|
Cabral (surname)
Cabral is a surname of Portuguese origin, coming from the word Cabra meaning goat. The surname Cabral most commonly came from goat farmers. Notable people with the surname include: *Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader *Andrea Cabral (born 1959), American politician *Anna Escobedo Cabral (born 1959), American businesswoman, 42nd U.S. Treasurer *António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar (1803–1889), Portuguese statesman *Artur de Sacadura Cabral (1881–1924), Portuguese aviation pioneer * César Cabral (born 1989), Dominican professional baseball player *Chrystia Cabral (born 1991), American musician known professionally as Spellling *Cristina Rodríguez Cabral (born 1959), Uruguayan poet, researcher, and Afro-Uruguayan activist *Ciruelo Cabral (born 1963), Argentine fantasy artist *Donald Reid Cabral (1923–2006), President of the Dominican Republic *Esperanza Cabral, 21st century Filipino politician *Evaldo Cabral de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north and east, the Portugal-Spain border, constitutes the longest uninterrupted border-line in the European Union. Its archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. On the mainland, Alentejo region occupies the biggest area but is one of the least densely populated regions of Europe. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population, being also the main spot for tourists alongside Porto, the Algarve and Madeira. One of the oldest countries in Europe, its territory has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Cabral
Francisco Cabral (1529 - 1609) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary in Japan. Early life Cabral was born in the castle of Covilhā, Diocese of Guarda, Portugal in 1529. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1554. Work in Japan Cabral arrived in Japan in the spring of 1570 to serve as Superior of the Jesuit Japan Mission. Cabral implemented several changes to refocus the Japan mission. He forbade the local Jesuit missionaries from wearing the orange silk robes worn by Buddhist priests, a practice that had begun under Francis Xavier so that missionaries would be taken more seriously by locals. Cabral viewed these garments as a cape used by the devil while infiltrating the mission, and insisted that priests wear the traditional black cassock. He also stopped observing Japanese dietary customs, had fewer missionaries learn the Japanese language, and rejected other forms of cultural accommodation to the Japanese. Cabral also resisted the training of Japanese priests, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilesh Cabral
Nilesh Cabral (born 10 July 1972) is an Indian politician and a cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa headed by Manohar Parrikar. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the Curchorem constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly. Cabral holds the portfolios of Power, Non-Conventional Energy, Law & Judiciary as well as Legislative Affairs. Personal life Nilesh Cabral was born on 10 July 1972. An engineer, Cabral earned a Diploma in Mining and Mine Surveying from the Government Polytechnic, Panaji in 1992. By profession, Cabral is a transport contractor as well as barge owner. He owns several trucks and earth moving machines. He is the Chairman of the Goa Chess Association since June 2017. Career Cabral was once a close confidante of Shyam Satardekar and also worked for the latter's victory in the 2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election. But later, differences arose between Satardekar and Cabral. Cabral first contested the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel De Sacadura Cabral Portas
Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. Miguel Portas was the older brother of the former Foreign Affairs Minister and former leader of the right-wing CDS–PP, Paulo Portas, and a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral. Biography Miguel Portas received a degree in economics, at School of Economics and Management, in 1986. He worked as a cultural animator in the county of Ourique (1984), sociocultural animator and trainer in the Algarve hills as agents of development (1987). Moving on a career as a journalist, he was director of the cultural magazine "Contraste" (1986) and later he was hired as editor of the weekly journal "Expresso" (1988), wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Da Conceição Nobre Cabral
Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral is a Guinea-Bissauan politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2009. Cabral was appointed as Foreign Minister on April 18, 2007, as part of the government of Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Kabi. She was chosen for the post by President Nino Vieira.Alberto Dabo"Guinea-Bissau's new government named" Reuters (''IOL''), April 18, 2007. Cabral was married to a former ambassador of Guinea-Bissau to the United States. Currently, she is the President of a NGO A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ... called Scorpius-Centaurus. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Bissau-Guinean women diplomats Bissau-Guinean diplomats Female foreign ministers Foreign ministers of Guinea-Bissau 21st-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Del Cabral
Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic – 14 May 1999, in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of Trujillo", he served at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. During his long stay in Buenos Aires, he married an Argentine and fathered his 4 children, among them, the television journalist and politician Peggy Cabral. In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura. Work and reception Cabral has become one of the most celebrated writers of the Dominican Republic, enjoying international fame. His work is most often viewed as an essential representation of Afro-Antillean or Afro-Caribbean poetry, known alternatively as ''negrismo'' (blackism or negrism) or ''poesía negra'' (black poetry) in Spanish, along with the works of Cuban Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Caldeira Cabral
