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32 unusual facts about para


Archibald S. Dobbins

In 1867 Dobbins left the United States and started a plantation 30 miles from Santarém, Brazil.

Bragantino Clube do Pará

Bragantino Clube do Pará, commonly known as Bragantino, is a Brazilian football team based in Bragança, Pará state.

Brentano II

Brendan Braveheart (1999) Grand Prix dressage horse provided by Libby and Jules Anderson for Lise Yervasi, para-dressage rider, to compete on towards the 2012 Olympics in para dressage.

Brown-chested Barbet

The Brown-chested Barbet's range in the central Amazon Basin, eastern Amazonas–western Pará states, North Region, Brazil, lies between two river systems in the east and west, with the Amazon River on the north.

Calathea

Sometimes, they are used unprocessed, e.g. to wrap fish for transport in parts of Brazil, such as the Benevides region of Pará.

Cathedral of Petrópolis

The church has Imperial mausoleum which has the remains of Former Emperor D. Pedro II, Empress Teresa Cristina, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, in addition to the tombs of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará and his wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz, were brought here in 1939.

Charles Dias de Oliveira

Born in Belém, Pará, Charles started playing football with Santos FC where he arrived at the age of four, then completed his formation with Tuna Luso Brasileira still in his country and C.D. Feirense in Portugal.

Dinoponera gigantea

Dinoponera gigantea has been found on the coast of Guyana, in the Brazilian states of Amazonas, Pará including Marajo Island, Mato Grosso and Maranhão as well as the Loreto Province in Peru.

Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna

The Ferreira Penna Scientific Station in Melgaço, Pará state, Brazil, is named after him, as are various Amazon River boats.

Eunice Baía

Even seven years, Eunice has lived in Pará, but after being chosen to star in the first film, she moved to São Paulo and lives with her tutor Naomi.

Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro

They are very common and popular in Brazil, highlighting the festivals held in the following locations: Barretos, Andrelândia, Uberaba, Goiânia, Redenção, Araçatuba and Marabá.

Gerald A. Drew

He served as U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; Envoy to Jordan, 1950–52; Ambassador to Bolivia, 1954–57; Ambassador to Haiti, 1957-60.

Gunnar Vingren

On November 5, 1910, Gunnar and Berg left New York Port and headed out to Pará, Brazil.

At a prayer meeting in Indiana, God said that he would do missions in a Pará, Brazil.

Michael Deneef

On the morning of December 1, 1875, Swatara was anchored in a harbor of Pará, Brazil, when the ship's dinghy capsized.

Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God

They were founded in 1910 in Santarém, Brazil, by the Rt. Rev. Armand August Bahlmann, O.F.M., and Mother Immaculata (born Elizabeth Tombrock), both natives of Germany, to educate the children of the poor throughout the world.

No Limite 3

No Limite 3 was the third season of the Brazilian reality show No Limite filmed at Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil.

Nonato

Nonato, full name Raimundo Nonato de Lima Ribeiro (born July 5, 1979, in Viseu, Pará) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Goianésia.

Operação Prato

There have also been reports of UFOs in the nearby city of Vigia.

Ossubtus xinguense

It originates from the Xingu River basin, but is restricted to the rapids area around Altamira City, Pará, Brazil.

Palácio do Grão-Pará

Since 27 December 2007, it has been the residence of Prince Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza, eldest son of Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza; his second son was born in the palace, and his second wife died in residence.

Para-Methoxy-N-methylamphetamine

In June 2013 a PMMA-related death occurred in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Two months later, In August 2013, another possibly PMMA-related death occurred in the nearby town of Sliedrecht.

Para-Ordnance

In January 2009, it was announced that the U.S. headquarters for Para-Ordance's U.S. subsidiary (Para USA) would be set up in Pineville, North Carolina.

Para-swimming classification

Swimming was one of the eight sports contested in the first Paralympics, the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.

Parides klagesi

Because of the prior CITES listing and apparent rarity, this species was placed in the endangered species list for the northern Brazilian state of Pará.

Samuel Fritz

In 1689 he undertook, in a pirogue, an expedition down the Amazon to Pará, where he was captured and imprisoned for two years on the suspicion of being a Spanish spy.

He was also the first to follow the Tunguragua instead of the Gran Pará (Ucayali) and prove it the real source of the Marañon.

