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Traditionally port wine was shipped downriver in oak barrels loaded on barcos rabelos (flat-bottomed square-sailed boats) to be stored in the cool and damp port lodges (merchants’ warehouses) in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto.
Locals of all ages, from senior citizens to high-school kids donning Metallica T-shirts, crowd into 18th-century taverns to sip sherry or vino tinto drawn from old wooden barrels, and to munch on morsels of tortilla española.
Of particular interest in this context are the small all-β folds that assume conformations such as barrels or β-helices [ 3, 4].
Cartier was not exactly showered with honors when he returned with eleven barrels of worthless yellow iron pyrites and glittering quartz.
It was here in 1775 that 100 barrels of gunpowder mysteriously disappeared from stores in Fort St. Catherine and found their way onto a boat bound for the use of the American revolutionaries.