22 May 2016
This astonishingly erotic and ironic novel is set in vaguely medieval times, but the tone is starkly modern. A young gentleman is travelling on horseback, and stops by a river to rest and bathe. As he is lying there naked after bathing, three maidens appear and, trying to avert their gaze from the young man’s […]
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21 May 2016
Rhode Island College’s Portuguese studies program inducted five students and three honorary members into the RIC Sigma Chapter of Phi Lambda Beta, National Portuguese Honor Society, on April 22. The annual honors event also presented two awards funded by the John A. and Mary V. Lima Scholarship in Portuguese Studies Endowment Fund. The National Portuguese […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Portugal, Scholarships
20 May 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal has demonstrated its leading role in clean energy by supplying the country’s entire electricity needs solely from renewal sources for a record four days in a row. It is being acclaimed internationally as a landmark in the shift from fossil fuels. The country’s consumption was fully covered for 107 […]
Posted in Featured, Home & Garden, Life Style, Politics, Portugal
20 May 2016
The new president elect of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has stated that he is open to revise the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990. The main purpose of the agreement was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language in the countries where Portuguese is the official language, most notably the variants between […]
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19 May 2016
The Azores have been nominated for “Europe’s Leading Island Destination 2016’ by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA), regarded as the “Tourism Oscar”. The Azores are competing with Madeira named ‘Europe’s Leading Island Destination’ in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The winners are determined by an online vote cast by hundreds of travel professionals and consumers […]
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19 May 2016
Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era to understand how directors used the “national song” to promote the values of the young Regime regarding the poor inhabitants of Lisbon’s popular neighborhoods. […]
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