Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portugal i / ˈ p ɔr tʃ ʉ ɡ əl /, officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the ...
Portugal Official Tourism Website
Plan your travel to Portugal. Looking for romance, discovering culture, living adventure, relaxing? Indulge yourself in Portugal, your holidays’ destination. Useful ...
Portugal travel guide - Wikitravel
Portugal, in Southern Europe, shares the Iberian peninsula at the western tip of Europe with Spain. Geographically and culturally somewhat isolated from its neighbor ...
CIA - The World Factbook: Portugal
Following its heyday as a global maritime power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a ...
Portugal Travel, Tours, Hotels and Tourims
Travel to Portugal with Portugal.com. Portugal.com offers a wide range of travel and tourism products including hotels, pousadas, paradores, solares and manor houses.
Portugal - U.S. Department of State
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations of Portugal.
A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb, "celebrere" but they may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued. For example Virgin Director Richard Branson was famous as a CEO, but he did not become a global celebrity, until he attempted to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon. Another, example is Al Gore, whose environmental crusade has elevated him to, celebrity status. On the other hand, mass entertainment personalities, such as soap opera actors or music stars are likely to become celebrities, even if the person deliberately avoids media attention.
A famous definition of celebrity comes from the cultural theorist Daniel Boorstin. In his book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, he critically describes a celebrity as a person who is known for his,well-knownness . . . a human pseudo-event.