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 […]
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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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23 August 2012
Harvard University, through the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is hosting a symposium dedicated to the topic “Portuguese Language Teaching in the United States: Theory, Practice and Communities.” The event will take place from 9:00am to 4:00pm, August 25, at the Boylston Hall, Cambridge (MA). Fausto Martin Sanctis, from the Regional Tribunal of São […]
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22 August 2012
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Lewis A. White, 66, the author of Sopas: A brief History of Portuguese Islanders, the Cape Cod Town of Falmouth, and the Feast of the Holy Ghost (2012) , is a native of Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fourth generation descendant of Azorean immigrants, he still can trace his roots back […]
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20 August 2012
By Sarah Bishop-Valentine, Contributor (*) Waiting is one of the least considered events concerning a hurricane. In the dark of night in the early hours of Monday morning, Hurricane Gordon tore through the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria, in the Azores, in a few short hours. After a day of intensive preparations on […]
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