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A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences), or haven, is a body of water where ships, boats and barges seek shelter from stormy weather, or are stored for future use. Harbors and ports are often confused with each other. A port is a facility for loading and unloading vessels; ports are often located in harbors.
Harbors can be natural or artificial. An artificial harbor can have deliberately constructed breakwaters, sea walls, or jettys, or they can be constructed by dredging, which requires maintenance by further periodic dredging. An example of an artificial harbor is Long Beach Harbor, California, which was an array of salt marshes and tidal flats too shallow for modern merchant ships before it was first dredged in the early 20th century.
In contrast, a natural harbor is surrounded on several sides by prominences of land. Examples of natural harbors include Sydney Harbour, Australia and San Francisco Bay, California.
Artificial harbors are frequently built for use as ports. The oldest artificial harbor known is the Ancient Egyptian site at Wadi al-Jarf, on the Red Sea coast, which is at least 4500 years old (ca. 2600-2550 BC, reign of King Khufu). The largest artificially created harbor is Jebel Ali in Dubai. Other large and busy artificial harbors include:
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-cakeTo our fore, the harbour lights
Shining out like beacons burning.
They can stop this endless night.
They can stop the wheels from turning.
Faces in a setting sun
Say again that we soon will be one.
Starlight rakes the silver wing
Bringing home it's sons and daughters.
No one knows the state I'm in
Spinning swift above the waters.
Faces in a setting sun
Say again that we soon will be one.
Faces in a setting sun