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28 unusual facts about Lisbon


Abu Salem

When Salem was in Lisbon fighting India's extradition attempt, the only proof that he was indeed Salem was provided by the fingerprint and photographs taken after his arrest by A A Khan.

Bartholomew Columbus

Born in the Republic of Genoa, in the 1470s Bartholomew was a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal center of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the "Enterprise of the Indies", a scheme to reach the Orient and its lucrative spice trade by a western rather than an eastern route.

Coqueiro Seco

On September 4, 1805, the Apostolic Ambassador, in Lisbon, gaves one hundred days of indulgence for whom the chapel prayed for hundred days and others for whom prayed under the image of Bom Jesus dos Remédios an Our Father, an Ave Maria and a Gloria Patri for the Pope, for the exaltation of the Church and the spiritual and temporal well of Queen Mary I of Portugal and the Prince Regent D. John.

Daimler Freeline

In 1968 CCFL, in Lisbon, received 26 underfloor-engined single-deckers, which were described as Daimler CVU6LX.

David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ministry of Production from 1942 to 1943 and was Economic Adviser to the British ambassadors at Lisbon and Madrid from 1940 to 1942.

Demographics of Rio de Janeiro

The main ethnic group in Rio de Janeiro are the Portuguese, the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro has more people of Portuguese descent than Lisbon.

Deolinda

In January 2011, at two concerts in Porto and two in Lisbon, the band performed the song "Parva que Sou" for the first time.

Economy of Mozambique

By this time, Mozambique had become a Portuguese colony, but administration was left to the trading companies (like Mozambique Company and Niassa Company) who had received long-term leases from Lisbon.

Egg tart

It was created more than 200 years ago by Catholic Sisters at Jerónimos Monastery (Portuguese: Mosteiro dos Jerónimos) at Belém in Lisbon.

Elisabete Matos

After all these successes, Elisabete Matos has sung in many major opera houses around the world, like the Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Fenice, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon), Teatro Real, La Scala, Maestranza de Sevilla, Teatro Regio di Torino and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples).

Eva Pereira

Two years later at the 2009 Lusophony Games in Lisbon, Portugal she placed 6th in the 10,000 metres with a time of 44:56.

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

Humanos

All this culminated in three sold out concerts, two of them in Coliseu dos Recreios (Lisbon) and the other in Porto.

Jaime de la Té y Sagau

Jaime de la Té y Sagau (Barcelona, 1684 - Lisbon, 1736) was a Catalan composer active at the court of King Joao V in Lisbon.

Judah ibn Verga

He succeeded, however, in escaping to Lisbon, where possibly he lived several years, until he was taken by the Inquisition; he died under torture (ib. § 62).

Lisbon Falls, Maine

The area was once part of Little River Plantation, a portion of which was incorporated in 1799 as Thompsonborough, then renamed in 1802 after Lisbon, Portugal.

Lisbon, Maine

Consequently, it would be renamed in 1802 as Lisbon, after Lisbon in Portugal.

Lisbon, North Dakota

Lisbon was founded in 1880 by Joseph L. Colton, who named the new city after Lisbon, New York, his wife's hometown.

Luiz Pacheco

Luiz Pacheco (Lisbon, May 7, 1925 - Montijo, January 5, 2008) was a writer, publisher, polemicist and literary critic (mainly Portuguese literature).

Parigi-Lisbona

Parigi-Lisbona is a live album by Italian Jazz fusion band Area released in 1996 and recorded in 1976 in Paris and Lisbon, while the band was supporting their third album "Crac!".

Penha de França, Goa

It takes its name from the patroness of its church, Nossa Senhora da Penha de França which it shares with Penha de França in Lisbon.

Quilombola

Lisbon, seeing Palmares as a direct challenge to its colonial status, declared war on the Quilombolas.

Robert de Craon

Robert authorized the Spanish Templars to lead a naval expedition of about 70 ships against Lisbon, but this also ended in defeat.

S-1 Uranium Committee

:It may interest you that a colleague of mine who arrived from Berlin via Lisbon a few days ago, brought the following message: a reliable colleague who is working at a technical research laboratory asked him to let us know that a large number of German physicists are working intensively on the problem of the uranium bomb under direction of Heisenberg, that Heisenberg himself tries to delay the work as much as possible, fearing catastrophic results of a success.

