01 setembro 2010

The Curie


























Pierre and Marie Curie
at the laboratory, Paris



Pierre Curie (15 May 1859, Paris - 19 April 1906, Paris), The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 (with Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie), http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/pierre-curie.html




























Marie Curie
(7 November 1867, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire - 4 July 1934, France), The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 (with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie), The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911,
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1911/marie-curie.html



Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897, Paris - 17 March 1956, Paris), The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (with Frédéric Joliot), http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1935/joliot-curie.html






















Ève Curie
(6 December 1904, Paris - 22 October 2007, Manhattan), journalist, writer of her mother's biography "Madame Curie" (the book won the 1937 National Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted for the silver screen in 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie

01 agosto 2010

"Aquele querido mês de Agosto", um filme de Miguel Gomes e de todos os que passam (ou passaram) um Agosto lá, na terra...

Estreou em Portugal a 21 de Agosto de 2008 (http://www.osomeafuria.com/films/3/1/). Reconhecido internacionalmente (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1081929/), foi  o candidato português à nomeação para o Oscar da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas de Hollywood para o Melhor Filme Estrangeiro (http://www.ica-ip.pt/detalhe.aspx?newsid=321), na escolha da Comissão de Selecção do ICA (Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual) entre todas as longas-metragens portuguesas estreadas entre 1 de Outubro de 2007 e 30 de Setembro de 2008. A ver, ou a rever, em Agosto...


Luísa Sequeira entrevista Miguel Lopes e Joaquim Carvalho em 5 de Setembro de 2008 no Fotograma (http://ww1.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/fotograma/?k=Meu-querido-Mes-de-Agosto.rtp&post=3164), ao mesmo tempo que "entreabre a porta" ao filme.

01 julho 2010

Le dernier vol pour l'astéroïde B612, suivant une migration d´oiseaux sauvages (31 Juillet 1944)

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry, né le 29 Juin 1900 à Lyon et disparu en vol le 31 Juillet 1944 (Mort pour la France) (http://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/ )



"Quand en décembre 1940 j’ai traversé le Portugal pour me rendre aux États-Unis, Lisbonne m’est apparue comme une sorte de paradis clair et triste. On y parlait alors beaucoup d’une invasion imminente, et le Portugal se cramponnait à l’illusion de son bonheur. Lisbonne, qui avait bâti la plus ravissante exposition qui fût au monde, souriait d’un sourire un peu pâle, comme celui de ces mères qui n’ont point de nouvelles d’un fils en guerre et s’efforcent de le sauver par leur confiance : « Mon fils est vivant puisque je souris… » « Regardez, disait ainsi Lisbonne, combien je suis heureuse et paisible et bien éclairée… » Le continent entier pesait contre le Portugal à la façon d’une montagne sauvage, lourde de ses tribus de proie ; Lisbonne en fête défiait l’Europe : « Peut-on me prendre pour cible quand je mets tant de soin à ne point me cacher ! Quand je suis tellement vulnérable !… »

Les villes de chez moi étaient, la nuit, couleur de cendre. Je m’y étais déshabitué de toute lueur, et cette capitale rayonnante me causait un vague malaise. Si le faubourg alentour est sombre, les diamants d’une vitrine trop éclairée attirent les rôdeurs. On les sent qui circulent. Contre Lisbonne je sentais peser la nuit d’Europe habitée par des groupes errants de bombardiers, comme s’ils eussent de loin flairé ce trésor.

Mais le Portugal ignorait l’appétit du monstre. Il refusait de croire aux mauvais signes. Le Portugal parlait sur l’art avec une confiance désespérée. Oserait-on l’écraser dans son culte de l’art ? Il avait sorti toutes ses merveilles. Oserait-on l’écraser dans ses merveilles ? Il montrait ses grands hommes. Faute d’une armée, faute de canons, il avait dressé contre la ferraille de l’envahisseur toutes ses sentinelles de pierre : les poètes, les explorateurs, les conquistadors. Tout le passé du Portugal, faute d’armée et de canons, barrait la route. Oserait-on l’écraser dans son héritage d’un passé grandiose?

J’errais ainsi chaque soir avec mélancolie à travers les réussites de cette exposition d’un goût extrême, où tout frôlait la perfection, jusqu’à la musique si discrète, choisie avec tant de tact, et qui, sur les jardins, coulait doucement, sans éclat, comme un simple chant de fontaine. Allait-on détruire dans le monde ce goût merveilleux de la mesure ?