Santarem Parakeet

It is fairly common in most of its range and occurs in several protected areas, e.g. P. a. amazonum occurs in the Amazônia National Park, Pará, Brazil, while P. a. lucida occurs in the Cristalino State Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Sud Mennucci

In 1913 he moved to Belém, in the state of Pará, invited to reorganize the Escolas de Aprendizes de Marinheiros de Belém do Pará until 1914.

Sulphur-breasted Parakeet

Following the realisation that the Sulphur-breasted Parakeet was a valid species, the first records of living birds were from east of Óbidos on the northern bank of the lower Amazon River in Pará, Brazil.

Walter Churchill

His father was William Algernon Churchill (1865–1947) a British Consul who served in Mozambique, Amsterdam, Pará, in Brazil, Stockholm, Milan, and Algiers.


2005 in Algeria

Amari Saifi ("Abderrezak el-Para), a leading member of the GSPC captured in Chad in October 2004, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Algiers.

2008 ASEAN ParaGames

The 1st ASEAN Para Games, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25, 2001 to October 30, 2001, was the initial major sports event of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF).

2019 Asian Para Games

The 2019 Asian Para Games, also known as the Third Asian Para Games, will be a parallel sport event for Asian athletes with a disability held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Abaeté Futebol Clube

Abaeté Futebol Clube, commonly known as Abaeté, is a Brazilian football club based in Abaetetuba, Pará state.

Aluizio Coelho

Em seguida, provou o carro F-3000 em Donington Park e se preparou para o grande dia de sua vida: em 12 de Novembro de 1998, no circuito de Silverstone, Aluizio teve a oportunidade de testar o carro da Williams, então atual campeã mundial.

Amy Marren

Amy Marren (born 14 August 1998) is a British Para swimmer who became the SM9 200m individual medley world champion at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships.

APAP

Paracetamol, an analgesic drug, also known as APAP from active ingredient acetyl-para-aminophenol

Belén Gache

Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric moons for moonless nights)(2004) takes place in 1910, during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Argentine Independence, in a Buenos Aires whose population was mainly composed of European immigrants.

Brownish Elaenia

Downstream in the east, the bird's range starts at the confluence of the Xingu River in the south of Pará state, North Region, Brazil; it ranges upstream on the Xingu for 700 km, then a tributary to the west of the Xingu, the Rio Iriri, for another 700 km.

Chris Keeble

During the Battle of Goose Green, he inherited command of the 2nd Battalion of The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) when Lieutenant-Colonel H. Jones was killed in action.

Chucho Valdés

Chucho has won four Grammy awards: in 1978 for the album Live at Newport by Irakere; in 1998 for his contribution to the CD Havana by his band Crisol (formed in 1997), with two songs - "Mr. Bruce" and "Mambo para Roy" - written by Chucho; in 2003 for his album Live at the Village Vanguard; and in 2011 for his album Chucho's Steps.

Covidien

It has just been announced circa 01/09/2011 to close the plant in Chesterfield, UK which makes para-Aminophenol, with the loss of 64 jobs.

Dark-winged Trumpeter

The eastern range of Dark-winged Trumpeter extends into the lower adjacent Tocantins River drainage in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Editorial Atlántida

Growing international pressure against the regime's Dirty War resulted in a petition campaign organized by Para Tí, in which postcards labeled "Argentina: The Whole Truth" could be torn out by readers and mailed to a list of addresses of the regime's most prominent international critics, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as well as Amnesty International and numerous international newspapers of record.

Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

In My Father's House was also staged at the Ateneo de Manila University in January 2010 as Sa Tahanan ng Aking Ama, produced by ENTABLADO (ENterteynment para sa TAo, Bayan, LAnsangan at DiyOs, Eng. Entertainment for the People, Country, Street and God), the socio-political theater organization of the university, in line with its 27th* season: Taon ng Pagbanyuhay.

Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Team

The team championship, para-equestrian dressage event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was decided by tests ridden at Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Centre.

Escats

Para que estés... en el Concierto - Recorded Live in San José, Costa Rica

Eugenio Montejo

International interest in Montejo's poetry grew after his poem "La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos" ("The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer") was used in the film 21 grams by feted Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Gilgil

The Gilgil barracks is home to the 5th Kenya Rifles (Kenya Army Infantry) also known as "the fighting five", while the Kenyatta Barracks is home to Kenya's only airborne battalion, the 20 Para and also home to the 66 Artillery brigade, the 76 Armoured Recce Battalion and the 1st Mortar Battalion.

