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| | Portugal Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
 | | Some men claimed to be King Sebastian between 1584 and 1598, originating the Sebastian myth. | | | Main television broadcasters are the state-run RTP1 and RTP2 and the privately owned SIC and TVI. | | | It also has very good relations with China, due to Macau, a meeting-point of both nations, and century-old diplomatic ties with Morocco. |
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http://www.variedtastes.com/encyclopedia/Portugal
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| | Wolzek's Terror Timeline: History of the Jewish War Against the World |
| | Polish history during the following three centuries will show a long struggle for supremacy between Jews and Gentiles, with the Jewish side given a boost by a large influx of Jews coming from the fallen Khazar kingdom in the 1300s. | | | Espina suggested that if an Inquisition were established in Castile, large numbers of them would be found to be only pretending Christians, engaged in judaizing and in undermining the Faith they professed. | | | A clever Jewish rabbi, using common Christian-based religious arguments, convinces a high government official (Cromwell, in fact) in England that Jews should be allowed to return to England (having been kicked out 400 years earlier). |
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http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/temp/HistoryofOurWorld.html
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| | Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789 |
| | But most slavers accepted what they claimed were African assurances that their human merchandise had indeed been "saved" in a just war, on the principle that it is not up to the purchaser to discover if the goods he is buying have been acquired legitimately or not. | | | From the 1500s through the early 1700s, small numbers of white people were also enslaved by kidnapping, or for crimes or debts. |
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http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
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| | Internet African History Sourcebook |
| | An History of the Abuyudaya Jews of Uganda | | | These are full descriptions of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful bibliographies. | | | The Historical and Social Background of the Abayudaya Community, a group of Ugandans who converted to Judaism in the late 19th century. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
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| | African Timelines Part II: African Empires |
| | The Portuguese explorations were motivated by a desire for knowledge, a wish to bring Christianity to what they perceived as pagan peoples, the search for potential allies against Muslim threats, and the hope of finding new and lucrative trade routes and sources of wealth. | | | Jim Jones, History Dept., West Chester Univ., 1998): | | | (David W. Koeller, History Dept., Northpark Univ., 1996-1999): |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm
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| | Mozambique History Timeline - historic overview of Mocambique, Africa |
| | The assassinators are from PIDE, the secret police of the Portuguese fascist rule. | | | To some extend Frelimo tries to prove that it is not anti-European or racist by offering remaining white people posts in the government and administration. | | | Inspired by the situation in Rhodesia, some Portuguese settlers try a coup d'etat against Frelimo. |
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http://crawfurd.dk/africa/mozambique_timeline.htm
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| | California, Timeline of State History - SHG Resources |
| | The bomb was concealed in a suitcase; ten bystanders were killed and forty wounded in the worst terrorist act in San Francisco history. | | | The most serious discrimination during World War II was the decision to evacuate Japanese nationals and American citizens of Japanese descent from the West Coast and send them to internment camps. | | | Dan White was paroled from Soledad Prison on January 6, 1985 after serving a minimal sentence for manslaughter. |
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http://www.shgresources.com/ca/timeline
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| | Society and Science History TimeLine |
| | This includes a history of the Society and (via library and archives) information on its members. | | | A time line from before writing began to the present, linked to Andrew Roberts' book | | | Served for centuries its declared purpose of making the Koran available to christians. |
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http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/sshtim.htm
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| | WHKMLA : History of Portugal, ToC |
| | CPHRC, Portugal's Contemporary History Online - 209 biographies, numerous documents etc. | | | Historical Research in Europe, listing of archives; click Atlas Search, Portugal, 95 entries | | | Rebecca Weiner, Virtual Jewish History Tour - Portugal, from Jewish Virtual Library |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/spain/xportugal.html
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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Timeline |
| | List of timelines from across the web of things that never were | | | Timeline of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack | | | This page is a list of the timelines contained in CONK! |
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http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Timeline
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| | Timeline of Portuguese history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | March 11 — A right-wing coup fails: A turn to the left in the revolution happens and major industries and big properties are nationalized by government | | | Manuel I orders expulsion or conversion of the Portuguese Jews | | | April — João I of Portugal acclaimed king by the Portuguese; Castilians do not accept this claim |
