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Portugal: Ordinary House Hid Islamic Baths, Stately Home
The Islamic bathhouse at the Municipal Museum of Loule (Photo by Loule Municipality) Near the city wall of Loule, there was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 7
- 5 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jun 3
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 8 min
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
- 3 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 11
- 3 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 3
- 2 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 25
- 4 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 19
- 12 min
Big Increase of Brazilians, Belizeans Counted as Latino Due to U.S. Census Processing Error
If you answered ‘Yes’, and wrote in a federally defined non-Hispanic country, your response would be changed to ‘No’. However, those...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 10
- 2 min
Cuckoos: Spring, Music and Cuckoldry
The cuckoo’s call inspires music and signifies the arrival of spring. The bird’s habits, on the other hand, symbolize cuckoldry in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 3
- 6 min
Belize Reaffirms Ties With Taiwan on Leader’s Visit
President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize (Photo by Taiwan...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 29
- 23 min
April 19: Lithium Plan Deadline Extended for Public
Of the 35 fauna species of conservation concern, 15 are birds. Montagu’s harrier is one of three endangered birds in the proposed mining...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 25
- 24 min
Smithsonian Head in Egypt: "Power of History"
“I (had) always thought that it was much more important that I was the first historian (to lead the Smithsonian) because the Smithsonian...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 21
- 5 min
Portugal Delays Contested Rural Fire Rules
Portugal has one of the highest wildfire-risk rankings in Europe. Researchers cite the same contributing factors: shifting demographics...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 17
- 4 min
Belize Promotes Soursop Cultivation
Brazilian agronomist, Dr. Abel Rebouças, reveals a soursop's edible white pulp and fiber along with a core of indigestible black seeds. A...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 9
- 5 min
Unsung Riches of Coimbra Museum
The Machado de Castro National Museum is named for the Coimbra native who was a renowned sculptor throughout Europe in the 18th and early...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 1
- 9 min
Portugal: Have Your Say on Lithium-Battery Plant by March 20
The economy of the municipality of Sines depends on energy, oil refining port activity, fishing, tourism and trade. A proposal for a...
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