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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 30, 20215 min read
Journalist Who Risked Filming East Timor Massacre Dies
“When the Indonesians began shamelessly killing, stabbing, beating, of course, I had to film.” Max Stahl, a British journalist who filmed...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 23, 20215 min read
Taboo Artist Paula Rego’s Show at Tate Sold-Out
In Time – Past and Present, she takes classical painting and structure and symbols, and she subverts them to reflect the female...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 20, 20218 min read
Portugal Honors WWII Consul Sousa Mendes Who Saved Thousands of Jews
Aristides de Sousa Mendes and a telegram from dictator Salazar (Courtesy of Sousa Mendes Foundation) (This story was published originally...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 14, 20216 min read
Belize PM Begged Father-in-Law to Get Jab
Before You Relax, Get Vax, says Belize. COVID-19 is infecting the young and the old. The COVID-19 song challenge pushed up the calypso...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 7, 202110 min read
Belize Struggling in Latest Hurricane: COVID-19
Hurricane Iris in 2001 killed 24 and left 150,000 homeless in the Central American country on the Yucatan Peninsula. The British Honduras...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 2, 20212 min read
Portugal: One of the Most Vaccinated Countries
Symbols of Freedom by Andre Carrilho, who wrote: “All credit to health-care professionals who continue their mission . . . ” Eighty-four...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 30, 20216 min read
“Catholic Fringe” Growing in Portugal
Lisbon municipality honors Santo Antonio, its patron saint known as a matchmaker, by hosting a mass wedding on June 12. Recently, 11...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 27, 20213 min read
Scrappy Chega’s Not #3 in Portugal
Andre Ventura, Chega's leader (Photo by Lusa/Nuno Veiga) Chega failed to achieve its objective of becoming the third national...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 21, 202113 min read
How Paul Robeson Found His Political Voice in Wales
"Robeson is one of the archetypal artists of the twentieth century," wrote Benny Green of The Observer in the liner notes of the album,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Pedrogao Fire Ignited Envy, Says Witness
Alzira Luiz in front of her house in Rapos, Castanheira de Pera, which was destroyed by the fire and is still being rebuilt four years...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 11, 20213 min read
"Are We Worthy" of 9/11 Heroes' Sacrifice, Asked at Plane Crash Site
As the names of the passengers and crew members were read, the Bells of Remembrance rang at 10:30 a.m., the exact time that Flight 93...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 9, 20217 min read
National Health Systems in Portugal, U.K. Carry On
Game Changer , by the anonymous graffiti artist Bansky, appeared in a foyer of an English hospital during the first wave of the pandemic....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 5, 20212 min read
Flash Mob Stuns Portuguese Vaccination Center
Dancers, who were disguised as nurses, doctors, firefighters and Civil Protection workers, stripped down to their yellow school T-shirts....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 3, 20216 min read
Colorado Cops Indicted; U.S. Policing Act Awaits OK
Elijah McClain was walking home when he was stopped by police, who face charges in his death. Three police officers and two paramedics...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 2, 20211 min read
A “So Portuguese” Comforting Almanac
Borda D’Agua, a Portuguese almanac, is old and venerable, fine and satisfying. Through the years, so strong is its presence that it draws...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 1, 20214 min read
Leather Etchings Link Primitive to Modern
“It’s micro-sculpture within a tenth of a millimeter. I have spent hundreds of thousands of hours slicing, etching, making tiny...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 30, 20212 min read
No Charges in October 2017 Fires
Using a hoe to try to stop the reigniting of the fire in Seia The investigation of the Pedragao Grande fires in June 2017 resulted in 11...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 27, 20214 min read
Bansky Takes Bucket and Spray to English Seaside
Piers, penny arcades and rock pools. Ice cream from a beach van, sugary rock from a gift shop, and a cone of vinegary whelks from the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 26, 20212 min read
Creating a Universal Language
"With the technology of artificial intelligence, the machine learns the human logic of creating a pictographic language and generates a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 22, 202111 min read
Health Tourism in Portugal: Grounded
I said: ‘Why didn’t you schedule a visit to Champalimaud (Clinical Centre in Lisbon pictured above)?’ ‘Where,’ she asked. So, here’s a...
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