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6 unusual facts about Rio


North River Mountain

North River Mountain extends from Staack's Gap at Rio to the Hiett Run gap at North River Mills.

Prehype

Prehype has offices in New York City, London, Copenhagen, and Rio, and was founded by Henrik Werdelin in September of 2010.

Primum Entertainment Group

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009, Primum Entertainment Group acquired the license to produce Rio, Eu Te Amo the next film in the series of Cities of Love motion pictures following Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You.

Ralph Ambrose O'Neill

He founded the New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line, flying the first airmail from Argentina to Miami in a Sikorsky S-38.

Rio, Eu Te Amo

It's the third film in the Cities of Love franchise, created and produced by Emmanuel Benbihy.

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups

Wayne Rooney: Rooney is visiting a dogs' home with his wife Colleen when a little boy's dog dies.


9 de Julio de Río Tercero

Club Sportivo 9 de Julio, known as 9 de Julio or 9 de Julio de Río Tercero, is a sports club based in Río Tercero, Córdoba Province (Argentina).

A Quien Pueda Interesar

"Septiembre, Río Piedras" is derived from several political and ideological struggles that occurred in the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras where civilians were the subject of abuse and attacks by the police.

Avenida Río San Joaquín

Avenida Río San Joaquín is an elevated freeway in Mexico City extending from the Anillo Periférico beltway just outside the Mexican Federal District in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, in the west, to Avenida General Mariano Escobedo, in the east, at the juncture of the Polanco, Nuevo Polanco (Colonia Granada), and Anzures areas, continuing eastwards as Avenida Ejercito Nacional towards the Circuito Interior.

Banda Oriental

In contrast, the one of Santo Domingo Soriano, founded with Charrúas and Chanáes in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1664, was moved on the Isle of Vizcaíno, on the mouth of Río Negro and then in 1718 it was moved again at its present location in the modern Soriano Department.

Battle of Palo Alto

Taylor established camps for those heeding his call for volunteers at Point Isabel, the north end of Brazos Island, and along the Rio Grande between Barita and Fort Brown, at a place known as Camp Belknap.

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).

Carlos Lacerda

In 1950 he was elected a UDN party representative for the state of Rio in the Chamber of Deputies.

Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird

Recent records have found it in more humid areas such as Río Chucurí near San Vicente de Chucurí and La Paz.

Dalva de Oliveira

In 1936, however, she was hired by Rádio Mayrink Veiga, the most powerful broadcaster in Rio at that time.

Dom Salvador

Dom Salvador, born 1938 Salvador da Silva Filho, is a Brazilian jazz / Música Popular Brasileira pianist most notable for his Rio 65 Trio that featured the Brazilian jazz drummer Edison Machado and bassist Sérgio Barroso.

Donna, Texas

An international bridge across the Rio Grande is being constructed to link Donna to the city of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a city with a population of approximately 150,000.

Dragon Festival

The Dragon Festival is a Spanish free festival which ran from 1997 to 2009, held at Los Cigarrones on the riverbed of the Rio Guadalfeo, 2 km to the south of Órgiva, and from 2010 at Santa Fé, Granada, Spain, during the month of March, and culminating on the weekend nearest the March equinox.

Duratón

Hoces del Río Duratón Natural Park (Parque Natural de las Hoces del Río Duratón).

Eiffel Flats

The village began in 1905 as a residential township for the Cam and Motor gold mine, operated by Rio Tinto Group, now Rio Zim.

Embudo, New Mexico

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauging station at Embudo, to measure the flow of the Rio Grande, was the first (USGS) stream gauging station and was established by John Wesley Powell in 1888.

Escola Politécnica da UFRJ

The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third most ancient engineering school of the world and the most ancient of America, with the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME), being one of the firsts institutions of higher education in Brazil.

Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco

The Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco, is a Brazilian private institution of higher education, nestled at São Paulo's neighborhood of Lapa, it's appeared as an initiative from the Fundação de Rotarianos de São Paulo - a non-profitable entity that promotes the sponsoring of education, created in 1946 by associates of the São Paulo's Rotary Club.

Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

On March 15, 1975, the states of Guanabara, which consisted essentially only of the city of Rio de Janeiro and until 1960 the federal capital district of Brasil, and Rio de Janeiro, essentially the non-metropolitan area of today's state of Rio de Janeiro were merged to today's State of Rio de Janeiro.

Fundación Impulsar

It was founded in 1999 in Salta in the north west of Argentina, when seven British businesses working in Argentina (including Unilever, British Gas, and Rio Tinto Borax), inspired by the work of the Princes Trust, agreed to fund a similar initiative.

