Bento de Jesus Caraça, GCSE, GOL (18 April, 1901 – 25 June, 1948) was an influential Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician.
Dulce Maria Cardoso (born 1964) is a Portuguese writer.
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First published in Portugal in Portuguese in 1994 as Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, the novel won several awards, including the 1996 Pegasus Prize, and became a best-seller in Portugal.
The museum, located in the Centro de Ciências Letras e Artes in Campinas, contains the complete and original archive of Antônio Carlos Gomes' compositions, letters and other papers and collections in the Museu Carlos Gomes (in Portuguese).
His book The Age of Villages, with a foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of Chatham House, won the “Latino Book Award” (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) in the category of contemporary history/political sciences, at the BookExpo America celebrated in Chicago in 2003.
In addition to publishing numerous articles in Portuguese and international journals, in 2005 she co-authored (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) the Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (Dictionary of Feminist Criticism) and has recently published a new annotated edition of the feminist classic Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa.
Anália de Oliveira Rosa (born 28 February 1976 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese long-distance runner who competes in cross country, track and road running events, including the marathon.
António Duarte Arnault, GOL (born 1936 in Cumieira, Penela, Portugal) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician.
After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.
In 1637 Montoya (on behalf of the governor, the Bishop of Paraguay, and the heads of the orders) laid a complaint before Philip IV of Spain as to the Portuguese policy of sending kidnapping expeditions into the neighboring regions.
Between 2000 and 2004 he used a Citroën Saxo on Portuguese national events, winning the National Championship in 2003 and 2004, before winning the title again in 2005 and 2006 using a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII.
Artur Jorge Amorim (born 1972), Portuguese footballer player and coach
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Ballad of Dog's Beach (in original Portuguese Balada da Praia dos Cães) is a fiction novel by the Portuguese author José Cardoso Pires, relating the investigation into the murder of a political dissident, taking place around 1961.
The Duke of Wellington was anxious to secure both cities before advancing into Spain and chose to conduct the operations in the north himself and leave Marshal Beresford, the Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army, in command of the southern operation.
Bruno Filipe Santos Matias (born 4 March 1989 in Santarém) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for FC Etzella Ettelbruck, as a midfielder.
Although the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil was by Pedro Álvares Cabral on April 21, 1500, some historians believe that Vicente Yáñez Pinzón already had set anchor in a bay in Cabo de Santo Agostinho on January 26, 1500, which he named Cabo de Santa María de la Consolación.
CAPLE may also refer to Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira or Centre for Evaluation of Portuguese Language, an exam of European Portuguese as a Second language developed by Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
Carlos Vierra was born and raised in Moss Landing, California near Monterey by his father, Portuguese sailor, Cato Vierra and his mother, Maria de Fratas.
Macanese language, a Portuguese-based creole originating from Macau
It was established in 2002 by the English couple Carolyn and Christopher Poll, together with French pianist Marie-Françoise Bucquet and the Portuguese operatic baritone Jorge Chaminé who is the festival’s artistic director.
Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.
In 2009, Diran followed Portuguese ex-F1 and current WTCC driver Tiago Monteiro around the world for a whole year, shooting an extraordinary movie titled "Tiago Monteiro, The Man In Every Shot".
Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region.
The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third most ancient engineering school of the world and the most ancient of America, with the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME), being one of the firsts institutions of higher education in Brazil.
Her children were raised in the Portuguese court, where they were known by their appellation Noronha (Portuguese translation of Noreña).
The club has a distinct Portuguese background, and therefore its colours are that of the Portuguese national football team.
Laurus azorica, known as Azores Laurel, or by the Portuguese names Louro, Loureiro, Louro-da-terra, and Louro-de-cheiro, can be found in the park, as well as Laurus novocanariensis, known as Canary Laurel.
Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth), a Portuguese film directed by João Botelho
However, the Portuguese ambassador in London, Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro, Count of Funchal, was an extreme combatant of Costa's journal, and would create one of himself, entitled O Investigador Português em Inglaterra (The Portuguese Investigator in England), which ran from 1811 to 1819.
Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.
Abortion, in languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese where "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" translates with this abbreviation
During World War I, Ferreira Gil served as the Commander of the Portuguese Forces in Northern Portuguese Mozambique, leading them in combat in the East African Campaign against the German Forces of Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.
In the "Stones World", the Portuguese singer interprets the themes "Brown Sugar" and "No Expectations", later sung alive and in duet with Mick Jagger in 2007 during the concert by the band in the Alvalade XXI Stadium.
Manuel de Sá (b. at Vila do Conde, Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro, 1530; d. at Arona, Italy, 30 December 1596) was a Portuguese Jesuit theologian and exegete.
D Antonio I, king of Kongo challenged the Portuguese interferences and sent an army down to take Mbwila.
--Infonatura Rangemap--> In Portuguese it is known as Uirapuru or many other variants of this name, all based on the Tupi wirapu 'ru.
