Yet there was no full moon, so he stuck his head out the new porthole.

CNN: Shipwreck survivor recounts drama on high seas

Genta again produced a robust design that suggested the impermeability of a ship's porthole, while exhibiting constructional details worthy of fine jewelry.

WSJ: This Sporting Life

The exterior ship rooms have two porthole windows with a view of the ocean - you can imagine a wealthy matron looking out 75 years ago.

BBC: A ghostly visit on the RMS Queen Mary hotel

From the top, your guide will ask you to poke your head out the little porthole window, and you will feel like you are emerging from some great spaceship.

NPR: Power Structures Shape Northwest Landscape

Porthole tourism I like to call it.

CNN: Confessions of a superyacht worker

Some pieces serve as sturdy reminders of the 882-foot-long liner's "unsinkable" billing, such as a 17-ton piece of the hull that still contains thick rivets and porthole views into what would have been a pair of third-class cabins.

WSJ: Titanic Shipwreck Is Up for Sale at Guernsey's

With two porthole windows that look like eyes set just above four small red tile awnings that look like a beak, two wings and a tail, the architecture of the nondenominational church in the city of Madeira Beach uncannily resembles a cartoon chicken.

BBC: Florida's chicken church

It would be a slight improvement to add a curtain over the virtual porthole (rather than a switch to shut it on and off), so that guests can leave the video running and wake up with the sense that the sun is "virtually" peeking though their curtains.

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