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100 unusual facts about São paulo


1975 Pan American Games

The Brazilian city of São Paulo was then awarded the games, but was forced to withdraw on October 17, 1974 due to financial problems and a meningitis outbreak.

2008 Clube Atlético Juventus season

The following is a summary of the campaign of Clube Atlético Juventus in 2008, a football club based in São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil.

2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

One in Santa Catarina, this contracted the flu inside the country and one in Tocantins and one in São Paulo.

Two people who had arrived in Brazil from Mexico with symptoms of an undefined illness were hospitalized in São Paulo on April 25.

9 more deaths were of confirmed in that day, 2 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio Grande do Sul and the first in Rio de Janeiro.

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.

On June 28, 36 more new cases were confirmed by the Minister of Health: 14 of them in São Paulo, 6 in Rio de Janeiro, 5 in Rio Grande do Sul, 5 in Distrito Federal, 3 in Pernambuco, 2 in Goiás and 1 in Tocantins.

On June 11, after the WHO elevate a pandemic the swine flu outbreak, the Minister of Health confirmed more 9 cases in the country: 2 in São Paulo, 1 in Rio de Janeiro, 2 in Santa Catarina, 3 in Minas Gerais and 1 in Tocantins.

Antônio de Barros Carvalho

A landowner in Palmares, he was an Inspector of consumption tax in Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and later a Superintendent Inspector of federal taxation.

Associação Atlética São Bento

The club existed between 1914 and 1935 and won the State Championship of São Paulo in 1914 and twice.

Associação Ferroviária de Esportes

In 1994, the club was the runner-up of the Brazilian Série C, after losing to Novorizontino 1–0 in the first leg, at home, and 5–0 in the second leg, in Novo Horizonte.

Avare

:For the city in São Paulo, Brazil, see Avaré, São Paulo

Banco Pan

Currently the bank headquartered in São Paulo is one of the largest midsize banks in Brazil, and has many competitors, as Daycoval, BicBanco, Banco Pine, and others.

Batushansky

Due to mass Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, this surname and its variations occur in many parts in the world, including USA, Israel, France, Portugal and Brazil (Pernambuco and São Paulo).

Bïa Krieger

She began a university degree in Journalism at São Paulo but quit and relocated to Europe, where she spent a few years sailing around the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Big Brother Brasil 1

The winner was 24-year-old dancer Kléber de Paula, from Campinas, São Paulo.

Black Movement of Brazil

Movimento Negro (or Black Movement) is a generic name given to the diverse Afro-Brazilian social movements that occurred in 20th-century Brazil, particularly those movements that appeared in post-World War II Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Brazil São Paulo 500 Years Open

The tournament was held at the São Paulo Golf Club in São Paulo.

Brazilian Rubber Technology Association

ABTB will issue the IRC2011 in São Paulo, Brazil, this will be the first IRC conference on Latin America.

Brazilians of Spanish descent

In his genealogical account of the settling of São Paulo, Pedro Taques de Almeida Paes Leme, also mentions the three Rendon brothers, Juan Matheus Rendon, Francisco Rendon de Quebedo and Pedro Matheus Rendon Cabeza de Vaca, as well as Diogo Lara, form Zamora.

Cheng Fei

Cheng also won the gold medal on the vault at the 2006 World Cup Final in São Paulo, Brazil.

Club Athletico Paulistano

In 1902 the first championship of São Paulo was held and the São Paulo Athletic club secured the first three titles, with Paulistano being runner up on each occasion.

Compañía Aeronáutica Uruguaya

In the end, the airline announced its intention to operate a Montevideo to São Paulo route and a Montevideo to Miami route, but these routes never materialized.

Conrado Dess

Conrado is currently studying drama at Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo.

Cunhambebe

The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village.

Diana Pineda

She claimed three medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.

Diante do Trono

Although they're the top selling gospel band, they became well known by the large number of people drawn to their annual live recordings, such as the 2 million people in the recording of their 2003 live album Quero Me Apaixonar, in São Paulo.

