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Sei de Tudo - Raul de Leoni

2009-11-21T12:57:00.001Z

Sei de tudo o que existe pelo mundo.
A forma, o modo, o espírito e os destinos.
Sei da vida das almas e aprofundo
O mistério dos seres pequeninos.

Sei da ciência do Espaço, sei o fundo
Da terra e os grandes mundos submarinos,
Sei o Sol, sei o Som e o elo profundo
Que há entre os passos humanos e os divinos.

Sei de todas as cousas, a teoria
Do Universo e as longínquas perspectivas
Que emergem da expressão das cousas vivas.

Sei de tudo e – oh! tristíssima ironia! -
Pelo caminho eterno por que vou,
Eu, que sei tudo, só não sei quem sou…

RAUL DE LEÔNI Ramos nasceu a 30 de Outubro de 1895 em Petrópolis (RJ) e faleceu a 21 de Novembro de 1926 em Itaipava (RJ).

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Ingratidão
Decadência
História Antiga
Pudor
Canção de Todos
Legenda dos dias
Soneto I de Sob Outros Céus

Happy birthday - Ines Sastre

2009-11-21T12:01:00.000Z

On this day in History - Nov. 21

2009-11-21T11:18:00.004Z

164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
0235 - Anterus is elected Pope.
0496 - Pope Gelasius I dies.
1272 - Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1346).
1495 - John Bale was born (d. 1563). Bishop of Ossory, antiquarian, dramatist.
1535 - O Governador Nuno da Cunha coloca a pedra de fundação da fortaleza de Diu.
1555 - Georg Agricola dies (b. 24 Mar 1494). German scholar and scientist known as "the father of mineralogy."
1566 - Annibale Caro dies (b. 1507). Italian poet.
1567 - Anne de Xainctonge was born (d. 1621). French saint.
1579 - Thomas Gresham dies. English merchant and financier.
1620 - 41 male passengers on the Mayflower, prior to landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact, by which they agreed to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish.
1643 - Rene Robert was born. Cavalier de la Salle.
1652 - Jan Brożek dies (b. 1585). Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer.
1692 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni was born (d. 1768). Italian poet.
1694 - Voltaire was born (d. 1778). French philosopher.
1695 - Henry Purcell dies. English composer, a master of religious and instrumental music (Nymphs and Shepherds).

1709 - António Marques Lésbio dies (b. 1639). Portuguese composer.

1717 - Jean-Baptiste Santerre dies. French painter.

1729 - Josiah Bartlett was born. Second Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1761 - Dorothy Jordan was born (d. 1816). British actress and royal mistress.

1768 - Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born (d. 1834). German theologian and philosopher.

1775 - First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Duenna at Covent Garden Theatre, London.

1775 - John Hill dies. English writer.

1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 100m, distance: 9 km).

1787 - Samuel Cunard was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (d. 1865). Canadian-born shipping magnate.

1789 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

1806 - The Continental System, a blockade designed to close the entire European continent to British trade, was proclaimed when Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree.

1811 - Zeng Guofan was born (d. 1872). Chinese military.

1811 - Heinrich von Kleist dies - suicide (b. 1777). German writer. He wrote immortal pieces of literature, such as "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg".

1819 - Antonio Leal Moreira dies (b. 1758). Portuguese composer (A vingança da cigana).

1824 - D. António da Costa Sousa de Macedo was born in Lisbon (d. 17 Jan. 1892). Portuguese writer and politician.

1831 - Michael Faraday presented his paper on "Experimental Research into Electricity" to the Royal Society.

1835 - Hetty Green was born (d. 1916). American business woman.

1840 - Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress, was born (d. 1901).

1843 - Thomas Hancock patented the vulcanization of rubber in England.

1844 - Ivan Krylov dies (b. 1769). Russian fabulist.

1846 - The word anesthesia was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to William Thomas Green Morton, the surgeon who gave the first public demonstration of the pain-killing effects of ether.

1849 - Johan August Brinell was born (d. 17 Nov 1925). Swedish metallurgist who devised the Brinell hardness test, a rapid, nondestructive means of determining the hardness of metals.

1852 - Francisco Tárrega was born (d. 1909). Father of modern classical guitar.

1854 - Pope Benedict XV was born (d. 1922).

1857 - Manuel Estrada Cabrera was born. President of Guatemala (1898-1920).

1857 - Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro was born in Almada (d. 6 Nov 1929). Portuguese painter.

1860 - Tom Horn was born (d. 1903). American hitman.

1861 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.

1867 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff was born (d. 29 Nov 1952). Russian-born U.S. chemist who was one of the first to investigate high-pressure catalytic reactions of hydrocarbons and who developed a process for manufacturing high-octane gasoline.

1870 - Joe Darling was born (d. 1946). Australian cricketer.

1870 - Sigfrid Edström was born. Swedish sports official.

1876 - Duque de Saldanha dies (b. 1790). Portuguese politician.

1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention).

1878 - Lord Lytton, the viceroy of India, launched the Second Afghan War.

1878 - Gustav Radbruch was born (d. 1949). German law professor.

1879 - Raúl Lino was born. Portuguese architect.

1881 - Francisco Calvo Burillo was born (d. 1936). Spanish saint.

1881 - Ami Boué dies (b. 1794). Austrian geologist.

1886 - Harold Nicolson was born (d. 1968). British diplomat.

1891 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant was born (d. 5 Apr 1970). American geneticist who in 1913 developed a technique for mapping the location of specific genes of the chromosomes in the fruit fly Drosophila.

1894 - Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive Japanese victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.

1897 - Mollie Steimer was born (d. 1980). Anarchist agitator.

1898 - René Magritte was born (d. 1967). Belgian painter.

1899 - Bernardo Loureiro Marques was born. Portuguese designer and painter.

1899 - Jobyna Ralston was born (d. 1967). American actress.

1899 - Garret Hobart dies (b. 1844). Vice President of the United States.

1902 - Foster Hewitt was born (d. 1985). Canadian radio pioneer.

1902 - Isaac Bashevis Singer was born (d. 1991). Polish writer.

1904 - Coleman Hawkins was born (d. 1969). American saxophonist.

1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc².

1907 - Paula Modersohn-Becker dies (b. 8 Feb 1876). German painter.

1908 - Elizabeth George Speare was born (d. 1994). American author.

1912 - Eleanor Powell was born (d. 1983). American actress and dancer.

1913 - Roy Boulting was born (d. 2001). English film director and producer.

1916 - The HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after an explosion from an unknown object, killing 30 people.

1916 - Sid Luckman was born (d. 1998). American football player.

1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria dies (b. 1830). Son of Archduke Franz Karl and Princess Sophie of Bavaria.

1918 - The Estonian Flag is adopted.

1919 - Steve Brodie was born (d. 1992). American actor.

1920 - Bloody Sunday in Ireland. Irish Republican Army killed 11 Englishmen suspected of being intelligence agents, and the Black and Tans took revenge the same afternoon, attacking spectators and players at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, Dublin, killing 12 and wounding 60.

1920 - Ralph Meeker was born (d. 1988). American actor.

1920 - Stan Musial was born. American baseball player.

1921 - Joonas Kokkonen was born (d. 1996). Finnish composer.

1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.

1922 - Abe Lemons was born. American basketball coach.

1922 - Maria Casares was born (d. 1996). Spanish-born actress.

1922 - Ricardo Flores Magón dies (b. 1874). Mexican anarchist.

1924 - Christopher Tolkien was born. British author.

1924 - Florence Harding dies (b. 1860). American First Lady.

1926 - Raul de Leoni dies in Itaipava - RJ (b. 30 Oct. 1895). Brazilian poet / "seus versos são dos mais melodiosos da língua portuguesa e possuem um misto de simbolismo e de modernidade, vasados contudo dentro da técnica parnasiana" (in Antologia Portuguesa e Brasileira -Evaristo Pontes dos Santos -Porto 1974)

1927 - Columbine Mine Massacre: 500 striking coal miners, some with their families, were attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes

1927 - Georgia Frontiere was born (d. 2008). Co-owner of the St. Louis Rams.

1929 - Benedito José Viana da Costa Nunes was born in Belém, Pará. Brazilian writer.

1929 - Laurier LaPierre was born. Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator.

1929 - Marilyn French was born. American feminist writer who wrote "The Women's Room," 1977; "The Bleeding Heart", 1980.

1931 - Revaz Dogonadze was born (d. 1985). Georgian scientist.

1931 - Malcolm Williamson was born (d. 2003). Australian composer.

1933 - Joseph Campanella was born. American actor.

1934 - MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump. The change is later blamed for many problems developing during the 1950s - primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.

1935 - Fairuz was born. Lebanese singer.

1936 - Victor Chang was born (d. 1986). Australian physician.

1937 - Marlo Thomas was born in Deerfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. American actress ("That Girl," 1966-71; won Emmys for "Free to Be You and Me," 1977 and "Nobody's Child," 1986).

1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav was born. Indian politician.

1940 - Dr. John (Malcolm Rebbenack) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. American musician (Right place but the wrong time).

1940 - Richard Marcinko was born. U.S. Navy SEAL team member and author

1940 - Natalia Makarova was born in Leningrad. Russian dancer, ballet star. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Musical for On Your Toes that gave her also a Tony Award.

1941 - The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).

1941 - İdil Biret was born. Turkish pianist.

1941 - Juliet Mills was born. British actress.

1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis dies (b. 1860).American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker.

1942 - The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however).

1942 - Afa Anoa'i was born. Samoan/American wrestler.

1942 - Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul was born. German politician.

1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold dies (b. 1863). Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.

1943 - Larry Mahan was born. American rodeo cowboy.

1943 - Phil Bredesen was born. American politician.

1943 - Viktor Sidjak was born. Russian fencer.

1943 - Jacques Laffite was born in Paris. French former racing driver.

1944 - Dick Durbin was born. American politician.

1944 - Earl Monroe was born. American basketball player.

1944 - Harold Ramis was born. American actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer.

1945 - Goldie Hawn was born in Washington, D.C. . American actress and producer; films include Private Benjamin , There's a Girl in my Soup (1970) and The First Wives Club (1996).

1945 - Guatemala is admited as ONU member.

1945 - Robert Benchley dies (b. 1889). American writer and actor.

1945 - Margarida Adelina Abranches dies in Lisbon (b. 15 Aug 1866). Portuguese actress [ Rosa do Adro (1938), Lisboa (1930), Maria do Mar (1930)].

1946 - Jacky Lafon was born. Belgian actress.

1947 - Alcione was born in São Luís, MA. Brazilian singer and composer.

1948 - Lonnie Jordan was born in San Diego, California. Musician (War).

1948 - George Zimmer was born. American entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Men's Wearhouse.

1948 - Alphonse Mouzon was born. American jazzist.

1949 - João Ricardo was born. Brazilian composer and creator of the musical group Secos & Molhados.

1950 - Alberto Juantorena was born. Cuban athlete.

1950 - Stephen Geyer was born. American film & television songwriter.

1952 - Lorna Luft was born in Santa Monica, California. American entertainer and actress.

1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.

1953 - Larry Shields dies (b. 1893). American jazz clarinetist.

1956 - Don Newcombe of the then Brooklyn Dodgers wins the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award of the National League. He won because he posted a staggering 27-7 record and an E.R.A. of 3.06.

1956 - Ed Kaz was born. American journalist.

1957 - Francis Burton Harrison dies (b. 1873). American political figure.

1958 - Mel Ott dies (b. 1909). American baseball player.

1959 - Max Baer dies (b. 1909). American boxer.

1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

1962 - Sabine Busch was born. German athlete.

1962 - Steven Curtis Chapman was born. American singer.

1963 - Eduardo Costley White was born in Quelimane. Mozambican writer.

1963 - Nicolette Sheridan was born. British actress.

1963 - Robert Stroud dies (b. 1890). American prisoner (The Birdman of Alcatraz) who became a self-taught ornithologist during his 54 years in prison, 42 of them in solitary confinement (Stroud's Digest on the Diseases of Birds).

1964 - Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

1964 - The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, spanning New York Harbor from Brooklyn to Staten Island, opened to traffic.

1964 - Shane Douglas was born. American wrestler.

1965 - Alexander Siddig was born. British actor.

1965 - Björk was born. Icelandic singer, songwriter, and actress. She was a member of the Sugarcubes, an Icelandic pop group.

1965 - Reggie Lewis wa born (d. 1993). American basketball player.

1966 - Troy Aikman was born. American football star.

1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

1967 - Tripp Cromer was born. Baseball player.

1967 - Toshihiko Koga was born. Japanese Judoka.

1968 - Alex James was born. English bassist.

1968 - Christopher Noxon was born. American journalist.

1969 - The first ARPANET link is established.

1969 - US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.

1969 - Ken Griffey, Jr. was born. American baseball player.

1969 - Mutesa II of Buganda dies. President of Uganda.

1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).

1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman dies (b. 1888). Indian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics laureate in 1930 for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering: a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material.

1970 - Justin Langer was born. Australian cricketer.

1970 - Newsy Lalonde dies (b. 1887). National Hockey League player.

1971 - Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeated the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.

1971 - Michael Strahan was born. American football player.

1972 - David Tua was born. Samoan boxer.

1973 - Brooke Kerr was born. American actress.

1973 - Inés Sastre was born in Valladolid, Castilla y León. Spanish actress and model.

1973 - Thomas Pelly dies (b. 1902). American politician.

1974 - The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted.

1974 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.

1974 - Luis Eduardo Matta was born. Brazilian writer.

1974 - John B. Gambling dies (b. 1897). American radio talk show host.

1974 - Frank Martin dies (b. 1890). Swiss composer.

1975 - Cherie Johnson was born. American actress.

1975 - Chris Moneymaker was born. American poker player.

1976 - Dasha was born. Czech porn star.

1976 - Daniel Whiston was born. British ice skater.

1976 - Martin Meichelbeck was born. German footballer.

1977 - Minister of Internal Affairs Hon Allan Highet announced that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem 'God Save The Queen' and the poem 'God Defend New Zealand', written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion'.

1977 - Bruno Berner was born. Swiss footballer.

1977 - Myles Heskett was born. Australian musician (Wolfmother).

1977 - Jonas Jennings was born. American football player.

1977 - Tobias Sammet was born. German singer (Edguy).

1977 - Yolande James was born. Quebec politician.

1978 – Daniel Bradshaw was born. Australian rules footballer.

1978 - Lucía Jiménez was born. Spanish actress.

1978 - Sara Tanaka was born. American actress.

1979 - The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan).

1979 - Alex Tanguay was born. Canadian hockey player.

1979 - Kim Dong Wan was born. Singer in the Korean group Shinhwa.

1979 - Stromile Swift was born. American basketball player.

1979 - Vincenzo Iaquinta was born. Italian footballer.

1980 - A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

1980 - Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.

1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.

1980 - Alec Brownstein was born. American author, director.

1980 - Elaine Yiu was born. Hong Kong actress.

1980 - Hank Blalock was born. Baseball player.

1980 - Leonardo González was born. Costa Rican footballer.

1980 - Sara García was born. Mexican actress.

1981 - Piet Rinke was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.

1981 - Jonny Magallón was born. Mexican footballer.

1981 - Piet Rinke was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.

1981 - Wesley Britt was born. American football player.

1981 - Harry Von Zell dies (b. 1906). American announcer.

1982 - Kevin Moen of University of California, Berkeley is involved with The Play, avoiding marching band members while scoring a touchdown.

1982 - Georgios Kalogiannidis was born. Greek archer.

1982 - Ryan Starr was born. American singer.

1982 - John Hargrave dies (b. 1894). British Social Credit advocate.

1983 - Jamie Langley was born. English rugby player.

1984 - Álvaro Bautista was born. Spanish motorcycle racer.

1984 - Jena Malone was born. American actress.

1985 - United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).

1985 - Jesús Navas was born. Spanish footballer.

1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Conras rebels in Nicaragua.

1986 - Lançamento do primeiro romance do escritor português David Mourão-Ferreira, intitulado Um Amor Feliz.

1986 - Dar Robinson dies (b. 1947). American film stuntman.

1986 - Jerry Colonna dies (b. 1904). American comic.

1986 - Marcelino Sanchez dies (b. 1957). American actor.

