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74 unusual facts about Río de Janeiro


Afonso de Albuquerque Square

In 1807, Queen Mary I, Prince John VI and the royal family fled Lisbon from this harbour to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, to escape the Napoleonic troops which had invaded Portugal.

Alexander Berry

After calling in at Rio de Janeiro Berry was forced to abandon the City of Edinburgh during storms near the Azores.

Alexander Finta

In Rio de Janeiro, Finta created many monuments, including Strength, a 12-foot granite statue for the Fluminenci Club.

Baseball at the 2011 Pan American Games

Cuba were the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating the United States 3–1.

Beer in Brazil

The first breweries date from the 1830s, although the brand Bohemia is claimed to be the first Brazilian beer, with production starting in 1853 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Bidu Sayão

She returned to visit Brazil a last time in 1995, for a tribute to her during the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and died a few years later at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine.

Bruce Beresford-Redman

Beresford-Redman married Mónica Burgos on April 8, 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The four most important Rio de Janeiro Men's football teams (Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Botafogo and Fluminense) contested in all editions of the competition between 1995 and 2000.

Cantagalo Station

Cantagalo Station is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Copacabana borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Casa da Moeda do Brasil

Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) in Rio de Janeiro's western suburb of Santa Cruz.

Charlene Holt

In August, 1957 she was among nine models sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Rose Marie Reid Swim Suits of Los Angeles and the Eileen Ford Agency in New York.

Christina Oiticica

Christina Oiticica (born on 23 November 1951 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist.

Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is managed by Benedictine monks, since the school was founded in 1858 on the hills overlooking Rio de Janeiro's harbor and the Guanabara Bay, adjacent to the Benedictine Monastery of Rio de Janeiro.

ConRuhr

With its seats in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Moscow, Russia, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, ConRuhr’s primary purpose is to encourage educational internationalization by exchanging researchers, teaching staff and students between the three universities and institutions in Eastern Europe and South America, finding and linking contacts in the US, CIS, Brasil and Germany, as well as promoting the Ruhr area as a center of academic excellence.

Darwin Initiative

The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Deyverson

Deyverson Brum Silva Acosta (born 8 May 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Belenenses as a striker.

Đuro Bago

"This young striker Eduardo will go to Geneva tomorrow and return to Rio de Janeiro, because he is not talented enough for our club Dinamo" said Miroslav Blažević, and then he critiqued his assistant Đuro Bago by saying "Đuro, you have told me that this Brazilian boy Eduardo is world class talented striker, but I think that he is not good enough for our club".

Eleanora, Princess of Ligne

On 10 March 1981, Eleanora married Michel, Hereditary Prince of Ligne in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Estádio do Trabalhador

Estádio Municipal do Trabalhador, commonly known as Estádio do Trabalhador, is a football (soccer) stadium located in Resende, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

Frida Baranek

Frida Baranek (born 1961 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian sculptor.

Gabriel Yared

There, the president of the World Federation of Light Music Festivals asked him to write a song to represent the Lebanese in the Rio de Janeiro Song Festival.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Guy Lyon Playfair

From 1967 to 1971 he worked in the press section of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Rio de Janeiro.

Harold Avery

The last Avery was heard from was in a postcard to his Aunt, written in 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Henri Nicolas Vinet

The reason for his transfer to the tropics and why he chose the city of Rio de Janeiro for residence is not known.

Henry Eld

Henry Eld died at sea on board U. S. ship of war Ohio on March 12, 1850, bound home from Rio de Janeiro after a three and a half years' cruise.

Ipanema/General Osório Station

Ipanema/General Osório is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Ipanema borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jakob Sande

In 1933, the book Frå Sundfjord til Rio (From Sunnfjord to Rio) was published.

Janete Clair

TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio de Janeiro.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

Jeffrey Wittmer

His most notable performances include 5th place at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jillian D'Alessio

Four years later in Rio de Janeiro, D'Alessio won a gold medal in the K-1 500 m and bronze in the K-4 500 m.

