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Maria Dos Santos Machado
Maria dos Santos Machado (18901958) was a teacher and a Communist Party activist against the authoritarian '' Estado Novo'' (which governed Portugal from 1926 to 1974). She was imprisoned on four occasions between 1936 and her death in 1958. Early life and first arrest Maria dos Santos Machado was the daughter of Bartolomeu Silveira Lucas Machado and Maria dos Santos Teixeira. She was born in Calheta, on the island of São Jorge, in the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores on 25 February 1890. She began working in the Azores as a teacher, where she sought to put innovative teaching ideas into practice. She also created a library for students that was open to the general population. Moving to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, she worked as a primary school teacher. She also created a private school for the children of railway workers, which would be closed by the police, and founded a library in Alges near Lisbon. She was one of the founders of the Associação Feminina Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Jorge (island)
São Jorge (), Portuguese for Saint George, may refer to the following places: Brazil *São Jorge, Alto Paraíso de Goiás, is a village in the State of Goiás *São Jorge d'Oeste, a municipality in the state of Paraná *São Jorge, Rio Grande do Sul, is a municipality in the State of Rio Grande do Sul *São Jorge, São Paulo, is a bairro (neighbourhood) in the city of São Paulo Cape Verde *São Jorge, Cape Verde, a village in the municipality of São Filipe, Fogo *São Jorge (Santiago), a settlement in the municipality of São Lourenço dos Órgãos, Santiago Ghana *São Jorge da Mina, present-day Elmina, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast) Portugal *Caldas de São Jorge, town in the civil parish of São Jorge, in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira *Castle of São Jorge, a Moorish castle located in the center of Lisbon *São Jorge (Arcos de Valdevez), a civil parish in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez *São Jorge de Arroios, a civil paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |