Showing posts with label Portugal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portugal. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 January 2009

World's oldest person dies at 115



In this Sept. 10, 2006 file photo Maria de Jesus, looks at the candles on her birthday cake as she celebrated her one hundred and thirteen year borthday in Corujo, Portugal, 150km north of Lisbon. A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person living, has died in northwest Portugal at the age of 115, officials said Friday Jan. 2, 2009.

De Jesus, who lived to reach 115 years and 114 days and was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Gerontology Research Group as the world's oldest person, died in an ambulance near the town of Tomar.



File photo of Maria de Jesus walking out from her house in Tomar, central Portugal in this September 9, 2006 file photo. Maria de Jesus born September 10, 1893 was the world's oldest person and died on January 2, 2009, according to a local undertaker and the hospital. Picture taken September 9, 2006.





Wednesday, 8 October 2008

New Airport Runway In Portugal

The airport's runway with a length of 2781 meters, which 1000 meters of the runway is supported by 180 pillars, each pillar 50 meters height (about 17 floors), surprisingly, the runway design are for B-747.

Look at the cars parked below the runway








Tuesday, 7 October 2008

International Sand Sculpture Festival (FIESA)



International Sand Sculpture Festival (FIESA)
in the Portuguese village of Pera - 27 May, 2008


Spider-Man

An Egyptian cat

Darth Vader

The Sphinx

The Simpsons, by Czech artist Harald Eichhorn.

Sand sculpture replica of Mount Rushmore, by Portuguese artist Jorge Mateus.

The Muppet Show's Miss Piggy, by Eichhorn.

A scene from the movie Casablanca.

Silver Surfer.

A huge, elaborate sand sculpture.


The Thing.

An artist putting some finishing touches to a sand sculpture of a couple.


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