Imagine drifting through the blue depths of the ocean, where sunlight fades and strange shapes loom in the gloom. Suddenly, ...

Members of the Physaliidae family, these neon-colored invertebrates are colonial organisms—an ... for at least half an hour. Portuguese man o' war stings are seldom fatal, but can trigger ...

Springtime brings to Portugal one of the most important bank holidays of the country’s History. Celebrated on the 25 April, ...

For Africans, Victory Day was not just about the fall of Hitler, but about the idea that brutal regimes could fall at all ...

Our new research shows that, far from being “affectionate”, the phrase fuzzy wuzzy angel is best understood in this context – ...

Elevated by Pope Francis in 2022, the first East Timorese cardinal is a Salesian from a small Catholic country where young ...

THE local Portuguese community ... issued during the Dutch colonial era, had been in the possession of Catholic priest Father Alvaro Martins Corado during World War II. "However, the deed was ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

The Portuguese people aspiring for democracy thus backed the military who sought to end the colonial war. The reason why it is called the Carnation Revolution is due to the soldiers who carried ...

Allegations of stacking the deck would certainly have ensued had Pope Francis been anything but a popular religious leader who by right is an absolute monarch when it comes to the affairs of the ...