PORI

pôˈrē, Swed. Björneborg, city (1998 pop. 76,375), Western Finland prov., SW Finland, near the mouth of the Kokemaënjoki River. Timber and metals are exported, and chemical and wood products are manufactured. A deepwater harbor complex was opened in 1985 for the importation of oil and coal, but due to silting the city has become farther from the harbor waters. Pori was chartered in 1564 and was initially dominated by the Hanseatic League. By 1840 the city had the largest commercial fleet in Finland.

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books on: Pori  - 131 results

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The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
Book by Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Jazz--Bio-Bibliography, Jazz--Discography
...Gil Evans , Mingus. Fests: Stockholm 62; Pori 91; North Sea 91; various Scand. fests...Fests: NJF; MJF; Montreux; Cannes; Pori; tour. eastern and western Eur. as part...Lugano founder 62; Prague 66; MJF; Pori 67; Ljubljana 70; Bologna 73. Comps...
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Conversations in the Rainforest: Culture, Values, and the Environment in Central Africa
Book by Richard B. Peterson; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Environmental Ethics--Africa, Central, Environmental Protection--Africa, Central, Human Ecology--Africa, Central
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A Guide to World Fairs and Festivals
Book by Frances Shemanski; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Fairs--Directories, Festivals--Directories
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Suomi: Finland
Book by Matti Poutvaara; Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, 1960
Subjects: Finland--Description And Travel--Views
...detruit en 1528. Satakunta pori bjOrneborg Porin perinteet juontavat...invanare. Der erste Vorlaufer der Stadt Pori war ein Handelsplatz namens Telja, der...nach seinem gegenwartigen Ort verlegt. Pori hat etwa 47 000 Einwohner. The early...
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Area Handbook for Finland
Book by Theodore L. Stoddard, William K. Carr, Shaheen Dil, John Johnson, Carlo La Porta, Nils Ørvik, Douglas K. Ramsey, Kirk H. Stone, Carla Lofberg Valenta; U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974
Subjects: Finland
...coastal cities of Helsinki, Hanko, Turku, Pori, and Vaasa. One-tenth of the population...line connecting Imatra, Tampere, and Pori. The major manufacturers of transport equipment...of a line from Helsinki to Tampere to Pori. Within that area too are the main plants...
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Silla Buddhism and the Hwarang Segi Manuscripts
Journal article by Richard D. Mcbride Ii; Korean Studies, Vol. 31, 2007
Subjects: Buddhist literature--Evaluation, Buddhist manuscripts--Evaluation, Criticism--Analysis, Criticism--Religious aspects, Historical fiction--Analysis, Literary criticism--Analysis, Literary criticism--Religious aspects
...provide Wongwang with a younger brother Pori TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII (b. 573...the author of the Hwarang segi. The name "Pori" appears to have been intended as a transliteration...younger brother was called the sramana Pori, namely, my Kim Taemuns great-grandfather...
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Totemism, Animism and North Asian Indigenous Ontologies
Journal article by Morten A. Pedersen; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 7, 2001
Subjects: Ethnology--Social aspects, Mythology--Social aspects, Totemism--Social aspects
...animism, and the depiction of animals. In Animal, anima,, animus (eds) M. Seppali, J,-P. Vanhala L. Weintraub, 181-207. Pori: Pori Art Museum. Jagchid, S. P. Hyer 1979. Mongolias culture and society. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. Jochelson...
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Drum and Voice: Aesthetics and Social Process on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea *
Journal article by James Leach; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Social aspects, Papua New Guinea--Social aspects, Social psychology
...animism and the depiction of animals. In Animal, anima, animus (eds) J.-P. Vanhala, L. Weintraub M. Seppala, 181-207. Pori: FRAME/Pori Art Museum. ----- 2000. The perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill. London: Routledge...
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A Collection of Jaffna Tamil Riddles from Oral Tradition
Journal article by Dieter B. Kapp; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Folklore--Sri Lanka, Jaffna, Sri Lanka--Social aspects, Riddles--Sri Lanka
...dowry). THE RIDDLES2 NATURE 1a) culaku niraiya-c colam-pori; vitiya-p parttal, onrum illai. atu enna? A winnowing-fan full...it? atu natcattirankal. The stars. b) culaku niraiya colam-pori vitintal, onrum illai. atu enna? (culaku=culaku; colam=colam...
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Venny Snellman, Finnish Nurses, and Rockefeller Foundation Support, 1929-1956
Journal article by Marianne Tallberg; Nursing History Review, Vol. 14, 2006
Subjects: Charitable foundations, Finland, Health education, Hospitals, Leadership, Nurses, Public health, Snellman V, World War II
...start a new school for public health nursing in the small town of Pori, with 21,000 inhabitants. Snellmans plans for enlarging and fortifying...shortage of nurses and public health nurses delayed the start of the Pori school until 1945.30 World War II and Its Aftermath Germany...
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To Love Him Madly
Magazine article by Sharon Fitzgerald; American Visions, Vol. 14, April 1999
Subjects: African American musicians--Conduct of life, Ellington, Duke--Appreciation, Jazz music--Personalities
...Club," SJMO. TBD; La Spezia, Italy. (202) 357-2000. July 17-18: "Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club," SJMO. Pod Jazz Festival; Pori, Finland. (202) 357-2000. July 20: "Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club," SJMO. Juan-les-Pins; Nice, France. (202) 357-2000...
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Conserving Britain's Last Wild Ponies: Ponies Have Been Roaming Freely in Britain for as Long as Four Millennia. Just a Century Ago, an Estimated 10,000 Untamed Animals Were an Integral Part of Our Remotest Landscapes. but Today, Relatively Few Survive, with Potentially Alarming Consequences for Britain's Rich Biodiversity
Magazine article by David Anthony Murray; Geographical, Vol. 80, June 2008
Subjects: Ponies--Protection and preservation
...grazing can mean the difference between wildlife thriving or vanishing completely, explains Charles Morgan, project officer for Pori Natur a Threftadaeth (the Welsh Grazing Animals Project). The effects of past overgrazing cant necessarily be reversed by just...
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All-Woman Swing Band Jazzes Up the Genre
Magazine article by T.L. Ponick; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, June 3, 1996
Subjects: Diva (Music group)--Personalities, Maricle, Sherrie--Performances, Women musicians--Performances
...Skitch Henderson and the Boys Choir of Harlem - and at the Hollywood Bowl for the Playboy Jazz Festival and in Finland for the Pori Jazz Festival. They perform regularly at the Chestnut Room in New Yorks Tavern on the Green and have cut a compact disc, Somethings...
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A New Start for Finnish Ballet: The New Artistic Director of Finnish National Ballet Is Building Modern Choreography on the Foundation of the Past
Magazine article by Elizabeth Kendall; Dance Magazine, Vol. 72, August 1998
Subjects: Ballet companies--Production and direction, Finnish National Ballet--Production and direction, Uotinen, Jorma--Production and direction
...amateur entertainer, to tuberculosis. At five, he asked his dressmaker mother, "Please buy me the theater in the town I grew up in Pori, on Finlands west coast, so I can put all the relatives to act on the stage." At ten, he became a child actor in that theater...


