Emperor Pedro I of Brazil founded the National Order of the Southern Cross as a Brazilian order of chivalry on 1 December 1822. The order aimed to commemorate the independence of Brazil and the coronation of Pedro I. The name derives from the geographical position of the country, under the constellation of the Southern Cross and also in memory of the name – Terra de Santa Cruz – given to Brazil following its first arrival by Europeans in 1500.
Ellen Gracie Northfleet is a Brazilian judge. She is the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Brazil and the Court's first female president.
The cédula de identidade is the official national identity document in Brazil. It is often informally called carteira de identidade, "RG" or simply identidade in Portuguese. The card contains the name of the bearer, filiation, place of birth, date of birth, signature and thumbprint of the bearer. Other national documents can legally be used as an identity card, such as a federative unit-issued driver's license, passport or, for minors, a birth certificate. Each card has a unique RG number. As of 11 January 2023, the CPF number will be used as the RG number on new identity cards.
The Almirante Brás de Aguiar Instruction CenterOMN is a military organization of the Brazilian Navy. The institution it is charged with training officers for the Brazilian Merchant Marine and Brazilian Navy Reserve Officer Corps.
The Comptroller General of the Union, is a branch of the Brazilian federal government tasked with assisting the president regarding the treasury and public assets and the government's transparency policies. These tasks are carried out by way of public audits, fraud deterrence procedures, and other sort of internal control, corruption prevention, and ombudsman activities. It is also the central body of the Federal Government Internal Control System, responsible for supervising, managing and regulating the offices of the government.
The Romani people in Portugal, known in spoken Portuguese as ciganos, but also alternatively known as calés, calós, and boémios, are a minority ethnic group. The exact numbers of Romani people in the country are unknown—estimates vary from 30,000 to 50,000.
This article presents the insignia and ranks of the Brazilian military. The insignia and ranks of the Brazilian military are defined by Act no. 6880 of December 9, 1980.
The University of Santa Cruz do Sul is a Brazilian non-profit (community) private university located in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with four other campuses in Capão da Canoa, Sobradinho, Venâncio Aires, and Montenegro. The institution had its first college founded in 1964, but it was only in 1993 that it became a university. The university also has a preservation area, named "RPPN da Unisc", which has an area of 221,39 hectares and had its creation in the year of 2009, through Ordinance nº 16, of March 18, 2009.
Octavio Moura Andrade Municipal Airport, often referred to as São Pedro Airport, is the airport serving São Pedro, Brazil.
Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira is a Brazilian diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil since 1 January 2023 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Vieira occupied the same office between 2015 and 2016 during President Dilma Rousseff's second term.
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee is a Brazilian government agency, first proposed in May 1995 by the then Ministry of Communication and the Ministry of Science and Technology, and officially created on 3 September 2003. It is a multi-stakeholder organization with members from the government, the corporate sector, the third sector and the academic community.
Eduardo Pazuello is a Brazilian divisional general of the Brazilian Army and politician, he served as Minister of Health between 2020 and 2021.
General Geraldo Antônio Miotto was a senior officer of the Brazilian Army. As a member of the Army High Command, he was the Commander of the Amazon Military Command and Southern Military Command.
Laerte de Souza Santos is a Brazilian Army General and former Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces. Santos became commander on 31 May 2021, replacing Raul Botelho.
The Secretariat of Institutional Affairs is an agency linked to the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil. It was formed through Provisional Measura no. 259 of 21 July 2005 and converted into Law no. 11204 of 5 December 2005. It acted in the following areas:
- Political coordination of the Government;
- Conduction of the relationship between the Government, the National Congress and political parties;
- Interlocution with States, the Federal District and Municipalities;
- Coordination of the working of the Social and Economic Development Council.
The Ministry of Women, formerly the National Secretariat of Politics for Women, was created as a secretariat with cabinet-level during the first Lula da Silva administration, as a way to ensure that politics for women could have more attention. In 2019, it was fused with the Ministry of Human Rights and became the Ministry of Woman, Family and Human Rights (MMFDH), with an attribution to establish public politics for the enhancement of life of all women, LGBT people, indigenous people, black people of Brazil. The main goal of the Ministry is "[to] promote the equality between men and women and fight against any kind of prejudice and discrimination inherited from a patriarchal and excluding society."
Jorge Rodrigo Araújo Messias is a Brazilian attorney, incumbent Attorney General of Brazil nominated by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He is a prosecutor of National Finances since 2007 and served as sub-chief for juridical affairs of the Chief of Staff during the presidency of Dilma Rousseff.
Ricardo Garcia Cappelli is a Brazilian journalist and politician. He was appointed the Executive Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security on 1 January 2023, and additionally the Federal Intervenor in the Secretariat for Public Security of the Federal District on 8 January 2023.
RBS TV Bagé is a television station in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo, member of RBS TV and owned by Grupo RBS.
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