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The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
The WTO protests are undoubtedly an important, perhaps even watershed, event, but the LAT overshoots when it states: "Not since the days of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement has the entire downtown core of a major American city been seized by a popular political uprising."
The Post says the Pinochet ruling is a watershed in human rights law, and the Times says it marks a potentially significant broadening of the powers of prosecutors to pursue those charged with crimes against humanity.
Was Littleton a watershed?
Beyond is Shivapuri Watershed and Wildlife Preserve, good place for a day hike.