Joe Vasconcelos

Joe Vasconcelos (born December 14, 1966) is an Brazilian/American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

John Bramley-Moore

As a young man he went out to Brazil to engage in commerce, and lived for several years at Rio de Janeiro, where in 1828 he entertained the officers of the exploring ships HMS Beagle and HMS Adventure.

Lapa, Rio de Janeiro

The neighborhood of Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, known as the cradle of bohemian Rio is also famous for its architecture, starting with the Arcos - known as the Arcos da Lapa, constructed to act as conduit in the days of colonial Brazil and now serve as a signal for the cable cars that climb the hill of Santa Teresa.

Leonardo Santiago

Leonardo started at the Nova Safra football school in Rio de Janeiro and was raised in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood, which is also the area where Romário spent his early years.

Lummus Park, Miami Beach

The sidewalk is inspired to Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx's oceanfront walk along Copacabana Beach near Rio de Janeiro.

Marcello d'Orey

'Marcello d'Orey de Araújo Dias (born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7 March 1976) is a Portuguese rugby union player.

Marchmont House

He sold it to Captain Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, who inherited a considerable fortune from his uncles who had built the harbour at Rio de Janeiro.

María Pilar Fernández

Sixteen years after competing in her first Olympics, Fernandez qualified for her fifth Spanish team, as a 46-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second in the air pistol from the second meet of the 2006 ISSF World Cup series in Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a score of 783.2 points.

Marisba undulifera

It was described by Walker in 1863, and is known from Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro, the type location).

Matias de Albuquerque

Olinda, a town in Pernambuco colony, was Matias’s birthplace, but, as a young man, he left Olinda for Rio de Janeiro, where he trained for a military career.

Mayuto Correa

He was born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro and began playing in local bands there from the age of 12.

Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

He married Princess Eleanora of Orléans-Braganza, daughter of Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza and Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, on 10 March 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nachaba oppositalis

It was described by Walker in 1859, and is known from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Norma Bengell

The Rio de Janeiro-born Bengell was active in the film industry from 1959.

Pilar Homem de Melo

Born in an old aristocratic Portuguese family, daughter of João Pedro Monteiro da Cunha Homem de Melo and D. Ana Mafalda de Almada, Pilar moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1975 along with his family, exiled by requirement of the Portuguese Revolution April 25, 1974.

Rap das Armas

Despite its popularity, "Rap das Armas" was never played on the Brazilian radio due to its controversial nature and it was abruptly removed from the Elite Squad soundtrack album two weeks after its release, because it allegedly praises drug consumption, and defends the drug dealers and criminal factions side in Rio de Janeiro's war on crime.

Reinaldo de Souza

Reinaldo de Souza or simply Reinaldo (born June 8, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian striker.

Resende Futebol Clube

Resende Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Resende, is a Brazilian football club from Resende, Rio de Janeiro state.

Rhodes Memorial

An alternative memorial to him never materialised: a massive "colossus of Rhodes" statue overlooking Cape Town from the summit of Lion's Head, rather like the statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo air bridge

It was inaugurated on 5 July 1959 by the airlines Varig, Cruzeiro do Sul and VASP making it the earliest air shuttle in the world.

Robert L. Fish

In 1960, while working in Rio de Janeiro, where he had lived for the previous decade, Fish submitted his first short story to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Samuel C. Upham

In January 1849, Upham sailed on The Osceola to San Francisco, via Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana, arriving in California on August 5, 1849 and participating in the California Gold Rush.

Serge Girard

2001: trans-South America (Lima/Rio de Janeiro) - 5,235 km in 73 days, 3 hours, 40 min (world record)

Soccerex

The cancellation of its 18th annual industry conference, scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro in November 2013, caused concern that there might be problems with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, due to be held in Brazil in June and July of the following year.

Standard Steel Car Company

Hansen established a car shop in LaRochelle, France for SSC in 1917, and SSC also controlled a plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stefan Krauter

He initiated and organized in Rio de Janeiro several congresses (RIO 02/3/5/6/9 - World Climate & Energy Events) and the Latin America Renewable Energy Fair (LAREF), to sustain the vision of the UNCED Earth Summit of Rio 1992 in that area.

