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65 unusual facts about Rio de Janeiro


15 May Organization

The following year, the group unsuccessfully attempted to bomb a Pan Am flight in Rio de Janeiro, and then successfully detonated a bomb, killing only one passenger, aboard Pan Am Flight 830 on 11 August.

Alexander Finta

In Rio de Janeiro, Finta created many monuments, including Strength, a 12-foot granite statue for the Fluminenci Club.

Araripesuchus

Geologia do Departamento Nacional da Producao Mineral in Rio de Janeiro.

Arthur Wehnelt

Arthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt (April 4, 1871 in Rio de Janeiro – February 15, 1944 in Berlin) was a German physicist, noted for important contributions in the fields of X-ray physics, gas discharges and electron emission.

Bidu Sayão

She returned to visit Brazil a last time in 1995, for a tribute to her during the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and died a few years later at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine.

Brazilian legislative election, 1947

The elections were most notable for the continued growth of the Brazilian Communist Party, which won nearly 10% of the vote in the state elections, becoming the third party in the state of São Paulo (ahead of the UDN) and the single largest party in the federal capital, Rio de Janeiro.

Bruce Beresford-Redman

Beresford-Redman married Mónica Burgos on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bruno Giorgi

Bruno Giorgi (13 August 1905, Mococa – 1993, Rio de Janeiro) was an Italian Brazilian sculptor whose works are displayed at several national sites.

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino (Carioca Women's Football Championship, in English), organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation (FFERJ) is the women's football state championship of Rio de Janeiro State, and is contested since 1983.

Charlene Holt

In August, 1957 she was among nine models sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Rose Marie Reid Swim Suits of Los Angeles and the Eileen Ford Agency in New York.

Company Matsuo

He spent two weeks in Rio de Janeiro listening to police radio with local newsmen and filming accidents and murder scenes.

Edmar Figueira

His next signing after that must be noticed as he had the chance to play for club America Football Club from Rio de Janeiro.

Eduardo Hungaro

Eduardo Pedro Hungaro, known as Eduardo Hungaro (born August 16, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian football (soccer) manager.

Emerson Moisés Costa

Emerson Moisés Costa (born 12 April 1972 in Rio de Janeiro), simply Emerson, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Enéas Carneiro

Surprising political experts, he finished ahead of various established politicians, such as the then-governor of Rio de Janeiro (Leonel Brizola), the former governor of São Paulo (Orestes Quércia), and the then-governor of Santa Catarina (Esperidião Amin), with more than 1.5 million votes.

Fábio Santos da Silva

Fabio Santos da Silva, better known as Fabio (born 23 February 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), is a Brazilian footballer.

Gabriel Yared

There, the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals asked him to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Gustave Aimard

During his stay in Rio de Janeiro he had contact with Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil as is apparent from Aimard’s January, 11, 1880 letter to Pedro II which letter he signed with Gustave Aimard.

Harold Avery

The last Avery was heard from was in a postcard to his Aunt, written in 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

History of Brasília

President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a place close to the center of the country.

History of Portuguese wine

In Brazil, the wealthy market of Rio de Janeiro was given exclusively to the Douro producers at the expense of other Portuguese wine regions.

Ipanema/General Osório Station

Ipanema/General Osório is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Ipanema borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Irwin Edman

The United States Department of State and the Brazilian government in 1945 sponsored a series of lectures he gave in Rio de Janeiro.

J. T. Meirelles

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died at 67 years old in that same city.

Janete Clair

TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio de Janeiro.

Jardim Botânico

Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, a residential neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jeffrey Wittmer

His most notable performances include 5th place at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jillian D'Alessio

Four years later in Rio de Janeiro, D'Alessio won a gold medal in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-4 500 m.

Joe Vasconcelos

Joe Vasconcelos (born December 14, 1966) is an Brazilian/American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

John Bramley-Moore

As a young man he went out to Brazil to engage in commerce, and lived for several years at Rio de Janeiro, where in 1828 he entertained the officers of the exploring ships HMS Beagle and HMS Adventure.

Leonardo Santiago

Leonardo started at the Nova Safra football school in Rio de Janeiro and was raised in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood, which is also the area where Romário spent his early years.

Lummus Park, Miami Beach

The sidewalk is inspired to Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx's oceanfront walk along Copacabana Beach near Rio de Janeiro.

Magda Lupescu

Lupescu did not tolerate well Mexico City’s high altitude, so in 1944 they moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Marchmont House

He sold it to Captain Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, who inherited a considerable fortune from his uncles who had built the harbour at Rio de Janeiro.

