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  • 1 The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Reports

    1. Королевская Комиссия по подготовке отчетов относительно загрязнения окружающей среды (Великобритания)

     

    Королевская Комиссия по подготовке отчетов относительно загрязнения окружающей среды (Великобритания)
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    [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]

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  • 2 Commissioners of the Electoral Commission

    пол., юр., брит. члены избирательной комиссии (лица, осуществляющие функции избирательной комиссии от ее имени; назначаются королевским указом; являются независимыми и не связанными с деятельностью какой-л. политической партии; подотчетны непосредственно парламенту)
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Commissioners of the Electoral Commission

  • 3 royal

    royal ['rɔɪəl]
    (a) (seal, residence, visit) royal; (horse, household, vehicle) royal, du roi, de la reine;
    ∎ by royal charter par acte du souverain;
    ∎ the royal "we" le "nous" de majesté
    (b) figurative formal (splendid) royal, princier;
    ∎ they gave us a (right) royal welcome ils nous ont accueillis comme des rois;
    ∎ to be in royal spirits être d'excellente humeur
    (c) familiar (for emphasis) sombre, de première;
    ∎ that guy is a right royal pain in the neck ce type est un véritable emmerdeur;
    ∎ her whining gives me a royal pain elle me fait vraiment chier avec ses jérémiades;
    ∎ he's a royal idiot c'est un sombre crétin ou un crétin de première
    (d) (paper) (format m) grand raisin m;
    ∎ royal octavo/quarto in-huit m/in-quarto m raisin
    2 noun
    familiar = membre de la famille royale;
    ∎ the Royals la famille royale□
    ►► the Royal Academy (of Arts) Académie f royale britannique des beaux-arts;
    the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art = Conservatoire national d'art dramatique, à Londres;
    the Royal Academy of Music = conservatoire national de musique, à Londres;
    the Royal Air Force armée f de l'air britannique;
    Royal Ascot = événement hippique annuel, étalé sur plusieurs jours, qui entre dans le calendrier mondain de la haute société anglaise;
    royal assent = signature royale qui officialise une loi;
    the Royal Ballet = compagnie nationale de ballet qui a son siège à Covent Garden à Londres;
    royal blue bleu m roi;
    the Royal British Legion = association britannique d'anciens militaires;
    royal burgh ville f établie par charte royale;
    the Royal Canadian Mounted Police la Gendarmerie royale du Canada;
    the Royal College of Music Collège m royal de musique (école de musique située à Londres);
    the Royal College of Physicans Collège m royal de médecine (organisation de médecins);
    the Royal College of Surgeons Collège m royal de chirurgie (organisation de chirurgiens);
    the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Collège m royal de médecine vétérinaire (organisation de vétérinaires);
    the Royal Commission = commission nommée par le monarque sur recommandation du premier ministre;
    the Royal Court = théâtre à Londres;
    Royal Doulton = porcelaine fine anglaise;
    the Royal Enclosure = tribune de la famille royale à Royal Ascot;
    the Royal Engineers le génie militaire britannique;
    the Royal Family la famille royale;
    Botany royal fern osmonde f royale;
    Cards royal flush quinte f royale; (in poker) flush m royal;
    Royal Highland Show = grande foire agricole annuelle qui a lieu à Ingleston, près d'Édimbourg;
    Your Royal Highness Votre Altesse Royale;
    ∎ His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales Son Altesse Royale, le prince de Galles;
    Their Royal Highnesses Leurs Altesses Royales;
    the Royal Horse Guards = la garde à cheval qui assure la garde du palais et du souverain;
    British Cookery royal icing = glaçage à base de sucre glace et de blancs d'œufs (utilisé pour les cakes);
    the Royal Institute of British Architects = institut d'architectes, à Londres;
    the Royal Institution l'Académie f des sciences britannique;
    royal jelly gelée f royale;
    the Royal Mail = la Poste britannique;
    the Royal Marines les Marines mpl (britanniques);
    Nautical royal mast mât m de cacatois;
    the Royal Mile = rue d'Édimbourg qui relie le château au palais de Holyrood;
    the Royal Mint = la Monnaie britannique, ≃ (l'hôtel m de) la Monnaie;
    the Royal Navy la marine f nationale britannique;
    the Royal Opera House l'opéra m de Covent Garden;
    Botany royal palm palmier m royal;
    royal prerogative prérogative f du souverain;
    ∎ to exercise the royal prerogative faire acte de souverain;
    the Royal School of Music École f royale de musique;
    Royal Scottish Academy Académie f royale écossaise des beaux-arts;
    the Royal Shakespeare Company = célèbre troupe de théâtre basée à Stratford-on-Avon et à Londres;
    the Royal Show = le salon annuel de l'agriculture en Grande-Bretagne;
    the Royal Society l'Académie f des sciences britannique;
    Royal Society of Medicine Fondation f britannique de médecine;
    the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals = société britannique protectrice des animaux, ≃ SPA f;
    British the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ≃ Fondation f pour l'enfance;
    the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds = ligue britannique pour la protection des oiseaux;
    royal standard = drapeau représentant les armoiries de la couronne britannique, hissé lorsque le monarque est au château;
    the Royal Tournament = meeting annuel destiné au public organisé par les forces armées, avec entre autres choses des démonstrations de gymnastique;
    the Royal Ulster Constabulary = corps de police d'Irlande du Nord;
    the Royal Variety Show = spectacle de variétés organisé à Londres en faveur de la Fédération des artistes de variétés;
    royal warrant brevet m de fournisseur du souverain;
    Royal Worcester = porcelaine fine anglaise
    ⓘ THE ROYAL SOCIETY Cette société à vocation scientifique, fondée par Charles II en 1660, contribua à renforcer la crédibilité des hommes de science, qui jouirent également d'une plus grande liberté. En firent notamment partie Isaac Newton et Robert Boyle.