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Ysgall Mewn Tir Pori Yn Medru Achosi Colled Fawr I Ffermwyr
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 18, 2004
Ysgall Mewn Tir Pori Yn Medru Achosi Colled Fawr I Ffermwyr...yn medru ei achosi, yn enwedig mewn tir pori. Yn Ol y ffigurau a gyhoeddwyd yn ddiweddar...mae yna dros ddwy filiwn a hanner o dir pori yn y DU yn cael ei orchuddio gan y chwyn...
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Duffy Dons 'Daisy Dukes' for Finnish Leg of Festival Tour
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 17, 2009
Subjects: Music festivals
...to the stage at the 44th International Pori Jazz Festival in western Finland yesterday...performance at the Kirjurinluoto Arena in Pori forms part of Duffys Summer Festival Tour...suit on stage at the 44th International Pori Jazz Festival at the Kirjurinluoto Arena...
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Saved from His Own Mother! Crowds Rescue Baby Elephant as His Mother Tries to Crush and Drown Him
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 23, 2007
...the speed with which the African elephant Pori, 26, gave birth to her 250lb baby - and...afterwards, seemed intent on killing him. Pori - who crushed her first baby to death at...like a helpless ragdoll. Then, suddenly, Pori began rolling him through the sand of her...
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A VICIOUS KILLER .. OR JUST A DUMBO? Elephant 'Attacks' Baby ..Zoo Insists It's Normal
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 23, 2007
...But zoo workers claimed African elephant Pori was lovingly, yet clumsily, trying to stimulate the 250lb calf. So, is Pori a would-be baby-killer or a caring mum...Friedrichsfelde Animal Park in Berlin insisted Pori was intent on murder. One, Karola Ebert...
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Rhaid Cael Geifr Ar Y Creigiau Geirwon; LLYTHYRAU
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 14, 2008
Subjects: Liquor, Liquors
...magu ar y fferm sydd ai hanifeiliaid yn pori Tryfan a Chwm Tryfan. Tran fachgen ifanc...heddiw. Ffrind pennaf ir amaethwyr syn pori ei ddefaid ar greigiau geirwon Eryri ywr...i lecynnau gwyrdd ar y creigiau gan eu pori ir bon. Gan nad oes bwyd iw weld yn y mannau...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pori  - 3 results

 
 
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Pori
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PORI po re, Swed. Bjorneborg, city (1998 pop. 76,375), Western Finland prov., SW Finland, near the mouth of the Kokemaenjoki...opened in 1985 for the importation of oil and coal, but due to silting the city has become farther from the harbor waters. Pori was chartered in 1564 and was initially dominated by the Hanseatic League . By 1840 the city had the largest commercial...
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Bjorneborg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BJORNEBORG Finland: see Pori . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Finland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include Espoo , Hameenlinna , Joensuu , Jyvaskyla , Kemi , Kotka , Kuopio , Lahti , Lappeenranta , Oulu , Pori , Tampere , Turku , Vaasa , and Vantaa . Finnish and Swedish are both official languages, and about 6% of the population...


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