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Of the eight islands, only the two largest (Madeira and Porto Santo) are inhabited, having as main accesses, the Madeira Airport in Funchal and the one in Porto Santo. In 1931, Canada and other British dominions obtained self-government through the Statute of Westminster.

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Two weeks after they disembarked from the SS Ravenscrag in late August 1879, the Hawaiian Gazette reported that "Madeira Islanders recently arrived here, have been delighting the people with nightly street concerts.

These are so integral a part of traditional eating habits that a special iron stand is available with a T-shaped end, each branch of the "T" having a slot in the middle to hold a brochette (espeto in Portuguese); a small plate is then placed underneath to collect the juices. When news of the overture leaked in April 1918, Charles denied involvement until the French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau published letters signed by him.

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They have essentially the same genes as one another, but rearranged in various ways to give different chromosome numbers: the ancestral species has 40 chromosomes, whereas the Madeira species have from 22 to 30.From 1976 to 2019, the center-right Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) had a majority of MPs in the regional parliament and ruled on its own.

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The discoveries of Porto Santo and Madeira were first described by Gomes Eanes de Zurara in Chronica da Descoberta e Conquista da Guiné. As other islands of the Macaronesia, the Madeira islands are of volcanic origin and with a subtropical climate. It is a modern city, located within a natural geological " amphitheatre" composed of vulcanological structure and fluvial hydrological forces. On 12 December 1917, two German U-boats, SM U-156 and SM U-157 (captained by Max Valentiner), again bombarded Funchal.Barbary corsairs from North Africa, who enslaved Europeans from ships and coastal communities throughout the Mediterranean region, captured 1,200 people in Porto Santo in 1617.

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The colouring is variable and tends to match the colour of the animal's surroundings, being some shade of brown or grey with occasionally a greenish tinge. In 1425 King John I officially made Madeira a full province of Portugal, handing it as a gift to Henry the Navigator. The trio travelled to the island and claimed it on behalf of the Portuguese Crown and established a settlement. Madeira is very mountainous, and building the levadas was difficult and often convicts or slaves were used.There are almost no traces of lineage coming from slaves in Madeira, due to low numbers and fertility rate. Administratively, Madeira (with a population of 251,060 inhabitants in 2021 [87]) and covering an area of 768. The three captain-majors had led, in the first trip, their respective families, a small group of people of the minor nobility, people of modest conditions and some old prisoners of the kingdom. According to the 2011 Census, the total population in the Autonomous Region of Madeira was 267,785: 126,268 men and 141,517 women. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.