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A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences), or haven, is a place where ships, boats, and barges can seek shelter through stormy weather, or else are stored for future use. Harbors can be natural or artificial. An artificial harbor has deliberately-constructed breakwaters, sea walls, or jettys, or otherwise, they could have been constructed by dredging, and these require maintenance by further periodic dredging. An example of the former kind is at Long Beach Harbor, California, and an example of the latter kind is San Diego Harbor, California, which was, under natural conditions, too shallow for modern merchant ships and warships.
In contrast, a natural harbor is surrounded on several sides by prominences of land. An example of this kind of harbor is San Francisco Bay, California.
Harbors and ports are often confused with each other. A port is a facility for loading and unloading vessels; ports are usually located in harbors.
Artificial harbors are frequently built for use as ports. The largest artificially created harbor is Jebel Ali in Dubai. Other large and busy artificial harbors are located at: Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Port of Houston, Texas; Port of Long Beach, California; and Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California.
Actors: Frédéric North (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Johnston (composer), Mark Williams (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Ingar Helge Gimle (actor), Matt Wilkinson (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Pip Torrens (actor), Bjørn Floberg (actor), Robert Hardy (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Ron Donachie (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Delia Fine (producer),
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History,Actors: Michael Sandager (writer), Shirley Henderson (actress), Shirley Henderson (actress), Michael Sandager (editor), Anders Thomas Jensen (actor), Michael Sandager (director), Adrian Rawlins (actor), Adrian Rawlins (actor), Jamie Sives (actor), Jamie Sives (actor), Joachim Holbek (composer), Lone Scherfig (actress), Sisse Graum Jørgensen (producer), Mikkel Kastberg (miscellaneous crew), Jakob Vølver (editor),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Ann Køj (miscellaneous crew), Lars von Trier (miscellaneous crew), Ib Tardini (producer), Karen Bentzon (producer), Michael Sandager (miscellaneous crew), Ann Vognsen (miscellaneous crew), Shirley Henderson (actress), Peter Aalbæk Jensen (producer), Mads Mikkelsen (actor), Anders Thomas Jensen (writer), Hans Lönnerheden (miscellaneous crew), Peter Garde (miscellaneous crew), Julia Davis (actress), Birthe Frost (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Rawlins (actor),
Plot: The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold. Harbour falls in love with Alice and soon all four of them are closely intertwined in each other's lives - and perhaps even deaths.
Keywords: ambulance, argument, arm-in-a-cast, auld-lang-syne, bandage, bath, bathtub, binoculars, birthday, birthday-cake