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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 10186
Land area (2000): 15.611826 sq. miles (40.434441 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.180526 sq. miles (3.057547 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.792352 sq. miles (43.491988 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62900
Located within: New Hampshire (NH), FIPS 33
Location: 43.067038 N, 70.772838 W
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Portsmouth
Housing Units (2000): 10248
Land area (2000): 10.769958 sq. miles (27.894062 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.287746 sq. miles (0.745259 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.057704 sq. miles (28.639321 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64304
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.743186 N, 82.965436 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45663
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Portsmouth
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.273238 sq. miles (0.707683 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.273238 sq. miles (0.707683 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64200
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.650730 N, 95.519669 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51565
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Portsmouth
Housing Units (2000): 41605
Land area (2000): 33.160443 sq. miles (85.885150 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.460868 sq. miles (34.863486 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 46.621311 sq. miles (120.748636 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64000
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.831298 N, 76.345641 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23701 23702 23703 23704 23707 23709
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Portsmouth
Wikipedia
Portsmouth is a city in Hampshire, England.
Portsmouth may also refer to:
Portsmouth was a borough constituency based upon the borough of Portsmouth in Hampshire. It returned two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.
" Portsmouth" is a single released by musician Mike Oldfield in 1976 (see 1976 in music). It is Oldfield's highest charting single in the United Kingdom, charting at number 3. It's his arrangement of an English folk tune of the same name.
"Portsmouth" is a traditional English folk dance tune, similar to an (Irish or Scottish) hornpipe melody. It is sometimes referred to as the Portsmouth Hornpipe.
"Portsmouth" appeared in the 11th edition of John Playford's The Dancing Master in 1701. It is also one of the three arrangements on which English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based his Sea Songs, originally arranged for military band in 1923 as the second movement of his English Folk Song Suite, and subsequently re-arranged for full orchestra in 1942 by the composer.
In the 1950s it was used as the signature tune for BBC television series of Billy Bunter.
In 1976 English musician Mike Oldfield released his arrangement of "Portsmouth". It is Oldfield's highest charting single in the United Kingdom, charting at number 3. This version is frequently used by football club Portsmouth F.C..
Portsmouth is a large port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Located mainly on Portsea Island with a population of 205,400, it is the United Kingdom's only island city, and is also the only city in the British Isles with a greater population density than London. Portsmouth is situated south-west of London and south-east of Southampton. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Southampton and the towns of Havant, Waterlooville, Eastleigh, Fareham and Gosport. With about 860,000 residents, it is the 6th largest urban area in England and the largest in South East England, forming the centre of one of the United Kingdom's most populous metropolitan areas with a population in excess of one million.
The city's history can be traced to Roman times. A significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth has the world's oldest dry dock and was England's first line of defence during the French invasion in 1545. Special fortifications were built in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe. By the early-19th century, Portsmouth was the most heavily fortified city in the world, and important in the expansion of the British Empire throughout Pax Britannica. The world's first mass production line was set up in the city, making it the most industrialised site in the world. During the Second World War, the city was a pivotal embarkation point for the D-Day landings and was bombed extensively in the Portsmouth Blitz, which resulted in the deaths of 930 people. In 1982, the city housed the entirety of the attacking forces in the Falklands War. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia left the city to oversee the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997.
Portsmouth is home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission). Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at . The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle.
The city and its football club are nicknamed "Pompey". HMNB Portsmouth is the largest dockyard for the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The local authority, Portsmouth City Council, was given unitary authority status in 1997. The city is the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Usage examples of "portsmouth".
It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.
Madrid and the main ports, Cadiz, Cartagena and Barcelona, just as there was between London and Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Soon after his arrival General Phillips sallied out from Portsmouth, went up the James River burning and plundering on both banks, carried off the negroes and shipped them to the West Indies, destroyed the magazines at Manchester, under the nose of Lafayette, who remained on the north side of the river, and on the 9th of May took possession of Petersburg, where his army was to make a junction with that of Lord Cornwallis, advancing from Wilmington.
Portsmouth and Gosport, and such like sea-ports, were almost deserted, and the active bustle and variety which but now reigned among their inhabitants had given way to desolation and abandonment: at least such was the account I had received from recent visitors.
High water springs, with Portsmouth harbour and its lakes joined in one expanse, with moored craft, royal and merchant, clustered down the Portsea side, at Portchester, and down the Forton and Gosport shores.
Portsmouth OH reports four kilograms of enriched uranium hexafluoride missing and then suffers a cataclysmic fire that forces evacuation of six downwind counties.
Brighton, Exeter, Kidderminster, Portsmouth, Ayr, Folkestone, Manchester, Sheffield, Aberystwyth, York, all these and many more will greet me on my first tour, as well as the capital itself, where I have several dates.
Hawk was wearing a white leather trenchcoat and aviator sunglasses and leaning on his car when I met him in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn at Portsmouth Circle, just south of the bridge over the Piscataway River.
Polly Treherne, the daughter of a bumboat-woman who plied her trade in Portsmouth Harbour.
Portsmouth where she went alongside the sheerlegs to have her two masts put in.
The Chief Supt had received a full brief on the forthcoming operation aboard The Pride of Portsmouth, and had indicated his approval.
Sometimes he raced in panic down the streets of New Portsmouth with sweatered Guardsmen pounding after him, their knives flashing fire.
THE AMERICAN MINISTER, his wife, and two American servants departed London for the last time on Sunday, March 30, 1788, by coach for Portsmouth, where they were to sail on the American ship Lucretia, bound for Boston.
Dutch schuyts, and even a slim corvette hastening down south, perhaps to Portsmouth.
This resulted in skyrocketing prices for what tea was available, which on Portsmouth was tantamount to cause for a declaration of war, if only the party responsible for the catastrophe could be positively identified.