27 October 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) A Times columnist recently pointed out that compared with any period in the past half century, the world as a whole is “healthier, wealthier, happier, cleverer, cleaner, kinder, freer, safer, more peaceful and more equal.” Probably true. Trouble is, that kind of news doesn’t sell papers and attract advertisers. Newspapers, television, […]
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23 October 2014
A carved rock, apparently man-made, was found by archeologists on Terceira, Azores, believed to be over 900 years old. A sample of the artifact was analyzed by an American radiocarbon research laboratory which concluded that the carved rock predates the Portuguese occupation of the Azores, discovered uninhabited by the Portuguese around 1427. According to researcher […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Terceira, World
22 October 2014
The Azores won the “Platinum Quality Coast 2014-2015” award as “Number One” sustainable destination. Although this is the first time the “Platinum Quality Coast” award is being presented, the Azores emerged the winner of a Quality Coast Award for the second time in two years. For the 2013-2014 season the archipelago had won the Quality Coast Gold […]
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22 October 2014
Portugal was elected Tuesday by UN General Assembly to the 15 member UN Human Rights Council for a three year term (2015-2017) beginning January 1, 2015. Portugal won with 184 votes of 193. Portugal had presented its candidature to the Human Rights Council (HRC) for the term 2015-2017 in January 2011. Speaking before the 69th […]
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21 October 2014
Joe Gouveia was an influential regional poet. He flourished throughout Cape Cod as a radio personality, a tireless promoter of poetry readings, and a ready and willing friend and champion to poets of any stripe at any level, starting out or established. He died on May 10, 2014, at the age of 49. The “words […]
21 October 2014
The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UMD are presenting a public screening of the film Deportado (2012) 67’ by Nathalie Mansoux. Filmed in New Bedford, Fall River and the Azores, this documentary examines the forced repatriation of legal, Azorean immigrants from the US to their places of origin and […]
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