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António Ferro
António Joaquim Tavares Ferro (17 August 1895, Lisbon - 11 November 1956, Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer, journalist and politician, associated with the Estado Novo. Biography In 1915, when he was barely 19, his friend, Mário de Sá Carneiro, appointed him as editor of the magazine '' Orpheu'', precisely because he was still a minor. This position did not last long, however, as Sá Carneiro's father withdrew his financial support after only two issues. During the 1920s, he became a reporter for '' O Século'' and the ''Diário de Lisboa'', was briefly Director of the ''Illustração Portugueza'' and served as an international correspondent for ''Diário de Notícias''. He also contributed prose and poetry to several literary journals. In 1920, he published one of his best known works, a collection of aphorisms and "paradoxes" called the ''Teoria da Indiferença'' (Theory of Indifference). He also produced a self-described " fragmentary novel", ''Leviana'' (Frivolous) and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ferro
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language–speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language, it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Primo De Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, Grandee, GE (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Restoration (Spain), Bourbon Restoration. He was born into a landowning family of Andalusian Aristocracy (class), aristocrats. He met his baptism by fire in October 1893 in Cabrerizas Altas during the so-called Margallo War. He moved up the military ladder, promoted to brigadier general (1911), division general (1914), and lieutenant general (1919). He went on to serve as administrator of the Valencia, Madrid, and Barcelona military regions, distinguishing himself as a voice in favour of military withdrawal from Africa. During the crisis of the Restoration regime, specifically upon political turmoil in the wake of setbacks in the Rif War and the ensuing spillover of the enquiries of the Picasso file, Primo de Rivera staged 1923 Spanish coup d' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Ferro (writer)
Rita Ferro (born 1955) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, playwright and teacher. Early life Rita Maria Roquette de Quadros Ferro Ochôa was born on 26 February 1955 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, the daughter of writer and philosopher and Paulina Roquette Ferro. Her paternal grandmother was the writer Fernanda de Castro, and her paternal grandfather was António Ferro a writer, journalist, and politician who was associated with the repressive '' Estado Novo'' regime in the mid-20th Century. Ferro studied design, specializing in marketing. Following internships in Brazil, Spain, the USA and the United Kingdom, she taught advertising at the ''Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa'' (Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise - IADE), which her father had founded in 1969. She also worked as an advertising writer for ''Reader’s Digest'' in Portugal and for other publishers. Writing Ferro began her literary career in 1990, with the publication of the novel ''O Nó na Garganta'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda De Castro
Maria Fernanda Teles de Castro de Quadros Ferro OSE (8 December 1900 – 19 December 1994) was a Portuguese writer, poet, and translator. She was founder and director of the National Association of Children's Parks and of the magazine ''Bem Viver''. She also wrote music for fado, marches and children's songs, as well as screenplays for film and ballet. Early life Fernanda de Castro was the daughter of João Filipe das Dores de Quadros who had family ties with the former Portuguese colony of Goa and Ana Isaura Codina Teles de Castro da Silva. She had four brothers and one sister. She was born close to midnight in the Campo de Ourique area of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, according to her mother on 8 December 1900 and according to her father and official documents on the 9th. Christened Maria Fernanda, she was nicknamed ''Mariazinha'' (Little Maria), a name she would later use for one of her children's books, ''Mariazinha em África''. In 1909 her father became captain of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pousadas De Portugal
Pousadas de Portugal () is a chain of luxury, traditional or historical hotels in Portugal. Formerly run by the Portuguese State, they are now run by the Pestana Group, which in September 2003 won a public bid for the sale of 37.6% of parent company Enatur and for a 40-year running concession. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of Europe. The Pousadas were envisioned and created in the early 1940s by António Ferro, head of the National Propaganda Secretariat and also a poet and playwright, who had the idea of creating hotels that were both rustic and genuinely Portuguese. His first Pousada was built in Elvas, in the Alentejo, which would be the first of what Ferro called "small hotels that look nothing like hotels". This Pousada is no longer active. There are now 44 Pousadas installed in historic buildings. The Portuguese word ''pousada'' means "hostel" or "inn". In Portugal, the use of the word is registered as a trademark and reserved for the use of the Pousadas de Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Company
