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Mascarenhas (surname)
Mascarenhas ( or ) is a habitational name taken from the civil parish of Mascarenhas in Mirandela, Portugal. This name is also found in Brazil, Spain, India (particularly in Goa, Mangalore and Tuticorin) and where it was taken by Portuguese colonists. Recently, this surname may be used by citizens of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. It may refer to these persons: * Dimitri Mascarenhas, Sri Lankan British cricketer * Francisco de Mascarenhas, 13th vice-regent of Portuguese controlled India, 1581–1584 * D. Fernando Martins Mascarenhas, Bishop of Faro (16th century) * Mascarenhas de Moraes, Brazilian field marshal and commander of Brazilian Expeditionary Force * Mascarenhas, Portuguese footballer * Neville Anthony Mascarenhas, Pakistani journalist and author * Kate Mascarenhas, English novelist * Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator * António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cape Verdean politician * Rodrigo Mascarenhas, Cape Verdean basketb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arms Count Santa Cruz
Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Firearm **Small arms *Coat of arms **In this sense, "arms" is a common element in pub names Enterprises *Amherst Regional Middle School *Arms Corporation, originally named Dandelion, a defunct Japanese animation studio who operated from 1996 to 2020 *TRIN (finance) or Arms Index, a short-term stock trading index *Australian Relief & Mercy Services, a part of Youth With A Mission Arts and entertainment *ARMS (band), an American indie rock band formed in 2004 * ''Arms'' (album), a 2016 album by Bell X1 * "Arms" (song), a 2011 song by Christina Perri from the album ''lovestrong'' * ''Arms'' (video game), a 2017 fighting video game for the Nintendo Switch *ARMS Charity Concerts, a series of charitable rock concerts in support of Action into Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mascarenhas De Moraes
Mascarenhas may refer to: *Mascarenhas (surname), people named Mascarenhas *Mascarenhas (footballer), Domingos António da Silva (1937–2015), Angolan footballer *Mascarenhas, a civil parish of Mirandela, Portugal *Mascarenhas Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their ..., or Mascarene Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean See also * '' Mascarenhasia'', a plant genus {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock On!!
''Rock On!!'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written and directed by Abhishek Kapoor, produced by Farhan Akhtar, and with music by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. The film marks the successful Bollywood debut of Akhtar and Prachi Desai. Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Luke Kenny, and Purab Kohli star as members of the Mumbai-based grunge rock band, "Magik" (formed in 1998) who reunite in 2008. The winner of seven Filmfare Awards, ''Rock On!!'' was critically acclaimed but had an average performance at the box office. Inspired by the critically acclaimed South Korean movie 'A Happy Life'. The film was archived at the Academy Film Archive library. The direct sequel, ''Rock On!! 2'', was released eight years later in 2016, but to negative reviews. Plot ''Rock On!!'' begins in Mumbai, with the rock band Magik, in 1998. The band are best friends and enjoy a carefree, freewheeling life together. Aditya Shroff (Farhan Akhtar) is the lead singer who rebelled against his well-to-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players (2012 Film)
''Players'' is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by the duo Abbas–Mustan and jointly produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Burmawala Partners. The film features an ensemble cast of Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Vinod Khanna, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sikandar Kher and Omi Vaidya, while Aftab Shivdasani appears in a cameo. The theatrical trailer premiered on 3 November 2011, and the film was released on 6 January 2012. It is an official remake of the 2003 American film ''The Italian Job'', which itself is a remake of the 1969 British film of the same name. ''Players'' employs the same plot as the 2003 version, while making the characters and incidents completely different. The story follows a team of players, consisting of a con-man, an automobile expert who doubles up as a seductress, an illusionist, an explosives expert, an expert hacker and an actor turned prosthetic makeup artist, who plan to steal gold worth from a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaneta Mascarenhas
Zaneta Felice Antoinetta Mascarenhas is an Australian politician of Indian descent. She was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 2022 Australian federal election for the Division of Swan. Early life and career Mascarenhas was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to Indian immigrant parents of Goan descent who migrated from Kenya. She grew up in Kambalda and attended John Paul College in Kalgoorlie. She studied science and engineering at Curtin University in Perth where she became President of the Student Guild. She worked as an engineer for 15 years in Western Australia and Victoria, including as a FIFO engineer. She also volunteered for The Climate Reality Project. Political career Mascarenhas contested the Labor Party preselection for the Division of Swan for the 2019 Australian federal election, but withdrew, enabling Hannah Beazley to be preselected. Mascarenhas is part of the Labor Left faction of the Labor Party, and she is supported by the Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuna Mascarenhas
Antonina Mascarenhas Monteiro, more popularly known as Tuna Mascarenhas, (13 June 1944 – 9 September 2009) was a Cape Verdean activist and medical laboratory scientist. She served as the First Lady of Cape Verde from 1991 until 2001 during the tenure of her husband, President António Mascarenhas Monteiro. Mascarenhas also founded the Cape Verdean Children's Foundation to provide services, such as daycare centers, to poor children and their families. Biography Tuna Mascarenhas was born on 13 June 1944. She received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from a university in Belgium. She attended the same university with her future husband, António Mascarenhas Monteiro. She returned to Cape Verde after college, where she worked at the present-day Agostinho Neto Hospital in Praia as an employee of the Ministry of Health. Both she and her husband were active in the Cape Verdean independence movement during the 1960s and 1970s. However, she left the movement over a difference of ideolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Mascarenhas
