Ana Maria Pereira, from Portugal, has won the title of world’s champion in the Target Field, category female (PCP), at the XII World Target Field Championship held in Romsdal, Norway. Pereira won first place with a total of 131 points, followed by Natali Terblance (South Africa) with 130 points and Lydeen Calvert (UK) who won third […]
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Target Field: Ana Maria Pereira won world’s champion title – Norway
Posted on 29 August 2012.
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Archaeology: Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Terceira Island – Azores
Posted on 27 August 2012.
By Carolina Matos, Editor The president of the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported. “We have found a rock art […]
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Book: “Ana de Castro Osório” by Célia Cordeiro – Review
Posted on 26 August 2012.
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Célia Carmen Cordeiro, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas-Austin, is the author of “Ana de Castro Osório e a Mulher Republicana Portuguesa” a book based on her Master’s dissertation (2011) at the University of Minnesota. At the turn of the 20th Century, Ana de Castro Osório (1872-1935) was […]
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BOOK: “A School for Fishermen” by Carlo Matos – Review
Posted on 23 August 2012.
By Jason Peters, Contributor (*) Three separate strands of thought to begin with. First, a fishing net endlessly connects itself to itself, neither beginning nor ending. Second, astronomers believe dark matter resembles a neural network spanning the universe, stars traveling its paths like chemicals in a giant web. Finally, in Fernando Pessoa’s poem Tobacco Shop, […]
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Symposium: Portuguese Language Teaching in the USA – Harvard University
Posted on 23 August 2012.
Harvard University, through the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is hosting a symposium dedicated to the topic “Portuguese Language Teaching in the United States: Theory, Practice and Communities.” The event will take place from 9:00am to 4:00pm, August 25, at the Boylston Hall, Cambridge (MA). Fausto Martin Sanctis, from the Regional Tribunal of São […]
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Book: “Sopas” the Feast of the Holy Ghost by Lewis White – Review
Posted on 22 August 2012.
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Lewis A. White, 66, the author of Sopas: A brief History of Portuguese Islanders, the Cape Cod Town of Falmouth, and the Feast of the Holy Ghost (2012) , is a native of Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fourth generation descendant of Azorean immigrants, he still can trace his roots back […]
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