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José Manuel Rodrigues "Joe" Berardo GCIH, ComIH (born 4 July 1944), is a Portuguese and South African businessman, investor, and art collector. According to Portuguese magazine Exame, he had an estimated net worth of €598 million in 2010, making him one of the wealthiest people in Portugal at the time. [2]
The next list is a list of the main cargo ports in Portugal, also including ports located in the Azores and Madeira islands. These ports are included in APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal , a non-profit association with the objective of exchanging information and debates, contributing to the modernization of the national system of ...
The poet Bulhão Pato, writing of Ponta Delgada, was surprised by the extraordinary riches of the plantation owners, the "gentlemen farmers" that lived within the urbanized core: exporters of oranges and corn, bankers, investors, industrialists and shippers, all contributing to a privileged class of economic and social thinkers and philanthropists.
Pilar da Bretanha is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.It was de-annexed from the historical parish of Bretanha on 10 July 2002, along with Ajuda da Bretanha. [1]
São Sebastião (Portuguese for Saint Sebastian) is a parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,953, [1] in an area of 3.34 km 2. [2] The parish is part of the downtown area of Ponta Delgada. Until June 30, 2003, the parish was known as Matriz (Ponta Delgada).
Relva is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,006, [ 1 ] in an area of 12.07 square kilometres (4.66 sq mi). [ 2 ]
The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of modern day central California.
Robert Breakspeare Ivens was a great-grandson of Thomas Hickling (Boston 1745–1836 Ponta Delgada) the American vice-consul in Ponta Delgada. In 1861, Ivens attended the Navy School in Lisbon . At school Roberto was known as "Roberto of the Devil" and he became known as an intelligent young gentleman. [ 1 ]