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unusual facts about Portuguese-Brazilian



A Portuguesa

Inspired by the outrage felt by the Portuguese people, the lyricist, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, accepted Keil's request to create words to suit his melody.

Agnaldo Nunes

Agnaldo Nunes Magalhães (born March 7, 1976 in Piracicaba, São Paulo) is a Brazilian boxer, who represented his native country twice in the lightweight division at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

Anália Rosa

Anália de Oliveira Rosa (born 28 February 1976 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese long-distance runner who competes in cross country, track and road running events, including the marathon.

Anchieta's Barbet

It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.

António Arnault

António Duarte Arnault, GOL (born 1936 in Cumieira, Penela, Portugal) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Arthur Dunkel

Arthur Dunkel (August 26, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.

BANIF

Banif Financial Group a Portuguese financial services company originally from Funchal

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married fourthly at Lugano-Castagnola, 13 December 1967, Liane Denise Shorto (b. Garça, São Paulo, 23 December 1942), a Brazilian banker's daughter, from whom he was divorced 29 November 1984.

British Cemetery Elvas

The Duke of Wellington was anxious to secure both cities before advancing into Spain and chose to conduct the operations in the north himself and leave Marshal Beresford, the Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army, in command of the southern operation.

Condor Syndikat

Its first share-holders were the three directors of Condor Syndikat, including Fritz W. Hammer, and the Brazilian Count Pereira Carneiro, owner of Jornal do Brasil and a shipping company.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Entradas

Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region.

Environmental issues in Brazil

The city of Cubatão, designated by the Brazilian government as an industrial zone due in part to its proximity to the Port of Santos, became known as the “Valley of Death” and “the most polluted place on Earth”.

Fernando de Noronha, 2nd Count of Vila Real

Her children were raised in the Portuguese court, where they were known by their appellation Noronha (Portuguese translation of Noreña).

Fraser Park FC

The club has a distinct Portuguese background, and therefore its colours are that of the Portuguese national football team.

Gabriel Paulista

Gabriel Armando de Abreu (born 26 November 1990), better known as Gabriel Paulista or simply Gabriel, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Villarreal CF as a centre back.

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.

Glen Velez

Among the many instruments Velez favors in his work are the Irish bodhrán, the Brazilian pandeiro, the Arabic riq, the North African bendir, and the Azerbaijani ghaval.

Gun politics in Brazil

The belief of a fundamental natural human right to self-defense, low efficacy of police, high levels of use of illegal weapons in crimes in contrast to a very rare usage of legal weapons, and advocacy by Non Governmental Organizations (N.G.O.) such as the NRA are some of the factors that may have influenced 65% of Brazilian people to decide against the ban.

Gustavo Dourado

Gustavo Dourado (born 1960, Ibititá, Bahia) is a Brazilian teacher, writer and poet.

Here on Earth

Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth), a Portuguese film directed by João Botelho

Hipólito da Costa

However, the Portuguese ambassador in London, Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro, Count of Funchal, was an extreme combatant of Costa's journal, and would create one of himself, entitled O Investigador Português em Inglaterra (The Portuguese Investigator in England), which ran from 1811 to 1819.

Ibero-German

Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.

Itaituba

The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.

João Martins

João Pedro Pinto Martins, (born 1982), Mozambican-Portuguese footballer currently playing for FK Ventspils

Jorge Sampaio

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

José Guimarães

José Roberto Guimarães (born 1954), Brazilian former volleyball player and current coach

Kakegawa, Shizuoka

However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.

Leandro Barbosa

Leandrinho is married to Brazilian actress Samara Felippo since 2008, and the two have a daughter, Alícia (born June 25, 2009).

Leonardo Jardim

Born in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, to Portuguese parents who had settled in the country, Jardim returned to Portugal at a very young age, relocating to the island of Madeira.

Manuel Maria Carrilho

He has also been a regular columnist at French daily Le Monde and in the Portuguese newspapers Expresso, Público, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias and Diário de Notícias, having recently started publishing in the last one a new Thursday column, untitled «A Boa Distância» (which can both mean «The Good Distance» and «From a Good Distance»).

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.

Mbwila

D Antonio I, king of Kongo challenged the Portuguese interferences and sent an army down to take Mbwila.

Meu Erro

Meu erro (Portuguese for My mistake") is a rock single by Os Paralamas do Sucesso that was a Brazilian hit.

Papel

Pollyana Papel (born 1987), a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress

Paul Harris

Rousimar Palhares, Brazilian, mixed martial arts fighter (mispronunciation of his last name resulted in this unofficial nickname)

Paul Procopolis

The recording of the second Chopin concerto has been identified as that of the Brazilian pianist Carmen Vitis Adnet (who lived in Vienna and was married to pianist Hans Graf) with the Vienna Symphony under Hans Swarowsky.

Realidade

Realidade (Reality) was a Brazilian magazine published by Editora Abril between 1966 and 1976.

Salvador de Mendonça

Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, diplomat and writer.

Sanches

Francisco Sanches (c.1550–1623), Portuguese or Galician philosopher of Jewish origin; refugee from the Inquisition

Simone Saback

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

Sucessos Inesquecíveis de Elis Regina

The choice of songs was based on recommendations by some 8,000 subscribers of the magazine "Seleções" (released by the Brazilian branch of Reader's Digest) and numerous musicians.

Sylvinho

In 1999 he became the first ever Brazilian player to sign for English club Arsenal, who he signed for ahead of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur who made numerous offers for the Brazilian.

Synagogue

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

The Magic Numbers

The Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, where their mother was an opera singer and had her own TV show.

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.

Vasco Calvo

A former member of the ill-fated Portuguese embassy of 1517 to Beijing, capital of the Ming Empire, Calvo has since been living in internal exile in one of the capital's suburbs.

VBTP-MR Guarani

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defence Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

Villas Boas

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


see also

Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation

The most important works in the collection, however, are those of Portuguese-Brazilian origin, produced with Jacaranda, being the most noticeable example a Portuguese games table desk with several ivory marquetry covers, commissioned by the Portuguese royalty.