1987 - Brian Douwes was born. Dutch kickboxer and martial artist.

1988 - Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.

1988 - Jamie Mahoney was born. American rapper and actor.

1988 - Carl Hubbell dies (b. 1903). American baseball player.

1989 - Britain's parliamentary proceedings were first televised.

1990 - Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocusses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.

1990 - Nintendo's successor to the Famicom; the Super Famicom was released in Japan.

1990 - Dean Hart dies (b. 1954). Canadian professional wrestler.

1991 - "The Apple of God's Eye", an undercover investigative journalism piece exposing the fundraising practices of American televangelist Robert Tilton, airs on ABC's Primetime Live newsmagazine show for the first time.

1991 - Sonny Werblin dies (b. 1907). Former owner of the New York Jets.

1992 - Nevada-Tan was born. Japanese internet culture icon, known for slaying classmate.

1993 - Bill Bixby dies (b. 1934). American actor and director.

1995 - The Dayton Peace Agreement was initialled in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.

1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time.

1995 - Noel Jones dies (b. 1940). British diplomat.

1995 - Peter Grant dies (b. 1935). British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin,Bad Company).

1996 - A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.

1996 - Abdus Salam dies (b. 1926). Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1999 - Quentin Crisp dies (b. 1908). English writer, satirist, and actor.

2000 - The United Farm Workers called off the boycott of California table grapes begun in 1984 by union organizer Cesar Chavez, saying the goals of the strike had been met.

2001 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj dies (b. 1926). King of Malaysia.

2001 - Salahuddin of Malaysia dies (b. 1926). King of Malaysia.

2002 - NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

2002 - Hadda Brooks dies (b. 1916). American jazz singer, pianist, and composer.

2004 - The Nintendo DS is released in North America.

2004 - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy with regards to the election's integrity.

2004 - The island of Dominica is hit by its most destructive earthquake in history; the northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially in the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighbouring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.

2004 - The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.

2005 - Alfred Anderson dies (b. 1896). Last Scottish World War I veteran.

2005 - Hugh Sidey dies (b. 1927). American journalist.

2006 - Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

2006 - Kathryn Johnston was born (d. 1914). US victim of police shooting.

2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel dies assassinated (b. 1972). Lebanese Cabinet minister.

2006 - Robert Lockwood Jr. dies (b. 1915). American blues guitarist.

2007 - Portugal gets the qualification for Euro 2008 (football) after a null match with Finland in Estádio do Dragão (webmaster note: I was there).

2007 - Fernando Fernán Gómez dies (b 1921). Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright.

2007 – Noel McGregor dies (b. 1931). New Zealand cricketer.

2007 - Tom Johnson dies (b. 1928). Canadian ice hockey player.

Homeopathy Day - Brazil / Brasil: Dia do Homeopata e da Homeopatia.

Bangladesh - Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh.

World Television Day.

World Hello Day /Dia das Saudações.

USA - National Adoption Day.

R.C. Saints - Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Brazil - Our Lady of Apresentação (Nossa Senhora da Apresentação) Day, City of Natal only.

Carla Bruni desvalorizada...

2009-11-20T23:25:00.007Z

Uma foto semelhante a esta de Carla Bruni, actual Primeira-Dama de França, posando nua em 1993, da autoria do fotógrafo Michel Compte, ficou sem comprador hoje num leilão realizado em Paris por não ter conseguido oferta superior (ou igual) ao mínimo pretendido (6.000 €).

Uma fotografia idêntica fora vendida na casa Christie's de Nova York em Abril de 2008 por 91.000 dólares.

É caso para dizer que onde um político põe a mão...

Contra Senso - Marta de Mesquita da Câmara

2009-11-20T00:22:00.000Z

Oh! meu amor,escuta, estou aqui,
pois o teu coração bem me conhece,
eu sou aquela voz que, em tanta prece
endoideceu, chorou, gemeu por ti!

Sou eu, sou eu que ainda não morri.
Nem a morte me quer, ao que parece,
e vinha renovar se ainda pudesse
as horas dolorosas que vivi.

Oh! que insensato e louco é quem se ilude!
Quiz fugir, esquecer-te, mas não pude...
Vê lá do que teus olhos são capazes!

Deitando a vista pelo mundo além
desisto de encontrar na vida um bem
que valha o mal que tu me fazes!

Marta de Mesquita da Câmara (n. Porto, 24 de Agosto de 1895 — m. Porto, 20 de Novembro de 1980)

Ler também neste blog da mesma autora: A Tua Amada

Tu Queres Nize, Oh, Quanto Podes, Quanto - Abade de Jazente

2009-11-20T00:19:00.000Z

Tu queres, Nize, oh quanto podes, quanto
Sobre o sacro poder da liberdade!
Tu queres, que a chorada falstidade
Se desdiga outra vez em novo canto.

Que o mundo torne a ouvir, com mudo espanto,
Chamar-te em vez de falsa, Divindade:
E em lugar de culpar-te a variedade,
Dizer que sempre foste o meu encanto.

Assim será, se ficas bem comigo:
A vergonha, o dever rompe, e atropela;
Que eu me sujeito a tudo por castigo.

Oh vós , que já me ouvistes sem cautela
Contra Nize gritar; eu me desdigo:
Se faço mal, não sei; só sei, que é bela.

in 366 poemas que falam de amor, uma antologia organizada por Vascvo da Graçla Moura, Quetzal Editores

Abade de Jazente (Paulino António Cabral de Vasconcelos), nasceu em Reguengo, Amarante a 6 de Maio de 1719 e morreu em Amarante a 20 de Novembro de 1789.

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog, Um dos meus bisavôs foi mercador...; Amor, é um arder, que se não sente

On this day in History - Nov. 20

2009-11-20T00:16:00.000Z

0270 - Maximinus was born (d. 0313). Roman Emperor.
0284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.
0762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
0870 - King Edmund of East Anglia dies.
1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1316 - King John I of France dies (born five days before).
1407 - A solemn truce between John, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspicies of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
1437 - Thomas Langley dies (b. 1363). Bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor.
1490 - Joanot Martorell's book Tirant lo Blanc is published for the first time.
1518 - Marmaduke Constable dies. English soldier.
1518 - Pierre de La Rue dies. Flemish composer.
1529 - Karl von Miltitz dies. Papal nuncio.
1591 - Christopher Hatton dies (b. 1540). English politician.
1602 - Otto von Guericke was born (d. 1686). German physicist and inventor.
1612 - John Harington dies (b. 1561). English writer.
1620 - Peregrine White was born (d. 1704). First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1621 - Avvakum was born (d. 1682). Russian priest and writer.
1625 - Paulus Potter was born (d. 1654). Dutch painter.
1651 - Mikolaj Potocki dies (b. 1595). Polish soldier.
1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski was born (d. 1741). German theologian.
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria dies (b. 1614). Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.

1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.

1704 - Charles Plumier dies (b. 1646). French botanist.

1737 - Caroline of Ansbach dies (b. 1683). Queen of George II of Great Britain.

1742 - Melchior de Polignac dies (b. 1661). French diplomat.

1750 - Tipu Sultan was born (d. 1799). Indian ruler.

1758 - Johan Helmich Roman dies (b. 1694). Swedish composer.

1761 - Pope Pius VIII was born (d. 1830).

1762 - Pierre André Latreille was born (d. 1833). French entomologist.

1764 - Christian Goldbach dies (b. 1690). Prussian mathematician.

1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle was born (d.1819). British naval captain and politician.

1778 - Francesco Cetti dies (b. 1726). Italian Jesuit scientist.

1781 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn was born (d. 1854). German jurist.

1786 - Francisco García was born (d. 1841). Mexican politician.

1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1789 - Abade de Jazente (Paulino António Cabral de Vasconcelos) dies in Amarante (b. 6 Mai 1719). Portuguese poet.

1815 - In the final phases of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia renewed the Quadruple Alliance to prevent further French aggression.

1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).

1825 - António de Serpa Pimentel was born in Coimbra ( † 02 Mar. 1900). Portuguese politician.

1839 - Christian Wilberg was born (d. 1882). German painter.

1841 - Victor D'Hondt was born (d. 1901). Belgian mathematician.

1841 - Wilfrid Laurier was born (d. 1919). Seventh Prime Minister of Canada.

1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy was born (d. 1926).

1856 - Farkas Bolyai dies (b. 1775). Hungarian mathematician.

1858 - Selma Lagerlöf was born (d. 1940). Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909.

1861 - Secession ordinance filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born (d. 1931). Swedish writer.

1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born (d. 1944). American judge and first baseball commissioner.

1869 - Clark Griffith was born. American baseball manager.

1874 - James Michael Curley was born (d. 1958). 53rd Governor of Massachusetts.

1880 - George McBride was born (d. 1973). American baseball player.

1882 - Andy Coakley was born (d. 1963). American baseball player and coach.

1884 - Norman Thomas was born (d. 1968). American social reformer.

1886 - Karl von Frisch was born. Austrian zoologist/bee expert who was laureate with the Nobel Prize in 1973.

1888 - Nathaniel Currier dies. Lithographer; Currier and his partner James Merritt Ives published more than 7,000 prints between 1840 and 1890, which were among the most popular wall hangings in 19th-century America.

1889 - Edwin Hubble was born (d. 1953). American astronomer.

1894 - Anton Rubinstein dies (b. 1829). Russian pianist and composer.

1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg was born (d. 1977). Russian writer.

1900 - Chester Gould was born (d. 1985). American creator of comic strips (Dick Tracy).

1901 - Nazım Hikmet was born (d. 1963). Turkish poet.

1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris.

1903 - Alexandra Danilova was born (d. 1997). Russian ballerina.

1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi was born (d. 1981). Pakistani historian and educationist.

1904 - Yevgenia Ginzburg was born (d. 1977). Russian writer.

1905 - François, 9th duc de Noailles was born. French nobelman.

1906 - Portugal: O deputado republicano Afonso Costa, discursando durante o debate sobre o problema dos adiantamentos feitos pelo ministério da Fazenda a membros da família real, afirma que: «Por menos do que fez o Sr. D. Carlos, rolou no cadafalso a cabeça de Luís XVI». Os deputados republicanos foram expulsos da Câmara e suspensos por um mês. D. Carlos seria assassinado por republicanos em 1 de Fevereiro de 1908.

1907 - Fran Allison was born (d. 1989). American early television personality, (Kukla, Fran and Ollie).

1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot was born (d. 1977). French film director.

1908 - Alistair Cooke was born (d. 2004). British-born journalist.

1908 - Georgy Voronoy dies (b. 1868). Russian mathematician.

1910 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico / Francisco Madero launched a failed revolt that nonetheless sparked the Mexican Revolution by inspiring hope in such leaders as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who then mobilized their ragged armies.

1910 - Vitória Futebol Clube (Setúbal, Portugal) is founded.

1910 - Willem Jacob van was born (d. 1944). Dutch physicist.

1910 (N. S.) - Leo Tolstoy dies (b. 1828). Russian novelist.

1911 - Armando Tavares Belo was born. Portuguese composer and conductor.

1912 - Otto von Habsburg was born. German head of the Austrian imperial family.

1913 - Judy Canova was born (d. 1983). American actress.

1914 - Emilio Pucci was born (d. 1992). Italian fashion designer.

1914 - José Revueltas was born. Mexican novelist and writer.

1915 - Kon Ichikawa was born. Iconic Japanese film director.

1916 - Evelyn Keyes was born (d. 4 Jul 2008). American actress.

1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic.

1917 - Robert Byrd was born. U.S. Senator from West Virginia.

1917 - Bobby Locke was born (d. 1987). South African golfer.

1920 - Portugal: Álvaro de Castro assumes the seat of prime-minister.

1921 - Jim Garrison was born (d. 1992). American district attorney and judge.

1921 - Phyllis Thaxter was born. American actress.

1922 - Ricardo Flores Magón dies into an american prison. Mexican revolucionary.

1923 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion Papiermark.

1923 - Nadine Gordimer was born. South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot was born. Polish-born mathematician.

1925 - Robert F. Kennedy was born (d. 1968). U.S. Attorney General.

1925 - Maya Plisetskaya was born. Russian ballet dancer.

1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1844).

1926 - Andrzej W. Schally was born. Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate.

1926 - Artur Ramos was born (d. 9 Jan 2006). Portuguese film director.

1926 - Kaye Ballard was born. American comic actress.

1926 - Terry Hall was born (d. 2007). English ventriloquist.

1927 - Estelle Parsons was born. American actress.

1928 - Aleksey Batalov was born. Russian actor.

1928 - Aloysio Chaves was born. Brazilian politician and writer.

1928 - John Disley was born. Welsh athlete.

1929 - Don January was born. American professional golfer.

1932 - Richard Dawson was born. British actor and game show host.

1934 - José Cutileiro was born. Portuguese politician and diplomat.

1934 - Willem de Sitter dies (b. 1872). Dutch scientist.

1935 - Niomar de Sousa Pereira was born in Goiás. Brazilian teacher, writer and folklorist.

1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera (b. 1903), founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.

1936 - Don DeLillo was born. American author.

1936 - Buenaventura Durruti dies (b. 1896). Spanish anarchist.

1937 - Eero Mäntyranta was born. Finnish cross-country skier.

1937 - Ruth Laredo was born (d. 2005). American pianist.

1937 - Viktoriya Tokareva was born. Russian playwright.

1938 - Enzo Matsunaga dies (b. 1895). Japanese writer.

1939 - Dick Smothers was born. American comedian.

1939 - João Medina was born. Portuguese writer and teacher.

1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.

1940 - Bob Einstein was born. American actor.

1941 - Haseena Moin was born. Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright.

1942 - Super Dave Osborne was born. American actor.

1942 - Joe Biden was born. American politician.

1942 - Meredith Monk was born. American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer.

1942 - Norman Greenbaum was born. American singer.

1942 - Paulos Faraj Rahho was born (d. 2008). Iraqi bishop.

1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.

1943 - Veronica Hamel was born. American actress.

1944 - Louie Dampier was born. American basketball player.

1945 - Nuremberg Trials begin: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.

1945 - Nanette Workman was born. American-born Canadian singer and actress.

1945 - Rick Monday was born. American baseball player.

1945 - Francis William Aston dies (b. 1877). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1946 - Duane Allman was born (d. 1971). American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band).

1946 - Greg Cook was born. American football player.

1946 - Judy Woodruff was born. American TV anchor.

1947 - Joe Walsh was born. American musician.

1947 - Gutemberg Nery Guarabyra Filho was born. Brazilian singer (Sá e Guarabyra).

1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.

1948 - Barbara Hendricks was born. American-born soprano.

1948 - John R. Bolton was born. American ambassador.

1948 - Richard Masur was born. American actor.

1949 - Jeff Dowd was born. American film producer.

1949 - Thelma Drake was born. U.S. Congresswoman from Virginia.

1950 - Francesco Cilea dies (b. 1866). Italian composer.

1951 - David Walters was born. American politician.

1952 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.

1952 - John Van Boxmeer was born. National Hockey League player.

1952 - Benedetto Croce dies (b. 1866). Italian philosopher.

1954 - Berit Andnor was born. Swedish politician.

1954 - Steve Dahl was born. American radio personality.

1954 - Soares Novais was born in Porto. Portuguese sports journalist and editor.

1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna dies (b. 1879). Aviation pioneer (Cessna).

1955 - Bo Diddley becomes the first African American performer to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently Sullivan was infuriated when Diddley sang his self-titled song instead of Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit, "Sixteen Tons".

1955 - RCA offers a $35,000 contract for Elvis Presley.

1956 - Bo Derek was born. American actress.

1956 - Mark Gastineau was born. American football player.

1957 - Margaret Spellings was born. U.S. Secretary of Education.

1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky was born (d. 1875). Russian-Lithuanian artist.

1957 - Mike Craven was born. English footballer.

1957 - Stefan Bellof was born (d. 1985). German race car driver.

1958 - Rickson Gracie was born. Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist.

1959 - EFTA (European Free Trade Area) is created : Great-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Switerzaln and Portugal.

1959 - James P. McGovern was born. American politician.

1959 - Sean Young was born. American actress.

1960 - Cathy Moriarty was born. American actress.

1960 - Marc Labrèche was born. Canadian actor and television host.

