12 December 2015
The 34th session of the Portugal-U.S. Standing Bilateral commission met on Friday, December 4, in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, for yet another round of “high-level bilateral talks” which resulted inconclusive. The US official delegation, headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary Conrad Tribble, met with the President of the Government of the Azores Vasco Cordeiro, and Portuguese […]
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10 December 2015
Review by Elaine Avila, Contributor (*) ‘Women, Crime and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal’ is a superb book, focusing on two types of crimes involving women in the 16th and 17th centuries: 1) physical injuries and homicides, and 2) sexual crimes. Dr. Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, a professor at the University of Winnipeg, is a specialist in […]
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09 December 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal was among the 20 countries in the world most affected by global warming over the past 20 years, according to a Global Climate Risk Index report presented at the climate change conference in Paris. “The Index indicates the level of exposure and vulnerability to extreme events that countries should […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World
01 December 2015
In Empires of the Sea and City of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley established himself as our generation’s preeminent historian of the great European seafaring empires, and the go-to author for post-Crusade clashes of East and West. Now, in Conquerors, Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a […]
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01 December 2015
Portugal’s southern region of Alentejo was distinguished, by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), for “chocalhos” the ancestral manufacture of cowbells listed today as “Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by the organization. The bells are made throughout mainland Portugal and on the islands, wherever animals are grazed. Today, there are master cowbell makers in […]
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28 November 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Lest there was any doubt, it has just been confirmed that we live in a politically weird world. Never mind the shenanigans going on elsewhere in Europe and farther afield, Portugal now has a new government — another new government. Having muddled through almost two rudderless months since the general […]
