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Figueira may refer to: Places Brazil * Figueira, Paraná Cape Verde * Figueira Pavão, Fogo Island * Figueira (Maio), Maio Island * Figueira da Naus, Santiago Island Portugal * Figueira da Foz, a city and municipality in the district of Coimbra * Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, a municipality in the district of Guarda * Figueira (Faro), a village in the municipality of Faro * Figueira, a civil parish in the municipality of Lamego * Figueira, a civil parish in the municipality of Penafiel * Figueira (Proença a Nova), a village in the civil parish of Sobreira Formosa People * Daniel Figueira (born 1998), a Portuguese footballer * Edmar Figueira (born 1984), a Brazilian footballer * Gilberto Figueira, nicknamed Uaué, (born 1988), an Angolan handball player * Guilhem Figueira, Languedocian jongleur and troubadour of XIII century * José Figueira, (born 1982), an English-Spanish football manager * Manuel Figueira (born 1938), a Cape Verdean artist * Maria Luisa Figueira (b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Figueira, Paraná
Figueira is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraná This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraná (PR), located in the South Region of Brazil. Paraná is divided into 399 municipalities, which are grouped into 39 microregions, which are grouped into 10 mesoregions. See also *G ... References Municipalities in Paraná {{ParanáBR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guilhem Figueira
Guillem or Guilhem Figueira or Figera was a Languedocian jongleur and troubadour from Toulouse active at the court of the Emperor Frederick II in the 1230s.Graham-Leigh, 30. He was a close associate of both Aimery de Pégulhan and Guillem Augier Novella. The son of a tailor and a tailor by trade, as a result of the Albigensian Crusade, he was exiled from his homeland and took refuge in Lombardy, where he eventually made his way to Frederick's court.Graham-Leigh, 32. In Italy he and Aimery, a fellow exile, helped to found a troubadour tradition of lamentation for the "good old days" of pre-Crusade Languedoc. The exiles' native Lombard successors continued to employ the Occitan language, however, and it was not until the time of Dante Alighieri that Italian got a significant vernacular literature of its own. In 1228, Guilhem denied the efficacy of the crusade indulgence and blamed the death of "good" King Louis VIII, who died of dysentery at the siege of Avignon, on the false indu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Walter Figueira
Walter Capango Figueira (born 17 March 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Carshalton Athletic. Club career After impressing as a junior at Hampton & Richmond Borough, Walter joined Chelsea in 2010. He played 22 games (scoring five goals) for the Under 18s and Under 21s before injury curtailed his stay at Stamford Bridge. He had a work experience loan with the U18 team at League One club Brentford in 2012. Having been released, he played one game at Hayes & Yeading United in the Conference South before moving to Greece. He joined Platanias who play in the top division in Greece, and made eleven appearances for them last season. Figueira made his professional debut as a substitute in the 88th minute in the 1–0 loss to Asteras Tripolis in the Superleague Greece. He also played on loan at Acharnaikos who play in the league below the top division. After spells with Bognor Regis Town and Chessington & Hook United, Figueira joined Wingate & ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tony Figueira (photographer)
Tony Figueira (13 December 1959 in Huambo – 12 April 2017 in Swakopmund) was a Namibian photographer, journalist and businessman. He owned ''Studio 77'', a design studio in Windhoek. Figueira was born in Huambo, Angola. The family moved to South West Africa when he was seven, and he attended St Paul's College in Windhoek. He studied journalism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, and graduated in 1984. As journalist, he worked for several radio stations including the Voice of America, and for anti-apartheid newspapers like The Rand Daily Mail. Concentrating on photojournalism Figueira became known for documenting key moments in contemporary Southern African history, for instance Nelson Mandela post-apartheid visit to Robben Island, and Sam Nujoma return from exile. Figueira suffered from Multiple myeloma, which he ultimately died from on 12 April 2017, aged 57. The National Art Gallery of Namibia The National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) is a state-owned art gall ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tony Figueira (footballer)
José Antonio Pestana Figueira, known as Tony Figueira (born 1 August 1981) is a Venezuela-born Portugal, Portuguese retired association football, football player. Club career He made his professional debut in the Primeira Liga for C.S. Marítimo, Marítimo on 27 May 2001, when he came on as a 75th-minute substitute for Musa Shannon in a 0–1 loss against Sporting Clube de Portugal, Sporting. References 1981 births Footballers from Caracas Venezuelan men's footballers Portuguese men's footballers Venezuelan people of Portuguese descent Venezuelan emigrants to Portugal Living people C.S. Marítimo players Primeira Liga players C.F. União players Liga Portugal 2 players C.D. Santa Clara players S.C. Freamunde players A.D. Camacha players Men's association football midfielders {{Venezuela-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tchalé Figueira
Tchalé Figueira (born 1953) is a Cape Verdean artist.Fondation Blachère: Tchalé Figueira , accessed 8 February 2013 Biography Figueira was born in on the island of São Vicente. After years of traveling, which also led him to the Netherlands, he worked as a dockworker, he later headed to Switzerland where he started his artistic career and attended of the School of Artistic Design in Basel from 1974 until 1985. He later returned to the island of São Vicente. Like his brother, he set up ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roberto Horcades Figueira
