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The remains of writer José Maria Eça de Queiroz have been laid to rest in the National Pantheon in Lisbon, as part of a ceremony honouring his literary career during the 19th century.

The urn belonging to the author of works such as Os Maias (The Maias) or O Crime do Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) will remain in this emblematic site in Portuguese capital. Other notable noble figures from Portuguese history include the presidents of the Republic Manuel de Arriaga and Teófilo Braga, and from the cultural milieu, figures such as Almeida Garrett, Luís de Camões and Amália Rodrigues.

The transfer of the writer's remains on Wednesday morning was accompanied by a tribute that began shortly after 9am at the Assembly of the Republic, where the body was first transported.

This was followed by a procession to the National Pantheon - which passed through various parts of the city - where the final part of the ceremony took place at 11am.

Leading figures in Portuguese politics, such as the current head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, and the prime minister, Luís Montenegro, were present.

Speaking at the ceremony, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that the "Pantheon is the place of the immortals" and recalled that several of them "were writers".

Recalling that few Portuguese writers "are as alive as Eça de Queiroz", the head of state included the author in a restricted range of "dead people to whom we give life because we still read them". This is the case, he explained, with names such as Gil Vicente, Luís de Camões, Almeida Garrett, Cesário Verde or Fernando Pessoa, and few others.

"And some contemporaries, closer in time, but these will be subjected to the test of the centuries, just like those I mentioned," added the President of the Republic.

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In May of I decided I was going to learn how to speak Portuguese.

I came to this decision the way many men come to such decisions: I fell in love with a woman. More accurately, I fell in love with a woman&#;s voice: the voice of Amália Rodrigues.

I had heard her music before then, of course&#;she had been singing for six decades&#;but the time had not been right. In my teens, my tastes in music ran largely along Afro-Brazilian lines, with some folk music from the Americas. In my twenties I discovered Asian music by living there and grew deeply fascinated with the music of India, Pakistan, Iran and Thailand.

I turned thirty in and a couple months after my birthday I was in Canada. There I saw a bit of a documentary series, Uma Estranha Forma de Vida, commemorating Amália Rodrigues and her extraordinary career as a singer and actress. Later that year, I saw Wim Wenders&#; Until the End of the World once again (which was set in the &#;future&#; of ), and recognized her in a bit part on the metro. Then, in October of the year, she died.

That same year for me was a truly difficult year that saw me separated from my wife, homeless, working two full-time jobs simultaneously and a part-time besides, yet still sleeping in a Volkswagen Fox with my pet budgie.

In short, a time made for fado.

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The rise of the phenomenon known as &#;world music&#; coincided with the rise of the Internet (text only, but still vital) and with my adulthood. As I became an adult, the world, as Thomas Friedman put it, became flat. Flat, but vast; immediate, but mysterious. World music became a way of knowing the world. While everyone else was diving into grunge, which struck me as the last gasp of the angry white adolescent, or commercial rap, which struck me as another pitiful attempt by music industry sharecroppers to sell another bunk image of my culture to the white middle class, I was instead turning away from these all-too-familiar pleas of middle-class America towa

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On 4 August ,Barack Hussein Obama was born. He is a politician of America, where he worked as the 44th United States of America on and completed his presidency on Barack Hussein Obama was born in the Hawaiian city of worked like a community activist in Chicago after graduating with a B.A. Degree in He attended at Harvard Law School in the year , and then in the second year, he became the very first black President of Harvard Law Reviews.

Early Life

He was born on 4 August, , at the Kapiolani Medical Center of Women and Children in Honolulu. He seems to be the only leader who was born outside the 48 adjoining states. He got his name from his father, Barack Obama Sr., who was a Kenyan economist. His mother, Ann Dunham, was a well-known accomplished American anthropologist. Barack was primarily raised by his mother.

According to an article published in July , Dunham was often related to John Punch, an enslaved African man who lived in a Virginia colony during the 17th century. It claimed that John Punch was the twelfth generation grandfather of President Barack Obama.

Barack and his mother moved to Seattle's University of Washington in late August , just very few weeks after his delivery, and stayed over a year. At that time, Obama's dad was finishing his bachelor's degree in economics in Hawaii and did graduation in June

Education

When Barack was six years old, Barack and his mom flew to Indonesia to visit his stepfather. As from the age of 6 to 10, he attended Sekolah Dasar Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi for two years and Sekolah Dasar Negeri Menteng 01 for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School schooling.

Obama moved back to Hawaii in to reside with his parents, Madelyn (maternal grandmother) and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou Institution, a prominent college preparation school, on a scholarship from 5th grade until he finished school in

His mother spent most of the next 2 dec