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HELLO, my name is João-Manuel Mimoso and this is my homepage in English. The name of the site means "Tobacco Shop" and was suggested by Fernando Pessoa's poem of the same name which has been singled by some specialists as the poem of the XX century. You can read an excerpt HERE. "Tobacco Shop" changed the life of others... who knows, it may change yours!

Tobacco shops are different in each country. In Portugal, a good one will offer an amazing variety of magazines of all descriptions. Likewise, my pages offer a variety of subjects. If you can read some Portuguese, you may like to see the whole list in my original Homepage HERE. Otherwise, the buttons are at left. Have fun!

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Read translations of most poems of Fernando Pessoa's masterwork Message with notes and explanations to each part of the work and to the individual poems.
 
Read the biography of Carlos Alberto Santos and see examples of the artist's paintings of the Age of Discovery and fantastic illustrations of many subjects for magazines and books.
 
Read about that supreme symbol of the Golden Age of Travel- the hotel luggage label.
 
Read about forgeries of Portuguese stamps and some reprints.
 

João-Manuel Mimoso

(joaom.mimoso@gmail.com)

 
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