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    The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading (Portuguese: Real Gabinete Português de Leitura) is a library and lusophone cultural institution, is located in...
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    structure or window, usually made of transparent or translucent glass, that forms all or part of the roof space of a building for daylighting and ventilation...
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    "And the winner of #WikiLovesMonuments 2021 is Donatas Dabravolskas with this wonderful photo of Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in #Brazil. Great...
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    The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community...
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    Hall, Liberec, Czech Republic Stained glass dome in the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Stained glass window in the Centro...
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    Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil being widely spoken by most of the population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking...
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    of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of...
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    resources, the solemn meetings of the academy were held at the hall of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, at the premises of the former National Gymnasium...
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    (Portuguese: "o Patriota") or "the Unfortunate" ("o Desventurado"), was the last King of Portugal, ascending the throne after the assassination of his...
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    Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes...
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    The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da India...
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    the Portuguese Royal House, Pedro assumed the title of Duke of Braganza on 15 June, a position that once had been his as heir-apparent to Portugal's crown...
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  • important influence on Portuguese literature up until the 14th century. King Denis of Portugal, who established Portuguese instead of Latin as the official...
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    Portuguese Brazilians (Portuguese: luso-brasileiros) are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal. Most of the Portuguese...
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  • seven stages of the legislative process: first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, third reading, opposite house, and royal assent. A...
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    The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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  • A Cabinet Mission went to India on 24 March 1946 to discuss the transfer of power from the British government to the Indian political leadership with...
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  • of Hospitality, University of West London. For services to the Hospitality Industry and to Inclusivity. Mischa Kate Foxell. Deputy Director, Cabinet Office...
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  • other form of same-sex unions. Several bills for civil partnerships and same-sex marriage have been introduced and approved by the Thai cabinet since 2012...
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  • rejected the British Cabinet's recommendations of Prince Consort or Prince Royal. The British Cabinet then suggested simply His Royal Highness the Prince...
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    as time went on, they became less important. Portuguese monarchs, tapping into the riches of the Portuguese empire overseas, grew less dependent on Cortes...
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    (2014). "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota" [Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]...
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  • Jock Colville (category Civil servants in the Cabinet Office)
    young; his maternal grandfather, a Liberal Cabinet minister, remarried Margaret (Peggy) Primrose, daughter of Lord Rosebery, Liberal Prime Minister in 1894–1895...
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    making him the third crown prince of the Chakri dynasty. An excerpt from the royal command to establish the title of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn...
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    prime minister of the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: primeiro-ministro da República Portuguesa) is the head of the Government of Portugal. The officeholder...
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    in exile. Traces of royal court practices remain in present-day institutions like privy councils and governmental cabinets. A series of Pharaohs ruled Ancient...
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    Grand Cross of the Sun of Peru, in Diamonds, 1922  Poland: Knight of the White Eagle, 1930 Portuguese royal family: Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three...
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    Dahomey (redirect from Kingdom of Dahomey)
    led to the expulsion of Portuguese-Brazilian diplomatic authorities in 1743. Other Dahomey missions were sent to Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1795 to...
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    Ken Follett (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    television by his Plymouth Brethren parents, he developed an early interest in reading but remained an indifferent student until he entered his teens. His family...
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    Rumpelstiltskin (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024)
    titled Ricdin-Ricdon. A version of it exists in the compilation Le Cabinet des Fées, Vol. XII. pp. 125-131. The Cornish tale of Duffy and the Devil plays out...
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