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  ANGOLA NATIONAL PRIVATE INVESTMENT AGENCY
It was announced on Tuesday by the institution`s spokesperson, Mr Bastos de Almeida, speaking to the purpose of a public session, for the explanation of the objectives of auditing process, to be held in April 21, in Luanda.
De Beers delayed a decision in 2001, citing the pressing need to reduce the debt incurred in the leveraged buy-out through which Anglo and the Oppenheimer family took the group private.
Jorge Rocha de Matos`s departure from Portugal to Angola is inserted in ambit of the strengthening of enterprise and economic affairs between the two countries.
www.iie-angola-us.org /news1.htm   (13996 words)

  
 Extraordinary Online Bulletin 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
José Antonio de San Alberto (1727-1804), born in the Aragonese town of Fresno, professed in the Carmelite convent in Zaragoza in 1744 and was named prior of the Convent of St. Theresa in 1766.
Januário Correia de Almeida (1827-1901), Visconde de São Januário, was governor of India from 1870-1871; he also served as governor of Cabo Verde and of Macau and Timor, as minister plenipotentiary in China, Japan and Siam, and later to the republics of South America.
Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-1777), known to Portuguese as the "Conde de Lippe," was sent to Portugal in 1761 as commander of the British troops, and served as commander of the Anglo-Portuguese troops in the 1762 campaign against the French and Spanish.
www.livroraro.com /eob3/eob3pt26.htm   (12592 words)

  
 Christopher Columbus' family and his Perestrello and Moniz in-laws.
(3) Isabel Perestrelo, married Peter Correa de Cunha, governor of Porto Santo from 1459 to 1473, and in 1485 captain of the island of Terciera in the Azores.
Diego's father-in-law, Martin de Melo, was the 7th lord of Melo, whose eldest daughter, Maria, was married to "Diego Gomez, military governor of Silves".
She was the 2nd wife of Diego de Castro, lord of Lanhoso and the Castle of Lanhoso and of Santa Cruz and Cinfanes, and military governor of Sabugal and Alfayates.
wolcottfamily.com /colfam.html   (11075 words)

  
 Culture - The Arts, Rio de Janeiro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Among many other embellishments, it acquired botanical gardens, a public library and a new royal theatre; and, with the arrival of the officially invited French artistic mission in 1816, a plan was inaugurated for the development of fine arts in the country.
Francisco Pereira Passos, who was Prefect in 1902–6, made the most of the natural charm of the great urban agglomeration between the mountains and the sea, creating the Avenida Rio Branco with its ornate public buildings in 1903–6.
Artistic activity in Rio was especially stimulated under Peter II (reg 1831–89), an eminent patron who instigated annual exhibitions of painting, sculpture and architecture at the Academia Imperial with prizes that enabled artists to continue their studies in Europe.
www.onestopenglish.com /Culture/TheArts/places/rio.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Recent Portuguese Publications Bulletin 31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A Flemish prince marries the daughter of the Marques de Arronches.
Born Vila Nova de Famalicão, 1968, the author was working as a journalist when this novella, her first book, appeared.
Bento de Castro, físico-mor to Queen Christina of Sweden, and close friend of Father António Vieira, arrives in Lisbon on a "mission impossible," to convince the elderly priest to visit the court of Queen Christina in Rome.
www.livroraro.com /b31/b31pt17.htm   (3579 words)

  
 AFRICAN POLITICAL ETHICS AND THE SLAVE TRADE
Pacheco Pereira mentioned copper, ivory and cloth as commodities that were being exported by 1506, and Afonso's letter of 1514 pairs many of his gifts with "manilhas" of copper, sometimes in the thousands.
Njinga's initial letter, written within weeks after she assumed power and addressed to the governor of Angola, Fernão de Sousa, in 1624 is no longer extant, but it is clear from his summaries of it, that Njinga was prepared to deal in slaves.
In his summary, de Sousa noted that she told him that he should withdraw Portuguese forces from Embaca, a town founded by Mendes de Vasconcellos as a forward base for his illegal wars of the 1618-20 period, as had been promised.
muweb.millersville.edu /~winthrop/Thornton.html   (6590 words)

  
 Spanish and Portuguse Colonial Possessions
Despite this miserable record of poverty, Castro is still nevetheless the darling of international "progressives," and is regularly visited by fawning celebrities, most recently (late 2002) Steven Spielberg -- the sort of people who wouldn't give the time of day to the despised former dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet.
New Granada (1739) and the Río de la Plata (1776) were later detached from it.
The population at independence of the Río de la Plata was 320,000 peninsulars and creoles, 742,000 mestizos, and 1,200,000 Indians.
www.friesian.com /newspain.htm   (8286 words)

  
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De facto ruler (secretary-general of the PUK) 4 Jul 1992 - Jun 2005 Jalal Talabani (b.
De facto ruler (president of the KDP) 31 Aug 1996 - Jun 2005 Massoud Barzani (b.
The domestic functions of the sovereign were exercised in part by the chairman of Dáil Éireann (Frank Fahy) and in part by the president of the Executive Council (Eamon de Valera).
www.rulers.org /ruli.html   (14274 words)

  
 Governor of Macau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
August 1638 - D. Sebastiao Lobo da Silveira
August 1645 - Luis de Carvalho e Sousa
8 December 1926 - Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/governor_of_macau   (1095 words)

  
 David Block   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Gary Wills's extensive review of books on Columbus concluded that the metaphorical Columbus (the persona associated with the voyage and its aftermath) rather than the man himself should be the object of attention.(20) Clearly, the 1992 round of commemorations did not yield the uncritical praise of a century ago.
Of interest to Latin Americanists are O Essencial sobre Cristovao Colombo e os Portugueses (1987) and the extraordinary cartographic collection entitled Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica (1987).
Madrid: Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, Ediciones de Cultura Hispanica.
muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/block-2.html   (8989 words)

  
 Greater India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
George Joachim Goschen, V Goschen of Hawkhurst...1929-1931 d.
A small sampling of some of the vast number of local polities to have dotted the landscape of southern Asia.
The following list details the Governors-General of the Company, a position of supreme authority over the three Indian Presidencies created in 1773 by the Regulating Act, the first movement by Britain to rope in "John Company".
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Dates of the official enactments that produced the incorporation of Araucania into the Chilean state are unavailable, but by 1870 the Chilean government would consider this a matter of fact, however legally justified.
On 6 Nov 1903, the Council of Regency met and chose Georges Sénéchal de la Grange to be the new "king," but he declined.
It is impossible to provide exact dates; he rose to power in the aftermath of Mao's death (9 Sep 1976) and became more and more frail in the 1990s (he last appeared in public 9 Feb 1994).
www.rulers.org /rulc2.html   (7484 words)

  
 China foreign colonies
1929 - 1932 De facto under Chinese sovereignty.
Aug 1645 - 1646 Luís de Carvalho de Sousa
Aug 1650 - 1654 João de Sousa Pereira
www.worldstatesmen.org /China_Foreign_colonies.html   (4266 words)

  
 Madeira
1852 - 1854 visconde de Fornos de Algodres
1906 - 1907 Bernardo da Costa de Sousa Macedo
- 1767 José Miguel de Portugal e Castro, (b.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Madeira.html   (749 words)

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