The 2013 Azores Ladies Open will take place October 4-6 in the Golf Club of Terceira, Praia da Vitória, one of the oldest and most iconic courses in Portugal, with a long tradition in professional golf. On its third edition, the event is the main female Portuguese golf tournament with a cash prize of €25,000. […]
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Terceira: Ladies Open Golf Tournment for the European Tour – Azores
Posted on 01 October 2013.
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Climate change: Portugal is showing the way to clean energy – by Len Port
Posted on 30 September 2013.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) “It’s the science, stupid! Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and action is urgent,” tweeted Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s She could have added that Portugal, along with Denmark and Sweden, are showing the way.commissioner for climate action after Friday’s presentation in Stockholm of the most exhaustive and authoritative […]
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Elections: Conservative ruling Social Democrat Party suffers national defeat – Portugal
Posted on 30 September 2013.
Prime Minister Passos Coelho conservative Social Democrat Party (PSD) was defeat in the Sunday municipal elections, after pool projections revealed the opposition Socialist Party (PS) had won 36.7 percent of the vote with the Social Democrats garnering just 18.9 percent. “We had the goal of retaining the majority of town halls but that didn’t happen,” […]
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Book: Un Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet – by Thomas J. Cousineau
Posted on 29 September 2013.
Thomas Cousineau, professor emeritus at Washington College, has released An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of the Disquiet a new book offering an insight into the work of Portuguese Modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. Published by Dalkey Archive Press, the book focuses on Pessoa’s writings collected in The Book of Disquiet published posthumously. Cousineau discovered Pessoa’s posthumous book […]
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Book: Antidote – By José Luís Peixoto – Review
Posted on 26 September 2013.
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto, one of Portugal’s best selling writers, was referred to by Nobel Prize writer José Saramago as “the most surprising revelation in recent Portuguese literature.” To his credit, Peixoto has published three poetry collections, four novels, a non-fiction book, and three short story collections. In 2001, he […]
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A Thousand and One Nights in Lisbon – By André Darlington
Posted on 23 September 2013.
By André Darlington, Contributor (*) When Candide and Pangloss arrive in Lisbon, the two just narrowly survive a shipwreck in the harbor. Then the city is promptly destroyed by an earthquake. During the mayhem Candide is injured, but instead of rushing to help him, Pangloss considers the finer points of their situation. Such is the […]
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