Castilho is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. It has an estimated population of 21,521 in an area of 1,065.318 km2 (411 sq mi), and its elevation is of 378.46 m (1,242 ft) above the sea level.
The Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order was a nationalist political party in Brazil. Its electoral code was 56 and its colors were the traditional Brazilian green and yellow. It was founded in 1989 by the cardiologist, professor and politician Enéas Carneiro, who was the president of the party. Its political broadcasts during the pre-election campaigning periods became famous and distinct for the speed in which they were produced due to the very short time the party had available and also because of the use of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as soundtrack.
Adonias Aguiar Filho was a novelist, essayist, journalist, and literary critic from Bahia, Brazil, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
The Prêmio José Reis de Divulgação Científica is an annual honor awarded by the Brazilian Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) to the institution, media organization, publication, or individual who most contributed to the dissemination and public awareness of science and technology in Brazil. It is thus named in honor of Dr. José Reis, a Brazilian biologist and science writer who was one of the pioneers in the field.
Simon Schwartzman is a Brazilian social scientist. He has published extensively, with many books, book chapters and academic articles in the areas of comparative politics, sociology of science, social policy, and education, with emphasis on Brazil and Latin America. He was the President of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and is a retired professor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, holder of the Grand Cross of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (1996). He is currently associate researcher at the Institute for Studies in Economic Policy Instituto de Estudos de Política Econômica / Casa das Garças - Rio de Janeiro.
The Liberal Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic.
The Superior Court of Justice is the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional issues regarding federal law. The STJ also has original jurisdiction over some cases. Its jurisdiction is provided for in Article 105 of the Brazilian Constitution.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education was a Portuguese government ministry dedicated to the design, development, execution and assessment of the science, technology and higher education national policy. Its official address was the Palácio das Laranjeiras in Lisbon. The rest of the education system fell within the scope of the Ministry of Education. Its last minister was Elvira Fortunato, aided by Pedro Nuno Teixeira as secretary of State of Higher Education.
The Superior Labor Court, is the highest Brazilian appellate court for labor law issues. Its headquarters are located in Brasilia, near the American Embassy.
The Judiciary of Brazil is the group of public entities designated by the Brazilian constitution to carry out the country's judicial functions.
The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third oldest engineering school in the world and oldest in the Americas, with the Military Institute of Engineering being one of the first institutions of higher education in Brazil. It is considered one of the best institutions of Latin America in engineering education. It is located in the UFRJ Center of Technology (CT), in the Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro.
Campina is a Neotropical ecoregion found in the Amazon biome. It refers to vegetation that grows on infertile sandy soil with poor drainage. The term may be used to include open forest, shrubland and meadow, or may be restricted to treeless meadows.
Flavio Zveiter is a Brazilian lawyer and professor, former President of the Superior Court of Sport Justice, highest body of Sport Justice in Brazil.
Álvaro Coutinho Aguirre was a Brazilian agronomist, zoologist and naturalist. Aguirre created the first reserve park for wild animals in Brazil, the Sooretama Biological Reserve at the state of Espírito Santo (the first protected area created in Brazil was in 1937. He dedicated his life to the preservation of the Brazilian flora and fauna, especially the Atlantic Forest and the biggest primate of the Americas, the Muriqui. During the 1960s, he undertook many expeditions to study the life and habits of the Muriqui and its conditions at the time. The results showed a considerable reduction of the groups of the animals, due to deforestation and lack of preservation of their habitat.
Alberto Guerreiro Ramos was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. An influent Afro-Brazilian thinker, he was instrumental on the development of a native sociological framework, criticizing the use of European paradigms for studying the Brazilian society, especially race relations and the condition of the Black people in Brazil. He advocated for appropriating those concepts to the national reality. He was also a leading figure in organization theory
The presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso began on January 1, 1995, with the inauguration of Fernando Henrique, also known as FHC, and ended on January 1, 2003, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took over the presidency.
The São Paulo State Government is based in the city of São Paulo and covers the state's administrative structure, as established by the Federal and State Constitutions. It is composed of three powers: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary. The governor commands the state executive, the legislature consists of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo and the judiciary is headed by the Court of Justice of São Paulo.
The São Paulo Municipal Government, composed of the Executive and the Legislative branches, is based in São Paulo, which is the main financial, corporate and commercial center in Latin America and the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere. It had 11.451.245 inhabitants in 2022.
