22 February 2013
The late Portuguese-American artist, Nathan Oliveira, will be memorialized at Stanford University with the creation of the Windhover Contemplative Center. The new center will display four large oil paintings of Oliveira’s Windhover series inspired by birds in flight. Oliveira began working on the series in the 1970s, which took a lifetime of art to complete. […]
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18 February 2013
Stephen C. Berkwitz’s Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism examines five works by a single poet to demonstrate how Buddhism in Sri Lanka was shaped and transformed by encounters with Portuguese colonizers and missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By following the written works of Alagiyavanna Mukaveti (1552-1625?) from the court of a powerful Sinhala king […]
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17 February 2013
The Azores are the winners of the 2013-2014 Quality Cost Gold Award as the best European most sustainable holiday destination. The Ierapetra island, in Crete, was awarded second place and the islands of Gozo and Camino, in Malta, won third place. The Quality Coast Awards are considered a prestigious honor aimed to assisting tourism operators […]
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17 February 2013
Portuguese film director João Viana,46, was awarded a “Special Mention” for “A batalha de Tabatô” at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), one of the most high profile international movie events. The 2013 Berlin International Film Festival was held February 7-17. Set for the most part in Guine-Bissau, the film incorporates many documentary elements […]
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16 February 2013
Born on Pico Island, of Portugal’s Azores Islands, sometime between 1830 and 1840, Joseph Silvey began whaling when he was just 12 years old. In 1860, when Silvey came to the British Columbia coast on a whaling schooner, he decided to jump ship to try his hand at gold-mining. From harpooning whales in small open […]
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16 February 2013
The Portuguese government has honored former Congressman Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), with the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, in a ceremony held in Washingotn DC, at the residence of the Ambassador of Portugal Nuno Brito. The grandson of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, Cardoza served for a decade in the U.S. House […]
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