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Casa Guilhermina is the seventh studio album by Ana Moura. Released on 11 November 2022, the album topped the national sales chart and was named as one of the albums of the year by various reputable Portuguese publications.
As a teacher, one of her key drivers was the inclusion of disabled students, area in which she specialized in 2016. [3]On 5 October 2017, Silva Batista was considered a heroine for saving several children from a fire at the Gente Inocente nursery in Janaúba, Minas Gerais.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was born on 6 November 1919 in Porto, Portugal. [1] [2] She was the daughter of Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner and João Henrique Andresen.. She had Danish ancestry on her father's side, notably her paternal great-grandfather, Jan Andresen, who had traveled alone to Porto as a boy and never left the regi
The Banishment of the Jews", by Alfredo Roque Gameiro, in Quadros da História de Portugal ("Pictures of the History of Portugal", 1917) Descendants of Portuguese Sephardi Jews established many communities around the world, including in significant numbers in Israel, the Netherlands , the United States, France, Venezuela , Brazil and Turkey .
The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language) is a major reference dictionary for the Portuguese language, edited by Brazilian writer Antônio Houaiss. The dictionary was composed by a team of two hundred lexicographers from several countries. The project started in 1986 and was finished in 2000 ...
The state was designated Portuguesa on August 4, 1909, named after the Portuguesa River.The name of the river is in turn said to be derived from a local legend about a young woman of Portuguese descent who drowned in the Portuguesa River, possibly accompanying the conquistadors who founded the city of Guanare, the capital of the state.
Paula Fortes (1945–2011) was a Cape Verdean independence activist.. A native of Mindelo, Fortes became an orphan at 13, and at 16 joined the struggle against the Portuguese; she organized students at the Escola Piloto.
Coat of arms of the Misericórdia of Lisbon. The institution traces its official foundation to 1498, when Queen Leonor opened the Misericórdia of Lisbon. [1] Recently made a widow by the death of King John II of Portugal, the Queen had begun dedicating herself intensely to the sick, poor, orphans, prisoners, artists, and sponsored the founding of the brotherhood, based on the model of ...