1960 - Chris Whitley dies (b. 2005). American musician.

1961 - Dave Watson was born. English footballer.

1961 - Tim Harvey was born. British racing driver.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

1963 - Altaf Gohar was born. Pakistani writer.

1963 - Ming-Na Wen was born. Macau actress.

1963 - Timothy Gowers was born. British mathematician.

1965 - Mike D was born. American musician (Beastie Boys).

1965 - Sen Dog was born. Cuban rapper (Cypress Hill).

1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi was born. Japanese musician (X Japan).

1966 - Jill Thompson was born. American comic book writer and artist.

1966 - Kevin Gilbert was born (d. 1966). American musician.

1966 - Cabaret opens at the Imperial Theatre, New York.

1967 - Chris Childs was born. American basketball player.

1967 - Teoman was born. Turkish rock singer.

1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.

1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Matt Blunt was born. Governor of Missouri.

1969 - Callie Thorne was born. American actor.

1970 - Delia Gonzalez was born. American boxer.

1970 - Geoffrey Keezer was born. American jazz pianist.

1970 - Joe Zaso was born. American actor.

1970 - Matt Blunt was born. American politician.

1971 - Joey Galloway was born. American football wide receiver

1971 - Joel McHale was born. American actor.

1971 - Kenichi Ito was born. Japanese guitarist and producer.

1972 - Sheema Kalbasi was born. Iranian born poet.

1973 - Allan Sherman dies (b. 1924). American comedian.

1974 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.

1975 - Dierks Bentley was born. American singer.

1975 - Timea Vagvoelgyi was born. Hungarian model.

1975 - Davey Havok was born. American singer (AFI).

1975 - J.D. Drew was born. American baseball player.

1975 - Francisco Franco (b. 1892), Caudillo of Spain dies after 36 years in power. He died, symbolically, on the 39th anniversary of the death of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

1976 - Dominique Dawes was born. American gymnast.

1976 - Jason Thompson was born. Canadian actor.

1976 - Theodoros Velkos was born. Greek badminton player

1976 - Trofim Lysenko dies (b. 1898). Russian biologist.

1977 - Josh Turner was born. American singer.

1977 - Rudy Charles was born. American professional wrestling referee.

1977 - Konstantinos Karamanlis wins the legislative elections in Greece.

1978 - Nadine Velazquez was born. American actress and model.

1978 - Ryan Leslie was born. American singer/songwriter.

1978 - Freya Lin was born. Taiwanese singer.

1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov dies (b. 1890). Russian poet.

1978 - Giorgio de Chirico dies (b. 1888). Italian painter.

1979 - Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgramage and take about 6000 hostages in the Kaaba. The Saudi government received help from French special forces to put down the uprising.

1979 - Ericson Alexander Molano was born. Colombian gospel singer.

1979 - Maree Bowden was born. New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns).

1980 - James Chambers was born. English footballer.

1980 - John McEwen dies (b. 1900). Eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia.

1981 - Kimberley Walsh was born. English singer (Girls Aloud).

1981 - Carlos Boozer was born. American basketball player.

1982 - Andy Kaufman was forever voted off of Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll.

1982 - Cal executes The Play in a college football game against Stanford.

1982 - Margo Stilley was born. American actress.

1983 - In the US, an estimated 100 million people watch the controversial made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting the start of a nuclear war.

1983 - Marcel Dalio dies (b. 1900). French actor.

1984 - The SETI Institute is founded.

1984 - Justin Hoyte was born. English footballer (Arsenal).

1984 - Ferdinando Monfardini was born. Italian racing driver.

1985 - Dan Byrd was born. American actor

1985 - Juan Cruz Álvarez was born. Argentine racing driver.

1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1986 - Aaron Yan was born. Taiwanese singer and actor.

1986 - Jared Followill was born. American bassist (Kings of Leon).

1986 - Oli Sykes was born. English musician.

1987 - Ivone Silva dies (b. 24 Apr 1935). Portuguese actress.

1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protestors assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

1989 - Cody Linley was born. American actor.

1989 - Tyga was born. American rapper.

1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).

1992 - Xanana Gusmão, comandante das Falintil, forças que lutavam pela independência de Timor-Leste, foi preso por forças militares indonésias.

1992 - Ishimura Maiha was born. Japanese pop singer.

1993 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

1993 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashed near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. On landing the aircraft crashed into Mount Trojani near Ohrid. All eight crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.

1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).

1994 - John Lucarotti dies (b. 1926). British-born Canadian screenwriter.

1995 - Sergei Grinkov dies (b. 1967). Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion.

1997 - Dick Littlefield dies (b. 1926). American baseball player.

1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.

1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

1998 - American tobacco companies signed an agreement with the governments of 46 U.S. states to settle the states' claims for reimbursement of Medicaid funds they had expended to treat smoking-related illnesses, the settlement costing the tobacco manufacturers $206
billion beyond the $40 billion they had agreed to pay four other states in 1997.

1998 - Galina Starovoitova dies (b. 1946). Russian politician.

1999 - Princess Sofia of Bulgaria was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family.

1999 - Prince Umberto of Bulgaria was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family.

1999 - Amintore Fanfani dies (b. 1908). Italian politician and prime minister.

2000 - Mike Muuss dies (b. 1958). American computer programmer.

2000 - Kalle Päätalo dies (b. 1919). Finnish writer.

2000 - Carlos Cardoso is murdered in Maputo. Mozambican journalist, founder and editor of the independent newspaper Metical.

2000 - Connie Talbot was born. English singer.

2000 - Louis Eugène Néel dies. French physicist.

2001 - In Washington, DC, US President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.

2003 - Robert Addie dies (b. 1960). British actor.

2003 - David Dacko dies (b. 1930). First President of the Central African Republic

2003 - Eugene Kleiner dies (b. 1923). American entrepreneur and venture capitalist

2003 - Roger Short dies (b. 1944). British Consulate General in Istanbul

2003 - Jim Siedow dies (b. 1920). American actor.

2003 - Kerem Yilmazer dies (b. 1945). Turkish actor.

2003 - Loris Azzaro dies (b. 1933). French fashion designer.

2004 - David Grierson dies (b. 1955). Canadian radio host.

2004 - Celso Furtado dies (b. 1920). Brazilian economist.

2004 - Jenny Ross dies (b. 1962). English musician (Section 25).

2005 - Sheldon Gardner dies (b. 1934). American psychologist.

2005 - James King dies (b. 1925). American singer.

2005 - Manouchehr Atashi dies (b. 1931). Iranian poet.

2005 - Chris Whitley dies (b. 1960). American musician.

2006 - Robert Altman dies (b. 1925). American film director.

2006 - Andre Waters dies (b. 1962). American football player.

2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu dies (b. 1950). Romanian mathematician.

2007 - Ian Smith dies (b. 1919). Rhodesian politician.

2008 - Football: Brazil beats Portugal 6-2 in a friendly match.

2008 – Bennie Gonzales dies (b. 1924). American architect.

2008 – Sven Inge dies (b. 1935). Swedish painter and modern artist.

Church of England - Edmund the Martyr.

Argentina Day of National Sovereignty.

Brazil - Zumbi Day (Since 1978).

Brazil - Dia da Consciência Negra (day of the Blacks recognition).

Britain - wedding day of H.M. the Queen (1947), official flag day.

Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910).

Transgender Day of Remembrance.

UNICEF - Universal Children's Day.

Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Viêt Nam).

Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999).

Citações do Dia

2009-11-19T23:25:00.001Z

"A saudade é um sentimento bem português. É uma espécie de mito do eterno retorno" - Mário Anacleto hoje no Auditório da Fundação Eng. António de Almeida na comemoração do 46º. aniversário da Unicepe (citação transcrita de memória).

"Sempre pensei o cinema como sendo poesia e não como ficção narrativa" - Francis Ford Coppola

"Actualmente não se convive socialmente. Há crimes virtuais e infidelidades electrónicas" (Fernando Lopes no Estoril Film Festival).

História da Donzela Teodora - Leandro Gomes de Barros

2009-11-19T00:55:00.004Z

Eis a real descrição
Da história da donzela
Dos sábios que ela venceu
E a aposta ganha por ela
Tirado tudo direito
Da história grande dela

Houve no reino de Túnis
Um grande negociante
Era natural da Hungria
E negociava ambulante
Uma alma pura e constante

Andando um dia na praça
Numa porta pôde ver
Uma donzela cristã
Para ali se vender
O mercador vendo aquilo
Não pôde mais se conter

Tinha feição de fidalga
Era uma espanhola bela
Ele perguntou ao mouro
Quanto queria por ela
Entraram então em negócio
Negociaram a donzela

O húngaro conheceu nela
Formato de fidalguia
Mandou educá-la bem
Na melhor casa que havia
Em pouco tempo ela soube
O que ninguém mais sabia

Mandou ensinar primeiro
Música e filosofia
Ela sem mestre aprendeu
Metafísica e astrologia
Descrever com distinção
História e anatomia

Ela que já era um ente
Nascida por excelência
Como quem tivesse vindo
Das entranhas da ciência
Tinha por pai o saber
E por mãe a inteligência

Em pouco tempo ela tinha
Tão grande adiantamento
Que só Salomão teria
Um igual conhecimento
Cantava música e tocava
A qualquer um instrumento

Estudou e conhecia
As sete artes liberais
Conhecia a natureza
De todos os vegetais
Descrevia muito bem
A castra dos animais

Descrevia os doze signos
De que é composto o ano
Da cabeça até os pés
Conhecia o corpo humano
E dava definição
De tudo do oceano

Admirou todo mundo
O saber desta donzela
Tudo que era ciência
Podia se encontrar nela
O professor que ensinou-a
Depois aprendeu com ela

Mas como tudo no mundo
É mutável e inconstante
Esse rico mercador
Negociava ambulante
E toda sua fortuna
Perdeu no mar num instante

Atrás do bem vem o mal
Atrás da honra a torpeza
Quando ele saiu de casa
Levava grande riqueza
Voltou trazendo somente
Uma extrema pobreza

Só via em torno de si
O vil manto da marzela
Em casa só lhe restava
A mulher e a donzela
Então chamou Teodora
E pediu o parecer dela

Disse ele: minha filha
Bem vês minha natureza
E sabes que o oceano
Espoliou minha riqueza
Espero que teus conselhos
Me tirem desta pobreza

Ela quando ouviu aquilo
Sentiu no peito uma dor
E lhe disse, tenha fé
Em Deus nosso salvador
Vou estudar um remédio
Que salvará o senhor

E disse: meu senhor saia
Procure um amigo seu
É bom ir logo na casa
Do mouro que me vendeu
Chegue lá converse com ele
E conte o que lhe sucedeu

O que ele oferecer-lhe
De muito bom grado aceite
E veja se ele lhe vende
Vestidos que me endireite
Compre a ele todas as jóias
Que uma donzela se enfeite

Se o mouro vender-lhe tudo
Com que possa me compor
Vossa mercê vai daqui
Vender-me ao rei Almançor
É esse o único meio
Que salvará o senhor

El-rei lhe perguntará
Por quanto vai me vender
Por dez mil dobras de ouro
Meu senhor há de dizer
Quando ele admirar-se
Veja o que vai responder

Dizendo alto senhor
Não fique admirado
Eu vendo-a com precisão
Não peço preço alterado
Dobrada esta quantia
Tenho com ela gastado

É esse o único meio
Para a sua salvação
Se o mouro vende-lhe tudo
Descanse seu coração
Daqui para o fim da vida
Não terá mais precisão

O mercador seguiu tudo
Quando a donzela ditava
Chegou ao mouro e contou-lhe
O desespero em que estava
Então o mouro vendeu-lhe
Tudo quanto precisava

Roupa, objetos e jóias
Para enfeitar a donzela
As roupas vinha que só
Sendo cortada pra ela
Ela quando vestiu tudo
Parecia ficar mais bela

O mercador aprontou-se
E seguiu com brevidade
Falou ao guarda da corte
Com muita amabilidade
Para deixá-lo falar
Com a real majestade

Então subiu um vassalo
Deu parte ao rei Almoçor
O rei chegou a escada
Perguntou ao mercador:
— Amigo qual o negócio
Que tem comigo o senhor?

Então disse o mercador
Sem grande humildade:
— Senhor venho a vossa alteza
Com grande necessidade
Ver se vendo esta donzela
A vossa real majestade

O rei olhou a donzela
E disse dentro de si:
Foi a mulher mais formosa
Que neste mundo já vi
Trinta ou quarenta minutos
O rei presenciou ela ali

Perguntou ao mercador:
Por quanto vendes a donzela?
Por 10 mil dobras de outro
É o que peço por ela
E não estou pedindo caro
Visto a habilidade dela.

Disse o rei ao mercador:
— Senhor, estou surpreendido
Dez mil dobras de ouro
É preço desconhecido
Ou tu não queres vendê-la
Ou estás fora do sentido

Disse o mercador: El rei
Não é caro esta donzela
Dobrado a esta quantia
Gastei para educar ela
Excede a todos os sábios
A sabedoria dela

O rei mandou logo chamar
Um grande sábio que havia
O instrutor da cidade
Em física e astronomia
Em matemática e retórica
História e filosofia

Esse veio e perguntou-lhe
— Donzela estás preparada
Para responder-me tudo
Sem titubiar em nada?
Se não estiver seja franca
Se não sai envergonhada

Então ela respondeu-lhe
— Mestre pode perguntar
Eu lhe responderei tudo
Sem cousa alguma faltar
Farei debaixo da lei
Tudo que o senhor mandar

O sábio ali preparou-se
Para entrar em discussão
Ela com muita vergonha
Ela não teve alteração
Pediu licença a El-rei
E ficou de prontidão

— Diz-me donzela o que Deus
Sob o céu primeiro fez
Respondeu o sol e a lua
E a lua por sua vez
É por uma obrigação
Cheia e nova todo mês

— Além do sol e a lua
Doze signos foram feitos
Formando a constelação
Sendo ao sol todos sujeitos
Desiguais na natureza
Com diversos preconceitos

Como se chama esses signos?
Perguntou o emissário
A donzela respondeu:
— Capricórnio e Aquário
Tauro, Câncer, Libra, Virgo
Pisces, Escórpio e Sagitário

— Existem outros três signos
Áries, Léo e Geminis
No signo Léo quem nascer
Será um homem feliz
Inclinado a viajar
Por fora de seu país

O sábio disse: Donzela
É necessário dizer
Que condições tem o homem
Que em cada signo nascer
Por influência o signo
De que forma pode ser?

Disse ela o signo Aquário
Reina o mês de janeiro
O homem que nascer nele
Tem o crescimento varqueiro
Será amante das mulheres
Ventaroso e lisonjeiro

Pisces reina em fevereiro
Quem nesse signo nascer
É muito gentil de corpo
Muito guloso em comer
Risonho, gosta de viagem
Não faz o que prometer

Em março governa Áries
Neste signo nascerão
Homens nem ricos nem pobres
Por nada se zangarão
Neles se notam um defeito
Falando sós andarão

Em abril governa Tauro
Um signo bem conhecido
O homem que nascer nele
Será muito presumido
Altivo de coração
Será rico e atrevido

Geminis governa em maio
Sua qualidade é quente
O homem que nascer nele
Será fraco e diligente
Para os palácios e cortes
Se inclina constantemente

Em julho governa Câncer
Sua qualidade é fria
O homem que nascer nele
É forte e tem energia
É gentil e tem muita força
E sempre tem alegria

Em julho governa Léo
Por um leão figurado
O homem que nascer nele
É lutador e honrado
Altivo de coração
Inteligente e letrado

Em agosto reina Virgo
Vem da terra a natureza
O homem que nascer nele
Tem princípio tem riqueza
Depois se descuidará
Por isso cai em pobreza

Em setembro reina Libra
A Vênus assinalado
O homem que nascer nele
Será um pouco inclinado
A viajar pelo mar
É lutador e honrado

O que nascer em outubro
Será homem falador
Inclinado aos maus costumes
Teimoso e namorador
Pouco jeito nos negócios
Falso grave e enganador

Então o mês de novembro
Sagitário é o reinante
O homem que nascer nele
Será cínico e inconstante
Desobediente aos pais
Intratável assim por diante

Em dezembro é Capricórnio
Tem a natureza de terra
O homem que nascer nele
Será inclinado a guerra
Gosta de falar sozinho
E por qualquer coisa espera

O sábio ali levantou-se
Disse ao rei esta donzela
Não há sábio aqui no mundo
Que tenha a ciência dela
E com isso vossa alteza
Que estou vencido por ela

O rei ali ordenou
Que fosse o sábio segundo
Foi um matemático e clínico
Um gênio grande e fecundo
E conhecido por um
Dos sábios maior do mundo

Chegou o segundo sábio
Que inda estava orelhudo
E disse: Donzela eu tenho
Dezoito anos de estudo
Não sou o que tu venceste
Conheço um pouco de tudo

A donzela respondeu
Com licença de el-rei
Tudo que me perguntares
Aqui te responderei
Com brevidade e acerto
Tudo vos explicarei

Perguntou o sábio a ela:
Em nosso corpo domina
Qualquer um dos doze signos
Que a donzela descrimina
Terá alguma influência
Os signos com a medicina?

