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AESCRJ
) , image = File:Desfile Portela 2014 (906185).jpg , caption = A float at Rio Carnival, 2014 , celebrations = Parades, parties, open-air performances , longtype = cultural, religious , type = christian , significance = Celebration prior to fasting season of Lent. , relatedto = Carnival, Brazilian Carnival, Ash Wednesday, Lent , begins = Friday before Ash Wednesday (51 days to Easter) , ends = Ash Wednesday noon (46 days before Easter) , duration = 6 days , date = ''Canceled'' , date = Afternoon, April 20 - midday, April 29 , date = , date = , frequency = annual , date = The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: ''Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro'') is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers ...
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Estácio De Sá (samba School)
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Estácio de Sá is one of the most traditional samba schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It has won once the top-tier Rio parade in 1992. History Founded in 1928 with name of Deixa Falar, coming from the same neighborhood and is considered by some researchers of samba as a single block, was in fact the first school of samba, because its components taught and difundiam samba, the school marched up to 1933. however twenty years later came the Unidos de São Carlos. With the merger of the old samba schools heirs of Deixa Falar. Meanwhile, the Unidos de São Carlos always stayed in intermediate positions Special and often semprede in the access and sambas considered of better quality, as the Círio de Nazaré and Arte negra na legendária Bahia. In 1986, with change to neighborhood where is the school. In 1986, with the change to the neighborhood where is the school. The thing moved and getting in good placings in the elite of samba ...
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Estação Primeira De Mangueira
Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, or simply Mangueira, is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro (city), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school was founded on April 28, 1928, by , Cartola, , among others. It is located at the Mangueira neighborhood, near the region of Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã. Mangueira is one of the most traditional samba schools in Brazil. It won the LIESA, Rio de Janeiro Carnaval competition 20 times, second only to Portela (samba school) (with 22 victories). It was runner up another 20 times. History Early years In the early days of samba, the community around the Mangueira hill or ''morro'' emerged as a pioneer of the Rio Carnival through its 'Cordões', in which a group of masked participants were led by a teacher with a whistle followed by a veritable percussion orchestra. In Mangueira, there were at least two Cordões: the Mountain Warriors (Guerreiros da Montanha) and the Triumphs of Mangueira (Triunfos da Mangueira) ...
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Portela (samba School)
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a decorated, traditional samba school. It was champion of the 2017 Carnival parade and has the highest number of wins in the top-tier Rio parade, with 22 titles in total. History At the start of the 20th century, in Oswaldo Cruz, a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro there was a carnivalesque group of dancers called ''Quem Fala de Nós Come Mosca'' literally translated as "Who talks about us eats flies". They were based in Dona Ester. A dissidence of this group of dancers (called "bloco" in Brazilian Portuguese) appeared in 1922 and another ''bloco'', the ''Baianinhas de Oswaldo Cruz'' ( Baianas of Oswaldo Cruz) was created. Later, a dissidence of Baianas created the ''Conjunto Carnavalesco Oswaldo Cruz'' (Carnaval Ensemble Oswaldo Cruz) on April 11, 1926. The founders were from Oswaldo Cruz however, Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela was actually founded, on 412 Portela Road, in the nei ...
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LIERJ
The Liga das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (LIERJ; English: League of Samba Schools of the Rio de Janeiro) is the leading association that organizes the Série A Group in the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. On 15 July 2008, seven presidents of associations of Grupo de acesso decided to found in LESGA in order to join project and what they thought was best for the access group A, on August 7, 2008 with the entry of three associations, and associations founded by 10 From there, they separated from the AESCRJ and created their own association, the LESGA, which will manage the parades, handing over the proceeds to the samba school of the Grupo de acesso A. After separation of the Association, which was defined by the regulation, would rise 1 of the Grupo Rio de Janeiro 1 and going down 1, but the AESCRJ not agree because the dissidents who founded the LESGA had approved two going down and up two of the RJ-1, which caused a rift between the LESGA and AESCRJ, but this increased even w ...
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LIESA
Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro ( en, Independent League of the Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro), commonly known by the acronym LIESA, is the principal association that organizes the Carnival of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Disgruntled with the official league, the AESCRJ representatives of ten samba schools, led by bicheiros, helped found the LIESA in 1984.Impunidade na cabeca
, Istoé, March 5, 2003
They were not in agreement with the state of things in the AESCRJ, where they were a minority and always defeated in deliberations although they invested the money. Each attempt to improve the commercial success of the Carnival spectacle was being rejected. They formed an independent league, which eventually took over the organisation of the parades of the Rio Car ...
