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Cornwall's "Poet Laureate": Charles Causley
Closing lines of I Saw a Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley (Illustration by Pat Marriott) Foraging through a used bookshop...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Fado of Coimbra, Portugal: A Sculptural Tribute
The evocative bronze symbolizes Coimbra’s paean to fado through a Portuguese guitar with the contours of a woman’s body. Lines from fado...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Say Its Name: Slavery (Chapter 16, Epilogue of "Pirating Slavery")
The Tower, XVI in the tarot card deck, is a solid structure. However, it has been built on shaky foundations representing false premises....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 16, 2022
- 12 min
Coimbra Jews: Tolerance to Persecution in Portugal
Two steps lead up to an unpartitioned cell. Behind draped white gauzy material and lit by a footlight, two ropes hang from the ceiling...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Tricky Living on Land: No Omens (Chapter 15 of "Pirating Slavery")
“Port Royal,” Adrian said, immediately. “What! Not Charles Town,” Edward asked. The Pink House, the oldest stone building in Charleston,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
A Shocked Adrian Changes Course (Chapter 14 of "Pirating Slavery")
Adrian, Trevor and Edward shouldered their way to the front of the mourners. They stood to the right of the bodies individually wrapped...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
Portugal: Elevated Walkways Open in Serra da Estrela
“The interior of Portugal is a treasure of landscapes to discover and rediscover," said Ana Abrunhosa, Minister of Territorial Cohesion,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Saved Africans . . . Banished (Chapter 13 of "Pirating Slavery")
The two men were wrapped in a final embrace, their swollen faces barely recognizable and dripping in bright, red blood. Passers-by had...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
Two Unique “Libraries” at Penacova, Portugal
High quartzite beds appear vertically as if they were books on a shelf in what could be the world’s oldest bookstore or library between...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
Adrian's Guilt (Chapter 12 of "Pirating Slavery")
"The captain sulked. He did not seek out anyone for conversation. He avoided meeting the stares of his friends. He kept his head tilted...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Shooting Stars Fall (Chapter 11 of "Pirating Slavery")
"The captain wore a freshly washed blousy shirt and tight, blue pants. He had primped for this visit much like a beau does for a call on...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 12 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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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