Maria João Pires

(photo in http://www.skyarts.co.uk/images/gallery/Europa-konzert-lisbon-3_medium.jpg)

"Maria João Pires was born in Lisbon in 1944. She made her first public performance at the age of seven with Mozart’s Piano Concertos in Oporto, Portugal. At the age of nine she received Portugal’s highest award for young musicians just one year later. From 1953 until 1960 she stu¬died at the Lisbon Conservatory with Professor Campos Coelho and took courses in composition, theory, and history of music with Francine Benoit. She continued her studies in Germany, first at the Munich Music Academy with Rosl Schmid, then in Hanover with Karl Engel. Maria João Pires has appeared all over the globe with all the major orchestras including the Berliner Philhar¬moniker, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Wiener Philharmoniker. She is also a keen performer of chamber music. In recent years she has been heard at all the major international festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festi¬val, the Schubertiade, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Montpellier, Lucerne, Edinburgh and BBC Proms." (more in http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/artist/biography?ART_ID=PIRMA)

August(us)

Augustus of Prima Porta (discovered on April 20, 1863, in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome; actually, you can see this 2.04m high marble statue at Vatican Museums - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_of_Prima_Porta), perhaps the most famous sculpture of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/43047/Augustus).

Fotografia de koalazf (http://koalazf.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/swallowtail-butterfly-flamula-2/)

August was originally named Sextilis, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar. When Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar in 45 BC gave it almost its modern length (30 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.The new calendar was called Gregorian, or New Style (N.S.), calendar. It was adopted by Roman Catholic countries (1582), but Protestant and Eastern Orthodox countries long continued to use the Old Style (O.S.), or Julian calendar, but August remained!  (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/42820/August)

Man in the Moon

A Man on the Moon, 1969 (July, 20) (image credit: NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_196.html). To know the full story see NASA - Appollo (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html) and NASA - Apollo 40 (http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/). Well, there is another version, less known ... 

Enjoy!!!! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535107/, image credits http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3300426752/tt1535107)

A Escola de Atenas

Scuola di Atene, Raffaello Sanzio, 1511 (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_01.jpg)

Ao centro Platão e Aristóteles, seguram o Timeu e a Ética a Nicômaco, sob o olhar de Apolo e de Atenas, numa escola em que se movimentam Epicuro, Pitágoras, Hipátia, Sócrates, Zenão de Cítio, Anaximandro, Xenofonte, Parménides, Heráclito, Diógenes, Arquimedes, Zoroastro, Ptolomeu e Alexandre, O Grande (entre muitos outros).

Karol Józef Wojtyła, Beato Papa João Paulo II, um Homem Bom

Beato Papa João Paulo II, nascido Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 de maio de 1920 – 2 de abril de 2005) (imagem in http://www.derradeirasgracas.com/images/Catequese%20do%20Papa%20Bento%20XVI/Jo%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20II%2019.12.09%20.jpg)

A Sua Vida em imagens: http://www.joaopauloii.va/pt/

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey), http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html (photo from http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/162558main_einstein_gyro.jpg)

Animated film (http://vimeo.com/4210860)

If you want to know more... (http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/)

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (19 de Julho, 1885, Cabanas de Viriato - 3 de Abril, 1954, Lisboa), fotografia em https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyhRf9zgBzr7lMhP0aSc2SFroUM0HB3p7SEURZ6vmlA0ysz3OSgKqp5bTHSu49lN9iJeQ8VDgTdSYO8BAUp6oTvQZnEk3zzOnMutAx-aH5nwaJP31sgn3c_ukHELFGuYoBaVH/s1600/sm_vivr_TitelAdSM1.jpg (AMIGOS de ARISTIDES e ANGELINA de SOUSA MENDES), recomenda-se a visita demorada ao Museu Virtual Aristides de Sousa Mendes em http://mvasm.sapo.pt/. O legado excepcional deste Homem Bom aguarda, carinhosamente, por nós!

Aqui (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefahWcE9_4&feature=related) encontram a primeira parte de um documentário/homenagem que a RPT produziu em 2007 (são cinco os videos YouTube que reproduzem o tributo a Aristides de Sousa Mendes) e que nos confronta com o significado da Coragem ao Serviço dos Homens!

