Search results for "Macao" - New World Encyclopedia

) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ... on the scene among the European powers. Macao has many similarities with ...

boarded a second ship, the Trident, bound for Macao. Twenty-five years ... The Trident arrived in Macao on September 4, 1807. Immediately George ...

such as Hong Kong and nearby Portuguese Macao was never colonized, although ... Across the Bay, the Portuguese colony of Macao was already established ...

Various reports put the scarlet macaw (Ara macao), just outside the Pantanal ... **Ara macao : Scarlet macaw or aracanga **Ara chloroptera : Greenwing ...

to introduce Christianity. Arriving in Macao in 1582, Ricci began learning ... 1579, he sent Father Michele de Ruggieri to Macao, a Portuguese trading post ...

In 1640, four Portuguese ambassadors who had gone from Macao to Nagasaki were called upon to renounce their faith, and when they refused they ...

then Jesuits, got permission to reside in Macao in 1578. Several religious ... colleague Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607) in Macao in August 1582. When Ricci ...

specifically with the Portuguese in Macao, should be reduced to a minimum ... de Tournon [the messenger] to be brought to Macao and forbade him to leave ...

ordered the Catholic missionary to be deported to Macao. The Governor reported the incident to Yongzheng, and requested that he instate a law deporting ...

Calcutta, Chinese from Manila, and Portuguese from Macao. Ibid. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Sulu faced increasing competition ...

betting pastime also occurs, particularly in Macao. Crickets may also be eaten in some cultures, and are popular as live food for carnivorous pets. ...

the Japanese. (See Battle of Timor.) Macao was also occupied by Japan. === Atlantic Charter === The Atlantic Charter was negotiated at the Atlantic ...

the Ming rule, the first European colony, Macao, was founded (1557). ... eastern shores and the Portuguese founded Macao, the first European settlement ...

missionary, Robert Morrison, arrived in Macao in 1807. Protestant and Catholic ... 1579, he sent Father Michele de Ruggieri to Macao, a Portuguese trading post ...

were signed to return both Hong Kong and Macao to Chinese sovereignty. ... were signed to return both Hong Kong and Macao to Chinese sovereignty. Deng ...

when a failed effort to gain control of the Miss Macao, a seaplane of a Cathay Pacific subsidiary company, caused it to crash into the sea off Macau ...

as well. Fights for land were fought as far away as Macao, East Indies, Ceylon, Formosa (Taiwan), the Philippines, Brazil, and others. The main of these ...

joined the Euro in 1999. The Asian dependency of Macao, after an agreement in 1986, was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999. Portugal applied international ...