Atlantis, the lost mythical island believed to have existed in the Atlantic Ocean, where the Azores are today, may have been found. A team lead by Richard Freund, researcher at the University of Hartford, claims that a submerged island was discovered north of Cadiz, Spain. They believe this could be the lost island of Atlantis […]
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Atlantis could have been found – Spain
Posted on 15 March 2011.
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LGBT: Same-sex marriage allowed – Portugal
Posted on 14 March 2011.
Portugal is among the first 10 countries in the world to allow same-sex marriage. The first same-sex marriages took place in the Netherlands on April 1, 2001. The countries that followed were Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland and Argentina. Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva approved the law authorizing same-sex marriages on […]
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Portuguese students to be segregated – Toronto
Posted on 14 March 2011.
The Toronto School Board, in Canada, is considering segregating Portuguese students in a separate school in an attempt to lower the 33 percent dropout rate, the highest of any ethnic group in the city. In the meantime Toronto District School Board trustees have voted to establish a task force to examine why graduation rates are […]
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Snow in Madeira and the Azores
Posted on 14 March 2011.
Temperatures fell sharply in mid-Atlantic this past weekend with snow falling in both archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, where temperatures registered below minus 4 centigrade, the lowest in the last 40 years. In Madeira snow fell Sunday afternoon attracting sightseers to Poiso and Pico do Arieiro. In the Azores snow fell in the mountainous […]
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Portugal resists bail-out – Lisbon
Posted on 14 March 2011.
Amid popular unrest Portugal announced Friaday new fiscal measures aimed at reducing the need for foreign financial assistance. Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos said that Portugal would tighten austerity measures to ensure it meets its deficit reduction targets. The plan includes cuts in state pensions and reductions in health spending, unemployment benefits and other welfare […]
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Basic Portuguese courses cut – UC Berkley
Posted on 14 March 2011.
Faced with a $42 million cut in public funding, the University of California Berkley announced the elimination of basic instruction in Portuguese, Russian, Swahili and Japanese, while adding more than 30 new foreign language courses to its offerings. Beginning in 2011-12, over $500,000 will go towards supporting an additional eight Chinese courses, six Spanish courses, […]
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