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Vila Assunção
Vila Assunção (meaning ''Assumption Villa'' in English) is a neighbourhood (''bairro'') in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959, being located on the bank of Guaíba Lake. Vila Assunção was named after José Joaquim Assunção, who lived here in his ''chácara'' (a rural property). When he died, his widow made a deal with the Di Primio Beck company in order to urbanize the region. The neighbourhood is predominantly residential made up of people from the upper middle class and upper class. However, some upscale shops, restaurants and parties have been installed there in the last fifteen years, as well as in the neighbouring Tristeza. The first inhabitants in Vila Assunção were a Tupi people, and that's the reason why there are streets and squares called ''Timbira'', ''Guaraum'', ''Araguaia'', etc. During the 1940s, due to its location on the bank of Guaíba Lake, Vila Assunção attrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
" Igreja De Nossa Senhora Da Assuncao Em Porto Alegre, Brasil "
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media. History The single quotation mark is traced to Ancient Greek practice, adopted and adapted by monastic copyists. Isidore of Seville, in his seventh century encyclopedia, , described their use of the Greek ''diplé'' (a Angle bracket, chevron): The double quotation mark derives from a marginal notation used in fifteenth-century manuscript annotations to indicate a passage of particular importance (not necessarily a quotation); the notation was placed in the outside margin of the page and was repeated alongside each line of the passage. In his edition of the works of Aristotle, which appeared in 1483 or 1484, the Milanese Renaissance humanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