Então a donzela disse:
Descrito mestre direi
Sabe que os signos são doze
Como eu já expliquei
Compactam com a química
Quer saber? Explicarei

Áries domina a cabeça
Uma parte melindrosa
Para quem nascer em março
A sangria é perigosa
A pessoa que sangrar-se
Deve ficar receosa

Libra domina as espáduas
Câncer domina os peitos
Para os que são deste signo
Purgantes tem maus efeitos
E as sangrias também
Não serão de bons proveitos

Tauro domina o pescoço
Léo domina o coração
Capricórnio influi nos olhos
Escórpio a organização
Geminis domina os braços
e influi na musculação

Virgo domina o ventre
E Aquário nas canelas
Para os que são desses signos
Purgas e sangrias são belas
Então Sagitário e Pisces
Ambos têm igual tabelas

O sábio dentro de si
Disse meio admirado
Onde esta discutir
Ninguém pode ser letrado
Esta só vindo a propósito
De planeta adiantado

O sábio disse: Donzela
Eu quero se tu puderes
Isto é, eu creio que podes
Não dirás se não quiseres
O peso, idade e conduta
Que têm todas as mulheres

Disse a donzela: A mulher
É sempre a arca do bem
Porém só quem a criou
Sabe o peso que ela tem
Isso é uma coisa ignota
Disso não sabe ninguém

Que me dizes das donzelas
De vinte anos de idade?
Respondeu: Sendo formosa
Parece uma divindade
Principalmente ao homem
Que lhe tiver amizade

As de trinta e quarenta
Que dizes tu que elas são?
Disse ela: Uma dessas
É de muita consideração
— Das de 50 o que dizer?
— Só prestam para oração

— Que dizes das de 70?
— Deviam estar num castelo
Rezando por quem morreu
Lamentando o tempo belo
O que dizes das de 80?
— Só prestam para o cutelo

Então classificas as velhas
Tudo de mal a pior?
E nos defeitos de tantas
Não se encontra um menor
Disse ela: Deus me livre
De ser vizinho da melhor

Donzela o sábio lhe disse
Sei que és caprichosa
Entre todas as pessoas
És a mais estudiosa
Diga que sinais precisam
Para a mulher ser formosa

Então a donzela disse:
Para a mulher ser formosa
Terá dezoito sinais
Não tendo é defeituosa
A obra por seu defeito
Deixa de ser melindrosa

Há de ter três partes negras
De cores bem reluzentes
Sobrancelhas, olhos, cabelos
De cores negras e ardentes
Branco o lacrimal dos olhos
Ter branca a face e os dentes

Será comprida em três partes
A que tiver formosura
Compridos os dedos das mãos
O pescoço e a cintura
Rosada cútis e gengivas
Lábios cor de rosa pura

Terá três partes pequenas
O nariz, boca e pé
Larga a cadeira e ombro
Ninguém dirá que não é
Cujos sinais teve-se todos
Uma virgem em Nazaré

O sábio quando ouviu isto
Ficou tão surpreendido
E disse: El-rei Almançor
Confesso que estou vencido
E quem argumenta com ela
Se considera vencido

El-rei mandou que outro sábio
Entrasse em discussão
Então escolheram um
Dos de maior instrução
A quem chamavam na Grécia
Professor da criação

Abraão de Trabador
Veio argumentar com ela
E disse logo ao entrar:
Previne-te bem, donzela
Dizendo dentro si
Eu hoje hei de zombar dela

Então a donzela disse:
Senhor mestre estarei disposta
De todas suas perguntas
O senhor terá resposta
Se tem confiança em si
Vamos fazer uma aposta?

Minha aposta é a seguinte
De nós o que for vencido
Ficará aqui na corte
Publicamente despido
Ficando completamente
Como quando foi nascido

O sábio disse que sim
Mandaram o termo lavrar
E a donzela pediu
Ao rei para assinar
Para a parte que perdesse
Depois não se recusar

Lavraram o termo e foi
Às mãos do rei Almoçor
Pra fazer válido o trato
E ficar por fiador
Obrigando quem perdesse
Dar as roupas ao vencedor

O sábio aí perguntou:
Qual é a coisa mais aguda?
Disse ela: é a língua
Duma mulher linguaruda
Que corta todos os nomes
E o corte nunca muda

Donzela qual é a coisa
Mais doce do que mel?
— O amor do pai a um filho
Ou dama esposa fiel
A ingratidão de um desses
Amarga mais do que fel

O sábio disse: Donzela
Conheces os animais?
Quero agora que descrevas
Alguns irracionais
Me diga qual é o bicho
Que possui oito sinais

Mestre, isto é gafanhoto
Vive embaixo dos outeiros
Tem pescoço como vaca
Esporas de cavaleiros
Tem olhos como marel
Um pássaro dos estrangeiros

Focinho como de vaca
Tem pés como de cegonha
Tem cauda como de víbora
Uma serpente medonha
E é infeliz o vivente
Que a boca dela se oponha

Tem peito como cavalos
E não ofende a ninguém
Tem asas como de águia
A que voa muito além
São antes oito sinais
Que o gafanhoto tem

Perguntou o sábio a ela:
— Que homem foi que viveu
Porém nunca foi menino
Existiu mas não nasceu
A mãe dele ficou virgem
Até que o neto morreu

— Este homem foi Adão
Que da terra se gerou
Foi feito já homem grande
Não nasceu, Deus o formou
A terra foi a mãe dele
E nela se sepultou

Foi feita mas não nascida
Essa nobre criatura
A terra foi a mãe dele
Serviu-lhe de sepultura
Para Abel o neto dele
Fez-se a primeira abertura

— Donzela qual é a coisa
Que pode ser mais ligeira?
Respondeu: O pensamento
Que voa de tal maneira
Que vai ao cabo do mundo
Num segundo que se queira

O sábio fitou-a e disse:
— Donzela diga-me agora
Qual o prazer de um dia
Qual prazer duma hora?
— Dum negócio que se ganha
Dum passeio que se queira

A donzela respondeu
Com a maior rapidez
Disse: um homem viajando
E se bom negócio fez
É um dos grande prazeres
Que verá por sua vez

Donzela o que é vida?
Disse ela: Um mar de torpeza
O que pode assemelhar-se
À vela que está acesa
Às vezes está tão formosa
E se apaga de surpresa

Donzela por quantas formas
Mente a pessoa afinal?
Respondeu: Mente por três
Tendo como essencial
Exaltar a quem quer bem
E pôr taxa em quem quer mal

Donzela que é velhice?
Respondeu com brevidade:
É vestidura de dores
É a mãe da mocidade
E o que mais aborrecemos?
Respondeu: É a idade

Donzela qual é a coisa
Que quem tem muito ainda quer?
Disse ela: É o dinheiro
Que o homem e a mulher
Não se farta de ganhar
Tenha a soma que tiver

Qual é a coisa que o homem
Possui e não pode ver?
Disse ela: O coração
Que aberto tem que nascer
Ver a raiz dos seus olhos
Não há quem possa obter

Donzela qual foi o homem
Que por dois ventres passou?
Disse a donzela: Foi Jonas
Que uma baleia o tragou
Conservou-o dentro três dias
E depois o vomitou

O sábio disse: Donzela
Qual o homem mais de bem?
Disse ela: É aquele
Que menos defeitos tem
Quem terá menos defeitos?
— Isso não sabe ninguém

— Donzela qual é a coisa
Que não se pode saber?
O pensamento do homem
Se ele não quer dizer
Por mais que a mulher procure
Não poderá obter

— Donzela o que é a noite
Cheia de tantos horrores?
Disse ela: É descanso
Dos homens trabalhadores
É capa dos assassinos
Que encobre os malfeitores

— Onde a primeira cidade
Do mundo foi construída?
— A cidade de Ninive
A primeira conhecida
Que depois de certo tempo
Foi pela Grécia abatida

Perguntou: Qual o guerreiro
Que teve a antigüidade?
Respondeu: Foi Alexandre
Assombro da humanidade
Guerreou vinte e dois anos
E morreu na flor da idade

Donzela falaste bem
Do maior conquistador
Diga dos homens qual foi
O maior sentenciador?
— Pilatos que deu sentença
a Cristo Nosso Senhor

De todos os patriarcas
qual seria o mais valente?
— O patriarca Jacó
Que lutou heroicamente
Com os anjos mensageiros
Do monarca onipotente

— Qual foi a primeira nau
Que foi para o estaleiro
— Foi a Arca de Noé
A que no mar foi primeiro
Onde escapou um casal
De tudo no mundo inteiro

— O que corta mais
Que a navalha afiada?
É a língua da pessoa
Depois de estar irada
Corta com mais rapidez
Que qualquer lâmina amolada

— Qual é o maior prazer
Com que se ocupa a história?
Respondeu: Quando um guerreiro
No campo ganha vitória
Sabei que não pode haver
Tanto prazer tanta glória

O sábio disse: Donzela
Tens falado muito bem
Me diga que condições
O homem no mundo tem?
Disse a donzela: tem todas
Para o mal e para o bem

É manso como a ovelha
E feroz como o leão
Seboso como o suíno
É limpo como o pavão
É falso como a serpente
É tão leal como o cão

É fraco como o coelho
Arrogante como o gelo
Airoso como o furão
Forçoso como o cavalo
E mais te digo que o homem
Ninguém pode decifrá-lo

É calado como peixe
Fala como papagaio
É lerdo como preguiça
É veloz igual ao raio
É sábio quando ouviu isto
Quase que dar-lhe um desmaio

Então inventou um meio
Para ver se a pegaria
Perguntou: O sol da noite
Terá luz quente ou fria?
A donzela respondeu
Que à noite sol não havia

Com a presença do sol
É que se conhece o dia
Se de noite houvesse sol
A noite não existia
E sem o sereno dela
Todo vivente morreria

Sem água, sem ar, sem luz
A terra não tinha nada
Não tinha os seres que tem
Seria desabitada
A própria vegetação
Não podia ser criada

Os reinos da natureza
Cada um possui um gênio
É necessário o azoto
Precisa o oxigênio
Para a infusão disso tudo
O carbono e o hidrogênio

O dia Deus fez bem claro
A noite fez bem escura
Se de noite houvesse sol
Estava o homem à altura
De notar esse defeito
E censurar a natura

O sábio baixou a vista
E ouviu tudo calado
Nada teve a dizer
Pois já estava esgotado
E tinha plena certeza
Que ficava injuriado

Disse ao público: Senhores
A donzela me venceu
Não sei com qual professor
Esta mulher aprendeu
Aí a donzela disse:
Então o mestre perdeu?

Ele vendo que estava
Esgotado e sem recursos
Ficou trêmulo e muito pálido
Fugiu-lho até os pulsos
Prostou-se aos pés de El-rei
Se sufocando em soluços

E disse: Senhor, confesso
A vossa real majestade
Que vejo nesta donzela
A maior capacidade
Ela merece ter prêmio
Pois tem grande habilidade

A donzela levantou-se
Foi ao soberano rei
Então beijando-lhe a mão
Disse: Vos suplicarei
Mande o sábio entregar-me
Tudo que dele ganhei

O rei ali ordenou
Que o sábio se despojasse
De todas as vestes que tinha
E à donzela as entregasse
O jeito que tinha ali
Era ele envergonhar-se

O sábio pôs-se a despir-se
Como quem estava doente
Fraque, colete e camisa
Ficando ali indecente
E pediu para ficar
Com a ceroula somente

Depois sufocado em pranto
Prostrado disse à donzela:
Resta-me apenas a ceroula
Não posso me despir dela
A donzela perguntou-lhe:
O senhor nasceu com ela?

O trato foi o seguinte
De nós quem fosse vencido
Perante a todos da corte
Havia de ficar despido
Como quando veio ao mundo
Na hora que foi nascido

El-rei foi o fiador
Nosso ajuste foi exato
O senhor tem que despir-se
E dar-lhe fato por fato
Ficando com a ceroula
Não teve efeito o contrato

E não quis dar a ceroula
O rei mandou que ele desse
Ou pagaria à donzela
O tanto que ela quisesse
Tanto que indenizasse-a
Embora que não pudesse

Donzela quanto queres
Perguntou o sábio enfim
A donzela ali fitou-o
E lhe respondeu assim:
A metade do dinheiro
Que meu senhor quer por mim

O rei ali conhecendo
O direito da donzela
Vendo que toda razão
Só podia caber nela
Disse ao sábio: Mande ver
O dinheiro e pague a ela

Cinco mil dobras de ouro
A donzela recebeu
O sábio também ali
Nem mais satisfação deu
Aquele foi um exemplo
Que a donzela lhe vendeu

O rei então disse à ela:
Donzela podes pedir
Dou-te a palavra de honra
Farei-te o que exigir
De tudo que pertencer-me
Poderás tu te servir

Ela beijou-lhe a mão
Lhe disse peço que dê-me
A quantia do dinheiro
Que meu senhor quer vender-me
Deixando eu voltar com ela
Para assim satisfazer-me

O rei julgou que a donzela
Pedisse para ficar
Tanto que se arrependeu
De tudo lhe franquear
Mas a palavra de rei
Não pode se revogar

Mandou dar-lhe o dinheiro
Discutiu também com ela
Mas ciente de tudo
Quanto podia haver nela
E disse vinte mil dobras
Não pagam esta donzela

Voltou ela e o senhor
À sua antiga morada
Por uma guarda de honra
Voltou ela acompanhada
O senhor dela trazendo
Uma fortuna avaliada

Ficaram todos os sábios
Daquilo impressionados
Pois uma donzela escrava
Vencer três homens letrados
Professores de ciências
Doutores habilitados

Abraão de Trabador
Com todos não discutia
Já tinha vencido muitos
Em música e filosofia
Em história natural
Matemática e astronomia

Ele descrevia a fundo
Os reinos da natureza
Era engenheiro perito
De tudo tinha a certeza
Descrevia o oceano
Da flor d'água a profundeza.

Tanto quando ele entrou
Que fitou bem a donzela
Calculou dentro de si
A força que havia nela
Confiando em sua força
Por isso apostou com ela

Caro leitor escrevi
Tudo que no livro sabei
Só fiz rimar a história
Nada aqui acrescentei
Na história grande dela
Muitas coisas consultei

Poema extraído daqui

Leandro Gomes de Barros (n. Pombal, Paraíba em 19 Nov de 1865; m. no Recife a 4 de Mar. de 1918)-

Ler do mesmo autor: As Proezas de um Namorado Mofino

Brazil Flag Day / Dia da Bandeira

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On this day in History - Nov. 19

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0461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.
0498 - Pope Anastasius II dies
1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan was born (d. 1526).
1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia dies (b. 1448).
1492 - Jami dies (b. 1414). Persian poet.
1493 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to go ashore on an island he only saw for the first time the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1557 - Bona Sforza dies (b. 1494). Queen of Sigismund I of Poland.
1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester was born (d. 1626). English statesman.
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide dies (b. 1510). Japanese warlord.
1597 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate was born (d. 1660). Electress of Bavaria.
1598 - An outnumbered Korean and Ming navy ambush and defeat a Japanese army at the Battle of Noryang Point.
1598 - Yi Sun-sin dies killed in battle (b. 1545), Korean admiral.
1600 - King Charles I of England was born (d. 1649).
1600 - Leo Aitzema was born (d. 1669). Dutch historian and statesman.
1617 - Eustache Le Sueur was born (d, 1655). French painter.
1630 - Johann Schein dies (b. 1586). German composer.
1649 - Caspar Schoppe dies (b. 1576). German scholar.
1665 - Nicolas Poussin dies (b. 1594). French painter.
1672 - John Wilkins dies (b. 1614). English Bishop of Chester.
1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine dies (b. 1619). Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
1692 - Thomas Shadwell dies. English poet and playwright.
1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet was born (d. 1770). French abbot and physicist.

