Artisanal bridge in Peru rebuilt annually.
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Time goes by
Rare photos of celebrities
The famous “Prego no Pão” dates back to the late 19th century
Why the hell do they call a loaf of meat NAIL (PREGO)?? A little popular culture to explain this to us.
The “Prego no Pão” or, in a literal translation, “Nail in the Bread”!
Who would have thought that the nail, or steak on bread, appears in Portugal at Praia das Maçãs?
“The real story is related to the name Manuel Dias Prego, one of the first inhabitants of Praia das Maçãs in the late 19th century, where he owned a tavern, Taberna do Prego. In this tavern Manuel Prego served fried veal slices or baked in tasty bread and accompanied by wine from the region.
The meat on bread quickly became a success in Praia das Maçãs and surroundings. It is said that it was in this place that José Malhoa painted his famous painting “Praia das Maçãs”. Who knows if savoring such a delicacy while painting!
Over the years, the name of the sandwich came to be commonly known as Prego, in honor of its creator, and in the beginning of the 20th century the recipe had already been copied to other places, and Prego started to be part of the menus of taverns across the country and not just in Sintra.”
Municipal bills
A bit of Portuguese history about municipal bills, when money was scarce..
Very interesting
This photo is from 1937. Students are taking remote classes during the polio pandemic.
In Chicago, schools were closed and teachers began to teach on the Radio.
Now, in 2021, Family and School are again experiencing a challenging start to the school year.
Every time you hit that tightness in your chest, look at this photo and remember: it will pass!
Visit to the Fort of Elvas
An almost unique model of military architecture.
What really died at Auschwitz?
Walking through the streets of Barcelona, I suddenly discovered the terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz…
We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.
At Auschwitz we burned a culture, thinking, creativity, talented.
We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the World.
The contribution of these people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade and, above all, as awareness of the World.
These were the people we burned.
And under the presumption of tolerance and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened the door to 20 million Muslims who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to reluctance to work and proudly support their families.
They blew up our trains and moved our beautiful Spanish cities to the 3rd world, drowning them in filth and crime.
They lock themselves in apartments that they receive free of charge from the government, planning the killing and destruction of their naive guests. And this, to our dismay, we exchanged culture for fanatical enmity, creative ability for destructive ability, intelligence for regression and superstition.
We exchanged the search for peace for Europe’s Jews with their talent for a better future for their children, their determined attachment to life because life is sacred, for those who seek death for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and for others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by poor Europe.
Great Britain recently debated removing the holocaust from the school curriculum because it offends the Muslim population who claims it never existed.
It hasn’t been removed yet.
However, it is a frightening omen of the fear that is taking over the world and how easy it is for each country to give in to that fear.
About seventy years passed after the Second World War.
This email is being sent as a chain in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians and nineteen hundred Catholic priests who were murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, made guinea pigs for experiments and humiliated.
Now, more than ever, with Iran among others denying the holocaust, which they say is a myth, it is imperative to make “the World never forget”.
This mail aims to reach 400 million people.
Be another link in the memory chain and help distribute it around the world.
How many years will pass after the attack on the World Trade Center before they say it never happened because it offends Muslims in the United States?
If our Judeo-Christian heritage offends Muslims, it is time to pack up and move to Iran, Iraq or any other Muslim country.
Please, do not destroy this message; it will only take a minute to review. We have to wake up America (and the rest of the World …) before it’s too late.
(A copy of an article written by Sebastian Vilar Rodríguez, a Spanish writer, published in a Spanish newspaper. It doesn’t take much imagination to associate the message with the rest of Europe, possibly the rest of the world.)
After all, what happened in Cuba?
- The first nation in Latin America to use steam engines and boats was Cuba, in 1829.
- The first nation in Latin America and the third in the world (after England and the USA), to have a railroad was Cuba, in 1837.
- It was a Cuban who first applied ether anesthesia in Latin America in 1847.
- The first worldwide demonstration of an electricity-powered industry was in Havana in 1877.
- In 1881, it was a Cuban doctor, Carlos J. Finlay, who discovered the yellow fever transmitting agent and defined its prevention and treatment.
- The first electrical lighting system in all of Latin America and Spain was installed in Cuba in 1889.
- Between 1825 and 1897, 60 to 75% of all gross income that Spain received from abroad came from Cuba.
- Before the end of the 18th century, Cuba abolished bullfighting because it considered them “unpopular, bloodthirsty and abusive to animals”.
- The first “electric car” that circulated in Latin America was in Havana in 1900.
- Also in 1900, before in any other country in Latin America, it was to Havana that the first car arrived.
- The first city in the world to have direct dial phones (no operator needed) was Havana, in 1906.
- In 1907, the first X-ray machine in Latin America was released in Havana.
