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June 2017 Portugal Wildfires
A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each other, resulting in at least 66 deaths and 204 injured people. The majority of deaths took place in the Pedrógão Grande municipality, when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees escaping in their cars. Portuguese officials dispatched more than 1,700 firefighters nationwide to combat the blazes and Prime Minister António Costa declared three days of national mourning. Spain, France, Morocco and Italy deployed firefighters and Water Bombers to help extinguish the fires. Although most early official reports pointed to a dry thunderstorm as the cause of the tragedy, the President of the Portuguese Firefighters League expressed his conviction the fire was sparked by arsonists. Four months later, the October 2017 Iberian wildfires would cause 45 deaths in Portugal and four in Spain, for a total of 115 deaths (111 in Portugal, 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States's civil list of government space agencies, space program, aeronautics research and outer space, space research. National Aeronautics and Space Act, Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion (spacecraft), Orion spacecraft and the Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heat Wave
A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather generally considered to be at least ''five consecutive days''. A heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the area and to normal temperatures for the season. The main difficulties with this broad definition emerge when one must quantify what the 'normal' temperature state is, and what the spatial extent of the event may or must be. Temperatures that humans from a hotter climate consider normal can be regarded as a heat wave in a cooler area. This would be the case if the warm temperatures are outside the normal climate pattern for that area. Heat waves have become more frequent, and more intense over land, across almost every area on Earth since the 1950s, the increase in frequency and duration being caused by climate change. Heat waves form when a high-pressure area in the upper atmosphere strengthens and remains over a region for several days up to seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constança Urbano De Sousa
Maria Constança Dias Urbano de Sousa (born 1 April 1967) is a Portuguese jurist and the country's former Ministry of Internal Administration (Portugal), Minister of Internal Administration. Education Constança Urbano de Sousa graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in 1991, and received a postgraduate degree in European Law and a doctorate in Law from Saarland University, in Germany, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Professional career She is a former Portuguese Ministry of Internal Administration (Portugal), Minister of Internal Administration, in António Costa's XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal, cabinet. During her tenure, Portugal experienced the deadliest wildfires ever, firstly in June 2017 Portugal wildfires, Pedrogão Grande in June 2017 (65 dead) and later across the country in October 2017 (41 dead). In the sequence of the wildfires in Portugal in June 2017 Portugal wildfires, June and October 2017 Iberian wildfires, October, Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sábado (magazine)
''Sábado'' is a Portuguese weekly news magazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or new ... published in Portugal. It is the first modern news magazine in the country. History and profile ''Sábado'' was established in 1988 and closed down in 1993. The magazine was relaunched by Cofina on 7 May 2004. It is published on a weekly basis and covers news on politics, society, culture, sports and leisure. The 2005 circulation of ''Sábado'' was 48,737 copies. The weekly had a circulation of 65,000 copies in 2007. Its circulation was 76,924 copies in 2010 and 74,431 copies in 2011. It was 66,456 copies in 2012. The magazine had a circulation of 57,261 copies between September and October 2013. See also * List of magazines in Portugal References External linksOfficial websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Rebelo De Sousa
Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa (; born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician and academic who is the president of Portugal since 2016. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, though he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency. Rebelo de Sousa has previously served as a government minister, parliamentarian in the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, legal scholar, journalist, political analyst, law professor, and pundit. Born in Lisbon, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the eldest son of Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa (1921–2001) and his wife Maria das Neves Fernandes Duarte (1921–2003). He has claimed that his mother had Jewish ancestry. He is named after Marcelo Caetano, the last prime minister of the Estado Novo regime and a friend of his father. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa became a professor and publicist specialized in constitutional law and administrative law, earning his doctorate at the University of Lisbon, where he taught law. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodeirinho
{{Infobox settlement , name = Nodeirinho , native_name = , native_name_lang = pt , settlement_type = Village , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = , etymology = , nickname = , coordinates = {{Coord, 39, 55, 48, N, 8, 14, 9, W, display=inline, title , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Portugal , subdivision_type1 = Distrito , subdivision_name1 = Leiria , subdivision_type2 = Concelho , subdivision_name2 = Pedrógão Grande , subdivision_type3 = Freguesia , subdivision_name3 = Graça , elevation_m = 430 , population_total = Nodeirinho is a Portuguese village, located in the civil parish of Graça, municipality of Pedrógão Grande. Located between the towns of Avelar and Pedrógão Grande Pedrógão Grande (; ) is a municipality in the dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinus Pinaster
''Pinus pinaster'', the maritime pine or cluster pine, is a pine native to the south Atlantic Europe region and parts of the western Mediterranean. It is a hard, fast growing pine bearing small seeds with large wings. Description ''Pinus pinaster'' is a medium-size tree, reaching tall with a Trunk (botany), trunk diameter of up to , exceptionally . The Bark (botany), bark is orange-red, thick, and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk, somewhat thinner in the upper Crown (botany), crown. The leaves ('needles') are in pairs, very stout ( broad), up to long, and bluish-green to distinctly yellowish-green. The maritime pine features the longest and most robust needles of all European pine species. The conifer cone, cones are conic, long and broad at the base when closed, green at first, ripening glossy red-brown when 24 months old. They open slowly over the next few years, or after being heated by a wildfire, forest fire, to release the seeds, opening to broad. The seeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinhal Interior Norte
Pinhal Interior Norte () is a former Portuguese subregion, in Centro Region, Portugal. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 The principal and most populous town is . The only city is |
Visão
''Visão'' is a Portuguese news magazine published weekly in Lisbon, Portugal. History and profile ''Visão'' was first published on 25 March 1993. The magazine is the successor to the weekly newspaper ''O Jornal'' which was published between 1975 and 1992. The founding owner of ''Visão'' was the Projornal company. The magazine was modelled on ''Time'' and ''Der Spiegel'' and is owned by Impresa. It was published weekly on Thursdays by Edimprensa, a joint subsidiary of Impresa and Edipresse. In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazine. The weekly has its headquarters in Lisbon. ''Visão'' has a liberal political leaning. In addition to news sections the magazine has a 12-page culture section. Since 1999 the weekly has offered a culture and leisure Leisure (, ) has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, Employment, work, job hunting, Housekeeping, domestic chores, and education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Republican Guard (Portugal)
The National Republican Guard () or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal. Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Polícia de Segurança Pública, Public Security Police (PSP). The GNR is responsible for the preventive police and highway patrol in 94% of Portuguese territory. At national level, GNR also has duties of customs enforcement, coastal control, nature protection, search and rescue operations and state ceremonial guards of honor. Since the 2000s, the GNR has provided detachments for participation in international operations in Iraq, East Timor and other Theatre (military), theatres. As October 2023, the GNR is now partly in charge of controlling the Portuguese borders (alongside the PSP), with the dissolution of the SEF force. Strength The GNR deploys over 22.608 personnel over 90 percent of Portuguese territory. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
