02 December 2021
The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) is inviting the community to attend the grand opening of the organization’s new Lowell office in the heart of the Portuguese-speaking community at 490 Central Street. The inauguration ceremony will take place on Thursday, December 9, 2021, from 4 to 7 pm. In addition to taking a tour […]
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02 December 2021
The President of the Regional Government of the Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, and the Executive Vice-President, Artur Lima, will be visiting Massachusetts and Rhode Island on December 4 and 5, to participate in the celebration of the 30 years of the Casa dos Açores of New England (CANI). The official visit includes a program of […]
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01 December 2021
Effective December 1, the Portuguese government has declared a “state of calamity” imposing new sanitary restrictions considered “necessary” to contain the rebound in the COVID’19 pandemic, after the worst data has been release since February. The state of calamity declaration, the second this year, is one step below a state of emergency and gives the […]
30 November 2021
By Len Port After the English Football Association Cup Final in January 1884, between Preston North End and the London side, Upton Park, it was revealed that Preston was breaking the rules by paying its players and so their manager was duly expelled from the annual competition. In 1885, the English FA decided to make […]
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24 November 2021
Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16), Co-Chair of the Portuguese American Caucus introduced a bipartisan resolution, H.Res. 807, honoring the life and legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a distinguished Portuguese diplomat who saved the lives of nearly 30,000 people from the terror of the Holocaust. “Aristides de Sousa Mendes was a great hero of World War ll and is believed to have conducted the […]
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22 November 2021
Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa. The fall of al-Andalus, or reconquista, has long been considered a turning point, when the first substantial Muslim populations fell under permanent Christian rule. Yet a near-exclusive focus […]
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