Expressões populares portuguesas - Fazer tijolo

Significado:

Morrer. 

Origem: 

Segundo se diz, existiu um velho cemitério mouro para as bandas das Olarias, Bombarda e Forno do Tijolo. O almacávar, isto é, o cemitério mourisco, alastrava-se numa grande extensão por toda a encosta, lavado de ar e coberto de arvoredo. Após o terramoto de 1755, começando a reedificação da cidade, o barro era pouco para as construções e daí aproveitar-se todo o que aparecesse. O cemitério árabe foi tão amplamente explorado que, de mistura com a excelente terra argilosa, iam também as ossadas para fazer tijolo. Assim, é frequente ouvir-se a expressão popular em frases como esta: 'Daqui a dez anos já eu estou a fazer tijolo '. in 'Dicionário de Expressões Correntes' ; Orlando Neves

Artigo - Obrigado Soares

C’est avec cette une que le quotidien portugais Público rend hommage à “l’homme, l’homme politique, le penseur, le fondateur de la démocratie. Qui a vécu et fait vivre le changement. Il sera présent dans les livres d’Histoire, et ce sera l’histoire de quelqu’un qui n’a jamais baissé les bras”, indique le journal dans les pages de son édition spéciale.

Après le décès à l’âge de 92 ans, samedi 7 janvier, de l’ancien président socialiste Mario Soares, le Portugal est en deuil et les hommages se multiplient.

Mario Soares a connu l’exil, avant de revenir pour participer à l’avènement de la démocratie après la révolution des Oeillets en avril 1974, qui avait conduit à la chute de la dictature salazariste. Il a travaillé à la sortie de l’isolement du Portugal, puis à l’intégration européenne du pays. Il a été le fondateur du Parti socialiste portugais, ministre des Affaires étrangères, deux fois chef de gouvernement, président de la République de 1986 à 1996, et député européen.

Il est encore illustré ces dernières années en se portant candidat aux présidentielles portugaises de janvier 2006, en plus récemment, en critiquant avec virulence les mesures d’austérité mises en place par l’ancien gouvernement de centre droit entre 2010 et 2015.

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Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 20 - Layer Cake Sunset

Layer Cake Sunset 
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)

Explanation: On January 18 a tantalizing sunset was captured in this snapshot. Seemingly sliced into many horizontal layers the Sun shimmered moments before it touched the horizon, setting over the Pacific Ocean as seen from themountaintop Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Pink hues of filtered sunlight were created by the long sight-line through the hazy atmosphere. But the remarkable layers correspond to low atmospheric layers of sharply different temperature and density also along the line of sight. Over a long path through each layer the rays of sunlight are refracted strongly and create different images or mirages of sections of the setting Sun.

Sonia Cortez - "Do fundo da alma" - Video - Musica

"Do fundo da alma"

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 19 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus 
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin

Explanation: Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Also known as vdB 142, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long. This colorful close-up view includes image data from a narrow band filter that transmits the light from ionized hydrogen atoms in the region. The resulting composite highlights the bright swept-back ridges that outline pockets of cool interstellar dust and gas. Such embedded, dark, tendril-shaped clouds contain the raw material for star formation and hide protostars within. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a large region on the sky, spanning over 5 degrees. This dramatic scene spans a 1 degree wide field, about the size of 2 Full Moons.

Expressões populares portuguesas - Fila Indiana

Significado:

Enfiada de pessoas ou coisas dispostas uma após outra.

Origem:

Forma de caminhar dos índios da América que, deste modo, tapavam as pegadas dos que iam na frente.

Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos/Grupo de Campo Maior/Orquestra Sinfonieta/Coros do Alentejo - "Saias raianas" - Video - Musica - Ao vivo

"Saias raianas"

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 18 - Space Station Vista: Planet and Galaxy

Space Station Vista: Planet and Galaxy 
Image Credit: NASA, JSC, ESRS

Explanation: If you could circle the Earth aboard the International Space Station, what might you see? Some amazing vistas, one of which was captured in this breathtaking picture in mid-2015. First, visible at the top, are parts of thespace station itself including solar panels. Just below the station is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, glowing with the combined light of billions of stars, but dimmed in patches by filaments of dark dust. The band of red light just below the Milky Way is airglow -- Earth's atmosphere excited by the Sun and glowing in specific colors of light. Green airglow is visible below the red. Of course that's our Earth below its air, with the terminator between day and night visible near the horizon. As clouds speckle the planet, illumination from a bright lightning bolt is seen toward the lower right. Between work assignments, astronauts from all over the Earth have been enjoying vistas like this from the space station since the year 2000.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 17 - Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon 
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)

Explanation: No, this is not a good way to get to the Moon. What is pictured is a chance superposition of an airplane and the Moon. The contrail would normally appear white, but the large volume of air toward the setting Sun preferentially knocks away blue light, giving the reflected trail a bright red hue. Far in the distance, to the right of the plane, is the young Moon. This vast world shows only a sliver of itself because the Sun is nearly lined up behind it. Captured two weeks ago, the featured image was framed by an eerie maroon sky, too far from day to be blue, too far from night to be black. Within minutes the impromptu sky show ended. The plane crossed the Moon. The contrail dispersed. The Sun set. The Moon set. The sky faded to black, only to reveal thousands of stars that had been too faint to see through the rustic red din.

Expressões populares portuguesas - Andar à toa

Significado:

Andar sem destino, despreocupado, passando o tempo. 

Origem: 

Toa é a corda com que uma embarcação reboca a outra. Um navio que está "à toa" é o que não tem leme nem rumo, indo para onde o navio que o reboca determinar.