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Mackenzie University
Mackenzie Presbyterian University ( Portuguese: ''Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie'') is a private university in São Paulo, Brazil. The Mackenzie Presbyterian University is an institution of higher learning that has a strong tradition and history in Brazil. It has campuses for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in São Paulo (Campus Higienópolis), Campinas, Barueri (Campus Alphaville), Brasília, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. Founded in 1870 as the American School, Mackenzie is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Brazil. The university is regarded nationally and internationally as a center of excellence having graduated numerous important names in Brazilian history. History In 1870, the American Presbyterian missionary Rev. George Whitehill Chamberlain and his wife Mary Annesley founded a private grammar school inside their home. The classes were held in their living room and, a few years later, the "American School" was established as a center of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Gallaecian language, Celtic phonology. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 17 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 267 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the List of languages by number of native speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phelps, New York
Phelps is a town in Ontario County, New York, United States. The population was 6,637 at the 2020 census. The Town of Phelps contains a village called Phelps. Both are north of Geneva. History The town was part of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. The region was first settled around 1788. The town was formed in 1796 and was formerly known as "Sullivan." The town of Phelps is named after one of the original proprietors. The community was incorporated in 1855. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 65.3 square miles (169.0 km2), of which 65.0 square miles (168.3 km2) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.7 km2) (0.43%) is water. The eastern town line is the border of Seneca County and the northern town line is the border of Wayne County. Demographics As of the census of 2020, there were 6,637 people, 2,659 households, and 1,957 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 2, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Miguel Aidar
Carlos Miguel Castex Aidar (born 25 August 1946), is a Brazilian lawyer, and former president of São Paulo FC. Personal life Carlos Miguel is the son of , who was also president of São Paulo. He has Lebanese ancestry. Lawyer career Aidar specialized in Civil Procedural Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In the academic field, he worked as a professor of Sports Law at the Law School of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University and of Civil Procedural Law at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He published the book “Curso de Direito Desportivo” (Editora Ícone), coordinated other books in the area of Sports Law and has several articles and chapters published in several national and international works. In addition, he was a member of the Sports Legal Studies Commission (CEJD) at the Ministry of Sports, having authored the preliminary draft of the Pelé Law, and was a co-founder of the Brazilian Arbitration Association - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danilo Talanskas
Danilo Talanskas (born 1950) is the managing director of Otis Elevator Company. Education and career Talanskas got an undergraduate degree at the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Mackenzie University in São Paulo. He then received an MBA from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. His parents immigrated from Lithuania to Brazil] He worked for General Electric and Black and Decker. He also served as Brazilian chairman for Rockwell Automotive. Affiliations Talanskas is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as president of the São Paulo Brazil Santo Amaro Stake (Latter Day Saints), Stake. From 1992 to 1995, he was a Regional Representative of the Twelve and from 1981 to 1984 was a mission president in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2007, Talanskas was made a member of the Board of Local Managers advising the University of Pittsburgh on developing a program that would serve the needs of Brazilian MBA students. In 2022, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradesco
Banco Bradesco S.A. is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in Osasco, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the third largest banking institution by assets in Brazil and Latin America. It is also one of fifty most valuable banks in the world. The bank is listed at the B3 in São Paulo, where it is part of the Índice Bovespa, in the New York Stock Exchange and in the Madrid Stock Exchange. Its primary financial services revolve around commercial banking, offering Internet Banking, insurance, pension plans, annuities, credit card services (including football club affinity cards for fans) for customers, and savings bonds. The bank also provides personal and commercial loans, as well as leasing services. Bradesco is a pioneer in using the ATM biometric reading system in Brazil, which enables customers to be identified using the vascular pattern of their hands, serving as a complementary password, available at its 31,474 own ATMs and 5,549 ATMs of Banco24Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ney Gonçalves Dias
Ney Gonçalves Dias (born August 8, 1940) is a Brazilian journalist. Biography and career Ney started his career in the 1960s, when he presented a program on TV Cultura. In the 1970s, he was an anchor on the radio Jovem Pan, presenting the newscasts ''Jornal da Integração Nacional'' and ''Jornal da Manhã''. Ney is proud to interview Chico Xavier for ''Fantástico''. He also spent time at TV Excelsior, Rede Excelsior and Rede Tupi in charge of ''Pinga-Fogo''. In 1980, at Boni's invitation, he became nationally known when he worked at TV Globo, on the ''TV Mulher'' program, alongside the then sexologist Marta Suplicy, the well-known journalist Marília Gabriela and the then fashion designer Clodovil Hernandes, Clodovil. Ney is remembered due to the table falling during a program in 1983, which was repeated several times. Ney also presented the program ''O Povo e o Presidente''. Ney stayed at Globo until 1984, when the broadcaster underwent a reformulation and transferred to Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Casoy
