20 October 2016
Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, The Maias is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his […]
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18 October 2016
President Barack Obama congratulated former Portuguese Minister, António Guterres, on his recent appointment as Secretary-General of the United Nations. In a prepared statement issued by the White House on October 13, through the Office of the Press Secretary, President Obama welcomed Mr. Guterres to his new role, stating that the United States will providing full […]
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17 October 2016
Vasco Cordeiro was reelected on Sunday, October 16, President of the Government of the Azores, with an absolute majority, following regional legislative elections for the new Legislative Assembly. Polls had projected Socialist Party (PS) Vasco Cordeiro as the winner. He won 46, 43% of votes against Social Democrat (PSD) opponent, Duarte Freitas, who garnered 30, […]
06 October 2016
The 15-member United Nations Security Council unanimously nominated former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres the next Secretary-General of the organization, starting January 1, 2017. Guterres was nominated today “by acclamation” following a final straw poll by the Security Council, on Wednesday, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for the five-year term post. Guterres, […]
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03 October 2016
During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation — the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic […]
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01 October 2016
Reading Henry James: A Critical Perspective on Selected Works, looks to allusions, sources, echoes and affinities in the author’s vast body of work as critical ways to discover and interpret his artistic purposes and literary intentions. It ranges over the vast corpus of his fiction, including stories, novelas and novels published in the leading journals […]
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