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Maria Rosa Colaço
Maria Rosa Colaço (19352004) was a Portuguese teacher, writer and journalist. Maria Rosa Parreiro Colaço was born in Torrão in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal in the Setúbal District of Portugal on 19 September 1935. She trained to be a nurse at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology but then changed to training to be a primary school teacher in Évora. After training she moved to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, where she taught in Nampula, Beira and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and also wrote for the local newspapers ''NotÃcias da Beira'' and ''NotÃcias de Lourenço Marques''. Four years after Mozambique's independence she returned to Portugal to teach and lived in Almada, on the left bank of the River Tagus, to the south of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. With her husband, António Lille Delgado Malaquias de Lemos, she had three children. Promoting the importance of reading in the development and education of children, Colaço was particularly identified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torrão
Torrão () is a Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish and Town#Portugal, town, in the concelho, municipality of Alcácer do Sal Municipality, Alcácer do Sal, in the Portugal, Portuguese district of Setúbal District, Setúbal, bordering on the districts of Évora District, Évora and the Beja District, Beja. It is crossed by the river Xarrama River. The population in 2011 was 2,295,Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 372.39 km2. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagus
The Tagus ( ; es, Tajo ; pt, Tejo ; see #Name, below) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally west with two main south-westward sections, to empty into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon. Its Tagus Basin, drainage basin covers – exceeded in the peninsula only by the Douro. The river is highly used. Several dams and diversions supply drinking water to key population centres of central Spain and Portugal; dozens of hydroelectric stations create power. Between dams it follows a very constricted course, but after Castle of Almourol, Almourol, Portugal it has a wide alluvium, alluvial valley, floodplain, prone to flooding. Its mouth is a large estuary culminating at the major Port of Lisbon, port, and Portuguese capital, Lisbon. The source is specifically: in political geography, at the Fuente de GarcÃa in the FrÃas de AlbarracÃn municipality; in physical geography, within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Children's Writers
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Women Journalists
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Gageiro
Eduardo Gageiro (born 16 February 1935 in Sacavém) is a Portuguese photographer and photojournalist. Beginnings Gageiro became interested in photography at a very early age whilst working at the Sacavém Factory, with the life of its workers providing the theme to his early pictures. The first photograph of him to be published appeared on the front page of the ''Diário de NotÃcias'', of Lisbon, when Gageiro was twelve years old. Photographic career He began his photojournalism career at ''Diário Ilustrado'', later working for ''Vida Ribatejana'', before joining weekly ''O Século'' in 1957. He later worked for ''Eva'' and also edited ''Sábado''. He continues to work with various publications and press agencies, mainly the ''Portuguese Associated Press''. As well as his photojournalist work, Gageiro has produced several photobooks, often in collaboration with important Portuguese writers. He worked on ''Gente'' (1971), with José Cardoso Pires (whose introduction provides on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soeiro Pereira Gomes
Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes (14 April 1909 Р5 December 1949) was a Portuguese writer of realist influence and became one of the major names of Portuguese literature of the 20th century. Pereira Gomes is, along with Alves Redol, the biggest name of the Portuguese neo-realist movement. He was also a communist militant and that was always present in his work. The Portuguese Communist Party headquarters (Soeiro Pereira Gomes Building), in Lisbon, is named after him. Life Soeiro was born in Gesta̤̫, Baịo, Porto District, the son of two farmers. He studied in the Agricultural School in Coimbra. After finishing his studies, he emigrated to Portuguese Angola, where he worked for one year before returning to Portugal. He then settled in Alhandra, working in the local cement plant, where he developed an intense campaign of cultural dynamization among the workers. But what really made him remarkable was his work as a writer and his influence upon Portuguese society socialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay
''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ''ScreenPlay''. Various writers and directors were utilized on the series. Writer Jimmy McGovern was hired by producer George Faber to pen a series five episode based upon the Merseyside needle exchange programme of the 1980s. The episode, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was entitled ''Needle'' and featured Sean McKee, Emma Bird, and Pete Postlethwaite''.'' The last episode of the series was titled "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" and featured Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson, who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie. Some scenes were shot a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rádio E Televisão De Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. It operates four national television channels and three national radio stations, as well as several satellite and cable offerings. The current company dates from 2007, with the merger of two previously separate companies Radiodifusão Portuguesa (RDP; the radio broadcaster) and Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (television broadcaster), although they had been grouped under a single holding company and common branding since 2004. RTP is funded by the ''taxa de contribuição audiovisual'' (broadcasting contribution tax), which is incorporated in electricity bills, and television advertising revenues. History Radio The Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão - usually referred to by its abbreviated designation Emissora Nacional (EN) - was established on 4 August 1935 as the public national radio broadcaster, inheriting the previous broadcasting operations of the Portuguese postal service (CT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diário De NotÃcias
''Diário de NotÃcias'' () is a Portuguese daily newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal. Established since 1864, the paper is considered a newspaper of record for Portugal. History and profile ''Diário de NotÃcias'' was first published in Lisbon on 29 December 1864 by Tomás Quintino Antunes and Eduardo Coelho. At its early phase the paper had no explicit political stance and financially relied on the advertisements. Its headquarters is in Lisbon. During the 1880s the novelist Eça de Queiroz, then stationed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in the Portuguese diplomatic service, contributed occasional "London letters" to the newspaper. Some of these were afterwards published in a book entitled ''Cartas de Inglaterra''. Before the Carnation Revolution ''Diário de NotÃcias'' belonged to the Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, a propaganda arm of the dictatorship. Following the Carnation Revolution, the paper remained nationalized until the early 1990s. Then the paper and '' Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Capital
''A Capital'' (meaning ''The Capital ity' in English) was a Portuguese afternoon newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1968 and 2005. History and profile ''A Capital'' was first published on 21 February 1968. The paper was established as a result of the editorial conflicts in the daily newspaper ''Diário Popular''. ''A Capital'' had a populist stance. Before the Carnation revolution the paper was owned by different companies, including the Banco EspÃrito e Comercial de Lisboa, CUF, Tabaqueira and Sorel. The paper was nationalized following the revolution. ''A Capital'' was purchased by Prensa Ibérica Prensa Ibérica Media, S.L., or simply Prensa Ibérica, is a Spanish mass media company owned by Javier Moll. It primarily owns regional newspapers. History Founded by Javier Moll, the company traces back its origins to 1978, with the creati ... in 2001. ''A Capital'' ceased publication on 30 July 2005. References 1968 establishments in Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almada
Almada () is a city and a municipality in Portugal, located on the southern margin of the Tagus River, on the opposite side of the river from Lisbon. The two cities are connected by the 25 de Abril Bridge. The population in 2011 was 174,030, in an area of 70.21 km2. The urbanized center had a population of 101,500 in 2001. History Human presence in the area of Almada dates to the end of the Neolithic period about 5000 years ago; archeological excavations performed in the municipality suggest that non-sedentary nomadic tribes may have occupied this location sporadically. The gradual development of settlement here made its greatest advance with the coming of Islamic civilization, when Muslims constructed a fort at Almada to defend and monitor the entrance to the Tagus River. Lying across the river from Lisbon, the area of Almada was a crossroads for a succession of various peoples who traded along the Tagus, including Phoenicians, Romans and Moors. As one of the principal Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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