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  • 4 ♦ royal

    ♦ royal /ˈrɔɪəl/
    A a.
    1 reale; regio; (fig.) maestoso, splendido: the royal family, la famiglia reale; of the blood royal, di sangue reale; His Royal Highness, Sua Altezza Reale; royal robes, vestimenti regali (o splendidi); a royal welcome, un'accoglienza splendida (o degna di un re)
    2 ( slang) enorme; di prim'ordine: (volg.) He's a royal pain in the arse, è un emerito rompiballe
    B n.
    1 (fam.) membro della famiglia reale: the royals, la famiglia reale
    4 (naut.) controvelaccio
    ● (ipp.) Royal Ascot, le corse di cavalli ad Ascot ( quattro giorni, in giugno) □ (teatr.) the royal box, il palco reale □ royal blue, blu reale; blu savoia □ royal charter, carta istitutiva ( di un'associazione, di una società) concessa dal sovrano □ ( USA) royal color, scala reale all'asso ( nel gioco del poker, ecc.; cfr. ingl. royal flush) □ Royal Commission, Commissione Reale (istituita dal governo nei paesi del Commonwealth per condurre un'inchiesta pubblica) □ (in GB) royal duke, duca della famiglia reale ( è anche principe) □ (mil.) the Royal Engineers, il genio militare britannico □ (bot.) royal fern ( Osmunda regalis) osmunda; felce palustre □ ( nel poker) royal flush, scala reale all'asso □ the royal household, la casa reale (in GB) □ ( cucina) royal icing, glassa di zucchero e chiara d'uovo □ royal jelly, pappa reale □ (mil.) the Royal Marines, la fanteria da sbarco (in GB) □ (naut.) royal mast, albero di controvelaccio □ the Royal Mint, la Zecca di Stato (in GB) □ (mil., in GB) the Royal Navy, la marina militare britannica □ royal purple, porpora □ ( lotta libera) royal rumble, la rissa reale □ (naut.) royal sail, controvelaccio □ the Royal Society, la Royal Society ( accademia delle scienze britannica, fondata nel 1660 da alcuni seguaci di Francis Bacon) □ royal standard, stendardo quadrato, con le insegne del sovrano □ royal tennis = court tennis ► court □ the royal «we», il pluralis maiestatis □ (naut.) royal yard, pennone di controvelaccio □ a battle royal, una battaglia campale; (fig.) una violenta lite.

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  • 5 Commission

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > Commission

  • 6 commission

    1. сущ.
    1) общ. полномочие; доверенность; поручение

    to act within one's commission — действовать в пределах полномочий [согласно полномочиям\]

    2) эк. комиссия, комиссионное вознаграждение, комиссионные, комиссионные платежи, комиссионный сбор (плата, взимаемая с клиента за совершение определенных операций по его поручению)

    ATTRIBUTES:

    additional commission, extra commission — дополнительная комиссия, дополнительные комиссионные, дополнительное комиссионное вознаграждение

    payable commissions — подлежащие уплате комиссионные, комиссионные к уплате

    standard commission — стандартное [обычное\] комиссионное вознаграждение, стандартные комиссионные

    COMBS:

    on commission — на комиссионной основе, на комиссии

    to sell on commission — продавать на комиссионных началах [на комиссионной основе\]

    All of the sales staff are on commission. — Весь торговый персонал работает на комиссионной основе.

    Ad reps are paid on commission of sales. — Рекламные представители получают вознаграждение на комиссионной основе.

    Syn:
    See:
    acceptance commission, agency commission, agent commission, agent's commission, agency commission, bank commission, banker's commission, brokerage commission, broker's commission, broking commission, buying commission, ceding commission, commissions paid, commissions received, del credere commission, factoring commission, first-year commission, fixed commission, flat commission, graded commission, media commission, negotiated commission, referral commission, reinsurance commission, renewal commission, sale commission, sales commission, secret commission, selling commission, split commission, straight commission, underwriting commission, commission agent, commission broker, commission contract, commission charge, commission fee, commission merchant, cost, insurance, freight and commission, cost, insurance, freight and commission, cost, insurance, freight and commission 1. 7)
    3) торг. комиссионная продажа
    See:
    4) упр. комиссия (группа людей, объединенный для выполнения каких-л. функций)

    ATTRIBUTES:

    Syn:
    committee 1), bureau 1), agency 1), board 5)
    See:
    advisory commission, audit commission, banking commission, binational commission, commission of inquiry, High Commission, regulatory commission, royal commission, United Nations Regional Commissions, Workers' Compensation Commission, Audit Commission for Local Authorities in England and Wales, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Boundary Commission, Civil Service Commission, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Commission for Racial Equality, Commission of the European Communities, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, Commission on Civil Rights, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Competition Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Continuing Care Accreditation Commission, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Economic Commission for Africa, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Economic Commission for Europe, Economic Commission for Latin America, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic Commission for Western Asia, Election Assistance Commission, Electoral Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Equal Opportunities Commission, European Commission, European Commission on Human Rights, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Election Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Maritime Commission, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Health and Safety Commission, Health Insurance Commission, Insurance and Superannuation Commission, Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Trade Commission, Law Commission, Local Government Commission for England, Manpower Services Commission, Monopolies and Mergers Commission, National Capital Planning Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Pan American Standards Commission, Panama Canal Commission, Parole Commission, Postal Rate Commission, public service commission, Public Utilities Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission
    2. гл.
    1)
    а) общ. уполномочивать; поручать

    I was commissioned to find out whether this was so and to give recommendations on how to handle the problem. — Мне поручили разузнать, действительно ли это так, и выработать предложения по разрешению проблемы.

    б) общ. делать заказ (на что-л.)

    I have commissioned him to do a sketch of the park for me. — Я заказал ему набросок парка.

    2)
    а) упр. назначать на должность
    б) воен. присвоить (офицерское) звание

    He was commissioned lieutenant in April 1861. — Он был произведен в лейтенанты в апреле 1861 г.

