query: Sponsors of the Mancuso quilt festivals.

positive: Brother Industries Brother Industries, Ltd. (Japanese: ブラザー工業株式会社, Hepburn: Burazā Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include printers, multifunction printers, sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electronics. Brother distributes its products both under its own name and under OEM agreements with other companies.

positive: Janome Janome (蛇の目ミシン工業株式会社, Janome Mishin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha, Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese company that produces sewing machines, with manufacturing plants in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

negative: .mil The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. The name is derived from military. It was one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985.The United States is the only country that has a top-level domain for its military, a legacy of the United States' military role in the creation of the Internet.

negative: Action On Film International Film Festival The Action On Film International Film Festival, also known as the Action On Film Festival, is a film festival currently held in Monrovia, California.  It was founded in 2004, and it has been held in several different cities in California.

negative: Aer Rianta International Aer Rianta International cpt (ARI) is an airport and retail holding and management company, registered in Dublin and with its head office on the grounds of Shannon Airport in Shannon, County Clare. ARI is a subsidiary of Ireland's state-owned daa.The company was established in 1988 as part of Aer Rianta (now daa).  The airport division holds a 20% stake in Düsseldorf International Airport.

negative: Agents For Change Founded in 2005, Agents For Change [1] is a grassroots trade association of over 8,500 insurance agents and brokers from across all lines of insurance working together to enact an optional federal charter to allow producers the option of being regulated at either the federal or state level.  Members of Agents for Change participate in policy development and provide lawmakers with expert advice as they move forward to modernize insurance regulation.

negative: Alaska State Fair The Alaska State Fair is an annual state fair held in Palmer, Alaska, USA. The fairgrounds are located just one hour north of Anchorage and draw visitors form the entire Anchorage metropolitan area and beyond for the popular 1 and ½ week event beginning at the end of August. The Alaska state fair is famous for its record setting giant vegetables and picturesque location at the foot of the Chugach Mountains in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

negative: An Post An Post (Irish pronunciation: [ən̪ˠ pˠɔsˠt̪ˠ]; English literal translation: "The Post") is the state-owned provider of postal services in Republic of Ireland. An Post provides a "universal postal service" to all parts of the country as a member of the Universal Postal Union. Services provided include, letter post, parcel service, deposit accounts, Swiftpost, an all-Ireland next-day delivery service, and EMS, the international express-mail service.

negative: Arts Council of Wales The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; Welsh: Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.Established by Royal Charter in 1946, as the Welsh Arts Council (Welsh: Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, its English name was changed to the Arts Council of Wales in 1994 (the Welsh name remained the same), when it merged with the three Welsh regional arts associations.

negative: Baltimore album quilts Baltimore Album Quilts originated in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1840s. They have become one of the most popular styles of quilts and are still made today.  These quilts are made up of a number of squares called blocks. Each block has been appliquéd with a different design.  The designs are often floral, but many other motifs are also used, such as eagles and landmarks.  They have a background of white and incorporate many primary colors such as reds, greens and blues.

negative: Bettye Kimbrell Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama. In 1995 Kimbrell won the  Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts in Alabama.

negative:
Bord Iascaigh Mhara Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbˠɔɾˠdˠ ˈi̠əsˠkəɣ ˈwaɾˠa], meaning "Sea Fish Board"; or BIM "Irish Sea Fisheries Board") is the agency of the Irish state with responsibility for developing the Irish marine fishing and aquaculture industries.Originally established under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1952, the organisation serves to provide resources to the fishing industry, particularly in aquaculture, as well as providing an interface to the consumer for information and promotion of seafood. @en <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_Iascaigh_Mhara?oldid=607260043> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Regulus_Grammar_Compiler> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> The Regulus Grammar Compiler is a software system for compiling unification grammars into grammars for speech recognition systems.

negative: British and Irish Steam Packet Company The British and Irish Steam Packet Company was a steam packet and passenger ferry company operating between ports in Ireland and in Great Britain between 1836 and 1992.  It was latterly popularly called the B&I, and branded as B + I line.

negative: Britt Festival Britt is a non-profit performing arts festival located in Jacksonville, Oregon. Since its creation it has been among the premier performing arts festivals in the Northwest, and has managed to attract high-profile and local acts in music for decades. Britt also sponsors a number of educational programs through its educational arm The Britt Institute.

negative: Brushy Mountain Apple Festival The Brushy Mountain Apple Festival is a one-day arts and crafts fair held annually in downtown North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The fair is held during the first Saturday in October. Over 160,000 people visit the fair each year, and it is one of the largest single-day arts and crafts fairs in the Southeastern United States. The fair is held to celebrate the apple harvest from the nearby Brushy Mountains.

negative: Carmelo Mancuso Carmelo Mancuso (born October 3, 1965 in Palermo) is a retired Italian professional football player.He played for 2 seasons (6 games, no goals) in the Serie A for A.C. Milan and U.S. Lecce.

negative: ChicagoFest ChicagoFest was a summer music festival in the city of Chicago, started in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic. It was held annually at Navy Pier, and lasted for roughly two weeks. It featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP and The Chicago Tribune, Jazz and Miller Brewing Company, Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.

negative: Chicago Sketch Fest The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival (or SketchFest) is an annual nonprofit sketch comedy festival held in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood at Stage 773 (1225 W Belmont Ave).  This is the world's largest sketch festival, featuring 160 sketch groups (totaling over 1,000 performers) in roughly 180 shows throughout the festival's two-weekend run. This year, SketchFest organizers are projecting an audience of over 11,000 patrons.

negative: Ciro Mancuso Ciro Wayne Mancuso (born 1949) was a Nevada-based drug dealer convicted of running a $140-million marijuana smuggling operation for more than a decade. In cooperation with a foreign exchange student from Thailand, Mancuso built one of the largest domestic drug cartels in U.S. history. The son of immigrants from Italy, Mancuso was a real estate developer before venturing into the lucrative narcotics business.

negative: Coffee with Conscience Coffee With Conscience is a monthly concert series based in Westfield, New Jersey which raises money for local charities by hosting touring musical performers with a focus on singer-songwriters. It is sponsored in part by the Westfield Service League, and it began in 2000 and has run every year since then. Charities it sponsors include Homefirst, Habitat for Humanity, Contact We Care, the Community Food Bank of NJ and the Keith Knost Special Needs Trust.

negative: Coillte Coillte (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkəilʲtʲə], meaning "Forests"/"Woods") is a state-sponsored company in Ireland, based in Newtownmountkennedy. Coillte is a commercial company operating in forestry, land-based businesses and added-value processing operations.

negative: Commission for Taxi Regulation The Commission for Taxi Regulation (also An Coimisiún Um Rialáil Tacsaithe and Taxi Regulator) was a public body in Ireland that existed between 2004 and 2011 regulating small public service vehicles (SPSVs) - the generic term for taxis, wheelchair accessible taxis, hackneys and limousines.Taxis and wheelchair-accessible taxis are allowed to pick up passengers in the street or at a stand and have their fares calculated by a meter; hackneys and limousines do not use meters and are not permitted to pick up passengers in the street or at a stand.The Commission set a single maximum fare structure for taxis for all places in the Republic of Ireland, although drivers are allowed to offer discounts and customers are permitted to give tips to drivers.Kathleen Doyle was appointed the Commissioner for Taxi Regulation in 2007.The first Commissioner, Ger Deering, was appointed in 2004.