João Baptista da Silva Leitão [mais tarde, Almeida Garrett]

Almeida Garrett (Porto, 4 de Fevereiro de 1799 - Lisboa, 9 de Dezembro de 1854) (pintura de 1844 por Pedro Augusto Guglielmi, http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Almeida_Garrett_por_Guglielmi.jpg), resumo biográfico em http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/figuras/agarrett.html

"Portugal na balança da Europa: do que tem sido e do que ora lhe convém ser na nova ordem de coisas do mundo civilizado", 1ª ed., Londres : S. W. Sustenance, 1830. (http://purl.pt/3); ler versão integral em http://purl.pt/3/3/res-341-p_PDF/res-341-p_PDF_08-G-R0072/res-341-p_0000_rosto-339_t08-G-R0072.pdf (imagem da obra em http://odivino.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/2005_03.html)

2011, European Year of Volunteerin

"Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?", Paul Gauguin, 1897 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woher_kommen_wir_Wer_sind_wir_Wohin_gehen_wir.jpg)

"The EU has designated 2011 as the "European Year of Volunteering".

In the European Union, almost 100 million citizens of all ages invest their time, talents and money to make a positive contribution to their community by volunteering in civil society organisations, youth clubs, hospitals, schools, in sport clubs, etc. For the Commission, volunteering is an active expression of civic participation which strengthens common European values such as solidarity and social cohesion. Volunteering also provides important learning opportunities, because involvement in voluntary activities can provide people with new skills and competences that can even improve their employability. This is especially important at this time of economic crisis. Volunteering plays an important role in sectors as varied and diverse as education, youth, culture, sport, environment, health, social care, consumer protection, humanitarian aid, development policy, research, equal opportunities and external relations." (http://ec.europa.eu/citizenship/focus/focus840_en.htm)

European Year of Volunteering, 2011 (http://europa.eu/volunteering/en)

Tour stop Lisbon, 3 February - 9 February (http://europa.eu/volunteering/en/tour-stop/valleta)

Esperança

Hope (1907/08), Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), ver em http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79792 

"Um novo ano à vista, desta vez realmente promissor. Vamos ver se ele á capaz de satisfazer os compromissos do velho. O gráfico dos últimos acontecimentos é um harmónio de espasmos. E só podemos desejar que sejam benéficas as consequências do terramoto. Os sismos sociais, ao contrário dos outros, que desolam sempre, remoçam habitualmente a paisagem humana." (Miguel Torga, 31 de Dezembro de 1989)

"ESPERANÇA
O poema quer nascer das trevas.
Está nas palavras, e não as sei.
É como um filho que não tem caminho
No ventre da mãe.
Dói,
Dói,
Mas a negar-se teimosamente
A todos os acenos libertadores
Do desespero dilacerado.
No silêncio cansado
E paciente
Canta um galo vidente
E diz que cada dia
Que anuncia
É sempre um dia novo
De renovo
E poesia." (Miguel Torga, 31 de Dezembro de 1989)

(prosa e poesia de Miguel Torga em http://purl.pt/13860/1/zoom-l-66088-v_y_1672_p0_esperanca.htm)  

A paz sem vencedores e sem vencidos

"Geburt Christi", Franz von Rohden, 1853 (http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=DB81CAA58F168DDA)

Dai-nos Senhor a paz que vos pedimos
A paz sem vencedor e sem vencidos
Que o tempo que nos deste seja um novo
Recomeço de esperança e de justiça.
Dai-nos Senhor a paz que vos pedimos
A paz sem vencedor e sem vencidos
Erguei o nosso ser à transparência
Para podermos ler melhor a vida
Para entendermos vosso mandamento
Para que venha a nós o vosso reino
Dai-nos Senhor a paz que vos pedimos
A paz sem vencedor e sem vencidos
Fazei Senhor que a paz seja de todos
Dai-nos a paz que nasce da verdade
Dai-nos a paz que nasce da justiça
Dai-nos a paz chamada liberdade
Dai-nos Senhor a paz que vos pedimos
A paz sem vencedor e sem vencidos
(Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Dual, 1972)

