Port of Lisbon in the north margin of the River Tagus. In 205 BC, the city (known as "Olissippo") was conquered by the Romans. In the 5th Century the Suebi conquered the area, followed by the Visigoths. In AD 714, the Moors conquered Lisbon, expanding the port with their Mediterranean and Atlantic trades. Port of Lisbon The Port of Lisbon (Portuguese: "Porto de Lisboa") is the third largest port in Portugal, located where the River Tagus and the Atlantic Ocean meet, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Due to its strategic location on the Portuguese coast between Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic, the
Just Before the War with the Eskimos Just Before the War with the Eskimos "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the June 5, 1948 issue of "The New Yorker". It was anthologized in Salinger's 1953 collection "Nine Stories", and reprinted for Bantam in "Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City" in 1954. It is a tale of adolescent alienation and redemption in a post-World War II setting. It focuses primarily on fifteen-year-old Ginnie Mannox's meeting with her classmate Selena Graff's older brother, Franklin. Poet and "New Yorker" editor Dorothy Parker described the story