History Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: Portugal :::: Society and Culture :::: History ::

History Links

Contemporary Portuguese Politics and History Research Centre - An academic site containing documents from and analyses of the political history of the Portuguese Republic.
Dutch and Portuguese Colonial History - Includes a section dealing with the historical empires of Holland and Portugal.
Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies - ACIS brings together academics from a wide range of disciplines who share an interest in contemporary developments in Spain and Portugal.
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies - The SSPHS promotes research in all aspects and epochs of Iberian history and related disciplines. It has annual meetings, awards prizes for publications and dissertations, and publishes its Bulletin triannually.
Resources for Portugal - Bibliographic resources, organizations, government sources, libraries and archives, museums, press, searching, universities online, history: medieval, early modern, modern from the University of Kansas.
The Portuguese Explorers - An illustrated outline from The Mariners' Museum, Newport Virginia, including Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama.
Lisbon Pages: Bibliography on Portugal - Academic articles, books and unpublished theses on Portugal in the English language produced in the last two or three decades, for those interested in the social sciences.
The Voyage to India and Those who Influenced it - Brian Elliott's presentation.
Saudades - Rufina Mausenbaum explores the history of Portuguese Sephardic Jews and the meaning of that characteristically Portuguese emotion 'saudades'.
The Carnations Revolution - Chronology of the most significant social and political events of recent Portuguese history.
Battles of Portugal - Short descriptions of Portuguese battles from 1128 to 1476.
The Historical Text Archive - Portugal - A collection of useful links.
Digital Library of Portuguese Urban Cartography - A database of texts and images: historic maps of cities with Portuguese origins and which can be found in archives and libraries in Portugal and abroad.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards History "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast History Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth History "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba History "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde History Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle History "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge History "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. History 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) History Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem History Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato History Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell History I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) History Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg History Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein History Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson History You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) History The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw History Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) History It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill History A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D History
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |