The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. The man-of-war comprises four separate polyps. It gets its name from the uppermost polyp ...

The colonial empire at various times included Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Cape Verde and Mozambique, as well as some parts of India MADRID, April 28. /TASS/. The Portuguese government has refused ...

But once you start exploring the offbeat paths in the former Portuguese colony, you will realise you have just started peeling the onion called Macao. Speaking to the locals or Macanese is a great ...

Macao, an autonomous region on the country's south coast, had been a Portuguese colony for hundreds of years and was only handed over to the People's Republic of China in late 1999. Gambling in ...

Kenya would have become a Portuguese colony and the Coast becoming a Christian enclave. Given that in the 16th century Islam was spreading fast, experts say there could have been a clash that ...

During Portuguese colonial expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries, the cosmographer served as the carved figurehead at the prow of the ship, the one responsible for the nautical charts that would ...