Sheldahl, Iowa

The area was settled by 120 Norwegian immigrants from Lisbon, Illinois on June 7, 1855; including Osmond and Anna Sheldahl and five of their children.

Solomon ibn Verga

Ibn Verga himself says that he was sent by the Spanish communities to collect money for the ransom of the prisoners of Málaga (Shebeṭ Yehudah, § 64.), but he lived also at Lisbon as a marrano, and was an eye-witness of the massacre there in 1506 (ibid § 60).

Underground Sound of Lisbon


NYLX name appears as the junction of NY (for New York) and LX for Lisbon.

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In 1998, USL contributed "Hailwa Yenge Oike Mbela" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization.


1939 Taça de Portugal Final

The match was played on 25 June 1939 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Académica de Coimbra and Benfica.

A few acres of snow

In this letter to François Tronchin, written at Monriond, near Lausanne, dated January 29, 1756, Voltaire mentions the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon, Portugal, on November 1, 1755.

Aero Portuguesa

The AP route from Lisbon to Casablanca became world famous for the movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Antonín Svoboda

They managed to arrive in Marseilles, where they attempted first to get out of France to Casablanca, and when that failed, managed to get to Lisbon.

Carris Museum

It is situated near the riverside in Alcântara (Lisbon), in an important cultural corner of Lisbon which integrates the Orient Museum, the National Palace, the National Coach Museum, the Presidency of the Republic Museum, the Jeronimos Monastery, and the Belem Cultural Centre.

Diogo das Chagas

Little is known of his infancy and childhood; Chagas wrote that his first studies occurred in the city of Angra, where he received ecclesiastical training, but, owing for the absence of a bishop in the Diocese de Angra, he travelled to Lisbon in 1612, in order to be ordained priest.

Eleonora de Cisneros

Between 1900 and 1906 she sang in more than 40 operatic roles in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and Melbourne.

Eric van Damme

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) since 1992.

European Academy of Music Theatre

Thus conferences with renowned partners such as the Vienna State Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon as well as the European Forum Alpbach and the University of Zurich could be held.

Fernando Peyroteo

He went on to be part of the club's offensive line that included Albano, Jesus Correia, Travassos and Manuel Vasques and was dubbed the Cinco Violinos (Five Violins), scoring 34 goals in only 14 games in his first year to win both the Lisbon Championship and the Taça de Portugal, then named Portuguese Championship.

Final Stroke

The shots took place in Lisbon at UZI studios and the video was produced by Vasco Viana.

Gilbert Durand

with the addition of his correspondence with Lima de Freitas, under the title: Portugal - Tesouro Oculto da Europa, Lisbon, Ésquilo, 2008.

Ilag

After lengthy negotiations in Switzerland, 900 British internees, mostly elderly or ill, were exchanged in Lisbon for a similar number of Germans interned in South Africa in July 1944.

Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal

Its main general branches are located in Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto, and are linked with the legal medicine departments at the University of Coimbra, University of Lisbon and University of Porto.

International Association of Wagner Societies

Wagner societies can be found in all parts of the world, including Venice, Great Britain, Shanghai, Tokyo, Lisbon, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ankara, New York, Toronto, Cape Town, Bangkok, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

João do Rio

In November, makes his third voyage to Europe, having visited Lisbon (where his play A Bela Madame Vargas – The Beautiful Madame Vargas – is staged with great success), Paris, Germany, Istanbul, Russia, Greece, Jerusalem and Cairo.

Luís Moniz Pereira

Luís Moniz Pereira(born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Métamorphose d'une gare

The new Guillemins station in Liège was a huge project undertaken by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who had already directed construction of stations in Zurich, Lisbon and Lyon.

MS Europa 2

Europa 2's maiden voyage started on 11 May 2013 for 14 nights from Hamburg, Germany, and is stopping at Amsterdam, Antwerp, Honfleur, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bilbao, Leixoes and Lisbon.

NATO Rapid Deployable Italian Corps

NRDC-IT is operationally led by the Joint Force Command Headquarters in Naples, Brunssum or Lisbon.

Nélson Pereira

After 2005–06 Nélson moved to Vitória Futebol Clube, but due to unpaid wages – a recurring problem in the club for the past seasons prior to his arrival – he left the sadinos, being out of work for almost six months before joining another Lisbon side, C.F. Estrela da Amadora, in July 2007.