negative: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with footage of various politicians, health professionals and other people with AIDS.

negative: Corded quilting Corded quilting (also known as Marseilles quilting, Marseilles embroidery, marcella, or Zaans stitchwork) is a decorative quilting technique popular from the late 17th through the early 19th centuries. In corded quilting, a fine fabric, sometimes colored silk but more often white linen or cotton, is backed with a loosely woven fabric.

negative: Crazy Quilt (solitaire) Crazy Quilt (also known as Indian Carpet and Japanese Rug) is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. The game is so-called because the reserve resembles the weaves of a carpet or an arrangement of a quilt. The arrangement of the cards on the reserve is also the reason it is rarely seen on computer solitaire packages, most of which have their cards placed vertically.First, one Ace and one King of each suit are taken out to form the foundations.

negative: Crazy quilting This article is about the textile art. For the DC Comics villain, see Crazy Quilt; for the card game, see Crazy Quilt (solitaire); for the unrelated TV show, see Crazy Quilt (TV Series).The term "crazy quilting" is often used to refer to the textile art of crazy patchwork and is sometimes used interchangeably with that term.

negative: Curtain Up! Curtain Up! (2009) is an announced British stage comedy by Peter Quilter, a reworking of his own all-female first play Respecting Your Piers (1998). It is to be re-published by Samuel French Ltd. The show is popular with amateur groups in the UK, where it has been produced over 100 times.  It has also had productions in New Zealand, Belgium, and Australia.

negative: Deaths in August 2007 The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2007.

negative: Denton Arts and Jazz Festival The Denton Arts & Jazz Festival is a free 2½-day event held the last weekend of every April in the city of Denton, Texas. Produced by the Denton Festival Foundation, and sponsored by the City of Denton and corporate sponsors, it brings over 200,000 people each year for live music, fine art, food, drink, crafts, and recreation. The festival is held in Quakertown Park, (formerly Civic Center Park), a natural space in the heart of the city just off the town square.

negative: Dogwood Arts Festival The Dogwood Arts Festival is an annual event in Knoxville, Tennessee, sponsored by Dogwood Arts, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and celebrate regional art, culture, and natural beauty. The event is held in April and celebrates the blooming of the dogwood trees. It includes a parade, a house and garden show, and demonstrations of various Appalachian arts and crafts such as quilting, bluegrass music, and doll-making.

negative: Dublin Airport Authority daa plc, previously Dublin Airport Authority, is a commercial semi-state airport company in Ireland. The company owns and operates Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. Its other subsidiaries include the travel retail business Aer Rianta International and daa International.daa previously owned and operated Shannon Airport before Shannon Airport became a separate state-owned airport on 31 December 2012.

negative: ESB Group The Electricity Supply Board (Irish: Bord Soláthair an Leictreachais; sometimes called ESB Ireland to differentiate it from US utilities), known for short as the ESB, is a state owned (95%) electricity company in Ireland. While historically a monopoly, the ESB now operates as a commercial semi-state concern in a liberalised and competitive market. It is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Government.

negative: EirGrid EirGrid plc is the state-owned electric power transmission operator in  Ireland. It is a public limited company registered under the Companies Acts; its shares are held by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources who appoints the board and the Minister for Finance. It is one of a number of Irish state-sponsored bodies and is regulated by the Commission for Energy Regulation.

negative: Environment Agency Wales Environment Agency Wales, (Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd Cymru in Welsh) was, until 31 March 2013, a Welsh Government Sponsored Body, while also being part of the Environment Agency for England and Wales. It had an operational area defined along its Eastern boundary by the catchments of the River Dee and the River Wye.

negative: Fannie Mae The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, was founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and has been a publicly traded company since 1968.

negative: Frank Mancuso, Jr. Frank G. Mancuso Jr. (born October 9, 1958) is an American film producer.Mancuso, the son of the former Paramount Pictures president Frank Mancuso, Sr., was born in Buffalo, New York. Mancuso produced sequels to Friday the 13th and co-created Friday the 13th: The Series.Mancuso later produced Cool World, which he had heavily rewritten during production, Internal Affairs, the Species series, Hoodlum, Stigmata, Ronin, I Know Who Killed Me, and Road to Paloma.

negative: Frank Mancuso, Sr. Frank G. Mancuso (born July 25, 1933 in Buffalo, New York) was the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures between 1984 and 1991, and of MGM between 1993 and 1999, when he retired.He is currently the chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Corporate Board of Directors. He is the father of executive producer Frank Mancuso, Jr.. Mancuso currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Fay.In 2010, Mancuso received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Canada.

negative: Frank Mancuso Frank Octavius Mancuso (May 23, 1918 – August 4, 2007) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for two teams between 1944 and 1947. Listed at 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m), 195 lb., Mancuso batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Houston, Texas. His older brother, Gus Mancuso, also was a major league catcher. Following his 18-year baseball career, Mancuso almost certainly had the longest continuous tenure of any elected city official in Houston history.

negative: Gourd art Gourd art involves creating works of art using Lagenaria spp. hard-shell gourds as an art medium. Gourd surfaces may be carved, painted, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished.

negative: Great Lakes Quilt Center The Great Lakes Quilt Center is Michigan State University Museum’s  center of quilt-related research, education, and exhibition activities. While the museum, established in 1855, has long held significant collections, its focus of activities on quilt scholarship and education began with the launch of the Michigan Quilt Project at the museum in 1984.

negative: Gym Class Heroes Gym Class Heroes are an American rap rock group from Geneva, New York, United States. The group formed in 1997 when Travie McCoy met drummer Matt McGinley during their high school gym class. The band's music displays a wide variety of influences, including hip hop, rock, funk, and reggae.

negative: Gym Class Heroes discography This is the complete discography of hip hop band Gym Class Heroes.After the addition of guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo and bassist Eric Roberts in 2003, the group was signed to Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance Records, on which they released their debut album, The Papercut Chronicles.  The group gained a strong fan base while promoting the album, appearing at festivals such as The Bamboozle and Warped Tour.  In 2006, the group released the gold-selling album As Cruel as School Children.

negative: Harriet Powers Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was an African-American slave, folk artist, and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Only two of her quilts have survived: Bible Quilt 1886 and Pictorial Quilt 1898. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of nineteenth-century Southern quilting.

negative: Hawaiian quilt A Hawaiian quilt is a distinctive quilting style of the Hawaiian Islands that uses large radially symmetric applique patterns.  Motifs often work stylized botanical designs in bold colors on a white background.Hawaiian quilt applique is made from a single cut on folded fabric.  Quilting stitches normally follow the contours of the applique design.

negative: Heartbreakers (1984 film) Heartbreakers is a 1984 drama film starring Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso. It was written and directed by Bobby Roth. The film was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

negative: History of quilting Quilting, the stitching together of layers of padding and fabric, may date back as far as ancient Egypt.

negative: Holice Turnbow Holice Edward Turnbow (born October 1, 1930) is an American quilter, artist, and textile consultant. Since the early 1970s he has curated, judged, and lectured at a multitude of quilting events throughout the United States and Canada. He is certified by the National Quilting Association as a judge and teacher. In 1988 he co-founded The Hoffman Challenge, a national quilting, clothing, and dolls contest featuring hundreds of participants.