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http://www.kernersville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Timeline_of_Portuguese_history
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| | Encyclopedia: Timeline of Chinese history |
| | People who viewed "Timeline of Chinese history" also viewed: | | | Timeline of the spread of the Christian Gospel c. | | | The Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in history, a clash between the forces of Imperial China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全), who was also a Christian convert. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Chinese-history
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| | African Presence 1492-1992: Schomburg Exhibit |
| | Click on a time period to view its timeline. | | | King Alfonso of the Kongo writes a letter to Portuguese King John asking him to put an end to the kidnapping of his people for slavery. | | | History of Negro in English America began with landing of "twenty negars" at Jamestown, Virginia. |
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http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Schomburg/text/timeline-start.html
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| | Timeline of Portuguese Activity in East Africa, 1498-1700 |
| | West Chester University, HIS311 "African History to 1875" | | | Portuguese extended their land claims to the Upper Zambezi | | | The Portuguese aided Ethiopia in its war against the Somali Kingdom of Adal |
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/timeline/t-port.htm
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| | 350th.org |
| | Jews celebrate 350 years of American Jewish history. | | | The last time Portuguese is used in the official records of Shearith Israel, New York | | | Surveys point to a decline in America’s Jewish population, the first since the colonial era. |
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http://www.350th.org/history/timeline.html
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| | Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history |
| | A copy of the material the Timeline appears in is requested. | | | Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet and Internet history | | | Permission is granted for use of this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes as long as this Copyright notice and a link to this document, at the archive listed at the end, is included. |
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http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline
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| | Afro-Portuguese Ivories Special Topics Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | They have been described as emerging from a period that predates power imbalances and racist imagery. | | | Later, as the political climate in the country grew untenable for Portuguese traders, ivories were exported from the kingdom of Benin. | | | The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called "white gold" in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/apiv/hd_apiv.htm
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| | TIMELINE of Asian American History between 1400 and 1874 |
| | {Source: Thomas W. Chinn, Editor, A History of the Chinese in California, Chinese Historical Society of America, 1969.} | | | This was the first recorded instance of Chinese in the East Coast in the United States. | | | Temple construction on Maui was particularly rapid, occurring during a 30-year period beginning in the early 1600s, the researchers said. |
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http://us_asians.tripod.com/timeline-1600.html
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| | Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Timeline - Home |
| | Women's History Activities Biographies Featured Titles Links Quiz Timeline Women's Rights on Trial | | | Juan de Fuca navigates his ships to the northern coast of the current state of Washington. | | | The Spaniards land on an island called San Salvador — either present-day Watling Island or Samana Cay in the eastern Bahamas. |
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http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/chh/timeline
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| | History of Psychology Timeline |
| | Join your page to PsiTImeline Web Ring and others Web Rings | | | Subscribe our news (PsiTimeline) and discussion (PSITL-L) lists (only in portuguese) | | | Use of the ICQ Online-Message Panel is subject to Terms of Service |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6061/e_index.htm
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| | Viriathus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Most of his life and war against the Romans are part of legend and Portuguese national myth. | | | Viriathus is seen as the earliest Portuguese national hero, and, since also Spain shares part of the old territory of Lusitania, he has also been a hero for Spaniards. | | | Viriathus led the Lusitanian guerrilla fighters to several victories over the Romans between 147 BC and 139 BC before he was betrayed to the Romans by some of his own men and killed. |
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http://www.variedtastes.com/encyclopedia/Viriathus
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| | Gardening History Timeline: From Ancient Times to the 20th Century ... |
| | Jarmo, Iraq; and horses at 4350 BC in Ukraine." Bio-Tech's History of Agriculture. | | | Sultan Murad III had the area of Anatolian Maras send him 100,000 hyacinth bulbs. | | | This document was first distributed on the Internet on January 1, 1999. |
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http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm
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| | José de Acosta noted, in his Natural and Moral History, that: “The main benefit of this cacao is a beverage which they make called Chocolate, which is a crazy thing valued in that country. | | | The Portuguese were expelled from Deshima, their Japanese trade island; the Dutch were allowed on-going contact with Japanese traders, through Hirado and eventually Deshima in 1641. | | | Hernández work on the natural history of the New World [in Mexico from 1572-1577, see publication in 1651] let to his detailing of recipes for use of chocolate (cacahuatl) among the Aztecs. |
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http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Timeline.html
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| | Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage - Society & Culture History |
| | This is a brief history of the islands. | | | This timeline covers the history of the Cape Verde islands from a Portuguese colony to a republic. | | | Find out more about Portuguese history through historical timelines, descriptions of voyages to Hawaii, and more. |
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http://www.islandroutes.com/newindextest.shtml
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| | Taiwan History Timeline |
| | Taiwan holds its second free presidential elections in history. | | | Key events in Taiwanese history from World War II to the present | | | Japan formally surrenders on the deck of the U.S. battleship Missouri, ending World War II. |
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| | Royalty.nu - The History of Portugal - Portuguese Royalty |
| | Illustrated introduction to the people and culture of the country. | | | Includes a timeline, brief biographies, lists of monarchs and heads of state, and a bibliographic essay. | | | This illustrated book brings the palace's history to life. |
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http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Portugal.html
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| | Slavery Timeline 1400-1500 - a Chronology of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation |
| | Slavery Timeline 1400-1500 - a Chronology of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation | | | It also includes references to the most significant events taking place outside of the British zone of influence (in the fifteenth century that was most of the world) as well as some key events in the history of European exploration and colonisation. | | | Chattel Slavery is the characteristic form of slavery in the modern world, and this chronology is concerned primarily with this form. |
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http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono2.htm
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| | Gallaecia Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | The Romans gave the name Gallaecia to the northwest part of the Iberian peninsula after the Gallaeci (Greek Kallaikoi) tribe, who had been their foremost enemy in the region. | | | At a far later date, the mythic history that was encapsulated in Leabhar Gabhala Eireann credited Gallaecia as the point from which the Celts sailed to conquer Ireland, as they had Gallaecia, by force of arms. | | | The most important city and historical capital of Callaecia was the town of Bracara Augusta, the modern Portuguese Braga. |
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http://popularityguide.com/encyclopedia/Gallaecia
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| | The Food Timeline history notes--state foods |
| | Check foodways notes from Living History Museums in your state. | | | Use Google to find more information: keyword "yuma lettuce days" or "gilroy garlic" returns festival page and history. | | | Local libraries and historical societies are your best bet. |
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http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq4.html
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| | Chocolate |
| | It's almost impossible to believe it now, but for most of its very long history, chocolate was not something people ate. | | | This began a period of nearly a century during which the Spanish and Portuguese consumed chocolate, but the rest of Europe did not. | | | This literate civilization appears to have once had entire libraries of books, although only four survived the Spanish occupation (the Spanish arrived and decided it was a good idea to burn all the books). |
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http://www.cuisinenet.com/glossary/chocolate.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Country profiles Timeline: Kenya |
| | 16th century - Portuguese try to establish foothold on Kenyan coast but are driven off by Swahili states and Omani Arabs by late 17th century. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1026884.stm
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| | Hatchett to the Supreme Court, the first black justice in the court's history. | | | Although a pro-choice Democrat she managed to win reelection four times in a conservative stronghold, the last time without opposition | | | Sixty-six in 1993, her political career saw her elected first to the Florida House of Representatives, the Florida Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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http://florida.com/history1.htm
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| | The Taiwan Timeline |
| | A Spanish ship was wrecked on the island of Formosa. | | | : Portuguese "discovered" Taiwan, and called it Ilha Formosa, the beautiful island. |
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| | History of Puerto Rico |
| | Puerto Rico : A Political and Cultural History | | | The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation | | | Considering these limitations there were no or little chance of a coconut seed reach the New World. |
