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unusual facts about Rodrigues


Rodriguan

Anything of, from, or related to Rodrigues, a island which is part of Mauritius located 560 km (348 mi) east of Mauritius island.


ABADÁ-Capoeira

Mestre Cobra, Antonio Marcelo Rodrigues Trinade, was born in Amparo—a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo—on November 18th, 1963.

Alberto Rodrigues

Sir Alberto Maria Rodrigues, CBE, MBE(Mil.), ED, FRCPE (5 November 1911 - 5 February 2006) was a Portuguese-descent (or Macanese) Hong Konger medical doctor and academic.

Anthony Aristar

Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar (born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1948) is a linguist, the founder of the LINGUIST List, an important linguistic resource on the web, and a professor emeritus of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University.

Avant-garde

It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The artist, the scientist and the industrialist", 1825), which contains the first recorded use of "avant-garde" in its now customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as the people's avant-garde", insisting that "the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way" to social, political and economic reform.

Café marron

Café marron or Ramosmania rodriguesii is native to the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean.

Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal

The weekly paper Expresso published a report on 25 May 2003, from four children who said they saw Ferro Rodrigues at locations where sexual abuse was taking place.

Cesar Camargo Mariano

From his second and current marriage of 30 years with Flavia Rodrigues Alves he had a daughter, Luisa Mariano Imbert (1986), also a singer and graduate from Berklee College of Music, who has worked at Sony Music and currently works for Venus Brown at Buddah Brown Entertainment.

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues (born 3 June 1981), commonly known as Cristiano, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Club Deportivo Olimpia of the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Djalma Bom

Born in Alvares Machado, a small city in the country side of São Paulo, Idalina was the youngest daughter of Spanish farmer Jeronimo Rodrigues (1895–1953) and Santina Mantovani (1896–1974).

Idalina Rodrigues Mantovani ( November 29, 1940 - January 18, 2011 ) was a pedagogue, former “Second Lady” of São Bernardo do Campo and ex-wife of Brazilian politician Djalma Bom (1939)

Fredesvinda García

She appears as Estrella Rodrigues in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's book about Havana's night life during the years of the Revolution, Tres Tristes Tigres (published in English as Three Trapped Tigers) (1966).

Garry Mendes Rodrigues

Garry Mendes Rodrigues (born 27 November 1990 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Cape Verdean international footballer who plays for Elche CF in La Liga as a winger.

Hibiscus fragilis

The Mandrinette (Hibiscus fragilis) is an extremely rare endemic shrub only known from steep slopes of the mountains Corps de Garde and Le Morne Brabant on Mauritius and from two further plants on Rodrigues.

Jean Paulista

Jean Francisco Rodrigues (born 28 November 1977 in Sertãozinho, São Paulo), commonly known as Jean Paulista, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Polonia Bytom as a forward or an attacking midfielder.

Jérémie Rodrigues

Jérémie Rodrigues (born 1 November 1980 in Schiltigheim) is a French footballer who plays as a right defender for Lokomotiv Sofia in Bulgaria.

Joe Junior

Joe Junior (Real name Jose Maria Rodrigues Jr.) is a popular Hong Kong English pop singer from Hong Kong during the 1960s.

Jordan Rodrigues

Rodrigues's first professional acting experience was when he played the role of the young Simba in The Lion King's Australian tour at the Capitol Theatre starting in October 2003.

Lenny Rodrigues

Developing a passion for the game when his grandfather took him to watch football matches, the Verna, Goa-born Cortalim-based Rodrigues turned professional at the age of 17 when he played for Fransa-Pax FC, a club who’s dissolving led Rodrigues to train with Salgaocar F.C. for a year and a half.

Leonardo Rodriguez Pereira

Leonardo Rodrigues Pereira or simply Leonardo (born September 22, 1986 in Vila Velha, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the K-League.

Lyndsey Rodrigues

In June 2010 it was announced that Rodrigues had been appointed the new Music and Entertainment presenter for BigPond Entertainment, a return to her original love of all things music.

