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Velho Manuel
Velho is Portuguese for ''old'', and may be a surname as well as part of a toponym. It may refer to: People * Álvaro Velho, Portuguese sailor or soldier * Bartolomeu Velho (d. 1568), Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer * Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705), Portuguese bandeirante * Fernão Velho (14th century), Portuguese nobleman * Gonçalo Velho Cabral (1400–1460), Portuguese monk * Luiz Velho (born 1956), Brazilian mathematician * Maria Velho da Costa (1938–2020), Portuguese writer * Nuno Velho Cabral (15th Century), Portuguese nobleman * Ricardo Velho (born 1998), Portuguese football player * Soccor Velho Soccor Velho (27 July 1983 – 22 June 2013) was an Indian footballer who last played for Air India in the I-League. He previously played for Cabral, Golden Gunners and Central Railway. Life and career Velho was born in Goa, where he play ... (1983–2013), Indian football player Places * Velho River (São Paulo), Brazil * {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Velho
Álvaro Velho (15th-16th century, born in Barreiro, Portugal) was a Portuguese sailor or soldier who took part in the first Portuguese expedition by sea to India, led by Vasco da Gama in 1497. Velho is one of the purported authors of the anonymous ''Journal of Vasco Da Gama's trip of 1497'' (the other being João de Sá). This work survives in a single manuscript copy preserved at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal of Porto and first published in Porto in 1838 by Diogo Kopke. In 1945, historian Franz Hümmerich identified the author of this manuscript with an Álvaro Velho who had spent eight years in Guinea and provided information about the Gambia region to Valentim Fernandes Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a printer who lived in Portugal. An ethnic German originally from Moravia, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classica .... However, more recent studies by Carmen Radulet hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeu Velho
Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer. Velho prepared the Carta General do Orbe (General Chart of the Globe) in 1561 for Sebastian of Portugal Sebastian ( pt, Sebastião I ; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and hi .... He moved to France where he worked on his treatise ''Cosmographia'' which was published in Paris in 1568, the year of his death. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Velho, Bartolomeu Portuguese cartographers 16th-century births 1568 deaths 16th-century Portuguese people 16th-century cartographers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for the repression of several indigenous nations in Bahia and especially Piauí, which he is reputed to have been the first colonist to explore. His greater fame, however, is due to his conquest of the Quilombo dos Palmares, in the hinterland of Alagoas, on behalf of João da Cunha Souto Maior, governor of Pernambuco. Velho accepted the assignment and, in 1694, with an army of amerindians and mamelucos, European Native American offspring, overran the fortified city of Macacos, on the Serra da Barriga mountain. According to the bishop of Olinda at the time, he did not speak Portuguese fluently but rather the língua geral, a lingua franca based on Tupian languages The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernão Velho
Fernão Velho (born 14th-century) was a Portuguese nobleman, who served during the Kingdom of Portugal as Alcaide of Veleda. and squire of Peter, Duke of Coimbra. Biography Fernão was born in Portugal, the son of Gonçalo Anes Velho, o Contador, and Margarida Annes Durró, belonging to a noble Portuguese family. His wife was Maria Álvares Cabral, daughter or granddaughter of Álvaro Gil Cabral, Lord of Belmonte, and Catarina Anes de Loureiro, a noble lady, belonging to the Casa do Loureiro. Fernão Velho and Maria Álvares Cabral were the parents of Gonçalo Velho Cabral Gonçalo Velho Cabral ( 1400 – c. 1460) was a Portuguese monk and Commander in the Order of Christ, explorer (credited with the discovery of the Formigas, the re-discovery of the islands of Santa Maria and São Miguel in the Azores) and hered ..., the discoverer of the Santa Maria and São Miguel Islands.{{cite book, title=Frei Gonçalo Velho - Volumen1, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0w6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonçalo Velho Cabral
Gonçalo Velho Cabral ( 1400 – c. 1460) was a Portuguese monk and Commander in the Order of Christ, explorer (credited with the discovery of the Formigas, the re-discovery of the islands of Santa Maria and São Miguel in the Azores) and hereditary landowner responsible for administering Crown lands on the same islands, during the Portuguese Age of Discovery. Biography Early life He was son of Fernão Velho, Lord and ''Alcaide'' of Veleda, and his wife Maria Álvares Cabral (great-aunt of Pedro Álvares Cabral). His siblings Álvaro Velho Cabral, Teresa Velho Cabral, wife of Fernão Soares de Albergaria, and Violante Velho Cabral, wife of Diogo Gonçalves de Travassos also established settlements in the Azores with their families. Although referenced as ''Gonçalo Velho Cabral'' in most modern biographies, he is generally referred to as ''Gonçalo Velho'' in historical documents. Explorer In 1431, Gonçalo Velho was in the Vila de Tancos, along the Tagus River, when he receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Velho
Luiz Carlos Pacheco Rodrigues Velho (born 5 June 1956) is a Brazilian applied mathematician working primarily on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a full researcher and professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and leading scientist of VISGRAF, laboratory that conducts researches in the field of modeling, rendering, imaging, and animation. In 2010, Luiz Velho received the National Order of Scientific Merit for his scientific and technical contributions. In 2005, he was keynote speaker iEurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing in Vienna. His academic background includes a BE in industrial design fro a specialization in computer science from PUC-Rio, a MS in computer graphics from the MIT Media Lab, a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Velho Da Costa
Maria de Fátima de Bivar Velho da Costa (26 June 1938 – 23 May 2020) was a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part in the Portuguese Feminist Movement, and became one of the authors of the book '' Novas Cartas Portugesas'' (''New Portuguese Letters''), together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barreno. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution. Biography Maria Velho da Costa was born on 26 June 1938 in Lisbon. She was born out of wedlock but later legitimated by the marriage of her parents, Afonso Jaime de Bivar Moreira de Brito Velho da Costa and his second wife, Julieta Vaz Monteiro da Assunção. Her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Velho Cabral
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Ricardo Velho
Mário Ricardo Silva Velho (born 20 August 1998) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Farense as a goalkeeper. Club career On 23 August 2017, Velho made his professional debut with Braga B in a 2017–18 LigaPro The 2017–18 LigaPro (also known as Ledman LigaPro for sponsorship reasons) was the 28th season of Portuguese football's second-tier league, and the fourth season under the current LigaPro title. A total of 20 teams competed in this division, in ... match against Penafiel. References External links * * 1998 births Sportspeople from Vila Nova de Famalicão Footballers from Braga District Living people Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers S.C. Braga B players S.C. Farense players Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players {{Portugal-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccor Velho
Soccor Velho (27 July 1983 – 22 June 2013) was an Indian footballer who last played for Air India in the I-League. He previously played for Cabral, Golden Gunners and Central Railway. Life and career Velho was born in Goa, where he played football for Cabral before joining Golden Gunners of the Mumbai District Football Association's Elite Division in 2005. Described in the ''Hindustan Times'' as "the potent firepower in Golden Gunners arsenal", Velho scored seven of Gunners' twelve goals as they finished in fourth place and qualified for the championship stage, but was not afraid to admit he needed to work on his finishing. He represented Maharashtra in the 2005–06 Santosh Trophy, scored four goals as his team progressed through the group stages, and flicked on Rauf Khan's corner to open the scoring in the final, albeit in a losing cause as Goa won 3–1 after extra time. Rated by ''Daily News and Analysis'' as one of the "finds of the tournament", he was named among t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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