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2 unusual facts about Villas-Bôas brothers


Villas Boas

Villas-Bôas brothers, Orlando (1914–2002), Cláudio (1916–1998) and Leonardo Villas-Bôas (1918–1961), Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples

Villas-Bôas brothers

They also received the GEO prize, delivered by the president of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker, and the ex-Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt, in 1984, as a recognition for their humanitarian work.


1609 in art

Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)

1981 England riots

Brixton (London), Toxteth (Liverpool) and Chapeltown (Leeds) were originally built as affluent areas of the city, however the relocation of industry, poor connections and the influx of migrant workers had led to a downfall in their fortunes and the large Victorian terraces and villas were divided up into low rent bed sits.

Al Mushrif

Made up mostly of villas, it is located in an area between Airport Road and The Beach Road, which extends to Mussafah Bridge.

Alfred John Kempe

He died at Stamford Villas, Fulham Road, London, 21 August 1846, and was buried in Fulham churchyard 27 August.

Astura

Torre Astura, a former island of Lazio, Italy, containing Roman villas

Barrow Hospital

The new hospital was designed by Sir George Oatley of Bristol to the then-innovative colony plan based on detached 'villas' centred around a central cluster of service buildings.

Battle of Kamdesh

The US soldiers killed in the battle were: Justin T. Gallegos (Tucson, Arizona), Christopher Griffin (Kincheloe, Michigan), Kevin C. Thomson (Reno, Nevada), Michael P. Scusa (Villas, New Jersey), Vernon W. Martin (Savannah, Georgia), Stephan L. Mace (Lovettsville, Virginia), Joshua J. Kirk (South Portland, Maine), and Joshua M. Hardt (Applegate, California).

Bowrampet

Gated communities like Dollar Meadows, SRR Heights with 99-houses community, Durga Vihar gated Villas are all located here.

Dai Morgan Evans

The "villa urbana" erected at Wroxeter during the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built in a Day was designed by Morgan Evans and is based on one of the villas excavated on the Wroxeter site.

Djerba

An archaeological field survey of Djerba, carried out between 1995 and 2000 under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, the American Academy in Rome and the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine, revealed over 400 archaeological sites, including many Punic and Roman villas.

Fenwick Groupe

Approximately 200,000 of these were built by 870 employees at factory at Saint-Julien-les-Villas in Troyes.

Fishing Creek

Fishing Creek Schoolhouse, a historic schoolhouse located in the community of the Villas, New Jersey, formerly known as Fishing Creek

Flower of the East

The project was slated to include three hotels, three Residential Areas, Villas and Apartment Complexes, Coffee Shops, Showrooms, Stores, Sports Facilities and a Marina.

Fredrik Lilljekvist

He was one of the architects of the new affluent suburb of Djursholm, where he built a chapel and several private villas, including one for himself.

Geoff Grover

He has contributed widely to the community as Chairman of State and National Industry Association bodies, Past President of the Kenmore Junior Cricket & Australian Sporting Association, Past President of the P & C of Brisbane Boys' College, Past Body Corporate Chairman of the Coolum Fairways Resort and the Seaside Villas complex, and is a member of the Mt. Coolum Golf Club.

Giorgio Borġ Olivier

Water desalinisation plants, hotels, factories, villas and apartments began to provide work, host and rest to the rising number of Maltese workers, who catered for the needs of tourists and the nouveau riche.

Jewish Museum Frankfurt

The museum is housed in two classical villas on the Untermainkai, across the Main from the Schaumainkai.

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medici's large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medicean villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her Palatine treasures to the Tuscan state, on the condition that no part of it could be removed from the capital Florence.

Ladislav Žák

From 1934 to 1935, he designed villas of the filmmaker Martin Frič and the actress Lída Baarová.

Medici villas

The first Medici villas were the Villa del Trebbio and that at Cafaggiolo, both strong fortified houses built in the 14th century in the Mugello region, the original home of the Medici family.

Melophobia

"Come a Little Closer" was inspired by a morning in which Shultz woke up in a São Paulo hotel and opened his window to watch the sunrise over the villas.

Monastery of Santa Clara

The internal organization of the community was established in rulings by the founders, in which they donated several villas and hamlets in Póvoa de Varzim and farms in Touginha, Beiriz, Terroso, Formariz, Laundos, Navais, and Mirante, with an obligation that four chaplains would pray four masses per day honouring their founders and King Denis.

Ovacık, Fethiye

It is located next to the holiday resort of Hisarönü, consisting mainly of small hotels and private villas.

Paleka

The school, now known as Escola de Jazz Luís Villas-Boas, was opened in the late 1970s and led by bass player Zé Eduardo.

Park Lane International School

The school is located in Střešovice, a quiet neighbourhood featuring many villas, some of which were designed in the functionalist style by renowned Czech architects.

Partick

It is historically divided into three social areas; south of Dumbarton Road, north of Dumbarton Road and the Partick Hill grand villas.

Pesce 'ndrina

Among the impounded properties were 40 businesses in the transport, agriculture and trade sectors, 44 apartments, four villas, 60 parcels of land, 164 cars and even two football teams, Interpiana and Sapri.

Pietro Baratta

Born in Carrara, Tuscany, he worked in Venice and Udine, at the villas on the mainland and as a landscape architect.

Punta Ala

Previously known as Punta Troia, changed its name to punta ala (from aviation jargon) due to the great Italian aviator Italo Balbo, who had purchased some fortifications and villas in the area which later became his residences.

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

The commune was popular during the 19th century with artists and writers and Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Sisley and Degas all had villas here at one time or another.

Settefinestre

Aside from the villa at Settefinestre, there are remains of comparable contemporary villas at Colonne and Provincia.

Sidney Richard Percy

He moved after his 1857 marriage to the Florence Villas on Inner Park Road in Wandsworth, Surrey, and then moved his family about 1863 to Hill House in the village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

St. Gilgen

Many rich Viennese had their summer villas there such as the surgeon Theodor Billroth.

Terrace garden

The imperial villas at Capri were built to take advantage of varied terraces.

Transdanubia

With some present-day Austrian and Croatian territories, it comprised the Province of Pannonia, a romanised, Latin-speaking border region with important Roman towns (Scarbantia, Aquincum, Sopianae, Gorsium, Savaria) and rural villas.

Valdepeñas

King Ferdinand the Catholic wanted to control the power of Military Orders and Pope Adrian VI granted orders to the Kingdom of Castile, passing to Royal Jurisdiction an important patrimony: two cities, two hundred villas (Valdepeñas among them) and a hundred of villages, distributed in an ample territory.

Villa Agnelli and Villa Pesenti, Forte dei Marmi

Many important artists, actors, sportsmen and prominent cultural figures have spent their vacation in the villas of the Augustus Hotel&Resort: Jimi Hendrix, Charlton Heston, Oriana Fallaci, Eugenio Montale, Francesco Messina, Mario Monicelli, Paul Anka, Vittorio Gassman and many others.

Villa Cetinale

Villa Cetinale was one of the 70 gardens included by Edith Wharton in her 1904 book Italian Villas and Their Gardens, with illustrations and a plan of it.

Between the 16th and 17th centuries noted Venetian families (including the Contarini and the Veniers) built a number of villas in the area, and at this same time the old center, Vo' Vecchio, was founded, seat of the comune until 1900.

Walter Newall

His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

Zeugma, Commagene

A bronze statue of Mars, which aroused increased media interest in Zeugma, was found amongst storage jars in the larder of one of the villas.


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