    3)
    а) мор., воен. подготавливать (корабль) к плаванию (укомплектовывать личным составом, боеприпасами и т. д.)
    б) мор., воен. передавать (корабль) под чье-л. командование; назначать капитаном корабля

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    1) комиссия, комиссионный сбор, вознаграждение: плата, взимаемая посредником с клиента за совершение операции по его поручению или другую услугу (напр., процент от стоимости недвижимости или ценных бумаг); 2) доверенность, полномочие; 3) комиссионная продажа; 4) комиссия: группа людей, собранная для решения определенной проблемы; 5) поручение.
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    • /vt/ уполномачивать
    • 1) комиссионные; 2) комиссия; 3) полномочия
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    комиссионные: комиссия: комиссионный сбор; комиссионное вознаграждение
    . Вознаграждение, выплачиваемое брокеру за исполнение сделки, определяемое на основе количества акций, облигаций, опционов и/или их стоимости в долларовом выражении. В 1975 г. в результате дерегулирования (снижения степени вмешательства государства в экономику) появились дисконтные (вексельные) брокеры, которые взимали меньшую комиссию, чем брокеры, предоставляющие весь спектр услуг. Брокеры, предоставляющие весь спектр услуг, помимо всего прочего, оказывают консультационные услуги и, как правило, имеют в своем распоряжении штат аналитиков, отслеживающих определенные отрасли промышленности. Дисконтные же брокеры просто исполняют заказы клиентов, как правило, не предлагая своего мнения по поводу заказываемых акций. Также известна как Round-turn (оборот) . A fee charged by a broker to a customer for executing a transaction. Словарь экономических терминов .
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    прибавка, получаемая компанией-цедентом от перестраховщика, ко всей сумме расходов на привлечение новых страхователей и других накладных расходов
    свод ставок премий, которыми руководствуются страховые общества при приеме на страхование соответствующих рисков, в основном, по неморским видам страхования; совокупность тарифных ставок
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    Банки/Банковские операции
    комиссионные (посреднические) операции - операции, проводимые, как правило, на основе договора комиссии и. состоящие в предоставлении комиссионером различного рода услуг комитенту за плату (вознаграждение); в банковской сфере такие операции проводятся коммерческими банками
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    плата посреднику, исчисляемая как процент от стоимости проданных товаров
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    договор, по которому одна сторона (комиссионер) обязуется по поручению другой стороны (комитента) за вознаграждение заключить сделку от своего имени, но в интересах и за счет комитента

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > commission

  • 7 commission

    1. noun
    1) (official body) Kommission, die
    2) (instruction, piece of work) Auftrag, der
    3) (in armed services) Ernennungsurkunde, die

    resign one's commission — aus dem Offiziersdienst ausscheiden

    4) (pay of agent) Provision, die
    5)

    in/out of commission — [Kriegsschiff] in/außer Dienst; [Auto, Maschine, Lift usw.] in/außer Betrieb

    2. transitive verb
    1) beauftragen [Künstler]; in Auftrag geben [Gemälde usw.]
    2) (empower) bevollmächtigen

    commissioned officer — Offizier, der

    3) (give command of ship to) zum Kapitän ernennen
    4) (prepare for service) in Dienst stellen [Schiff]
    5) (bring into operation) in Betrieb setzen [Kraftwerk, Fabrik]
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    [kə'miʃən] 1.
    1) (money earned by a person who sells things for someone else.) die Vergütung
    2) (an order for a work of art: a commission to paint the president's portrait.) der Auftrag
    3) (an official paper giving authority, especially to an army officer etc: My son got his commission last year.) das Offizierspatent
    4) (an official group appointed to report on a specific matter: a commission of enquiry.) der Untersuchungsausschuß
    2. verb
    1) (to give an order (especially for a work of art) to: He was commissioned to paint the Lord Mayor's portrait.) beauftragen
    2) (to give a military commission to.) zum Offizier ernennen
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    - academic.ru/14589/commissionaire">commissionaire
    - commissioner
    - in/out of commission
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    com·mis·sion
    [kəˈmɪʃən]
    I. vt
    ▪ to \commission sth etw in Auftrag geben
    ▪ to \commission sb [to do sth] jdn beauftragen[, etw zu tun]
    ▪ to be \commissioned as sth zu etw dat ernannt werden
    3. (to bring into working condition)
    ▪ to \commission sth machine, building, boiler etw in Betrieb nehmen
    II. n
    1. (order) Auftrag m
    to take/carry out a \commission einen Auftrag annehmen/ausführen
    2. (system of payment) Provision f
    to get [a] \commission on sth für etw akk Provision bekommen [o erhalten]
    to take a \commission Provision verlangen; ECON
    broker's \commission Maklerprovision f
    \commission for business negotiated Vermittlungsprovision f
    3. + sing/pl vb (investigative body) Kommission f, Ausschuss m
    C\commission of the European Union EU-Kommission
    Law C\commission ständiger Rechtsausschuss
    Royal C\commission königlicher Untersuchungsausschuss
    fact-finding \commission Untersuchungskommission f, Untersuchungsausschuss m
    special \commission Sonderkommission f
    to set up [or establish] [or appoint] a \commission eine Kommission einsetzen [o bilden
    4. (appointment) Ernennung f; MIL Offizierspatent nt
    to get a [or one's] \commission zum Offizier ernannt werden
    to have a \commission in the armed forces Offizier m der Streitkräfte sein
    to resign one's \commission aus dem Offiziersdienst ausscheiden
    5. no pl LAW ( form: perpetration) Verübung f
    the \commission of a crime/murder das Begehen eines Verbrechens/Mordes
    6. no pl NAUT, AVIAT
    in/out of \commission car, lift, machine in/außer Betrieb; battleship in/außer Dienst; ( fig) außer Gefecht hum
    to have been put out of \commission aus dem Verkehr gezogen worden sein
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    [kə'mISən]
    1. n
    1) (= committing) Begehen nt (form)
    2) (for building, painting etc) Auftrag m
    3) (COMM) Provision f

    on commission, on a commission basis — auf Provision(sbasis)

