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"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
- 7 min
Portugal's Beatriz Angelo: 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
- 1 min
"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
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
"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
- 1 min
"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
- 17 min
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
- 7 min
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
- 13 min
Belize: Vulcan Mining Plan Extracts Protests, Foresight
(Photo by Amandala) Along with the vociferous opposition of local residents and several government ministers to Vulcan Materials...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Sep 4
- 13 min
"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
- 12 min
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 21
- 5 min
Heart of Dom Pedro on Show in Portugal, Then Brazil
A queue of hundreds already had lined up at a church in Porto an hour and a half before its doors opened on August 20 to view what few...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 18
- 12 min
Belize Boosting Coconut Industry; Buying Seeds From Brazil
Harvested coconuts in Belize Belize plans to buy 36,000 disease-tolerant and high-yielding coconut seeds from Brazil, which is in keeping...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 11
- 9 min
Belize Rising Above Sargassum Swamp
“This year has been the worst on record. . . . We don’t know if this is the new normal. This has been devastating for over a decade.” A...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Aug 1
- 10 min
More Droughts, Less Grapes for Portugal, Spain
The Azores high, or Azores anticyclone, is a high-pressure system that can block wet weather fronts to the Iberian Peninsula and is...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 28
- 3 min
Portugal: Save Water, Ease Drought
“We don’t control what the weather does, but we can control what we do with time. One minute a day, let’s turn the tap dry.” An official...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 27
- 10 min
Pessoa’s "Disquiet": “Strange", "Sublime" and Portuguese
Looking in the mirror, Pessoa says he saw several times what appeared to be the heteronyms, his “face fading out” and replaced by the one...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 22
- 2 min
Portugal’s Oldest Woman Dies at 113, Outliving a King, 2 Pandemics and 2 World Wars
Encarnaçao Sousa died at 113 years and 123 days old The last king of Portugal, Dom Manuel II, sat on the throne of Portugal in Lisbon...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 17
- 5 min
Portugal's Fires: "No One Is Safe"
Fighting a fire that burned a shed of firewood beside a house in Macieira (Photo by Paulo Novais/Lusa) Wildfires raged over much of...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jul 7
- 5 min
Savannah Lithium Suffers Blow in Portugal and London
Location of the proposed Mina do Barroso (Savannah Resources) Savannah Resources sustained a setback when the Portuguese Environment...
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