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Vasconcellos
Vasconcelos (also Vasconcellos) is a Portuguese surname. Today it can be found in Portugal, Brazil, and elsewhere in the Portuguese-speaking world. People * Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos (1837–1880), Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, India, in the 19th century. *Ana Vasconcelos (born 1981), Brazilian water polo player. *António-Pedro Vasconcelos (born 1939), Portuguese film director. *Augusto de Vasconcelos (1867–1951), Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat. *Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (1890–1982), Brazilian cardinal. *Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos (1851–1925), Portuguese philologist. *Doroteo Vasconcelos (1803–1883), President of El Salvador in the 19th century. *Fernanda Vasconcellos (born 1984), a Brazilian movie, theater and television actress. * Fernando De Almeida Vasconcellos (1919–1996), Brazilian chess master. * Gabriel Monteiro Vasconcelos (born 1996), Brazilian footballer * Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira (born 1992), Brazilian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefina De Vasconcellos
Josefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos (26 October 1904 – 20 July 2005) was an English sculptor who worked in bronze, stone, wood, lead and perspex. She was at one time the world's oldest living sculptor. She lived in Cumbria much of her working life. Her most famous work includes ''Reconciliation'' (Coventry Cathedral, University of Bradford); ''Holy Family'' (Liverpool Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral); ''Mary and Child'' (St. Paul's Cathedral); and ''Nativity'' (at Christmas) at St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Trafalgar Square). Biography de Vasconcellos was born in Molesey in Surrey; she was the only child of Hippolyto de Vasconcellos, a Brazilian diplomat and Freda Coleman, an English Quaker. After drawing lessons at Bournemouth Art School, de Vasconcellos studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London and, after the award of a Bronze Medal for Design in Sculpture during 1923, she studied in Florence under Guido Calore and Libero Andreotti before enrolling in the Académ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vasconcellos
John Bernard Vasconcellos Jr. (May 11, 1932 – May 24, 2014) was an American politician from California and member of the Democratic Party. He represented Silicon Valley as a member of the California State Assembly for 30 years and a California State Senator for 8 years. His lifelong interest in psychology led to his advocacy of the self-esteem movement in California politics. Early life Vasconcellos came from Portuguese (paternal) and German (maternal) roots. He graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory and Santa Clara University. After graduating ''magna cum laude'' and valedictorian of his class from Santa Clara, Vasconcellos spent two years as a lieutenant in the United States Army, serving in West Germany. Upon his return, he reenrolled in SCU, obtaining a law degree in 1959. He joined the law firm of Ruffo & Chadwick; after a year, he joined the staff of Governor Pat Brown for one year before returning to the firm. Career In 1966, Vasconcellos ran for and won a seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda Vasconcellos
Fernanda de Vasconcellos Galvez (born 14 September 1984) is a Brazilian actress and voice actress. Career Vasconcellos worked as a model starring in several TV commercials and as a dancer in SBT's Domingo Legal show before becoming an actress. Fernanda played the lead role of Betina in the 2005 season of Malhação working with actor Thiago Rodrigues. After leaving Malhação, she played an art student character named Nanda in the 2006 Globo Globo (meaning ''globe'' in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian) may refer to: *Grupo Globo, a Brazilian conglomerate primarily in mass media **TV Globo, a television network ***GloboNews, a television 24-hour news channel ***Globo (Portuguese TV cha ... telenovela Páginas da Vida. This was her second time as Thiago Rodrigues' love interest. Vasconcellos won the Best Newcomer Actress Award for this performance. Next, she played the lead role of Clara in the 2007 telenovela Desejo Proibido. Set in a fictional 1930s city located in Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (16 July 1890 – 18 September 1982) was a long-serving cardinal. Until Eugênio de Araújo Sales surpassed him in 2005, he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal, and during his cardinalate the Church in Brazil underwent tremendous expansion, involving the development of many new movements that were to develop after he had largely disappeared from the scene. Biography Originally from a small village in the state of Minas Gerais, the future Cardinal gained his education in the local seminary in the city of Mariana. He was ordained in 1918, and spent much of the next fifteen years in the state capital of Belo Horizonte as a seminary rector. He became a bishop in 1932, but only of a titular see. His first proper appointment as a diocesan bishop was to the Archdiocese of São Luis in the remote state of Maranhão three years later, but Motta attracted no wider attention until he was promoted to Brazil's most prestigious see in São Paulo in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando De Almeida Vasconcellos
