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Two tracks -- the album's opener, "Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser," and "Cais" -- appeared on Mr. Nascimento's breakthrough recording, "Lo Borges Clube Da Esquina," released in 1972.
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After sleeping in, take tram No. 15 from the Cais do Sodré, just south of the hotel, to Belém , Lisbon's prime cultural district and the place from which Vasco da Gama sailed for India in 1497.
Take Monday Off: Lisbon Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011
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Grab lunch at Cais do Chiado , an organic grocery and café a few doors north of the hotel 26M Rua do Alecrim, 21-343-1072.
Take Monday Off: Lisbon Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011
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Armando Franca/Associated Press A young woman carried a surf board past idle trains at Lisbon ' s Cais do Sodre train station.
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"It is like a Sunday here," said newspaper salesman Francisco Amaral outside Lisbon's Cais do Sodré transport interchange, where the metro and ferry stations were closed and only a handful of overland trains ran.
Unions bring Portugal to a grinding halt as Irish-style bailout looms Giles Tremlett in Lisbon 2010
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Both lived alongside New World vultures, flamingos, screamers and caviomorph rodents [the adjacent photo, of the brontornithine Paraphysornis, is borrowed from Cais de Gaia's phorusrhacid blog post].
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
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Both lived alongside New World vultures, flamingos, screamers and caviomorph rodents [the adjacent photo, of the brontornithine Paraphysornis, is borrowed from Cais de Gaia's phorusrhacid blog post].
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Persons who hold themselves excused from the duty of worship by every slight obstacle might do worse than get infected with the sublime formalism of Cais, son of Sad, who would not shift his head an inch from the place of his prostration, though a huge serpent lifted its fangs close to his face and finally coiled itself round his neck.
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The "Book of Rights" suggests that the name is derived from Cais-il, i.e. "tribute stone", because the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Hitherto the Eoghanists had succeeded in depriving the tribes of Dal-Cais of their fair share of alternate succession to the throne of Munster; they became alarmed at and jealous of the advancement of the younger tribe, and determined to do by treachery what they could not do by force.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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