• Inglês de Sousa (born Herculano Marcos Inglês de Sousa) was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Óbidos, PA, on December...
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    Paulo Coelho (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛl.juː, kuˈɛl.juː, -joʊ/ KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist...
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    José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈsɔkɾɐtɨʃ]), is a...
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    Luzia Pereira de Sousa Inglês Van-Dúnem (born 11 January 1948) is an Angolan politician, feminist and expert in military telecommunications. She is a...
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    Brazilian journalist and politician. "Alcindo Guanabara | Academia Brasileira de Letras". academia.org.br. Retrieved 2023-06-18. Media related to Alcindo Guanabara...
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  • Hélio Jaguaribe (category People from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Jaguaribe de Mattos (1923-2018) was a Brazilian political scientist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of eminent geographer Francisco Jaguaribe de Mattos...
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    became Joaquim's godmother; her brother-in-law, commendator Joaquim Alberto de Sousa da Silveira, was his godfather, and both were paid homage by giving their...
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    Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books...
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    brazilian currency was proposed in 1926, by Brazilian economist Carlos Inglês de Sousa (1882–1948).[citation needed] The first editorial of the Brazilian...
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    Tobias Barreto de Meneses (June 7, 1839 – June 26, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and literary critic. He is famous for creating the "Condorism"...
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    Kubitschek, at that time the chief doctor of the Blood Hospital (Hospital de Sangue). Later on, he became a civil servant through examination. In 1933...
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    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    César Ribeiro de Sousa [pt].: 308  Airships, powered aerostats, were first demonstrated and patented by the Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão in 1709...
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    Southern Brazil Railway. At the age of 24, he founded the Companhia Construtora de Santos. The next decade was filled with intense commercial activity, and the...
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    Martins Pena (category Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    (1847) Quem Casa Quer Casa (1847) O Noviço (1853; posthumous) Os Dois e o Inglês Maquinista (1871; posthumous) Encyclopedia of Latin American History and...
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    year. He went to Rio de Janeiro, living there until 1854. There he wrote for newspapers, and began to write the drama Leonor de Mendonça in 1846 and his...
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    published extensively in both fiction and non-fiction, and his complete works in 10 volumes came out in 1966. He died in 1988 in Rio de Janeiro. Vianna Moog...
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  • Abgar de Castro Araújo Renault (1901–1995) was a Brazilian professor, educator, politician, poet, essayist and translator. He was born in Barbacena in...
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    he was elected on July 24, 1919, in succession to Inglês de Sousa. He was received into the Academy by Goulart de Andrade on September 17, 1920. Bio...
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    Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (June 24, 1820 – April 11, 1882) was a Brazilian novelist, medical doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for...
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  • hometown, and soon moved to Rio de Janeiro. He frequented the literary circle of Olavo Bilac, Guimarães Passos, Emílio de Meneses, Coelho Neto, Martins...
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    Celso Vieira de Matos Melo Pereira (1878–1954) was a Brazilian writer, biographer and historian. He was born in the city of Recife, PE, on January 12,...
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    to Rio de Janeiro, for her burial. Famous personalities, such as Ruy Barbosa, Rodolfo Epifânio de Sousa Dantas, Campos Sales and Prudente de Morais,...
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    where he met and befriended Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa. Following orders of his father, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1852 to dedicate himself to commerce...
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    Getúlio Vargas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Bourne 1974, p. 53. Skidmore 2010, p. 110–111. "DECRETO Nº 19.398 DE 11 DE NOVEMBRO DE 1930". Presidência da República. Retrieved 15 May 2021. Fausto &...
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    Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (5 November 1849 – 1 March 1923), also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian polymath, diplomat, writer, jurist, and politician...
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    Aliança dos Povos da Floresta (Alliance of Forest-dwelling Peoples), the Núcleo de Cultura Indígena (Nucleus of Indigenous Culture), among others. In 2000, he...
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    Brasileira de Letras. ABL - Academia Brasileira de Letras, ABL - Membros Brazil, Ministério da Educação e Saúde (1939). Exposição Machado de Assis: centenário...
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    Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced [fɾɐ̃ˈsisku dʒi aˈsis ʃɐtobɾiˈɐ̃ bɐ̃ˈdejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4,...
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    child, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family. At the age of 15 he started to study at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and in 1892 he graduated...
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  • returned to Brazil and took an artillery course at the Military School in Rio de Janeiro. He took part in the Canudos campaign, where his efforts were crowned...
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