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  The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of September 24, 1759
Expelled from Portugal with military force by Prime Minister Sebastián José de Carvalho e Mello, marquis of Pombal, because of his intervention on behalf of the Jesuits, February 23, 1761.
Consecrated bishop of Rome, May 28, 1769, Rome, by Cardinal Federico Marcello Lante, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina, vice-dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, assisted by Cardinals Giovanni Francesco Albano, bishop of Sabina, and Henry Benedict Mary Stuart, duke of York, bishop of Frascati.
Giovanni e Paolo, Rome; his bust by Cristopher Hewetson, Museo di Roma, Rome; his portrait, riding a horse in the cavalcade to his possession, by Filippo Pilaja, Museo di Roma, Rome; his portrait by an anonymous artist, Museo di Roma, Rome; and his tomb by Antonio Canova in SS.
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 PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
The communes were subdivided into parishes (freguesias), which were administered by the elected council (junta de parochia) over which the parish priest (presbitero) presided, and by the regedor, an official who represented the mayor of the commune and was nominated by the civil governor.
Pedro de Covilham had reached Abyssinia (q.v.) as early as 1490; in 1520 a Portuguese embassy arrived at the court of Prester John, and in 1541 a military force was sent to aid him in repelling a Mahommedan invasion.
It was rumoured that Sebastian still lived, and would sooner oi later return and restore the past greatness of his country Sebastianism became a religion.; its votaries were numbered by thousands, and four impostors arose in succession, each claiming to be the rei encuberto, or hidden king, whose advent was so ardently desired (see SEBASTIAN).
88.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTUGAL.htm   (21258 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Portugal
Led by Afonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese occupied Goa, India, in 1510, Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia) in 1511, the Moluccas (in present-day Indonesia) in 1512-1514, and Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf in 1515.
During the reign of Joseph Emanuel (1750-1777), the kingdom was controlled by the Chief-Minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, Marquês de Pombal, considered one of the greatest statesmen in modern Portuguese history.
A seven-man junta, under General António de Spinola, was installed and promised democracy at home and peace for the African territories.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Portugal
Sebastian and most of the Portuguese army perished at the hands of the superior Muslim forces, leaving Portugal largely defenseless and without an heir to the throne.
A junta under General António de Spínola was installed that promised democracy at home and peace for the African territories.
A new cabinet, led by Socialist prime minister Vice Admiral José de Azevedo, was installed, reflecting the outcome of the April election.
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 Extraordinary Online Bulletin 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Lisbon: Officina de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1666.
Gomes Lourenço was a physician at the Hospital de Todos os Santos in Lisbon, and a disciple of Santucci.
Gonçalves de Magalhães (1811-1882, a native of Rio de Janeiro) was an important author of nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction and poetry.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Portugal
The Serra de Monchique, a range of hills stretching to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Saint Vincent, separate these plains from the southernmost region of Algarve.
The Temple of Diana in Évora, with its elaborately carved Corinthian columns, is one of the best-preserved Roman temples in the Iberian Peninsula.
Subsequent occupation by the Visigoths in the 5th century and by the Muslims in the 8th century can be seen in the styles of many of Portugal’s buildings and churches, especially in the Algarve region.
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 Extraordinary Online Bulletin 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Sousa Guimarães, Gubian, the Conde de Azevedo, the Conde de Samodães].
Inscribed by Jorge de Lima to the Portuguese poet Alberto de Serpa, 1938.
traduzido para portuguez por João Oliveira de Carvalho.
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 European royalty--Portuguese monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
He acted as regent for King Sebastian, and succeeded to the throne when Sebastian was killed at the Battle of the Three Kings in Morocco.
The statesman Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Mello, Marques de Pombal, was the virtual ruler of the country during the reign of Joseph Emanuel.
Duarte Nuno married on October 13, 1942 (civil), at Rio de Janeiro and on October 15, 1942 (religious), at Petropolis.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/por/royal-porm.htm   (2380 words)

  
 Africa and Slavery 1500-1800 by Sanderson Beck
Paolo Dias de Novais had tried to found a colony on the coast of Ndongo for mining silver in the Cunza valley; but this failed, and Luanda became a center for the slave trade instead.
In 1618 Luis Mendes de Vasconcellos invaded the heartland of the Ndongo kingdom and destroyed the royal compound.
De Almeida, the Portuguese viceroy of India, was killed fighting the Khoikhoi in 1510 at Table Bay.
www.san.beck.org /1-13-Africa1500-1800.html   (22906 words)

  
 Algarve Properties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
The so-called Temple of Diana in the southeast, the ruins of the city of Conimbriga on the western coast, and the bridge of Chaves in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro in the east are fine examples of Roman architecture.
Led by Afonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese occupied Goa, India, in 1510, Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia) in 1511, the Moluccas (in present-day Indonesia) in 1512-14, and Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf in 1515.
During the reign (1750-77) of Joseph Emanuel, the kingdom was controlled by the chief-minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, marquês de Pombal, considered one of the greatest statesmen in modern Portuguese history.
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 SouthCoastToday.com Obituaries: 09/02/2004
BROTHER LEWIS E. Born in West Chester, Pa., he was the son of the late Lewis and Helen (Chandler) Morrow.
Carvalho had been employed by the former Woodland Manufacturing Co., Fall River, as a foreman for almost 20 years.
She was the mother of the late Joseph Mello and the sister of the late Anna Barros, Jennie Texeira, Katherine Andrade, Doris Gomes and John Santos.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/09-04/09-02-04/zzzddobi.htm   (2524 words)

