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  • The site is actually composed of several temples as well as part of the famous Pompey's theatre, where in 44 BC Caesar was betrayed and killed on the theatre steps.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Birmingham's last game in hand, following their European exertions, finally brings them up to speed with the rest of the Championship, this their 41st game of the campaign as opposed to Pompey's 30th.

    Birmingham City 1-0 Portsmouth | Championship match report 2012

  • Allow at least a couple of hours to wander around the city's temples, arches, theaters and colonnaded streets where General Pompey's legions once paraded before before 30,000 cheering townsfolk.

    Bob Schulman: Jordan Brims With Holy, Historical Sites Bob Schulman 2011

  • Pompey's grand auto levyPortsmouth fans have seen their cars towed away after parking them near Fratton Park, incurring penalties in excess of £400 to get them back.

    Prime minister to back 2018 World Cup bid in talks with Sepp Blatter Matt Scott 2010

  • Each has a vividly colored miniature with the central figures—Caesar and his mounted army about to follow a white-garbed herald into the river, Pompey in gold armor astride a galloping white horse—in landscapes of astonishing detail and receding perspective, with Caesar's Rubicon winding into distant mountains and Pompey's tree-studded green plain bordered by a river red with blood.

    Past the Crowds, the Louvre's Little Gem of a Show Judy Fayard 2011

  • Allow at least a couple of hours to wander around the city's temples, arches, theaters and colonnaded streets where General Pompey's legions once paraded before before 30,000 cheering townsfolk.

    Bob Schulman: Jordan Brims With Holy, Historical Sites Bob Schulman 2011

  • In the big pow-wow with Octavius he rather too ostentatiously wipes the dust off his fellow triumvir's seat and turns up at the rout on Pompey's galley in a silly sailor hat.

    Antony and Cleopatra 2010

  • It stipulates that prospective new owners must provide clear financial evidence of their ability to fund the club throughout a season – an aspiration that all of Pompey's owners last season failed to achieve – as well as to meet in person with the Premier League board no fewer than 10 days prior to the change of control.

    Fernando Torres confirms he will stay at Liverpool next season 2010

  • Pompey's days in courtPortsmouth's hopes of a swift lifting of their transfer embargo were derailed yesterday.

    England can expect to count on Asia's vote to host the 2018 World Cup 2010

  • There were three red cards, plus DCU assistant coach Ben Olsen's dismissal at halftime, flaring tempers, a malfunctioning scoreboard clock, and a hat trick from Aussie Danny Allsopp, who has family from Southampton (Pompey's rival).

    D.C. United-Portsmouth rewind 2010

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