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  Portia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Portia creates semantic web solutions which turns data into information.
Portia de Rossi (born January 31, 1973) is an Australian actress best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke...
Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Portia.html   (163 words)

  
  Portia
This Portia, a rich heiress, is obliged by the terms of her father's will to set a puzzle to all prospective suitors, forcing them to choose between three caskets: of gold, silver and lead.
The lesser-known Shakespearean Portia is the wife of Brutus in Julius Caesar.
This Portia, though she makes only one appearance, comes across as a loyal and devoted wife, a worthy confidante for her husband, and her role is the only substantial woman's part in the play.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Portia.html   (187 words)

  
 Ariel (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ariel (air'-ee-əl, IPA /ˈɛəriəl/) is a moon of Uranus discovered on 24 October 1851 by William Lassell.
Because the moon's south pole was pointed towards the Sun, only the southern hemisphere was photographed.
Cordelia Ophelia Bianca Cressida Desdemona Juliet Portia · Rosalind ;· Cupid  · Belinda ;· Perdita · Puck ;· Mab
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariel_(moon)   (530 words)

  
 H. R. Coursen  MERCHANT OF VENICE Wolf Moon Press A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion
Portia replies, “Yes, yes, it was Bassanio—as I think he was called.” It is a very funny line because it captures her excitement at the memory and her immediate recognition that she has betrayed that excitement.
For this Portia to lose the line is for the production to lose the fairytale quality of the beautiful princess waiting on her mountain for her prince to come.
Portia is robbed of her “Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer,” an aside she delivers in response to Bassanio’s protestations of love for Antonio.
www.wolfmoonpress.com /Movies/murkymerchant.htm   (2360 words)

  
 Astronomy For Kids -The Moons of Uranus - KidsAstronomy.com
Over millions of years, the dust and ice on the outside of the moons was aloud to escape, while the dust and gas on the inside, or between the moons was not.
A shepherd moon is a moon that orbits a planet on the edge of its rings.
Rosalind is the eighth moon from the surface of the planet Uranus.
www.kidsastronomy.com /uranus/moons.htm   (1004 words)

  
 CABARET HOTLINE BREAKING NEWS - Portia Nelson Passes at Age 80
Portia, herself, was a singer during the Golden Age of cabaret (in the '50s), and she appeared as a nun in the movie "The Sound of Music."
Portia was honored earlier this year at the MAC/ASCAP Songwriters' Showcase and was present at that event to receive the applause and recognition from her fans.
Portia was a very special person to me. Even as her body and spirit deteriorated, she was able to find ways to encourage myself and those around her.
www.svhamstra.com /SADNEWS/SadNews2001PortiaNelson.shtml   (1561 words)

  
 Portia
The seventh moon in order of distance from Uranus.
It is named after Portia, the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, and is also known as Uranus XII.
Portia was discovered by Voyager scientist Stephen P. Synnott from images sent back by Voyager 2 on Jan. 3, 1986 and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U1.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/Portia.html   (92 words)

  
 Portia - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Portia is the seventh-furthest known moon from the planet.
Action: PORTIA If to do were…, Good: PORTIA How far that little…, Marriage: PORTIA For a light wife…, Mercy: PORTIA The quality of mercy…,...
Simpson Miller, Portia (1945-), Jamaican politician, Prime Minister of Jamaica (2006-2007), the first woman to hold that position.
au.encarta.msn.com /Portia.html   (157 words)

  
 Kill Rock Stars' Slim Moon Leaves KRS for Nonesuch | Pitchfork
Moon elaborated, "Well, David had mentioned in passing to me that they were thinking of adding a new AandR person, which was sort of monumental for them, and they were in no hurry, but it was an idea they were considering and were probably going to do because things are going well there.
Moon, for the most part, won't be assisting her except on the most basic level-- "If she has questions about 'What did you promise this band?' or 'How did this royalty calculation work?'-- stuff like that, just to make sure that everything runs smoothly, I will answer those questions," Moon told us.
Moon said, "She really wants to be careful to maintain the legacy that it's had and to be the artist-friendly, value-driven label that we've been.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/news/38909/Kill_Rock_Stars_Slim_Moon_Leaves_KRS_for_Nonesuch   (1758 words)