    4) (MIL) Patent nt
    5) (= special committee) Kommission f, Ausschuss m

    = use) to put into commission — in Dienst stellen

    in/out of commission — in/außer Betrieb

    7) (form: task, errand) Erledigung f

    I was given a commission to recruit new members — ich wurde (damit) beauftragt, neue Mitglieder zu werben

    8)

    the ( EC) Commission — die EG-Kommission

    2. vt
    1) person beauftragen; book, painting in Auftrag geben

    to commission sb to do sth — jdn damit beauftragen, etw zu tun

    2) (MIL) sb zum Offizier ernennen; officer ernennen
    3) ship in Dienst stellen; power station etc in Betrieb nehmen
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    commission [kəˈmıʃn]
    A s
    1. Übertragung f (to an akk)
    2. Auftrag m, Anweisung f
    3. Bevollmächtigung f, Beauftragung f, Vollmacht f (auch als Urkunde)
    4. a) Ernennungsurkunde f
    b) MIL Offizierspatent n:
    hold a commission eine Offiziersstelle innehaben
    5. Kommission f, Ausschuss m:
    be on the commission Mitglied der Kommission sein;
    commission of inquiry Untersuchungsausschuss
    6. kommissarische Stellung oder Verwaltung:
    a) bevollmächtigt, beauftragt (Person),
    b) in kommissarischer Verwaltung (Amt etc)
    7. (übertragenes) Amt:
    in commission in amtlicher Stellung
    8. übertragene Aufgabe, Auftrag m
    9. WIRTSCH
    a) (Geschäfts)Auftrag m
    b) Kommission f, Geschäftsvollmacht f:
    on commission in Kommission ( for für)
    c) Provision f, Kommissions-, Vermittlungsgebühr f:
    sell on commission gegen Provision verkaufen;
    on a commission basis auf Provisionsbasis;
    commission agent Kommissionär(in), Provisionsvertreter(in)
    d) Courtage f, Maklergebühr f
    10. Verübung f, Begehung f (eines Verbrechens etc)
    11. a) SCHIFF Dienst m (eines Schiffes)
    b) umg Betrieb(sfähigkeit) m(f):
    put ( oder place) in ( oder into) commission ein Schiff (wieder) in Dienst stellen;
    put out of commission ein Schiff außer Dienst stellen, umg etwas außer Gefecht setzen, kaputt machen;
    out of commission außer Betrieb, kaputt
    B v/t
    1. bevollmächtigen, beauftragen
    2. a) jemandem einen Auftrag oder eine Bestellung geben
    b) etwas in Auftrag oder in Kommission geben;
    commissioned work Auftragswerk n, -arbeit f
    3. SCHIFF, MIL jemandem ein Offizierspatent verleihen, jemanden zum Offizier ernennen:
    commissioned officer (durch Patent bestallter) Offizier
    4. SCHIFF ein Schiff in Dienst stellen
    5. jemandem ein Amt übertragen
    com. abk
    comm. abk
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    1. noun
    1) (official body) Kommission, die
    2) (instruction, piece of work) Auftrag, der
    3) (in armed services) Ernennungsurkunde, die
    4) (pay of agent) Provision, die
    5)

    in/out of commission — [Kriegsschiff] in/außer Dienst; [Auto, Maschine, Lift usw.] in/außer Betrieb

    2. transitive verb
    1) beauftragen [Künstler]; in Auftrag geben [Gemälde usw.]
    2) (empower) bevollmächtigen

    commissioned officer — Offizier, der

    3) (give command of ship to) zum Kapitän ernennen
    4) (prepare for service) in Dienst stellen [Schiff]
    5) (bring into operation) in Betrieb setzen [Kraftwerk, Fabrik]
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    (order) n.
    Bestellung f. n.
    Amt ¨-er n.
    Aufgabe -n f.
    Auftrag -¨e m.
    Dienst -e m.
    Komission f.
    Kommission f.
    Offizierspatent n.
    Provision f.
    Tätigkeit f.
    Vergütung f.
    Vermittlungsprovision f.
    Vollmacht f.
    Weisung -en f. v.
    bestellen v.
    in Auftrag geben ausdr.
    in Dienst stellen ausdr.

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  • 8 royal

    'roiəl
    1) (of, concerning etc a king, queen etc: the royal family; His Royal Highness Prince Charles.) real
    2) (magnificent: a royal feast.) espléndido, magnífico, suntuoso
    •
    - royalist
    - royalty
    - royal blue
    royal adj real
    tr['rɔɪəl]
    1 real
    1 la familia real
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    royal flush escalera real
    Royal Highness Alteza Real
    royal jelly jalea real
    royal ['rɔɪəl] adj
    : real
    ♦ royally adv
    : persona de linaje real, miembro de la familia real
    adj.
    • real adj.
    • realengo, -a adj.
    • regio, -a adj.

    I 'rɔɪəl
    a) ( monarchic) real

    princess royal — título conferido a veces a la hija mayor de un monarca británico

    b) ( magnificent) espléndido, regio
    c) (AmE colloq) (as intensifier) < nuisance> soberano (fam)

    II
    noun (journ) miembro mf de la familia real
    ['rɔɪǝl]
    1. ADJ
    1) real

    His/Her Royal Highness — Su Alteza Real

    the royal "we" — el plural mayestático

    2) * (=splendid) magnífico, espléndido, regio
    2.
    N * personaje m real, miembro mf de la familia real
    3.
    CPD

    the Royal Academy (of Arts) N — (Brit) la Real Academia (de Bellas Artes)

    See:
    see cultural note RA - ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS in RA

    royal blue N — azul m marino intenso

    royal-blue

    Royal Commission N — (Brit) Comisión f Real

    royal enclosure N — (at race course) palco m de honor (para la Familia Real)

    the Royal Engineers NPL — (Brit) el Cuerpo de Ingenieros

    royal jelly N — jalea f real

    royal line N — familia f real, casa f real

    Royal Mail N (Brit) —

    • the Royal Mail — servicio de Correos en el Reino Unido

    Royal Marines NPL (Brit) —

    • the Royal Marines — la infantería fsing de marina

    • the Royal Shakespeare Company — grupo de teatro especializado en el repertorio de Shakespeare

