#LISBON

Took a Jewish tour of Lisbon this morning.Not the happiest story ever told... Though there are always good men.I was moved by the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese

André Marques-Smith

TheFrontalLobe_

I was born in a country used to seeing itself at the tail of every statistic. In my teens I heard nothing but bad news about every possible index on

♡ shivani as portuguese monuments — a thread Monserrate Palace, Sintra, Lisbon Royal Convent of Mafra, Mafra, Lisbon Castle of Guimarães, Guimarães, Braga Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon National Palace

The European GREY Deal: building an airport in the heart of Portugal’s largest wetlandhttps://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.abe4325#conservation #biodiversity #ornithology #Lisbon #airport @WaderStudy @RamsarConv @antonio

Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu

Far back 1514, there were Edo men in Sao Tome. They were mainly traders and interpreters (faladors) who speak Portuguese and/or dutch. When Ohen-Okun the ambassador from Benin visited Lisbon

PatríciaMMarcos

110 anniversary of the Portuguese Republican Revolution Afonso Costa, aka “mata-frades” (friar killer), is seen here, in a picture emulating Pombal, the 18th reformer. Pombal expelled the jesuits from Portugal+all

Property Spotter

On the day Article 50 was invoked, Vote Leave’s chief executive Matthew Elliott said he was confident everything would be wrapped up within two years and that "all the problems

Maximilian Mayer

Cruel moment: 10 Mio confirmed infections, 500k people died from #Covid_19. East Asian countries leading in containment/suppression by a large margin. Death toll in Mainland China (4,634), South Korea (282),

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREADIN WHICH THE EU BREAK INTERNATIONAL LAW1. Their own Treaty to be precise. And not in a 'limited & specific way' either. I refer to the latest bailout, the €750

alex | 𝖙𝖊 𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖔 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖇𝖔𝖆

everybody is talking about raquel being the weak link and why no one talks about the professor who was ready to TURN HIMSELF IN and fuck up the plan while

How @Cristiano saved @JVSemedo's career is always going to be one of the most inspirational stories of an Athlete you'd ever come across.José Semedo went to the extent of claiming

itziar ituño in lisbon; a thread

Tim Naor Hilton

Short thread on @johnypits Afropean, notes from black Europe. Original plan: read it as companion to our planned summer Euro train hol. Then Covid intervened. So I read it now

Justin I'Onn 🔶

in 2011 (DURING the coalition government) 98% of The #LibDems' MPs voted AGAINST David Cameron's plans to hold an #EURef...That's 0% of current LD MPs.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/25/mp-voted-for-eu-referendumTh

Bloomberg Green

NEW: When the residents of Barcelona came out of the coronavirus lockdown they were greeted with miles of shiny yellow new bike lanes. Meet the man who's rethinking transit in

so here it is. auckland. lisbon. havana. venice. marseille. liverpool. manchester. rome. vienna. seville. new york. nuuk. tokyo. ghazni. hong kong. marrakech. paris.