Vinho verde producers were also famous for forcing their vines to grow high off the ground, allowing more grapes to grow at the expense of the quality, using anything from trees to fences to telephone poles.
From the earth's poles to the tropics, from the oceans to the planet's most fertile farming regions, global warming could present daunting challenges.
The 11 imams, sheiks and religious teachers from nine countries met a Holocaust survivor and Poles whose families risked execution to save Jews from the Nazis, in the Polish capital's Nozyk Synagogue as part of the tour.
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Half-time substitute Roger Guerreiro brilliantly chipped Wales goalkeeper Boaz Myhill 10 minutes from time to secure victory for the Poles.
In the process, the company claimed to have generated nearly half a billion in savings for utilities by sourcing, procuring and managing purchases of everything from office furniture and software to wood poles and substation services.
With the Industrial Internet, everything from the biggest machines generating power to transformers on power poles can be connected to the Internet, providing status updates and performance data.
Of course, any points based system would not apply to migrants from Europe, like Slough's Poles.
"While our results are still very new, our thinking is that the mercury detected by Lamp from the Grail site might be related to an enhancement at the poles caused by mercury atoms generally hopping across the surface and eventually migrating toward the cold polar regions, " said Kurt Retherford, the chief scientist for Lamp.
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Next to the blue gate, four Iranian flags fly from white poles.
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In very much the same way that the Swedes do about the Norwegians, Americans used to about Poles and the Irish themselves do about those from County Kerry.
The six cables that pass from one pylon to another are each borne by two insulators attached to the poles.
In 2002, Ms Daniels, who has triplets aged 10, and Caroline Hamilton, from London, became the first all-female team to walk to both geographic poles.
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Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.
So when he rushed back from a Spanish holiday all tanned and wide-eyed to become prime minister, most Poles were cautiously hopeful.
Some critics still touch on the old ugly themes: this month the Daily Mail agreed to remove some negative articles from its website following a complaint from the Federation of Poles in Great Britain.
Those resources consist of a lot of rock, a lot of sunlight that could be used to generate electricity to process the rock and, at least in the dreams of many lunar scientists, some 20 billion tonnes of frozen water believed to lie at the bottoms of craters near the poles, where it is sheltered from the evaporative effects of sunlight.
Today, US military weather satellites return daily data on the state of the sea-ice at both poles, but the NSIDC team is keen to retrieve as much information as possible from the early, experimental Nasa Earth-observers.
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