Ambrósio Leitão da Cunha,the Baron of Mamoré (21 August 1825 –5 December 1898) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as a senator in the Empire of Brazil from 1870 to 1889. He also served as president of the provinces of Pará,Paraíba,Pernambuco,Maranhão,and Bahia. [1]
Tristan da Cunha,colloquially Tristan,is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world,lying approximately 1,732 miles (2,787 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa,1,514 miles (2,437 km) from Saint Helena and 2,487 miles (4,002 km) off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
Colobosauroides is a small genus of lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae. The genus Colobosauroides is endemic to Brazil.
Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist,sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões,a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos,known as the War of Canudos.
António da Cunha Telles is a Portuguese film director and producer. He was born in Funchal.
Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America,publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida. He was also involved with education,writing high-school textbooks,and contributed to biogeography,with essays on the distribution of Arachnida in the South American continent.
Heitor da Silva Costa was a Brazilian civil engineer,designer and constructor of the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro. In 1924,he won a competition for the construction of the monumental Christ the Saviour statue Monumento Cristo Redentor on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro organized by the Catholic Church. The reason for the competition was the one hundred year anniversary of the independence of Brazil (1822). The monument was inaugurated on 12 October 1931.
Os Sertões,translated as Rebellion in the Backlands,is a book written by the Brazilian author Euclides da Cunha. Mixing science and literature,the author narrates the true story of a war that happened at the end of the 19th century in Canudos,a settlement of Bahia's Sertão ("backland"),an extremely arid region where,even now,struggles against poverty,drought and political corruption continue. During the war (1893–1897) against the republican army,the sertanejos were commanded by a messianic leader called Antonio Conselheiro.
Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport,formerly called Tirirical Airport,is the airport serving São Luís,Brazil. Since 17 October 1985 the airport is named after Marechal Cunha Machado.
Arara is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil. It is located in the mesoregion of Agreste Paraibano and the microregion of Western Curimataú,155 km from the state capital,João Pessoa. It is located on the high plain of Borborema at an altitude of 467 m above sea level.
Flores da Cunha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil. It is the largest producer of wines inside Brazil. The Venetian language in its Brazilian form Talian is co-official with Portuguese in Flores da Cunha.
Dolichognatha is a genus of tropical and subtropical long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. Originally placed with the Archaeidae,it was transferred to the Araneidae in 1967,and to the Tetragnathidae in 1981.
Saint Helena,Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena,Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha including Gough Island. Its name was Saint Helena and Dependencies until 1 September 2009,when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands equal status as three territories,with a grouping under the Crown.
Rebanhão was a Christian rock band from Brazil that had about twenty years of activity. Its founder is the singer and songwriter Janires Magalhães Manso who had just converted to Christianity and with friends in São Paulo created a new rock group that joined poetic lyrics with Christian themes. Soon the musician departed for Rio de Janeiro,where they finally assembled the "Rebanhão" that would be remarkable in Brazil,which would pass through tree distinct phases.
D. Luís da Cunha was a Portuguese diplomat who served under D. João V of Portugal as part of His Most Faithful Majesty's Council. He was also Judge of the Royal Household,Envoy Extraordinary of Portuguese Cortes to London,Madrid and Paris,and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Utrecht,as well as part of the Portuguese Royal Academy of History.
Edgar Moreira da Cunha,S.D.V. is a Brazilian-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church,serving as bishop of the Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts since 2014.
Roberto Cláudio das Neves Leitão was a Brazilian martial artist in Luta Livre,or Brazilian Catch Wrestling. He was a 4th degree blackbelt in Judo,while also having 60 years in Luta Livre. He dedicated himself to flawless technique.
Eduardo Cosentino da Cunha,is a Brazilian politician and radio host,born in Rio de Janeiro. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from February 2015 till May 5,2016,when he was removed from the position by the Supreme Court. BBC News labeled him the "nemesis" of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. He was indicted in the scandal known as Operation Car Wash involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras and other corporations. Cunha was suspended as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies by the Supreme Court on the request of the Prosecutor-General due to allegations that he had attempted to intimidate members of Congress and obstructed investigations into his alleged bribe-taking. Cunha resigned from his position later,on July 7,2016,after a disciplinary process in Congress that had lasted nine months,making it the longest in Brazilian Congressional history. A series of legal manoeuvres had stalled the process and kept Cunha in charge of the Chamber of Deputies. While the Chamber's Commission of Ethics was divided on the issue until June,the Chamber of Deputies plenary,on September 12,2016,voted 450–10 in favour of stripping Cunha of his position as federal deputy for breaching parliamentary decorum by lying about secret offshore bank accounts.
Vitalius is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described by S. Lucas,P. I. da Silva Jr. &Rogério Bertani in 1993.
Alexandre da Cunha is a Brazilian-British artist,who produces sculpture and wall mounted works,often using found objects. His works have been exhibited around the world,and are located in several major public collections.
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