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6 unusual facts about Minas


Arturo Ardao

Arturo Ardao (Minas, Lavalleja Department, 27 September 1912 - Montevideo, 22 September 2003) was a Uruguayan philosopher and historian of ideas.

Eduardo de la Peña

Born in Minas, De la Peña began playing professional football with Club Nacional de Football in 1976.

Florencio Sánchez

Florencio Sánchez came from a large family; he had eleven siblings and his parents moved his family to the city of Treinta y Tres and later to Minas, where he began his studies at an elementary school.

Gabriel Cedrés

Néstor Gabriel Cedrés Vera (born March 3, 1970 in Minas) is a Uruguayan footballer.

Juan José Morosoli

Juan José Morosoli was born on January 19, 1899 in Minas, Lavalleja, Uruguay.

Leonardo Pais

Leonardo Javier Pais Corbo (born 7 July 1994 in Minas) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for Defensor Sporting as a midfielder.


Acesita

The company's main plant, at Timóteo in Minas Gerais (ArcelorMittal Timóteo), has an installed production capacity is 900,000 tons of steel per year.

Adar oilfield

Because this blend of crude oil is heavy and highly acidic, it fetches lower prices than benchmark crudes such as Brent or Minas.

Alfajor

According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.

Antônio Anastasia

Em seguida, coordenou o Programa de Governo do então presidente da Câmara Federal, deputado Aécio Neves, para a sua candidatura ao Governo de Minas.

António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquis of Minas

Minas took his chance and marched his army all the way to Madrid, bypassing Badajoz.

Atheneite

Clark, A.J. Criddle, and E.E. Fejer in the Minas Gerais mine in the town of Itabira, Brazil (Clark, 1974).

Autran Dourado

Minas Gerais is the setting for most of Dourado's books, resembling the early to mid-20th century regionalist trend in Brazilian literature.

Baependi

The city belongs to the mesoregion of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the microregion of São Lourenço.

Bhai Mani Singh

Bhai Mani Singh who was under the presence of Guru Gobind Singh in 1690s had taken over the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar in mid-1699 from Minas.

Capitolio

Capitólio, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio

After acquiring a 10% stake in mining company Mineração Rio do Norte, CBA now holds bauxite mines in the South-East part of Parana State and has another mine in the municipality of Cataguases and Itamarati de Minas in Minas Gerais State.

Denethor

In the novel, Denethor's carefully timed cavalry charge is targeted against the advancing Enemy in the open terrain near Minas Tirith, and actually rescues Faramir and his forces that were defending the Pelennor fields outside the city (Faramir was struck down by a "Southron chieftain" and was about to be finished off when the cavalry arrived).

Divisa

Divisa Alegre, a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais

Salto da Divisa, a Brazilian municipality in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais

Divisa Nova, a Brazilian town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais

Estádio Independência

The attendance record is 32,721 spectators, set in the match between Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Carioca), won by Minas Gerais 1-0, and played on January 27, 1963, it was the first final match of the 1962 Campeonato Brasileiro de Seleções Estaduais, played by state teams.

Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz

Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz, also known as Francisca Diniz (São João del Rey, Minas Gerais - Campanha, Minas Gerais), was a Brazilian teacher who played an important role in feminism.

Governador Valadares

The city is served by the railroad Vitória-Minas, of Vale S.A. and by the highway Rio-Bahia (BR-116).

Gusttavo Lima

Son of Alcino and Sebastiana Lima, although born in Minas Gerais, grew up in Goiânia, Goiás.

Itamar Franco

His family was from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, where he grew up and became a civil engineer in 1955, graduating from the School of Engineering of Juiz de Fora.

Mariano Ospina Pérez

Ospina studied in the Colegio San Ignacio in Medellín, Antioquia the city where he grew up and also studied engineering in the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Mining School of Antioquia) where he graduated as mining engineer.

Mario Amilivia

He received a law degree, and has served as secretary-general of the Association of Anthracite Mining Companies (Asociación de Empresas de Minas de Antracita, APEMA).

Marmelo

Marmelos Zero Power Plant, a decommissioned hydroelectric power plant on the Paraibuna River in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Minás Dimákis

Minás Dimákis was born 1913 in Heraklion, Crete, to Georgios Dimákis, a tradesman, and Maria Metaxaki.

Mineirão

On February 25, 1960, the government of the Union and the Federal University of Minas Gerais gave Minas Gerais land in the neighborhood of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, for the construction of the stadium.

Palantír

This palantír was used by the Kings of Gondor, but when Minas Ithil fell to the Ringwraiths, Eärnil II stopped using it; not only did Sauron now have access to the network, but the palantír of Anárion had the strongest link of all seven to the Ithil-stone.

Paracatu

Paracatu, Minas Gerais, municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Paraopeba River

The source of the river is situated south of the municipality Cristiano Otoni, Minas Gerais.

Paul Mascarene

In August 1714, Vetch sent Mascarene and Captain Joseph Bennett, with a detachment of troops to Minas, located in the Grand-Pré region of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Petrópolis

While traveling to Minas Gerais along this route, Emperor Pedro I found the region's climate pleasant, while staying at the farm of Correia, a Catholic priest.

Postage stamps and postal history of Uruguay

To relay the correspondence to the east of the territory, travelling along the road between Montevideo and the Fort of Santa Teresa, eleven staging posts were set up in 1798, and in 1799 the postal service was introduced which linked Montevideo, Minas and Cerro Largo.

Protographium asius

It is found in the Neotropical ecozone S.E. Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay)

Queluz

Conselheiro Lafaiete, a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, previously known as Queluz

Rail transport in Uruguay

Half of the network is closed, freight trains circulating branches in Montevideo - Rivera - Livramento, Piedra Sola - Three Trees, Sayago - Minas, Verdum-Plant ANCAP, Carnelli-La Teja, Chamberlain - Paysandú - Salto - Concordia and Algorta - Fray Bentos.

Sociedade Esportiva Unaí Itapuã

Despite the fact that the club is from Minas Gerais, the club competes in the Campeonato Brasiliense due to its proximity to Brasília city.

Tiradentes

Living in a state rich in gold, Tiradentes used the knowledge he acquired about minerals to enter the public service (he achieved the ranks of alferes, low in the hierarchy of the epoch), and he was sent to missions in cities along the road between Vila Rica (the capital of Minas Gerais) and Rio de Janeiro; this road was the "open vein" used to export most of the gold to Portugal.

Tropidophis fuscus

Found in Cuba where it is known only from two areas, Cruzata and Minas Amores, in northeastern Guantánamo Province.

Uruguayans in Paraguay

Eduardo Gavarret (born 1956 in Minas), general authority of the LDS Church

Velventos

Velventos contains also many late Byzantine and post-Byzantine monuments and temples, among them the 12th-century church of Saint Minas and the 14th-century church of Saint Paraskevi.

Verissimo

Veríssimo, a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais

Whiteite

The type locality for whiteite-(CaFeMg)and whiteite-(MnFeMg) is the Ilha claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and for whiteite-(CaMnMg) it is the Tip Top Mine (Tip Top pegmatite), Fourmile, Custer District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA.

Yale Atlético Clube

Yale eventually split and part of it became the Palestra Itália of Minas, a team which was created to compete with many of the bigger teams in Belo Horizonte like America, Atlético, and Yale itself.


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