negative: Indianapolis 500 traditions Due to the longevity of the Indianapolis 500, numerous traditions surrounding the race have developed over the years. Traditions include procedures for the running of the race, scheduling, and pre-race and post-race festivities.

negative: International Quilt Study Center & Museum The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska is the home of the largest known public collection of quilts in the world.More information can be found online at QuiltStudy.org.The International Quilt Study Center & Museum was founded in 1997 when native Nebraskans Ardis and Robert James donated their collection of nearly 950 quilts to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

negative: Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker) Jeffrey Friedman (born in Los Angeles, California on August 24, 1951) is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

negative: JoAnn Giordano JoAnn Giordano is an American textile artist and curator who has exhibited since 1977. An international artist, her work has shown in Mexico and Japan. She has exhibited at prestigious American venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Art. A popular art educator, Giordano has taught classes since 1979, including classes sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art, LaGuardia Community College, Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, and Kent State University.

negative: Judo in the United Kingdom The Japanese martial art Judo was first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1899, when entrepreneur Edward William Barton-Wright sponsored a visit from a team of Japanese judoka with the intention of establishing a jujutsu school in England. The introduction was not immediately successful, but some members of the team, including Yukio Tani, remained in England and gradually cultivated public interest in Judo and other types of jujutsu through demonstrations, instruction, and prize fighting.

negative: Julia Mancuso Julia Marie Mancuso (born March 9, 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the bronze medalist in the combined in 2014.  She has also won five medals (two silver and three bronze) at the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Her four Olympic medals are the most ever for a female American alpine skier.

negative: Lagos Photo LagosPhoto Festival is the first international art festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in October 2010 and sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria (who have been the main sponsors since inception).  It is organised by the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) as part of an on-going project designed to use art in public spaces - "art reclaiming public spaces" - as a medium for increasing societal awareness.

negative: Levitation (festival) Levitation, also known as Austin Psych Fest (often abbreviated as "APF"), is a psychedelic music festival created and curated by The Reverberation Appreciation Society and held annually in Austin Texas.

negative: List of festivals in the United States This is a list of festivals in the United States.

negative: List of legislation sponsored by Ron Paul Ron Paul, a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, has sponsored many bills in the United States House of Representatives, such as those that would abolish the income tax or the Federal Reserve. Except where indicated, all named bills below were originally authored and sponsored by Paul.

negative: Longarm quilting Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.The longarm sewing machine frame typically ranges from 10 to 14 feet in length (or, 3metres to 4.25 metres).

negative: Machine quilting Machine quilting is quilting made using a sewing machine to stitch in rows or patterns using select techniques to stitch through layers of fabric and batting in the manner of old-style hand-quilting. Some machines even replicate hand stitching, for example Sashiko or running stitch quilting.

negative: Michael Mancuso Michael "The Nose" Mancuso (born 1955), is an American mobster. He is a member of the American Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and the boss of the Bonanno crime family, one of Five Families in New York City.

negative: Mile of Music Mile of Music (also known as MoM) is an annual Americana music festival located in downtown Appleton, WI.

negative: Mimi Dietrich Mimi Dietrich is an American quilter, quilting instructor, author of 15 books about quilting and a member of the Quilter's Hall of Fame. A lifelong resident of Maryland, she lives in the Baltimore County community of Catonsville. Her first book, Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilts, was originally published in 1987. She teaches quilting classes in the Maryland area as well as online at Craftsy.  Her books and workshops focus mainly on applique techniques and Baltimore Album Quilts.

negative: NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt, is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world as of 2010.

negative: NGC Bocas Lit Fest The NGC Bocas Lit Fest is the Trinidad and Tobago literary festival that takes place annually during the last weekend of April in Port of Spain. Inaugurated in 2011, it is the first major literary festival in the southern Caribbean and largest literary festival in the Anglophone Caribbean. A registered non-profit company, the festival has as its title sponsor the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC).

negative: NTL Ireland NTL Communications (Ireland) Limited was a cable television and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS) company in Ireland. As of 2005 it was owned by Liberty Global Europe (see history, below), having been divested by NTL (now called Virgin Media). It has been rebranded as UPC Ireland.

negative: National Media Museum The National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) is a museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the national Science Museum Group. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on photography, television, animation, videogaming, the internet and the scientific principles behind light and colour.

negative: National Roads Authority For the Israeli National Roads Authority, see National Road Company of Israel.The National Roads Authority (NRA) (Irish: An tÚdarás um Bóithre Náisiúnta) was a state body in Ireland, responsible for the national road network. The NRA was established as part of the Roads Act 1993 and commenced operations on 23 December 1993 in accordance with S.I. 407 of 1993. The RPA merged with the Railway Procurement Agency and was effectively dissolved on 1 August 2015.

negative: New Deal Cafe The New Deal Cafe is a restaurant and community coffee house in the historic Roosevelt Center of Greenbelt, Maryland.  It is a rare example of a restaurant operated as a consumers' cooperative, as it is owned by over 200 member patrons.The Cafe, which has a small beer/wine bar in the back room, features almost daily performances by regional musicians, and sponsors several outdoor music festivals each year, including the Crazy Quilt Festival and the Greenbelt Blues Festival.

negative: New York Television Festival The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) is a yearly gathering of artists, fans, and executives to celebrate independent small-screen productions. It was founded in 2005, and is held in venues in New York City.The festival sponsors the Independent Pilot Competition to showcase original television pilots to industry executives.

negative: New Zealand International Science Festival The New Zealand International Science Festival is a science festival which takes place for six days and involves participation of international keynote speakers; NZISF-staff produce events, external event organisers, and a range of local and national sponsors and funders.  Up to 40 individual volunteers help run 200 festival events and thousands of visitors from all over New Zealand participate in festival events.

negative: Nick Mancuso Nicodemo Antonio Massimo "Nick" Mancuso is a Canadian cinema and stage actor.

negative: Ohrid Summer Festival The Ohrid summer Festival is a festival founded on 4 August 1961, always taking place between 12 July and 20 August in the city of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia and sponsors. The President of the Republic of Macedonia is the patron of the festival. The festival featured prominent artists since 1961, i.e. José Carreras.

negative: Ordnance Survey Ireland Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI; Irish: Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann) is the national mapping agency of Ireland. It was established in 2002 as a body corporate. It is the successor to the former Ordnance Survey of Ireland. It and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) are the ultimate successors to the Irish operations of the British Ordnance Survey. OSI is part of the Irish public service. OSI has made modern and historic maps of the state free to view on its website.

negative: POC Sports POC Sports or POC for short, is a Swedish company that manufactures skiing and snowboarding helmets, cycling helmets, apparel, and sunglasses. POC was founded in 2004 by CEO Stefan Ytterborn. POC skiing helmets have been sponsored by Athletes Danny MacAskill, Martin Söderström, Ryder Hesjedal, Gustav Larsson, Daniel Dhers, Julia Mancuso, Bode Miller, Patrik Järbyn, Steven Nyman, Travis Ganong, Chemmy Alcott, Marco Sullivan.

