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  • 21 Всемирные лицензиаты МОК

    1. IOC worldwide licensees

     

    Всемирные лицензиаты МОК
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    IOC worldwide licensees
    Those persons from time to time to whom the IOC has granted rights in the licensing program currently known as the “IOC worldwide licensing program”.
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  • 22 Всемирные поставщики МОК

    1. IOC worldwide suppliers

     

    Всемирные поставщики МОК
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    IOC worldwide suppliers
    Those persons from time to time to whom the IOC has granted rights in the suppliership program currently known as the “IOC worldwide suppliership program”.
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  • 23 всемирный лицензиат МОК

    1. IOC worldwide licensee

     

    всемирный лицензиат МОК
    Лица, которым МОК предоставляет определенные права в рамках лицензионной программы, в настоящее время известной как «Всемирная программа лицензирования МОК».
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

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    IOC worldwide licensee
    Persons to whom the IOC has granted rights in the licensing program currently known as the IOC Worldwide Licensing Program.
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  • 24 nombre

    m.
    1 name (apelativo).
    de nombre Ricardo called Ricardo, Ricardo by name
    en nombre de on behalf of
    llamar a las cosas por su nombre to call a spade a spade
    ¿qué nombre le vas a poner al perro? what are you going to call the dog?
    no tener nombre to be unspeakable
    nombre artístico/comercial stage/trade name
    nombre de pila first o Christian name
    nombre de soltera maiden name
    2 reputation (fama).
    tener mucho nombre to be renowned o famous
    3 noun (grammar).
    nombre abstracto/colectivo abstract/collective noun
    nombre común/propio common/proper noun
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: nombrar.
    * * *
    1 name
    ■ ¿este cheque va a su nombre? is this cheque in your name?
    3 (fama) reputation
    \
    a nombre de in the name of
    conocer a alguien de nombre to know somebody by name
    en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo... in the name of the Father, the Son...
    en nombre de on behalf of
    no tener nombre figurado to be unspeakable
    nombre artístico stage name
    nombre comercial trade name
    nombre de guerra nom de guerre
    nombre de pila first name, Christian name
    nombre propio proper noun
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) name
    2) noun
    * * *
    SM
    1) [de persona, cosa] name

    nombre y apellidos — name in full, full name

    • a nombre de, un sobre a nombre de... — an envelope addressed to...

    • bajo el nombre de — under the name of

    • de nombre — by name

    • en nombre de — in the name of, on behalf of

    ¡abran en nombre de la ley! — open up in the name of the law!

    • poner nombre a — to call, name

    ¿qué nombre le van a poner? — what are they going to call him?

    • por nombre — by the name of, called

    • sin nombre — nameless

    no tener nombre —

    nombre artístico — [de escritor] pen-name, nom de plume; [de actor] stage name

    nombre de bautismo — christian name, given name (EEUU)

    nombre de fichero — (Inform) file name

    nombre de pila — first name, Christian name, given name (EEUU)

    2) (Ling) noun
    3) (=reputación) name, reputation

    un médico de nombre — a famous o renowned doctor

    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cosa, persona, animal) name

    ¿cuál es el nombre de la compañía? — what's the name of the company?

    nombre completo o nombre y apellidos — full name, name in full

    ¿qué nombre le pusieron? — what did they call him?

    le pusieron el nombre de su padrino — they named him for (AmE) o (BrE) after his godfather

    en nombre de — ( en representación de) on behalf of; ( apelando a) in the name of

    a nombre de: un paquete a nombre de... a package addressed to...; un cheque a nombre de... a check made payable to o made out to...; llamar a las cosas por su nombre to call a spade a spade; no tiene nombre: lo que ha hecho no tiene nombre — what she has done is unspeakable

    2) (Ling) noun
    3) ( fama)
    * * *
    = label, name, nomenclature, noun, denomination.
    Ex. There are a number of types of abstracts or labels that can be applied to abstracts.
    Ex. This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.
    Ex. Publishers attempting to cut through this nomenclature morass can check with the library's administration.
    Ex. Such lists will embody for example, singular or plural, nouns or adjectives.
    Ex. This paper presents a survey of denominations used by industrial property offices for the various kinds of patent documents published by them.
    ----
    * abreviatura del nombre del campo = tag.
    * acción de dar un nombre a Algo = naming.
    * a nombre de = payable to.
    * asignación de nombre = labelling [labeling, -USA].
    * asignación de nombres = namespace.
    * autoridad de nombre = name authority.
    * barajar nombres = bandy + names.
    * cambio de nombre = rebranding.
    * clave de búsqueda por nombre de autor = author key.
    * Cooperativa para Autoridades de Nombre (NACO) = Name Authority Cooperative (NACO).
    * dar a Algo el nombre de = earn + Nombre + the name of.
    * dar el nombre = label.
    * dar un nuevo nombre = rename.
    * encabezamiento de nombre = name heading.
    * encabezamiento de nombre corporativo = corporate name heading.
    * encabezamiento de nombre personal = personal name heading.
    * encabezamientos de nombre y título = name-title headings.
    * en nombre de = in the name of, on behalf of [in behalf of; on + Nombre + behalf], in + Nombre + behalf [in/on behalf of].
    * entrada de nombre = name entry.
    * entrada de nombre personal = personal name entry.
    * etiqueta con el nombre = name tag.
    * extensión del nombre del fichero = file name extension.
    * fichero de autoridades de nombres = name authority file.
    * hacer honor al nombre de Uno = live up to + Posesivo + name.
    * hacer un pago a nombre de = make + payment payable to.
    * índice de nombres = name index.
    * inicial del primer nombre de pila = first initial.
    * inicial del segundo nombre de pila de una persona = middle initial.
    * llamar las cosas por su nombre = call + a spade a spade.
    * Nombre + a gran escala = broad scale + Nombre.
    * Nombre + a + Nombre = Nombre + by + Nombre.
    * nombre completo = full name.
    * nombre compuesto = double-barrelled name.
    * nombre compuesto por varias palabras = multiple-word name.
    * nombre común = common name.
    * nombre con prefijo = prefixed name.
    * nombre convencional = conventional name.
    * nombre corporativo = corporate name.
    * nombre de acceso = login.
    * nombre de acceso al sistema = system logon name.
    * nombre de archivo = file name.
    * nombre de autor = author name.
    * nombre de casta = caste name.
    * nombre de compañía = company name.
    * nombre de dominio = domain name.
    * nombre de fichero = filename.
    * nombre del archivo = data set name.
    * nombre del campo = field name.
    * nombre del editor = publisher's name.
    * nombre de lugar = place name.
    * nombre de materia = subject name.
    * nombre de nacimiento = née.
    * nombre de pila = Christian name, first name, given name.
    * nombre de pila segundo = middle name.
    * nombre de pluma = pen name.
    * nombre de usuario = user ID, username, user's name.
    * nombre dinástico = dynastic name.
    * nombre geográfico = geographic name, geographical name.
    * Nombre + mío = Nombre + of mine.
    * Nombre + mismo = very + Nombre.
    * nombre muy conocido = household name, household word.
    * nombre personal = personal name.
    * nombre poco apropiado = misnomer.
    * nombre predominante = predominant name.
    * nombre propio = forename, given name, proper name.
    * Nombre Propio + padre = senior + Nombre Propio.
    * Nombre + que me rodea = Nombre + round me.
    * Nombre + real = majesty's + Nombre.
    * Nombre + relacionado con = Nombre + involved.
    * Nombre + tras + Nombre = in + Nombre + after + Nombre, Nombre + after + Nombre.
    * nombre verbal = verbal noun.
    * nombre y apellidos = full name.
    * pantalla de resumen de nombres = name summary screen.
    * que no se le puede dar un nombre = unnameable.
    * que se le puede dar un nombre = nameable.
    * rellenar a nombre de = make out to.
    * secuencia ordenada alfabéticamente por el nombre del autor = author sequence.
    * sólo de nombre = in name only.
    * todas las iniciales del nombre propio = full initials.
    * URN (Nombre Uniforme de Recursos) = URN (Uniform Resource Name).
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cosa, persona, animal) name

