Posted on 07 June 2016.
United Airlines has added Washington, DC, to its daily direct routes between Lisbon with connections to many other US capitals. The 8-hour daily flight will be carried out in a Boeing 757-200 with 169 seats. United Airlines has been operating for many years the route between Lisbon Airport and New York, Newark. Currently United Airlines […]
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Posted on 04 June 2016. Tags: child obesity, European fishing quotas, LenPort
By Len Port, Contributor (*) You may have missed World Digestive Health Day organized on 29 May each year by the World Gastroenterology Organization, but more than 43,000 food bank volunteers turned up at supermarkets across Portugal on that day to collect food for distribution among 426,000 of the nation’s hungry. Many other relevant statistics […]
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Posted on 03 June 2016. Tags: flights, JetBlue, Lisbon, Portugal, TAP, Travel
TAP Portugal and JetBlue signed an agreement on June 1 to codeshare non-stop flights to Lisbon, Portugal, from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International and Boston’s Logan International. The codeshare will allow TAP Portugal to service 30 US-Lisbon non-stop flights a week, providing its customers access to the low-cost JetBlue network, the largest domestic airline […]
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Posted on 03 June 2016. Tags: book, Caroline B. Brettell, Emigration, history, immigration, Portugal, Portuguese
An analysis is presented of the parish of Lanheses, a northern Portuguese village particularly affected by large-scale peasant emigration, from 1700 to the present day. The author “combines demographic analysis and historical and ethnographic methods to explore its long history of predominantly male emigration, high illegitimacy rates, late marriage, moderated fertility, and frequency of female […]
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Posted on 02 June 2016. Tags: Azores, China, exploration, Lajes, minerals, Portugal, research, sea, seabed, strategic
The President of the Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, welcomed the Minister of the Sea of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Hong, at a meeting held in Ponta Delgada, on June 1, to further discuss contacts already established in matters related to the sea. “Several contacts have been developed between the Azores and […]
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Posted in Azores, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, São Miguel, World
Posted on 31 May 2016.
SATA Group is hosting the 51th edition of the ‘Azores Airlines Rallye’ taking place June 2-4 on São Miguel island. The international car racing event – formerly named ‘SATA Rallye Azores’ – is organized by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) as part of the European Rally Championship. With the participation of 36 contenders from 15 […]
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Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, São Miguel, Sports, World