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Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition - Umbrella group set up by the residents of the Catholic/Nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown. Site contains news and information about the community and its residents.
History of Portadown Loyalists - An essay providing a history of the sectarian conflict in the city from the 17th century.
4th Portadown Scout Group - Latest scouting news and information, including camps, events, and district information.
Portadown Elim - Weekly broadcasts of sermons, prayers and services in RealAudio. Also includes bookstore, image gallery, chat, related links, and information on activities.
Portadown Boys Brigade Battalion - Details the history, latest news and events calendar for all Boy's Brigade activities within the Portadown Battalion with contact information for all local B.B. companies.
Portadown Festival - Information and results from the annual community arts event covering speech, music, drama and dance.
Derryhale Community Association - Organisation supporting the sustainable development of this townland. Business and political information, pictures, statement of purpose.
Rotary Club of Portadown - Information about the Rotary movement locally and worldwide. Contains business links and contact details.
Portadown Photos - Old photos of Portadown since 1850 including a section on Sam McGredy Royal Nurseries plus other articles of interest on the town.
Portadown Photographs - An amateur photographer's personal site showing photos that tell stories about places and people in Portadown.
Portadown District Orange Lodge No 1 - Information on the Drumcree Orange parade, Garvaghy Road residents and the Parades Commission.
Battlehill Loyal Orange Lodge No. 395 - History, links, membership information, parades, lambeg drums and chat room.
Royal Black Perceptory 'The Prince' 744 - Provides information about the history and formation of the perceptory.
First Portadown Presbyterian - News, information, photos and resources, including interactive area, people of the congregation and missionary work.
Daughters of Laura Lodge No. 42 - Junior Women's Loyal Orange Lodge. History, officers, links, members and contact information.
St Mark's Church of Ireland - Includes weekly diary and worship times, as well as information on activities and community groups.
Community Network Portadown - Umbrella organisation for the community and voluntary sector in the area. Includes location map and directory of member groups.
Portadown Baptist Church - Provides details of church events.
Portadown Methodist District Youth and Children's Council - Includes events guide and contact details.
Irish Lads On Tour - Photos from the holidays of a group of friends.
Portadow Branch, Royal British Legion - Includes information on history, facilities, meetings and new membership applications.
Portadown Family History Society - Fosters interest in local family history. Includes links to several family sites and contact details.
Portadown Technical College Achives - Contains photographs and information, since formation in 1902.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Society and Culture The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Society and Culture blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Society and Culture Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Society and Culture The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Society and Culture I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Society and Culture Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Society and Culture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Society and Culture "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Society and Culture Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture
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