    Royal Society N — (Brit) ≈ Real Academia f de Ciencias

    • the Royal Ulster Constabulary — la policía de Irlanda del Norte

    * * *

    I ['rɔɪəl]
    a) ( monarchic) real

    princess royal — título conferido a veces a la hija mayor de un monarca británico

    b) ( magnificent) espléndido, regio
    c) (AmE colloq) (as intensifier) < nuisance> soberano (fam)

    II
    noun (journ) miembro mf de la familia real

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  • 9 Office of the Civil Service Commissioners

    орг.
    сокр. OCSC эк. тр., брит. Управление уполномоченных по делам государственной службы* (создано в 1991 г.; взяло на себя часть функций, выполняемых ранее Комиссией по делам гражданской службы; ведет расследования о нарушениях кодекса законов о государственной службе; осуществляет надзор за назначениями на высшие должности государственной службы; консультирует правительственные ведомства по вопросам совершенствования государственной службы; назначение уполномоченных по делам государственной службы является королевской прерогативой; уполномоченные отвечают за свою деятельность непосредственно перед монархом, не являются государственными служащими и не зависят от министров)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Office of the Civil Service Commissioners

  • 10 Abel, Sir Frederick August

    [br]
    b. 17 July 1827 Woolwich, London, England
    d. 6 September 1902 Westminster, London, England
    [br]
    English chemist, co-inventor of cordite find explosives expert.
    [br]
    His family came from Germany and he was the son of a music master. He first became interested in science at the age of 14, when visiting his mineralogist uncle in Hamburg, and studied chemistry at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. In 1845 he became one of the twenty-six founding students, under A.W.von Hofmann, of the Royal College of Chemistry. Such was his aptitude for the subject that within two years he became von Hermann's assistant and demonstrator. In 1851 Abel was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry, succeeding Michael Faraday, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and it was while there that he wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which was co-authored by his assistant, Charles Bloxam.
    Abel's four years at the Royal Military Academy served to foster his interest in explosives, but it was during his thirty-four years, beginning in 1854, as Ordnance Chemist at the Royal Arsenal and at Woolwich that he consolidated and developed his reputation as one of the international leaders in his field. In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but it was his studies during the 1870s into the chemical changes that occur during explosions, and which were the subject of numerous papers, that formed the backbone of his work. It was he who established the means of storing gun-cotton without the danger of spontaneous explosion, but he also developed devices (the Abel Open Test and Close Test) for measuring the flashpoint of petroleum. He also became interested in metal alloys, carrying out much useful work on their composition. A further avenue of research occurred in 1881 when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission set up to investigate safety in mines after the explosion that year in the Sealham Colliery. His resultant study on dangerous dusts did much to further understanding on the use of explosives underground and to improve the safety record of the coal-mining industry. The achievement for which he is most remembered, however, came in 1889, when, in conjunction with Sir James Dewar, he invented cordite. This stable explosive, made of wood fibre, nitric acid and glycerine, had the vital advantage of being a "smokeless powder", which meant that, unlike the traditional ammunition propellant, gunpowder ("black powder"), the firer's position was not given away when the weapon was discharged. Although much of the preliminary work had been done by the Frenchman Paul Vieille, it was Abel who perfected it, with the result that cordite quickly became the British Army's standard explosive.
    Abel married, and was widowed, twice. He had no children, but died heaped in both scientific honours and those from a grateful country.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Grand Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1901. Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath 1891 (Commander 1877). Knighted 1883. Created Baronet 1893. FRS 1860. President, Chemical Society 1875–7. President, Institute of Chemistry 1881–2. President, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1883. President, Iron and Steel Institute 1891. Chairman, Society of Arts 1883–4. Telford Medal 1878, Royal Society Royal Medal 1887, Albert Medal (Society of Arts) 1891, Bessemer Gold Medal 1897. Hon. DCL (Oxon.) 1883, Hon. DSc (Cantab.) 1888.
    Bibliography
    1854, with C.L.Bloxam, Handbook of Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Technical, London: John Churchill; 2nd edn 1858.
    Besides writing numerous scientific papers, he also contributed several articles to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1875–89, 9th edn.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography, 1912, Vol. 1, Suppl. 2, London: Smith, Elder.
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  • 11 Pole, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 22 April 1814 Birmingham, England
    d. 1900
    [br]
    English engineer and educator.
    [br]
    Although primarily an engineer, William Pole was a man of many and varied talents, being amongst other things an accomplished musician (his doctorate was in music) and an authority on whist. He served an apprenticeship at the Horsley Company in Birmingham, and moved to London in 1836, when he was employed first as Manager to a gasworks. In 1844 he published a study of the Cornish pumping engine, and he also accepted an appointment as the first Professor of Engineering in the Elphinstone College at Bombay. He spent three pioneering years in this post, and undertook the survey work for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. Before returning to London in 1848 he married Matilda Gauntlett, the daughter of a clergyman.
    Back in Britain, Pole was employed by James Simpson, J.M.Rendel and Robert Stephenson, the latter engaging him to assist with calculations on the Britannia Bridge. In 1858 he set up his own practice. He kept a very small office, choosing not to delegate work to subordinates but taking on a bewildering variety of commissions for government and private companies. In the first category, he made calculations for government officials of the main drainage of the metropolis and for its water supply. He lectured on engineering to the Royal Engineers' institution at Chatham, and served on a Select Committee to enquire into the armour of warships and fortifications. He became a member of the Royal Commission on the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland (the Devonshire Commission, 1867) and reported to the War Office on the MartiniHenry rifle. He also advised the India Office about examinations for engineering students. The drafting and writing up of reports was frequently left to Pole, who also made distinguished contributions to the official Lives of Robert Stephenson (1864), I.K. Brunel (1870) and William Fairbairn (1877). For other bodies, he acted as Consulting Engineer in England to the Japanese government, and he assisted W.H.Barlow in calculations for a bridge at Queensferry on the Firth of Forth (1873). He was consulted about many urban water supplies.
    Pole joined the Institution of Civil Engineers as an Associate in 1840 and became a Member in 1856. He became a Member of Council, Honorary Secretary (succeeding Manby in 1885–96) and Honorary Member of the Institution. He was interested in astronomy and photography, he was fluent in several languages, was an expert on music, and became the world authority on whist. In 1859 he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at University College London, serving in this office until 1867. Pole, whose dates coincided closely with those of Queen Victoria, was one of the great Victorian engineers: he was a polymath, able to apply his great abilities to an amazing range of different tasks. In engineering history, he deserves to be remembered as an outstanding communicator and popularizer.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1843, "Comparative loss by friction in beam and direct-action engines", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 2:69.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography, London.
    Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 143:301–9.
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  • 12 Hodgkinson, Eaton