A dance troupe or dance company is a group of dancers and associated personnel who work together to perform dances as a sport, spectacle or entertainment. There are many different types of dance companies, often working in different list of dance styles, styles of dance. Some companies are formed from members of dance studios or from paid professionals. Dance company members can range from as young as two years old up to 18 years old. Dance troupes may be formed for competition purposes. Many dance companies are established within cities to be near theatres or other performing art venues. A dance troupe will likely have performance costumes, sets or props, and proper footwear. A dance studio will more than likely be the location where dance classes and or practices will take place. History There is evidence that shows the start of dance troupes in Roman and Greek times. These groups were originally for musicals and performed in theatres. Dance troupes would perform for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museu De Arte Popular
The ''Museu de Arte Popular'' is an Art museum in Lisbon, Portugal. It was originally designed by Veloso Reis and João Simões for the Portuguese World Exhibition's popular life pavilion in 1940, and after the exhibition was refurbished and in 1948. References External linksOfficial Museu de Arte Popular website Art museums and galleries in Lisbon Belém (Lisbon) World's fair architecture in Lisbon Art museums and galleries established in 1948 {{Portugal-museum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquilino Ribeiro
Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL (; 13 September 1885 – 27 May 1963, Lisbon), was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is generally considered to be one of the great Portuguese novelists of the 20th century. In 1960, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature; having been nominated by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores. Biography Born in Carregal de Tabosa, Sernancelhe, the natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. He was originally destined for the priesthood, but became involved with the Portuguese Republican Party in opposition to the Royal House of Braganza. Although he did not participate directly, he was involved in the Lisbon Regicide and knew the plan and the assassins, as he stated in his work ''"Um escritor confessa-se”'' (A Writer Confesses). Between 1908 and 1914, he lived between Paris and Berlin, cities where he broadened his horizons enor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio Dantas
Júlio Dantas, GCC (1876 – 25 May 1962) was a Portuguese doctor, poet, journalist, politician, diplomat and playwright. Biography Writing career In 1902, Dantas published the one-act verse play '' A Ceia dos Cardeais'' (''The Dinner of the Cardinals''). In 1907, his one-act play ''Rosas de Todo o Ano'' (''Roses all the Year'') had its premiere in Lisbon. It was later translated into English by A. F. d'Almeida Carvalho and Mrs. Edward Lewis, and its 1912 Royal Court Theatre debut was the first time a play translated from Portuguese had been performed in London. In 1931, one of his plays was adapted for the screen as '' A Severa'': it was one of the earliest sound films in Portuguese cinema. In 1947, he published the play ''Frei António das Chagas'' about a Portuguese soldier's conversion to becoming a mystic. Dantas was a friend of the politician Vitorino Guimarães, having dedicated the poem "A minha boneca" ("My Doll") to his daughter Elina Guimarães during her childh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitorino Nemésio
Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (19 December 1901 – 20 February 1978) was a Portuguese poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel ''Mau Tempo No Canal (literally, ''Bad Weather in the Channel'' but published in an English translation as Stormy Isles – An Azorean Tale)'', as well as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Biography Vitorino Nemésio was born in 1901 in Praia da Vitória, on Terceira island, Azores. He was the son of Vitorino Gomes da Silva and Maria da Glória Mendes Pinheiro. Nemésio did not excel academically. He was "expelled" from secondary school in Angra do Heroísmo and resat his fifth year. However, Nemésio had fond memories of his history teacher, Manuel António Ferreira Deusdado, who introduced him to literature. After travelling at 16 to the district capital of Horta, Nemésio sat exams as an external student at the Lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese World Exhibition
The Portuguese World Exhibition () was held in Lisbon in 1940 to mark 800 years since the foundation of the country and 300 years since the restoration of independence from Spain. The fair ran from 23 June to 2 December 1940, held on the Praça do Império, and was attended by 3 million people. Organizers Augusto de Castro was the commissioner general, Júlio Dantas president of committee, the master architect, António Ferro (director), and lead engineer Duarte Pacheco. The exhibition was opened by Óscar Carmona, President Carmona, with Oliveira Salazar also in attendance. Contents The fair was divided into three main sections of display: history, ethnography, and the colonial world. Monument to Discoveries A Monument of the Discoveries of Portugal ''Padrão dos Descobrimentos'' was designed by Leopoldo de Almeida and Cottinelli Telmo. It was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt in 1960 to honor the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Nautical sports A m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern
Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has governmental institutions such as the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Federal Assembly and Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council. However, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Federal Supreme Court is in Lausanne, the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland, Federal Criminal Court is in Bellinzona and the Federal Administrative Court (Switzerland), Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court (Switzerland), Federal Patent Court are in St. Gallen, exemplifying the federal nature of the Confederation. With a population of about 146,000 (), Bern is the List of cities in Switzerland, fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
