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Portia (other)
Portia may refer to: Biology * ''Portia'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders *'' Anaea troglodyta'' or Portia, a brush-footed butterfly *Portia tree, a plant native to Polynesia Medication A form of birth control made of ethinylestradiol/levonorgestrel Other uses *Portia (moon), a moon of Uranus * Portia Club, a women's club in Payette, Idaho/USA * Portia, Missouri, a community in the United States * PORTIA portfolio-management software from Thomson Financial * HMS ''Lennox'' (1914) or HMS ''Portia'', a ''Laforey''-class destroyer launched in 1914 People with the given name * Portia Arthur (born 1990), Ghanaian author, writer and reporter *Porcia Catonis, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus (fictionalized as a character in William Shakespeare's play ''Julius Caesar'' as "Portia") * Portia Dawson, American actress *Portia de Rossi or Portia DeGeneres, Australian-born actress *Portia Doubleday, American actress * Portia Geach (1873–1959), Australian artist and fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia (spider)
''Portia'' is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders (i.e., they are araneophagic or arachnophagic). They are remarkable for their intelligent hunting behaviour, which suggests that they are capable of learning and problem solving, traits normally attributed to much larger animals. Taxonomy and evolution The genus was established in 1878 by German arachnologist Friedrich Karsch. The fringed jumping spider ('' Portia fimbriata'') is the type species. Molecular phylogeny, a technique that compares the DNA of organisms to construct the tree of life, indicates that ''Portia'' is a member of a basal clade (i.e. quite similar to the ancestors of all jumping spiders), and that the ''Spartaeus'', '' Phaeacius'', and '' Holcolaetis'' genera are its closest relatives. Wanless divided the genus ''Portia'' into two species groups: the ''schultzi'' group, in which males' palps have a fixed tibial apophysis; and the ''kenti'' group, in which the apophysis of each palp in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Simpson-Miller
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice, from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017. While serving as Prime Minister, Simpson-Miller retained the positions of Minister of Defence, Development, Information and Sports. She has also served as Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sport, Minister of Tourism and Sports and Minister of Local Government throughout her political career. Following her election win in December 2011, when her party defeated the Jamaica Labour Party, she became the second individual since independence to have served non-consecutive terms as prime minister, the first having been Michael Manley. The People's National Party under her leadership lost the 25 February 2016 general election by onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neverwhere (novel)
''Neverwhere'' is the companion novelisation written by English author Neil Gaiman of the television serial ''Neverwhere'', written by Gaiman and devised by Lenny Henry. The plot and characters are exactly the same as in the series, with the exception that the novel form allowed Gaiman to expand and elaborate on certain elements of the story and restore changes made in the televised version from his original plans. Twitter. Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at (in the novel) rather than under Battersea power station (the TV series). This is because the management of Harrods changed their minds about proposed filming. The novel was originally released by BBC Books in 1996, three episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. He is known best for his series ''Shadows of the Apt'', and for his novel '' Children of Time''. ''Children of Time'' was awarded the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2016. Author James Lovegrove described it as "superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio". Biography Adrian Czajkowski was born in Lincolnshire in Woodhall Spa on 4 June 1972. He is of Polish descent. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. He then qualified as a legal executive. He was employed as a legal executive for the Commercial Dispute Department of Blacks, Solicitors, of Leeds. In late 2018 he became a full time writer. He lives in Leeds with his wife and son. In 2008, after Tchaikovsky had spent fifteen years trying to get published, his novel ''Empire in Black and Gold'' was published by Tor Books (UK)an impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of Time (novel)
''Children of Time'' is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work was praised by the ''Financial Times'' for "tackling big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio." It was selected from a shortlist of six works and a total pool of 113 books to be awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction of the year in August 2016. The director of the award program said that the novel has a "universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Clarke himself." In July 2017, the rights were optioned for a potential film adaptation. The next in the series, '' Children of Ruin'', was published in 2019, followed by ''Children of Memory'', in 2022. Plot In a far-future, Dr. Avrana Kern is the head of a science team that has terraformed an uninhabitable planet then deliberately released a genetically designed virus to speed the evolution of monkeys. Their plan goes wrong when the monkeys' ship burns up upon entry, leaving t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Faces Life
