17 March 2014
Portuguese Parliament has voted down a provisional “co-parenting” bill that would have granted same sex couples the right to adopt the children of their partners. The proposal would have allowed that “when two people of the same sex are married or cohabiting and one of them has parental responsibility for a minor, by blood or […]
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13 March 2014
International artists of Portuguese descent are competing at the 2014 International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA). Nominees in seven categories have been announced. Band Faith of New Bedford leads the pack with three nominations. The contest received about 400 entries from a dozen countries, including artists from as far as Romania, Venezuela and Sierra Lione. Categories […]
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13 March 2014
One of the more touching sonnets in Dante’s La Vita Nuova expresses the poet’s thoughts as he witnesses the fashion of the way his elusive “mia donna” makes her way, gracefully and independently, down the street before him: Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare La donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta Ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, […]
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12 March 2014
Portuguese architect, Inês Lobo, is the winner of the 2014 arcVision Prize – Women and Architecture, an international architecture award for female designers instituted by the Italcementi Group and now in its second year. The jury unanimously selected Lobo as a versatile architect, recognized for her ability to work at different scales, integrating new buildings […]
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10 March 2014
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman’s path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on the rooftop each […]
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10 March 2014
The Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) initiative, a worldwide distance teaching project, was launched in Portugal in 2013 with the participation of a number of private and public institutions of higher learning. The newest MOOC, titled “A Consciência dos Valores,” opened online Monday with a class of 100 students from Portugal (75%), Brazil (20%) and […]
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