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2 days ago · RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
2 days ago · The only possible codas in European Portuguese are /ʃ/, /l/ and /ɾ/ and in Brazilian Portuguese /s/ and /ʁ/ (or, in a minority of dialects, /ʃ, ɾ/ or any combination of the former with the latter). The consonants / ʎ / and / ɲ / almost always occur in the middle of a word and between vowels and rarely occur before /i/.
1 day ago · Portuguese Navy. The Portuguese Navy ( Portuguese: Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defense of Portugal .
2 days ago · Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first before ...
4 days ago · The 5-HT 2A receptor is a cell surface receptor, [5] but has several intracellular locations. [6] Like all 5-HT 2 receptors, the 5-HT 2A receptor is G q /G 11 -protein coupled. This is the main excitatory receptor subtype among the GPCRs for serotonin, although 5-HT 2A may also have an inhibitory effect [7] on certain areas such as the visual ...
20 hours ago · The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2018 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
1 day ago · The Portuguese Empire ( Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ] ), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ( Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire ( Império Colonial Português ), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom ...
