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3 unusual facts about Passos


Clube Esportivo de Futebol

Clube Esportivo de Futebol, commonly known as Esportivo, is a Brazilian football team based in Passos, Minas Gerais state.

Clube Esportivo Passense de Futebol e Cultura

Clube Esportivo Passense de Futebol e Cultura, commonly known as Passense, is a Brazilian football club based in Passos, Minas Gerais state.

Passos

Dos Passos Prize (also known as John dos Passos Prize), an annual award for the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career


António Augusto Soares de Passos

The only book Passos published during his lifetime was his poetry book Poesias (Poetry), in 1856.

Avenida Rio Branco

The facades of buildings for the Central Avenue were chosen in a contest, in which jurors were, among others, Mayor Pereira Passos, Paulo de Front in the Minister of Transportation and Public Works, Lauro Müller and the Director General of Public Health Oswaldo Cruz.

Emerson Sheik

Márcio Passos de Albuquerque (born 6 September 1978 in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil), also known as Emerson, is a Brazilian-Qatari football striker, who plays for Corinthians Paulista.

Fernando Nobre

Nobre defended himself that he trusted Passos Coelho personally (stating he was an honest man) and that (quoting Gandhi) only who doesn't look for the truth never changes his mind.

José Robles

The American left-wing journalist Josephine Herbst, then on a visit to the Civil War front, found out that he had been arrested and shot as an alleged "spy for Francoists", and conveyed this information to Ernest Hemingway and Dos Passos who were in Madrid.

Mouzinho da Silveira

In the Sala dos Passos Perdidos, in the Palace of São Bento, Mouzinho da Silveira was homaged with an oil painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, while a comparable painting in Municipal hall of Lisbon, painted by José Rodrigues (executed in 1866) honours the politician, and in the Grão Vasco Museum (Viseu) a similar painting of Mouzinho by Columbano was framed.

Spain in Flames

Later, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman and others founded the company Contemporary Historians, which produced another film called The Spanish Earth (1937), directed by Joris Ivens and edited by van Dongen.

Três Passos Atlético Clube

Três Passos Atlético Clube, commonly known as Três Passos, is a Brazilian football club based in Três Passos, Rio Grande do Sul state.


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