Paulo José da Costa

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Paulo José da Costa's bookseller and former employee of the Bank of Brazil. Considers himself a seeker of memory, looking in attics and basements of old photos, postcards, letters, diaries with feeding his passion that focuses on everyday life. Browser history of music and film, posting rarities on youtube. Holds huge collection of CDs, DVDs, tapes, vinyl, radio discs, 16 inches, 10 inches, cool things to make with duct tape compact and escambau. The symbols, old movies, pictures, affiches, letters, old newspapers, family albums, postcards, the list goes on. Always looking for more. It has four blogs and develops book project on the Parana daily life through family photos between 1870/1960. Parana and Santa Catarina maintains memory file. View my complete profile
In family albums that acquire or receive as donations from interested families, which remain safe in my collection, there is one, Emil Gengnagel of Joinville, which brings real treasures, like this I'm going to go public on this post. This is the visit of the German battleship SMS König Albert cool things to make with duct tape Joinville, just before the First World War. The Gengnagel family in 1913 to the German cool things to make with duct tape Empire was testing its warships in pursuit of a consolidation of its marine force against other powers at the time, especially Britain and France. There was also the desire to strengthen links with German colonization of territories. But the voyage across the Atlantic was also intended to test the powerful front engine to ocean waters. Remember that the following year happen the outbreak of the First World War and during cool things to make with duct tape the war the König Albert participated in battles but came out unscathed at the end of the conflict, and sunk in 1919 by his own captain in Scapa Flow, along with any remaining German squad , not to be delivered to the enemy. It's there, in the waters of funds of the Scottish Bay today. However, this space just up to us to show the photos of the visit that the German ship made the San Francisco and Joinville in the year 1914. A fleet of 3 German war ships visited the Brazil that year, Beyond the SMS König Albert "also his twin "SMSKaiser" and the small cruiser "Strassburg" came to our country. The sources I found give the small fleet of Travel dates as output of Germany on December 9, 1913 and arrival in Rio de Janeiro on 15 February 1914. From there headed south. As I passed the dear Brigitte Brandenburg, on the "Joinville yesterday" Facebook, "the ship König Albert anchored on the island of Grace in Babitonga Bay, in May 2014 . On May 5th part of the crew, about 300 sailors, visited cool things to make with duct tape Joinville, where there was much celebration. The sailors have stayed in many places. I imagine seeing these pictures, which must have been this party! ...
I found a site the following observations about the trip: "The route of the Naval Division provided the descent of the west coast of Africa was thought initially to get to Cape Town, project soon abandoned due to political tensions..
Coming out of Germany, ships passed through the Canary cool things to make with duct tape Islands and Sierra Leone, reaching cool things to make with duct tape Lome, Togo German, on 29 December. From there on December 31, the ships arrived on January 2 then also the German region of Cameroon, with stops in Victoria and Duala. Ali met with the ships of the West African Station, the gunboat Panther SMS and SMS Eber.
Starting on the 15th of January, they reached Swakopmund on 21 and Luderitzbucht on 22 January, the German Southwest Africa ports (Namibia). Leaving Luderitzbucht, the fleet crossed the Atlantic through St. Helena on February 2. She reached Rio de Janeiro on February 15, where he remained until the 25th of February. cool things to make with duct tape
Brazil, the ships went to Mar del Plata. There remained the SMS Kaiser and SMS König Albert, addressing only the Straßburg cruiser to Buenos Aires. By illness to subject their commander, Hubert von Rebeur Paschwitz, the general command was assumed temporarily p