CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

The author and Clive Williams Kirkwood, Jr. (June 30, 1958-April 29, 2023) Good morning, Everyone. "A gentle teddy bear" is how a cousin...

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...

In the 1960s, a new movement led the singers of fado in Coimbra to incorporate ballad and folklore. The artists began interpreting lines...

If you answered ‘Yes’, and wrote in a federally defined non-Hispanic country, your response would be changed to ‘No’. However, those...

The cuckoo’s call inspires music and signifies the arrival of spring. The bird’s habits, on the other hand, symbolize cuckoldry in...

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Belize City, Belize (Photo by Taiwan...

Of the 35 fauna species of conservation concern, 15 are birds. Montagu’s harrier is one of three endangered birds in the proposed mining...

“I (had) always thought that it was much more important that I was the first historian (to lead the Smithsonian) because the Smithsonian...

Portugal has one of the highest wildfire-risk rankings in Europe. Researchers cite the same contributing factors: shifting demographics...

Brazilian agronomist, Dr. Abel Rebouças, reveals a soursop's edible white pulp and fiber along with a core of indigestible black seeds. A...

The Machado de Castro National Museum is named for the Coimbra native who was a renowned sculptor throughout Europe in the 18th and early...

The economy of the municipality of Sines depends on energy, oil refining port activity, fishing, tourism and trade. A proposal for a...

Thompson Memorial Chapel, an interfaith sanctuary at Williams College, was completed in 1904 in memory of Frederick Ferris Thompson...

Students at Atlanta University, chartered by the American Missionary Association in 1869 (Photo from Era of progress and promise,...

Baxter Hall (1954-2004), on the left, housed the Snack Bar, student union and dining hall. It was named for James Phinney Baxter III,...

The Iberian wolf, endangered in Portugal, is protected by national and international laws. Despite sustained protest, the Portuguese...

Mission Hill leads to Mission Park, named for the 10-acre tract of land bought by a group of Williams alumni in 1855 to commemorate the...

White storks in the municipality of Alvito, Beja District, in the Alentejo (Photo by Ines Catry) Thirty years ago, the white stork was a...

On the Green River, South Williamstown, Massachusetts (By John Lee Fitch, 1836-1895) CHAPTER 2 Like a wild mare, I bolted from the walls...

Jorge Sampaio, (4th from left in center) during a student protest at the University of Lisbon, where he graduated from the School of Law. Later, he became President of the Portuguese Republic. (Photo from SIC Archive) Students risked their university and professional careers, their physical freedom and their lives in their opposition to dictator António de Oliveira Salazar’s stranglehold on Portugal. As a visitor climbed the stairs to an exposition in Coimbra that