Dr. Fritz

After Queiroz's death, Dr. Fritz has been allegedly channeled by Rubens Farias Jr. (1954– ) of São Paulo; who claims that Dr. Fritz has predicted his own violent death.

Dudu do Banjo

Francisco Eduardo de Souza Pereira or Dudu (São Paulo, 4 June 1935) is a Brazilian Banjoist and Guitar Player known as "The king of banjo"

Eleanor Put Your Boots On

Promotion for the single included two videos: one for "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" and one for B-side Wine in the Afternoon (recorded at Trama Studios, São Paulo, Brazil), making the B-side a video-clip-only single.

Eligio Pichardo

He participated in important biennial art exhibitions held throughout the world, including São Paulo, Madrid and Paris.

Esporte Clube Santo André

Esporte Clube Santo André, also known as Santo André, is a Brazilian football team from Santo André, São Paulo state.

Esporte Clube São Martinho

In 2008 won the runner-up in the Amateur Championship Football (LITAFU), earning the right to participate in the Amateur Championship of the State of São Paulo.

Esporte Clube Taubaté

Esporte Clube Taubaté, also known as Taubaté, is a Brazilian football team in Taubaté, São Paulo.

Fábio Fernandes

In 1989, at 27 years old, he became creative deputy director of Young & Rubicam in São Paulo.

Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Its campus is located in the city of Limeira, which is 55 km from the main UNICAMP campus in Campinas, both located in the state of São Paulo.

FAU-USP

It was founded in 1948 by a group of teachers from Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo.

Felipe França Silva

Felipe Alves França da Silva (born May 14, 1987 in Suzano, São Paulo) is a breaststroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his country at the 2008 Olympics.

FIA WTCC Race of Brazil

The 2011 Race of Brazil had originally been scheduled to be held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo but reverted to Curitiba a month before the event owing to renovation works being carried out at the Interlagos circuit.

Fire bike

The São Paulo Fire Department of Brazil use teams of two fire bikes to bring down first response times to fire or medical emergencies in the congested streets of São Paulo from 10–15 minutes to just 5 minutes.

Francisco Rodrigues da Silva

Having developed their reputation in São Paulo Nunca and the Pandolfos were invited to participate in a street-art exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London that led to a significant re-evaluation of their work by their home city.

Franco Fabbri

Born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the West German record critics, coming ahead of Police.

Frederick Noronha

Frederick Noronha (born on 23 December 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an independent journalist based in Saligão in the Bardez taluka of Goa.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo, or FAPESP) is a public foundation located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the aim of providing grants, funds and programs to support research, education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo.

Galabin Boevski

He was arrested on 27 October 2011 while trying to board a plane in São Paulo, Brazil, to Europe with 9 kilos of cocaine.

Gerardo Galeote Quecedo

Gerardo Galeote Quecedo (born January 27, 1957 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a lawyer and former Spanish Member of the European Parliament from 2001-09.

Gilad Bloom

During his career he won four tour doubles titles (at Tel Aviv and São Paulo in 1987, and at Seoul and Umag in 1991).

Gilberto Righi

Gilberto Righi (1937–1999) was an important earthworm taxonomist from São Paulo, Brazil, who helped define the magnitude of his country's diverse soil fauna.

Gustavo Mendonca

One year after starting his professional career as a commercial artist, Gustavo entered and won an talent search competition held by a São Paulo-based agency that was looking for local talent to work for international markets in United States, Canada, and Europe.

Homem Primata

Then, in now colorful shots, the band starts tagging a 1950s truck with graffiti (illustrations include the anarchist symbol) before they start performing the song on board of it while someone drives it through the center of São Paulo.

Hook turn

São Paulo - The hook turn is not official there, but the driver can often apply it in order to achieve a quicker conversion.

House of Sanguszko

By the later 20th century, the family was represented by a single person, Prince Paul (born 1973), who resides in São Paulo.