Manuel de Herédia Caldeira Cabral (born 1968) is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Economy A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ... from 26 November 2015 to 15 October 2018. He served as an economic advisor in the Ministry Finance from 2009 to 2011. Cabral was elected to the Assembly of the Republic by the Braga constituency in 2015. He is first cousin of Isabel, Duchess of Braganza. References 1968 births Living people Portuguese politicians Economy ministers of Portugal People from Lisbon {{Portugal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Cabral
Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral (11 April 1931 – 30 May 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military '' coup d'état'' led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed him. Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956. Early life Luís Cabral was born in the city of Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, on April 11, 1931 to mestiço (mixed-race) parents originally from the Cape Verde. He completed his primary school studies in the Cape Verde archipelago, which was also a Portuguese territory at that time. Later he received training in accountancy.Morreu Luís Cabral, primeiro presidente da Guiné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Cabral
Len Cabral is an American storyteller who was awarded the Circle of Excellence in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network after being recognized by his peers as a master storyteller. Biography Cabral, whose grandparents came from Cape Verde, was born in North Providence, Rhode Island, on 24 April 1948. In the early 1970s, he worked in a day care center, where he realised the power of storytelling to entertain children and to teach them how to listen and communicate. In 1976, he began traveling to tell stories to school children, adults and senior citizens, firstly within New England, and then across the US. He tells traditional folk tales from Cape Verde, Native America, the Caribbean, and other places around the world, as well yarns from his own life. Among his stories are tales of Anansi, Tubino and Nho Lobo, Coyote and Old Man Winter and other 'how and why' tales. He is well known for his enthusiastic hand gestures and character voices. He performs at storytelling festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bautista Cabral
Juan Bautista Cabral (24 June 1789 – 3 February 1813) was an Argentine soldier, of Zambo origin, of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers who died in the Battle of San Lorenzo, while he was aiding then Colonel Don José de San Martín, whose horse had fallen to enemy fire. The action of Cabral in this first military confrontation of the Argentine War of Independence gave him lasting fame and a prominent place among Argentine patriots. Biography Little is known about the life of Cabral. It is estimated that he was born in the town which now bears his name in the city of Saladas, Corrientes. He joined the second squadron of the newly formed Granaderos Cavalry Regiment in 1812. According to Pastor Obligado, Cabral's diligence and leadership led to corporal's stripes in December of the same year, and to promotion to sergeant the next year. Contrary to this assertion, Bartolomé Mitre (in his ''Historia de San Martín y de la Emancipación Americana'') states that he was a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João De Pina-Cabral
João de Pina-Cabral (born 1954 in Porto) is a Portuguese anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon, where he was President of the Scientific Council (1997–2004). At present he is professor of social anthropology at the University of Kent. Academic life Born in northern Portugal, Pina-Cabral was brought up in Portuguese Mozambique, and studied in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). He achieved his doctorate in the University of Oxford in 1982,João de Pina-Cabral, ''Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: the peasant worldview of Alto Minho'', Clarendon Press, 1986. under the supervision of John Campbell and Rodney Needham, and his habilitation in the University of Lisbon in 2001. Pina-Cabral has held academic posts in Portugal and the United Kingdom. He has been visiting professor at various universities in Brazil, Spain, Mozambique and Macau. He was co-founder of the Anthropology Departments at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Cabral
João Cabral was a Portuguese Jesuit , image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits , abbreviation = SJ , nickname = Jesuits , formation = , founders ... missionary, who, along with Estêvão Cacella, were the first Europeans to enter Bhutan in 1627. The following year he became the first European to visit neighboring Nepal and the Sikkim region of India. Cabral was born in Celorico da Beira, Portugal, in 1599. In 1615 he joined the Society of Jesus, and on September 5, 1626 he left for the Tibetan planes in the hopes of finding the mythic Kingdom of Shambala and spreading the Christian faith. After pushing through with both his plans, he returned to India and continued his missionary career in Malaka, Macau and Japan. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cabral, Joao 1599 births People from Celorico da Beira Year of death unknown Portuguese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Miguel De Sacadura Cabral Portas")