Giovanni Bonello

However, because the propsal list of the Maltese government got rejected repeatedly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Bonellos term of office according to Article 23 para.

Itaituba

The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.

Jamundá River

The 300 km long Jamunda river originates in the plateau Serra do Jatapu near the division of the northern Brazilian States of Roraima, Amazonas and Pará, from there it flows down, forming the natural division between Amazonas and Pará, crossing the Nhamunda-Mapuera national ecological reservation (EG033) before joining the Amazon River near the small village of Nhamundá.

K-Paz de la Sierra

Some of their biggest hits are "Un Buen Perdedor" "Mi Credo," "Volveré," "Con Olor A Hierba," "Pero Te Vas A Arrepentir," "Procuro Olvidarte", "Y Aquí Estoy "Como Un Tatuaje" and "Para Toda La Vida a Duo Con Sergio Vega.

La Para

La Para (also named La Pare or La Tornette) is a mountain of the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud.

Light verb

Examples in other languages include the Yiddish geb in geb a helf (literally give a help, "help"); the French faire in faire semblant (lit. make seeming, "pretend"); the Hindi nikal paRA (lit. leave fall, "start to leave"); and the bǎ construction in Chinese.

Longipenis paradeltidius

The specific name is derived from Latin para (meaning next to or near) and refers to similarity between this species and Longipenis deltidius.

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas, subtitled Prelude, Toccata, and Fugues for piano and gangsa, one player, is a work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching (Chinese name in Pinyin: Zhuang Zŭxin 莊祖欣, 庄祖欣).

Para Sa 'Yo Ang Laban Na Ito

Para Sa 'Yo Ang Laban Na Ito (lit. This Fight Is For You) is a Filipino television inspirational talk show and self-help drama produced by GMA Network and presented by Manny Pacquiao and Jean Garcia.

Parauapebas Futebol Clube

Parauapebas Futebol Clube, commonly known as Parauapebas, is a Brazilian football club based in Parauapebas, Pará state.

Politics of Andorra

The Government of Andorra maintains a small ceremonial Army, a well-equipped modernized Police Corps, a Fire Brigade, a Mountain Rescue Service, and the GIPA, which is a para-military unit trained in hostage and counter-terrorism roles.

Pricesaurus

In 1986, Rafael Gioia Martins-Neto in a lecture during the 38th Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência at São Paulo, reported the find of a pterosaur, that he named Pricesaurus megalodon.

Punctapinella paraconchitis

The species name refers to similarity with Punctapinella conchitis plus the Latin prefix para (meaning near, close).

Richard A. Jorgensen

Jorgensen became professor investigador at LANGEBIO (Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad), a new research institute in the Mexican federal CINVESTAV research system located in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Socialism and Freedom Party

Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Michel Löwy, Vladimir Safatle, Marcelo Freixo, Chico Alencar, Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Renato Roseno, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, João Machado, Pedro Ruas and others.

Solveig Nordlund

She directed several films in collaboration with the Cornucopia Theater that were based on the plays of Franz Xaver Kroetz (Música Para Si, Viagem Para a Felicidade, both in 1978 and Outras Perspectivas in 1980) and Karl Valentin (E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo? - 1979).

Teenage Superstar

The song has been covered by Japanese singer Nami Tamaki ("High School Queen"), Mexican singer Belinda ("Boba Niña Nice"), Portuguese group D'ZRT ("Para mim tanto me faz"), Spanish group Efecto Mariposa ("Que más da"), Polish Czech singer Ewa Farna ("Měls mě vůbec rád" and "Razem sam na sam") and Korean singer MI:NE Cho Min Hye ("Teenage Superstar").

The Tales of Para Handy

An episode of the second series, 'Para Handy's Piper', guest starred future Tenth Doctor David Tennant in one of his early acting roles.

They Killed Sister Dorothy

The film traces the reasons of the murder of Dayton, Ohio, native Dorothy Mae Stang, a 73-year-old nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order who fought for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Valiathura

para, kanava and kozhiyala are among the other visitors that swim into the trap.

XHAGT-FM

It also began to air the morning news program Para Empezar hosted by Pedro Ferriz de Con.