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Users. 30 million (as of 2024) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [ 1][ 2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [ 3][ 4] The site operates in the resale of gaming offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for ...
The Águas Livres Aqueduct ( Portuguese: Aqueduto das Águas Livres, pronounced [ɐkɨˈðutu ðɐz ˈaɣwɐʒ ˈlivɾɨʃ], "Aqueduct of the Free Waters") is a historic aqueduct in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. It is one of the most remarkable examples of 18th-century Portuguese engineering. The main course of the aqueduct covers 18 km, but ...
Sousa Martins was born in Alhandra (near Vila Franca de Xira) on 7 March 1843, the son of Caetano Martins, a carpenter, and Maria das Dores de Sousa Martins. The household was a poor one, and became poorer still after Caetano's death in 1851, when José was seven years old. He spent his childhood and completed his primary education in Alhandra.
The Museu da Água ( Water Museum) is located in Lisbon, Portugal. [1] The museum, the former steam pumping station of Barbadinhos, Lisbon, built in 1880, is in a 19th-century industrial building. The museum features four large steam engines dating from 1880. One has been reconditioned as a working demonstration. The pumps were in use until 1928.
Website. EDP: Museu da Electricidade. Tejo Power Station [1] (the old Electricity Museum, in Portuguese Museu da Electricidade) is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy with a Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology concept, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events.
The National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, Portugal ( Portuguese: Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência) is the country's main museum focusing on nature. The museum functions under the University of Lisbon . Its rich collections, gathered over more than 250 years, span zoology, anthropology, geology and botany .
A young José Leite de Vasconcelos, the museum's founder. The National Museum of Archaeology ( Portuguese: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia) is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in Lisbon, the museum was founded in 1893 by the ...
Lisboa e Vale do Tejo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [liʒˈβoɐ i ˈvalɨ ðu ˈtɛʒu]; English: Lisbon and Tagus Valley) was one of the five regions of Portugal ( NUTS II subdivisions). Today two of the subregions are in the new Lisboa Region, two in the Centro Region and one in the Alentejo Region . The region still exists as the area of ...