  
 Portia
Of the 15 moons it is the 2th closest to Uranus, with a standoff distance of 66,100 km.
Portia one of the small moons, and is about as wide as a county at 110 km (70 miles) long.
Portia one of the small moons, and is about as wide as a county.
www.windows.ucar.edu /uranus/moons/portia.html   (229 words)

  
 Portia (moon) - New WikiPedia , the free encyclopedia
The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
Portia is the second-largest inner satellite of Uranus after Puck.
The ratio of axises of the Portia's prolate spheroid is 0.8 ± 0.1.
www.globalwarming-awareness2007.wroclaw.pl /en/wiki/Portia_(moon).html   (273 words)

  
 Uranus' Small Moons
Portia is the seventh of Uranus' known satellites:
Of the 10 new Uranian moons discovered by Voyager 2, only Puck was discovered soon enough that the observation schedule could be adjusted to get images.
These small moons are all very dark; Uranus' larger moons are much brighter.
seds.lpl.arizona.edu /billa/tnp/uramoons.html   (425 words)

  
 Uranus
Ariel, Belinda, Bianca, Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Miranda, Oberon, Ophelia, Portia, Puck, Rosalind, Titania, and Umbriel
The two largest moons, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel in 1787.
The moons Cordelia and Ophelia act as shepherd satellites for the epsilon ring.
www.arcetri.astro.it /~baffa/Astro/solar/uranus.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Portia (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portia (por'-shə, IPA: [ˈpɔrʃə]) is an inner satellite of Uranus.
The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
Portia · Rosalind ;· Cupid  · Belinda ;· Perdita · Puck ;· Mab
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portia_(moon)   (155 words)

  
 Portia Weather | Portia AR
Portia, AR climate is hot during summer when temperatures tend to be in the 80's and very cold during winter when temperatures tend to be in the 30's.
Temperature variations between night and day tend to be moderate during summer with a difference that can reach 22 degrees Fahrenheit, and moderate during winter with an average difference of 21 degrees Fahrenheit.
The annual average precipitation at Portia is 50.53 Inches.
www.idcide.com /weather/ar/portia.htm   (221 words)

  
 Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html   (1335 words)

  
 Current Energies of the 7th Moon Cycle
The moon starts with kin 222 White Magnetic Wind (Attracting the purpose of the communication of the Spirit) and finishes with kin 249 Red Lunar Moon (The challenge to stabilize the power of universal waters and purification).
Being a white year, the first day of the moon is always white and the last red, analog colours.
As far as Aura-Soma is concerned it's the energy of B17 (the Earth) the Troubadour 1 Bottle, and B7 (the Resonant tone) The Garden of Getzemani, the Path of the Star and of the Chariot, outward journey.
www.asiact.org /archive/mayan/7_moon_current_energies.asp   (605 words)

  
 Portia (astronomy) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Portia (astronomy) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Overview: Portia is a moon which revolves around the planet Uranus.
This moon maintains an average distance from Uranus of 66,097 km.
encarta.msn.com /Portia_(astronomy).html   (155 words)

  
 Associazione Lunar Explorer Italia - Uranus and His Moons
Uranus and Ariel: the Eclypse24 visteCaption NASA originale:"This image is a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow.
The white dot near the center of Uranus' blue-green disk is the icy moon Ariel.
Though such "transits" by moons across the disks of their parents are commonplace for some other Gas Giant Planets, such as Jupiter, the satellites of Uranus orbit the planet in such a way that they rarely cast shadows on the Planet's Surface.
www.lunexit.it /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=49&page=7   (1610 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: Pointless Questions: Slim Moon
Slim Moon: In first grade there was this game called "war" where half the boys lined up on one end of the field and half of the boys lined up on the other side and then they ran into each other screaming at the top of their lungs and then had a big fight.
Slim Moon: They are pretty old but I still like some of their new songs, especially the Keith Richards pseudo-reggae ones.
Slim Moon: No one should ever be allowed to wear leather pants except ladies in R&B trios such as Destiny's Child, 3LW, or TLC before Left Eye died.
www.splendidezine.com /departments/pq/slimmoon.html   (1067 words)

  
 Astrology of Unconventional Planets
Jupiter's Moons -- As of 2005 Jupiter was known to have 63 satellites.
The type of orbits of the outer moons suggests that they were once asteroids or fragments of larger bodies smashed by asteroids or comets.
JULIET, Moon of Uranus -- The name "Juliet" is a feminine form of "Helios", remeniscent of Romeo's saying "It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun".
erikthevermilion.com /unconventional.planets.htm   (1856 words)

  
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portia Why she'd gone there was beyond him, but he had to portia get to her before Tommy-Ray, or the bastard would take her.
portia rossi As he raced to the front door, he saw the rossi last of the dust storm snatched by a force inside, and portia dragged out of sight.
The power that had taken it was portia rossi visible the moment he stepped over the threshold; he saw portia the last, chaotic trails of the cloud being pulled into a portia rossi maelstrom which was claiming the entire house.
hometown.aol.com /MarcyHawkins26/portia-rossi.html   (879 words)

  
 Astronomy Answers: From the Astronomical Dictionary
A moon of 135 km diameter at about 66,100 km from the planet Uranus.
The gravity at its surface is about 0.0025 times as strong as on Earth.
The moon goes once around its planet in about 12.3 hours.
www.phys.uu.nl /~strous/cgi-bin/glossary.cgi?l=en&o=Portia   (64 words)

  
 Bodegas Faustino PORTIA PRIMA Ribera del Duero DO
Named after the 7th moon of Uranus Portia, and in Latin meaning 'Offering', is a selection of premium red wines from Bodegas Faustino.
Portia Prima is the second wine to be released by the Bodega from their winery in Ribera de Duero.
Portia Prima is the result of a meticulous selection of Tinta Fina del Pais (Also known as Tempranillo), from the the best plots in the vineyard.
www.everywine.co.uk /every-wine/51056-bodegas-faustino-portia-prima-ribera-del-duero-do.html   (610 words)

  
 The Star of Bethlehem
So here were the two planets dedicated to the origins of Rome and the sovereignty of Augustus merging together in a “marriage” during one of the most glorious years in the history of Rome, and in the constellation of Leo, at that.
It was celebrated as a time when faith and trust were supposed to be given to the guardian and ruler of the Empire of Rome, whether human or divine (and in the case of Augustus, there was little distinction).
The day of the eclipse, after the executions, it was said that the moon that night was red with the blood of the murdered rabbis.
sciastro.net /portia/articles/thestar.htm   (7957 words)

  
 Uranus - Moons 3
Oberon is the outermost moon of Uranus and the second largest.
The moon, Portia, was discovered by Voyager 2 in 1986.
One theory about this moon's history is that it may once have been hot enough to be a liquid.
library.thinkquest.org /C002416/uranus/moons3.htm   (422 words)

  
 Paste Magazine :: News :: Slim Moon To Leave Kill Rock Stars For Nonesuch (Page 1)
They are just a small portion of hundreds of bands that got their start on the renowned independent record label Kill Rock Stars, started by Slim Moon in 1981.
After 16 years with KRS, Moon has decided to change directions and leave Olympia, Wash., for New York to become an A&R guy for Nonesuch, according to Pitchforkmedia.com.
Moon told Pitchfork he didn’t make the change due to unhappiness; rather, he just wanted to “push himself to a whole new frontier” without going to a major record label.
www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=3355   (229 words)

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