Showing posts with label Belem. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

All tarted up

[April 2, Lisbon (Belem)]

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(Photo from wikipedia)

Not the voyages of Vasco da Gama, not the naval science of Henry the Navigator, not the discovery of Brazil. The signal achievement that ranks Portugal among the foremost of nations is ...

Lindbergh wasn't the first

[April 2, Lisbon (Belem)]

Lindbergh was not the first to cross the Atlantic in a plane.