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68 unusual facts about Río de Janeiro


Alexander Finta

In Rio de Janeiro, Finta created many monuments, including Strength, a 12-foot granite statue for the Fluminenci Club.

Arthur Wehnelt

Arthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt (April 4, 1871 in Rio de Janeiro – February 15, 1944 in Berlin) was a German physicist, noted for important contributions in the fields of X-ray physics, gas discharges and electron emission.

Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games

Cuba were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating the United States 3–1.

Beer in Brazil

Naturally, many breweries appeared and disappeared in that period like Ritter from Rio Grande do Sul and Imperial Fábrica de Cerveja Nacional from Rio de Janeiro.

Booker Pittman

On behest of his wife Ofélia he was transferred to Rio de Janeiro and there laid to rest at the Cemitério São João Batista in the quarter of Botafogo.

Brazilian legislative election, 1947

The elections were most notable for the continued growth of the Brazilian Communist Party, which won nearly 10% of the vote in the state elections, becoming the third party in the state of São Paulo (ahead of the UDN) and the single largest party in the federal capital, Rio de Janeiro.

Bruce Beresford-Redman

Beresford-Redman married Mónica Burgos on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Caius Brediceanu

minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro (covering the Romanian relations with Brazil, Argentina and Chile (1923–1927))

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The four most important Rio de Janeiro Men's football teams (Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Botafogo and Fluminense) contested in all editions of the competition between 1995 and 2000.

The Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino (Carioca Women's Football Championship, in English), organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation (FFERJ) is the women's football state championship of Rio de Janeiro State, and is contested since 1983.

Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz

A graduate of the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras of Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Santos Cruz has more than 40 years of national and international military experience, including as Deputy Commander for Land Operations of the Brazilian Army from April 2011 and March 2013.

Charles Frederick Hartt

In his last voyage he collected more than 500,000 specimens, which were donated to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as the founder and director of the section of geology from 1866 to 1867.

Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is a Benedictine school for boys in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil with a history that dates back more than 150 years.

Company Matsuo

He spent two weeks in Rio de Janeiro listening to police radio with local newsmen and filming accidents and murder scenes.

Darwin Initiative

The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Deyverson

Deyverson Brum Silva Acosta (born 8 May 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Belenenses as a striker.

Dolomite

Recent research has found modern dolomite formation under anaerobic conditions in supersaturated saline lagoons along the Rio de Janeiro coast of Brazil, namely, Lagoa Vermelha and Brejo do Espinho.

Edward D. Muhlenberg

In September, 1857, he sailed for Brazil in company with several other civil engineers and artisans to assist in the construction of the Dom Pedro Segundo Railroad, which ran westward from Rio de Janeiro.

Emerson Moisés Costa

Emerson Moisés Costa (born 12 April 1972 in Rio de Janeiro), simply Emerson, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Enéas Carneiro

Surprising political experts, he finished ahead of various established politicians, such as the then-governor of Rio de Janeiro (Leonel Brizola), the former governor of São Paulo (Orestes Quércia), and the then-governor of Santa Catarina (Esperidião Amin), with more than 1.5 million votes.

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.

Frida Baranek

Frida Baranek (born 1961 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian sculptor.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

Gustave Aimard

During his stay in Rio de Janeiro he had contact with Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil as is apparent from Aimard’s January, 11, 1880 letter to Pedro II which letter he signed with Gustave Aimard.

Helmi Johannes

As television reporter Helmi Johannes had covered the OPEC Meeting in Paris, France in 1991, the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Jakarta (1992) and the 1994 APEC Summit in Bogor, Indonesia.

History of Brasília

President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a place close to the center of the country.

History of Portuguese wine

In Brazil, the wealthy market of Rio de Janeiro was given exclusively to the Douro producers at the expense of other Portuguese wine regions.

Ipanema/General Osório Station

Ipanema/General Osório is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Ipanema borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

J. T. Meirelles

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died at 67 years old in that same city.

Jakob Sande

In 1933, the book Frå Sundfjord til Rio (From Sunnfjord to Rio) was published.

Jardim Botânico

Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, a residential neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jeffrey Wittmer

His most notable performances include 5th place at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Joe Vasconcelos

Joe Vasconcelos (born December 14, 1966) is an Brazilian/American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Kenia Carcaces

She won the 2007 Pan American Games gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Leonardo Santiago

Leonardo started at the Nova Safra football school in Rio de Janeiro and was raised in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood, which is also the area where Romário spent his early years.

Lummus Park, Miami Beach

The sidewalk is inspired to Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx's oceanfront walk along Copacabana Beach near Rio de Janeiro.