negative: Peddler's Village Peddler's Village is a 42-acre development in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, featuring 65 retail shops and merchants, 3 restaurants, a 71 room hotel and a Family Entertainment Center. It has festivals, craft competitions and a 1922-era carousel.  The destination is also used for weddings, holiday parties, reunions, retirement parties, picnics, and corporate meetings.

negative: Peter Quilter Peter Quilter is a West End and Broadway playwright whose plays have been translated into 27 languages and performed in over 40 countries.  http://www.peterquilter.net/  His shows have been performed in major theatres in cities across six continents, including London, Cape Town, Rome, Prague, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Chicago, Madrid, Sydney and New York.

negative: Provençal quilts The term Provençal quilting, also known as boutis, refers to the wholecloth quilts done using a stuffing technique traditionally made in the South of France from the 17th century onwards. Boutis is a Provençal word meaning 'stuffing', describing how two layers of fabric are quilted together with stuffing sandwiched between sections of the design, creating a raised effect.

negative: Quilt A quilt is a type of blanket, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting. In modern British English, a quilt is a duvet or comforter, and not necessarily quilted.Quilts are distinguished from other types of blanket because they are pieced together from several layers of cloth by stitches or ties.

negative: Quilt (band) Quilt are a four-piece psychedelic indie-rock band from Boston consisting of Anna Fox Rochinski (vocals/guitars), Shane Butler (vocals/guitars), Kevin Lareau (vocals/bass) and John Andrews (vocals/drums). They have released through Mexican Summer two albums, an EP, and a handful of singles. The band tours internationally. The band writes collaboratively and share vocal duties. They were born out of a local improv scene, and combine elements of folk-rock, psychedelica and dream pop.

negative: Quilt (software) Quilt is a software utility for managing a series of changes to the source code of any computer program. Such changes are often referred to as "patches" or "patch sets", and essentially Quilt takes an arbitrary number of patches and turns them into a single patch.

negative: Quilt Index The Quilt Index is a searchable database for scholars, quilters and educators featuring over 50,000 quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections.  It also has quilt-related ephemera and curated essays and lesson plans for teachers.

negative: Quilt Museum and Gallery The Quilt Museum and Gallery, which opened in York on 7 June 2008, is Britain's first museum dedicated to the history of British quilt making and textile arts. The museum was founded and is operated by The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. The Guild was formed in 1979 and is the national organisation representing quilt makers throughout the country.

negative: Quilt National The Quilt National is a juried biennial exhibition of contemporary quilt art, first held in 1979.  The primary exhibition is held at the Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens, Ohio in odd-numbered years. The exhibition includes between 80-90 quilts, and after the conclusion of the Quilt National selections of the exhibits also tour the country. It is both the largest and one of the most prestigious shows of its kind.

negative: Quilt Treasures The Quilt Treasures Project is an oral history project that documents the stories of a number of notable individuals who were instrumental in moving the 20th Century Quilt Revival forward in some significant way.

negative: Quilt art Quilt art, sometimes known as art quilting, is an art form that uses both modern and traditional quilting techniques to create art objects. Practitioners of quilt art create it based on their experiences, imagery, and ideas rather than traditional patterns. Quilt art generally has more in common with the fine arts than it does with traditional quilting. This art is generally either wall hung or mounted as sculpture, though exceptions exist.

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Quilt of Belonging The Quilt of Belonging is the largest and most inclusive work of textile art made about CanadaEsther Bryan, the project artist, says, "The completed quilt, with its many parts, shows that we all can be integrated into the fabric of Canada, living together harmoniously, learning to respect one another for our differences while celebrating what we have in common."The 120-foot (37 m) long by 10.5-foot (3.2 m) high (36 metres by 3.5 metres) tapestry portrays the cultural legacies of Canada’s First Peoples and of every nation in the world, since all are part of Canada’s social fabric. @en <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_of_Belonging?oldid=585802643> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Dangerous_Transmission> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> The Dangerous Transmission is the title of a Hardy Boys Digest novel, credited to Franklin W. Dixon.

negative: Quilter baronets The Quilter Baronetcy, of Bawdsey Manor in Bawdsey in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 September 1897 for the businessman and politician William Quilter.

negative: Quilting Quilting is the process of sewing of two or more layers of material together to make a thicker padded material, usually to create a quilt or quilted garments. The whole process of creating a quilt or quilted garment also involves other steps such as designing, piecing, appliqué, and binding. A person who works at quilting is termed a quilter.

negative: Ralli quilt Ralli quilts are traditional quilts made by women in the areas of Sindh, Pakistan, western India, and in surrounding areas. They are just now gaining international recognition, even though women have been making these quilts for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Rallis (also known as rillis, rellis, rehlis, rallees, gindi and other names) are a cultural symbol for the regions where they are made.

negative: Red Point, Maryland Red Point is an unincorporated community located just off Maryland Route 272 south of North East, Maryland, USA. It is near Elk Neck State Park, where the North East River enters Chesapeake Bay.The neighborhood is a mix of seasonal and full-time residents. In the past several years the residents have worked to improve the area, paving and patching streets, renovating existing homes, and even tearing down some older cottages and replacing them with newly constructed homes.

negative: Rip It Rip It is an energy drink that is produced and distributed by National Beverage Corp., maker of Shasta and Faygo. It is National Beverage Corp.'s first energy drink.The drinks come in 15 flavors, including some sugar-free versions and three different shot flavors. Some flavors are available in both 16 ounce and 8 ounce cans.Marketed as "energy fuel at a price you can swallow," the drink contains 100% daily value of vitamin C, vitamin B6, folate, and vitamin B12.

negative: Rob Epstein Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein (born April 6, 1955), is an American director, producer, writer and editor.

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Rock 'n' Roll Rumble The Rock 'n' Roll Rumble (formerly the "WBCN Rock 'n' Roll Rumble"), begun in 1979, is a Greater Boston "battle of the bands" competition sponsored by WZLX and its local music show Boston Emissions.Its predecessors were the Bicentennial Tournament of the Bands held in 1976 at The Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts and co-sponsored by WBCN and Inn Square Men's Bar, as well as 1978's First Annual Spring Rock 'n' Roll Festival co-sponsored by WBCN and the Boston Phoenix.The Rock 'n' Roll Rumble was held in Boston at the Rathskeller in  Kenmore Square for its first two years and was often referred to as "the Rumble at the Rat."  Steve Morse of the Boston Globe called the 1979 debut competition "nine nights of exhilarating grass-roots rock."  Since then, the competition's venue has changed several times but remains a popular showcase for New England bands to gain visibility.The Rumble is currently hosted and organized by Anngelle Wood, host of Boston Emissions. @en <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_'n'_Roll_Rumble?oldid=682430928> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Heyworth_Building> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> The Heyworth Building is a Chicago Landmark located at 29 East Madison Street, on the southwest corner of Madison Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.The building was constructed in 1904 by the architectural firm of D. H. Burnham & Company under the commission of Otto Young, a real estate investor and wholesale jeweler. It received its name from the son in law of Otto Young, Lawrence Heyworth, who also supervised construction of the building.

negative: Salvatore Mancuso Salvatore Mancuso Gómez, also known as "el Mono Mancuso","Santander Lozada" or "Triple Cero", among other names (born August 17, 1964 in Montería, Córdoba) is a Colombian paramilitary leader, once second in command of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group.

negative: Smithsonian Folklife Festival The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, launched in 1967, is an international exhibition of living cultural heritage presented annually in the summer in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is held for two weeks around the Fourth of July (the U.S. Independence Day) holiday. The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage produces the Festival.The Festival is free to the public, encouraging cultural exchange.

negative: Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum The  Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum, is located in Carrollton, Georgia.The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum (SQTM), is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to education and presentation of quilts and textiles.

negative: Sponsor (commercial) To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.  A sponsor is the individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor.

negative: State-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland A State-Sponsored Body is the name given in Ireland to a state-owned enterprise (a government-owned corporation), that is to say, a commercial business which is beneficially owned, either completely or majority, by the Irish Government. Each state-sponsored body has a sponsor Minister who acts as shareholder, either independently, or in conjunction with the Minister for Finance, who may also be a shareholder.

negative: Summertime Ball The Summertime Ball is a mini-festival in London, held each June by Global Radio. The first ball was at Emirates Stadium in 2009, and it has since been held at Wembley Stadium. It is promoted and broadcast by the Capital network. There have been four different sponsors since its first event. Since 2012, Vodafone has been the sponsor. In 2009, Barclaycard sponsored the ball.

negative: Sweden Day Sweden Day  is a Midsummer celebration honoring Swedish American heritage and history. It has been held annually in New York City since 1941.The Sweden Day Committee of greater New York sponsors the annual Sweden Day. This traditional event occurs during the summer solstice at Manhem Club, on the sound in Throggs Neck, New York.

negative: T.H.E. Cat T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966–1967 television season on NBC.  The series was co-sponsored by R.J. Reynolds (Winston) and Lever Brothers and was created by Harry Julian Fink, the creator of Dirty Harry .Robert Loggia starred as the title character, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat.  T.H.E.

negative: The Dam Short Film Festival The Dam Short Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Boulder City, Nevada, typically in early February. Lee Lanier and Anita Lanier are the original co-founders of the festival. The festival is organized by the Dam Short Film Society, a non-profit 501(c)3 Nevada corporation. Past festival sponsors have included The Art Institutes, the Nevada Film Office, the Hacienda Hotel and Casino, and Cirque du Soleil.

negative: Torrey Quilt Collection The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and other Recent Quilt Acquisitions is a collection of African American quilts that were procured from 1980 to 1983 by Ella King Torrey during her fieldwork with art historian Maude Southwell Wahlman.The collection of 13 quilts includes a hand quilt by Mississippi quilter Sarah Mary Taylor that was made for the film The Color Purple as well as an appliquéd word quilt of hers.

negative: Trapunto quilting Trapunto, from the Italian for "to quilt," is a method of quilting that is also called "stuffed technique." A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a raised surface on the quilt.

negative: Tristan Quilt The Tristan Quilt, sometimes called the Tristan and Isolde Quilt or the Guicciardini Quilt, is one of the earliest surviving quilts in the world. Depicting scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde, an influential romance and tragedy, it was made in Sicily during the second half of the 14th century. There are at least two sections of the quilt, one of which is displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, and the other in the Bargello in Florence.

negative: VSM Group VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden. Founded in 1872, the company is best known for "smart" (computerized) sewing machines and sergers under the brands Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff. The VSM brand produces several lines of sewing machines, the top being the Designer series and the lowest being the mechanical (non-computerized) Huskystars. The sewing machines change every year or so as the experts create upgrades.

negative: V Festival (Australia) The Australian V Festival was an Australian music festival, and a spin-off of the British V Festival. Like all V Festivals, the event was primarily sponsored by Virgin Mobile. In Australia the event was also sponsored by airline Virgin Blue. The V Festival was televised exclusively in Australia by MTV, and from 2008, also by its sister channel VH1. In 2008 the festival expanded to four shows, with Melbourne and Perth being added.

negative: Vandalia Gathering The Vandalia Gathering is a popular festival devoted to old-time and bluegrass music, as well as related arts such as dance, quilt making, and cooking, which takes place each summer on the state capitol grounds in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. It was established in 1977. It is held on Memorial Day weekend in May.

negative: Vermont Quilt Festival Vermont Quilt FestivalAs New England's oldest quilt event, the Vermont Quilt Festival has also grown into New England's largest quilt event. Featuring a weekend of quilt exhibits, contest quilts, classes taught by renowned quiltmakers, a champagne preview, vendors, lectures and appraisals, the festival is well attended by both beginner and expert quilters alike.

negative: Vhi Healthcare The Voluntary Health Insurance Board (An Bord Árachais Sláinte Shaorálaigh in Irish) — which trades under the brand name Vhi Healthcare, and is still commonly referred to in Ireland as "The VHI" – is the largest health insurance company in Ireland. It is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Minister for Health. It is regulated by the Health Insurance Authority.

negative: Welsh Development Agency The Welsh Development Agency (WDA; Welsh: Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru) was an executive agency (or QUANGO) and later designated an Assembly Sponsored Public Body (ASPB).  Established in 1976, it was tasked with rescuing the ailing Welsh economy by encouraging business development and investment in Wales,  clearing derelict land and encouraging growth of local businesses. In April 2006 the WDA was abolished and its functions were transferred into the Welsh Government.

negative: West Side Nut Club Fall Festival Evansville's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is held the first full week of every October on Franklin Street in Evansville, Indiana by Evansville's West Side Nut Club. Every October the Nut Club organizes and sponsors a Fall Festival. This is a week-long gala on the west side of Evansville along Franklin Street with free entertainment, carnival attractions, over 126 food booths, amateur talent competitions and on the last day, a huge parade.

negative: William Quilter Sir William Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet (29 January 1841 – 18 November 1911)  was an English stock broker, art collector  and Liberal/Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.Quilter was born at Finsbury, the son of William Quilter and his wife Elizabeth Harriet Cuthbert. His father was a prominent accountant with the firm of Quilter, Ball & Co and was instrumental in the foundation of the Institute of Accountants.Quilter was educated privately.

negative: Williams & Griffin Williams & Griffin is a large high street department store situated in Colchester, Essex, England (51°53′23.38″N 0°53′52.89″E).Independent for much of its history, it was formed from the merger of H.E. Williams & Co Ltd (an ironmonger and agricultural machinery business) and another Colchester family business, H.L. Griffin & Co Ltd (a furnishings store), in April 1963. In 2007, Williams & Griffin won "Best Independent Department Store of the Year", sponsored by Drapers.

negative: Wireless Festival The Wireless Festival is a music festival in England that takes place every year in London, and took place at Harewood House, Leeds in 2006 and 2007. It is owned and managed by Live Nation.From its inception in 2005 until 2008, the festival was sponsored by telecommunications company O2, and was called the O2 Wireless Festival. From 2009 to 2012, the main sponsor was Barclaycard and the festival renamed to Barclaycard Wireless Festival.


query: nations where Portuguese is an official language

positive: Angola Angola /ænˈɡoʊlə/, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola pronounced: [ʁɛˈpublikɐ dɨ ɐ̃ˈɡɔlɐ]; Kikongo, Kimbundu, Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, and is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to west.

positive: Brazil Brazil (/brəˈzɪl/; Portuguese: Brasil [bɾaˈziw] ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, About this sound listen  ), is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth-largest country, both by geographical area and by population.

