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    < Rio Carnival Packages - Packages < South America - Green Toad Bus". greentoadbus.com. "Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (Alessandra...
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    Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Lumiar. Cabral, Sergio (1996). As escolas de samba do Rio de Janeiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Lumiar. Cabral...
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  • Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela or Portela for short, is a traditional samba school, founded in 1923, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school...
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  • Dissatisfied with where the official league, the Associação das Escolas de Samba da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (AESCRJ), was heading for and feeling a need...
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    Martinho da Vila (born February 12, 1938) is a Brazilian singer and composer who is considered to be one of the main representatives of samba and MPB....
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    August 2008. "Lisboa – Geminações de Cidades e Vilas" [[Lisbon – Twinning of Cities and Towns]]. Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [National...
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    Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Vila Isabel is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro. It was thrice champion of the Special Group and is currently...
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    son of Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Buarque lived at several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rome....
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing her first journalistic...
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    Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro – also known as the Special Group (since 1990), and formerly under the Associação das Escolas de Samba da Cidade...
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    important port of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is also known as "Porto do Sol" (Port of the Sun) and "Cidade Sorriso" (Smile City). More than...
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  • and the Campeonato Gaúcho, Rio Grande do Sul's top state league. The club was founded in 1903 by businessman Cândido Dias da Silva and other 32 men, mostly...
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    Donga (musician) (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    first recorded samba, the 1916 song Pelo Telefone. Donga was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of Pedro Joaquim Maria and Amélia Silvana de Araújo; he had...
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    Maria Bethânia (category Samba musicians)
    and songwriter. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, she started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"), she is "The Queen of Brazilian...
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    produced Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das Dez, an avant-garde album featuring himself, singer Sergio Sampaio, samba artist Miriam Batucada...
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  • Plumas (The Dog without Feathers) 1953: O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife (The River or On the Course of...
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    manezinho da ilha. Carioca — Not a dialect, but sociolects of the fluminense variant spoken in an area roughly corresponding to Greater Rio de Janeiro. It appeared...
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    "best samba-theme singer."[citation needed] In 2005 he released his first DVD, in the Cidade do Samba (City of Samba), with the presence of Sandra de Sá...
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    da Bola Preta in Rio de Janeiro. Galo da Madrugada inspired the creation of other blocks throughout Brazil and in other countries, such as Pinto da Madrugada...
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    Sírio (basketball), Associação Atlética Hebraica (basketball), Clube Atlético Monte Líbano (basketball), Clube de Campo Associação Atlética Guapira (amateur...
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    "Estratégias de articulação formal nos Momentos de Almeida Prado." Debates, n. 6 (Nov. 2002): 61–88. Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ...
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    Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Some consider O Canto da Cidade was the forerunner of the samba-reggae movement, then called Axé Music, gaining strength...
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    Brazil. Born in Campos dos Goytacazes, she moved with her family to Rio de Janeiro at the age of two. She attended the school of Tablado Theatre and began...
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    drawing at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios of Rio de Janeiro from 1938–1954. The Liceu was affiliated with the Associação Académica de Coimbra where Costa...
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  • Jovelina Pérola Negra (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    na Pavuna, é reinaugurada após reforma". Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - prefeitura.rio (in Brazilian Portuguese). June 30, 2020. Retrieved December...
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    Erasmo Carlos (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Esteves was born in the neighbourhood of Tijuca in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Carlos knew Sebastião Rodrigues Maia (who would later be known as Tim...
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    Atrás do Porto Tem Uma Cidade (There is a City Behind the Harbor) that brought some great songs such as "Mamãe Natureza", "Menino Bonito", and "Pé de Meia"...
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    achievements". In 2009, Pelé assisted the Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In July 2009, he spearheaded the Rio 2016 presentation to the Association...
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    Eduardo Souto de Moura. Morfae.com. Retrieved on May 22, 2014. "Manoel de Oliveira homenageado na cidade francesa de Lille de 24 a 28 de Novembro". ionline...
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    Roberto Farias (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    in Rio de Janeiro on 14 May 2018, at age 86, during an inpatient treatment for cancer. 1957 - Rico Ri à Toa 1958 - No Mundo da Lua 1960 - Cidade Ameaçada...
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