Lisbon Ocean and the River Tagus. The westernmost areas of its metro area form the westernmost point of Continental Europe, which is known as Cabo da Roca, located in the Sintra Mountains Lisbon is recognised as an alpha-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism. Lisbon is the only Portuguese city besides Porto to be recognised as a global city. It is one of the major economic centres on the continent, with a growing financial sector and one of the largest container
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