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Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport

11 November 1991: a Nordeste Embraer EMB110P1 Bandeirante registration PT-SCU operating flight 115 from Recife to Maceió, during on initial climb had an engine failure followed by fire.


2012 Copa Libertadores Femenina

Three cities host matches in this year's edition: Recife, Vitória and Caruaru.

Action of 12–17 January 1640

A Dutch fleet of 36 ships under Admiral Willem Corneliszoon Loos and Vice Adm. Jacob Huygens emerged from Recife and intercepted the Spanish-Portuguese fleet between Itamaracá and Goiana on 12 January, before any attempt of disembarkation could be effected.

Antônio de Barros Carvalho

Antônio de Barros Carvalho, better known as Barros Carvalho (Palmares, February 12, 1899 - Recife, September 3, 1966) was a landowner and Brazilian politician.

Antonio Meneses

Antônio Meneses Neto (born in Recife, 1957) is a Brazilian cellist.

Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro, 2nd Baron of Itamaracá

His remains were brought to Pernambuco in 1870, and, in 1872, he was buried at a mausoleum built for him, in the bairro of Santo Amaro, in Recife.

Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais

In 1948, the bank came to the north-east of Brazil, opening branches in the cities of Recife, Pernambuco state and Salvador in Bahia.

Beberibe River

Its drainage basin measures 81 square kilometers and includes the following cities: Recife ( 65% ), Olinda ( 21% ) and Camaragibe ( 14% ).

Boa Viagem

Boa Viagem, Recife, a beach and neighborhood in the city of Recife, Brazil

BR-101

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened (with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened).

Chico Science

Around 1991, Chico Science, along with singer Fred 04 of the band Mundo Livre S/A, founded the Mangue Bit cultural movement in response to dire economic and cultural stagnation in Recife and Olinda.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Constantino Barza

Little is known about his biography, but it is known that he succeeded the photographer Alberto Henschelin the command of the atelier Photographia Allemã (German Photography) in Recife, in the end of the 19th century.

Ebel Perrelli

Considered one of the best drummers in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, he has already played with many famous artists of that state, such as Lenine and Naná Vasconcelos, and from abroad, such as Chuck Silverman, Manu Katché and Jonathan Mover.

Euleptorhamphus

E. velox occurs in coastal and oceanic waters from the western Atlantic from New England south through the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to Recife, Brazil and eastern Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.

Florin Diacu

He also held short-term visiting positions at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1993), University of Bucharest, Romania (1998), University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil (1999), and The Bernoulli Institute (at EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland (2004).

Footvolley

Footvolley started in Rio de Janeiro; however cities like Recife, Salvador, Brasília, Goiânia, Santos and Florianópolis have players who have been playing footvolley since the 1970s.

Francisco Brennand

Some of his works can be seen at the Parque das esculturas (Sculptures Park), located in Recife Antigo district in Recife.

Francisco Brennand, a contemporary sculpture artist in Brazil, displays around 2,000 pieces in enormous open halls, between monuments, gardens, and in the midst of an Atlantic forest reserve in the Varzea borough of Recife.

Fred Andrade

Active in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, he has played with many famous artists, such as Elba Ramalho, Quinteto Violado, Heraldo do Monte, Naná Vasconcelos, Lula Queiroga, Dominguinhos and Lenine.

History of Pernambuco

The English privateer James Lancaster, after picking up a chance-met separate squadron under Captain Henry Middleton, led an assault landing, seized the town of Recife and (with the assistance of a flotilla of Dutch traders who also threw in their lot with him) held it for several weeks, sailing away with the cargo of an East Indian carrack along with local plunder such as brazil-wood.

History of the Jews in New York City

The first significant group of Jews to come to New York, then the colony New Amsterdam, came in September 1654 as refugees from Recife, Brazil.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

With three R&D centers in Brazil (located in Brasilia, Manaus, and Recife) and a satellite office in São Paulo, INdT counts on a group of approximately 350 professionals and works to become a world-wide recognized competence center.

João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque

He joined the Faculdade de Direito do Recife (Faculty of Law of Recife) in 1899, graduating in 1904.

Johannes van Walbeeck

In April 1630, he arrived on the ship Neptunus in Pernambuco, after Hendrick Cornelisz Loncq had taken Olinda in February and Recife in March from the Portuguese (who between 1580 and 1640 were governed by Habsburg Spain, with which Holland was at war).

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

He landed at Recife, the port of Pernambuco and the chief stronghold of the Dutch, in January 1637.

José Bonifácio the Younger

He became a Law teacher at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife during 1854-1858, where he taught and heavily influenced Castro Alves, Salvador de Mendonça, Joaquim Nabuco, Afonso Pena and Ruy Barbosa.

José Maria Neves

From August 12 to August 16, 2005, he visited eight state capitals of Brazil including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Goiânia, Recife, Maceió, João Pessoa, Natal and Fortaleza.

Lucimar Teodoro

Teodoro was born in Guararapes, São Paulo and began competing in senior athletics in 2001.

Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo

Places he marked on his chart were Cape da Boa Esperança, Cape False, Cape Agulhas, Cape Infanta, St Sebastian Bay, Cape St Blaize (Cabo de São Bras = Mossel Bay), Ponta Delgada (Point Slender = Robberg), Formosa Bay, Formosa Peak, St Francis Bay, Cabo de Arrecife (Cape Recife), St Lucia (landed there on 13 December 1575, day of the Feast of Santa Lucia),

Marcantonio Mario Dimitri Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Poggio Suasa

Marcantonio Mario Dimitri dei Principi Ruspoli (Etterbeek, Brussels, November 28, 1926 – Recife, Pernambuco, August 1, 2003) was the 3rd Principe di Poggio Suasa, son of Costantino Ruspoli (Costantino is an eldest son of Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa), and wife Elisabeth Catherine Adrienne Marie Anne Comtesse van der Noot d'Assche.

He married firstly at Recife, Pernambuco, November 17, 1951 and divorced in 1958 Lúcia Helena Pessoa de Mello (April 22, 1922 –), a Portuguese Brazilian, without issue.

Mascate War

These forces, thickened in Afogados with reinforcements from São Lourenço and Olinda, under the leadership of Bernardo Vieira de Melo and his father, Colonel Leonardo Bezerra Cavalcanti, invaded Recife, demolishing the pillory, tearing the Provincial regal, freeing arrested and persecuting people connected to the governor Sebastião de Castro Caldas Barbosa (peddlers).

Maurício Grabois

After joining the National Liberation Alliance (Aliança Nacional Libertadora), an organization which gathered anti-fascist military officers he became one of the leader of the unsuccessful Communist uprising of November, 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, Natal, and Recife.

Náutico

Clube Náutico Capibaribe, a Brazilian sports club, including a professional football team, in Recife, Pernambuco.

Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife

Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife is a scholarly book written by American author James D. Kirylo.

Rildo da Costa Menezes

Rildo da Costa Menezes (born in Recife, January 23, 1942), also known as Rildo, is a former association footballer, one of the all-time best defender lateral for Santos F.C. with Dalmo and Geraldino.

SS City of Cairo

Her last voyage, under the command of her Master, William A. Rogerson, was to take her from Bombay, which she departed on 1 October 1942 to the UK, via Durban, Cape Town and Pernambuco, Brazil.

Synagogue

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


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