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Lithium-Battery Factory Gets OK in Portugal
The economy of the Municipality of Sines depends on energy, oil refining port activity, fishing, tourism and trade. China Aviation...
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Mar 911 min read
Mysterious Benefactor of Belize: Baron Bliss e Barreto of Portugal
Baron Bliss on the Sea King II Belize’s largest individual financial benefactor never alighted on the country’s soil. Baron Bliss, who...
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Mar 411 min read
Paramedic Gets 5 Years in Death of Cop-Restrained Black Man
Elijah McClain (February 25, 1996 – August 30, 2019) A judge in Colorado sentenced former Aurora paramedic Peter Cichuniec to five years...
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Feb 276 min read
Portugal’s Bobi Stripped of World’s Oldest Dog Title
“He was happy and, above all, made many people happy, especially his family.” (Photo by Catarina Demony) Guinness World...
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Feb 2313 min read
Photos by Maria Lamas, A “Remarkable 20th-Century Portuguese Woman”
Unidentified woman and child in Covão da Ponte, commonly known as “A Castanheira”, in Manteigas Municipality, Serra da Estrela ...
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Feb 136 min read
Lithium of Proposed Mine Could Leave EU, Say Portuguese Prosecutors
Location of the proposed Mina do Barroso (From Savannah Resources website) Aside from legal and ecological concerns, the Public...
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Feb 93 min read
Reduced Sentence for Ex-President in Pedrógão Fire Rebuilding
Valdemar Alves, former president of Pedrógão Grande Municipality (Photo by Fernando Fontes/ Global Archive Imagens) For his conviction in...
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Feb 91 min read
Jumping for Carnival in Portugal
A past Carnaval procession in Canas de Senhorim, Nelas Municipality, in Viseu District, delivered two hours of elaborate floats and...
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Feb 24 min read
Portuguese Excellence Unifies the Divided: Architect Siza Vieira
Casa de Chá da Boa Nova (Boa Nova Tea House) is a restaurant designed by Álvaro Siza Vieria (1958-1963) in Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos...
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Jan 2522 min read
Some Belizeans Push for Diaspora to Vote, Like Portuguese Emigrants
The author, third from right, at Belize International Airport, leaving after her first trip home (Photo by Emanda...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 172 min read
Crochet Coral Reef Alive and Healthy 25 Years On
Austrian Frieze (8 meters wide x 2 meters high, 26.25 feet wide x 6.56 feet), was designed by Christine Wertheim and Romina Dodic Szepe,...
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Jan 85 min read
Portugal’s “Niagara Falls” Now Gives Access to Hundreds
"An instagrammable space" (Photo by Paulo Figueiredo Fotografia) A towering waterfall in the heart of Portugal elicits...
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Dec 31, 20234 min read
Ancient Yule Bonfires Still Burn Today in Portugal
“Faithful maintainers of old and beautiful traditions” (Photo from Penamacor Municipality) At Christmastime, tractor-loads of huge trees...
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Dec 24, 20239 min read
Lithium Mine Could Threaten Wolf Survival in Portugal’s U.N. Heritage Area
In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, in the western United States after 70...
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Dec 24, 20233 min read
Miners, Lighthouse Keepers and Sailors (“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens)
Welsh coal miners singing Christmas carols on December 23, 1943, in the Bryn Valley Colliery, a mile west of Maesteg, in Glamorgan, South...
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Dec 16, 20235 min read
Remembrance of Christmas Things Past in Virginia
These photographs of the City Market, built 100 years ago in 1923, are from the collection of Carroll H. Walker. Vendors (above) sell...
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Dec 8, 20238 min read
Portugal: How Wood-Pellet Stoves Really Work
Pellet stoves are the cleanest solid-fuel residential heating appliances, reported the U.S. Department of Energy. Yet, the source of the...
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Nov 30, 20236 min read
Concrete Alternative Made of Sugarcane Waste
“This will benefit and revolutionize the construction industry, ” said a researcher at the American University in Cairo. Architects,...
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Nov 23, 202310 min read
“Voting Paradox” in Portugal’s Snap Election Ahead
“Before 1974, the role of elections was to confirm the continuity of the ruling party, giving the international community the impression...
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Nov 13, 20231 min read
Rare Aurora Borealis in Portugal
The northern lights at the seaside city of Figueira da Foz (Photo by Miguel Marques) To capture the northern lights at a seaside city on...
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