Integrated Biodiesel Industries

With its corporate headquarters in São Paulo, IBI's production is located in Argentina, where one 25,000 mt / yr plant is operating, another 50,000 mt / yr plant is under construction and a third 50,000 mt / yr is being planned.

International Association of Visual Semiotics

Ana Claudia de Oliveira, from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, was elected president during the congress held in Sao Paulo in 1996, and Paolo Fabbri, from the University of Bologna, was elected president in Siena in 1998.

Ivo Perelman

Ivo Perelman (born January 12, 1961) is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in São Paulo.

Jamison Brewer

Late in 2009, Brewer was signed by Esporte Clube Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil, until the end of the Brazilian League season.

Jerry Shipp

At the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil, the U.S. swept the competition en route to a perfect 6–0 record.

Jonathan Scott-Taylor

He was born in São Paulo, Brazil to English parents; his father was a consultant for the fishery industry in Brazil at the time.

Joseph Safra

As the chairman of all Safra companies, among them Safra National Bank of New York and the large Banco Safra headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, he is ranked at 46 with a net wealth of 15.9$ billion on Forbes list of billionaires.

Juvenal Gomes da Silva

Juvenal Gomes da Silva (born 5 June 1979 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian footballer, who plays in Lithuanian A Lyga, for FK Šiauliai.

Keston Bledman

On 7 July 2007, at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in São Paulo, Brazil, he upset the Jamaican Yohan Blake in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.32 seconds (−1.1 m/s wind).

Law of Brazil

Some states, as São Paulo and Minas Gerais, used to have Court of Appeals (Tribunal de Alçada in Portuguese) which had different jurisdiction.

In 1827, the first law schools in Brazil, the Academies of Law and Social Sciences in São Paulo and Olinda.

Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde

Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Literature in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Portuguese language), acronym LILACS, is an on-line bibliographic database in medicine and health sciences, maintained by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (also known as BIREME, located in São Paulo, Brazil.

Live in Brazil: 20 November 2007

Gong Global Family – Live in Brazil 2007 is a live album and DVD by Gong in their Global Family format, recorded on 20 November 2007 at the SESI theatre in São Paulo, but not released until 2009 by Voiceprint, catalogue number VP520CD.

Lucas Piazon

Piazon was born in São Paulo, to Antonio Carlos Piazon, a commercial representative, and Marizabel Domingues, a lawyer.

Luis Villarroel

He claimed three medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.

Luiza Possi

In 1999, Luiza was invited to go on stage and sing a song with a band that was opening a show by Skank at Credicard Hall in São Paulo.

Marcelo Dascal

Marcelo Dascal is a graduate of philosophy and electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Matheus Nachtergaele

Matheus Nachtergaele (born 3 January 1969, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian actor and director.

Melophobia

"Come a Little Closer" was inspired by a morning in which Shultz woke up in a São Paulo hotel and opened his window to watch the sunrise over the villas.

Michel M. Liès

Together with his wife he then journeyed to Brazil where he served in São Paulo and Mogi Guaçu as Chief Financial Officer of a ceramics company.

Minga Guazú

Guaraní International Airport, located in the west side of the district, offers regular flights to Asunción, São Paulo, and connections with other flights.

Missão Artística Francesa

In the 20th century, the French Artistic Mission had continued in São Paulo to the foundation of the University of São Paulo, with the support of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in 1934.

Morpho thamyris

The Thamyris Morpho, Morpho thamyris, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Paraguay and Brazil (Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul).

Música sertaneja

It was born from recordings made by journalist and writer Cornélio Pires of "tales" and fragments of traditional songs in the interior of rural São Paulo, north and west of Paraná, south Minas Gerais and Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás and Mato Grosso southeast.

Nepheline syenite

Rocks of this class also occur in Brazil (Serra de Tingua) containing sodalite and often much augite, in the western Sahara and Cape Verde Islands; also at Zwarte Koppies in the Transvaal, Madagascar, São Paulo in Brazil, Paisano Pass in West Texas and Montreal, Canada.

