• The Portland Gherkins are a collegiate woodbat baseball team based in Portland, Oregon. They are charter members of the Wild Wild West League, a short-season...
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  • City Baseball would operate a farm team called the Portland Gherkins for the 2020 season. The Gherkins would play games against the Pickles, WCL opponents...
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  • a developmental farm club of their own known as the Portland Gherkins. The Pickles and Gherkins were joined by the previously independent Gresham GreyWolves...
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  • (Wild Wild West League), consisting of four teams: The Portland Pickles, The Portland Gherkins, The Gresham Greywolves, and The West Linn Knights. Beginning...
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  • league consisted of four teams the Portland Pickles, Gresham Greywolves, West Linn Knights and Portland Gherkins. Games ran from July 11 to August 7...
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  • 1998 was demolished. The site is now occupied by 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin"); the stained glass survived and can be seen at the National Maritime...
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  • 1976–1979, 1983, 2012–present A Brisbane punk rock band. The Leftovers Portland, Maine, US 2002–2011 A pop punk/power pop band. Leftöver Crack Alphabet...
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  • entrance to the city. The tower would be a similar shape to the Swiss Re "gherkin" tower in London. St Pauls is part of the Ashley ward of Bristol City Council...
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    the main running lines in York Road via Chicheley Street. The choice of Portland Stone cladding, and bronze framed individual upright windows were denounced...
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    Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Philadelphia, Phoenix–Sky Harbor, Pisa, Pittsburgh, Portland (OR), Prague, Providenciales, Reykjavík–Keflavík, Riga, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão...
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    and public buildings, such as the National Gallery, are constructed from Portland stone. Some areas of the city, particularly those just west of the centre...
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  • television personality. Norwich was born at the Alfred House Nursing Home on Portland Place in Marylebone, London, on 15 September 1929. He was the son of the...
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    Shanghai Beachy Head 109 1871 Shanghai North Foreland 107 1872 Shanghai Portland 120 1873 Shanghai Deal 116 1874 Woosung Deal 118 1875 Woosung Deal 122...
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    and King Street in London). This site was later featured in the Druce-Portland case sequence of trials of 1898–1907. This became Tussaud's first permanent...
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    off-centre, is a stone cross that is known as Chelsea War Memorial. Made of Portland stone, and designed by an unknown architect, the cross has a capped head...
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    2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "Portland House". Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2007...
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    double height entrance is flanked by tall, narrow gabled red brick and Portland stone blocks in a 17th-century Dutch style. The adjacent buildings to the...
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    and built in 1924. It has 3 giant bronze-spandrelled windows framed by Portland stone pilasters, with a projecting stone cornice above. It will be demolished...
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    fine concrete, utilising crushed Portland stone; they were made by Portcrete Limited at Portland, Isle of Portland, Dorset, and transported to London...
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    where the fire was stopped. The Monument comprises a Doric column built of Portland stone topped with a gilded urn of fire. It was designed by Robert Hooke...
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    a popular side dish, as are a range of pickles that typically include gherkins, onions and eggs. In table-service restaurants and pubs, the dish is usually...
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    from red brick with dressings of Portland stone, with the exception of the tower, which is built entirely from Portland stone. The three principal facades...
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    Giacomo Leoni's Lyme Park in Cheshire. This new refaced principal façade (of Portland stone) was designed to be the backdrop to the Victoria Memorial, a large...
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    Sir Horace Jones' death. The Red House, with its imposing red brick and Portland stone façade, was built between 1898 and 1899 for the London Central Markets...
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    The Barbican Estate and the Postmodern skyscraper 30 St Mary Axe 'The Gherkin'. After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, the layout...
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    from the abbey's history, including Purbeck marble, Reigate stone, and Portland stone. The project took five years and cost £22.9 million. The galleries...
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    an extra dimension by the contrast between the pink brick and the pale Portland stone quoins, frames and banding. Further diversion is added by the circular...
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    Grove Westbourne Park Royal Oak Paddington Edgware Road Baker Street Great Portland Street Euston Square King's Cross St Pancras Farringdon Barbican Moorgate...
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    Circus and Oxford Circus, to All Souls Church. From there Langham Place and Portland Place continue the route to Regent's Park. The street's layout was completed...
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    known as Old Deer Park. In 1637 he appointed Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland as keeper of the new park for life, with a fee of 12 (old) pence a day...
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