Portia Faces Life, is an American soap opera first broadcast as a radio series from 1940 to 1953, and then on television for a single season in the mid-1950s. It began in syndication on April 1, 1940, and was broadcast on some stations that carried NBC programs, although it does not seem to have been an official part of that network's programming. The original title was ''Portia Blake Faces Life''. Stations airing the series, according to newspaper advertisements included WNAC in Boston, WLS in Chicago, KRLD in Dallas, KGW in Portland, Oregon and KFI in Los Angeles. The series became part of the CBS Radio Network, on October 7, 1940 and its title was changed to ''Portia Faces Life''. It was sponsored by the company General Foods. ''Portia Faces Life'' continued on CBS until April 25, 1941. Three days later, it moved to NBC where it continued until March 31, 1944. It then returned to CBS as a summer series from April 3 to September 29, 1944. Heard on NBC from October 3, 1944 to J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. A. S. Knowles, Jr., author of "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties," wrote that the book "still seems to capture he author'stotal sensibility more completely than her other works." Frederic I. Carpenter wrote in ''The English Journal'' that the novel "essentially ..described the struggle of all these lonely people to come to terms with their world, to become members of their society, to find human love—in short, to become mature." - CITED: p. 317 Title The title comes from the poem "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod". "Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunger Games
''The Hunger Games'' is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The first three novels are part of a trilogy following teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and the fourth book is a prequel set 64 years before the original. The novels in the trilogy are titled ''The Hunger Games'' (2008), '' Catching Fire'' (2009), and '' Mockingjay'' (2010). Each was adapted for film, establishing ''The Hunger Games'' film series, with the film adaptation of ''Mockingjay'' split into two feature-length motion pictures. The first two books in the series were both ''New York Times'' best sellers, and ''Mockingjay'' topped all US bestseller lists upon its release. By the time the film adaptation of ''The Hunger Games'' was released in 2012, the publisher had reported over 26 million ''Hunger Games'' trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books. ''The Hunger Games'' universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia Gibbons
This is a list of characters on the animated television series ''The Mighty B!''. __TOC__ The Higgenbottoms Bessie Higgenbottom Bessie Kajolica Higgenbottom is a 9¾-year-old, geeky, bespectacled "Honeybee Scout" characterized by her extreme hyperactivity and unshakably dedicated work-ethic. Ambitious, infuriatingly-persistent, and highly sociable, Bessie is determined to earn every badge in existence on the firm belief that achieving this goal will transform her into a superhero known as the Mighty Bee (and it was implied in one episode involving a meeting between Bessie and the founder of the Honeybee Scouts that this theory actually may be true), showing obsessive devotion to the scouting troop and any mission that she establishes for herself in attaining her goal. Pure-hearted and friendly, Bessie is oblivious to other people's dislike of her, blind to the bratty Portia Gibbons's exclusion and belittling of her regardless of the severity of her insults. In spite of this fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of The Heart
''The Death of the Heart'' is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law. Bowen called it a 'pre-war' novel, "a novel which reflects the time, the pre-war time with its high tension, its increasing anxieties, and this great stress on individualism. People were so conscious of themselves, and of each other, and of their personal relationships because they thought that everything of that time might soon end." Plot summary At the beginning of the novel, Portia moves in with Anna and Thomas Quayne after her mother dies. Portia is Thomas's half sister. Mr. Quayne (Thomas's father) had an extramarital affair with Irene (Portia's mother) while married to Thomas's mother. When Irene became pregnant, and Mrs. Quayne learned of it, she was adamant that he do what was the right thing: so, at his own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia (The Merchant Of Venice)
Portia is a female protagonist of William Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice''. A rich, beautiful, intelligent heiress of Belmont, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose among three caskets. If he chooses the right casket, he wins Portia's hand in marriage. If he chooses the incorrect casket, he must leave and never woo any other woman in marriage. She is shown to think little of various foreign noblemen of similar rank who are most likely to seek her hand in marriage and still less of two suitors who seem to attempt her father's assigned task. Instead she favours a young but impoverished Venetian noble, Bassanio, who is also a soldier and a scholar. Bassanio goes on to choose the right casket. Portia is also fond of wordplay and proverbs, frequently quoting and coining them, which was considered a sign of wisdom and sharp wit in Elizabethan era. Some suggest that the character of Portia was based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge
Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge, who wrote under the name Portia, (1803-1825) was a Nova Scotian poet who has been called the "highly-gifted songstress of Acadia." Tonge's poetic talent, combined with the tragic circumstances of her early death, built her reputation as a pioneer of Nova Scotian literature. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Tonge was the daughter of William Cottnam Tonge, an orator. Her grandmother Martha Grace Cottnam Tonge and great grandmother Deborah Howe Cottnam were both poets. Although Tonge probably received little formal education, she was part of an educated family living in a university town. In 1825, Tonge sailed to Demerara in what is now Guyana to join her father. Soon after her arrival in South America, she died of a tropical disease Tropical diseases are diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropical and subtropical regions. The diseases are less prevalent in temperate climates, due in part to the occurrence of a cold season, which control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
