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unusual facts about Brasil



Aeronorte

Empresa de Transportes Aéreos Norte do Brasil Ltda – Aeronorte was a Brazilian airline founded in 1949 that operated in the north and northeast regions of Brazil.

AUMUND Fördertechnik

Already in 1975 the subsidiary “AUMUND do Brasil“ was established in Rio de Janeiro and „AUMUND International“ in Toronto.

Barrio Brasil

The neighborhood is also home to numerous institutions of higher education including the School of Dance at the Brasil campus of the Academy of Christian Humanism University, and the Alberto Hurtado University.

Billboard Brasil

The overall chart is the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay, which is also split between regional music - forró, Axé, sertanejo, pagode - on Brasil Hot Popular Songs, and pop music - both Brazilian and foreign - on Brasil Hot Pop Songs.

Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA - 19 October 1969, São Paulo, Brasil) was the son of Portia Pittman and a grandson of Booker T. Washington.

Brasil Open

The Brasil Open is a tennis tournament held annually in São Paulo, Brazil.

ConRuhr

With its seats in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Moscow, Russia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, ConRuhr’s primary purpose is to encourage educational internationalization by exchanging researchers, teaching staff and students between the three universities and institutions in Eastern Europe and South America, finding and linking contacts in the US, CIS, Brasil and Germany, as well as promoting the Ruhr area as a center of academic excellence.

Desportivo Brasil

Desportivo Brasil since 2010 play their home games at Estádio Municipal Alfredo Chiavegato, located in Jaguariúna.

DeVry Education Group

DeVry Education Group is a United States corporation based in Downers Grove, Illinois, that operates several for-profit higher education institutions, including Advanced Academics, Becker Professional Education, Carrington Colleges Group, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, American University of the Caribbean, and Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

Dynamic Planning

Mazinger Z is extremely popular in Spain, Latin America and throughout Asia: UFO Robot Grendizer (aka Goldorak and Goldrake between 1976 and 1980 was a huge hit in Italy and France; Groizer X (aka O Pirata do Espaço ) was a '80s hit in Brasil.

École centrale de Marseille

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities accross the world, among them TU Munchen (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (USA), University of Sao Paolo (Brasil), University of Waterloo (Canada) or Keio University (Japan).

Fábio Santos da Silva

Fabio Santos da Silva, better known as Fabio (born 23 February 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), is a Brazilian footballer.

Firmin António

Firmin António is the president and founder of Accor group in Brasil.

Garruchos

Garruchos, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality in the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brasil

Grazi Massafera

She finished third, which earned her the title of "Miss Brasil Internacional", and gave her entry into the Miss International contest, held annually in the China.

Grêmio Esportivo Brasil

Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, also known as Brasil de Pelotas, is a Brazilian football team in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.

Guillermo Estévez Boero

The PSP took part in union- and student-led resistance against the dictatorship, such as the general strike called by the "Brasil" faction of the General Confederation of Labour in 1979, the 1981 Saint Cajetan's Day demonstration, and the demonstration of 30 March 1982 organized by the "Brasil" faction of the General Confederation of Labour .

Harold Avery

The last Avery was heard from was in a postcard to his Aunt, written in 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil is a 1969 bossa nova-style jazz LP album by Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans on the Fontana Special sublabel of Philips Records.

Hospital Sírio-Libanês

On July 1, 2010, the hospital was visited by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad during their official visit to Brasil, awarding its director Dr. Riad Younis with the Syrian Order of Merit.

Igbo-Ora

This phenomenon of a large number of twin births is not unique to Igbo-Ora; it has also been observed in the town of Kodinji in India and Cândido Godói in Brasil.

Irasema Dilián

Irasema Dilián (born Eva Irasema Warschalowska on May 27, 1924 in Río de Janeiro, Brasil and died April 16, 1996, in Ceprano, Italy) was a Mexican actress.

Istobal

Headquartered in L'Alcúdia (Valencia), the company has 8 subsidiaries and assembly plants in Spain, France, USA and Brasil.

Itapevi

Large companies are located within the municipality, such as Henkel, Jaraguá, Cacau Show, Casa Suíça, Eurofarma, Alpla, Wyeth, Blanver, Bomi Brasil and others.

