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    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ mɐˈɾi.ɐ mɐˈʃadu dʒ(i) ɐˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do...
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    Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (August 13, 1774 – September 11, 1823) was a Brazilian journalist and diplomat considered to be the...
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    José Sarney de Araújo Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ saʁˈnej dʒi aɾaˈuʒu ˈkɔstɐ]; born José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa; 24 April 1930) is...
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    Cláudio Manuel da Costa (June 4, 1729 – July 4, 1789) was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of Neoclassicism in Brazil. He...
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    Botelho, Captain 15.. – 1560 Ana Chaves, Administrator 1560–1564 Cristóvão Dória de Sousa, Captain 1564–1569 Francisco de Gouveia, Captain 1569–1571 Francisco...
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    2006). "The 1906 Santos=Dumont No. 14bis". World War I Aeroplanes. 194: 4. Dória, Luiz Antônio (14 January 2013). "João Gomes, Palmyra…Santos Dumont, a terra...
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    Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (Portuguese pronunciation: [beʁˈnaʁdu ɡimaˈɾɐ̃js]; August 15, 1825 – March 10, 1884) was a Brazilian poet and novelist...
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    Monteiro de Barros Lins ► Bernardo Élis ► Evandro Lins e Silva ► Ana Maria Machado 2 (Álvares de Azevedo): Coelho Neto ► João Neves da Fontoura ► João Guimarães...
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    Number Six. Arthur da Costa e Silva (February 1, 1969). "Ato Institucional n° 6, de 1° de fevereiro de 1969" (in Portuguese). Presidência da República. Retrieved...
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    Monteiro de Barros Lins ► Bernardo Élis ► Evandro Lins e Silva ► Ana Maria Machado 2 (Álvares de Azevedo): Coelho Neto ► João Neves da Fontoura ► João Guimarães...
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    Alencar: Machado de Assis' son? Archived 2008-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese) Sanches, Rafaela Mendes Mano (2019). "Figurações da Religião...
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  • Negroni – Nicolo da Costa Bastarda (Bastard) of Negroni – Lorenzo da Torre San Tritone of Cataro Monarca (Monarch) of Gio Andrea Doria – Nicolò Garibaldo...
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    Euclides da Cunha (Portuguese: [ewˈklidʒiʒ ˈkũɲɐ], January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most...
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    husband, António Teixeira Dória, the Lord of the Portuguese colony of Macau, son of Francisco Teixeira Dória and Joana Margarida da Câmara, had died earlier...
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    shorter engagement to Maria Selika, daughter of violinist Francisco Pereira da Costa, but a legend says that Amélia was very faithful to Bilac: she never married...
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    Monteiro de Barros Lins ► Bernardo Élis ► Evandro Lins e Silva ► Ana Maria Machado 2 (Álvares de Azevedo): Coelho Neto ► João Neves da Fontoura ► João Guimarães...
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    considered a major forerunner of naturalism in Brazil, and for A Retirada da Laguna (1874; originally written in 1872 in French as Le retraite de Laguna)...
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    Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles (née de Azevedo Fagundes; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈliʒiɐ faˈɡũdʒis ˈtɛlis]; 19 April 1918 – 3 April 2022) was a Brazilian...
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    Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including...
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  • Pitanguy was also a philanthropist. He renovated a ward at the public Santa Casa da Misericórdia Hospital in Rio where, for four decades, he offered free treatment...
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    Portuguese) ABL – Biography for Assis Chateaubriand Bernardo Kucinski, "Chatô: o poder da chantagem" In A Síndrome da Antena Parabólica, São Paulo: Perseu Abramo...
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    "Ainda uma vez – adeus!".) Returning to Rio, he married Olímpia Carolina da Costa later on, having with her a stillborn daughter. Dias divorced Olímpia in...
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    Poeta dos Escravos" (The Poet of the Slaves) and "republican poet" by Machado de Assis, or descriptions of being "a national poet, if not more, nationalist...
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    Provisional Division, and, when Republicans Oswaldo Aranha and José Antonio Flores da Cunha were under siege by Liberationists, led two-hundred-fifty provisórios...
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    Brazilian writers: "Machado de Assis, cem anos de uma cartografia inacabada" (2008), and "A poetics of Brazilian space, about Euclides da Cunha" (2009). In...
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    go on to produce the majority of Oliveira's film, and with actor Diogo Dória. Following the success of Francisca, Oliveira made three documentary films...
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    Monteiro de Barros Lins ► Bernardo Élis ► Evandro Lins e Silva ► Ana Maria Machado 2 (Álvares de Azevedo): Coelho Neto ► João Neves da Fontoura ► João Guimarães...
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    entitled The Hinterland: World of Ariano Suassuna, directed by Douglas Machado and was exhibited at the Sala José de Alencar. In 2006, he was awarded...
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  • (in Portuguese). 4 January 2024. "São Paulo acerta venda de Talles Costa para clube da Ucrânia". GloboEsporte (in Portuguese). 15 January 2024. "São Paulo...
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    Monteiro de Barros Lins ► Bernardo Élis ► Evandro Lins e Silva ► Ana Maria Machado 2 (Álvares de Azevedo): Coelho Neto ► João Neves da Fontoura ► João Guimarães...
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