TEAM Linhas Aéreas

31 March 2006: a Let 410 UVP-E20 registration PT-FSE operating flight 6865, en route from Macaé to Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont crashed over the Municipality of Rio Bonito.

Teodoras Daukantas

He was Lithuanian Consul General in Rio de Janeiro (1932–1935) and Minister Plenipotentiary of South America (1936–1939).

The Apollo of Bellac

at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro.

The Leith Agency

During The Leith Festival in 2007, the agency unofficially twinned Leith with Rio de Janeiro by placing a sign on Leith Walk.

The Money Pit

Attorney Walter Fielding and his girlfriend Anna Crowley learn of Walter Sr.'s wedding in Rio de Janeiro, escaping the country after having embezzled millions of dollars from their musician clients.

Thiago Pereira

At the same age, he won a federated championship in a competition in Valença, defending the CSN club.

Thomas Lopez

He travels widely, recording environments from such locations as Morocco, Mexico, India, Bali, Sumatra, Java, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon and the United States.

Tomé de Sousa

In 1552, Sousa suggested that Rio de Janeiro might be a potential area for settlement and in 1553 he returned to Portugal to work under the King, acting as his adviser on Brazilian affairs.

Tumblepop

Rio de Janeiro: near the Statue of Christ the Redeemer: with several fire monsters; the boss is a dragon made out of fire.

United Nations Art Collection

He decided to paint them in Rio de Janeiro, and they were latter assembled in the headquarters.

Vera Yurasova

Medals from international exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro (1961) and London (1962) for the first industrial equipment for determining the structure of substance through ionic bombardment.

Volkswagen LT

Volkswagen's Brazilian plant at Resende has been constructing trucks with weights of between 7 to 35 tons.

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.

Xystreurys

Xystreurys is a genus of large-tooth flounders with one species, X. liolepis, found along the Pacific coast of North America from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of California and the other, X. rasile, found along the Atlantic coast of South America from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the southern tip of Argentina.


Anthony Leeds

Anthony Leeds (January 26, 1925 – February 20, 1989) was an anthropologist best known for his work in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and on urban-rural relations in Brazil.

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Brazil Red

The plot of this veritable epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed.

Caius Brediceanu

minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro (covering the Romanian relations with Brazil, Argentina and Chile (1923–1927))

Carnaval San Francisco

The four Carnaval Cities with the greatest influence and presence in the San Francisco Carnaval are the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador as well as Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Havana, Cuba, and Oruro, Bolivia.

Celobar incident

The first death was Ricardo Diomedes, who had taken Celobar on May 21, 2003 at a clinic in Nova Iguaçu near Rio de Janeiro.

Charles Frederick Hartt

Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.

Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is a Benedictine school for boys in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil with a history that dates back more than 150 years.

Cultura Inglesa

The Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas (Culturas Inglesas Brazilian Association), widely known simply as Cultura Inglesa (English Culture) is an English-teaching franchise founded in 1934 and with branches present in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia and their surroundings.

Edward D. Muhlenberg

In September, 1857, he sailed for Brazil in company with several other civil engineers and artisans to assist in the construction of the Dom Pedro Segundo Railroad, which ran westward from Rio de Janeiro.

Enéas Carneiro

Surprising political experts, he finished ahead of various established politicians, such as the then-governor of Rio de Janeiro (Leonel Brizola), the former governor of São Paulo (Orestes Quércia), and the then-governor of Santa Catarina (Esperidião Amin), with more than 1.5 million votes.

Environmental issues in Brazil

Some cities currently considering such projects are Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Bernardo do Campo and others.

Evandro Chagas

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), noted physician and scientist who discovered Chagas disease, and brother of Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), also a noted physician and scientist who was president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Fly Linhas Aéreas

The airline began operations on August 25, 1995 with a Boeing 727-200 as a charter carrier linking Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to holiday destinations in the northeast of Brazil.

