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...little more than a century and a half (from 1415 to 1581) little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance...
Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
Married. Maria-Christina-Teresa-Alexandra-Guadelupe-Maria de la ConcepciÓn Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 28, Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of ex-King Alfonso; and Count Enrico Marone, wealthy (Cinzano vermouth) Italian: in Rome...
Kaleidoscopic Cavalcade. Hero of the celebration was Alfonso I, who in 1139 defeated the Moors at Campo de Ourique, liberated his country and became its first king. According to pious tradition, his Army was reinforced by a legion of militant angels. From then on the history of Portugal became a kaleidoscopic cavalcade of conquest, exploration, staggering defeat, decline, intrigue and adversity. With barely 1,500,000 inhabitants, by Papal Bull Portugal in 1494 divided the entire world with Spain, drawing an imaginary line from the North to the South Pole 370 leagues west of Cape Verde and leaving all land...
Organizer of Ukrainian labor on railroad construction in Canadian Rockies. Anarchist in Spain at time of plot against life of Alfonso XIII. Student in Paris of Marx, statistics, literature, the Mass Mind...