Calouste Gulbenkian (Wikimedia Commons)

Who?

That’s what I’ve been saying when I saw the name of the Portuguese member of the Commons, Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Calouste Gulbenkian doesn’t sound like a Portuguese name, for starters.

But today that same name turned up in the birthday rolls at Wikipedia. So today is a good day to learn how a Turkish-born British Armenian millionaire’s collection of art landed in Lisbon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calouste_Gulbenkian

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