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Samba School
A samba school ( pt, Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-Compound (enclosure), compounds ("quadras de samba") and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian dance and drumming style. Although the word "school" is in the name, samba schools do not offer instruction in a formal setting. Samba schools have a strong community basis and are traditionally associated with a particular neighborhood. They are often seen to affirm the cultural validity of the Afro-Brazilian heritage in contrast to the mainstream education system,Dils A., Albright A., (eds.) "Moving History / Dancing Cultures - A Dance History Reader", Wesleyan University Press 2001:169. and have evolved often in contrast to authoritarian development. The phrase "escola de samba" is popularly held to derive from the schoolyard location of the first group's early rehearsals. In Rio de Janeiro especially, they are most ...
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LIESB
__NOTOC__ LIESB and ACAS are the alloys of carnival that organize the parades conducted outside the Marquês de Sapucaí. The LIESB took over the organization of the lower level divisions'. In 2015, disagreements on the board of AESCRJ led the organization to suffer intervention by RioTur on the eve of the carnival. because of this, after the carnival that year came the LIESB and Samba é Nosso. where twelve of fourteen guilds of the Série B decide founded the LIESB and part of the samba schools Série B and all schools of Series C, D, E in Samba é Nosso. However, the aim of LIESB aim has not been officially disclosed, and they have already set up their first parade order, which was held in May 2015 and the elected the then vice-president of the Portela, Marcos Falcon its new representative. However, with schools migrating from alloys, caused a commotion where who took command of the Intendente Magalhães. Although the organization came to get authorization from Riotur to ad ...
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AESCRJ
) , image = File:Desfile Portela 2014 (906185).jpg , caption = A float at Rio Carnival, 2014 , celebrations = Parades, parties, open-air performances , longtype = cultural, religious , type = christian , significance = Celebration prior to fasting season of Lent. , relatedto = Carnival, Brazilian Carnival, Ash Wednesday, Lent , begins = Friday before Ash Wednesday (51 days to Easter) , ends = Ash Wednesday noon (46 days before Easter) , duration = 6 days , date = ''Canceled'' , date = Afternoon, April 20 - midday, April 29 , date = , date = , frequency = annual , date = The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: ''Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro'') is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers ...
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Samba School
A samba school ( pt, Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-Compound (enclosure), compounds ("quadras de samba") and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian dance and drumming style. Although the word "school" is in the name, samba schools do not offer instruction in a formal setting. Samba schools have a strong community basis and are traditionally associated with a particular neighborhood. They are often seen to affirm the cultural validity of the Afro-Brazilian heritage in contrast to the mainstream education system,Dils A., Albright A., (eds.) "Moving History / Dancing Cultures - A Dance History Reader", Wesleyan University Press 2001:169. and have evolved often in contrast to authoritarian development. The phrase "escola de samba" is popularly held to derive from the schoolyard location of the first group's early rehearsals. In Rio de Janeiro especially, they are most ...
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Samba é Nosso
) , image = File:Desfile Portela 2014 (906185).jpg , caption = A float at Rio Carnival, 2014 , celebrations = Parades, parties, open-air performances , longtype = cultural, religious , type = christian , significance = Celebration prior to fasting season of Lent. , relatedto = Carnival, Brazilian Carnival, Ash Wednesday, Lent , begins = Friday before Ash Wednesday (51 days to Easter) , ends = Ash Wednesday noon (46 days before Easter) , duration = 6 days , date = ''Canceled'' , date = Afternoon, April 20 - midday, April 29 , date = , date = , frequency = annual , date = The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: ''Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro'') is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers ...
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Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ...
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Leonel Brizola
Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states. An engineer by training, Brizola organized the youth wing of the Brazilian Labour Party and served as state representative for Rio Grande do Sul and mayor of its capital, Porto Alegre. In 1958 he was elected governor and subsequently played a major role in thwarting a first coup attempt by sectors of the armed forces in 1961, who wished to stop João Goulart from assuming the presidency, under allegations of communist ties. Three years later, facing the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état that went on to install the Brazilian military dictatorship, Brizola again wanted the democratic forces to resist, but Goulart did not want to risk the possibility of civil war, and Brizola was exiled in Uruguay. One of the few Brazilian major polit ...
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