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unusual facts about Boas


Inverclyde National Sports Training Centre

Jose Mourinho and André Villas-Boas are examples of current football managers who obtained their coaching badges at the venue.


Alexander Francis Chamberlain

Boas's obituary for him (one of a number he had to write for younger colleagues including Pliny Earle Goddard and Edward Sapir) recalls him as a genuinely good person.

Baltemar Brito

The assistant was part of a quartet that also included fitness coach Rui Faria, goalkeeping coach Silvino Louro and chief scout André Villas-Boas that followed the young manager from F.C. Porto to Chelsea.

Francisco Keil do Amaral

He was the only son of Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva by Carlos I of Portugal in 1904 (Sátão, Águas Boas, 3 August 1873 – 5 April 1938), 100th Governor of Portuguese Angola from 1920 to 1921, son of José Caetano dos Reis and wife Lucrécia Coelho do Amaral, and first wife, as her second husband, Guida Maria Josefina Cinatti Keil, daughter of Alfredo Cristiano Keil and wife Cleyde Maria Margarida Cinatti.

Franziska Boas

Franziska Marie Boas was born on January 8, 1902 in New York City to father Franz Boas and mother Marie Krackowizer who were both relatively well known anthropologists.

Gledden Building

Boas' design was inspired by the vertical emphasis employed in many American skyscrapers of the day especially in New York and Chicago - most notably the Barclay-Vesey Building and the Chicago Tribune Tower.

Paleka

The school, now known as Escola de Jazz Luís Villas-Boas, was opened in the late 1970s and led by bass player Zé Eduardo.

Porndogs: The Adventures of Sadie

Heidi Fleiss as Fluffy: a prostitute dressed in purple and pink boas who befriends Sadie on a street corner.

Primitive communism

Johann Jakob Bachofen, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen by Joseph Campbell (Introduction) and George Boas (preface), Princeton University Press, 380p.

Regna Darnell

Darnell, Regna (1998) And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Robert Creighton Buck

Robert Creighton Buck (30 August 1920 Cincinnati – 1 February 1998 Wisconsin), usually quoted as R. Creighton Buck, was an American mathematician who, with Ralph Boas, introduced Boas–Buck polynomials.

Robert Delbourgo

Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics 1977; Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1988; Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics 1988; Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science 1989.

Siglas poveiras

According to a former port authority of Leixões, the Count of Vilas Boas, an individual stole a compass in Póvoa de Varzim and tried to sell it in Matosinhos, but he was unaware that the recorded "drawings" in the cover indicated the owner's name and thus the first person whom he approached (a woman from Póvoa de Varzim) managed to recognize the mark immediately.

Stanley Diamond

On his return to the United States, he taught at Brandeis University, where anthropologist Paul Radin, a former student of Boas, was forced to retire, and in response to which Diamond resigned.

Villas Boas

Villas-Bôas brothers, Orlando (1914–2002), Cláudio (1916–1998) and Leonardo Villas-Bôas (1918–1961), Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples

Walter Boas

After several positions at German and Swiss institutions, Boas became a lecturer in metallurgy at University of Melbourne in 1938; then from 1940 to 1947, senior lecturer.


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