Galisteo Basin

Various peoples, known and unknown, inhabited the area, including the Tano (Arizona Tewa), East Rio Grande Keresan, Pecos, and Tewa.

Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Castaño traveled north from Almaden, crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Del Rio, Texas, and reached the Pecos River near what is now Sheffield, Texas.

GRES Unidos de Vila Isabel

The Venezuelan morningReportreported on its cover more than 500 people traveled to Rio de Janeiro, with all expenses paid by PDVSA to cheer the parade of Vila Isabel.Em 2007, with plot talking about theMetamorphoses, of Cid Carvalho, which debuted solo career, ending in 6th position.

Horace Alsbury

In 1840 Alsbury served as commander of the Federalist leader Antonio Canales Rosillo's bodyguard along the Rio Grande during the many running battles between Mexican general Mariano Arista's and Canales, during Canales’ and Samuel W. Jordan’s attempt to establish the Republic of the Rio Grande.

James Watson Webb

"In Paris and Rio de Janeiro, on land or sea", wrote Abraham Lincoln's biographer, Carl Sandburg, Webb "believed that Lincoln should have appointed him major general, rating himself a grand strategist, having fought white men in duels and red men in frontier war."

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Jorge de Lima

The Revolution of 1930 inspired him to move to Rio de Janeiro where he set up an office near Cinelândia.

Lead Masks Case

The two men were identified as Manoel Pereira de Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes, a town several miles to the northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio is a remake of the 1940 film It's a Date, also based on the story by Block, Kohner, and Hall, starring Deanna Durbin.

Nelson Jobim

Jobim was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, the son of Hélvio Jobim and Namy Azevedo Jobim, and the grandson of former governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Walter Só Jobim.

Oreco

Valdemar Rodrigues Martíns, best known as Oreco, (born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, June 13, 1932 – April 3, 1985 in Ituverava, São Paulo) was an association footballer who was on the winning team of the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Orfeu

Orfeu da Conceição is an adaptation of the musical form of the Greek myth of Orpheus transposed to the reality of slum's in Rio .

Passé le Rio Grande

Passé le Rio Grande (Passed the Rio Grande) is the sixth studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1986 on Philips Records.

Phantom shiner

The native range of the phantom shiner was the Rio Grande from Espanola downstream to Brownsville, Texas.

Philadelpho Azevedo

Philadelpho Azevedo was born in 1894 in Rio de Janeiro born and in 1910 finished his education with a Baccalauréat in sciences and languages at the Colégio Pedro II.

Red Hot + Rio 2

Red Hot + Rio 2, produced by Béco Dranoff, John Carlin, and Paul Heck; with supervising musical producers Andres Levin, Mario Caldato Jr., and Kamal Kassin; in collaboration with U.S. label E1 Entertainment, is Red Hot Organization’s next entry into its series of tribute albums created to raise money for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention set to be released June 28th, 2011.

Río de Oro

A British protected cruiser attacked a German auxiliary cruiser off the small Spanish colony of Río de Oro.

Rio Verde Esporte Clube

Rio Verde Esporte Clube, commonly known as Rio Verde, is a Brazilian football team based in Rio Verde de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul state.

Rius

Eduardo del Río (born June 20, 1934, and better known by his pen name Rius) is a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist, and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán.

Sally Fitzgibbons

13 May 2012, Sally wins the Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil, Fitzgibbons was up against Coco Ho in the final.

San Lorenzo, New Mexico

San Lorenzo, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Rio Arriba County

Screaming Piha

The sound is frequently used in movies, and also can be heard in the background of the popular game Angry Birds Rio.

SeisQuaRe

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

Sérgio Cabral Filho

He had also run for Mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 with a PSDB ticket, but his election as governor happened after he had transferred to PMDB, in which occasion he and his running mate, Luís Fernando de Sousa, had 5,129,064 votes in the run-off (68% of the total valid votes state-wide) with PPS's Denise Frossard (who had 32% of the valid votes).

Thrakattak

Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", is also featured on the live album (2CD set) King Crimson on Broadway (1999) (disc 2, track 12), and an alternative version of the track entitled "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" is featured on the live album (2CD set) Vrooom Vrooom (2001) (disc 1, track 11).

Tiago Iorc

Chase—who had previously worked with groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Tahiti 80, and The Divine Comedy—pre-produced Tiago's album over the internet before actually meeting with him in Rio de Janeiro for recording sessions.

Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas is the only nesting site in the world for the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) while other herpetofauna of the ecoregion include Río Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) and Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis).

William Brandon Lacy Campos

He continued his education at the Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and the University of Minnesota where he received a bachelor's degree in political science.


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