Níquel Náusea

It first appeared in 1985 in the São Paulo newspaper Folha, when its creator won a contest for new comic artists.

Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo

The Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP), also known as IO-USP, due to its name in Portuguese, was founded in 1946.

Pé na Jaca

Arthur, who spends the holidays at his uncle's farm planter jackfruit; Elizabeth, the daughter of a seamstress; Guinevere, the daughter of a maid, Mary, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and Lancelotti, the son of a settler's farm, are, by chance, on the edge of a river in São Paulo, in God Free Me, village near Piracicaba.

Pedreira

Pedreira, São Paulo, a city and municipality in São Paulo state, Brazil

Pricesaurus

In 1986, Rafael Gioia Martins-Neto in a lecture during the 38th Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência at São Paulo, reported the find of a pterosaur, that he named Pricesaurus megalodon.

Prince Eugenio, Duke of Genoa

::*Maria Cristina Frioli (born and died in 1973 in São Paulo)

Princess Lucia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

::*Maria Luce Lydia Frioli (born 15 August 1978 in São Paulo)

Pró-Vida

PRÓ-VIDA began in 1978, in the district of Moema, in São Paulo city, when Dr. Celso created Pró-Mente, where he himself gave courses about mental development and training.

Ramón Fumadó

He claimed two gold medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.

Raphael Guzzo

Raphael Gregorio Guzzo (born 6 January 1995 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian-born, Portuguese footballer who plays for Benfica B, as a midfielder.

Red Bull Brasil

Red Bull Brasil is a Brazilian football club located in Campinas, São Paulo founded on November 19, 2007.

Rede Manchete

It first aired on June 5, 1983 in Rio de Janeiro and simultaneously in other 5 Brazilian cities, like São Paulo on Rede Exclesior's old channel 9 frequency.

Rio Branco Esporte Clube

Rio Branco Esporte Clube, usually known simply as Rio Branco or as Rio Branco-SP, is a Brazilian football (soccer) club based in the city of Americana in the São Paulo state of Brazil.

Sacix

Sacix is a Debian Pure Blend originally created to support the educational and free software diffusion goals of the Telecentres project of the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Saltimbanco

The show played for another nine years, becoming the first Cirque du Soleil show to tour South America, with visits to Santiago, Chile (March 2006); Buenos Aires, Argentina (May 2006); and São Paulo (August 2006) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October 2006).

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

SP-71

The highway is known as the Rodovia Convenção meaning convention in Portuguese in which it happened, an expressway linking Itu and Salto.

Sport Club Americano

Sport Club Americano, commonly known as Americano, was a Brazilian football club from Santos, São Paulo state.

Stock Car Corrida do Milhão

The Stock Car Corrida do Milhão (Stock Car Million Race) (current called Corrida do Milhão Goodyear) is a Stock Car Brasil auto racce held annually at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.

TeleKommando

TeleKommando Scherz is actually formed by Nacho Durán (Oviedo, Spain), Mariana Rillo (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), George Queiroz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Dirk Böll (Essen, Germany), Alessandra Cestac (São Paulo, Brazil) and Camilla Ribas (Sao Paulo, Brazil), working with video, design, photography, programming, vjing, djing, performance and urban intervention.

Teodoro Sampaio

Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Theo Constanté

The work of Theo Constanté can be found in galleries, museums and collections throughout Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Cali, São Paulo, Miami, New York, Paris, and Madrid.

Thiago Arancam

Thiago Arancam started his studies in São Paulo at the “Municipal School of Music” and continued at the Musical University “Carlos Gomes”, where he graduated in “Erudite Chant” in 2003.


Alejandra Fuentes

She claimed two gold medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.

Athina Onassis Roussel

She began dating Brazilian professional showjumper (and two-time Olympic medalist) Álvaro de Miranda Neto, more commonly known as "Doda", in March 2003, and moved to São Paulo, where the couple now live.

