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Director, producer, writer, published author. Years active. 1992–present. Nuno Bernardo is a Portuguese writer, producer and director. Nuno has become recognized for his ability to create innovative stories that are told across multiple platforms. [1] In the last decade, using his unique approach to storytelling, Nuno has created and produced ...
History. The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) was created from the split of the Lisbon Commercial and Industrial Institute (IICL) into two schools. Following the implantation of the Republic in Portugal in 1910, Alfredo Bensaúde, a professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the IICL, was invited by Manuel de Brito Camacho, Minister of Development in the Provisional Government, to create and lead ...
Fnac ( French pronunciation: [fnak]) is a French multinational retail chain specializing in the sale of entertainment media and consumer electronics . Fnac was founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. [1] Its headquarters is located in Le Flavia in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris.
It is held at the Eduardo VII Park. [1] The Lisbon Book Fair is one of the oldest cultural festivals held in the capital of Portugal. It was inaugurated in the 1930s, and its traditional location is the Eduardo VII Park (Parque Eduardo VII), the largest park of Lisbon, which is located in the vicinity of the monumental Praça Marques de Pombal. [2]
The Livro do Armeiro-Mor is an illuminated manuscript dating back to 1509, during the reign of King Manuel I of Portugal. The codex is an armorial, a collection of heraldic arms, authored by the King of Arms João do Cró. It is considered one of the masterpieces of illuminated manuscripts preserved in Portugal, alongside, for example, the ...
Marta Crawford was born on 27 April 1969. She has two sisters and a brother. She spent two years of her childhood in the USA, where her mother was doing a PhD. Crawford is Portuguese, taking her surname from her former husband, Filipe Crawford, an actor, who has Scottish ancestors. Marta Crawford, herself, initially had ambitions to be an actor ...
In the field of essay, other relevant and distinguished works include O Mito de Portugal [The Myth of Portugal] (2000), O Esplendor da Austeridade [Splendour of Austerity] (2011), Arquivo Secreto do Vaticano [Vatican Secret Archives] in 3 volumes (2011), and A Europa segundo Portugal [Europe According to Portugal] (2012).
Signature. José Maria Ferreira de Castro (24 May 1898 – 29 June 1974) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. Ferreira de Castro had a long career in journalism, and considered his fiction writing to be an extension of his documentary reporting; in that regard, he is considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social ...