    ¿cuál es el nombre de la compañía? — what's the name of the company?

    nombre completo o nombre y apellidos — full name, name in full

    ¿qué nombre le pusieron? — what did they call him?

    le pusieron el nombre de su padrino — they named him for (AmE) o (BrE) after his godfather

    en nombre de — ( en representación de) on behalf of; ( apelando a) in the name of

    a nombre de: un paquete a nombre de... a package addressed to...; un cheque a nombre de... a check made payable to o made out to...; llamar a las cosas por su nombre to call a spade a spade; no tiene nombre: lo que ha hecho no tiene nombre — what she has done is unspeakable

    2) (Ling) noun
    3) ( fama)
    * * *
    = label, name, nomenclature, noun, denomination.

    Ex: There are a number of types of abstracts or labels that can be applied to abstracts.

    Ex: This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.
    Ex: Publishers attempting to cut through this nomenclature morass can check with the library's administration.
    Ex: Such lists will embody for example, singular or plural, nouns or adjectives.
    Ex: This paper presents a survey of denominations used by industrial property offices for the various kinds of patent documents published by them.
    * abreviatura del nombre del campo = tag.
    * acción de dar un nombre a Algo = naming.
    * a nombre de = payable to.
    * asignación de nombre = labelling [labeling, -USA].
    * asignación de nombres = namespace.
    * autoridad de nombre = name authority.
    * barajar nombres = bandy + names.
    * cambio de nombre = rebranding.
    * clave de búsqueda por nombre de autor = author key.
    * Cooperativa para Autoridades de Nombre (NACO) = Name Authority Cooperative (NACO).
    * dar a Algo el nombre de = earn + Nombre + the name of.
    * dar el nombre = label.
    * dar un nuevo nombre = rename.
    * encabezamiento de nombre = name heading.
    * encabezamiento de nombre corporativo = corporate name heading.
    * encabezamiento de nombre personal = personal name heading.
    * encabezamientos de nombre y título = name-title headings.
    * en nombre de = in the name of, on behalf of [in behalf of; on + Nombre + behalf], in + Nombre + behalf [in/on behalf of].
    * entrada de nombre = name entry.
    * entrada de nombre personal = personal name entry.
    * etiqueta con el nombre = name tag.
    * extensión del nombre del fichero = file name extension.
    * fichero de autoridades de nombres = name authority file.
    * hacer honor al nombre de Uno = live up to + Posesivo + name.
    * hacer un pago a nombre de = make + payment payable to.
    * índice de nombres = name index.
    * inicial del primer nombre de pila = first initial.
    * inicial del segundo nombre de pila de una persona = middle initial.
    * llamar las cosas por su nombre = call + a spade a spade.
    * Nombre + a gran escala = broad scale + Nombre.
    * Nombre + a + Nombre = Nombre + by + Nombre.
    * nombre completo = full name.
    * nombre compuesto = double-barrelled name.
    * nombre compuesto por varias palabras = multiple-word name.
    * nombre común = common name.
    * nombre con prefijo = prefixed name.
    * nombre convencional = conventional name.
    * nombre corporativo = corporate name.
    * nombre de acceso = login.
    * nombre de acceso al sistema = system logon name.
    * nombre de archivo = file name.
    * nombre de autor = author name.
    * nombre de casta = caste name.
    * nombre de compañía = company name.
    * nombre de dominio = domain name.
    * nombre de fichero = filename.
    * nombre del archivo = data set name.
    * nombre del campo = field name.
    * nombre del editor = publisher's name.
    * nombre de lugar = place name.
    * nombre de materia = subject name.
    * nombre de nacimiento = née.
    * nombre de pila = Christian name, first name, given name.
    * nombre de pila segundo = middle name.
    * nombre de pluma = pen name.
    * nombre de usuario = user ID, username, user's name.
    * nombre dinástico = dynastic name.
    * nombre geográfico = geographic name, geographical name.
    * Nombre + mío = Nombre + of mine.
    * Nombre + mismo = very + Nombre.
    * nombre muy conocido = household name, household word.
    * nombre personal = personal name.
    * nombre poco apropiado = misnomer.
    * nombre predominante = predominant name.
    * nombre propio = forename, given name, proper name.
    * Nombre Propio + padre = senior + Nombre Propio.
    * Nombre + que me rodea = Nombre + round me.
    * Nombre + real = majesty's + Nombre.
    * Nombre + relacionado con = Nombre + involved.
    * Nombre + tras + Nombre = in + Nombre + after + Nombre, Nombre + after + Nombre.
    * nombre verbal = verbal noun.
    * nombre y apellidos = full name.
    * pantalla de resumen de nombres = name summary screen.
    * que no se le puede dar un nombre = unnameable.
    * que se le puede dar un nombre = nameable.
    * rellenar a nombre de = make out to.
    * secuencia ordenada alfabéticamente por el nombre del autor = author sequence.
    * sólo de nombre = in name only.
    * todas las iniciales del nombre propio = full initials.
    * URN (Nombre Uniforme de Recursos) = URN (Uniform Resource Name).

