Peculiar Camonian testimonies
Camões was not only an extraordinary poet, but also an excellent observer and historian. Opinion by Jorge Paiva
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Justice for All
Regina Quintanilha (1893-1967) was the first Portuguese female lawyer. She associated with Salazar, whom she knew from Coimbra, but she helped her son-in-law escape the PIDE and was the antithesis of the woman envisioned by the Estado Novo regime.
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A spring inside a 17th-century kitchen
The kitchen of the Casa de Santar e Magalhães contains a spring dedicated to Saint Anthony. José Luís de Vasconcellos e Souza highlights that the kitchen is still used by the family today.
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The Novenas to Our Lady of Lapa in 1900
In addition to Father Baldomero, Aquilino also evokes Father Francisco Pinto Ferreira, Chaplain of the Lapa Sanctuary and Director of the Lapa College, which the writer attended.
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Ten years later
Just like in 17th-century France, everything is quite complicated. The book's story does not even end well.
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In the 1975 Earthquake
Text read at the presentation of the book 'In the 1975 Earthquake', dedicated to the often-forgotten political prisoners of the Revolution, especially the author's father, Ruy Moreira.
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Madalena Braz Teixeira, former director of the Costume Museum, has died
Madalena Braz Teixeira was an art historian and museologist, best known for her work with the National Costume Museum in Lisbon. She died at the age of 87.
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On the ceiling of the Jerónimos Monastery there are 15 painted copper medallions that we barely knew
The restoration of the national monument's church is coming to an end: 13 years and three million euros later. Information gathered by the conservator-restorers will now be studied.
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“Taking Goa from us was like taking 'The Lusiads' from us”: Valentim Alexandre talks about his new book
During the Goa crisis, Salazar threatened to leave the UN and NATO and to suspend the lease of the Lajes Base to the USA.
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Espionage: the 'Cantino planisphere'
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In the conflict over the control of the spice trade, one of the national defeats was the 'theft' of this map.
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