- On May 19, 1913, Cubans Agustin Parla and Rosillo Domingo, who first flew across Latin America, between Cuba and Key West, lasted an hour and forty minutes.
- The first country in Latin America to grant a divorce was Cuba, in 1918.
- The first Latin American to win a world chess championship was the Cuban, José Raúl Capablanca. He won all the 1921-1927 world championships.
- In 1922, Cuba was the second country in the world to open a radio station and the first country in the world to broadcast a music concert and make radio news.
- The first radio announcer in the world was a Cuban: Esther Perea de la Torre. In 1928, Cuba had 61 radio stations, 43 of them in Havana, ranking fourth in the world, second only to the USA, Canada and the Soviet Union. Cuba was the first in the world in number of stations by population and territorial area.
- In 1937, Cuba was the first country in all of Latin America to decree an 8-hour working day, the minimum wage and university autonomy.
- In 1940, Cuba was the first country in Latin America to have a black president, elected by universal suffrage, by an absolute majority, when the majority of the population was white. Therefore, the United States advanced in 68 years.
- In 1940, Cuba approved one of the most advanced constitutions in the world. In Latin America, it was the first country to grant women the right to vote, equal rights between sexes and races, as well as the right of women to work.
- The feminist movement in Latin America first appeared in the late thirties in Cuba. It anticipated Spain by 36 years, which will only grant Spanish women the right to vote, the possession of their children, as well as being able to obtain a passport or have the right to open a bank account without her husband’s authorization, after 1976.
- In 1942, a Cuban became the first Latin American musical director of a worldwide film production and also the first to receive an Oscar nomination. His name: Ernesto Lecuona.
- The second country in the world to broadcast on TV was Cuba in 1950. The biggest stars in all of America went to Havana to play on their television channels.
- The first hotel to have air conditioning in the world was built in Havana: the Hotel Riviera in 1951.
- The first building constructed in reinforced concrete in the world was in Havana: O Focsa, in 1952.
- In 1954, Cuba had one head of cattle per inhabitant. The country ranked third in Latin America (after Argentina and Uruguay) in meat consumption per capita.
- In 1955, Cuba is the second country in Latin America with the lowest infant mortality rate (33.4 per thousand births).
- In 1956, the UN recognized Cuba as the second country in Latin America with the lowest illiteracy rates (only 23.6%). Haiti’s rates were 90% and those of Spain, El Salvador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic were 50%.
- In 1957, the UN recognized Cuba as the best country in Latin America in terms of number of doctors per inhabitant (1 per 957 inhabitants), with the highest percentage of homes with electricity, after Uruguay, and the highest number of calories ( 2870) ingested per capita.
- In 1958, Cuba is the second country in the world to broadcast a television broadcast in color.
- In 1958, Cuba was the country in Latin America with the largest number of cars (160,000, one for every 38 inhabitants). It was the country with the most household appliances per 1000 inhabitants and the country with the largest number of railroad kilometers per km2 and the second in the total number of radio devices.
- Throughout the 1950s, Cuba held the second and third place in hospital admissions per capita in Latin America, ahead of Italy and more than double that of Spain.
- In 1958, despite its small size and having only 6.5 million inhabitants, Cuba was the 29th economy in the world.
- In 1959, Havana was the city in the world with the largest number of cinemas (358) beating New York and Paris, second and third, respectively.
And what happened after 1959?
The Revolution came… and there was never a “nail in” again!
(This post was sent to me by e-mail, and I do not know its author, but it needed to be read by us all!)
Climbing the Clérigos Tower in 1917
This climb, in July 1917, was celebrated in the history of our city.
Two Galician acrobats, father and son, named D. José and D. Miguel Puertullano, to promote a brand of biscuits, climbed, without any security equipment, the 76 meters high that the tower has.
Once up there, they did acrobatics on the cross that ends the tower. Before they had drank tea accompanied by such biscuits, and dropped advertising papers, part that is not seen in this little film.
Below, a huge crowd was watching all this.
To show you this adventure we have a video of about 8 minutes, made from the film at the time, by Raul de Caldevilla, unfortunately without original sound. I draw attention to the way the acrobats are dressed. Pants, shirt and even a tie!Look at the tranquility of these artists. No ropes or protection net. The basbaques, down here, waited for the fall, and were left without that part of the show.
The Clérigos Church with its tower is the main monument in the city of Oporto. It was designed and built by Nicolao Nasoni in the 18th century.
In 1917, while this adventure was taking place, the Portuguese fought in the First World War, which would only end the following year.
Do not know the author of this text, but I thank him/her for this history sharing!
Books worth gold
Collection of unique and exceptionally valuable books.
Incredible works, which today are worth real fortunes.
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Leicester Code” was purchased in 1994 by Bill Gates for $30.8 million. This 72-page collection of scientific and philosophical writings is in perfect condition. It dates back to 1500 and has the peculiarity of having been written backwards, with a «specular» writing: a mirror is necessary to read the text.
