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20 million (as of 2020) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [1] [2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [3] [4] The site operates in the resale of gaming products by the use of redemption keys. Other items sold on the site are software, prepaid activation codes, electronics ...
Casa-Grande e Senzala (English: The Masters and the Slaves) is a book published in 1933 by Gilberto Freyre, about the formation of Brazilian society. The casa-grande ("big house") refers to the slave owner's residence on a sugarcane plantation, where whole towns were owned and managed by one man. The Senzala [ es; fr; pt] ("slave quarters ...
21 November 1471. Funchal. Occupation. Explorer, colonial administrator. Known for. Settler of the Archipelago of Madeira. Signature. João Gonçalves Zarco ( c. 1390 – 21 November 1471) [1] was a Portuguese explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was appointed first captain of Funchal by Henry the ...
Luís Vaz de Camões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns [1] ( / ˈkæmoʊənz / KAM-oh-ənz ), is considered Portugal 's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare ...
Brazilian gaucho music. Brazilian gaucho music (in Portuguese música gaúcha brasileira or música nativista) denotes the traditional music of Río Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná states, whose population has a strong ancestry of European countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany. The word gaucho refers to the countryside and ...
Haplogroup G-FGC7535, also known as Haplogroup G2a1 (and formerly G-L293), [1] is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is an immediate descendant of G2a (G-P15), which is a primary branch of haplogroup G2 (P287). G2a1 has an extremely low frequency in almost all populations except parts of the Caucasus Mountains . In 2017, the SNP L293 was replaced by ...
The casa-grande (Portuguese and Spanish: "big house") was the Brazilian equivalent of a Southern plantation in the United States. These casas-grandes were predominantly located in the northeast of Brazil (areas such as present day Bahia and Pernambuco ). Additionally, sugar cane was grown in the interior, in the states of São Paulo and Rio de ...
The Rebecca Dalis School House – was built in 1934 and is located at 110 W. Florence Blvd. It is listed in the Casa Grande Historic Register. The Mandell and Meyer Building – was built in 1937 and is located at 211 N. Florence St. It was listed in the NRHP in 2002, reference #02000736.