Cuba were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating the United States 3–1.
The first breweries date from the 1830s, although the brand Bohemia is claimed to be the first Brazilian beer, with production starting in 1853 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.
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).
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.
Beresford-Redman married Mónica Burgos on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
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.
Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) in Rio de Janeiro's western suburb of Santa Cruz.
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.
Christina Oiticica (born on 23 November 1951 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist.
Clementina de Jesus (Clementine of Jesus) was a Brazilian samba singer born in Valença, Brazil, on February 7, 1901 and died in Rio de Janeiro on July 19, 1987.
With its seats in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Moscow, Russia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, ConRuhr’s primary purpose is to encourage educational internationalization by exchanging researchers, teaching staff and students between the three universities and institutions in Eastern Europe and South America, finding and linking contacts in the US, CIS, Brasil and Germany, as well as promoting the Ruhr area as a center of academic excellence.
The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Deyverson Brum Silva Acosta (born 8 May 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Belenenses as a striker.
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.
Eduardo Pedro Hungaro, known as Eduardo Hungaro (born August 16, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian football (soccer) manager.
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.
On 10 March 1981, Eleanora married Michel, Hereditary Prince of Ligne in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Emerson Moisés Costa (born 12 April 1972 in Rio de Janeiro), simply Emerson, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
In Rio de Janeiro, Clymer successfully merged his organisation with Krumm-Heller's.
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.
The last Avery was heard from was in a postcard to his Aunt, written in 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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.
The reason for his transfer to the tropics and why he chose the city of Rio de Janeiro for residence is not known.
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.
The United States Department of State and the Brazilian government in 1945 sponsored a series of lectures he gave in Rio de Janeiro.
He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died at 67 years old in that same city.
In 1933, the book Frå Sundfjord til Rio (From Sunnfjord to Rio) was published.
However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.
TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio de Janeiro.
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.
Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, a residential neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
As a young man he went out to Brazil to engage in commerce, and lived for several years at Rio de Janeiro, where in 1828 he entertained the officers of the exploring ships HMS Beagle and HMS Adventure.
She won the 2007 Pan American Games gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At three, he raced at Gávea Racetrack in Rio de Janeiro before being brought to the United States by owners T N T Stud (Goncalo Borges Torrealba and Regina Torrealba).
The sidewalk is inspired to Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx's oceanfront walk along Copacabana Beach near Rio de Janeiro.
Sixteen years after competing in her first Olympics, Fernandez qualified for her fifth Spanish team, as a 46-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second in the air pistol from the second meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a score of 783.2 points.
In 1946 she and her husband were committed to the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.
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.
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.
He was born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro and began playing in local bands there from the age of 12.
It was described by Hampson in 1901, and is known from Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro, the type location).
It was described by Walker in 1859, and is known from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
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.
In this regard, the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, built in the 18th century, is an example of the Portuguese counterpart of this type of building.
For most of that time she was co-director of the STEP program for disadvantaged youth in Massachusetts; she also spent time during her student years working with the poor in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Reinaldo de Souza or simply Reinaldo (born June 8, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian striker.
An alternative memorial to him never materialised: a massive "colossus of Rhodes" statue overlooking Cape Town from the summit of Lion's Head, rather like the statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
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.
In 1960, while working in Rio de Janeiro, where he had lived for the previous decade, Fish submitted his first short story to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
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.
2001: trans-South America (Lima/Rio de Janeiro) - 5,235 km in 73 days, 3 hours, 40 min (world record)
Hansen established a car shop in LaRochelle, France for SSC in 1917, and SSC also controlled a plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
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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.
First Secretary in the Embassy for the Republic of China in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1963-1969.
31 March 2006: a Let 410 UVP-E20 registration PT-FSE operating flight 6865, en route from Macaé to Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont crashed over the Municipality of Rio Bonito.
He was Lithuanian Consul General in Rio de Janeiro (1932–1935) and Minister Plenipotentiary of South America (1936–1939).
He travels widely, recording environments from such locations as Morocco, Mexico, India, Bali, Sumatra, Java, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon and the United States.
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.
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 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.
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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.
In Rio de Janeiro, Finta created many monuments, including Strength, a 12-foot granite statue for the Fluminenci Club.
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.
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 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.
The plot of this veritable epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed.
minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro (covering the Romanian relations with Brazil, Argentina and Chile (1923–1927))
The four Carnaval Cities with the greatest influence and presence in the San Francisco Carnaval are the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador as well as Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Havana, Cuba, and Oruro, Bolivia.
The first death was Ricardo Diomedes, who had taken Celobar on May 21, 2003 at a clinic in Nova Iguaçu near Rio de Janeiro.
Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.
He spent two weeks in Rio de Janeiro listening to police radio with local newsmen and filming accidents and murder scenes.
The Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas (Culturas Inglesas Brazilian Association), widely known simply as Cultura Inglesa (English Culture) is an English-teaching franchise founded in 1934 and with branches present in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia and their surroundings.
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.
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.
Some cities currently considering such projects are Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Bernardo do Campo and others.
He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), noted physician and scientist who discovered Chagas disease, and brother of Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), also a noted physician and scientist who was president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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.
Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born December 7, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player.
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.
In the 16th century, the Goitacá inhabited a large stretch of the eastern Brazilian coast, from the São Mateus River to the Paraíba do Sul River, encompassing what is now the state of Espírito Santo and part of Rio de Janeiro state.
He ended his political career as United States Consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1845–1849), a post later occupied by his former opponent Edward Kent
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).
The photographer searched stories from all over Brazil, from big cities, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, to small isolated villages in the Amazon.
Itaperuna Esporte Clube, or Itaperuna as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Itaperuna in Rio de Janeiro, founded on July 21, 1989.
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.
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.
Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57).
Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against South Korea's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
Luíz Antônio dos Santos (born April 6, 1964 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro) is a retired long-distance runner from Brazil, who won the 1995 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:09:30 on December 3, 1995.
At the age of 12, he won awards in several national competitions in the cities of Juíz de Fora-MG, Piracicaba-SP and Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
He sold it to Captain Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, who inherited a considerable fortune from his uncles who had built the harbour at Rio de Janeiro.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The highway name is the Rodovia do Resgate and runs from Bananal up to the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Some examples are Fla-Flu, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians-Palmeiras in São Paulo, Atlético-Cruzeiro in Minas Gerais, Naútico-Sport in Pernambuco, Gre–Nal in Rio Grande do Sul, Atle-Tiba, in Paraná etc.
at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro.
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.
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.
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.
He also became Professor at the Escola Politécnica Rio de Janeiro.