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The Portal (other)
The Portal may refer to: * The Portal (Antarctica), a mountain pass in the Ross Dependency * The Portal (community center), a defunct community center for LGBT African Americans in Baltimore, Maryland, US * ''The Portal'' (film), a 2014 Canadian short film * ''The Portal'' (podcast), a podcast hosted by Eric Weinstein See also * Portal (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Portal, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portal (Antarctica)
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Discovery and naming Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party of the CTAE, 1956–58. The glacier was chosen in 1957 as the New Zealand party's route from the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in support of the main expedition led by Vivian Fuchs to make the first overland crossing of the continent. Allison Glacier descends from the west slopes of Royal Society Range into Skelton Glacier. It was also the route of the four month Victoria Land Traverse 1959-1960 which ascended the Skelton Glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf to make the first entry into the deep interior of Victoria Land from the head of the Skelton Glacier to the French Adelie Land Traverse of 1958-1959 near Dumont d'Urville Station on George V Coast, and thence to the Transantarctic Mountains in the vicinity of the USARP Mountains. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portal (community Center)
The Portal was a Baltimore LGBT community center for LGBT African Americans in the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. It was owned and maintained by ''Empowering New Concepts, Inc.'' ENC, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) community based organization established in 2001 by current CEO Rickie Green. Intended as a safe place for LGBT people of color, they offered health and safety information including AIDS awareness. The Portal "promotes stronger, more effective same gender loving communities of color through access to quality healthcare and economic and educational services." They served men who have sex with men as well as women who have sex with women. History It was first opened on August 19, 2002, at 302 Park Avenue, 1st floor, and was reopened on September 16, 2004 at 16 South Calvert Street, in the heart of the Financial District, and again on September 1, 2005, at its current location at 2419 Greenmount Avenue Suites 1 and 4. In 2005 they participated in the amicus brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portal (film)
''The Portal'' is a Canadian sci-fi, fantasy, comedy short film directed and written by Jonathan Williams. The short film stars Tahmoh Penikett and Erin Karpluk. The short film has been adapted into an ongoing web series titled ''Riftworld Chronicles'' (see below), which has won numerous awards. Plot A dimension-traveling wizard gets stuck in 21st century Toronto because cell phone radiation interferes with his magic. With his home world on the brink of war, he seeks help from Kim, a travel agent who he mistakes for a great sorceress. Without his powers to prove his identity, she has trouble taking him seriously, but finally agrees to reveal the secrets of our world in exchange for a lunch date. Cast *Tahmoh Penikett as Alar, a dimension-traveling wizard *Erin Karpluk as Kim, a travel agent (in the short film), or struggling journalist (in the Riftworld series) Production ''The Portal'' turned into a web series shot in the fall of 2014. On June 20, 2014 the Independent Producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portal (podcast)
Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 26, 1965) is an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital. Education Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. In his dissertation, ''Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension'', Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions. Career Physics Weinstein left academia after stints at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory in May 2013. There he presented his ideas on a theory of everything called ''Geometric Unity''. Physicists expressed skepticism about the theory. Joseph Conlon of Oxford stated that some of the predicted particles would already have been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
