Francisco Semião was appointed the president of the Marymount University Alumni Advisory Board, his alma mater, for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Marymount University Alumni Advisory Board is a volunteer board who assists in advancing the mission of Marymount University by serving as the voice of all alumni to the greater University community. Semiao’05, who […]
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Appointed: Francisco Semião president of the Alumni Advisory Board – Marymount University, VA
Posted on 06 September 2013.
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Book: Land as Far as The Eye can See: Portuguese in the Old West – Editor’s Note
Posted on 05 September 2013.
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), has launched the publication of Land, As Far As the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West by Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L. Gomes, an entertaining account of pioneering Portuguese men and women who settled the vast frontier of […]
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Opinion: Syrian chemical weapons pose moral dilemmas – By Len Port
Posted on 04 September 2013.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The Portuguese government would like to see a military punitive response to the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, but only if it is backed “as far as possible” by an international organization such as the Security Council of the United Nations. This cautious view is in contrast to […]
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Travel: Lisbon named “Europe’s Leading City Break Destination” – Portugal
Posted on 02 September 2013.
For the third time in the last five years, Lisbon was voted Europe’s Leading City Break Destination by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA). Considered to be the world ‘Oscars’ of tourism destinations, the honor tops Madrid, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, Rome and Venice. Lisbon had earned the same recognition in 2009 and 2010 over […]
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Book: An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet – By Thomas J. Cousineau – Review
Posted on 29 August 2013.
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Thomas J. Cousineau’s scholarly expertise on twentieth-century literary modernism informs his new critical study An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (Dalkey Archive 2013). Cousineau offers us an informed introduction to a leading document of modernism that serves scholarly interests and undergraduate teaching needs. After earning a doctoral […]
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Pico: New archaeological evidence reveals human presence before Portuguese occupation – Azores
Posted on 28 August 2013.
Archaeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have identified new archaeological evidence on Pico island that supports their belief that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years. The new evidence comprises of a great variety of protohistoric pyramidal rock structures, some of them 13 […]
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