02 March 2016
Air carrier TAP Portugal announced a new daily non-stop flights from Boston’s Logan International Airport to Lisbon starting June 11, and a new daily departure from New York’s John F. Kennedy International to Lisbon starting July 1. TAP will compete with Azores Airlines [former SATA International] on the Boston-Lisbon route. The new flights are in […]
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02 March 2016
The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University is presenting a two-day international colloquium entitled ‘The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918’ and Beyond,” dedicated to Portugal and the lusophone world experience during World War I. The event, cosponsored by the Luso American Development Foundation (FLAD), takes place March 18-19, at the Pembroke Hall […]
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29 February 2016
A delegation of representatives of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) [Universidade Católica Portuguesa] is visiting universities in the United States, March 1-10, to share its present accomplishments and projects for the future. This is also an opportunity for the university to honor its past and thank the Portuguese American community for its support. The […]
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24 February 2016
By George Monteiro, Contributor (*) While it differs from its major literary predecessors in strikingly innovative ways, Eça de Queiroz’s A Correspondência de Fradique Mendes (1900) reaches back to the English novel: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1748), as well as his own model, […]
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19 February 2016
The former SATA International, renamed Azores Airlines, is launching its new image in the United States and Canada markets. The rebranded air carrier is operated by state owned SATA airlines, based in the Azores. The Azores Airlines hopes to increase its annual flight capacity to over 50,000 passengers, representing an increase of 40% in the […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel
14 February 2016
When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a world with age-old connections to the Mediterranean. This book explores some of the intriguing interstices of colonial and other spaces in the ocean, through a scrutiny of personages, texts, and authors between […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Damão, Diu, Featured, Goa, Heritage, Macau, Portugal, South Africa, World