Nicolas Chorier

This manuscript claimed that it was originally written in Spanish by Luisa Sigea de Velasco, an erudite poetess and maid of honor at the court of Lisbon and was then translated into Latin by Jean or Johannes Meursius, a humanist born in Leiden, Holland in 1613.

North Woods Hiawatha

In June 1936 the Milwaukee Road introduced a new train between New Lisbon and Star Lake, Wisconsin, which it dubbed Hiawatha – North Woods Section.

Nuno Durão

He had his debut at 26 March 1983, in a 25-4 loss to Spain, in Madrid, for the FIRA Championship D2, Pool B. His last match was at 2 March 1996, in a 64-3 loss to Italy, in Lisbon, for the FIRA Championship D1, Pool 2.

Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio

Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio (Tomar, 18 February 1922 – Lisbon, 7 December 2011) was a Portuguese general who served as Governor of Macau from 1979 to 1981.

Pascoal Mocumbi

Having left for Lisbon, Mainland Portugal, he enrolled in the University of Lisbon's Medical School, in 1960 and 1961; subsequently, he left Portugal for political reasons, and enrolled in the University of Poitiers in France, where he stayed up until 1963.

Pedro Luís Neves

He studied biology at the University of Lisbon and formed a jazz quartet at the Hot Club of Portugal, entered the universe of improvisation and composition techniques, simultaneously collaborating in the creation of two experimental theatre shows with Lisbon's Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa and Teatro Oficina from Brazil, in Brecht's play Galileo.

Pepetela

While at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon he befriended other Angolan students who were associated with the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, the student association of Portuguese students from the overseas.

Queima das Fitas

During the festival's week groups of students from other universities, such as Lisbon or Porto, among thousands of other visitors, come to enjoy it.

Ricardo Araújo Pereira

He was born in Lisbon, 28 April 1974, his father is a TAP aeroplane pilot and his mother an aeroplane hostess.

Sancho de Tovar e Silva

From 1572 onwards, Tovar e Silva held the position of Copeiro-mór (Master of the Ceremonies) at the royal court in Lisbon, and around that time he became Lord of the Honour of Molelos by marriage to Maria da Veiga e Nápoles, a wealthy heiress descended from a cadet branch of the royal house of Anjou.

Shiloh Church

Shiloh Temple, Lisbon Falls, Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places

Sky lantern

Frei Bartolomeu de Gusmão, using a large scale version of these lanterns, was the first man to fly a Hot air balloon in August 8, 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, Portugal, long before the Montgolfier brothers.

SS Avoceta

Others were to one or another mainland port: one to Almeria, two to Valencia and 11 to Lisbon.

Taça de Honra de Lisboa

The Lisbon Honour Cup is a Portuguese football tournament played between the best teams of the Lisbon Football Association.

Team 10

The group's first formal meeting under the name of Team 10 took place in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in 1960; the last, with only four members present, was in Lisbon in 1981.

Teófilo Braga

After the failure of the conspiracy, with many of those retreating or sent to a military tribunal in Leixões, the two criticized Lisbon Republicans for their lack of assistance for the rebels in Oporto.

Tiro de Diu

After the defeat of the Muslim forces, the gun was sent to Lisbon, first being set in the Castle of São Jorge and, after 1640, in the Fortress of S. Julião da Barra, in Oeiras, to defend the mouth of the River Tagus.

Toni Servillo

He also directed famous theatrical opera like Il marito disperato by Cimarosa and Fidelio by Beethoven for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples and Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

Tony Moorey

Highlights included outside broadcasts in Las Vegas, on the London Eye and in Lisbon for Euro 2004.

Vítor Norte

Vitor left the Escola Industrial e Comercial de Estremoz (Industrial and Commercial school in Extremoz), to settle in Lisbon, when he was seventeen.

Wilfrid B. Israel

On 26 March 1943 Israel left London for Lisbon, Portugal and spent the next two months distributing certificates of entry to British ruled Palestine, and investigating the situation of Jews on the peninsula; during World War II the fascist regimes in Spain and Portugal sympathized with Nazi Germany but refused to hand over Jews to the Germans.

William de la Founte

de la Founte had established his business interests in Lisbon and from 1480 also in Huelva, Andalusia.