    [br]
    b. 26 February 1789 Anderton, Cheshire, England
    d. 18 June 1861 near Manchester, England
    [br]
    English engineer who devised d new form of cast-iron girder.
    [br]
    Eaton Hodgkinson's father, a farmer, died when he was 6 years old, but his mother was a resourceful woman who set up a business in Salford and ensured that her son received a sound schooling. Most important for his education, however, was his friendship with the Manchester scientific luminary Dr. Dalton, who instructed him in practical mathematics. These studies led Hodgkinson to devise a new form of cast-iron girder, carefully tested by experiments and which was widely adopted for fire-proof structures in the nineteenth century. Following Dalton, Hodgkinson became an active member of the Manchester Philosophical Society, of which he was elected President in 1848. He also became an active member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Hodgkinson's work on cast-iron girders secured him a Fellowship of the Royal Society, and the Royal Medal of the Society, in 1841. It was Hodgkinson also who verified the mathematical value of the pioneering experiments carried out by William Fairbairn for Robert Stephenson's proposed wrought-iron tube structure which, in 1849, became the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits. He received a Silver Medal for this work at the Paris Exhibition of 1858. Hodgkinson served as a member of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the application of iron to railway structures. In 1847 he was appointed Professor of the Mechanical Principles of Engineering at University College, London, but his health began to fail shortly after. He was elected an Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1851. Described as "singularly simple and guileless", he was widely admired and respected.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Manchester Philosophical Society 1848. FRS 1841. Royal Society Medal 1841.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography, London.
    Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 21:542–5.
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  • 13 report

    1. I
    there is nothing to report никаких происшествий
    2. II
    report in some manner report personally (immediately, etc.) доложить лично и т.д.; report at some time report weekly (daily, etc.) сообщать /докладывать/ еженедельно и т.д.; the Commission reports tomorrow комиссия делает доклад /докладывает/ завтра
    3. III
    1) report smth., smb. report a rudeness (one's unpunctuality, etc.) жаловаться на грубость /доложить о чьей-л. грубости/ и т.д.; I shall report you я пожалуюсь на тебя
    2) report smth. report a new discovery (an event, a transaction, the results of an expedition, etc.) сообщать /рассказывать/ о новом открытии и т.д.; our Paris branch reports a marked improvement in business наш парижский филиал сообщает о заметном улучшении дел в торговле; report all you see and hear сообщайте /докладывайте/ обо всем, что вы увидите и услышите || report progress сообщать о положении дел
    3) report smth. report a speech (a meeting, the debate, a fire, a marriage or other ceremony, the progress of a conference a law case, proceedings, etc.) давать репортаж /сообщать/ (в газете, по радио и т.п.) о выступлении и т.д.
    4. IV
    report smth. in some manner report smth. officially (accurately, faithfully, precisely, formally, critically, annually, etc.) сообщать о чем-л. официально и т.д.; report smth. at some time the Royal Commission will report its conclusions tomorrow завтра королевская комиссия сделает сообщение о своих выводах
    5. VI
    report smb. in some state report smb. sick сообщать /докладывать/ о чьей-л. болезни; he reported himself sick a) он сообщил /сказал/, что он болен; б) он сказался больным
    6. VII
    report smth. to be in some state report the pole to be accessible сообщить о том, что полюс доступен; they reported the number of prisoners to be enormous они сообщили об огромном числе пленных
    7. VIII
    report smb. doing smth. report smb. missing сообщить о том, что кто-л. пропал без веста
    8. IX
    report smb. in some state report smb. killed сообщать о том, что кто-л. убит
    9. XI
    1) be reported at some time all changes are to be reported daily обо всех изменениях необходимо докладывать /сообщать/ ежедневно; be reported to smb. my actual words and those reported to you were quite different то, что я говорил, не имеет ничего общего с тем, что вам передали
    2) be reported the discovery of a new comet has been reported сообщили об открытии новой кометы; be reported to smb. the speech as reported to me by one who was there was grossly insulting как сообщил /рассказал/ мне один из тех, кто там был, эта речь была очень оскорбительной; be reported that it is reported that you're wasting money говорят, что вы тратите деньги зря; it is reported that we are to have a new teacher говорят, что у нас будет новый учитель; be in some manner reported of... he is well (badly) reported of among diplomatic circles в дипломатических кругах о нем отзываются хорошо (плохо)
    3) be reported that... it is [telegraphically] reported that... [по телеграфу] сообщают, что...; it is reported that over a million died in the earthquake сообщается, что во время землетрясения погибло свыше миллиона человек; be reported to be in some place he is reported to be in Paris (in the country.. etc.) сообщают /говорят/, что он сейчас в Париже и т.д.; be reported to be in some state he is reported to be dead сообщают, что он умер; be reported in some manner his utterances had not been correctly reported by the Vienna newspaper его высказывания были неправильно переданы венской газетой: be reported at some time as previously reported как уже [прежде] сообщалось; be reported in (from) smth. the incident was reported in the newspapers о происшествии было напечатано в газетах; it is reported from Paris как сообщают из Парижа; be reported doing smth. he was reported missing было объявлено, что он пропал без вести
    10. XVI
    1) report to smb., smth. report to the port authorities (to a superior, to headquarters, etc.) доложить о своем прибытии начальству порта и т.д.; report to the police регистрироваться в полиции; report to one's unit mil, явиться в свою часть; report by smth. report by letter докладывать письменно /в письменном виде/; he reported by word of mouth он доложил устно; report at some place report at the office (at our branch in London, at the barracks, etc.) явиться в контору и т.д.; the teacher did not report at his class учитель не явился на занятия; report [back] to Parliament after the Christmass recess возобновить свою парламентскую деятельность после рождественских каникул; report for smth. report for duty (for work) явиться на дежурство (на службу); report for duty on the day indicated (at 9 a. m., etc.) явиться на службу в указанный день и т.д.
    2) report on smth. report on one's trip to Europe and America (on the conditions of the crops, on the state of the persons, etc.) делать доклад /сообщение/ о своей поездке в Европу и Америку и т.д.; he will report on this matter tomorrow он завтра сделает об этом доклад; report (up)on /of/ smb., smth. report well (badly, etc.) on smb. хорошо и т.д. отзываться о ком-л.; report well (badly, etc.) of the prospects хорошо и т.д. отказываться о перспективах; he reports well of the scheme он дал благоприятный отзыв о плане; the Committee has reported favourably on the Bill комитет высказался в пользу законопроекта
    3) report for smth. report for a newspaper работать репортером в газете; for two sessions he reported for the "Daily Mirror" в течение двух парламентских сессий он давал материалы для газеты "Дейли миррор"
    11. XVIII
    report oneself he reported himself он заявил о своем прибытии; report oneself to smb. являться к /докладывать о своем прибытии/ кому-л.; when you have finished this work report yourself to the manager когда вы закончите эту работу, доложите управляющему
    12. XXI1
    1) report smb. for smth. report an official (an employee, etc.) for insolence (for misconduct, for disobedience, for want of punctuality, etc.) жаловаться на дерзость и т.д. служащего /должностного лица/ и т.д.; report smb., smth. to smb. report a bad boy to the headmaster (the incivility of officials to their superiors, the incident to the authorities, etc.) пожаловаться на плохого ученика директору школы и т.д.; they reported him to the police они сообщили о его поступке в полицию
    2) report smth. to smb., smth. report an accident (a fact, one's movements, one's address, etc.) to smb. (to the management, etc.) сообщить о происшествии и т.д. кому-л. и т.д.; he reported all the details of the scene to me он сообщал /рассказал/ мне о всех подробностях того, что произошло /что случилось/ || report progress to smb. держать кого-л. в курсе событий, сообщать кому-л. о том, как идут дела
    13. XXV
    report that... (what..., etc.) report that he reached the pole (what he had seen, etc.) сообщать о том, что достиг /добрался до/ полюса и т.д.; he reported that everything was in order он доложил, что все в порядке

