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...nomenon called seiche). Seiches were observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaskan tremor in 1964 prod... ...r hand, seems not to have quakes at all! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property d... ...o the east) Side effects: tsunami 20 meters high (at Cadiz) to 6 meters high (at Lisbon). Traveled to Martinique (6100 kilometers) in 10 hours an... ...re at its trough phase, the water recede and expose the seafloor. This happened in Lisbon Port on November 1, 1755. A few minutes later, the displa...

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...sed and murdered by Islanders........................... 152 The old palace in Lisbon................................................ 154 Da Gama expl... ... time her spectral counterpart sailed into the harbor and vanished. At Oporto, Lisbon, Marseilles, and other ports of Southern Europe, the phantoms of... ...the poor. "The King is dead;" men whisper the sad news one to another, for all Lisbon is gathered in the streets around the palace, and the people wat... ...he good John and rejoice at the accession of the Prince Emanuel; so in silence Lisbon follows the great black car which bears the poor remains of the ... ...the meantime, while work was progressing on the vessels, there came one day to Lisbon a travel-stained Oriental who would see the King and would tell ... ...ed, and stores which in quantity and variety exceeded anything before known in Lisbon, were laid up for the cruise. Double sets of tackle, triple sets... ...nd fifty sheaths of knives of Flanders, with ivory handles, which were made in Lisbon, and the sheaths gilded. All these things were wrapped in napkin... ...cident, and from the Tower of Belem, a coast village then, but now a suburb of Lisbon, the King watched the entrance of the squadron which had accompl... ...N OF ENTERPRISES FOUNDED IN THE EAST. The rejoicings with which his arrival in Lisbon was greeted had scarcely subsided when a strange sail was seen i...

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... labor Government Official name: Portuguese Republic Type: republic Capital: Lisbon Administrative divisions: 18 districts on the mainland, 3 in the A...

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...ose moments, the heads of governments of the EU countries have decided in Lisbon (2000) that "each citizen should have access to the Internet and the...

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...sole purpose of getting rich from their discoveries. The Capital of Portugal: Lisbon was struck by a huge catastrophic earthquake that destroyed the... ...y the English. Who have been outclassed by the Americans. Do you think that Lisbon being destroyed at that time was a coincidence? The escalating...

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... board the “Lady Mary Wood” steamer, on the 25th August, 1844. CHAPTER II: LISBON—CADIZ A GREA T MISFORTUNE which befalls a man who has but a single d... ... on his broad-flanked brazen charger. We only saw these state old lions in Lisbon, whose roar has long since ceased to frighten one. First we went to ... ...ar- rels on their shoulders, or lounging by the fountains to hire,— by the Lisbon and Belem omnibuses, with four mules, jingling along at a good pace;... ... felt glad to return to the friendly little vessel. But the authorities of Lisbon, however, are very suspicious of the departing stranger, and we were... ...rayers which we shrieked out for release. If we were glad to get away from Lisbon, we were quite as sorry to be obliged to quit Cadiz, which we reache... ... facing the water. Nor are there any corks to the bulls’ horns here, as at Lisbon. A small old English guide who seized upon me the moment my foot was... ... faces, very dif- ferent from the coarse brown countenances we had seen at Lisbon. A very handsome modern cathedral, built by the present bishop at hi... ...he business, would have performed it a great deal better. NOW YESTERDAY at Lisbon we saw H. M. S. “Caledonia. ” This, on the contrary, inspired us wi... ...into their berths when the steward’s bell tolled for tea. 23 Thackeray At Lisbon, where we came to anchor at midnight, a special boat came off, where...

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...sed to my self to receive from England. I had a Neighbour, a Portugueze of Lisbon, but born of English Parents, whose Name was Welts, and in much such... ...Orders to the Person who has your Money in London, to send your Effects to Lisbon, to such Persons as I shall direct, and in such Goods as are proper ... ...r necessary Directions for my Supply; and when this honest Captain came to Lisbon, he found means by some of the English Merchants there to send over ... ...lish Goods, such as the Captain had writ for, sent them directly to him at Lisbon, and he brought them all safe to me to the Brasils, among which, wit... ...ervant also; I mean another besides that which the Captain brought me from Lisbon. But as abus’d Prosperity is oftentimes made the very Means of our g... ...a 100 Wt. were well cur’d and laid by against the Return of the Fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in Business and in Wealth, my Head began to be f... ...y, not for this V oyage, but before, as I suppose, when the Ship came from Lisbon; what little Remainder of Corn had been in the Bag, was all devour’d... ...le way this would go towards settling me in the World, I resolv’d to go to Lisbon, and see if I might not come by some Information of the State of my ... ... some Years now given me over for dead. With this View I took Shipping for Lisbon, where I arriv’d in April follow ing; my Man Friday accompanying me...

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...f my circumstances in my mind, come to this resolution, that I would go to Lisbon, and con- sult with my old sea-captain; and if it was rational and p... ...t he went on board a ship bound thither at St. Malo; but being forced into Lisbon by bad weather, the ship received some damage by running aground in ... ...d the widow was for me when she sent me the cargo of a hundred pounds from Lisbon, where she packed up three Bibles and a Prayer-book. However, the go... ...here were a great many. I found letters at London from them all, by way of Lisbon, when I came back to England. I have now done with the island, and a... ... into the calendar of the Christian saints. A ship being ready to sail for Lisbon, my pious priest asked me leave to go thither; being still, as he ob...

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... hu manity, and said, “they were sure the captain would carry me gratis to Lisbon, whence I might return to my own country; that two of the seamen w... ... against my life; or else he would continue me a prisoner till we arrived at Lisbon.” I gave him the promise he required; but at the same time protest... ... me. These I changed every second day, and washed them myself. We arrived at Lisbon, Nov. 5, 1715. At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myse... ...use as I pleased.” I complied at last, finding I could not do better. I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English mer chantman, but who was...

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...ot one hit, 1624 From Tripolis, from Mexico and England, 1625 From Lisbon, Barbary, and India, 1626 And not one vessell scape the dreadful...

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...Esmond’s table-book informs him: and on the 8th of August made the rock of Lisbon. By this time the Ensign was grown as bold as an admiral, and a week... ...ys Frank, sipping his wine with the air of a lord. “What think you of this Lisbon—real Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of on...

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... that every one was to mind and behave themselves, for he would be kept in Lisbon doing business until five o’clock that afternoon. At about that hour... ... The truth was that Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway had found themselves stranded in Lisbon. They had been travelling on the Continent for some weeks, chiefly w... ... there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at manufacturing centr... ...ted upon a day or two at Madrid with the pictures. Finally they arrived in Lisbon and spent six days which, in a journal privately issued afterwards, ... ...s saw things for themselves. Mean- while they found themselves stranded in Lisbon, unable for the moment to lay hands upon the precise vessel they wan...

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... 142 A Book of Golden Deeds Just as all was ready, the plague broke out in Lisbon, and the Queen fell sick of it. Her husband would not leave her, and... ...hteen years later, of the taking of Ceuta, King Joao died of the plague at Lisbon, on the 14th of Au- gust, 1433. Duarte came to the throne; and, a fe...

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...ing only of his own thoughts, began with— “If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage... ...in, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar. But I never went beyond the Streights, and never was...

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... destructive their advent would have been as the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon a century ago. But they were in no hurry. Cylinder followed cylinder...

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...24 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two in size to Madrid, to Lisbon, to Berlin; more than equal to Rome and Milan; or again to Munich an...

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...g persecution and the pillory against his opponents than if he had been at Lisbon and Grand In- quisitor. This lofty patriot was on his knees at Hanov...

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...e reign of John V ., 1725, worth by exchange, as her father told her, five lisbonnines, or a hundred and sixty- eight francs, sixty-four centimes each... ...ndet’s si- lence. In the Indies, at St. Thomas, on the coast of Africa, at Lisbon, and in the United States the adventurer had taken the pseudonym of ...