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  • I called the PWC Democratic Committee today just out of curiosity and they fellow on the phone hinted strongly that Porta is taking a good look at running again, as we all might expect.

    51st District 2006

  • It's 1970, and Ronnie Porta is back in Vietnam as a major and in command of his own dustoff unit.

    Brown, Harry W. 1968

  • It's 1970, and Ronnie Porta is back in Vietnam as a major and in command of his own dustoff unit.

    Groth, Wade L. 1968

  • It's 1970, and Ronnie Porta is back in Vietnam as a major and in command of his own dustoff unit.

    Gunn, Alan W. 1968

  • It's 1970, and Ronnie Porta is back in Vietnam as a major and in command of his own dustoff unit.

    Roe, Jerry L. 1968

  • Salutaris, the stile by which they crossed the stump-fence into the herb-garden or front yard, he called Porta Salutaris, as the Leech herself he had already honored by the title of

    Margaret 1851

  • They're commonly called Porta-potties here, but I like porta-loo better.

    Tell Us Your Voting Stories, Part Two 2009

  • Della Porta (more commonly known as Porta) has to be credited with having initiated this chapter of history, but his contribution was not a truly scientific one.

    OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

  • Columba, born in 521 landed with twelve of his monks at the southern extremity of the island -- ever since called Porta

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Why this lovely gateway was called the Porta della Carta (paper) is not absolutely certain: perhaps because public notices were fixed to its door; perhaps because paper-sellers frequented it; perhaps because the scriveners of the Republic worked hereabouts.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

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