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > report

  • 14 Waymouth, Bernard

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. unknown
    d. 25 November 1890 London, England
    [br]
    English naval architect, ship surveyor and designer of the clipper ship Thermopylae.
    [br]
    Waymouth had initial training in shipbuilding at one of the Royal Dockyards before going on to work at a privately owned shipyard. With this all-round experience he was accepted in 1854 by Lloyd's Register of Shipping as a surveyor, and was to serve the Society well during a period of great change in ship design. In 1864 he was charged with the task of framing the Rules for the Construction of Composite Built Vessels, i.e. ships with main structural members such as keel, frames and deck beams of iron and with the hull sheathing or planking of timber. Although long superseded, these rules were of considerable consequence at the time and they were accompanied by beautiful drawings executed by Harry J.Cornish, who became Chief Ship Surveyor of Lloyd's from 1900 until 1909. In 1870 revolutionary proposals were made for iron ships that led to the adoption of a new form of rules where the scantlings or size of individual parts were related to the overall dimensions of the vessel. The symbol 100A1 was then adopted for the first time.
    Waymouth was more than a theoretical naval architect: in the late 1860s he was commissioned by the shipbuilders Walter Hood to design the famous Aberdeen Clipper Thermopylae. This was one of the fastest sailing ships of the nineteenth century and, along with its Clyde-built counterpart Cutty Sark, proved the efficacy of composite construction for these specialist vessels.
    Waymouth was appointed Principal Surveyor of Lloyd's in 1870 and was Secretary of the Society from 1872 until his death at work in 1890. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Tonnage and of the Enquiry into the loss of HMS Atlanta, and at the time of his death was Vice-President of the Institution of Naval Architects.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects.
    Further Reading
    Annals of Lloyd's Register, 1934, London.
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  • 15 Houston, Sir Alexander Cruickshank

    SUBJECT AREA: Public utilities
    [br]
    b. 18 September 1865 Settle, Yorkshire, England
    d. 29 October 1933 London, England
    [br]
    English physician and bacteriologist, pioneer of the chlorination of water supplies.
    [br]
    Son of an Army surgeon-general, he graduated in Edinburgh in 1889. Specializing in public health and forensic matters, he worked from 1897 to 1905 for the Local Government Board on lead poisoning resulting from moorland water supplies. He also acted as Bacteriologist to the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal from 1890 to 1905. In 1905 he was appointed Director of Water Examinations to the Metropolitan Water Board, with whom he served until his death. Shortly before he joined the Board, he was involved in the investigation of an outbreak of typhoid at Lincoln and was instrumental in establishing a chlorination plant of a rudimentary nature there, and also in organizing the comprehensive chlorinating system which was then applied to London's water supply. He also advised on water supplies in Egypt and Canada.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1918. Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1919. FRS 1931. Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, Edinburgh 1892.
    Bibliography
    1914, Studies in Water Supply.
    1918, Rural Water Supplies and their Purification.
    1953, London's Water Supply, 1903–1953, London: Metropolitan Water Board.
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  • 16 Paxton, Sir Joseph