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http://welcome.topuertorico.org/history.shtml
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| | Computing at Columbia Timeline |
| | It does not aspire to be a general history or museum of computing, but in some ways it's not far from one either. | | | The history of IBM-sponsored computing research and laboratories at Columbia University, 1928 though 1970. | | | Nevis Laboratory, the Columbia Physics department's primary center for study of high-energy and nuclear physics, founded in Irvington, New York. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history
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| | Oman History |
| | The petty is that Sultan Qaboos has no son (as he was never married) and he has no successor. | | | 1650: The Portuguese are driven out of Muscat. |
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| | Timeline of Japanese History |
| | Though emperors are Shinto chiefs, they patronize Buddhism in the belief that its teachings will bring about a peaceful society and protect the state. | | | Draw on your knowledge of Japan's geography, history, and cultural values to predict how its influence will be modified by other peoples and nations. | | | Firearms introduced by shipwrecked Portuguese soldiers (1543),Christianity by Francis Xavier (1549). |
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http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/t000013.htm
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| | Portuguese Empire Timeline |
| | Do you have any comments and suggestions about this timeline, please e-mail and tell us at: suggestions@timelines.info |
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http://www.timelines.info/history/empires_and_civilizations/portuguese_empire
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| | Cameroon History Timeline - historic overview of Cameroun, Africa |
| | Deals are also made with traders from England, Holland, France and Germany. | | | February 14, 2003: The CO2 level is critical in Lake Monoun and a new degassing project starts. | | | Pastoral Nomads are still immigrating from Nigeria again pushing the indigenous people. |
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http://crawfurd.dk/africa/cameroon_timeline.htm
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| | Chronology of the Spanish-American War |
| | The Portuguese government declared itself neutral in the conflict between Spain and the United States. | | | The Influence of Sea Power upon history, 1600-1783 | | | U.S. foreign policy is influenced by Alfred T. Mahan who wrote |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html
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| | San Francisco History - A Timeline |
| | San Francisco History - 1900-1950 - 1950+ - Map Room - Who's Who | | | Early visitors to the Bay Area were preceded 10,000 to 20,000 years earlier, however, by the native people indigenous to the area. | | | Prior to the coming of the Spanish and Portuguese explorers, over 10,000 indigenous people, later to be called the Oholone (a Miwok Indian word meaning "western people"), lived in the coastal area between Point Sur and the San Francisco Bay. |
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http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/sfh2.html
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| | Thailand's History |
| | Thailand (Siam) History as understood by a Farang. | | | Colonial economic and political policy was designed to milk (= steal / rob / plunder) the colony of it's resources and enrich the 'mother country'. | | | History books generally attribute the first iron age culture to the Hittites of ancient Turkey / Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm
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| | Hawai'i Labor History Timeline |
| | When the 150 "Portuguese, Italians, Porto Ricans, Negroes and natives" walked off they were promptly replaced with Japanese who had been recruited beforehand. | | | -Beginning on July 18, ILWU Longshoremen on Kaua'i strike for 298 at Ahukini, one of the longest recorded strikes in Hawai'i labor history. | | | -April 18-29, twenty thousand clerical & white collar professional employees of the State and its four counties (units 3 and 13 of the State's 13 bargaining units) represented by HGEA/AFSCME Local 152 conduct the first strike in that union's 60 year history. |
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http://homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu/~clear/Timeline.html
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| | distributed.net: History & Timeline |
| | The 'State of the Net' address is posted in English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and French, marking the first official multi-lingual information from distributed.net. | | | Over 65% of the DESII-1 keyspace is completed and block reissuing has begun. | | | Coordinated effort lead by Earle Ady of New Media Laboratories (genx.net) gains momentum. |
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http://www1.distributed.net/history.php
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| | Monuments of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Throughout the centuries, many civilisations left a mark in the territory; from the Greeks and the Celts through the Romans and the Moors, this rich heritage is evident in the wealth of historical monuments throughout the country. | | | Portugal is a country with a rich and diverse history. | | | See also: History of Portugal — Timeline of Portuguese history - List of Portuguese monarchs — Kings of Portugal family tree — Lusitania — Roman Empire |
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http://www.marylandheights.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Monuments_of_Portugal
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| | Japanese History: Overview |
| | 1542 Portuguese introduce firearms and Christianity to Japan. |
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