    * * *
    A
    ¿cuál es el nombre de la compañía? what's the name of the company?, what's the company called?
    2 (de una persona, un animal) name
    escriba su nombre completo or su nombre y apellidos write your full name o your name in full
    ¿qué nombre le pusieron? what did they call him?, what name did they give him?
    le pusieron el nombre de su padrino they named him for ( AmE) o ( BrE) after his godfather
    responde al nombre de Bobi he answers to the name of Bobi
    nombre de mujer/varón girl's/boy's name
    estudiante sólo de nombre student in name only
    sólo lo conozco de nombre I only know him by name
    cierto caballero de nombre Armando ( frml o hum); a certain gentleman by the name of Armando ( frmlor hum)
    llamar a algn por el nombre to call sb by their first name
    en nombre de (en representación de) in ( AmE) o on ( esp BrE) behalf of; (apelando a) in the name of
    en nombre del director y en el mío propio in o on behalf of the director and myself
    en nombre de la justicia/libertad in the name of justice/freedom
    en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit o Ghost ( ant)
    a nombre de: un paquete a nombre de … a package addressed to …
    un cheque a nombre de … a check made payable to o made out to …
    llamar a las cosas por su nombre to call a spade a spade
    no tiene nombre: lo que les ha hecho a sus padres no tiene nombre what she has done to her parents is unspeakable o despicable
    tu egoísmo no tiene nombre your selfishness is beyond belief
    3
    (sobrenombre): a todos los profesores les pone nombre he gives all the teachers nicknames
    más conocida por el nombre de la Pasionaria better known as la Pasionaria
    Compuestos:
    stage name
    trade name
    ● nombre de archivo or fichero
    ( Inf) file name
    ( Inf) domain name
    ● nombre de guerra or ( AmL) de batalla
    nom de guerre
    place name
    first name, given name, Christian name
    nom de plume
    ( Inf) pathname
    maiden name
    ( Inf) username, user identification
    B ( Ling) noun
    Compuestos:
    collective noun
    compound
    common noun
    countable noun
    ● nombre masivo or no contable
    uncountable o mass noun
    proper noun
    C
    1
    (fama): un científico de nombre a renowned o famous o well-known scientist
    un pianista de nombre en el mundo entero a pianist with a worldwide reputation o famous the world over
    hacerse un nombre en la vida to make a name for oneself
    bueno1 (↑ bueno (1))
    uno de los grandes nombres de nuestra historia one of the great names in our history
    * * *

     

    Del verbo nombrar: ( conjugate nombrar)

    nombré es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    nombre es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    nombrar    
    nombre
    nombrar ( conjugate nombrar) verbo transitivo
    a) (citar, mencionar) to mention;

    ◊ no lo volvió a nombre she never mentioned his name o him again


    nombre sustantivo masculino
    a) (de cosa, persona, animal) name;


    nombre artístico stage name;
    nombre de pila first name, christian name;
    nombre de soltera maiden name;
    ¿qué nombre le pusieron? what did they call him?;
    lo conozco de nombre I know him by name;
    en nombre de ( en representación de) on behalf of;

    ( apelando a) in the name of;
    ◊ a nombre de ‹paquete/carta› made payable to, made out to;

    lo que ha hecho no tiene nombre what she has done is unspeakable
    b) (Ling) noun;


    c) ( fama):


    hacerse un nombre en la vida to make a name for oneself
    nombrar verbo transitivo
    1 (para un cargo) to appoint: le nombraron secretario general, he was appointed secretary general
    nombrar a dedo, to handpick
    2 (mencionar) to name, mention: ¡a ése ni me lo nombres!, don't even mention his name!
    nombre sustantivo masculino
    1 name: ¿cuál es su nombre de pila?, what's his Christian/first name? ➣ Ver nota en name 2 Ling noun
    ♦ Locuciones: llamar a las cosas por su nombre, to speak plainly
    a nombre de, addressed to
    en nombre de algo/alguien, on behalf of sthg/sb
    ' nombre' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - abdomen
    - actor
    - alta
    - alto
    - Amberes
    - Andorra
    - aparecer
    - buen
    - cerdo
    - chalet
    - complemento
    - cordera
    - cordero
    - decir
    - durante
    - ensuciar
    - escriturar
    - esculpir
    - falsa
    - falso
    - fulana
    - fulano
    - guerra
    - impronunciable
    - infelicidad
    - kamikaze
    - Kuwait
    - la
    - ligarse
    - llamar
    - manchar
    - monte
    - no
    - nominalmente
    - Pakistán
    - palmípeda
    - palmípedo
    - Paquistán
    - París
    - Pequín
    - Persia
    - Perú
    - pila
    - poner
    - recibir
    - recordar
    - rey
    - señor
    - Sofía
    English:
    abandon
    - abandoned
    - abbey
    - abbot
    - abbreviation
    - ABC
    - abdication
    - abdomen
    - aberration
    - ability
    - abolition
    - aborigine
    - abrasive
    - absence
    - absentee
    - absorption
    - abstainer
    - abstention
    - abstinence
    - abundance
    - abuse
    - abyss
    - academic
    - academic year
    - academy
    - acceleration
    - accelerator
    - accent
    - acceptance
    - access
    - access road
    - accessory
    - accident
    - acclaim
    - accomplice
    - accomplishment
    - accord
    - accordance
    - accordion
    - account
    - accountancy
    - accountant
    - accumulation
    - accuracy
    - accusation
    - accused
    - ace
    - acetate
    - acetone
    - ache
    * * *
    nombre nm
    1. [apelativo] name;
    un vecino, de quien no diré el nombre, avisó a la policía a neighbour, who shall remain nameless, told the police;
    a nombre de [carta, sobre, paquete] addressed to;
    [cheque] made out to; [cuenta bancaria] in the name of; [propiedades] belonging to;
    el apartamento está a su nombre the Br flat o US apartment is in his name;
    quiero abrir una cuenta a nombre de mi hijo I'd like to open an account for my son;
    se le conoce con el nombre de laparoscopia it is known as a laparoscopy;
    de nombre Juan called Juan;
    en nombre de [representando a] on behalf of;
    en (el) nombre de Dios/de la democracia in the name of God/democracy;
    en el nombre del Padre… [al rezar] in the name of the Father…;
    llamar a alguien por el nombre to call sb by his/her first name;
    lleva o [m5]tiene por nombre… it is known as…, it is called…;
    ¿qué nombre le vas a poner al perro? what are you going to call the dog?;
    le pusieron el nombre de su abuelo they named him Br after o US for his grandfather;
    santificado sea tu nombre [en padrenuestro] hallowed be thy name;
    Hum
    esto de jardín sólo tiene el nombre you call this a garden?;
    como su propio nombre indica… as its name indicates o suggests…;
    llamar a las cosas por su nombre to call a spade a spade;
    no tener nombre [ser indignante] to be outrageous
    nombre y apellidos full name;
    nombre artístico stage name;
    Am nombre de batalla nom de guerre;
    nombre científico [de planta, animal] scientific name;
    nombre comercial trade name;
    nombre completo full name;
    nombre compuesto = two-part Christian name;
    nombre común [de planta, animal] common name;
    Informát nombre de dominio domain name;
    nombre de guerra nom de guerre;
    nombre de lugar place name;
    nombre de pila first o Christian name;
    nombre de soltera maiden name;
    Informát nombre de usuario user name
    2. [fama] name, reputation;
    hacerse un nombre (como) to make a name for oneself (as);
    manchar el buen nombre de alguien/algo to tarnish sb's/sth's good name;
    tener buen/mal nombre to have a good/bad name;
    tener mucho nombre to be renowned o famous
    3. Gram noun
    nombre abstracto abstract noun;
    nombre colectivo collective noun;
    nombre común common noun;
    nombre propio proper noun
    * * *
    m
    1 name;
    un barco de nombre desconocido a boat whose name is not known, an unknown boat;
    un caballo de nombre Arquero a horse by the name of Arquero, a horse called Arquero;
    es abogado sólo de nombre he is a lawyer in name only;
    de nombre amenazador with a threatening sounding name;
    llamar las cosas por su nombre call a spade a spade;
    no tener nombre fig be inexcusable
    2 GRAM noun
    * * *
    nombre nm
    1) : name
    nombre de pluma: pseudonym, pen name
    en nombre: on behalf of
    sin nombre: nameless
    2) : noun
    nombre propio: proper noun
    3) : fame, renown
    * * *
    1. (en general) name
    2. (sustantivo) noun
    "gato" es un nombre "cat" is a noun
    nombre de pila first name / Christian name