1703 - The man in the iron mask, a political prisoner famous in French history and legend, died in the Bastille.

1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov was born (d. 1765). Russian writer and polymath.

1722 – Benjamin Chew was born (d. 1810). Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania.

1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger was born (d. 1809). Austrian physician.

1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont dies (b. 1632). French courtier and soldier.

1752 - George Rogers Clark was born (d. 1818). American military leader.

1772 - William Nelson dies (b. 1711). American colonial governor of Virginia.

1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster dies (b. 1722). Irish politician.

1785 - Bernard de Bury dies (b. 1720). French composer.

1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

1798 - Wolfe Tone dies (b. 1763). Irish patriot.

1802 - Solomon Foot was born (d. 1866). American politician.

1804 - Pietro Guglielmi dies (b. 1728). Italian composer.

1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps was born (d. 1894). French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer.

1808 – Janez Bleiweis was born (d. 1881). Slovenian politician.

1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre dies (b. 1725). French dancer and ballet master.

1812 - Karl Schwarz was born (d. 1885). German theologian.

1816 - Warsaw University is established.

1819 - The Prado National Museum is inaugurated in Madrid.

1820 - The Troppau protocol, a declaration of intention to take collective action against revolution, was signed by the Holy Alliance powers at the Congress of Troppau.

1822 - Johann Georg Tralles dies (b. 1763). German mathematician and physicist.

1823 – Alvin Smith dies (b. 1798). Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. .

1828 - Franz Schubert dies (b. 1797). Austrian composer.

1831 - James A. Garfield was born (d. 1881). 20th President of the United States.

1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey was born (d. 1911). German philosopher.

1834 - Georg Hermann Quincke was born (d. 1924). German physicist.

1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai was born (d. 1858). Indian Queen.

1843 - Richard Avenarius was born (d. 1896). German philosopher.

1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

1850 - Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in 1892.

1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson dies (b. 1780). American politician.

1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was born (d. 1935). Russian composer.

1862 - Billy Sunday was born (d. 1935). American evangelist.

1863 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1863 - Borges de Medeiros was born (d. 1961). Brazilian politician.

1865 - Leandro Gomes de Barros was born (d. 1918). Brazilian writer.

1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili dies (b. 1798). Georgian general.

1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin was born (d. 1946). Russian metal worker and head of state.

1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva was born (d. 1964). Russian mathematician.

1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

1883 - Ned Sparks was born (d. 1957). Canadian actor.

1883 - William Siemens dies (b. 1823). German engineer.

1887 – James B. Sumner was born (d. 1955). American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate.

1887 - Emma Lazarus dies (b. 1859). American poet.

1888 - José Raúl Capablanca was born (d. 1942). Cuban chess player.

1889 - Clifton Webb was born (d. 1966). American actor.

1892 - Huw Thomas Edwards was born (d. 1970). Welsh trade unionist and politician.

1893 - René Voisin was born (d. 1952). French classical trumpet player.

1894 - Américo Thomaz was born (d. 1987). President of Portuguese Republic (1958 - 1974).

1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.

1896 - Georgy Zhukov was born (d. 1974). Russian general.

1897 - Quentin Roosevelt was born (d. 1918). Son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.

1897 - William Seymour Tyler dies (b. 1810). American educator and historian.

1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel was born (d. 2003).German-born physicist.

1898 – Klement Jug was born (d. 1924). Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer.

1899 - Allen Tate was born (d. 1979). American poet and critic.

1899 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei was born (d. 1992). Influential Shia Islamic scholar.

1900 - Anna Seghers was born (d. 1983). German writer.

1900 - Bunny Ahearne was born (d. 1985). Irish ice hockey promoter.

1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev was born (d. 1980). Russian scientist.

1904 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. was born (d. 1971). American murderer.

1905 - Tommy Dorsey was born (d. 1956). American bandleader.

1907 - Jack Schaefer was born (d. 1991). American author.

1909 - Peter Drucker was born (d. 2005). American management theorist.

1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle was born (d. 1970). Son of Arthur Conan Doyle.

1912 - Domingos da Guia was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian football player.

1912 - George Emil Palade was born. Romanian cell biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1915 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was born (d. 1974). American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1915 - Joe Hill dies executed (b. 1879) American labor activist.

1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).

1917 - Indira Gandhi was born (d. 1984). Was the daughter of the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and served four terms as prime minister before being assassinated by Sikh extremists while in office in 1984.

1918 - Joseph Fielding Smith dies (b.1838). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1919 - Alan Young was born. British-born American actor: Mr. Ed, Emmy-Award winning show: The Alan Young Show [1950]; Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Time Machine; cartoon voice: Scrooge McDuck.

1919 - Gillo Pontecorvo was born (d. 2006). Italian film director.

1920 - Gene Tierney was born (d. 1991). American actress.

1921 - Peter Ruckman was born. American Baptist minister.

1921 - Roy Campanella was born (d. 1993).Baseball player.

1922 - Salil Chowdhury was born (d. 1995). Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker.

1922 – Yuri Knorozov was born (d. 1999). Russian epigrapher.

1924 - Bernardo de Santareno was born. Portuguese dramatist.

1924 - Marlene (Vitória Martino Bonaiutti) was born in São Paulo. Brazilian singer.

1924 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).

1924 - William Russell was born. British actor.

1924 - Thomas Ince dies (b. 1882). American film director.

1925 - Zygmunt Bauman was born. Polish sociologist.

1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick was born (d. 2006). U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

1929 - Norman Cantor was born (d. 2004). Canadian medieval scholar.

1929 – Slavko Avsenik was born. Slovenian musician.

1931 - Xu Zhimo dies (b. 1897). Chinese poet.

1933 - Jerry Sheindlin was born. American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin.

1933 - Larry King was born. American television interviewer.

1935 - Bob Gibson was born. Baseball player.

1935 - Jack Welch was born. American businessman.

1935 – Rashad Khalifa was born (d. 1990). Egyptian imam.

1936 - Dick Cavett was born. American talk show host.

1936 - Francisco Milani was born (d. 2005). Brazilian actor.

1936 – Yuan T. Lee was born. Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1938 - Ted Turner was born. American businessman.

1938 - Lev Shestov dies (b. 1866). Russian philosopher.

1939 - Tom Harkin was born. American politician.

1941 - World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

1941 - Dan Haggerty was born. American actor.

1941 - Tommy Thompson was born. U.S. Governor.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

1942 - Calvin Klein was born. American clothing designer.

1942 - Sharon Olds was born. American poet.

1942 - Bruno Schulz dies shot (b. 1892). Polish writer and painter.

1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo was born (d.1990). Cuban-born Major League Baseball player.

1943 - Fred Lipsius was born. Saxophonist and pianist (Blood, Sweat & Tears).

1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

1944 - Agnes Baltsa was born. Greek mezzo-soprano.

1944 – Dennis Hull was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1945 - Bobby Tolan was born. American baseball player.

1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1947 - Bob Boone was born. Baseball player and manager.

1947 - Lamar S. Smith was born. American politician.

1949 - Ahmad Rashad was born. American football player and sportscaster.

1949 - Nigel Bennett was born. English actor.

1950 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

1950 – Peter Biyiasas was born. Greek-Canadian-American chess grandmaster.

1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton was born. British lawyer and politician.

1951 – Zeenat Aman was born. Indian actress and Miss Asia Pacific in 1970.

1952 - Stephen Soldz wa born. American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist.

1953 - Robert Beltran was born. American actor.

1953 - Tom Villard was born (d. 1994). American actor.

1954 - Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

1954 - Kathleen Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California. American actress (The Promise, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, American Graffiti, Airport ’77, Apollo 13, Family Law).

1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson dies (b. 1870). Founding member of Cardiff City F.C..

1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.

1955 - Sam Hamm was born. American screenwriter.

1956 – Ann Curry was born. American journalist.

1956 – Glynnis O'Connor was born. American actress.

1956 - Marco Chagas was born. Portuguese cyclist.

1957 - Ofra Haza was born (d. 2000). Israeli singer.

1958 - Michael Wilbon was born. Sports analyst.

1958 - Terrence Carson was born. American actor.

1959 - Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1959 - Allison Janney was born. American actress.

1959 - Joseph Charbonneau dies (b. 1892). Achbishop of Montreal.

1960 - Elizabeth Hulette was born (d. 2003). American professional wrestling manager and valet.

1960 - Matt Sorum was born. American musician, drummer with the band Velvet Revolver.

1960 - Phyllis Haver dies (b. 1899). American actress.

1961 - Meg Ryan was born. American actress ( When a Man Loves a Woman, When Harry Met Sally, D.O.A., Sleepless in Seattle, Flesh and Bone, Top Gun, One of the Boys, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, You’ve Got Mail).

1961 - Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

1962 - Dodie Boy Peñalosa was born. Philippine boxer.

1962 - Jodie Foster was born. Academy Award-winning actress: The Accused [1988], Silence of the Lambs [1991]; Mayberry R.F.D., Taxi Driver, Napoleon and Samantha, Sommersby, Paper Moon, Maverick; and director: Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays

1962 – Sean Parnell was born. 12th Governor of Alaska.

1963 - Jon Potter was born. British field hockey player.

1963 – Terry Farrell was born. American actress.

1963 - Zsuzsanna Jánosi was born. Hungarian fencer.

1965 – Douglas Henshall was born. Scottish actor.

1965 - Laurent Blanc was born. French football player.

1965 - Sean Hughes was born. Irish comedian.

1966 - Gail Devers was born. American athlete.

1966 - Jason Scott Lee was born. American actor.

1966 - Rocco DiSpirito was born. American chef.

1966 – Shmuley Boteach was born. American rabbi.

1967 - The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1967 - Charles Watters dies (b. 1927). US Army chaplain.

1967 - João Guimarães Rosa dies (b. 1908). Brazilian writer.

1968 - Karina was born. Venezuelan singer.

1969 - Pelé scores his goal number 1000 on a football match between Santos and Vasco. Pelé played for Santos. The result was 2x1 to Santos.

1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

1969 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.

1969 - Terrence Carson was born. American actor.

1969 - Erika Alexander was born. American actress.

1969 - Philippe Adams was born. Belgian racing driver.

1969 - Richard Virenque was born. French cyclist.

1970 - The IBM 1620 is withdrawn from the market.

1971 - Alice Peacock was born. American folk singer.

1971 - Jeremy McGrath was born. American motorcycle racer.

1971 – Justin Chancellor was born. English bassist (Tool).

1972 - Sandrine Holt was born. Canadian actress.

1973 - American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.

1973 – Billy Currington was born. American singer and songwriter.

1973 - Ryukishi07 was born. Japanese mystery novelist.

1973 – Savion Glover was born. American dancer and choreographer.

1973 - Takashi Matsumoto was born. Japanese photographer and business person.

1974 - George Brunies dies (b. 1902). American musician.

1975 - Sushmita Sen was born. Indian beauty queen and actress.

1975 - Roger D. Branigin dies (b. 1902). American politician.

1976 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.

1976 – Benny Vansteelant was born (d. 2007). Belgian duathlete.

1976 - Jun Shibata was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.

1976 - Petr Sýkora was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1976 - Stylianos Venetidis was born. Greek footballer.

1976 - Sir Basil Spence dies (b. 1907). Scottish architect.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1977 - Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

1977 - Kerri Strug was born. American gymnast.

1978 - Jim Jones leads members of his Peoples Temple cult in mass murder-suicide. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, were found in Jonestown,Guyana in South America.

1978 – Matt Dusk was born. Canadian jazz musician / vocalist.

1978 - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová was born. Czech athlete.

1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

1979 – John-Ford Griffin was born. American baseball player.
1979 – Keith Buckley was born. American singer (Every Time I Die).

1979 - Larry Johnson was born. American football player.

1979 - Leam Richardson was born. English football player.

1979 - Rowan Jones was born. Australian rules footballer.

1979 - Ryan Howard was born. American baseball player.

1980 - Adele Silva was born. English actress.

1980 - Courtney Anderson ws born. American football player.

1980 – Vladimir Radmanovic was born. Serbian basketball player.

1981 – Marcus Banks was born. American basketball player.

1981 – DJ Tukutz was born. South Korean DJ, Producer, Songwriter(Member of Epik High).

1983 - Chandra Crawford was born. Canadian cross-country skier.

1983 - Daria Werbowy was born. Ukranian-Canadian model.

1983 - Tom Evans dies (b. 1947). British musician and member of Badfinger.

1984 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1985 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco establishing a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).

1985 - Chris Eagles was born. British football player.

1985 - Bianca Comparato was born. Brazilian actress.

1985 - Laura Osnes was born. American Broadway star.

1985 - Stepin Fetchit dies (b. 1907). American actor and dancer.

1986 - A pintora Vieira da Silva é agraciada com o Prémio Florence Gould.

1986 – Jeannie Ortega was born. American actress, dancer, and songwriter.

1986 - Milan Smiljanić was born. Serbian footballer.

1986 - Veronica Scott was born. American fashion designer.

1987 - É estabelecido um preço recorde na venda de um carro, ao ser vendido em leilão um Bugatti Royal de 1931 por 5,5 milhões de libras.

1988 - Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declared that Serbia was under attack from Albanian separatism in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

1988 - Patrick Kane was born. American ice hockey player.

1988 - Christina Onassis dies (b. 1950). Daughter of Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis.

1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the “Girl You Know It’s True” album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

1990 - James Chichester, Earl of Belfast was born. Irish Peer.

1990 - Sun Li-jen dies (b. 1900). Chinese general.

1992 - Bobby Russell dies (b. 1941). American songwriter.

1992 - Diane Varsi dies (b. 1938). American actress.

1994 - In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

1994 - Em Vila Franca de Xira, é inaugurado o Imax, uma das mais modernas salas de cinema do país.

1994 - No Porto, termina a XI Cimeira Ibérica, com acordos sobre a água, gás natural e coordenação fronteiriça.

1994 - O IPPAR anuncia oficialmente a descoberta de gravuras rupestres na zona da futura barragem de Foz Côa e é acusado por arqueólogos de ter ocultado a descoberta desde 1989.

1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

1996 - The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.

1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2009.

1997 - McCaughey septuplets were born. American septuplets.world's first surviving set of septuplets

1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

1998 - Lucília do Carmo dies. Portuguese singer (fado).

1998 - Alan J. Pakula dies. American film director and producer.

1998 - Ted Fujita dies (b. 1920). Japanese-born American meteorologist.

1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

1999 - John Carpenter became the first contestant to win $1,000,000 U.S.D. on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

2001 - Marcelle Ferron dies (b. 1924). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.

2003 - Ian Geoghegan dies (b. 1940). Australian racing driver.

2004 - A brawl breaks out between Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers players during their game at The Palace of Auburn Hills; the brawl turns into an even larger fight between Pacers players and Pistons fans.

2004 – George Canseco dies (b. 1934). Filipino composer.

2004 – Helmut Griem dies (b. 1932). German actor.

2004 - John Robert Vane dies (b. 1927). British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2004 – Piet Esser dies (b. 1914). Dutch sculptor.

2004 - Terry Melcher dies (b. 1942). American musician and record producer.

2005 - US Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town of Haditha in Iraq.

2005 - Erik Balling dies (b. 1924). Danish TV and film director.

2006 - Wii launches in North America.

2006 - ITU Canberra Long Distance Triathlon World Championships.

2006 - São Paulo FC wins the Brazilian Championship in football (soccer).

2007 - Dick Wilson dies (b. 1916). American actor.

2007 - Kevin DuBrow dies (b. 1955). American singer (Quiet Riot).

2007 - Mike Gregory dies (b. 1964). English rugby league footballer.

