Freitas Nascimento
Freitas may refer to: People Sports * Alcindo Martha de Freitas, Brazilian football player * Acelino Freitas (born 1975), Brazilian boxer * Getúlio Vargas Freitas Oliveira Júnior (born 1983), Brazilian football player * Jesse Freitas (American football, born 1921), American football player ** Jesse Freitas (American football, born 1951), his son, American football player * Makoa Freitas (born 1979), American football player * Márcio Miranda Freitas Rocha da Silva (born 1981), Brazilian football player * Miguel Freitas (born 1984), Portuguese racing driver * Pedro Henrique Carvalho Freitas (born 1985), Brazilian football player * Rocky Freitas (1945–2022), American football player * Tony Freitas (1908–1994), American baseball pitcher Other professions *Ángela Freitas, East Timorese politician * Diogo Freitas do Amaral (1941–2019), Portuguese politician * Eduardo Freitas, Portuguese motorsports official and race director * Nick Freitas (born 1979), Americ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alcindo Martha De Freitas
Alcindo Martha de Freitas (31 March 1945 – 27 August 2016), known simply as Alcindo, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. Career During his club career he played for Rio Grande (1963), Grêmio (1964–1971), Santos (1971–1973), Club Jalisco (1973) and Club América (1974–76) of Mexico, and Francana (1978). Alcindo is Grêmio's all-time leading scorer with 636 career goals for the club. He was part of the Brazilian team for the 1966 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned 7 caps and scored 1 goal for Brazil. His brother Alfeu played for San Lorenzo de Almagro, in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th .... He died from complications of diabetes on 27 August 2016. References External links * * * * 1945 births 2016 deaths Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Diogo Freitas Do Amaral
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (; 21 July 1941 – 3 October 2019), known as Freitas do Amaral, was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s. Background He was born in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, the third but first surviving son of Duarte de Freitas do Amaral and wife Maria Filomena de Campos Trocado, and the older brother of João de Freitas do Amaral. Career He was a Licentiate and a Doctorate in Law specialised in Administrative Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and a Cathedratic Professor in the Faculty of Law at the New University of Lisbon and also a publicist. He served as a professor in the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University of Lisbon, where he taught and governed as the chair of the Economics of Public Law in Law d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Freitas (surname)
Freitas is a very common surname in Madeira Autonomous Region, Portugal. Its origin seems related to the 300-million-year-old 'Birthing Stones' phenomenon which occurs in remote northern Portugal, locally called ', particularly in the village of Castanheira, nestled into the site of ''Freita'' Mountain, Arouca Geopark. According to the ''Dictionary of American Family Names'' citing Oxford University Press, it is a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground, from Portuguese ''(Pedras) Freitas'' ‘Broken Stones’ Late Latin ''(Petrae) Fractae''. Gallery File:Brasao freitas.jpg, Coat of arms of family name Freitas File:Pedra parideira (Birthing Stone), Museu Geológico de Lisboa, Portugal.jpg, ''Birthing Stone'' from Serra da Freita, in the Geological Museum of Lisbon References {{surname Portuguese-language surnames Toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum
Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum is a 2,000-seat hockey rink in Storrs, Connecticut. It is the home arena for the University of Connecticut women's and practice facility of men's college ice hockey teams. It opened on November 7, 1998, replacing the outdoor UConn Ice Arena, which was in use since the 1960s. The Forum was constructed as part of the UCONN 2000 commitment by the State of Connecticut to help rebuild, renew, and enhance the campuses of the University of Connecticut. It was opened in time for the hockey team's elevation to Division I status. The arena was used for the 2000 MAAC Championship (won by UConn), the 2001 MAAC tournament, and the 2002 ECAC women's hockey tournament. It hosted the 2008 Hockey East Women's Tournament. The building was named for Mark E. Freitas '81, a former hockey letter winner and benefactor, on February 5, 2005. The men's hockey team had used the venue for home games prior to them becoming the newest member of Hockey East in 2014, but ha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Estádio Bento Freitas
Estádio Bento Mendes de Freitas is a multi-use stadium located in Pelotas, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Grêmio Esportivo Brasil. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 18,000 people and was built in 1943. It is owned by Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, and is named after Bento da Silva Freitas, who was Grêmio Esportivo Brasil's president during the stadium construction. History It was built in 1943, and inaugurated on May 23 of that year. The inaugural match was played on that day, when Força e Luz beat GE Brasil 3–2. The first goal of the stadium was scored by GE Brasil's Birilão. The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 20,115, set on March 21, 1984, when GE Brasil beat Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; English: ''Flamengo Rowing Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea, best known for their professional football ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Freitas (Portugal)
Freitas is a village and a former civil parish in the municipality of Fafe, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Freitas e Vila Cova Freitas e Vila Cova is a civil parish in the northern Portuguese municipality of Fafe Fafe () is a municipality in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. The population in 2021 was 48,502, in an area of approximately (. The city itself had a .... The civil parish has an area 6,24 km², with 745 inhabitants for a density of 119,4 people/km² (2001 census). The first lord of the village, a contemporary of the first king of Portugal, around 1164, became known as João das Freitas, hence initiating the surname Freitas. In an adjacent civil parish, Travassós, there is a second, smaller village named Freitas. A small fam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Freitas
