11 April 2015
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Miriam Winthrop is a molecular biologist by training and the author of Saudade, her debut novel inspired by the pursuit for her long lost Portuguese heritage. She started the book as a non-fictional writing project about her family history to be passed down to her descendants. Her maternal grandmother, who was […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Genealogy, Heritage, Interviews, People, Pico, Portugal, Travel, World
10 April 2015
Portuguese territory goes well beyond the small strip of land in the southwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. It also comprises the Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira. Considered in this light, it is a highly diverse area in ornithological terms holding endemic bird taxa, large populations of seabirds, most of the rarest and sought-after […]
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10 April 2015
Portuguese composer Andreia Pinto-Correia was awarded the ‘John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’ 2015 Fellowship, one of the most prestigious of the United States. The award honors professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the creative arts, excluding the performing […]
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08 April 2015
By Len Port, Contributor(*) The hopes expressed by Portugal earlier this year of an agreement on nuclear enrichment between Iran and the world’s major powers looks like coming to fruition. Portugal’s hopes were based on its burgeoning new relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran that began just a couple of months before last week’s […]
08 April 2015
What happens if you take an American family and send them to Europe for ten years? In the summer of 2000, Bill and Elisa Meara, accompanied by 2 year-old Billy and 4 month-old Maria, left their home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and moved to the Azores. There they experienced the highs and lows […]
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07 April 2015
The Azores are hosting the ‘4th Franklin D. Roosevelt Azorean Forum’ taking place April 9-10, at the Lajes do Pico Whaling Museum, Pico island. The Forum is co-sponsored by the Government of the Azores and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). Launched in 2008, the biennial event will address pressing issues relating to the transatlantic relations between […]
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