  
 NewStandard: 8/10/99
He was the husband of Jean D. (Govoni) Nyman and son of the late Daniel E. and Irene E. (Muller) Nyman.
She was a stitcher at George E. Keith Shoe Co., Plymouth Shoe Co. and Albert Shoe Co., all of Middleboro, for many years.
Survivors include two sons, Standish Holmes of Lakeville and Edgar Holmes of Sebastian, Fla.; two daughters, Evelyn Gabel of Rochester, N.Y., and Marjorie Marshall of Carver; her daughter-in-law, Bertha Holmes of Middleboro; 16 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
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 BARROS, JOAO DE (1496-1570) - Online Information article about BARROS, JOAO DE (1496-1570)
Sebastian, and died on the loth of See also:
Though, on the whole, impartial, Barros is the narrator and apologist of the great deeds of his countrymen, and lacks the See also:
title of Barros's work is Da Asia de Joao de Barros, dos feitos que os Portuguezes fizeram no, descubrimento e439 conquista dos mares e terras do See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BARROS_JOAO_DE_1496_1570_.html   (1043 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Portugal
Other university-level institutions include the University of Algarve (1979), the University of Aveiro (1973), the University of the Azores (1976), the University of Beira Interior (1973), the University of Evora (1559), the University of Porto (1911), the University of Minho (1973), and the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (1973).
The so-called Temple of Diana in the south-east, the ruins of the city of Conimbriga on the west coast, and the bridge of Chaves in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro in the north-east are fine examples of Roman architecture.
Subsequent occupation by the Visigoths in the 5th century and by the Muslim Moors in the 8th century can be discerned in the styles of many of Portugal’s buildings and churches.
au.encarta.msn.com /text_761558260__1/Portugal.html   (6725 words)

  
 Concelho de Ponta Delgada
Emily Rezente,s Father was Jose Joaquim Resendes (born 17 Dec 1866) in Ponta Delgada in the Church of Sao Jose, on Sao Miguel.
Maria Da Gloria Carreira/Correia (born 10 Sep 1878 Sao Jose, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel) on 20 Aug 1893 in the Church of Saint Raphael in Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii.
Surnames in Santo Antonio, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel: Carvalho
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 Geographic Terms File 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Philip Augustus was too occupied with the English to join in the first phase of the Albigensian Crusade, but his son Louis VIII led a successful campaign that resulted in the extension of the royal domain south to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The queen mother, Catherine de Médicis, was the virtual ruler during most of their reigns and she continued to be influential in the reign (1574-1589) of her third son, Henry III.
For the first decade and a half of his reign the country drifted or slipped backward under the ineffectual direction of the queen mother, Marie de Médicis, and later under the irresolute leadership of the inexperienced young king.
www.jaenfield.com /genealogy/Enf_Bry/g8.html   (22549 words)

  
 PORT - LoveToKnow Article on PORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Port Townsend was settled in 1854, incorporated as a town in 1860 and chartered as a city in 1890.
PORTUGAL, a republic of western Europe, forming part of the Iberian Peninsula, and bounded on the N. and E. by Spain, and on the S. and W. by the Atlantic Ocean.
Towards the close of the reign, a long-standing controversy with Spain as to the frontier bet
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 All Bishops by Name (F), Page 2 [Catholic-Hierarchy]
Archbishop Luis Fernández de Córdoba †, Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}, Spain
Archbishop Antônio Ferreira de Macedo, C.SS.R. †, Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Aparecida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bishop Matias de Figueiredo e Mello †, Bishop of Olinda, Brazil
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 CV_EARiedinger
He is an adjunct professor in the Department of History (graduate faculty) and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and in the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio University (Athens).
Riedinger lived in that country, primarily Rio de Janeiro, from 1971 to 1988; and he has been a faculty member at various universities there (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio, Gama Filho University), in Mexico (University of the Americas, Puebla), and in the United States (San Francisco State University).
From 1979 to 1988 he was the Educational Advising Officer of the Fulbright Commission of Brazil at the American Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro.
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 Henry the Navigator
Led by Afonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese occupied Goa, India, in 1510, Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia) in 1511, the Moluccas (in present­day Indonesia) in 1512­14, and Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf in 1515.
During the reign (1750­77) of Joseph Emanuel, the kingdom was controlled by the chief­minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, marquês de Pombal, considered one of the greatest statesmen in modern Portuguese history.
During the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Portugal sided with Britain against France.
www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/henry.html   (1893 words)

  
 United Nations OnLine Position Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-31)
Led by Alfonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese occupied Goa, India, in 1510, Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia) in 1511, the Moluccas (in present-day Indonesia) in 1512-14, and Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf in 1515.
During 1974 and 1975, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, the Cape Verde Islands, São Tomé and Principe, and Angola became independent, and in 1975-76 Portuguese Timor was occupied by Indonesian forces.
UNTAET led by brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello did a masterful job in launching the basis for social and political stability so that a new nation could emerge.
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 Learn more about List of people on stamps in the online encyclopedia.
Between 1932 and 1972 Aitutaki used the stamps of the Cook Islands.
No persons were featured on the stamps of Anjouan.
See List of people on stamps of Austria
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 Food For Thought: Biographies
Cajetan of Thiene, Saint (Gaetano de Thiene) (It.
Carvalho e Mello, Sebastiao Jose de (Portuguese politician)
Catherine de Medicis (Queen of Henry II of France)
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 Deceased Bishops by Name (F), Page 2 [Catholic-Hierarchy]
Bishop Domenico Fiori †, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto, Italy
Archbishop Istvan Fischer de Nagy †, Archbishop of Eger, Hungary
Bishop José Antonio Flores de Rivera †, Bishop of León en Nicaragua
www.catholic-hierarchy.org /bishop/ldf2.html   (2032 words)

  
 Brazil
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1912 Eleazar de Carvalho, born in Iguatu, Brazil, conductor/tuba, Tiradentes
1838 Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
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