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  • 25 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 26 mondo

    m world
    giro m del mondo world tour, tour round the world
    l'altro mondo the next world
    il più bello del mondo the most beautiful in the world
    divertirsi un mondo enjoy oneself enormously or a lot
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    mondo1 s.m.
    1 world (anche fig.): fare il giro del mondo, to go round the world; vedere il mondo, to see the world; in tutto il mondo, per tutto il mondo, all over the world; è conosciuto in tutto il mondo, he is known all over the world; il mondo in cui viviamo, the world we live in; il mondo animale, the animal kingdom (o world); il mondo cattolico, medioevale, the Catholic, medi (a)eval world; il mondo della fantasia, dei sogni, the world of the imagination, of dreams (o dreamland); il mondo della scienza, the world of science; il mondo di un bambino, the world of a child (o a child's world); il mondo esterno, the external world: il mondo letterario, musicale, artistico, politico, the literary, musical, artistic, political world; il suo mondo si è sgretolato, her world crumbled // il terzo mondo, the Third World // il Nuovo, il Vecchio Mondo, the New, the Old World // vecchio come il mondo, as old as the hills (o as Methuselah) // (econ.): il mondo degli affari, the business world; il mondo finanziario, the financial world, (amer.) Wall Street; il mondo operaio, the working world; il mondo dell'editoria, the world of publishing; il mondo industrializzato, the developed world // il mondo è bello perché è vario, variety is the spice of life; questo mondo è fatto a scale, chi le scende, chi le sale, (prov.) the world is like a game, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose; tutto il mondo è paese, it's the same the whole world over
    2 (la gente) the world; humanity; everybody: il mondo ride alle sue spalle, everybody laughs at him behind his back; il mondo spera in un avvenire migliore, humanity hopes for a better future; dice male di tutto il mondo, he speaks badly (o ill) of everybody (o fam. he runs everyone down); vuole salvare le apparenze agli occhi del mondo, he wants to preserve appearances in the eyes of the world // il bel mondo, il gran mondo, (fashionable) society, jet set; donna di mondo, society woman; uomo di mondo, (ricco di esperienza) man of the world, (che fa vita di società) man about town // alla festa c'era mezzo mondo, there were loads of people at the party
    3 (grande quantità) un mondo di, a world of, a lot of, lots of: un mondo di auguri, di baci, all the best, lots of kisses; un mondo di gente, a large crowd; costa un mondo, it costs a fortune; gli usò un mondo di cortesie, he treated him with every courtesy; mi ha fatto un mondo di bene, it has done me a world of good; mi sono divertito un mondo, I have had a really good time.
    ◆ FRASEOLOGIA: come è piccolo il mondo!, what a small world! // da che mondo è mondo, from time immemorial // niente al mondo gli può far cambiare idea, nothing in the world can make him change his mind; non ha un pensiero al mondo, he hasn't a care in the world // non è poi la fine del mondo, it is not the end of the world; una festa che è stata la fine del mondo, it was a fantastic party; è la cosa più semplice del mondo, it's the easiest thing in the world // fermate il mondo, voglio scendere!, stop the world, I want to get off! // ti troverò in capo al mondo!, I'll find you even at the end of the earth!; andare in capo al mondo, to go to the end of the earth // non lo cederei neppure per tutto l'oro del mondo, I wouldn't part with it for the world (o for all the tea in China); non lo farei neppure se dovesse cascare il mondo, I wouldn't do it for the world (o fam. I'll be damned if I do it!) // vivere nel mondo della luna, to have one's head in the clouds; ma in che mondo vivi?, where have you been? // porco mondo!, mondo cane!, damn! // così va il mondo, that's life; stanco del mondo, weary of life // non è più di questo mondo, he is no longer of this world; quando era al mondo mio padre, when my father was alive; essere al mondo, to be alive (o fam. to be in the land of the living); mettere al mondo, to bring into the world; tornare al mondo, to come to life again; venire al mondo, to be born (o to come into the world); non ha più voglia di stare al mondo, he no longer wants to live // l'altro mondo, the next world (o the hereafter); andare all'altro mondo, to pass away; mandare qlcu. all'altro mondo, to send s.o. to kingdom-come; cose dell'altro mondo!, (fig.) really weird! // vivere fuori del mondo, (fig.) to live cut off from the world; prendere il mondo come viene, to take the world as it comes; è uno che sa stare al mondo, he knows the ways of the world; rinunciare al mondo, to forsake (o to retire from) the world.
    mondo2 agg. (letter.)
    1 (pulito) clean
    2 (fig.) (puro) pure: cuore mondo, pure heart; è un uomo mondo da vizi, he is a man free from vice.
    * * *
    I ['mondo] sm
    1) (gen), fig world

    in tutto il mondo — all over the world, throughout the world

    il mondo dell'aldilà — the next life, the after life

    il gran o bel mondo — high society

    2)

    (fraseologia) ti faccio un mondo di auguri; ti auguro un mondo di bene — all the best!

    gli voglio tutto il bene di questo mondo ma... — I'm very fond of him but...

    per niente al mondo; per nessuna cosa al mondo — not for all the world

    da che mondo è mondo — since time o the world began

    mettere/venire al mondo — to bring/come into the world

    il mondo è bello perché è vario — (Proverbio) variety is the spice of life

    II mondo (-a)
    (verdura) cleaned, (frutta, patate) peeled
    * * *
    I ['mondo]
    sostantivo maschile

    in tutto il mondo, nel mondo intero — all over the world, worldwide

    girare il mondo — to go o travel round the world

    la fame, pace nel mondo — world famine, peace

    è la cosa più bella del mondo — fig. it's the best thing in the world

    sono i migliori amici del mondo — fig. they're the best of friends

    vive nel suo mondo, in un mondo a parte — fig. he lives in a world of his own, in a world apart

    l'altro mondo, il mondo ultraterreno — (l'adilà) the next o other world

    andare all'altro mondo — to die, to pass away

    mandare qcn. all'altro mondo — to send o knock sb. to kingdom, to dispatch sb

    3) (ambiente) world, scene

    il mondo dell'arte, della musica — the art, music world

    il mondo antico, arabo — the ancient, Arab world

    lo sa tutto il mondo o mezzo mondo the whole world knows; agli occhi del mondo — in the eyes of the world

    il bel o gran mondo the beautiful people, the high society; un uomo di mondo — a man of the world, a man-about-town

    nessuno o niente al mondo le farà cambiare idea nothing in the world will make her change her mind; per niente al mondo mi convincerei a fare nothing on earth would persuade me to do; nessuno al mondo no man alive; non c'è nessuna ragione al mondo — there's no earthly reason