Marcia Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

María Pilar Fernández

Sixteen years after competing in her first Olympics, Fernandez qualified for her fifth Spanish team, as a 46-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second in the air pistol from the second meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a score of 783.2 points.

MATA Trolley

There is also car 1794, which was originally an open-sided car from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but was heavily rebuilt and enclosed before entering service in Memphis.

Mayuto Correa

He was born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro and began playing in local bands there from the age of 12.

Moodna olivella

It was described by Hampson in 1901, and is known from Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro, the type location).

Mustapha Haciane

He wrote two other pieces: back in Algeria he wrote La Vocation de 'abus et L'Escalier d'en face ("The Calling of abuse and the staircase opposite") and in Rio de Janeiro he began to write Les Orphelins de l'Empereur ("The Children of the Emperor").

Nachaba congrualis

It was described by Walker in 1859, and is known from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

National Kid

A series of graffiti with the phrase "Celacanto Provoca Maremoto" ("coelacanth causes tsunami"), referencing the villains' submarine, appeared in several spots of Rio de Janeiro in 1977 as a meme.

Oloff Hennig

Oloff visited him many times whilst Biggs lived in exile in Rio de Janeiro.

Papal conclave, 1922

Cardinals José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia, Giuseppe Prisco and Lev Skrbenský z Hříště did not attend for reasons of health, whilst the four non-European cardinals – William Henry O'Connell of Boston, Denis Dougherty of Philadelphia, Louis-Nazaire Bégin of Québec City and Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro – did not arrive in time and missed the conclave.

Princess Leopoldina of Brazil

Leopoldina Teresa Francisca Carolina Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga was born at the Palácio de São Cristóvão ("Palace of St Christopher") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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# Peter August Ludwig Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga (Rio de Janeiro, 19 May 1866 – Vienna, 6 July 1934); successor of his father in 1907.

Reinaldo de Souza

Reinaldo de Souza or simply Reinaldo (born June 8, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian striker.

Rene Belmonte

After moving to Rio de Janeiro in 2001 he worked at Total Entertainment for three years, evaluating and developing projects in-house.

Resende Futebol Clube

Resende Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Resende, is a Brazilian football club from Resende, Rio de Janeiro state.

Rhodes Memorial

An alternative memorial to him never materialised: a massive "colossus of Rhodes" statue overlooking Cape Town from the summit of Lion's Head, rather like the statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Robert L. Fish

In 1960, while working in Rio de Janeiro, where he had lived for the previous decade, Fish submitted his first short story to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Samuel C. Upham

In January 1849, Upham sailed on The Osceola to San Francisco, via Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana, arriving in California on August 5, 1849 and participating in the California Gold Rush.

Standard Steel Car Company

Hansen established a car shop in LaRochelle, France for SSC in 1917, and SSC also controlled a plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stefan Krauter

From 1998 until 2005 he held the position of a visiting professor for Alternative Energies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-COPPE-EE) and at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Brazil.

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He initiated and organized in Rio de Janeiro several congresses (RIO 02/3/5/6/9 - World Climate & Energy Events) and the Latin America Renewable Energy Fair (LAREF), to sustain the vision of the UNCED Earth Summit of Rio 1992 in that area.

Stefan Sittig

Although he was born in the U.S., Sittig's mother is Uruguayan and he was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thomas Lopez

He travels widely, recording environments from such locations as Morocco, Mexico, India, Bali, Sumatra, Java, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon and the United States.

Tomé de Sousa

In 1552, Sousa suggested that Rio de Janeiro might be a potential area for settlement and in 1553 he returned to Portugal to work under the King, acting as his adviser on Brazilian affairs.

Toots Mondt

In April 1963, Buddy Rogers was awarded the WWWF World Heavyweight title, supposedly for winning a tournament for the title in Rio de Janeiro, a fictitious storyline created by Toots Mondt.

Tumblepop

Rio de Janeiro: near the Statue of Christ the Redeemer: with several fire monsters; the boss is a dragon made out of fire.

United Nations Art Collection

He decided to paint them in Rio de Janeiro, and they were latter assembled in the headquarters.

William D. Puleston

Under Puleston's period as Director, Congress authorized the expansion of the staff in Washington and established new attaché offices in 1936 at Rio de Janeiro and Lima, Peru.

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.

Xystreurys

Xystreurys is a genus of large-tooth flounders with one species, X. liolepis, found along the Pacific coast of North America from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of California and the other, X. rasile, found along the Atlantic coast of South America from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the southern tip of Argentina.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

On July 3, more 19 cases were confirmed: 7 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Rio de Janeiro, 2 in Rio Grande do Sul, 1 in Paraná and the first in Mato Grosso do Sul.

