| 1. | Portuguese 500 | ||
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A term commonly refered to as a P5. The act of driving your car up and down main street in the town of falmouth. When you spot a P5 you will most likly also hear loud bass and spot a mustang or other sub par autos with fake spinners or rims perchased at Sears auto centers. Portuguese 500 are seen done by every one that attended FHS. yo i cant wait to get my spinners from auto zone for tonights Portuguese 500. Portuguese 500
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| 2. | Brazilian Portuguese | ||
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a branch of the 'official' continental European Portuguese language that over the 500 or so years of this giant country has become as rich and diverse as the millions of people from varying backgrounds who use it.
It's just a pity that not every country has a decent infrastructure on which to build a quality educational framework, perhaps if the Portguese and the various other invaders had entered the country with a different philosophy, not just one of 'snatch & grab', things would have been different. person1. "Wow, as a learner, I far prefer the musicality and accessible depth of expression of Brasilian Português!"
person2. "Hmm, I agree. European Portuguese sounds like a mix between Turkish, Russian and spitting food." |
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| 3. | Ironbound | ||
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The Ironbound/Down Neck is a part of Newark with a huge Portuguese population.
Every year 500,000 people gather on Ferry St (the main commercial street) for the Portugal Day Feast. Keep in mind that the entire population of Newark is around 280,000. 1: I'm going to Newark today.
2: Foda-se! You wanna get killed? 1: Oh no dude, I'm going to the Ironbound. 2. Oh alright, take it easy. |
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| 4. | mangosteen | ||
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One of the most praised of tropical fruits, and certainly the most esteemed fruit in the family Guttiferae, the mangosteen, Garcinia mangostana L., is almost universally known or heard of by this name. There are numerous variations in nomenclature: among Spanish-speaking people, it is called mangostan; to the French, it is mangostanier, mangoustanier, mangouste or mangostier; in Portuguese, it is mangostao, mangosta or mangusta; in Dutch, it is manggis or manggistan; in Vietnamese, mang cut; in Malaya, it may be referred to in any of these languages or by the local terms, mesetor, semetah, or sementah; in the Philippines, it is mangis or mangostan. Throughout the Malay Archipelago, there are many different spellings of names similar to most of the above.
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The mangosteen tree is very slow-growing, erect, with a pyramidal crown; attains 20 to 82 ft (6-25 m) in height, has dark-brown or nearly black, flaking bark, the inner bark containing much yellow, gummy, bitter latex. The evergreen, opposite, short-stalked leaves are ovate-oblong or elliptic, leathery and thick, dark-green, slightly glossy above, yellowish-green and dull beneath; 3 1/2 to 10 in (9-25 cm) long, 1 3/4 to 4 in (4.5-10 cm) wide, with conspicuous, pale midrib. New leaves are rosy. Flowers, 1 1/2 to 2 in (4-5 cm) wide and fleshy, may be male or hermaphrodite on the same tree. The former are in clusters of 3-9 at the branch tips; there are 4 sepals and 4 ovate, thick, fleshy petals, green with red spots on th... |
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| 5. | guinea-bissau | ||
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the country in africa where the slave trade originated from over 500 years ago. the portuguese colonized this place until a bloody civil war in the 1950s. the nation then saw several coups, autocratic governments, and a long civil war in the 1990s. ginnea-bissau is most famous for ruler kumba yala's attempts to move the capital. in a deplorably poor country, yala spent a fortune attempting to build the small rural village where he was born into a grand capital.
guinea-bissau had a long civil war.
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| 6. | Group B | ||
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They were one of the most powerful rally cars in the world during the early to mid 80s. They nearly had over 500 horsepower and were either four-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive. The cars during that era of adrenaline-induced rallying include the Ford RS200, the Audi Quattro S1, Peugeot 205 T16, the Lancias 037 and the Delta S4 and the Porsche 959. Sadly the amazing era faced the end in 1986 during the Portugese Rally stage "Lagoa Azul" where a Ford RS200 driven by Portuguese national champion Joaquim Santos crested a rise to find the road blocked with spectators crowding to see the fastest cars come through. He lost control of his Ford RS200 while trying to stop and plunged into the crowd. Thirty-one people were injured and three were killed. But this was not the only crash soon more and more accident occurred in 1986. The end came in 1987 when Attilio Bettega crashed and died in his Lancia 037 during the same year the FIA banned the Group B cars forever but the cars were eventually used to compete in Rally Cross events after the tragic events. The Group B cars were the best rally cars of all time
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