The Madeira river rises more than 15 m ( 50 ft ) during the rainy season, and ocean vessels may ascend it to the Falls of San Antonio, near Porto Velho, Brazil, above its mouth ; but in the dry months, from June to November, it is only navigable for the same distance for craft drawing about 2 m ( from 5 to 6 feet ) of water.

Lower-quality Madeira wines may be flavored with salt and pepper to prevent their sale as Madeira wine, and then exported for cooking purposes.

In areas where House Sparrows are absent, the Spanish Sparrow may live in urban habitats, as in the Canary Islands, Madeira, and some Mediterranean islands.

The forms breeding in Macaronesia on Madeira, Bugio in the Desertas Islands, and in the Cape Verde archipelago were long considered to be subspecies of the southern hemisphere Soft-plumaged Petrel P. mollis, but differences in size, vocalisations, breeding behaviour and mitochondrial DNA analysis showed that the northern birds are not closely related to P. mollis, and that the Bermuda Petrel or Cahow may be the closest relative of the Macaronesian birds.

This suggests that despite the close physical proximity of the two species of gadfly petrel found in the Madeiran archipelago, they may have arisen from separate colonisations of mainland Madeira and, later, the Desertas Islands.

The forms breeding in Macaronesia on Madeira, Bugio in the Desertas Islands, and in the Cape Verde archipelago were long considered to be subspecies of the Southern Hemisphere Soft-plumaged Petrel, P. mollis, but mitochondrial DNA analysis, and differences in size, vocalisations, breeding behaviour, showed that the northern birds are not closely related to P. mollis, and that the Bermuda Petrel or Cahow may be the closest relative of the Macaronesian birds.

This suggests that despite the close physical proximity of the two species of gadfly petrel found in the Madeiran archipelago, they may have arisen from separate colonisations of mainland Madeira and, later, the Desertas Islands.

It may alternatively be a single aberrant individual, a hybrid or an unknown taxon from Madeira or elsewhere.

The boater may also be seen worn by the ' carreiros ' of Madeira, the drivers of the traditional wicker toboggans carrying visitors from the parish church at Monte ( Funchal ) down towards Funchal centre.

It is adapted to dry climates, occurring wild from Morocco and Portugal east to Libya and Greece and north to France and Croatia ; it may also be native on Cyprus, the Canary Islands and Madeira.

The Parque Natural da Madeira national park has a management plan for the Trocaz Pigeon, and it is hoped that an education campaign and the promotion of bird scarers may reduce persecution.

The peoples of the Iberian peninsula, who were closest to the real Atlantic islands of the Canaries, Madeira and Azores, and whose seafarers and fisherman may have seen and even visited them, articulated their own tales.

Faria e Sousa notes they may not have reached their destination, but may have ended up instead on an Atlantic Ocean island " populated by Portuguese, that has seven cities ... which some imagine to be that one which can be seen from Madeira, but when they wish to reach it, disappears ".

Most of the Boal grown on Madeira is more fully known as Boal Cachudo ( a synonym for the Spanish variety Doña Blanca, though the two may be different grapes ), which has been shown by DNA profiling to be identical to the Malvasia Fina grown in the Douro valley.

Together it will total 19 years in these casks, after which it may lie in Madeira drums for a further two years until bottling.

If so, he may have been sent out in 1427 as just one of Henry's several expeditions in the 1420s down the West African coast in an attempt to double Cape Bojador, or that he may have been going on a routine trip to Madeira, and it has even been speculated he might have been part of a failed Portuguese attack or slave raid on the Canary Islands.

In Madeira, he also began collecting weapons, many of which were remnants from the Napoleonic Wars, displaying them on the wall of his hotel room.

Besides coastal exploration, Portuguese also made trips off in the ocean to gather meteorological and oceanographic information ( in these were discovered the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, and Sargasso Sea ).

Some wines produced in small quantities in Crimea, California and Texas are also referred to as " Madeira " or " Madera ", although those wines do not conform to the EU PDO regulations.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira.

Chief Justice John Marshall was also known to appreciate Madeira, as well as his cohorts on the early U. S. Supreme Court.

Much of the characteristic flavour of Madeira is due to this practice, which hastens the mellowing of the wine and also tends to check secondary fermentation in as much as it is, in effect, a mild kind of pasteurization.

Madeira is also used as a flavor agent in cooking.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, colonists from Europe also settled on the otherwise uninhabited islands of the Atlantic such as Madeira and the Azores, where with no slaves to sell, exporting products for export became the main industry.

Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagoes in the Atlantic Ocean ( the Azores and Madeira ), which are strategic islands along western sea approaches to the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Savage Islands, that belong to the Madeira archipelago, also has an arid climate with an annual average rainfall of around.

