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    the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The largest city of the Azores is Ponta...
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  • Aviation in the Azores is part of the greater history of aviation in Portugal, and involves the historical use of the archipelago of the Azores by North American...
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  • Sebastião, Ponta Delgada in the Azores, Portugal. It operates scheduled passenger, cargo and mail services around the Azores. It provides its own maintenance...
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    the Azores gained attention through many different travel media mediums, such as the World Travel Market London’s annual survey recognized the Azores as...
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    the Azores (Portuguese: Universidade dos Açores), or commonly abbreviated as UAc, is the only public university in the Autonomous Region of the Azores. It...
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    Heroísmo on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal. It is home to the Portuguese Air Force Base Aérea N.º 4 and Azores Air Zone Command (Portuguese: Comando...
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  • Lomba da Maia (category Parishes of Ribeira Grande, Azores)
    a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,152, in an area of 20.47 km2. It is situated...
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  • Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 1991 ATP Challenger...
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    Pico on Pico Island in the Azores. The archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores are scattered within the Atlantic Ocean: the Azores straddling the Mid-Atlantic...
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    include the Berlengas (a few tens of kilometres off mainland Portugal), the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Saint Helena in the Atlantic, and in the Pacific...
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    released in 2002. Extreme reformed for a short tour in 2004 playing in the Azores (August), in their hometown of Boston at the WAAF anniversary (September...
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    coalition. People's Democratic Union electoral list only in Madeira and Azores. Sistema Eleitoral Português: Problemas e Soluções, "Leya", Marina Costa...
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    descent on her father’s side, and of Portuguese descent, by way of the Azores and the Madeira islands, on her mother’s side. In 1998, McKellar earned...
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    long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores." Due to their location, he thought the Portuguese Azores islands were Germany's "only possibility of...
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    Justine Dupont (category 1991 births)
    Hawaii: 2nd WQS 1000 Central Coast Pro, Avoca Beach, Australia: 1st WQS 1500 Azores Airlines Pro, Açores, Portugal: 1st 2015 National surf Champion National...
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    Prince Henry the Navigator (category Donatários of the Azores)
    the Atlantic Ocean and Africa, and Henry promoted the colonization of the Azores during Peter's regency (1439–1448). For most of the latter part of his life...
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  • autonomy for the Azores (1995 - Azores) Aristides Moreira da Mota [pt], politician, promoter of autonomy for the Azores (1995 - Azores) Alexandra Moura [pt]...
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    there. The aircraft crashed into a mountain on São Miguel Island in the Azores, while on approach to Santa Maria for a scheduled stopover, killing all...
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    perpendicular ridges: the Azores–Gibraltar transform fault, the boundary between the Nubian and Eurasian plates, intersects the MAR at the Azores triple junction...
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    near the topographic summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet, on 22 December 1991, when the temperature reached −69.6 °C (−93.3 °F). In Nuuk, the average daily...
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    Pan Am (category Airlines disestablished in 1991)
    to offer service from Norfolk, Virginia, to Europe via Bermuda and the Azores using the S-42s. A joint service from Port Washington, New York, to Bermuda...
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    subspecies. The species is endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, Portugal. In the Azores, this lizard has become naturalized after an involuntary introduction by...
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    do (ed.). Archivo dos Açores [Archive of the Azores] (in Portuguese). Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores: Archivo dos Açores. pp. 437–441. From pp. 439–440:...
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    Conference, codenamed Trident, the conferees agreed on the occupation of the Azores (Operation Alacrity) the British Ambassador reacted to the US State Department's...
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  • Capture of Oporto Battle of Salga Battle of Ponta Delgada Conquest of the Azores Location: Iberian Peninsula (mostly Portugal) and Atlantic Ocean Spain Portugal...
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    currently used for registration plates for US Forces in Portugal (Lajes, Azores). UZ  Uzbekistan 1992 SU Formerly part of the Soviet Union. Coincides with...
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    flights to Luanda. Initially they were able to make stops in Barbados, the Azores, or Newfoundland, prompting pressure from Washington to deny Cuba landing...
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    is in South Africa's Tsitsikamma National Park. The rainforests of the Azores (also known as cloud forests, due to the constant cloud coverage caused...
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    granadilla in Bolivia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, The Azores, South Africa, and Peru, granadilla común in Guatemala, granadilla de China...
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    skies. Azores Express terminated the contract for the flights between Ponta Delgada and Boston by the end of February. Fallout from the Azores accident...
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