Manteguinha

André Luiz Brügger de Mello Rodrigues, or Manteguinha, is a Brazilian professional basketball player, who plays in the Novo Basquete Brasil league in Brazil.

Marcelino Novaes

Marcelino Novaes Rodrigues Fil (born July 9, 1967, in São Paulo) is a retired boxer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games, together with Jamaica's Kerron Speid.

Nelson Rodrigues

As a playwright, Rodrigues is frequently considered a realist, mostly on account of the self-acknowledged influence exerted on him by the dramatic work of Eugene O'Neill.

Nova Olímpia

There are places that have the name Nova Olímpia (Portuguese meaning New Olympia, probably named after Olympia or is probably named after Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieria in São Paulo which is related, the origin is uncertain) in Brazil

Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução

Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução or NEED (Study Group in Ethics and Deconstruction) was founded in 2002 by Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada, Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs- Graduate Programs and Research- and Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and some of his post-graduate students; Ana Maria Continentino, André Borges, Carla Rodrigues, Ligia Saramago, Rafael Haddock-Lobo and Tatiana Grenha.

Oh... Rosalinda!!

The choreography is by Alfred Rodrigues, and the production was designed by Hein Heckroth.

Olímpia

Olímpia is not named after the ancient town in Greece (see Olympia, Greece), but from Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieira, daughter of the politician Dr. Antônio Olímpio Rodrigues Vieira, one of those responsible for the founding of the city.

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.

Peter Rodrigues

After retirement from football Rodrigues became the landlord of the King Rufus pub in Eling.

Port Mathurin

On May 1, 1691, François Leguat and the first French landed on Rodrigues at the site of the future village, which was founded by French colonists in 1735.

Rodrigo Rodrigues Ribeiro

Rodrigo Rodrigues Ribeiro or Rodrigo (born 18 July 1978 in Itaboraí, Brazil) is a Brazilian football defender who currently plays for Union 05.

Rodrigues Bulbul

The Rodrigues Bulbul (Hypsipetes sp.) is an undescribed and extinct bird which was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, the easternmost of the Mascarene Islands group of the western Indian Ocean.

Rodrigues Parrot

It frequented and nested on islets off southern Rodrigues to avoid introduced rats, and fed on the seeds of the Fernelia buxifolia shrub.

The shrub mentioned by Tafforet, Fernelia buxifolia, is endangered today, but was common all over Rodrigues and nearby islets during his visit.

Rodrigues Rail

The bird was first described by François Leguat, a French Huguenot refugee marooned on Rodrigues in 1691, and was named leguati in his honour.

Rodrigues Warbler

The Rodrigues Warbler (Acrocephalus rodericanus) is a species of Old World warbler in the Acrocephalidae family.

Rogério Rodrigues da Silva

Rogério Rodrigues da Silva (born 14 March 1984 in Americana) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Criciúma, as a Centre back.

Rui Rodrigues

Rodrigues' last appearance was on 16 October 1976 against Poland, in a 0–2 home defeat for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign.

Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho

He was probably the same man as a Sebastian Rodrigues, a pilot on the Manila Galleon Santa Ana which was captured by Thomas Cavendish in 1587.

Seninho

Joaquim Arsénio Rodrigues Jardim (born 1 July 1949 in Sá da Bandeira, Angola), commonly known as Seninho, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward.

The Dirty Girls Social Club

In 2013, Valdes-Rodrigues began to raise funds for a movie adaptation of the book through a Kickstarter campaign.

Tupian languages

Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian homeland to be somewhere between the Guaporé and Aripuanã rivers, in the Madeira River basin.

Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr.

Rodrigues is well known for his diverse research interests such as the applications of Clifford algebras, the study of extraordinary solutions of the relativistic wave equations, and the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity; he has given several lectures on these subjects at international meetings.

War of the Portuguese Succession

Jorge Nascimiento Rodrigues/Tessaleno Devezas, Pioneers of Globalization - Why the Portuguese Surprised the World, Osprey Publishing.


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