Culture

Time magazine called it “the biggest jigsaw puzzle in history.” That is the fascinating story of a Monastery from northern Spain purchased by an American media magnate and shipped to …

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1085 The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, during the war against England and its allies ,invaded most of Europe, including Holland, which made Dutch overseas colonies vulnerable to French domination. This …

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It was shortly after the Second World War. The mild climate and the hospitality of the people made Madeira a promising tourist destination but maritime and shipping connections with the …

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A justificação para algumas viragens no curso da história são objeto de versões que se tornam mais populares quando associadas a incidentes de natureza mais dramática. Uma questão que frequentemente …

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History in most cases cannot  be rewritten, even when  the chronicles of day register the  incorrect facts One historical misconception is that  Bartolmeu Dias or even Vasco da Gama discovered …

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By the end of the fifteenth century ,75 years after the discovery ,Madeira had become an agro industrial hub of sugar production. In 1493 at the peak of production there …

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The presence of the Portuguese Community in the Cape region is fairly recent taking in consideration that the Portuguese navigators were the first to discover the Cape. There are various …

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Madeira wine dating from 1796 and 1820s found in a sealed compartment in the wine cellar of the Liberty Hall Museum in New Jersey will be auctioned in December at …

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In the first half of the 16th century Portugal did not have a large army, but had a Navy, with large vessels of the type that we would today call …

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The poet Luis de Camoes called the sons of the King D.João I the “illustrious Generation”, to pay tribute to the influence that they had in the Portuguese history. They …

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