Boris Casoy (born February 13, 1941) is a Brazilian journalist, the son of Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He has spent most of his professional life in TV journalism and is currently a Brazilian TV news anchorman. Career Casoy's journalism career started when he worked as a reporter for the now defunct television network TV Tupi in 1961. During the 1960s, in the early phases of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he was charged by the press with belonging to a paramilitary right-wing organization, Commando for Communist Hunting ('' Comando de Caça aos Comunistas'', CCC) which was aimed at harassing and bullying leftist students. From 1974 to 1984, Casoy worked in the Paulista newspaper, '' Folha de S.Paulo'' - firstly as chief editor, a position in which he had to share power with the redaction director, the Trotskyist sympathizer Cláudio Abramo. In 1976, Casoy left this position and began editing a column on political ''faits divers'', while Abramo took over the paper's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Scheidt
Robert Scheidt (born 15 April 1973) is a Brazilian sailor who has won two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze from five Olympic Games and a Star Sailors League Final. He is one of the most successful sailors at Olympic Games and one of the most successful Brazilian Olympic athletes, being one of only two to earn five medals along with fellow sailor Torben Grael, and only behind the six medals of Rebeca Andrade. He is the only Brazilian sailor to win medals in both dinghy and keelboat classes. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest sailors of all time. Early career Scheidt was born in São Paulo to Fritz Scheidt and Karin Kreuger Scheidt. His father gave him his first boat when he was nine, and Robert began practising in the Guarapiranga dam. With the help of Dudu Melchert, his coach, he began winning several competitions. At the age of 11, Scheidt became the South American Champion in the Optimist class, in Algarrobo, Chile, in 1985 and again in 1986. Beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyr Klink
Amyr Klink (born 25 September 1955) is a Brazilian explorer, sailor and writer. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 88 days between 1998 and 1999. Career Amyr Klink was the first person to row across the South Atlantic, leaving from Lüderitz, Namibia on 10 June 1984 and arriving 100 days later in Camaçari, Brazil, on 18 September 1984. He embarked on this journey without telling his father. His chronicles ''100 Days Between Sea and Sky'' reports on the journey. The food portions in this trip were compacted into packages of freeze-dried food, especially designed for him by a food processing company in Brazil. Disney acquired the rights to make a film based on the events of Klink's journey. The film will be directed by Carlos Saldanha, and written by Elena Soarez. Klink has written seven books about his voyages, including ''Between Two Poles'' about his trip from Antarctica to the Arctic Pole, starting in 1989 and ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi (; born 12 December 1946) is a Brazilian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to . Fittipaldi won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in and with Lotus and McLaren, respectively; he won 14 Grands Prix across 11 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Fittipaldi won the IndyCar World Series in 1989 with Patrick, and is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. Moving up from Formula Two, Fittipaldi made his race debut for Team Lotus as a third driver at the 1970 British Grand Prix. After Jochen Rindt was killed at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix, the Brazilian became Lotus's lead driver in only his fifth Grand Prix. He enjoyed considerable success with Lotus, winning the World Drivers' Championship in 1972 at the age of 25. At the time, he was the youngest ever F1 world champion, and he held the record for 33 years. He later moved to McLaren for 1974, winning the title once again, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Schmidt
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958), nicknamed ''Mão Santa'' (Holy Hand), is a Brazilian retired professional basketball player. Schmidt primarily played the power forward and small forward position, was 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall and weighed 109 kg (240 lbs). Along with his home country, Schmidt also played in Italy for JuveCaserta and Pavia, and Spain for Fórum Valladolid. He was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He was considered to be the all-time leading scorer in the history of basketball, with 49,973 career points scored (pro club league play, plus senior Brazilian national team play combined), until LeBron James broke this record on April 2, 2024. He is the record holder for the longest career span of a professional basketball player at 29 years. He is also the top scorer in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, and the top scorer in the history of the FIBA World Cup. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Malfatti
Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in São Paulo, in 1917–1918, was controversial at the time, and her expressionist style and subject were revolutionary for the complacently old-fashioned art expectations of Brazilians who were searching for a national identity in art, but who were not prepared for the influences Malfatti would bring to the country. Malfatti's presence was also highly felt during the Week of Modern Art (''Semana de Arte Moderna'') in 1922, where she and the '' Group of Five'' made huge revolutionary changes in the structure and response to modern art in Brazil. Historical background The cultural history throughout Brazil is relevant to the changing theories of art's purpose and the consequential role that Modernist artists played. There were not many art institutions in Brazil and the country lacked a lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