Roberto Horcades Figueira (born April 19, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian cardiologist. He is currently the chairman of Fluminense Football Club, and the vice-president of Clube dos 13 Clube dos 13 (Club of the 13) was the organization responsible for representing the interest of the most powerful football clubs of Brazil, including members from several football state federations such as Federação Paulista de Futebol, Federaç .... References 1947 births Living people Brazilian football chairmen and investors Fluminense FC Brazilian cardiologists Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) {{Brazil-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nayara Figueira
Nayara Figueira (born 9 June 1988) is a Brazilian synchronized swimmer. She competed in the women's duet at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Her partner in 2008 and 2012 was Lara Teixeira. She first teamed up with Teixeira in 2007, so their team only had a year's worth of experience when they competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Brazilian duet pair did not reach the final, finishing in 13th place. At the 2009 World Aquatic Championships, the pair made the final, finishing in 11th. At the 2012 Olympics, the team of Teixeria and Figueria missed the final by only 0.3 points. Their technical routine costumes were in the style of Romero Brito and their music was by Arnaldo Antunes Arnaldo Antunes (, born Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes Filho, September 2, 1960) is a Brazilian musician, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked o .... The team also won gold at the South Am ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima
Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima (6 December 1826 - 1902) was a Brazilian aristocrat and abolitionist.Schumaher, Schuma; Vital Brasil, Érico (2000). ''Dicionário Mulheres do Brasil: de 1500 até a atualidade'' (in Portuguese). Editora Zahar. She was the cofounder of the Sociedade das Senhoras Libertadoras ou Cearenses Libertadoras, a group which was the first of its kind in the country that was formed and led exclusively by women. Biography Maria Tomásia Figueira was born 6 December 1826, in Sobral, a municipality in the interior of Ceará. She belonged to the traditional families Figueira de Melo, Xerez and Viriato de Medeiros. Her parents were Ana Francisca Figueira de Melo and José Xerez Furna. She moved to Fortaleza after marrying the abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved peop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maria Luisa Figueira
Maria Luisa Figueira (born 1944) is a Portuguese Consultant psychiatrist, psychiatrist and academic known for her research in clinical and experimental psychopathology and psychopharmacology, particularly in relation to bi-polar disorders and schizophrenia. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Psychiatric Department at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon. Life and career Figueira grew up on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Her father was a lawyer and her mother an Englishwoman born in Gibraltar. After completing her secondary education at the Liceu Nacional in Funchal, she attended the University of Lisbon, receiving her medical degree in 1973. She then worked as an assistant professor in the psychology department of the university's Faculty of Medicine and took post-graduate courses in mathematics and computer science at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. It was during ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manuel Figueira
Manuel Figueira (born November 1, 1938 – died October 8, 2023) is a Cape Verdean artist. Biography Figueira was born in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. When he was a student, he attended the art school of Escola Superior das Belas Artes de Lisboa (School of Fine Arts, Lisbon), now part of the University of Lisbon. He studied and worked as a teacher and took part in numerous municipal exhibitions in Lisbon. After Cape Verde became independence, he went back to his native island, he also brought his wife Luísa Queirós with him. He founded an art college Cooperativa da Resistência (Cooperative of Resistance). He later became the state director of Centro Nacional de Artesanato from 1979 to 1989. His studio is located on the port street known as Avenida Marginal in Mindelo, the city's main street. About himself, he said " I have been a figurative artist, but my reference on color is an abstract one". Manuel Figueira had displayed several of his works in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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José Figueira
José Manuel Figueira (born 9 February 1982 in Crawley, England) is an English football coach of Spanish descent, who is the current manager of Northern League club Auckland United. Figueira previously held notable roles as the head coach of Team Wellington, assistant coach of the New Zealand national team, and head coach of the New Zealand under-17 national team. In his short managerial career, Figueira has won multiple domestic and international competitions, including the New Zealand Football Championship, OFC Champions League, OFC U-17 Championship and the National Youth League. Career Born in Crawley to Spanish parents. Figueira initially began his career as a player, playing for the youth side of local club Crawley Town, but quit at the age of 19 to pursue a career in coaching, arriving in New Zealand in 2003 following a short stint coaching at the academy of Brighton & Hove Albion. Figueira was announced as head coach of the New Zealand under-17 national team in p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |