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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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Mar 26, 20245 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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Mar 22, 20241 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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Mar 15, 20243 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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Mar 9, 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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Mar 4, 202411 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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Feb 27, 20246 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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Feb 23, 202413 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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Feb 13, 20246 min read


Reduced Sentence for Ex-President in Pedrógão Fire Rebuilding
Valdemar Alves, former president of Pedrógão Grande Municipality (Photo by Fernando Fontes/ Global Archive Imagens) For his conviction in...

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Feb 9, 20243 min read


Jumping for Carnival in Portugal
A past Carnaval procession in Canas de Senhorim, Nelas Municipality, in Viseu District, delivered two hours of elaborate floats and...

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Feb 9, 20241 min read


Portuguese Excellence Unifies the Divided: Architect Siza Vieira
Casa de Chá da Boa Nova (Boa Nova Tea House) is a restaurant designed by Álvaro Siza Vieria (1958-1963) in Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos...

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Feb 2, 20244 min read


Some Belizeans Push for Diaspora to Vote, Like Portuguese Emigrants
The author, third from right, at Belize International Airport, leaving after her first trip home (Photo by Emanda...

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Jan 25, 202422 min read


Crochet Coral Reef Alive and Healthy 25 Years On
Austrian Frieze (8 meters wide x 2 meters high, 26.25 feet wide x 6.56 feet), was designed by Christine Wertheim and Romina Dodic Szepe,...

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Jan 17, 20242 min read


Portugal’s “Niagara Falls” Now Gives Access to Hundreds
"An instagrammable space" (Photo by Paulo Figueiredo Fotografia) A towering waterfall in the heart of Portugal elicits...

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Jan 8, 20245 min read


Ancient Christmas Bonfires Still Burn Today in Portugal
“Faithful maintainers of old and beautiful traditions” (Photo from Penamacor Municipality) At Christmastime, tractor-loads of huge trees...

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Dec 31, 20234 min read


Lithium Mine Could Threaten Wolf Survival in Portugal’s U.N. Heritage Area
In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, in the western United States after 70...

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Dec 24, 20239 min read


Miners, Lighthouse Keepers and Sailors (“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens)
Welsh coal miners singing Christmas carols on December 23, 1943, in the Bryn Valley Colliery, a mile west of Maesteg, in Glamorgan, South...

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Dec 24, 20233 min read


Remembrance of Christmas Things Past in Virginia
These photographs of the City Market, built 100 years ago in 1923, are from the collection of Carroll H. Walker. Vendors (above) sell...

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Dec 16, 20235 min read


Portugal: How Wood-Pellet Stoves Really Work
Pellet stoves are the cleanest solid-fuel residential heating appliances, reported the U.S. Department of Energy. Yet, the source of the...

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Dec 8, 20238 min read


Concrete Alternative Made of Sugarcane Waste
“This will benefit and revolutionize the construction industry, ” said a researcher at the American University in Cairo. Architects,...

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Nov 30, 20236 min read
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