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Processo Revolucionário Em Curso Governing Bodies
The Processo Revolucionário Em Curso (English: ''Ongoing Revolutionary Process'') is the period of the history of Portugal from the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974 to the establishment of a new constitution and the legislative elections on 25 April 1976. The turbulent period saw a number of governing bodies. Council of State Portuguese Council of State, from 31 May 1974Hugo Gil Ferreira, Michael W. Marshall, Portugal's Revolution: Ten Years On', Cambridge University Press (2011 986, pp. 63-4 * Citizens: Diogo de Freitas do Amaral, Henrique de Barros, Almeida Bruno, Isabel Magalhães Colcaco, Rafael Durão, Ruy Luis Gomes, Azeredo Perdigão * National Salvation Junta (JSN): José Pinheiro de Azevedo, António Rosa Coutinho, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Jaime Silvério Marques, Carlos Galvão de Melo, Diogo Neto, António de Spínola * Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA): Vítor Alves^, Ernesto Melo Antunes, Almada Contreiras, Victor Crespo, Vasco Gonçalves^, Costa Martins^, ...
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English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ...
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Movimento Das Forças Armadas
''Movimento'' (English: "Movement") is the sixth studio album by Portuguese group Madredeus. It was released on 9 April 2001 by EMI-Valentim de Carvalho. Recording ''Movimento'' was recorded in January and February 2000 at the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands. The mixing was done at the Êxito Estúdio in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2000. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's inner notes. Madredeus * Teresa Salgueiro – voice * Pedro Ayres Magalhães – classic guitar * José Peixoto – classic guitar * Carlos Maria Trindade – synthesizers * Fernando Júdice – acoustic bass Production * Pedro Ayres Magalhães – production, musical direction, cover project * Jorge Barata – sound engineer * António Pinheiro da Silva – sound engineer * Hessel Hélder – assistant at Wisseloord Studios * Paulo Trindade – assistant at Êxito Estúdio * Luís Delgado – assistant at Estúdio Tcha Tcha Tcha (pre-production) * Paulo Jorge Fer ...
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Loureiro Dos Santos
Loureiro may refer to: People *Artur Loureiro (1853–1932), Portuguese painter *Bruno Loureiro (born 1989), Portuguese professional footballer * Claudio Loureiro, Brazilian advertising executive and entrepreneur * Cleber Santana Loureiro (1981–2016), Brazilian professional footballer * Daniel Pedrosa Loureiro (born 1996), Spanish footballer *Fábio de Souza Loureiro (born 1980), former Brazilian footballer *Felipe Jorge Loureiro (born 1977), Brazilian football coach and former footballer * João de Loureiro (1717–1791), Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist *João Loureiro (born 1963), President of the Board of the Portuguese football club Boavista FC, 2013–2018 *José Jorge Loureiro (1791–1860), Portuguese soldier and politician *Kiko Loureiro (born 1972), Brazilian heavy metal guitarist *Luís Loureiro (born 1976), Portuguese former footballer and coach *Luís Miguel Loureiro, Portuguese state television journalist *Manel Loureiro, Spanish author *Miguel Loureiro (born ...
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Coup Of 25 November 1975
The Coup of 25 November 1975 (usually referred to as the ' in Portugal) was a failed military ''coup d'état'' against the post-Carnation Revolution governing bodies of Portugal. This attempt was carried out by Portuguese far-left activists, who hoped to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy in favor of a communist state. Vasco Gonçalves, the previous Prime Minister (July 1974 to September 1975), later described the coup as a "provocation" organised by the sixth provisional government, saying that the government had ordered the paratroopers to bomb the occupied . These orders, carried out by low-level paratroopers, had subsequently led the paratroopers to invade air bases in an attempt to force the resignation of the Air Force chief of staff.Hugo Gil Ferreira, Michael W. Marshall, ''Portugal's Revolution: Ten Years On''. Cambridge University Press (2011 986p94/ref> Gonçalves blamed the Group of Nine and related elements. Events The political, economic, and social crisis ...
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Manuel João Ferreira De Sousa
Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manuel I of Portugal, king of Portugal Places * Manuel, Valencia, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain * Manuel Junction, railway station near Falkirk, Scotland Other * Manuel (American horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Manuel (Australian horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Manuel and The Music of The Mountains, a musical ensemble * ''Manuel'' (album), music album by Dalida, 1974 See also *Manny Manny is a common nickname for people with the given name Manuel, Emanuele, Immanuel, Emmanuel, Herman, or Manfred. People * Manny Acosta (born 1981), Panamanian pitcher in the Mexican Baseball League * Manny Acta (born 1969), Dominican Major ...