International Men's Day in Canada, Australia, India, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Singapore, South Africa and Malta

Brazil - Flag Day /Dia da Bandeira do Brasil (Dec. nº 4 de 19/11/1889).

Mali - Liberation Day.

Norway - The Liberation of the Sami People of the coast.

Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493).

United States - Equal Opportunity Day.

World - World Toilet Day.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Traditional Catholic Calendar.

United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage.

Portugal: Municipal hollydays in Trofa and Odivelas; Feriado Municipal de Odivelas e da Trofa

Raúl Meireles aos 55' fez acalmar os corações lusos

2009-11-18T21:57:00.007Z

Bosnia Herzegovina
0-1
Portugal

Portugal demonstrou que é melhor...

Afinal Portugal foi comida indigesta para os «leões esfomeados». Viu-se muita vontade, muito poder físico, mas categoria bem deficitária para chegar aos calcanhares da equipa das quinas. Agora que o jogo está terminado até duvidamos sobre quem tirou mais partido do péssimo estado relvado (?), cheio de covas, irregularidades e com a bola sem poder deslizar como deve ser, mais parecendo um campo de batatas. É que no jogo do Estádio da Luz viu-se boa qualidade na equipa da Bósnia.

Nesta segunda mão a pressão foi mais exterior do que dentro do campo. É certo que a equipa portuguesa teve que jogar com concentração, ser guerreira e solidária; mas não passou por muitos momentos de aflição. Eduardo acabou por ter um jogo tranquilo tendo a mais difícil intervenção já na segunda parte para desviar para canto um livre directo marcado ainda de muito longe da baliza.

Muitos choques, muitas bolas divididas, algumas vezes aí nesse campo a vantagem foi para o lado dos bósnios, mas o árbitro italiano também cedo mostrou que não ia deixar jogar fora das regras, marcando bastantes faltas na disputa de lances aéreos.

Aos 25' podíamos ter descansado quando beneficiando de uma tabelinha Raúl Meireles apareceu isolado em posição frontal à frente de Hasagic, mas não teve a tranquilidade e discernimento (que viria a ter na segunda parte em lance de mais dificil execução) para ver a colocação do guarda-redes, permitindo a sua defesa.

Ao intervalo o treinador da equipa da casa fez entrar Muslimovic para o lugar de Medunjanin, uma opção mais avançada mas foi a equipa portuguesa que chegou ao golo num lance em que Raúl Meireles surgiu pela direita a fazer o terceiro homem do artaque depois de um primeiro ensaio de Liedson para Nano pela esquerda não ter resultado. O médio português desta vez olhou para a posição do guarda-redes e fez um remate colocadídssimo cruzado ao segundo poste. Com este golo percebeu-se que os «lobos esfomeados» iriam «morrer de fome». Foi a cedência total da equipa da casa face aos três golos sem resposta que teriam de obter para inverter a qualificação.

Portugal passou a ter tempo e espaço para atacar e só alguma displicência e as erradas opções de Carlos Queiróz - Edinho para quê?, tirar Liedson para entrar Miguel Veloso porquê estando a jogar já contra dez? - evitou que o resultado se avolumasse favoravelmente às hostes lusas.

O público também percebeu que a derrota estava consumada e aitirando objectos para o campo acertaram no juiz assistente depois de este ter tomado uma decisão de um livre favorável aos portugueses. Salihovic quer já tinha amarelo veria pela segunda vez o mesmo cartão e consequente vermelho (76').

Raul Meireles ensaiou um remate perigoso que saiu junto ao poste, Edinho falharia escandalosamente o segundo golo ao não acertar na bola convemnientemente a um metro da linha fatal. Certo que Dzeco num belo trabalho individual na árera, com a recepção tirou Ricardo Carvalho do lance para rematar depois com o outro pé, também podia ter empatado, mas a vitória portuguesa acaba port ficar escassa. Portugal conseguiu mais oportunidades de golo neste jogo do que o que fizera na Luz.

No fundo temos de estar satisfeitosd pela qualificação da selecção para o Mundial da África do Sul. Quasde aperttece dizer que seria um crime se jogadores do mais alto nível do futebol mundial ficassem de fora, mas esta selecção fez muitas coisas para complicar essa qualificação. Fizemo-lo ao sprint depois de muito sofrimento.

BÓSNIA: Hasagic, Nadarevic, Jahic, Pandza, Bajramovic (Berberovic, 81), Pjanic, Ibricic, Salihovic e Medunjanin (Muslimovic, ao intervalo); Dzeko e Ibisevic.

Suplentes: Begovic, Mravac, Mirvic, Berberovic, Milenkovic, Damjanovic e Muslimovic.

Eduardo; Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Bruno Alves e Duda; Pepe, Raul Meireles e Tiago; Simão (Deco, 79), Nani (Edinho, 72) e Liedson (Miguel Veloso, 89).

Suplentes: Hilário, Miguel, Rolando, Miguel Veloso, Deco, Hugo Almeida e Edinho.

Golo: Raúl Meireles (55)
Cartão amarelo a Jahic (25), Dzeko (57), Nadarevic (36) e Berberovic (90); a Simão Sabrosa (26)

Cartão vermelho a Salihovic (76)

Lobos esfomeados e nós?

2009-11-18T14:29:00.004Z

Da Bósnia, segundo o próprio treinador, vamos ter uma alcateia de lobos esfomeados! E nós ? Vamos ser uns cordeirinhos submissos ou um conjunto de raposas matreiras e inteligentes? Logo se vai ver mas parece que seria bom para combater o déficit externo que nós ganhássemos.

Amor como em casa - Manuel António Pina

2009-11-18T00:37:00.000Z

Regresso devagar ao teu
sorriso como quem volta a casa. Faço de conta que
não é nada comigo. Distraído percorro
o caminho familiar da saudade,
pequeninas coisas me prendem,
uma tarde num café, um livro. Devagar
te amo e às vezes depressa,
meu amor, e às vezes faço coisas que não devo,
regresso devagar a tua casa,
compro um livro, entro no
amor como em casa.

Manuel António Pina (nasceu em 18 de Nov. 1943 no Sabugal)

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Café do Molhe; Saudade da Prosa

On this day in History - Nov. 18

2009-11-18T00:26:00.000Z

0009 - Vespasian was born (d. 0079). Roman Emperor.
0326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1095 - The Council of Clermont began. The council was called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1105 - Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I.
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne dies (b. 1092). Queen of Louis VI of France.
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy"), which historians consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made.
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany dies (b. 1239).
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1313 - Constança dies. Dauhgher of Isabel, Queen of Portugal.
1421 - A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1477 - William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English book printed on a printing press.
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope.
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico. He will land on it the following day and name it San Juan Batista.
1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont was born (d. 1568). Flemish general and statesman.
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall dies (b. 1474). English churchman.
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury dies (b. 1528). English statesman.
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1630 - Eleanor Gonzaga was born (d. 1686). Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
1647 - Pierre Bayle was born (d. 1706). French philosopher.
1686 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King of France Louis XIV's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies (b. 1685). Portuguese naturalist.
1727 - Philibert Commerçon was born (d. 1773). French naturalist.

1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia was born (d. 1806). German prince.

1774 - Wilhelmine of Prussia was born (d. 1837). Queen of the Netherlands.

1785 - David Wilkie was born (d. 1841). Scottish artist.

1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1725). French soldier and writer.

1786 - Carl Maria von Weber was born (d. 1826). German composer.

1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre was born (d. 1851). French inventor and photographer.

1796 - Catharina II, "The Great" dies. Tsarina of Russia (1762-96).

1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat dies (b. 1719). French shipbuilder and merchant.

1803 - the Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.

1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora was born (d. 1878). Italian general and statesman.

1810 - Asa Gray was born. American botanist and writer of Grays Anatomy of Plants.

1814 - William Jessop dies (b. 1745). English civil engineer.

1814 - Aleijadinho (Francisco Antonio Lisboa) dies in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais (b. 1730). Brazilian sculptor and architect, known for his beautiful Rococo statues and his churches.

1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.

1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was born (d. 1901). Swedish explorer.

1835 - Portugal: José Jorge Loureiro becomes Prime-Minister.

1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert was born (d. 1911). English dramatist (HMS Pinafore; The Pirates of Penzance).

1836 - Cesare Lombroso was born (d. 1909). Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology.

1839 - August Kundt was born (d. 1894). German physicist.

1841 - Manuel Menéndez becomes President of Peru.

1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles Missouri - Canonized 3 July 1988 by Pope John Paul II.

1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov was born (d. 1929). Grand Duke of Russia.

1860 - Ignace Paderewski was born. Polish pianist and composer.

1861 - Dorothea Dix was born (d. 1887). American activist (not to be confused with journalist, Dorothy Dix).

1863 - King Christian IX of Denmark decided to sign the november constitution, which declared Schleswig as part of Denmark, what was seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and lead to the German–Danish war of 1864.

1865 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

1870 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer was born (d. 1951)

1874 - Clarence Day was born (d. 1935). American author.

1877 - Arthur Cecil Pigou was born. English economist.

1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci was born (d. 1963). Italian soprano.

1882 - Jacques Maritain was born (d. 1973). French philosopher.

1882 - Wyndham Lewis was born. English artist and writer who founded the abstract porticist movement, which, in painting and literature before World War I, sought to relate art to the industrial process.

1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

1883 - Carl Vinson was born (d. 1981). U.S. Congressman.

1886 - Máximo Tajes becomes President of Uruguay.

1886 - Chester A. Arthur dies (b. 1829). 21st President of the United States.

1889 - William Allingham dies. Irish author.

1897 - Patrick Blackett was born (d. 1974). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1898 - Joris Ivens was born (d. 1989). Dutch filmmaker.

1899 - Eugene Ormandy was born in Budapest (d. 1985). Hungarian-born, American conductor.

1901 - George Gallup was born (d. 1984). American statistician and opinion pollster.

1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.

1904 - General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup. The Panamanian army is disbanded the next day.

1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux was born (d. 1990). Quebec painter.

1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.

1906 - Alec Issigonis was born (d. 1988). Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini

1906 - Klaus Mann was born (d. 1949). German writer.

1906 - George Wald was born (d. 1997). American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1907 - Compay Segundo was born (d. 2003). Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club).

1908 - Imogene Coca was born (d. 2001). American actress and comedienne.

1909 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries. (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

1909 - Johnny Mercer was born (d. 1976). American lyricist.

1911 - Attilio Bertolucci was born (d. 2000). Italian poet and writer.

1913 - Endre Rozsda ws born (d. 1999). French surrealist painter.

1914 - Iberê Camargo was born in Restinga Seca-RS (d. 1994). Brazilian painter.

1915 - Ken Burkhart was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.

1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci, was born (d. 1963).Italian soprano.

1916 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

1917 - Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1917 - Pedro Infante was born (d. 1957). Mexican actor and singer.

1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia.

1918 - Tasker Watkins was born (d. 2007). Welsh World War II hero.

1919 - Jocelyn Brando was born (d. 2005). American actress.

1920 -Mustafa Khalil was born (d. 2008). Prime Minister of Egypt.

1921 - National football Portuguese team played the first official match / Estréia oficial da Selecção Portuguesa de Futebol.

1921 - Natália Nunes was born in Lisbon. Portuguese writer.

1922 - Al Dvorin was born (d. 2004). American Elvis Presley concert announcer.

1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle was born (d. 1967). Nicaraguan president.

1922 - Marcel Proust dies (b. 1871). French novelist.

1923 - Alan Shepard was born (d. 21 Jul 1998). Astronaut who was the first American to travel in space.

1923 - Ted Stevens was born. American politician.

1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart was born (d. 2000). President of the European Court of Justice.

1925 - Gene Mauch was born (d. 2005). American baseball manager.

1925 - Ênio Silveira was born (d. 1996). Brazilian sociologist.

1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".

1927 - Hank Ballard was born (d. 2003). American musician.

1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of Cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

1928 - Otar Gordeli was born. Georgian composer.

1929 - D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira is nominated Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal.

1929 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.

1930 - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.

1932 - "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon.

1932 - Nasif Estéfano was born (d. 1973). Argentine racing driver.

1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos was born. Greek writer, Greece's ambassador to UNESCO.

1935 - Rodney Hall was born. Australian author.

1935 - Rudolf Bahro was born (d. 1997). German dissident.

1936 - Don Cherry was born (d. 1995). American jazz trumpeter.

1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

1939 - Brenda Vaccaro was born. American actress.

1939 - Margaret Atwood was born. Canadian writer.

1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id was born. Sultan of Oman.

1941 - David Hemmings was born (d. 2003). English actor.

1941 - John Christian Watson dies in Sydney.The first Labour prime minister of Australia.

1941 - Chris Watson dies (b. 1867). Third Prime Minister of Australia.

1941 - Émile Nelligan dies (b. 1879). Quebec poet.

1941 - Walther Nernst dies (b. 1864). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1942 - Holocaust: German SS carry out selection of Jewish ghetto in Lviv, western Ukraine, arresting 5.000 "unproductive Jews". All get deported to Belzec death camp.

1942 - Linda Evans was born. American actress.

1942 - Susan Sullivan was born. American actress.

1943 - Holocaust: Aktion Emtefest: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews. German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews).

1943 - World War II: Battle of Berlin (air), 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

1943 - Manuel António Pina was born in Sabugal. Portuguese journalist and poet.

1944 - Wolfgang Joop was born. German artist, fashion designer and art collector.

1945 - Wilma Mankiller was born. First female chief of the Cherokee Nation.

1946 - Alan Dean Foster was born. American author.

1947 - Ballantyne's Department Store fire, Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 (New Zealand's worst ever fire).

1947 - Jameson Parker was born. American actor.

1948 - Andrea Marcovicci was born. American singer and actress.

1948 - Jack Tatum was born. American football player.

1950 - Eric Pierpoint was born. American actor.

1950 - Graham Parker was born. English singer.

1950 - Rudy Sarzo was born. Cuban bass guitarist (Quiet Riot).

1951 - Justin Raimondo was born. American author.

1952 - Delroy Lindo was born in London. English actor.

1952 - Peter Beattie was born. Australian politician.

1952 - Paul Eluard dies (b. 1895). French poet.

1952 - Peter Beattie was born. 36th Premier of Queensland.

1953 - Alan Moore was born. British comic book writer and novelist.

1953 - Kevin Nealon was born. American comedian and actor.

1953 - Frank Olson dies (suicide). American scientist.

1954 - Evan Gray was born. New Zealand cricketer.

1954 - John Parr was born. British pop singer.

1955 - Carter Burwell was born. American composer.

1956 - Noel Brotherston was born (d. 1995). Northern Irish footballer.

1956 - Warren Moon was born. American football player.

1957 - Seán Mac Falls was born. Irish-born poet.

1958 - Laura Miller was born. Mayor of Dallas, Texas.

1958 - Claudia Jimenez was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.

1958 - Daniel Brailovsky was born. Argentine football manager.

1958 - Oscar Nunez was born. Cuban American actor.

1959 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.

1959 - Jimmy Quinn was born. Northern Irish footballer and football manager.

1960 - Elizabeth Perkins was born in Queens, New York. American actress.

1960 - Kim Wilde was born. English singer.

1962 - Kirk Hammett was born. American guitarist (Metallica).

1962 - Jamie Moyer was born. American baseball player.

1962 - Niels Bohr dies (b. 1885). Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1922.

1963 - Dante Bichette was born. American baseball player.

1963 - Len Bias was born (d. 1986). American basketball player.

1963 - Peter Schmeichel was born. Danish football player.

1965 - Henry A. Wallace dies (b. 1888). Vice President of the United States.

1966 - Sandy Koufax announced his retirement from baseball.

1966 - Jorge Camacho was born. Spanish poet.

1966 - Jean Peugeot dies. French auto manufacturer.

1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle dies (b. 1922). Nicaraguan president.

1968 - Barry Hunter was born. Northern Irish footballer and manager.

1968 - Gary Sheffield was born. American baseball player.

1968 - Owen Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas. American actor.

1968 - Romany Malco was born. American actor and music producer.

1969 - Ahmed Helmi was born. Egyptian actor.

1969 - Duncan Sheik was born. American singer and songwriter.

1969 - Sam Cassell was born. American basketball player

1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. dies (b. 1888). American politician

1969 - Ted Heath dies (b. 1902). British musician and bandleader.

