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Uma empresa de NFTs está a tentar comprar a Amazónia. A ideia é que o dinheiro reverta para projetos locais e aquisição de terras.
“Ciclone bomba” continua a matar nos EUA (e já aconteceu em Portugal)
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Dezenas de pessoas já morreram devido ao “ciclone-bomba” que está a afetar os EUA. Este é um fenómeno ao qual já se assistiu em Portugal.
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18 anos seguidos a fugir a impostos: a vida de Manuel Pinho
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Antigo governante andou a evitar pagamentos ao fisco mesmo quando era ministro da Economia.
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Morreu António Mega Ferreira. Marcelo deixa homenagem a “amigo de sempre”
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A Presidência da República dá conta do desaparecimento do escritor e gestor através de uma nota oficial. “Foi uma das figuras mais dinâmicas da cultura portuguesa do último meio século”, destacou Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
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Sismo de magnitude 2,5 na escala de Richter sentido em São Jorge – Atualidade – SAPO
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Um sismo com magnitude 2,5 na escala de Richter foi sentido esta madrugada na ilha de São Jorge, nos Açores, informou o Centro de Informação e Vigilância Sismovulcânica dos Açores (CIVISA).
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Heavy snow in Japan kills least 17 – CGTN
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Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan has killed at least 17 people, injured more than 93 others and left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials said Monday. Broadcaster NHK said the dead included a man who fell from
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China: descoberta de um abismo gigante abrigando uma floresta primitiva
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Em geologia, um carste é um maciço calcário no qual a água cavou muitas cavidades. Pode formar estruturas particulares, como dolinas (ou abismos) ou desfiladeiros. Na sexta-feira, 6 de maio, uma equipe de cientistas chineses descobriu um novo sumidouro gigante de carste no condado de Leye, no sul da China. No interior há uma floresta […]
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TIMOR COMPANHIA INDEPENDNETE
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WHY I WROTE ‘INDEPENDENT COMPANY’ by Bernard Callinan
It is the 79th anniversary of the Japanese assault on Dili (February 19-20 1942) that began the almost year long Australian commando campaign against the occupying enemy in, then, Portuguese Timor.
The earliest account of the history of the campaign was written by Bernard Callinan and titled ‘Independent Company’ and published in October 1953. The book was reprinted in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the best of the personal WWII campaign histories genre.
Back in 1966 Callinan gave an insightful address to engineering undergraduates at the University of Melbourne (his alma mater) in which he explained how the book came to be written.
Callinan developed several ‘threads’ in his explanation with the primary one being ‘therapy’ in reaction to ‘the strain of waging a war against an always greatly superior enemy, and of being dependent for our existence upon a large all-pervading population’. He states that ‘We learnt to live with the strain, but there was a pronounced reaction when we were brought back to Australia’.
He goes on to say: ‘Another strand for the thread lies in our success. We had been successful. MacArthur and others had told us so, but much more we knew it; and we knew we had been successful where others had failed – in fact where all others had failed. No other allied troops between the Philippines, Burma, Malaya and Java had met the enemy and survived. We had killed some fifteen hundred enemy for our own loss of less than fifty but, very much more importantly, throughout it all we had remained a cohesive, aggressive fighting force’.
‘Another strand was the desire to get accuracy to the story. I think I am not unusual because I find the part truth difficult to deal with and trying to the patience. This story was front page news when it was released from censorship, many versions sprang up and the emphases were sometimes on the wrong aspects. I wanted to record my version of the true story’.
And finally this tribute: ‘After the Japanese landed there were a few weeks of doubt, but from then on, the Timorese became our supporters and loyal friends. They looked after our wounded, they buried our dead, they fed and housed us’. Over the months I moved, often unaccompanied, along our 60 mile front and I never hesitated to walk into a strange village, ask them to feed me and then lie down and sleep amongst them in a hut. They could have cut my throat without hindrance if they had wished’.
Bernard Callinan was a Captain and second in command of the No. 2 Independent Company on their arrival in Timor and subsequently took over as Officer Commanding in May 1942 with the rank of Major. In November 1942 he was given command of Sparrow Force at the time it was renamed Lancer Force after being reinforced by the No. 4 Independent Company.
Callinan was a peripatetic commander and travelled frequently and extensively visiting the dispersed locations occupied by the Australians. The book reveals that he was an acute observer of the people, terrain and localities over which the campaign was conducted and recorded what he saw with considerable insight and self-deprecating humour. Given Timor’s underdevelopment, especially away from Dili, many of the scenes he describes in his book are still recognisable today.
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mundo maravilhoso rodeado de nada
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This is so powerful. Take the time to read his words… 
Gene Rodenberry produced a precursor to Start Trek with the same basic story line and diverse characters as Star Trek, but it took place on Earth. When he switched the storyline up to a space/sci-fi program, it was more acceptable by the public. Then, follow that through to now when after 50 years, William Shatner got to visit “outer space” for real. This is his surprising response:
Gene Rodenberry produced a precursor to Start Trek with the same basic story line and diverse characters as Star Trek, but it took place on Earth. When he switched the storyline up to a space/sci-fi program, it was more acceptable by the public. Then, follow that through to now when after 50 years, William Shatner got to visit “outer space” for real. This is his surprising response:“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
“I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
“I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.”
— William Shatner, actor