Rodrigo Mascarenhas (born March 24, 1980) is a Cape Verdean-Portuguese basketball player for Benfica. Standing at , he plays as forward. Professional career Mascarenhas played professional basketball in Portugal with F.C. Porto. He then joined countryman Marques Houtman on Angolan side Primero de Agosto at the 2007-08 season and then played for another Angolan team, ASA. National team career Mascarenhas currently is the captain of the Cape Verde national basketball team. At the 2007 FIBA Africa Championship AfroBasket 2007 was the 24th FIBA Africa Championship, played under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the African zone thereof. The tournament was hosted by Angola, in the citi ..., after leading the Cape Verdeans to a surprise third-place finish in the tournament. he was named to the All-Tournament team. References 1980 births Living people Cape Verdean men's basketball players C.D. Prim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro (; 16 February 1944 – 16 September 2016) was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001. Early life and education Born in Ribeira da Barca in 1944, Monteiro went to university in Belgium and graduated with his law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven. Political career During the PAICV's single-party government, Monteiro served in various high level positions. He was the Secretary-General of the National Assembly from 1977 to 1980 and President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 1980 to 1990. Presidency of Cape Verde Affiliated with the Movement for Democracy, he was the first president elected in a multi-party election in the country, defeating Aristides Pereira in the February 1991 presidential election. In February 1995, he awarded one of the archipelago's greatest writer during the colonial era Eugénio Tavares the Medal of the Ordem do Vulcão. He was re-elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Mascarenhas
Dom Pedro Mascarenhas (1480 – 16 June 1555) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512. He also encountered the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1512, although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so; earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque along with Diogo Fernandes Pereira may have encountered the islands. In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues (after whom the island of Rodrigues is named) named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after the name of Mascareh as. He was ambassador from Portugal to the Holy See,http://www.uc.pt/fluc/eclassicos/publicacoes/ficheiros/humanitas52/12_Pinho.pdf where he appealed to Pope Paul III for the coming of the first jesuits for the Portuguese missions in India, at request of King John III and Diogo de Gouveia. His mission ended on 15 March 1540, when he travelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Mascarenhas
Kate Mascarenhas is a writer born in 1980 of mixed heritage, with a white Irish father and a brown British mother. Mascarenhas grew up in Oldham with family in Ireland and Seychelles. Early life Mascarenhas's father, who was an alcoholic, died of a heart attack when she was aged 22. Mascarenhas studied English at the University of Oxford and applied psychology at the University of Derby. She gained her PhD in literary studies and psychology at the University of Worcester. Mascarenhas became fascinated by dolls' houses when she was nine, after reading a library book about Queen Mary's Dolls' House. Her father made her an intricate dolls' house when she was a child. Career Previously she has been an advertising copywriter, bookbinder, and doll’s house maker and has made dioramas for her novels. Mascarenhas trained as a psychologist but returned to writing when she was 32 after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Her first novel, '' The Psychology of Time Travel'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Mascarenhas
Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, ''The Rape of Bangla Desh'' (1971) and '' Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood'' (1986). Personal life Mascarenhas was born into a Goan Catholic family in Belgaum (then part of the Bombay Presidency, just over 100 kilometres away from Portuguese-ruled Goa, and educated in Karachi. He and his wife Yvonne Mascarenhas together had five children. He died in 1986. Career Mascarenhas was a journalist who was the assistant editor at ''The Morning News'' (Karachi). After collecting information on the atrocities committed in Bangladesh, he realised he could not publish the story in Pakistan and contacted Harold Evans of ''The Sunday Times''. Before the publication of his report in 1971, he moved his family to Britain. Thereafter, he worked for 14 years with ''The Sunday Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mascarenhas (footballer)
Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward. Club career Mascarenhas was born in Vila Salazar, Portuguese Angola. After one season with S.L. Benfica and three with F.C. Barreirense, he joined Sporting CP in 1962; during his three-year spell with the Lisbon club, he scored 80 goals in 107 matches all appearances comprised, even friendlies. In the 1963 Portuguese Cup final, Mascarenhas scored once in a 4–0 victory over Vitória de Guimarães. The following campaign, in Sporting's victorious campaign in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, he netted six times in a 16–1 home rout of APOEL FC (European competition record), adding another in the final against MTK Budapest FC, the 3–3 leading to a replay in Antwerp which ended with a 1–0 win for the ''Lions''. Death Mascarenhas died on 25 August 2015 at the São José Hospital in Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
