because [the water] twists and turns". Paraphrasing Gaspar Frutuoso, Urbano de Mendonça Dias affirmed that the name was derived from the twists the ravine made...

praising it. Dias finished his play Leonor de Mendonça also in 1847, and tried to have it performed at the Conservatório de Música do Rio de Janeiro, but...

Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Tipografia do Diário dos Açores Dias, Urbano de Mendonça (1950), História das Igrejas, Conventos e Ermidas Micaelenses (3...

African coast Bartolomeu Dias, explorer of the African coast Bartolomeu Perestrelo, explorer of the Atlantic islands Dinis Dias, explorer of the African...

1996: O Fim do Mundo .... Tião Socó 1996: Salsa e Merengue .... Urbano 1997: Sai de Baixo .... Beto (Participação Especial) 1999: Suave Veneno .... Waldomiro...

of São José de Macapá, under the authority of the governor of Pará, Francisco Xavier de Mendonça Furtado. The fortress of São Joselito de Macapá was first...

Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian...

before, comparing his Indianist works to Gonçalves Dias, saying that "Alencar was in prose what Dias was in poetry". When Assis founded the Brazilian Academy...

Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛl.juː, kuˈɛl.juː, -joʊ/ KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist...

de junho de 1901, p. 5, AÉROSTATION. La Fronde, 28 de janeiro de 1901, p. 1, Au Grand Palais. Dias, Adriano Batista (2005). "Inovação, Crédito e Descrédito:...

Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced [fɾɐ̃ˈsisku dʒi aˈsis ʃɐtobɾiˈɐ̃ bɐ̃ˈdejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4,...

Alferes Filipe de Freitas (1928–29) Ernesto Acciaioly (1929–30) Juvenal de Carvalho (1930–31) Alvaro Castro Fagundes (1931–32) Agostinho Dias (1932–33) José...

the World. Euclides da Cunha was born January 20, 1866, in Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived until he was three years old. His grandparents...

Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy (July 5, 1926 – August 6, 2016) was a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro. Pitanguy studied at the Bethesda North...

Azores. He was born in Livramento country house, owned by Dona Maria José de Mendonça Barroso Pereira, widow of senator Bento Barroso Pereira, who protected...

(1882) Reminiscências (1908) Trechos de Minha Vida (1911) Viagens de Outrora (1921) Visões do Sertão (1923) Dias de Guerra e do Sertão (1923) Homens e Coisas...

Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈlwizju tɐ̃ˈkɾedu ɡõˈsawviʒ dʒɐzeˈvedu]; 14 April 1857 – 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian...

Heloísa Teixeira, formerly known as Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (born 26 July 1939) is a Brazilian writer, essayist, editor and literary critic. Her research...

de Letras since 2011. He is also full professor of Languages at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Marco Lucchesi was born in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro...

a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"....

included in his debut studio album Ídolo (2017). He continued to explore urbano and hip hop music on his mixtape Avida Dollars (2018), which spawned the...

Ortiz de Camargo died in 1699 and was married to Maria Bueno de Siqueira f.ª of Lourenço de Siqueira de Mendonça and Maria Bueno. Colonel Lucas de Camargo...

Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (5 November 1849 – 1 March 1923), also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian politician, writer, jurist, and diplomat. He was a...

Luís Gonzaga de Miranda Freire [pt], 1959-1963 Domingos Mendonça Neto, 1963-1966 Damásio Barbosa de Franca, 1966-1971 Dorgival Terceiro Neto [pt], 1971-1974...

Celso Vieira de Matos Melo Pereira (1878–1954) was a Brazilian writer, biographer and historian. He was born in the city of Recife, PE, on January 12,...

Kubitschek, at that time the chief doctor of the Blood Hospital (Hospital de Sangue). Later on, he became a civil servant through examination. In 1933...

July 2021. Dias, Sônia; Lemos, Renato; Carneiro, Alan (2015). "SARNEY, José". Fundação Getulio Vargas (in Brazilian Portuguese). Centro de Pesquisa e...

Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905m João Pessoa–18 November 1998) was a general in the Brazilian Army. He was one of the military in the joint military...

Francisco de Aquino Correia (April 2, 1885 – March 22, 1956) was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth archbishop of Cuiabá...

Casimiro José Marques de Abreu (January 4, 1839 – October 18, 1860) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...