positive: Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português do Brasil [poh.tu'ɡez dʊ bɾa'ziw] or Português brasileiro [poh.tu'ɡez bɾa.zi'lej.ɾʊ]) is a set of dialects of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil. It is spoken by virtually all of the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries.

positive: Cape Verde Cape Verde /ˌkeɪp ˈvɜrd/ or Cabo Verde /kaːboʊ ˈvɜrdeɪ/ (Portuguese: Cabo Verde, pronounced: [ˈkabu ˈveɾdɨ]), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.

positive: Cape Verdean Portuguese Cape Verdean Portuguese (Portuguese: Português cabo-verdiano) is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Cape Verde.

positive: Community of Portuguese Language Countries The Community of Portuguese Language Countries or Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, pronounced: [kumuniˈðaðɨ ðuʃ pɐˈizɨʒ ðɨ ˈɫĩɡwɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ] (EP), [komuniˈdadʒi dus paˈiziz dʒi ˈlĩɡwɐ poʁtuˈɡezɐ] (BP); abbreviated as CPLP) is the intergovernmental organization for friendship and cooperation among lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) nations, where Portuguese is an official language.

positive: East Timorese Portuguese East Timorese Portuguese (Português timorense in Portuguese) is a Portuguese dialect spoken in the country of Timor-Leste or East Timor. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste alongside Tetum.

positive: Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial, French: Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: República de Guinea Ecuatorial, French: République de Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country located in Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi).

positive: Galician-Portuguese Galician-Portuguese (Galician: galego-portugués or galaico-portugués) (Portuguese: galego-português or galaico-português, also known as Old Portuguese or Medieval Galician), was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

positive: Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau (/ˈɡɪni bɪˈsaʊ/, GI-nee-bi-SOW), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: República da Guiné-Bissau, pronounced: [ʁeˈpublikɐ dɐ ɡiˈnɛ biˈsaw]), is a country in West Africa. It covers 36,125 km² (nearly 14,000 sq mi) with an estimated population of 1,704,000.Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire.

positive: Languages of Angola The languages of Angola are predominantly Bantu and Portuguese, with a small minority of Khoisan speakers.Portuguese is the sole official language. Due to cultural, social and political mechanisms which date back to the colonial history, the number of native Portuguese speakers is large and growing. A 2012 study by the Angolan National Institute for Statistics found that Portuguese is the mother tongue of 39% of the population.

positive: Languages of Brazil Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, and is spoken by more than 99% of the population. Minority languages include indigenous languages, and languages of more recent European and Asian immigrants. The population speaks or signs approximately 210 languages, of which 180 are indigenous.

positive: List of international organisations which have Portuguese as an official language List of international organisations which have Portuguese as an official, administrative or working language.

positive: List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official.Several languages are officially used in two countries, these are:Albanian - Albania and Kosovo*Aymara, Quechua - Bolivia and PeruBengali -India and BangladeshCatalan - Andorra and SpainChewa - Malawi and ZambiaCroatian - Croatia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaGreek - Greece and CyprusKorean - North Korea and South KoreaNepali - India and NepalSindhi - Pakistan (Sindh) and IndiaSlovak - Slovakia and Czech RepublicSotho - South Africa and LesothoSwati - South Africa and SwazilandSwedish - Sweden and FinlandTswana - South Africa and BotswanaUkrainian - Ukraine and Transnistria*Urdu - Pakistan and IndiaNote *Asterisks indicate countries whose independence is disputed

positive: List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Portuguese is an official or de facto language.

positive: Member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries The Community of Portuguese Language Countries has eight member states. All have the Portuguese language as official language, and only East Timor and Equatorial Guinea have a second official language.In 2005, CPLP Council of Ministers meeting in Luanda adopted the status of associate observer for non-member states to promote better international co-operation to reach the Community's objectives and 3 states were subsequently admitted.

positive: Mozambican Portuguese Mozambican Portuguese (Portuguese: português moçambicano) refers to the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Mozambique. Portuguese is the official language of the country.Several variables factor into the emergence of Mozambican Portuguese. The linguistic norm is based on that of Portugal. Brazil's linguistic influence in Mozambique takes two forms: people who are there for work or tourism, and a media presence.

positive: Portugal Portugal (/ˈpɔrtʃʉɡəlˌ -tjʉ-/; Portuguese: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The country also holds sovereignty over the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

positive: Portuguese-speaking African countries The Portuguese-speaking African countries (also referred to as Lusophone Africa) consist of six African countries in which the Portuguese language is an official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea. Besides having a common language, the five former colonies of the Portuguese Empire share a strong “cultural identity, a similar system of governance and a long tradition of contacts and exchanges amongst themselves”.

positive: Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Portuguese: Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990, [ɐˈkoɾðw ɔɾtuˈɣɾafiku ðɐ ˈɫĩɡwɐ puɾtuˈɣezɐ]) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language.

positive: Portuguese Mozambicans Portuguese Mozambicans (Portuguese: luso-moçambicanos) are Mozambican-born descendants of Portuguese settlers.

positive: Portuguese in Africa Portuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in six African states: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea. There are Portuguese-speaking communities in most countries of Southern Africa, a mixture of Portuguese settlers and Angolans and Mozambicans who left their countries during the civil wars.

positive: Portuguese language Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in Macau and East Timor.

negative: Angolan Portuguese Angolan Portuguese (Portuguese: Português de Angola) is a group of dialects and accents of the Portuguese language used mostly in Angola where it is an official language. It is used in Angola by 60% of the population, and by 20% as their first language.There are different stages of Portuguese language in Angola in a similar manner to other Portuguese-speaking African countries.

negative: Arabic Arabic /ˈærəbɪk/ (Arabic: العَرَبِية, al-ʻarabiyyah [alʕaraˈbijja] or Arabic: عربي ,عربى ʻarabī [ˈʕarabiː]) is the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century and its modern descendants excluding Maltese. Arabic is spoken in a wide arc stretching across Western Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. Arabic belongs to the Afroasiatic family.The literary language, called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic, is the only official form of Arabic.

negative: Aristides de Sousa Mendes Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾiʃˈtiðɨʒ ðɨ ˈsowzɐ ˈmẽdɨʃ]) GCC, OL  (July 19, 1885  - April 3,  1954)  was a Portuguese consul whose actions during World War II saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees.As the Portuguese Consul-General in Bordeaux in France, he defied the orders of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar dictatorship issuing visas and passports in the early period of World War II to an undetermined number of refugees fleeing from the invading German military forces.

negative: Barbados Barbados (/bɑrˈbeɪdɒs/ or /bɑrˈbeɪdoʊs/) is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and up to 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi).

negative: Community of Sahel-Saharan States The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD; French: Communauté des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens; Arabic: تجمع دول الساحل والصحراء; Portuguese: Comunidade dos Estados Sahelo-Saarianos) aims to create a free trade area within Africa. There are questions with regard to whether its level of economic integration qualifies it under the Enabling clause.

negative: Diogo de Freitas do Amaral Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral, GCC, GCSE, GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [diˈoɡu ˈfɾɐjtɐʃ du ɐmɐˈɾaɫ]; b. Póvoa de Varzim, 21 July 1941), usually referred to as either Freitas do Amaral or informally Freitas, is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s.

