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Prestes is a Brazilian surname. Notable people called Prestes include: * Vicentino Prestes de Almeida, (born 1900), Brazilian paleontologist * Francisco Prestes Maia, Brazilian urban planner and mayor of São Paulo * Anita Leocádia Prestes (born 1936), Brazilian historian * Júlio Prestes (1882–1946), Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician * Luís Carlos Prestes (1898–1990), Tenente, later communist militant and Brazilian politician * Olga Benário Prestes (1908–1942), German-Brazilian communist militant * Paulão Prestes (born 1988), Brazilian basketball player *Paulo Roberto Prestes (born 1988), Brazilian football player See also *Prestes Maia (building) *Coluna Prestes, social rebel movement between 1925 and 1927 in Brazil, with links to Tenente revolts *Estação Júlio Prestes Estação is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of 2020, the estimated population was 5,940. See also *List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul This is a list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicentino Prestes De Almeida
''Vicentino Prestes de Almeida'', (Born 1900 in Chiniquá, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) was a Brazilian paleontologist. He died on October 28, 1954, in São Pedro do Sul. Biography Prestes was a self-taught paleontologist. Beginning in 1925, he worked with many visiting paleontologists in both Santa Maria and São Pedro do Sul in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Many of the fossils collected by Prestes are in museums in Porto Alegre, such as the Júlio de Castilhos Museum, the Zoobotanical Natural History Museum of Rio Grande do Sul, the Museum of Science and Technology (PUCRS) and the Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto. Friedrich von Huene named the carnivorous Triassic reptile Prestosuchus chiniquensis in Prestes's honor (from Prestes and Chiniquá, his birthplace). Prestes organized and arranged the fossils for the Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Prestes Maia
Francisco Prestes Maia () (1896–1965) was a Brazilian architect, civil engineer, urban planner, and professor, who served three terms as mayor of the city of São Paulo. Biography Francisco Prestes Maia was born to Manuel Azevedo Maia and Carolina Prestes on March 19, 1896 in Amparo, São Paulo, a small town 120 km north of the capital city. In 1917, Prestes Maia completed his engineering and architecture degree at the ''POLI'', Polytechnic School of São Paulo (Portuguese: ''Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo''). In 1918, he set up a real estate office and also began working for the São Paulo state government. From 1924 to 1927, Prestes Maia taught architectural drawing courses part-time at his '' alma mater'', POLI. He was promoted to full professor in 1927 and taught for another ten years. In 1937, he left the university in order to be able to continue working for the city. From 1926 to 1930, he served as the city's Secretary of Transportation and Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Leocádia Prestes
Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes (born 27 November 1936 in Berlin) is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes. She was born in Barnimstraße Women's Prison in Berlin and was handed over to the care of her paternal grandmother, Brazilian Leocádia Prestes, at age 14 months. Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to a former psychiatric hospital in Bernburg in 1942, where she was gassed. In 1964, Prestes achieved a degree in Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ... from the then "University of Brazil", now known as the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Two years later she gained a Masters in Organic Chemistry. Life in the USSR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio Prestes
Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque (; 15 March 1882 – 9 February 1946) was a Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician. He was the last elected President of Brazil of the period known as the Old Republic, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the Revolution of 1930. Prestes was the only politician to be elected President of Brazil and then impeded from taking office. He was also the last person born in São Paulo to be elected president until the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. On 23 June 1930, he became the second Brazilian featured on the cover of ''Time'' magazine. Early career Prestes graduated with a law degree from the Law School of São Paulo (today the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo) in 1906. He married Alice Viana and had three children with her. He started his political career in 1909, when he was elected State Representative in São Paulo by the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP). He was re-elected several times until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Carlos Prestes
Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a Brazilian revolutionary and politician who served as the general-secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party from 1943 to 1980 and a senator for the Federal District from 1946 to 1948. One of the leading communists in Brazil, Prestes has been regarded by many as one of Brazil's most charismatic yet tragic figures for his leadership of the 1924 tenente revolt and his subsequent work with the Brazilian communist movement. The 1924 expedition earned Prestes the nickname ''The Knight of Hope.'' Beginning in 1924, as a young army officer, Prestes was a leading figure in an abortive military revolt. After its failure, he led a band of rebel troops, known as the Prestes Column, on a three-year, 14,000-mile trek through the remote Brazilian interior in a futile attempt to stir peasant opposition to the Government. Eventually, the rebels went into exile in Bolivia. Although the effort failed, he became a romantic hero. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Benário Prestes