Et je trouvais Lisbonne, sous son sourire, plus triste que mes villes éteintes.

J’ai connu, vous avez peut-être connu, ces familles un peu bizarres qui conservaient à leur table la place d’un mort. Elles niaient l’irréparable. Mais il ne me semblait pas que ce défi fût consolant. Des morts on doit faire des morts. Alors ils retrouvent, dans leur rôle de morts, une autre forme de présence. Mais ces familles-là suspendaient leur retour. Elles en faisaient d’éternels absents, des convives en retard pour l’éternité. Elles troquaient le deuil contre une attente sans contenu. Et ces maisons me paraissaient plongées dans un malaise sans rémission autrement étouffant que le chagrin. Du pilote Guillaumet, le dernier ami que j’aie perdu et qui s’est fait abattre en service postal aérien, mon Dieu ! j’ai accepté de porter le deuil. Guillaumet ne changera plus. Il ne sera plus jamais présent, mais il ne sera jamais absent non plus. J’ai sacrifié son couvert à ma table, ce piège inutile, et j’ai fait de lui un véritable ami mort.

Mais le Portugal essayait de croire au bonheur, lui laissant son couvert et ses lampions et sa musique. On jouait au bonheur, à Lisbonne, afin que Dieu voulût bien y croire."
(premiers mots de Lettre à un otage, 1943, http://www.wook.pt/ http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Lettre_%C3%A0_un_otage )

01 junho 2010

World EXPO 2010 Shanghai, China

See World Expo 2010 Shanghai Promotion Video (http://en.expo2010.cn/sr/video/index.htm) and World Expo 2010 Shanghai Official Website (http://en.expo2010.cn/sr/100day/index.htm)




Enjoy Expo Shanghai online (http://en.expo.cn/indexn.html) and become a lover of Portugal (http://www.portugalexpo2010.com.pt/homepage.aspx ). Visit the Pavilion of Portugal on June 6th (Portugal National Pavilion Day) or on another day, any day .. . or always!!!


01 maio 2010

Computing, the early years

Charles Babbage´s Analytical Engine, 1871 (Science Museum, London, UK, http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/)


Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871, The Ilustrated London news, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage)


Ana Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852, first computer programmer, National Physical Gallery, UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace )

01 abril 2010

Dia Internacional do Povo Cigano (8 de Abril)

"A terra é a minha pátria, o céu o meu tecto, a liberdade a minha religião" (in http://www.ciga-nos.pt/)

II Cimeira Europeia para a Inclusão do Povo Cigano em 8-9 Abril, Córdoba/Espanha (http://www.andalucia.org/eventos/ii-cumbre-europea-sobre-poblacion-gitana/). História do Dia Internacional do Povo Cigano (http://www.amnistia-internacional.pt/index.php?Itemid=79&id=380&option=com_content&task=view)



 

01 março 2010

Primeira Travessia do Atlântico Sul (30 de Março - 17 de Junho, 1922)

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (Lisboa, 17 de Fevereiro de 1869 — Lisboa, 18 de Fevereiro de 1959) (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Viegas_Gago_Coutinho) e Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral (Celorico da Beira, 23 de Maio de 1881 — Mar do Norte, Novembro de 1924) (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_de_Sacadura_Freire_Cabral)

Ver artigo de José Bruno Falcão Machado (http://www.emfa.pt/www/po/musar/conteudos/historia/viagens/6-SacaduraCoutinho.pdf) sobre a Primeira Travessia do Atlântico Sul e os filmes que documentam a preparação da viagem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNgp9_Lr20&feature=related) e o regresso a Lisboa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrMoypRVd9A)


01 fevereiro 2010

2010, International Year of Biodiversity

"Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life." (EEA, http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/biodiversity-is-life-biodiversity-is-our-life) See also United Nations International Year of Biodiversity (http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/) and remember to fight against poverty (is a necessary way to defende biodiversity).