Magda Lupescu

Lupescu did not tolerate well Mexico City’s high altitude, so in 1944 they moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Marcia Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

MATA Trolley

There is also car 1794, which was originally an open-sided car from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but was heavily rebuilt and enclosed before entering service in Memphis.

Matias de Albuquerque

Olinda, a town in Pernambuco colony, was Matias’s birthplace, but, as a young man, he left Olinda for Rio de Janeiro, where he trained for a military career.

Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

He married Princess Eleanora of Orléans-Braganza, daughter of Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, on 10 March 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Moodna olivella

It was described by Hampson in 1901, and is known from Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro, the type location).

Mustapha Haciane

He wrote two other pieces: back in Algeria he wrote La Vocation de 'abus et L'Escalier d'en face ("The Calling of abuse and the staircase opposite") and in Rio de Janeiro he began to write Les Orphelins de l'Empereur ("The Children of the Emperor").

Nachaba oppositalis

It was described by Walker in 1859, and is known from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

National Kid

A series of graffiti with the phrase "Celacanto Provoca Maremoto" ("coelacanth causes tsunami"), referencing the villains' submarine, appeared in several spots of Rio de Janeiro in 1977 as a meme.

Oloff Hennig

Oloff visited him many times whilst Biggs lived in exile in Rio de Janeiro.

Papal conclave, 1922

Cardinals José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia, Giuseppe Prisco and Lev Skrbenský z Hříště did not attend for reasons of health, whilst the four non-European cardinals – William Henry O'Connell of Boston, Denis Dougherty of Philadelphia, Louis-Nazaire Bégin of Québec City and Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro – did not arrive in time and missed the conclave.

Paul L. Montgomery

He was the Times' bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro from 1966 to 1969, where he traveled extensively across Latin America.

Pilar Homem de Melo

Born in an old aristocratic Portuguese family, daughter of João Pedro Monteiro da Cunha Homem de Melo and D. Ana Mafalda de Almada, Pilar moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1975 along with his family, exiled by requirement of the Portuguese Revolution April 25, 1974.

Princess Leopoldina of Brazil

Leopoldina Teresa Francisca Carolina Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga was born at the Palácio de São Cristóvão ("Palace of St Christopher") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

# Peter August Ludwig Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga (Rio de Janeiro, 19 May 1866 – Vienna, 6 July 1934); successor of his father in 1907.

Reinaldo de Souza

Reinaldo de Souza or simply Reinaldo (born June 8, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian striker.

Resende Futebol Clube

Resende Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Resende, is a Brazilian football club from Resende, Rio de Janeiro state.

Rio Bonito Atlético Clube

Rio Bonito Atlético Clube is a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro state, founded on May 6, 1951.

Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo air bridge

It was inaugurated on 5 July 1959 by the airlines Varig, Cruzeiro do Sul and VASP making it the earliest air shuttle in the world.

Samuel C. Upham

In January 1849, Upham sailed on The Osceola to San Francisco, via Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana, arriving in California on August 5, 1849 and participating in the California Gold Rush.

Standard Steel Car Company

Hansen established a car shop in LaRochelle, France for SSC in 1917, and SSC also controlled a plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stefan Sittig

Although he was born in the U.S., Sittig's mother is Uruguayan and he was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stephen S.F. Chen

First Secretary in the Embassy for the Republic of China in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1963-1969.

Teodoras Daukantas

He was Lithuanian Consul General in Rio de Janeiro (1932–1935) and Minister Plenipotentiary of South America (1936–1939).

The Money Pit

Attorney Walter Fielding and his girlfriend Anna Crowley learn of Walter Sr.'s wedding in Rio de Janeiro, escaping the country after having embezzled millions of dollars from their musician clients.

Thiago Pereira

At the same age, he won a federated championship in a competition in Valença, defending the CSN club.

Toots Mondt

In April 1963, Buddy Rogers was awarded the WWWF World Heavyweight title, supposedly for winning a tournament for the title in Rio de Janeiro, a fictitious storyline created by Toots Mondt.

Volkswagen LT

Volkswagen's Brazilian plant at Resende has been constructing trucks with weights of between 7 to 35 tons.

Wilhelm Michler

He also became Professor at the Escola Politécnica Rio de Janeiro.

William D. Puleston

Under Puleston's period as Director, Congress authorized the expansion of the staff in Washington and established new attaché offices in 1936 at Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru.

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.

Xystreurys

Xystreurys is a genus of large-tooth flounders with one species, X. liolepis, found along the Pacific coast of North America from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of California and the other, X. rasile, found along the Atlantic coast of South America from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the southern tip of Argentina.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

9 more deaths were of confirmed in that day, 2 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio Grande do Sul and the first in Rio de Janeiro.

