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Hace 18 horas · Etymology Chalcolithic Dolmen Anta da Arca. The word Portugal derives from the combined Roman-Celtic place name Portus Cale (present-day's conurbation of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia).Porto stems from the Latin for port, portus; Cale ' s meaning and origin is unclear. The mainstream explanation is an ethnonym derived from the Callaeci, also known as the Gallaeci peoples, who occupied the north ...
Hace 18 horas · The 1990s (often referred to as the "'90s" or "Nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001.The dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end of Russia's status as a superpower, the end of a ...
Hace 18 horas · Bolton (/ ˈ b oʊ l t ən / ⓘ BOHL-tən, locally / ˈ b oʊ t ən / BOH-tən) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford.It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider borough, of which Bolton is the administrative centre.The town is within the historic county ...
Hace 18 horas · Adam B. Vary: To kick off our conversation, I should cop up front to my personal bias: I was in college when “The Phantom Menace” came out, and I was among the generation of fans who thought it was a galactic letdown.The original trilogy dominated my childhood in the 1980s, and I zealously attended the theatrical re-releases in the 1990s — the ones that George Lucas updated with CGI that ...
