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Damiăo de Góis
10-27-2012, 04:07 PM
The azorean posters should enjoy this, it's a list of notable azorean or azorean descendend peope, even if only partly, on several areas.

http://www.notaveisazores.com/index.php?
Slycooper
10-27-2012, 10:56 PM
Carlos César president of the Azorean government.
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/carlos-cesar13974c8f_537x302.jpg
Atlantic Islander
10-27-2012, 11:00 PM
This guy should be on the list too:

http://i50.tinypic.com/122dnbn.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/1z99vo.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/ad10j.jpg
Slycooper
10-27-2012, 11:03 PM
All Portuguese should be proud of the Azores. Proof of our exploring past.
Damiăo de Góis
10-27-2012, 11:10 PM
All Portuguese should be proud of the Azores. Proof of our exploring past.

We are. For example Madredeus composed this beautiful music dedicated to the islands.

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Catrau
10-28-2012, 02:41 AM
I post Vitorino Nemésio, well known Azorean and father of the so called "Azoreanism". He studied in the University of Coimbra but finished is Romanic Philology PhD degree in the University of Lisbon where he became a teacher of italian language.
He was an intelectual, a poet, writer, novelist, columnist, essayist, biographer, historian of literature and culture, journalist, researcher, epistolographer, philologist and television communicator, in addition to all, the activity of teaching.

Among his books, the most well known is "Mau tempo no canal" (Bad weather in the channel) and as a biographer, maybe his best book is "Isabel de Aragăo, a rainha santa" (Isabella of Aragon, the Saint queen) about one of the most well known and beloved queens of Portugal and with a higly devoted cult in the city of Coimbra where she lived most of her life.

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Nemesio1.jpg

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Nemsio2.jpg

Bad weather in the channel:
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Nemesio4.jpg

Here is the famous channel between the Faial (foreground) and Pico (background) islands.

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Canal.jpg

Queen Isabella Biography:

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Nemesio3.jpg

There are many Azorean portuguese public personalities in the past and nowadays.