Commissioned by Henri Le Lion of the Helmarshausen monastery, these gospels were drawn up and carefully illustrated in 1188. The work is sumptuous, testifying to the richness of the monastic art of miniatures and piety of the 12th century. It was bought in 1983 for 8.15 million pounds and its value is currently estimated at more than 16 million euros.
John James Audubon, a French-American painter and naturalist, loved birds. Starting in 1820, he dedicated himself to touring the United States and drawing all the species he encountered. His work consists of 435 watercolors painted in the “double-elephant” format (98x76cm). In December 2010, a complete collection of originals sold at “Sotheby’s” for $11.5 million.
This is the first compilation of Shakespeare’s plays, printed in folio format. The book consists of 36 pages and was published 7 years after the death of the writer, by two of his close friends. One of the 40 complete copies cataloged was sold for $5.6 million dollars at “Sotheby’s”, but specialists estimate its value at more than 16 million euros.
Titanic work by Johannes Gutenberg: the printing of the “42-line Bible” was a technological feat. Premier printed text in Europe thanks to mobile signs, perfectly calibrated thanks to the use of ligatures and spaces reserved for miniatures. An original copy was bought for $5.4 million dollars in 1987 but the most beautiful copies are estimated at more than 20 million euros.
The 24 stories that make up this work by Geoffrey Chaucer relate the stay of a group of pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Written in verse in 1478, the text is profusely illustrated with miniatures. An original copy was bought for $7 million at auction.
This incredible work “in folio” supposed its author Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s is a meticulous work of observation of liliaceae during several years. The 480 plates were completed in 1802 in the garden of the Malmaison (of the Empress Josephine). They caught the attention of Napoleon, who commissioned several dozen copies for museums in France. It was acquired in 1985 for about $5 million.
It was completed to become a rosary and a devotional volume. The lighting system is handwritten on parchment. It is one of the most beautiful 12th century productions ever sold. Its 57 illustrations give it a beauty and intensity of colors unique to religious works. It was acquired by German collector Jörn Gunther in 2007 for $3.5 million.
Written by the author of Harry Potter, it is a compendium of little fables that supposedly all the little witches of Poudlard knew each other.
J. K. Rowling made 7 copies by hand, adorned in the paste with semi-precious stones. One of them was auctioned for a charity stock and purchased by Amazon.com for £1.95 million.
It officially abolished slavery in the country at the time of its adoption, on December 6, 1865. The text, which takes the Principles of the proclamation of the emancipation of Abraham Lincoln, is considered one of the founding acts in US history. . It was auctioned for $1.9 million.
William Blake was a poet and painter, which allowed him to transcend lyricism
of his works thanks to the image. Urizen’s first book is a literary gem.
The strength of the text, a kind of pagan Genesis, and the unique composition of its pages continues to attract collectors. The work dates from 1794 and was sold at a price of $2.3 million.
In this first issue the adventures of Superman are published. Sold then for 10 cents, it is today the prized treasure of comic book collectors.
In March 2010, it was auctioned for $1.5 million.
Lewis Carroll’s book is indisputably a work of art in world literature. The book market experts were not mistaken as an original 1865 edition was loaned for the sum of $1.4 million in 1998. The first edition, printed with 2,000 copies, is extremely unique and superbly illustrated by John Tenniel.
The geographer and mathematician Gerardus Mercator was the first cartographer who imagined a system of projection of the Earth’s surface on a cylinder tangent to the equator (method still in force). His atlas, printed in 1569, got him some trouble with the Church and was bought for $800,000 at Sotheby’s.
It is the first work published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1827, when he was 13 years old. If Poe admits the poor quality of his texts, collectors waged a fierce struggle to acquire it. The happy buyer paid out $663,000.
Written by Cervantes and published in 1605, it is the greatest classic book of literature in the Spanish language of all time. It is also the most expensive novel in history. An original copy was purchased for $ 1.5 million in 1989. Today it is estimated at more than $ 2.5 million.
Made around the year 150 AD, it has enormous precision errors but also offers us the immense knowledge accumulated by Greek science, such as the sphericity of the Earth and the existence of a southern continent. The manual will have a great influence among Renaissance cartographers. As a rare book, it sold for $3.5 million in 2006.
Revolutionary work par excellence changed the vision of Europeans, describing a universe centered around the sun. Printed in 1543, Copernicus’s scientific writings immediately sparked violent protests from the Church, and the text was long viewed as subversive. It was bought in 2008 for $2 million.
Original based on PPT by doucetentacion@gmail.com and https://www.linternaute.com/livre/magazine/1054428-les-livres-les-plus-chers-de-l-histoire/1054430-l-evangeliaire-de-henri-le-lion.
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