High School Musical: O Desafio

It was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and Olodum, the cultural group from Bahia, was invited to bring its unique rhythm to a special choreography number.

ICRANet

The second is in Rome University "Sapienza" and the third and fourth ones are being established in Nice and Rio de Janeiro.

Insomniac with Dave Attell

The 30-minute program ran for four seasons on Comedy Central and continued with six one-hour specials that were filmed in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Dublin, London and the Southern US.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Itaperuna Esporte Clube

Itaperuna Esporte Clube, or Itaperuna as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Itaperuna in Rio de Janeiro, founded on July 21, 1989.

Jan Timman

However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.

Japanese cruiser Asama

On 21 August 1920, it made a training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbo, Durban, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Tahiti, Truk and Saipan, thus circumnavigating the globe east to west.

John Robert Nicholson

From 1942 to 1951, he was the head of a crown corporation, Polymer Corporation, and from 1952 to 1956, the head of Brazilian Light and Power Co in Rio de Janeiro.

Lucie Décosse

Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against South Korea's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro.

Luiz Filipe Coelho

At the age of 12, he won awards in several national competitions in the cities of Juíz de Fora-MG, Piracicaba-SP and Rio de Janeiro-RJ.

Marco Kreuzpaintner

The film is a romantic comedy which will be filmed in English, and deals with a woman from London, who falls in love with a young man from Rio de Janeiro.

Maria Tauberová

In 1946 she and her husband were committed to the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.

Mário Barreto Corrêa Lima

Mário Barreto Corrêa Lima (Ceará, 7 September 1935), is a Brazilian generalist doctor, professor and one of the founders of UNIMED in Rio de Janeiro.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Oduvaldo Vianna Filho

Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, known as Vianinha (São Paulo, 4 July 1936 — Rio de Janeiro, 16 July 1974) was a Brazilian playwright.

Oloff Hennig

Oloff visited him many times whilst Biggs lived in exile in Rio de Janeiro.

Presunto

In Brazil, nevertheless, hams in general are called presuntos altogether (except by people used to the Portuguese terminology, usually in areas with heavy Portuguese immigration such as Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis), and this is the name used in the market for common hams.

São José do Barreiro

São José do Barreiro (São José in Portuguese means Saint Joseph) is a municipality/county in the microrregion of Bananal in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil bordering with state of Rio de Janeiro to the north and south.

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

State football leagues in Brazil

Some examples are Fla-Flu, in Rio de Janeiro, Corinthians-Palmeiras in São Paulo, Atlético-Cruzeiro in Minas Gerais, Naútico-Sport in Pernambuco, Gre–Nal in Rio Grande do Sul, Atle-Tiba, in Paraná etc.

Stefan Krauter

From 1998 until 2005 he held the position of a visiting professor for Alternative Energies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-COPPE-EE) and at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Brazil.

Stefan Sittig

Although he was born in the U.S., Sittig's mother is Uruguayan and he was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ulstein Group

The former Belga Marine of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was acquired by Ulstein Group AS and renamed Ulstein Belga Marine It provides electrical and control systems for the large offshore and merchant market in Brazil.

Uruguayan War

On 1 January 1865, one brigade (composed of two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion) with 1,700 men from the Brazilian province of Rio de Janeiro disembarked and occupied the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos.

Venetian National Party

One of the party's candidates, Angela Cristina Oliveira da Silva, was killed in the explosion of Air France's flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia

Highway 105, the Trans-Canada Highway runs along the Bras d"Or Lake shore through the area. The beauty of Whycocomagh was noted by Alexander Graham Bell, who is known to have stated that "Whycocomagh is the Rio de Janeiro of North America" due to the picturesque island off its shores.

Wilhelm Michler

He also became Professor at the Escola Politécnica Rio de Janeiro.

Working Group on Women in Physics

To carry out this charge the Working Group has organized three Conferences (Paris, 2002, Rio de Janeiro, 2005 and Seoul, 2008) gathering teams from more than 60 countries, raising data about the situation of women in physics in different countries and distributing a survey (organized by the American Institute of Physics) about the status of women in physics.