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Sada Miyako, also known as Saku Miura (birth unknown - 1946) was an early practitioner of Jiujitsu and Judo in Brazil. [1]
In 1908 he and M. Kakiora were tasked to teach Japanese Jiujitsu to Brazilian sailors. [2] This predates the arrival of Konde Koma by six years. [2] His instruction had the purpose of having its practitioners suppress their adversairies. [2]
He engaged in an the famous vale tudo fight between himself and capoeirista Francisco da Silva Ciríaco knocked he was knocked out. [3] This fight was in 1909 [4] and was witnessed by Agenor Moreira Sampaio. [5] This match was a demonstration of the early rivalry between Capoiera and Jiujitsu. [6] It was as a result of this loss that Jiujitsu faced a steep decline in Brazil. [7] One of his students who was Mario Aleixo. [4]
In 1919 he purchased a newspaper and became its president. [1] Miyaku was eventually expelled from Brazil as a result of his anti authority stances. [8]
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.
Santa Catarina is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It is located in the centre of the country's Southern region. It is bordered to the north by the state of Paraná, to the south by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by the Argentine province of Misiones.
Naginatajutsu is the Japanese martial art of wielding the naginata (長刀). The naginata is a weapon resembling the European glaive and the Chinese guan dao. Most naginatajutsu practiced today is in a modernized form, a gendai budō, in which competitions also are held.
Manuel dos Reis Machado, commonly called Mestre Bimba, was a Brazilian capoeira mestre and the founder of the capoeira regional style. Bimba was one of the best capoeiristas of his time, undefeated in numerous public challenges against fighters from various martial arts.
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Lopes is Portuguese and Galician surname. Origin: Germanic patronymic for son of Lopo, itself being derived from Latin lupus wolf. This surname occurs in other Romance variants, such as Spanish López, Italian Lupo, French Loup, and Romanian Lupu or Lupescu.
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The Constituent Cortes of 1820, formal title The General and Extraordinary Cortes of the Portuguese Nation, also frequently known as the Sovereign Congress or the Cortes Constituintes Vintistas, was the first modern Portuguese parliament. Created after the Liberal Revolution of 1820 to prepare a constitution for Portugal and its overseas territories, it used a different system from the traditional General Cortes for choosing representatives, and the three traditional feudal estates no longer sat separately. The Cortes sat between January 24, 1821 and November 4, 1822 at the Necessidades Palace in Lisbon. The work of the Constitutional Cortes culminated in the approval of the Portuguese Constitution of 1822.
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