Antônio Houaiss was a Brazilian lexicographer, diplomat, writer and translator.
Creixomil e Mariz is a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Creixomil and Mariz. It has an area of 6.98 km², and its population in 2011 was 1,208.
The Guarani: Brazilian Romance is a 1857 Brazilian novel written by José de Alencar. It was first serialized in the newspaper Diário do Rio de Janeiro, but due to its enormous success Alencar decided to compile his writing in a volume. A plausible explanation for this success might be in the fact that the novel spoke of freedom and independence, arguing for a nativeness that could be found in tropical nature and in the indigenous people of Brazil.
Barcelos is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391, in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country. It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known by its textile and adobe industries, as well as its horseback riding events and "figurado" style of pottery, which are comical figurines with accentuated features of farmers, folk musicians, and nativity scene characters.
Anthemideae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family, Asteraceae, and the subfamily Asteroideae. They are distributed worldwide with concentrations in central Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and southern Africa. Most species of plant known as chamomile belong to genera of this tribe.
Nananthea is a genus of flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family.
Impostor is a 2010 Philippine television drama series loosely based on the PHR pocketbook of the same name created by Martha Cecilia and directed by Jerome Chavez Pobocan. It also serves as the 11th installment of the Precious Hearts Romances Presents series. The series stars Sam Milby, Maja Salvador, Melai Cantiveros, Jason Francisco, and Precious Lara Quigaman, with an ensemble cast consisting of Jon Avila, Izzy Canillo, Long Mejia, Yayo Aguila, Bobby Andrews, Menggie Cobarrubias, Racquel Villavicencio, Kitkat, Kakai Bautista, and Lollie Mara in their supporting roles. The series premiered on ABS-CBN's Hapontastic afternoon block from May 17 to September 17, 2010, replacing Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Love Me Again and was replaced by Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Alyna.
António de Mariz Carneiro was a Portuguese nobleman who served as the official cosmographer to the Portuguese crown.
Sousa Esporte Clube, commonly known as Sousa, is a Brazilian football team based in Sousa, Paraíba state. They competed in the Série C and in the Copa do Brasil three times.
The Twelve of England is a Portuguese chivalric legend of 15th-century origin, famously related by the poet Luís de Camões in his 1572 Os Lusíadas. It tells the story of twelve Portuguese knights who travelled to England at the request of twelve English ladies to avenge their insult by a group of English knights.
Joaquim José Inácio, Viscount of Inhaúma, was a naval officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. He was born in the Kingdom of Portugal, and his family moved to Brazil two years later. After Brazilian independence in 1822, Inhaúma enlisted in the Brazilian navy. Early in his career during the latter half of the 1820s, he participated in the subduing of secessionist rebellions: first the Confederation of the Equator, and then the Cisplatine War, which precipitated a long international armed conflict with the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
Arnaldo Deodato da Fonseca Rozeira, also known as Arnaldo Rozeira or Arnaldo Roseira, was a botanist, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto between April 1972 and April 1974, and director of the Botanical Garden of Porto between 1960 and 1974 and again between January and April 1982.
Mariz Ricketts or simply known as Mariz is a Filipina singer, television host, film and television actress, and film producer in the Philippines.
Events in the year 1957 in Brazil.
Marie Grace Michelle Bade Umali-Tima, widely known as Mariz Umali, is a Filipina television news anchor and journalist. She is known for being the main newscaster of the weekend edition of GMA News TV's Balitanghali. She finished broadcast communications course at the University of the Philippines Diliman but she started as a pharmacy student. She started to work at GMA Network as a researcher and producer of news content for the 2001 Philippine general elections. Besides Balintanghali, she also appeared as host or documentarian in other television shows such as I-Witness, Out of Control and Born to Be Wild. She also appears as one of the host of the Unang Hirit, GMA Network's morning show
The Co-Cathedral of St. Peter of Clerics Also Recife Co-Cathedral It is a Catholic church located in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco in the South American country of Brazil.
José Levi Mello do Amaral Júnior is a Brazilian jurist. He has a career as Attorney for the National Treasury, as an acclaimed legal expert and professor and held the office of Attorney General for Brazil and Acting Minister of Justice and Public Security between February and March 2017, after the nomination of former minister Alexandre de Moraes to the Supreme Federal Court. He was also Attorney General for the National Treasury and is a licensed professor at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP).
Mariz is a Portuguese and Brazilian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The assault on the battleships Cabral and Lima Barros and was a naval action that took place at dawn on 2 March 1868, during the Paraguayan War, when Paraguayan canoes, yoked two by two, disguised with branches and with 50 soldiers each, approached the Brazilian ironclads Lima Barros and Cabral.