The construction of the mine installations and a 300 km railway were commissioned to Krupp of Germany and the modern harbour terminal to SETH, a Portuguese company owned by Højgaard & Schultz of Denmark.
Nuno Ricardo Oliveira Marçal (born Campanhã, 14 November 1975) is a Portuguese basketball player.
Ana Batista, Sónia Matias and Ana Rita are among the first and most renowned cavaleiras of Portugal.
Rafael Afonso de Sousa (born 1990), Portuguese modern pentathlete and shooter
On January 2013 BES was the only Portuguese bank to manage the operation that marks the return of Portugal to the markets, since the country has been subject to Troika's intervention.
At Menudo, López recorded two CDs: "Imagínate" -translation "Imagine That!"-, which was done in Spanish, and "Vem Pra Mim", which was released in Portuguese specifically for the band's Brazilian fan base.
Due largely to the behaviour of the Portuguese Jesuit Afonso Mendes, whom Pope Urban VIII appointed as Patriarch of Ethiopia in 1622, Emperor Fasilides expelled the Patriarch and the European missionaries, who included Jerónimo Lobo, from the country in 1636; these contacts, which had seemed destined for success under the previous Emperor, led instead to the complete closure of Ethiopia to further contact with Rome.
This is the oldest authentic Christian monument in Braga, and the oldest reference of Segunda-feira, the Christian Portuguese name for Monday.
So Get Up was a 1993 track by the Portuguese house music production duo Underground Sound of Lisbon.
The Snoa in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles was built by Sephardic Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam and Recife, Brazil.
The Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, where their mother was an opera singer and had her own TV show.
Josse van Huerter, first settler, and captain-major of the island of Faial in the Portuguese Azores.
Jorge de Montemayor (born 1521), Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
Inspired by the outrage felt by the Portuguese people, the lyricist, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, accepted Keil's request to create words to suit his melody.
Ali Abdolrezaei's poems have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian and Urdu.
In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.
It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.
Portuguese modernism in Póvoa de Varzim was prompted by tourism and can be seen in Rogério de Azevedo's iconic works in the city: the Casino da Póvoa and Grande Hotel da Póvoa (Hotel Palácio).
Arthur Dunkel (August 26, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.
Banif Financial Group a Portuguese financial services company originally from Funchal
His first name is only mentioned once : in 1515 on the list of the members of the ill-fated expedition to São João da Mamora (present-day Mehdya in Morocco) where the Portuguese lost 4,000 men.
The company made only a single voyage, of two ships; one returned, whilst the other was seized by Portuguese forces at São Tomé and its crew killed.
France negotiated Guinea's present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau), and Liberia.
The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.
However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.
Koimbani is a town located on the island of Grande Comore in the Comoros, believed to have been built by the Portuguese.
He has also been a regular columnist at French daily Le Monde and in the Portuguese newspapers Expresso, Público, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias and Diário de Notícias, having recently started publishing in the last one a new Thursday column, untitled «A Boa Distância» (which can both mean «The Good Distance» and «From a Good Distance»).
Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses (died in Toro, 26 January 1356), was a Portuguese nobleman, member of the Téllez de Meneses lineage, and the father of Leonor Telles de Meneses, queen consort of Portugal.
In Portuguese, his latest book is Ocultism and Religion: in Freud, Jung, and Mircea Eliade, co-authored with the Australian author and professor Harry Oldmeadow.
Meu erro (Portuguese for My mistake") is a rock single by Os Paralamas do Sucesso that was a Brazilian hit.
After the death of Sobhuza, Mswati inherited an area which extended as far as present day Barberton in the north and included the Nomahasha district in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique.
His name appears very variously as Onuphrius, Onouphrius, Onofrius; and in different languages as Humphrey (English), Onofre (Portuguese, Spanish), Onofrio (Italian), etc.
Today, the country's largest Portuguese community is concentrated in Mexico City, especially in the Colonia Condesa, the home of many restaurants and bars popular with people of Portuguese descent.
Loyal Lusitanian Legion, 1808, a unit of the British Army, composed of Portuguese volunteers.
Francisco Sanches (c.1550–1623), Portuguese or Galician philosopher of Jewish origin; refugee from the Inquisition
Réunion island, known as Santa Apollonia when it was ruled by the Portuguese
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, leading his men of the 95th Rifles in retreat from the French victory at Oporto, are unexpectedly saved by a small detachment of Portuguese soldiers led by Lt. Jorge Vincente, a law student who joined his country's army out of patriotism.
The rivalry with Portugal, however, was not entirely economic: from 1580, after the battle of Ksar El Kebir, the Portuguese crown had been joined to that of Spain in an "Iberian Union" under Philip II of Spain.
A former member of the ill-fated Portuguese embassy of 1517 to Beijing, capital of the Ming Empire, Calvo has since been living in internal exile in one of the capital's suburbs.
Roughly equivalent words in other languages include Sociolismo in Cuba; Blat in Russia; Guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang; in Brazilian-Portuguese it is called "Pistolão", or in the slang "peixada".