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The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang, initially of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. [1] The gang had its origin in the various Irish immigrant and Irish-American gangs in the Five Points area.
On 6 October 1910, newspaper Diário do Governo announced: "To the Portuguese people — Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Republic — Today, 5 October 1910, at eleven o'clock in the morning, was proclaimed the Portuguese Republic in the grand hall of the Palaces of Lisbon Municipality, after the end of the National Revolution ...
The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, [2] producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo ...
Álvaro Vaz de Almada (count of Avranches) (1390–1449), knight of the Garter, Captain-major of Portugal, killed in battle; Fernando de Almada (count of Avranches) (1430–1496), Captain-major of Portugal; Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936–2021), chief strategist of the Carnation Revolution of Portugal
Hence the Portuguese missionaries found it difficult to convert them. [11] [12] The Portuguese chronicler Diogo do Couto described Cuncolim as "The leader of rebellions" and its people as "The dangerous of all villages of Salcete". [13] Jesuit priest Alessandro Valignano described Cuncolim as 'rigid and obstinate' in its adherence to idolatory. [8]
It was labeled the "slow death camp" where dozens of political prisoners (mostly communists, but also adherents of other ideologies), were imprisoned under inhumane unhealthy conditions in exceedingly hot weather and died. [82] Historians say that 60 people died in jails for political reasons during Salazar's nearly 40-year regime. [83]
Due to his dark complexion and Portuguese heritage, Barboza was referred to as "the nigger" by his Italian associates. [7] [8] [9] According to Patriarca associate-turned-government witness Vincent Teresa, Barboza "hated Negroes" and killed at least two victims solely due to their race. [10] In 1964, Barboza legally changed his surname to "Baron".
The original Pink Map (1886) The Pink Map (Portuguese: Mapa cor-de-rosa), also known as the Rose-Coloured Map, [1] was a map prepared in 1885 to represent the Kingdom of Portugal's claim of sovereignty over a land corridor connecting the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique during the Scramble for Africa.