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Pedro Teixeira (b.1570-1585 - d.4 July 1641), occasionally referred to as the Conqueror of the Amazon, was a Portuguese explorer and military officer, who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up and down the entire length of the Amazon River, he also headed the government of the captaincy of Pará in two different periods, one in 1620-1621 and another in 1640–1641.
Belém is the Portuguese name for Bethlehem, and has its origin in Hebrew which means "the house of bread".Initially the city was called "St. Mary of Belém of Pará" (Portuguese: Santa Maria de Belém do Pará) or "Our Lady of Belém of Grão-Pará" (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão Pará), [6] [7] eventually shortened to Belém do Pará (name given by Philip III of Spain), [8] in ...
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.
The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) originated in a 1998 promise by the Brazilian government to triple the area of the Amazon that was legally protected. The program was launched in 2003, supported by government agencies, NGOs and major donors. [1] The program is based on a major two-year planning exercise with experts from ...
Tucano (Tucanoan) has half that number, but is widely used as a second language in the Amazon. [ 239 ] One of the two Brazilian línguas gerais (general languages), Nheengatu , was until the late 19th century the common language used by a large number of indigenous, European, African, and African-descendant peoples throughout the coast of ...
The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa ( Maria Luisa Park ), in Seville, Spain. It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival ( Neo-Mudéjar ...
The City of Arts and Sciences ( Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències [siwˈtad de les ˈaɾts i les siˈɛnsi.es]; Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias [θjuˈðað ðe las ˈaɾtes i las ˈθjenθjas]) is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in ...
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