16 October 2020
TAP Air Portugal has restarted direct flights from Lisbon to Chicago O’Hare, New York JFK, and San Francisco airports. The service will operate twice a week. From the Chicago and San Francisco hub, TAP offers flight connections to dozens of US other cities via United Airlines. Both airlines are members of Star Alliance, which means […]
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13 October 2020
Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss Portugal’s Nations League game against Sweden on Wednesday, the Portuguese Football Federation said in a statement Tuesday. The rest of Portugal’s squad tested negative on Tuesday and are available for Wednesday’s game in Lisbon. Coach Fernando Santos said he will train them at the Cidade […]
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07 October 2020
By Millicent Accardi Of Portuguese descent, Almeida was born in Connecticut and moved to New York in 1984, where shortly after he began studying textile design at The Fashion Institute of Technology. Currently, he continues to work as a visual artist, primarily in mixed-media and ceramics (tiles and mosaics), free-lancing as a textile designer, an […]
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26 September 2020
The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, warned the United States Ambassador in Lisbon, George Glass, that the decision-making process in Portugal belongs with the Portuguese Government and will not abide by US pressures. The head of Portugal’s diplomacy reacted to statements by the United States Ambassador who, in an interview with the […]
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24 September 2020
By Soni Wadhwa Philosopher Martin Heidegger once wrote about the conquest of the world as a picture while discussing the photographs as records of time “captured” through the camera. Though he was talking about photographs, the same could be said of all images in general, especially, paintings. A 16th century watercolour labelled “The Bengalis” from […]
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17 September 2020
Andre is a rich landowner, while Mário is an immigrant college student. Although from different backgrounds, they both come to America to learn how to overcome economic underdevelopment in their own countries. Sadly, they discover that the American economic system perpetuates conditions of poverty for many while others become unreasonably rich, leaving behind a trail […]
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