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    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter...
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    2022. "MANUEL JOSÉ NUNES MENDES DE ABREU - Comissão da Verdade". "Manoel José Mendes Nunes de Abreu". CNV, p. 743. "MANOEL JOSÉ NURCHIS - Comissão da Verdade"...
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  • Monis de Matos (fl. 1854) Dom Luíz Xavier de Mesquita (fl. 1876) Dom António Marques de Matos (fl. 1879–1884) Dom Mathias de Mesquita (fl. 1891) José de Almeida...
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    João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist...
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    Poets, which holds bronze busts of Castro Alves, Fagundes Varela, Gonçalves Dias, Casimiro de Abreu and Álvares de Azevedo, by Brazilian-Mexican sculptor...
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  • Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros (December 19, 1916 – November 13, 2014) was a Brazilian poet. He won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio...
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  • titulares do reino de Portugal de João Carlos Feo Cardoso Castelo Branco e Torres e Manoel de Castro Pereira da Mesquita, Volume 3. Domingos de Araújo Affonso...
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    mais famosa de sempre. Luis Fernando Vianna (15 February 2007). "Ruy Castro mostra que Carmen Miranda foi além das marchinhas". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved...
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    Maurício Araújo de Sousa (Portuguese: [mawˈɾisju dʒi ˈsowzɐ]; born October 27, 1935) is a Brazilian cartoonist and businessman who has created over 200...
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    Queimados (category Municipalities in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    "Zuzinha" Jose Carlos Nunes de Paula - "Zé Carlos" Jose Dantas - "Pastor Dantas" Luciano Luis Moreyra - "Luciano Gomes" Manoel Soares Belchior Milton Antonio...
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    Buarque de Hollanda became a viral internet meme with "happy" Chico and "sad" Chico. Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʃiku buˈaʁki]. Demony, Catarina; Pereira, Miguel...
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    diplomat. Moraes was born in Gávea, a neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, to Clodoaldo da Silva Pereira Moraes, a public servant, and Lidia Cruz, a housewife...
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    José Sarney de Araújo Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ saʁˈnej dʒi aɾaˈuʒu ˈkɔstɐ]; born José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa; 24 April 1930) is...
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    Lui Morais, Luís Carlos de (2004). Crisólogo: O estudante de poesia Caetano Veloso. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: HP Comunicação. De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo...
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    brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist who travelled regularly to Asia and...
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    1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016. Salgado was born on February 8, 1944, in Aimorés...
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    Pernambuco, where her mother 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...
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    Sands (Capitães da Areia, 1937) The ABC of Castro Alves (ABC de Castro Alves, 1941) The Knight of Hope (Vida de Luis Carlos Prestes or O Cavaleiro da Esperança...
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    and "Farsa de Inês Pereira" (1523). Another relevant playwright of the 16th century is António Ferreira (1528–1569), who wrote "A Castro" (1587), a well-known...
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    stations in Duque de Caxias: Duque de Caxias, Corte 8, Gramacho, Campos Elíseos, Jardim Primavera, Saracuruna, Parada Morabi, Imbariê, Manoel Belo and Parada...
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    Escudos Banknote". Banco de Cabo Verde. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2023. "Aeroporto de Cabo Verde recebe o nome de Cesaria Évora". Pop & Arte...
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    as the UDN deputy Bilac Pinto and the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, by Júlio de Mesquita Filho. It envisaged five stages of communist advancement....
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    rima na poesia de Carlos Drummond de Andrade & outros ensaios / Hélcio de Andrade Martins., 2005 Drummond, a magia lúcida / Marlene de Castro Correia., 2002...
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    Steidel, president of the Nationalist League, and Júlio de Mesquita, director of O Estado de São Paulo, to ask the president of Brazil to stop the bombing...
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    Paulo. Castro, Maria Clara Spada de (2022). A Revolta de 1924 em São Paulo: para além dos tenentes (PDF) (Thesis). Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro...
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    in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and it influenced several other directors, spurring the Cinema Novo movement. In 1963, Pereira dos Santos was a member...
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    guitar) and Marrone (vocals, guitar and accordion). Bruno (b. Vinicius Felix de Miranda, 1969) performed for a decade as a solo musician before approaching...
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  • in North America Jacob de Castro Sarmento – Portuguese estrangeirado, physician, naturalist, poet and deist Baron Diego Pereira d'Aguilar – Austrian-English...
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    Silvio Santos (category Mass media people from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    1905. Both died in Rio de Janeiro (in 1975 and 1988 respectively) and are buried side by side in the Caju Jewish Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro. On his paternal...
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    through BMG. It was recorded on January 23 and 24 of that same year at the Castro Alves Theater in Salvador for MTV Brasil. It was also released in the DVD...
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