Haroldo Pereira Travassos (23 March 1922 - 13 June 1977) was a Brazilian ichthyologist. [1] He taught the faculty of philosophy at the La-Fayette Institute, the Fluminense Federal University and the University of Rio de Janeiro.
Travassos was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of the helminthologist Lauro Pereira and his wife Odette. He grew up in the city and went to the National School of Veterinary Medicine where he graduated in 1944 and received a medical degree in 1945. He worked with his father both in the field and laboratory and became a naturalist at the National Museum becoming a professor in 1969. He began to specialize in the fishes and became a director of fisheries development in 1966. As a fish taxonomist, he specialized in the families Characidae , Cichlidae and Sciaenidae . [1]
Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca, samba de roda, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states. Samba is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilian music genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, having continued its development on the communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Having its roots in Brazilian folk traditions, especially those linked to the primitive rural samba of the colonial and imperial periods, is considered one of the most important cultural phenomena in Brazil and one of the country symbols. Present in the Portuguese language at least since the 19th century, the word "samba" was originally used to designate a "popular dance". Over time, its meaning has been extended to a "batuque-like circle dance", a dance style, and also to a "music genre". This process of establishing itself as a musical genre began in the 1910s and it had its inaugural landmark in the song "Pelo Telefone", launched in 1917. Despite being identified by its creators, the public, and the Brazilian music industry as "samba", this pioneering style was much more connected from the rhythmic and instrumental point of view to maxixe than to samba itself.
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Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada was a Brazilian association football coach. He is widely credited with the invention of the 4–2–4 formation when guiding his first club, the Villa Nova AC of Nova Lima, to the State Championship of Minas Gerais in 1951. He won further state championships with Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte in 1953, CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro in 1956 and SE Gama of Brasília in 1979. Other clubs he coached include Corinthians, Cruzeiro, America FC of Rio de Janeiro and Athletic Bilbao in Spain. With Bangu AC he won the State Champions' Cup of 1967.
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