negative: East Timor East Timor (/ˌiːst ˈtiːmɔr/) or Timor-Leste (/tiˈmɔr ˈlɛʃteɪ/), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Tetum: Repúblika Demokrátika Timór-Leste), is a country in Maritime Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor.

negative: English in the Commonwealth of Nations The use of the English language in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was inherited from British colonisation. English is spoken as a first or second language in most of the Commonwealth. In a few countries, such as Cyprus and Malaysia, it does not have official status, but is widely used as a lingua franca.

negative: Flag of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries The flag of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (or flag of the CPLP) represents the intergovernmental organization for friendship among Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) nations where Portuguese is an official language. The Portuguese language countries are home to more than 223 million people located across the globe. The CPLP nations have a combined area of about 10,772,000 square kilometres (4,159,000 sq mi).

negative: French language French (le français [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ] or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family. It descended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as did languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and others. French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

negative: Galicia (Spain) Galicia (English /ɡəˈlɪsiə/, /ɡəˈlɪʃə/; Galician: [ɡaˈliθja], [ħaˈliθja], or [ħaˈlisja]; Spanish: [ɡaˈliθja]; Galician and Portuguese: Galiza, [ɡaˈliθa], [ħaˈliθa] or [ħaˈlisa]) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain, with the official status of a historic nationality.

negative: Galician language Galician (/ɡəˈlɪʃən/ or /ɡəˈlɪsi.ən/; galego [ɡaˈleɣo]) is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch. It is spoken by some 2.4 million people, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is official along with Spanish.

negative: Gujarati language Gujarati /ɡʊdʒəˈrɑːti/ (ગુજરાતી Gujarātī [ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat. It is part of the greater Indo-European language family. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati (circa 1100 – 1500 AD), which is derived from Sanskrit. In India, it is the chief language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

negative: Iberian Romance languages The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or simply Iberian languages are the Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area consisting primarily of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra, and in southern France.Originating in Iberia, the most widely spoken Iberian Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician. These languages also have their own regional and local dialects.

negative: Indonesian language Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia [baˈhasa indoneˈsia]) is the official language of Indonesia. It is a standardized register of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Most Indonesians also speak one of more than 700 indigenous languages.Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world.

negative: Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB or IDB or BID) is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development, social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies, including State corporations.The IDB has four official languages: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

negative: Languages of Canada A multitude of languages are used in Canada. According to the 2011 census, English and French are the mother tongues of 56.9% and 21.3% of Canadians respectively. Over 85% of Canadians have working knowledge of English while 30.1% have a working knowledge of French. Under the Official Languages Act of 1969, both English and French have official federal status throughout Canada, in respect of all government services, including the courts, and all federal legislation is enacted bilingually.

negative: Languages of China The Languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups. The predominant language in China, which is divided into seven major dialect groups, is known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ). and its study is considered a distinct academic discipline in China.

negative: Languages of Guinea-Bissau The official language of Guinea-Bissau is Portuguese. Portuguese is spoken by 11% of the population.  French is also learned in schools, as Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking countries and is a full member of the Francophonie as well as the CPLP.

negative: Languages of Guyana English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American country with English as the official language.Guyanese Creole (an English-based creole with African and/or East Indian syntax) is widely spoken in Guyana.A number of Amerindian languages are also spoken by a minority of the population.

negative: Languages of Paraguay The Republic of Paraguay is a mostly bilingual country, where both Spanish, an Indo-European language, and Guaraní, an indigenous language of the Tupian family, have official status.

negative: Languages of South Africa There are eleven official languages of South Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu.  Fewer than two percent of South Africans speak a first language other than an official one. Most South Africans can speak more than one language.  Dutch and English were the first official languages of South Africa from 1910 to 1925.

negative: Languages of Spain The languages of Spain (Spanish: lenguas de España), or Spanish languages (Spanish: lenguas españolas or lenguas hispánicas), are the languages spoken or once spoken in Spain. Romance languages are the most widely spoken in Spain; of which Spanish, or Castilian, is the only language which has official status for the whole country.

negative: Languages of the European Union The languages of the European Union are languages used by people within the member states of the European Union. They include the twenty-four official languages of the European Union along with a range of others.

negative: Latin Union The Latin Union is a defunct international organization of nations that use Romance languages, with the aim of protecting, projecting, and promoting the common cultural heritage of Latin peoples and unifying identities of the Latin, and Latin-influenced, world. It was created in 1954 in Madrid, Spain, and existed as a functional institution from 1983 to 2012.

negative: List of countries by English-speaking population The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers.

negative: List of countries by spoken languages This list shows countries organised by the languages which are spoken there.

negative: List of lingua francas This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca (English plural lingua francas, although the pseudo-Latin form linguae francae is also seen) is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages. Examples of lingua francas are numerous, and exist on every continent.

negative: List of official languages This is a list of official languages.

negative: List of official languages by institution This is a list of official languages for significant regional and international institutions. Different organisations sometimes refer to their principal languages of administration and communication as "working languages", whilst others refer to these as being "official". No distinction is made here, except where an  organization itself, distinguishes between its official and working languages.

negative: List of territorial entities where English is an official language The following is a list of territories where English is an official language, that is, a language used in citizen interactions with government officials. In 2015, there were 56 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language. Many country subdivisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level.The majority of countries where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.

negative: List of territorial entities where Tamil is an official language The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Tamil is an official or language of government.Tamil is the 15th most spoken language in the world. Tamil language speakers make approximately 1% of the world population.

negative: Lusitanic Lusitanians (Portuguese: Luso, Lusitano), from Latin: Lusitanicus, adjective from Lusitania, the name of a Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula. Lusitania is one of the two official names for Portugal in the Latin language, especially in the Vatican State, as it was also informally or formally, one of the two names used for the country in literature, cartography, and written documents, throughout Europe and Portugal since the late medieval period.

negative: Lusophone Lusophones (Portuguese: lusófonos) are people who speak the Portuguese language, either as native speakers or as learners. Similarly, the Lusosphere (Portuguese: Lusofonia) is a community of people who are culturally and linguistically linked to Portugal, either historically or by choice. The idea of a Lusosphere is free of ethnic connotations, in that a Lusophone may not have any Portuguese ancestry at all.

negative: Macanese Portuguese Macanese Portuguese (Portuguese: Português macaense) is a Portuguese dialect spoken in Macau, where Portuguese is co-official with Cantonese. Portuguese is the first language of roughly 3% of the population, while 7% claim fluency. It is distinct from the Macanese language (or Patuá), a Portuguese Creole in Macau.

negative: Marta Santos Pais Marta Santos Pais (born in 1952) is the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence against Children. She brings to this position more than 30 years experience on human rights issues, engagement in United Nations and intergovernmental processes and a firm commitment to the rights of the child.

negative: Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations As of 2010, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has 10 member states, one candidate member state, and one observer state.ASEAN was founded on 8 August 1967 with five members: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.

negative: Mercosur Mercosur or Mercosul (Spanish: Mercado Común del Sur, Portuguese: Mercado Comum do Sul, Guarani: Ñemby Ñemuha, Southern Common Market) is a sub-regional bloc. Its full members are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.Its associate countries are Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Observer countries are New Zealand and Mexico.Its purpose is to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency.