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    così va il mondo — that's the way of the world, that's the way it goes o the cookie crumbles

    da che mondo è mondo — since o from time immemorial

    vecchio come il mondo — world-old, as old as the world

    vivere fuori dal mondo o nel mondo delle nuvole to be living in cloud-cuckoo-land o in a dreamworld; tutto il mondo è paese it's o people are the same the whole world over; il mondo è bello perché è vario — there's nowt so queer as folk

    II ['mondo]
    aggettivo lett.
    1) (pulito) clean
    2) fig. (puro) pure, clean
    * * *
    mondo1
    /'mondo/
    sostantivo m.
     1 world; in tutto il mondo, nel mondo intero all over the world, worldwide; girare il mondo to go o travel round the world; giro del mondo world tour; la fame, pace nel mondo world famine, peace; il cuoco peggiore del mondo the world's worst chef; la città più antica del mondo the oldest city on earth; è la cosa più bella del mondo fig. it's the best thing in the world; sono i migliori amici del mondo fig. they're the best of friends; vive nel suo mondo, in un mondo a parte fig. he lives in a world of his own, in a world apart; l'altro mondo, il mondo ultraterreno (l'adilà) the next o other world; andare all'altro mondo to die, to pass away; mandare qcn. all'altro mondo to send o knock sb. to kingdom, to dispatch sb.
     2 (parte del globo) il Nuovo Mondo the New World; il Vecchio Mondo the Old World; il Terzo Mondo the Third World
     3 (ambiente) world, scene; il mondo dell'arte, della musica the art, music world; il mondo degli affari the business community o world; il mondo della droga the drug scene
     4 (civiltà) il mondo antico, arabo the ancient, Arab world
     5 (regno) il mondo animale the animal kingdom; il mondo delle favole the land of make-believe
     6 (la gente) lo sa tutto il mondo o mezzo mondo the whole world knows; agli occhi del mondo in the eyes of the world
     7 (alta società) il bel o gran mondo the beautiful people, the high society; un uomo di mondo a man of the world, a man-about-town
     8 un mondo (molto) avere un mondo di cose da fare to have loads of things to do; divertirsi un mondo to have great fun o a great time
     9 al mondo mettere al mondo un bambino to bring a child into the world; venire al mondo to come into the world; saper stare al mondo to know how to behave (in society); nessuno o niente al mondo le farà cambiare idea nothing in the world will make her change her mind; per niente al mondo mi convincerei a fare nothing on earth would persuade me to do; nessuno al mondo no man alive; non c'è nessuna ragione al mondo there's no earthly reason
    così va il mondo that's the way of the world, that's the way it goes o the cookie crumbles; da che mondo è mondo since o from time immemorial; cose dell'altro mondo! it's unbelievable! mondo cane! damn! cascasse il mondo! no matter what (happens)! come what may! com'è piccolo il mondo! it's a small world! vecchio come il mondo world-old, as old as the world; essere la fine del mondo to be terrific; non è mica la fine del mondo! it's not the end of the world! vivere fuori dal mondo o nel mondo delle nuvole to be living in cloud-cuckoo-land o in a dreamworld; tutto il mondo è paese it's o people are the same the whole world over; il mondo è bello perché è vario there's nowt so queer as folk.
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    mondo2
    /'mondo/
    lett.
     1 (pulito) clean
     2 fig. (puro) pure, clean.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > mondo

  • 27 global brand

    Mktg
    the brand name of a product that has worldwide recognition. A global brand has the advantage of economies of scale in terms of production, recognition, and packaging. While the product or brand itself remains the same, the marketing must take into account the local market conditions and the resulting marketing campaign must be tailored accordingly. Care must also be taken to ensure that there is nothing offensive in terms of the name or packaging in the various cultures and languages. A problem with global branding is that if problems are experienced in one country, there could be worldwide repercussions for the brand.

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  • 28 Clarke, Arthur Charles

    [br]
    b. 16 December 1917 Minehead, Somerset, England
    [br]
    English writer of science fiction who correctly predicted the use of geo-stationary earth satellites for worldwide communications.
    [br]
    Whilst still at Huish's Grammar School, Taunton, Clarke became interested in both space science and science fiction. Unable to afford a scientific education at the time (he later obtained a BSc at King's College, London), he pursued both interests in his spare time while working in the Government Exchequer and Audit Department between 1936 and 1941. He was a founder member of the British Interplanetary Society, subsequently serving as its Chairman in 1946–7 and 1950–3. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the Royal Air Force, becoming a technical officer in the first GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar unit. There he began to produce the first of many science-fiction stories. In 1949–50 he was an assistant editor of Science Abstracts at the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
    As a result of his two interests, he realized during the Second World War that an artificial earth satellite in an equatorial orbital with a radius of 35,000 km (22,000 miles) would appear to be stationary, and that three such geo-stationary, or synchronous, satellites could be used for worldwide broadcast or communications. He described these ideas in a paper published in Wireless World in 1945. Initially there was little response, but within a few years the idea was taken up by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and in 1965 the first synchronous satellite, Early Bird, was launched into orbit.
    In the 1950s he moved to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to pursue an interest in underwater exploration, but he continued to write science fiction, being known in particular for his contribution to the making of the classic Stanley Kubrick science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on his book of the same title.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Clarke received many honours for both his scientific and science-fiction writings. For his satellite communication ideas his awards include the Franklin Institute Gold Medal 1963 and Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1976. For his science-fiction writing he received the UNESCO Kalinga Prize (1961) and many others. In 1979 he became Chancellor of Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka and in 1980 Vikran Scrabhai Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory of the University of Ahmedabad.
    Bibliography
    1945. "Extra-terrestrial relays: can rocket stations give world wide coverage?", Wireless World L1: 305 (puts forward his ideas for geo-stationary communication satellites).
    1946. "Astronomical radar: some future possibilities", Wireless World 52:321.
    1948, "Electronics and space flight", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 7:49. Other publications, mainly science-fiction novels, include: 1955, Earthlight, 1956, The
    Coast of Coral; 1958, Voice Across the Sea; 1961, Fall of Moondust; 1965, Voices
    from the Sky, 1977, The View from Serendip; 1979, Fountain of Paradise; 1984, Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography, and 1984, 2010: Odyssey Two (a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey that was also made into a film).
    Further Reading
    1986, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    1991, Who's Who, London: A. \& C.Black.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Clarke, Arthur Charles

