Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
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It's time to skip this season and stick to my project. Nothing special comes from this Juve.
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swag

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Your ancestors invaded my region and offered to the myths of that era marrying with a Portuguese blonde girl.
Portugal is a small country. There is no way we could round up 72 virgins for you.

But Afonso de Albuquerque? He was pretty badass and doesn't get mentioned enough in history.

He partnered with Magalhães (Magellan), who kept him sane in Malacca.

Magalhães circumnavigation around the globe is still my high watermark of crazy human explorational achievements. Landing on the moon was planned and predictable by comparison. And he did it surrounded by suspicious Spaniards who wanted to mutiny and throw him overboard the minute they left port in Sevilla.

But without Afonso de Albuquerque on that trip a decade later, he kind of lost his mind and turned it into a personal suicide mission where Elcano had to salvage it.

We still honor that crazy trip in the Lisbon Metro at Parque station:
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Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
18,329
Portugal is a small country. There is no way we could round up 72 virgins for you.

But Afonso de Albuquerque? He was pretty badass and doesn't get mentioned enough in history.

He partnered with Magalhães (Magellan), who kept him sane in Malacca.

Magalhães circumnavigation around the globe is still my high watermark of crazy human explorational achievements. Landing on the moon was planned and predictable by comparison. But without Afonso de Albuquerque on that trip a decade later, he kind of lost his mind and turned it into a personal suicide mission where Elcano had to salvage it.

We still honor that crazy trip in the Lisbon subway
IMG_6018.jpg
IMG_6021.jpg
That was joke.
I'm interested in history and I have minor study on colonist, In the past, Portugal was one of the greatest maritime colonialist and invented modern colonial slavery after all.
 

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