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Caius Brediceanu

minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro (covering the Romanian relations with Brazil, Argentina and Chile (1923–1927))

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The four most important Rio de Janeiro Men's football teams (Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Botafogo and Fluminense) contested in all editions of the competition between 1995 and 2000.

Carlos César Ramos Custódio

Carlos César Ramos Custódio also known as Carlos César (born February 27, 1943 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a football manager who last worked for Bangu.

Carnaval San Francisco

The four Carnaval Cities with the greatest influence and presence in the San Francisco Carnaval are the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador as well as Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Havana, Cuba, and Oruro, Bolivia.

Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is a Benedictine school for boys in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil with a history that dates back more than 150 years.

Cultura Inglesa

The Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas (Culturas Inglesas Brazilian Association), widely known simply as Cultura Inglesa (English Culture) is an English-teaching franchise founded in 1934 and with branches present in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia and their surroundings.

Dario Alejandro Gasco

Gasco spotted officially on his major international debut at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he delivered a bronze-medal time of 2:07:37 in the men's cross-country race, trailing behind U.S. rider Adam Craig and Brazil's Rubens Donizete within a two-minute gap.

Enrique Mosconi

That year Mosconi was awarded a medal by the Academy of Science and Art of Rio de Janeiro, in recognition for his work.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Gabriel Chagas

Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born December 7, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

Gorham Parks

He ended his political career as United States Consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1845–1849), a post later occupied by his former opponent Edward Kent

ICRANet

The second is in Rome University "Sapienza" and the third and fourth ones are being established in Nice and Rio de Janeiro.

ImageMagica

The photographer searched stories from all over Brazil, from big cities, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, to small isolated villages in the Amazon.

Jan Timman

However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.

Japanese cruiser Asama

On 21 August 1920, it made a training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbo, Durban, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Tahiti, Truk and Saipan, thus circumnavigating the globe east to west.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

José Leite Lopes

In 1937, while presenting a paper to a scientific conference in Rio de Janeiro, the young student met Brazilian physicist Mário Schenberg and was introduced by him in São Paulo to Italian physicists Luigi Fantappiè and Gleb Wataghin.

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57).

Luiz Filipe Coelho

At the age of 12, he won awards in several national competitions in the cities of Juíz de Fora-MG, Piracicaba-SP and Rio de Janeiro-RJ.

Marco Kreuzpaintner

The film is a romantic comedy which will be filmed in English, and deals with a woman from London, who falls in love with a young man from Rio de Janeiro.

Michel Souza da Silva

Michel Souza da Silva, simply known as Michel (born 22 August 1986 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Al-Wakrah Sport Club on loan from S.L. Benfica, as a striker.

Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube

Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube, or Nova Iguaçu as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Nova Iguaçu in Rio de Janeiro, founded on April 1, 1990.

Presunto

In Brazil, nevertheless, hams in general are called presuntos altogether (except by people used to the Portuguese terminology, usually in areas with heavy Portuguese immigration such as Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis), and this is the name used in the market for common hams.

Quintieri

The first Italian emigrants with this surname went to Nova Friburgo, a small town near Rio de Janeiro, in the end of the 19th Century.

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

Soccerex

The cancellation of its 18th annual industry conference, scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro in November 2013, caused concern that there might be problems with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, due to be held in Brazil in June and July of the following year.

State football leagues in Brazil

Some examples are Fla-Flu, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians-Palmeiras in São Paulo, Atlético-Cruzeiro in Minas Gerais, Naútico-Sport in Pernambuco, Gre–Nal in Rio Grande do Sul, Atle-Tiba, in Paraná etc.

Teodoras Daukantas

He was Lithuanian Consul General in Rio de Janeiro (1932–1935) and Minister Plenipotentiary of South America (1936–1939).

Uruguayan War

On 1 January 1865, one brigade (composed of two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion) with 1,700 men from the Brazilian province of Rio de Janeiro disembarked and occupied the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos.

Venetian National Party

One of the party's candidates, Angela Cristina Oliveira da Silva, was killed in the explosion of Air France's flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Working Group on Women in Physics

To carry out this charge the Working Group has organized three Conferences (Paris, 2002, Rio de Janeiro, 2005 and Seoul, 2008) gathering teams from more than 60 countries, raising data about the situation of women in physics in different countries and distributing a survey (organized by the American Institute of Physics) about the status of women in physics.