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How to Vitalize Portugal Interior’s Economy
(From Geo-Ref.net) Nearly 8,000 people have moved to Portugal’s interior with the assistance of two government programs. However, a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jul 25, 20234 min read
Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei at Home in Rural Portugal
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense is a commentary on everyday objects and what they reveal about our changing values. The show is at the Design...
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Jul 18, 20234 min read
Portugal: Immortal Love of Pedro and Ines
Some say that Ines’ sudden and violent death rendered her stranded between worlds, searching eternally for her beloved in the Jardins da...
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Jul 12, 20233 min read
Portugal: Urgent Need for Young Farmers
In 2001, young farmers (40 years old and younger) represented 9.4% of the total number of farmers in our country. In 2021, this value...
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Jul 6, 20232 min read
ER of Portugal’s Largest Hospital: Empathy – Not Fear
After triage on arrival at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, doctors diagnose conditions and order immediate tests, such as ECGs, X-rays...
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Jun 28, 20235 min read
Portugal Extends Lithium Mine Consultation to July 24
(From Lusorecursos website) Amidst the sustained controversy over lithium mining in Portugal, the revised plan of Lusorecursos for...
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Jun 26, 20231 min read
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats
Cynthia Adina Kirkwood, age 4, standing, in a family sailboat near St. George's Caye, Belize (Photo by Emanda Elizabeth...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 23, 202311 min read
Portugal: Race, Class Reckoning in U.S. Embassy Art Show
Hank Willis Thomas' For Freedoms (2016) is inspired by Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post illustrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 16, 20232 min read
Runaway Kangaroo Shakes Up Portuguese City
From the Vizela outback (By VMTV) An unexpected visit from an Australian native to the Portuguese city center of Vizela broke the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 13, 20234 min read
Portugal: Ordinary House Hid Islamic Baths, Stately Home
The Islamic bathhouse at the Municipal Museum of Loulé (Photo by Loule Municipality) Near the city wall of Loulé, there was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 7, 20235 min read
Cleopatra: Unpacking Egypt's Afrocentric Debate
(Photo from The Caravan) This article by Nadine Samy was published in The Caravan (May 31), a student publication of the American...
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Jun 3, 20234 min read
Portugal: Savannah Lithium Mine Gets OK, But Opponents Say People, Nature Not for Sale
Boticas (Photo by Expresso) A municipal president in Vila Real District reacted with “sadness and worry” and many residents with...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 1, 20234 min read
Portugal Needs to Upgrade Tourism
"Tourism 2.0 must be based on products with greater added value (and greater productivity). More sophisticated products than sun and...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 28, 20234 min read
Neo-Gothic Cathedral Honors Modern Salesman
The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York (Photo by Angelique Henriquez) A towering Gothic Revival building,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 21, 20232 min read
Portugal Breaks Out in Latest “Fast & Furious”
Velocidade Furiosa 10 opened on May 18 in Portugal. (Video by MEDIA) While looking for locations of the action film, Fast X: Fast &...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 16, 20238 min read
Subway Death of Schizophrenic Fuels Political Madness
Jordan Neely is pictured before going to see Michael Jackson's This Is It at the Regal Cinemas in New York’s Times Square in 2009. ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 15, 20233 min read
Grace Bumbry: American "Venus" Diva (January 4, 1937 – May 7, 2023)
Grace Bumby "maintained a bit of a Carmen-esque spirit offstage. She dressed as Bizet's heroine in a promotional campaign for Lamborghini...
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May 11, 20233 min read
Eulogy for My Little Brother
The author and Clive Williams Kirkwood, Jr. (June 30, 1958-April 29, 2023) Good morning, Everyone. "A gentle teddy bear" is how a cousin...
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May 3, 20232 min read
Coimbra Monastery Symbolized Power of Portugal's Capital
To make room for the tombs of kings Afonso Henriques (about 1109-1185) and Sancho I (1154-1211) on the church’s altar, the choir stalls...
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Apr 25, 20234 min read
Carnation Revolution in Portugal: Power of the People (Zeca Afonso and Chaplin)
In the 1960s, a new movement led the singers of fado in Coimbra to incorporate ballad and folklore. The artists began interpreting lines...
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