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Arts and entertainment
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Manueline, an art style of the early 16th century
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Neo-Manueline, a revival art style from the mid-19th century
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Soft Portuguese style, is an architectural model adopted mainly by public buildings
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Pombaline style, an architectural style of the 18th century
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Portuguese colonial architecture, a collection of styles of architecture that the Portuguese built across the
Portuguese Empire
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Visigothic art and architecture, architecture and art styles of the Iberian
Visigoths in the 5th century
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Azulejo, a form of painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework
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Portuguese pavement, a traditional-style pavement used in pedestrian areas
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Adufe, a square tambourine
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Ukulele, string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii
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Gaita transmontana, a type of Portuguese bagpipe
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Galician gaita, a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe.
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Portuguese guitar, a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings
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Rabeca chuleira, a three-string fiddle
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Cavaquinho, a small string instrument that originated the Ukulele
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Machete, a small string instrument from
Madeira
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Viola braguesa, a ten-string instrument
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Viola campaniça, a ten steel string guitar
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Viola amarantina, a ten string guitar with two heart-shaped frontal openings
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Viola toeira, a twelve string guitar
Food and cooking
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Presunto ibérico, a type of cured ham
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Enchidos, a variety of cured, dry sausages
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Alheira, a type of sausage made with meats other than pork (usually veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and bread
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São Jorge cheese, a type of semi-hard to hard cheese
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Castelo Branco cheese, type of goat cheese
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Serra da Estrela cheese, a type of ewes cheese
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Port wine, a type of fortified wine
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Moscatel, a type of fortified wine
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Madeira wine, a type of fortified wine
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Jeropiga, a type of fortified white wine
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Vinho Verde, a type of white wine fermented using young grapes
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Pastel de nata, an egg tart pastry
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Tempura, a Japanese dish introduced to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries
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Marmalade, a type of fruit preserve
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Churros, a type of fried-dough pastry brought by the Portuguese from China
Nautical science
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Carrack, a three- or four-masted sailing ship
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Galleon, a large sailing warship
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Caravel, a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship
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Square-rigged caravel, a sailing ship
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Man-of-war, a powerful warship armed with
cannons and propelled by
sails
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Gun port, an opening on the side of a ship's hull that allows artillery pieces to fire outside
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Nonius, a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe
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Mariner's astrolabe, an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship
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Portuguese nautical cartography, a compendium of navigational and geographic maps
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Cantino planisphere, the earliest extant nautical chart where places are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes
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School of Sagres, first court of navigation founded in Sagres
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Chip log, a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water
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Volta do mar, a navigation technique that exploits
trade winds to move across the sea
Weaponry
Science and technology
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Familial amyloidotic neuropathy, a group of autosomal dominant diseases of the nervous system first described by
Corino Andrade
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Circulatory system,
Amato Lusitano discovered the circulation of the blood and the function of valves
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Cerebral angiography, developed by
António Egas Moniz
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Lobotomy, pioneered by
António Egas Moniz
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Tropical medicine, pioneered by
Garcia de Orta
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Pyreliophorus, solar oven
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Prepaid Mobile Phone, a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use
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Multibanco, an interbank network with a wide range of services that can be utilised through its machines
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All-on-4, a dental technique for total rehabilitation of the edentulous patient
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Via Verde, an electronic toll collection system
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Coloradd, a sign code for aiding colour blind people to recognise colours
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Passarola, a type of lighter-than-air airship, the predecessor of air balloon
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Artificial horizon sextant, an airship device to measure the distance between the horizon line and celestial bodies
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Microphone Windshield
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Electric wheelchair elevator
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Electronic cane for the blind
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Electrovisor, a tactile system for the blind to perceive images
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BASIL, vibratory system for deaf people to perceive sounds
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COPASI, software application for creating and solving mathematical models of biological processes
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Eslicarbazepine acetate, anticonvulsant medication
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Deaf-mute language, pioneered by
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
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ENER 1000, an early personal computer
Literature
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Heteronym, a literary concept in which one or several imaginary character(s) are created by a writer to write in different styles
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Ultra-Romanticism, a literary movement derived from the
Romanticism that took place in the second half of the 19th century
References
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^ Filipe, Jaime - "As bolas de vento para microfones, nasceram em Portugal". Inventiva n.º 33. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Março de 1981.
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^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 1. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade, Dezembro de 1984.
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^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 7. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade.
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^ Filipe, Jaime - "Dar vista aos cegos". Inventiva. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Outubro de 1977.
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^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 6. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. 1986.