  • 29 Denny, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 25 May 1847 Dumbarton, Scotland
    d. 17 March 1887 Buenos Aires, Argentina
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and partner in the leading British scientific shipbuilding company.
    [br]
    From 1844 until 1962, the Clyde shipyard of William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, produced over 1,500 ships, trained innumerable students of all nationalities in shipbuilding and marine engineering, and for the seventy-plus years of their existence were accepted worldwide as the leaders in the application of science to ship design and construction. Until the closure of the yard members of the Denny family were among the partners and later directors of the firm: they included men as distinguished as Dr Peter Denny (1821(?)–95), Sir Archibald Denny (1860–1936) and Sir Maurice Denny (1886– 1955), the main collaborator in the design of the Denny-Brown ship stabilizer.
    One of the most influential of this shipbuilding family was William Denny, now referred to as William 3! His early education was at Dumbarton, then on Jersey and finally at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, before he commenced an apprenticeship at his father's shipyard. From the outset he not only showed great aptitude for learning and hard work but also displayed an ability to create good relationships with all he came into contact with. At the early age of 21 he was admitted a partner of the shipbuilding business of William Denny and Brothers, and some years later also of the associated engineering firm of Denny \& Co. His deep-felt interest in what is now known as industrial relations led him in 1871 to set up a piecework system of payment in the shipyard. In this he was helped by the Yard Manager, Richard Ramage, who later was to found the Leith shipyard, which produced the world's most elegant steam yachts. This research was published later as a pamphlet called The Worth of Wages, an unusual and forward-looking action for the 1860s, when Denny maintained that an absentee employer should earn as much contempt and disapproval as an absentee landlord! In 1880 he initiated an awards scheme for all company employees, with grants and awards for inventions and production improvements. William Denny was not slow to impose new methods and to research naval architecture, a special interest being progressive ship trials with a view to predicting effective horsepower. In time this led to his proposal to the partners to build a ship model testing tank beside the Dumbarton shipyard; this scheme was completed in 1883 and was to the third in the world (after the Admiralty tank at Torquay, managed by William Froude and the Royal Netherlands Navy facility at Amsterdam, under B.J. Tideman. In 1876 the Denny Shipyard started work with mild-quality shipbuilding steel on hulls for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, and in 1879 the world's first two ships of any size using this weight-saving material were produced: they were the Rotomahana for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and the Buenos Ayrean for the Allan Line of Glasgow. On the naval-architecture side he was involved in Denny's proposals for standard cross curves of stability for all ships, which had far-reaching effects and are now accepted worldwide. He served on the committee working on improvements to the Load Line regulations and many other similar public bodies. After a severe bout of typhoid and an almost unacceptable burden of work, he left the United Kingdom for South America in June 1886 to attend to business with La Platense Flotilla Company, an associate company of William Denny and Brothers. In March the following year, while in Buenos Aires, he died by his own hand, a death that caused great and genuine sadness in the West of Scotland and elsewhere.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1886. FRS Edinburgh 1879.
    Bibliography
    William Denny presented many papers to various bodies, the most important being to the Institution of Naval Architects and to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. The subjects include: trials results, the relation of ship speed to power, Lloyd's Numerals, tonnage measurement, layout of shipyards, steel in shipbuilding, cross curves of stability, etc.
    Further Reading
    A.B.Bruce, 1889, The Life of William Denny, Shipbuilder, London: Hodder \& Stoughton.
    Denny Dumbarton 1844–1932 (a souvenir hard-back produced for private circulation by the shipyard).
    Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Denny, William

  • 30 Junkers, Hugo

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 3 February 1859 Rheydt, Germany
    d. 3 February 1935 Munich, Germany
    [br]
    German aircraft designer, pioneer of all-metal aircraft, including the world's first real airliner.
    [br]
    Hugo Junkers trained as an engineer and in 1895 founded the Junkers Company, which manufactured metal products including gas-powered hot-water heaters. He was also Professor of Thermodynamics at the high school in Aachen. The visits to Europe by the Wright brothers in 1908 and 1909 aroused his interest in flight, and in 1910 he was granted a patent for a flying wing, i.e. no fuselage and a thick wing which did not require external bracing wires. Using his sheet-metal experience he built the more conventional Junkers J 1 entirely of iron and steel. It made its first flight in December 1915 but was rather heavy and slow, so Junkers turned to the newly available aluminium alloys and built the J 4 bi-plane, which entered service in 1917. To stiffen the thin aluminium-alloy skins, Junkers used corrugations running fore and aft, a feature of his aircraft for the next twenty years. Incidentally, in 1917 the German authorities persuaded Junkers and Fokker to merge, but the Junkers-Fokker Company was short-lived.
    After the First World War Junkers very rapidly converted to commercial aviation, and in 1919 he produced a single-engined low-wing monoplane capable of carrying four passengers in an enclosed cabin. The robust all-metal F 13 is generally accepted as being the world's first airliner and over three hundred were built and used worldwide: some were still in service eighteen years later. A series of low-wing transport aircraft followed, of which the best known is the Ju 52. The original version had a single engine and first flew in 1930; a three-engined version flew in 1932 and was known as the Ju 52/3m. This was used by many airlines and served with the Luftwaffe throughout the Second World War, with almost five thousand being built.
    Junkers was always ready to try new ideas, such as a flap set aft of the trailing edge of the wing that became known as the "Junkers flap". In 1923 he founded a company to design and manufacture stationary diesel engines and aircraft petrol engines. Work commenced on a diesel aero-engine: this flew in 1929 and a successful range of engines followed later. Probably the most spectacular of Junkers's designs was his G 38 airliner of 1929. This was the world's largest land-plane at the time, with a wing span of 44 m (144 ft). The wing was so thick that some of the thirty-four passengers could sit in the wing and look out through windows in the leading edge. Two were built and were frequently seen on European routes.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1923, "Metal aircraft construction", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.
    Further Reading
    G.Schmitt, 1988, Hugh Junkers and His Aircraft, Berlin.
    1990, Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I, London: Jane's (provides details of Junkers's aircraft).
    P. St J.Turner and H.J.Nowarra, 1971, Junkers: An Aircraft Album, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Junkers, Hugo

