in their own studio at 16 Portland Place.

The name " Portland cement " is also recorded in a directory published in 1823 being associated with a William Lockwood, Dave Stewart, and possibly others.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

Monarchs and members of their family have also owned in a private capacity homes and land in Canada: King Edward VIII owned Bedingfield Ranch, near Pekisko, Alberta ; The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise owned a cottage on the Cascapédia River in Quebec ; and Princess Margaret owned Portland Island between its gifting to her by the Crown in Right of British Columbia in 1958 and her death in 2002, though she offered it back to the Crown on permanent loan in 1966 and the island and surrounding waters eventually became Princess Margaret Marine Park.

This sale of teams also led to two teams folding, the Miami Sol and Portland Fire, because new owners could not be found.

A section of Portland Street, particularly between Argyle Street and Dundas Street, hosts arguably Hong Kong's most famous red light district ( serving mostly local Chinese clientele ) and a popular scene in Hong Kong films.

During the summer, the Portland Community Arts Council hosts " Thursdays on the Grand ," a free concert series every Thursday evening.

He has done simulcasts with talk hosts from other areas of the country, such as Lars Larson of AM 750 KXL in Portland, Oregon, and often does transatlantic simulcasts with James Whale on the British station, talkSPORT, and was also, until October 2007, a frequent guest host for the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show.

Their opponents would be the Portland Winter Hawks ( hosts ), Kamloops Blazers ( WHL Champs ) and the Hull Olympiques ( QMJHL Champs.

Portland Point, the southernmost point of Jamaica, is on a peninsula in Clarendon which also hosts Portland Point Lighthouse.

Located in the north-central area of Hillsboro, and west of Portland, it hosts the annual Oregon International Air Show.

In addition to its full time degree-seeking students, the University also hosts study-abroad students from select colleges across the United States including: St. Norbert College, Saint Mary's College of California, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Connecticut College, Marquette University, Hiram College, University of Denver, Emory University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Villanova University, American University, University of Portland, University of Alabama, University of Dayton, Saint Joseph's University, St. Mary's University, Bryant University, Stonehill College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Wesley College, Northeastern University, University of the Incarnate Word, and the University of Notre Dame.

Some of the clay pits used by the brickworks are now lakes and there are also two disused Portland Cement Company chalk pits, one of which is the Blue Lagoon, which hosts fishing and sailing clubs.

He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

But its long curing time of at least a month made it unpopular after World War One in the construction of highways and bridges and many states and construction firms turned to the use of Portland cement.

The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, currently dated to between AD 5 and AD 25, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.

Eventually KBOO airplay attracted many loyal fans and Portland became the epicenter of a worldwide cult phenomenon.

Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

Under the Köppen climate classification, a cool summer version of the dry-summer subtropical ( Csb ) designation, typically referred to as " Mediterranean ", is assigned to many areas of the Pacific Northwest as far north as southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, including cities such as Victoria, British Columbia, Seattle, and Portland.

According to Portland news / radio station KXL, Norman's early social positions caused a stir among many conservative Christians.

Since then ramp-meters have been systematically deployed in many urban areas including Los Angeles ; San Diego ; Sacramento ; the San Francisco Bay Area ; Fresno ; Seattle ; Denver ; Phoenix ; Las Vegas ; Salt Lake City ; Portland ; Minneapolis-St. Paul ; Milwaukee ; Columbus ; Cincinnati ; Houston ; Atlanta ; Miami ; Washington, DC ( only along Interstate 395 and Interstate 66 in Arlington County, Virginia ); Kansas City, Missouri ; and along the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Bean Call Center located in the Peck Building, a TD Bank branch, St. Joseph's Church, a vacant church owned by the Diocese of Portland, Central Maine Medical Center, in addition to many other businesses.

It was through Chet Divine's many efforts that the I-96 Freeway came to be where it is instead of away from the Portland area.

The City of Portland's Recreation Department rivals those in cities much larger than Portland and offers a large number of recreation opportunities for youth and adults, including many organized sports opportunities throughout the year.

Since Waterville Valley is considerd to be a resort town, and that many of it's people and / or visitors that are from Boston, their very own cable TV provider SkiSat Cable offers all TV stations out of Boston, Massachusetts which are not limited to WGBH-TV, WBZ-TV, WCVB-TV, WHDH_ ( TV ), WFXT, WSBK-TV, WLVI, and WBPX-TV, plus they get the NH stations which include WMUR-TV, New Hampshire Public Television, and WBIN-TV, and even 1 station from Portland, Maine which is WGME-TV.

In recent years, Scappoose has increasingly become a " bedroom " community of Portland, Oregon, with many commuting to jobs in the city.

The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

But Fox's radical position soon became too extreme for many of his followers, particularly old Whig friends like the Duke of Portland, Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Carlisle.

The injunction to " go and do likewise " has led to the " Good Samaritan " name being applied to many hospitals, such as the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.

The movie was filmed in and around Portland, Oregon with many exterior and interior scenes taking place at Ulysses S. Grant High School.

The department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham holds a number of papers relating to the 1st Duke: the Cavendish Papers ( Pw 1 ), part of the Portland ( Welbeck ) Collection, includes some of his personal papers ; the Portland Literary Collection ( Pw V ), also part of the Portland ( Welbeck ) Collection, contains many of his literary papers ; and the Newcastle ( Clumber ) Collection ( Ne ) includes some estate papers from the time of the 1st Duke, for example, relating to his purchase of Nottingham Castle.

Craig Bartlett stated in an interview that the city on the show is based on large northern cities, which includes Seattle ( his hometown ), Portland, Oregon ( where he went to art school ) and New York City ( from which many landmarks were borrowed ), also with references to Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry ; as well as Hawk Mountain near Allentown, PA, as mentioned in the Sally's Comet Episode.

Lord Titchfield was the eldest son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and Margaret Cavendish-Harley and inherited many lands from his mother and his maternal grandmother.