30 August 2012
When King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-1578) was slain in battle in 1578, in Alcácer-Quibir, Morocco, he perished without a son or apparent heir, and Portugal lost her independence to Spain. Diligences to recover the king’s remains were fruitless, which added to the uncertainty of Sebastian’s fate and the popular belief that he could have survived battle […]
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29 August 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) Like the steadfast sea in his fiction, the novelist Anthony De Sa is peaceful, sincere, calm, ever-changing, deep and mysterious. Growing up in the rough and tumble Portuguese neighborhoods of Toronto, De Sa heard family stories of the old country and tales of the Azores first hand. De Sa’s short […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People
29 August 2012
Ana Maria Pereira, from Portugal, has won the title of world’s champion in the Target Field, category female (PCP), at the XII World Target Field Championship held in Romsdal, Norway. Pereira won first place with a total of 131 points, followed by Natali Terblance (South Africa) with 130 points and Lydeen Calvert (UK) who won third […]
27 August 2012
By Carolina Matos, Editor The president of the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported. “We have found a rock art […]
Posted in Azores, Corvo, Education, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Heritage, Interviews, Organizations, People, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Spotlight, Terceira
26 August 2012
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Célia Carmen Cordeiro, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas-Austin, is the author of “Ana de Castro Osório e a Mulher Republicana Portuguesa” a book based on her Master’s dissertation (2011) at the University of Minnesota. At the turn of the 20th Century, Ana de Castro Osório (1872-1935) was […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, São Miguel
23 August 2012
By Jason Peters, Contributor (*) Three separate strands of thought to begin with. First, a fishing net endlessly connects itself to itself, neither beginning nor ending. Second, astronomers believe dark matter resembles a neural network spanning the universe, stars traveling its paths like chemicals in a giant web. Finally, in Fernando Pessoa’s poem Tobacco Shop, […]
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