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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portugal
Portugal is situated on the west of the Iberian Peninsula, being bounded on the north and east by Spain and on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean.
The bishops renewed their complains of the disorders in Portugal, and in 1245, by the Bull "grandi non immerito", Innocent IV committed the government to Sancho's brother Alfonso who was living in France.
As a result of the encyclicals of Leo XIII on Christian democracy, the movement for the establishment of Catholic circles for workingmen was inaugurated in Portugal, and these mutual-aid societies existed in the principal centres of population, furnished education to the workmen and their children, and kept them together by conferences, concerts, and excursions.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12297a.htm   (9965 words)

  
 Portugal Travel Guide
Portugal shares the Iberian Peninsula with Spain, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
In recent years Portugal, long overlooked on the list of the world’s top vacation stations, has been investing time, money and effort into ensuring it is discovered by the world’s travellers, just as once it was the Portuguese who discovered the world.
Portugal is a member of the European Union and its official currency is the Euro (€), which is divided into 100 cents.
www.cheapflights.co.uk /TravelGuide/Portugal/Index.html   (860 words)

  
 STUDENT HOLIDAYS - THE GUIDE TO GREAT HOLIDAYS IN PORTUGAL
...There are few countries of Portugal's size that boast such a diversity of landscapes from the lush green valleys of the north and the clean golden beaches of the south, to the subtropical island of Madeira and the vibrant capital of Lisbon...
Portugal is located on the west of the Iberian Peninsula: its land borders are with Spain and it has a long Atlantic coastline.
In Portugal, the bulls are tackled and wrestled to a standstill, but not killed in the arena.
www.studentholidays.com /por/portugal.htm   (1931 words)

  
 Hospitals and Sanatoriums of the Homoeopathic School of Medicine. By the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Presented ...
Hospitals and Sanatoriums of the Homoeopathic School of Medicine.
A homœopathic hospital was about to be erected in Stuttgart at the outbreak of the war.
There is another homœopathic hospital at Hobart, Tasmania, established in 1900, with 23 beds and a training school for nurses.
www.homeoint.org /books3/hospital/foreign.htm   (481 words)

  
 EUROPEAN UNION: Portugal Holding Firm in Last Spot
And unemployment in Portugal, which has traditionally enjoyed one of the lowest rates in the bloc, rose from 4.1 percent in 2002 to 7.2 percent in 2003, close to the EU average.
Portugal is also the EU champion in consumption of soft drugs, the AIDS rate, and cases of police brutality against people in custody, which has kept the country on the London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International's fl list.
Cyprus will enter the EU in a better position than Greece or Portugal, with per capita GDP equivalent to 76 percent of the EU average, while Malta is at the same level as Greece and Portugal (70 percent), and Slovenia (69 percent) is on their heels.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=21825   (847 words)

  
 Popular saints in Portugal: Santa Isabela of Portugal
Elizabeth, or Isabel, daughter of King Peter III of Aragon, was named after her great-aunt, Elizabeth of Hungary, but she is known in Portugal by the Spanish form of that name, Isabela.
In Portugal she is remembered for the miracle of the roses in which she was taking bread (or coins) to the poor only to be asked by her less than generous husband what she was carrying.
Portugal, a country often criticised by other equally culpable nations for its propensity to corruption in public life, can at least claim a daughter whose body has remained incorrupt for nearly 700 years.
www.portcult.com /OPS_11.htm   (2223 words)

  
 WHO/Europa - Arzneimittel - Portugal
Hospitals contract with private clinics for the use of equipment, providing a strong incentive for this provision pattern to continue.
Portugal's pharmaceutical expenditure was around 2.1% of GDP in 2001, a very high position in the OECD ranking.
The lack of a national drug list for ambulatory care together with the powerful influence exerted by the industry on doctors, could be reasons for the high levels of expenditure on pharmaceuticals.
www.euro.who.int /pharmaceuticals/Topics/Overview/20020414_10?language=German   (1721 words)

  
 Rettenmayer Portugal - International Movers - Portugal's Guide
The population of mainland Portugal at 9,800,000 is identical to that of Belgium.
Portugal uses Greenwich Mean Time and goes over to summer time in the Spring (clocks go forward 1 hour) and clocks go back again in the Autumn.
Portugal’s economy is developing rapidly but nevertheless, in relation to most other EC nation’s, Portugal is still catching-up economically and culturally.
www.portugalvirtual.pt /50travtransp/rettenmayer/porguide.html   (5822 words)