  • 31 MacGregor, Robert

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1873 Hebburn-on-Tyne, England
    d. 4 October 1956 Whitley Bay, England
    [br]
    English naval architect who, working with others, significantly improved the safety of life at sea.
    [br]
    On leaving school in 1894, MacGregor was apprenticed to a famous local shipyard, the Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company of Jarrow-on-Tyne. After four years he was entered for the annual examination of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, coming out top and being nominated Queen's Prizeman. Shortly thereafter he moved around shipyards to gain experience, working in Glasgow, Hull, Newcastle and then Dunkirk. His mastery of French enabled him to obtain in 1906 the senior position of Chief Draughtsman at an Antwerp shipyard, where he remained until 1914. On his return to Britain, he took charge of the small yard of Dibbles in Southampton and commenced a period of great personal development and productivity. His fertile mind enabled him to register no fewer than ten patents in the years 1919 to 1923.
    In 1924 he started out on his own as a naval architect, specializing in the coal trade of the North Sea. At that time, colliers had wooden hatch covers, which despite every caution could be smashed by heavy seas, and which in time of war added little to hull integrity after a torpedo strike. The International Loadline Committee of 1932 noted that 13 per cent of ship losses were through hatch failures. In 1927, designs for selftrimming colliers were developed, as well as designs for steel hatch covers. In 1928 the first patents were under way and the business was known for some years as MacGregor and King. During this period, steel hatch covers were fitted to 105 ships.
    In 1937 MacGregor invited his brother Joseph (c. 1883–1967) to join him. Joseph had wide experience in ship repairs and had worked for many years as General Manager of the Prince of Wales Dry Docks in Swansea, a port noted for its coal exports. By 1939 they were operating from Whitley Bay with the name that was to become world famous: MacGregor and Company (Naval Architects) Ltd. The new company worked in association with the shipyards of Austin's of Sunderland and Burntisland of Fife, which were then developing the "flatiron" colliers for the up-river London coal trade. The MacGregor business gained a great boost when the massive coastal fleet of William Cory \& Son was fitted with steel hatches.
    In 1945 the brothers appointed Henri Kummerman (b. 1908, Vienna; d. 1984, Geneva) as their sales agent in Europe. Over the years, Kummerman effected greater control on the MacGregor business and, through his astute business dealings and his well-organized sales drives worldwide, welded together an international company in hatch covers, cargo handling and associated work. Before his death, Robert MacGregor was to see mastery of the design of single-pull steel hatch covers and to witness the acceptance of MacGregor hatch covers worldwide. Most important of all, he had contributed to great increases in the safety and the quality of life at sea.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    L.C.Burrill, 1931, "Seaworthiness of collier types", Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architechts.
    S.Sivewright, 1989, One Man's Mission-20,000 Ships, London: Lloyd's of London Press.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > MacGregor, Robert

  • 32 Williams, Sir Frederic Calland

    [br]
    b. 26 June 1911 Stockport, Cheshire, England
    d. 11 August 1977 Prestbury, Cheshire, England
    [br]
    English electrical engineer who invented the Williams storage cathode ray tube, which was extensively used worldwide as a data memory in the first digital computers.
    [br]
    Following education at Stockport Grammar School, Williams entered Manchester University in 1929, gaining his BSc in 1932 and MSc in 1933. After a short time as a college apprentice with Metropolitan Vickers, he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study for a DPhil, which he was awarded in 1936. He returned to Manchester University that year as an assistant lecturer, gaining his DSc in 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he worked for the Scientific Civil Service, initially at the Bawdsey Research Station and then at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. There he was involved in research on non-incandescent amplifiers and diode rectifiers and the development of the first practical radar system capable of identifying friendly aircraft. Later in the war, he devised an automatic radar system suitable for use by fighter aircraft.
    After the war he resumed his academic career at Manchester, becoming Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the University Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1946. In the same year he succeeded in developing a data-memory device based on the cathode ray tube, in which the information was stored and read by electron-beam scanning of a charge-retaining target. The Williams storage tube, as it became known, not only found obvious later use as a means of storing single-frame, still television images but proved to be a vital component of the pioneering Manchester University MkI digital computer. Because it enabled both data and program instructions to be stored in the computer, it was soon used worldwide in the development of the early stored-program computers.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1976. OBE 1945. CBE 1961. FRS 1950. Hon. DSc Durham 1964, Sussex 1971, Wales 1971. First Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal 1957. City of Philadelphia John Scott Award 1960. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1963. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1972. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pioneer Award 1973.
    Bibliography
    Williams contributed papers to many scientific journals, including Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Wireless Engineer, Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal. Note especially: 1948, with J.Kilburn, "Electronic digital computers", Nature 162:487; 1949, with J.Kilburn, "A storage system for use with binary digital computing machines", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 96:81; 1975, "Early computers at Manchester University", Radio \& Electronic Engineer 45:327. Williams also collaborated in the writing of vols 19 and 20 of the MIT Radiation
    Laboratory Series.
    Further Reading
    B.Randell, 1973, The Origins of Digital Computers, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. M.R.Williams, 1985, A History of Computing Technology, London: Prentice-Hall. See also: Stibitz, George R.; Strachey, Christopher.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Williams, Sir Frederic Calland

  • 33 universalmente

    adv.
    universally, generally.
    * * *
    1 universally
    * * *
    ADV (=generalmente) universally; (=mundialmente) all over the world
    * * *
    Ex. There are only two sets of symbols whose orders are reasonably universally recognised: the letters of the Roman alphabet (either small or capitals), and Arabic numerals.
    * * *

    Ex: There are only two sets of symbols whose orders are reasonably universally recognised: the letters of the Roman alphabet (either small or capitals), and Arabic numerals.

    * * *
    universally
    un pintor conocido universalmente a well-known painter, a universally-known painter, a painter of worldwide fame
    una creencia universalmente aceptada a universally accepted belief
    * * *
    universally;
    un principio reconocido universalmente a universally acknowledged principle

    Spanish-English dictionary > universalmente

  • 34 Danone

       Danone is the world's leading dairy company, and is known in the USAas Dannon. Its principal sectors of activity are today fresh milk products (yoghurts, desserts), baby food and mineral water. It distributes some of France's best known mineral waters, notably Volvic and Evian, and is the no. 2 worldwide in bottled mineral water. Danone became France's leading food-processing group in 1973, on the merger of Gervais-Danone and BSN. It is aCAC 40 company.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Danone