Olga Benário Prestes (Brazilian Portuguese: /ˈɔwgɐ beˈnaɾju prɛstʃis/, February 12, 1908 – April 23, 1942) was a German-Brazilian communist militant executed by Nazi Germany. Biography Olga was born in Munich as Olga Gutmann Benário, to a Jewish family. Her father, Leo Benário, was a Social Democrat lawyer, and her mother, Eugenie (Gutmann), was a member of Bavarian high-society. In 1923, aged fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth International and in 1928 helped organize her lover and fellow party member Otto Braun's escape from Moabit prison. She went to Czechoslovakia and from there, reunited with Braun, to Moscow, where Benário attended the Lenin-School of the Comintern and then worked as an instructor of the Communist Youth International, in the Soviet Union and in France and Great Britain, where she participated in coordinating anti-fascist activities. She parted from Otto Braun in 1931. After her stay in Britain, where she was briefly arrested, Olga at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulão Prestes
Paulo Sérgio "Paulão" Prestes (born February 15, 1988 in Monte Aprazível, São Paulo) is a Brazilian-Spanish former professional basketball player. Professional career Prestes was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves, in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft. However, he never played in the NBA. During his pro club career, some of the teams Prestes played with included Pieno žvaigždės, Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that co ..., and Paulistano/Unimed. References External links Latinbasket.com ProfileNBA Draft ProfileSpanish League Lithuanian League Profile 1988 births Living people Baloncesto Málaga players Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games BC Pieno žvaigždės players Brazilian expatriate basketball people in Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Roberto Prestes
Paulo Roberto de Araújo Prestes or simply Paulo Roberto (born 21 April 1964), is a Brazilian retired footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ... who played as a left back. References 1964 births Living people Footballers from Porto Alegre Brazilian footballers Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Sport Club Internacional players Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players Clube Atlético Mineiro players Association football defenders {{Brazil-footy-defender-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prestes Maia (building)
The Prestes Maia building, or sometimes simply Prestes Maia (), is believed to be the largest squatted highrise building in South America, with an estimated 2000 inhabitants. The complex is made up of two tower blocks, Bloco A and Bloco B, the latter of which has the address ''Avenida Prestes Maia, 911'' near Luz Station in downtown São Paulo. Businessman Jorge Nacle Hamuche purchased the building at auction in 1993 and co-owns it with his business partner, Eduardo Amorim. The building remains registered to the previous owner, the bankrupt National Cloth Company (''Companhia Nacional de Tecidos'' in Portuguese), where Hamuche had been employed. 468 families, united through the Downtown Roofless Movement (Movimento Sem Teto do Centro or MSTC) of São Paulo, have lived in the 22-storey highrise since 2002. The building had been closed and left in a rundown condition for years. The new residents cleaned out rubbish and litter, organized it, and expelled drug and other criminal boss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coluna Prestes
The ''Coluna Prestes'', also known as ''Coluna Miguel Costa-Prestes'', in English Prestes Column, was a social rebel movement that broke out in Brazil between 1925 and 1927, with links to the Tenente revolts. The rebellion's ideology was diffuse, but the main issues that caused it were the general dissatisfaction with the oligarchic First Brazilian Republic, the demand for the institution of the secret ballot, and the defense of better public education. The rebels marched some 25,000 km (15,534 mi) through the Brazilian countryside. They did not aim to defeat the forces of the Federal government in battle, but rather to ensure their survival and their ability to continue threatening the government. Uprising On 5 July 1924, on the second anniversary of the "18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt", armed revolt exploded in São Paulo. The ''Tenentes'' (English: lieutenants), young army officers that were deeply dissatisfied with the country's political and social landscape, under the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estação Júlio Prestes
Estação is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of 2020, the estimated population was 5,940. See also *List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), located in the South Region of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul is divided into 497 municipalities, which are grouped into 35 microregions, which are grouped into 7 mesoregio ... References Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