1970 - US President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).

1970 - Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title.

1970 - Elizabeth Anne Allen was born. American actress.

1970 - Johan Liiva was born. Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy).

1970 - Megyn Kelly was born. American television news anchor.

1970 - Mike Epps was born. American actor.

1970 - Peta Wilson was born. Australian actress (See here Peta Wilson wallpapers).

1971 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release an untitled album, often dubbed "Led Zeppelin IV," featuring "Rock & Roll," "Stairway to Heaven" and other classic songs.

1972 - Jessi Alexander was born. American country music singer/songwriter.

1972 - Robert Shapiro was born. American politician/humorist.

1972 - Danny Whitten dies (b. 1943). American musician and songwriter.

1973 - Nic Pothas was born. South African/English Wicket-keeper.

1974 - Chloë Sevigny was born in Darien, Connecticut. American actress.

1975 - Anthony McPartlin was born. British actor and television presenter.

1975 - David Ortiz was born. Dominican baseball player.

1975 - Jason Williams was born. American basketball player.

1975 - Shawn Camp was born. American baseball player.

1976 - Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1976 - Martin Bertram was born. Author of Vanity of Vanities.

1976 - Shagrath was born. Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir).

1976 - Mona Zaki was born. Egyptian actress.

1976 - Man Ray dies (b. 1890). American artist.

1977 - Trent Barrett was born. Australian rugby league player.

1977 - Fabolous was born. American rapper.

1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg dies (b. 1897). Austrian politician.

1977 - Victor Francen dies (b. 1888). Belgian actor.

1978 - Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his People's Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.

1978 - The Blues Brothers appear for the first time on Saturday Night Live.

1978 - Damien Johnson was born. Northern Irish footballer.

1978 - Jim Jones dies suicide (b. 1931). American cult leader.

1978 - Leo Ryan dies (b. 1905). U.S. Congressman.

1979 - Elizabeth Anne Allen was born. American actress.

1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons dies (b. 1901). American baseball player.

1980 - Okada Junichi was born. Singer and actor (member of V6).

1980 - Dustin Kensrue was born. American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice).

1980 - François Duval was born. Belgian rally driver.

1980 - Junichi Okada was born. Japanese singer (V6).

1980 - Luke Chadwick was born. English footballer.

1980 - Minori Chihara was born. Japanese voice actress/singer.

1980 - Conn Smythe dies (b. 1895). NHL coach 1927-1931.

1981 - Christina Vidal was born. American actress.

1981 - Gian Magdangal was born. Filipino singer and actor.

1982 - Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World.

1982 - Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing (b. 1959). Korean boxeur.

1983 - Jon Johansen was born. Norwegian software developer.

1983 - Travis Buck was born. American baseball player.

1984 - South Central Los Angeles:The birth of Michael Obando took place at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.

1984 - Aurelia Gliwski was born in Perth. Australian supermodel.

1984 - Ferrari (Wrestler) was born. Female American independent professional wrestler.

1984 - Nayanthara was born. Indian actress.

1984 - Jonathan "Johnny Christ" Seward was born. American musician (Avenged Sevenfold).

1984 - Ryohei Chiba was born. Japanese singer and dancer (member of the boy band w-inds).

1984 - Mary Hamman dies (b. 1907). American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and editor in chief Bride & Home.

1985 - The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, created by Bill Waterson, first appears in 30 newspapers across the U.S.

1985 - Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann's playing career comes to an end when a sack by the Giants' Lawrence Taylor snaps Theismann's legs, this was seen by a national audience on Monday Night Football.

1985 - Christian Siriano was born. American fashion designer.

1985 - Rex Goudie was born. Canadian singer.

1986 - Nic Sampson was born. New Zealand actor.

1986 - Gia Carangi dies (b. 1960). American model.

1987 - Iran-Contra scandal: The U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra affair, stating that US President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides and his administration exhibited "secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law."

1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.

1987 - Jacques Anquetil dies (b. 1934). French cyclist.

1988 - War on Drugs: US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.

1988 - Jeffrey Jordan was born. American college basketball player, son of Michael Jordan.

1988 - Montanna Thompson was born. English actress.

1990 - Chris Eubank defeats Nigel Benn in arguably the greatest British boxing match ever.

1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.

1991 - After three months of siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

1991 - Gustáv Husák dies (b. 1913). President of Czechoslovakia.

1992 - Nathan Kress was born. American actor.

1993 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.

1994 - Cab Calloway dies (b. 1907). American bandleader.

1994 - Peter Ledger dies (b. 1945). Australian artist.

1995 - Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World

1996 - World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.

1996 - A fire occurs in the Channel Tunnel soon after it opened.

1997 - Gary Glitter is arrested in the United Kingdom on child porn charges.

1998 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.

1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 28 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.

1999 - In Jasper, Texas, 24-year old Shawn Allen Berry is sentenced to life in prison, becoming the third person convicted in the racially-motivated dragging death of James Byrd, Jr..

1999 - Doug Sahm dies (b. 1941). American musician.

1999 - Paul Bowles dies (b. 1910). American novelist.

2001 - The Nintendo GameCube is released in North America.

2001 - Georgi Parvanov os elected President of Bulgaria.

2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.

2002 - The state of New Jersey banned the game Dodgeball from public schools.

2002 - James Coburn dies (b. 1928). American actor.

2003 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.

2003 - In the UK the Local Government Act 2003, repealing the controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

2003 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).

2003 - Michael Kamen dies (b. 1948). American composer.

2004 - The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.

2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.

2004 - Cy Coleman dies (b. 1929). American composer, songwriter and pianist.

2004 - Borjalo dies (b. 1925). Brazilian cartoonist.

2005 - Robert Blake was found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a civil trial. The jury has ordered him to pay $30 million.

2005 - Harold J. Stone was born (d. 1911). American actor.

2006 - Number one ranked Ohio State plays against number two ranked rival University of Michigan.

2006 - Kathie Holmes /Tom Cruise wedding.

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims - (2007).

Latvia - Independence Day (1918).

In Catholicism, the feast of St. Odo of Cluny, St Romanus of Antioch, St Mawes, and St Rose Philippine Duchesne Calvin and Hobbes Day (1985).

Oman - National Holiday.

Venezuela - Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia.

Abhai of Hach.

Novembro apagou nas buganvílias - José Bento

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imagem daqui

Novembro apagou nas buganvílias
seus nomes brancos, roxos,
escarlates.

É mais difícil regressar a casa:
o caminho disfarçou, emudeceu
seu rosto nos muros e nas grades.

- Por onde seguiremos
sem que o outono espesso nos
trespasse?

JOSÉ BENTO de Almeida e Silva nasceu no concelho de Estarreja (distrito de Aveiro) a 17 de Novembro de 1932. É formado em Contabilidade pelo Instituto Comercial de Lisboa e estreou-se como poeta na revista literária «Árvore», em 1953, mas só em 1992 reuniu quase toda a sua obra poética no volume «Silabário». Atingiu notável prestígio como tradutor de poesia castelhana, actividade em que cumpre destacar a publicação de três colectâneas monumentais: «Antologia da Poesia Espanhola do Siglo de Oro» (2 vols), «Antologia da Poesia Espanhola das Origens ao Séc. XIX» (2001) e «Antologia da Poesia Espanhola Contemporânea» (1985), tendo sido premiado e condecorado tanto em Portugal como em Espanha.

Nota biobibliográfica extraída de «A Circulatura do Quadrado - Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe - Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Porque o fim de um caminho

Parabéns ao Flamengo e aos seus torcedores

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Clube de Regatas do Flamengo was founded in Rio de Janeiro, on 17 Nov. 1895

«Na noite de 17 de novembro de 1895, no casarão de Nestor de Barros, número 22 da Praia do Flamengo, onde era guardada a Pherusa e depois a Scyra, foi fundado o Grupo de Regatas do Flamengo e, com ele, eleita a sua primeira diretoria: Domingos Marques de Azevedo, presidente; Francisco Lucci Colás, vice-presidente; Nestor de Barros, secretário; Felisberto Cardoso Laport, tesoureiro».

On this day in History - Nov. 17

2009-11-17T00:36:00.006Z

0009 - Vespasian was born (d. 0079). Roman Emperor.
0284 - Diocletian was acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
0375 - Valentinian I dies (b. 0321). Roman Emperor.
0473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
0594 - Gregory of Tours dies (b. c. 0539). Bishop and historian.
0641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan dies (b. 0593).
0680 - Hilda of Whitby dies (b. 0614).
0885 - Queen Liutgard of Saxony dies (b. c. 0845).
1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary dies (b. 1207). Daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint
1292 - (Julian calendar) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great dies (b. 1256).
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan dies (b. 1285). 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician.
1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico.
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies (b. 1463). Italian philosopher.
1502 - Atahualpa was born (d. 1533). Last emperor of the Inca.
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino was born (d. 1572). Italian painter.
1511 - Spain and England ally against France.
1525 - Leonor of Portugal dies (b. 1458). Queen of Portugal.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (b. 1516) and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole dies (b. 1500). Archbishop of Canterbury.
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon dies (b. 1518). Father of Henry IV of France.
1576 - Roque Gonzales was born (d. 1628). Paraguayan missionary.
1587 - Joost van den Vondel was born (d. 1679). Dutch poet.
1592 - King John III of Sweden dies (b. 1537).
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka dies (b. 1542). Japanese naval commander.
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason.
1612 - Dorgon was born (d. 1650). Manchu prince.
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim dies (b. 1594). Bavarian field marshal.
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes dies (b. 1602). Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France.
1648 - Thomas Ford dies (b. c. 1580). English composer.
1653 - Portugal: Morte de D. Joana, filha de D. João IV e D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão.
1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1665 - John Earle dies. English bishop.
1668 - Joseph Alleine dies (b. 1634). English non-conformist preacher.
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer was born (d. 1776). French theologian.
1685 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye was born (d. 1749). French-Canadian trader and explorer.
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure dies (b. 1610). Duc de Montausier, French soldier.

1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen dies (b. 1631). Dutch painter.

1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck dies (b. 1653). Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born (d. 1783). French mathematician.

1720 - Calico Jack dies (b. 1682). English pirate.

1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain was born (d. 1785). Queen of Sardinia.

1747 - Alain-René Lesage dies (b. 1668). French writer.

1749 – Nicolas Appert was born (d. 1841). French inventor.

1755 - King Louis XVIII of France was born (d. 1824).

1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald was born (d. 1840). French marshal.

1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles dies (b. 1693). 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman.

1776 - James Ferguson dies (b. 1710). Scottish astronomer.

1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.

1780 - Bernardo Bellotto dies (b. 1720). Italian painter.

1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany dies (b. 1753). Child of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius was born (d. 1868). German mathematician and astronomer.

1790 - Marechal Saldanha was born (d. 1876). Portuguese militar and politician.

1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was born (d. 1865). English painter.

1794 - Jacques François Dugommier dies (b. 1738). French general.

1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

1796 - Catherine II of Russia dies (b. 1729). Empress of Russia.

1799 - Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.

1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.

1807 - O exército francês comandado pelo general Junot entra em Portugal, pela fronteira de Segura, na Beira Baixa, começando a Primeira Invasão Francesa.

1808 - David Zeisberger dies (b. 1721). Moravian missionary.

1811 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi.

1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros was born (d. 1876). Austrian composer.

1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dies (b. 1744). Queen consort of King George III.

1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).

1822 - Joaquim Machado de Castro dies. Portuguese sculptor.

1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

1827 - Petko Slavejkov was born (d. 1895). Bulgarian writer.

1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Greater Colombia.

1831 - Manuel Antônio de Almeida was born (d. 1861). Brazilian journalist and writer.

1831 - Miguel Miramón was born (d. 1867). President of Mexico.

1835 - Andrew L. Harris was born (1915). American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio.

1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet dies (b. 1758). French painter.

1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.

1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst dies (b. 1794). German priest and miracle-worker.

1854 - Hubert Lyautey was born (d. 1934). French general.

1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

1857 - Joseph Babiński was born (d. 1932). Polish-French neurologist.

1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.

1858 - Robert Owen dies (b. 1771). British father of the cooperative movement.

1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.

1865 – James McCune Smith dies (b. 1813). African-American doctor and abolitionist.

1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre was born (d. 1912). American anarchist.

1866 - Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega) was born. Argentine sculptor.

1868 - Korbinian Brodmann was born (d. 1918). German neurologist.

1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony, after 10 years of construction.

1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

1875 - Theosophical Soociety is founded.

1875 - Gregório da Fonseca was born (d. 1934). Brazilian writer.

1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.

1877 - Frank Calder was born (d. 1943). First NHL President.

1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.

1878 - Grace Abbott was born (d. 1939). American social worker and activist.

1878 - Lise Meitner was born (d. 1968). Austrian physicist.

1886 - Premiere of the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas.

1887 - Bernard Montgomery was born in London (d. 1976). British World War II commander.

1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was born (d. 1972). Austrian politician.

1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes was born (d. 1966). Mexican author.

1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin was born (d. 1975). Russian philosopher.

1895 - Clube_de_Regatas_do_Flamengo is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1895 – Gregorio López y Fuentes was born (d. 1966). Mexican author.

1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin was born (d. 1975). Russian philosopher.

1896 - Lev Vygotsky was born (d. 1934). Russian psychologist.

1897 - Frank Fay was born (d. 1961). American actor.

1897 - George Hendric Houghton dies (b. 1820). American Protestant Episcopal clergyman

1899 - Douglas Shearer was born (d. 1971). Canadian film sound engineer.

1901 – Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian director.

1901 - Walter Hallstein was born (d. 1982). German politician.

1963, with Jensen and Mayer, for extensive work on quantum mechanics.

1902 - U.S. troops intervene in Colombia.

1902 – Eugene Wigner was born (d. 1995). Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1902 - Hugh Price Hughes dies (b. 1847). Methodist Social Reformer.

1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (NOTE: Later the Mensheviks became the majority party, meaning that technically the Mensheviks became the bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks mensheviks).

1903 - Dahomey (current Benin) becomes a French protectorate.

1904 - Isamu Noguchi was born (d. 1988). American sculptor.

1904 - U.S. troops intervene in Panama.

1904 - William Hastie was born (d. 1976). US judge and politician.

1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.

1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium was born (d. 1935).

1905 - Mischa Auer was born (d. 1967). American actor.

1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg dies (b. 1817)

1906 - Rollie Stiles was born. American baseball player.

1906 – Soichiro Honda was born (d. 1992). Japanese automobile pioneer.

1907 - Israel Regardie was born (d. 1985). Aleister Crowley's secretary.

1910 - Raquel de Queiroz was born (d. 4 Nov. 2003). Brazilian writer who was the first woman to have a chair in the Academia Brasileira de Letras

1910 - Ralph Johnstone dies killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado. American pioneer pilot.

1911 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University.

1911 - Christian Fouchet was born (d. 1974). French diplomat.

1916 - Shelby Foote was born (d. 2005). American historian.

1917 - Auguste Rodin dies (b. 1840). French sculptor known for his bronze and marble figures, including The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886), and considered one of the best portraitists in the history of sculpture.

1917 - Romeu Correia was born in Cacilhas (d. 12 Jun 1996). Portuguese writer.

1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom, proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day), saying "that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities … so that in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead." The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.

1920 - Camillo Felgen was born (d. 2005). Luxembourgish singer.

1921 – Albert Bertelsen was born. Danish painter.

1921 - Pa Chay Vue dies. Hmong Nationalist.

1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy.

1922 - Stanley Cohen was born. American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1922 - Robert Comtesse dies (b. 1847). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.

1923 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde

1923 - Bert Sutcliffe was born (d. 2001). New Zealand cricketer.

1923 – Hubertus Brandenburg was born (d. 2009). Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm.

1923 – Mike Garcia was born (d. 1986). American baseball player.

1925 – Charles Mackerras was born. Australian-born conductor.

1925 - Rock Hudson was born (d. 2 Oct 1985). American actor. McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind;

1927 - Robert Brown was born. American actor.

1927 – Robert Drasnin was born. American musician and composer.

1927 - Rogério Paulo was born. Portuguese actor.

1928 - Rance Howard was born. American actor.

1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai dies (b. 1865). Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter.

