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 Portuguese law, an estate was to be divided among children who had not already received a dowry.

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 National Geographic, the population consists of 45 % Tajiks, 25 % Hazaras, 25 % Pashtuns, 2 % Uzbeks, 1 % Baloch, 1 % Turkmen, and 1 % Hindu.

According to the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine, Tutankhamun was the result of an incestuous relationship and, because of that, may have suffered from several genetic defects that contributed to his early death.

According to AdventureStats, Jason Lewis completed the first true human-powered circumnavigation of the globe while National Geographic lists Colin Angus as being the first to complete a global circumnavigation.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origin of the name is uncertain, but is probably from an explorer's name for a local Native American tribe, the Yamhill, who are part of the North Kalapuyan family.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes ( a weir ) used in fishing.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the county is named for the town of Union.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the county is probably named after a stream in the area called Josephine Creek, which in turn is probably named after Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort.

According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in the Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father,

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the town has also had the toponyms Ethanac and Ethanac Siding in the past.

According to National Geographic magazine, Bridgewater has an unusually high number of twins and triplets.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, Jennings Lodge was platted as a townsite in 1905 and named after Berryman Jennings, an Oregon pioneer, one of whose children still owned Jennings ' house in 1927.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name Granite was chosen when its post office was established in 1878, the name " Independence " already being used in Polk County, Oregon.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name comes from the Siletz language, and means " dark water at the foot of the mountain ".

According to Oregon Geographic Names, Cayuse, named for the Cayuse people, began as a railroad station and post office, which was established in 1867.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, a Cedar Mill post office was established in 1874, in the John Quincy Adams Young House, which still stands on Cornell Road and is being renovated to become a Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District facility.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the name Forest Grove was selected on January 10, 1851, at a meeting of the trustees of Tualatin Academy ( later known as Pacific University ).

According to Oregon Geographic Names, it was named by its founder, William T. Newby ( 1820 – 1884 ), an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, a post office with the spelling " Tualitin " was established November 5, 1869, and the spelling changed to " Tualatin " in 1915.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Muskingum River has also been known as:

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Monongahela River has also been known historically as:

According to National Geographic, when migrating these birds can fly at altitudes of 8 km ( nearly 27, 000 ft ); Tundra Swan flocks usually fly in V formation.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Scioto River has also been known as:

According to the United States Geological Survey, the descriptive name, Trident, was given by Robert Fiske Griggs of the National Geographic Society, in 1916, because there were three major peaks.

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Hocking River has also been known as: