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Porro (other)
Porro is a Colombian musical style and dance. Porro may refer also to: Places *Porro Bluff, Graham Land, Antarctica * Porro, Kenya, a village Other uses *Porro (surname) Porro is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Arturo Porro (athlete) (1890 - 1967), Italian athlete * Arturo Porro (sport shooter) (1919–1990), Uruguayan sports shooter *Benedetta Bianchi Porro (1936–1964), Italian Roman Catholic ... * Porro prism, a type of prism arrangement in a set of binoculars that serves to invert a visual image * Porron or porró, a traditional Spanish glass wine pitcher {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porro
The porro is a musical style and dance from the Caribbean region of Colombia. It is a Colombian cumbia rhythm that developed into its own subgenre. It was originally a folkloric expression from the Sinú River area that evolved into a ballroom dance. It is played mostly by brass bands or orchestras, and danced in couples. This genre influenced some of the greatest Latin American bands of the 1960s, with songs such as "Pachito E'ché" (originally from Wolfgang Alejandro Tovar García, then interpreted by Benny Moré), "Se va el Caimán", and "Me voy pa'Cataca" (originally from José María Peñaranda, then interpreted by La Sonora Matancera.) Types The two types of folkloric porro are porro palitiao and porro tapao. Porro palitiao The term "palitiao" is derived from the way the bombo drum is struck along its rim to produce the sound of a cowbell. This type of porro is associated with the Sinú River, and its surrounding cities and towns. Most would agree on San Pelayo, Colom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porro Bluff
The Arctowski Peninsula () is a peninsula, long in a north-south direction, lying between Andvord Bay and Wilhelmina Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache. The name, for Henryk Arctowski of that expedition, was suggested by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for this previously unnamed feature. Its north tip is Cape Anna, a prominent black cape rising to 280 m. It is immediately west of Anna Cove, located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Louise Island Louise Island is a island in Haida Gwaii, in British Columbia, Canada, off the east coast of Moresby Island. It was named for Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. Louise Island is located east of Moresby Islan ... and the entrance to Hugershoff Cove, and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northeast of Mount Fourcade. It was named after Mme. Ernest (Anna) Osterrieth, who gave financial assistance to the Gerlache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porro, Kenya
Porro is one of the many valleys that seat on the floor of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. It is located a few kilometers outside Maralal at an estimated altitude of , and has made this town a tourist destination for its characteristic drylands, rock massifs and view of the Great Rift Valley escarpments. During the short rains, Porro Valley transforms the Great Northern Wilderness into a green expanse of cedar trees References {{reflist Villages in Kenya Cities in the Great Rift Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porro (surname)
Porro is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Arturo Porro (athlete) (1890 - 1967), Italian athlete * Arturo Porro (sport shooter) (1919–1990), Uruguayan sports shooter *Benedetta Bianchi Porro (1936–1964), Italian Roman Catholic *Chiara Porro, Australian diplomat * Eduardo Porro (1842–1902), Italian obstetrician * Enrico Porro (1885–1967), Italian wrestler * Francisco Bartolomé Porró y Reinado, O.F.M. (1739–1814), Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church *Girolamo Porro (c. 1520–after 1604), Italian engraver *Blessed Giovannangelo Porro (1451-1505), Italian Roman Catholic priest and hermit * Maria Corina Porro Martinez (born 1953), Spanish politician *Ignazio Porro (1801–1875), Italian inventor of optical instruments *Count Luigi Renato Porro-Lambertenghi (1780-1860) Italian nationalist, businessman, and politician *Pedro Porro (born 1999), Spanish footballer *Pierre Jean Porro (1750–1831), French guitarist, composer and music publisher * Ricar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porro Prism
In optics, a Porro prism, named for its inventor Ignazio Porro, is a type of ''reflection prism'' used in optical instruments to alter the orientation of an image. Description It consists of a block of material shaped like a right geometric prism with right-angled triangular end faces. In operation, light enters the large rectangular face of the prism, undergoes total internal reflection twice from the sloped faces, and exits again through the large rectangular face. When the light enters and therefore exits the glass at normal incidence, the prism is not dispersive. An image travelling through a Porro prism is rotated by 180° and exits in the opposite direction offset from its entry point. While a single Porro prism can be constructed to work as well as a roof prism, it is seldom used as such. Therefore, to reduce the cost of production for a Porro prism, the edge of the roof is usually left out. Sometimes only one small window as an entrance surface and one window as e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