Buddhism in Brazil

It maintains affiliated groups in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Curitiba, and has invited a large number of international teachers through the years.

Cleiton Januário Franco

Cleiton Januário Franco or simply Kanu (born 17 May 1985 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian forward.

Crioulo Lageano

It is similar to the Franqueira breed (just 500 individuals, eight to ten farmers in Rio Grande do Sul), with the same origin, which coming from Franca, São Paulo, spread through the Brazilian territory.

Edgar Bruno da Silva

Edgar Bruno da Silva, simply known as Edgar (born 3 January 1987 in São Carlos, São Paulo), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Al Shabab Al Arabi Club in the UAE Pro-League, as a striker.

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.

Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco

The Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco, is a Brazilian private institution of higher education, nestled at São Paulo's neighborhood of Lapa, it's appeared as an initiative from the Fundação de Rotarianos de São Paulo - a non-profitable entity that promotes the sponsoring of education, created in 1946 by associates of the São Paulo's Rotary Club.

Fernando de Moraes

Fernando Jorge Lima de Moraes, commonly referred to as Fernando, (born 21 January 1980 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Australian, footballer who plays for South Melbourne in the Victorian Premier League.

Geisa Arcanjo

Geisa Rafaela Arcanjo (born 19 September 1991, in São Roque, São Paulo) is a Brazilian athlete.

Iran do Espirito Santo

Iran do Espirito Santo (born 1963) is a prominent Brazilian artist, based in São Paulo.

Jayme Garfinkel

Garfinkel was a member of CNSP from 1987 until 1991, and was President of the Syndicate of Private Insurance and Capitalization Companies of the State of São Paulo from 1989 to 1990.

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.

Mangalarga

In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred, Arabian, and American Saddlebred stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Lusitano stallion.

Marcelino Novaes

Marcelino Novaes Rodrigues Fil (born July 9, 1967, in São Paulo) is a retired boxer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games, together with Jamaica's Kerron Speid.

My Country, My Name

On November 27, 2010 another beta version with some graphics and gameplay improvements was presented in UniAnime at Colégio Universitário Morumbi festival in São Paulo, Brazil.

Ponte Pequena

Ponte Pequena (Little Bridge in English) is a district in the borough of Bom Retiro in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pró-Vida

After beginning activities in the city of São Paulo, at present PRO-VIDA has participating nuclei in various other Brazilian towns and in other countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and the United States of America, besides four country clubs: three in Brazil and one in Argentina.

Raphael Fernandes

Born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, he is trained by former South American record holder Sanderlei Parrela.

Robson Toledo

Robson Toledo Machado (born 18 July 1981 in São Paulo), commonly known as Toledo, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for A.C. Pistoiese.

Santos Dumont Airport

8 November 1940: a VASP Junkers Ju-52/3mg3e registration PP-SPF taking-off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas collided on mid-air with the de Havilland Dragonfly registration LV-KAB belonging to the Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company (Shell-Mex), which was preparing for a water-land in front of Fluminense Yacht Club, today Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club in Botafogo.

São Paulo Challenger de Tênis

It is one of the four Challengers that are held in São Paulo.

Sara El-Khouly

As an experienced beauty pageant contestant, Sara was therefore handpicked as the official Egyptian representative to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant to be held on September 12, 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Silke Schatz

Schatz has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Manifesta 5 in San Sebastien, Drawing on Space at Project Arts Centre in Dublin, International Paper at UCLA Hammer Museum and A Nova Geometria at Galeria Fortes Vilaca in São Paulo.

União Agrícola Barbarense Futebol Clube

União Agrícola Barbarense Futebol Clube, usually known as União Barbarense, is a Brazilian football team from Santa Bárbara d'Oeste in São Paulo, founded on November 14, 1914.

Visual pollution

In September 2006, São Paulo passed the Cidade Limpa (Clean City Law), outlawing the use of all outdoor advertisements, including on billboards, transit, and in front of stores.