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Fisher Lopes Pires
Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to: Places Australia * Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Electoral district of Fisher, a state electoral district in South Australia * Fisher, Australian Capital Territory *Fisher, Queensland, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa *Fisher, South Australia, a locality *Hundred of Fisher, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Rural Municipality of Fisher *Fisher (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada United Kingdom *Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast United States *Fisher, Arkansas *Fisher, California (other), multiple locations *Fisher, Illinois *Fisher, Louisiana *Fisher, Minnesota * Fisher, Missouri *Fisher, Oregon, an unincorporated community *Fisher, Pennsylvania *Fisher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Fisher I ...
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Luís Ernesto Albuquerque Ferreira De Macedo
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ...
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Vasco Lourenço
Vasco may refer to: * Basque language, called ''vasco'' in Spanish * ''Vasco'' (album), a two-part EP by Ricardo Villalobos * Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer * Vasco da Gama, Goa, a city in India, often called simply Vasco * Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, a Brazilian football club * Vasco SC, a Goan football club * × ''Vascostylis'' or Vasco, an orchid genus * Vasco Data Security International, a corporate security firm now known as OneSpan * Vietnam Air Services Company, a regional airline in southern Vietnam - subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines People with the name * André Vasco (born 1984), Brazilian actor and television presenter * Grão Vasco (Vasco Fernandes) (1475–1540), Portuguese painter * María Vasco (born 1975), Spanish race walker * Maurizio Vasco (born 1955), American television presenter * Vasco da Gama Fernandes (1908–1991), Portuguese politician, Chairman of the Portuguese Parliament * Vasco Gonçalves, Prime Minister of Portugal from 1974 to 1975 * Vasco Jo ...
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Vasco Gonçalves
General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA (; Lisbon 3 May 1921 – 11 June 2005) was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as the 104th Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975. Early life Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves was born on 3 May 1921, in Sintra, Portugal. His father, Vítor Gonçalves, was an amateur footballer turned foreign exchange dealer. He graduated from the Portuguese military academy as an engineer in 1942. Gonçalves married, in 1950, Aida Rocha Afonso, with whom he had a son, Vitor, and a daughter, Maria João. In 1942, Gonçalves graduated from a Portuguese military academy in the Army Engineering Corps. As an officer, Gonçalves served in Portuguese Goa, and spent part of his military career in the Portuguese overseas territories of Angola and Mozambique. In 1973, Gonçalves joined the Armed Forces Movement and was involved in the planning of the overthrow of the Estado N ...
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Victor Crespo
Victor Pereira Crespo (2 December 1932 – 30 September 2014) was a Portuguese politician and parliamentary. Career Crespo was born in Milagres, Leiria. He graduated as a Licentiate in Physics and Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Coimbra, where he became a Cathedratic Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology. He was elected Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 1979. Until the 14th Congress of his Party in 1988, he was also the Vice-President of its National Political Commission, as well as the President of its Parliamentary Group from 1982 to 1983. He was Minister of Education and Science in the 7th and 8th Constitutional Governments and of Education and Universities in the 8th (1980–1983). Between 1984 and 1985 he was an Ambassador and a Permanent Representative of Portugal at the UNESCO, in Paris. He was elected the 8th President of the Assembly of the Republic during the 5th Legislatur ...
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Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Augusto de Melo Antunes junior, GCL (Lisbon, 2 October 1933 – 10 August 1999) was a Portuguese military officer who had a major role in the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. Background Melo Autunes was the son of Ernesto Augusto Antunes (1907–1986) and Maria José Forjaz de Melo (1911–1987). Born in Lisbon, he moved to Angola at the age of 6, as a result of his father's military posting. He returned to Portugal at the age of 10 and lived in Aveiro and Tavira. Under pressure from his family, he entered military college in 1953. An avid reader since youth, he attended classes at the University of Lisbon in Philosophy (his main interest) and Law. His intellectual curiosity led him to read Marx and other authors prohibited by the Portuguese Dictatorship, and led to his exile to the Azores in 1957. Deeply involved in cultural and political activities he formed in 1962, with Manuel Alegre, the Patriotic Action of the Azores. The group which supported activiti ...
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Vítor Alves (soldier)
Vitor Manuel Rodrigues Alves (30 September 1935 Mafra, Portugal – 9 January 2011) was a Portuguese soldier and politician. Alves, a former Captain of the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA), is regarded as a leading figure in the Carnation Revolution, which transitioned Portugal from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy. Biography Born in Mafra, he was the son of Eduardo Manuel da Silva Alves and D. Maria Palmira Rodrigues. He joined the Military School on 14 October 1954, and corporal by 1956, before attaining the rank of ensign in the infantry (1 November 1958). He obtained his first military commission to Mozambique (1958–1963); where he was assigned to the 2nd Division Regional Military detachment in Mozambique, obtaining the position of Lieutenant by 1 December 1960. He married on 29 March 1962, in the provincial town of Lourenço Marques, with Maria Teresa Gomes Ferreira de Almeida Alves, daughter of Eugénio Ferreira de Almeida and Ermelinda Teixeira Gomes. Al ...
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