negative: Mozambique Mozambique (/moʊzæmˈbiːk/ or /mɔːzæmˈbiːk/), officially the Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese: Moçambique or República de Moçambique, pronounced: [ʁɛˈpublikɐ di musɐ̃ˈbiki]), is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest. It is separated from Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east.

negative: National liberation groups in Mozambique Groups interested in freeing Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule and making it an independent nation emerged in the early 1900s, shortly after Portugal had defeated the last of the native chieftaincies and established effective control over the territory.

negative: Official language An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used within government (e.g., courts, parliament, administration).

negative: Official languages of the United Nations The official languages of the United Nations are the six languages that are used in UN meetings, and in which all official UN documents are written when budget allows. In alphabetical order, they are: Arabic (Literary Arabic) Chinese (Standard Chinese, Simplified Chinese characters) English (British spelling) French Russian Spanish↑ ↑ ↑

negative: Organization of American States The Organization of American States (Spanish: Organización de los Estados Americanos, Portuguese: Organização dos Estados Americanos, French: Organisation des États Américains), or the OAS or OEA, is an inter-continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states.

negative: Organization of Ibero-American States The Organization of Ibero-American States (Portuguese: Organização dos Estados Ibero-americanos, Spanish: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, usually abbreviated OEI), formally the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, is an international organization whose members are the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations of the Americas and Europe and Equatorial Guinea in Africa.

negative: Papiamento Papiamentu (English pronunciation: /ˌpaːpiəˈmɛntuː/) or Papiamento (English /ˌpaːpiəˈmɛntoʊ/)  is the most widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands, having official status as the native language on the islands of Aruba and Curaçao. The language is also recognized on Bonaire by the Dutch government.Papiamentu is a language derived from African and Portuguese languages with some influences from American Indian languages, English, Dutch and Spanish.

negative: Portuguese Empire The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português), was the first global empire in history. In addition, it was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning almost six centuries, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999 or the grant of sovereignty to East Timor in 2002.

negative: Quiçama National Park Quiçama National Park, also known as Kissama National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional do Quiçama or Parque Nacional da Quissama), is a national park in northwestern Angola.It is the only functioning national park in all of Angola, with the others being in disrepair due to the Angolan Civil War.The park is  approximately 70 km from Luanda, the Angolan capital. The park covers 3 million acres (12,000 km²), more than twice the size of the U.S.

negative: Romance languages The Romance languages— sometimes called the Latin languages, and occasionally the Romanic or Neo-Latin languages—are the modern languages that evolved from spoken Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries A.D. and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe and the Americas, but also elsewhere.

negative: Romanian language Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; autonym: română, limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə], "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

negative: Russian language Russian (ру́сский язы́к, russkiy yazyk, pronounced [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the Soviet Union and former participants of the Eastern Bloc.

negative: Saint Julian's School Saint Julian's School is a British international private school, located in Carcavelos, in the Cascais Municipality, Portugal.

negative: Spanish language Spanish (/ˈspænɪʃ/, español), also called Castilian (/kæˈstɪliən/, About this sound castellano ), is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native-speakers. Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of common Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century.

negative: Sprachraum In linguistics, a sprachraum (/ˈsprɑːkraʊm/; German: [ˈʃpʁaːxʁaʊm], "language area") is a geographical region where a common first language (mother tongue), with dialect varieties, or group of languages is spoken.

negative: Tamil language Tamil  /ˈtæmɪl/ (தமிழ், tamiḻ, [t̪ɐmɨɻ] ?) also spelt Thamizh is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also an official and national language of Sri Lanka and one of the official languages of Singapore. It is legalised as one of the languages of medium of education in Malaysia along with English, Malay and Mandarin.

negative: Tamil population by nation This is a list of Tamil population per nation.

negative: Tetum language Tetum /ˈtɛtʊm/, also Tetun, is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is spoken in Belu Regency in Indonesian West Timor, and across the border in East Timor, where it is one of the two official languages. In East Timor a creolized form, Tetun Dili, is widely spoken fluently as a second language; without previous contact, Tetum and Tetun Dili are not mutually intelligible.

negative: Union of South American Nations The Union of South American Nations, USAN; (Spanish: Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, UNASUR; Portuguese: União de Nações Sul-Americanas, UNASUL; Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties, UZAN) is an intergovernmental regional organization comprising 12 South American countries.The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on 23 May 2008, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília, Brazil. According to the Constitutive Treaty, the Union's headquarters will be located in Quito, Ecuador.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 178 United Nations Security Council Resolution 178, adopted unanimously on April 24, 1963, after hearing of violations of Senegalese territory by Portuguese military forces from Portuguese Guinea, the Council deplored the incident at Bouniak as well as any incursion by the Portuguese and requested that they honor their declared intention to "scrupulously respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Senegal".

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 180 United Nations Security Council Resolution 180, adopted on July 31, 1963, affirmed that Portugal claiming its overseas territories as part of metropolitan Portugal was contrary to the principles of the Charter.  The Council deemed Portugal's actions and attitude as seriously disturbing to peace and security in Africa.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 183 United Nations Security Council Resolution 183, adopted on December 11, 1963, after the Secretary-General established a failed meeting between representatives of Portugal and those of African States, the Council again deprecated Portugal's failure to free its colonies though they said they would take Portugal's granting amnesty to all political prisoners as a sign of good faith. The resolution was adopted with 10 votes and one abstention from France.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 218 United Nations Security Council Resolution 218, adopted on November 23, 1965, after recalling previous resolutions on the topic, and Portugal's failure to implement them, the Council again demanded that Portugal withdrawal its military presence from her colonies and enter negotiations with political parties there regarding independence.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 290 United Nations Security Council Resolution 290, adopted on December 8, 1970, after more invasions of the territory of the Republic of Guinea by naval and military units of Portugal on November 22/23 and 27/28 (codenamed Operação Mar Verde by the Portuguese), the Council reaffirmed its numerous previous resolutions on the topic, including the right of the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea to be freed from the Portuguese Empire ruled by the Estado Novo regime.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 312 United Nations Security Council Resolution 312, adopted on February 4, 1972, after reaffirming previous resolutions on the topic and deploring those who failed to conform to them the Council called upon Portugal to immediately recognize the right of the peoples of her colonies to self-determination, to cease all acts of repression against the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (Bissau), to withdraw its armed forces from those areas, to promulgate an unconditional political amnesty and to transfer power to freely elected native representative institutions.

negative: United Nations Security Council Resolution 322 United Nations Security Council Resolution 322, adopted unanimously on November 22, 1972, after reaffirming previous resolutions and considering the Organisation of African Unity's recognition of the revolutionary movements of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Mozambique, the Council called on the government of Portugal to cease its military operations and all acts of repression against the people of those territories.

negative: Urdu Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/; Urdu: اُردُو ALA-LC: Urdū; IPA: [ˈʊrd̪uː], or Modern Standard Urdu) is a standardised register of the Hindustani language.  It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, and an official language of six states of India. It is also one of the 22 official languages recognized in the Constitution of India.Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims of the region of Hindustan.

negative: World language A world language is a language spoken internationally and that is learned by many people as a second language. A world language is characterized not only by the total number of speakers (native and second language speakers), but also by its geographical distribution, and use in international organizations and diplomatic relations. By these criteria, the major world languages are of Western European origin.