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Automóvel Clube Do Brasil
The Automóvel Clube do Brasil, founded as the Automóvel Club do Brasil, is an automobile entity created in Rio de Janeiro in 1907 and responsible, among other activities, for the realization of the Grand Prix of the city of Rio de Janeiro. History The Automóvel Clube do Brasil was founded on September 27, 1907, as Automóvel Club do Brasil, and officially recognized by the federal government in 1908. The club fulfilled a demand of the elite of Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the 20th century, which, emerging from the List of monarchs of Brazil, monarchy and under strong English cultural influence, sought to create spaces of sociability where they could exercise the social hierarchy and, in this specific case, promote automobile culture as a means of transportation, leisure and sport. The headquarters of the club acquired great historical importance for Brazil because it was the location where the then President João Goulart gave, on March 30, 1964, a Meeting at Auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Dictatorship In Brazil
The military dictatorship in Brazil ( pt, ditadura militar) was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against President João Goulart. The Brazilian dictatorship lasted for 21 years, until 15 March 1985. The military coup was fomented by José de Magalhães Pinto, Adhemar de Barros, and Carlos Lacerda (who had already participated in the conspiracy to depose Getúlio Vargas in 1945), then governors of the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Guanabara, respectively. The coup was planned and executed by the most forefront commanders of the Brazilian Army and received the support of almost all high-ranking members of the military, along with conservative elements in society, like the Catholic Church and anti-communist civil movements among the Brazilian middle and upper classes. Internationally, it was supported by the State Department of the United States through its embassy in Brasil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Clubs And Teams In Rio De Janeiro (state)
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Automobile Confederation
The Brazilian Automobile Confederation ( Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira de Automobilismo, CBA) is the highest authority responsible for the organization, planning, regulation, and creation of norms involved in the automobile sport in Brazil. It is a social, technical and sportive civil association affiliated to the International Automobile Federation, which represents the associated drivers, among other attributions, whose headquarters are located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. History Since the invention of the automobile, there have been disputes between drivers and their machines to find out the best machine/human performance; in Brazil it was no different. The first auto race in Brazil took place in 1902, at the Mooca Hippodrome, in São Paulo. In Rio de Janeiro, the first auto race happened in 1905, with the start at Largo do Machado Largo do Machado is a square located on the border of the Catete, Flamengo and Laranjeiras neighborhoods in the city of Rio d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automotive Industry In Brazil
The Brazilian automotive industry is coordinated by the ''Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores'' (Anfavea), created in 1956, which includes automakers (cars, light vehicles, trucks, buses and agriculture machines) with factories in Brazil. Anfavea is part of the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA), based in Paris. In 2021, the annual production exceeded 2.2 million vehicles, the 8th largest in the world. Most large global automotive companies are present in Brazil, such as: BMW, BYD, Chery, Ford, Geely, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, JAC Motors, Kia, Land Rover, Lexus, Lifan, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan Motors, Renault, Stellantis, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo Trucks, among others, and also the consecrated national companies such as Agrale, Marcopolo, Randon, Troller, and more. In the past there were national brands such as DKW Vemag, FNM and Gurgel. Some traditionally produced modern equipped re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Luiz Fernando Carvalho (born July 28, 1960, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian filmmaker and television director, known for works closely linked to literature that constitute a renovation in Brazilian audiovisual aesthetics. He has already brought to the screen works by Ariano Suassuna, Raduan Nassar, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos, among others. Some critics compare Luiz Fernando Carvalho's productions to the Brazilian Cinema Novo and icons of film history such as Luchino Visconti and Andrei Tarkovsky. His work is characterized by visual and linguistic experimentation and exploration of the multiplicity of Brazil's cultural identity. The baroque style of overlays and interlacing of narrative genres, the relation to the moment in Time, the archetypal symbols of the Earth and the reflection on the language of social and family melodrama are features of the director's poetic language. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy
The Brazilian Army Combatant NCO Academy (ESA) is a Higher Education Establishment of the Brazilian Army, responsible for training the Combatant NCO's of the Brazilian Army: Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. To this end, it annually selects young people from all parts of Brazil, through public tendering, offering them military education aimed at improving their character and developing their physical capacity, and also providing solid military background to the future NCO's - a crucial link between the Command of Military Organizations and the troops. The Creation of the Brazilian Army Combatant NCO Academy ESA was created on August 21, 1945, at the end of World War II, through Decree No. 7.888. It had its origins in the NCO Infantry Academy - ESI, and offered training courses for future Infantry Cavalry, Artillery and Engineering NCO's. It initially occupied part of the facilities of the extinct Realengo Military School, in Rio de Janeiro-RJ. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Brazilian Coup D'état
The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état ( pt, Golpe de estado no Brasil em 1964), colloquially known in Brazil as the Coup of 64 ('), was a series of events in Brazil from March 31 to April 1 that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, supported by the United States government. The following day, with the military already in control of the country, the speaker of the Brazilian Congress came out in support of the coup and endorsed it by declaring vacant the office of the presidency (though Goulart never officially resigned). The coup put an end to the government of Goulart (also known as 'Jango'), a member of the Brazilian Labour Party, who had been democratically elected vice president in the same election in which conservative Jânio Quadros, from the National Labour Party and backed by the National Democratic Union, won the presidency. Quadros had resigned in 1961, the same year of his inauguration, in a clumsy political maneuver t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Sailors' Revolt
The Sailors' Revolt was a conflict between the Brazilian Navy authorities and the Association of Sailors and Marines of Brazil (AMFNB) from March 25 to 27, 1964, taking place in Rio de Janeiro at the Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos, Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro, Arsenal de Marinha, and ships of the Brazilian navy. Its outcome, negotiated by João Goulart's government, outraged the perpetrators of the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, coup d'état a few days later, and was thus one of its immediate antecedents. The AMFNB was part of the (low military ranks) of the early 1960s, also responsible for the of 1963, in which many of its members participated. It was a class association for a poor category, with difficult working conditions, deprived of rights such as voting and marriage, and marked by social difference in relation to the Officer (armed forces), officers. Founded in 1962, its president in 1964 was the sailor Cabo Anselmo, José Anselmo dos Santos, known as "Corporal Ansel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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