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unusual facts about Bahia-class cruiser


Bahia-class cruiser

On 4 July 1945, Bahia was acting as a plane guard for transport aircraft flying from the Atlantic to Pacific theaters of war.


Agnelo Queiroz

Agnelo dos Santos Queiroz Filho (born November 9, 1958 Itapetinga, Bahia) is a Brazilian politician and member of the Workers' Party (PT) since 2008.

Aguadulce, Coclé

It is the capital of Aguadulce District and it is located on the Pan-American Highway, near but not on the coast on the Bahia de Parita.

Alagoinhas Atlético Clube

Alagoinhas Atlético Clube, also known as Atlético de Alagoinhas or Atlético-BA, are a Brazilian football team from Alagoinhas, Bahia.

Almirante Cervera-class cruiser

Miguel de Cervantes (named after poet Miguel de Cervantes) was also part the Republican fleet during the civil war and was torpedoed by the nationalist submarine General Mola in 1936.

Anthony Leeds

Field work in Bahia, Brazil, led to his dissertation “Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Culture Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases”.

Associação Desportiva Bahia de Feira

Associação Desportiva Bahia de Feira, commonly known as Bahia de Feira, is a Brazilian football club based in Feira de Santana, Bahia state.

Bainbridge class

Bainbridge-class cruiser, United States Navy, built from 1959 through 1961

Battle of 4 May

The Battle of 4 May was fought in open sea near Salvador, Bahia, on 4 May 1823, between the Brazilian Navy, under the command of a former admiral of the British Royal Navy, Thomas Cochrane, and the Portuguese Navy during the Brazilian War of Independence.

Candomblé Jejé

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.

Cangaia de Jegue

Cangaia de Jegue is a Brazilian band from Jequié, southwest Bahia, Brazil.

Carlos Adriano Sousa Cruz

Carlos Adriano de Souza Cruz, or simply, Adriano (born on 28 September 1987 in Valença) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Bahia.

Catuense Futebol

Catuense Futebol, commonly known as Catuense, is a Brazilian football club based in Catu, Bahia state.

Charles Frederick Hartt

Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.

Chaves Municipality, Portugal

João Gonçalves da Costa (c. 1720 – Manuel Vitorino, Bahia; c. 1820) - was an explorer and conquistador, who, at 16 years of age went to Brazil, in the service of King John V, conquering lands in the Sertão da Resaca, fighting local native tribes, and founding the village of Vitória da Conquista, in the state of Bahia;

Chica da Silva

She lived mainly in Arraial do Tijuco (nowadays known as Diamantina) and was the daughter of a Portuguese man, Antônio Caetano de Sá and his black enslaved lover, Maria da Costa, who was probably from the Gulf of Guinea or Bahia.

Cöln-class cruiser

The I Scouting Group and II Scouting Group, along with the Second Torpedo-Boat Flotilla were to attack a heavily guarded British convoy to Norway, with the rest of the High Seas Fleet steaming in support.

County-class cruiser

The long (630 feet overall) hull was flush decked and with a high freeboard, and was strongly built.

Des Moines-class cruiser

The first two were decommissioned in 1959 and 1961, respectively, but Newport News remained in commission until 1975, serving for a long period (1962-1968 as Second Fleet flagship, and then providing gunfire support off Viet Nam 1969-1973.

Dresden-class cruiser

She captured several more vessels, and then raided the port of Penang.

Espinhaço Mountains

The range runs roughly north and south through the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, extending for approximately 1000km.

Ferrosur Roca

The branch from Bahia Blanca to Zapala serves the commercially important Rio Negro fruit-growing region.

Filipe Augusto

Filipe Augusto Carvalho Souza (born 12 August 1993 in Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Portuguese top side Rio Ave.

General-Admiral-class cruiser

The General-Admiral-class ships were a pair of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1870s.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Giraffas

In 2005 was opened the first store in the town of Barreiras, in Bahia.

Grapiúna Atlético Clube

Grapiúna Atlético Clube, commonly known as Grapiúna, is a Brazilian football club based in Itabuna, Bahia state.

Gustavo Dourado

Gustavo Dourado (born 1960, Ibititá, Bahia) is a Brazilian teacher, writer and poet.

Heavy torpedo cruiser

Three vessels of the Kuma-class of light carriers were appointed for renovation, namely Kitakami, Ōi and Kiso.

High School Musical: O Desafio

It was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and Olodum, the cultural group from Bahia, was invited to bring its unique rhythm to a special choreography number.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Itamaraju

On 22 April 1500 a Portuguese fleet under the command of the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, seen by many as the first European to arrive in Brazil, recorded their sighting of Monte Pascoal which became a European settlement and, subsequently, the municipality of Prado.

Jiquilisco Bay

The discovery of hawksbill nesting in Bahia Jiquilisco and in Estero Padre Ramos (Nicaragua) changed the conservation outlook for this imperiled population and has provided renewed hope for recovery.

João Grande

Mestre João Grande eventually became such an acclaimed capoeirista that when Carybé, a painter famous for his documentation of African Culture in Bahia, chose to do studies of capoeira he chose João Grande as a model.

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

Juazeiro Social Clube

Juazeiro Social Clube, usually known as Juazeiro is a Brazilian football club from Juazeiro, Bahia state.

Kamaka

Kamakã languages, a small family of extinct Macro-Jê languages of Bahía near Brazil's Atlantic coast

Kirov class

Kirov-class cruiser, Project 26 cruisers that were built for the Soviet Navy in 1939-1944, served in the World War II and decommissioned by 1974.

Léon Gambetta-class cruiser

The Ministry of the Navy, from 1902 to 1905, Camille Pelletan, by giving these names to the French armoured cruisers, wished to honor Republican statesmen, philosophers or historians, such as Waldeck-Rousseau, Jules Michelet, Ernest Renan, or Edgar Quinet, as the officers of the French Navy (so called La Royale) were reputed to have rather Royalist sympathies.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Novara-class cruiser

The Novara class, known as Rapidkreuzer or Helgoland-Klasse (in English literally rapid cruiser ) was a class of light cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy active during the First World War.

Palmeiras Nordeste Futebol

Palmeiras Nordeste Futebol, commonly known as Palmeiras Nordeste, was a Brazilian football club based in Feira de Santana, Bahia state.

Phyllodactylus angustidigitus

This species is endemic from the Ica Region in southern Peru, and its known geographical distribution is restricted to the Paracas National Reservation, including two islands (La Vieja in the Bahia Independencia and Sangayan west of the Paracas Peninsula).

Samuel Allport

Although occupied in business during the greater portion of his life, his leisure was given to geological studies, and when residing for a short period in Bahia, South America, he made observations on the geology, published by the Geological Society in 1860.

Sentinel-class cruiser

They were part of a larger order for eight scout cruisers, split between four dockyards, each of which designed their own ships to match the Admiralty’s specification, which was for a cruiser capable of reaching 25 knots, carrying ten 12 pounder guns, eight 3 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes.

Simone Saback

Simone Saback (born 25 February 1956 in Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and journalist.

Tiger-class cruiser

The 1957 Defence Review, decided after the political and logistic failure of the 1956 Suez operation, no more cruisers would be modernised but work on the Tigers and HMS Swiftsure would continue, to provide interim anti aircraft support for the fleet until the new County-class GMD's were ready.

Tone-class cruiser

However, the capsizing of the torpedo boat Tomozuru called into question the stability of all Japanese warship designs.

Yellow-legged Tinamou

noctivagus, the nominate race, occurs in southeastern Brazil: Minas Gerais (Doce River area), southern Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.


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