Valencia signs Portuguese defender Pereira from Sporting - Worldnews.com
27 May 2012, 6:29 am
Footnote2 Before 1999: Portuguese escudo. In 1498, Vasco da Gama finally reached India and brought economic prosperity to Portugal and its population of 1.7 million residents. The Treaty of Zaragoza, signed on 22 April 1529 between Portugal and ...

Portugal draws at home against Macedonia in warmup for Euro - Worldnews.com
26 May 2012, 1:33 pm
Footnote2 Before 1999: Portuguese escudo. In 1348 and 1349, like the rest of Europe, Portugal was devastated by the Black Death. In 1373, Portugal made an alliance with England, which is the longest-standing alliance in the world. In the ...

How to keep your money safe if the euro implodes - Channel Register
25 May 2012, 6:32 am
The place to put these sums is in a German (or Austrian perhaps) bank. The new Greater Deutschmark would rise against the new lira, peseta, escudo or drachma and profit might even be had, over and above value preservation. However, actual cash on hand is ...

After Greece Exits The Euro, What's Next? An Illustrated Guide To 5 Possible Scenarios - International Business Times
25 May 2012, 4:51 am
If that is the case, the world might see the reintroduction of several left-for-dead currencies by the end of the year, including the Spanish peseta, Italian lira, Portuguese escudo and Irish pound. Such a result would create jobs for computer ...

Less than 100 pygmy sloths survive - News.Mongabay
23 May 2012, 6:44 pm
They are also the world's slowest sloth. Having been marooned from mainland Central America for 9,000 years on tiny escudo Island, the sloths are unusually docile and completely unafraid of humans. As one sloth researcher, Bryson Voirin ...

A fragile Europe must change fast - Globe and Mail
23 May 2012, 5:37 am
When the turnround in financial flows occurred, currency crises would indeed have erupted. The Greek drachma, the Irish punt, the Portuguese escudo, the Spanish peseta, the Italian lira and, maybe, the French franc would have devalued against the Deutschmark.

Cure lies in faster adjusting to crisis - Irish Times
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
When the turnround in financial flows occurred, currency crises would indeed have erupted. The Greek drachma, the Irish punt, the Portuguese escudo, the Spanish peseta, the Italian lira and, maybe, the French franc would have devalued against the deutschmark.

Europe's storm clouds cast a long shadow - BBC News
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
They joined the euro to get away from the bad old ways. Second, if others are forced out of the euro, to revert to the new peseta, escudo, lira or punt, competitive devaluations with the remaining eurozone and with each other are only short term answers.

Get Ready: We’re About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis - goldseek
17 May 2012, 11:13 am
Any non-captive depositor who fears a non-zero risk of the future introduction of a New escudo, a New Punt, a New Peseta or a New Lira (to name but the most obvious candidates) would withdraw his deposits from the countries involved at the drop of a hat ...

Why won’t they say what they think about the euro? - The Independent Blogs
17 May 2012, 8:57 am
2. They may think it would be undiplomatic to suggest that it is time to make plans to restore the drachma, punt, escudo, lira and whatever else. When Nicolas Sarkozy flashed his irritation at us Brits for lecturing euro members from the ...