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John III[ 1] ( Portuguese: João III Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w]; 7 June 1502 – 11 June 1557), nicknamed The Pious ( Portuguese: o Piedoso ), [ 2] was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1521 until his death in 1557. He was the son of King Manuel I and Maria of Aragon, the third daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and ...
The Society of Jesus expelled from the Kingdom of Portugal by the Royal Decree of 3 September 1759; as a carrack sets sail from Portuguese shores in the background, a bolt of lightning strikes a Jesuit priest as he attempts to set a terrestrial globe, a mitre, and a royal crown on fire; a bag of gold coins and a closed book (symbols of wealth and control of education) lie at the priest's feet.
V. Vale Verde International School. Categories: Schools offering Cambridge International Examinations. Schools in Portugal.
Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
The Residence of the Crivos ( Portuguese: Casa dos Crivos (Sieves House)) is a Renaissance -era shop/residence constructed outside the old walls of Braga, in the civil parish of São João do Souto, municipality of Braga. It is characteristic of late Renaissance architecture and one of the few examples of a building covered in wood-lattice ...
Department of Biochemistry. Department of Genetics. Department of Pathology. Department of Pharmacology. Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Department of Plant Sciences. Botanic Garden. Department of Psychology. Department of Zoology.
The Casa dos Bicos ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkazɐ ðuʒ ˈβikuʃ]; "House of the Beaks/Spikes") is a historical house in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the Portuguese municipality of Lisbon. The house, built in the early 16th century in the Alfama neighbourhood, has a curious façade of spikes, influenced by Italian ...
D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras (13 May 1699 – 8 May 1782), known as the Marquis of Pombal (Portuguese: Marquês de Pombal [mɐɾˈkeʒ ðɨ põˈbal]), was a Portuguese despotic statesman and diplomat who effectively ruled the Portuguese Empire from 1750 to 1777 as chief minister to King Joseph I.