1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio wins election for President of Mexico for Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR). He would take the place on 5 Feb. 1930.

1929 - Norm Zauchin was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.

1929 - Herman Hollerith dies (b. 1860). American statistician.

1930 - Bob Mathias was born (d. 2006). American decathlete.

1932 - José Bento was born. Portuguese poet and translator of foreign poetry.

1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.

1933 – Orlando Peña was born. Cuban baseball player.

1934 – Fenella Fielding was born. English actress.

1934 – James Inhofe was born. American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma.

1934 - Manuel de Castro was born in S. Sebastião dsa Pedreira, Lisbon (d. 12 Sep 1971). Portuguese poet.

1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad was born. American football player.

1935 - Toni Sailer was born. Austrian skier.

1936 - Dalia Rabikovich was born (d. 2005). Israeli poet.

1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink dies (b. 1861). Austrian contralto.

1937 - Peter Cook was born (d. 1995). English comedian, satirist, and writer (Beyond the Fringe, The Wrong Box).

1937 - Jack Worrall dies (b. 1860). Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach.

1938 - Gordon Lightfoot was born. Canadian singer

1938 - Ante Trumbić dies (b. 1864). Croatian politician.

1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto was born in Oporto. Portuguese composer and conductor.

1939 - Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río assumes the presidency of Ecuador.

1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps. November 17 declared International Student's day.

1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.

1939 - Auberon Waugh was born (d. 2001). British author.

1940 - Luke Kelly was born. Irish folk music singer and banjo player.

1940 - Eric Gill dies (b. 1882). English sculptor and writer.

1940 - Raymond Pearl dies (b. 1879). American biologist.

1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored).

1942 - Martin Scorsese was born. American film director (Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear)

1942 - Khang Khek Leu was born. Cambodian politician.

1942 – Martin Scorsese was born. American film director.

1942 - Ben Reitman dies (b. 1879). American anarchist, physician.

1943 - Lauren Hutton was born. American actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion)

1944 - Danny DeVito was born. Emmy-award winning actor (Taxi [1980-81]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment) and director (Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear).

1944 - Gene Clark was born (d. 1991). American singer and songwriter (The Byrds).

1944 – Jim Boeheim was born. Hall of Fame basketball coach.

1944 - Lorne Michaels was born. Canadian, Emmy Award-winning writer (The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos) and Emmy Award-winning producer (Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos).

1944 – Rem Koolhaas was born. Dutch architect (House of Music /Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal).

1944 - Tom Seaver was born. American baseball player.

1945 - Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball playe.

1945 - Roland Joffé was born. Anglo-French film director.

1946 - Martin Barre was born. English rock musician (Jethro Tull).

1946 – Terry E. Branstad was born. Governor of Iowa.

1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observed the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.

1947 – Inky Mark was born. Canadian politician.

1947 - Steven E. de Souza was born. American scriptwriter.

1947 - Victor Serge dies (b. 1890). Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian.

1948 – East Bay Ray was born. American musician.

1948 - Howard Dean was born. American politician.

1949 – John Boehner was born. American politician.

1949 - Ng uyen Tan Dũng was born. Prime Minister of Vietnam.

1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.

1950 - Roland Matthes was born. German athlete, one of the greatest backstrokers in the history of swimming.

1950 - Tom Walkinshaw was born. British businessman

1951 - Yaruch Bann was born. French poet.

1951 – Butch Davis was born. American football coach.

1951 - Dean Paul Martin was born (d. 1987). American singer and actor.

1951 – Stephen Root was born. American actor.

1952 - Ties Kruize was born. Dutch field hockey player.

1953 - Twenty die in Channel collision: Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.

1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.

1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.

1954 - Mark Brandon Read was born. Australian criminal.

1955 - Dennis Maruk was born. Canadian hockey player.

1955 - Yolanda King was born (d. 2007). Daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1955 - James P. Johnson dies (b. 1894). American pianist and composer.

1957 – G-AOHP of British European Airways crashed at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.

1957 - Debbie Thrower was born. BBC News Reader.

1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was born. American actress.

1958 – Mort Cooper dies (b. 1913). Baseball player.

1959 – Terry Fenwick was born. English footballer.

1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos dies (b. 1887). Brazilian composer.

1960 - Kirk Fogg was born. Host of Legends of the Hidden Temple.

1960 - Jonathan Ross was born. British television presenter.

1960 – Mandy Yachad was born. Former South African cricketer.

1960 - RuPaul was born. American actor.

1961 – Robert Stethem was born (d. 1985). U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847.

1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.

1962 - Dédé Fortin was born (d. 2000). Quebec singer (Les Colocs).

1963 – Randy Black was born. Canadian drummer (Annihilator).

1964 – Mitch Williams was born. Americsan baseball player.

1964 - Ralph Garman was born. American actor and radio personality.

1965 - Amanda Brown was born. Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer.

1966 - Daisy Fuentes was born. Cuban model, TV host and actress.

1966 – Jeff Buckley was born (d. 1997). American musician.

1966 – Kate Ceberano was born. Australian singer.

1966 – Richard Fortus was born. American guitarist (Guns N' Roses).

1966 - Sophie Marceau was born. French actress.

1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive made him regret his words).

1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football match between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.

1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.

1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.

1968 - Amber Michaels was born. German porn actress.

1968 – Sean Miller was born. American basketball coach.

1968 - Mervyn Peake dies (b. 1911). British writer and illustrator.

1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

1969 - Jean-Michel Saive was born. Belgian table tennis player.

1969 - Kianna Dior was born. Korean-Canadian porn star

1969 – Ryotaro Okiayu was born. Japanese voice actor.

1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.

1970 – Paul Allender was born. British guitarist (Cradle of Filth).

1972 – Joanne Goode was born. English badminton player.

1972 – Kimya Dawson was born. American singer.

1972 - Leonard Roberts was born. American actor.

1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.

1973 - Alexei Urmanov was born. Russian figure skater.

1973 – Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund was born. Swedish singer (Vintersorg).

1973 - Bernd Schneider was born. German football player.

1973 - Eli Marrero was born. American baseball player.

1973 – Mirra Alfassa dies (b. 1878). "The Mother", Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

1973 - The Mother dies (b. 1878). Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).

1974 – Berto Romero was born. Spanish humorist.

1974 - Leslie Bibb was born. American actress.

1975 - Lord Infamous was born. Rapper.

1976 - Brandon Call was born. American actor.

1976 – Diane Neal was born. American actress.

1977 – Paul Shepherd was born. English footballer.

1977 - Ryk Neethling was born. South African swimmer.

1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.

1978 – Glen Air was born. Former Rugby League player for London Broncos.

1978 – Rachel McAdams was born. Canadian actress.

1978 - Reggie Wayne was born. American football player.

1978 - Zoë Bell was born. New Zealand actress.

1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra commissioned.

1979 - Matthew Spring was born. English footballer.

1979 - John Glascock dies. British bassist (Jethro Tull).

1980 - Brad Bradley was born. American professional wrestler

1980 - Isaac Hanson was born. American musician (Hanson).

1980 - Mercedes Martinez was born. Professional wrestler.

1980 – Jacqueline Hill dies killed. Last victim of the Yorkshire Ripper in Headingley, Leeds

1980 - Sadegh Angha dies (b. 1916). 41st Sufi master of the Oveyssi order.

1981 - Sarah Harding was born. English singer (Girls Aloud).

1982 - Katie Feenstra was born. American basketball player.

1982 - Yusuf Pathan was born. Indian cricketer.

1982 - Eduard Tubin dies (b. 1905). Estonian composer.

1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan dies (b. 1924). Russian violinist.

1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.

1983 - Christopher Paolini was born. Anerican novelist.

1983 – Harry Lloyd was born. English actor.

1983 – Nick Markakis was born. American baseball player.

1983 – Ryan Braun was born. American baseball player.

1983 – Scott Moore was born. American baseball player.

1983 – Trevor Crowe was born. American baseball player.

1983 - Yiannis Bourousis was born. Greek basketball player.

1984 - Park Han-byul was born. South Korean actress.

1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.

1985 - Luís Aguiar was born. Uruguayan football player.

1985 - Patrick Quinn was born. American personal trainer.

1986 - French car chief shot dead : George Besse (b. 1927) - the head of the Renault car company- is assassinated outside his home in Paris.

1986 - Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (Nani) was born. Portuguese football player (Sporting and now Man. United)

1986 - Georges Besse dies (b. 1927). French automobile executive.

1987 – Kat DeLuna was born. American singer.

1987 - Paul Derringer dies (b. 1906). Baseball player.

1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by the communist riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeded on December 29).

1989 - Gus Farace dies murdered (b. 1960). American gangster.

1989 - João de Freitas Branco dies (b. 10 Jan. 1922). Portuguese musicologist, critic of music and mathematician.

1989 – Mary Giatra Lemou dies (b. 1915). Greek actress.

1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.

1990 - Shanica Knowles was born. American actress.

1990 - Robert Hofstadter dies (b. 1915). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1992 - Darian Weiss was born. American actor.

1992 – Audre Lord dies (b. 1934). Caribbean-American writer, poet, and activist.

1993 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.

1993 – Gérard D. Lévesque dies (b. 1926). Canadian politician.

1993 - Mário Dionísio dies (b. 1916). Portuguese teacher and writer.

1994 - Raquel Castro was born. American actress.

1995 - Public Radio International's radio program This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings".

1995 - Alan Hull dies (b. 1945). English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne).

1996 - Emil Constantinescu wins presidential elections in Romania.

1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).

1997 - Walter Moraes dies (b. ). Brazilian jurist.

1998 - Esther Rolle dies (b. 1920). American actress.

2000 - Catastrophical landslide in Log pod Mangartom,Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel dies (b. 1904). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

2001 - Michael Karoli dies (b. 1948). German guitarist (Can).

2002 - Abba Eban dies (b. 1915). Israeli diplomat and politician.

2002 – Frank McCarthy dies (b. 1924). American artist and realist painter.

2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California.

2003 - Arthur Conley dies (b. 1946). American singer.

2003 - Don Gibson dies (b. 1928). American singer and songwriter.

2004 - Kmart Corp. announced it was buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.

2004 - Alexander Ragulin dies (b. 941). Russian hockey player.

2004 - Mikael Ljungberg dies (b. 1970). Swedish wrestler.

2004 - Samuel Karokikki dies (b. 1943). Nauru athlete.

2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.

2005 - Marek Perepeczko dies (b. 1942). Polish actor.

2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).

2006 – Bo Schembechler dies (b. 1929). American football coach.

2006 - Ferenk Puskas dies at 79. Legendary Hungarian football player who was voted the 20th century's fourth best player by the International Federation for Football History and Statistics.

2006 – Flo Sandon's dies (b. 1924). Italian singer.

2006 – Ruth Brown dies (b. 1928). American blues singer.

2006 - Sottomayor Cardia dies. Portuguese politician, one of the founders of Portuguese Socialist Party (PS)

2008 – George Stephen Morrison dies (b. 1919). American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison.

2008 – Pete Newell dies (b. 1915). American basketball coach.

Feast day of St Elisabeth of Hungary, Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic)

International Students Day: Commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague

Greece – Polytechneio (Πολυτεχνείο) – Commemorates the 1973 student protests against the junta of the colonels.

Czech Republic and Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989.

Japan: Shogi Day (More accurately 17th day on Kannazuki; 17th November in modern calendar).

António Aleixo faleceu há 60 anos

2009-11-16T01:01:00.004Z

Eu não tenho vistas largas
Nem grande sabedoria
Mas dão-me as horas amargas
Lições de Filosofia.

Porque será que nós temos
na frente, aos montes, aos molhos,
tantas coisas que não vemos
nem mesmo perto dos olhos?

Vós que lá do vosso império
prometeis um mundo novo,
calai-vos, que pode o povo
qu'rer um mundo novo a sério.

Sei que pareço um ladrão...
mas há muitos que eu conheço
que, não parecendo o que são,
são aquilo que eu pareço.

Eu não sei porque razão
Certos homens, a meu ver,
Quanto mais pequenos são
Maiores querem parecer.

Não é só na grande terra
que os poetas cantam bem:
os rouxinóis são da serra
e cantam como ninguém

Não sou esperto nem bruto,
nem bem nem mal educado:
sou simplesmente o produto
do meio em que fui criado.

Que importa perder a vida
na luta contra a traição
se a razão mesmo vencida
não deixa de ser razão

Uma mosca sem valor
Poisa c'o a mesma alegria
na careca de um doutor
como em qualquer porcaria.

P'ra mentira ser segura
e atingir profundidade
tem de trazer à mistura
qualquer coisa de verdade.

Sem que discurso eu pedisse,
ele falou, e eu escutei.
Gostei do que ele não disse;
do que disse não gostei.

Mentiu com habilidade,
fez quantas mentiras quis,
Agora fala verdade,
ninguém crê no que ele diz.

Embora os meus olhos sejam,
os mais pequenos do Mundo
O que importa é que eles vejam
O que os homens são no fundo.

Quando os Homens se convençam
Que à força nada se faz,
Serão felizes os que pensam
Num mundo de amor e paz.

Tu, que tanto prometeste
enquanto nada podias,
hoje que podes - esqueceste
tudo o que prometias...

Muito contra o meu desejo,
sem lhe querer dizer porquê,
finjo sempre que não vejo
quem finge que me não vê...

Quantas sedas aí vão,
quantos brancos colarinhos,
são pedacinhos de pão
roubados aos pobrezinhos!

À guerra não ligues meia,
Porque alguns grandes da terra,
Vendo a guerra em terra alheia,
Não querem que acabe a guerra.

Da guerra os grandes culpados
Que espalham a dor da terra,
São os menos acusados
Como culpados da guerra.

Por que a vida me empurrou
caí na lama, e então...
tomei-lhe a cor, mas não sou
a lama que muitos são.

Que importa perder a vida
em luta contra a traição,
se a Razão mesmo vencida,
não deixa de ser Razão

São parvos, não rias deles,
deixa-os ser, que não são sós:
Às vezes rimos daqueles,
que valem mais do que nós.

Julgando um dever cumprir,
Sem descer no meu critério,
Digo verdades a rir
Aos que me mentem a sério!

Há luta por mil doutrinas.
Se querem que o mundo ande,
Façam das mil pequeninas
Uma só doutrina grande.

Sei que pareço um ladrão...
mas há muitos que eu conheço
que, sem parecer o que são,
são aquilo que eu pareço.

Morre o rico, dobram sinos;
Morre o pobre, não há dobres...
Que Deus é esse dos padres,
Que não faz caso dos pobres?

O mundo só pode ser
melhor do que até aqui,
quando consigas fazer
mais p'los outros que por tí!

Veste bem, já reparaste?
mas ele próprio ignora
que, por dentro, é um contraste
com o que mostra por fora.

Nas quadras que a gente vê,
quase sempre o mais bonito
está guardado pr'a quem lê
o que lá não está escrito.

Vemos gente bem vestida,
No aspecto desassombrada;
São tudo ilusões da vida,
Tudo é miséria dourada.

Os novos que se envaidecem
Pelo muito que querem ser
São frutos bons que apodrecem
Mal começam a nascer.

Para triunfar depressa
cala contigo o que vejas
finge que não te interessa
aquilo que mais desejas.

Os que bons conselhos dão
ás vezes fazem-me rir
por ver que eles mesmos, são
incapazes de os seguir.

António Fernandes Aleixo (Vila Real de Santo António, 18 de Fevereiro de 1899 — Loulé, 16 de Novembro de 1949)

Estádio do Dragão foi inaugurado há seis anos

2009-11-16T00:54:00.000Z

Perspectiva interior do Estádio do Dragão

O Estádio do Dragão, palco caseiro do FC do Porto, na cidade invicta, comemora hoje o seu 6º. aniversário. Foi inaugurado em 16 de Novembro de 2003 com um jogo entre o F.C. Porto e o Barcelona, vitória de 2-0 dos locais com uma arbitragem daquelas que conhecemos de Martins dos Santos (bem, em dia de festa não vale a pena falar disso!).

Parabéns, porque na realidade é um Estádio muito bonito!

Visão global exterior do Estádio do Dragão

Happy birthday Gemma Atkinson

2009-11-16T00:44:00.001Z