Jacqueline Meirelles

After her coronation, Jacqueline was invited to take a part of regular cast of popular comedy show A Praça é Nossa, hosted and created by Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega after his dismissal from Rede Bandeirantes, where he hosted a show called Praça Brasil.

Jelon Vieira

In 2007, after having devoted many years to Grupo Capoeira Brasil, he founded Grupo Capoeira Luanda.

Julio Izquierdo Labrado

“El descubrimiento del Brasil por Vicente Yáñez Pinzón: el Cabo de Santo Agostinho”, in Huelva en su Historia X, Universidad de Huelva, 2005.

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 10 June 1922 - Brasil, 22 January 2010) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.

Martin Bergmann

He is signed to NEXT Model Management in New York, MGM Marilyn Paris, Modelwerk Germany, Fashion in Milano, Italy, Elite Model Management in Sweden, Elite Models in Copenhagen, Bravo Models in Tokyo, FORD in Brasil and METRO Models in Switzerland.

Miles Goodman

His first production featured harmonicist Toots Thielemans working with a variety of famed Brazilian artists on The Brasil Project (1992).

MTV Brasil

Cuca Lazarotto, who introduced the first music video aired on MTV Brasil, also introduced the last music video, "Maracatu Atômico" by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi.

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube, usually known as Olé Brasil, are a Brazilian football club based in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo.

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube is the third club to be founded in Ribeirão Preto after Botafogo and Comercial.

Olivia Byington

In her career, Olívia has released several albums: Anjo vadio (1980), Identidad (1981), Para Viver um Grande Amor (1983), Música (1984), Encontro (1984) (Chiquinha Gonzaga Award), Melodia Sentimental (1986), Olivia Byington and João Carlos Assis Brasil (1990) and A Dama do Encantado (1997), the former in tribute to Aracy de Almeida.

Ramón J. Cárcano

He continued to write, publishing among others La misión Mitre en el Brasil (1913), De Caseros al 11 de Septiembre (1919), Del sitio de Buenos Aires al Campo de Cepeda (1921), and Juan Facundo Quiroga, for which he won a National Literary Prize in 1931.

Red Bull Brasil

Red Bull Brasil is a Brazilian football club located in Campinas, São Paulo founded on November 19, 2007.

Sérgio Mendes

The '80s also found Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song "No Place to Hide" from the Brasil '86 album, and as producer for her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.

Simca do Brasil

Meanwhile Simca do Brasil imported all the tools and machinery to start its own production and was busy recruiting 980 local OEM parts suppliers to transform the Simca Chambord, Présidence and Rallye models into true Brazilian made cars because of Brazilian government demands in exchange for the benefits granted so far.

Simone Saback

Vida, Onde É Que Foi Parar? Simone Saback "?title=Ricky Vallen">Ricky Vallen - Ricky Vallen (CD & DVD "Ricky Vallen ao Vivo", Sony BMG Brasil, 2009)

Sociedade Esportiva Recreativa e Cultural Brasil

Sociedade Esportiva Recreativa e Cultural Brasil, also known as Brasil de Farroupilha, are a Brazilian football team from Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul.

Timeline of Brazilian economic stabilization plans

March 15, 1990: Plano Collor, a.k.a. "Plano Brasil Novo" and Plano Collor II (president: Fernando Collor de Mello, finance minister: Zélia Cardoso de Mello)

Toni Reis

Toni Reis (born in 1964) is the president of the Brazilian LGBT organisation called Grupo Dignidade, the general secretary of the national association of Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals in Brasil (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas e Transgêneros / ABGLT) of which he was a founding president in 1995, and a member of the international council of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.

Tu Reinas

The July 6 arrived and recording gathered about 50 thousand people and a choir of 2,200 voices who followed the caravan across the country to the Events Park of Padre Cícero, the most important venue of Juazeiro do Norte, which for attend the event had to contribute 1 kg of non-perishable food that was distributed by the Mesa Brasil project, the SESC - EC.

TV Brasil Internacional

TV Brasil Internacional is an international television station based in the city of Brasília in Brazil and also via Maputo in Mozambique.

Victor Assis Brasil

Victor Assis Brasil (August 28, 1945 – 1981) was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist.

William Artur de Oliveira

He played professionally with Real Brasil, before moving abroad to Serbia, signing for First League club Srem.


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