  • 35 Fairbairn, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 19 February 1789 Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
    d. 18 August 1874 Farnham, Surrey, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and shipbuilder, pioneer in the use of iron in structures.
    [br]
    Born in modest circumstances, Fairbairn nevertheless enjoyed a broad and liberal education until around the age of 14. Thereafter he served an apprenticeship as a millwright in a Northumberland colliery. This seven-year period marked him out as a man of determination and intellectual ability; he planned his life around the practical work of pit-machinery maintenance and devoted his limited free time to the study of mathematics, science and history as well as "Church, Milton and Recreation". Like many before and countless thousands after, he worked in London for some difficult and profitless years, and then moved to Manchester, the city he was to regard as home for the rest of his life. In 1816 he was married. Along with a workmate, James Lillie, he set up a general engineering business, which steadily enlarged and ultimately involved both shipbuilding and boiler-making. The partnership was dissolved in 1832 and Fairbairn continued on his own. Consultancy work commissioned by the Forth and Clyde Canal led to the construction of iron steamships by Fairbairn for the canal; one of these, the PS Manchester was lost in the Irish Sea (through the little-understood phenomenon of compass deviation) on her delivery voyage from Manchester to the Clyde. This brought Fairbairn to the forefront of research in this field and confirmed him as a shipbuilder in the novel construction of iron vessels. In 1835 he operated the Millwall Shipyard on the Isle of Dogs on the Thames; this is regarded as one of the first two shipyards dedicated to iron production from the outset (the other being Tod and MacGregor of Glasgow). Losses at the London yard forced Fairbairn to sell off, and the yard passed into the hands of John Scott Russell, who built the I.K. Brunel -designed Great Eastern on the site. However, his business in Manchester went from strength to strength: he produced an improved Cornish boiler with two firetubes, known as the Lancashire boiler; he invented a riveting machine; and designed the beautiful swan-necked box-structured crane that is known as the Fairbairn crane to this day.
    Throughout his life he advocated the widest use of iron; he served on the Admiralty Committee of 1861 investigating the use of this material in the Royal Navy. In his later years he travelled widely in Europe as an engineering consultant and published many papers on engineering. His contribution to worldwide engineering was recognized during his lifetime by the conferment of a baronetcy by Queen Victoria.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created Baronet 1869. FRS 1850. Elected to the Academy of Science of France 1852. President, Institution of Mechnical Engineers 1854. Royal Society Gold Medal 1860. President, British Association 1861.
    Bibliography
    Fairbairn wrote many papers on a wide range of engineering subjects from water-wheels to iron metallurgy and from railway brakes to the strength of iron ships. In 1856 he contributed the article on iron to the 8th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    Further Reading
    W.Pole (ed.), 1877, The Life of Sir William Fairbairn Bart, London: Longmans Green; reprinted 1970, David and Charles Reprints (written in part by Fairbairn, but completed and edited by Pole).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Fairbairn, William

  • 36 всемирно известный

    2) Sports: world-renowned
    3) Law: world-wide
    4) Makarov: world-known

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > всемирно известный

  • 37 fame

    noun, no pl.
    Ruhm, der

    rise to fame — zu Ruhm kommen od. gelangen

    * * *
    [feim]
    (the quality of being well-known: Her novels brought her fame.) der Ruhm
    - academic.ru/26380/famous">famous
    - famously
    * * *
    [feɪm]
    1. (being famous) Ruhm m
    \fame and fortune Ruhm und Reichtum
    to be of Hollywood \fame ein Hollywoodstar sein
    worldwide \fame Weltruhm m
    to win [or achieve] \fame berühmt werden, Ruhm erlangen geh
    2. (reputation) Ruf m, Ansehen nt
    his main claim to \fame is that he was one of Beethoven's early teachers er erlangte vor allem als einer von Beethovens frühen Lehrern Berühmtheit
    * * *
    [feɪm]
    n
    Ruhm m

    of ill fame — von üblem Ruf, berüchtigt

    to come to fame — Ruhm erlangen, zu Ruhm kommen

    to win fame for sth — sich (dat) durch etw einen Namen machen

    is that the Joseph Heller of "Catch-22" fame? — ist das der berühmte Joseph Heller, der "Catch-22" geschrieben hat?

    Borg of Wimbledon 1979 fame — Borg, der sich 1979 in Wimbledon einen Namen gemacht hat

    * * *
    fame [feım] s
    1. a) Ruhm m, guter Ruf, Berühmtheit f:
    bring instant fame to sb jemanden mit einem Schlag berühmt machen;
    find fame berühmt werden;
    win overnight fame über Nacht berühmt werden;
    fame and fortune Ruhm und Geld n
    b) Ruf m:
    of ill ( oder evil) fame von schlechtem Ruf, übel beleumdet, berüchtigt;
    house of ill fame Freudenhaus n
    2. obs Gerücht n
    * * *
    noun, no pl.
    Ruhm, der

    rise to fame — zu Ruhm kommen od. gelangen

    * * *
    n.
    Berühmtheit f.
    Ruf -e m.
    Ruhm nur sing. m.

    English-german dictionary > fame

  • 38 famed

    adjective
    berühmt ( for für, wegen)
    * * *
    [feɪmd]
    adj berühmt
    their \famed efficiency ihre sprichwörtliche Effizienz
    ▪ to be \famed for sth (be known) für etw akk bekannt sein; (be famous) für etw akk berühmt sein
    * * *
    [feɪmd]
    adj
    berühmt
    * * *
    famed adj berühmt, bekannt ( beide:
    for für, wegen gen):
    be famed worldwide weltweiten Ruhm genießen, weltberühmt sein
    * * *
    adjective
    berühmt ( for für, wegen)
    * * *
    adj.
    berühmt adj.

    English-german dictionary > famed

  • 39 Weltmarke

    f WIRTS. world-famous brand
    * * *
    die Weltmarke
    name of worldwide renown
    * * *
    Wẹlt|mar|ke
    f
    name known all over the world
    * * *
    Weltmarke f WIRTSCH world-famous brand

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Weltmarke

  • 40 boom

    m.
    boom.
    * * *
    1 boom
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    [bum]
    SM boom

    dar boom a un problema — to exaggerate a problem, make a meal of a problem

    * * *
    [bum]
    masculino boom
    * * *
    = boom.
    Ex. The article 'The electronic boom: a gamble or a sure bet?' considers the threat of the new technology to the future of newspapers.
    ----
    * baby boom = baby boom.
    * boom de la natalidad = baby boom.
    * boom del petróleo = oil-boom.
    * generación del baby boom = baby boom generation, baby-boomer generation.
    * generación del boom de la natalidad = baby boom generation, baby-boomer generation.
    * persona nacida después del baby boom = baby buster.
    * persona nacida durante el baby boom = baby boomer.
    * * *
    [bum]
    masculino boom
    * * *
    = boom.

    Ex: The article 'The electronic boom: a gamble or a sure bet?' considers the threat of the new technology to the future of newspapers.

    * baby boom = baby boom.
    * boom de la natalidad = baby boom.
    * boom del petróleo = oil-boom.
    * generación del baby boom = baby boom generation, baby-boomer generation.
    * generación del boom de la natalidad = baby boom generation, baby-boomer generation.
    * persona nacida después del baby boom = baby buster.
    * persona nacida durante el baby boom = baby boomer.

    * * *
    /bum/
    boom
    el boom de las computadoras the computer boom
    el boom literario latinoamericano the boom in Latin American literature
    * * *
    boom [bum] (pl booms o boom) nm
    boom
    EL BOOM
    From the 1960s onward, Latin American literature has gained a worldwide audience and is now regarded as one of the most vibrant and creative in the world. Young writers such as Carlos Fuentes (Mexico, 1929-), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1928-, Nobel Prize for Literature 1982) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936-) were the most prominent in the Boom, as it came to be known, but some older writers also gained a wider audience — for example, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1899-1986) and Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1899-1974, Nobel Prize for Literature 1967). Although the Boom is often associated with “magic realism”, a style which mixes reality and fantasy, this in fact originated with earlier writers such as Asturias, Alejo Carpentier (Cuba, 1904-80) and Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1918-86), and some of the young writers, notably Vargas Llosa, largely shun fantasy in their work.
    * * *
    m boom

    Spanish-English dictionary > boom

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