  
 Travel Advice for Portugal - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The European Union has published a list of airlines that are subject to operating bans or restrictions within the Union.
While Portugal recognises dual nationals, the Portuguese authorities consider a dual national living in Portugal to be Portuguese.
Portugal is party to the Schengen Agreement, along with 14 other European countries, which allows Australians to enter Portugal without a visa in some circumstances.
www.smartraveller.gov.au /zw-cgi/view/Advice/Portugal   (1373 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- September 1997, week 3 (#22)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The beginnings of the disease in Africa may be traced to a Paris-based Portuguese cab driver who had served in the Angolan civil war, after which he worked as a truck driver between 1976 and 1979, plying the route between Angola and Mozambique, driving through Zaire (Grmek).
David Serwadda, a Ugandan pulmonary specialist, observed patients who had symptoms of what were then called "the new American disease." In Zambia, Anne Bayley, a surgeon, noted that her young patients who suffered from a voracious and untreatable lesion died because this new version of Kaposi's sarcoma did not respond to medication.
In October 1983, Peter Piot found that 38 samples of sera from hospital patients in Kinshasa, Zaire, were infected with HIV.
list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709c&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=3126   (5225 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Sports - World Cup 2006
This is Portugal's fourth appearance at the World Cup, but it only made it beyond the opening round once, in 1966, when it lost to eventual champion England in the semifinals.
Portugal can win the group when it takes on Mexico, second in the group with four points, in Gelsenkirchen next Wednesday in its final game of the opening round.
Portugal's attack was more dangerous with Deco, back in the lineup after missing his country's first game through injury, pulling the strings in midfield with his sublime passing and quick turns.
www.cbc.ca /sports/worldcup2006/storyview.html?/story/worldcup2006/national/2006/06/17/iran-portugal-worldcup.html&ref=rss   (1205 words)

  
 Portugal maps from Omni Resources, world leader in map supply
Portugal 1:10,000 Topographic Maps by the sovliet military.
The map is at 1:11,000 and covers rom the riverside (south) to the Zoological Gardens (north) and from the Lisbon Congress Centre (west) to the Picheleira district (east).
A list of recommended places for shopping, entertainment, eating and drinking are cross-referenced to color-coded map locations, and the map is indexed for the main cultural sites, notable buildings and hotels.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/portugal.htm   (717 words)

  
 Half-million public workers strike in Portugal
Portugal's Common Front of Civil Service Unions (FP), representing 700,000 public-service workers, held a one-day strike July 15 to protest pension cutbacks, a freeze in wages and higher taxes.
The workers are from diverse sectors: trash collection, urban transport, hospitals and health centers, courts and the state offices in general.
Meanwhile, Portugal is the EU country with the lowest wages and pensions, unemployment affects more than 10 percent, or 500,000 workers, and more than 2 million of the 10.5-million population live in poverty.
www.workers.org /2005/world/portugal-0728   (972 words)

  
 Hospitals in Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, lithuania, Luxembourg
Hospitals in Austria - Hospitals in Austria -
Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki - Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki -
Westeinde Hospital, The Hague - Westeinde Hospital, The Hague -
www.escapeartist.com /Offshore_Health_Care/Europe.html   (2432 words)

  
 A Briggs :: Foreign Entry Requirements
Certified birth certificates are issued by the state, city or county in which you were born and must have a raised seal of the issuing agency.
Hospital birth certificates are unacceptable for proof of citizenship.
Below is a list of all countries in the world and their requirements for entry by U.S. citizens.
www.abriggs.com /high_level/foreign_entry_requirements.php   (969 words)

  
 [CTRL] [2] Behind The Throne
The list of books from Esher's pen is considerable, and comprises, in the main, sections of the history of his own times.
With great hospitality and in a princely manner they led the lives of grands seigneurs, had an ever-open hand, spoke many languages, were independent men of the world.
He accompanied the King to Portugal and Italy, Biarritz and Marienbad, and was with him on the two great political visits to Paris and Reval.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg37443.html   (5766 words)

  
 List of hospitals in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lists of hospitals for each country in Europe.
List of hospitals in the U.K. List of hospitals in Vatican City
This page was last modified 22:25, 7 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Europe   (66 words)

  
 Dog Play: Find a Group to Join or Visit
In achieving this mission, the club also functions to further advance and refine the therapy skills of experienced handlers and their canine counterparts, by providing seminars, skills practice and unique educational opportunities to educate members and strengthen the dog and handler bond.
TheraPet, Inc. was founded in 1988 as a non-profit organization of volunteers and their pets who visit nursing homes, hospitals and schools throughout New Jersey to perform animal-assisted activities or animals assisted therapy.
In addition, she has developed a program that provides animals in an acute care hospital for use in the pediatric, geriatric, oncology unit, and the open heart recovery unit, and both ICU and CCU.
www.dogplay.com /Activities/Therapy/join.html   (8232 words)

  
 Victory for women in Portugal abortion vote
Advocates for women and progressives in Portugal greeted the 60-percent majority vote for legalization of abortion there in a Feb. 11 referendum as a victory for the health and dignity of women.
Portugal’s current law bans all abortions except those performed up to 12 weeks in cases of rape, a malformed fetus or when the woman’s life is in danger.
Those who mobilized to vote “yes” considered the result an important step forward in the struggle for women’s reproductive rights and a show of solidarity with poor women who are the greatest victims of the current repressive law.
www.workers.org /2007/world/portugal-0222   (754 words)