Fernando De Almeida Vasconcellos (29 December 1919 - November 1996) was a Brazilian chess player. He was a Brazilian Chess Championship silver medalist (1950). Biography De Almeida Vasconcellos participated in twelve Brazilian Chess Championships (1948-1985) and won a silver medal in 1950. In 1951, he represented Brazil in the World Chess Championship South America Zonal tournament. In 1952 he played for Brazil at the 10th Chess Olympiad The 10th Chess Olympiad ( fi, 10. Shakkiolympialaiset; sv, Den 10:e Schackolympiad), organized by the FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team ... in Helsinki, at the second reserve board (+3, =1, -4). From 1952 to 1954 he led the chess section of the newspaper ''Diário de Notícias'' and co-edited ''Chess Carioca'' magazine''.'' In 1977, he won the Brasília City Chess Championship, and in 1989 won the Brazilian Senior Chess Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in '' The Maltese Falcon'' (1941). Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. When talkies arrived, her voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year. After she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, film offers returned, and she resumed her career in sound pictures. In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over their daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, she went on to greater film success, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Mauro De Vasconcelos
José Mauro de Vasconcelos (February 26, 1920 – July 24, 1984) was a Brazilian writer. Biography José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26, 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical faculty, Mauro abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro. There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model. Mauro initiated his literature with the novel ''Banana Brava''. His greatest success was his novel My Sweet Orange Tree (''Meu Pé de Laranja Lima'') that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life. The story centers around little José, a 5-year-old boy who is being raised in a poor family with many brothers and sisters in Bangu, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Partly because he rarely sees his parents, who are out to work long hours and only co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Leite De Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira De Melo
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Maria Botelho De Vasconcelos
José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos is an Angolan politician. He was the Minister of Petroleum. Career Vasconcelos was Minister of Petroleum from 1999 to 2002. In the latter year, he was replaced as Minister of Petroleum by Desiderio Costa Desiderio is both a surname and a given name in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Desidério), derived from the Latin Desiderius. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Monsù Desiderio (1593–1620), French painter * Reginald B. Desideri ... and was instead appointed as Minister of Energy and Water. Following the September 2008 parliamentary election, Vasconcelos was again appointed as Minister of Petroleum on October 1, 2008. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Brazilian Writers
This is a list of Brazilian writers, those born in Brazil or who have established citizenship or residency. Writers for children * Ana Maria Machado (born 1941) * Francisco Marins (1922–2016) * Lúcia Machado de Almeida (1910–2005) * Júlio César de Mello e Souza (1895–1974), best known as Malba Tahan * Maria Clara Machado (1921–2001) * José Bento Monteiro Lobato (1882–1948) * Socorro Acioli (born 1975) * Daniel Munduruku (born 1964) Chroniclers * Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) * Fernando Sabino (1923–2004) * João do Rio (1881–1921) * João Ubaldo Ribeiro (1941–2014) * José de Côrtes Duarte (1895–1982) * Luis Fernando Verissimo (born 1936) * Paulo Mendes Campos (1922–1991) * Pedro Bloch (1914–2004) * Rubem Braga (1913–1990) * Tati Bernardi (born 1979) Short story writers * Adrino Aragão (born 1936) * Aníbal Machado (1894–1964) * Alcântara Machado (1901–1935) * Dalton Trevisan (born 1925) * João Simões Lopes Neto ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Vasconcelos
Héctor Enrique Vasconcelos y Cruz is a Mexican diplomat. He is the former Mexican Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland. He was expected to be appointed the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico) by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but was subsequently replaced by Marcelo Ebrard on 5 July 2018 as he was elected to be senator instead. One of his main goals is to improve NAFTA. Early years He is the only child of politician and writer José Vasconcelos and pianist Esperanza Cruz Esperanza is the Spanish word for hope, and may refer to: Places Philippines * Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, a municipality * Esperanza, Masbate, a municipality * Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat, a municipality United States * Esperanza, Mississippi, an .... He would study music in school. Professional life References Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Mexican diplomats Year of birth missing (living people) Ambassadors of Mexico to Denmark Ambassadors of Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