    [br]
    b. 3 August 1801 Milton Bryant, Bedfordshire, England
    d. 8 June 1865 Sydenham, London, England
    [br]
    English designer of the Crystal Palace, the first large-scale prefabricated ferrovitreous structure.
    [br]
    The son of a farmer, he had worked in gardens since boyhood and at the age of 21 was employed as Undergardener at the Horticultural Society Gardens in Chiswick, from where he went on to become Head Gardener for the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. It was there that he developed his methods of glasshouse construction, culminating in the Great Conservatory of 1836–40, an immense structure some 277 ft (84.4 m) long, 123 ft (37.5 m) wide and 67 ft (20.4 m) high. Its framework was of iron and its roof of glass, with wood to contain the glass panels; it is now demolished. Paxton went on to landscape garden design, fountain and waterway engineering, the laying out of the model village of Edensor, and to play a part in railway and country house projects.
    The structure that made Paxton a household name was erected in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 and was aptly dubbed, by Punch, the Crystal Palace. The idea of holding an international exhibition for industry had been mooted in 1849 and was backed by Prince Albert and Henry Cole. The money for this was to be raised by public subscription and 245 designs were entered into a competition held in 1850; however, most of the concepts, received from many notable architects and engineers, were very costly and unsuitable, and none were accepted. That same year, Paxton published his scheme in the Illustrated London News and it was approved after it received over-whelming public support.
    Paxton's Crystal Palace, designed and erected in association with the engineers Fox and Henderson, was a prefabricated glasshouse of vast dimensions: it was 1,848 ft (563.3 m) long, 408 ft (124.4 m) wide and over 100 ft (30.5 m) high. It contained 3,300 iron columns, 2,150 girders. 24 miles (39 km) of guttering, 600,000 ft3 (17,000 m3) of timber and 900,000 ft2 (84,000 m) of sheet glass made by Chance Bros, of Birmingham. One of the chief reasons why it was accepted by the Royal Commission Committee was that it fulfilled the competition proviso that it should be capable of being erected quickly and subsequently dismantled and re-erected elsewhere. The Crystal Palace was to be erected at a cost of £79,800, much less than the other designs. Building began on 30 July 1850, with a labour force of some 2,000, and was completed on 31 March 1851. It was a landmark in construction at the time, for its size, speed of construction and its non-eclectic design, and, most of all, as the first great prefabricated building: parts were standardized and made in quantity, and were assembled on site. The exhibition was opened by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851 and had received six million visitors when it closed on 11 October. The building was dismantled in 1852 and reassembled, with variations in design, at Sydenham in south London, where it remained until its spectacular conflagration in 1936.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1851. MP for Coventry 1854–65. Fellow Linnaean Society 1853; Horticultural Society 1826. Order of St Vladimir, Russia, 1844.
    Further Reading
    P.Beaver, 1986, The Crystal Palace: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise, Phillimore. George F.Chadwick, 1961, Works of Sir Joseph Paxton 1803–1865, Architectural Press.
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  • 17 Stuart, James

    [br]
    b. 2 January 1843 Balgonie, Fife, Scotland
    d. 12 October 1913 Norwich, Norfolk, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and educator.
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    James Stuart established the teaching of engineering as a university discipline at Cambridge. He was born at Balgonie in Fife, where his father managed a linen mill. He attended the University of St Andrews and then studied mathematics at Cambridge University. In 1867 he took up a post as Assistant Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his skills as a teacher were quickly recognized. The University was at that time adapting itself to the new systems of instruction recommended by the Royal Commission on university reform in the 1850s, and Stuart took an active part in the organization of a new structure of inter-collegiate lecture courses. He made an even more significant contribution to the establishment of extramural courses from which the Cambridge University extension lecture programme developed. This began in 1867, when Stuart took adult classes in Manchester and Crewe. The latter, in particular, brought him into close contact with those involved in practical mechanics and stimulated his interest in the applied sciences. In 1875 he was elected to the newly created Chair of Mechanism and Engineering in Cambridge, and he set out energetically to recruit students and to build up a flourishing unit with its own workshop and foundry, training a new generation of engineers in the applied sciences.
    In November 1884 Stuart was elected to Parliament and embarked on an active but somewhat undistinguished career in politics as a radical Liberal, becoming amongst other things a keen supporter of the women's suffrage movement. This did not endear him to his academic colleagues, and the Engineering School suffered from neglect by Stuart until he resigned the Chair in 1890. By the time he left, however, the University was ready to recognize Engineering as a Tripos subject and to accept properly equipped teaching laboratories, so that his successor J.A. Ewing was able to benefit from Stuart's pioneering work. Stuart continued his political activities and was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1909. He married Elizabeth Colman after resigning the Chair, and on the death of his father-in-law in 1898 he moved to Norwich to take on the direction of the family mustard firm, J. \& J.Colman Ltd.
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    Further Reading
    Hilken, 1967, Engineering at Cambridge, Ch. 3, pp. 58–106.
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  • 19 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

  • 20 Barry, Sir Charles

    [br]
    b. 23 May 1795 Westminster, London, England
    d. 12 May 1860 Clapham, London, England
    [br]
    English architect who was a leader in the field between the years 1830 and 1860.
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    Barry was typical of the outstanding architects of this time. His work was eclectic, and he suited the style—whether Gothic or classical—to the commission and utilized the then-traditional materials and methods of construction. He is best known as architect of the new Palace of Westminster; he won the competition to rebuild it after the disastrous fire of the old palace in 1834. Bearing this in mind in the rebuilding, Barry utilized that characteristic nineteenth-century material, iron for joists and roofing plates.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1852. Member of the Royal Academy; the Royal Society; the Academies of St Luke, Rome; St Petersburg (and others); and the American Institute of Architects. RIBA Gold Medal 1850.
    Further Reading
    Marcus Whiffen, The Architecture of Sir Charles Barry in Manchester and Neighbourhood, Royal Manchester Institution.
    H.M.Port (ed.), 1976, The Houses of Parliament, Yale University Press.
    H.M.Colvin (ed.), The History of the King's Works, Vol. 6, HMSO.
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