On July 3, more 19 cases were confirmed: 7 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Rio de Janeiro, 2 in Rio Grande do Sul, 1 in Paraná and the first in Mato Grosso do Sul.

André Cusaco

He was appointed governor of Rio de Janeiro on August 29, 1694, replacing the prior holder of the office, António Pais de Sande, who had suffered an stroke.

Anthony Leeds

Anthony Leeds (January 26, 1925 – February 20, 1989) was an anthropologist best known for his work in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and on urban-rural relations in Brazil.

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Charles Frederick Hartt

Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.

Dario Alejandro Gasco

Gasco spotted officially on his major international debut at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he delivered a bronze-medal time of 2:07:37 in the men's cross-country race, trailing behind U.S. rider Adam Craig and Brazil's Rubens Donizete within a two-minute gap.

Eleonora de Cisneros

Between 1900 and 1906 she sang in more than 40 operatic roles in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and Melbourne.

Energy policy of Brazil

It is located at the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto (CNAAA) on the Praia de Itaorna in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro.

Environmental issues in Brazil

Some cities currently considering such projects are Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Bernardo do Campo and others.

Fly Linhas Aéreas

The airline began operations on August 25, 1995 with a Boeing 727-200 as a charter carrier linking Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to holiday destinations in the northeast of Brazil.

Friburguense Atlético Clube

Friburguense Atlético Clube, or Friburguense as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Nova Friburgo in Rio de Janeiro, founded on March 14, 1980.

Gabriel Chagas

Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born December 7, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player.

Gabriel Yared

There, the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals asked him to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Insomniac with Dave Attell

The 30-minute program ran for four seasons on Comedy Central and continued with six one-hour specials that were filmed in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Dublin, London and the Southern US.

Instinto Asesino

Marcelo Costa de Andrade, a Brazilian pedophile and serial killer, confessed the rape and death of 14 children in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in 1991.

Japanese cruiser Asama

On 21 August 1920, it made a training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbo, Durban, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Tahiti, Truk and Saipan, thus circumnavigating the globe east to west.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

John Robert Nicholson

From 1942 to 1951, he was the head of a crown corporation, Polymer Corporation, and from 1952 to 1956, the head of Brazilian Light and Power Co in Rio de Janeiro.

José Leite Lopes

In 1937, while presenting a paper to a scientific conference in Rio de Janeiro, the young student met Brazilian physicist Mário Schenberg and was introduced by him in São Paulo to Italian physicists Luigi Fantappiè and Gleb Wataghin.

Maria Tauberová

In 1946 she and her husband were committed to the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.

Michel Souza da Silva

Michel Souza da Silva, simply known as Michel (born 22 August 1986 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Al-Wakrah Sport Club on loan from S.L. Benfica, as a striker.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Pontifical Council for the Family

It organizes the World Meetings of Families, convened in Rome, Italy in 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1997, Rome again in 2000, Manila, Philippines in 2003, Valencia, Spain, in 2006, Mexico City, Mexico in 2009, Milan, Italy in 2012, and Philadelphia, United States this coming 2015.

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.

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.

SeisQuaRe

Seisquare has worked over different countries from offices in Paris, Pau, Stavanger and Rio.

SP-64

The highway name is the Rodovia do Resgate and runs from Bananal up to the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Stefan Krauter

From 1998 until 2005 he held the position of a visiting professor for Alternative Energies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-COPPE-EE) and at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Brazil.

He initiated and organized in Rio de Janeiro several congresses (RIO 02/3/5/6/9 - World Climate & Energy Events) and the Latin America Renewable Energy Fair (LAREF), to sustain the vision of the UNCED Earth Summit of Rio 1992 in that area.

The Apollo of Bellac

at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro.

Tico Santa Cruz

Tico Santa Cruz (born Luis Guilherme Brunetta Fontenelle de Araújo; September 30, 1977 in Rio de Janeiro) is the frontman of Detonautas Roque Clube.

Tomé de Sousa

In 1552, Sousa suggested that Rio de Janeiro might be a potential area for settlement and in 1553 he returned to Portugal to work under the King, acting as his adviser on Brazilian affairs.

Ulstein Group

The former Belga Marine of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was acquired by Ulstein Group AS and renamed Ulstein Belga Marine It provides electrical and control systems for the large offshore and merchant market in Brazil.

Uruguayan War

On 1 January 1865, one brigade (composed of two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion) with 1,700 men from the Brazilian province of Rio de Janeiro disembarked and occupied the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos.