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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jun 4, 202413 min read
Cannes’ Best Director Miguel Gomes Salutes Portuguese Masters
Grand Tour follows an Asian Grand Tour in the early 20th-century of Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a civil servant of the British Empire,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 27, 20244 min read
Portugal, Hollywood and Tolstoy’s Comets Collide
A stunning comet zoomed across the skies of parts of Portugal and Spain at 45 kilometers (28 miles) per second before burning up over the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 23, 20243 min read
Portugal’s ‘Price Is Right’ Hits 4,000th Show
Presenter Fernando Mendes (Photo from Boa Onda, Correio da Manhã) The host of the television-ratings phenomenon, O Preço Certo, commended...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 16, 20244 min read
Fátima Lopes’ New Designs Strut Lisbon Catwalk
Fátima Lopes, third from left, with runway models (Photo from her Facebook page) She wowed Paris with her show-stopping gold and diamond...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
May 6, 20245 min read
Siza Vieira’s Scenic Viewpoint Opens Over Portugal’s Appalachian Trail
At Miradouro do Zebro, two round glass plates, on opposite sides of the circular platform, allow visitors to look at the rocks below them...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 30, 20243 min read
5 Portuguese Shoot Winning Photos in European Contest
Luís Godinho, a native of Angra do Heroísmo, in the Azores, won the Reporting Golden Lens. Portuguese photographer André Boto was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 21, 20243 min read
Soybean Oil Refinery to Crown Belize’s Success
(Photo by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise) “So confident is the farming community in the soybean success...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 12, 20241 min read
"March for Love" (4th of 4 screenplay acts)
For Freedoms (Hank Williams and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and the Wyatt Gallery), 2018. A reimagining of Norman...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 11, 20246 min read
L.A. Schools Win Oscar on Watch of Portuguese Immigrant Alberto Carvalho
“My father had no education, but he was very intelligent, and he told me: ‘Alberto, no matter where you are, you are there.’ At the time,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 5, 20241 min read
"March for Love" (3rd of 4 screenplay acts)
Corner altar at a San Francisco botanica (Photo by Wendy Goodfriend) She is nearly 40 and single. He is 23. She is keeping him a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Apr 4, 20243 min read
Cindazunda Guards Coimbra 1,600 Years On
Princess Cindazunda, the work of Pedro Figueiredo, is at the Praça do Arnado on Avenida Fernão de Magalhães, in Coimbra, Portugal....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 29, 20241 min read
"March for Love" (2nd of 4 screenplay acts)
Marcel Camus’ 1959 film brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the 20th-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 26, 20245 min read
Belize Gets First Public Hospital CT Scanner
After brain surgery at the public Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, medical personnel risked taking PC Lorray Arzu to the private Belize...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 22, 20241 min read
"March for Love" (1 of 4 screenplay acts)
University of California at Berkeley, Sproul Plaza (Photo, Courtesy of Alison Moore) She is nearly 40 and single. He is 23....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 15, 20243 min read
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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 9, 202411 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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Mar 4, 202411 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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 27, 20246 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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 23, 202413 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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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 13, 20246 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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