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle´s alter-ego

Sherlock Holmes Statue, Edinburgh (created by Gerald Ogilvie Laing, 1989), a tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/208602).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859, Edinburgh – 7 July 1930, Windlesham) (image from http://www.lostworldread.com/images/arthur_conan_doyle/conan_doyle_windlesham.jpg). Short biography in http://www.lostworldread.com/arthur_conan_doyle.htm or in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print, December 1887, “A Study in Scarlet" published by Ward Lock at Beeton’s Christmas Annual (http://chrisroutledge.co.uk/writing/a-study-in-scarlet/) . Read it at Literature.org  (http://www.literature.org/authors/doyle-arthur-conan/study-in-scarlet/index.html )

A Study in Scarlet (1933), directed by  Edwin L. Marin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024625/) . You can see this movie (full version) at Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/A_Study_In_Scarlet)

"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence (…). The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done." A Study in Scarlet, 1887

"Saudades (...)" dos "Tristes Trópicos"

Claude Lévi-Strauss, nascido a 28 de Novembro de 1908 em Bruxelas, falecido a 30 de Outubro de 2009 em Paris (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss), com índios bororos em Mato Grosso, Brasil (http://www.midianews.com.br/?pg=noticias&cat=6&idnot=11003). Claude Lévi-Strauss é um dos "Imortais" da "L´Académie Française" (http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=647) e do Conhecimento sobre o Homem.

Principais obras de Claude Lévi-Strauss (Património da Humanidade):

• La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara, Paris, Société des américanistes, 1948.
• Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté, Paris, PUF, 1949 ; nouv. éd. revue, La Haye-Paris, Mouton, 1968.
• «Introduction à l'œuvre de Marcel Mauss », dans Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, Paris, PUF, 1950.
• Race et Histoire, Paris, UNESCO, 1952.
• Tristes Tropiques, Plon, Paris, 1955.
• Anthropologie structurale, Paris, Plon, 1958 ; nombreuses rééd. Pocket, 1997.
• Le Totémisme aujourd'hui, Paris, PUF, 1962.
• La Pensée sauvage, Paris, Plon, 1962.
• Mythologiques, t. I : Le Cru et le cuit, Paris, Plon, 1964.
• Mythologiques, t. II : Du miel aux cendres, Paris, Plon, 1967.
• Mythologiques, t. III : L'Origine des manières de table, Paris, Plon, 1968.
• Mythologiques, t. IV : L'Homme nu, Paris, Plon, 1971.
• Anthropologie structurale deux, Paris, Plon, 1973.
• La Voie des masques, 2 vol., Genève, Skira, 1975 ; nouv. éd. augmentée et rallongée de « Trois Excursions », Plon, 1979.
• (en) Myth and Meaning, Londres, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
• Le Regard éloigné, Paris, Plon, 1983.
• Paroles données, Paris, Plon, 1984.
• Histoire de Lynx, Paris, Pocket, 1991.
• Regarder écouter lire, Paris, Plon, 1993. 
• Saudades do Brasil, Paris, Plon, 1994.
• Le Père Noël supplicié aux éditions des Sables, sur la route de l'Eglise à Pin-Balma, 1996 (pour cette édition) 

(Em 2005 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXc4kFy10A)

Centenário da República Portuguesa (5 de Outubro de 1910 - 5 de Outubro de 2010)

Postal comemorativo do Centenário da República Portuguesa (http://www.centenariorepublica.pt/)

I Governo Provisório da República Portuguesa: Presidência, Teófilo Braga; Interior, António José de Almeida; Justiça, Afonso Costa; Finanças, José de Mascarenhas Relvas; Negócios Externos, Bernardino Machado; Fomento, António Luis Gomes; Guerra, António Xavier Correia Barreto; Marinha, Amaro Justiniano de Azevedo Gomes (http://museu.presidencia.pt/index_detail.php?sid=1181)

 

"The Revolution in Portugal" (by British Pathe in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CW10AaZqHY&p=B12C95DCC4A86377&playnext=1&index=4)



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