  
 About Bermuda
Be aware that the Bermuda Government has a stop list of undesirables and fugitives wanted by other countries and does not hesitate to invoke it if given cause.
It seems many visitors do not do this, yet have no hesitation in renting motor scooters or mopeds in Bermuda, which can be very dangerous to those not familiar with them; drive them on the wrong side of the road compared to Europe, USA and Canada; and end up having accidents, with their vacation ruined.
They are not being exempted from any health or hospital costs incurred in Bermuda, in the same way that visitors to the USA or Canada are not being exempted if they fail to insure themselves adequately.
www.bermuda-online.org /abcbda3.htm   (7547 words)

  
 Hospitals and Clinics Worldwide - Bethesda List Center
This list is drawn from the over 25,000,000 names found on the Worldwide Executive and Professional Database from Frankform.
Frankform, a leading list database manager, continuously updates this very large file world-wide and for the U.S. You can select from this database by job function, business/industry, gender, discipline, and geography.
We are not liable for any damages or loss sustained through use of this list, nor for any special or consequential damages, and in no event shall our liability exceed the price of the list.
www.bethesda-list.com /datacards/HospitalsClinicsWorldwide.htm   (281 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Sports - World Cup 2006
Portugal, which came into the game having already secured a spot in the next round, has not won its opening three games of the World Cup since the 1966 competition in England, when it made it to the semifinals.
Portugal poured on the pressure and was handed a gift in the 24th minute when Mexican defender Rafael Marquez needlessly handled the ball inside the penalty area off a Portuguese corner kick.
Portugal: Maniche — Besides scoring the opening goal, he distinguished himself with his hard work and probing runs in midfield.
www.cbc.ca /sports/worldcup2006/storyview.html?/story/sports/national/2006/06/21/mexico-portugal-worldcup.html   (1192 words)

  
 The Portugal Resident - Algarve and Greater Lisbon - News, information and classifieds
A further 50 areas in Portugal have been named on the list, which is going to be made public to tourists and the British media, in order to urge people to boycott these areas as holiday destinations.
According to Moutinho, he receives “dozens of complaints from foreign tourists all over Portugal” and despite flyers stating that the bull is not killed in the arena, “this does not mean these types of event are acceptable”.
He furthered that the câmaras, who constantly promote this type of spectacle, “are going to have to learn that the city will lose tourists if they continue to promote the spilling of blood”.
portugalresident.com /portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=14605   (536 words)

  
 Real Posts Reports: Reviews of Life in Countries Worldwide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal by Mary Vincent, R. Stradling.
Portugal has to be one of the most advanced countries in terms of plastic money.
Big tip: they classify a Honda Pilot (SUV) as a car because it's not listed on their sheets, so the toll is half of the SUV toll.
www.talesmag.com /rprweb/the_rprs/europe/portugal.shtml   (5577 words)

  
 Costa Rica Health:List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency,.
Costa Rica Health:List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency,.
List of hospitals and doctors for cases of emergency
It is always good to know that a country you are visiting has good medical facilities like hospitals and general practitioners.
www.justlanded.com /english/costa_rica/tools/articles/health   (57 words)

  
 V. Country Narratives -- Countries H through P
Haiti is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons over the past year.
India is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for a second consecutive year for its inability to show evidence of increased efforts to address trafficking in persons, particularly its lack of progress in forming a national law enforcement response to inter-state and transnational trafficking crimes.
In January 2005, combating trafficking in persons was highlighted in the government’s listing of strategic goals that was published in the nation’s major newspapers.
www.state.gov /g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46614.htm   (18162 words)

  
 Toxics Link : Sharps handling and disposal
Hospitals should choose and adopt sharps management practices that decrease the possibility of injury and spread of infection.
The factsheet has been divided into sections which provide information on personnel who are most prone to dangers resulting from improper handling of sharps, areas where sharp injuries can occur and possible methods to reduce/negate sharps injuries.
We have also listed manufacturers of alternatives to syringes and technologies to handle used sharps.
www.toxicslink.org /pub-view.php?pubnum=28   (244 words)

  
 HospitalWeb - Global (not including USA)
Careggi Hospital of University of Florence - Florence, Italy
University Hospital of Leiden - Leiden, The Netherlands
University Hospital of Rotterdam - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu /hospitalwebworld.html   (1532 words)

  
 Health Care Without Harm praises Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
STI will dispose of about 10,000 tons of medical waste per year, 95% of which will be sterilized with a steam-based system and buried in landfills.
Ireland joins Slovenia, Portugal and the Philippines in committing to use safer non-burn technologies to treat medical waste nationwide.
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of 423 organizations in 51 countries working to reduce the environmental impact of the health care industry.
www.noharm.org /details.cfm?type=document&id=822   (320 words)

  
 MD Travel Health - Portugal - vaccinations, mad cow disease, and other health advice
The disease is acquired by eating beef from cows with a related infection known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).
For an on-line list of physicians and hospitals in Portugal, go to the United States Embassy website.
Americans living or traveling in Portugal are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department's travel registration website, https://travelregistration.state.gov, and to obtain updated information on travel and security within Portugal.
www.mdtravelhealth.com /destinations/europe/portugal.html   (1787 words)

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