Malvasia (, also known as Malvazia ) is a group of wine grape varieties grown historically in the Mediterranean region, Balearic islands, Canary Islands and the island of Madeira, but now grown in many of the winemaking regions of the world.

In 2004, there was nearly 18, 533 acres ( 7500 ha ) of Malvasia Fina grown in Portugal where it is also known as Boal ( though it is most likely not related to the grape Bual which is used to produce the Boal style of Madeira ).

Presently, however, " Malvasia " generally refers to unfortified white table or dessert wines produced from this grape, while " Malmsey " refers to a sweet variety of Madeira wine, though the latter are also sometimes called " Malvasia " or " Malvazia ".

An observer in the Chaco point would see the Moon at the left of the Sun, and an observer in the Madeira point would see the Moon at the right of the Sun, and that whoever measured the two heights was likely to observe also this one bit of information.

* On the Portuguese island of Madeira they eat Malasadas on Terça-feira Gorda ( Fat Tuesday in English ) which is also the last day of the Carnival of Madeira, the reason for making malasadas was to use up all the lard and sugar in the house, in preparation for Lent ( much in the same way the tradition of Pancake Day in the UK originated on Shrove Tuesday ), Malasadas are sold along side the Carnival of Madeira.

Glögg recipes vary widely ; variations with white wine or sweet wine such as Port or Madeira, or spirits such as brandy or whisky are also popular.

The growth of viticulture in Madeira expanded when the sugar industry was attacked by cheaper exports from the New World and Africa, but also from various epidemics and the after affects of the 1566 privateer sacks.

Jimmy Dorsey co-wrote the jazz and pop standard " I'm Glad There Is You ( In This World of Ordinary People )" with Paul Madeira, who is also known as Paul Madeira Mertz, in 1941.

These orchids are distributed throughout the subarctic and temperate northern hemisphere: in Europe, from Scandinavia to North Africa ; also on Madeira, Iceland, West Asia, North Asia, the Himalayas, North America and even in Alaska.

" It also mentioned the potential invasion of Portugal if the British gained a foothold and requested that the occupation of Madeira and of the Azores be investigated.

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At Madeira, Amundsen alerted his men that they would be heading to Antarctica in addition to sending a telegram to Scott notifying him simply: < tt >" BEG TO INFORM YOU FRAM PROCEEDING ANTARCTIC -- AMUNDSEN.

* 1420 — The same sailors and Bartolomeu Perestrelo discovered the island of Madeira, which at once began to be colonized.

Madeira is produced in a variety of styles ranging from dry wines which can be consumed on their own as an aperitif, to sweet wines more usually consumed with dessert.

Because of this unique process, Madeira is a very robust wine that can be quite long lived even after being opened.

No wine-quality grapes could be grown among the 13 colonies, so imports were needed, with a great focus on Madeira.

In 2012, the longest HVDC link will be the Rio Madeira link connecting the Rondônia to the São Paulo area where the length of the DC line is over.

Throughout the year many events take place on Madeira Drive ( a piece of roadway on Brighton's seafront ), which was constructed in order to host what is commonly held to be the world's oldest motor race, the Brighton Speed Trials, which has been running since 1905.

In Portugal, it is called fatias douradas, rabanadas or fatias de parida, and is typically made during Christmas, from slices of bread leftovers ( when it is too hard to be eaten normally ) soaked in milk or water to soften it, dipped in beaten eggs, fried in the least amount of vegetable oil possible ( to prevent it from soaking up and becoming too greasy ) and then sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, soaked in a syrup made with water, sugar, cinnamon sticks and lemon skin or in Port or Madeira wine.

The Portuguese Constitution of 1976 specifies that Portugal have only, as first level divisions, the autonomous regions ( Azores and Madeira ) and the administrative regions ( to be created in mainland Portugal ).

Finding life at sea even more restricting, he pretended to be both deaf and lame so skillfully that he deceived the doctors at Madeira.

The Madeira Firecrest was formerly considered to be a subspecies, R. i. madeirensis, of the Common Firecrest R. ignicapillus.

The Madeira Firecrest, R. madeirensis, was formerly also considered to be a subspecies of the Common Firecrest, but phylogenetic analysis based on the cytochrome b gene showed that the Madeiran form is distinct at the species level.

In 1983, a bird was trapped on the Selvagens, Madeira on the 8th July and was confirmed to be the first record for the Atlantic Ocean.

In the Mediterranean region, it is cultivated mainly in southern Spain, where it was introduced before 1751 in the Motril, Almuñecar and Malaga areas, from where it was carried to Italy and lsla de Madeira ( Portugal ), but now can be also found in Morocco, Tunisia ( only in the orchards of Hammamet ), Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, and Israel.