According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

According to his imprinting text, he had drawn his maps using about twenty foreign charts and mappae mundi ( Arab, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Indian and Greek ) including one of Christopher Columbus.

According to Burton ( 2007 ) Martin authorized a crusade against Africa in 1418 and this coupled with a later bull ( 1441 ) sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves.

According to some Mane who spoke to a Portuguese ( Dornelas ) in the late 16th century, their travels had begun as a result of their Chief's, a woman named Macario, having been expelled from the imperial city in Mandimansa, their homeland.

* Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews David de Sola Pool, New York: Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1979

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

According to Swahili traders whose accounts were recorded by the Portuguese historian João de Barros, Great Zimbabwe was an ancient capital city built of stones of marvellous size without the use of mortar.

According to John Iliffe, " Portuguese records of Angola from the 16th century show that a great famine occurred on average every seventy years ; accompanied by epidemic disease, it might kill one-third or one-half of the population, destroying the demographic growth of a generation and forcing colonists back into the river valleys.

According to Losada, the name came from Portuguese explorers, the sailors of Vasco da Gama in India, who first brought them to Europe.

According to the Portuguese explorer, Tome Pires, in the early 16th century the port of Bantam ( Banten ) was an important port within the Kingdom of Sunda along with the ports of Pontang, Cheguide ( Cigede ), Tangaram ( Tangerang ), Calapa ( Sunda Kelapa ) and Chimanuk ( estuarine of Cimanuk river ).

* According to a letter passed by the King of Arms of Portugal in the name of King Pedro II of Portugal and registered in the books of the municipal chamber of São Paulo on the 17 of April 1683, the Alvarengas were recognized as members of the nobility of blood ( Portuguese: fidalgos de linhagem ), a condition that in Portugal passed to all descendants that could prove descent, regardless of gender.

According to the Modern Language Association, there are ( in descending order ) 2, 372 English speakers, 55 Spanish speakers, 18 Vietnamese speakers, 5 German speakers, 4 Italian speakers, 3 Portuguese speakers, and 3 Russian speakers.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, " marmalade " appeared in English language in 1480, borrowed from French marmelade which, in turn, came from the Portuguese marmelada.

According to José Pedro Machado ’ s Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, the oldest known document where this Portuguese word is to be found is Gil Vicente ’ s play Comédia de Rubena, written in 1521:

According to legend, a young Indian woman named Mirra was kidnapped by Portuguese pirates and taken to Cochin ( modern-day Kochi ), in the south of India.

According to the Museum Director of the house of Braganza, it was not only drinking tea but " High Tea " at 5: 00 pm ( some people believe it to be at 4: 00 pm ) which is still a Portuguese tradition.

According to a widely publicised study ( December 2008 ) published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19. 8 percent of modern Spaniards ( and Portuguese ) have DNA reflecting Sephardic Jewish ancestry ( compared to 10. 6 percent having DNA reflecting Moorish ancestors ).

According to a recent study ( December 2008 ) published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19. 8 percent of modern Spaniards ( and Portuguese ) have DNA reflecting Sephardic Jewish ancestry ( compared to 10. 6 percent having DNA reflecting Moorish ancestors ..

According to one Portuguese Grandmother, the tradition is that St. John was a scalliwag in his youth and the people hit him on the head with the garlic saying " return to the right path ".

According to the latter theory, the name came from Portuguese missionaries or traders in Nagasaki who noted its resemblance to the European shawm.

According to Encarta Dictionary, the word cachalot came to English " via French from Spanish or Portuguese cachalote, perhaps from Portuguese cachola, ' big head '".

According to the journalists José Pinto de Sá and Nélson Saúte in the Portuguese daily Público, Joana Simeão, the Reverend Uria Simango, Lázaro Nkavandame, Raul Casal Ribeiro, Arcanjo Kambeu, Júlio Nihia, Paulo Gumane and Father Mateus Gwengere were interned in the campo de reeducação ( re-education camp ) of M ’ telela, in the Northeastern province of Niassa, when, on 25 June 1977 ( the second anniversary of Mozambique's independence ), they were told that they would be taken to the capital, Maputo, where President Machel himself would discuss their liberation.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to Arkansas state and Federal law, a seriously mentally impaired inmate cannot be executed.

According to Blake, Disraeli believed in upholding Britain's greatness through a tough, " no nonsense " foreign policy that put Britain's interests above the " moral law " that advocated emancipation of small nations.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

* Entropic forces: According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system progresses to a state in which entropy is maximized.

According to Ampère's circuital law | Ampère's law, an electric current produces a magnetic field.

According to article 37, paragraph 4 of Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms people who do not speak Czech have the right to get an interpreter in a court of law.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

According to international law a blockade is an act of war, but the Kennedy administration did not think that the USSR would be provoked to attack by a mere blockade.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

According to the prevalent view, Montesquieu is regarded as the ' father ' of comparative law.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to Joseph McCabe, the council was attended by roughly 29 cardinals, 100 " learned doctors of law and divinity ," 134 abbots, and 183 bishops and archbishops.

According to Tibor R. Machan, " Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.

According to Lenz's law, the field of these electrons will oppose the magnetic field changes provided by the applied field.

According to the Greek nationality law, Greeks born abroad may transmit citizenship to their children from generation to generation indefinitely.

According to Avogadro ’ s law this volume is same for all ideal gases and if we consider ‘ n ’ moles of an ideal gas at STP, then the equation becomes