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unusual facts about Paraty, Brazil



Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles Priester (born June 25, 1971) is the drummer of the Brazilian power metal band Hangar and the prog metal band Midas Fate.

Bacurí

Bacuri River, a river of Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

Baratos Afins

His guitar playing was found on some of the most influential music coming out of Brazil in the late 60's and early 70's: the music of Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jards Macalé, Tim Maia and Gal Costa.

Brasiliense Futebol Clube

The Brasiliense Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team, based in Taguatinga, Brasília, in Distrito Federal.

Brazilian presidential election, 1969

Vice-President Pedro Aleixo was not allowed to replace Costa e Silva, so the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate were reopened to elect the a President and Vice-President, under the Instituctional Act 16.

Brazilianite

One noted deposit of brazilianite is in the surroundings of Conselheiro Pena, in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Bruno Correa

Bruno César Correa (born 22 March 1986) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for UAE Pro-League side Dubai CSC.

Cantagalo Station

Cantagalo Station is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Copacabana borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Central Única dos Trabalhadores

Alongside the Workers' Party (PT) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), CUT was one of the key organizations to challenge the military rule of 1964–1985 during its final stages, organizing strikes in automobile factories located in the ABC Region.

Cerâmica Atlético Clube

Cerâmica Atlético Clube, usually known as simply as Cerâmica, is a Brazilian football club from Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul state, founded by the workers of the Ceramic of Gravataí.

Cláudio Costa Neto

He got his BSc degree in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Brazil (currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in 1954, Costa Neto worked under supervision of Fritz Feigl, responsible for the development of spot tests for identification and characterization of substances.

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues (born 3 June 1981), commonly known as Cristiano, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Club Deportivo Olimpia of the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Emiliano R. Fernández

He was a traveler and a late sleeper, he lived for a while in Sapucai, then in Caballero, then in San Pedro, Puerto Casado, Puerto Pinasco, Rancho Carambola (Brazil), and besides being a musician and a poet, he was also known for various activities such as carpenter, scouts guide, and forest man.

Escadabiidae

The name of the type genus Escadabius is combined from the type locality Escada (Pernambuco, Brazil, and Ancient Greek bios "living".

Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro

They are very common and popular in Brazil, highlighting the festivals held in the following locations: Barretos, Andrelândia, Uberaba, Goiânia, Redenção, Araçatuba and Marabá.

First International Conference of American States

To oppose the U.S. arbitration plan the Latin delegations supported a joint proposal drafted by Argentina's Sáenz Peña and co-sponsored by Brazil.

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.

Franklin J. Schaffner

Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for seven of his films, including Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Islands in the Stream and The Boys from Brazil.

Gabriele Oriali

He was also part of the team that defeated the strong teams of Argentina and Brazil, and defeated Poland in the semi-final.

Georges Bernanos

He emigrated to South America in 1938, and stayed there until 1945, for most of the time in Barbacena, Brazil, where he tried his hand at managing a farm.

Gilmak

Gilmak Queiroz da Silva, commonly known as Gilmak, (born December 2, 1986 in Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for the Brazilian football club Botafogo-SP.

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum was based on Martius' travels in Brazil and Peru with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix from 9 December 1817 to 1820.

Howard T. Odum

Odum's students have carried on his work at institutions around the world, most notably Mark Brown at the University of Florida, David Tilley and Patrick Kangas at the University of Maryland, Daniel Campbell at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Enrique Ortega at the UNICAMP in Brazil, and Sergio Ulgiati at the University of Siena.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

Mamaindê language

Mamaindê, also known as Northern Nambikwara, is a Nambikwaran language spoken in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, in the very north of the indigenous reserve, Terra Indígena Vale do Guaporé, between the Pardo and Cabixi Rivers.

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Born in Palmeira d'Oeste, Brazil to a second generation Japanese-Brazilian father and Italian-Brazilian mother, Tulio moved to Japan at age 15 to complete his high school studies.

Matheus Facho Inocêncio

Matheus Facho Inocêncio (first name also written Mateus; born 17 May 1981 in Patrocínio Paulista) is a Brazilian athlete who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles.

Misiones Province

The entire Misiones shores along the Paraná River is now confined by two dams, one of them Yaciretá, downstream of the river, and the other Itaipú, located in Brazil and Paraguay, upstream of the river and north of Puerto Iguazú.

My Country, My Name

On November 27, 2010 another beta version with some graphics and gameplay improvements was presented in UniAnime at Colégio Universitário Morumbi festival in São Paulo, Brazil.

Myotoxin

The first myotoxin to be identified and isolated was crotamine, from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, a tropical South American rattlesnake, by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, in the 1950s.

Néstor Isasi

Néstor Isasi (born 9 April 1970 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Oberschönenfeld Abbey

In 1951 the first missionaries were sent to Brazil, where in 1963 they founded their own monastery in Itararé in the state of Sao Paulo.

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Sandra Jovchelovitch

Sandra Jovchelovitch was trained as a clinical social psychologist at the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Brazil.

Sanumá language

In Venezuela, Sanumá is spoken in the vicinity of the Caura and Ervato-Ventuari Rivers in Venezuela, and the Auari River and Roraima region in Brazil.

Sara El-Khouly

As an experienced beauty pageant contestant, Sara was therefore handpicked as the official Egyptian representative to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant to be held on September 12, 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

Sex workers' rights

So far, the organization has influenced policy in certain countries and has interacted with the president Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva in Brazil.

Simone Saback

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

Stephen Nash's titi

Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi), also known as just Nash's titi or Stephen Nash's monkey, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the eastern bank of the Purus River in Brazil.

Synagogue

The Snoa in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles was built by Sephardic Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam and Recife, Brazil.

Tectoy

They also modified some games to replace characters with local licenses; that way, Teddy Boy became Geraldinho of Glauco, certain Wonder Boy titles became Monica's Gang games and Ghost House also starred El Chapulín Colorado ("Chapolim Colorado"), a Mexican character very popular in Brazil.

Thiago Cruz Reggiani

Thiago Cruz Reggiani, known as Thiago Cruz (born 15 July 1981 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a football manager and a former striker.

Thine Own Self

Goiânia accident, an incident of radioactive contamination in central Brazil, a real life accident with some similarities.

Tininho

Ronildo Pereira de Freitas (born 23 October 1977 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais), aka Tininho, is a Brazilian retired footballer.

Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa

Between 1959 and 1964 the winner of the Taça Brasil, a knockout competition which was contended in Brazil between 1959 and 1968, provided the Brazilian entrant for the following season's Copa Libertadores.

Wilson Surubim

Edwilson de Lima Florêncio also known as Wilson Surubim (born on 28 March 1980 in Toritama) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Sociedade Esportiva Ypiranga Futebol Clube.

Xavante language

The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil.


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