Ten to Watch in 2010 (
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/species/about_species/problems/ten_to_watch_in_2010/)






And Four to Watch at Portugal (see The IUCN Red List to Threatened Species, http://www.iucnredlist.org/species-of-the-day/archives)

01 janeiro 2010

2010, European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

"The fight against poverty and social exclusion is a primary objective of the European Union (EU) and its Member States. A significant part of the European population is in a situation of poverty and lacks access to basic services. The launch of a European Year dedicated to this objective is intended to give a new impetus to the process of social inclusion." (http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/employment_and_social_policy/social_inclusion_fight_against_poverty/em0005_en.htm e http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=637)

(photo pandabearmonster in http://www.metrophotochallenge.com/br/photo/97212)

(photo deyvis malta in http://olhares.aeiou.pt/gentes_da_terra_foto3302434.html)

(photo kindgott in http://www.flickr.com/photos/dante1334/2625370697/in/set-72157618577406077/)

24 dezembro 2009

Feliz Natal



"Adoração dos Reis Magos" (Joaquim Machado de Castro, 1731-1822, http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/machadocastro.html), Presépio do Convento do Santíssimo Coração de Jesus (encontra-se actualmente na Basílica da Estrela)

01 dezembro 2009

Lisbon, Copenhagen and Oslo

TREATY OF LISBON


Lisbon, 1 December, 2009: Treaty of Lisbon (http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/glance/index_en.htm)



COP15

Copenhagen, 7-18 December, 2009: United Nations Climate Change Conference (http://en.cop15.dk/frontpage and http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/lang/en/pages/2009summit)


THE NOBEL PRIZE 2009

Oslo, 10 December, 2009: The Nobel Prize 2009 - Barack Hussein Obama (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture.html)

01 novembro 2009

José Maria Eça de Queiroz


José Maria Eça de Queiroz (Póvoa do Varzim, 25 de Novembro de 1845 - Paris, 16 de Agosto de 1900) (http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/conhecer/bases-tematicas/figuras-da-cultura-portuguesa.html; ver http://purl.pt/93/1/)




´Singularidades de uma rapariga loura´, brinde aos Senhores Assinantes do Diário de Notícias, Eça de Queiroz, Lisboa 1874 (http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/aprender-portugues/a-ler/contos-e-pequenas-narrativas.html) (´Sinfonia Azul´, pintura de António Carneiro, 1910, no Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)

´Singularidades de uma rapariga loura´, 2009, um filme de Manoel de Oliveira (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013856)

01 outubro 2009

World Food Day, 16 October


«World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It marks the date of the founding of FAO in 1945. The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.» in
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/food/index.html




01 setembro 2009

Eleição de Deputados para a Assembleia da República, Portugal - 27 de Setembro, 2009

Assembleia da República Portuguesa (http://www.parlamento.pt/Parlamento/Paginas/default.aspx), Sala das Sessões (foto de Alberto Frias, Expresso)

Nota: De 1 a 4 de Setembro de 2009, realiza-se em Lisboa, na Assembleia da República, e em Coimbra, na Universidade de Coimbra, a ´60ª Conferência da Comissão Internacional para a História dos Parlamentos e das Instituições Representativas´ http://www.parlamento.pt/Paginas/2009_60ConfComInterHistParlamentosedas.aspx), ver programa em http://www.parlamento.pt/Documents/programaICHRPI.pdf
(Cortes Constituintes de 1821, pintura de Veloso Salgado (1864-1945) na Sala das Sessões da Assembleia da República)
As Candidaturas (relação disponibilizada pela Comissão Nacional de Eleiçôes em http://www.cne.pt/dl/contactos_partidos_concorrentes_ar_2009.pdf):



Bloco de Esquerda - BE (http://www.bloco.org/media/programabe.pdf)

Coligação Democrática Unitária - CDU (Partido Comunista Português,
http://www.pcp.pt/dmfiles/programa-eleitoral-ar2009.pdf e Partido Ecologista ´Os Verdes´, http://www.osverdes.pt/)

Frente Ecologia e Humanismo - FEH (Movimento ´Partido da Terra´,
http://partidodaterra.blogspot.com/ e Partido Humanista,http://www.movimentohumanista.com/ph/xpagina.php?tema=eleicoes&subtema=e2009); nos círculos eleitorais dos Açores e Madeira concorre, sem coligação, o Movimento ´Partido da Terra´

Movimento Esperança Portugal - MEP (
http://www.mep.pt/images/DocumentosAprovados/programa_mep_congresso.pdf)

Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - PCTP/MRPP (
http://www.pctpmrpp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=201&Itemid=56&limit=1&limitstart=0)

Partido Nacional Renovador - PNR (
http://www.pnr.pt/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=496&Itemid=1)

Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista - POUS (
http://pous4.no.sapo.pt/page_2.html)

Partido Popular/Centro Democrático Social - CDS/PP (
http://www.cds.pt/rubricas/programaeleitoralCDS.pdf)