Robert A. Freitas Jr. (born 1952) is an American nanotechnologist. Career In 1974, Freitas earned a bachelor's degree in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and in 1978, he received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. He has written more than 150 technical papers, book chapters, and popular articles on scientific, engineering, and legal topics. Freitas began writing his ''Nanomedicine'' book series in 1994. Volume I, published in October 1999 by Landes Bioscience while Freitas was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Volume IIA was published in October 2003 by Landes Bioscience. In 2004, Freitas and Ralph Merkle coauthored and published ''Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines'', a comprehensive survey of the field of physical and hypothetical self-replicating machines. In 2009, Freitas was awarded the Feynman Prize in theoretical nanotechnology. Bibliography * ''Robert A. Freitas Jr.'', Nanomedicin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paulin Freitas
Paulin Freitas (December 3, 1909 – May 17, 1989) was a Togolese politician and diplomat. Freitas was the first foreign minister of Togo from independence on 27 April 1960 until a military coup d'etat on 13 January 1963 which led to the overthrow and execution of then President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ... Sylvanus Olympio. References Paulin Freitas was the Grandson of King BÊTUM – LAWSON III of Aného and of Jacintho Paulinus FREITAS, freed slave of Portuguese and bresilian origin.Biography of Paulin Freitas His son Horatio Freitas has been nominated five times the minister of Sports and Culture, for the Republic of Togo. 1909 births 1989 deaths Togolese diplomats Interior ministers of Togo Foreign ministers of Togo {{Togo-politician-s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nick Freitas
Nicholas J. Freitas (born August 29, 1979) is an American politician. A Republican, he has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2015.Bill BarteVirginia Republican Senate candidates repeatedly attack Obama, barely mention Kaine, ''The Virginian-Pilot'' (May 1, 2018). He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018, losing in the primary election to Corey Stewart. He was the Republican nominee in the 2020 election to represent Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, which he lost to Abigail Spanberger, the incumbent Democratic congresswoman.Nick Freitas (Republican Party) is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing District 30. He assumed office in 2016. His current term ends on January 10, 2024. Freitas (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 30. He won in the general election on November 2, 202Virginia Election Result ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eduardo Freitas
Eduardo Freitas (born October 27, 1961) is a Portuguese motorsports official and race director. Freitas served as the race director for FIA Gran Turismo, the European Touring Car Championship, the European Le Mans Series, the Asian Le Mans Series and the World Endurance Championship from 2002 to 2022. In this role, Freitas oversaw the logistics of sports car, touring cars and endurance racing weekends, ensuring cars, tracks, and drivers conform to FIA regulations before, during, and after a race. In 2022, he replaced former race director Michael Masi, as Formula One race director alongside Niels Wittich. Early life Freitas was born on October 27, 1961, in Portugal. Freitas described his teenage years, passion for motorcycles, around 1977, as "having fun on weekends repairing two-stroke engines on small motorcycles". From that a friend invited him "to do the same on a two-stroke carting engine." Career Early career Similar to former Formula One race director Charlie Wh ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ángela Freitas
Ángela Freitas is an East Timorese politician, who is the leader of the Timorese Labor Party and ran in the 2017 East Timorese presidential election. Biography While a student, Ángela Freitas was tortured by the Indonesian Army during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. In 1988, she worked for the Institute of Human Rights within Indonesia, moving on to work for Amnesty International in 1989 as secretary of human rights. In the 1990s she fled to Australia, where she studied at the University of Queensland. Graduating with qualifications in political science and medicine, she started work at a hospital in Brisbane. This included a secondment into the Royal Australian Navy, where she worked on board a patrol vessel which intercepted refugee boats. Following the end of the Indonesian occupation in 1999, she returned to East Timor. Freitas became the leader of the Timorese Labor Party, a party founded in 1974 by her father Paulo Freitas. In 2001, she was placed in a men's p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Acelino Freitas
Acelino "Popó" Freitas (; born September 21, 1975) is a Brazilian politician and a former professional boxer who competed between 1995 to 2017. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO super featherweight title from 1992 to 2004, the WBA (Unified) super featherweight title from 2002 to 2004, and the WBO lightweight title twice between 2004 to 2007. After retiring from boxing, Freitas went into politics, and was elected as a legislator for the state of Bahia, from 2011 to 2014. His nickname, ''Popó'', was given to him by his mother, after the sound that babies make while drinking milk. " retrieved 15 May 2009. Early life Freitas had a difficult childhood, often sleeping on a sandy floor at his house. Since early in his life, he dreamed of a better place to live for his family. A skilled football player, he was more inclined, however, towards the sport of boxing since an early age. He was heavily influenced by his father and brothers, especially Luis Cl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |