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Carnival parades are on the internet today By TPN/Lusa, in News · 16-02-2021 11:54:00 · 0 Comments
In the municipalities where Carnival is most celebrated, people are unable to parade this year due to covid-19, but many municipalities are maintaining some of the traditions over the internet. Although the Government decreed that this year there was no time off for civil servants at Carnival, there are many municipalities that give their employees Tuesday off- not least because the day is scheduled as a holiday in most public worker s labor contracts - but they are asking residents to stay at home and watch online celebrations. In the village of Pitões das Júnias, in Montalegre (Vila Real), caretos and farrapões, instead of roaming the streets, will parade “online”: the population was invited to dress up, t
Panic and confusion reigned across France as the bright, warm spring of 1940 turned into summer.
Blitzkrieg, a brutal new mode of warfare, was on the loose in Western Europe. After crushing the gallant Polish Army in 28 days in the fall of 1939, fast-moving German Army panzer and infantry columns rumbled across the Belgian and Dutch borders on May 10, 1940, bypassing the vaunted Maginot Line and thrusting into France.
The invaders crossed the River Meuse at Sedan on May 14, and their spearheads fanned out across France. Outmaneuvered and dispirited, the French Army reeled before the German juggernaut. Individual French units and the small British Expeditionary Force fought desperate delaying actions, but Field Marshal Heinz Guderian’s panzers rolled on.