Partido Popular Monárquico - PPM (...
http://www.euprofiler.eu/party/244/28/0 ou http://www.monarquicos.com/?cat=206)

Portugal Pro Vida - PPV (
http://portugalprovida.googlegroups.com/web/PPV_sintese.pdf?hl=pt-PT&gda=drr5T0AAAABUJsR3QfVDCkRbqNAzCkOKymWr9mx6uOdiB9I7OwT6RWFdcyIH7jlCztQRllem8cKK39hcfVCplQ_8NpHmmxMC&gsc=j5Ql7gsAAAAJ96Ux9LO0kA6MQLjrNYRE)
Partido Social Democrata - PPD/PSD (http://www.politicadeverdade.com/archive/doc/Compromisso_de_Verdade_-_Programa_Eleitoral_do_PSD_-_Legislativas_2009_0.pdf
)

Movimento Mérito e Sociedade - MMS (http://www.mudarportugal.pt/anexos/Manifesto_Final_Web.pdf )

Nova Democracia - PND (http://www.pnd.pt/legislativas-2009/programa-politico-2009/ )


Partido Socialista - PS (
http://www.ps.pt/media/Programa_de_Governo_do_PS.pdf)

Partido Trabalhista Português - PTP (
http://www.ptp.com.pt/)

29 agosto 2009

01 agosto 2009

Summertime

Summertime (from Porgy and Bess Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess), 1935, music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward), performed by Ella Fitzgerald (http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/) and Louis Armstrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong) (edition by Dailymotion, http://www.dailymotion.com/pt)

01 julho 2009

Lei de 1 de Julho de 1867


Pena de Morte (http://contrapenademorte.wordpress.com/)


Abolição da Pena de Morte para crimes civis em Portugal – Lei de 1 de Julho de 1867 (ver http://www.pgr.pt/portugues/grupo_soltas/efemerides/morte/indice.htm e carta de Victor Hugo, de 15 de Julho de 1867, a Pedro de Brito Aranha "Accomplir ce progrès, c'est faire le grand pas de la civilisation. Des aujourd'hui le Portugal est a la tête de l'Europe.Vous n'avez pas cesse d'être, vous portugais, des navigateurs intrépides. Vous allez en avant, autrefois dans l'océan, aujourd'hui dans la vérité. Proclamer des principes, c'est plus beau encore que de découvrir des mondes." em http://eremita.di.uminho.pt/gutenberg/etext05/7act210.zip)




O Último Condenado à Morte”, um filme de Francisco Manso, 2009 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051920/)




Assembleia das Nações Unidas que aprovou a Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem em 24 de Outubro de 1948 (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/)



Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem (http://www.humanrightsactioncenter.org/dyr/)

01 junho 2009

Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo



Luis Figo Foundation (March 13th, 2003) (http://www.fundacaoluisfigo.pt/port/home.html)




Tribute to Luis Figo (May 31th, 2009)

«Dear Friends of Inter,
Tomorrow, 31 May 2009, will be my last Sunday as a footballer. Together with the friends of Sporting Lisbon, Barcelona, Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, I want to thank all of you Nerazzurri fans, who have shown me affection since my first day in Milan.
I am very pleased that my last Sunday as a player is, for me and for all of us at Inter, a Sunday of celebration for the success of the fourth consecutive Scudetto. Winning has always been the only true objective of my career. Winning everything I could win, from practice matches in training sessions to championships, from cups to personal trophies. And to get to win, I have known only one road, that of sacrifice and work. They taught me this when I was a boy at Sporting and everything I have obtained has never come by coincidence, but after many sacrifices.
For this reason, I today want to say sorry if in a few matches or during a few periods I haven't succeeded in giving my best, either through injury or for other reasons. The first person to be sorry is me, because I hadn't succeeded in giving all of you what I had worked towards.
When I arrived in Milan, Inter was a team that was learning to win. We have come a long way together and for this I want to thank president Moratti, the coaches, all my colleagues, all the people at the club who I met and worked with. If I have been happy in Milan, the merit is theirs.
Football has given me a lot, but most of all it has given me the possibility to meet marvellous people and friends who will remain forever, and president Moratti and those who I have come to know here in the Inter environment will have a special place in this group. Just like you, dear fans.
The nicest trophy of my career is never having had a problem with a single team-mate.
To all Interisti, a sincere embrace and the conviction that Inter will continue to work to win more and more.
With affection,
Luis Figo»