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 […]
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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
13 February 2016
It’s Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments consists of a series of poems featuring women — some fictional, some nonfictional. There are bounty hunters, Battle Bots champs, werewolves, homunculi, escape artists, archers, and CIA bagwomen. Even Lucy, now an adult, attempts to come to terms with her systematic torturing of her childhood pal, Charlie Brown, […]
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13 February 2016
The Portuguese Parliament, ruled by a Socialist-Communist majority coalition led by Prime Minister António Costa, has further liberalized abortion laws and granted same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Overturning a veto by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva last month, the new ruling allows for same sex couples to adopt children and removes the mandatory requirement […]
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