By Len Port Summer has arrived with a vengeance. On top of the drought during our normally wet winter, Portugal has been unusually hot, and both the drought and the recent heat seem set to worsen. The drought began in November 2021. The resulting low levels in the reservoirs have severely impeded hydroelectric power generation […]
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Global warming: Extreme weather becoming the norm – Portugal
Posted on 12 June 2022.
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Day of Portugal: Google celebrates ‘Sobreiro’ National Tree of Portugal – Google Doodle
Posted on 10 June 2022.
Google Doodle has once again added June 10th – Day of Portugal – to its list of dates to celebrate with all honors. For the occasion, this year Google Doodle honors the Sobreiro, the National Tree of Portugal. The following is how the search engine site describes the tribute: “Happy Portugal Day or Dia de […]
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June 10th: ‘Day of Portugal’ celebrated across the world – Portugal
Posted on 10 June 2022.
Portugal is celebrating today, the 10th of June – “Day of Portugal” – with a public holiday, while multiple celebrations are taking place across the world in the Portuguese diaspora. In the United States the occasion is marked, coast to coast, by major festivities and cultural events. In Canada, on June 10th, where many cultural […]
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Paula Rego: Internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist died age 87 – London, UK
Posted on 08 June 2022.
World renowned painter, Paula Rego, one of the most internationally acclaimed and awarded Portuguese artists, died this Wednesday morning in London, aged 87. Born in 1935 in Lisbon, into an affluent family, Paula Rego was sent to a British finishing school and studied at the London’s prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Later she acquired […]
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Book |Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa| by Natalia Telepneva – Editor’s Note
Posted on 06 June 2022.
Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies — Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau — and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa […]
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June 6: Azorean people celebrate political and administrative and self-rule – Azores
Posted on 06 June 2022.
This year, on June 6, the people of the Azores celebrate “Azores Day” or “Dia da Região Autónoma dos Açores” [Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores], a public holiday, observed throughout the archipelago, to honor self-rule, identity and pride, the “affirmation of the identity of the Azorean people, their philosophy of life and […]
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