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Ukraine's Horrors on Exhibit in Coimbra, Portugal
“A retired teacher, known as Auntie Lyuda, short for Lyudmyla, was shot midmorning on March 5 as she opened her front door on a small...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 27, 20221 min read
Inciting Mutiny (Chapter 10 of "Pirating Slavery")
Port Royal, Jamaica, founded in 1494 by the Spanish, was the largest city in the Caribbean when the crew of the Good Hope visited it in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 26, 202212 min read
Egypt's "Godmother": Artist Gazbia Sirry
"On my passport it says that I am an artist painter, not a professor or any other title. I prefer to be a free woman." ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 24, 20221 min read
Edward's Plan Backfires (Chapter 9 of "Pirating Slavery")
"All they knew was that, in Port Royal, the ground did not roll under their feet, and there would be new faces. They forsook evening...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 20, 20221 min read
Fear, Shame and Forgiveness (Chapter 8 of "Pirating Slavery")
"Sarah had enjoyed humiliating Adrian because she had been humiliated in a society, which had locked her out. When Adrian escaped, she...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 20, 20227 min read
Portuguese: Woman Pioneer Photojournalist in U.S.
July 18, 1944: Photographers and reporters at the site of the Port Chicago munitions explosion. Virginia de Carvalho is in the foreground....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Mysterious Vanishing Slave Ships (Chapter 7 of "Pirating Slavery")
The shipper wondered whether the sailors’ superstitions he had debunked held some truth. Perhaps the African Star had been sucked down...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 15, 20225 min read
Portugal: 5-Year Fire Anniversary Offers Hope
Photo by Ricardo Graça/EPA I entered the office of my parish, Ervedal da Beira, in Oliveira do Hospital, with excitement, trepidation and...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 13, 20221 min read
The Survivor's Secret (Chapter 6 of "Pirating Slavery")
"No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living until each has shared one thousand pounds. If any man should lose a limb or become...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 10, 20221 min read
"Imagination Will Save You" (Chapter 5 of "Pirating Slavery")
"Not knowing who I am is like being locked behind a closed door. My adoptive parents understood my obsession to open the door and get to...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 9, 20227 min read
Portugal's Beatriz Ângelo: 1st Woman Voter, 1911
“I would like to thank the board and the assembly for their sympathy, and I will send word to our suffragette sisters abroad, who...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 6, 20221 min read
"Purifying the Ship of Evil" (Chapter 4 of "Pirating Slavery")
Slavers bringing captives on board their ship on Africa’s west coast (19th-century print) Pirating Slavery, my novel about...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 5, 20221 min read
Jealousy (Chapter 3 of "Pirating Slavery")
"Why do you keep pushing me away with your jealousy and anger?" (Jealousy and Flirtation, oil painting by Haynes King , 1831-1904)...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 4, 20221 min read
"I Won't Worship Monarchs" (Chapter 2 of "Pirating Slavery")
"In the whirl of the tragedy, Adrian had pinned down an obsession. For him, the stranger’s life symbolized freedom and his death, a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Oct 1, 20221 min read
"Pirating Slavery" (Chapter 1)
J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship (1840) was originally entitled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon Coming On by the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 28, 202217 min read
The Slave-Ship Zong Massacre
J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship (1840) was originally entitled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon Coming On by the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 14, 20227 min read
Pedrogao Fire: All 11 Defendants Acquitted
Commander Augusto Arnaut (left) of the Pedrogao Grande Volunteer Firefighters arriving at the Tribunal Court of Leiria A panel of judges...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 8, 202214 min read
Belize Stops Vulcan Firm by Forbidding Mining
(Photo by Amandala) Senior officials within Prime Minister John Briceno’s administration took a collective policy decision that no...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Sep 4, 202213 min read
"Ecotopia" Trashes 40-Hour Workweek
Northern California, Oregon and Washington, secede from the U.S. as Ecotopia. Futuristic novels such as George Orwell’s 1984, Ray...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Aug 28, 202213 min read
Portugal: Have Your Say on Lithium Plant by September 13
For fixed contracts, the annual average U.S. lithium carbonate price was $17,000 per ton in 2021, more than double that in 2020, reported...
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