02 July 2016
Harry Kelsey, a research scholar at the Huntington Library, uses his research of voyage chronicles and other documents to piece together a narrative of the first few global circumnavigations as well as brief sketches of the mariners who made those journeys. Fernão Magalhães (aka Ferdinand Magellan) and his companion Enrique, an enslaved Malaccan, are given […]
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01 July 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Seismic feelings of insecurity swept across Britain and Europe this week as the complexities of the UK leaving the European Union start to sink in. Since referendum day, shell-shock and disbelief have given way to impressions ranging from tragedy to farce. Chaos and confusion reign in the UK. The President […]
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30 June 2016
Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe’s encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the […]
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29 June 2016
Jennifer Kate Santos, of West Roxbury, an attorney of Portuguese descent, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS). Jennifer joins 12 other current board members of Brazilian, Portuguese and Cabo-Verdean ethnic backgrounds. Santos graduated magna cum laude in Biology from the College of the Holy Cross […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal
25 June 2016
The Center for Seismic-Volcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CVISA) has recorded today, June 25, multiple recurrent seismic events, of low intensity, at sea near Graciosa island. Local CVISA observers considered the current seismic activity “above normal.” A total of 28 seismic events – the most intense reaching magnitude 1.5 on the Richter scale – were […]
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25 June 2016
By C. Naseer Ahmad (*) Ambassador of Portugal, Domingos Fezas Vital, hosted the Embassy Series concert of Júlio Resende, a brilliant Fado and Jazz musician from Portugal who made his debut in Washington, D.C. on June 23, 2016. The event, which was also posted on the newly redesigned website of the Portuguese Embassy, was a […]
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