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It was disabled on 1 January 2014. [21] In 2020, after a community vote that lasted from 4 September to 4 October, the Portuguese Wikipedia no longer allows edits from unregistered users (IP addresses). As of 2019, the Portuguese Wikipedia had 316,000 unique categories, 3.57% of them lacking an appropriate page in the category namespace. The ...
The total fertility rate is 1.35 against the EU average of 1.53. [188] Life expectancy at birth is 83. [189] Due to the high percentage of senior citizens, the crude mortality rate (12%) [190] is well in excess of the crude birth rate (8%). [191] Portugal boasts one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates (3%), down from 9% in 1961. [192]
A late-16th-century English illustration of a witch feeding her familiars. In European folklore of the medieval and early modern periods, familiars (strictly familiar spirits, as "familiar" also meant just "close friend" or companion, and may be seen in the scientific name for dog, Canis familiaris) were believed to be supernatural entities, interdimensional beings, or spiritual guardians that ...
Articles relating to familiars and their depictions, supernatural entities or spiritual guardians that would protect or assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island was founded by Portuguese Jews in 1763.. Bilateral ties date from the earliest years of the United States. Following the American Revolutionary War, Portugal was the first neutral country to recognize the United States.
In 2020, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimated the number of Brazilian Americans to be 1,775,000, 0.53% of the US population at the time. [2] However, the 2019 United States Census Bureau American Community Survey estimated that there were 499,272 Americans who would report Brazilian ancestry. [5]
The law also establishes the maximum number of names allowed: up to two personal names and four surnames. [1] Advice from the Ministério da Justiça says of this restriction that a name "may contain a maximum of six simple words or compounds, as a rule, up to two first names and four surnames"; more may be permissible in some circumstances. [1]
Detail of a gold glass medallion with a portrait of a family, from Alexandria (Roman Egypt), 3rd–4th century (Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia) [7]. One of the primary functions of the family involves providing a framework for the production and reproduction of persons biologically and socially.