Carnival In Rio De Janeiro
The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro ( Portuguese: ''Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro'') is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend the carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical and common background. There is a special order that every school has to follow with their parade entries. Each school begins with the "comissão de frente" (meaning "Front Commission"), that is the group of people from the school that appear first. Made of ten to fifteen people, the comissão de frente introduces the school and sets the mood and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Estácio De Sá (samba School)
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Estácio de Sá is one of the most traditional samba schools of the Rio de Janeiro (city), city of Rio de Janeiro. It has won once the LIESA, top-tier Rio parade in 1992. History Founded in 1928 as a successor to Deixa Falar, coming from the same neighborhood and is considered by some researchers of samba as a single block, was in fact the first school of samba, because its components taught and spread samba, the school marched up to 1933. However, the Unidos de São Carlos came 20 years after. With the merger of the old samba schools heirs of Deixa Falar. Meanwhile, the Unidos de São Carlos always stayed in intermediate positions Special and often semprede in the access and sambas considered of better quality, as the Círio de Nazaré and Bahia, Arte negra na legendária Bahia. In 1986, with change to neighborhood where is the school. In 1986, with the change to the neighborhood where is the school. The thing moved and getting in goo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AESCRJ
The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro ( Portuguese: ''Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro'') is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend the carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical and common background. There is a special order that every school has to follow with their parade entries. Each school begins with the "comissão de frente" (meaning "Front Commission"), that is the group of people from the school that appear first. Made of ten to fifteen people, the comissão de frente introduces the school and sets the mood and s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fat Tuesday
Mardi Gras (, ; also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to it being the last day of consuming rich, fatty foods, most notably red meat, in preparation for the Christian fasting season of Lent, during which such foods are avoided. Related popular practices are associated with Carnival celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations associated with the penitential season of Lent. In countries such as the United Kingdom, Mardi Gras is more usually known as Pancake Day or (traditionally) Shrove Tuesday, derived from the word ''shrive'', meaning "to administer the sacrament of confession to; to absolve". Background During the liturgical season of Lent, some Christians abstain from the consumption of certain foods such as meat, eggs, dairy products, and alcoholic beverages. Most Christian denominati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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LIERJ
The Liga das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (LIERJ; English: League of Samba Schools of the Rio de Janeiro) is the leading association that organizes the Série A Group in the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. On 15 July 2008, seven presidents of associations of Grupo de acesso decided to found in LESGA in order to join project and what they thought was best for the access group A, on August 7, 2008 with the entry of three associations, and associations founded by 10 From there, they separated from the AESCRJ and created their own association, the LESGA, which will manage the parades, handing over the proceeds to the samba school of the Grupo de acesso A. After separation of the Association, which was defined by the regulation, would rise 1 of the Grupo Rio de Janeiro 1 and going down 1, but the AESCRJ not agree because the dissidents who founded the LESGA had approved two going down and up two of the RJ-1, which caused a rift between the LESGA and AESCRJ, but this increased even ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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LIESA
Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (), commonly known by the acronym LIESA, is the principal association that organizes the Rio Carnival, Carnival of Rio de Janeiro (city), the city of Rio de Janeiro. History Disgruntled with the official league, the AESCRJ representatives of ten samba schools, led by Jogo do Bicho, bicheiros, helped found the LIESA in 1984.Impunidade na cabeca , Istoé, March 5, 2003 They were not in agreement with the state of things in the AESCRJ, where they were a minority and always defeated in deliberations although they invested the money. Each attempt to improve the commercial success of the Carnival spectacle was being rejected. They formed an independent league, which eventually took over the organisation of the parades of the Rio Carni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Both lauded and criticized for being a "sculptor of monuments", Niemeyer was hailed as a great artist and one of the greatest architects of his generation by his supporters. He said his architecture was strongly influenced by Le Corbusier, but in an interview, assured that this "didn't prevent [his] architecture from going in a different direction".Salvaing, Matthieu (2002) ''Oscar Niemeyer'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leonel Brizola
Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states. An engineer by training, Brizola organized the youth wing of the Brazilian Labour Party (1945), Brazilian Labour Party and served as state representative for Rio Grande do Sul and mayor of its capital, Porto Alegre. In 1958 he was elected governor of Rio Grande do Sul and subsequently played a major role in Legality Campaign, thwarting a first coup attempt by sectors of the Brazilian Armed Forces, armed forces, who wished to prevent João Goulart from assuming the presidency following the resignation of Jânio Quadros in August 1961, under allegations of Communism in Brazil, communist ties. Three years later, facing the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état that went on to install the Military dictatorship in Brazil, Brazilian military ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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São Januário
Estádio Vasco da Gama, popularly known as São Januário owing to its location on a street of the same name, is the home ground of Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, CR Vasco da Gama. It is located in the Vasco da Gama (neighborhood), Vasco da Gama neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a hill near the National Observatory (Brazil), National Observatory of Brazil. Because of its position, it has given Vasco the nickname of ''Gigante da Colina'' (Giant of the Hill). São Januário is considered by fans, journalists, professors and politicians as a symbol of struggle and resistance against racism in the history of Brazil. This stadium has also historic importance, because Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas used it many times to deliver speeches to the Brazilian people. Vargas announced the first Brazilian work laws on the tribune of São Januário. History After Vasco da Gama won its first Campeonato Carioca in its debut year in 1923 Campeonato Carioca, 1923, with a squad ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |