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4 unusual facts about Sobral


Guarany Sporting Club

Guarany Sporting Club, commonly known as Guarany de Sobral or just as Guarany, is a Brazilian football club from Sobral, Ceará state.

Guarany Sporting Club was founded on July 2, 1938, at Luiz Nogueira Adeodato's home, located in Sobral, Ceará state.

Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.

Ronda do Quarteirão

In June 2009, the state government initiated the project in the cities of Sobral and Juazeiro do Norte.


Carlos Sobral

Today, Sobral has stores in New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Heidelberg, Honfleur, Buzios and Paraty – a total of 17 Sobral boutiques throughout the America’s and Europe.

Leila Sobral

Leila Sobral (born November 22, 1974 in São Paulo) is a female basketball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal with the women's national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia (1996).

Ruhuhuaria

Ruhuhuaria was first described and named by Linda Akiko Tsuji, Gabriela Sobral and Johannes Müller in 2013 and the type species is Ruhuhuaria reiszi.

Sobral de Monte Agraço Municipality

Charles Oman writes "On that misty October 14th morning, at Sobral, the Napoleonic tide attained its highest watermark."

Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Sobral and also the American artist F. W. Stokes joined the expedition and spent the two years with Nordenskjöld at Snow Hill Island, becoming the first Argentine to spend time in Antarctica.


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